ELO Album

The dreamer, the unwoken fool,
In dreams, no pain will kiss the brow.
The love of ages fills the head.
The days that linger there in prey of
emptiness, of burned out dreams.
The minutes calling through the
years.
The universal dreamer rises up above
his earthly burden.
Journey to the dead of night.
High on a hill in Eldorado.

Midnight, on the water,
I saw the ocean's daughter,
Walking on the wave's chicane,
Staring as she called my name.

CHORUS
And I can't get it out of my head,
No, I can't get it out of my head.
Now my old world is gone for dead
'Cause I can't get it out of my head.

Breakdown, on the shoreline,
Can't move, it's an ebbtide,
Morning don't get here tonight,
Searching for her silver light.

CHORUS

Bank job, in the city,
Robin Hood and William Tell and
Ivanhoe and Lancelot,
They don't envy me,
Sitting 'til the sun goes down,
In dreams the world keeps going
round and round.

CHORUS x 2

Hey Boy Blue, can't you hear all
the noise.
It's for you, all the town's waiting
there.
Let us go, there's a show like you ain't
seen before.
Welcome home, where you been all
these years.
Look around, all the crowd is in tears.
It's so good to see you in the streets
of your town.

CHORUS
Hey Boy Blue is back.
Hey Boy Blue is back.
Hey Boy Blue is back.
Hey Boy Blue is back.
Hey Boy Blue is back.
Hey Boy Blue is back.

I've see bold knights, dropping
down like flies.
I've see kings, rolling in the mire,
I've seen God, point the finger of
doom to our foes.
I have fought in the holiest wars,
I have spent, some of the
holiest chores.
I've been jailed, been impaled, and
been dragged through the world.

One thing, I have learned through
these years,
Is that no man, should be stricken
with fear.
It should be that he walks with no
care in the world.
So my friends, who are gathered
today,
Hear this clear, for I'll not further say,
That no man, shall cause me to take
up arms again.

CHORUS

Summer days, where did you go,
You've let me down so bad,
Clouds fill the sky,
Gone is the dream
My happy hunting ground
Wild buffalo played
and I never saw a rainy day.
But it looks like summer days
ain't coming back.

March April May, June and July,
You took me for a fall.
Big chief he lie.
Cold wind blows cool, so cold to
make you die.
Mountain breeze, ocean bay and I
never saw a rainy day.
But it looks like them summer days
ain't coming back.

CHORUS
Laredo Tornado,
Adios amigos.

What can you do, when your dream
world is gone.
And your friends and lovers too.
West Winter Street under the ground,
The air that makes you choke,
Towers of concrete, hellish go-round,
Were there when I awoke.
City sky, pouring down with rain
That can never hope to ease the pain.
And it looks like summer days ain't
coming back.

CHORUS x 2

Me, I'm just a poor boy from across the far southland
And I've travelled many days to reach this place to make my stand
Oh, I fell in with a merry band and drank away the hours.

Rolling on - I've been rolling on, and my head is high, from the battle won
Laid down my life for the Greenwood.

The city boys and the country boys they come from miles around
To defy their king and country, save the poor folks from the hand
Of the thieving dukes and abbots and the gentry of the land.

Rolling on - I've been rolling on, and my head is high, from the battle won
Laid down my life for the Greenwood.

Sweet Maid Marion, don't you do me no wrong
Stay on the right side, the Greenwood is your home
The dancing girls and the open fires, and the wine that flows like water.

Rolling on - I've been rolling on, and my head is high, from the battle won
Laid down my life for the Greenwood

Daylight comes to those who live,
But those who die, they never see
The sun come shining throught their windowpane
They pass away.

Silly girl, to be a fool,
You didn't play the golden rule,
'Cause once you're through with one world,
There's another waiting there.

Help me, such a lonely soul,
In dreams to leave behind the world.
Mister Kindom, help me please,
To find the rainbow's end.

Looking from this empty room,
The corridors of endless gloom
Go crawling through the night
To meet the dawn that's on its way.

Oh, to sleep, per-chance to dream,
To live again those joyous scenes,
The laughter and the follies
That are locked inside my head.

Help me, such a lonely soul,
In dreams to leave behind the world.
Mister Kindom, help me please,
To find the rainbow's end.

I can dream of flying high
Above the city's cares and never be afraid of anyone,
'Cause there ain't no one there.

Help me, such a lonely soul,
In dreams to leave behind the world.
Mister Kindom, help me please,
To find the rainbow's end.

Help me, such a lonely soul,
In dreams to leave behind the world.
Mister Kindom, help me please,
To find the rainbow's end.

Painted lady, stop that closin' in on me,
Painted lady, you're supposed to be a dream,
Painted lady, you better stay away from me.

Painted lady, why you loosenin' my tie?
Painted lady, what's that twinkle in your eye?
Painted lady, you better stay away from me.

Painted lady, with your jewels and your beads,
Painted lady, don't you do these dirty deeds,
Painted lady, you better stay here with me.

Nobody's child, 'til I saw the light of your smile,
Painted lady, nobody's child,
You have set me free.

Nobody's child, you came in and stayed for a while.
Painted lady, nobody's child,
You have set me free.

On the seven seas, there was a phantom ship a-comin',
Shinin' in the dead of night,
I heard the crew a-hummin'
Tunes that sounded like the Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen.
But they didn't know the words,
So I assumed that they was foreign.

But I heard them just the same.
Oh, doctor, let me teach 'em,
I just wanna please 'em now.
I said, "Doctor, let me teach 'em,
I just wanna please 'em now."

I looked up in the sky: there was a phantom plane a-comin',
Shinin' in the dead of night,
I heard the pilot saying
Poems that were written by John Keats and Robert Browning.
But he didn't know the words,
So I suppose that it was nothing.

But I heard them just the same.
Oh, doctor, let me teach 'em,
I just wanna please 'em now.
I said, "Doctor, let me teach 'em,
I just wanna please 'em now."

Oh, doctor, please believe me,
I know you won't deceive me,
But do these things I'm seein'
Have any hidden meaning.
It's all good entertainment,
And it doesn't cost a penny.
So please, doc, let me teach 'em,
If I could only reach 'em.

But I heard them just the same.
Oh, doctor, let me teach 'em,
I just wanna please 'em now.
Oh, doctor, let me teach 'em,
I just wanna please 'em now.

Here it comes, another lonely day playing the game
I’ll sail away on a voyage of no return to see
If eternal life is meant to be
And if I find the key to the eternal dream

The painted ladies of the avalon play in the sun
Take to the road, to the north there lies the chills of cold
To the south there lies the tales untold
But in between there lies the place to close your eyes

And I will stay, I’ll not be back, eldorado
I will be free of the world, eldorado

Say goodbye, the city’s heroes sing, bird on the wing
Feel, feel so free through the life upon the rooftop haze
All the cheating and the broken days
So through it all I see there’s nothing left for me

So I will stay, I’ll not be back, eldorado
I will be free of the world, eldorado

Sitting here on top of everywhere, what do I care
Days never end, I know the voyage’s end will soon be here
No eternal life is here for me
And now I found the key to the eternal dream

Then I will stay, I’ll not be back, eldorado
I will be free of the world, eldorado
Then I will stay

The dreamer, the unwoken fool,
High on a hill in Eldorado.

[No lyrics]

In the city where the lights are pretty
And the girls dance in the night...

In the city, there's a dark, dark house
Where no one dares to go...

Oh, oh...