Uploaded by FallingDown08 on Jun 3, 2008
From Their 1978 Album Systems Of Romance.
Lyrics:
No reply
I'm trying hard to somehow frame a reply
Pictures, I've got pictures, and I run them in my head
When I can't sleep at night
Looking out at the white world and the moon
I feel a soft exchange taking place
Merging with the people on the brains (?)
Whirling my face in conversation
Slow motion
Slow motion
Hush, can you feel the trees so far away?
Hush, can you feel the breeze of another day?
When we held each other close in the night
While we wheeled away in our own light
Stepping sideways into our own time
Such a simple way
Slow motion
Slow motion
And we held each other close in the night
While we wheeled away in our own light
And some of us from another time
And drifted away
Slow motion
Slow motion
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It's strange to see this immediately listed as a single underneath 'Sleepwalk' the 1st release with Midge Ure fronting the band, taking them from punk & psychedelia into New Romantisicism, synth-whimsy and goth-like orchestration. Even more amazing this song charted higher than Midge's follow-up 'Passing Strangers'. This remains the only Foxx sung 'old-school' Ultravox song included on their singles discography past 1980!
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bought the Lp vinyl in 78 and loved ever since!
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was this the founder of eighties music............I think so
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the one dislike did it to be different
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And some of us found another time .... and drifted away...
....slow motion.
Merry christamas to0 you all.
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maybe the best album ive ever owned..such a huge influence on what i listen to today..."systems of romance"..brilliant...eno, numan, bowie, simple minds, etc
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The first song I ever played live was a cover of this (wise, now looking back on our original material!)
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midge ure thumbed down
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Cheers! Nice to find agreement on this 'ere medium - usually I just get slagged off for my opinions.
We say that Midge changed the sound of the group but in all fairness, the metamorphosis was already underway. In some - nay many - respects this album, Systems of Romance*, sounds more like the Ure period than it did Ha! Ha! Ha!*, the LP just previous to it. * I added the names, not for whom I am responding to, but the casual viewers who don't know the Foxx stuff.
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@bodsnvimto Me too, me too and I couldn't agree more!
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Gary Numan once nominated this as his all-time favourite song.
Dristarg 1 year ago 15
Not true, i listened to ultravox ( foxx days anyway) and saw most of the punk bands at the time, i knew others who also followed both.
permaveg 2 years ago 11