Touching From a Distance (19 page)

Autosuggestion (1979)

Here, here,

Everything is by design,

Everything is by design.

Here, here,

Everything is kept inside.

So take a chance and step outside,

Your hopes, your dreams, your paradise.

Heroes, idols cracked like ice.

Here, here,

Everything is kept inside.

So take a chance and step outside.

Pure frustration face to face.

A point of view creates more waves,

So take a chance and step outside.

Take a chance and step outside.

Lose some sleep and say you tried.

Meet frustration face to face.

A point of view creates more waves.

So lose some sleep and say you tried.

So lose some sleep and say you tried.

So lose some sleep and say you tried.

So lose some sleep and say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Say you tried.

Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried.

Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried.

Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried.

Yeah, lose some sleep and say you tried.

From Safety to Where …? (1979)

No I don’t know just why.

No I don’t know just why.

Which way to turn,

I got this ticket to use.

Through childlike ways rebellion and crime,

To reach this point and retreat back again.

The broken hearts,

All the wheels that have turned,

The memories scarred and the vision is blurred.

No I don’t know which way,

Don’t know which way to turn,

The best possible use.

Just passing through, ‘till we reach the next stage.

But just to where, well it’s all been arranged.

Just passing through but the break must be made.

Should we move on or stay safely away?

Through childlike ways rebellion and crime,

To reach this point and retreat back again.

The broken hearts,

All the wheels that have turned,

The memories scarred and the vision is blurred.

Just passing through, ‘till we reach the next stage.

But just to where, well it’s all been arranged.

Just passing through but the break must be made.

Should we move on or stay safely away?

Atmosphere (1979)

Walk in silence,

Don’t walk away, in silence.

See the danger,

Always danger,

Endless talking,

Life rebuilding,

Don’t walk away.

Walk in silence,

Don’t turn away, in silence.

Your confusion,

My illusion,

Worn like a mask of self-hate,

Confronts and then dies.

Don’t walk away.

People like you find it easy,

Naked to see,

Walking on air.

Hunting by the rivers,

Through the streets,

Every corner abandoned too soon,

Set down with due care.

Don’t walk away in silence,

Don’t walk away.

Dead Souls (1979)

Someone take these dreams away,

That point me to another day,

A duel of personalities,

That stretch all true realities.

That keep calling me,

They keep calling me,

Keep on calling me,

They keep calling me.

Where figures from the past stand tall,

And mocking voices ring the halls.

Imperialistic house of prayer,

Conquistadors who took their share.

That keep calling me,

They keep calling me,

Keep on calling me,

They keep calling me.

Calling me, calling me, calling me, calling me.

They keep calling me,

Keep on calling me,

They keep calling me.

They keep calling me.

Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980)

When routine bites hard,

And ambitions are low,

And resentment rides high,

But emotions won’t grow,

And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads.

Then love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold?

You’ve turned away on your side.

Is my timing that flawed?

Our respect runs so dry.

Yet there’s still this appeal that we’ve kept through our lives.

But love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

You cry out in your sleep,

All my failings exposed.

And there’s a taste in my mouth,

As desperation takes hold.

Just that something so good just can’t function no more.

But love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

Love, love will tear us apart again.

These Days (1980)

Morning seems strange, almost out of place.

Searched hard for you and your special ways.

These days, these days.

Spent all my time, learnt a killer’s art.

Took threats and abuse ‘till I’d learned the part.

Can you stay for these days?

These days, these days.

Used outward deception to get away,

Broken heart romance to make it pay.

These days, these days.

We’ll drift through it all, it’s the modern age.

Take care of it all now these debts are paid.

Can you stay for these days?

The Sound of Music (1979)

See my true reflection,

Cut off my own connections,

I can see life getting harder,

So sad is this sensation,

Reverse the situation,

I can’t see it getting better.

I’ll walk you through the heartbreak,

Show you all the out takes,

I can’t see it getting higher,

Systematically degraded,

Emotionally a scapegoat,

I can’t see it getting better.

Perverse and unrealistic,

Try to make it all stick,

I can’t see it getting better,

Hollow now, I’m burned out,

All I need to break out,

I can’t see life getting higher,

Love, life, makes you feel higher,

Love, of life, makes you feel higher,

Higher, higher, higher, higher,

Higher, higher, higher, higher,

Love of life, makes you feel higher.

The Only Mistake (1979)

Made the fatal mistake,

Like I did once before,

A tendency just to take,

Till the purpose turned sour,

Strain, take the strain, these days we love,

Strain, take the strain, these days we love.

Yeah, the only mistake was that you ran away,

Avenues lined with trees, strangled words for the day,

Yeah, the only mistake, like I made once before,

Yeah, the only mistake, could have made it before.

Strain, take the strain, these days we love,

Strain, take the strain, these days we love.

And the only mistake, led to rumours unfound,

Led to pressures unknown, different feelings and sounds,

Yeah, the only mistake, like I made once before,

Yeah, the only mistake, could have made it before.

Atrocity Exhibition (1980)

Asylums with doors open wide,

Where people had paid to see inside,

For entertainment they watch his body twist,

Behind his eyes he says, ‘I still exist.’

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

In arenas he kills for a prize,

Wins a minute to add to his life.

But the sickness is drowned by cries for more,

Pray to God, make it quick, watch him fail.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

You’ll see the horrors of a faraway place,

Meet the architects of law face to face.

See mass murder on a scale you’ve never seen,

And all the ones who try hard to succeed.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

And I picked on the whims of a thousand or more,

Still pursuing the path that’s been buried for years,

All the dead wood from jungles and cities on fire,

Can’t replace or relate, can’t release or repair,

Take my hand and I’ll show you what was and will be.

Isolation (1980)

In fear every day, every evening,

He calls her aloud from above,

Carefully watched for a reason,

Painstaking devotion and love,

Surrendered to self preservation,

From others who care for themselves.

A blindness that touches perfection,

But hurts just like anything else.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

Mother I tried please believe me,

I’m doing the best that I can.

I’m ashamed of the things I’ve been put through,

I’m ashamed of the person I am.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

But if you could just see the beauty,

These things I could never describe,

These pleasures a wayward distraction,

This is my one lucky prize.

Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation.

Passover (1980)

This is a crisis I knew had to come,

Destroying the balance I’d kept.

Doubting, unsettling and turning around,

Wondering what will come next.

Is this the role that you wanted to live?

I was foolish to ask for so much.

Without the protection and infancy’s guard,

It all falls apart at first touch.

Watching the reel as it comes to a close,

Brutally taking its time,

People who change for no reason at all,

It’s happening all of the time.

Can I go on with this train of events?

Disturbing and purging my mind,

Back out of my duties, when all’s said and done,

I know that I’ll lose every time.

Moving along in our God given ways,

Safety is sat by the fire,

Sanctuary from these feverish smiles,

Left with a mark on the door,

Is this the gift that I wanted to give?

Forgive and forget’s what they teach,

Or pass through the deserts and wastelands once more,

And watch as they drop by the beach.

This is the crisis I knew had to come,

Destroying the balance I’d kept,

Turning around to the next set of lives,

Wondering what will come next.

Colony (1980)

A cry for help, a hint of anaesthesia,

The sound from broken homes,

We used to always meet here.

As he lays asleep, she takes him in her arms,

Some things I have to do, but I don’t mean you harm.

A worried parent’s glance, a kiss, a last goodbye,

Hands him the bag she packed, the tears she tries to hide,

A cruel wind that bows down to our lunacy,

And leaves him standing cold here in this colony.

I can’t see why all these confrontations,

I can’t see why all these dislocations,

No family life, this makes me feel uneasy,

Stood alone here in this colony.

In this colony, in this colony, in this colony, in this colony.

Dear God in his wisdom took you by the hand,

God in his wisdom made you understand.

God in his wisdom took you by the hand,

God in his wisdom made you understand.

God in his wisdom took you by the hand,

God in his wisdom made you understand.

God in his wisdom took you by the hand,

God in his wisdom made you understand.

In this colony, in this colony, in this colony, in this colony.

A Means to an End (1980)

A legacy so far removed,

One day will be improved.

Eternal rights we left behind,

We were the better kind.

Two the same, set free too,

I always looked to you,

I always looked to you,

I always looked to you.

We fought for good, stood side by side,

Our friendship never died.

On stranger waves, the lows and highs,

Our vision touched the sky,

Immortalists with points to prove,

I put my trust in you.

I put my trust in you.

I put my trust in you.

A house somewhere on foreign soil,

Where ageing lovers call,

Is this your goal, your final needs,

Where dogs and vultures eat,

Committed still I turn to go.

I put my trust in you.

I put my trust in you.

I put my trust in you.

I put my trust in you.

In you. In you. In you.

Put my trust in you, in you.