1. Signs Of Life 2. Learning To Fly 3. The Dogs Of War 4. One Slip 5. On The Turning Away 6. Yet Another Movie 7. Round And Around 8. A New Machine (Part 1) 9. Terminal Frost 10. A New Machine (Part 2) 11. Sorrow

Music : David Gilmour - 1987 David Gilmour and Anthony Moore on : Learning To Fly The Dogs Of War On The Turning Away A Momentary Lapse Of Reason - produced by Bob Ezrin and David Gilmour David Gilmour - guitars, vocals, keyboards and sequences Nick Mason - electric and acoustic drums, sound effects Richard Wright - piano, vocals, Kurzweil, Howmond organ Bob Ezrin - keyboards, percussion and sequences Tony Levin - bass guitar, stick John Keltner - percussion Steve Formen - percussion Jon Carn - keyboards Tom Scott - alto and soprano saxophone Scott Page - tenor saxophone Carmine Appice - drums Pat Leonard - synthesizers Bill Payne - Hammond organ Michael Landon - guitar John Holliwell - saxophone Darlene Koldenhaven - backing vocals Carmen Twillie - backing vocals Phyllis St. James - backing vocals Donnie Gerrard - backing vocals All editing done by Buff (c), 1987 "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" typed in by Buff (c), 1988

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancyon on a wind swept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp ?

  Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
  Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit !

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought, I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
I believed in empty and turned to stone

  A soul in tension, that's learning to fly
  Condition grounded but determined to try
  Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
  Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit !

Above the planet on a wing and prayer
My ...... ...., a ...... trail in the empty ...
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

  There's no sensation to compare with this
  Suspended animation, a state of .....
  Can't keep my mind from the circling sky
  Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit !

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause we don't discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
...... round and ......
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don't know the webs we weave

  One world, it's a battleground
  One world and we'll smash it down
  One world, one world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can't stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say at least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

  One world, one world

The dogs of war don't negotiate
The dogs of war don't capitulate
They will take and you will give
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door
But wherever you go, you know they've been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get .......
But whatever you change you know the dogs remain

  One world, one world

A restless eye across a weary room
A glazed look and I was in the road to run
The music played and played as we whirled without end
No hint, no word her honor to defend

I will, I will she sighed to my request
And the she tossed her mane while my resolve was put to the test
Then drowned in desire, our souls on fire
I led the way to the funeral pyre
And without a thought of the consequence
I gave to my decadence

  One slip and down the hole we fall
  It seems to take no time at all
  A momentary lapse of reason
  That binds a life for life
  A small regret, you won't forget
  There'll be no sleep in here tonight

Was it love, or was it the idea of being in love ?
Or was it the hand of fate that seemed to fit just like a glove ?
The moment slipped by and soon the seeds were sown
The year grew late and neither one wanted to remain alone

  One slip and down the hole we fall
  It seems to take no time at all
  A momentary lapse of reason
  That binds a life to a life
  This one regret, you will never forget
  There'll be no sleep in here tonight

One slip, one slip

On the turning away
From the pale and down trouble
And the words they say which we won't understand
Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of all the suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away

It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the ground

  On the wings of the night
  As the daytime is stirring
  Where the speechless unite in a silent accord
  Using words you will find are strange
  Mesmerised as they light the flame
  Feel the new wind of change
  On the wings of the night

No more turning away
From the weak & the weary
No more turning away from the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away !

One sound, one single sound
One kiss, one single kiss
A face outside the window pane
However did it come to this ?

A man who ran, a child who cried
A girl who heard, a voice that lied
The Sun that burned a fiery red
The vision of an empty bed

  The use of force, he was so tough
  She'll soon submit, she's had enough
  The warch of fate, the broken will
  Someone is lying very still

He has laughed and she has cried
He has fought and she had died
He's just the same as all the rest
He's not the worst, he's not the best

  And still this ceaseless murmuring
  The babbling that I brook
  The seas of faces, eyes upraised
  The empty screen, the vacant look

A man in black on a snow-white horse
A pointless life has run it's course
The red-rimed eyes, the tears still run
As he fades into the setting sun

I have always been here
I have always looked out from behind these eyes
It feels like more than a lifetime
Feels like more than a lifetime

  Sometimes I get tired of the waiting
  Sometimes I get tired of being in here
  Is this the way it has always been ?
  Could it ever have been different ?

Do you ever get tired of the waiting ?
Do you ever geet tired of being in there ?
Don't worry, nobody lives forever
Nobody lives forever

I will always be here
I will always look out from behind these eyes
It's only a lifetime
It's only a lifetime
It's only a lifetime

The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking

He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
In his youth or a dream, he can't precise
He's chained forever to a world that's departed
It's not enough. It's not enough

His blood has frozen and curdled with fright
His knees have trembled and given way in the night
His hand has weakened at the moment of truth
His step has faltered

  One world, one soul,
  True pass, the river roll

And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication
And silent replies that swirl invitation
Flow dark and troubled to an only sea
A grim intimation of what is to be

There is an unceasing wind that blows through this night
And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds any sight
And silence that speaks so much louder than words
Of promises broken