Flying Through The Smoke Lyrics - New Model Army

Red dots - close my eyes - tunnel vision 

the cooling towers like Cathedrals 

Pitch black dark, brighter than the sun 

Less than zero, more than infinity 

Forever the graphics curling on the screen 

Forever the numbers counting on and on 

Flying through the smoke, flying through the smoke 

See the body of people move across the floor 

Dancing turning wheeling in the spinning lights 

I remember the music and the noise so loud 

All I could see was you moving your mouth 

Tell me what was it you were trying to say 

Tell me what was it you were trying to say 

And all the time everything was moving away 

like a slo-mo shot as the camera pulls across the crowd 

across the faces caught in the last few seconds of life 

And you - like a ghost at the feast 

your eyes so small and dark and dead - you were uninvited 

And me - trying to remember how nobody saw you 

sitting next to me on the bus as it turned into Mainstreet 

and the bomb in the bag at your feet 

What was it you were trying to say 

Tell me what was it you were trying to say 

Flying through the smoke in a deafening roar 

Screaming in the panic as the whirlwind hits 

Tell me what was it you were trying to say 

Too late to listen now