Ah yes, early '80s, with their often.. melancholic? "new wave &
synth-pop". And then 🏴 Scottish
Midge Ure's
at times somewhat.. then maybe overpompous? singing
voice – “what's not to like”. 😏
From the iconic eponymous album released in July 1980/339. Lyrics, really?
🎹 They. meant. notthing to hii-m.. 🎵 They meant NOThing to hi-iim – ohh 🎶 VIENnaah!
The site I stole that picture you can click/tap from relates Midge Ure's intentions: “a song about a holiday romance, but in this very dark, ominous surrounding”. What it was that meant nothing to him, would have been Billy Currie's “classical romantic feel of the song's orchestration”. 🤔
From their, says Discogs, sixth studio album, Quartet (1982/337). What's not to like, I rhetorically wondered. According to Wikipedia, one David Hepworth, writing for some music magazine aimed at young adults, deemed the single sounding “awfully dirge-like”. 🤔
I suppose! Pesky “YA”.. 🤨
Apparently already back then – over 40 years ago! – a demographically defined target
audience of beholders' eyes ears. 🤷
Face in the window in the night
Caught for a second by the light
Ashes of memories still aglow ⑊
(only for you)
Portraits and pictures you once saw ⑊
(visions in blue)
🎼
Read while the letters still remain
Sip from the wine of youth again
Oaths made in silence still return ⑊
(only for you)
Cast like a shroud you're clutching on ⑊
(visions in blue)
🎵
Catch aimless smiles from passers-by
Blistered and broken in reply
Breath seems to mist the hazy view ⑊
(only for you)
Tears coat your lifeless eyes with dew, ⑊
visions in blue, visions in blue
🎹
Ashes of memories still aglow
Portraits and pictures you once saw
Ashes..
Portraits..
🎶
Face in the window in the night
Caught for a second by the light
Ashes..
Portraits..
From the album Lament (1984/349), inspired by Nevil Shute's (1957/315) novel “On the Beach”. Dancing & tears in the face of paradise lost clearly a timeless matter. 🫥
[chorus] Dancing with tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes Living out a memory of a love that died [verse 1] It's five and I'm driving home again It's hard to believe that it's my last time The man on the wireless cries again It's over, it's over [chorus] Dancing with tears in my eyes Weeping for the memory of a life gone by Dancing with tears in my eyes Living out a memory of a love that died [verse 2] It's late and I'm with my love alone We drink to forget the coming storm We love to the sound of our favorite song Over and over [chorus] It's time and we're in each other's arms It's time but I don't think we really care [chorus]
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