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Ultravox – Mine for Life (1982) | Track profile | Dork

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Ultravox
Quartet [Deluxe Edition]
Mine for Life

TRACK

Mine for Life

Release date: 15th October 1982

From Quartet [Deluxe Edition]

About This Track

"Mine for Life" is a track by Ultravox, from the album Quartet [Deluxe Edition], released 15th October 1982. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ultravox

Ultravox

Lyrics

Mine for Life

A life as a stranger

Hands through a wire

Forbidden desires

Are mine for life

Looking

From a spiral staircase

At a man with a suitcase

As he shades his eyes

Watching

From a stained glass shelter

He bides his time and thinks

There must be more to life than this

A life as a stranger

Hands through a wire

Forbidden desires

Are mine for life

The poet

Reads his words out loud

To a make-believe crowd

In the quiet of his room

Careful

Where the tears are falling

He closed the book and cried

There must be more to love than this

See the boy

On the walkway

Where the young have their own say

And it screams from the wall

He's writing

For the hundredth time there

I hate it all, but

There must be more to hate than this

A life as a stranger

Hands through a wire

Forbidden desires

Are mine for life

A life as a stranger

Hands through a wire

Forbidden desires

Are mine for life

A life as a stranger

Hands through a wire

Forbidden desires

Are mine for life

A life as a stranger

Hands through a wire

Forbidden desires

Are mine for life

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Quartet [Deluxe Edition]

1982

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Album

Quartet [Deluxe Edition]

15th October 1982

Release year

1982

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Writer: Billy Currie, Chris Cross, Midge Ure, Warren Cann
Producer: George Martin