This song is dedicated to the memory of Donald Campbell, a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land. Eventually, though, his streak of good luck would come to an abrupt bitter end when he crashed his boat on lake Coniston Water in North England w...
Three hundred miles an hour on water
In your purpose-built machine
No one dared to call a boat
Screaming blue
Out of this world
Make history
This is your day
Blue
Bird
At such speeds... things fly
What did she say?...
I know the pain of too much tenderness
Wondering when or if you'll come back again
Wanting to live for you
And being banned from giving
But only love will turn you around
Only love will turn you around
Only love
Only love will turn you around
So we live you and I
Either side of the edge
And we run and we scream
With the dilated stare
Of obsession and dreaming
What the hell do we want
Is it only to go
Where nobody has gone
A better way than the herd
Sing a different song
Till you're running the ledge
To the gasp from the crowd
Spinning round in your head
Everything that she said...
Out of This World was written by John Helmer & Ian Mosley & Peter Trewavas & Mark Kelly & Steve Rothery & Steve Hogarth.
Out of This World was produced by Marillion & Dave Meegan.
Marillion released Out of This World on Sat Jun 24 1995.