John Foxx Album

It's time to walk again
It's time to make our way through the fountained squares
And the collonades
Your dress is shimmering
Your voice is hiding things
When you say I've hardly changed
In Europe after the rain
When the nights are warm and the summer sways
The stained glass echoing
The blossomed balconies and voices blow
On a shining wind
Your face is shimmering
Your smile is glimmering when I say you've hardly changed
In Europe after the rain
When the nights are warm and the summer sways
In Europe after the rain (Repeat and fade)

Systems of romance
Echoes of pleasure
A shiver in the dark when you call my name
Sudden horizons
Open and close between us
Touching me briefly with a healing grace
Patterns of longing
Figures down echo causeways
Across the wild seas we spin away
Time and again
Systems of romance
Systems of romance
Oh meet me and change me
In rooms that go sailing
Voices will name you as you move away
Lakeland in silver
Blazing away behind you
Rapids of cloud I lose my way
Time and again
Endless horizons
Hopes are our empires now
Crossing all codings engaged in the timeless dance
Systems of romance
Systems of romance

When I was a man and you were a woman
We practiced ourselves every day
Every night
A man with no outline
Walking in the shadows
A girl with a blurred face
Leaning in the windows
Living our lives on the tides of this city
Moving me to you
Moving me through you
Moving you to me
Moving you through me
When I was a man and you were a woman
When I was a man and you were a woman
We met in the arcades
Where the people were meeting
We danced down the avenues
While the people were sleeping
Living our lives on the tides of this city
Moving me to you
Moving me through you
Moving you to me
Moving you through me
I was a swimmer in a foggy bar
I was trying to find some sea
I was the sound of the furniture
I was a silhouette for years
She had some blossom on the tip of her tongue
She was the surface of a trade
She was a model for an echo dress
Oh she looked so gold against the grey
When I was a man and you were a woman
When I was a man and you were a woman

Oh, do you get the smell of burning metal?
Can you feel that heartbeat under the sea?
Well it's just me and Oppenheimer waltzing
With crowded streets in chromakey
And all the glow boys in their lipstick and shadows
And gold leaf on their delicate skins
Well they can filter through your curtains like nerve gas
They leave their laughter on the wind
And we're dancing
Yes we're dancing
We're dancing like a gun
Nothing I can see looks like an exit
So I'm making you into a door
You've been a guaranteed constant companion for so long
I'll almost miss you when I go
And there's silence in your silver passing
And stardust scattered over your breasts
Then I looked around and found
All the faces of the world
As the ballroom floor gets fused to glass
And we're dancing
Yes we're dancing
We're dancing like a gun
We'll walk in the silent places
In the wake of the storms
Swim through our own cathedral
Trailing the dawn
Dresses of light and ashes
Proud in display
Lovers and enemies
All waltzing in the waves
Oh we're dancing
Yes we're dancing
We're dancing like a gun

[No lyrics]

Refrain:
In the night suit, night suit
In the night suit, night suit
In the night suit, night suit
Well look at me now
The glass falls down cracking, I'm so proud
Every pulse gets so loud when I step out with nothing like
My old way of walking
Chorus:
In the night suit, night suit
In the night suit, night suit
In the night suit, night suit
All singing, all dancing
Transaction transatlantic
Be someone
Be no-one
Please receive me, don't stop sending
The suit makes you move in ways you suspected
The fabric is made of stances collected
The cut makes you shimmer, it alters your features
You click into focus, it's strict as a teacher
Mobile and fluid, a magnet of glances
Contorted, conductive
Meshed into the dance
(Chorus)
(Refrain)
Oh teach me to move, oh just teach me to move
I'll be fast, I'll be pleasure, be joy, I'll be jaywalk
Be glitter and flicker, a firefly, a swagger
Tricky and vivid, I'll split light to spectrums
Revolving, reflecting in every direction
In the night

You were there
When I was looking through
Your pictures in the night
You were there
When I fell asleep and I
Woke up in the light
And when the streets filled
And my heart stilled
And I asked someone the time
Chorus:
You were there
You were there
You were there
I know you were
And you were there
When I stopped to stare
By the quiet trees
And you were there
And I thought that you were
Someone else I'd seen
And when the traffic roared
And my heart soared
So that I could hardly breathe
(Chorus)
Oh you were there
When I stood and watched
From so many years ago
You must have smiled
When I was walking through
The places that you'd known
And when I'd given up
And all the letters stopped
And no trace at all remained
(Chorus)

I open my eyes
I'm lost for a moment
Wonder of leaving
Light on your face...

I'm glancing below us
Rhythm and dreaming
Bright and bewildered
Walk in with the new day

Fusion / Fission
Fusion / Fission

I open my heart
I'm lost for a moment
Vanish with someone
Turning to say:

"Oh these are the days now
When seasons will change us"
I feel you unfolding
So glad in this blaze

Fusion / Fission
Fusion / Fission

Fusion / Fission
Fusion / Fission
Fusion / Fission
Fusion / Fission

When I walk away I notice
That the streets won't stay in focus
And then when I turn my head
I'm listening
As the pictures slowly shifting
Back again
When I walk away
When I walk away
I walk away
Walk away
Walk away
In the special room
And someone almost there
And now the rain is gone
And the air is clear
In the waking warm
And on the shimmer shore
And on the gilded falls
Just like the time before
When things get so displaced
When I walk away
When I walk away
I walk away
Walk away
Walk away
Oh, walk away
Walk away
Walk away
Oh in the dawn adrift
And through the howling dark
With such a tender step
With such a crowded heart
And I'll be someone else
I'll be the passing man
I'll be the voice in sleep
I'll be the waving hand
But something always stays
When I walk away
When I walk away
I walk away
Walk away
Walk away
Oh, walk away
Walk away
Walk away

We've been sleeping in the garden
Breath of summer, breath of gold
As we turn against the sweep of hills
The sky's aglow
We fade away
We fade away

She burns away in light and silver
Luminous through all these years
Every gesture filled with longings
I still feel
We fade away
We fade away
We fade away
We fade away

I see you standing in the long light
Dress discarded, windows glow
All across the wild horizons
The sunset goes
We fade away
We fade away
We fade away
We fade away