- All I Wanna Do
All i wanna do
Is get to know you.
All i wanna do
Is get to touch you.
Ooh, baby, ooh.
That's all i wanna do.
Ooh, baby, ooh.
- Committed
Take your time for book changing before rearranging
Don't you know that it's cold in here
It's been a long time since I've heard from you there
Let me tell you about the place I live
Four walls and a wooden fence
I get a letter from you every week
You want to tell me it's a recommence
When you're committed there's a hole in the wall
- It's Not Me Talking
I hear voices but there's no one there,
You speak to me in another language.
Computer says it's a binary code,
It's such a pity I can't understand it.
It's not me talking,
It's not me talking.
- Magic
Magic, magic, magic
Magic, magic, magic
Magic, magic, magic
Magic, magic, magic
Ooh, ooh, is that magic
Ooh, ooh, is that magic, ooh
- Modern Love Is Automatic
She's an automatic,
He's a cosmic man,
They will get together.
They should know better by now.
The meet in a garden
Down in old japan
Where young love's forbidden;
- Nightmares
You keep stopping when you could be walking,
Looking at the pictures on the wall.
You keep quiet when you should be talking.
You just don't make any sense at all.
Remember when you were much younger,
And you were lying in your bed
Among the satin sheets and pillows,
- Ordinary Man
wasting your life away in a factory
doesn't make it right
there's a price to pay for what you need
so you better start to fight
you have the eyes to see what's going down
but you can tell if it's a lie
if you had the power to change this world around
would the innocent still die
- Over The Border
I'm tired of living in Asia,
I'm tired of walking alone
I'm thinking of crossing the border
Whoa, to a new romance,
New romance,
New romance
- Rosenmontag
“Nightmares” was the 7th single released by synth-pop band A Flock Of Seagulls. The single was taken from the the bands second album “Listen.” “Nightmares” peaked at #53 on the UK singles chart on April 16, 1983 and #62 on the US Billboard Dance Chart.
The two B-sides reveal the often-overlooked experimental side of A Flock of Seagulls. Slightly edited versions of “The Last Flight of Yuri Gagarin” and “Rosenmontag” appeared on the original cassette and CD pressings of “Listen.” Both tracks are extended for this 12″ and have never appeared on CD. However the 2010 remastered CD version of “Listen” does contain the 12″ version of “Nightmares”.
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was a Russian cosmonaut and the first man in space. He orbited the earth in April 1961, a humilating blow to the U.S. spaceflight team which at the time was in heated competition with its communist counterparts. His “last flight” took place on March 27, 1968, when the UTI MiG-15 (an experimental jet he was piloting) crashed. He was 34 years old. The Apollo 15 astronauts put a plaque on the moon naming all of the men who’d died in the space race. Gagarin was honored among them.
“Rosenmontag” (German for “Rose Monday”) is a festival which takes place in Cologne, Germany in the days leading up to Lent. Rosenmontag is the Monday prior to Ash Wednesday. It is likely that the band learned about this Catholic holiday while in Germany during the recording of “Listen.” Coincidentally, it is also the title of a 1930 film directed by Hans Steinhoff.
- Standing In The Doorway
I can see you standing outside,
See your shadow on the wall by a street lamp.
I've got a manual instructing my brain.
I turn around, cover eyes, I see you
Standing in the doorway;
Standing in the doorway
I can see you.
- Transfer Affection
The Tapes'80 - Musical blog about 80's:
Hold on, hold on
Im trying to transfer affection,
Trying to feel factor four.
- Walking In The Garden
Somewhere down in New York town
There lives a friend of mine
But I haven't seen her face
For a very long, long time
She tried to tell me
That my life was getting harder
She took me by the hand
- Wishing
It's not the way you look,
It's not the way that you smile.
Although there's something to them.
It's not the way you have your hair,
It's not that certain style;
It could be that with you.
If I had a photograph of you,
- You're Mine
I'd like to know you
Much better than I do
I'd like to show you
Everything you need to know
I'd like to wrap you
Tightly in my arms
To keep you safe and