10 x Ultravox

I Want To Be a Machine (1977) - wokal John Foxx

I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well
While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets
I slumbered in my shell

In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine

 

My Sex  (1977) - wokal John Foxx

My sex
Waits for me
Like a mongrel waits
Downwind on a tight rope leash

My sex
Is a fragile acrobat
Sometimes I'm a novocaine shot
Sometimes I'm an automat

 

Slow Motion (1978) - wolkal John Foxx

 

No reply
I'm trying hard to somehow frame a reply
Pictures, I've got pictures, and I run them in my head
When I can't sleep at night
Looking out at the white world and the moon
I feel a soft exchange taking place
Merging with the people on the frames
Blurring my face in conversation
Slow motion
Slow motion

 

 

Sleepwalk (1980) - wokal Midge Ure

 

Rolling and falling, I'm choking and calling,
Name after name after name.

Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk Sleepwalk

Naked and bleeding, the streetlights stray by me,
Hurting my eyes with their glare.

 

All Stood Still (1980) - wokal Midge Ure

 

We stood still.
We all stood still.
Still stood still.
We're standing still.

 

Mr. X (1980) - wokal Warren Cann

 

He could be a killer or a blind man with a cane,
Perhaps he died in a car crash, years ago.
Right now, it's impossible to tell.

 

Vienna (1980) - wokal Midge Ure

 

We walked in the cold air.
Freezing breath on a window pane,
Lying and waiting.
The man in the dark in a picture frame,
So mystic and soulful.
A voice reaching out in a piercing cry,
It stays with you until

The feeling has gone only you and I.
It means nothing to me.
This means nothing to me.
Oh Vienna

 

The Voice  (1981) - wokal Midge Ure

 

Oh Oh Oh Oh
The look and the sound of the voice
Oh Oh Oh Oh
They try, they try
Oh Oh Oh Oh
The shape and the power of the voice
Oh Oh Oh Oh
In strong low tones

 

 

I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) (1981) - wokal Midge Ure

We turned the dial, we heard the news and laughed, we don't know why
We drank the wine and spoke of times we knew of days gone by
We flicked through photographs we had, somehow they made us sad
Remembering the times we used to have, it made us cry

Oh I remember death in the afternoon

 

Accent on Youth / The Ascent (1981) - wokal Midge Ure

 

Accent on youth
Attention Oh
Ascends on you
Oh Oh

I scream with frustration and lost control
Open for the blows
My hands fall limp and hang down by my side
Take my soul and go

 

Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again) (1981) - wokal Midge Ure

O O
Your name has slipped my mind again
O O O O O
O O
Your name has slipped my mind again
O O O O O

It's hard to focus in this light
I'm growing warm and feeling dull
The heartbeat pounds with vicious fright
There's something to remember

I clench my fist but feel no sensation
The walls around me spin and sway
A flash back image in my vision
I remember