Simple Minds Album

Tell me why.
Do you know what were looking for?
Any truth in the rumours I ignore?
Tell me why, I still deny?
Anytime secrets, in every sound.
I can keep my feet up off the ground.
I’m in the air, reeling everywhere.
There’s something new and I must say.
It makes me feel so super real. Just look and you’ll find.
We are drifting through space and time.

Stranger, beautiful stranger,
Come tell me if you are, the silent star, Explain!
Stranger, beautiful stranger,
I wonder if you are the silent star,
Explain.

Tell me why, do you know what we’re looking for?
Any truth in the rumours I ignore?
Then tell me why I still deny?

Summertime,
Winter,
Moonlight,
And the Sun.
I get the feeling this has just begun,
And yet it feels so super real.
Look and you’ll find,
We are moving through space and time.

Tell me who you are.
Tell me who you are.

I'm the shy boy
You're the coy boy
And you know we're
Homosapien too

I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Me and you sir
Homosapien too

Homosuperior
In my interior
But from the skin out
I'm Homosapien too

And you're Homosapien too
And we're Homosapiens too
And you're Homosapien too

And the world filled with age are a stage where we act out our lies
And the words in the script seem to fit 'cept we have some surprise
I just want this to last all our dreams dreaming past are all gone
And if this is the case then I'm losing trace from now on

I'm a shy boy
You're a coy boy
And you know we're
Homosapien too

I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Me and you sir
Homosapien too

Homosuperior
In my interior
But from the skin out
I'm Homosapien too

And you're Homosapien too
And we're Homosapiens too
And you're Homosapien too

And I think of your eyes in the dark and I see the star
When I look to the light and I might wonder right where you are
All the gods in the sky way up high see the earth spinning 'round
But the sun and the moon and the stars are so far from the ground

I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Homosuperior
In my interior

Yeah I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
I'm the shy boy
You're the coy boy
Yeah I'm a shy boy
I'm a shy boy
Well I'm a shy boy
I'm a shy boy
Shy boy...

Chased you out of this world, didn't mean to stop
I turned around and suddenly you where gone
Like some bird from paradise, the fire and ice
We turned around and suddenly you where gone, gone, gone
And now summer burns a hole inside and years are golden once again
My thoughts return to you my dear young friend

Oh come this way
Will you look down this way
I go down on the street
Where the wild wind's blowing
Here comes a hurricane

I say come down this way
Will you look down this way
I need you tonight
I need you around me

I'm looking through the windows
And my mind goes in a whirl
Well there's a multitude of candles
Burning in the windows of this world
I'm looking at the colours
Checking out the straights
I'm counting out the numbers
Will tomorrow never change?

Still I hear you and I love you
And I'll follow you elsewhere
And I'll remember this occasion
I'll remember being aware

'Cause we've got panic in the evening
We've got fall-out in the streets
And I hear you and I follow you
And I'll call out and I'll say
That I can hear your sister call out
And I hear her call your name
They're calling sweet surrender
And things won't be the same
And don't you think that I don't care
And don't you think that I don't know
And don't you hear them calling out
In a place not far from here

And I hear big wheels are turning
Some things are not to fear
They say this is the time and place
They call street fighting years

And I hear great wheels are turning
And I tell you not to fear
They say this is the time and place
They call street fighting years

And I love you, I look for you
And I walk to you, I walk to you
And I hear big wheels are turning
Is there no way out of here?

It's all right.
It's all right.
Let me go high.
Let me go high.

Let me go high into a different world.
Let me go high into a different world.

It's all right, it's ok
to believe in something.
You find the spark inside yourself.
It begins from nothing,
from the man of the cave
to the soul of the brave,
for the love of God.
Let me go now.

Let me go high into a different world.
Let me go high into a different world.
Let me go high into a different world.

It's all right, it's ok
to believe in something,
but if it falls between ourselves
could kill like nothing.
From the man of the cave
to the soul of the brave.
For the love of God,
let me close now.

Let me go high into a different world.
Let me go high into a different world.
Let me go by into a different world.
Let me go high into a different world.
Let me go high into a different world.

Up on the catwalk, a big wheel is spinning
And Dollars to Deutchmarks, and pennies from heaven
And up on the catwalk, there's one hundred million
With letters from thousands that say "Just who are you?"
There's one thousand names that can spring up in my mind
But you'd call it blackmail and that's just not my kind
And up on the catwalk, up on the catwalk
And I don't know why

I will be there, I will be there, I will be there
I will be there, I will be there

Up on the catwalk there's street politicians
That crawl in from Broadway, say then who are you
And up on the catwalk there's one thousand postcards
From Montevideo, say that I'll be home soon
Get out of Bombay and go up to Brixton And look around, to see just what is
missing
And up on the catwalk, girls call for mother And dream of their boyfriends
And I don't know why

I will be there, I will be there, I will be there
I will be there, I will be there
Tonight, under the crystal light, I'll tell you everything I need
Tonight, under the crystal light, surrender everything to me

Up on the catwalk, and you dress in waistcoats
And got brilliantino, and friends of Kim Philby
You float through the night time, like manna from heaven
But what, what do I know, and just what do I know
And up on the catwalk, in sweat that glistens
And I don't know why and I don't know why
I don't know why

I will be there, I will be there, I will be there
I will be there, I will be there
Tonight, under the crystal light, I'll tell you everything I need
Tonight, under the crystal light, surrender everything to me

Angel Angel Angel Angel
Ah huh Ah huh Ah huh Ah huh
One thousand names that spring up in my mind
One thousand names that spring up in my mind
Like Deodata, Michaelangelo, Robert de Niro, so many others
Natasia Kinski and Martin Luther - there's room for others, away from me

Up on the catwalk, up on the catwalk, up on the catwalk

[No lyrics]

You say you're surprised
I thought I'd write today
Pieces of my life
That time can't fade away

Land lies dry - Africa
And the clouds roll by - Africa
I held you every night
I believed in all you'd say
Now the dust blows in my eyes
But those dreams won't fade away

The sky burns red - Africa
Don't you cry - Africa

Africa
When you cry it rains - Africa

Still the children smile - Africa
When you cry it rains - Africa
When the wild dogs howl - Africa

I'm in a golden temple,
in a bombed out street,
feel the rough and tumble
down where the borders meet.
I hear a sandstorm falling
down where the tears have dried
and there's a west wind calling,
but I get no reply.

And I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
nothing around.

There is no hidden karma,
there is no sacred plight,
there is no special armour
to take me through the night.

I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
nothing around,

I kiss the ground.
I kiss the ground,
nothing around.

Into the space between us,
into the words that say
that every law demeans us
then every price you pay.

There is no hidden karma,
there is no sacred plight,
there is no special armour
to take me through the night.

I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
nothing around,

I kiss the ground.
I kiss the ground,
I kiss the ground,
nothing around,

I kiss the ground.

There is no manna-mania,
there is no banquet here,
there is only ghettoes.

I kiss the ground.

When they say that
Say it's wise
They say that
Now is the only time
To reach for what remains
To look o'er what's the same

Dolphins swim around
Dolphins drag me down
drag me down

Say that, it's the truth
There's an oceans
right in front of you
Dolphins, hit the sound
And when dolphins circle around

If it seems so
Like the world juts in
Those dolphins, drag me down
drag me down

(machtig tussenstuk)

Say that, say its wise
Say that it' the only vice
Yet you say so what remains?
And look so uncertain

And dolphins look around
And then dolphins drag me down
And when it looks through
the world juts in
Dolphins drag me down
Drag me down