Attention all planets of the solar federation-
We have assumed control.

See how it sings like a sad heart.

He leads me on light years away.

Their power grows with purpose strong.

In a world like I have seen

The pictures that give pleasure to your eye.

We are the priests of the temple of Syrinx.

We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx.

All the gifts of life
Are held within our walls.

All the gifts of life
Are held within our walls.

The pictures that give pleasure to your eye.

The pictures that give pleasure to your eye.

The temple of Syrinx

The temple of Syrinx

We are the priests
Of the temples of Syrinx.

We are the priests
Of the temples of Syrinx.

All the gifts of life
Are held within our walls.

Our great computers fill our hallowed halls

The pictures that give pleasure to your eye

Guitar solo in beginning of song

Pulling into Kathmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The express gets you there

A sample of their yield

Our first stop is in Bogota
To check Colombian fields

The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield

The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon

Marvel after those who sought.

Wonders in the world

Battle flags are flown at the feet of a god unknown.

All is for the best
Believe in what we're told

Let them eat cake

Ooo there's no bread

Oooh, there is no bread.

Blood stained velvet, dirty lace

There's no bread, let 'em eat cake

There's no bread. Let them eat cake.

Love won't see my comin' on a Sunday noon today.
Still don't believe we're fadin', but now the world should wait.
And now you're finally list'nin' to what I have to say.
Well, the time is right, and it is today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe we could talk about it and try to get it straight.
After all these years, baby, maybe it's too late.
But I really need to have you by my side,
And that's the only feelin', baby, I can't hide. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well you aren't list'nin', I ain't talkin', we ain't gettin' nowhere.
I keep tryin' to get through to you baby. All you do is stare.
I don't wanna see that. I need to try and understand.
Well, I don't want to be your lover. Babe, I wanna be your man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, now my story's over, baby, and I ain't gonna tell it twice.
Well, you better start list'nin', or get out of my life.
Or you're gonna be left out, I said left out in the cold.
Yeah, before you get my lovin', babe, you'll be too old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm talkin' to you baby. Well, I said Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Got to try and fill the void

Got to try and fill the void

But the city is calm
In this violent sea.

The focus is sharp in the city

The focus is sharp in the city.

The focus is sharp in the city

The focus is sharp in the city.

A wheel of fate, a game of chance

Electricity? Biology?
Seems to me, it's Chemistry.

Plus ca change Plus c'est la même chose

Closer to the heart

Philosophers and ploughmen

The blacksmiths and the artists

Philosophers and ploughmen

Whoa, whoa, you can be the captain
I will draw the chart.

The phosphorescent wave on a tropical sea
Is a cold fire

Love is blind if you are gentle
Love can turn to a long, cold burn

The pain at the heart of a pawnbroker's diamond is a cold fire

The flame at the heart of a pawnbroker's diamond is a cold fire

The phosphorescent wave on a tropical sea
Is a cold fire

Way things ought to be.

Or through the astral door.

In a dogs eyes,
A year is really more like seven.
And all too soon,
A canine will be chasing cars in doggy heaven

I can raise my eyes to earthshine.

Ooh, said, I, I'm coming out to get you
Ooh said I, I'm coming out to find you.

Fly by night, away from here.

Change in the season
Is enough of a reason.

Change of a season
is enough of a reason

Fly by night

Fly by night away from here.

Fly by night, away from here.
Change my Life again.
Fly by night, goodbye my dear!
My ship is a' comin' and I just can't pretend

My ship isn't coming
And I just can't pretend.

I want to be king now
Not just one more pawn.

My ship isn't coming
And I just can't pretend.

My life begins today.

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend.

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend.

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend.

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend.

Quiet and pensive

Your ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend.

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend.

My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend.

Quiet and pensive,
My thoughts apprehensive.

Why try? I know why.

Change my life again

Attack the day like birds of prey.

An air of joie de vivre
To tender hearts upon our sleeves
Or skin as thick as thieves, thick as thieves.

Tough times demand tough talk
Demand tough hearts demand tough songs
Demand...

A planet of playthings
We dance on a string.

I will choose a path that's clear

A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.

A host of holy horrors
To direct out aimless dance

A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.

All preordained

I will choose a path that's clear.
I will choose free will.

I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will.

I will choose a path that's clear.

I will choose a path that's clear

I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will

You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill

And I know if she had me back again Well I would never make her sad. I've gotta heart full of soul.

Some fought themselvs, some fought each other

Seems we'll never see the sun
Or feel the day is all uncertainty.

Thunderheads are rumbling
In a distant overture.

Handle with kid gloves

Handle with kids gloves.

Handle with kid gloves

A world of diff'rence

Put on your kid gloves
Put on your kid gloves.

Smoking on the pier

All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers

Cast in this unlikely role

Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact

Get on with the fascination

The real relation
The underlying theme

I can't pretend a stranger is
A long-awaited friend

Living in the fish-eye lens,
caught in the camera's eye

Living in the fish-eye lens

Living in a fish eye lens,
caught in the camera's eye

Living in the limelight, the Universal Dream

Living in the limelight,
the universal dream

Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal

Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal.

Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact
Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation
The underlying theme
Living in a fish-eye lens
Caught in the camera eye
I have no heart to lie
I can't pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience
Outside the gilded cage.

Living in the fish-eye lens
Caught in the camera eye.

One must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination.

The real relation
The underlying theme

The real relation
The underlying theme

The real relation
The underlying theme

The underlying theme

The underlying theme

Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation.

Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation.
Get on with the fascination.

Those who wish to seem

With insufficient fact

With insufficient tact

I don't want to face the killer instinct
Face it in you or me.

Big bang, took and shook the world

First you need endurance,
First you've got to last...

A mechanized world out of hand

A quantum leap forward

he's a New World man.

He's a new world man

He's a radio receiver
Tuned to factories and farms

He's a radio receiver
Tuned to factories and farms.

He's a radio receiver
Tuned to factories and farms.

He's a writer and arranger and a young boy bearing arms.

He's cleaning up the systems.

He’s a writer and arranger
And a young boy bearing arms.

Learning to match the beat of the old world man.

Tuned to factories and farms

he's a New World man.

As the years went by, we drifted apart.

If I could wave my magic wand

A brilliant red barchetta
From a better, vanished time.

A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me two lanes wide.

A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me two lanes wide.

A gleaming alloy air-car

A brilliant red barchetta
From a better, vanished time.

He says it used to be a farm,
before the motor law

I strip away the old debris that hides a shining car

My uncle has a country place no one knows about.
He said it used too be a farm.

Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside.

Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware.

Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware.

To far outside the wire where my white-haired uncle waits.

Red Barchetta

Shouting guards and smoking guns
Will cut down the unlucky ones

It's hard to play it safe

Witness take the stand.

Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your song.

Bright antenna bristle with the energy

Bright antenna bristle with the energy

Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth.

Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth

Any escape might help to soothe the unattractive truth

Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth.

Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth.

Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth.

But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth.

Get caught in ticking traps

Growing up it all seemed so one-sided, opinions all provided

Conform or be cast out.

In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out

In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out

Subdivisions

Subdivisions

Sprawling on the fringes of the city

Subdivisions

That the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

The timeless old attraction

Drawn like moths we drift into the city

Package the illusion of persona
Careful to conceal
The fact that she's only too real
She's got to screen it

Hoping you'll believe
Designing to deceive
That's entertainment

and China sang to me

And the meek shall inherit the earth

We are the priests of the temples of syrinx

We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx.

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls

We are the priests
Of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers
Fill the hallowed halls

We are the priests
Of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers
Fill the hallowed halls

We are the priests
Of the Temples of Syrinx.

We've taken care of everything
The words you read, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eye.

Test for echo

Some kind of image on the Sense-O'Clock news
miles of yellow tape, silouhetted chalk lines

The boy lies in the grass with one blade stuck between his teeth

I lack their smiles and their diamonds

A hundred years of routines Bows its head and prays To the mother of all machines

Bows its head and prays to the mother of all machines.

Bytes break into bits.

Guidance systems breakdown

Like an angular mass of New Yorkers.

The focus is sharp in the city.

The focus is sharp in the city

The focus is sharp in the city.

The focus is sharp in the city

Seaspray blurs my vision.

Shout out for salvation.

The sky is pitching violently
Drawn by shrieking winds.

And echoes with the sounds of salesmen

For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
concert hall (cheers)

Bright antennae bristle with the energy.

Invisible airwaves

Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennas bristle with the energy

Bright antenna bristle with the energy.

Bright antenna bristle with the energy

Begin the day with a friendly voice

Bright antennae bristle with the energy

For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall.

The words of the profits are written on the studio walls
'Concert Hall'

Like the rat in a maze who says,
'Watch me choose my own direction'.

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx

We are the priests
Of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers
Fill the hollowed halls

The maples scream 'Oppression!'
And the oaks just shake their heads.

For they passed a noble law

For they passed a noble law.

The maples scream 'Oppression!'
And the oaks just shake their heads.

The oak just shake their heads

There is unrest in the forest.

A pleasant faced man steps up to greet you.

He's a little bit afraid of dying
But he's a lot more afraid of your lying.

All I know is that memory is too much to carry
Striking down like a bolt from the blue

Time stand still.

To pass an evening with a drink and a friend.

A modern day warrior

A modern-day warrior

A modern day warrior

Though his mind is not for rent
Don't put him down as arrogant
His reserve, a quiet defense
Riding out the day's events
The river.

Always hopeful yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent, but change is...

Always hopeful yet discontent
He knows changes aren't permanent, but change is...

And the space he invades, he gets by on you.

And the space he invades, he gets by on you.

Catch the mist.

Catch the mist.

Exit the warrior
Today's Tom Sawyer

He gets by on you.

He gets right on to the friction of the day.

He gets right on to the friction of the day.

He gets right on to the friction of the day.

He gets right on to the friction of the day.

He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is!

Though his mind is not for rent,
Don't put him down as arrogant

His reserve, a quiet defense
Riding out the day's events
The river.

Exit the warrior
Today's Tom Sawyer

Mean, mean pride

Maybe as his skies are wide

Mean, mean pride

Mean, mean pride

The world is, the world is

And the space he invades, he gets by on you.

The space he invades gets by on you

The space he invades, he gets by on you.

The world is, the world is love and life are deep.

The world is, the world is, love and life are deep.

The world is, the world is.
Love and life are deep.

The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep.

The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep.

The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep.

The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep.

Though his mind is not for rent don't put him down as arrogant

Today's Tom Sawyer, mean, mean pride.

Today's Tom Sawyer, mean, mean pride.

Today's Tom Sawyer, mean mean pride.

What you say about his company is what you say about society.

What you say about his company is what you say about society.

What you say about his company is what you say about society.

Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you

we disengage, we turn the page

Where the fourth dimension is crossed.

Net boy, net girl
Send your impulse 'round the world

Everybody need a mood lifter.

Everybody wants to deviate from the norm.

All puffed up with vanity
We see what we want to see.

I get up at seven, yay
And I go to work at nine

I get up at seven, yay
And I go to work at nine

I get up at seven, yeah
And I go to work at nine.

Well I get up at 7, yeah!
And I go to work at nine.

Well I get up at 7, yeah!
And I go to work at nine.

I get up at seven, yeah; and I go to work at nine.

They call me the working man.

They call me the working man.

Well I get up at 7 yeah

Well I get up at 7 yeah
And I go to work at 9.

I have heard the whispered tales of immortality
The deepest mystery
Searching for the lost Xanadu