Time-line

Six o'clock in the morning--i'm yawning
Get out of this bed
My heart started racing--now pacing
What was that you said?

Waiting so long for this day
And tomorrow we laugh
Hope the neighbours will open their papers
To my photograph

Chorus:

Of course i love you!
And i'll be careful, oh so careful
But i must win
There's no use waiting--watching, waiting
Got to keep my five-star rating, too

Now i run like the devil, draw level
You're crowding my day
Your concentration gives me stimulation
Get out of my way!
Feel the air rush past my face in first place, without thought to me
Mass attention becomes an extension of winning to me

Chorus

In control, speed kills, speed thrills
We are the power--come closer
Black and white soon in my time
The winning course--it's over
The winning course--take over
The winning course--it's up to me

[instrumental bridge]

Now i run like the devil, draw level
You're crowding my day
Your concentration gives me stimulation
Get out of my way!

Chorus

Here in the spotlight cold air tonight, i'm giving all for you
Days pass quickly, hope that you'll miss me when the show is through

The entertainer's no stranger, she only lives to play
The distance between us is only a note or two away

Travel to places, fill all the spaces in everybody's lives
Don't show the pressure, try not to measure how you feel inside

The entertainer's no stranger, she only lives to play
The distance between us is only a note or two away

We sing with one voice
There's no choice so join us
We're singing for you
Time and again in the circus of sound
Leaving the stage and the people behind us
Music calls--come and see, come and see, come and see

We sing with one voice
There's no choice so join us
We're singing for you
Time and again in the circus of sound
You've found something that's new
Travel to places, fill all the spaces in everyone's life
Don't show the pressure, try not to measure ...

Leaving the stage and the people behind us
Music calls--come and see, come and see, come and see, come and see

It's tragic--keeps on happening all the time
It's the kind of thing that i fear
I feel i'm making no headway
Walls i know are starting to disappear

It's like they'd never existed, strange but true
As sure as i'm talking to you
Now you see it, now i don't want to frighten you
But i'm simply here standing alone

Chorus i:

Trapped in these shadows that belong to missing persons
Names faded from memory join the list and then mark time
Once i would have been glad to have made your acquaintance
Now i feel a danger brought about by circumstance

Obsessed, the quality of life escapes me now
It's one of the things i lack
From the east and to the west
I feel it's time that i was heading back

I can't control these feelings that i have
I've never been one to hide
Become a pillar of society
But don't let your morals slide

Chorus ii:

Or you can find that you've become a missing person
A here today gone tomorrow breeze and lost in the night
Once i would have been glad to have made your acquaintance
Now i feel a danger brought about by circumstance

But i know in the end, i'll be safe, we'll be happy
After finding myself we'll be fine
Any problems we have will be gone in a moment
I'll become just a state of the mind

I want you close
I need you near
You have to be here
I turned around
You've gone again

Chorus i

Chorus ii

Hour by hour i feel the tension mounting
Pretty soon now i'll be on my way
People meeting, greeting, leaving, meaning
Everything they say

Start to move, feel closer now
I walk along the corridors of power
Orient express, life to excess
There's so much to see, and it's waiting for me
Out threre, i care, i dare

Through a country that you've only heard of
Through the valleys, feel the pressure drop
Onwards moving 'til you see the mountains
Feel your heart may stop

Day and night feel closer now
I walk along these corridors of power

Orient express, built to impress
There's so much to see, and you set me free
Out here, feel near, to fear

Deep in the past there lived a man whose story must be told
Of royal descent but not of the royal line, oh oh

No history book relates this night of indiscretion
Into the world he's brought, never to be presented at court
In his mind a king though his mother wasn't wearing a ring
She keeps on saying:

Chorus i:

"what they gonna do with richard, richard the ninth?
You know he's my son, and the thought of it cuts like a knife
To think he'll ever sit upon the throne
A prince without a home
What we gonna do with richard, richard the ninth
The least that we could do is to provide for his life
No job could have a stranger pedigree
He means so much to me!"

As richard grew, he won the hearts of all the people
His father reigned, and while the servants poured, wo-oh

The lady waits and watches with anticipation
Ways of the world he's taught
The eyes of the queen he has caught
Midnight matinees soon become the order of play
She keeps on saying:

Chorus ii:

"what we gonna do with richard, richard the ninth?
You know he's my son and the daughter, the queen, is his wife
Becomes the answer to my fantasy
He means the world to me"

"what we gonna do with richard, richard the ninth?
It seems a night of love, in the end turned out right
One day i know he'll sit upon the throne
A prince no more alone"

This classic tale of woe
Should tell you all you want to know
A page from our history
It's meant so much to me, to me

Chorus i

Chorus ii

Repeat to fade