Vulture Culture
The Alan Parsons Project
℗ 1984
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- 1. Let's Talk About Me [04:29]
- 2. Separate Lives [04:59]
- 3. Days are Numbers (the Traveller) [04:31]
- 4. Sooner or Later [04:25]
- 5. Vulture Culture [05:22]
- 6. Hawkeye [03:49]
- 7. Somebody Out There [04:55]
- 8. The Same Old Sun [05:25]
Тексты:
Let's Talk About Me
Let's talk about me for a minute Well how do you think I feel about what's been going on Let's talk about me for a minute Well how do you think I feel about what's gone wrong Let's talk about dreams I never learned to read the signs Let's think about what it all means I never seem to have the time Let's talk about you and your problems All that I seem to do is spend the night Just talking 'bout you and your problems No matter what I say I can't get it right Don't think about dreams Is it all a waste of time Don't think about what it all means If you are a friend of mine Talk about me, for a minute I'm the one who's losing Talk about me, for a minute I'm the one who's always losing out And how do you think I feel about what's been going on Let's talk about me for a minute Well how do you think I feel about what's gone wrong Let's think about dreams We never seem to have the time Let's think about what it all means If you are a friend of mine Let's talk about me I'm the one who's losing out I'm the one who's losing out I'm the one who's losing out, losing out Talk about me, for a minute I'm the one who's losing Talk about me, for a minute I'm the one who's always losing out
Separate Lives
It's been a long road We've walked the last mile We reach the same conclusion And we stop for a while Together we know The way we must go We're leaving an illusion That's for us to share Only for us to share We live our separate lives And go our different ways Cause we don't see eye to eye And we can't stand face to face We live our separate lives While counting all the days Till the two of us arrive In another time and place We share the same thoughts We read the same lines We meet on sad occasions And in happier times A spoken goodbye And both of us try To walk away in silence That's for us to share Only for us to share We live our separate lives And go our different ways Cause we don't see eye to eye And we can't stand face to face We live our separate lives While counting all the days Till the two of us arrive In another time and place And always goodbye But heaven knows why I can't erase the memory That's for us to share Only for us to share Only for us to share We live our separate lives And go our different ways Cause we don't see eye to eye And we can't stand face to face We live our separate lives While counting all the days Till the two of us arrive In another time and place
Days are Numbers (the Traveller)
The traveller is always leaving town He never has the time to turn around And if the road he's taken isn't leading anywhere He seems to be completely unaware The traveller is always leaving home The only kind of life he's ever known When every moment seems to be A race against the time There's always one more mountain left to climb Days are numbers Watch the stars We can only see so far Someday, you'll know where you are Remember Days are numbers Count the stars We can only go so far One day, you'll know where you are The traveller awaits the morning tide He doesn't know what's on the other side But something deep inside of him Keeps telling him to go He hasn't found a reason to say no The traveller is only passing through He cannot understand your point of view Abandoning reality, unsure of what he'll find The traveller in me is close behind Days are numbers Watch the stars We can only see so far Someday, you'll know where you are Remember Days are numbers Count the stars We can only go so far One day, you'll know where you are
Sooner or Later
Oh what a price we pay For the things we say And the closer I get to you The further you move away All the lies we tell In the games we play And the longer I think it over The harder it is to stay Sooner or later I'll be free To leave the past behind Sooner or later you're gonna be The last thing on my mind Little by little I'm finding out The truth behind your eyes Maybe if I don't show I thought you might like to know You're gonna be the last thing on my mind You didn't want to know I could have told you so But the moment I think it's over The further there is to go Just a little word Such an easy way But the longer I think about it The harder it is to say Sooner or later I'll be free To leave the past behind Sooner or later you're gonna be The last thing on my mind Little by little I'm finding out The truth behind your eyes Maybe if I don't show I thought you might like to know You're gonna be the last thing on my mind
Vulture Culture
Somehow you made it in the big wide world And you're absolutely home and dry You got away from a one horse town And the only way out was to fly You heard a lot about an easy street And it seems like the place to be You heard some talk about a slippery slope But you think "it can't happen to me" Vulture culture Use it or you lose it Vulture culture Choose it or refuse it Hollywood is calling won't you join the dance Moving onto Wall Street why not take a chance It's a vulture culture Never lend a loser a hand Just a vulture culture Living off the fat of the land Nowhere to turn around and catch your breath It's all relatively trouble free No need to bother with the bottom line Or a money back guarantee You sign a deal that's been etched in stone It's absolutely cut and dry That's when the got you in the danger zone And the only way out is to die Vulture culture Use it or you lose it Vulture culture Choose it or refuse it Hollywood is waiting striking up the band Everyone on Wall Street shakes you by the hand Such a vulture culture Never lend a loser a hand Just a vulture culture Living off the fat of the land Use it or you lose it Choose it or refuse it Hollywood's a no go not a second chance Nobody on Wall Street gives you a second glance It's a vulture culture Moving to the beat of the band It's a vulture culture Never lend a loser a hand It's just a vulture culture Living off the fat of the land
Somebody Out There
Maybe I'm imagining the things they say about me Maybe there is really nothing there at all Standing in the middle while the rumours fly around me Hiding from a shadow on an empty wall When my back is turned he's up to something else And I must not stop believing in myself m I dreaming will the nightmare just go on And never end Somebody out there, says that he's you Somebody out there, talks like you do He calls up your number And you can't get through somebody out there Wish that I could run away and leave it all behind me Wish I wasn't hurt by all the things they say If I didn't need to know the simple truth about me Wouldn't it be easier to walk away And I don't need more confusion in my life No more pain and disillusion in my life If I'm dreaming will the nightmare just go on And never end Somebody out there, stolen your base Somebody out there, parked in your place You've no reservation, he's taken your place Somebody out there, wasting your time Somebody out there, using your dime Your friends think you're crazy They're way out of line Somebody out there, says that he's you Somebody out there, thinks like you do You stare at the mirror You're looking into Somebody out there
The Same Old Sun
Tell me what to do Now the light in my life is gone from me Is it always the same Is the night never ending Tell me what to do All the hopes and the dreams went wrong for me There's a smile on my face But I'm only pretending Taking my life One day at a time Cause I can't think what else to do Taking some time To make up my mind When there's no one to ask but you The same old sun would shine in the morning The same bright eyes would welcome me home And the moon would rise way over my head And get through the night alone And the same old sun would shine in the morning The same bright stars would welcome me home And the clouds would rise way over my head I'll get through the night on my own Tell me what to do Now there's nobody watching over me If I seem to be calm Well, it's all an illusion Tell me what to do When the fear of the night comes over me There's a smile on my face Just to hide the confusion Taking my life One day at a time Cause I can't think what else to do Taking some time To make up my mind When there's no one to ask but you The same old sun would shine in the morning The same bright eyes would welcome me home And the moon would rise way over my head I'll get through the night alone And the same old sun would shine in the morning The same bright stars would welcome me home And the clouds would rise way over my head I'll get through my life on my own