Automatic

VNV Nation Automatic Lyrics
1.On-Air


2.Space & Time

Tear apart
The life and times of familiar faces

And tracing lines
To what connects me and binds me to

Images of the remote and ever changing
Grand designs, style, and grace

And am I,

Lost in thoughts
On open seas
Let the currents carry me
If I could, would I remain
Another life, or another dream

No turning back
Face the fact
I am lost in space and time
Standing here, looking back in time

One and all
Let us celebrate the rise and fall
Celebrate the life and times
Of splendor

Desire and love
Constant and never changing
The flow of times
Closing lines

Can't tell if I'm just,

Lost in thoughts
On open seas
Let the currents carry me
If I could, would I remain
Another life or another dream

No turning back
Face the fact
I am lost in space and time
Standing here, looking back in time

Lost in thoughts
On open seas
Let the currents carry me
If I could, would I remain
Another life or another dream

No turning back
Face the fact
I am lost in space and time
Standing here, looking back in time

Lost in thoughts
On open seas
Let the currents carry me
If I could, would I remain
Another life or another dream

No turning back
Face the fact
I am lost in space and time
Standing here, looking back in time


3.Resolution

No pride to feel
No waiting country
No parades to line your way

Though your hands may bleed
And your body may lie broken
Every storm must soon give way

Raise your head up high
Raise your head up high
So the heavens hear you cry

Light the brightest fire
From the highest mountain
So the whole world knows
That your spirit can't be broken

The rage you feel
Will consume you and destroy you
Let this rage inside you die

One day you'll find
The signs in every motion
Close your eyes so you might see

I will hold you still
Every second of every hour
Let your actions speak your will

Raise your head up high
Raise your head up high
So the heavens hear you cry

Light the brightest fire
From the highest mountain
So the whole world knows
That your spirit can't be broken

Give up your fear
These senseless longings
Let the pain inside you die

Raise your head up high
Raise your head up high
So the heavens hear you cry

Light the brightest fire
From the highest mountain
So the whole world knows
That your spirit can't be broken

Raise your head up high
Raise your head up high
So the heavens hear you cry

Light the brightest fire
From the highest mountain
So the whole world knows
That your spirit can't be broken


4.Control

Until I should die, until I should break,
not a god, not a devil my soul shall take.
If I should lie to betray myself,
then I would damn myself, and my soul forsake.

I don't want fifteen minutes want a whole lot more,
don't want to suffer the fools and the spoils of war.
I don't want fifteen minutes, or a reason why.
I want a stainless steel road stretching off to the sky.

I don't need sentiment, want, or hate on my mind
No crimes of passion or obsessions in kind.
No walls, restraints, or momentary thrill,
No blood on my hands, No time to kill

I want my Body,
I want my Soul,
Make the switch to automatic, I want Control.
I want Control (x3)

If I should give in, if I should turn away
not a god, not a devil my soul could save.
I want more body, I want more soul.
Make the switch to automatic, I want Control
I want Control (x3)

I want Control (x2)

I want Control


5.Goodbye 20th Century


6.Streamline

Build me a future, splendid and graceful
Make it better by design
Perfected strategies, applied technologies
A brighter future for a darker age

Before me a vision, forged with great intentions
Of generations yet to come
Aerodynamic dreams, across the stratosphere
Foundations for tomorrow's way of life today

Write a new world symphony, for the 21st century
The dawning of the age to come
Streamline simplicity, the renaissance of humanity
Avenues of light to guide us home

Discard the old regimes, failed ideologies
Draw the lines and start again
Build towers that pierce the sky, the figurehead of individual
minds
Horizons unlimited, and unified

Potential overdrive, free thought and open minds
As if beams of photons lit the night
Electronic alchemists, in the new metropolis
Enlightened living through practicality

Write a new world symphony, for the 21st century
The dawning of the age to come
Streamline simplicity, the renaissance of humanity
Avenues of light to guide us home

Write a new world symphony, for the 21st century
The dawning of the age to come
Streamline simplicity, the renaissance of humanity
Avenues of light to guide us home

Leave this world behind, retrofitted and redefined
The dawning of the age to come
Streamline simplicity, the renaissance of humanity
Avenues of light to guide us home


7.Gratitude

It is not love, if love is cold to touch.
It is not belief, when there's nothing there to trust.
Could not submit, would never bring myself to heel.
Determination grows, as each truth is revealed.

Torn and repaired, just to endure it all again.
Without a reason, for my place in all this pain.
Though well concealed, the scars they just compound.
Until there's nothing left of what was my former self.

My god, look at what we are now -
without regret for all the things that we have done.

Thank you for all the doubts, and for all the questioning,
for all the loneliness and for all the suffering.
For all the emptiness, and the scars it left inside.
it inspired in me, an impetus to fight.
For the conviction, for the purpose found along.
For the strength and courage, that in me I've never known.
And if it seems to you, that my words are undeserved,
I write this in gratitude for whatever good it serves.

Sometimes I wish, that you could see me now.
In the rightful place, where I knew that I belonged.
Sometimes I wish, that you might someday understand.
to close the chapter, and lay to rest the past.
But nothing would change, we make the best of what we have.
for we are measured by the actions of our lives.
we bide our time, let the future unfold.
Like immortals, in great legends to be told.

My god, look at what we are now -
without regret for all the things that we have done.

Thank you for all the doubts, and for all the questioning,
for all the loneliness and for all the suffering.
For all the emptiness, and the scars it left inside.
it inspired in me, an impetus to fight.

To all who stood with me, when we stood as one.
Thank you for guiding me, for bringing me home.
And if it seems that I'm obliged to say these words,
I write this in gratitude, the least that you deserve.


8.Nova (Shine A Light One Me)

I long to feel my heart burned open wide, til nothing else
remains,
except the fires from which I came.
Like parted souls, divided for an age, awe and wonder I'd
embrace,
and the world anew again.
But now, this picture from me fades.
From still's cold hand there's no reprieve, light the fire in
me.

Shine, shine your light on me.
Illuminate me, make me complete.
Lay me down, and wash this world from me.
Open the skies, and burn it all away.
'Cause I've been waiting, all my life just waiting,
for you to shine, shine your light on me.

I dreamed the world, with my eyes open.
But time moved on and then, new worlds begin again.
Oh my heart, in this universe so vast.
No moment was made to last, so light the fire in me.

Shine, shine your light on me.
Illuminate me, make me complete.
Please shine, shine your light on me.
No hesitation, make me complete.

Lay me down, and wash this world from me.
Open the skies, and burn it all away.
'Cause I've been waiting, all my life just waiting,
for you to shine, shine your light on me.


9.Photon


10.Radio

Word will never say enough,
they are just born of hope that someone will even listen.
In this solitude of hearts, in the traces that echo through the
ether.
Tied to meanings, bound to fate, reassured by sounds that echo
across the airwaves.
Tuning through the waves of faint and distant signals, hoping
someone's there.
Oh have we tried too much, traded innocence for promises of
greatness.
Left to search, left seeking out for a part of us that is no
longer there.
With all the prowess we possess, exchanged the greatest of
ourselves for isolation.
gladly we smile and carry on, unaware of the solitude we hide
inside.

Broadcasting live around the world, on the air in every land, on
every frequency.
across the surface of the earth, to the furthest reach, this is
our live transmission.

To all the people of the world, unrelenting, for all who are
receiving us.
From every station on the earth, loud and clear, this is our
live transmission.