Systems of Romance

Ultravox Systems of Romance Lyrics
1.Blue Light

Lyricist:Christopher Thomas Allen, Warren Reginald Cann, William
Currie, Dennis Leigh, Robin Simon

I thought I'd take the slide
I thought I'd be alright but when the details swam
Another door got jammed
Someone took the hand
And we were out slow dancing

In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
Blue light, blue light

There was a crowd below
Swanning in the glow, all the paste it shimmered
In the swimmer's glimmer
It was a sticky summer
And I was diving under

The blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
Blue light, blue light

Well, nothing drove out behind me, I was so glad
Even the walls were turning round

Well, someone said there was something wrong
But I couldn't quite put my finger on it

What the, well, I thought I heard
And I tried to, then we were just diving

In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
In the blue light, blue light
Blue light, blue light


2.Dislocation

Lyricist:Billy Currie, John Foxx

Running down an empty street
Perhaps it was a railway station
Smell of eau de cologne
The sound of a celebration

Oh, oh, oh, dislocation
Oh, oh, oh, dislocation

Just a swimmer growing dimmer
In the glimmer of a summer
Waving gladly, swimming madly
Never never going under

Oh, oh, oh, dislocation
Oh, oh, oh, dislocation

The sun was going down one quiet evening
Someone came into the room while I was half-asleep
We spoke for a while, I couldn't see his face
Later on when he was gone, I realized I didn't catch his name

Oh, oh, oh, dislocation
Oh, oh, oh, dislocation

Oh, oh, oh, dislocation
Oh, oh, oh, dislocation

Oh, oh, oh, dislocation
Oh, oh, oh, dislocation

Oh, oh, oh, dislocation

Just a swimmer growing dimmer
In the glimmer of a summer
Waving gladly, swimming madly
Never, never going under


3.I Can't Stay Long

Lyricist:Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, John Foxx, Robin
Simon

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 and the crowd moves on

In winter overcoats close in
And the snow tastes of tin
On the steps of any station

I'd like to glide in the long green light
Of a July afternoon
Sliding down a vague conversation

Because I, I can't stay long
When the moment comes
Just a glance and the glance is gone

Watch closely as a man with a hat
And a girl with a map synchronize with the track
And they go away

I need to drift through all the walls
And let the scenery dissolve
Into some other life

Because I, I can't stay long
Let the sky roll on
Just a glance and the glance is gone

I, I can't stay long
When the right time comes
I'll dissolve


4.Just for a Moment

Lyricist:Billy Currie, John Foxx

Talking in the window as the light fades
I heard my voice break just for a moment
Talking by the window as the light fades
I felt the floor change into an ocean

We'll never leave here, never
Let's stay in here forever
And when the streets are quiet
We'll walk out in the silence

Listening to the movement that the night makes
I let the room fade just for a moment
Sitting in the shadows that the leaves make
I felt the floor change into an ocean

We'll never leave here, never
Let's stay in here forever
And when the streets are quiet
We'll walk out in the silence

Listening to the music the machines make
I let my heart break just for a moment
Listening to the music the machines make
I felt the floor change into an ocean

We'll never leave here, never
Let's stay in here for ever
And when the streets are quiet
We'll walk out in the silence


5.Maximum Acceleration

Lyricist:John Foxx

I thought you knew me by now
Let the lights go on roaring
Someone's hand on my shoulder
Then whip past the turning point
There's time for the taking

Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration

A face that goes slowly
A signal close by me
The landscapes are changing
And some of us flipped a coin
And shimmered away

Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration

You really were aching
It's turning to twilight
Moving over and under
Then a couple of figures
Shook their heads of the high lines

Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration


6.Quiet Men

Lyricist:Chris Cross, Billy Currie, John Foxx

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

The quiet men
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

The quiet men
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

The quiet men
The quiet men

The quiet men
The quiet men


7.Slow Motion

Lyricist:Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, John Foxx, Robin
Simon

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 a white world and the moon
I feel a soft exchange taking place
Merging with the people on the page
Blurring my face and 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 found another time
And drifted away

Slow motion
Slow motion


8.Some of Them

Lyricist:Billy Currie, John Foxx, Robin Simon

Some of them are changing day to day
Some of them flicker then they fade
Some of them are 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 of them
Some of them
Some of them

Some of them are brittle, some are sad
Some of them are aching, some are glad
Some of them are gone so long, they're hard to recognize

Stand close to the long parade
Watch them passing by in their million ways
Walk on through the evergreens
Pass from scene to scene through all these yesterdays

Some of them are friends just as they were
Some of them are gentle, some can fret
Some of them are crowding closer every passing year

Some of them live in photographs
Some of them still give me a laugh
Some of them I've out-absorbed as they're changing me

Some of them
Some of them
Some of them


9.Someone Else's Clothes

Lyricist:Billy Currie, John Foxx, Robin Simon

Check out some memories I don't recognize
Another country and another life
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

I find, I'm strolling on a distant shore
To meet someone I've never seen before
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh

I'm wearing someone else's clothes again
Walking in the streets I know again
Back in the old familiar glow again
I'm wearing someone else's clothes

Painting quiet pictures in my ear
We're driving past without a wish to steer
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Driving underneath the deep blue sea
I'm always surfacing in summer sheets
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh

I'm wearing someone else's clothes again
Walking in the streets I know again
Back in the old familiar glow again
I'm wearing someone else's clothes

I'm wearing someone else's clothes again
Walking in the streets I know again
Back in the old familiar glow again
I'm wearing someone else's clothes

Transfer me into a Saturday crowd
Or merge me back into a factory town
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

I'm opened up for such a splendid move
I'm making love with someone, I don't know who
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh

Oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh

I'm wearing someone else's clothes again
Walking in the streets I know again
Back in the old familiar glow again
I'm wearing someone else's clothes


10.When You Walk Through Me

Lyricist:Billy Currie, John Foxx, Robin Simon

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 trying to leave
Sometimes I can do it
When you walk through me

When you walk through me
I almost lose me, it's so confusing
When you walk through me
When you walk through me

Locations change, the angles change
Even the streets get rearranged
While I'm swimming out
Someone waves across a crowded room

I take the train, or shine a shoe
A dark horizon comes to view
I get lost in the crossword clues
Or check the time again

When you walk through me
I almost lose me, it's so confusing
When you walk through me
When you walk through me

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

When you walk through me
I almost lose me, it's so confusing
When you walk through me
When you walk through me


11.Cross Fade

Lyricist:Rupert Cravens, Charles Vaughan

Where are you? You're waving, the windows were ablaze
We're driving and we're drowning and we're drifting in a daze
We're smoking, we're talking, we reinvent the view
And we're occupying places just as they get removed

Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade

Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade

The journey was crazy, I'm trying to close my eyes
We're bypassing some places as they're editing the time
Wake up, you're kneeling, some young man's just gone down
There's a flicker and a flutter and the film is running out

Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Oh, take a cross fade, cross fade
Cross fade, cross fade

Pictures into structures and structures into motion
Cross over into action, over airways, over ocean

Cross fade, cross fade
Cross fade, cross fade