THE FIXX - PHANTOMS
1984

Phantoms
03:27 Lose Face
03:51 Less Cities, More Moving People
02:26 Sunshine in the Shade
03:54 Woman on a Train
04:05 Wish
04:15 Lost in Battle Overseas
03:26 Question
03:44 In Suspense
03:18 Facing the Wind
02:27 Are We Ourselves?
03:52 I Will
03:51 Phantom Living


Lose Face

Forbidden Image
Do you care to think on

One trouble shooter
That we could fix on
This fevered globe
Was always meant to be
A home from home
But who's looking after

Lose face, lose face
In your place

Could we all fight in
An age demented
With a white bright light
That shines at night
What have we invented?
We all breath the same air
Yet we all die for the air space

Lose face, lose face
Standing in your place
Lose face, lose face
I bet you wonder if you're too scared
Too scared to lose face
Lose face, lose face in our place

A "pied a'terre"
No phone connected
So when you need him
Can't even reach him

Less Cities, More Moving People

Another home falls by the wayside
A few old cushions stuffed with pride
A hand is shaking from the rubble
This spirit is still alive
A servant bares his occupation
Breaks his back just growing old
Never mind his views were taken
Just saw by the rules of old
Less cities more moving people
Rushing out with pride
Less cities more moving people
Hands that once were tied

A church bell rang for the occasion
The average man learns what's in store
Now he sees where his life was taken
Fighting heat, but growing old
Less cities more moving people
Rushing out with pride
Less cities more moving people
Hands that once were tied

Is this what we call education
Just watch the wheel of time revolve
But why is this not what I'm thinking
Just one mind and the unknown
Less cities more moving people
Rushing out with pride
Cities are moving people
Who just forgot their lives

Sunshine In The Shade

Sunshine warming the small of my back
Whatever virtues I lack
You can't see until I move
Until I move in the shade
But then inside
Sometimes I feel so cold
Catching these self thrown blows
But enough of the future I see
A shadow belonging to me
Sunshine in the shade
Every man climbs a mountain
With the hope to make a stand
Every man makes a mountain of his life
A masterplan
Sunshine in the shade
The shade of life
Gives me hope of
Some time and place

Woman On A Train

Pictures chase across the ceiling
As I try to sleep at night
There's a voice inside my darkness
Laughing at the life I've lost
She's no girl on pills in limbo
She's a woman on a train

With her senses sharpened by the warning cold
She brings me to memory
She flashes her lights, her mission bites
She flashes her lights
Across my desert mind (still no change in me)

(She's) no girl on pills in limbo
She's a woman on a train
She's here...
The woman on a train...

And I will speak no words but the truth for her to hear
Hold her close... but never dare

(She's) no girl on pills in limbo
She's a woman on a train
She's here
The woman on a train...

She will speak for us both
She will speak for us all
Till I learn to care...

She'll override my best intention
Attack my weak deception
A friend for life and after
I'll never catch her off her guard

Wish

I will not speak strangely of this
Just put myself where you are

I will not speak strangely of this
Just put myself where you are
Life is so much clearer adrift
Just put myself where you are

Your wish is my sentence

Your truce can't deny
Blocked veins in the system
I think there you are

I just put myself where you are

I could come much closer than this
To put myself where you are
But if life is just to hold and resist
I'll lose myself

Your wish is my sentence
Your truce can't deny
Blocked veins in the system
I think there you are

I just put myself where you are
I just put myself where you are

Your wish is my sentence
Your truce can't deny
Blocked veins in the system
I think there you are

I just put myself where you are

I will not speak...
Life is so much clearer...
I could come much closer...

Lost In Battle Overseas

Lost in battle overseas
Next thing you know you're on your knees
If you trust in someone on the screen
Then you'll be lost and overseas
Always sharing the time on your hands
Think of who plans
The future for you
There's nothing you can do

So you're in a uniform
It's your calm before the storm
Where is it taking us

One sign of the cross
And you're let loose
How long is the stretch of this hanger's noose
You kill someone just for gain
We end up losing just the same
Always sharing your time with no plans
Think of who hands
The future to you
There's nothing you can do
So you're in a uniform
And it's your calm before the storm
Where is it taking us
Where is it taking us
What does it do for you
This one sign of the cross

Lost in battle overseas
The last thing we need to know is on our knees
If you trust in someone on the screen
Then you'll be lost and overseas
Always sharing time on your hands
Think of who plans
The future for you
There's nothing you can do
So you're in a uniform
It's your calm before the storm
Where is it taking us
Where is it taking us
What does it do for you
This one sign of the cross

We are lost in battle overseas

Question

Question all our hands are in the air

Question what's the son and who's the heir

who said that who said that who said that to you

who said that who said that who said that to me

Heaven is a quiet place to stop heaven

Reason you better run until you drop reason

who said that who said that who said that to you

who said that who said that who said that to me

who said that who said that who said that to you

who said that who said that who said that to me

A. where to go and when to stop

B. who's the man sat at the top?

C. is there a little place for me?

D. open my eyes why can't I see?

Question imagination plants the seed question

Question far away do not concede

who said that who said that who said that to you

who said that who said that who said that to me

who said that who said that who said that to you

who said that who said that who said that to me

A. where to go and when to stop

B. who's the man sat at the top?

C. is there a little place for me?

D. open my eyes why can't I see?

In Suspense

Is it the glow of evil
That presents itself again
One rule for the species
And another for the man

Place yourself in his shoes
Observe his evil bent
Watch out for illusion
Or you may become a friend

In suspense, who, what, where and why
In suspense, who, what, where and why

Take a tip from no one
Become immortal man
No fear of your ending
Prepare your masterplan

In suspense, who, what, where and why
In suspense, who, what, where and why

I look for the connection
Between yourself and I
There is less time than we wish for
Another species dies

Invent a life with your eyes
Inscribe your own mottos
Use some imagination
Then watch your spirit grow

In suspense, who, what, where and why
In suspense, who, what, where and why

I look for the connection
Between yourself and I
There is less time than we wish for
Another species dies

Facing the Wind

Just give me something to hold on
A piece of the world
That won't go wrong
Is there somebody there
I can talk to
Somebody sharing the same view

Facing the wind

One avenue that would lead to
A place on this earth
Where we all grew
Longing for travel we stood still
Watching a sky that was once blue

Facing the wind, facing the wind
Facing the wind, facing the wind

Each line we throw
Gives us false hope
One ray of light, God I can't cope
Thinking about what we all are
One human race that's gone too far

Facing the wind, facing the wind
Facing the wind, facing the wind

Are We Ourselves?

Lost feelings return
So maybe I can learn
To stop this world of a lie
This time around

Are we, are we ourselves?
Are we, are we ourselves?

Because seen through these eyes
We lead a double life
No one will know
So check it out steppin' out here I go

Are we, are we ourselves?
Are we, are we ourselves?

Well, lost spirits return
So maybe I can learn
To stop this world of a lie
To this earth we are bound I ask you

Are we, are we ourselves?
Are we, are we ourselves?

I Will

All I notice is the red in your eyes
A hidden secret
We are not supposed to cry
Feeling the need to express
Only in order to find
How similar we are!
Possess yourself
Or somebody else will
And when you're yourself
You might find you're someone else
If the love doesn't set you free
Then I will
The pleasure of life
Is the pain of living
What we take out
Is replaced by "giving"
If the love doesn't set you free
Then I will
If the love doesn't set you free
Then I will
If you can contain
Your own emptiness
Then life is forward
No idle regrets

If the love doesn't set you free
Then I will
If the love doesn't set you free
Then I will
If the love doesn't set you free
Then I will
If the love doesn't set you free
Then I will

Phantom Living

Phantom living
A ghost before my eyes
A deep thrill feeling
That someone roams my life
Sets off in the air at night
Steers me round to mother earth
Turns this search into a pair of learning eyes
Now staring at a photograph
Doesn't stir the memory
Of something I thought would last
Underneath it all

This is phantom living

I lose myself
With a distance in my eyes
Throwing out deception
Emplanted, steals my time
I feel the meaning
Your words cannot describe

And perverts the answer
Of my actions underlined
Now staring at an open book
Just becomes the story
Of something I thought would last
Underneath it all

This is phantom living

Now staring at an open book
Just becomes the story
Of something I thought would last
Underneath it all

This is phantom living