Afterglow

Оригинальный сборник Afterglow представляет собой тройной виниловый бокс-сэт, в который включены как песни из альбомов, так и песни, выходившие только на синглах. В России компанией VIL-ART был выпущен свой CD Afterglow, который включает в себя только 9 песен, вышедших на синглах, а так же 2 песни, написанные Джеффом Линном к фильму Electric Dreams и 5 песен из альбома Xanadu. В представленном ниже списке Вы найдете только тексты песен с синглов.

Julie Don't Live Here© 1981
When Time Stood Still© 1981
Destination Unknown© 1986
Hello My Old Friend© 1983
Buildings Have Eyes© 1983
Matter Of Fact© 1986
Mandalay© 1983
The Bouncer© 1983
No Way Out© 1983

JULIE DON'T LIVE HERE /Jeff Lynne/

I wander through a town
A town I new so well but it seems so strange
The wind blows cold
I remember when I thought your street was paved with gold
I walked along the street
A street I walked along many times before
The things have changed
Everything I knew was gone or rearranged

(Chorus:)
Julie don't live here anymore
She moved away many years before
How can it be, this I can't believe
Julie don't live here anymore

I walked up to your door
Last night I saw your face in the window
But it was different now
The lonely light where we used to be quite gone

I though about your smile
Your laughing eyes and the things you said to me
I felt so sorry for you
For all the nights we spent hanging around with nothing else to do

(Chorus)

Julie don't live here anymore
Julie don't live here anymore
Julie don't live here anymore

WHEN TIME STOOD STILL /Jeff Lynne/

Far beyond the things you see
Time rolls on eternally
Got a thing about it
Just can't live without it

Sitting there inside your mind
Just waiting for the clock to chime
On a lonely line
Stood a lonely man

No pictures on an empty wall
No body there no one at all
Just echoes in the ivory halls
When time stood still

Days line up outside the door
Thought time had stopped there was no more
Been a lonely world
Such a lonely world

No pictures on an empty wall
No Toulouse, Vincent, or Pablo
Just echoes in the ivory halls
When time stood still

No big machine or April showers
No submarines no plastic flowers
Just echoes in the ivory towers
When time stood still

When time stood still

DESTINATION UNKNOWN /Jeff Lynne/

I'm getting outta here cause there's too many complications
Yeah I'm getting outta here don't get driven any information
And if they ask you for a number to call just say I'm gone that's all

Destination unknown, I'm a long way from home
Destination unknown, I'll be gone, gone, gone
Destination unknown, Destination unknown

If anybody wants me just say you don't know the address
Cause I've had enough of the confusion and the madness
And should anybody ever try to stall, just say I'm gone that's all

Destination unknown, I'm a long way from home
Destination unknown, I'll be gone, gone, gone
Destination unknown, Destination unknown

I'm tired of (waiting for the things there saying)?
Tired of waiting for some things to change

Destination unknown, I'm a long way from home
Destination unknown, I'll be gone, gone, gone
Destination unknown, Destination unknown

I'm tired of (waiting for the things there saying)?
Tired of waiting for some things to change

Destination unknown, I'm a long way from home
Destination unknown, I'll be gone, gone, gone
Destination unknown, Destination unknown

Destination unknown, I'm a long way from home
Destination unknown, I'm a long way from home
Destination unknown, I'm a long way from home

HELLO MY OLD FRIEND /Jeff Lynne/

Early morning day is dawning
Cooling towers and factory gates
Dirty streets and laughing people
Skinny dogs and beer crates

(Chorus:)
Hello my old friend
Hello my old friend

Sad canals green black water
Somewhere bicycles and bets
Wet and windy afternoons
And pigeons cool in garden sheds

(Chorus)

High-rise tower blocks with panoramic
views of trains and coal
Tiehead railway tracks tread faithfully
the gas words to behold

(Chorus)

Just to see the sunset
pretty rainbows over your majestic towers
To feel your earth beneath my feet
Here I could stand for hours and hours

(young girls sing Fara Jacka in the background)

Big machines that once were champions
Turn to dust under the sky
Broken windows choking chimneys
Factory walls for miles and miles

By bye my old friend
By bye my old friend

Just to see the sunset
Pretty rainbows over your majestic towers
To feel your earth beneath my feet
Here I could stand for hours and hours

BUILDINGS HAVE EYES /Jeff Lynne/

Pretty pretty are the girls as they go by
Chilly chilly is the air under moonlit sky
The windows watch you as you walk along
And the streets lead back to where you started from

(Chorus:) The cities watching and you can't get by
No matter where you hide you know the buildings have eyes
This place is lonely but you can't get away
No matter what you say you know the buildings have eyes

Silly Silly are the thoughts that fill your head
Wish I'd never set out, wish I'd stayed in bed
You see reflections from across the street
So you better start movin' stop draggin' your feet

(Chorus)

Money money, gotta get some money and run
It was issued ---(the rest is fuzzy)---
It doesn't matter which way you turn
But you gotta keep trying cause you never learn

(Chorus)

Funny Funny how the world goes round and round
You better watch your step don't make a sound
The windows watch you as you walk along
And the streets lead back to where you started from

(Chorus)

Pretty pretty
Chilly chilly
Silly silly
Money money

MATTER OF FACT /Jeff Lynne/

Don't know why
It's the strangest thing
It's no lie
Don't know what's happening

(Chorus:)
I know that you know that
It's a matter of fact
I know that you know that
It's a matter of fact

Don't want to stay
But I don't want to go oh who oh
Don't want to say it
But you already know oh wo oh

(Chorus)

Tell me now
What is that thing you do
Tell me how
I keep thinking of you

(Chorus)

If it's gone
come out and say it
Don't go on
Living in make believe

(Chorus)

I know that you know that
I know that you know that
I know that you know that
I know that you know that

(Chorus)

MANDALAY /Jeff Lynne/

I traced the footsteps through the multi-colored avenues
That wind their way down to the sea
I see the birds that fly beneath the darkened sky
They are the messengers of dreams

Mandalay, now I know what you try to be
Mandalay, now I wish you were here with me

Pages filled with science fiction
Without fear of contradiction
Walking through the fields of evergreen
I see a turn and walk away
And from the east there comes a breeze
That flows up high into the blue

Mandalay, now I know what you try to be
Mandalay, now I wish you were here with me

The sound of retribution
In total disillusion, Mandalay

Mandalay, now I know what you try to be
Mandalay, now I wish you were here with me

Admidst the confusion
The only conclusion

Mandalay of the misty eyes
have gazed into the coming door
The leaves that turn to gold and brown
I've watched them falling to the ground

Mandalay, now I know what you try to be
Mandalay, now I wish you were here with me

THE BOUNCER /Jeff Lynne/

Do you remember, you said to me
That you would wait, wait for me eternally
I've been wondering, and I've been hoping
your still the same, only you can say
I'd be so glad to be back with you
I'd do anything you want me to

(Chorus:)
That's what I want, I'd be so happy, back home

I see a light shine in my window
And I know I am coming home
And as the light grows ever brighter
I see your face, you are alone
And when I tell you all the things that I've seen
You'll say that darling you must have been dreaming

(Chorus:)
That's what I want, I'd be so happy, back home

Electric visions only caused
Strange decisions of course
I thank the stars above me
I have someone to love me

(Chorus:)
That's what I want, I'd be so happy, back home

Believe me baby, when I say,
I wish I never, never, never, never, never be away
For the things that I see,
They ain't meant for the eyes of our time
And when we walk alone together
That's how I want it to be, want it to be forever

(Chorus:)
That's what I want, I'd be so happy
That's what I want, I'd be so happy
That's what I want, I'd be so happy, back home

NO WAY OUT /Jeff Lynne/

Can't you see I'm shaking in my shoes
I've done everything but I still got the blues
Everywhere I turn there's misery
Stuck in the middle of nowhere street

Go away come back where ya goin'
Don't do that, do this, don't you blow it
Run don't walk, shout don't talk about it
You don't know anything about it

(Chorus:)
It's no good there's no way out
No way out
A fine affair and there's no doubt
There's no doubt
That there's no way out, no way out

She left some money in a paper sack
And a note to say she ain't coming back
It's no good there's no way out
A fine affair and there's no doubt
But there's no way out, no way out

They're coming at me from everywhere
They say she's already gone from here

Go away come back where ya goin'
Don't do that, do this, don't you blow it
Run don't walk, shout don't talk about it
You don't know anything about it

(Chorus:)
It's no good there's no way out
No way out
A fine affair and there's no doubt
That there's no way out, no way out
No way out
No way out
No way out
No way out

All music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne

PRODUCED BY JEFF LYNNE

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