Ultravox

[fox69]

"Revelation"

"Revelation"


I see it every day
As children play
There's a future, watching, waiting
No-one can deny
The reasons why
We are hurting
Much more than believing
You're deceiving with all these bitter lies

I've just got to let you know this time
That we've seen through your disguise
Politically motivated total mind control
Just as I predicted
The innocent grow stronger through it all

[Chorus:]
It's no lie, it's a revelation
Open your eyes to the revelation

Visions in your mind
Unfolding in our time
There's a new world out there calling
We are justified
Almost hypnotised
We are leading
Somehow we are changing
Rearranging the lexicon of life

And there's nothing left to change this time
Here we all stand unified
Together we have motivated absolute control
And just as I imagined
We all realised we had it all

[Chorus]

Side by side, to the revelation
Open your mind to the revelation

 

[fox69]

"Rise"

"Rise"


I give to you the best of everything
I'm here to grow your little monuments
Oh, don't dare to doubt me all the joy I bring
It's Heaven sent

Hold on, I've come to help you rise
With a handshake, big smile, good guy profile
Take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
I'll cheat and lie
To give you all the things you need
To help you get the things I need for me

I bring you revelations openly
I set the word of God to make you pray
Oh, don't think to thank my world for anything, anyway

Hold on, I've come to help you rise
With a handshake, big smile, good guy profile
Take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
I'll cheat and lie
To give you all the things you need
To help you get the things I need for me
Hold on, I've come to help you rise
To give you all the things you need

No how or why
No live or die
Fail to comply
Red neon sky

Hold on, I've come to help you rise
With a handshake, big smile, good guy profile
Take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
I'll cheat and lie
To give you all the things you need
To help you get the things I need for me

Take it now or leave it 'neath the flash of a neon sky
To give you all the things you need
To help you get the things I need for me

 

[fox69]

"ROckWrok"

"ROckWrok"


ROckWrok
ROckWrok
ROckWrok
ROckWrokrockwrok
Blast off, the walls are down
Cast off, the wolves are out
Come on, there's no time, I can't wait
Rip off my clothes, I'm stripping yours
Harder we're starved, wired and barbed
What a magnificent disgrace

C'mon and tangle in the dark, dark
Fuck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When it's wet and hot you want to ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrokrockwrok

Penetration boys in hotel lifts
Invitations on sinking ships
The whole wide world fits hip to hip
In aircraft destroyers and cinema foyers
The chaste and the chasers, amazing the neighbours
Gay, wild and willing, stripped of grace

A sombre rumba in the dark, dark
Fuck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
The population's got to ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrokrockwrok

ROckWrok
ROckWrok
ROckWrok
ROckWrokrockwrokrockwrokrockwrok

A doodlebugger in the dark, dark
Fuck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When they find the top you've got to ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrokrockwrok

A nimble mambo in the park, park
Fuck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
The population's got to ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrokrockwrok

An anal sailor in the bar, bar
Fuck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When it's wet and hot you want to ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok

A plucky sucker in the car park
Fuck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
There's nothing left for us, just ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok
ROckWrokrockwrok

A willing waltzer in the car, stark
Fuck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
Austerity makes you want to ROckWrok
ROckWrok, ROckWrok

ROckWrok

 

[fox69]

"Same Old Story"

"Same Old Story"


(Telling me the same old story)
When the storm grows
I find your face behind your helpless hands
When the cracks show
In your mirrored, mirrored eyes
When the words come out
So splintered and predictable again
Then I find you
(Telling me the same old story)

Stories of love
Stories and lies
Stories of love
The same old story

(Telling me the same old story)
When the day goes
I can hear you crying out behind your paper smile
And the light that shines
Won't give you strength to talk to me at all
And the sound I hear
Is not the sound I want to hear from you
'Cause you're always
(Telling me the same old story)

Stories of love
Stories and lies
Stories of love
The same old story...

 

[fox69]

"Satday Night In The City Of The Dead"

"Satday Night In The City Of The Dead"


Right!

Fat guy jets by, bony in a zodiac
Picking up trouble, maybe looking for a heart attack
All-night boys in the Piccadilly Arcade
Boozy losers cruising, maybe trawling for some rough trade

Sat'day night
Sat'day night

Sat'day night in the city of the dead
(Hey!)
Can you feel the time bomb ticking in your head?
(Hey!)
Too many memories are burning in your bed
(Hey!)
Sat'day night in the city of the dead

Stands in the dole queue, face like a statue
Laugh like a maniac, walk like a king too
Spiked hair, don't care, Oxfam outlaw
Rap band rips it out, you're buzzing like a chainsaw

Sat'day night
Sat'day night

Sat'day night in the city of the dead
(Hey!)
Can you feel the time bomb ticking in your head?
(Hey!)
Too many memories are waiting in your bed
(Hey!)
Sat'day night in the city of the dead

High-rise reptile sucking on a cigarette
Ripped suit, zip boots, dancing like an insect
Tottenham court road, litter skitters in the wind
My, the city's pretty dead but the nights are still alive

Sat'day night
Sat'day night

Sat'day night in the city of the dead
(Hey!)
Can you feel the time bomb ticking in your head?
(Hey!)
Too many memories are waiting in your bed
(Hey!)
Sat'day night in the city of the dead

Sat'day night
Sat'day night
Sat'day night
Sat'day night in the city of the dead

Sat'day night
Sat'day night
Sat'day night

[Repeat and fade]

 

[fox69]

"Satellite"

"Satellite"


Shine from above you, satellite
Follow your lead, follow your light
Libertine blue and angel white
Whoah, free to release my dark tonight

Oh, I defy you
Let your light shine on me tonight
Do, do what you know, know to be right
Wondrous satellite

Feed me with all the hope you find
Lovingly laid, but cruel, unkind
Whisper to me with words so blue
Oh, feed me your drug to see me through

Oh, I defy you
Let your light shine on me tonight
Do, do what you know, know to be right
Wondrous satellite

Oh, I defy you
Let your light shine on me tonight
Do, do what you know, know to be right
Wondrous satellite

Oh, I defy you
Let your light shine on me tonight
Do, do what you know, know to be right
Wondrous satellite

Oh

 

[fox69]

"Serenade"

"Serenade"


Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart

Voices ringing in their heads
Their crashing hands in time
In sequence and in rhyme
The chant of a thousand-fold
The song of a million strong
Echoes their perfect praise

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart

From the mouths of babes and fools
Hunted melodies
With gracefulness and ease
Compose their gifted words
Orchestrate their moves
Echo the perfect praise
Serenade

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart

Prophets tell the tale
The legend and the lies
The fable and the rhymes
The chant of a thousand-fold
The song of a billion strong
Echoes the perfect praise
Serenade

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance a wild dance, be torn apart

In rhythm and swing
The gift that we bring
Youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts
Dance the wild dance, be torn apart

Serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade
In rhythm and swing, serenade
The gift that we bring, serenade

 

[fox69]

"Sleepwalk"

"Sleepwalk"


(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)

Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling
Name after name after name

(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)

Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me
Hurting my eyes with their glare

(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)

Helplessly breaking, exchanging my faces
Destined, we had to collide

(Sleepwalk)

Caught on the outside, I'm crumpling and crawling
Watching the day drag away
Spiralling deeper, I can't feel my fingers
Grip 'round my throat as I dream (dream, dream, dream dream)

(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)
(Sleepwalk)

 

[fox69]

"Slip Away"

"Slip Away"


Enter me gently, I break in the light
Cover my eyes, with the rags of my life

Was I dreaming
Or did you say
The frontiers are falling
It's time to be slipping away
Let's slip away
Let's slip away

All things fall from me, the bonds and the veils
All things blow by me, my sorrows have sails

Was I dreaming
Or did you say
The empires are fading
It's time to be slipping away
Let's slip away
Let's slip away

What am I to do
Don't leave me
What is there to say, I really...

We're just wasting time
Let the night takes its place
Colour my eyes with the dusk of this wonderful day

Let's slip away
Let's slip away

Letters from lovers are lining my grate
Some came too early and some came too late

Were you speaking
Or did I say
The frontiers have fallen
It's time to be slipping away

As you call me
My hands they fall open
My mouth it is frozen
The chrysalis tumbles
I'm falling
Slow motion
Dissolve

 

[fox69]

"Slow Motion"

"Slow Motion"


No reply
I'm trying hard to somehow frame a reply
Pictures, I've got pictures, and I run them in my head
When I can't sleep at night
Looking out at the white world and the Moon
I feel a soft exchange taking place
Merging with the people on the trains
Whirling my face in conversation

Slow motion
Slow motion

Hush, can you feel the trees so far away?
Hush, can you feel the breeze of another day?
When we held each other close in the night
While we wheeled away in our own light
Stepping sideways into our own time
Such a simple way

Slow motion
Slow motion

And we held each other close in the night
While we wheeled away in our own light
And some of us from another time
And drifted away

Slow motion
Slow motion