Visions In Blue

As far as I understand the sense of the lyrics( I must admit that I'm not a native speaker myself, though this song is my ultimate favourite of the band's stuff, and I contemplated its lyrics many times), I can imagine a man in his 40-es, who's walking down the street alone and without any different purpose. Suddenly a face in the window ( maybe a face from his past, maybe not, just kinda trigger) awakens in his mind the dearest memories of his youth that seemed to have been buried down long ago. The dying embers of long lost pasion seem to begin to burn again. The storm of emotions on his face and tears that all of the sudden fill his eyes may even scare passers-by. Just listen, how Midge's singing illustrates this flood of feelings, getting more and more emotional from the 1-st verse to 2-nd and finding its culmination at the end of the third verse. And the repeated 1-st verse at the end of the song which is sung less emotionally than the third one, expresses the end of the soul storm, ashes still aglow but fire has faded.

This song could only be understood by intuition

I remember having the VHS video of Ultravox "The Collection" where there was a video of Visions in Blue. It was a mix of a live performance of the band with a film section showing two women bathing together in a bath being loving and a scene of one of the women looking out of a window soaked with raindrops.

I think the song and the video are about the heartbreak surrounding forbidden love. A love forbidden by society, values or principles. The two women genuinely are in love yet are separated by something powerful and overbearing. The longing to be together and sharing love along with memories of what once was, is painful yet needed to carry on living , maybe in hope ?....

Face in the window looking out for who you love...memories, photos, letters, looking through people who smile because one misses something precious from life, that is forbidden. Clutching on to memories to keep alive.

i just came up with a theory, we might be dealing with trhe murder of a love one. i assume the narrato{s lover, who was murdered in her home and could only have a glimpse of the perpetrator, but too late. i also have to assume the narrator had suffered a similar fate some time before. this is whyÑ when he was killed he remained in our plane wondering for a while and thats why he insists on her taking advantage of that time to to smuggle images and feelings from pictures, love letters, etc before leaving to god knows where with not much from her previous life, only what you came along in that limboid reality and probaly he realized too late. remember, if they indeed were lovers in life this contraband serves both. interestingly enough the tibetan book of the dead (which is read to the deceased for days to guide him in his trip) focuses on making the recently passed be aware he is dead and he has to let go to everything that tied him to his life, being able to do this ensures a smoother trip. but remember buddhists end up being reborn into whatever animal you can think of and in the process being their memories of a past life wipped. so this might be a reborn type scenario. and the plan is to come back with memories and their love for each other intact.
ts all "only for you" because a wondering soul wonders alone. aimless smiles from people passing by because she is not visible to them. i apologize about my absurd punctuation nomenclators, and missing or replaced characters, iñm strugling with a spanish keyboard, wireless and made in argentina! here comes the disturbing bit a corpse}s eyes turn milky blue being deceased for hours and keep decading at a very rapid rate. so she better read while she still has time. and most certainly her visions in the next life from that period will be tainted in light blue. hope it wasnñt too long and somehow entertaining

This song is just the top, total romanticism, to listen in a foggy day looking through the window, nostalgia and majestuosity, Midge Ure, a hero of this period and its video is one of the best.