Systems of Romance lyrics

Waiting, we were waiting
As the traffic moved through all our hearts and our heads
But things were different then
For the quiet men

Shifting, things were shifting
Through the walls and hall, there were no walls at all
For the quiet friends
Of the quiet men

Oh, the quiet men
Oh, the quiet men

Springtime, there was sunshine
Through the window panes, down all the English lanes

I thought you knew me by now
Let the lights go on roaring
Someone's hand on my shoulder
Then whip past the turning point
There's time for the taking

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Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration
Maximum acceleration

A face that goes slowly
A signal close by me
The landscapes are changing
And some of us flipped a coin
And shimmered away

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You really were aching

Talking in the window as the light fades
I heard my voice break just for a moment
Talking by the window as the light fades
I felt the floor change into an ocean
We'll never leave here, never
Let's stay in here forever
And when the streets are quiet
We'll walk out in the silence

Listening to the movement that the night makes
I let the room fade just for a moment

No reply
I'm trying hard to somehow frame a reply
Pictures, I've got pictures, and I run them in my head
When I can't sleep at night
Looking out at the white world and the moon
I feel a soft exchange taking place
Merging with the people on the brains (?)
Whirling my face in conversation
Slow motion
Slow motion

Hush, can you feel the trees so far away?

Some of them are changing day to day
Some of them flicker then they fade
Some of them are triggered off by any crazy thing

Some of them are all that's left
Some of them are just dead regrets
Some of them are shining out through everything I see

Some of them
Some of them
Some of them

Some of them are brittle, some are sad
Some of them are aching, some are glad

Check out some memories I don't recognise
Another country and another life
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh

I find I'm strolling on a distant shore
To meet someone I've never seen before
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh

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I'm wearing someone else's clothes again
Walking in the streets I know again
Back in the old familiar glow again
I'm wearing someone else's clothes

It's warm tonight
It rained tonight
The windows are all open wide
Can't see the clock to check the time
Nothing is moving
When you walk through me

I turn around
To switch the scene
The room dives like a submarine
I cross the carpet trying to leave
Sometimes I can do it
When you walk through me

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When you walk through me
I almost lose me
It's so confusing

I thought I'd take the slide
I thought I'd be alright
But when the details swam
Oh no, the door got jammed
Someone took the hand
And we were out slow dancing

In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh
In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh
In the blue light, blue light, uh-huh
In the blue light, blue light
Blue light, blue light

There was a crowd below
Swanning in the glow

Running down an empty street
Perhaps it was a railway station
Smell of ??? cologne
The sound of a celebration

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Oh-oh-oh dislocation
Oh-oh-oh dislocation

Just a swimmer growing dimmer in the glimmer of a summer
Waving gladly, swimming madly, never never going under

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The sun was going down one quiet evening
Someone came into the room while I was half-asleep