The Voice - Ultravox

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 The look and the sound of the voice They try, they try 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 The look and the sound of the voice They try, they try 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 The look and the sound of the voice They try, they try The shape and the power of the voice In strong low tones The look and the sound of the voice They try The shape and the power of the voice In strong low tones The shape and the power of the voice

There's something I have to tell you Before it's too late There's someone needs a timing I could be the same Got to listen to you clearly Would you understand it all Would you hold it all together Do we run up in the bar Everyone needs someone to listen to If you don't want to shine on Could you know it all And if someone lay before you know it could be true A voice in the crowd You came upon a (?) Just an alibi Did you have to go do it Do you feel you want to try But if you'd only see the reason why (?) When someone came, someone rose, someone left I don't know if you could be sure But you don't understand And if the days were good You'll never know the way we planned And if the time is there for severancing and sentiment A voice in the crowd A voice in the crowd

Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind 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 walked (Take my hand) Take it all You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and sell you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind A footprint haunts an empty floor (Take my hand, take my hand) A fading coat that I once wore (Take my hand, take my hand) Oh, a desolation where I once lived I have seen in times gone by I have felt A different shadow on the wall A stranglehold on a certain feeling You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and sell you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind Reap the wild wind You take my hand and give me your friendship I'll take my time and sell you my slow reply Give me an inch and I'll make the best of it Take all you want and leave all the rest to die Reap the wild wind

We walked in the cold air Freezing breath on a window pane, lying and waiting A man in the dark in a picture frame so mystic and soulful A voice reaching out in a piercing cry, it stays with you until The feeling has gone, only you and I, it means nothing to me This means nothing to me Oh, Vienna The music is weaving Haunting notes, pizzicato strings, the rhythm is calling Alone in the night as the daylight brings a cool empty silence The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky, it fades to the distance The image has gone, only you and I, it means nothing to me This means nothing to me Oh, Vienna This means nothing to me This means nothing to me Oh, Vienna

Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Rolling and falling I'm choking and calling Name after name after name Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Naked and bleeding The streetlights stray by me Hurting my eyes with their glare Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Helplessly breaking Exchanging my faces Destined, we had to collide Sleepwalk! Taut on the outside I'm crumpling and crawling Watching the day drag away Spiraling deeper I can't feel my fingers Grip round my throat as I dream Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk

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 it short circuits then Sometimes it's a golden glow My sex Is invested in Suburban photographs Skyscraper shadows on a car crash overpass My sex Is savage, tender It wears no future faces Owns just random gender My sex Has a wanting wardrobe I still explore Of all the bodies I knew And those I want to know My sex Is a spark of electro-flesh Leased from the tick of time And geared for synchromesh My sex Is an image lost in faded films A neon outline on a high-rise overspill My sex My sex

Hello, hello, hello Welcome to this world you made Hello, hello, hello It's raining through your sad parade If you always do What you've always done Then nothing good will ever come If you always get What you've always got You'll find that loves what you forgot Hello, hello, hello Welcome to this world you made Hello, hello, hello It's raining through your sad parade Free to bite your bitter pill Sorry now, at least until Someone is but never will Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello There's no one to blame 'Cos this was your goal You gave your life, your heart, your soul Wrapped in deceit Loving the lie To find that life has left you dry Hello, hello, hello Welcome to this world you made Hello, hello, hello It's raining through your sad parade Free to bite your bitter pill Sorry now, at least until Someone is but never will Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello Hello, hello, hello Welcome to this world you made Hello, hello, hello It's raining through your sad parade Free to bite your bitter pill Sorry now, at least until Someone is but never will Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello

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 Riding inter-city trains Dressed in European gray Riding out to echo beach A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no How can I ever let them go? Hiroshima Mon Amour Meet beneath the autumn lake Where only echoes penetrate Walk through Polaroids of the past Future's fused like shattered glass, the sun's so low Turns our silhouettes to gold Hiroshima Mon Amour