Time-Line

Time-Line Cover
© 1983 I.R.S., Inc.

Lyrics

© 1983 Illegal Music, Ltd./Illegal Songs, Inc. (BMI)
Transcribed by: Russell W. Elliot
Last Update: 19 September 1996

As these lyrics were obtained by closely listening to the recordings and converting them to the written word, we apologise if any errors have been introduced.

  1. Flight (Camp/Dunford)
  2. Missing Persons (Camp)
  3. Chagrin Boulevard (Camp/Dunford)
  4. Richard IX (Camp)
  5. The Entertainer (Camp/Dunford)
  6. Electric Avenue (Camp/Dunford)
  7. Majik (Camp/Dunford)
  8. Distant Horizons (Camp)
  9. Orient Express (Camp)
  10. Auto-Tech (Camp/Dunford)

FLIGHT

I watched you to fly away today
You held me close and turned away
And you were gone
I said I couldn't understand
Why you need a foreign land
What's wrong with home?

I need to breathe
Need to see what this life's got in store for me
Take a chance while I can
Not one also ran

Chorus:

I'm on a flight and its taking me closer
Home to a heart that's been left for so long
Time is all that holds me now
And the days have come and gone while I have flown
I'm coming home

I've read your letters, heard of your success
Does that mean happiness? Yes or no?
Temptation that lay across your path
Is it to much to ask to think of me?

I had to fight to be right
There was never a champion for me
Knights in armour don't exist
It's been such a risk

Repeat chorus two times

I'm on a flight and its taking me closer
Home to a heart that's been left for so long
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm on a flight

MISSING PERSONS

It's tragic--keeps on happening all the time
It's the kind of thing that I fear
I feel I'm making no headway
Walls I know are starting to disappear

It's like they'd never existed, strange but true
As sure as I'm talking to you
Now you see it, now I don't want to frighten you
But I'm simply here standing alone

Chorus I:

Trapped in these shadows that belong to missing persons
Names faded from memory join the list and then mark time
Once I would have been glad to have made your acquaintance
Now I feel a danger brought about by circumstance

Obsessed, the quality of life escapes me now
It's one of the things I lack
From the east and to the west
I feel it's time that I was heading back

I can't control these feelings that I have
I've never been one to hide
Become a pillar of society
But don't let your morals slide

Chorus II:

Or you can find that you've become a missing person
A here today gone tomorrow breeze and lost in the night
Once I would have been glad to have made your acquaintance
Now I feel a danger brought about by circumstance

But I know in the end, I'll be safe, we'll be happy
After finding myself we'll be fine
Any problems we have will be gone in a moment
I'll become just a state of the mind

I want you close
I need you near
You have to be here
I turned around
You've gone again

Chorus I

Chorus II

CHAGRIN BOULEVARD

Nothing to say
I see your face
Memories haunt me again
They'll always remain

Time spent, time that was lost
In love we all count the cost
I remember days that we spent together
Seem so far away

Chorus:

In time I may forget you
Or you may remember me
Till then I'll be living but lonely
Each face a stranger to me
For no other locked in another Chagrin Boulevard day

Watching the rain
My friend, once again
I stand in this room where we lay
Was it just yesterday?

Looking down to the street
At people embrace as they meet
I remember love that we shared together
Now you're far away

Chorus

There's room for no other
I'll not spend another Chagrin Boulevard day
I miss you so much
Since you went away

Repeat first four lines of chorus three times

RICHARD IX

Deep in the past there lived a man whose story must be told
Of royal descent but not of the royal line, oh oh

No history book relates this night of indiscretion
Into the world he's brought, never to be presented at court
In his mind a king though his mother wasn't wearing a ring
She keeps on saying:

Chorus I:

"What they gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth?
You know he's my son, and the thought of it cuts like a knife
To think he'll ever sit upon the throne
A prince without a home
What we gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth
The least that we could do is to provide for his life
No job could have a stranger pedigree
He means so much to me!"

As Richard grew, he won the hearts of all the people
His father reigned, and while the servants poured, wo-oh

The lady waits and watches with anticipation
Ways of the world he's taught
The eyes of the queen he has caught
Midnight matinees soon become the order of play
She keeps on saying:

Chorus II:

"What we gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth?
You know he's my son and the daughter, the queen, is his wife
Becomes the answer to my fantasy
He means the world to me"

"What we gonna do with Richard, Richard The Ninth?
It seems a night of love, in the end turned out right
One day I know he'll sit upon the throne
A prince no more alone"

This classic tale of woe
Should tell you all you want to know
A page from our history
It's meant so much to me, to me

Chorus I

Chorus II

Repeat to fade

THE ENTERTAINER

Here in the spotlight cold air tonight, I'm giving all for you
Days pass quickly, hope that you'll miss me when the show is through

The entertainer's no stranger, she only lives to play
The distance between us is only a note or two away

Travel to places, fill all the spaces in everybody's lives
Don't show the pressure, try not to measure how you feel inside

The entertainer's no stranger, she only lives to play
The distance between us is only a note or two away

We sing with one voice
There's no choice so join us
We're singing for you
Time and again in the circus of sound
Leaving the stage and the people behind us
Music calls--come and see, come and see, come and see

We sing with one voice
There's no choice so join us
We're singing for you
Time and again in the circus of sound
You've found something that's new
Travel to places, fill all the spaces in everyone's life
Don't show the pressure, try not to measure ...

Leaving the stage and the people behind us
Music calls--come and see, come and see, come and see, come and see

ELECTRIC AVENUE

Brought up and lived by the modern age
Brought a new spot to my life
I love the power you have over me
Amaze my friends and set me free

Here we are walking in step
We've got ideas that we haven't used yet
There's so much left that I want to do
Automatically I think of you

Chorus:

You beginning and you to end
You were the first you never bend
You walk beside me everywhere I go
Our secret's safe they'll never know
But here we are walking on down Electric avenue
Part of today in every way Electric avenue

I'm insecure and I'm not so sure
Cause you mean this much to me
Your heart is cold and you won't grow old
I'm full of tricks so watch and see
I can disappear without a trace
Just say the word I'll be gone from this place
There's so much left that I want to do
I'm automatic that I think of you

Chorus

Repeat first four lines of chorus four times

MAJIK

Day by day I'm feeling the need
To search to find
Hear the voices speaking to me
They're in my mind
It's Majik, it's tragic

What is happening to me?
Another no name tragedy
Majik (can't you understand)
Majik (the children are close at hand)

Once so long ago I'd explain
Each feeling clear
Now the thoughts they dance and they weave
To disappear
It's Majik, it's tragic

What is happening to me?
Another lost game lost to me
Majik (have the rights to resist)
Majik (before it takes to the wrist)

Surround yourself in a cloak of stars
This must be heaven
You've held to answer the early hours
They have been given to you

What is happening to me?
Another lost game lost to me
What is happening to me?
Lost in twilight memories
Majik (now your life's in a test)
Majik (feel your voice in a fist)

What is happening to me?
Another lost game lost to me
What is happening to me?
Another no name tragedy
What is happening to me?
Hear the voice I speak to me
What is happening to me?
Lost in twilight memories
What is happening to me?
The Majik surrounds all I see

What is happening to me?
Another no name tragedy
What is happening to me?
Another lost game lost to me ...

DISTANT HORIZONS

Distant horizons you're surprising me
See how you've changed in your fight to be free
Political intervention
Is something we shouldn't mention
But I've seen your face on every screen
And it's looking at me

You used to be so close
I could have touched your hand
I see your picture now
And you've become a no-man's land

I long to visit you
But now it seems too late
Don't let these modern times
Make you one more mistake

Take my heart, take my soul
You've captured all of me
If you can't let me go
Then live in peace and set me free

Distant horizons you're surprising me

Political intervention
Is something we shouldn't mention
But I've seen your face on every screen
And it's looking at me

You're reaching out to me
I hide inside your smile
It's time for us to love
But we must wait a while

I long to visit you
And there live out my fate
Don't let these lying eyes
Lead you to hesitate

Take my heart, take my soul
You've captured all of me
If you can't let me go
Then live in peace and set me free

Distant horizons you're surprising me
See how you've changed in your fight to be free

Distant horizons you're surprising me
If you can't let me go, in peace let me be

Political intervention
Is something we shouldn't mention
But I've seen your face on every screen
And it's looking at me
Capturing me, looking at me, capturing me

ORIENT EXPRESS

Hour by hour I feel the tension mounting
Pretty soon now I'll be on my way
People meeting, greeting, leaving, meaning
Everything they say

Start to move, feel closer now
I walk along the corridors of power
Orient Express, life to excess
There's so much to see, and it's waiting for me
Out threre, I care, I dare

Through a country that you've only heard of
Through the valleys, feel the pressure drop
Onwards moving 'til you see the mountains
Feel your heart may stop

Day and night feel closer now
I walk along these corridors of power

Orient Express, built to impress
There's so much to see, and you set me free
Out here, feel near, to fear

AUTO-TECH

Six o'clock in the morning--I'm yawning
Get out of this bed
My heart started racing--now pacing
What was that you said?

Waiting so long for this day
And tomorrow we laugh
Hope the neighbours will open their papers
To my photograph

Chorus:

Of course I love you!
And I'll be careful, oh so careful
But I must win
There's no use waiting--watching, waiting
Got to keep my five-star rating, too

Now I run like the devil, draw level
You're crowding my day
Your concentration gives me stimulation
Get out of my way!
Feel the air rush past my face in first place, without thought to me
Mass attention becomes an extension of winning to me

Chorus

In control, speed kills, speed thrills
We are the power--come closer
Black and white soon in my time
The winning course--it's over
The winning course--take over
The winning course--it's up to me

[Instrumental bridge]

Now I run like the devil, draw level
You're crowding my day
Your concentration gives me stimulation
Get out of my way!

Chorus