1.In The Dead Of Night
Are you one of mine
who can sleep with one eye open wide?
Agonizing psychotic
solitary hours to decide
Reaching for the light
at the slightest noise from the floor
Palms of hands perspire
Heart goes leaping at a knock from the door.
In the Dead of Night
In the Dead of Night
Rich and powerful ascend
complicated bends to be free
Indulge in what they will
and jaded thrill or fanstasy
Shuttered windows that belie
all stifled cries from within
And prying eyes are blind
to proceedings of the kind that begin
In the Dead of Night
In the Dead of Night
2.By the Light of Day
Lyricist:Eddie Jobson, John Kenneth Wetton
Black clouds moving gray sky to thunder
Kinetic sunrise fever and blood
Fire and water element anger
Horizon melting to blood
By the light of day
By the light of day
Silent wheel advancing years
Power and glory growing fears
Love's a dream that some pretend
Accelerates an early end
By the light of day
By the light of day
By the light of day
By the light of day
3.Presto Vivace And Reprise
Lyricist:Edwin Jobson, John Kenneth Wetton
Don't tell me that the
Wages of sin are for real
The writing's on the wall
What's the score what's the deal?
No wonder we can't see
Through the wood to the trees
No perfume we design
Can ever veil the sickness on the breeze
By the light of day
In the dead of night
4.Thirty Years
Lyricist:Bill Bruford, Eddie Jobson, John Kenneth Wetton
Chasing rainbows for a lifetime
That left your girl like shadows from the sun
Run into traces of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
Than echoes of a day gone by
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars in your sky
All the things you planned
Just sand castles washed
Away on tidal waves of tears
The fears overpowering
Your complex dreams just slither down
Drowning in rocky pools
Or smashed and dashed on peril's course
Divorcing prematurely thoughts of lasting love
In your life
Sometime when you've time to spare
Dreaming of missed opportunities
Spare a tear and douse your bridge
(Burning)
Thirty years and on the ledge
(Learning)
All the things you planned, fading
Thirty years in bed waiting
All the things you planned fading
Thirty years in bed waiting
Chasing rainbows for a lifetime
That left your girl like shadows from the sun
Run into traces of faces you thought you saw
But never seemed to mean much more
Than echoes of a day gone by
When someone else would have to try
To light the stars in your sky, your dark sky
5.Alaska
Rip the sheets off cold ice again
Wolf at the door
Can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes imagine somewhere
So far away
Silversand
And azure Carribean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
In to the cell
Run amok
If I survive this living hell
Holding up this cold calaboose
C A P T I V I T Y
Even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
TIME TO KILL
going nowhere
KILLING TIME
staying where there's...
TIME TO KILL
going nowhere
KILLING TIME
staying where there's...
6.Time to Kill
Lyricist:Bill Bruford, Eddie Jobson, John Kenneth Wetton
Rip the sheets off, ice cold again
Wolf at the door, can I stand
A dog's life here for one day more
Close my eyes, imagine somewhere
So far away, silver sand
And azure Carribean Sea
Sick of solitary holidays
'Cause I never get away from here
I listen to the water drip down
Into the cell run amok
If I survive this living hell
Holed up in this cold calaboose
Captivity, even takes
My lucid thoughts away from me
Time to kill, going nowhere
Killing time, staying where there's
Time to kill, going nowhere
Killing time, staying where there's
Time to kill, going nowhere
Killing time, staying where there's
Time to kill, going nowhere
Killing time, staying where there's
7.Nevermore
Lyricist:Allan Holdsworth, Eddie Jobson, John Kenneth Wetton
Nevermore
The sight black forest
Cool moonlight
Blue shadows
Reflect in windows in direct
Oh, to go down to Soho
There bold spirits don't sink so low
Gold Amber of lights
Beer glasses, misty nights
Oh, to go down to Soho
Black tie night out or hobo outright
Singles bars cruising shark cars
Soho neon glow
When day is dawning
You wipe the sleep
Slowly from your eyes
And you remember
Soho's neon disguise
Eyes reflect in windows direct
Soho neon glow
8.Mental Medication
Lyricist:Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth, Eddie Jobson
Mental medication
Sweet music's conversation
Play for all creation here
Melody fair lost in contemplation
Drown'd in meditation
Need your inspiration near
When I'm alone, I remember
Truth is lasting
With the sun in your eyes
And a simple disguise
You fooled me
Strange how your calling is clear
From the sound of your voice
You don't give me no choice, you prove me
Deep lies desire for your quickening fire
Well it's a hell of a ride
When your courage inside deserts you
Clear though the calling may be in a terrible way
You continue to say you need me
Show me the way through your dark red door
Mental education
Music's conversation
Need your inspiration near
Melody fair
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