1983 texty :: Dmstrangers

DEPECHE MODE - CONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN (1983)

1. LOVE, IN ITSELF

All of these insurmountable tasks

That lay before me

All of the firsts

And the definite lasts

That lay in store for me

There was a time

When all on my mind was love

Now I find

That most of the time

Love's not enough

In itself

Consequently

I've a tendency

To be unhappy, you see

The thoughts in my head

All the words that were said

All the blues and the reds

Get to me

All of the absurdities

That lay before us

All of the doubts

And the uncertainties

That lay in store for us

2. MORE THAN A PARTY

Lots of surprises in store

This isn't a party

It's a whole lot more

We've had enough of this blind man's bluff

You've kept us in the dark for long enough

This is more than a party

More than a party

Keep telling us we're to have fun

Then take all the ice cream so we've got none

The failed magician waves his wand

And in an instant the laughter's gone

Loads of surprises in store

This isn't a party

It's a whole lot more

3. PIPELINE

Get out the crane

Construction time again

What is it this time

We're laying a pipeline

Let the beads of sweat flow

Until the ends have met through

Could take a long time

Working on the pipeline

Taking from the greedy

Giving to the needy

On this golden day

Work's been sent our way

That could last a lifetime

Working on the pipeline

From the heart of our land

To the mouth of the man

Must reach him sometime

We're laying a pipeline

Taking from the greedy

Giving to the needy

4. EVERYTHING COUNTS

The handshake seals the contract

From the contract there's no turning back

The turning point of a career

In Korea being insincere

The holiday was fun-packed

The contract, still intact

The grabbing hands grab all they can

All for themselves - after all

The grabbing hands grab all they can

All for themselves - after all

It's a competitive world

Everything counts in large amounts

The graph on the wall

Tells the story of it all

Picture it now see just how

The lies and deceit gained a little more power

Confidence - taken in

By a suntan and a grin

The grabbing hands grab all they can

All for themselves - after all

The grabbing hands grab all they can

All for themselves - after all

It's a competitive world

Everything counts in large amounts

The grabbing hands grab all they can

Everything counts in large amounts

5. TWO MINUTE WARNING

We're lying by the orange sky

Two million miles across the land

Scattered to the highest high

Expect they'll either laugh or cry

No sex, no consequence, no sympathy

You're good enough to heat

Two minute warning

Two minutes later

When time has come

My days are numbered

The dawning of another year

Marks time for those who understand

One in four still here

While you and I go hand in hand

No radio, no sound, no sin, no sanctuary

So welcome to your last

The sun, the solitude, the cemetary

So welcome to your last

6. SHAME

Do you ever get that feeling

When the guilt begins to hurt

Seeing all the children

Wallowing in dirt

Crying out with hunger

Crying out in pain

At least the dirt will wash off

When it starts to rain

Soap won't wash away your shame

Do you ever get that feeling

That something isn't right

Seeing your brother's fists

Clenched ready for the fight

Soon the fighting turns to weapons

And the weapons turn to wounds

So the doctors stitch and stitch

And stitch and stitch and stitch

And stitch and stitch

Surgery won't improve your pain

It all seems so stupid

It makes me want to give up

But why should I give up

When it all seems so stupid

Do you ever get the feeling

That something can be done

To eradicate these problems

And make the people one

Do you ever get that feeling

Something like a nagging itch

And all the while the doctors

Stitch and stitch and stitch

And stitch and stitch

Hope alone won't remove the stains

Shame

7. THE LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING

The landscape is changing

The landscape is crying

Thousands of acres of forest are dying

Carbon copies from the hills above the forest line

Acid streams are flowing ill across the countryside

'Cause I don't care if you're going nowhere

Just take good care of the world

I don't care if you're going nowhere

Just take good care of the world

Now we're re-arranging

There's no use denying

Mountains and valleys, can't you hear them sighing

Evolution, the solution or the certainty

Can you imagine this intrusion of their privacy

Token gestures, some semblance of intelligence

Can we be blamed for the security of ignorance

8. TOLD YOU SO

And do those feet in modern times

Walk upon the flowers

And walk upon their brothers

While their heads are busy lying low

Trying to keep to cover...oh

Something went wrong

Along the way

Everybody's waiting for

Judgment day

So they can go

Told you so

Bring me my gun of itching desire

Bring me my bullets and I will fire

Sights set higher than the tall church spire

Standing in line

The blind lead the blind

Waiting and waiting

For an overdue sign

Brothers and sisters

Playing Chinese whispers

If things aren't suited

Then they'll get diluted

There's one more dead with a hole in his head

He shouldn't have said all the things he said

Many tears were shed for the blood he bled

9. AND THEN

Let's take a map of the world

Tear it into pieces

All of the boys and the girls

Will see how easy it is

To pull it all down and start again

From the top to the bottom and then

I'll have faith or, I prefer

To think that things couldn't turn out worse

All that we need at the start's

Universal Revolution (That's all!)

And if we trust in our hearts

We'll find the solutions

Took a plane across the world

Got in a car

When I had reached my destination

I hadn't gone far

Let's take the whole of the world

The mountains and the sand

Let all the boys and the girls

Shape it in their hands

10. GET THE BALANCE RIGHT

There's more besides joyrides

Little house in the countryside

Understand, learn to demand,

Compromise, sometimes lie

Get the balance right, get the balance right

Be responsible, respectable,

Stable but gullible

Concerned and caring,

Help the helpless

But always remain ultimately selfish

Get the balance right, get the balance right

You think you've got a hold of it all

You haven't got a hold at all

When you reach the top, get ready to drop

Prepare yourself for the fall, you're gonna fall

It's almost predictable

Don't take this way, don't that way

Straight down the middle until next Thursday

Push to the left, back to the right

Twist and turn 'til you've got it right

Get the balance right

11. THE GREAT OUTDOORS - IMSTRUMENTAL

12. WORK HARD