Lyrics - Ultravox "Vienna"

Atemlos

Let It Rise (Schiller & Midge Ure)

Something in the atmosphere
Tangible and crystal clear
something in your attitude
shows me how you’re great and good.

Lost in your world locked in forever
Oh let it rise.

Lookin’ for your light to shine
radiate from heart and mind
send a signal from your soul
mediate and ease control.

Lost in your world locked in forever
Oh let it rise
Oh let it rise

Penetrate your secret walls
drop the mask and let it fall
hid from harm and wrapped in fear
everything you ever wanted,
everything is here but you’re just

Lost in your world locked in forever
Oh let it rise
Oh let it rise.

No Regrets

I know you're leaving
But it's to long overdue
For far too long
I've had nothing new
To show to you
Goodbye dry eyes
I've watched your plane
Fade off west of the moon
And it felt so strange
To walk away alone

CHORUS :
There's no regrets
No tears goodbye
I don't want you back
We'd only cry again
Say goodbye again

The hours that were yours
Echo like empty rooms
The thoughts I used to share
I now keep alone
I woke last night
And spoke to you
Not thinking you were gone
And it felt so strange
To lie awake alone

CHORUS (2X)

After a Fashion

Don't speak to me of changing scenes
Or what you saw in magazines
I've watched your change
Follow every move, oh
A dancing clown
Where design turns you round

To spend a lifetime keeping hold
Of slipping years and not get old
You hear the cry but can't be told
You're only chasing
After a fashion

After a fashion
After a fashion
Hey ho, you wear it well

And if you felt the sympathy
And if you saw what othres see
Through different eyes
You might see something true, new
An emtpy shell
With no taste and no sell

You try the stance of those you know
But dance the dance of those below
You lost your grip but won't let go
You know you're chasing
After a fashion

After a fashion
After a fashion
After a fashion
Hey ho, you wear it well

After a fashion
After a fashion
Hey ho
Hey ho
Hey ho you wear it well

Hey ho you wear it well

After a fashion
After a fashion
Hey ho, you wear it well

After a fashion
After a fashion
Hey ho, you wear it well

After a fashion
After a fashion
Hey ho, you wear it well

After a fashion
After a fashion
Hey ho, you wear it well

Call of the Wild

Outside, wild winds are calling
Broken leaves are falling

Outside, wild winds are calling
Broken leaves are falling
Like I fall before you
Outside, nightfall is returning
Our home fires are burning
Like I burn before you
Wind, and pray they blow
Will we watch them come and go

Don't go
And in my heart I held you just for awhile
Don't go
And in my eyes I see the love of your child
Don't go
You can deny you feel the call of the wild
Call of the wild

In your hand the heart is falling
A howling wolf is calling
And it's calling your name
And before the night is ending
The message that it's sending
Will it all be ending
Say, that you will stay
And we'll watch them come and go

Don't go
And in my heart I held you just for awhile
Don't go
And in my eyes I see the love of your child
Don't go
You can deny you feel the call of the wild
Call of the wild

As the waving winds are calling
And the broken leaves are falling
And the magic that surrounds you
I will build a world around you

Don't go
And in my heart I held you just for awhile
Don't go
And in my eyes I see the love of your child
Don't go
You can deny you feel the call of the wild

Don't go
And in my heart I held you just for awhile
Don't go
And in my eyes I see the love of your child
Don't go
You can deny you feel the call of the wild
Call of the wild

Yellow Pearl

"We all must beware of the yellow pearl"

The Yellow Pearl control, attack, attack, attack, attack
Yellow Pearl
It is foolish to venture into strange enchanted places
If they aren't the places you want to be

Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack

We will arise
We will control
We will command
We will patrol

It is foolish under the guise of love and liberty
That we should capitalize and rob and fell
The poor for the socialistic tree

We will arise
We will control
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack
That's what you lack

We shall arise
They will arise
We shall control
They will control
We shall command
They will command
We shall patrol
They will patrol

We must fight back
We will arise
They will arise
We will control

We are now living in a situation
Where that self same situation depends on the Yellow Pearl
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack
We will arise
They will arise
We will control
They will control
We will command
They shall command
We will patrol
They will patrol
Arise
Yellow Pearl's upon us now
We must fight back

We will arise
They will arise
We will control
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack

Is what we lack
Is what we lack
Don't trust in Liberty
To save your soul
It is genocide to let liberty lose control
Control
We must decide
Control
We the Yellow Pearl we will control

The Man who sold the World

We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago

Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World

I laughed and shook his hand and made my way back home
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazley stare at all the millions here
We must have died along, a long long time ago

Who knows ? Not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World

Do they know it's Christmas

It's Christmastime; there's no need to be afraid
At Christmastime, we let in light and we banish shade
And in our world of plenty we can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world at Christmastime
But say a prayer to pray for the other ones
At Christmastime

It's hard, but when you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only water flowing is the bitter sting of tears

And the Christmas bells that ring there
Are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you

And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime
The greatest gift they'll get this year is life
Oh, where nothing ever grows, no rain or rivers flow
Do they know it's Christmastime at all?

Here's to you, raise a glass for ev'ryone
Here's to them, underneath that burning sun
Do they know it's Christmastime at all?

Feed the world
Feed the world

Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmastime again
Feed the world
Let them know it's Christmastime again

Do they know it's Christmas

Es ist Weihnachten und es gibt nicht den geringsten Grund für uns, Angst zu haben.
Denn an Weihnachten, da lassen wir das Licht herein und vertreiben den Schatten.
Und in unserer Welt des Überflusses verbreiten wir überall ein glückliches Lächeln
und wir könnten die ganze Welt umarmen, jetzt in der Weihnachtszeit.

Aber vergiss nicht zu beten ...

Beten für die anderen.
Das ist zwar an Weihnachten nicht so einfach,
aber während du deinen Spaß hast,
denke daran, dass es da draußen noch eine andere Welt gibt,
eine Welt voller Angst und Schrecken.

Das einzige Wasser, das dort fließt, sind bittere Tränen.
Und die einzigen Glocken, die dort an Weihnachten läuten,
sind die, die zur Totenmesse bitten.
Also bedanke dich heute Nacht beim lieben Gott,
dass es wieder mal sie erwischt und nicht dich.

Und es wird dort an Weihnachten auch keinen Schnee geben, in Afrika.
Das größte Geschenk, das sie in diesem Jahr bekommen, ist ihr nacktes Leben,
dort, wo niemals irgendetwas wächst, wo es keinen Regen gibt und keine Flüsse.
Wissen die überhaupt, dass Weihnachten ist?

Auf dein Wohl! Erheb' dein Glas für alle Menschen!
Auf deren Wohl! ... dort, unter der sengenden Sonne!
Wissen die überhaupt, dass Weihnachten ist?

Gebt der Welt endlich genug zu essen!
Damit auch sie wieder merken, das Weihnachten ist.

Become

Still standing on my own
no line, no heart, no love, no home
still behind the door
waiting
to be accepted
and I can only wait so long before
I turn from nil to sun
waiting here to be
to be to be to become
become become
become become become
to become

Wait, wait for everything
to change
and everything gets better
better for my soul, oh
soul life
not so ejected
if there´s a god above
then send me love
take me where I belong to be
to be to become
become become
become become become
to become

to become
become become
become become become....

I Survived

I count the things that matter as I gaze across an empty sky,
Writing names and lists and letters upon the pages in my hand.
Oh Oho….
And I was lost and I was scared, completely unprepared
For the war I’d just been through.

And then I raised my hands up from my eyes,
Bowed my head and then I realized that I survived.
I survived.

Watch the hands move slowly over numbers and blank faces
As the shadows slide across my walls.
See my one time friend and enemy smiling his defeat,
I’ll watch him fall.

And I was lost and I was scared, completely unprepared
For the war I’d just been through.

And then I raised my hands up from my eyes
Bowed my head and then I realized that I’d survived.
I survived. I survived. I survived.

I count the things that matter as I gaze across an empty sky
Writing lists and names and letters upon the pages in my hand.
And I was dead and I was gone with no strength to carry on.
As I sipped another sip away.

And then I raised my hands up from my eyes,
Bowed my head and then I realized I survived.
I survived. I survived. I survived.