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Balance of Power

Electric Light Orchestra

℗ 1986 Epic Records EPC 26467 / й CBS Records

Electric Light Orchestra Х 1986 Х Balance of Power

Balance of Power was the last studio album by the Electric Light Orchestra for a period of over 15 years (until Zoom was released in 2001). By this time Kelly Groucutt had departed and the group was pared down to a trio, with Jeff Lynne handling bass (in addition to his usual guitar work) and more dabbling with electronic percussion and synthesisers. ELO played some live concerts in the UK and Europe (their last for fifteen years), and in one UK show George Harrison performed as guest guitarist.

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Heaven Only Knows

Oh, I know it's strangeа
But I think that it's about to change
So I'll take the chanceа
To get back into the straight again

Heaven only knows (I'm really on the level)а
Heaven only knows (I'm trying to find a way)
Heaven only knows (I'm walking down the straight & lonely road today)а

Now the sun will shineа
And I'm gonna work it out this timeа
And before the lightа
All I gotta take is one more night.

Heaven only knows (I'm really on the level)а
Heaven only knows (I'm trying to find a way)
Heaven only knows (I'm walking down the straight & lonely road today)а

As the hours go by
I can only wonder whyа
You can change your mindа
But you never change the price.

Heaven only knows (I'm really on the level)а
Heaven only knows (I'm trying to find a way)
Heaven only knows (I'm walking down the straight & lonely road today)

So Serious

Night after nightа
I try to make it all fit together
Night after nightа
I see you as someone I remember
You took me by surpriseа
Opened up my eyesа
Now we gotta talk this over.

Can it really be so serious?а
To be all broken up and deliriousа
I guess we've really been out of touchа
But can it really be so serious?а

Day after dayа
I know it's not the way that you wanted itа
Day after day
I try to find the key, but it don't fit
But you know how it isа
No matter what I didа
We gotta talk it over.

Can it really be so serious?а
To be all broken up and deliriousа
I guess we've really been out of touchа
But can it really be so serious?

Tonight, tonightа
I'm thinking over everything you said to meа
Tonight, tonight
I'm sorry, but I just didn't seeа
And now it's up to youа
There's nothing else to doа
We've gotta talk it over.

Can it really be so serious?а
To be all broken up and deliriousа
I guess we've really been out of touchа
But can it really be so serious?

Getting to the Point

It's out of control (out of control)а
And there's nothing I can do nowа
Out of control (out of control)а
Swimming softly through the blue nowа
And look beyond these wallsа
As the meaning starts to dawnа
It's getting to the pointа
Getting to the point.

It's out of control (nothing I can do)а
Like a fire that keeps on burningа
And nobody knows (what I'm going through)
And the thoughts just keep returningа
And all you had to sayа
Was that you were gonna stayа
It's getting to the pointа
Getting to the point.

It's getting to the pointа
Where nobody can stop it now
It's getting to the pointа
Of no returnа
And all that I can doа
Is stand and watch it nowа
Watch it burn, burn, burnа
It's getting to the pointа
Where reasons are forgottenа
It's getting to the point
Where no one knowsа
And all that I can doа
Is say I'm sorryа
But that's the way it goes...

Forever is a long, long wayа
Forever takes your breath awayа
I'd like to talk about it, try to understandа
It's getting to the pointа
Getting to the point.

It's getting to the pointа
Where nobody can stop it now
It's getting to the pointа
Of no returnа
And all that I can doа
Is stand and watch it nowа
Watch it burn, burn, burnа
It's getting to the pointа
Where reasons are forgottenа
It's getting to the point
Where no one knowsа
And all that I can doа
Is say I'm sorryа
But that's the way it goes...

Secret Lives

I don't know I don't know what's on your mindа
I thought everything was fineа
But it was my surprise.

I don't know I don't know what's going on
Something surely must be wrongа
You're living secret lives.

Living secret lives, secret livesа
And I wonder where she goes to in the nightа
In secret lives.

Wish I knew, wish I knew where I fit in
Wish that I knew everythingа
About your secret lives.

If it means,if it means that much to youа
I don't want to stop the things you doа
I don't need alibis.

Living secret lives, secret livesа
And I wonder where she goes to in the nightа
In secret lives.

I don't care, I don't care what goes on thereа
So long as one day I can shareа
Share your secret lives.

Living secret lives, secret livesа
And I wonder where she goes to in the nightа
In secret lives.

Is it Alright?

Dear Jo: I don't know where to begin so I'll just helloа
Dear Jo: Is it so much better now you're on your own? (Is it alright?)
You never believed in yourself (Is it alright?)а
But now that you're free, does it help?

Is it alright? Now that you've got what you want?а
And is it alright? Now that you're back where you belong?

Dear Jo: Are you living it up every place you go?а
Dear Jo: If you're having a hard time it sure don't show (Is it alright?)а
You couldn't hold on in your mind. (Is it alright?)
Now is it okay, is it fine?

Is it alright? Now that you've got what you want?а
And is it alright? Now that you're back where you belong?

Dear Jo: Can you believe that it's been so long?а
Dear Jo: Just thought I'd write and let you know (Is it alright?)а
You never believed in yourself (Is it alright?)
But now that you're free, does it help?

Is it alright? Now that you've got what you want?а
And is it alright? Now that you're back where you belong?

Is it alright? Is it alright with you? Is it alright? Is it alright with you?

Sorrow about to Fall

There's a silence in the city
There's nobody aroundа
And everyone that we knew
Moved to higher ground.

There's a shadow hanging overhead
It lingers there aloneа
Changing all we ever knewа
The changes start to show.

There's a sorrow about to fallа
There's a sorrow about to fall.

There's a new sound in the wiresа
And ears are to the groundа
And everything that once was ours
Has slowly turned around.

Something happened to the seasonsа
Started falling with the rainа
And something changed foreverа
We gotta find a way.

There's a sorrow about to fallа
There's a sorrow about to fall.

There's people in the photographs
But they all had to runа
They went away to somewhereа
Beyond the setting sun.

There's a sorrow about to fallа
There's a sorrow about to fall.

Without Someone

I watch the cars move I watch the lights up on the window
I walk along the street I'm only thinking of youа
I watch the clock staring from the wall
It hardly moves at all It's you I'm waiting for.

Without someone I can depend onа
I'm lost without someoneа
As I go on, I hope you're remembering
I'm lost without someone.

All alone, no one around I watch the shadows falling fasterа
The city lights begin to glowа
And then I start to realize
I count the hours as they slip awayа
Into another dayа
Wondering where you'll stay.

Without someone I can depend onа
I'm lost without someoneа
As I go on, I hope you're remembering
I'm lost without someone.

Still watching the cars moveа
Still watching the lights upon the window
I'm walking down the street
I'm only thinking of youа
I hear the night as it calls to me
It plays a symphony
It says you're gone from me.

Without someone I can depend onа
I'm lost without someoneа
As I go on, I hope you're remembering
I'm lost without someone.

Calling America

Somebody told her that there was a place like heavenа
Across the water on a 747а
Yeah, we're living inа
In a modern world.

And pretty soon she's really got the notionа
Of flying out across the big blue oceanа
Yeah, we're living inа
In a modern world.

Talk is cheap on satelliteа
But all I get is -static- Information,а
I'm still here Re-dial on automatic.

Calling America (can't get a message through)а
Calling America (that's what she said to do)
Calling America (that's where she has to be)
Calling America (she left a number for me)а
Calling America.

But I'm just talking to a satelliteа
Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night
Yeah, we're living inа
In a modern world.

All I had to do was pick up the phone
I'm out in space, trying to talk to someoneа
Yeah, we're living inа
In a modern world.

She left a number I could callа
But no one's there, no one at allа
There must be something going wrongа
That number just rings on and on.

Calling America (can't get a message through)а
Calling America (that's what she said to do)
Calling America (that's where she has to be)
Calling America (she left a number for me)а
Calling America.

Said she'd call when she'd been gone a whileа
Guess she's missing me across the milesа
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

Calling America (can't get a message through)а
Calling America (that's what she said to do)
Calling America (that's where she has to be)
Calling America (she left a number for me)а
Calling America.

Endless Lies

Bye bye, pretty woman I've got to leave you nowа
I find you never really cared.

Stand back, take a look at youа
You couldn't care if you wanted to
You keep saying it's gonna changeа
But every time it comes back againа
It's a merry-go-round.

Endless lies shine in your eyes.

It's alright, count to tenа
It will all be better thenа
It's alright, the world will go away.

Stand back, take a look at youа
You couldn't care if you wanted to
You keep saying it's gonna changeа
But every time it comes back againа
It's a merry-go-round.

Endless lies shine in your eyes.

Endless lies, I can see it in your eyesа
The heartbreak is, if you could only seeа
That's not the way it's supposed to beа
Endless tears that flowed through the yearsа
You take it all, and then you take some moreа
Then you come running back to me.

Play on, pretty musicа
Play on and on for meа
Shine on, silver starsа
Over the sea.

Endless lies, I can see it in your eyesа
The heartbreak is, if you could only seeа
That's not the way it's supposed to be.

Endless lies shine in your eyes.

Send It

The sun still shines way up aboveа
But it don't matter now becauseа
The dream is gone
The dream is just a memory (oh, yeah)
If you see my dream, send it back home to me.

The stars still glow up in the nightа
But somehow, they don't seem so brightа
The dream is goneа
The dream is just a memory (oh, yeah)
If you see my dream, send it back home to me.

'Cos I've been waiting for a long, long timeа
Thought I'd found a wayа
Now I just wait for someone to call I'm waiting for it every day.


Send it Ч on the wiresа
Send it Ч on a planeа
Send it Ч on an express
But send it back to me again.

The music plays so loud and clearа
But somehow I can't make you hearа
The dream is goneа
The dream is just a memory (oh, yeah)
If you see my dream, send it back home to me.

When you get what you want, it's a long way down
And you can see for miles aroundа
When you lose it, nothing is for realа
If you see my dream, send it back to me.

Send it Ч on the wiresа
Send it Ч on a planeа
Send it Ч on an express
But send it back to me again.
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