He said he was
a saint
And he had some colour movies
"You will grow older and then younger
Tattooed like a loser"
Long streams of silence connect hand to hand
With the memories in the car parks
And the flowers
And the sands
So here are the wings and the burnt out suits
Here are the maps of all your youth
Here where the songs are all of longing
Here where the skies are always haunting
And I'm running...
Yes I'm running...
I am running across thin ice with tigers
Yes I'm running across thin ice with tigers
With tigers
With tigers
He was talking and I glanced away
At silver tortures in colour vision
It was a golden time
A time of bones and flowers
There was an angel in a ruined suit
Stranded on Broadway
I gave him change
And he gave me the time of day
So here are the wings and the burnt out suits
Here are the maps of all your youth
Here where the songs are all of longing
Here where the skies are always haunting
And I'm running...
Yes I'm running...
I am running across thin ice with tigers
Yes I'm running across thin ice with tigers
With tigers
With tigers
So here are the wings and the burnt out suits
Here are the maps of all your youth
Here where the songs are all of longing
Here where the skies are always haunting
And I'm running...
Yes I'm running...
I am running across thin ice with tigers
Yes I'm running across thin ice with tigers
With tigers
With tigers
With tigers
Running, running, running, running |
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| Lyrics by John
Foxx |
| Track written
by John
Foxx |
| Published 1983
Quiet Man Music |
| Copyright 1983
Metal Beat / Virgin Records Ltd. |
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| An extract from
the Album Version of Running
Across Thin Ice With Tigers can be heard at Amazon. |
| An extract from
the Live Version [21 October 1983] of Running Across
Thin Ice With Tigers
can be heard at Amazon. |
| "Built on
a scene from an Oriental movie - tigers running with someone
through snow. Added the thin ice because that's how I felt at
the time - full of energy, exhilarated, taking chances but aware
of how fragile the state can be. A single moment which replays
in your memory. When you're perfectly poised, operating at a
peak. Brief but it changes you. You view everything else through
that lens from then on. Even if you crashed shortly afterwards." |
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