Ultravox

When I was a boy there's a dream that I had That a war if it's fought was for good against bad And I woke up to find that the world had gone mad And we'd all fall down And I feel like a child again s... [leggi tutto]

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 days seem to drag away My speech is sparse and tends to... [leggi tutto]

Calling cards of madness Pull the brass men from their knees To petrify more images to dangle just outside the reach Of the stunted and the dreamless ones who have nothing left to keep For frozen ... [leggi tutto]

I took a walk down New York avenue Wearing my latest disguise Enjoying the perfume of utter dismay I was effectively anaesthetised Starving so arrogantly in jumble-sale clothes Evangeline hires o... [leggi tutto]

When pale turns to pink With a soft unnerving ease And all you've built around May just tumble to the ground We stand or fall With your future in another's hands We stand or fall When your li... [leggi tutto]

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 ... [leggi tutto]

So you think it's over So you think that down's The only way out A sad excuse for lovers With your head held high And your heart still full of doubt It's just like you to scorn The only one who... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: (And we talked) Just the two of us. (All the time) Nothing serious. (We pretend) Time is on our side. ('Til the end) When the scream subsides. Yes, we had it all, had the key gripped ... [leggi tutto]

Hai! Oh mystical East, on old postcards, Your childhood dreams and energies. Your temples' gardens, old world charm, An ancient culture, torn and scarred. This is my Western promise. Oh my... [leggi tutto]

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 aga... [leggi tutto]

Chorus : We came to dance. Making moves from a passion play. The ties that bind us just slip away. We came to dance. The piper calls out a different rhyme. He cracks the whip and we step in ti... [leggi tutto]

Face in the window in the night Caught for a second by the light Ashes of memory still aglow Only for you Portraits and pictures you once saw Visions in blue Read while the lette... [leggi tutto]

You give me exaltation Like a rush from the morning air All the endless roads we've taken Don't mean a thing I swear Destiny brought us together Chorus: We've all that we need As long as we... [leggi tutto]

Maximise your potential Utilise the influential Come take my hand I`ll make you a true believer Fantasize you're in heaven Realise your religion Fall into line Pay for your redemption Chorus... [leggi tutto]

Native these words seem to me All speech directed to me I've heard them once before I know that feeling Stranger emotions in mynd Changing the contours I find I've seen them once... [leggi tutto]

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 b... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: Welcome to.. Welcome to.. Welcome to the song. Hear the words of the syncopated rhythms. Welcome to the song. And when it calls you, time to move on. We go! (Chorus) Feel the ... [leggi tutto]

Try to understand As I take you by the hand Side by side We'll begin again Find a future in this land If we try And as we come together We're guided by the light This is more than just adven... [leggi tutto]

Someone stood beside me for a moment in the rain A silhouette, a cigarette, and a gesture of disdain I felt a dark door open, saw a sudden ghost come through A spark leapt from my fingertip and I k... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter Lonely hunter I'm a lonely hunter, a hungry ghost When you call a passion you must pay the host Look upon me as I thunder, I wonder if you ... [leggi tutto]

You stand out of the crowd You don't follow the shadows You've given me solid ground You rise above All that surrounds you And I can't believe what I've found Chorus: And I am falling throu... [leggi tutto]

Marching across our own screens Our faces form all our needs The future's not returning All bridges built for burning How can there be anything wrong? Aren't we the frozen ones? One day I'll j... [leggi tutto]

My obsession Your desire Come let me lead you To the fire Show some mercy My pounding heart Can't take much more of this You've got play your part Bodies yearning Is this for real? Words c... [leggi tutto]

When everyone else is uncertain And walls are closing in There's no-one to hear you No-one at all Don't tell me what to believe in Wake up and start again Be part of the vision Be part of it al... [leggi tutto]

Light comes through a crack in the door I tape up the windows once more Tight like a cold hand of steel Don't fear the stranger within Hands that petrify in the air Eyes catching things never t... [leggi tutto]

Some of them are changing day to day Some of them flicker then they fade Some of them are triggered off by any crazy thing Some of them are all that's left Some of them are just dead regrets So... [leggi tutto]

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 exch... [leggi tutto]

Enter me gently I break in the light Cover my eyes With the rags of my life Was I dreaming? Or did you say: "The frontiers are falling It's time to be slipping away Let's slip away Let's... [leggi tutto]

Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling, Name after name after name. Sleepwalk. (Repeat 3 times) Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me, Hurting m... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: Serenade, in rhythm and swing. Serenade, the gift that we bring. Serenade, youth runs wild with the beat in their hearts. Dance a wild dance, be torn apart. Voices ringing in their he... [leggi tutto]

While a fat guy zips by, bony in a Zodiac Picking out trouble, maybe looking for a heart attack All-night boys in the Piccadilly arcade (???) trawling for some rough trade Saturday night Saturd... [leggi tutto]

Rockwrok Rockwrok Rockwrok Rockwrokrockwrok Blast off, the walls are down Cast off, the wolves are out Come on, there's no time, I can't wait Rip off my clothes, I'm stripping yours Harder we'... [leggi tutto]

I see it every day As children play There's a future, watching, waiting No-one can deny The reasons why We are hurting Much more than believing You're deceiving with all these bitter lies I'... [leggi tutto]

Reap the wild wind. (Repeat 3 times) A finger points to show a scene. (Take my hand. Take my hand.) Another face where mine had been. (Take my hand. Take my hand.) Another footstep where I once w... [leggi tutto]

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, th... [leggi tutto]

All the boys are wearing blue tonight We'll thrive, we'll dive, how can we lose? All the strangers walk like you tonight So tall, we fall for every move We'll laugh... [leggi tutto]

Moments like this I wish that you were mine And I find that all the tears that you have cried were mine How I long to hear you laughing now And to feel the sun come breaking through the clouds ... [leggi tutto]

We were so young, we were too vain. Dance in the dark, sing in the rain. Time on our hands, hope in our hearts. Chorus: We were talking, passing strangers. Moments caught across an empty room... [leggi tutto]

If the stack is high against you And the hammer's coming down And the time that's yours lies heavy in your hands Oh my sentimental friend The fast much reach an end Lying face down on the cold ... [leggi tutto]

You think you're so safe and secure with your kind But don't be surprised if you're losing this time Learn to stand on your own Realise, and believe in yourself 'Cause I won't be waiting Chor... [leggi tutto]

New Europeans Young Europeans New Europeans A photograph of lovers lost lies pressed in magazines Her eyes belong to a thousand girls, she's the wife who's never se... [leggi tutto]

My sex Waits for me Like a mongrel waits Downwind on a tight rope leash My sex Is a fragile acrobat Sometimes I'm a novocaine shot Sometimes I'm an automat My sex Is often solo Sometimes... [leggi tutto]

I found the perfect picture, of a perfect stranger. It looked as if, it were taken in the forties sometime, Judging by the style. He could be a killer or a blind man with a cane, Perhaps he died... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: A life as a stranger, Hands through a wire, Forbidden desires, Are mine for life. Looking from a spiral staircase, At a man with a suitcase, As he shades his eyes. Watching from ... [leggi tutto]

Taking shelter by the standing stones Miles from all that moves Breathing solitude, seeking confidence A gift to me Feeling spirits never far removed Passing over me and I greet them with open ar... [leggi tutto]

And just as my eyes start seeing After all the pain The twist in my life starts healing Just to twist again In stillness, in sorrow Returns that softly sighing lament Lament ... [leggi tutto]

Talking in the window as the light fades I heard my voice break just for a moment Talking by the window as the light fades I felt the floor change into an ocean We'll never leave here, never Let'... [leggi tutto]

I found the bones of all your ghosts Locked in the wishing well While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine Kissed me on my eyes I ro... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: We turned 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 ... [leggi tutto]

I, I'm moving through time Being human by design Life Unfulfilled but divine Never ending How could I be so blind? What is this world Doing to me? Notwithstanding the lies All the tears I hav... [leggi tutto]

Give us this day all that you showed me - The power and the glory till my kingdom comes. Give us this day all that you showed me - The power and the glory till my kingdom comes. Give me al... [leggi tutto]

Somehow we drifted off too far Communicate like distant stars Splintered voices down the 'phone The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no Someone waits behind the door Hiroshima mon amour... [leggi tutto]

I was young and not deceived then I believed in the heart of the country How the words sound, how the truth lies I was moved by the heart of the country Oh, oh, then I saw through The charade, ... [leggi tutto]

Your picture of yourself is a media myth Underneath this floor we're on the edge of a cliff Someone told me Jesus was the Devil's lover While we masturbated on a magazine cover Chorus: Dead i... [leggi tutto]

Sometimes I find I drift away Behind a distant smile Light years ago I think someone spoke Quizzical glances behind cigarette smoke She drew the curtains at the end of the day And then we laugh... [leggi tutto]

Running down an empty street Perhaps it was a railway station Smell of ??? cologne The sound of a celebration Chorus: Oh-oh-oh dislocation Oh-oh-oh dislocation Just a swimmer growing dimm... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm Dangerous rhythm in the air Stranger to stranger We're both dressed for danger Something is generating here Oh, take off your halo For the all-n... [leggi tutto]

Chorus: See the man on the 'phone, With a gun in his hand, Sipping courage from a crystal cup. He's a man in the wrong, With a gun at his head, Pushes on and now it's time to cut and run. T... [leggi tutto]

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 In the blue light, blue light, uh-... [leggi tutto]

All the boys are wearing their utility drag The girls slip identikits from their utility bags Some refugees from suburbia are laughing Examining each other's gags Vibrate on sulphate when it gets ... [leggi tutto]

The lights went out (The last fuse blew). The clocks all stopped (It can't be true). The program's wrong (What can we do?). The printout's blocked (It relied on you). The turbine cracked up. Th... [leggi tutto]

What is this phase that I am going through O these precious years Please take my hand and let me breathe again Young depressive tears We stumble blindly chasing something new and something sinfu... [leggi tutto]

You live for love, I long for it You give for love, I take from it This friend of mine, desire This lovers crime, desire Emotion driving all the time A burning need for things not mine Desire ... [leggi tutto]