Substance



01- Warsaw

02- Leaders of Man

03- Digital

04- Autosuggestion

05- Transmission

06- She's Lost Control

07- Incubation

08- Dead Souls

09- Atmosphere

10- Love Will Tear us Apart

11- No Love Lost

12- Failures

13- Glass

14- From Safety to Where...?

15- Novelty

16- Komakino

17- These Days


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





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 -- pressurised

Over here --overtired

Take it quick -- take it neat

Cross your hands -- touch your feet



Take it quick -- take it neat (2)



Hearts fail -- young hearts fail

Anytime -- whearing down

On the run -- underground

Put your hand -- where it's safe

Lay your hand -- where it's safe

Do it again

Do it again and again and again (4)





Anytime -- that's your right

Don't you which you do it again

Overheat -- overtire



Don't you which you do it again (3)



Anytime -- that's your right

Don't you which you do it again



Don't you which you do it again



I bet you wish you do it again



Do it again (3)




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 have 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?








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