Balance Of Power

Night after night
I try to make it all fit together
Night after night
I see you as someone i remember
You took me by surprise
Opened up my eyes
Now we gotta talk this over.

Chorus:
Can it really be so serious?
To be all broken up and delirious
I guess we've really been out of touch
But can it really be so serious?
(serious, so serious)

Day after day
I know it's not the way that you wanted it
Day after day
I try to find the key, but it don't fit
But you know how it is
No matter what i did
We gotta talk it over.

Repeat chorus

Tonight, tonight
I'm thinking over everything you said to me
Tonight, tonight
I'm sorry, but i just didn't see
And now it's up to you
There's nothing else to do
We've gotta talk it over.

Repeat chorus

Serious, so serious
Is it so serious?
Serious, so serious...

(somebody...)
Told her that there was a place like heaven
Across the water on a 747
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

And pretty soon she's really got the notion
Of flying out across the big blue ocean
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

Talk is cheap on satellite
But all i get is (static!)
Information, i'm still here
Re-dial on automatic.

Chorus:
Calling america (can't get a message through)
Calling america (that's what she said to do)
Calling america (that's where she has to be)
Calling america (she left a number for me)
Calling america.

But i'm just talking to a satellite
Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

All i had to do was pick up the phone
I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

She left a number i could call
But no one's there, no one at all
There must be something going wrong
That number just rings on and on.

Repeat chorus

Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while
Guess she's missing me across the miles
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

Repeat chorus

Calling america, calling america
Calling america, calling america...

I don't know
I don't know what's on your mind
I thought everything was fine
But it was my surprise.

I don't know
I don't know what's going on
Something surely must be wrong
You're living secret lives.

Chorus:
Living secret lives, secret lives
And i wonder where she goes to in the night
In secret lives.

Wish i knew
Wish i knew where i fit in
Wish that i knew everything
About your secret lives.

If it means
If it means that much to you
I don't want to stop the things you do
I don't need alibis.

Repeat chorus

I don't care
I don't care what goes on there
So long as one day i can share
Share your secret lives.

Repeat chorus

Repeat chorus

Repeat chorus

Secret lives, secret lives
Secret lives, secret lives...

Bye bye, pretty woman
I've got to leave you now
I find you never really cared.

Chorus:
Stand back, take a look at you
You couldn't care if you wanted to
You keep saying it's gonna change
But every time it comes back again
It's a merry-go-round.

Endless lies shine in your eyes.

It's alright, count to ten
It will all be better then
It's alright, the world will go away.

Repeat chorus

Endless lies, i can see it in your eyes
The heartbreak is, if you could only see
That's not the way it's supposed to be
Endless tears that flowed through the years
You take it all, and then you take some more
Then you come running back to me.

Play on, pretty music
Play on and on for me
Shine on, silver stars
Over the sea.

Endless lies, i can see it in your eyes
The heartbreak is, if you could only see
That's not the way it's supposed to be.

Endless lies shine in your eyes.

It's out of control (out of control)
And there's nothing i can do now
Out of control (out of control)
Spinning softly through the blue now
And look beyond these walls
As the meaning starts to dawn
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

It's out of control (nothing i can do)
Like a fire that keeps on burning
And nobody knows (what i'm going through)
And the thoughts just keep returning
And all you had to say
Was that you were gonna stay
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

Chorus:
It's getting to the point
Where nobody can stop it now
It's getting to the point
Of no return
And all that i can do
Is stand and watch it now
Watch it burn, burn, burn
It's getting to the point
Where reasons are forgotten
It's getting to the point
Where no one knows
And all that i can do
Is say i'm sorry
But that's the way it goes...

Getting to the point.

Forever
Is a long, long way
Forever
Takes your breath away
I'd like to talk about it, try to understand
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

Repeat chorus

It's getting to the point (getting to the point)
Getting to the point (getting to the point)
It's getting to the point (getting to the point)
Getting to the point.