Balance Of Power

Heaven Only Knows
So Serious
Getting To The Point
Secret Lives
Is It Alright
Sorrow About To Fall
Without Someone
Calling America
Endless Lies
Send It

(Heaven only knows...)
Oh, I know it's strange
But I think that it's about to change
So I'll take the chance
To get back into the straight again

(Chorus:)
Heaven only knows (I'm really on the level)
Heaven only knows (I'm trying to find a way)
Heaven only knows (I'm walking down the straight & lonely road today)

(Again...)

(Heaven only knows...)
Now the sun will shine
And I'm gonna work it out this time
And before the light
All I gotta take is one more night.

(Chorus:)
Heaven only knows, heaven only knows
Heaven only knows, heaven only knows
Heaven only knows, heaven only knows
Heaven only knows, heaven only knows
Heaven only knows.

(Heaven only knows)
As the hours go by
I can only wonder why
You can change your mind
But you never change the price.

(Chorus)

Heaven only knows, heaven only knows
Heaven only knows, heaven only knows.

(Chorus)

SO SERIOUS /Jeff Lynne/

Night after night
I try to make it all fit together
Night after night
I see you as someone I remember
You took me by surprise
Opened up my eyes
Now we gotta talk this over.

(Chorus:)
Can it really be so serious?
To be all broken up and delirious
I guess we've really been out of touch
But can it really be so serious?
(Serious, so serious)

Day after day
I know it's not the way that you wanted it
Day after day
I try to find the key, but it don't fit
But you know how it is
No matter what I did
We gotta talk it over.

(Chorus)

Tonight, tonight
I'm thinking over everything you said to me
Tonight, tonight
I'm sorry, but I just didn't see
And now it's up to you
There's nothing else to do
We've gotta talk it over.

(Chorus)

Serious, so serious
Is it so serious?
Serious, so serious...

GETTING TO THE POINT /Jeff Lynne/

And there's nothing I can do now
Out of control (out of control)
Swimming softly through the blue now
And look beyond these walls
As the meaning starts to dawn
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

It's out of control (nothing I can do)
Like a fire that keeps on burning
And nobody knows (what I'm going through)
And the thoughts just keep returning
And all you had to say
Was that you were gonna stay
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

(Chorus:)
It's getting to the point
Where nobody can stop it now
It's getting to the point
Of no return
And all that I can do
Is stand and watch it now
Watch it burn, burn, burn
It's getting to the point
Where reasons are forgotten
It's getting to the point
Where no one knows
And all that I can do
Is say I'm sorry
But that's the way it goes...

Getting to the point.

Forever
Is a long, long way
Forever
Takes your breath away
I'd like to talk about it, try to understand
It's getting to the point
Getting to the point.

(Chorus)

It's getting to the point (getting to the point)
Getting to the point (getting to the point)
It's getting to the point (getting to the point)
Getting to the point.

SECRET LIVES /Jeff Lynne/

I don't know
I don't know what's on your mind
I thought everything was fine
But it was my surprise.

I don't know
I don't know what's going on
Something surely must be wrong
You're living secret lives.

(Chorus:)
Living secret lives, secret lives
And I wonder where she goes to in the night
In secret lives.

Wish I knew
Wish I knew where I fit in
Wish that I knew everything
About your secret lives.

If it means
If it means that much to you
I don't want to stop the things you do
I don't need alibis.

(Chorus)

I don't care
I don't care what goes on there
So long as one day I can share
Share your secret lives.

(Chorus)
(Chorus)
(Chorus)

Secret lives, secret lives
Secret lives, secret lives...

IS IT ALRIGHT /Jeff Lynne/

Dear Jo:
I don't know where to begin so I'll just hello
Dear Jo:
Is it so much better now you're on your own?
(Is it alright?) You never believed in yourself
(Is it alright?) But now that you're free, does it help?

(Chorus:)
Is it alright?
Now that you've got what you want?
And is it alright?
Now that you're back where you belong?

Dear Jo:
Are you living it up every place you go?
Dear Jo:
If you're having a hard time it sure don't show
(Is it alright?) You couldn't hold on in your mind.
(Is it alright?) Now is it okay, is it fine?

(Chorus)

Dear Jo:
Can you believe that it's been so long?
Dear Jo:
Just thought I'd write and let you know
(Is it alright?) You never believed in yourself
(Is it alright?) But now that you're free, does it help?

(Chorus)

Is it alright?
Is it alright with you?
Is it alright?
Is it alright with you?

SORROW ABOUT TO FALL /Jeff Lynne/

There's a silence in the city
There's nobody around
And everyone that we knew
Moved to higher ground.

There's a shadow hanging overhead
It lingers there alone
Changing all we ever knew
The changes start to show.

(Chorus:)
There's a sorrow about to fall
There's a sorrow about to fall.

There's a new sound in the wires
And ears are to the ground
And everything that once was ours
Has slowly turned around.

Something happened to the seasons
Started falling with the rain
And something changed forever
We gotta find a way.

(Chorus)

There's people in the photographs
But they all had to run
They went away to somewhere
Beyond the setting sun.

(Chorus)

Sorrow about to fall, fall, fall, fall
Sorrow about to fall
Sorrow about to fall
Sorrow about to fall...

WITHOUT SOMEONE /Jeff Lynne/

I watch the cars move
I watch the lights up on the window
I walk along the street
I'm only thinking of you
I watch the clock staring from the wall
It hardly moves at all
It's you I'm waiting for.

(Chorus):
Without someone I can depend on
I'm lost without someone
As I go on, I hope you're remembering I'm lost without someone.

All alone, no one around
I watch the shadows falling faster
The city lights begin to glow
And then I start to realize
I count the hours as they slip away
Into another day
Wondering where you'll stay.

(Chorus)

Still watching the cars move
Still watching the lights upon the window
I'm walking down the street
I'm only thinking of you
I hear the night as it calls to me
It plays a symphony
It says you're gone from me.

(Chorus)
(Chorus)

CALLING AMERICA /Jeff Lynne/

(Somebody...)
Told her that there was a place like heaven
Across the water on a 747
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

And pretty soon she's really got the notion
Of flying out across the big blue ocean
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

Talk is cheap on satellite
But all I get is (static!)
Information, I'm still here
Re-dial on automatic.

(Chorus:)
Calling America (can't get a message through)
Calling America (that's what she said to do)
Calling America (that's where she has to be)
Calling America (she left a number for me)
Calling America.

But I'm just talking to a satellite
Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

All I had to do was pick up the phone
I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

She left a number I could call
But no one's there, no one at all
There must be something going wrong
That number just rings on and on.

(Chorus)

Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while
Guess she's missing me across the miles
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

(Chorus)

Calling America, Calling America
Calling America, Calling America...

ENDLESS LIES /Jeff Lynne/

Bye bye, pretty woman
I've got to leave you now
I find you never really cared.

(Chorus:)
Stand back, take a look at you
You couldn't care if you wanted to
You keep saying it's gonna change
But every time it comes back again
It's a merry-go-round.

Endless lies shine in your eyes.

It's alright, count to ten
It will all be better then
It's alright, the world will go away.

(Chorus)

Endless lies, I can see it in your eyes
The heartbreak is, if you could only see
That's not the way it's supposed to be
Endless tears that flowed through the years
You take it all, and then you take some more
Then you come running back to me.

Play on, pretty music
Play on and on for me
Shine on, silver stars
Over the sea.

Endless lies, I can see it in your eyes
The heartbreak is, if you could only see
That's not the way it's supposed to be.

Endless lies shine in your eyes.

SEND IT /Jeff Lynne/

The sun still shines way up above
But it don't matter now because
The dream is gone
The dream is just a memory (oh, yeah)
If you see my dream, send it back home to me.

The stars still glow up in the night
But somehow, they don't seem so bright
The dream is gone
The dream is just a memory (oh, yeah)
If you see my dream, send it back home to me.

'Cos I've been waiting for a long, long time
Thought I'd found a way
Now I just wait for someone to call
I'm waiting for it every day.

(Chorus:)
Send it -- on the wires
Send it -- on a plane
Send it -- on an express
But send it back to me again.

The music plays so loud and clear
But somehow I can't make you hear
The dream is gone
The dream is just a memory (oh, yeah)
If you see my dream, send it back home to me.

When you get what you want, it's a long way down
And you can see for miles around
When you lose it, nothing is for real
If you see my dream, send it back to me.

(Chorus)
(Chorus)

Send it (send it, send it)
Send it
Send it (send it, send it)
Send it on the wires (send it, send it)
Send it on a plane...

Words and music by Jeff Lynne
PRODUCED BY JEFF LYNNE

JEFF LYNNE - Lead vocals, background vocals, guitars, bass guitars, keyboards, piano
BEV BEVAN - Drums, percussion
RICHARD TANDY - Keyboards, piano, sequence programming

Mixing: Mack at Musicland
Engineers: Bill Bottrell at Compass Point, Nassau
Tom Thiel at Hartmann digital, Untertrubach, Germany
Sax: Christian Shnieder
Assistant to ELO: Phil Copestake
Assistant to Mack: Stephan Wissnet
Thanks to Mike Rosenfeld & Craig Fruin, Nicholas Brown & Sam Sylvester
Thanks also to everyone at Hartmann digital and the staff at hotel Zur Post, Egloffstein and the Hilton, Munich
Travel by Jeff Perry
Shipping by Rock It Cargo

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