THE FIXX - REACT
1987

Big Wall

Proudly lost I spin through the raging strokes of time
Learning of a legend I prepare to face the ghost

I do not ask if it's strength or weakness
It's all I have it's the best defense
I cannot see if you're kind or dangerous
I must believe it's all pretence

All I know is I feel even balanced out by the sense of doubt
Don't look to me to shout treason I can find tile nation's pride
That the big wall tries to hide

Early frost a name is spelt in breath on a window
Hoping he's connected he prepares to meet the host
If I let go there's a path to follow
Owning up to these empty needs
Where I swim the water's shallow
Face up in all the social grief

There is a world just locked out
As the big wall tries to hide
A little flame dying out
As the big wall tries to hide
Are we left to minimise
As the big wall tries to hide
When you turn your face to tile sky will
The big wall leave your mind

The big wall leaves your mind

Don't Be Scared

You left me shadows
Etched on the wall
You don't hear my whisper
And I'm deaf from your call

Dream your lie in your tainted sun
Tell me I'm right when I'm left for dead
I want to see you come in
Before I give in to you

You left me echoes
Footsteps in the hall
You marked the borders
And I built the walls

Don't be scared don't be scared
You can face the truth of it all
Don't be scared don't be scared
If you can't bear the weight of it all

You hear my whisper
There's no doubt at all
You walk round the borders
I'm stuck with the walls

Rules and Schemes

I've fallen in
The well of emptiness
But at least I'm dry
Not dead just yet
I've been praying for rain
But the sun keeps shining
I've been lost in the dust
It's going to settle soon
In any event it's a slump I can handle
I turn on my TV see gods playing devils
Just need to connect get back in the stream
Pick up the tools I see the rules and schemes

I stumbled upon
A word hotter than sex
I think it's confusion
I must put it to the test
If all roads are leading
To who judges who is it you
Well best keep on turning
You know I'm slipping the noose
In any respect there's a path I can travel
Lots of good people enjoying the angle
We just need to connect get back in the stream
Pick up the tools see the rules and schemes

Every mind that dreams
Up on the silver screen
Every fool that screams
Could break the rules and schemes

It's only words

Deeper And Deeper

Talking about stealing the show no one would know
Talking about stealing the show when they're all letting go
Take a look at the witch see the twitch in her eye tell me
what did she feel
Is this the way of the world take a boy and a girl show them
lying is real
Then I see t he edge I look I fall
Deeper and deeper

The more I see the more I fall there's no place to hide
you better take the call
Deeper and deeper
Is it the smell of the oil the sweat and the toil that makes
living unreal
The yuppie in the suit the man with a flute what did he steal
It's beginning to break there is a mistake nowhere to go
A fool and his blood in the wrong neighborhood what price
does he pay
The further I see
I see the edge I look I fall
The further I see the further I fall
There's no place to hide anymore

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