OMD DISCOGRAPHY | ALBUMS 1980

ARCHITECTURE & MORALITY

THE NEW STONE AGE

This is the room
This is the wall
This is the body
I've been hoping for
These are the words
I've been longing just to say

So this is my goal
The aim of my life
This is the feeling
They warned me about

Oh my God
What have I done this time
Oh my God
What have I done this time

The think that you've done
You don't understand
The feeling the longing
The failing that's gone

(Real heart stop in
The arms to be
Everything shouting
In the new stone age)

Oh my God
What have I done this time
Oh my God
What have I done this time

(We'll start living
In the real stone age)

McCluskey © DinSong Ltd 1981

SHE'S LEAVING

Everyday
A new start
A cheap affair
A sordid truth
We never learn
To guide our hearts
We'll never find
What we deserve

She's leaving
She waited for so long

She'd pretend
That he cared
Invent some tale
Just to gain his heart
But no more dreams
She didn't dare
She washed her hands
Of this whole affair

She's leaving
She waited for so long

But as she left
She gave her heart
Abandoned hope
And turned for home
I thought I'd ask
Ah but then again
The more we learn
The less we know

The more we learn
The less we know

Humphreys/McCluskey © DinSong Ltd 1981

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

SEALAND

Sealand
Forgets
Her friends

She'll not
Leave them
Again

Mother
Sister
And home

These arms
Fail you
So

Humphreys/McCluskey © 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

GEORGIA

Well
Here we are again
Too
Too good to be friends

Forever, forever, forever

Well
Look at what we've done
Three
Three rolled into one

Together, together, together

So
How can this be true
We
We thought that we knew you

Forever, forever, forever

We will watch the morning star
Rising over home Georgia
Dancing in the ruins of the western world
Blindfolds on and we don't care

THE BEGINNING AND THE END

This is where we start
This now take our hearts
Away

Thus we reach the end
The beginning and the end
You see
I could not try
And here are you and I
Parting due to me only
And now