Tracklisting

1. Click title for lyrics
2. The Reflex

   The Reflex

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   "You've gone too far this time"
   But I'm dancing on the valentine
   I tell you somebody's fooling around
   With my chances on the dangerline
   I'll cross that bridge when I find it
   Another day to make my stand
   High time is no time for deciding
   If I should find a helping hand

   CHORUS
   So why don't you use it?
   Try not to bruise it
   Buy time don't lose it
   The reflex is an only child he's waiting in the park
   The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
   And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre
   Every little thing the reflex does
   Leaves you answered with a question mark

   I'm on a ride and I want to get off
   But they won't slow down the roundabout
   I sold the Renoir and the TV set
   Don't want to be around when this gets out

   CHORUS

   Oh the reflex what a game he's hiding all the cards
   The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
   And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre
   Evey little thing the reflex does
   Leaves you answered with a question mark

   Close
3. New Moon on Monday

   New Moon on Monday

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   Shake up the picture the lizard mixture
   With your dance on the eventide
   You got me coming up with answers
   All of which I deny
   I said it again
   Could I please rephrase it
   Maybe I can catch a ride
   I couldn't really put it much plainer
   But I'll wait till you decide
   Send me your warning siren
   As if I could ever hide
   Last time La Luna

   CHORUS
   I light my torch and wave it for the
   New moon on Monday
   And a firedance through the night
   I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite

   Breaking away with the best of both worlds
   A smile that you can't disguise
   Every minute I keep finding
   Clues that you leave behind
   Save me from these reminders
   As if I'd forget tonight
   This time La Luna

   CHORUS

   Close
4. (I'm Looking For) Cracks in the Pavement

   (I'm Looking For) Cracks in the Pavement

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   I shed my skin
   When the party was about to begin
   I'm light years away but I'm walking back tonight
   Of all nights
   When I should be feeling just right
   Don't want to be in public
   My head is full of chopstick
   I don't like it

   CHORUS
   Something on my mind
   Breaking open doors I had sealed up before
   Something on my mind
   Makes me run when I thought I'd run too far

   Somebody shaking my tree
   Maybe that somebody is me
   I'm standing in the light but
   I'm making a break for the shadows
   On the cinema wall
   They should be mine but I'm not that tall
   Now I'm saying this in privaate
   If I had a car I'd drive it
   Insane

   CHORUS

   I'm looking for cracks in the pavement

   Close
5. I Take the Dice

   I Take the Dice

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   Midnight I think I'm gonna make it
   Feel the magical lash of the roll
   and the crash in their lives
   Headline in tomorrow's papers
   Kill that light it's so bright
   And you're shining it right in my eyes

   CHORUS
   Show me your secret and tell me your name
   Catch me with your fizzy smile
   Try to remember again and again
   What it is that I recognise
   Don't ask me now
   When I need you I don't know how
   To believe in your advice
   Just this once I take the dice

   Midnight so what's the point of faking
   For a kiss or a whisper
   you pull out a desperate prize
   Hold tight onto Daddy's bracelet
   Make them pay for their chances
   With money they don't think that's nice

   CHORUS

   Close
6. Of Crime and Passion

   Of Crime and Passion

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   Why did you let me run
   When you knew I'd fall for the gaping hole
   Where your heart should be
   Liar-couldn't cut me deeper with a knife if you tried
   Just take a look (before you run off and hide)
   At your victim
   arise

   Clouds on you shoulder
   Aren't they grazed by the afterglow
   How quiet they gather
   When the storm is about to blow

   CHORUS
   No don't look away
   Caught in the crossfire
   And it ain't no wind of change
   I'm talking of crime and passion's rage

   Summer of madness or the undertow
   Dragged me up an alley for the blossoming fire
   On a stranger's smile
   Bride of wire-how disguise so easily cracked
   Saw your heart turn spade
   This orchid's turned to black

   Graze on your shoulder
   Like the clouds in the afterglow
   How quiet they gather
   When the storm is about to blow

   CHORUS

   Way down by the shoulder
   In the haze of the afterglow
   Stranded together
   And the storm is about to blow

   CHORUS

   Close
7. Union of the Snake

   Union of the Snake

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   Telegram force and ready
   I knew this was a big mistake
   There'sa fine line drawing
   My senses together
   And I think it's about to break

   If I listen close I can hear them singers
   Voices in your body coming through on the radio
   The Union of the Snake is on the climb
   Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break
   Through the borderline

   Nightshades on a warning
   Give me strength at least give me a light
   Give me anything even sympathy
   There's a chance you could be right

   The Union of the Snake is on the climb
   It's gonna race it's gonna break
   Gonna move up to the borderline

   Close
8. Shadows on Your Side

   Shadows on Your Side

   ×

   Shackled and raised for a shining crowd
   They want you to speak but the music is louder than
   All of their roar with the heat of the planet's core-but

   CHORUS
   The shadows are on your side
   As soon as the lights go down
   In the darkest place you can find
   You belong to the hands of the night

   Promises made with a distant friend
   Truth should be known it can only bend
   To a tune of its own
   Hey you'll never hear that voice again
   Scandal in white on a tangled vine
   With everybody to say that you're having the
   Time of your life when your life is on the slide-but

   CHORUS

   Spinning a compass to choose your way
   You can run you can dive you can stand and you can soar
   Whichever way you can be sure-that

   CHORUS

   Shadows on your side
   The shadows are on your side

   Close
9. Tiger Tiger

   Tiger Tiger

   ×

   (Instrumental)

   Close
10. The Seventh Stranger

    The Seventh Stranger

    ×

    Those words are all remainders
    Echoes growing in the heart of twilight
    They lay back laughing at naivety's star
    Awaken all those whispers in the dusty shadow of a
    passing favour
    I wouldn't say that you were ruthless or right
    I couldn't see from so far
    Was I chasing after rainbows
    One thing for sure you never answered when I called
    And I wiped away the water from my face
    To look through the eyes of a stranger
    For rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd
    Trading in my shelter for danger
    I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
    In the eyes of a stranger

    Can't tell the real from reflections
    When all these faces look the same to me
    In every city such a desolate dream
    Some days are strange to number
    some say the seventh sounds a little bit stranger
    A year of Sundays seems to have drifted right by
    (I could have sworn) in one evening
    And I'm not seized in desperation
    No steel reproaches on the table from before
    But I still can feel those splinters of ice
    I look through the eyes of a stranger
    For rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd
    Trading in my shelter for danger
    I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
    In the eyes of a stranger

    I must be chasing after rainbows
    One thing for sure you never answer when I call
    And I wipe away the water from my face
    To look through the eyes of a stranger
    For rumour in the wake of such a lonely crowd
    Trading in my shelter for danger
    I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
    Walking away like a stranger
    From rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd
    Trading in my shelter for danger
    I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
    In the eyes of a stranger

    Close
11. Is There Something I Should Know? [from `Is There Something I Should Know?' 7" & 12" singles - released March 26, 1983] (2010 Rerelease)
12. Faith In This Colour [from `Is There Something I Should Know?' 12" single - released March 26, 1983] (2010 Rerelease)
13. Faith In This Colour (Alternate Slow Mix) [from `Is There Something I Should Know?' 7" single] (2010 Rerelease)
14. Secret Oktober [from `Union Of The Snake' 7" & 12" singles - released October 29, 1983] (2010 Rerelease)
15. Tiger Tiger (Ian Little Remix) [from `New Moon On Monday' 7" & 12" singles - released February 4, 1984] (2010 Rerelease)
16. The Reflex (Single Version) [from `The Reflex' 7" & 12" singles - released April 28, 1984] (2010 Rerelease)

    The Reflex (Single Version) [from `The Reflex' 7" & 12" singles - released April 28, 1984] (2010 Rerelease)

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    [Intro]
    The-The-The-The-The reflex
    The reflex
    The reflex
    The reflex-fle-fle-fle-fle-flex

    [Verse 1]
    You've gone too far this time
    But I'm dancing on the Valentine
    I tell you somebody's fooling around
    With my chances on the danger line

    I'll cross that bridge when I find it
    Another day to make my stand, oh woah
    High time is no time for deciding
    If I should find a helping hand, oh woah

    [Refrain]
    Why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it
    Oh, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it

    [Chorus]
    The reflex is a lonely child, who's waiting by the park
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
    And watching over lucky clover, isn't that bizarre?
    And every little thing the reflex does
    Leaves you answered with a question mark

    [Verse 2]
    I'm on a ride, and I want to get off
    But they won't slow down the roundabout
    I sold the Renoir and TV set
    Don't wanna be around when this gets out

    [Refrain]
    So, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it
    Oh, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it

    [Bridge]
    Why? Why-Why-Why? (Yeah)
    Why? Why-Why-Why? (Yeah)
    Why don't you use it?

    [Chorus]
    The reflex is a lonely child, he's waiting in the park
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
    And watching over lucky clover, isn't that bizarre?
    And every little thing the reflex does
    Leaves an answer with a question mark

    [Post-Chorus]
    Fle-fle

    [Instrumental Break]

    [Refrain]
    So, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it
    Oh, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it

    [Chorus]
    The reflex is a lonely child who's waiting by the park
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
    And watching over lucky clover, isn't that bizarre?
    And every little thing the reflex does
    Leaves me answered with a question mark

    [Outro]
    Oh, the reflex, what a game, he's hiding all the cards
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark—[Intro]
    The-The-The-The-The reflex
    The reflex
    The reflex
    The reflex-fle-fle-fle-fle-flex

    [Verse 1]
    You've gone too far this time
    But I'm dancing on the Valentine
    I tell you somebody's fooling around
    With my chances on the danger line

    I'll cross that bridge when I find it
    Another day to make my stand, oh woah
    High time is no time for deciding
    If I should find a helping hand, oh woah

    [Refrain]
    Why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it
    Oh, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it

    [Chorus]
    The reflex is a lonely child, who's waiting by the park
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
    And watching over lucky clover, isn't that bizarre?
    And every little thing the reflex does
    Leaves you answered with a question mark

    [Verse 2]
    I'm on a ride, and I want to get off
    But they won't slow down the roundabout
    I sold the Renoir and TV set
    Don't wanna be around when this gets out

    [Refrain]
    So, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it
    Oh, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it

    [Bridge]
    Why? Why-Why-Why? (Yeah)
    Why? Why-Why-Why? (Yeah)
    Why don't you use it?

    [Chorus]
    The reflex is a lonely child, he's waiting in the park
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
    And watching over lucky clover, isn't that bizarre?
    And every little thing the reflex does
    Leaves an answer with a question mark

    [Post-Chorus]
    Fle-fle

    [Instrumental Break]

    [Refrain]
    So, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it
    Oh, why don't you use it?
    Try not to bruise it
    Buy time, don't lose it

    [Chorus]
    The reflex is a lonely child who's waiting by the park
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
    And watching over lucky clover, isn't that bizarre?
    And every little thing the reflex does
    Leaves me answered with a question mark

    [Outro]
    Oh, the reflex, what a game, he's hiding all the cards
    The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark—

    Close
17. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) [recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, November 1982, mixed by Ian Little. From `The Reflex' 7" & 12" singles released April 28, 1984] (2010 Rerelease)

    Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) [recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, November 1982, mixed by Ian Little. From `The Reflex' 7" & 12" singles released April 28, 1984] (2010 Rerelease)

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    You've done it all, you've broken every code
    And pulled the rebel to the floor
    You spoilt the game, no matter what you say
    Only metal, what a bore!

    Blue eyes, blue eyes
    How come you tell so many lies?
    Come up and see me, make me smile
    Or do what you want, running wild

    There's nothing left, all gone and run away
    Maybe you'll tarry for a while
    It's just a test, a game for us to play
    Win or lose, it's hard to smile

    Resist, resist
    It's from yourself, you have to hide, oh

    So come up and see me to make me smile, oh
    Or do what you want, running wild

    There ain't no more, you've taken everything
    From my belief in Mother Earth
    How can you ignore my faith in everything
    'Cause I know what faith is and what it's worth

    Away, away
    And don't say maybe you'll try

    To come up and see me to make me smile
    Or do what you want running wild

    Come up and see me, make me smile
    Or do what you want, running wild

    Close
18. New Religion [recorded live at the Los Angeles Forum February 9, 1984. From `The Reflex' U.S. 12" single - released April 1984] (2010 Rerelease)
19. The Reflex [recorded live at the Los Angeles Forum February 9, 1984. From `The Reflex' U.S. 12" single - released April 1984] (2010 Rerelease)
20. Is There Something I Should Know? (Monster Mix) [from `Is There Something I Should Know?' 12" single - released March 26, 1983] (2010 Rerelease)
21. Union Of The Snake (The Monkey Mix) [from `Union Of The Snake' 12" single -released October 29, 1983] (2010 Rerelease)
22. New Moon On Monday (Dance Mix) [from `New Moon On Monday' 12" single - released February 4, 1984] (2010 Rerelease)
23. The Reflex (Dance Mix) [from `The Reflex' 12" single - released April 28, 1984] (2010 Rerelease)
24. Intro: Tiger Tiger (2010 Rerelease)
25. Is There Something I Should Know? (2010 Rerelease)
26. Hungry Like the Wolf (2010 Rerelease)
27. Union of the Snake (2010 Rerelease)
28. New Religion (2010 Rerelease)
29. Save a Prayer (2010 Rerelease)
30. Rio (2010 Rerelease)
31. The Seventh Stranger (2010 Rerelease)
32. The Chauffeur (2010 Rerelease)
33. Planet Earth (2010 Rerelease)
34. Careless Memories (2010 Rerelease)
35. Girls On Film (2010 Rerelease)
36. Is There Something I Should Know? (Music video) (2010 Rerelease)
37. Union Of The Snake (Music video) (2010 Rerelease)
38. New Moon On Monday (EP Version) (Music video) (2010 Rerelease)
39. The Reflex (Music video) (2010 Rerelease)
40. New Moon On Monday (Movie Version) (Music video) (2010 Rerelease)
41. Is There Something I Should Know? [March 23, 1983] ("Top Of The Pops" TV Performance) (2010 Rerelease)
42. The Reflex [April 26, 1984] ("Top Of The Pops" TV Performance) (2010 Rerelease)