Level 42's 1985 album World Machine was their most successful, finally giving them a foothold in the US. The Allmusic review names it as one of the finest pop albums of the mid 1980s, and sees a move away from the jazz-funk of earlier albums to a more pop or R'n'B sound, though still heavily electronic.
I've chosen the title track and the following one - Physical Presence - for my video, and on my US copy (pressed by RCA in Indianapolis - according to the code "70" on the label) these tracks come in the middle of side 1, not at the beginning as on UK and other pressings. (These were today's Discogs-based trivia for you!).
Cartridge: Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star
Phono amp: Graham Slee Accession MC
Turntable: PTP Audio Solid 12 with SME M2-12-r tonearm
World Machine
Some folks try
To multiply
From sunrise to sunset
Leave behind
More of their kind
So no one will forget
But that ain't where I'm coming from - today
Those easy girls don't turn me on - anyway
I wanna know where my pride has gone
The party's over
Caught in a dream
Inside this world machine
Teachers teach
And preachers preach
Of spiritual evolution
But this big I am
From uncle sham
Just adds to my confusion
I've seen his face, I've heard his song - before
But I don't care what time he's on - anymore
I must have been on the streets too long
The party's over
Caught in a dream
Inside this world machine
I find myself outside your door
Trying to make it like before
But you don't follow what I say
And I can tell by your smile
You're no longer a child
That part of you was buried yesterday ...
... who knows
Why they come and where they go
In this world machine?
It's the chosen fools
Who make the rules
That don't apply to me
With their fast-car games
And counter claims
Not my reality
And I don't know if I belong - today
I don't know why my friends have gone - away
I must have been on the streets too long
The party's over
Caught in a dream
Inside this world machine
(don't knock the system - we'll knock some sense in you
Don't beat the system - there's nothing you can do)
Physical Presence
I leave as I enter
Another boy caught in-between
Now all I can muster
Are whispers to your screams
Don't you remember
How you eased my disgrace
Don't you remember
The love you saw in my face
Perfected in silence
A physical presence
Perfected in silence
A physical presence
I sought affection
But now I realize
A cold rejection
The movement in your eyes
But I can remember
When you shook against me
I can remember
When I saw what love could be
Perfected in silence
A physical presence
Perfected in silence
A physical presence
Ain't what she did
It's the way that she did it
When I couldn't give
Only she could forgive it
Ain't what she did
It's the way that she did it
As long as I live
It's for me to re-live it ...
Silence ...
Part of the answer
Is that there's really no escape
Part of the answer
Is that life can have such perfect shape
Don't you remember
All the nights you shared in my disgrace
Don't you remember
That the love that filled this empty space was ...
... perfected in silence
A physical presence
Perfected in silence
A physical presence
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