"Speak & Spell" 1981

1.New Life

2.I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead

3.Puppets

4.Boys Say Go!

5.Nodisco

6.What’s Your Name?

7.Photographic

8.Tora! Tora! Tora!

9.Any Second Now (Voices)

10.Just Can’t Get Enough

Extra Lyrics:

11.Dreaming Of Me

12.Ice Machine

13.Shout

New Life

I stand still stepping on a shaddy street

And I watch that man to a stranger

You think you'll only know me

When you turn on the light

Now the room is liquid red danger

Complicating, circulating

New life, new life

Operating, generating

New life, new life

Transition to another place

So that time will pass more slowly

Your features fuse

And your shadow’s red

Like a film I’ve seen now show me

The place is hidden and we’re out of sight

And the road just leads to nowhere

The stranger in the door

Is the same as before

So the question answer’s nowhere

I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead

New sound all around

You can hear it too

Getting hot, never stop

Just for me and you

Playing on my radio

And saying that you have to go

New day turn away

Wipe away the tear

New night feel alright

Knowing that you're here

Dancing with you all the time

And don't you think that it's a crime

Back street never meet

Never say goodbye

I know where you've been

But I don't know why

You say that it's from above

Then I say this is modern love

Puppets

Ooh that feeling, head is reeling

You think you’re control

But you don’t know me, babe

I can move you, I can soothe you

I can take you places in a different way

And I don’t think you understand

What I’m trying to say

I’ll be your operator, baby

I’m in control

Watch your action, close reaction

And everything you’re thinking, babe,

Inside your head

Conversation, my creation

Nothing that you do, you do unless I said

And you don’t know the concequences

Of the things you say

I’ll be your operator, baby

I’m in control

Boys Say Go!

You don’t understand, this is in demand

And I think that I have to show you

Try to look inside, take me for a ride

In a day and a night get to know you

Boys meet boys, get together

Boys meet boys, live forever

Don’t say no, boys say go!

I could run away if you need to stay

In the rain and the pain and the sorrow.

I’m not very sure when you place it all

In the end it’s the same as tomorrow

Nodisco

I saw you in the picture

I saw you play the part

This ain’t nodisco

There’s a thousand watching you

And you take this too far

This ain’t nodisco

Sometimes when I wonder

If you’re taking a chance

This ain’t nodisco

And you know how to dance

Move me disco

Baby don’t you let go

This ain’t nodisco

Part one, act one

Everyone pretend

This ain’t nodisco

This is no story

And they’re reaching the end

This ain’t nodisco

Always makes me happy

When you’re taking a chance

This ain’t nodisco

And you know how to dance

What’s Your Name?

Sometimes watch you

Walk the street at midnight

Sometimes I can feel you in the air

Looking good, knew you wood

All the time I understood

Hey, you’re such a pretty boy

You’re so pretty

Everybody seems to look your way now

(Everybody seems to look your way)

Everybody wants to know your name

(Hey, hey, what’s your name?)

Feeling right, just tonight

Hear them say you’re out of sight

All the boys we got to get together

All the boys together we can stand

We can go, never know

All the things we need to show

P, R, E, double T, Y.

Photographic

A white house, a white room

The program of today

Light’s on, switch on

Your eyes are far away

The map represents you

And the tape is your voice

Follow all along you

Till you recognize the choice

I take pictures, photographic pictures

Bright light, dark room

I said I’d write a letter

But I never got the time

And I’m looking to the day

I mesmerize at night

The years I spent just thinking

Of a moment we both knew

A second past like in empty room

It seems it can’t be true

I take pictures, photographic pictures

Bright light, dark room

Tora! Tora! Tora!

They were raining from the sky

Exploding in my heart

Is this their love in disguise

Or just a form of modern art

From the skies

You could almost hear the cry

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the towns

They are going down

Tora! Tora! Tora!

I had a nightmare only yesterday

You played a skeleton

You took my love then died that day

I played an American

I played down an American

Any Second Now (Voices)

She remembered all the shadows

And the doubts

The same film

Vivid pictures like a wall

That’s standing empty

And the night so still

Such a small affair, a relapse

Someone closing like a night club door

Here again and when you speak

I watch you move away and seem so sure

She is hoping to forget

And the moment almost sleeps away

When the colors move apart

And I wonder if you want to stay

And I need to change you

Like the words I’m reading

Don’t you understand

This the warning

And the message I remember

As you touch my hand

Just Can’t Get Enough

When I’m with you baby

I go out of my head

I just can’t get enough

All the things you do to me

And everything you said

I just can’t get enough

We slip and slide as we fall in love

And I just can’t seem to get enough

We walked together

We’re walking down the street

I just can’t get enough

Every time I think of you

I know we have to meet

I just can’t get enough

It’s getting hotter, it’s a burning love

And I just can’t seem to get enough

And when it rains

You’re shining down for me

I just can’t get enough

Just like a rainbow

You know you set me free

I just can’t get enough

You’re like an angel and you give me your love

And I just can’t seem to get enough

Dreaming Of Me

Light switch, main switch

Film was broken only then

All night news tomorrow

Dancing with a distant friend

Filming and screening

I picture the scene

Filming and dreaming

Dreaming of me, yeah

A story of understanding

Clean cut song was sounding vast

I talked too fast, I talked too fluent

I laughed and climbed a rising cast

Quickly I remember

I’ve used that sort of face before

Time increases understanding

Like association hall

Ice Machine

Running through my head secretly

The shouts of the boys in the factory

Ring you on the telephone silently

Like blood, like wine

In the dark room see

The dark room see

Dark room see

A letter once composed

Seven years long and tall as a tree

Reading on the wall, efficient

Efficiency

Resurrect as a feeling

On my window of a past reunion

Resurrect as a feeling

On my window of a past reunion

Mission

Of a picture, like the city

And the air we breathe...

She stood beside me

Once again

I knew her face

We met before in the street

Recalling all the children

Dancing at our feet

Their dancing feet

Dancing feet

A resurrect as a feeling

On my window

Of a past reunion

Shout

She was silent trying to be like the girl who acted on the TV

Always knowing what to say

Wishing for a moment so that they could see

Staring in the night picture in my room

And I think that she knew her lines

Breakaway tonight

I wanna hold your hand

We got to get it right

We got to understand

Kept me watching waiting as I stood amongst the

back streets

And we start to play

I was screaming louder as the curtains fall between us

In a twisted way

Staring in the night picture in my room

And I think that she knew her lines

Breakaway tonight

I wanna hold your hand

We got to get it right

We got to understand

Facing all the questions in the minutes of the games

We played so long ago

Dangerous and beautiful a radio transmission

That I have to know

You could never run you could never stay

And I think you belong to me

Breakaway tonight

I wanna hold your hand

We got to get it right

We got to understand