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THE FIXX - SHUTTERED ROOM
1982
03:38 I Found You
03:01 Some People
04:00 Stand or Fall
03:35 The Strain
04:20 Red Skies
03:23 Lost Planes
03:52 Cameras in Paris
04:53 I Live
02:47 Shuttered Room
05:21 The Fool
The mental image
Grand illusion
Brought together
By total fusion
Lost for words
Your company holds me
Totally yours
Your mind controls me
Place and time
For rendezvous
Your place or mine
I said I won't touch you
Now visions inside that
Last all day
Come back soon
Oh won't you stay
For you
I found you
I found you... you... oh you
Keeping the senses
Open aware
To try to change you
Who would dare
Visions inside that
Last all day
Come back soon
Oh won't you stay
For you
I found you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
The mental image
Grand illusion
Brought together
By total fusion
Lost for words
Your company holds me
Totally yours
Your mind controls me
Keeping your sense aware
To try to change you
Who would dare
Visions that last all day
Oh come back soon
No won't you stay
You...
I found you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you
Some people make it
Some people try
Some people break it
Some people cry
Some people lose it
Some people find
Some people lead us
And some are behind
It's a slow slow break up
That's what we find
It's a so so make up
Make up your mind
It's a slow slow break up
That's what we find
It's a so so make up
Make up your mind
What is the point of being amused
I see the people standing abused
They keep their faces buried in hands
They keep their plates clean
But underneath...
Some people drink gin
Some people dry
Some people drive cars
And some people fly
Some people take trains
Some people walk
Some people hold it
And some people talk
It's a slow slow break up
That's what we find
It's a so so make up
Make up your mind
What is the point of being amused
I see the people standing abused
They keep their faces buried in hands
They keep their plates clean
But underneath...
They like to fly with the jetsetters
They want to be with the go-getters
And then the moment comes around
Once again we'll find
He's taking pills and drink just
To find his peace of mind
Some people do it
Some people won't
Some people do da
Some people don't
Some people Liepzig
Some people Prague
Some people lucid
And some people vague
It's a no go faker
That's what we find
It's a no no taker
What's on your mind
It's a no go faker
That's what we find
It's a no no taker
What's on your mind
What is the point of being amused
I see the people standing abused
They keep their faces buried in hands
They keep their plates clean
But underneath...
Crying parents tell their children
If you survive don't do as we did
A son exclaims there'll be nothing to do to
Her daughter says she'll be dead with you
While foreign affairs are screwing us rotten
Line morale has hit rock bottom
Dying embers stand forgotten
Talks of peace were being trodden
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Is this the value of our existence
Should we proclaim with such persistence
Our destiny relies on conscience
Red or blue what's the difference
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
An empty face reflects extinction
Ugly scars divide the nation
Desecrate the population
There will be no exaltation
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Its the euro theatre (x4)
Back to back
The president cracks
There's no power left
In the old white shack
It's the same
New Washington
Red button
One push
And the whole world is gone
It's the same
I don't think that you should take the...
Strain
Live off your nerves
You've run out of verve
Take those pills
And you'll feel no ills
It's the same
I don't think that you should take the
Strain
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
Oh no...
Scream at nature to steal some papers
On with the camera to get the answers
Tipping the waiter to find who that was
Leaving the night
Go undercover now
The strain
Strain
Back to back
The president cracks
There's no power left
In the old white shack
It's the same
New Washington
A red button
One push
And the whole world is gone
It's the same
I don't think that you should take the
Strain
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
Red skies at night
Wo oh oh oh oh
Red skies at night
Wo oh oh oh oh
Should have taken warning it's just
People mourning
Running, hiding, lost
You can't find, find a place to go
Red skies at night
Wo oh
Should have taken warning it's just
People mourning
Running, hiding, lost
You can't find, find a place to go
Red skies at night
Wo oh
Red skies at night
Wo oh oh
Someone's taking over
And it look like they're aiming
Right at you
Someone said we'll be dead by morning
Someone cries leaving
Red skies at night
Wo oh oh
When you're hanging from a parachute
The whistling wind might play your flute
So forget it
Lost traffic
Someone said you couldn't fly the plane
So I guess this journey's all in vain
So forget it
Lost traffic
We're on a lost plane
Should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
Flying high but your fuel is low
How far can a missing plane go
So forget it
Lost traffic
Tell you that you're flying radar
But it's that much safer to take that car
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
So when you're hanging from a parachute
The whistling wind might play your flute
So forget it
Lost traffic
Tell you that you're flying radar
But it's that much safer to take that car
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
A call is taken
The plans are made
The pawns are placed
For the masquerade
Closed hotel rooms
Off the Place Pigalle
All concealed
Behind the femme fatale
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Political friction is greased by detante
One country can and another one can't
All the movements in a metaphor
Who is the sleeper found dead on the floor
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
In Paris
Umbrellas rolling in Hyde Park
Announcement made don't be seen after dark
Tension rising in the Eastern Block
Who are the two men with the
Same swiss clock
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
There's cameras in Paris
So take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
In Paris
So take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
Cameras in Paris
Cameras in Paris
Exposure's automatic
And the feeling just ain't right
As I stare into the light
What a time to take a fall
I can't stand the night
And it's long in the tooth
But short in foresight
It's all that I have
And so I'll hold on tight
So I live
That's about all I can say
I breathe nearly every day
Some say that it's better this way
That I live, I live
Take a chance to hear the call
Make a stand to be so tall
'Cause it's all that you have
Like winter to follow the fall
Like winter to follow the fall
So I live
That's about all I can say
I breathe nearly every day
Some say that it's better this way
That I live, I live
Wo oh Wa oh, I live
Some say that it's better this way
That I live, I live
And the feeling just ain't right
As I stare into the light
What a time to take a fall
I can't stand the night
And it's long in the tooth
But short in foresight
It's all that I have
So hold on tight
So hold on tight
So hold on tight
So hold on tight
So I live
That's about all I can say
I breathe nearly every day
Some say that it's better this way
That I live, I live
Wo oh Wa oh, I live
Some say that it's better this way
That I live, I live
All I feel is the shuttered room
The striped light of detention
All I smell is shattered bone
Far too relevant to mention
In the shuttered room
In my shuttered room
In my shuttered room
In my shuttered room
Small holes where lead kissed the walls
This is no crime of passion
How many died without a cause
Could it be pure invention
Chorus:
In the shuttered room
In the shuttered room
In the shuttered room
In the shuttered room
Shuttered shuttered shuttered shuttered room
In my shuttered room
Shuttered shuttered shuttered shuttered room
In the shuttered room
The whimpered truths of the shuttered room
Mean so little as we reflect
Over bodies who fell in the pile
You know how the story is vile
(chorus)
Shuttered shuttered shuttered shuttered
Shuttered shuttered shuttered shuttered
Shuttered shuttered shuttered shuttered
Room
In my shuttered room
In my shuttered room
A sort of place you don't often find
A quiet room to go out of your mind
Will you excuse me whilst I confide
I've found a place where I can hide
Lights out by nine as a rule
One grey blanket and a stool
Angels fear to tread where stands the fool
But the air is warm, and the walls are cool
So I'm kept away, so here I'll stay
Even the judges kneel and pray
I am the winner in any event, SNAP!
Who was the man who said society's bent?
So I'm locked away in my padded cocoon
A square of hell where nightmares bloom
Armageddon couldn't come too soon
But if it only meant that I could leave this room
Here stands the Fool