OMD DISCOGRAPHY | ALBUMS 1980

THE OMD SINGLES

ELECTRICITY

Our one source of energy
The ultimate discovery
Electric blue for me
Nevermore to be free

Electricity, nuclear and H.E.P.
Carbon fuels from the sea
Wasted electricity

Our one source of energy
Electricity
All we need to live today
A gift for man to throw away

The chance to change has nearly gone
The alternative is only one
The final source of energy
Solar electricity

Electricity
Electricity
Electricity
Electricity
Electricity
E...........

McCluskey/Humphreys © DinSong Ltd 1980

MESSAGES

It worries me this kind of thing
How you hope to live alone
And occupy your waking hours
We're taking sides again
I just wept I couldn't understand
Why you started this again

And everyday you send me more
It makes it worse is this a plan of yours
To ensure I don't forget
I'd write and tell you that I've burnt them all
But you never send me your address and I've
I've kept them anyway

So don't ask me if I think it's true
That communications can bring hope
To those who have gone their separate ways
It hardly touched me when it should have then
But memories are uncertain friends
When recalled by messages

Coded messages
Poison letters

McCluskey/Humphreys © DinSong Ltd 1980

ENOLA GAY

Enola Gay
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied

These games you play
They're going to end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way

It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home

Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never going to fade away

Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't fade in our dreams away

It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home

Enola Gay
s mother proud of little boy today
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away

McCluskey © DinSong Ltd 1980

SOUVENIR

It's my direction
It's my proposal
It's so hard
It's leading me astray

My obsession
It's my creation
You'll understand
It's not important now

All I need is
Co-ordination
I can't imagine
My destination
My intention
Ask my opinion
But no excuse
My feelings still remain
My feelings still remain

Humphreys/Cooper © DinSong Ltd 1981

JOAN OF ARC

A little Catholic girl who's fallen in love
A face on a page, a gift from above
She should have known better than to give her heart
She should have know better than to ever part

Without me
Without me

I gave her everything that I ever owned
I think she understood but she never spoke
She shouldn't ought to try to be that way
She shouldn't have to go there ever again

Without me
Without me

Now listen to us good and listen well
Listen to us all and everything we tell
We should have known better than to give her away
We should have know better to this very day

Without me
Without me

Now listen Joan of Arc
All you have to do
Is say the right words and I'll be coming through
Hold you in my arms and take you right away

Now she's on her way to another land
We never understood why she gave her hand
She shouldn't ought to promise because it's just pretend
I know she doesn't mean it and she'll leave again

Without me
Without me
Without me
Without me

McCluskey © DinSong Ltd 1981

MAID OF ORLEANS

If Joan of Arc had a heart
Would she give it as a gift
To such as me who longs to see
How an angel ought to be

Her dream's to give her heart away
Like an orphan on a wave
She cared so much she offered up
Her body to the grave

McCluskey © DinSong Ltd 1981

TESLA GIRLS

N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-No

No No No

Tes Tes T-T-T-T
Tesla Girls, Tesla Girls
Testing out theories
Electric chairs and dynamos
Dressed to kill they're killing me
But heaven knows their recipe

No No No

You wouldn't believe me if I said
The things I've seen went over my head
I've been patient heaven knows
I've learnt the rules and how it goes
I can't sit still or settle down
And when I walk I don't touch the ground
See those girls they're heaven blessed
I guess it's so they know best

Tesla Girls, Tesla Girls
Writing in their diaries
Now and then they'll watch TV
Now and then they'll speak to me
But heaven knows their recipe

No No No

You wouldn't believe them if they said
The things they've seen went over their heads
They've been patient heaven knows
They seem to care and so it goes
They can't sit still or settle down
And when they walk they don't touch the ground
See those girls they're heaven blessed
I guess it's so they know best

Tesla Girls
Tesla Girls
Tesla Girls
Tesla Girls

Tesla Girls, Tesla Girls
Testing out theories
Electric chairs and dynamos
Dressed to kill they're killing me

Tesla Girls, Tesla Girls
I'm in love with Tesla Girls
Now and then they'll watch TV
Now and then they'll speak to me
But heaven knows...
But heaven knows...
But heaven knows their recipe

No No No
No No No
No No
No No
No

OMD © Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1984

LOCOMOTION

Across every ocean
For the sake of locomotion
But I wouldn't have a notion
How to save my soul

I walk down the sidewalk
Run down the boardwalk
Stop and make small talk
But I can't say no to you

I can't say no I can't say yes
I can't even write down my own address
I can't touch heaven it's a little too far
It's the only way to travel
Got dreaming on a par
I'm staring through the window
Wonder where you are
Moving through the landscape
At a million miles an hour

Across every nation
From the harbour to the station
It's a form of inspiration
It's a power to the state

They run down the railways
Sail across the seaways
Fly through the airways
But they can't say no to you

I can't stand up I can't stand still
I know you wouldn't like it
If I told you how I feel
I just want to say that it's only common sense
But the words always fail me
At my own expense
I'm staring out the window
Wonder where you are
Moving through the landscape
At a million miles an hour

Crossing every ocean
For the sake of locomotion

OMD/Troeller © Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1984

TALKING LOUD AND CLEAR

Talking loud and clear
Saying just what we feel
Lying in the grass
With the sun on our backs
It doesn't really matter
What we do or what we say
With every little movement
We give ourselves away

Opposite and opposite
Decisions are reversed
Facing one another
With words that couldn't hurt
With very little word
You're getting closer to me
Talking loud and clear
Saying just what we feel today

Talking loud and clear
Saying just what we feel
Lying in the grass
We've got time on our hands
Body next to body
With silence all around
We understood each other
But didn't make a sound

Promises and promises
Of vows we shall return
Facing on another
I thought my heart would burn
You turn to move away
But then get closer to me
Talking loud and clear
Saying just what we feel today

OMD © Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1984

SO IN LOVE

Talk to me, don't lie to me
Save your breath
Don't look at me
Don't smile at me
Just close your eyes
I was so impressed by you
I was running blind
I would fall for every trick
Every twist of mind

Heaven is cold
Without any soul
It's hard to believe
I was so in love with you

Don't say your prayers
Don't build your hopes
Just walk away
Don't phone me up
Don't call around
Don't waste your time
You were so in awe of me
You were so divine
You would do just anything
To still be mine

All the things you said to me
I was so obsessed (don't cry)
You were always talking, talking
God I did my best

Heaven is cold
Without any soul
It's hard to believe
I was so in love with you

OMD © Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1985

IF YOU LEAVE

If you leave, don't leave now
Please don't take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then we'll go our separate ways
We always had time on our side
Now it's fading fast
Every second, every moment
We've got to, we've got to make it last

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
We always said we'd still be friends someday

If you leave, I won't cry
I won't waste one single day
But if you leave, don't look back
I'll run the other way
Seven years went under the bridge
Like time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You've got to, you've got to say you will

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
We always said we'd meet again

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
We always said we'd still be friends

I touch you once, I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I need you then
You always said we'd meet again someday

OMD © Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1986

(FOREVER) LIVE AND DIE

I never wanted another
Come over to me and discover
I want to be near you
And you need to be far away
You always seem to make me feel at home
Hey you

I never know, I never know
I never know why
You make me want to cry
I never know, I never know
I never know why
Forever live and die

I look at all of the people
They're over and over
You never get any older
I wish that you could be here
I look at you and I make the same mistakes
Hey you
People like us

I never know, I never know
I never know why
You make me want to cry
I never know, I never know
I never know why
Forever live and die

OMD © Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1986

DREAMING

If you were born in heaven girl
I'd understand so well
But ever since I met you child
You've made my life such hell
With every day that passes
I fall nearer to the ground
It seems that I've been looking for
Something that won't be found

I was only dreaming
I was only trying to catch your eye
I was only wishing you would notice me
Instead you said goodbye

Could this be the new answer then
To all the dreams we've made
Could there be some solution please
To rid me of this craze
But every single second that you
Hold me in your arms
You build me up you raise me up
You kill me with your charms

I was only dreaming
I was only trying to catch your eye
I was only wishing you would notice me
Instead you said goodbye

Won't you stay here tonight?
Won't you make these feelings last?
Can't we start this all again?
Would that be just too much to ask?

I was only dreaming
I was only trying to catch your eye
I was only wishing you would notice me
Instead you said goodbye

OMD © Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1988

SAILING ON THE SEVEN SEAS

You say that love will capture me
But not unless you give it free
We're sailing on the seven seas
Sister Ray is on TV
The light of love it shines so bright
That the FBI won't sleep tonight

Because I'm so in awe of you
That I don't know what to do
And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue

Sick and tired and don't know why
Skin and bone won't touch the sky
Sex and lies can't bring me down
Because I've sold my soul all over town

And I'm so in awe of you
That I don't know what to do
And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue

People try to drag us down
So we learn to swim before we drown

Because I'm so in awe of you
That I don't know what to do
And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue

And I'm so in awe of you
That I don't know what to do
And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue

OMD/Kershaw © Raw UnLtd Ltd/Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd 1991

PANDORA'S BOX

Born in Kansas
On an ordinary plain
Ran to New York
But ran away from fame
Only seventeen
When all your dreams came true
But all you wanted
Was someone to undress you

And all the stars you kissed
Could never ease the pain
Still the grace remains
And though the face has changed
You're still the same

And it's a long long way
From where you want to be
And it's a long long road
But you're too blind to see

Frame of silence
Of an innocence divine
Is a dangerous creation
When you fail the test of time

And all the photographs
Of ghosts of long ago
Still they hurt you so
Won't let you go
And you still don't know

And it's a long long way
From where you want to be
And it's a long long road
But you're too blind to see

When you look around yourself now
Do you recognise the girl?
The one who broke a thousand hearts
Terrified the world

And all the stars you kissed
Could never ease the pain
And if the face has changed
The grace remains
And you're still the same

And it's a long long way
From where you want to be
And it's a long long road
But you're too blind to see

CALL MY NAME

I've seen a new sensation
I heard you call in pain
But running round in circles
Won't make it right again
The telephone keeps ringing
Your head is in the sand
The future is unfolding
But it's not what you had planned

No matter what you do
There's no escape for you
You say we go too far
I say I'll take the car

So it always ends the same
And there's no one else to blame
But I'd die
If you would call my name

You're caught between two evils
You should have stayed at home
To wish upon and walk upon
A planet of your own

No matter what you do
There's no escape for you
You say we go too far
I say I'll take the car

So it always ends the same
And there's no one else to blame
But I'd die
If you would call my name

Yes I'd die
If you would call my name

No matter what you do
There's no escape for you
You say we go too far
I say I'll take the car

So it always ends the same
And there's no one else to blame
But I'd die
If you would call my name

Oh yes I'd die
If you would call my name

DREAM OF ME (BASED ON LOVE'S THEME)

Say it isn't right
To be alone tonight
So in love with you
Tell you what I'm gonna do about it

I had an idea
Based on a love theme
I had an idea
Based on a love theme

All I ever do
Is what you want me to
So in love with you
Tell you what I'm gonna do about it

I had an idea
Based on a love theme
I had an idea
Based on a love theme

Say it isn't right
To be alone tonight
So in love with you
Tell you what I'm gonna do about it

I had an idea
Based on a love theme
I had an idea
Based on a love theme

WALKING ON THE MILKY WAY

When I was only seventeen
My head was full of brilliant dreams
My heart would call and I would gladly go
At twenty one the world was mine
And I was yours and you're divine
And nothing else would matter to us so

I don't believe in destiny
I don't believe in love
I don't believe that anything
Will ever be enough

Man you should have seen us
On the way to Venus
Walking on the milky way
It was quite a day, hey hey...
Walking on the big stuff
Acting like we're real tough
Baby we were on our way
So what do you say, hey hey...

As time goes by reality
Destroys your hope and dignity
There's nothing left but shadows on the wall
But just remember who you are
And where you've been, you've come so far
And never ever let them see you fall

I don't believe in miracles
I don't believe in truth
I don't believe that anything
Can recreate your youth