Electric Light Orchestra : The Light Shines on Vol. 2
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1. 10538 OVERTURE (Full Length Version)
Did you see your friend, crying from his eyes today?
Did you see him run through the streets and far way?
Did you see him run? Did you see him fall?
Did his life flash by on the bedroom door?
Did you hear the news came across the air today?
Someone has been found on the rocks down in the bay.
Did you see him hide? Did you see him crawl?
Does his life mean more than it did before.
Did you see that man running through the streets today?
Did you catch his face, was it 10538?
2. FIRST MOVEMENT (Jumping Biz)
(Instrumental)
3. IN OLD ENGLAND TOWN (Boogie No. 2)
Down, down, you can see them all
Rising gaily to the top
Keep on rising babe you know you got a long drop
You better cling cos it's the done thing
Down, down, at the Policeman's Ball
They're all dancing in a line
Keep on gruntin' boys you know you're doin' fine
Come quickly I've been strangled
Down, down, at the Military
They're all marching round and round
Keep them boots shined and that still upper lip down
Ablution Revolution
Down, down, at the launching pad
Giant phallus stands erect
Ten thousand tons of waste throb then eject
Look out space, we're gonna change our place
Down, down, in old England Town
There was air and now there's smoke
Let's build more cars and drive away before we choke
Suddenly it's always night time
Down, down, at that nice Trade Fair
All the money gone astray
Let's inflate this price and float away
Just you and me and everyone
4. MANHATTAN RUMBLE (49th St. Massacre)
(Instrumental)
5. FROM THE SUN TO THE WORLD (Boogie No. 1)
Listen to me sister, I got news from the governor,
And he´s heard people shouting from the towers in the city,
While their babies grow in test tubes over night.
Run and fetch the priest 'cause there´s a light on in the building,
And there´s sounds blowin out in the music of the night,
And we should try to get the people out alive.
Movin´ cross the ocean with the flag of death a'flyin',
The demon butcher pointin' out the message on the tide,
And the demons light a´sailin' at his side.
Stormin' down the airwaves comes the protest and the prayin',
And the love that shone down from the sun to the world,
No longer could support the life it gave.
6. KUIAMA
My my Kuiama, she came in the morning,
She smiled but the tears on her little face
Showed the pain that had been in that far off place,
So sad, treated so bad.
My my Kuiama, don´t break your heart tryin,
To say how your Ma and your Pa passed away,
And they left you to wander the ruin and decay,
Real mean, that bullet machine.
See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles,
Is a long way and you´re here today,
And you won´t go back so you might say hello,
How do you do.
Kuia stop your cryin, there´s no bombs a´fallin,
No horsemen in the night a´ridin through your dreams,
Ansd tearing at your life, baby goodnight.
No more silver rain will hit your ground,
And no more guns will sound and no more life be drowned.
No more trenchies where the soldiers lie and,
No more people die, beneath that big black sky.
Wake up Kuiama, I got somethin to tell you,
It´s just that I mean, well that is to say,
That I´m trying to explain but I´ll start again for you,
I must be true.
Kuia in this country, they got rules with no reason,
They teach you to kill and they send you away
With your gun in your hand you pick up your pay,
So cool, that no mercy tool.
Kuia please believe me, I just couln´t help myself,
I wanted to run but they gave me a gun
And they told me the duty I owed to my fatherland,
I made my stand.
Kuia I just shot them, I just blew their heads open,
And I heard them scream in their agony,
Kuiama she waits there for me,
True blue, you saw it through.
7. NELLIE TAKES HER BOW
Who thanked the Lord for the clothes
That she wore and mended,
Nellie with the big old fashioned eyes
Who won the heart of a crowd
Tore apart, took a bow,
Nellie there's a different world backstage
(Chorus)
I see the flood lights burning
I hear the band play on
Now Nellie takes her bow
She said she really could not stay
She had a brand new play to play
And so she paints her face and smiles
And she'll be someone else in a while
(Chorus)
Just a lonely girl who could not face a broken world,
And so she acts out all her dreams and wishes that's how it had been
But when the audience is near, it seems as though she doesn't even care.
(Chorus)
Nellie just sent me a line to tell me she was doing fine
She got the lead and on Broadway, and now they're digging her today
And as she turns the final page, living
Someone's life upon the stage
(Chorus)
8. QUEEN OF THE HOURS
Queen of the hours, lies
Waiting for the wind,
To blow away the veil of time
Slowly now the threads of age
Are starting to unwind
Queen of the hours,
Along, along, along the path of time, of time
She is still, the clock shall tell,
The tale when all is well, is well
Black was the night that
Came in from the east
And caused the land to sleep
Riding on a storm it carved
A message in the Isabella Creek.
Dawn is the death wish
Night has passed away
It left a sacred flower
Open up the grave and bowed it´s life
Unto the Queen of the hours.
9. ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN (Full Length Version)
Gonna write a little letter gonna mail it to me local D.J.
It's a jumpin little record I want my jockey to play
Roll Over Beethoven, gotta hear it again today
My temperature's risin, the juke box's blowin a fuse
My heart's beatin a rhythm, singin out rhythm and blues
Roll Over Beethoven, they're rockin in two by two
Well if you feel you like it, go get your lover and reel and rock it
Roll it over and move on up now, go for cover and reel and rock it
Roll it over, Roll Over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news
Early in the mornin I'm a givin you the warnin,
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes
Hey diddle diddle gonna play my fiddle,
I ain't got nothing to lose
Roll Over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news
She wiggles like a glow-worm, dances like a spinning top
She got a crazy partner, you should have seen her reel and rock
Long as she got a dime, the music will never stop
Well if you feel you like it, go get your lover and reel and rock it
Roll it over and move on up now, go for cover and reel and rock it
Roll it over, Roll Over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues
Roll Over Beethoven, Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven, Roll Over Beethoven,
Roll Over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues?
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