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FLIGHT I watched you to fly away today You held me close and turned away And you were gone I said I couldn't understand Why you need a foreign land What's wrong with home? I need to breathe Need to see what this life's got in store for me Take a chance while I can Not one also ran Chorus: I'm on a flight and its taking me closer Home to a heart that's been left for so long Time is all that holds me now And the days have come and gone while I have flown I'm coming home I've read your letters, heard of your success Does that mean happiness? Yes or no? Temptation that lay across your path Is it to much to ask to think of me? I had to fight to be right There was never a champion for me Knights in armour don't exist It's been such a risk Repeat chorus two times I'm on a flight and its taking me closer Home to a heart that's been left for so long I'm coming home I'm coming home I'm on a flight MISSING PERSONS It's tragic--keeps on happening all the time It's the kind of thing that I fear I feel I'm making no headway Walls I know are starting to disappear It's like they'd never existed, strange but true As sure as I'm talking to you Now you see it, now I don't want to frighten you But I'm simply here standing alone Chorus I: Trapped in these shadows that belong to missing persons Names faded from memory join the list and then mark time Once I would have been glad to have made your acquaintance Now I feel a danger brought about by circumstance Obsessed, the quality of life escapes me now It's one of the things I lack From the east and to the west I feel it's time that I was heading back I can't control these feelings that I have I've never been one to hide Become a pillar of society But don't let your morals slide Chorus II: Or you can find that you've become a missing person A here today gone tomorrow breeze and lost in the night Once I would have been glad to have made your acquaintance Now I feel a danger brought about by circumstance But I know in the end, I'll be safe, we'll be happy After finding myself we'll be fine Any problems we have will be gone in a moment I'll become just a state of the mind I want you close I need you near You have to be here I turned around You've gone again Chorus I Chorus II CHAGRIN BOULEVARD Nothing to say I see your face Memories haunt me again They'll always remain Time spent, time that was lost In love we all count the cost I remember days that we spent together Seem so far away Chorus: In time I may forget you Or you may remember me Till then I'll be living but lonely Each face a stranger to me For no other locked in another Chagrin Boulevard day Watching the rain My friend, once again I stand in this room where we lay Was it just yesterday? Looking down to the street At people embrace as they meet I remember love that we shared together Now you're far away Chorus There's room for no other I'll not spend another Chagrin Boulevard day I miss you so much Since you went away Repeat first four lines of chorus three times RICHARD IX Deep in the past there lived a man whose story must be told Of royal descent but not of the royal line, oh oh No history book relates this night of indiscretion Into the world he's brought, never to be presented at court In his mind a king though his mother wasn't wearing a ring She keeps on saying: Chorus I: "What they gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth? You know he's my son, and the thought of it cuts like a knife To think he'll ever sit upon the throne A prince without a home What we gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth The least that we could do is to provide for his life No job could have a stranger pedigree He means so much to me!" As Richard grew, he won the hearts of all the people His father reigned, and while the servants poured, wo-oh The lady waits and watches with anticipation Ways of the world he's taught The eyes of the queen he has caught Midnight matinees soon become the order of play She keeps on saying: Chorus II: "What we gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth? You know he's my son and the daughter, the queen, is his wife Becomes the answer to my fantasy He means the world to me" "What we gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth? It seems a night of love, in the end turned out right One day I know he'll sit upon the throne A prince no more alone" This classic tale of woe Should tell you all you want to know A page from our history It's meant so much to me, to me Chorus I Chorus II Repeat to fade THE ENTERTAINER Here in the spotlight cold air tonight, I'm giving all for you Days pass quickly, hope that you'll miss me when the show is through The entertainer's no stranger, she only lives to play The distance between us is only a note or two away Travel to places, fill all the spaces in everybody's lives Don't show the pressure, try not to measure how you feel inside The entertainer's no stranger, she only lives to play The distance between us is only a note or two away We sing with one voice There's no choice so join us We're singing for you Time and again in the circus of sound Leaving the stage and the people behind us Music calls--come and see, come and see, come and see We sing with one voice There's no choice so join us We're singing for you Time and again in the circus of sound You've found something that's new Travel to places, fill all the spaces in everyone's life Don't show the pressure, try not to measure ... Leaving the stage and the people behind us Music calls--come and see, come and see, come and see, come and see ELECTRIC AVENUE Brought up and lived by the modern age Brought a new spot to my life I love the power you have over me Amaze my friends and set me free Here we are walking in step We've got ideas that we haven't used yet There's so much left that I want to do Automatically I think of you Chorus: You beginning and you to end You were the first you never bend You walk beside me everywhere I go Our secret's safe they'll never know But here we are walking on down Electric avenue Part of today in every way Electric avenue I'm insecure and I'm not so sure Cause you mean this much to me Your heart is cold and you won't grow old I'm full of tricks so watch and see I can disappear without a trace Just say the word I'll be gone from this place There's so much left that I want to do I'm automatic that I think of you Chorus Repeat first four lines of chorus four times MAJIK Day by day I'm feeling the need To search to find Hear the voices speaking to me They're in my mind It's Majik, it's tragic What is happening to me? Another no name tragedy Majik (can't you understand) Majik (the children are close at hand) Once so long ago I'd explain Each feeling clear Now the thoughts they dance and they weave To disappear It's Majik, it's tragic What is happening to me? Another lost game lost to me Majik (have the rights to resist) Majik (before it takes to the wrist) Surround yourself in a cloak of stars This must be heaven You've held to answer the early hours They have been given to you What is happening to me? Another lost game lost to me What is happening to me? Lost in twilight memories Majik (now your life's in a test) Majik (feel your voice in a fist) What is happening to me? Another lost game lost to me What is happening to me? Another no name tragedy What is happening to me? Hear the voice I speak to me What is happening to me? Lost in twilight memories What is happening to me? The Majik surrounds all I see What is happening to me? Another no name tragedy What is happening to me? Another lost game lost to me ... DISTANT HORIZONS Distant horizons you're surprising me See how you've changed in your fight to be free Political intervention Is something we shouldn't mention But I've seen your face on every screen And it's looking at me You used to be so close I could have touched your hand I see your picture now And you've become a no-man's land I long to visit you But now it seems too late Don't let these modern times Make you one more mistake Take my heart, take my soul You've captured all of me If you can't let me go Then live in peace and set me free Distant horizons you're surprising me Political intervention Is something we shouldn't mention But I've seen your face on every screen And it's looking at me You're reaching out to me I hide inside your smile It's time for us to love But we must wait a while I long to visit you And there live out my fate Don't let these lying eyes Lead you to hesitate Take my heart, take my soul You've captured all of me If you can't let me go Then live in peace and set me free Distant horizons you're surprising me See how you've changed in your fight to be free Distant horizons you're surprising me If you can't let me go, in peace let me be Political intervention Is something we shouldn't mention But I've seen your face on every screen And it's looking at me Capturing me, looking at me, capturing me ORIENT EXPRESS Hour by hour I feel the tension mounting Pretty soon now I'll be on my way People meeting, greeting, leaving, meaning Everything they say Start to move, feel closer now I walk along the corridors of power Orient Express, life to excess There's so much to see, and it's waiting for me Out threre, I care, I dare Through a country that you've only heard of Through the valleys, feel the pressure drop Onwards moving 'til you see the mountains Feel your heart may stop Day and night feel closer now I walk along these corridors of power Orient Express, built to impress There's so much to see, and you set me free Out here, feel near, to fear AUTO-TECH Six o'clock in the morning--I'm yawning Get out of this bed My heart started racing--now pacing What was that you said? Waiting so long for this day And tomorrow we laugh Hope the neighbours will open their papers To my photograph Chorus: Of course I love you! And I'll be careful, oh so careful But I must win There's no use waiting--watching, waiting Got to keep my five-star rating, too Now I run like the devil, draw level You're crowding my day Your concentration gives me stimulation Get out of my way! Feel the air rush past my face in first place, without thought to me Mass attention becomes an extension of winning to me Chorus In control, speed kills, speed thrills We are the power--come closer Black and white soon in my time The winning course--it's over The winning course--take over The winning course--it's up to me [Instrumental bridge] Now I run like the devil, draw level You're crowding my day Your concentration gives me stimulation Get out of my way! Chorus