The Warmer Side Of Cool

Wang Chung The Warmer Side Of Cool Lyrics
1.At The Speed Of Life

(jack hues)

A man lives in the city
Surrounded by machines
They take away his pity
And give him what he dreams
A stream of information
On a green letter screen
Makes him feel in touch with the world
And sure of what it means

Chorus:
At the speed of light you're in endless night
At the speed of sound you don't see the ground
And in your sports car with the windows down
And the radio on and you don't stop talking
Thanks, i'll keep walking
I'm doing things in my own way
Well i'm doing things as i please
And then everything else goes its own way
At the speed of life

A man lives in the city
Distracted by the news
From sitting down with the ones he loves
Or taking time to choose
And what of conversation?
And what is left when he dies?
Is there a diary of an honest man
To stand against the lies?

Repeat chorus

I'm doing things for their own sake
A picture on a screen won't do
I need to feel and touch it too
Do what i feel

I'm doing things for their own sake
I gotta find that essential, deep emotion
Get unhooked from this low commotion
And do what i feel
I'm doing things in my own way

I'm doing things in my own way
Well i'm doing things as i please
And then everything else goes its own way
At the speed of life

This is the speed of life


2.Big World

(jack hues)

You woke me from my sleep we quietly crept
Outside
This memory i'll keep of bitter crimson
Winter sunrise lost in the icy silence
Our warm breath fading in the air

I'm not sure why i tell you still less what i mean
It's like a dream and maybe there's no cause
But in the end it's
What you can give to someone
How you can help to set them free

Chorus:
Big world is turning as we dream tonight
Big world we've got so out of tune with you
Now we have to put it right
Big world help us through
Get us through the night

This world is wounded now and we inflict
The pain
We have to change our lives and think again
'cause in the end it's
All that we're sure we're made of
All that we know to set us free

Repeat chorus

Keep on rolling through the night
'cause the big world is never gonna let you down
If we learn to treat her right
Then the big world is never gonna let us down


3.Games Of Power

(nick feldman)

I don't wanna play these games of power
I don't wanna fight this war no more
Don't wanna twist the knife
Just wanna better life for me & you & me & you

Chorus:
Is this what you call love
Is this what we've been fighting for
Is this what you call love
There must be so much more
Is this what you call love
Forget old scores we should be making love
Not war
Make love not war

Gotta try to break this vicious circle
Gotta find the love we've nearly lost
It's time to stop the pain
We've played the blaming game for far too long
For far too long

Repeat chorus

You hurt me then i hurt you a bit more
Is this the love to end all the wars
We gotta escape this no man's land
And throw away all our battle plans

Oh yeah all right...
Oh yeah all right...
Oh yeah all right...
Oh yeah all right...
Is this what you call love
Is this what we've been fighting for

Is this what you call love
Is this what we've been fighting for
Is this what you call love
There must be so much more
This fight is not for us
Forget old scores we should be making love
Not war
Make love not war
Forget old scores we should be making love
Not war
Make love not war


4.Logic And Love

Logic and love
(feldman / chandler)

Love and logic just don't go together
Try to force it, you'll be trying forever
Why discuss it when you're missing the point
Girl
Forget the fakin' all i care is that you're

Chorus:
Making all the right moves
You're making all the moves that hit the spot
You're speaking only half-truths girl
Just tell me all the things i like a lot
Stop thinking you're much too intense
Don't even try to make love make sense
Don't even try to make love make sense
Don't even try to say we're just good friends

Logic and love clash in your head
You don't see reason you just see red
We could argue 'till you're blue in the face girl
The time you're taking is the time you could be

Repeat chorus
I'm talking logic and love
I'm talking logic and love

Our scientific world demands that everything's
Explained
You're an ultra-modern girl
But can't you see there's nothing to be gained
In analyzing love

You're making only false moves
But everything you do still hits the spot
And do you know what that proves girl
That love is far away the best we got, you know
The best of lovers don't have to be friends
Don't even try to make love make sense

Don't even try to make love make sense
Don't even try to say we're just good friends
Don't even try to make love make sense
Don't even try girl don't pretend
I'm talking logic and love
I'm talking logic and love
Logic and love
Logic and love


5.Praying To A New God

(feldman / chandler / hues)

What got into you got into me too
What came over you is coming over me
Feel like i've had enough of all the old stuff
I saw the writing on the wall on my t.v.
It's another second coming, like it or not, yeah,
Oh yeah
It's another second coming, like it or not
You better start praying to a new god

Start praying, praying to a new god
Start praying to a new, new god
They're saying the devil's got a new job
Start praying to a new--

A lot of babel came down the cable
Everybody can be famous for a day
From shore to shore
A big department store
Is all that's left of the american way
It's another second coming, like it or not, yeah,
Oh yeah
It's another second coming, like it or not
You better start praying to a new god

Start praying, praying to a new god
Start praying to a new, new god
Start praying what are you afraid of
Start praying to a new--

There's a big world
In the street outside
In their uniform of pride
And they've all come
To see a star from the east
Is he man or beast?
Decide

Feel like i'm crucified, still i'm not satisfied
The second coming is coming anyway

I hear them pray for more on every dance floor
I hear the word go out across the milky way
It's another second coming, like it or not, yeah,
Oh yeah
It's another second coming, like it or not
You better start praying to a new god

Start praying, praying to a new god
Start praying to a new, new god
Success and money's what he's made of
Start praying to a new--

Start praying, praying on the freeway
Start praying to a new, new god
Start praying, praying on the airwaves
Start praying to a new god

Start praying, praying at the back door
Start praying to a new, new god
Start praying, praying on the dance floor
Start praying to a new god


6.Snakedance

(jack hues)

Let's rent a place in town
Somewhere we can call our own
Let's knock these barriers down
We need to spend some time alone
Everything in the world has a name
Oh doesn't it make you feel
Like you've moved into a rented apartment
Everything is real
But it doesn't belong to you

Chorus:
All the words are dead, so we need to
Snakedance
All the words are dead, so we need to
Snakedance

Let's get that empty room
But first i really must be sure
Every word, every name you know
Will vanish when we close the door

Just say oh (all the words are dead)
Just say yeah (so we need to snakedance)
Just say ugh (all the words are dead)
Just say ooo (so we need to snakedance)

Wrap yourself around me
Help me start again
Wrap yourself around me
And girl let's snakedance
Snakedance
Don't give me talking, give me snakedance

All the words are dead, so we need to
Snakedance
Nothing more be said, so we need to
Snakedance

If logic is a glass bead game
And science is an iron wheel
And your life is a riderless horse
Dragging you by the heel
You need a place where you can concentrate
On what it is to be
Don't think, don't speak any language
The silence in the room
Is all that belongs to you

Wrap yourself around me
Help me start again
Wrap yourself around me
And girl let's snakedance

Repeat chorus twice


7.Swing

(nick feldman)

Baby ben really likes to swing
Baby ben really feels like a king
As the wail of the horns make his body sway
Peggy sue likes to rock and roll
Peggy sue gonna lose control
As electric guitars play all her fears away

Chorus:
You gotta swing down tonight
Swing it real tight
Swing with your baby tonight
You gotta swing down tonight
It's gotta feel right
Swing with your baby tonight
Swing tight with your baby tonight
Swing down, swing down tonight, swing!

Baby ben knows just where it's at
Baby ben wears a pork pie hat
Feeling so cool, he draws his baby in
Peggy sue don't care for no rules
'coz peggy sue is his queen of cool
Locked in the groove they surrender to the swing

Repeat chorus
Swing, swing, swing, swing

Whether it's rock or it's swing
The groove is the thing
Gather the night around you
'coz the world belongs to you

Swing with your baby tonight - swing tight
With your baby tonight


8.Tall Trees In A Blue Sky

(jack hues)

Tall trees in a blue sky
Stand together don't ask why
Stretch up to the blue sky
Pierce that ceiling if you try
You say these feelings do not last
Well i am gonna prove you wrong
You say our future's in the past
But i am gonna turn you on

Bright leaves in the sunshine
Pick me up when i feel down
Deep freeze if we don try
Seems like we go round and round
You say a dream will not last
Well i am gonna prove you wrong
You say our future's in the past
But i am gonna turn you on

Chorus:
You and me could last forever
If only we could stand together like
Tall trees in a blue sky
Like tall trees in a blue sky
It's a deep freeze if we don't try

Big man in a blue tie
Tells you things must be this way
Tall tree when the man dies
Haven't heard a word he say
You say these feelings do not last
Well i am gonna prove you wrong
You say our future's in the past
But i am gonna turn you on
I am gonna turn you on
I am gonna turn you on
I am gonna turn you on

You and me could last forever
If only we could stand together like
Tall trees in a blue sky
It's a deep freeze if we don't try
Like tall trees in a blue sky
It's a deep freeze when the bombs fly


9.The Warmer Side Of Cool

(jack hues)

Well i'm sitting on a hillside
On the warmer side of cool
With the future laid before me
Like a green and misty jewel
And to climb above the tree line
Is only for the fools
So they say
So they say

Chorus:
On the warmer side of cool
What you feel in your heart is all
On the warmer side of cool
Being cool it's so easy to be cold

Well i'm sitting by the seaside
On the warmer side of cool
With the ocean spread before me
Like a blue and misty jewel
And if i jump into the water
Would an angel break my fall
So they say
So they say

On the warmer side of cool
What you feel in your heart is all

I'm sorry if i offend you
If i'm a little bit intense
But i never did intend us
To be sitting on the fence
And even though i'm guilty
Of making total sense
I'm happy when it's all
On the warmer side of cool

Repeat chorus
It ain't cool to be cold


10.What's so Bad About Feeling Good?

(feldman / hues / chandler)

You're awake as dawn breaks, another day
And the grey clouds weep how you feel
But the way she touch you just bring you back to life
Don't let them bury your soul in concrete and steel

Chorus:
So what's so bad about feeling good?
What's so bad, what's so bad?
What's so bad about feeling good?
What's so bad, what's so bad?
Why hold back when you know you should
Break the chains of your life and start
Fee------ling good

As we're walking home there's a whispering
From the city lights to the stars
And the way she move her body next to me
In her hair i breathe the air of venus and mars

What's so bad about feeling good?
What's so bad, what's so bad?
Why hold back when you know you should
Break the chains of your life and start feeling good
What's so bad about feeling good?
Break the chains of your life and start feeling good

Dream on, dream on
If you're happy feeling sad
Dream on, dream on
'bout the things you could have had
Then tell me what -----
Tell me what's so good about feeling bad?

Repeat chorus


11.When Love Looks Back At You

(jack hues)

I feel the tension
In your hand
I'm on a plane to a
Foreign land
So far away with no
Telephone line
I'm flying into spring
And leaving winter behind

I know it'll be winter
In your heart
Icy stone cold winter
All the time we're apart

Chorus:
As i look at you
Looking back at me
The wordless tears in your eyes
What's inside of you?
What's inside of me?
You may not realize for days and days
The consequences of that gaze
When love looks back at you
When love looks back at you

Love is a monster
With a need to devour
All who fall
In her power
And love is a sweet thing
With a need to caress
Security, stability and happiness
I'm flying, flying from
Reality
Where two things can be true
Simultaneously

Repeat chorus

I feel a cold wind
In the street outside
A plane flies low
Through the rain-filled sky
Winter's come to get me
And it's tearing me apart
As cool blue summer
Floods your open heart

Repeat chorus