Turn to Stone - Electric Light Orchestra

The moon retreats behind a silver cloud As darkness throws its cloak towards the earth And mystery replaces what we thought we knew To turn the stone To turn the stone The one dimension only shows one side But do we see the same through different eyes? As you and I peer into life's kaleidoscope To turn the stone To turn the stone Eternal sands of time shiff endlessly Behind a veil of motionless disguise An eyelid flash is all it really seems to need To turn the stone To turn the stone To turn the stone

Let's take a better look beyond a story book, And learn our souls are all we own, Before we turn to stone. Let's go to sleep with clearer heads and hearts too big to fit out beds, And maybe we won't feel so alone, Before we turn to stone. And if you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down. If you wait for someone else's hand, you'll fall, you'll fall I know that I am nothing new. There's so much more than me and you. But, brother, how we must atone, Before we turn to stone? Brother, how we must atone, Before we turn to stone? Before we turn to stone.

Our bones turn to stone And our smiles all look the same What a safe place to be Look at me in a big bad dream I have only me to blame How the hell did it get this way And the story starts the same We're just teachers in a learning game So tell me it's okay to hurt like it hasn't been said I've been quietly dancing around with the words in my head It's a waste of time In this waiting line But I guess that's fine What a long way to go They say it's the science that keeps us down And there's no place to go I got to do a little running to get back home So tell me it's okay to hurt like it hasn't been said I've been quietly dancing around with the words in my head It's a waste of time In this waiting line But I guess that's fine

A moving stream of information That is floating on the wind The secrets never end And now they call They sing, they play, they dance for you From out of the blue What can you do? The secret messages are calling to me endlessly They call to me across the air The messages across the atmosphere They whisper in your ear, they're calling everywhere Where words cascade like rainbows Tumbling from the sky Then I'll be there, I'll be there When messages will call to you Their secrets all around Without a sound, they're all around The secret messages are calling to me endlessly They call to me across the air The messages across the atmosphere They whisper in your ear, they're calling everywhere They're calling everywhere Those secret messages that spill Into the air from far away So far away A flowing river of illusion Running with confusion Never gone - it goes on and on The secret messages are calling to me endlessly They call to me across the air The messages across the atmosphere They whisper in your ear, they're calling everywhere Secret messages Secret messages Secret messages