A momentary lapse of reason

Into the distance, a ribbon of black

Stretched to the point of no turning back

A flight of fancy on a windswept field

Standing alone my senses reeled

A fatal attraction holding me fast, how

Can I escape this irresistible grasp?



Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earth-bound misfit, I



Ice is forming on the tips of my wings

Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything

No navigator to guide my way home

Unladened, empty and turned to stone



A soul in tension that's learning to fly

Condition grounded but determined to try

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I



Friction lock - set. 

Mixture - rich 

Propellers - fully forward 

Flaps - set - 10 degrees 

Engine gauges and suction - check 



Mixture set to maximum percent - recheck

Flight instruments...

Altimeters - check both

(garbled word) - on

Navigation lights - on

Strobes - on

(to tower): Confirm 3-8-Echo ready for departure

(tower): Hello again, this is now 129.4

(to tower): 129.4. It's to go.

(tower): You may commence your takeoff, winds over 10 knots.

(to tower): 3-8-Echo

Easy on the brakes. Take it easy. Its gonna roll this time.

Just hand the power gradually, and it... 



Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,

My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,

Across the clouds I see my shadow fly

Out of the corner of my watering eye

A dream unthreatened by the morning light

Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night



There's no sensation to compare with this

Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies

Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

Dogs of war and men of hate

With no cause, we don't discriminate

Discovery is to be disowned

Our currency is flesh and bone

Hell opened up and put on sale

Gather 'round and haggle

For hard cash, we will lie and deceive

Even our masters don't know the web we weave



One world, it's a battleground

One world, and we will smash it down

One world ... One world



Invisible transfers, long distance calls,

Hollow laughter in marble halls

Steps have been taken, a silent uproar

Has unleashed the dogs of war

You can't stop what has begun

Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion

We all have a dark side, to say the least

And dealing in death is the nature of the beast



One world, it's a battleground

One world, and we will smash it down

One world ... One world



The dogs of war don't negotiate

The dogs of war won't capitulate,

They will take and you will give,

And you must die so that they may live

You can knock at any door,

But wherever you go, you know they've been there before

Well winners can lose and things can get strained

But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.



One world, it's a battleground

One world, and we will smash it down

One world ... One world

A restless eye across a weary room

A glazed look and I was on the road to ruin

The music played and played as we whirled without end

No hint, no word her honour to defend



I will, I will she sighed to my request

And then she tossed her mane while my resolve was put to the test

Then drowned in desire, our souls on fire

I lead the way to the funeral pyre

And without a thought of the consequence

I gave in to my decadence



One slip, and down the hole we fall

It seems to take no time at all

A momentary lapse of reason

That binds a life for life

A small regret, you won't forget,

There'll be no sleep in here tonight



Was it love, or was it the idea of being in love?

Or was it the hand of fate, that seemed to fit just like a glove?

The moment slipped by and soon the seeds were sown

The year grew late and neither one wanted to remain alone



One slip, and down the hole we fall

It seems to take no time at all

A momentary lapse of reason

That binds a life for life

A small regret, you will never forget,

There'll be no sleep in here tonight

On the turning away

From the pale and downtrodden

And the words they say

Which we won't understand

"Don't accept that what's happening

Is just a case of others' suffering

Or you'll find that you're joining in

The turning away"



It's a sin that somehow

Light is changing to shadow

And casting it's shroud

Over all we have known

Unaware how the ranks have grown

Driven on by a heart of stone

We could find that we're all alone

In the dream of the proud



On the wings of the night

As the daytime is stirring

Where the speechless unite

In a silent accord

Using words you will find are strange

And mesmerized as they light the flame

Feel the new wind of change

On the wings of the night



No more turning away

From the weak and the weary

No more turning away

From the coldness inside

Just a world that we all must share

It's not enough just to stand and stare

Is it only a dream that there'll be

No more turning away?

One sound, one single sound

One kiss, one single kiss

A face outside the window pane

However did it come to this?



A man who ran, a child who cried

A girl who heard, a voice that lied

The sun that burned a fiery red

The vision of an empty bed



The use of force, he was so tough

She'll soon submit, she's had enough

The march of fate, the broken will

Someone is lying very still



He has laughed and he has cried

He has fought and he has died

He's just the same as all the rest

He's not the worst, he's not the best



And still this ceaseless murmuring

The babbling that I brook

The seas of faces, eyes upraised

The empty screen, the vacant look



A man in black on a snow white horse,

A pointless life has run its course,

The red rimmed eyes, the tears still run

As he fades into the setting sun



M: You're going on that plane to take you where you belong.

W: But no, I have...

M: You have got to listen to me. Do you have any idea what

you have to look forward to if you stay here? Nine chances out of 10 we both end up in a concentration camp and that....

W: You're only saying these things to make me go.

M: I'm saying it 'cause it's true. Inside us, we both know we belong in different......

....maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.

W: But what about us?

But what about us?

But what about us?

I have always been here

I have always looked out from behind the eyes 

It feels like more than a lifetime 

Feels like more than a lifetime 



Sometimes I get tired of the waiting 

Sometimes I get tired of being in here 

Is this the way it has always been? 

Could it ever have been different? 



Do you ever get tired of the waiting? 

Do you ever get tired of being in there? 

Don't worry, nobody lives forever, 

Nobody lives forever

I will always be in here

I will always look out from behind these eyes

It's only a lifetime

It's only a lifetime

It's only a lifetime

The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land

Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:

A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,

But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking



He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise

In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise

He's chained forever to a world that's departed

It's not enough, it's not enough



His blood has frozen & curdled with fright

His knees have trembled & given way in the night

His hand has weakened at the moment of truth

His step has faltered



One world, one soul

Time pass, the river rolls



It's not enough it's not enough

His hand has faltered

.... .... ......



And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication

And silent replies that swirl invitation

Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea

A grim intimation of what is to be



There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night

And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight

And silence that speaks so much louder that words,

Of promises broken