ALPHAVILLE - LADOS B (SINGLES)

Big Yellow Sun
Golden Feeling (b-side to The Jet Set - 1985)
Headlines (b-side to Romeos - 1989)
Like Thunder (b-side to Mysteries of Love - 1990)
The Nelson Highrise Sector One (The Elevator) (b-side to Sounds Like A Melody - 1984)
The Nelson Highrise Sector Two (The Mirror) (b-side to Dance with Me - 1986)
The Nelson Highrise Sector Three (20,000 Lieues sous les mers) The Garage (b-side to Jerusalem - 1986)
Next Generation (b-side to Universal Daddy - 1986)
Seeds (b-side to Big in Japan - 1984)
Sister Sun (b-side to Summer Rain - 1989)
Welcome to the Sun (b-side to Forever Young - 1984)

Big Yellow Sun

On a Roundabout I'm turning on to you
Don't you love the way we're turning, yes you do
Little schools of Hummingbirds are streaming by
While we're merging with the colour of the sky

Big yellow Sun
You're the One
Here's our souls
Heal them, Heal them
Beautiful Girl
You're the World
I'm in You
Breathing, Breathing
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-love-me-do

At the Entrance of the Airport as you see
There's an Icecream-man who's selling sweets for free
You might watch descending Rockets from the Moon
While we're taking off with 99 balloons
(bless our Souls)

Big yellow Sun
You're the One
Here's our souls
Heal them, Heal them
Beautiful Girl
You're the World
I'm in You
Breathing, Breathing
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-love-me-do

Golden Feeling

Though this place is so crowded
You feel so alone 'cause you're eye to eye with him
And you know he will take you
He's got nothing to lose and there's no way for you to win
Desperados in love won't kill this sweet dove
For nuggets of fleeting bliss
C'mon, c'mon you can't escape
The bleeding bullet of a kiss

Here comes that golden feeling
It's shining in your eyes
We're always going on and on
Right from that day they start to shine

It's a new situation
The start of a game, you've already won the prize
He's a lunatic dancer
Who's not aware that he's skating on thin ice
There's no turning back
No time for regrets, you should've known better, though
Another chance to fall in love
Another chance to turn you on
Another chance to turn you on

Here comes that golden feeling
It's shining in your eyes
We're always going on and on
right from that day they start to shine

Headlines

We call ourselves the crown of creation
I wonder what does it mean
We're not the owners of the moon and the earth
It's like a roundabout and it goes round and round for free
We've made some gruesome inventions
Yet we're mastered by those systems
We're endangered danger, we're running out of fashion
If we don't care for responsibility, hey-hey

We're endangered danger, we're endangered danger
We're the headlines today, but all what they say is
We're endangered danger

Eric says that we're a lonely species
That's why we're playing the fools
But once we'll enter the Aquarian Age
I sometimes catch him floating in his swimming-pool, he says
If we'd tune in to our brighter sides
We'd feel like Jesus on the waters
Cause we're sailors not soldiers, so much more for this show
Than a guest-appearance in the universe, here we go

We're endangered danger, we're endangered danger
We're the headlines today, but all what they say is
We're endangered danger

Like Thunder

If I was a flag I'd have no nation
Just the colours and the wind
And if I was a church I'd have no treasure
Except the prayers and the hyms
And if I was a seagull I'd just rise up
And carry my soul across the sea
Drifting beyond the horizon
Lost by the ground to be free

If I was a life-boat I'd be waiting all my life
For another stormy day
And if I was a dolphin I'd be playing all the time
Just playing my life away
And if I was a kite I'd just be laughing
And dragging you up to the sky
Setting you down on a white cloud
While a seagull's floating by

And the silence roars like thunder

The Nelson Highrise Sector One (The Elevator)

Time is fleeting
You can't stop time
Hearts are beating
Cause there ain't no time
Dial that number
Stories fly
See their faces, empty places

Uh, elevator
Time goes by
Uh, generator
Love flies by
Good-bye, good-bye

Time is hurting
But it ain't a crime
Someone's bleeding all the time
Too much tension in a second
Just repeat it
Cause I need it

Uh, elevator
Indicator
Accelerator
Uh, generator
Turning on,
Turning elevator on

The Nelson Highrise Sector Two (The Mirror)

This is a nation anthem from the flip-side of the Empire
Hand on my heart, heart on the sleeve of the constitution
Sinking right into a mirror, leaving reflections on its surface
Caught in a kind of radio-beacon that's sending out signals transmitting
        them backwards


HEY, tell me it's true, is this the other side of U.
Worlds gonna change with a move in your face, do I still walk on the same&127
        structure?

HEY, what do we know, re(a)leasing arrows over cosmic meadows?
Nothing is real, even iron or steel melting gently in the cold structure

Watching your face thru' a peephole as I lean against the door
Can't understand what you say but I think that you're calling my name
Leaving the ones I loved is like leaving the one they want me to be
Making decisions in real-time-precision as millions of sailors in parallel
        worlds

HEY, tell me it's true, is this the other side of U.&127
Worlds gonna change with a move in your face, do I still walk on the same
        structure?

HEY, what do we know, re(a)leasing arrows over cosmic meadows?
Nothing is real, even iron or steel melting gently in the cold structure

Everybody walks this side of the run-way
Everybody hopes to get off the trap
All we really like is to groove with emotion
Waiting for the airline to lift us up

The Nelson Highrise Sector Three (20,000 Lieues sous les mers) The Garage

Down in the garage, drifting in her embrace
He's on an island of serenity
Outside the gateway they're comin' closer
Rain settles gently on their uniforms

Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers
Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers

Down in the garage after the race
For only a moment the earth stood still
While they are kissing, exposed by the searchlights
Into the cameras she fires her gun

Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers
Comme Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers

Next Generation

Now you're playing around with money and fear
And a power you can't control
And the Zimmerman grin their perjured grins
Saying: "There is no risk at all"
Look into the eyes of the next generation
I know you would never dare
You're laying the tracks of the ultimate sin
Like Himmler and you don't care

It only takes a few words, it only takes a few
To cut a long story short
It only takes a few words
Oh my, how it hurts

Look into the eyes of the next generation
Look into the eyes of the next generation

Your orders filtered through the ranks
Intentions you can't hide
With tightened lips you're sinking ships
In the shadows of the night
You presidents of Genocide
You ministers of Crime
You're laughing at your firemen
>From miles behind (from miles behind the lines)

It only takes a few words, it only takes a few
To cut a long story short
It only takes a few words
Oh my, how it hurts

Look into the eyes of the next generation
Look into the eyes of the next generation

Seeds

Little Darling
On the factory floor
Sirens are wailing
They are calling you like lovers
They always want more

Department 27
Deep down below
You are piecing together
The seeds of the world

Ashen roses
Growing darkness
Starving children
Someday you stand up and dance

Glittering sunlight,
Keep on shining
And put them together
The seeds of the world

Binding all the flowers of the world
Start bursting into millions of colours
Unfold all the flags of the nations
Kiss me again, let the battle start

Little Darling
What have you done
Hearts are breaking
Live without ending, numberless men

Never relaxing
I have to see it all
Fire, desert, cold and arid
And all in a flash

Binding all the flowers of the world
Start bursting into millions of colours
Unfold all the flags of the nations
Kiss me again, let the battle start

Sister Sun

Tell me is it really true
There's something goin' on
Outside
I just can feel it
I heard it on the radio
I'm not allowed to go
Outside
I can't believe it
There's a big hole in the sky
Where the radiation's breaking through
And we just sit and stare
Like the rabbit at the snake
There's so much we could do
But we gotta do it now
Cause it's gettin' pretty late
Better hurry now

We all need the sun
We need love and light for everyone
We need our atmosphere
To live in here
We could be so strong
We overthrow the government and stop
What's goin' wrong
We're fighting for the sun

It's really hard to understand
The change of sister sun
As if your sunny smile
Would turn into a deadly one
It's not a quality of life
To live inside a mighty trap
To have that ice-cold coke beyond the radiation gap
There should be more resistance
Against industrial trusts
And if there's no solution, there should be revolution
I wonder if we start in time, we're racing with the seconds
I wonder if we've got enough to talk to stupid politicians

We all need the sun....
Hold on to revolution...
members of the earth, lets fighting for the sun

Welcome to the Sun

It's the start of the season
The dawning is near
The Age of Fish comes
Announcing the news of the year
The tiger returns to the jungle
The wolf comes home to his yard
When you say it feels good to be back
Then it's just one step further on
To the heart

Getting over, getting over

It's the start of the season
Creep out of the arc
Leave your sticky asylum behind
And step out of the dark
There's an open horizon before us
There is a rainbow under my eyes
The detector reads low radiation
And you are fearless to rise
Til you're high

Getting over, getting over

It's the start of the season
Over the land
A mockingbird is singing a song
Near the Tide's Restaurant
As you undress your movie-blue diving suit
Your innocent skin shines so white
We shall be one under the sun
Right here in the power of the light

Come to the summer
Welcome to the sun
Come to the summer
Welcome to the sun

....welcome

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