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ULTRAVOX - RAGE IN EDEN
The Voice
We Stand Alone
Rage in Eden
I Remember (Death In The Afternoon)
The Thin Wall
The Stranger Within
Accent on Youth
Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)
Native these words seem to me
All speech directed to me
I've heard them once before
I know that feeling
Stranger emotions in mind
Changing the contours I find
I've seen them once before
Someone cries to me
Oh the look and the sound of the voice
They try, they try
Oh the shape and the power of the voice
In strong low tones
Forceful and twisting again
Wasting the perfect remains
I've felt it once before
Slipping over me
Oh the look and the sound of the voice
They try, they try
Oh the shape and the power of the voice
In strong low tones
Sweetly the voices decay
Draw on the lines that they say
I'd lost it once before
Now it cries to me
Oh the look and the sound of the voice
They try, they try
Oh the shape and the power of the voice
In strong low tones
Oh the look and the power of the voice
They try
Oh the shape and the sound of the voice
In strong low tones
Oh the shape and the power of the voice
In strong low...
The words played on around our heads
Perhaps we went too far
We'll soldier on until the end again
This clutching hand around my hand
So pitiful and frail
Makes bleeding hearts begin to beat again
We stand in a different light that's cast upon
This gigolo and gigolette
We stand with a different frame around us now
But when we talk
We talk in time
We shine
With profiles so strong and so clear
And when we move
We move in time
Won't fade
Like pictures that come back again
Your propaganda touched my soul
Those thin and cherished words
A willing victim for the kill again
We stand in a different light that's cast upon
This gigolo and gigolette
We stand with a different frame around us now
And when we talk
We talk in time
We shine
With profiles so strong and so clear
And when we move
We move in time
Won't fade
Like pictures that come back again
We stand in a different light that's cast upon
This gigolo and gigolette
We stand with a different frame around us now
But when we talk
We talk in time
We shine
With profiles so strong and so clear
And when we move
We move in time
Won't fade
Like pictures that come back again
We sit and watch these lifeless forms
Stark and petrified
The high suspense of an empty stage
Drawing in clutching to its breast
With murmured words we sigh and focus on the main facade
Beyond the hard reluctant windows
News from magazines
We wrote their names on books we'd borrowed
As if to bring us closer still
And threw it all away to focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence but no-one could see the end
And they were the new gods
And they shone on high
Their heavy perfume of the night
Sucked them down in red tide
All is through the looking glass focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence but no one could see the end
Disciples of the new way
Portraits in the sand
See when they run their longest mile
Holding caps in wet hand
Eyes upon them try to focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence but no one could see the end
We tuned the dial
We heard the news
And laughed
We don't know why
We drank the wine
And spoke of times
We knew
Of days gone by
We flicked through photographs we had
Somehow they made us sad
Remembering the times we used to have
It made us cry
Oh I remember
Death in the afternoon
A silence fell about the room
With harsh and heavy calm
The lovers and the friends all felt the same
It kept us warm
We raised our glass
And drank to times we had
But'd see no more
The pictures of the past would haunt us still
And there remain
Oh I remember
Death in the afternoon
We tuned the dial
We heard the news
And laughed
We don't know why
We drank the wine
And spoke of times
We knew
Of days gone by
We flicked through photographs we had
Somehow they made us sad
Remembering the times we used to have
It made us cry
We tuned the dial
We heard the news
And laughed
We don't know why
We drank the wine
And spoke of times
We knew
Of days gone by
We flicked through photographs we had
Somehow they made us sad
Remembering the times we used to have
It made us cry
The sound is on
The visions move
The image dance starts once again
They shuffle with a bovine grace
And glide in syncopation
Just living lines from books we've read
With atmospheres of days gone by
With paper smiles the screenplay calls
A message for the nation
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wall
Grey men who speak of victory
Shed light upon their stolen life
They drive by night
And act as if they're moved by unheard music
To step in time and play the part
With velvet voices smooth and cold
Their power game's a game no more
And long the chance to use it
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wall
And those who dance will spin and turn
And those who wait will wait no more
And those who talk will hear the word
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wall
And those who dance
And those who talk
And those who sneer
And those who laugh
And those who know
And those who dance
And those who wait
And those who talk
Light gets through a crack in the door
I tape up the windows once more
Tight like a cold hand of fear
Don't fear the stranger within
Hands that petrify in the air
Eyes catching things never there
Sweet tension caught on my breath
Don't fear the stranger within
Watch every shape that escapes
Scared to make that final mistake
Speak to hear the sound of your voice
Don't fear the stranger within
Sit in the corner with your back to the wall
Pray to your God with your head in your hands
Your mask of fear is shrinking fast
It's closing in more, amour
You stand on borrowed time
Your sweating palms and chilling brow
That wide eyed panic makes you laugh
You cry and laugh
Freeze until the noise decays
A shuffle from behind a door
Your throat is tight
It makes you choke and smoke and choke
Eyes will grow accustomed to the dark
A stifled scream that won't come out
There's nothing more to fear
From the stranger within
Don't fear the stranger within
What is this phase that I am going
through
Oh these precious years
Please take my hand
And let me breathe again
Young depressive tears
We stumble blindly
Chasing something new and something sinful
You take my time you live my life for me
What have I done
To rate this penalty
You suck me dry
My body cries
We stumble blindly chasing instant thrills
And lasting memories
Accent on youth attention oh
Ascends on you oh oh
I scream with frustration and lost control
Open, for the blows
My hands fall limp
And hang down by my side
Take my soul and go
We stumble blindly chasing dancing lights
And others wishes
Accent on youth attention oh
Ascends on you oh oh
Just let me close my eyes and slip away
Dream a dream alone
You give me just enough rope
For the task
Let this man alone
We stumble blindly chasing silhouettes and vacant faces
So well rehearsed our moves
Once so graceful turn against us
We stalk dark passages
We're looking for that sweet surrender
Accent on youth attention oh
Ascends on you oh oh
Accent on youth
Accent on youth oh oh
(instrumental)
Something stops me from seeing too clear
A misty haze floats round the room
The murmurs make it hard to hear
The voices and the words
The day seems to drag away
My speech is sparse and tends to slur
I wonder what happened to my friend today
Can't hear the words
Oh oh your name has slipped my mind again
Oh oh your name has slipped my mind again
It's hard to focus in this light
I'm growing warm and feeling dull
This heartbeat pounds with vicious fright
There's something I remember
I clench my fist but feel no sensation
The walls around me spin and sway
A flashback image in my vision
I remember
Oh oh your name has slipped my mind again
Oh oh your name has slipped my mind again
Oh oh your name has slipped my mind again
Oh oh your name has slipped my mind again
Oh oh your name has slipped my mind again