@ALBUM: Assembly By John Foxx @SONG: A New Kind Of Man He stepped out of the film again Brushed off the dust and walked away The touch of a hand was fading from him A different scene began A voice-over through scenes of sunrise "It feels like someone's using my eyes" Tinsel wind and curtains blowing He looked down at his hands Chorus: He was a new kind of man He was a new kind of man He was a new kind, a new kind of man He feels the rain upon his face He's young again, nineteen again Blue hills on a distant skyline Someone took his hand An underwater kind of silence Humming of electric pylons "Don't forget me" fades in static Another scene began (Chorus) Transparent faces from the old school No-one to project them onto He drives by 1958 And someone says his name He waved out of the film again He turned and he flickered and he walked away He felt a distant kind of longing Another scene began (Chorus) @SONG: Underpass Standing in the dark Watching you glow Lifting a receiver Nobody I know Chorus: Underpass Underpass Well I used to remember Now it's all gone World War something We were somebody's sons (Chorus) Over all the bridges Echoes in rows Talking at the same time Click click drone (Chorus) Misty on the glass now Rusty on the door Here for years now Click click drone Click click drone Click click drone Click click drone Click click (Repeat chorus and fade) @SONG: Burning Car She was dressed in a white suit She looked like a bride too Chorus: It's a burning car It's a burning car Then I looked at the sunset And it felt like a stage set (Chorus) Alright And I looked at my watch face I remembered the time and place (Chorus) And I breathed in the night perfume As we met in the dark room (Chorus) Alright @SONG: This City All the kisses taste of dust here And it's too late to change my mind I'm still in love with the private world Sometimes I've got to pull the blinds Why aren't you dissolving yet? And why's that car always there? I got a letter from America Somebody else lost in the glare Chorus: In this city, this city, oh! This city, this city, oh! I'm walking through this big arena I'm passing millions, missing some When someone touches me like it's all alright I think it's memory, but it's still so right There were always dreams of leaving My face gets dimmer every day When I can see myself I'm waving I'm drawing back into the crowds again (Repeat chorus twice) @SONG: Twilight's Last Gleaming In twilight's last gleaming The sky slides away Leaving me here at The edge of the day Songs in the sand Hand on the door I've been here so often before In twilight's last gleaming So smoky and gold Endless horizons Glister and glow I see you in strangers In light on the sea In twilight's last gleaming we'll meet In twilight's last gleaming At this time of year Wherever you go to Whoever you're near Think of these times Remember these dreams And twilight's last gleaming and me @SONG: Ghosts On Water Ghosts on water give To a gentle touch Look back in silence I can never see far City as a memory and a A squeak in the shoe All the semaphore echoes That get (???) Chorus: Oh-oh, remember Oh-oh, remember Oh-oh, remember Oh-oh, remember And I can see another time Another place, some setting sun And I can wait forever Walking with someone inside my arm Twins in the strata We travel by 'phone And the fog is a vehicle The fuel's in the boat Ghosts on water's drifting On a summer light They can pass like sand through a hand As they leave the world behind (Chorus) Ghosts on water Ghosts on water Ghosts on water Ghosts on water Ghosts on water @SONG: This Jungle Every avenue seems uncertain This film beam plays across your hands Some day I know you'll change your place in here Don't let the sunset make you sad In these jungles In these jungles The walls and the streets dissolve, I see Rooms are all overgrown with leaf Outside the sky's so bright We step out in the haze Time and time again In these jungles In these jungles In these jungles Ghostly perfume, rose and hyacinth A deep blue twilight over our heads The vistas melt and change in film escape Just like the sunrise, make you glad In these jungles In these jungles Dressed as a private man I go Fragile as any stance I know Voice on a golden wind I'm turning in the blaze The place is not the same I'll meet you on summer streets you'll see Shadows and echoes made of me Light on my hands, I know You're talking in the haze The voice is not the same The walls and the streets dissolve, I see Rooms are all overgrown with leaf Outside the skies so bright You're turning in the haze You're face is not the same In these jungles In these jungles @SONG: Endlessly When she walks out, she's illuminous When she turns round, she is someone else And I can't find, can't find the rule or the exception She moves towards me endlessly. Endlessly Endlessly Turns her face into music Into fire Voice behind me says "Go on" ("Go on", "Go on") So I go on onto towards her endlessly Endlessly Endlessly "Switch the scene" Sun is rising Summer trees Someone smiling She moves towards me endlessly Endlessly Endlessly She walks out, she's illuminous @SONG: Someone Someone who walks with you Shines a light in everything you do That someone Someone you know from sleep Seasons pass but some things never change Like someone Someone who's voice comes in from summer rooms Who stands beside you when you least expect them to That someone Chorus: Well I don't need to know, don't have to say We'll go on living in the separate way Oh, no need to tell, no need to explain I'm so glad that it happened this way And it's alright to walk with you And it's okay to feel that way And I feel that way And a voice comes into mine Saying things I almost recognise That someone Strange how moments last so long Always with you long after they've gone Like someone Someone whose voice comes in from summer rooms Who stands beside you when you least expect them to That someone Ah, that someone. Ah, that someone (Repeat chorus and fade) @SONG: Sitting At The Edge Of The World Sitting at the edge of the world Talking with my friend Watching the sun in her eyes Knowing we speak the same words And meanwhile I close my eyes and drift away Close my eyes and drift away Sitting at the edge of the world Watching the sun turn round below us Listening to the roar of the sky Hoping we live in the same world Meanwhile I close my eyes and drift away Close my eyes and drift away Chorus: And though my nose is broken And all my sleep is woken And all my comfort shattered Though I don't think it matters any more, oh no. No no no. Oh no. 'Cause I'm sitting at the edge of the world Sitting at the edge of the world Talking with my friend Watching the sun in her eyes Knowing we speak the same words And meanwhile I close my eyes and drift away Close my eyes and drift away (Chorus) Oh, I'm sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world Yes, I'm sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world Sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world Yes, I'm sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world I'm sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world (Oh no, don't push me over) I'm sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world (Oh no, don't pull me back) I'm sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world (Oh no, don't pull me over) I'm sitting at the edge, at the edge of the world (Oh no, don't push me back) (Repeat and fade) @SONG: In Mysterious Ways Oh, let me walk again All through the blaze of early June Into fields all sparkling bright with dew Came to meet you 'cause you called me So I put down my coat and case As we stand here finally face to face I've got to laugh at the way that fortune's grace Defeats my reason with its wonder And your love Shines free Moves me In mysterious ways In such mysterious ways In mysterious ways And I find That I just can't look away from you And I'm glad That at last I begin to see Just how you move through everything You make my whole world sing 'Cause your love Shines free Moves me In mysterious ways In such mysterious ways In mysterious ways @SONG: Morning Glory Beside you Wherever you go Birds sing Bells ring And every shiny, tiny, tender thing brings us laughing down the lanes And I will spin down into your arms again Deep, deep in your arms again Oh, we raise our hands to the rainy stars Breathing in the sweet morning light The warm and warming morning light That's my delight In this season For no reason And... I will find you Sunrise right behind you And I will walk you home again In this season For no reason And the river is on your right hand And the river is on my left hand And the trees and the leaves throw moving shadows down the hallway And you're standing there so lovely In your morning doorway Standing oh so lovely In your morning glory In your morning glory And the last thing you say is... I will find you Step right up beside you And we will waltz and waltz away You waltz away Oh, we waltz away Waltz away Waltz away Waltz away Oh, waltz away In this season For no reason And we step out by the railway station Truly out on the town We're all so lost and found All so lost and found We're all lost and found And God bless every blue, blue moon And every boy in his Sunday best And every girl in every summer dress Wrapped in wonder, wrapped in wonder I'm so glad I'm glowing, going Glowing, going, glowing, going under In this season For no reason And... I will find you Walk right up beside you And we will waltz We'll waltz away We'll waltz away We'll waltz away In your morning glory In your morning glory In your morning glory Waltz away Waltz away Waltz away Waltz away In your morning glory In your morning glory We'll waltz away We'll waltz away We'll waltz away We'll waltz away In your morning glory @SONG: Europe After The Rain 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) @SONG: Systems Of Romance 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 @SONG: Walk Away 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 @SONG: When I Was A Man And You Were A Woman 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 @SONG: The Garden 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