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She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures
She looked like she learned to dance from a
 
series of still pictures
She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip
She's madly excited now, she throws her hands
up like a tulip


She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party
She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party
 
Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air,
Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air
champagne rolls off her tongue
 
Like a second language
Champagne rolls off her tongue like a second language
 
And it should have been her biggest night
And it should have been her biggest night
The satellite looks down on her as she begins
to cry


The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry
All over the world at the very same time people
sharing the same sorrow
As the satellite looks down her darkest hour is
somebody's bright tomorrow


He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his
first finger
Felt the static electric charge of her perfect
hour-glass figure
As he undressed her with his eyes her weakness
was his talent
How could she know as she stepped through
the lights, that her dress would become
transparent
And with his face pressed to the screen, he
muttered words he'd never dare to say if she
could see him


All over the world at the very same time
People sharing the same cheap sensation the
thrill of watching somebody watching those
forbidden things we never mention


All over the world at the very same time, people sharing the same sorrow
Chorus:
 
As the satellite looks down, her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow
 
 
 
He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his first finger
 
Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hour-glass figure
 
As he undressed her with his eyes, her weakness was his talent
 
How could she know as she stepped through the lights
 
That her dress would become transparent
 
And with his face pressed to the screen,
 
He muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him
 
 
 
All over the world at the very same time, people sharing the same cheap sensation
 
The thrill of watching somebody watching those forbidden things we never mention
 
 


The satellite looks down right now and forever
The satellite looks down right now and forever
 
What it has pulled apart let no man tether his
What it is pulled apart, let no man tether his own body to his dream,
own body to his dream,
 
His dream to someone else
His dream to someone else
Oh no, oh no.
Oh no, oh no.


She went back to a pitiful compromise
She went back to a pitiful compromise
He'd go back to his family
He'd go back to his family
But for the matter of a thousand miles that
separated them entirely
In the hot unloving spotlight, with secrets
it arouses
Now they both know what it's like inside a
pornographer's trousers
And in a funny way it's anonymous, the satellite
it blesses us and makes these dreams come
true... All over the world


But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely
Chorus
 
In the hot unloving spotlight, with the secrets it arouses
 
Now they both know what it's like inside a pornographer's trousers
 
And in a funny way it's anonymous
 
The satellite, it blesses us and makes these dreams come true
 
 
 
All over the world at the very same time
 
All over the world
 
 
 
The satellite looks down right now and forever
 
What it is pulled apart, let no man tether his own body to his dream,
 
His dream to someone else
 
Oh no, oh no
 
Oh no, oh no

Revision as of 23:34, 3 May 2009

She looked like she learned to dance from a series of still pictures She's madly excited now, she throws her hands up like a tulip

She looks like an illustration of a cocktail party Where cartoon bubbles burst in the air, champagne rolls off her tongue Like a second language And it should have been her biggest night The satellite looks down on her as she begins to cry

All over the world at the very same time people sharing the same sorrow As the satellite looks down her darkest hour is somebody's bright tomorrow

He pulled on a cigarette, in the crook of his first finger Felt the static electric charge of her perfect hour-glass figure As he undressed her with his eyes her weakness was his talent How could she know as she stepped through the lights, that her dress would become transparent And with his face pressed to the screen, he muttered words he'd never dare to say if she could see him

All over the world at the very same time People sharing the same cheap sensation the thrill of watching somebody watching those forbidden things we never mention

Chorus:

The satellite looks down right now and forever What it has pulled apart let no man tether his own body to his dream, His dream to someone else Oh no, oh no.

She went back to a pitiful compromise He'd go back to his family But for the matter of a thousand miles that separated them entirely In the hot unloving spotlight, with secrets it arouses Now they both know what it's like inside a pornographer's trousers And in a funny way it's anonymous, the satellite it blesses us and makes these dreams come true... All over the world

Chorus