dream academy - this world
Richard's on the street with all the lonely poeple
trying to get a job and getting nowhere
so now this is what he got
a new kind of dedication
he doesen't feel lost
he walks into the station
And richard takes a train to go uptown
you know he's gonna find a place where the money just walks around
and with the grace of a wildcat
he steals a bag without detection
walks on tiptoes right back
to make the right connection.
And when he leaves this world
well then he won't feel alone
now the fighting has all gone.
no more just trying to hold on
to the dreams of this world
where he never quite belonged.
Belinda meets a friend at a pub called 'the gun'
it's full of lots of lonely people all ot trying to have some fun.
she says, "i'll be right back"
although you know it's only ten to one
her eyes are just like a wild cat
and where's the summer gone.
She's been working on the ships for easy money
it's a bigger kind of tip and that may be because
you run a bigger kind of risk
she's got the dedication written in a kiss
in the promise of intoxicated bliss.
She's misunderstood for all the lonely people
living in the world and getting nowhere,
something always just goes wrong.
why should they try to hold on
to the dreams of this world
where they never wuite belonged.
Gina says she's gonna stop,
settle down, you know, give it all up,
but it's so hard to give it up
when all your friends say they just can't
stop.
They beat up a girl on the ford estate with a baseball bat
last night the vigilante city fathers tried to get their daughters back.
they didn't understand
a different kind of smack was needed
than the back of the hand
yeah, something else was always needed.
This is for all the misunderstood lonely people
living in the world and getting nowhere
something always just goes wrong.
why should they try to hold on
to the dreams of this world
where they never quite belonged?
where they never quite belonged.
dream academy - life in a northern town
A Salvation Army Band played
And Children drunk lemonade
And the morning lasted all day,
All day
And through an open window came
Like Sinatra in a younger day,
Pushing the town away
Ah-
(chant)
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
They sat on the stoney ground
And he took out a cigarette out
And everyone else came down
To listen.
He said "In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And The Beatles."
(Chant)
Ah- hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
All the work shut down.
The evening had turned to rain
Watch the water roll down the drain,
As we followed him down
To the station
And though he never would wave goodbye,
You could see it written in his eyes
As the train pulled out of sight
Bye-bye
(Chant)
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
dream academy - please please please let me get what i want
Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had
would make a good man turn bad
So please please please
Let me, let me, let me
let me get what I want
this time
Haven't had a dream in a long time
See, the life I've had
would make a good man bad
So please please please
Let me get what I want
Lord knows it would be the first time.
Lord knows it would be the first time.
dream academy - the edge of forever
When you were young,
Did you ever love somebody?
Like I love,
I love you now.
Cos now that your's older,
I see you don't mind,
Letting go of my hand in a crowd,
You don't wanna ho-old tight.
And when we kissed one night,
There's a million hearts,
Beating in a row,
I wish they go away,
I'll say it again (say it again)
There's a million hearts,
It's the break to see,
Every time you go away.
When you were young,
Did you ever fall down,
(Won't let you go, won't let you go)
Graze your knee,
Want to run to someone.
(Won't let you go, won't let you go)
Cos now that older,
I've been falling down,
I want to run to someone,
But there's nobody around.
I can feel the sign,
There's a million hearts,
Beating in a row,
I wish they would go away,
I'll say it again (say it again)
There's a million hearts,
It's the break to see,
Every time you go away.
Every time you go away,
Think about the things I say,
Think about it twice as long,
Tell me what's going wrong.
In the southern sky,
The breeze is so wild,
The bridge is so lonely,
The reasons that life,
Feeling so afraid,
Talking about a, two hearts,
Beating as one,
Now heeeyyy
No
I'll say it again (say it again)
There's a million hearts,
Beating in a row,
I wish they would go away,
I'll say it again (say it again),
There's a million hearts,
It's the break to see,
Every time you go away.
dream academy - the love parade
Look out your window any day
from june to september the love parade's
out on the street where you live and you know
it's just a matter of time before it takes over
They've been married for so many years
now a young love seranade blows sweet nothing in her ear
they're lonely together, when they're not apart
it feels like she's holding on to someone else in the dark.
Oh the love parade is on
even against all odds
it'll go on forever
the love parade
only matinee shows
the love parade.
But if he could put himself into a different skin
he'd be worrying about what he's let himself in for
hanging in the air apparent
a point of view almost transparent
So you sold your soul for a pocket full of sweet talk
forget-me-not kisses at the end of a slow walk
and when it's done you put your world back on
'cause she's otherwise engaged married to someone
Oh the love parade goes on
even when you're gone
it'll go on forever
the love parade
only matinee shows
the love parade.
dream academy - love
Love is real
real is love
love is feeling
feeling love
love is wanting to be loved
love is touch
touch is love
love is you
love is reaching
reaching love
love is asking to be loved
love is you
you and me
love is knowing
we can be
love is free
free is love
love is living
living love
love is needing to be loved
{take a walk down the street
As we started to know}
dream academy - new light
dream academy - the party
There's danger in the air
they walk around in pairs
dancing to the dansette
well god almighty don't forget
you came here with me.
While cinderella's getting hypnotised
by the italian with grey-green eyes
i stand deliberatly out of bounds
winding you up just to bring you down
to my level
So i'm sitting in a corner with a knife in my back
pretending not to notice that i'm under attack
when a positive lack of direction breaks upon my shoulders
You may dance with him all night long
live your romance out in a popular song
but baby you're gonna miss me when the radio comes on
and they're playing my song.
The boys are queuing up at every one-night stand
to issue their final demands
the stand's telling them about this guy
and so they're standing with her but they're keeping their eyes
on some other girl
Me, i'm trying to hold it down
by thinking about the words to some other song
when i'm forced into making polite conversation
i open the window to get some ventilation
try to break away from the intellectual starvation.
Meanwhile the taxis are calling
and the angels are falling
down into the garden of truth
where two star-crossed lovers
cut across one another
and make their way home one by one.
He may fire imagination into your eyes
i know strong personalities are hard to find
you messed up mine;
we've got a good thing let's keep on trying
baby you're gonna miss me when the radio comes 'round to my time
dream academy - mercy killing
I believe in love to the power of ten
i don't believe retaliation strikes can make amends
i believe
i believe again
I cut down the flags on the wooden ship
sail stateless
keep the faith in protest
against the wind
But when i look in your eyes
i don't see anything
i see a love that died
cut down in a mercy killing
looking for mercy
looking for mercy
found it in my arms
don't look so sad
looking for mercy
I believe in starting out again
i don't believe imaginary love can ever win
i want to believe again
I receive the lies that i can't resist
idolise
'this machine kills fascists'
specialised and refined
in heart breaks relined
i'm a mercy killer
But when i look in your eyes
i don't' see anything
now i've seen a love that died
cut down in a mercy killing
looking for mercy
looking for mercy
found it in my arms
woh oh oh oh
looking for mercy
{mercy on me
can't live the creed}
And if i run am i free
if i look back will i see
i'm killing again
mercy killing
and the very thing i do to you
will be done to me
looking for mercy
looking for mercy (looking for mercy)
i don't see anything
now i see a love that died
cut down in a mercy killing
looking for mercy
looking for mercy (looking for mercy)
found it in my arms
don't look so sad
looking for mercy
don't look, don't look so sad
don't look, don't look so
don't look, don't look so sad
looking for mercy
don't look, don't look so sad
don't look, don't look so
don't look, don't look so sad
cut down in a mercy killing
don't look, don't look so sad
don't look, don't look so
don't look, don't look so sad
looking for mercy
(fade...)
dream academy - forest fire
For short lived cattle grazing land
With the whole world in their hands
They're cutting down and burning up the land
Asset stripping the medicine man
& all for one
And every man for himself
The conflict of interest lies
Selling off cheap
Avoid political heat and burn up in a forest fire
And now that there's nothing left
Just a hole above our heads
Letting the sunshine in
That's how the end begins
With a forest fire
The black cloud rising in the sky
Up into the atmosphere
] it's bringing down a different kind of weather
to the one we knew last year
and
though it's taking so long to do something about it
they chip away at it
bit by bit
you won't believe anything that grown up for so long
could be cut down this quick
and now that there's nothing left
just a hole above our heads
letting the sunshine in
that's how the end begins
with a forest fire
in the corner of a foreign land
in the wind that blows the sand
there's the sting of a thousand lies
that burned up in a forest fire
we're burning up
in a clear blue sky
in a funeral pyre
in a big white lie
in a forest fire
dream academy - everybody s gotta learn sometime
Change your heart look around you,
Change you heart it will astound you
I need your loving like the sunshine
And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
dream academy - gaby says
All of the boys in this small town
Follow her eyes and follow her down
Over the grey horizon
That winter
I was the lucky one
I would keep up
And she would run
Wherever the wind was running
And it's cold out
All the boats are moored out
Gaby says
They're all bound
For where she wants to stay
And there's a boat out
And when it leaves the harbour
The angel on your shoulder falls down
In the rain
We move around misunderstood
Out of a crown like lovers would
Wherever the wind was running
All broken up for one so tough
Hating romance
And who needs love
Only for reassurance
And it's dark out
All the streets are quiet now
Gaby says
They're all out
To hold you in the end
And if you've got one dream
Shouldn't it be realised
'Cause if it's only inside
It starts to drag you down
It drags you down
Hearing the bells strike down the hours
Striking the broken hearts and flowers
Out of a world of indifference
And I tried to say
When things got worse
You'd be taken up
And be put first
Over the grey horizon
And it's cold out
It's quiet out
And there's a bird out
And if you've got one dream
Shouldn't it be realised
'Cause if it's always inside
It starts to drag you down
It drags you down
It drags you
Oh who needs love
When in doubt
Love ...?
dream academy - lucy september
Lucy september's put a hole in her arm
she wonders where all daddy's money's gone
lying on the bed with a wasted friend
oh yeah she could have been someone
with all the advantages under the sun
but sad to say this is where her story ends
& you stare into space
fall down out of the race
lucy
all bound up in etiquette
i remember when we first met
there you stood in your father's clothes
with eyes you could drown in like the marie rose
that looked at me just like my wedding day
If we hadn't been so close maybe i could forget
though you used it all up i'm still in debt
and you've found someone else to pay
And you stare out into space
fall down out of the race
lucy,
lucy september
where will you go now
summer's over for another year
and the bells start to fade
where will you go now
where will you go now
summer's over for another year
and it won't dry away your tears
september
and you stare out into space
better off out of the race
lucy,
lucy september
{and the bells start to fade}
dream academy - indian summer
It was the time of year just after the summer's gone
when august and september just become memories of songs
to be put away with the summer clothes
and packed up in the attic for another year
we had decided to stay on for a few weeks more
although the season was over now the days were still warm
and seemed reluctant to five up and hand over to winter for another year
Indian, indian summer
her parents had rented a house on the shore
'though i stared at her all summer we never really talked
in the end, at the summer's end
i wish we could turn it around and start it again
she shared a house with her sister and mother
it belonged to a painter who rented out for the summer
her father had already gone home
the days were quiet and we were both alone
intensified by the lack of competition
we walked along the ocean and put off decisions
to keep us from saying goodbye
Indian, indian summer
in the distance the city lights flickered in the bay
but any previous existence seemed a world away
in the end, at the summer's end
i wish we could turn around and start it again
indian, indian summer
away from the magic could it ever be the same
i think i knew those days would never come again.
dream academy - in places on the run
All alone in bridge of silence
i suppose you shouldn't stay,
all alone in dream's asylum
don't you know we've come a long way...
I suppose we were
somewhere in the sun
we walked in coloured fields
in places on the run.
what a dream i had
dressed in coloured shawls
though the night was so warm
and a nightingale
sat on a castle wall
while the river ran on
calling - hearing you call
the river ran on
running -
the river ran on.
it felt as if we were
in places yet unknown
we walked through the bazaars
in places on the run
what a dream i had
walking by the wall
oh the raiment and all
the stars that flickered by
soon to be replaced
if i asked them they'd fall
calling - hearing you call
the river ran on
running -
the river ran on.
what a dream i had
dressed in coloured shawls
though the night was so warm,
and in the darkness i
tried to take your hand
but it was nothing at all.
nothing at all
the river ran on
nothing at all.
the river ran on.