Alphaville

One Step Behind You

Alphaville


i'm moving 
i'm not going to rest till i find you 
i'm following one step behind you 
i'll do what i do to remind you 
i'm following one step.. 
i've been keeping strange hours, i've been saying strange things 
i've been places where i should not go 
but i catch conversations that feature your name 
and my ears and my eyes never close 
i've been all of the places where you used to be 
and your friends don't remember my face 
i don't know if you wonder what's happening to me 
i don't vanish that easy, i'll make you believe me 
i'm moving... 
did the voice sound familiar on the landing below 
are the footsteps behind you like mine 
you're a thought in my head i could never let go 
and that thought takes up all of my time 
swallowed up by obsessions that can't be denied 
i can't find out what's right and what's wrong 
swallowed up by the whirlpoos of colours at night 
oh, please show me no mercy, my reason deserts me 
i'm moving... 
there's so many people that you knew 
to understand everything you do 
you're too far ahead now to need them 
they live on the streets, you can't see them 
the small and the crushed and the helpless 
the weak and the cruel and the useless 
they're following one step behind you