Ultravox (64,42 %)

Rage in Eden (53,14 %)

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Ultravox - Rage in Eden
Released: 1981-09-11
Type: Studio

Ranking:
Artist:
8

Year (1981):
43

Decade (1980's):
496

Overall:
2156

1.
The Voice
06:02
2.
We Stand Alone
05:40
3.
Rage in Eden
04:12
4.
I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
04:59
5.
The Thin Wall
05:40
6.
Stranger Within
07:27
7.
Accent on Youth
04:45
8.
The Ascent
02:19
9.
Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)
04:41
 
Album length:
45:45

Lyrics

1.
The Voice
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

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

Forceful and twisting again
Wasting the perfect remains
I've felt it once before
Slipping over me

Oh-oh-oh-oh
The look and the sound of the voice
Oh-oh-oh-oh
They try, they try
Oh-oh-oh-oh
The shape and the power of the voice
Oh-oh-oh-oh
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

Oh-oh-oh-oh
The look and the sound of the voice
Oh-oh-oh-oh
They try, they try
Oh-oh-oh-oh
The shape and the power of the voice
Oh-oh-oh-oh
In strong low tones
2.
We Stand Alone
The words played on around our heads
Perhaps we went too far
We'll soldier on until the end again

This clutching hand around my hand
So pitiful and frail
Makes bleeding hearts begin to beat again

We stand in a different light
That's cast upon this gigolo and gigolette
We stand with a different frame around us now
But when we talk we talk in time
We shine with profiles so strong and so clear
And when we move we move in time
Won't fade like pictures that come back again

Your propaganda touched my soul
Those thin and cherished words
A willing victim for the kill again

We stand in a different light
That's cast upon this gigolo and gigolette
We stand with a different frame around us now
But when we talk we talk in time
We shine with profiles so strong and so clear
And when we move we move in time
Won't fade like pictures that come back again
3.
Rage in Eden
We sit and watch these lifeless forms
Stark and petrified
The high suspense of an empty stage drawing in clutching to its breast
With murmured words we sigh and focus on the main facade

Beyond the hard reluctant windows
News from magazines
We wrote their names on books we'd borrowed as if to bring us closer still
And threw it all away to focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence
But no-one could see the end

And they were the new gods
And they shone on high
Their heavy perfume on the night sucked them down in red tide
All is through the looking glass focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence
But no-one could see the end

Disciples of the new way
Portraits in the new sand
See when they run their longest mile holding caps in wet hands
Eyes upon them try to focus on the main facade
Rage in Eden jigsaw sequence
But no-one could see the end
4.
I Remember (Death in the Afternoon)
We turned the dial, we heard the news and laughed, we don't know why
We drank the wine and spoke of times we knew of days gone by
We flicked through photographs we had, somehow they made us sad
Remembering the times we used to have, it made us cry

Oh I remember death in the afternoon

A silence fell about the room with harsh and heavy calm
The lovers and the friends all felt the same, it kept us warm
We raised our glass and drank to times we had, but'd see no more
The pictures of the past would haunt us still, and there remains

Oh I remember death in the afternoon

We turned the dial, we heard the news and laughed, we don't know why
We drank the wine and spoke of times we knew of days gone by
We flicked through photographs we had, somehow they made us sad
Remembering the times we used to have, it made us cry
5.
The Thin Wall
The sound is on the visions move
The image dance starts once again
They shuffle with a bovine grace and glide in syncopation
Just living lines from books we've read
With atmospheres of days gone by
With paper smiles
The screenplay calls a message for the nation

And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wall
The thin wall
Thin wall

Grey men who speak of victory
Shed light upon their stolen life
They drive by night and act as if they're moved by unheard music
To step in time and play the part
With velvet voices smooth and cold
Their power games a game no more
And long the chance to use it

And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wall
The thin wall
Thin wall

And those who dance will spin and turn
And those who wait will wait no more
And those talk will hear the word
And those who sneer will fade and die
And those who laugh will surely fall
And those who know will always feel their backs against the thin wall
The thin wall
Thin wall

The thin wall (Repeat 3 times)

And those who dance
The thin wall
And those who talk
The thin wall
And those who sneer
The thin wall
And those who laugh
The thin wall
And those who know
The thin wall
And those who dance
The thin wall
And those who wait
The thin wall
And those who talk
6.
Stranger Within
Light comes through a crack in the door
I tape up the windows once more
Tight like a cold hand of steel
Don't fear the stranger within

Hands that petrify in the air
Eyes catching things never there
Sweet tension caught on my breath
Don't fear the stranger within

Watch every shape that escapes
Scared to make the final mistake
Speak to hear the sound of your voice
Don't fear the stranger within

Sit in the corner with your back to the wall
Pray to your God with your head in your hands
Your mask of fear is shrinking fast
It's closing in more amour

You stand on borrowed time, your sweating palms and chilling brow
Your wide-eyed panic makes you laugh, you cry and laugh
Freeze until the noise decays, a shuffle from behind a door
Your throat is tight, it makes you choke and smoke and choke
Eyes will grow accustomed to the dark, a stifled scream that won't come out
There's nothing more to fear from the stranger within

Don't fear the stranger within
I feel the stranger within
I see the stranger within
Don't know the stranger within
I am the stranger within
I am the stranger within
7.
Accent on Youth
What is this phase that I am going through
O these precious years
Please take my hand and let me breathe again
Young depressive tears

We stumble blindly chasing something new and something sinful

You take my time you live my life for me
What have I done to rate this penalty
You suck me dry
My body cries

We stumble blindly chasing instant thrills and lasting memories

Accent on youth
Attention
Ascends on you

I scream with frustration and lost control
Open for the blows
My hands fall limp and hang down at my side
Take my soul and go

We stumble blindly chasing dancing lights and others' wishes

Accent on youth
Attention
Ascends on you

Just let me close my eyes and slip away
Dream a dream alone
You give me just enough rope for the task
Let this man alone

We stumble blindly chasing silhouettes and vacant faces
So well rehearsed our moves once so grateful turn against us
We stalk dark passages, we're looking for that sweet surrender

Accent on youth
Attention
Ascends on you
8.
The Ascent
no lyrics yet
9.
Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)
Something stops me from seeing too clear
A misty haze floats round the room
The murmurs make it hard to hear
The voices and the words

The days seem to drag away
My speech is sparse and tends to slur
I wonder what happened to my friend to day
Can't hear the words

Oh-oh
Your name has slipped my mind again
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh
Your name has slipped my mind again
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

It's hard to focus in this light
I'm growing warm and feeling dull
The heartbeat pounds with vicious fright
There's something to remember

I clench my fist but feel no sensation
The walls around me spin and sway
A flash back image in my vision
I remember

Oh-oh
Your name has slipped my mind again
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh
Your name has slipped my mind again
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh