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
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