Budapest By Blimp
Thomas Dolby Lyrics

On the corners of boulevards I call your name
I think about you all the time when I'm out in public

Now and again they play our tune
Sometimes I hear a song that reminds me of you

In the grip of a tiny hand over a flame
I am in a precarious situation

Pale as the phases of the moon ...
I am frightened and vulnerable

In the cafes and shopping malls I see your face
I keep imagining that I'm seeing you everywhere

turn into mist on evening dew
But it's never actually you, just my own delusion

but a book and a photograph just aren't the same
Memories can't replace actual experiences

there is a train that's leaving soon
I need to move on and leave this obsession behind

...Budapest by Blimp
I'm going to make a grand departure

Over pillars and palaces I'll hold your hand
When I think about you, I imagine being together in magnificent settings

Until the fog is lifted
Until I can see clearly again

May be better you hold me close than understand
It's more important to feel comforted than to be understood

How far away I've drifted
I have been pulled far from myself by my infatuation with you

In the face of a tragedy too bleak to know
I am grappling with a sense of existential despair

The death of some grand illusion
Something I once believed in has been destroyed, and I am left reeling

All the treasure we pilloried, splendour we stole ...
All the things we sought and took for granted have lost their value

They never told you that in school
The things we should have been taught are not the things we were taught

KONNYEBB VOLNA TAN FELEDNI
It would be easier to forget than to understand my departure

MINT TAVOZASOM ERTENI
As if understanding why I'm leaving will help anything

MULTBOL EGY KISZAK ITTOTT LAP
The past is fragmented and incomplete

EKODBOL INDUL EGY VONAT
A train departs from a place of great tension

...Budapest by Blimp
I'm going to make an extravagant departure from Budapest

...Que je voudrais vous presenter, messieurs et dames
May I present to you, ladies and gentlemen

Regardez bien, je vous en prie
Please take a good look

Here's a map and a diagram, a shrivelled page
Here are some artifacts, remnants of a past that no longer exists

Ripped from the book of history
Things we never should have forgotten

See the priceless antiquity frozen in time
Things that once had value but are now worthless

Built on the ashes of the Jews
Things we can never undo

And for your curiosity, beauty sublime
Look at all this beauty, but don't forget the cost

Signed in the blood of Zulus
This beauty was paid for with bloodshed

Not really a goosestep, more of a limp
This is a flawed society, not living up to its full potential

...Budapest by Blimp
I'm making a grand departure from Budapest, ending this chapter of my life