Afternoons In Utopia

Alphaville Afternoons In Utopia Lyrics
1.20th Century

In the beginning
There was no light
No teenage heaven or hell
No songs or voices came from across the outlands
Where oceans are meant to be -- where oceans are meant to be

Oh my God, I feel so alone -- some million lightyears far from
home
HOW ABOUT YOU LIVING IN THE 20TH CENTURY

You can halt your car to get your tickets to the starlite skies,
you know...
Ev'rybody wants to come home (what a dream)
So, if you don't mind,
Will you join me?
On my way through the eye
up to the light
Into the world...


2.Afternoons In Utopia

FOR INKA

Acrobats & Comets are floating by so fast
Children's faces S.M.I.L.E. like suns at last
Lilac butterflies are cruising without fear
All inviting you to stay and rest here

You can halt your car for an afternoon in Utopia
We shall stop the wars on those afternoons in Utopia

Mighty Maomoondog drifts across the grass
Healing lullabies for Easter Time on Mars
Paint your hats and shoes with flowers and with stars
singing in Metropolitan Operas

You can halt your car for an afternoon in Utopia
We shall stop the wars on those afternoons in Utopia


3.Carol Masters

She sits by the window
Stares into the night
Just waiting for a foreign sound from outside
Far beyond the atmospheres, she is listening for a call
To take her homewards to herself
Oh I love you so
He who's Master of the icy shots won't harm you in the morning
She knows that the pavement's hard, there between the stars
To travel on to Martian-Homesick-City

She is weeping silently
But there's not a tear
Just raindrops falling from the painted ceiling
The dance of the foraging bee will number all the things
She has been longing for since she was young
'I will not pass this night in vain!'
She says, 'I'll stand this kind of rain, I'll break the glass,
I'll find the path.'
Yes, Carol wants to go to Mars, back, where the red-cold sun
Is sinking to the Channels of A'DAAR

Day breaks through the grating
Someone moves a chair
And sunlight blisters dazzling on a glass
Take a pill and greet the day for sedative holidays
Why aren't you sleeping at night?!
...Oh I love you so!
He who's Master of the icy shots won't harm you till the evening
We shall meet tomorrow night, and I kiss you just as tenderly
As CYGNUS kissed the deserts
We shall meet tomorrow night, and I kiss you just as tenderly
As CYGNUS kissed the deserts


4.Fantastic Dream

Hello today -- open your eyes
The snow is falling just like leaves
Aquarian Warriors rebuild the ship
Mr. Rainbow is gone
Hello my love, here's to your heart
Unfold the Lillies in the deep
The season's over, the shores are sealed
Now ashen roses rain on the fields
Innocent dreamers, look what you've done
Now it's time for the Phoenix to fly.

Hello today -- wake to the dawn
To meet the guardians of the Isles
The valient captains will rule the seas
'Til the comets return
Hello my love, here's to your heart
Release that dream into the world
Join in the air-race, leaving tonight
How does it feel to follow the light
Beautiful Dreamer, it's up to you
If we glide through the glamour of love.

We believe in our dreams
reaching out for above
We believe in our dreams
reaching out for love.


5.Iao

...Night!

You can halt your car for an afternoon in Utopia
We shall stop the wars on those afternoons in Utopia


6.Jerusalem

Waiting on this empty street, watching the river's waves go by
Feeling mellow, lighting a cigarette, silver moon floats through
the night
Eris, Princess of the Isles, disperse your sparkling traces
Lead him on to the house of love where the Gods my turn his eyes

To Jerusalem we pray -- It's time to meet you there
Let's take love to Jerusalem -- Oh yeah -- Let's make love

You might be the one I'm waiting for, I think we've met
somewhere for sure
Chasing shadows leaves you feelin' blue, this situation needs a
cure
New assassins, new messiahs, keepers of the balanced law
Strangest lovers of the fire which ignites the Halo of our souls

To Jerusalem we pray -- It's time to meet you there
Let's take love to Jerusalem -- Oh yeah -- Let's make love

Big yellow cadillac, carry me back home
On glory roads of pure delight we head out for the stars

In Jerusalem...


7.Lady Bright

There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster, much faster than light
She departed one day in a relative way


8.Lassie Come Home

Lonely boy gazing on the afternoon
People drifting cross the surface of the twilight day
There's a Little Yellow Man, standing by the railway station
Painting portraits on the brickwalls of Billie Holloway
Lovely Lady S.M.I.L.E.
Dance, my dear, I'm only operating on 'Lassie Come Home'
'This was authentic you' she spoke, 'this was authentic
you who blew me cold'
He had no chance to realize, it hit her straight between the
eyes
So I've been told

In the park, she's giving out some photographs
on which she's giving out some photos of what she hands around
'They videoed a ghost tonight', she said before I turned it out
'It rode an orange paper-bike, and left without a sound.'
Keep on riding, Sir
Open up the door and shout it out: 'Lassie Come Home,
Come Home!!'
'This was authentic you?' she spoke, 'this was authentic
you who blew, who blew me cold'
I had no chance to realize, it hit her straight between the eyes
So I've been told

Lonely Girl dancing in the music-hall
Lightning struck her silver starship and turned it into stone
And now it's falling all the time into that void beyond her grey
eyes
Somewhere a telephone is ringing, but nobody's at home
'Hello Junkie-Sweetheart, listen now this is your Captain
calling:
Your Captain is dead.'
Keep on riding, Sir, open up the door and shout it out --
shout it out...
Lassie come home -- Lassie come home -- Lassie come home
Lassie come home...


9.Red Rose

Little girl -- do you know what you are -- do you know
This baby's gonna be a STAR -- do you know-wow
A Teenangel-Empress form Hollywood highs... with wonderful eyes
You're beautiful -- put your strato-blue suit -- put it on
I know that you're in the mood to fly
Ah, you got the power to make it come true -- the most exciting
news

We'll be together till the end of time
And when you S.M.I.L.E., Red Rose, it's just like Blue Sunshine,
Blue Sunshine
Oh, we're ascending and we'll never die
'cos when we kiss, Red Rose, we're changing 6 to 9, it's
Revolution Time
When 6 turns into 9...

Move over -- closer to my fantasies
Pretty baby, we're standing at the turn of the centuries
The daughter of time is groovin' Tonight -- Tonight -- Tonight
Tonight, little dreamer, you're the D.J. of your soul, little
dreamer
C'mon lets swing to that Rock and Roll
The sweetest arrows of desire will set this dance on fire

We'll be together till the end of time
And when you S.M.I.L.E., Red Rose, it's just like Blue Sunshine,
Blue Sunshine
Oh, we're ascending and we'll never die
'cos when we kiss, Red Rose, we're changing 6 to 9, it's
Revolution Time
When 6 turns into 9...

Above the City of the million Moons
We'll reach the Palace of the Sun
DO WHAT YOU WILL -- shall be your distiny, we will unfold
the secrets of the new JERUSALEM...


10.The Voyager

Now she's touched the earth -- you feel her love
Pouring down like an endless rain of colours on your skin
She descends out of the blue, a breathless victor of time
After more than a million lightyears preparing her comeback
And she's rushing in from the outside
On the crest of the seventh wave
She's the crown of creation creating you

The Voyager! is here to stay
The Voyager! she's calling all stars
The Voyager! she's riding a rainbow
The Voyager! gives you the kiss of life

Watch out, you can't ignore what's going on
When your visions are drying out like the oceans of from the
underworld
Don't you know! Before you turn to stone
You better head out for a Royal trip to the Ivory city-side
And she's rushing in from the outside
On the crest of the seventh wave
She's the crown of creation creating you

The Voyager! is here to stay
The Voyager! she's calling all stars
The Voyager! she's riding a rainbow
The Voyager! gives you the kiss of life


11.Universal Daddy

If you want a new connection
I'll be just a step away
Come on move in my direction
Leave your dollshouse at the breaking of the day
Get this message from your heartbeat,
There's an ally you can trust
You've been searching for adventure
Follow me, let's take the golden path

There's a Universal Daddy for everyone
From Universal Kingdom Number One
He sends his Universal Angels through the air
To Universal Dreamers everywhere
Blowing kisses!!

Any girl from any nation
Any boy could drive my car
I'll supply the next sensation
It'll happen if you wish upon a star
Throwing stones against your windows
Don't pretend you're not at home
You can meet me if you want me
But I'd like to meet you all alone...

There's a Universal Daddy for everyone
From Universal Kingdom Number One
He sends his Universal Angels through the air
To Universal Dreamers everywhere
Blowing kisses!!