You say that I put chains on you
But I don't think that's really true
But if you want to be free from me
You gotta lose me in another world.

Send me to the congo, I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead
Send me to the congo, you have to believe
You can do it if you wanna just do what you please.

Like a soldier ant
I will wait for the signal to act
To take a walk right through the door
If you don't want me here anymore.

Send me to the congo, I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead
Send me to the congo, you have to believe
You can do it if you wanna just do what you please.

Into my heart you came and gave a whole new meaning to my life
Into my world you brought a light, I thought it never would go out.

Send me to the congo, I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead
Send me to the congo, you have to believe
You can do it if you wanna just do what you please.

You can send me to the congo, I'm free to leave
There's always somewhere anybody can lead
Yes you can send me to the congo, you have to believe
You can do it if you wanna just do what you please.

I would never be the one to say you had no reason
To want me somewhere else far, far away
Someday you may understand, someday you will see
That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been
If that's how it's got to be, if that's what you want from me.

I would never be the one to say you had no reason
To want me somewhere else far, far away
Someday you may understand, someday you will see
That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been.

I'm a million miles from anywhere, where can I be
Somewhere out in the ocean
Just take a look out on the horizon, what can you see
There's nothing there for me.

I feel shipwrecked
I might as well be shipwrecked
I'm helpless and alone, drifting out to sea
I can't believe what you said to me.

Even standing on the corner of a busy city street
I still feel so lonely
Why d'you say you wanna be with me
But the next day say you don't.

I'm shipwrecked
I might as well be shipwrecked
I'm helpless and alone, drifting out to sea
I can't believe what you said to me.

Without you I feel shipwrecked
But I can't let it show
A million miles away from anywhere, ooh, ooh, oh.

Is it my imagination
Or is it getting darker, are the waves getting higher
I'm a million miles from anywhere
A million miles from anything, I'm ooh.

You know that's why I'm shipwrecked
I might as well be shipwrecked
I'm helpless and alone, drifting out to sea
I can't believe what you said to me
You know that's why I'm shipwrecked, shipwrecked
Losing my direction
Please come and rescue me (shipwrecked)
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked
Shipwrecked.
 

Woke up in the morning, staggered out of bed
Thought about getting back again, but went downstairs instead
Read the daily paper, have to know the truth
Slammed the door as I ran outside
Looked at my watch and cried
Gotta get to work on time
Gotta get to work on time.

Then the sky turned to deeper blue
Not a cloud as the sun shone through
But all around rain kept falling to the ground
The wind was blowing but the trees didn't make a sound.

Just another alien afternoon
Just another alien afternoon.

Time that I was leaving while there's still a chance
Before I start believing in what I see or hear
Nothing here to keep me, nothing anywhere
Gotta get out, pack my bags before I go insane.

Gotta get away in time
Gotta get away in time.

Then the sky turned from blue to green
Took on colours I have never seen
Then a sound started ringing in my ears
I heard voices but in truth there's nobody there.

Just another alien afternoon
Just another alien afternoon.

To be there, back where I belong
To feel again, the wind upon my face
To see again, all that I took for granted
All that I had
And everything I knew.

Never want to go wandering
Never leaving the world behind
There was never a reason to leave my heart and my home behind
Where I was born is where I should be now
I should never be lonely
I would never be sad again.

I wanted to go anywhere
I wanted to see how strange it could be
Nothing would ever take me away again
Never want to go wandering
Never leaving the world behind
No, no, no, no
Nothing will ever take me away again, away again
No, no, no, no.
 

Talking makes us human
That's what I was told
So why do I find it so difficult
To let my feelings unfold
Had I the courage to tell you
I promise you this.

If that's what you need
I'll be the river, I'll be the mountain, always beside you
If that's what you need
I will be stronger, I will be braver than ever before.

And when you came along and turned it all around
I promised myself I wouldn't tell you
Until we stood on solid ground
Holding the candle between us, I'll tell you this.

If that's what you need
I'll be the river, I'll be the mountain, always beside you
If that's what you need
I will be stronger, I will be braver than ever before.

And if there's any kind of danger
I hear you calling out my name
You can follow in my footsteps
And I will lead you safely back again.

I never understood you
However hard I tried
But it took me a while until I realised
That all the problems were mine
Holding you nearer to me to tell you this.

If that's what you need
I'll be the river, I'll be the mountain, always beside you
If that's what you need
I will be stronger, I will be braver than ever before
And when things go wrong
I'll be your conscience there to remind you all of your life.

There has always been a dividing line
But you choose, you choose, yes you choose not to see it
And then you wonder why you fall.

Cuts through the heart of every city
If you climb to the top of the highest building
See where it falls as the street lights up the colours start to change
You hear a voice inside you
Not the words that you wanted to hear
Not the things that you wanted to see hey, hey, hey, hey.

In the comfort and safety of your own home
Remember those outside in the cold and the wind and the rain
Take in your hands a little ray of light
And turn it into a beam that pierces the darkness of the night.

There has always been a dividing line
But you choose, you choose, yes you choose not to see it
Sometimes we believe if we close our eyes the rain might wash it away
That's why we stumble and we fall
Not the words that you wanted to hear
Not the things that you wanted to see hey, hey, hey, hey.

When everything that you hold dear to you
Has finally faded away from your life
The last cold ray of sunshine slowly disappears
Round the corner of the building
And leaves you alone
When darkness covers the city
And the streets are silent too
What will you turn to.
 

A day of uncertain weather
Captured in a frame forever
A face in a faded photograph.

He must have had a life
Maybe with a family
People who meant everything to him
A sinner, a saint, a soldier
Caught up in a war he never had a chance to start to build a life.

All gone, long ago
Leaving no trace, disappearing like smoke in the wind
To become just a face without a name
Leaving no trace, disappearing like smoke in the wind.

Hopes and fears, important plans, forgotten memories
Footsteps fading in the sand, ooh
Sleeps and dreams, small and grand, nothing left to see
Footsteps fading in the sand, ooh.

Someone who casts the shadow, maybe just a lazy man
Doesn't make much difference now, it's true.

A day of uncertain weather
Captured in a frame forever
A face in a faded photograph.
 
All gone, long ago
Leaving no trace, disappearing like smoke in the wind
To become, just a face without a name
One more to add to the total
Of those never heard of again
Yes he's gone, just a face without a name
Leaving no trace, disappearing like smoke in the wind
All gone, just a face without a name
Leaving no trace, disappearing like smoke in the wind.
 

You're no longer part of my life
I must remind myself again
Too much has happened to us, to cause each other pain
It's over now, there's too much guilt to share.

Once there would have been a time
For talking, and learning.

There must be some other way
To get where we have to go
There must be some other way
Please show me another way
Once it would have been so easy, to do what we have to do
There must be some other way
Please show me another way.

Are we no more than parts in a play
Letting other people, strangers say our lines
To think it should come to this, after all these years
What was mine and what should stay behind.

Once there would have been a time
Of sharing, of caring.

There must be some other way
To get where we have to go
There must be some other way
Please show me another way
Once it would have been so easy to do what we have to do (there must be some other way)
There must be some other way
Please show me, show me another way...

There's nothing much left to say
We have said it once and said it all again
This time we have gone too far
It could never be the same
It's time to carry on, create new lives
Once we promised we would stay together, forever.

There must be some other way
To get where we have to go (there must be some other way)
There must be some other way
Please show me another way
Once it would have been so easy to do what we have to do (what we have to do)
You know there must be some other way
Please show me another way
You know there must be another way
Please show me, show me another way (there must be some other way)
You know there must be some other way.

As the buildings crumble, tumble to the ground
And the dust filled smoke rises in the air
You know that somebody somewhere looks with pride, they're satisfied.

To all who think they know
To everyone that knows that they're right
Do you ever wonder why
Do you never ask the question, even in the depths of night.

Now as the daylight fading ends another day
For too many life will never be the same
And it is all for the reason they will never understand.

To all who think they know
To everyone that knows that they're right
Do you ever wonder why
Do you never ask the question, even in the depths of night.

And on the morning after do you realise
See the ruined faces and their ruined lives
Inside your head do you never have the thought, a moment of doubt.

To all who think they know
To everyone that knows that they're right
Do you ever wonder why
Do you never ask the question, even in the depths of night.

There are only dreams, one like any other
What means the earth to one of you
Means nothing to another.

There are only dreams like any other
Drawing lines upon the sand, on the land, on the sea
Then dying to defend them seems quite meaningless to me.

Don't you know it means the earth to someone only one
Can mean just nothing, nothing, nothing to another.

There are only dreams like any other
There are only differences
Worth living but not dying for.

One man's joy makes another man weep
Nothing you can do is ever gonna change it
One man's saint is another man's fool
One man's hot is another man's cool.

And when the war is over, won
Will there be peace forever more.

Statues carved right out of stone, out of wood, made from gold
Praying for their mercy, that won't save their souls.

Don't you know it means the earth to someone only one
Can mean just nothing, nothing, nothing to any other.

There are only dreams like any other
There are only hopes and beliefs, one like any other (there are only dreams like any other)
Worth living but not dying for
Living but not dying for not killing for.

There are only dreams like any other (like any other)

To all those that think that they know
All I can say, yes all I can say.

One man's joy makes another man weep
Nothing you can do is ever gonna change it
One man's saint is another man's fool
One man's hot is another man's cool.

There are only dreams like any other
There are only hopes and beliefs, one like any other
There are only dreams like any other.