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Lyrics

A Fool And His Money
At The Speed Of Life
Betrayal
Big World
Dance Hall Days
Dance Hall Days - Part 2
Devoted Friends
Don't Be My Enemy
Don't Let Go
Dreaming In The Hills Of Heaven
Even If You Dream
Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Eyes Of The Girl
Fire In The Twilight
The Flat Horizon
Fun Tonight: The Early Years
Games Of Power
Hard Times
Hypnotize Me
Let's Get Along
Let's Go!
Logic And Love
Look At Me Now
Lullaby
Only Love Is Real
Ornamental Elephant
Praying To A New God
Snakedance
Space Junk
Swing
Talk It Out
Tall Trees In A Blue Sky
There Is A Nation
To Live And Die In L.A.
True Love
Wait
Wake Up, Stop Dreaming
The Warmer Side Of Cool
The Waves
What's So Bad About Feeling Good
When Love Looks Back At You
The World In Which We Live
Zero Gravity

A Fool And His Money (Michael Leeson / Peter Vale / Jack Hues / Peter Wolf)

The longer love survives
The more it's easy to be blind
When it is obvious it's over
I put my trust in you
I spent my love and I thought I knew
But now things just don't look the same
I paid the price with a love I thought was strong
Counting on you I was wrong

Just like a fool and his money
Just like a fool, I let it slip away
Just like a fool and his money
All the love has gone

You think everything's all right
But love can change that all over night
And the hand you hold is colder
And then your fortunes fade
You really need the gold that you've thrown away
And all you believed in has changed
I paid the price for leaving love to chance alone
Now I know this bird has flown

Just like a fool and his money
Just like a fool, I let it slip away
Just like a fool and his money
All the love has gone

As the rain pours down in a starless night
And my heart longs only for you
A fool to cry

Just like a fool and his money
Just like a fool, I let it slip away
Just like a fool and his money
All the love has gone

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

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?

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

Betrayal (Wang Chung / Peter Wolf)

We met as friends of friends while still at school
I was all you ever really knew
When we met it was like a dream
For all I knew we could not fail
But now I know of your betrayal

Living in the older part of town
I worked all hours I could to bring us 'round
Your career was alive for you
But deep inside I watched it fail
And now I know of your betrayal

Your betrayal

If only I could hold you close
But now I know how love grows frail

When I asked if you'd leave me
Or 'bout the boyfriends you'd had
You said you'd stay with me always
And that you'd never be bad
But I would notice a smile
That you would hold within
As if your vanity flirted
With your knowledge of sin
Now you're quiet and cold
Your eyes just stare into space
And if I ask you to talk
You just dissemble your face
And the smile that I hated
Is now a frown of denial
And that's how I know of your unspoken betrayal
Oh, that's how I know of your unspoken betrayal

Now I wish that I'd set you free
But I was terrified that I would fail
And now I know of your betrayal

Your betrayal
If only I could hold you close
But now I know how love grows frail
Oh now I know of your betrayal
Now I know of your betrayal

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

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

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

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

Dance Hall Days (Jack Hues)

Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high hand stand
Take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel

We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could believe, do, and share in what was true
Oh, I said

Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there there there
Take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears

We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could believe, do, and share in what was true
Oh, I said

So take your baby by the wrist
And in her mouth an amethyst
And in her eyes two sapphires blue
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you

We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could believe, do, and share in what was true
Oh, I said

Dance Hall Days - Part 2 (Jack Hues)

Your dance hall days are over now
It's over now
It's over now

You're doing what you've chosen now
You've chosen now
You've chosen now

You work all day and save at night
You save at night
You save at night

You don't see your old friends
But you guess that we're alright
Guess we're alright
Guess we're alright

You and your boyfriend live on your own
And your boyfriend
You don't need your friends no more
You find all your friends a bore

You and your boyfriend live on your own
And your boyfriend
You don't need your friends no more
You find all your friends a bore

You plan to marry two years in June
Two years in June
Two years in June

It's a long time ahead, but it'll be here soon
It be here soon
It be here soon

So there's me and Lolita
And there's Jo-Jo of course
Jo-Jo of course
Jo-Jo of course

Will you still know our numbers
When you've got your divorce
Got your divorce
Got your divorce

You and your boyfriend live on your own
And your boyfriend
You don't need your friends no more
You find all your friends a bore

You and your boyfriend live on your own
And your boyfriend
You don't need your friends no more
You find all your friends a bore

When will you need our numbers?
When will you need our numbers?
When will you need our numbers?
When will you need our numbers?

You and your boyfriend live on your own
And your boyfriend
You don't need your friends no more
You find all your friends a bore

You and your boyfriend live on your own
And your boyfriend
You don't need your friends no more
You find all your friends a bore

(repeat)

Devoted Friends (Jack Hues)

If you have to leave after all that we've
Been through, been through
Been through
I can't be a friend if your heart has the end
In view, in view
In view

Because lovers never can be
Just devoted friends

How can we meet on a day in the week
And be true, be true
Be true
And how can I speak and pretend that I'm happy for you
For you, for you

Because lovers never can be
Just devoted friends

How can we meet on a day in the week
And be true, be true
Be true
And how can I speak and pretend that I'm happy for you
For you, for you

Don't Be My Enemy (Jack Hues / Darren Costin / Nick Feldman)

You had your dreams
You required a scheme of things
That evolved and resolved through the years
And I had my part
(When you wrote me out)
But you broke my heart
(When you wrote me out)
Now you spend your whole time trying
To burn me to the ground

Don't be my enemy
Can't you see
What you're doing to me
Don't be my enemy
Can't you see
What an effect this is having on me

I had a thought
It was just a simple thought
Of a friend, very close, very clear
But then it stopped looking so straight
(When you wrote me out)
You found the hate
(When you wrote me out)
Now you spend your whole time trying to make
Me look like your main fool

Don't be my enemy
Can't you see
What you're doing to me
Don't be my enemy
Can't you see
What an effect this is having on me

Don't Let Go (Jack Hues / Nick Feldman)

I got your letter
I felt so scared to
Pick up the paper knife and read within
I read the contents
I got what you meant
I know its hard for you but don't give in
Maybe, maybe slow things go fast
Maybe, maybe its all in the past

Oh oh if you need me don't let go - oh
(You know I'll never give up on you)
Oh oh if you need me don't let go - oh
(You know I won't give up on you)
oo oo - oo oo oo - oo
You know I'll never give up on you

I phoned the station
For information
To try and get the times of trains to York
And on the platform
I saw your hatform
A kind of halo in the crowd - crush talk

But baby baby don't run away
Maybe, maybe it's just today

I saw your sad face
You dropped your suitcase
And I appreciate the state you're in
You mustn't hurry
You mustn't worry
I know it's hard on you but don't give in

Maybe, maybe slow things go fast
Maybe, maybe its all in the past

Dreaming In The Hills Of Heaven (Jack Hues)

When I'm dreaming in the hills of heaven
Everything just ___
The sun upon the seas
The snow upon the tress
Silently day to night

When I'm dreaming in the hills of heaven
I can feel the furthest star
The sun upon my hand
And every grain of sand
The peace of knowing how you are

When I'm drowning in the rivers of hell
The water rushes over my feet
The sun is sucked away
My balance goes astray
___ between

When I'm drowning in the rivers of hell
The water rushes over my head
The sloshing in the ears
The flooding of the years
The cold, the fear, the dread

But when I'm dreaming in the hills of heaven
I have the peace of knowing how we are

When I'm dreaming in the hills of heaven
I have the peace of knowing how we are

(repeat)

Even If You Dream (Jack Hues / David Burnand)

I'm picking up paper
I'm doing the things that
I never thought I'd do again
I'm writing you letters
I'm getting the better
Of things I thought I'd lose again

You know I wish I was your lover
Even if you dream of him
I wish I was your brother
Baby when you dream of him

If you dream of him?
If you dream of him

I'm sitting in graveyards
I'm doing the things that
I never thought I'd do again
I got in your backyard
I got so nervous
I never thought I'd breathe again

You know I wish I was your lover
Even if you dream of him
I wish I was your brother
Baby when you dream of him

Baby I need you
Baby I'm in love with you
I wish I was your lover
Even if you dream of him
(Oh if you dream, even if you dream of him
Oh if you dream, even if you dream of him)

You know I wish I was your lover
Even if you dream of him
I wish I was your brother
Baby when you dream of him

Baby I need you
Baby I'm in love with you
I wish I was your lover even if you dream of him
Even if you dream of him

Everybody Have Fun Tonight (Wang Chung / Peter Wolf)

I'd drive a million miles
To be with you tonight
So if you're feeling low
Turn up your radio
The words we use are strong
They make reality
But now the music's on
Oh baby dance with me

Rip it up - move down
Rip it up - move it down to the ground
Rip it up - cool down
Rip it up - don't hang it on the borderline

Chorus:
Oh everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody Wang Chung tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody Wang Chung tonight
Everybody have fun

Deep in the world tonight
Our hearts beat safe and sound
I'll hold you so close
Just let yourself go down

Rip it up - move down
Rip it up - move it down to the ground
Rip it up - cool down
Rip it up - and get out what's inside of you

Repeat Chorus

On the edge of oblivion
All the world is Babylon
And all the love and everyone
A ship of fools sailing on

Across the nation, around the world
Everybody have fun tonight
A celebration so spread the word

Repeat Chorus

Eyes Of The Girl (Wang Chung)

On her televison, on her mamma's radio
She could paint a picture
More alive than all she ought to know
Her imagination running wild, she let it grow
In her imagination
Oh she felt she loved him so

Chorus:
The eyes of the girl are following me
Looking for the man that she pinned on me
The tears for a love that could never be
Now it's all over
They're raining on me
Oh it's raining

It's an empty world with a lifetime on your hands
Oh we must believe that
Something someone somewhere understands
Our imagination wants to capture what we feel
In our imagination
Everything is real

Repeat Chorus

Tears fall from the eyes of the girl
And the girl is watching me
Tears fall from the eyes of the girl
And the girl is watching me

Baby, please release me from the power of your mind
Baby, please release me, leave this crazy scheme behind
Baby, please release me
Baby, please release me

Repeat Chorus

Tears fall from the eyes of the girl
And the girl is watching me

Fire In The Twilight

Hot on the run from the grip of the power game,
The man who leads the way, the man who leads the way.
Shell in its box from his home that they'll never tame,
The man who leads the way, the man who leads the way.

Chorus:
He is burning, burning in the twilight.
He is burning, turning to face us.
He is burning, fire in the twilight.
He is burning, turning to lead us away, away, away,
Lead us away, away, away.

Taking a break from the role of the everyday boy,
The man who leads the way, the man who leads the way.
Is he for real or is he back to the old way boy,
Can he lead the way, oh can he lead the way.
He's searching, but he's lonely, and he's hurting, but he's only,
Waiting for a chance just in time to live a life.
Does he need ya, does he want ya,
Does he listen to what you say?
Is he only waiting for the simple way?

Repeat Chorus

The Flat Horizon (Wang Chung)

I wanna paint your portrait in bright color
I wanna paint the lines in red and blue
I wanna make your eyes appear like starlings
Saying, "Darling, I love you!"
I wanna set your face upon a landscape
I wanna show the love and toil and sweat
I wanna show your beauty like a crystal
In an all-night launderette

Chorus:
Oh this line is the flat horizon
And you are the shape on the left
Oh this line is the flat horizon
And this is the sun in the sky
Oh this line is the flat horizon
And makes the great divide
Between heaven and angels
And earth and men

I wanna show what lies beneath the surface
In little squares of purple, green and gold
So everyone can see their own reflection
In the mirror of your soul
I wanna paint your arrogance and beauty
I wanna paint the way you laugh at me
I wanna paint the world in which I see you
Fixed for all eternity

Repeat Chorus

I wanna paint your portrait in bright color
I wanna paint your personality
I wanna show the world just how I see you
I wanna show the world just how I see you
You know that only I can guarantee you
Precious immortality
Precious immortality

Repeat Chorus

Fun Tonight: The Early Years (Jack Hues / Nick Feldman)

Deep in the world tonight
Our heart beats safe and sound
Let those who want to fight
Just let yourself go down

Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody Wang Chung tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody gotta hold so tight
Everybody loves someone
Everybody have fun

We'll dance in every room
We'll dance out in the snow
I'll hold you so close
Everyone, let's go

Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody be one tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Wanna go out with your friends tonight
Everybody gotta feel all right
Everybody have fun

I'll drive a million miles
To be with you tonight
So if you're feeling low
Turn up the radio

Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Gonna get someone tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody gonna find someone
Gotta dance on the moon and the sun
Gotta have some good time fun
And everybody
Everybody have fun tonight
Everyone

Everybody have fun tonight

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

Hard Times (Jack Hues)

I remember a time back in August
We had nowhere to stay, but for friends
The most that we could expect was each other
The least that we could detect, we'd defend

Hard times
These are the best years of our lives
Hard times
We are so unified
Hard times
These are the best years of our lives
Hard times, hard times
Hard times

We've no money to give, just emotion
We've no money to live far apart
Hard times, they are the best, they are an ocean
Hard times ever remain in our hearts

Hard times
These are the best years of our lives
Hard times
We are so unified
Hard times
These are the best years of our lives
Hard times, hard times
Hard times

Hard times, they are the test, they are an ocean
Hard times ever remain in our hearts

Hard times
These are the best years of our lives
Hard times
We are so unified
Hard times
These are the best years of our lives
Hard times, Hard times
Hard times

Hard times
Hard times

(repeat)

Hypnotize Me (Wang Chung)

Darlin', I believe in love
Since I met you, baby
I believe in love
The way you hold me
My heart is stirred
You can control me
Without a word

Chorus:
Turn on you white light
In my open eyes
Oh girl, you hypnotize me
I feel your white light
You're so bright
I'm hypnotized
And as you're looking at me
It's a deep ecstasy
And no word is enough
Just shine the light in my eyes
And hypnotize me love

Darlin', I believe in love
In this hate-ridden world
I believe in love
Do you know the power
You have over me
Use it every hour
Shine the light on me

Repeat Chorus

Turn me on (with your love)
Turn me on (with your love)
Turn your light around to mesmerise me
Turn me on, oo-oh
Just shine the light in my eyes
And hypnotize me love
Just shine the light in my eyes
And hypnotize me love

Repeat Chorus

Let's Get Along

Let's Go! (Wang Chung)

Meet me in a restaurant
Meet me on the top of the world
Meet me and we'll talk the language of love

I'll meet you anywhere you want
I'll meet you on a ballroom floor
Meet me and we'll float to a level above

Chorus:
I wish you'd stop what you're doing
And get on the case
We could blow this existence
Right out into space
And share a sweet isolation
Let's go there today
Go today, go today
Everyway, right away
Oh, let's go

Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on
Let's go, 'cause we can't hold back no more
There's no way, there's no way
No, no way

Meet you on a mountain-top
I'll meet you at the end of the block
As long as we can talk in the language of love

I'll take you in my arms again
I'll take you to the edge of time
Together we can reach for the heavens above

Repeat Chorus

Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby, I want your love
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby, I'm saying
Take your cue from me now
I'm saying baby, let's go
Will you listen to me
I'm saying baby, come on now
Let's go 'cause we can't hold back no more
There's no way

Meet me on the dancefloor and we'll dance to the rhythm
Get your feet in motion and we'll dance to the rhythm
Dance to the rhythm
Dance to the rhythm of love

Oh, baby
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby, I want your love
Let's go, baby, let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby, I'm saying
Take your cue from me now
I'm saying baby, let's go
Will you listen to me
I'm saying baby, come on now
Let's go, 'cause we can't hold back no
Let's go, 'cause we can't hold back no
Let's go, 'cause we can't hold back no more
There's no way

Logic And Love (Nick Feldman / David 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

Look At Me Now (Jack Hues)

It's hard to recall how we were at school
Our ambitions and conditions
And our hopes for the future
The teachers we had, our mums and our dads
Their decisions and revisions
And their hopes for the future

Chorus:
But look at me now
I cannot count the cost
Of all the friends I lost
And though my heart did break
Look at me now
I'm on the candle flame
I have a different name
I have your hand to take
But look at me now - and here I am

I used to believe in an idea received
With concision, but derision
Was my natural reaction
You cannot pretend that its all gonna end
In a second to be reckoned
Like a soldier in action

Repeat Chorus
Won't you look at me now

Lullaby

Let's go out tonight
Put on your shoes
Get away from here
Far from the local blues
Let's go out tonight
Let's make our escape
From the city lights
And all the familiar shapes
We can drive all night
We can stop in a field
Hear the starlight
Traveling for millions of years

Sing a lullaby to the night (repeat)

We can rock and roll
We can dance all night long
To the stars above
And we won't be strong
We can walk away
To the rising dawn
As people go to work
Wondering why our clothes are torn

Sing a lullaby to the night (repeat)

We'll be driving through the mountains
In the cool and clearing air
With the sunlight on the ocean
And the diamonds in your hair
And as you're falling asleep
I will sing you a lullaby

Sing your lullaby (repeat)

We can find a place
For the sun and the rain
We can live a life
Like a hurricane
On a mountain top
Or right by the sea
As long as we're together
It don't matter to me
Let's go out tonight
Let's escape

Sing your lullaby (repeat)

As the perfumes of the evening
Mingle sweetly with the night
We'll lay ourselves down
In the light of the moon
And we'll hold each other tight
And as you're falling asleep
I will sing you a lullaby

Only Love Is Real

Ornamental Elephant (Jack Hues)

I've got an ornamental elephant made of ivory
I've got an ornamental elephant made of ivory
The ornamental elephant element's in us all
The ornamental elephant element's in us all

My ornamental elephant hangs from my earring
My ornamental elephant hangs from my earring
The elephant is very small
The elephant is very small

The ornamental elephant element
Resides in us all
In us all

I've got an ornamental elephant made of ivory
I've got an ornamental elephant made of ivory
The elephant is very small
The elephant is very small

The ornamental elephant element
The ornamental elephant element
The ornamental elephant element
Resides in us all

The ornamental elephant element
Resides
In us all

The ornamental elephant element
Resides
In us all

The ornamental elephant element
Resides
In us all

The ornamental elephant element
Resides
In us all

The ornamental elephant element
Resides
In us all

The ornamental elephant element
Resides
In us all

The ornamental elephant element

Praying To A New God (Nick Feldman / David Chandler / Jack 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

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

Space Junk (Jack Hues / Nick Feldman)

Yeah

Drifting down the spaceway
By the Betelgeuse Hotel
Mapping out constellations
Of the place I know so well
Sifting through the system
For the piece that knows my name
Endlessly I listen, in the master game

Chorus:
Welcome to my world
(Welcome to my world)
Welcome to my only world
(Welcome to my only world)
It is full of space junk
But your words are coming through
I'm riding on the space junk
And it's bringing me to you
Bringing me to you

Through the tenth dimension
To the certainties beyond
Dreamily inattention, and the sub-atomic bomb
Machine that spins within me
And the spirit that drives me on
Searching for an answer

Repeat Chorus with ad lib

Sitting on the space junk
What I am to do
Riding on the space junk
And it's bringing me to you
My head is full of space junk
But your words are coming through
Riding on the space junk
And it's bringing me to you
It's bringing me to you (Repeat)

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

Talk It Out (Jack Hues / Nick Feldman)

These days our problems seem to come in waves
Sometimes its hard to count them all
You're reading all alone when suddenly
You feel yourself about to fall

Chorus:
If you need someone to talk it out
Then talk it out with me
If you need someone to talk it out
Then I'm the one you need

Your fear of past mistakes intensifies
Your fear of everything that's new
You need a friend around to sympathise
Someone to help you with the view

Repeat Chorus
If you need someone to talk it out
To talk of what you see
If you need someone to talk it out
Then I'm the one you need

Repeat Chorus

Talk it out
Talk it out oh oh
I'm the one you need

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

There Is A Nation (Jack Hues)

There is a nation
Wherever we go
With places to talk about
And people to know

There are the nations
And there is the sea
And there is no in between
For you and for me

There is the heart
There is the soul
There is the stop
There is the go

There is your seeing
There is your breath
There is your being
There is your death

Oh, there is a nation
Wherever we go
With places to talk about
And people to know

There are the nations
And there is the sea
And there is no in between
For you and for me

There is a nation
There is a nation
There is a nation
Wherever we go

Oh, there is the heart
And there is the soul
And there is the stop
And there is the go

There is your being
There is your breath
There is your seeing

There is your
Love

Your love

There is your

There is your

(repeat)

To Live And Die In L.A. (Jack Hues)

In the heat of the day
Every time you go away
I have to piece my life together
Every time you're away
In the heat of the day
In the dark of the night
Every time I turn the light
I feel that God is not in heaven
In the dark of the night
The dark of the night

I wonder why I live alone here
I wonder why we spend these nights together
Is this the room I'll live my life forever
I wonder why in LA
To live and die in LA
I wonder why we waste our lives here
When we could run away to paradise
But I am held in some invisible vice
And I can't get away
To live and die in LA

If I let myself go
And for where I just don't know
I'd maybe hit some cold new river
That led out to the sea
An unknown sea
I'd either swim or I'd drown
Or just keep falling down and down
I think its that, that makes me quiver
Just to keep falling down
Down, down, down

I wonder why I live alone here
I wonder why we spend these nights together
Is this the way I'll live my life forever
I wonder why in LA
To live and die in LA

In every word that you say
I feel my freedom slip away
I feel the bars come down around me
And I can't get away
I can't get away

I can't get away
To live and die in LA
I can't get away
To live and die in LA
I can't get away
To live and die in LA
I can't get away
To live and die in LA

True Love (Jack Hues / Nick Feldman)

Chorus:
True love is the answer to everything
True love is the answer
True love is the thing

Long days spent on the edge of space oh
Maybe someone will come along love
All day with every familiar face oh
Tells me you're very very wrong love

Repeat Chorus

This dance could never be true enough oh
There's more that leads us to our destiny
Entranced we travelled the two of us oh
And I knew that only you could rest the world for me
I live deep in the heart of things
Feel such a part of things
That remind me of you love
And I know whatever the future brings
Wherever the pointer swings
There will always be true love
You love

Repeat Chorus

Wait (Jack Hues)

Streetcorners seem designed to lie in wait
For a chance to get involved in lovers' fate
And this one seems as good as any I've seen
So wait here with me until six-fifteen

Chorus:
I'm waiting for you
But you're very late
I know you'll come anyway
And I can hardly wait
Evidently
There's a difficulty
I know you'll come anyway
And I can hardly wait
Wait

I see you approaching you're the eyes of the crowd
The traffic and people, God they're all so loud
But in a couple of moments they will all disappear
Because we're ever so close when we're ever so near

Repeat Chorus

Punctuality
Was never much to me
Being yourself is the main thing
Forget about the time
Forget about the time
Being yourself is the main thing
The main thing
The main thing love

Wake Up, Stop Dreaming

Wake up, stop dreaming
The sun is in the sky again
There's a hole in the ocean
And water's pouring through
Oh, wake up stop dreaming
And wipe the sleep from your eyes
Are you frightened of heights
Are you falling

Chorus:
Wake up stop dreaming
There's more than just two steps to heaven
I'm saying if you wanna get to heaven
You'd better wake up
Wake up, stop dreaming
I'm talkin' 'bout dream and reality
I'm talkin' 'bout love and brutality
And I'm saying wake up
Wake up

Wake up stop dreaming
Before the shutters start to groan
Well it's something you said in the noon day sun
But I don't recall,
I don't recall

Wake up stop dreaming
Stop this seeming half reality
Don't turn your face away
Look at me
As you lie sleeping
Someone's keeping everything I knew
Don't try to run away
It's all new

Repeat Chorus

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

The Waves (Jack Hues / Darren Costin / Nick Feldman)

Working at your job all day
Sends the time spinning away
Watch TV from half past six
Cook, make love and pick up sticks
But you can hear the waves crash on the beach
At night

Books you read can sublimate
Music seems to dissipate
And maybe just a bottle of wine
And a couple of smokes and you'll be fine
But you still hear the waves crash on the beach
At night
You can feel the waves crash on the beach
At night
Your lover lies beside you fast asleep
The moonlight falls upon the tears you weep
And you can hear the waves crash on the beach
At night oh at night

So all you really need is love
Love to give, receive above
And then the waves will soothe your heart
Your one true love will never part
True love (Is the answer to everything
True love is the answer true love is the thing)
True love (Is the answer to everything
True love is the answer true love is the thing)
And we will lie together both asleep
The moonlight will provide the tears we weep
And as we breathe the waves crash on the beach
At night
And as we breathe the waves crash on the beach
At night

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (Nick Feldman / Jack Hues / David 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

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

The World In Which We Live (Wang Chung)

The world in which we live is peopled by people who
Fuck, shit, screw everybody, don't care, swear
Do things without a care, are seen everywhere
And write about each other

The world in which we live is peopled by people who
Can't afford to eat, can't make ends meet
Got nowhere to sleep, can't feel the heat
Can't get out
Can't find a voice to scream it out

The world in which we live
The world on which all we are depends
Whoever could forgive
The way we treat the world in which we live

Chorus:
The world is a mosaic upon a golden floor
Moving silently, darkly through space
And our lives are the fragments and all that's gone before
Broken jewels in excrement base

Millions over millions are the world
Oh the world in which we live
Millions over millions are the world
Oh the world in which we live

The world in which we live
The world on which all we are depends
Whoever could forgive
The way we treat the world in which we live

The world in which we live is peopled by people who
Get up, stand up, speak up, fight
And do all the things that they think are necessary and right
The world in which we live is peopled by people who
Believe what they hold to be true, to be true for everybody

Repeat Chorus

Millions over millions are the world
Oh the world in which we live
Millions over millions are the world
Oh the world in which we live

Zero Gravity (Jack Hues)

I had a girlfriend who
Wrote for the datasphere
Knew all the ins and outs
Of Cyber-Base 5
Wrote 'cos they paid her
To fill their Datasphere
But she knew more Shakespeare
Than any man alive

Too many people in
Zero gravity
Need to get your feet
On the ground
Spending all your time in
Zero gravity
Where what goes up
Does not come down

I knew a man who got
A brand new memory
Dumped all his misery
In Misery Lane
But as he tried to
Find out who he was
He realized that
He needed his pain

Too many people in
Zero gravity
Need to get your feet
On the ground
Spending all your time in
Zero gravity
Where what goes up
Does not come down

I spent a long time
In my own cocoon
Looked in the eyes of
Despair
Now that I'm older
I recognize that you
Are sung by the people
Those who care

Too many people in
Zero gravity
Need to get their feet back
On the ground
Spending all your time in
Zero gravity
Where what goes up
Does not come down

Too many people in
Zero gravity
Need those gravitrons
All around
Spending all your time in
Zero gravity
Where what goes up
Does not come down

Does not come down
Does not come down

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