Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

It worries me this kind of thing
How you hope to live alone
And occupy your waking hours
We're taking sides again
I just wept i couldn't understand
Why you started this again

And every day you send me more
It makes it worse is this a plan of yours
To ensure i don't forget
I'd write and tell you that i've burnt them all
But you never send me your address
And i've, i've kept them anyway

So don't ask me if i think it's true
That communication can bring hope to those
Who have gone their separate ways
It hardly touched me when it should have then
But memories are uncertain friends
When recalled by messages

Coded messages
Poison letters

Red frame white light
Telephone box
Red on grey
Six three two three double 'o' three
Red frame white light
You have a gray book
On a metal shelf
Red frame white light
Numbered calls
Selected places

Red frame white light
Telephone calls
Black and white
Red frame white light
You have a yellow book
With averts
Red frame white light
There is a black lead to a dial and phone
Red frame white light
Six three two three double 'o' three

The means to an end
The sinful distress
Writing down meaningless words
Vaguely off hand
So the rest of the band
Can learn from the bees and the birds
Concentrate business man you,
You haven't got long
Planets are ruling your hearts
Stilletos and thighs may be burning your eyes
But it keeps you from falling apart

Heavy but generalised
Sordid and wet
Someone advised me to die
Blowing your mind
'cause you know what you'll find
When you're looking for things in the sky
Under the influence
Rotting our nerves
Cutting us off at the mains
Nearing the end with your grandmother's friend
It's something to do when it rains
It's something to do when it rains
It's something to do when it rains

Trained bodies in coordination
Is that a better way for bunker soldiers
But it's a nicer way to spend a war
On lava beaches and sandy seaside
The rusting bodies are surplus now then
We never taught them how to fight like that
The object's exercise is so compulsive
It's not a better way but it still suits us
I'd give up rice fields to fight like you

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It's not a better way
Though we are here to stay
Well that might seem ok

Waves of people
In strange directions
It's no use talking
There's no decisions
They gave up houses to be refugees
The mud in ditches is over their knees
The sand bagged trenches are over our heads
This kind of warfare's become hide and seek
Though khaki uniforms are universal
Your propaganda is losing appeal
I'd give up rice fields to fight like you
I'd give up rice fields to fight like you

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It's not a better way
Though we are here to stay
Well that might seem ok

My mind is made up, i'm changing faster
Your mind is made up, avoiding worries
My old image is set to fade away
Forget the talking
Forget the actions
And quiet voices and all that happened
In just one of hour
You could knock me down

The twos are one now
And ones are fuller
No longer giving
No longer taking
These ways are tried
They never seem to fail

And when you're asking
You sound like telling
Despite the questions
You're not receiving
I can't explain
Why you disappear

Your mind is made up
The time is taken
You reach decisions
We can't avoid them
There's no success
No matter what we do

The twos are one now
And ones are fuller
No longer giving
No longer taking
These ways are tried
They never seem to fail
These ways are tried
They never seem to fail
These ways are tried
They never seem to fail
These ways are tried