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ULTRAVOX - SYSTEMS OF ROMANCE
Slow Motion
I Can't Stay Long
Someone Else's Clothes
Blue Light
Some Of Them
Quiet Men
Dislocation
Maximum Acceleration
When You Walk Through Me
Just For A Moment
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 the white world and the moon
I feel a soft exchange taking place,
Merging with the people on the frames,
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
As we wheeled away in our own light
Stepping sideways into our own time
Such a simple way
Slow motion...
Slow motion...
Then we held each other close in the night
As we wheeled away in our own light
And some of us found another tide
And drifted away
Slow motion...
Slow motion...
I can feel
The turning of the tides
Pulling away the night
Like a sheet
From over me.
In summer time
Dissolve to a beach
And everywhere seems to be
Just a flicker on a silent screen.
Because I can't stay long
Let the sky roll on Just a flicker
And the crowd moves on
In wintertime
Overcoats close in
And the snow tastes of tin
On the steps of any station.
I need to glide In the long green light
Of a July afternoon
Sliding down a vague conversation.
Because I can't stay long
When the moment comes
Just a glance
And the glancer's gone.
Watch closely
As a man with a hat
And a girl with a map
Synchronise with the track
And echo away.
I need to drift through the walls
Let the scenery dissolve
Into some other lives
Because I can't stay long,
Let the crowds roll on
When the right time comes I'll resign.
Check out some memories I don't
recognise
Another country and another life
Oh oh I find I'm strolling on a distant shore
To meet someone I've never seen before
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 Driving underneath a deep blue sleep
I'm always surfacing in sunny sheets.
Transfer me into a Saturday crowd
Or merge me back into the factory towns
Oh oh I'm waking up to such a splendid moon
Making love with someone and I don't know who
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 thought I'd take the slide
I thought I'd be alright
But when the details swam
Oh no, the door got jammed
Someone took the hand
And we were out slow dancing
(Chorus)
In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh
In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh
In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh
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...
(Chorus)
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
(Chorus)
Some of them are changing day to day
Some of them flicker then they fade
Some of them get 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 are brittle, some are sad.
Some of them are aching, some are glad.
Some of them are gone so long they're hard to recognise.
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 flare.
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 altered slowly as they're changing me.
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 hall
There were no walls at all
For the quiet friends
Of 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.
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
And no-one ever noticed them
The quiet men.
Running down an empty street
Perhaps it was a railway station
A smell of eau de cologne
The sound of celebration
Oh oh oh
Dislocation.
Chorus:
Just a swimmer
Growing dimmer
In the glimmer of a summer
Waving gladly
Swimming madly
Never, never going under
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 realised I didn't catch his name
Oh oh oh Dislocation.
(Chorus)
I thought you knew me by now
Let the lights go on roaring
Someone's hand on my shoulder - then
We passed a turning point
There was time for the taking
Chorus:
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
A face echoes slowly
A signal close by me
The landscapes are changing - and -
Some of us flipped a coin
And shimmered away
(Chorus)
You really were aching
It's turning to twilight
Over and under - then -
A couple of figures shook their heads on the sidelines
(Chorus)
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, try 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.
Locations change
The angles change
Even the streets get re-arranged
While I'm swimming out someone waves
Across a crowded room.
Take a train or shine or shoe
A dark horizon comes to view
I get lost in the crossword clues
Or check the time again...
When you walk through me.
Talking in the window as the light fades
I heard my voice break
Just for a moment.
Talking in the window as the light fades
I felt the floor change Into an ocean.
(Chorus)
We'll never leave here - ever
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.
(Chorus)
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.
(Chorus)