electronic :: songs

(electronic)

  my imagination wants to see
 the vivid colours of reality
 there’s a place out there beyond my grasp
 a revolution in a looking glass

  i’ve got to get this problem off my chest
 i’m sick and tired of being second best
 i’ll rearrange my credibility
 a fundraiser for a restless sea

  don’t ever doubt me, what’s come over you
 won’t you forgive me, what are you gonna do
 don’t ever doubt me, what’s come over you
 won’t you forgive, what are you gonna do

  what will you do

  i can’t contain what’s inside my head
 i’m losing words that i must have read
 do you remember the time we spent
 it seems that we were the main event

  have you a reason to behave like this
 maybe you need a psychoanalyst
 if you keep pushing me out of the door
 for sure, you’ll never see me again

  no one to talk to, what am i gonna do
 you’re never there right when i need you
 give me a cause, give me a reason
 for your applause i’ll commit treason

  and in my mind i know i’m right
 it’s the same thing every night
 you’re not to blame, so don’t you cry
 you don’t need me, so hurt my pride

  all that time, i know we tried
 line by line and side by side
 and still i pray that we’ll get by
 but it don’t seem real and i don’t know why

  and in my mind i know i’m right
 it’s the same thing every night
 you’re not to blame, so don’t you cry
 you don’t need me, so hurt my pride

  but in my mind i know i’m right
 it’s the same thing every night
 why do you cry, you’re not to blame
 when will you change this sad refrain

  sad refrain
 oh when will you change
 this sad refrain
 when will you change this sad refrain

album version—5:36
 radio edit—3:49
 unfinished promo mix—5:31

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the momentum started by the first two tracks on twisted tenderness is sustained by its third track and lead single vivid. johnny wrote the music and sang on the demo, before bernard bolstered the lyrics with some words of his own and strengthened the melody. the distinctive intro was achieved by programmer merv de peyer, who mixed some tinkling bell sounds with a reversed snatch of marr’s harmonica.

  it’s a substantial and well constructed rock song, although its length goes against its pop potential; the radio edit is just about right though inevitably it has a somewhat clipped feel. like forbidden city, it was followed by another guitar-led track, late at night, and while electronic’s third album does of course lean in that direction, the dance-oriented twist should have been equally represented by its title track.