/ D /Duran Duran / Arcadia(1985)

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1. Election Day
2. Keep Me In The Dark
3. Goodbye Is Forevertorbreath
4. The Flame
5. Missing
6. Rose Arcana
7. Promise
8. El Diablo
9. Lady Ice


Election Day

No Wild kind of look to the day,
Opening eyes impale neon flickers
She moon she turning away,
The city's her slave he's cheating his mistress
She's moody and grey, she's mean and she's restless
So restless (So restless indeed)
All over you as they say
Rumours of rivals yell at the strike force
Hi guys, by the way
Are you aware you're being illegal?
It's making your saviour behavior look evil
'Scuse my timing but say,
How'd you fit in with this flim, flam and judy?

Maximum big surprise your smile is something new
I pull my shirt off and pray
We're sacred and bound to suffer the heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
We're coming up on re-election day

Stretching my luck down the way
To your invitation stretching my body
Use your intuitive play
'Cause maybe we have more playtime than money

Maximum big surprise she knows something new
I pull my shirt off and pray
I'm saving myself to suffer the heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
We're coming up on re-election day

By roads and backways a lover's chance down wind
Cut open murmers and sounds becalm hands on skin
Carry further entagled strands all sing
Time, saving some time to slip away we could dance

Oh....
Shouldn't be asking wild and scheming
Could be my election day

Maximum big surprise you know something new
I pull my shirt off and pray
We're sacred and bound to suffer the heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
We're coming up on re-election day

Re-election day


Note: The following lyrics appear in the lyric sheet
but do not appear in any mix of the song

Don't even try to induce
In all my restrain there's no hesitation
All the signs on the loose
'Cause sanity's rare this end of the hard day
Shadows are crawling out of the subway
Any way that you choose
In every direction just to confuse me


Keep Me In The Dark

Living When the evening sunlight's fingers stretch across the floor
Cover up your eyes with feathers softly close the door

Take me in your heavy lips, take me where the shadows slide
The lacey intrigue of this weekend should not be abused

You can take me where you want but could you take me all the time

Away yeah oh wait a little longer don't go too far
I wouldn't lie, I wouldn't like you keeping me in the dark

Tender is the truce I'm tasting but watching you dictates
Heady nights of sleepless wasting a face I can't escape

We could wave the world goodbye to all of the boys cheerio

Away yeah oh wait a little longer don't go too far
I wouldn't lie, I wouldn't like you keeping me in the dark

Help me cause I'm sinking deeper, tell me what to say
When without words you call me closer each time you turn away
Something inside you cries but it is something I'll never find

Away yeah oh wait a little longer before we go too far
I wouldn't lie, I wouldn't like to think you were keeping me in the dark



Goodbye Is Forever

Living Sometimes you have no choice
Sometimes you've got no voice to say
Say if you will the words
Say if your world is so grey
We can decide it
There'll be no tears no tragedy
Sure I wouldn't break and cry, if...
You walk away believe me

Hey, goodbye, goodbye is forever
Hey forever goodbye is forever and ever

Sometimes it makes no sense
This side of cruel coincidence
Caught up in our own barbed wire
To set us free belive this

Hey, goodbye, goodbye is forever
Hey forever goodbye is forever and ever



The Flame

Living Vengo de la tierra del fuego
Ten cuidado cuando llames mi nombre
(I come from the land of fire, be careful when you call my name)

I could feel the breeze blowing chance
Blowing through my doorway
Warm and restless just as you walked by
Inside of smoky halls a circle drawn
And voices call
To raise some magic wind in my world

Strange coincidence each time you look my way
This sinking feeling scares me
Know my weakness call it deja-vu
Never puy my trust in fate suprises do arrive so late
Why should I be suprised by you

Straight to the heart straight for this precious shining
How do you dare step into my flame?
One from the heart, one for this precious shining
How can you steel my flame?

Sometimes cards are drawn and the tables turn
The waiting game is over
Take this dealers hand and steal away the dawn
Don't give me any chance to wander back from this innocence
Don't give me any chances at all

Straight to the heart straight for this precious shining
How do you dare step into my flame?
One from the heart, one for this precious shining
How can you steel my flame?


Missing

Living And as I wander down to where you lay
The blood rushed up to meet
The roses in your hair
I thought I saw you smile
But now I don't see you anywhere

Whispering your love song in my ear
How can you touch me
When you're not really there?

Stumbling out I made my way
Toward the open door
Climbing fast the sun poured streaming laughter
Down into your empty gaze

Where can I find you now I want to
Join in your game
I hear you calling
i hear you calling calling calling calling

Whispering your love song in my ear
How can you touch me?
How do you really dare?


Rose Arcana

Living Instrumental


The Promise

Living Whose tears on a gaping voice
Who's stretching arms match the hunger of mine
There lips will they never join
But always draw me closer and further entwined

With a promise dealer understand all freedoms fade away
To a point of view where many different pathways meet
And we're standing on this precipice with nothing much to save
But the deep blue screams of falling dreams with our next move

Heaven hide your eyes
Heaven's eyes will never dry

The shades of a thousand steel
Come flashing by my face in the fury of war
In desolation and abandoned fields
The hungry make their stand when they'll stand for no more

Hear the passion in their voices see the heaven in their eyes
Their hopes and schemes are waiting dreams of less than paradise
And sometimes we make promises we never mean to keep
For blackmail is the only deal a promise dealer sees

Heaven hide your eyes
Heaven's eyes will never dry


El Diablo

Living Enter newborn players and gather weigh their innocence
Only the brightest shine but not forever
Many lights die many tears rain
When those tears run dry on a mountain madness day

You were just in time for a foolish deal for love I sold
I can't stand another howling day inside of this empty skin
While the beacons burn I'll say
Await return from so far away

One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame

Oh...

Oh el diablo el diablo won't you sell me back my soul
Oh el diablo el diablo won't you sell me back my soul

Wedding is on the wind does she blow my way
She can dance and she can sing she will tear your heart away
While the promise burns I'll stay
And will you return from so far away

One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame

One life but the devil is in my way

Oh...


Lady Ice

Living Lady Ice slips into her soul
Lady Ice leaves a house so cold
Lady Ice did you know that the world was lonely too?

Drifting snows searching plains and high
Turning stones as she looks for the heart somebody stole

She knows the violation
In lovers arms without occasion
Who knows where to find a true heart for Lady Ice

Mesmerised in the candle flame
Compromised by the cruel bands of steel around her breasts

She knows the desolation
Of lovers arms their isolation Who knows where to find the true heart for Lady Ice?

Lady's eyes slip away from the part she plays in school

She knows of roles and hideaways
Suppose she knows but turns away
She knows where to find the true heart for Lady Ice
Lady Ice step outside your soul
Lady Ice do you know that the world is frightened too