Released: November 10, 2009
Songwriter: Duran Duran
Producer: Ian Little Alex Sadkin
[Verse 1]
Wise on a birthday party
In a world full of surprising fireworks
And sudden silence
Sh......
Lies on a stranger's bed
The new day breaks like a speeding train or an old friend
Never expected, but never knocking
Holding your own in a battered car
All night parties, cocktail bars and smile
When the butterfly escapes the killing jar
[Chorus 1]
Sure eyes awake before the dancing is over
Wise or naked in secret Oktober
[Verse 2]
Freefall on a windy morning shore
Nothing but a fading track of footsteps
Could prove that you'd ever been there
Spoken on a cotton cloud
Like the sound of gunshot taken by the wind
And lost in distant thunder
Racing on a shining plain
And tomorrow you'll be content to watch
As the lightning plays along the wires and you'll wonder
[Chorus 1]x2
Wise on a birthday party
In a world full of surprising fireworks
And sudden silence
Sh......
Lies on a stranger's bed
The new day breaks like a speeding train or an old friend
Never expected, but never knocking
Holding your own in a battered car
All night parties, cocktail bars and smile
When the butterfly escapes the killing jar
[Chorus 1]
Sure eyes awake before the dancing is over
Wise or naked in secret Oktober
[Verse 2]
Freefall on a windy morning shore
Nothing but a fading track of footsteps
Could prove that you'd ever been there
Spoken on a cotton cloud
Like the sound of gunshot taken by the wind
And lost in distant thunder
Racing on a shining plain
And tomorrow you'll be content to watch
As the lightning plays along the wires and you'll wonder
[Chorus 1]x2
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- New Moon on Monday (Dance Mix)
- Is There Something I Should Know? (Monster Mix)
- The Reflex (Live)
- Union of the Snake (Monkey Mix)
- Faith In This Colour
- Tiger Tiger
- Faith In This Colour (Alternate Slow Mix)
- Tiger Tiger (Ian Little mix)
- The Reflex (Single Version)
- New Religion (Live)
- The Reflex (Dance Mix)
- The Reflex
- Union of the Snake
- New Moon on Monday
- (I’m Looking For) Cracks in the Pavement
- I Take the Dice
- Of Crime and Passion
- Shadows on Your Side
- The Seventh Stranger
- Secret Oktober
- Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (Live) [London, Hammersmith Odeon, UK - 1982/11/16]
- The Singles 81-85 (2003)
- Seven and the Ragged Tiger (Deluxe Edition) (2010)
- Ordinary World
- Come Undone
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Rio
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- The Reflex
- The Chauffeur
- Notorious
- A View to a Kill
- The Wild Boys
- New Moon on Monday
- Planet Earth
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Union of the Snake
- New Religion
- All She Wants Is
- Girl Panic!
- Do You Believe in Shame?
- All You Need Is Now
- Skin Trade
- (Reach Up For The) Sunrise
- Leave A Light On
- Blame The Machines