Lyrics The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer

Twilight Tone

With a key, you unlock a door to imagination

Beyond it is another dimension

A dimension of sight, a dimension of sound

A dimension of mind

You're moving through a land

Of both shadow and substance of things and ideas

Guiding you through this wondrous journey

Is the hypnotic sound of the twilight tone

When I hear this melody

This strange illusion takes over me

Through a tunnel of the mind

Perhaps a present or future time, ohh

Out of nowhere comes this sound

This melody that keeps spinning round and round

Pyramidal locomotion

From this mystic unknown zone

Hearin' the twilight

Hearin' the twilight, twilight tone

Unpretentious girl from Memphis

Saw the future through her third eye

People came with skepticism

Picking, testing her precision, no, ohh

Suddenly they heard this sound

This melody that keeps spinning round and round

A signpost up ahead is calling

From this mystic unknown zone

Hearin' the twilight

(Twilight swept away, feelin' the rhythm)

Hearin' the twilight

(Twilight swept away, ba da loo da, ba da loo da)

Hearin' the twilight, twilight tone

Hearin' the twilight

(Twilight swept away, feelin' the rhythm)

Hearin' the twilight

(Twilight swept away, ba da loo da, ba da loo da)

Hearin' the twilight, twilight tone

Submitted for your approval, one Mr. Miller

Who's about to take a trip into oddness and obsolescence

Through a zone whose boundaries are that of imagination

Accompanying him on this journey

Is the mesmerizing aound of the twilight tone

On a cold and rainy night

One Mr. Miller had a rare flight

Glen was up there boppin' a rhythm

Then the engine stopped to listen with him play the beat, ohh

Suddenly he heard this sound

This melody that keeps spinning round and round

Now he resides and plays trombone

In the mystic unknown zone

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)

Hearin' the twilight

(Hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight, hearin' the twilight)