JOY DIVISION

+Disorder

--------

I've been waiting for a guide to come

and take me by the hand

Could these sensations make me feel

the pleasures of a normal man

New sensations bear the innocence -

leave them for another day

I've go the spirit, lose the feeling

take the shock away

It's getting faster, moving faster now,

it's getting out of hand

On the tenth floor, down the backstairs

into no-man's land

Lights are flashing,

cars are crashing,

getting frequent now

I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it

out somehow

What means to you,

what means to me -

and we will meet again

I'm watching you, I watch it all

I take no pity from friends

Who is right and who can tell,

and who gives a damn right now

Until the spirit, new sensation

takes hold - then you know (3)

I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling (2)

Feeling (7)

+Day of the Lords

----------------

This is the room, the start of it all

No portraits so fine, only sheets on the wall

I've seen the nights,

filled with bloodsports in vain

And the body is obtained

Where will it end? (4)

These are your friends,

from childhood for you

Who goaded you on demanded

full proof

Withdraw maiden's heart,

and do you right in

So distorted and thin, distorted and thin

Where will it end? (4)

This is the car, at the edge of the road

There's nothing disturbed,

all the windows are closed

I guess you were right,

when we talked in the heat

There's no room for the weak

no room for the weak

Where will it end? (4)

This is the room, the start of it all

Dreamt I fled from you,

I remember it all

Oh I've seen the nights, filled with

bloodsport in vain

And the body's obtained, the body's obtained

Where will it end? (4)

+Candidate

---------

Forced by the pressure, the territory's

marked

No longer the pleasure, Oh I've since

lost the heart

Corrupted from memory, no longer the power

It's creeping up slowly, that last

fatal hour

Oh I don't know what made me,

or what gave me the night

To mess with your values

And change wrong to right

Please keep your distance

the trail leads to here,

There's blood on your fingers,

brought on by fear

I campaigned for nothing,

I worked hard for this

I tried to get to you

you treat me like this

It's just second nature,

it's what we've been shown

We're living by your rules,

that's all that we know

I tried to get to you (3)

Oh how I tried to get to you

+Insight

-------

Guess the dream always end

They don't rise up just descend

But I don't care anymore

I've lost the will to want more

I'm not afraid, not at all

I watch them all as they fall

But I remember, when we were young

Those with habits of waste

The sense of style and the taste

Of making sure you were right

Hey, don't you know you were right

I'm not afraid anymore

I keep my eyes on the door

But I remember...

Tears and sadness for you

Awe of evil for you

Reflects a moment in time

A special moment in time

Yeah, we wasted our time

We didn't really have time

But we remember - when we were young

And all God's angels beware

And all you judges beware

Sons of chance take good care

For all the people out there

I'm not afraid anymore (4)

+New Dawn Fades

--------------

Change of speed, a change of style

A change of scene, with no regrets

A chance to watch

admire the distance

Still occupied - though you forget

Different colours, different shades

Over each mistakes were made

I took the blame

Directionless, so plain to see

A loaded gun won't set you free

So you say

We'll share a drink and step outside

An angry voice and one who cried

We'll give you everything and more

The strain's too much,

can't take much more

Oh I've walked on water,

run through fire

Can't seem to feel it anymore

It was me - waiting for me

Hoping for something more

Me - see me in this time -

Hoping for something else

+She's Lost Control

------------------

Confusion in her eyes that says it all -

She's lost control

And she's clinging to the nearest passer-by

She's lost control

And she gave away the secrets of her past

And said "I've lost control again."

And she turned to me

and took me by the hand

and said "I've lost control again"

and how I'll never know just why

or understand

She said "I've lost control again"

And she screamed out, kicking on her side

And seized up on the floor -

I thought she'd died

She said "I've lost control again"

She's lost control again -

she's lost control

Well I had to phone her friend

to state her case and say

she's lost control again

And she showed up all the errors

and mistakes

and said "I've lost control again"

But she expressed herself in many

different ways

until she'd control again

And walked upon the edge of no escape

and laughed "I've lost control again"

She's lost control again,

she's lost control (2)

+Shadowplay

----------

To the centre of the city where all roads

meet looking for you

To the depths of the ocean

where all hopes sank searching for you

Moving through the silence without motion

waiting for you

In a room with no window in the corner,

I found truth

In the shadowplay, acting out your

own death, knowing more

As the assassins all grouped

in four lines,

Dancing on the floor,

And with cold steel, odour on their bodies,

made a move to connect

I could only stare in disbelief

as the crowds all left

I did everything, everything I wanted to

I let them use you -

for their own ends

To the centre of the city in night

waiting for you (2)

+Wilderness

----------

I traveled far and wide through many

different times

What did you see there?

I saw all knowledge destroyed

I traveled far and wide to prisons

of the cross

What did you see there?

The power and glory of sin

What did you see there?

The blood of Christ on their skins

I traveled far and wide through many

different times

I traveled far and wide where

unknown martyrs died

I saw the one-sided trials

What did you see there?

I saw the tears as they cried

They had tears in their eyes!

Tears in their eyes! (3)

+Interzone

---------

I walked through city limits

Someone took me by the hand in the blue

Attracted by some force within it

If I could close my eyes,

I could get used to it

Around the corner where a puppet lay

Saw the place where she had a room to stay

A wire fence

where children play

Saw them dance where the body lay

And I was looking for a friend of mine

The car screeched in the sand

and dust

Feel encouraged -

just a car on it's side

Metallic blue turned red with rust

Pulled it close by the buildin's side

In a room for forgotten youth

I could think

or let my senses slide

Turned on to a night with you

Find the place where my friends, won't go

And I was looking for a friend of mine

and I had no time to lose

Yeah looking for some friends of mine

Down the dark street,

the houses looked the same

Stopped and turned around,

held me to a game

I walked round and round,

you nailed me to a tree

Trying to find a way,

trying to find a way, to get out

For twelve windows stand in a row

Behind a wall

where a room to go

The light shined like a neon show

See the deep mellow warmth

of the glow

No place to stop,

no place to go

No time to lose,

have to keep on going

I guess they died some time ago

I guess they died some time ago

And I was looking for a friend of mine

And I have no time to lose

Yeah, I was looking for a friend of mine

+I Remember Nothing

------------------

We were strangers, we were strangers,

Away too long,

away too long

We were violent strangers,

away too long,

Get weak all the time,

we just passed the time

Me in my own world, yeah you there beside

The gaps only moment,

we stared from each side

We were strangers, away too long

Violent, more violent his hand

cracks the chair

Moves on reaction, then slumps,

in despair

Trapped in a cage and surrendered

too soon

Me in my own world

Away too long

We were strangers (2)

Away too long (2)

+Atrocity Exhibition

--------- ----------

The silence when doors open wide

Where people could pay to see inside

For entertainment they watch

his body twist

Behind his eyes he says I still exist

This is the way, step inside (4)

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 fall

This is the way, step inside (4)

This is the way (4) This is the way,

step inside

You'll see the horrors of a far-away place

Meet the architects of law

face to face

See mass murder on a scale

you've never seen

And all the ones who tried hard

to succeed

This is the way, step inside (4)

And I picked on the whims of

a thousand more

Still pursuing the path

that's been buried

For years of dead woods and 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 - it will be.

+Isolation

---------

Be clear every day, every evening

It calls here aloud from above

Carefully watched for a reason

Mistaking devotion and love

Surrendered to self-preservation

>From others who care for themselves

But life as it touches perfection

Appears just like anything else

Isolation (3)

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 (3)

But if you could just see the beauty

These things I could never describe

Pleasures and wayward distraction

Is this my wonderful prize?

Isolation (5)

+Passover

--------

This is the crises I knew had to come

Destroying the balance

I'd kept

Doubting and settling 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 the 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 defense

Disturbing and purging my mind

I count up 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

I'll pass through the deserts and waste -

lands once more

And watch as they drop by the beach

This is a crises I knew had to come

Destroying the balance I'd kept

Turning around to the next set of lies

Wondering what will come next

+Colony

------

A cry for help, a hint of anaesthesia

The sound from broken homes,

we used to meet always here

As he lays asleep she takes him in her arms

Some things I have to do

but I don't mean you harm

I wore a careless glance

and kissed her last goodbye

Hands in the bag she packed a tear

she tries to hide

Cruel wind that howls 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 just makes me feel

uneasy

Stood alone here in this colony

In this colony (4)

Yeah, God in his wisdom

took you by the hand,

God in his wisdom made you understand (4)

In this colony (4)

+A Means to an End

- ----- -- -- ---

A legacy, so far removed

One day will be improved

Eternal rights beleft behind,

We were the better kind

You this day met free too,

I always looked to you (3)

We fought for good,

stood side by side

Our friendship never died

But stranger ways that froze on highs,

our vision touched the skies

Mortal list - the points to prove

I put my trust in you (3)

A house somewhere, on foreign soil

Where aching lovers called

Is this your goal, your final deeds

Where dogs and vultures eat?

Permitted still, I turned to go

I put my trust in you (4)

In you, in you, in you

Put my trust in you, in you

+Heart and Soul

----- --- ----

Instants that can still betray us

A journey that leads to the sun

Soulless and bent on destruction

Struggle between right and wrong

You take my place in the show-down

I'll observe with a pitiful eye

And humble ask for forgiveness

A request well beyond you and I

Heart and soul, one will burn (2)

An abyss that lasted creation

A circus complete with all fools

Foundations that lasted the ages

Then ripped apart at their roots

Beyond all this good the terror

The grip of a mercenary hand

When savagery returns

for good reason

There's no turning back the last stand

Heart and soul, one will burn (2)

Existence-well what does it matter

I exist on the best terms I can

The past is now part of my future

The present is well out of hand (2)

Heart and soul, one will burn (2)

One will burn, one will burn

Heart and Soul, one will burn

+Twenty-four Hours

----------- -----

So this is permanence -

Love shattered pride

What once was innocence,

turned on its side

A cloud hangs over me,

marks every move

Deep in the memory,

what once was love

Oh how I've realized, I wanted time

Put into perspective,

try so hard to find

Just for one moment I thought

I'd got my way

Destiny unfolded -

watched it slip away

Excessive flash points,

beyond all reach

Solitary demands for all

I'd like to keep

Let's take a ride out,

see what we can find

Valueless collection of hopes

and past desires

I never realized the lengths

I'd have to go

All the darkest corners of a sense

I didn't know

Just for one moment -

hearing someone call

Looked beyond the day in hand

There's nothing there at all

Now that I've realized how it's

all gone wrong

Got to find some therapy -

this treatment takes too long

Deep in the heart of where

sympathy held sway

Got to find my destiny before

it gets too late

+The Eternal

--- -------

Procession moves on, the shouting is over

Praise to the glory of loved ones

now gone

Talking aloud as they sit

round their tables

Scattering flowers washed down by the rain

Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden

Watching them pass like clouds in the sky

Try to cry out in the heat of the moment

Possessed by a fury

that burns from inside

Cry like a child though

these years make me older

With children my time

is so wastefully spent

Burden to keep, though their

inner communion

Accept like a curse

an unlucky deal

Laid by the gate at the foot

of the garden

My view stretches out

from the fence to the wall

No words could explain,

no actions determine

Just watching the trees

and the leaves as they fall

+Decades

-------

Here are the young men,

a weight on their shoulders

Here are the young men,

well where have they been?

We knocked on doors

of hell's darker chambers

Pushed to the limits,

we dragged ourselves in

Watched from the wings as

the scenes were replaying

We saw ourselves now as

we never had seen

Portrayal of the traumas and degeneration

The sorrows we suffered

and never were freed

Where have they been (4)

Weary inside, now our hearts

lost forever

Can't replace the fear

or the thrill of the chase

These rituals showed up the door

for our wanderings

Opened and shut, then slammed

in our face

Where have they been (4)

STILL

+Exercise One

-------- ---

When you're looking at life

in a strange new room

Maybe drowning soon,

Is this the start of it all?

Turn on your TV, Turn down you audiophone

Turn away from it all,

it's all getting too much

When you're looking at life, deciphering scars

Tense group all who sit

still in their cars

The lights look bright

when you reach outside

Time for one last ride

before the end of it all

+Ice Age

--- ---

Seen the real atrocities, buried in the sand

Stockpiled safety for a few -

we stand holding hands I -

living in the iceage (2)

Nothing will hold, nothing will fit

Into the cold, no smile on your lips

Living in the iceage (3)

Searching for another way,

see them hide behind the door

Live in holes and disused shafts

hoped a little more

I - living in the iceage (2)

Nothing will hold, nothing will fit

Into the cold, no smile on your lips

Living in the iceage (3 + 4)

+Sound of Music

----- -- -----

See my true reflection

put out my own connections

I can see it's 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-taken

I can't see it getting higher,

systematically degraded

Emotionally a scapegoat,

I can't see it getting higher

For person unrealistic,

try to make it all stick

I can see it getting harder,

all am now am burnt out

All I need's a break out,

I can't see it getting higher

Love - life don't you feel we're

higher, higher, higher

don't you feel higher, higher, etc.

+Glass

-----

Hearts fail - young hearts fail

Anytime - that's allright

Over here - all the time

Take it quick - take it neat

Cross your hands - twist your feet

Take it quick - take it neat (2)

Hearts fail - young hearts fail

Anytime - whereabout?

On the run - on the ground

Put your hand - where it's safe

Lay your hand - where it's safe

And do it again

Do it again and again and again (4)

Anytime - that's allright

Told ya we should do it again

Over here - all the time

Told ya we should do it again (3)

Anytime - that's allright

Told ya we should do it again

Told ya we should do it again

I betcha we should do it again

Do it again (5)

+The Only Mistake

--- ---- -------

Made the fatal mistake like

I did once before

Tendency just to take till

the purpose stood sour

Strain - take the strain,

these days - we learn

Strain - feel the strain,

as these days - we learn

Yeah, the only mistake was

that you ran away

Yeah, the only mistake was

that you ran away

Avenues lined with trees planned your course

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 learn

Strain - take the strain,

these days - we learn

And the only mistake led to rumours

and found

Led to pleasures and pain different

feelings and sounds

Yeah the only mistake like

I made once before

Yeah the only mistake could have

made it before

+They Walked in Line

---- ------ -- ----

All dressed in uniform so fine

They drank and killed to pass the time

Wearing the shame

of all their crimes

With measured steps they walked in line

They walked in line (8)

They carried pictures

of their wives

And number tags

to prove their lies

They walked in line (8)

Full of a glory never seen

They made it through the whole machine

To never question anymore

Hypnotic trance

they never saw

They walked in line (8-16)

Walked in line (2)

+The Kill

--- ----

Moved in a hired car

and I find no way to run

Adds every moment longer

had no time for fun

Just something that I knew I had to do

But through it all

I kept my eyes on you

I had an impulse to clear it all away

I used the tactics - make everybody pay

Just something that I knew I had to do

But through it all

I kept my eyes on you

Oh I keep it all traded in

I've paid the graces there

No kidding, misuse -

no sign of blood

Just something that I knew I had to do

But through it all

I kept my eyes on you

Yeah through it all

I kept my eyes on you

But through it all

I kept my eyes on you

+Something Must Break

--------- ---- -----

To waste and choose or raise the dead

With pain behind go straight ahead

Room full of people grouping

as one

I can't break out now

the time just won't come

To waste and choose which way to go

Decide for me please let me know

Looked in the mirror

saw I was wrong

If I could get back to - where I belong

To waste and choose which way to go

I paused for one

whom signs forbode

If we were immortal we would not bear

Washed up on the beat here

Struggle for air

I see you face still in my window

Tormented clouds won't set me free

Something must break now -

this life isn't mine

Something must break now -

wait for the time

+Dead Souls

---- -----

Someone take these dreams away

That point me to another day

A duel of personalities

That stretch all true reality

And keep calling me

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

When figures from the past stand tall

And mocking voices ring the hall

Imperialistic house of prayer

Conquistadores who took their share

And keep calling me

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

Calling me, calling me (2)

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

The keep calling me (2)

+Sister Ray (Velvet Underground)

------ ---

[no words available for this song, sorry]

+Ceremony

--------

I've heard them all,

no mercy shown

Heaven knows it's got to be this time

What she'd heard,

these things she said

This time she cried

and failed to wait, this time

Oh I've heard them all, no mercy shown

Heaven knows it's got to be this time

Avenues all lined with trees

Pictures me and then you start watching,

watching forever (2)

Forever - watching love grow

Forever - letting me know (2)

+Shadowplay

----------

To the centre of the city where all roads

meet looking for you

To the depths of the ocean

where all hopes sank searching for you

Moving through the silence without motion

waiting for you

In a room with no window in the corner,

I found truth

In the shadowplay, acting out your

own death, knowing more

As the assassins all grouped

in four lines,

Dancing on the floor,

And with cold steel, odour on their bodies,

made a move to connect

I could only stare in disbelief

as the crowds all left

I did everything, everything you wanted to

I let them use you -

for their own ends

To the centre of the city in the night

waiting for you (2)

+A Means to an End

- ----- -- -- ---

A legacy - so far removed

one day will be improved

Eternal rights we left behind

we were the better kind

You the same, set free too

I always looked to you (3)

We fought for good,

stood side by side

Our friendship never died,

stranger ways, the lows and highs

Our vision touched the sky

Mortal this, we parted too soon

I put my trust in you (3)

A house somewhere on foreign soil,

where aching lovers call

We stood here, our final goal,

where dogs eat and vultures eat

Permitted still, I turned to go

I put my trust in you (5) in you (3)

+Passover

--------

This is the crises I knew had to come

Destroying the balance

I'd kept

Doubting and settling 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

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 chain of defence

Disturbing and pursuing my mind

Hold my count of my duties -

when all's said and done

I know that I'll lose every time

Moving along in our God giving ways

Safety is sat by the fire

Sanctuary from these feverish smiles

Left with a mark on the door

Can I go on

with this chain of defence

Disturbing and purging my mind

I'll count up my duties -

when all said and done

I know that I'll lose every time

This is a crises I knew had to come

Destroying the balance

I'd kept

Turning around to the next set of lies

Wondering what will come next

+New Dawn Fades

--------------

Change of speed, a change of style

A change of scene, with no regrets

A chance to watch

admire the distance

Still occupied - though you forget

Different colours, different shades

Over each mistakes were made

I took the blame

Directionless, so plain to see

A loaded gun won't set you free

So you say

We'll share a drink and step outside

An angry voice and one who cried

We'll give you everything and more

The strain's too much,

can't take much more

Oh I've walked on water,

run through fire

Can't seem to feel it anymore

It was me - waiting for me

Hoping for something more

Me - see me in this time -

Hoping for something else

+Twenty-Four Hours (uncredited)

----------- -----

So this is permanence -

Love shattered pride

What once was innocence,

turned on its side

A cloud hangs over me,

marks every move

Deep in the memory,

what once was love

Oh how I've realized, I wanted time

Put into perspective,

try so hard to find

Just for one moment I thought

I'd got my way

Destiny unfolded -

watched it slip away

Excessive flash points,

beyond all reach

Solitary demands for all

I'd like to keep

Let's take a ride out,

see what we can find

Valueless collection of hopes

and past desires

I never realized the lengths

I'd have to go

All the darkest corners of a sense

I didn't know

Just for one moment -

hearing someone call

Looked beyond the day in hand

There's nothing there at all

Now that I've realized how it's

all gone wrong

Got to find some therapy -

this treatment takes too long

Deep in the heart of where

sympathy held sway

Got to find my destiny before

it gets too late

+Transmission

------------

Radio live - transmission - radio live -

transmission

Listen to the silence, let it ring on

Eyes dark, relentless, frightened of the sun

We would have a fine time living in the night

Left a blind destruction,

waiting for our sight - sight

We would go on as though nothing

was wrong

Hide from these days we remain all alone

Staying in the same place

to stand out the tide

Touching from a distance,

further all the time

Dance, dance, dance, dance,

dance to the radio (4)

I would go on as though nothing

was wrong

And hide from these days

when the music goes on

Staying in the same place,

we're sparing no time

Gift who could value no-one

inside

And we could dance, dance, dance, dance,

dance to the radio (4)

+Disorder

--------

I've been waiting for a guide to come

and take me by the hand

Could these sensations make me feel

the pleasures of a normal man

New sensations bear the innocence -

leave them for another day

I've go the spirit, lose the feeling

take the shock away

It's getting faster, moving faster now,

it's getting out of hand

On the tenth floor, down the backstairs

into no-man's land

Lights are flashing,

cars are crashing,

getting frequent now

I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it

out somehow

What means to you,

what means to me -

and we will meet again

I'm watching you, I watch it all

I take no pity from friends

Who is right and who can tell,

and who gives a damn right now

Until the spirit, new sensation

takes hold - then you know (3)

I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling (2)

Feeling (7)

+Isolation

---------

In fear every day, every evening

It calls here aloud from above

Carefully watched for a reason

Mistaking devotion and love

Surrendered to self-preservation

>From others who care for themselves

A blindness that touches perfection

Appears just like anything else -

Isolation (3)

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

But if you could just see the beauty,

these things I could never describe

This is my one consolation

This is my wonderful prize

+Decades

-------

Here are the young men,

a weight on their shoulders

Here are the young men,

well where have they been?

We knocked on the doors

of hell's darker chambers

Pushed to the limits

we dragged ourselves in

Watched from the wings as

the scenes were replaying

We saw ourselves now as

we never have seen

Portrayal of the traumas and degeneration

The sorrows we suffered

and never were freed

Where have they been (4)

Weary inside, now our heats

lost forever

Can't replace the fear

or the thrill of the chase

These rituals showed up the door

for our wanderings

Opened and shut, then slammed

in our face

Where have they been (4)

+Digital

-------

Feel it closing in, feel it closing in

The fear of whom I call,

hearing someone call

Feel it closing in, feel it closing in

Day in, day out (8)

Feel it closing in,

shadows start to fall

Feel it cold and warm, patterns on the wall

Feel it closing in, feel it closing in

Day in, day out (8)

Just wish in your soul to see

just whatever happens

With your decorum and then just fade away

I see you fade away, don't ever fade away

I need you here today

Don't ever fade away, don't ever fade away

Fade away (11)

........thank you, goodnight

SUBSTANCE

+Warsaw

------

3 - 5 - 0 - 1 - 2 - 5 - Go!

I was there in the backstage

when first light came around

I grew up like a changeling

to wait the first time around

I could see all the weakness --

I could pick all the faults

But I concede all the faith tests --

just a stick in your throat

3 - 1 - G (3)

Hung around in your soundtrack --

to mirror all that you've done

To find the right side of reason

to kill the three lies for one

I could see all the cold facts --

I could see through your eyes

All this don't make no contact

no matter how hard I try

3 - 1 - G (3)

I could still hear the footsteps --

I could see only walls

I say 'hey' for you mad traps --

hearing no at all

I could see contradiction --

I could give up the fight

Just to live in the past tense --

To make believe you were right!

3 - 1 - G (3)

3 - 5 - 0 - 1 - 2 - 5

+Leaders of Men

------- -- ---

Born from some mother's womb --

Just like any other room

Made a promise for a new life --

Made a victim out of your life

When your time's on the door --

And you trip on the floor

And you feel you can touch --

All the noise is too much

And the seeds that are sown --

Are no longer your own

Just a minor operation --

To force the final ultimatum

A thousand words are spoken loud

Reach that gun to fool the crowds

When you walk down the street and the

sound that's so sweet

And you wish you could hide --

Maybe go for a ride

To some picture arcade --

Where the future's not made

A nightmare situation --

Infiltrate imagination

Smacks of past holy wars --

Fight a war with broken laws

The leaders of men --

Born out of your frustration

The leaders of men --

Just a strange infatuation

The leaders of men -- Made

a promise for a new life

No saviour for our sakes

To crush the atrocities of hate

Self-induced manipulation

To crush all thoughts

of mass-salvation

+Digital

-------

Feel it closing in, feel it closing in

A fear of whom I call,

hearing someone call

I feel it closing in, I feel it closing in

Day in, day out (6)

I feel it closing in,

As patterns seem to form

I feel it cold and warm

As shadows start to fall

I feel it closing in, I feel it closing in

Day in, day out (5)

I'd have the world to just see

whatever happens to my decorum

And then just fade away

I see you fade away, don't ever fade away

I need you here today

Don't ever fade away (4)

Fade away (7)

+Autosuggestion

--------------

Here, here, everything is my design

Everything is my design

Here, here, everything is kept inside

So take a chance and step outside

Your hopes, your dreams, your paradise

Heroes, idols crept like ice

Here, here, everything is kept inside

So take a chance and step outside

Feel frustration face to face

A point of view creates more waste

So take a chance and step outside

Take a chance and step outside

Lose some sleep and say you've tried

Meet frustrations face to face

A point of view creates more waste

So lose some sleep

and say you've tried (4)

Say you've tried (11)

Yeah, lose some sleep

and say you've tried (4)

+Transmission

------------

Radio -- live transmission -- radio

live transmission

Listen to the silence, let it ring on

Eyes dark, relentless, frightened of the sun

We would have a fine time living in the night

Be left a blind destruction,

Waiting for our sight

We would go on as though nothing was

wrong

Hide from these days to remain all alone

Staying in the same place,

just staring at the tide

Touching from a distance, further all the time

Dance, dance, dance, dance,

dance to the radio (4)

Well I could call out when the going

gets tough

The things we've learned are no longer

enough

No language, just sound is all

we need know

To synchronise love to the beat

of the show

And we could dance -- dance, dance,

dance, dance, to the radio (4)

+She's Lost Control

----- ---- -------

Confusion in her eyes that says it all --

She's lost control

And she's clinging to the nearest passerby

She's lost control

And she gave away the secrets of her past

And said "I've lost control again."

And heard the voice that told her

when and where to act

She said "I've lost control again".

And she turned to me and took me by the hand

And said "I've lost control again"

And how I'll never know just why

or understand

She said "I've lost control again"

And she screamed out, kicking on her side

and said "I've lost control again"

And seized up on the floor --

I thought she'd died

She said "I've lost control again"

She's lost control again --

she's lost control (2)

Well I had to phone her friend to state

her case and say she's lost control again

And she showed up all the errors and mistakes

And said "I've lost control again"

But she expressed herself in many different

ways until she'd lost control again

And walked upon the edge of no escape

and laughed "I've lost control again"

She's lost control again,

she's lost control (2)

I could live a little there

In the midst of the light

When the darkness closed in

I could have broke down and cried

I could live a little

In the white of light

When the change is gone

When the caring's gone

To lose control --

when the caring's gone

+Incubation (instrumental)

----------

+Dead Souls

---- -----

Someone take these dreams away

That point me to another day

A duel of personalities

That stretch all true reality

And keep calling me

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

When figures from the past stand tall

And mocking voices ring the hall

Imperialistic house of prayer

Conquistadores who took

their share

And keep calling me

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

They keep calling me

Calling me, calling me (2)

They keep calling me

Keep on calling me

The keep calling me (2)

+Atmosphere

----------

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

Aching to see -- walking on air

Hunting by rivers, through the streets,

every corner abandoned to soon

Set down with due care

don't walk away -- in silence --

Don't walk away

+Love Will Tear Us Apart

---- ---- ---- -- -----

When the routine bites hard

and ambitions are low

And the 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 (4)

Why is the bedroom so cold

Turned away on your side?

Is my timing that flawed,

our respect run so dry?

Yet there's still this appeal

That we've kept through

our lives

Love, love will tear us apart again (4)

Do you cry out in your sleep

All my failings expose?

Get a taste in my mouth

As desperation takes hold

Is it something so good

Just can't function no more?

When love, love will tear us apart

again (4)

+No Love Lost

-- ---- ----

So long sitting here --

Didn't here the warning

Waiting for the tape to run

We've been moving round in different

situations

Knowing that the time would come

Knowing that the time would come

Just to see you torn apart --

witness to your empty heart

I need it (3)

Through the wire screen the eyes

of those standing outside

locked in at her as if into the cage

of some rare creature in a zoo.

In the hand of one of the assistants she saw

the same instrument which they had that

morning inserted deep

into her body.

She shuddered instinctively.

No life at all in the House

of Dolls. No love lost (3)

You've been seeing things in darkness --

Running, learning

Hoping that the truth will pass

No life underground

Wasting, never changing

Wishing that this thing won't last

To never see you show your age

To watch the feeling fades

I need it

+Failures

--------

Don't speak a false facade

Failure of modern man

To the centre of our face he dived

Has a hold on a nose of red

Grew up in a hall of steel

Made the image of your fathers son

Not to an inner feel

He was thought of as the only one

He no longer denies --

All the failures of the modern man

He no longer decides --

Sees the failures of the modern man

Wise words and sympathy

Tell the story of our history

New strength gives a real touch

Sense of reasons make it all too much

With a strange fatality

Fade the spirits of a lesser man

Some other race could see

In his way he was the only one

He no longer denied --

All the failures of the modern man

No, no his God decides --

See the failures of the modern man

Now that it's right to decide

In his time he was the total man

Taken from Caesar's side

Kept in silence just to prove

us wrong

No, no his God decides

All the failures of the modern man

No, no longer denies

All the failures of the modern man

+Glass

-----

Hearts fail -- young hearts fail

Anytime -- that's allright

Over here -- all the time

Take it quick -- take it neat

Cross your hands -- twist your feet

Take it quick -- take it neat (2)

Hearts fail -- young hearts fail

Anytime -- whereabout?

On the run -- on the ground

Put your hand -- where it's safe

Lay your hand -- where it's safe

And do it again

Do it again and again and again (4)

Anytime -- that's allright

Told ya we should do it again

Over here -- all the time

Told ya we should do it again (3)

Anytime -- that's allright

Told ya we should do it again

Told ya we should do it again

I betcha we should do it again

Do it again (5)

+From Safety to Where...?

---- ------ -- ---------

No, I don't know just why, No,

I don't know just why

Which way to turn, I've got this ticket

to use

Through child-like ways, rebellion and crime

To reach this point

and retreat back again

The broken hearts, all the wheels

that are turned

The memory's scarred

and the vision 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

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 child-like ways, rebellion and crime

To reach this point

and retreat back again

The broken hearts, all the wheels

that are turned

The memory's scarred

and the vision 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?

+Novelty

-------

When the people listen to you don't you

know it means a lot 'cos you've got to

work so hard for everything you've got

Can't rest on your laurels now

Not when you've got none

You'll find yourself in a gutter

Right back where you came from

Someone told me being in the know

is the main thing

We all need the security

that belonging brings

Can't stand on your own in these times

against all the odds

You all just fall behind like all

the other sods

You slap your back

and pretend you knew about

all the things that we were gonna do

What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do

when it's over?

You're all on your own now,

Don't you think that's a shame

But you're the only one responsible

to take the blame

So what ya gonna do when the novelty

has gone

Yeah, what ya gonna do when the novelty

has gone

You slap your backs

and pretend you knew about

all the things we were gonna do

What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do

When its over?

+Komakino

--------

This is the hour when the mysteries emerge

Strangeness so hard to reflect

A moment so moving goes straight

to your heart

Condition that's never been met

The attraction that's held like a wake

deep inside

Something I'll never forget

Pattern is set, the reaction will start

Complete but rejected too soon

Looking ahead in the grip of each tear

Impulse that blinds every move

Shadow that stood by the side of the road

Always reminds me of you

How can I find the right way

to control

All the conflicts inside,

All the problems beside

As the questions are right,

and the answers don't fit

Into my way of paying, into my way

of paying

+These Days

----- ----

Morning seems strange, almost out of place

Searched hard for you and your special ways

These days -- please stay

Spent all my time,

learnt to kill is hard

Took threats and abuse

till I'd lived apart

Can you stay -- for these days?

These days -- these days

Use hard-worn deception to get away

Broken heart romance

to make it pay

These days -- these days

We'll tread through it all

This modern age

Take care of it all now these debts

are paid

Can you stay -- for these days?

WARSAW

+The Drawback (or All of this for You)

--- -------- --- -- ---- --- ---

Seen the troubles and the evils of this world

I've seen the stretches between

godliness and sin

I've had the promise and confessions

of true faith

And the hypocrisy that always lies within

And they left it for you --

all of this for you (2)

I've seen the products

and the other world of waste

I've seen the colour of corruption

deep within

I've seen them lose themselves

in dignity and taste

To see in black and white and through

to black again

And they left it all for you --

all of this for you (2)

And they left it for you --

all of this for you

And they left it for you -- everything for you

I've seen the troubles and the evils

of this world

I've seen the ones who can succeed

but always lose

I've seen what's left

of poor technology and work

And watched them dying as they

leave their ship of fools

And they left it for you --

all of this for you

+Leaders of Men

------- -- ---

Born from some mother's womb --

Just like any other room

Made a promise for a new life --

Made a victim out of your life

When your time's on the door --

And you trip on the floor

And you feel you can touch --

All the noise is too much

And the seeds that are sown --

Are no longer your own

Just a minor operation --

To force the final ultimatum

A thousand words are spoken loud

Reach that gun to fool the crowds

When you walk down the street and the

sound that's so sweet

And you wish you could hide --

Maybe go for a ride

To some picture arcade --

Where the future's not made

A nightmare situation --

Infiltrate imagination

Smacks of past holy wars --

Fight a war with broken laws

The leaders of men --

Born out of your frustration

The leaders of men --

Just a strange infatuation

The leaders of men -- Made

a promise for a new life

No saviour for our sakes

To crush the atrocities of hate

Self-induced manipulation

To crush all thoughts

of mass-salvation

+They Walked in Line

---- ------ -- ----

All dressed in uniforms so fine

They drank and killed to pass the time

Wearing the shame

of all their crimes

With measured steps they walked in line

They walked in line (8)

They carried pictures

of their wives

And number tags

to prove their lies

And made it through the whole machine

With dirty hearts and hands washed clean

They walked in line (8)

Full of a glory never seen

They made it through the whole machine

Turn never questioned anymore

Hypnotic trance

they never saw

+Failures

--------

Don't speak with shameless face

A failure of modern man

To the centre of luck he dived

Has a hold on a nose

so red

Throw up in a hollow field

Break the image of your father's son

Drawn to an inner field

He was thought of as the only one (2)

He no longer denies

All the failures of the modern man

No, no, no we can't make sides

Sees the failures of the modern man

Wise words and sympathy

Tell the story of our history

New strength gives a real touch

Sense of reason make it all too much

With a strange fatality

Broke the spirits of a lesser man

Some other race could see

In his way he was the only one (2)

He no longer denies

All the failures of the modern man

No, no, no we can't make sides

See the failures of the modern man

Now that it's right to decide

In his time he was the total man

Taken from Caesar's side

Kept in silence just to prove

us wrong

He no longer denies

All the failures of the modern man

No, no, no we can't make sides

Sees the failures of the modern man

All the failures of the modern man

+Novelty

-------

When the people listen to you don't you

know it means a lot 'cos you've got to

work so hard for everything you've got

Can't rest on your laurels now

Not when you've got none

You'll find yourself in a gutter

Right back where you came from

Someone told me being in the know

is the main thing

We all need the security

that belonging brings

Can't stand on your own in these times

against all the odds

I don't want to act uncool

at all the other sods

You slap your back

and pretend you knew about all the things

that we were gonna do

What ya gonna do,

what ya gonna do when it's over?

You're all on your own now,

Don't you think that's a shame

But you're the only one

responsible that's to blame

When ya gonna grow up and act,

and be yourself 'cos pretty soon

you'll find yourself nailed to the shelf

Grab it while you can, but don't

ever relax, 'cos there's always

someone gonna stab your back

What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do

+No Love Lost

-- ---- ----

So long sitting here --

Didn't here the warning

Waiting for the tape to run

We've been moving round

in different situations

Knowing that the time would come,

Just to see you torn apart --

I need it (3)

Two-way mirror in the hall

They like to watch everything you do

Transmitters hidden in the wall

So they know everything you say is true

Turn it on -- don't turn it on -- Turn it on

You've been seeing things in darkness --

running, learning

Hoping that the truth will pass

No life underground wasting,

never changing

Wishing that this thing won't last

To never see you show your age

To watch the feeling fades

I need it (3)

+Transmission

------------

Radio live -- transmission -- Radio --

live transmission

Listen to the silence, let it ring on

Eyes dark, relentless, frightened of the sun

We would have a fine time living in the night

Left a blind instruction,

take away our sight

We would go on as though nothing

was wrong

And hide from these days to remain all alone

Staying in the same place,

staring all the time

Touching from a distance, further all the time

Dance, dance, dance, dance,

dance to the radio (4)

And I could call out when the going

gets tough

And we could make contact if we just

don't look

No language, just sound

is all that I know

We'll synchronize love to the beat

of the show

And we could dance, dance, dance, dance,

dance to the radio (4)

+Living in the Ice Age

------ -- --- --- ---

Seen the real atrocities, buried in the sand

Stockpiled safety for a few --

we stand holding hands I --

living in the iceage (2)

Nothing will hold, nothing will fit

Into the cold, no smile on your lips

Living in the iceage (3)

Searching for another way,

see them hide behind the door

Live in holes and disused shafts

hoped a little more

I -- living in the iceage (2)

Nothing will hold, nothing will fit

Into the cold, no smile on your lips

Living in the iceage (3 + 4)

+Interzone

---------

Brrroooh! (2) Brrr-oo-oo-ooh! (2) Broooh!

I walked through the city limits

Attracted by some force within it

Around the corner where a puppet lay

A wire fence

where the children play

And I was looking for a friend of mine

Yeah, looking for a friend of mine

The car screeched

in the sand and dust

Metallic blue turned red with rust

Still defied all by guiding you

Turned on to a night with you

And I was looking for a friend of mine

Yeah, looking for a friend of mine

Down the dark street,

the houses looked the same

I was walking round and round

you nailed me to a train

Had to get away, trying to find a way

To get out -- Brrrooh! (2) Brrooh! (3)

Lots of windows stand in a row

The light shined -- a deadly glow

No place to stop,

no place to go

I guess they died some time ago

And I was looking for some friends of mine

Yeah, I was looking for some friends of mine

+Warsaw

------

I was there in the backstage

when first light came around

I grew up like a changeling

to wait the first time around

I could see all the weakness

I could pick all the faults

But I concede all the faith-tests,

just a stick in your throat 3 - 1 - G (3)

I'm around in your soundtrack,

to mirror all that you've done

To find the right side of reason

to kill the three lies for one

I could see all the cold facts,

I could see through your eyes

All this don't make no contact

no matter how hard I try

3 - 1 - G (3)

I could still hear the footsteps,

I could see only walls

All this don't make no contact,

here, hearing no at all

I could see contradiction,

I could give up the right

Just to live in the past tense,

To make believe you were right!

3 - 1 - G (3)

3 - 5 - 0 - 1 - 2 - 5

+Shadowplay

----------

To the centre of the city where all roads

meet looking for you

To the depths of the ocean

where all hopes sank searching for you

Moving through the silence without motion

waiting for you

In a room with no window in the corner,

I found truth

In the shadowplay, acting out your

own death, knowing more

As the assassins all grouped

in four lines,

Dancing on the floor,

And with cold steel, odour on their bodies,

made a move to connect

I could only stare in disbelief

as the crowds all left

I did everything, everything you wanted to

I let them use you --

for their own ends

To the centre of the city in the night

waiting for you (2)

+As You Said

-- --- ----

(instrumental)

CON AMORE, Ema/Evàn