O.M.D. - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK

3:55 Bunker Soldiers
3:45 Almost
2:46 Mystereality
3:39 Electricity
5:42 The Messerschmitt Twins
4:13 Messages
4:41 Julia's Song
3:13 Red Frame / White Light
3:59 Dancing
3:49 Pretending To See The Future

Bunker Soldiers

Trained fighting, coordination
is that a better way for bunker soldiers
oh it's a nasty way to spend a war
along the beaches, the sandy seaside
enlisted bodies the?
they never taught me how to fight like that
theatrics exercise is so compusive
it's not a better way but it's consensus
I'd give my life just to fight like you

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it's not a better way
so we here here to stay
we all do now I seem ok

There's a few of them
in strange directions
it's no use talking
it's it's no decisions
they give our houses to the refugees
the bloody ditches and sober days
sandy trences our alliance
it's kind of worth to hide unseen
the cocky uniforms are universal
your propaganda is losing out here
I'd give my life just to fight like you
I'd give my life just to fight like you

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it's not a better way
so we here here to stay
well now I seem ok

Almost

I travel oh so far
To be where you are
I travel there by car
To be where you are
But if I get there I find
That I changed my mind
Happens all the time
To a friend of mine
Always making statements
And moving step by step

Always acting theories
I will regret
My only consolation
In the things that i've done
Are the people who know me
And the objects i own

Happens all the time
To a friend of mine
Happens all the time
To a friend of mine
Happens all the time
To a friend of mine
Happens all the time
To a friend of mine
Happens all the time

Mystereality

Mystereality
it's not the same here anymore
and all the time or the places before
you don't know, you don't know, you don't know

an you see me you'll be askin
it's always tick tick tick tick tick day
oh reality don't fool me
no mistakes this time

mystereality
well hey it's all these promises
you know how much I hate the unforseeen
oh don't you know

I never never get off of the truth
what's the meaning and I missed it all
oh reality don't fool me
no mistakes this time

my my reality
so where did we go wrong
have you seen just recently
as to which we've been

Now you could say that it's time
escapes this other world
oh reality don't fool me
I count on you to know

Electricity

Our one source of energy
The ultimate discovery
Electric blue for me
Never more to be free
Electricity
Nuclear and H.E.P.
Carbon fuels from the sea
Wasted electricity

Our one source of energy
Electricity
All we need to live today
A gift for man to throw away
The chance to change has nearly gone
The alternative is only one
The final source of energy
Solar electricity

electricity (5x)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The Messerschmitt Twins

my mind is made up
i'm changing faster
your mind is made up
avoiding worries
my old ? start to fade away
forget the talking
forget the actions
quiet voices and all that happen
in just one of hour
you could knock me down

twos a one now
and ones a four now
no longer giving
no longer taking
you these ways i try
never seem to fail

when you're asking
you sound like telling
dispite the questions
you're not recieving
i can't explain
why to dissappear

your mind is made up
the time is taken
you reach decisions
we can't avoid them
there's no success
no matter what we do

the two are ones now
and ones a four
no longer giving
no longer taking
these ways i've tried
you never seem to fail
these ways i've tried
you never seem to fail
these ways i've tried
you never seem to fail
these ways i've tried

Messages

it worries me this kind of thing
how you hope to live alone
and occupy your waking hours
we're taking sides again
i just wept i couldn't understand
why you started this again

every day you send me more
what makes it worse is this plan of yours
to ensure I don't forget
I'd write and tell you that I've burnt them all
but you never send me your address
and i've kept them anyway

so don't ask me if I think it's true
that communication can bring hope to those
who have gone their seperate ways
it hardly touched me when it should have then
and memories are uncertain friends
when recalled by messages

coded messages always hurt
letters
messages poison

Julia's Song

The means to an end
the sinful distress
of writing down mean in this words
vaguley I've had
so the rest of the men
can learn bout the bees and the birds
constraint business man you haven't got it all
been at it to rule in your heart
stilletos and ? may be burning your eyes
kept you you for falling apart

inhibit generalize
sorted and wet
someone advised me to die
blowing your mind
cause you know what you'll find
when you're looking for things in the sky
under the influence
rotting your nerves
cutting us off at the base
nearing the end is your grandmother's friend
something to do when it wrythes
something to do when it wrythes
something to do when it wrythes

Red Frame / White Light

red frame white light
telephone box
red on gray
six three two three double 'O' three
red frame white light
you had a gray book
on a metal shelf
red frame white light
numbered calls
selected places

red frame white light
telephone calls
black and white
red frame white light
you had a yellow book
with averts
red frame white light
there is a black lead to a dark phone
red frame white light
six three two three double 'O' three

Dancing

(Instrumental)

Pretending To See The Future

avoiding this is like avoiding the plague
we can't understand the advances we made
we try to resist but it's so hard to say no
we're pretending to see what the future will hold
we appear to be in control of our fate
just like soldiers believe they're in control of the war
its moving so fast we cannot see what we've done
we're losing our eyes just to say that we've won

My minds made up, my heart is broke
my fortune's is made me and I feel so choked
I can't understand how we can ever believe
the things we've asked for but never received

we never understood the times we asked
the way we wasted all the past
this neglected final into stage we must
endure to ever hope to see the first
my minds made up about the things we did
we never saw we believed we could say what we missed

My minds made up, my heart is broke
my fortune's is made me and I feel so choked
I can't understand how we can ever believe
the things we've asked for but never received

by making noises cause we cannot control
the things we hoped that we'd never fore-go
we appear to be in control of our fate
just like soldiers believe they're in control of the war
if its moving so fast we cannot see what we've done
we're losing our eyes just to say that we've won

My minds made up, my heart is broke
my fortune's is made me and I feel so choked
I can't understand how we can ever believe
the things we've asked for but never received

 


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