Ultravox

You live for love, I long for it You give for love, I take from it This friend of mine, desire This lovers crime, desire Emotion driving all the time A burning need for things not mine Desire You need your love I walk from it You fight for love I ru...

Perfecting what's mine From now and all time Devoted to everyone This could not survive It's hard to see how This page is left unturned (chorus) I.. choose.. everything.. I feel I.. run.. anywhere.. to see where a way A way out, a way through The...

What is this phase that I am going through O these precious years Please take my hand and let me breathe again Young depressive tears We stumble blindly chasing something new and something sinful You take my time you live my life for me What have I done...

When I was a boy there's a dream that I had That a war if it's fought was for good against bad And I woke up to find that the world had gone mad And we'd all fall down And I feel like a child again sitting observing You're toying with power, your fingers are...

When I was a boy there's a dream that I had That a war if it's fought was for good against bad And I woke up to find that the world had gone mad And we'd all fall down And I feel like a child again sitting observing You're toying with power, your fingers are...

Strange how the change came All in a day Counting down and counting down And waiting for the minute We could touch a world Where heart had love to offer Heart-felt passion building around Feel the love, feel the love Sharing the strain From where apat...

The lights went out (the last fuse blew) The clocks all stopped (it can't be true) The program's wrong (what can we do?) The printout's blocked (it relied on you) The turbine cracked up The buildings froze up The system choked up What can we do? Plea...

All the boys are wearing their utility drag The girls slip identikits from their utility bags Some refugees from suburbia are laughing Examining each other's gags Vibrate on sulphate when it gets late And their velocity begins to sag Chorus: And it goes on al...

I thought I'd take the slide I thought I'd be alright But when the details swam Oh no, the door got jammed Someone took the hand And we were out slow dancing In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh In the blue light, blue l...

Somewhere sure Somewhere safe inside A world where you reside Where chance and trust have died A world where you can Hide away, hide away No tomorrow, no today You, the brilliant thing you are Outshine your brightest star Too distant and too...

One last smile As we turn away in wrong directions Feeling the kick From a multitude of cooled reflections Ooh Building on my life alone One last look As we turn our backs on deeper feelings This new release And think ahead to all who see May buil...

I can feel the turning of the tides Pulling away the night Like a sheet from over me In summer time I dissolve to a beach And everywhere seems to be Just a flicker on a silent screen Because I I can't stay long Let the sky roll on Just a flicker an...

I am the road i walk alone exposed and turned to stone a heart without a home walk for miles to walk away a new life every day to welcome come what may turn around and make the change turn it round and love will hapen you took a lifetime to find the...

What's wrong, who's right? Sad machines won't talk to me tonight No questions looking for answers No voices except inside my mind Talk to me somebody Talk to me, talk to me Just looking for contact, my friend React, rewind, Relive this conversation o...

Chorus: See the man on the 'phone, With a gun in his hand, Sipping courage from a crystal cup. He's a man in the wrong, With a gun at his head, Pushes on and now it's time to cut and run. Time, passing so slowly. Still, as he sits and he watches the...

Chorus: Dancing with tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes Living out a memory of a love that died It's five and I'm driving home again That's hard to believe that it's my last time The man on the wireless cri...

Chorus: Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm in the air Stranger to stranger We're both dressed for danger Something is generating here Oh, take off your halo For the all-night inferno Something is happening in the air It's not...

Running down an empty street Perhaps it was a railway station A smell of eau de cologne The sound of celebration Oh oh oh Dislocation. Chorus: Just a swimmer Growing dimmer In the glimmer of a summer Waving gladly Swimming madly Never, nev...

You make to much of the way I am Like my heads in another land Break my back on a second chance Saying I don't wanna make it last Won't distance you Don't resistance too The track I distant you My getting hungry doesn't need to end Thinking I do some...

Sometimes I find I drift away Behind a distant smile Light years ago I think someone spoke Quizzical glances behind cigarette smoke She drew the curtains at the end of the day And then we laughed because the room sailed away Fancy glitter in the su...

Hold my breath and pray for something better Close my eyes and wish for something better Much better Dream on Dream on I saw a day when there was no fight to fight Dream on Dream on Nothing more, no hurting for no reason, what reason Dream on Dream on I h...

There's nothing left The system's gone It's taking over, over, over Right before our eyes It's all over Hear them cry It's all over Hear them sigh It's all over Nothing but time, time, time is all we had Face to face Room to room It's taking o...

Your picture of yourself is a media myth Underneath this floor we're on the edge of a cliff Someone told me Jesus was the Devil's lover While we masturbated on a magazine cover Chorus: Dead in the streets Who's that girl? Ireland screams Africa burns Suburbia...

If I could feel some kind of feeling Send a message to my soul Tell my mind to lose control If I could live a life with some meaning One that love could not deny From a shattered soul like me Sometimes I'll try And sometimes I'll fall And sometimes I'...

Chorus: Follow, follow, follow, follow your heart There must be something to rely on Follow your own way Follow, follow, follow, follow your heart There must be someone to depend on Follow your own way We were the listeners Were believers of a thousan...

Marching across our own screens Our faces form all our needs The future's not returning All bridges built for burning How can there be anything wrong? Aren't we the frozen ones? One day I'll just erase the tape, wave goodbye, and fade away Get lost...

Time rolled by and I held out my hand and touched an illusion That I would find...if I could see in the future And I could tear up the picture The future picture forever... and ever Lying was good for I teased it with my hand When outside in the wilds.....

So the victim ever comes And the lies won't give at all Who asked for a change? Me! Just need more time And to put things right Give your recline Give it all up, give it all back So to be strong never men Does he hold out for a brand new world? Who...

I was young and not deceived then I believed in the heart of the country How the words sound, how the truth lies I was moved by the heart of the country Oh, oh, then I saw through The charade, the facade Now I've had it all When they ask you, "Who dep...

Hello, hello, hello Welcome to this world you made Hello, hello, hello It's raining through your sad parade If you always do What you've always done Then nothing good will ever come If you always get What you've always got You'll find that loves what...

Ich fand ein vollkommenes Bild Von einem vollkommenden Fremden Nach dem oder auf dem Bild Müßte es in den 40er aufgenommen sein Er könnte ein gerissener oder Ein blinder mit einem Stock Vielleicht starb er vor Jahren In einem Autounfall Heute kann man...

Somehow we drifted off too far Communicate like distant stars Splintered voices down the 'phone The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no Someone waits behind the door Hiroshima mon amour Riding inter-city trains Dressed in European grey Riding out to...

Give us this day all that you showed me - The power and the glory Till my kingdom comes. Give us this day all that you showed me - The power and the glory Till my kingdom comes. Give me all the storybook told me The faith and the glory Till my kingdom comes....

I, I'm moving through time Being human by design Life Unfulfilled but divine Never ending How could I be so blind? What is this world Doing to me? Notwithstanding the lies All the tears I have cried I've opened my eyes (Chorus:) I am alive I am w...

Shadows cut our cloth that's stolen, Promises were broke, We wound our watch to stretch the time, In case that no-one got the joke. I never wanted to begin, Name that sin Name that sin. Dim and distant kisses chill, Before I catch my death, Etch eve...

We turned the dial We heard the news And laughed We don't know why We drank the wine And spoke of times We knew Of days gone by We flicked through photographs we had Somehow they made us sad Remembering the times we used to have It made us cry Oh, I remember...

I found the bones of all your ghosts Locked in the wishing well While bird song gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine Kissed me on my eyes I rose and left the fire-ladies Glowing lonely in the night Wit...

The cryings over The crying is done We are believing someone Predicting inspiration Were never wrong You make out you know how it feels Surrounded by suffered ideals But why is it over? So why is it done? When we start defending someone Whose lost...

Reach for the stars (Kudos is lost) The space race Man on the moon (Won't tear me apart) Your future Curiosity staring out In everyone's eyes Discover lust? We're innocent now Deliver us Ingenuity right now Ingenuity right now Ingen...

Talking in the window as the light fades I heard my voice break Just for a moment. Talking in the window as the light fades I felt the floor change Into an ocean. (Chorus) We'll never leave here - ever Let's stay in here forever And when the streets...

And just as my eyes start seeing After all the pain The twist in my life starts healing Just to twist again In stillness, in sorrow Returns that softly sighing lament And just as the smile's returning After all the pain The fire inside stops burning Just to b...

couldn't you let it lie? with a smile and subterfuge you dances your savage dance some hidden cause you cannot justyfy a lie's a lie couldn't you let it lie couldn't you let it lie conscience clear and sanctified you wash yooursins away in god's name you st...

Streets I knew were raining, changing Addresses were rearranging The cold boy from the suburbs he left there He'd read the book of no return And me, I burnt your picture For the ashes of the lords For you had played your games too well As the martyr and...

Time will find a way A way to make your world go round Present an empty day A canvas for your words To paint the things you see A chapter still to come Don`t you know that every picture holds a story Don`t you know you`ll learn to live again Soon to f...

Standing on my own It didn't mean that much to me I thought I had it all I didn't see the mystery I stood the test of time And took the step to find Love's great adventure I spoke a million words They didn't mean that much to me They rang around my h...

Taking shelter by the standing stones Miles from all that moves Breathing solitude, seeking confidence, a gift to me Feeling spirits never far removed passing over me And I greet them with open arms Hand fighting hand As you turn to a man of two worlds...

Someone stood beside me for a moment in the rain A silhouette, a cigarette, and a gesture of disdain I felt a dark door open, saw a sudden ghost come through A spark leapt from my fingertip and I knew it must be you Ain't you the man who dies every day?...

I thought you knew me by now Let the lights go on roaring Someone's hand on my shoulder - then We passed a turning point There was time for the taking Chorus: Maximum acceleration Maximum acceleration Maximum acceleration A face echoes slowly...

A life as a stranger Hands through a wire Forbidden desires Are mine for life Looking from a spiral staircase At a man with a suitcase As he shades his eyes Watching from a stained glass shelter He bides his time and thinks There must be more to life...

One more day in a vacuum Drags me down One bright thought in a black room Drags me down, down, down While it drags me down Two of us tired of it all And it drags me down Picture us on a snow white charger Picture us in a secret hideaway Picture us wi...

I found the perfect picture of a perfect stranger It looked as if it were taken in the forties sometime Judging by the style He could be a killer or a blind man with a cane Perhaps he died in a car crash years ago Right now it's impossible to tell I almost t...

My sex Waits for me Like a mongrel waits Downwind on a tight rope leash My sex Is a fragile acrobat Sometimes I'm a novocaine shot Sometimes I'm an automat My sex Is often solo Sometimes it short circuits then Sometimes it's a golden glow My sex Is invested...

In a quiet street washed by the rain The room within the home A lonely man sits cheek to cheek With unique designs in chrome The mellow years have long gone by But now he sits alone He has a brand new radio But never turns it on New Europeans Young Europeans...

You think you're so safe and secure with your kind But don't be surprised if you're losing this time Learn to stand on your own Realise, and believe in yourself 'Cause I won't be waiting Chorus: I hate to leave But there's no turning back You may th...

it's hard to believe the time is come for this one for this one good fortune has breathed its breath upon this one this one a handful of wanting, waitnig my turn a mountain of past, a future to burn a dream of tomorrows, and what will become, become with hop...

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 slipp...

We were so young, we were too vain. Dance in the dark, sing in the rain. Time on our hands, hope in our hearts. Chorus: We were talking, passing strangers. Moments caught across an empty room. Wasted whispers, faded secrets. Quickly passes, t...

Suddenly you find Yourself waiting 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...

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...

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 Watchi...

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...

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 hall There were no walls at all For the quiet friends Of the quiet men....

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...

Reap the wild wind (3X) 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 CHORUS : You take my hand and give me your frie...

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 Rememebring. Closing my eyes i walked a while A never ending mile In avenues i'...

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 throug...

I give to you the best of everything I'm here to grow your little monuments Oh 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 'ne...

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 starred, wired and barbed What a magnificent disg...

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 round So splintered and predictable again Then I find you Chorus: Telling me the sam...

Shine from above you satellite Follow your lead follow your light Libertine blue and angel white 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 wit...

While a fat guy zips by, bony in a Zodiac Picking out trouble, maybe looking for a heart attack All-night boys in the Piccadilly arcade (???) trawling for some rough trade Saturday night Saturday night Saturday night in the city of the dead Can't you fe...

Chorus: 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....

Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling, Name after name after name. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me, Hurting my eyes with their glare. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Helplessly br...

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...

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...

Some of them are changing day to day Some of them flicker then they fade Some of them get triggered off by any crazy thing Some of them are all that's left Some of them are just dead regrets Some of them are shining out through everything I see Some...

Check out some memories I don't recognise Another country and another life Oh oh I find I'm strolling on a distant shore To meet someone I've never seen before Oh oh I'm wearing someone else's clothes - again Walking in the streets I know - again Back i...

Light gets through a crack in the door I tape up the windows once more Tight like a cold hand of fear Don't fear the stranger within Hands that petrify in the air Eyes catching things never there Sweet tension caught on my breath Don't fear the strange...

Sweet sweet Sweet surrender Sweet sweet Sweet surrender Sweet sweet Sweet surrender Sweet sweet Sweet surrender Searching the institution Chasing the grand illusion all the way Away Turn every stone to find it Filling my empty mind, it falls away...

When everyone else is uncertain And walls are closing in There's no-one to hear you No-one at all Don't tell me what to believe in Wake up and start again Be part of the vision Be part of it all Don't you give me compassion Just give me it all [Chor...

My obsession Your desire Come let me lead you To the fire Show some mercy My pounding heart Can't take much more of this You've got play your part Bodies yearning Is this for real? Words cannot express the way I really feel Passion burning You ign...

You stand out of the crowd You don't follow the shadows You've given me solid ground You rise above All that surrounds you And I can't believe what I've found Chorus: And I am falling through the hands of time As I discover within my mind That I, if...

[Chorus:] Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter I'm a lonely hunter, a hungry ghost When you call a passion you must pay the host Look upon me as I thunder, I wonder if you wonder How it feels to be the lonely hunter Lonely hunter...

Try to understand As I take you by the hand Side by side We'll begin again Find a future in this land If we try And as we come together We're guided by the light This is more than just adventure As destiny unfolds for you and I [Chorus:] We are not...

The prize is worth the working for The prize is worth the waiting for Waiting for years in the dirt and the tears is no compromise Stand up and fight for the right to be someone in others' eyes The popular sin of us all giving in won't reveal the prize...

You're hopeful of everything To do what you want to Belief in high to the inner self Taste for the finer things The beat becomes your backbone, no Will always be leading you astray (chorus) Don't leave your spades to the hands that wait Don't leave yo...

Chorus: Welcome to.. Welcome to.. Welcome to the song. Hear the words of the syncopated rhythms. Welcome to the song. And when it calls you, time to move on. We go! (Chorus) Feel the strength of a hundred thousand heartbeats, Cry welcome to the song....

The sound is on the visions move The image dance starts once again They shuffle with a bovine grace and glide in syncopation Just living lines from books we've read With atmospheres of days gone by With paper smiles The screenplay calls a message for the...

Native these words seem to me All speech directed to me I've heard them once before I know that feeling Stranger emotions in mind Changing the contours I find I've seen them once before Someone cries to me CHORUS : Oh, the look and the sound of The...

Calling cards of madness Pull the brass men from their knees To petrify more images to dangle just outside the reach Of the stunted and the dreamless ones who have nothing left to keep For frozen dawns or nights as cold as these have been Don't ask for...

Spinning round, demanding a gentle way Rushed up crowd, had to go off the way (chorus) Oh, the circumstances detailed The force of the run Oh, the messages unfold There goes a beautiful world Higher ground, safe from the open way Desert hound, try to...

Sitting on a train going round, round, get around Looking at the same old places Going up, down, to and fro Leave it all behind It's a really good time It's a really good waste of Chorus: Time for the taking Turn it into something more than just Time...

Maximize your potential Utilize the influential Come take my hand I`ll make you a true believer Fantasize you're in heaven Realize your religion Fall into line Pay for your redemption [Chorus:] Got to be a true believer Burning up inside with fever...

You give me exaltation Like a rush from the morning air All the endless roads we've taken Don't mean a thing I swear Destiny brought us together Chorus: We've all that we need As long as we're side by side We are sanctified I'll be the air that you...

We walked in the cold air Freezing breath on a window pane Lying and waiting A man in the dark in a picture frame So mystic and soulful A voice reaching out in a piercing cry It stays with you until The feeling has gone only you and I It means...

We walked in the cold air Freezing breath on a window pane Lying and waiting A man in the dark in a picture frame So mystic and soulful A voice reaching out in a piercing cry It stays with you until The feeling has gone, only you and I It means nothin...

Face in the window in the night Caught for a second by the light Ashes of memories still aglow Only for you Portraits and pictures you once saw Visions in blue Read while the letters still remain Sip from the wine of youth again Oaths made in silence still re...

Move on as we step in time Strange words from the other line Edging forward, feeling strong Syncopate with the marching song Thoughts and dreams flick across your mind Fade away as you wait for your time to go You're waiting, waiting, waiting Looking b...

We came to dance Making moves from a passion play The ties that bind us just slip away We came to dance The piper calls out a different rhyme He cracks the whip and we step in time Standing as the parade goes passing by I hear a voice around me cry Li...

The words played on around our heads Perhaps we went too far We'll soldier on until the end, again This clutching hand around my hand So pitiful and frail Makes bleeding hearts begin to beat again We stand in a different light That's cast upon, this g...

Hai! Oh mystical East, on old postcards, Your childhood dreams and energies. Your temples' gardens, old world charm, An ancient culture, torn and scarred. This is my Western promise. Oh mystical East, you've lost your way, Your rising sun shall rise a...

Chorus: (And we talked) Just the two of us. (All the time) Nothing serious. (We pretend) Time is on our side. ('Til the end) When the scream subsides. Yes, we had it all, had the key gripped in our hands. We could see the fall as a martyr understands....

So you think it's over So you think that down's the only way out A sad excuse for lovers With your head held high and your heart still full of doubt It's just like you to scorn, the only one who'll mourn The day he doesn't love you When the time comes I...

It's warm tonight, it rained tonight, The windows are all open wide. Can't see the clock to check the time Nothing is moving. When you walk through me. I turn around to switch the scene The room dives like a submarine, I cross the carpet, try to le...

Playing the game With the chips on my shoulder Checking in the mirror As my coffee cup gets colder Stagger and swagger Combing my hair If tomorrow's not there Then at least today's all mine Chorus: While I'm still alive While I'm still alive While...

When pale turns to pink With a soft unnerving ease And all you've built around May just tumble to the ground Will you stand or fall? With your future in another's hands Will you stand or fall? When your life is not your own When white turns to red I...

Please yourself Only solitary kind Be yourself When there's no one else around There's hope around Story told to man to foe Who will save you? Who will still be seen? Who will break it? Who else will save it? Tell me who? Bleed yourself Only yo...

I took a walk down New York avenue Wearing my latest disguise Enjoying the perfume of utter dismay I was effectively anaesthetised Starving so arrogantly in jumble-sale clothes Evangeline hires out my throat We've got the streets of London wrapped...

The Jekyll-Hyde of you I can't survive the tide of you The vicious style of love, the whining Pits and pendulums of lying I don't see how you survive in Hard-line worlds you're advertising Sneaky features, ? waiting City sex is so frustrating Chorus:...

Something stops me from seeing too clear A misty haze floats 'round the room The murmurs make it hard to hear The voices and the words The days seem to drag away My speech is sparse and tends to slur I wonder what happened to my friend today Can't hear the wo...