Ultravox

[fox69]

"One Small Day"

"One Small Day"


If the stack is high against you
And the hammer's coming down
And the time that's yours lies heavy in your hands
Oh my sentimental friend
The fast much reach an end

Lying face down on the cold stone
And they give their all to you
But their all is slipping through your hands
Oh my sentimental friend
Your time will come again

One day where I didn't die a thousand times
Where I could satisfy this life of mine
One small day
One day where every hour could be a joy to me
And live a life the way it's meant to be
One small day

How many times has it turned against you
How many times will they walk away
How many times have you let depression win the fight
Oh my sentimental friend
We'll walk as one again

One day where I didn't die a thousand times
Where I could satisfy this life of mine
One small day
One day where every hour could be a joy to me
And live a life the way it's meant to be
One small day

How many times has it turned against you
How many times will they walk away

One day where I didn't die a thousand times
Where I could satisfy this life of mine
One day where every hour could be a joy to me
And live a life the way it's meant to be

One day where I wouldn't feel my senses die
Where nothing made me hang my head and cry
One day where I could see myself as others do
Where I could feel the strength of love at hand

One day where I didn't die a thousand times
Where I could satisfy this life of mine
One day where every hour could by a joy to me
And live a life the way it's meant to be

 

[fox69]

"Passing Strangers"

"Passing Strangers"


We were so young, we were too vain
Dance in the dark, sing in the rain
Time on our hands, hope in our hearts

(We were talking, passing strangers)
Moments caught across an empty room
(Wasted whispers, faded secrets)
Quickly passes, time goes, time goes by too soon

We stood alone, silent and proud
Moments unknown, lost in a crowd
Running through memories like thieves in the night
Clutching emotions, holding too tight
Hope turns to dust, shattered by light

(We were talking, passing strangers)
Moments caught across an empty room
(Wasted whispers, faded secrets)
Quickly passes, time goes, time goes by too soon

(We were talking, passing strangers)
Moments caught across an empty room
(Wasted whispers, faded secrets)
Quickly passes, time goes, time goes by too soon

 

[fox69]

"Passionate Reply"

"Passionate Reply"


Suddenly, you find
Yourself walking for a long time
Your back's to the wall
But now you must go

Painting scenes from magazines
Sucking breath from nicotine
Standing tall against the crowd we sigh
Taking turns on telephones
Living lives in other homes
Listening for the passionate replies

Suddenly, we find
Ourselves talking for a long time
Our voices are low
But now you must know

Giving all you have to give
Taking all you've got to live
Plotting all mistakes along the way
Find it hard to take it all
Reading names on other walls
Writing down the words we tried to sing

(Suddenly, you'll find)
(Yourself walking for a long time)
(Your back's to the wall)
(But now you must go)
(Suddenly, we find)
(Ourselves talking for a long time)

 

[fox69]

"Paths And Angles"

"Paths And Angles"


Visions of men never known
Never seen, never heard, never shown
Characters lying in wait
Responsible figures of fate
With memories and faces as long as their hate

Paths and the angles of light
Find their way into my eye
Recorded and logged for a time
Some living, some loving, some dying

There are factors rearranged every time
The phrases, the angles, so fine
Sunken valleys and decades of crime
Distant seasons, a smile that was quoted as mine

Paths and the angles of light
Find their way into my eye
Recorded and logged for a time
Some living, some loving, some dying

 

[fox69]

"Perfecting The Art Of Common Ground"

"Perfecting The Art Of Common Ground"


Moments like this
I wish that you were mine
And I find that all the tears that you have cried were mine

How I long to hear you laughing now
And to feel the sun come breaking through the clouds

[Chorus:]
From each side of the world
We're calling
Watching the walls come falling down
And you know
Together we go on learning
Perfecting the art of common ground

I feel you within
Majestic and dignified
Dry your eyes as we go through the ritual of time

This is more than just survival now
Together we are guided through somehow

[Chorus]

How I long to hear you laughing now
And to feel the sun come breaking through the clouds

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Private Lives"

"Private Lives"


All the boys are wearing blue tonight
We'll thrive, we'll dive, how can we lose?
All the strangers walk like you tonight
So tall, we fall for every move

We'll laugh and talk
Don't stop for breath
In these, our private lives
We dance 'til dawn
As they beat the drums
For all our private lives

Close your eyes and use the melody
Who cares, who stares under the light?
See the shadow tailing me again
It shows, it glows, and it grabbed so bright

 

[fox69]

"Quiet Men"

"Quiet Men"


Waiting, we were waiting
As the traffic moved through all our hearts and our heads
But things were different then
For the quiet men

Shifting, things were shifting
Through the walls and halls, there were no walls at all
For the quiet friends
Of the quiet men

Oh, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men

Springtime, there was sunshine
Through the window panes, down all the English lanes
Where they walked again
The quiet men

Talking, they were talking
Of the times to come and all the time that's gone
And they smiled again
The quiet men

Oh, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men

Listening, they were listening
As the season changed and all the reasons changed
And people came and went
By the quiet men

Walking, they were walking
Through the rainy days, looking at all the faces
But no one ever noticed them
The quiet men

Oh
Oh, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men

 

[fox69]

"Rage In Eden"

"Rage In Eden"


We sit and watch these lifeless forms
Stark and petrified
The high suspense of an empty stage
Drawing in clutching to its breast
With murmured words we sigh and focus on the main facade

Beyond the hard reluctant windows
News from magazines
We wrote their names on books we'd borrowed
As if to bring us closer still
And threw it all away to focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence
But no one could see the end

And they were the new gods
And they shone on high
Their heavy perfume of the night
Sucked them down in red tide
All is through the looking glass focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence
But no one could see the end

Disciples of the new way
Portraits in the sand
See when they run their longest mile
Holding caps in wet hand
Eyes upon them try to focus on the main facade
Rage In Eden jigsaw sequence
But no one could see the end

 

[fox69]

"Reap The Wild Wind"

"Reap The Wild Wind"


Reap the wild wind
Reap the wild wind

Reap the wild wind
Reap the wild wind

A finger points to show a scene (take my hand, take my hand)
Another face where mine had been (take my hand, take my hand)
Another footstep where I once walked (take my hand)
Take it all

You take my hand and give me your friendship
I'll take my time and send you my slow reply
Give me an inch, and I'll make the best of it
Take all you want and leave all the rest to die

Reap the wild wind

A footprint haunts an empty floor (take my hand, take my hand)
A fading coat that I once wore (take my hand, take my hand)
Oh, a desolation where I once lived

I have seen in times gone by
I have felt
A different shadow on the wall
A stranglehold on a certain feeling

You take my hand and give me your friendship
I'll take my time and send you my slow reply
Give me an inch, and I'll make the best of it
Take all you want and leave all the rest to die

Reap the wild wind
Reap the wild wind

You take my hand and give me your friendship
I'll take my time and send you my slow reply
Give me an inch, and I'll make the best of it
Take all you want and leave all the rest to die

Reap the wild wind

 

[fox69]

"Remembering"

"Remembering"


Closing my eyes I slip away
I see the pictures play
Of people been and gone
Living in moments from the past
Over much too fast
Still longing to belong

Just remembering
Remembering

Closing my eyes, I walked a while
A never ending mile
In avenues I've crossed
Talking to people stood alone
In streets that I had known
To friends I've loved and lost

Just remembering
Remembering

If I could gather all the moments so precious to stay with me
What would I be, what would I see?

Just remembering
Remembering
Just remembering (if I could gather all the moments so precious to stay with me)
Oo, remembering (if I could gather all the moments so precious to stay with me)
Just remembering (if I could gather all the moments so precious to stay with me)
Oh, remembering (if I could gather all the moments so precious to stay with me)