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Track: Dancing Like a Gun
Artist: John Foxx
Album: The Garden...Plus

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Name: John Foxx
Spotify Genres: synthpop, ambient, new wave, cold wave
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He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK, as [a=Dennis Leigh], 26 September 1948. His father was a coal miner and pugilist, his mother a millworker. During his youth he was a mod and a hippie, and at the same time he was also interested in album covers, Pink Floyd experimentalism, futurism and surrealism. His first band was called [a=Woolly Fish]. In 1973, he was in Manchester, singing while playing a 12-string guitar, supporting [a=Stack Waddy], but decided to go to London. In London, by means of a scholarship, he entered the Royal College of Art. With the bands [a=Tiger Lily (2)] and [a=Ultravox]!, he experimented with different genres of music, such as glam, reggae, synth pop and industrial, influenced by [a=Roxy Music], [a=New York Dolls] and [a=Kraftwerk]. He left Ultravox in 1979 for a solo career, releasing his first album "Metamatic" in 1980, which showed an electronic style derived from synthesizers. He released three further solo albums, before taking a break from music in 1985 and concentrating on visual work. In 1990, inspired by acid house, Foxx briefly returned as [a=Nation 12], a collaboration with [a=Tim Simenon] of [a=Bomb The Bass] (and later with the late [a=Shem McCauley] / Streets Ahead). Foxx fell silent again until 1997, when a chance meeting with [a=Louis Gordon] resulted in a batch of duo albums (1997-2008) and a new phase of Foxx's solo career.

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Release: John Foxx - Dancing Like A Gun
Year: 1981
Genres: Electronic
Styles: Synth-pop

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LYRICS

Oh do you get the smell of burning metal?
Can you feel that heartbeat under the sea?
Well it's just me and Oppenheimer waltzing
With crowded streets in chromakey
And all the glow boys in their lipstick and shadows
And gold leaf on their delicate skins
Well they can filter through your curtains like nerve-gas
They leave their laughter on the wind

And we're dancing
Yes we're dancing
We're dancing like a gun

Nothing I can see looks like an exit
So I'm making you into a door
You've been a guaranteed constant companion for so long
I'll almost miss you when I go

And there's silence in your silver passing
And stardust scattered over your breasts
Then I looked around and found
All the faces of the world
As the ballroom floor gets fused to glass

And we're dancing
Yes we're dancing
We're dancing like a gun

We'll walk in the silent places
In the wake of the storms
Swim through our own cathedral
Trailing the dawn...

Dresses of light and ashes
Proud in display
Lovers and enemies
All waltzing in the waves...

Oh we're dancing
Yes we're dancing
We're dancing like a gun

Like a gun