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Simple Minds – Calling Your Name (1979) | Track profile | Dork

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Simple Minds
Real to Real Cacophony
Calling Your Name

TRACK

Calling Your Name

Release date: 1979

From Real to Real Cacophony

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About This Track

"Calling Your Name" is a track by Simple Minds, from the album Real to Real Cacophony, released 1979. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Simple Minds

Simple Minds

Lyrics

Calling Your Name

[Verse 1]

Private world

Moving fast

I see your face in the distant past

Time passes slowly

Time passes slowly

Time passes slowly

Echoes of an empty room

Assassin at the window below

The concrete jungle sleeps at night

Story ends

Leave him alone

[Chorus]

Calling

Calling your name

All that you say goes in vain

I would like to find you

On a voyage

That could find itself true

[Verse 2]

Centre of a scene

Where a man lies dying in the sun

The concrete jungle sleeps at night

Story ends

Can't leave him alone

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

Private world

Moving fast

I see your face in the distant past

Time passes slowly

Time passes slowly

Time passes slowly

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Track details

From Real to Real Cacophony

1979

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Album

Real to Real Cacophony

Release year

1979

—Veldt
—Film Theme
—Carnival (Shelter in a Suitcase)
—Premonition
—Citizen (Dance of Youth)
—Calling Your Name
—Cacophony
—Factory
—Naked Eye
—Real to Real
—Scar

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Brian McGee, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Jim Kerr, Michael MacNeil
Producer: John Leckie