Tracklisting

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2. Rio

   Rio

   ×

   Wow!
   Moving on the floor now babe,
   You're a bird of paradise
   Cherry ice cream smile, I suppose it's very nice
   With a step to your left and a flick to the right
   You catch that mirror way out west
   You know you're something special
   And you look like you're the best

   CHORUS
   Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
   Just like that river twisting through a dusty land
   And when she shines she really shows you all she can
   Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande

   I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on TV
   Two, of a billion stars, it means so much to me
   Like a birthday or a pretty view
   But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you

   CHORUS

   Hey now (wow), look at that,
   Did he nearly run you down?
   At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive,
   You make me feel
   Alive, alive, alive

   I'll take my chance, 'cause luck is on my side
   I tell you something, I know what you're thinking
   I tell you something, I know what you're thinking

   CHORUS

   Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand
   I might find her if I'm looking like I can
   Oh Rio, Rio hear them shout across the land
   From mountains in the north down to the Rio Grande

   Close
3. My Own Way

   My Own Way

   ×

   I saw you at the airace yesterday
   April showers get out of my way
   Fear of flying, no not me

   I'm never bothered, what you say
   Someone's kid just lives for today
   I ain't your problem anyway

   CHORUS
   'Cause I've got my own way
   I can find my own way
   'Cause I've got my own way

   No. 1 public figure, what a pain
   Just puts another rattle in your brain
   Take another green but it's not the same

   Now you're on the Sandlane everyday
   Dancing with the bulls in any old way
   Running like a fox to keep up with me

   CHORUS

   I'm on 45th between Sixth and Broadway
   7UP between Sixth and Broadway

   Close
4. Lonely in Your Nightmare

   Lonely in Your Nightmare

   ×

   Even on the darkest night
   When empty promise means empty hand
   And soldiers coming home
   Like shadows turning red
   When the lights of hope are fading quickly
   Then look to me
   I'll be your homing angel,
   I'll be in your head

   Because you're lonely in your nightmare
   Let me in
   And there's heat beneath your winter
   Let me in

   I see the delta traces living lonely out on the limb
   And a passing glimmer warm beneath your skin
   Please tread gently on the ground
   When all around you earth turns to fire
   Only get a second chance when danger's on the wind

   Because you're lonely in your nightmare
   Let me in
   Because there's heat beneath your winter
   Let me in
   And it's silent on your stone field
   Let me in

   Must be lucky weather when you find
   The kind of wind that you need
   C'mon, show me all the light and shade
   That made your name
   I know you've got it in your head,
   I've seen that look before
   You've built your refuge,
   Turns you captive all the same

   Because you're lonely in your nightmare
   Let me in
   And it's barren in your garden
   Let me in
   Because there's heat beneath your winter
   Let me in
   Because it's silent in your stone field
   Let me in
   And you're lonely in your nightmare
   Let me in
   Because you've waited through your ice age
   Let me in

   Because you're so lonely in your nightmare
   Let me in
   And it's cold out on your stone range
   Let me in
   Because there's heat beneath your winter
   Let me in

   Close
5. Hungry Like the Wolf

   Hungry Like the Wolf

   ×

   Darken the city, night is a wire
   Steam in the subway, earth is a afire
   Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo
   Woman, you want me, give me a sign
   And catch my breathing even closer behind
   Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

   In touch with the ground
   I'm on the hunt I'm after you
   Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd
   And I'm hungry like the wolf
   Straddle the line in discord and rhyme
   I'm on the hunt I'm after you
   Mouth is alive with juices like wine
   And I'm hungry like the wolf

   Stalked in the forest, too close to hide
   I'll be upon you by the moonlight side
   Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo
   High blood drumming on your skin, it's so tight
   You feel my heart, I'm just a moment behind
   Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo

   In touch with the ground
   I'm on the hunt I'm after you
   Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found
   And I'm hungry like the wolf
   Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme
   I howl and I whine, I'm after you
   Mouth is alive, al lrunning inside
   And i'm hungry like the wolf

   Hungry like the wolf
   Hungry like the wolf
   Hungry like the wolf

   Burning the ground, I break from the crowd
   I'm on the hunt, I'm after you
   I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found
   And I'm hungry like the wolf
   Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme
   I'm on the hunt, I'm after you
   Mouth is alive with juices like wine
   And I'm hungry like the wolf

   Close
6. Hold Back the Rain

   Hold Back the Rain

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   We're miles away from nowhere
   And the wind doesn't have a name
   So call it what you want to call it
   Still blows down the lane

   People tell me I haven't changed at all
   But I don't feel the same
   And I bet you've had that feeling, too
   You just can't laugh all the time

   CHORUS
   And if the fires burn out,
   There's only fire to blame
   No time for worry 'cause we're on the roam again
   The clouds all scatter and
   We ride the outside lane
   Not on your own, so help me,
   Please hold back the rain

   So what if the words ain't rhyming
   Did you think that it's just a game
   I probably didn't even say that right
   And I really don't give a damn

   Okay, go off and wander
   I'm guilty just the same
   Sometimes you're needed badly
   So please come back again

   CHORUS

   Close
7. New Religion

   New Religion

   ×

   I've been now sauntering
   Out and down the path sometime
   Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew
   Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things
   Telling me not there, man, it's no go
   Don't go there boy

   I need a reason
   I can't think without one now
   Too much learning got to show
   Call it treason
   Maybe catch her, don't know how
   Too many things, too much to know

   Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind
   Lady screaming, lady leave me out
   'Cause sometimes people stare
   Coming down, electric chair
   And steaming crowds they gather and they shout

   Don't know why this evil bothers me
   Take another chance boy, carry the fight,
   you can take him if you're fast
   So why is he trying to follow me?
   didn't I say if you're holding on
   you'd be laughing at the last
   How many reasons do they need?
   I get along fine with them friends of mine
   but you have to make a choice
   I might just believe this time
   You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
   and it's us who makes the noise

   I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,
   It's a new religion
   I've something to see, I can't help myself,
   It's a new religion

   Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the sun
   But someone sees the departmental lie
   You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife
   Only get one look before you die

   Don't know why this evil bothers me
   Take another chance boy, carry the fight,
   you can take him if you're fast
   So why is he trying to follow me?
   didn't I say if you're holding on
   you'd be laughing at the last
   How many reasons do they need?
   I get along fine with them friends of mine
   but you have to make a choice
   I might just believe this time
   You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
   and it's us who makes the noise

   I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,
   It's a new religion
   I've something to see, I can't help myself,
   It's a new religion

   Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners
   In regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things
   Walking in formation down the lane,
   They carry their cross, make a church bell ring
   Army majors pull a mean cool truth,
   There lying in a swimming pool
   Searching for the undeniable truth that
   A man is just a fool

   Don't know why this evil bothers me
   Take another chance boy, carry the fight,
   you can take him if you're fast
   So why is he trying to follow me?
   didn't I say if you're holding on
   you'd be laughing at the last
   How many reasons do they need?
   I get along fine with them friends of mine
   but you have to make a choice
   I might just believe this time
   You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
   and it's us who makes the noise

   I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,
   It's a new religion
   I've something to see, I can't help myself,
   It's a new religion
   (repeat to fade)

   Close
8. Last Chance on the Stairway

   Last Chance on the Stairway

   ×

   I don't remember quite how I met you,
   Wasn't long ago
   Just get a picture of sun
   In your eyes, the waves in your hair
   Maybe it's something said in a movie
   Or you could've said last night
   Just took me out on a limb
   And I don't really know what I'm doing here

   And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
   My beat's so in time, can you look at me
   I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right
   I've had my last chance on the stairway

   Funny, it's just like a scene out of Voltaire
   Twisting out of sight
   'Cause when all the curtains are pulled back
   We'll turn and see the circles we traced
   Ain't no game...when you're playing with fire
   It doesn't seem right that we fight
   So the party runs on all night

   And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
   My beats so in time, can you look at me
   I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right
   So nervous to say, tell me, can't you see
   If you want, I fall out forever
   I can't say no more...bebe dance with me
   And please don't say leave it till later
   I've had my last chance on the stairway

   Wonder why
   Wonder why...what makes me rise so high
   Maybe it's something they put in your perfume
   Or the look in your eyes
   It could be the atmosphere sinking
   I don't even know what you're thinking
   Don't even know what you're drinking
   But it keeps this heaven alive

   And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
   My beats so in time, can you look at me
   I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right
   So nervous to say, tell me, can't you see
   If you want, I fall out forever
   I can't say no more...bebe dance with me
   And please don't say leave it till later
   I've had my last chance on the stairway

   Close
9. Save a Prayer

   Save a Prayer

   ×

   You saw me standing by the wall,
   Corner of a main street
   And the lights are flashing on your window sill
   All alone ain't much fun,
   So you're looking for the thrill
   And you know just what it takes and where to go

   Don't save a prayer for me now,
   Save it 'til the morning after
   No, don't say a prayer for me now,
   Save it 'til the morning after

   Feel the breeze deep on the inside,
   Look you down into the well
   If you can, you'll see the world in all his fire
   Take a chance
   (Like all dreamers can't find another way)
   You don't have to dream it all, just live a day

   Don't say a prayer for me now,
   Save it 'til the morning after
   No, don't say a prayer for me now,
   Save it 'til the morning after
   Save it 'til the morning after,
   Save it till the morning after

   Pretty looking road,
   try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin
   Don't ask me why I'll keep my promise,
   I'll melt the ice
   And you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance
   But fear is in your soul
   Some people call it a one night stand
   But we can call it paradise

   Don't say a prayer for me now,
   Save it 'til the morning after
   No, don't say a prayer for me now,
   Save it 'til the morning after
   Save it 'til the morning after
   Save it 'til the morning after
   Save it 'til the morning after
   Save it 'til the morning after

   Save a prayer 'til the morning after

   Close
10. The Chauffeur

    The Chauffeur

    ×

    Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving
    All looking for a new place to drive
    You sit beside me, so newly charming
    Sweating dew drops glisten, freshing your side

    CHORUS
    The sun slips down bedding heavy behind
    The front of your dress all shadowy lined
    And the droning engine throbs in time
    With your beating heart
    Sing Blue Silver

    Way down the lane away, living for another day
    The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze
    Swim seagull in the sky
    Towards that hollow western isle
    My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze

    CHORUS

    And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling
    What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind
    To tear out from your eyes
    With a word to stiffen brooding lies
    But I'll only watch you leave me further behind

    CHORUS

    Close
11. The Chauffeur (U.S. Album & EP Remixes) (2009 Reissue)
12. Rio (U.S. album remix) (2009 Reissue)
13. My Own Way (Carnival Remix & U.S. 12" Carnival EP) (2009 Reissue)
14. Lonely In Your Nightmare (U.S. album remix) (2009 Reissue)
15. Hungry Like The Wolf (U.S. album remix) (2009 Reissue)
16. Hold Back The Rain (U.S. album remix) (2009 Reissue)
17. Last Chance On The Stairway (Manchester Square Demos, Recorded August 28, 1981) (2009 Reissue)
18. My Own Way (Manchester Square Demos, Recorded August 28, 1981) (2009 Reissue)
19. New Religion (Manchester Square Demos, Recorded August 28, 1981) (2009 Reissue)
20. Like An Angel (Manchester Square Demos, Recorded August 28, 1981) (2009 Reissue)
21. My Own Way (original 7" version - U.K. single A-side, released Nov. 1981) (2009 Reissue)
22. Like An Angel (U.K. single B-side, released Nov. 1981) (2009 Reissue)
23. Careless Memories (live - U.K. single B-side, released May 1982) (2009 Reissue)
24. The Chauffeur (Sing Blue Silver) (U.K. single B-side, released Nov. 1982) (2009 Reissue)
25. My Own Way (Night Version) (U.K. 12" single A-side, released Nov. 1981) (2009 Reissue)
26. Hungry Like The Wolf (Night Version) (U.K. 12" single A-side, released May 1982) (2009 Reissue)
27. Rio (Night Version) (Dutch 12" Carnival EP, released Sept. 1982) (2009 Reissue)
28. New Religion (Carnival Remix) (Japanese 12" Carnival EP, released Sept. 1982) (2009 Reissue)
29. Hold Back The Rain (Carnival Remix) (U.S. 12" Carnival EP, released Sept. 1982) (2009 Reissue)