michael leeson / peter vale / jack hues / peter wolf
The longer love survives
The more it's easy to be blind
When it is obvious it's over
I put my trust in you
I spent my love and I thought I knew
But now things just don't look the same
I paid the price with a love I thought was strong
Counting on you I was wrong
Chorus:
Just like a fool and his money
Just like a fool, I let it slip away
Just ...
jack hues
A man lives in the city
Surrounded by machines
They take away his pity
And give him what he dreams
A stream of information
On a green letter screen
Makes him feel in touch with the world
And sure of what it means
Chorus:
At the speed of light you're in endless night
At the speed of sound you don't see the ground
And in your sports car with the windows down
And the radio on and you do...
wang chung / peter wolf
We met as friends of friends while still at school
I was all you ever really knew
When we met it was like a dream
For all I knew we could not fail
But now I know of your betrayal
Living in the older part of town
I worked all hours I could to bring us 'round
Your career was alive for you
But deep inside I watched it fail
And now I know of your betrayal
Your betrayal
If o...
You woke me from my sleep, we quietly crept
Outside
This memory I'll keep of bitter crimson
Winter sunrise lost in the icy silence
Our warm breath fading in the air
I'm not sure why I tell you, still less what I mean
It's like a dream and maybe there's no cause
But in the end it's
What you can give to someone
How you can help to set them free
Big world is turning as we dream tonight
Big world ...
Its instrumental ya hoser
jack hues / nick de spig
China, china, on the sea shore
China, china, on the dance floor
China, china, I must have seen your face before
I've been to cairo and I've been to khartoum
I've seen them places from my rented room
I've been to paris and I've been to marseille
But that was nothing till I got to cathay
I've been to new york and I've been to l.a.
I've been to delhi and I've been to bomb...
jack hues
A star is shining
Into my eyes
It will not fall
A star is wise
Across the harbor
Perfumed hills
The silent waters
And all is still
Oh yeah
Chinese girls stand, see right through you
Chinese girls can sway
Chinese girls will melt your heart
And take your breath away
Chinese girls would dance with god
Chinese girls don't care
Put their hands around their heads
And through their chinese...
Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high hand stand
And take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel
We were so in phase in our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you and everyone, we knew
Could believe, do and share in what was true
I said, '??Dance hall days love'??
Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there there there
And take your baby by...
Your dance hall days are over now
It's over now
It's over now
You're doing what you've chosen now
You've chosen now
You've chosen now
You work all day and save at night
You save at night
You save at night
You don't see your old friends
But you guess that we're alright
Guess we're alright
Guess we're alright
You and your boyfriend live on your own
And your boyfriend
You don't need your friends ...
jack hues / nick de spig
Dancing in the street love
Dancing in your hair
They'll never know
That you dance until you go
And then you're down
Dancing in your heart love
Dancing in the sea
They'll never say
That you danced your life away
And now you're down
Dancing, oh
jack hues
If you have to leave after all that we've
Been through, been through
Been through
I can't be a friend if your heart has the end
In view, in view
In view
Chorus:
Because lovers never can be
Just devoted friends
How can we meet on a day in the week
And be true, be true
Be true
And how can I speak and pretend that I'm happy for you
For you, for you
Repeat chorus
How can we meet on a day...
Don't be my enemy
Don't be my enemy
You had your dreams
You required a scheme of things
Evolved, resolved through the years
And I had my part
When you wrote me
But you broke my heart
When you wrote me
You spend your whole time trying
To burn me to the ground
Don't be my enemy
Can't you see, what you're doing to me?
Don't be my enemy
Can't you see, what an effect this is having on me?
Don't be ...
I got your letter, I felt so scared
To pick up the paper knife and read within
I read the contents, I got what you meant
I know it's hard on you but don't give in
Maybe, maybe slow things go fast
Maybe, maybe it's all in the past
Oh oh, if you need me don't let go-oh
You know I'll never give up on you
Oh oh, if you need me don't let go-oh
You know I won't give up on you
You know I will never g...
hues / burnand
I'm picking up paper
I'm doing the things that
I never thought I'd do again
I'm writing you letters
I'm getting the better
Of things I thought I'd lose again
Chorus:
You know I wish I was your lover
Even if you dream of him
I wish I was your brother
Baby when you dream of him
If you dream of him?
If you dream of him
I'm sitting in graveyards
I'm doing the things that
I never tho...
I'll drive a million miles
To be with you tonight
So if you're feeling low
Turn up your radio
The words we use are strong
They make reality
But now the music's on
Oh, baby dance with me, yeah
Rip it up, move down
Rip it up, move it down to the ground
Rip it up, cool down
Rip it up, don't hang me on the borderline
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody wang chung tonigh...
wang chung
On her televison, on her mamma's radio
She could paint a picture
More alive than all she ought to know
Her imagination running wild, she let it grow
In her imagination
Oh she felt she loved him so
Chorus:
The eyes of the girl are following me
Looking for the man that she pinned on me
The tears for a love that could never be
Now it's all over
They're raining on me
Oh it's raining
It'...
Hot on the run from the grip of the power game
The man who leads the way, the man who leads the way
Shell in it?s box from his home that they?ll never tame
The man who leads the way, the man who leads the way
He is burning, burning in the twilight
He is burning, turning to face us, he is burning, fire in the twilight
He is burning, turning to lead us away, away, away
Lead us away, away, away
T...
Deep in the world tonight
Our heart beats safe and sound
Let those who want to fight
Just let yourself go down
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody Wang Chung tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody gotta hold so tight
Everybody loves someone
Everybody have fun
We'll dance in every room
We'll dance out in the snow
I'll hold you so close
Everyone, let's go
Everyb...
nick feldman
I don't wanna play these games of power
I don't wanna fight this war no more
Don't wanna twist the knife
Just wanna better life for me you me you
Chorus:
Is this what you call love
Is this what we've been fighting for
Is this what you call love
There must be so much more
Is this what you call love
Forget old scores we should be making love
Not war
Make love not war
Gotta try to br...
jack hues
Living at speed
It's so hard, turns a year to days
The things that I need
It's so sad, but they will always change
So when you call my name
And the answer's not the same
Hold back the tears
The tears
Oh, it's raining
Though water's pouring down my face
There's no complaining
We must find another place
So when you're on your own
And you can't even telephone
Hold back the tears
I see y...
wang chung
Darlin', I believe in love
Since I met you, baby
I believe in love
The way you hold me
My heart is stirred
You can control me
Without a word
Chorus:
Turn on you white light
In my open eyes
Oh girl, you hypnotize me
I feel your white light
You're so bright
I'm hypnotized
And as you're looking at me
It's a deep ecstasy
And no word is enough
Just shine the light in my eyes
And hypnotiz...
jack hues
From my window I can see the skylight
And the clouds gathering out to sea
A light rain falls
And the street lights make the road shine
And I can't sleep
People talking about the war
I can't sleep
People talking about the war
I can't sleep
Over there a clock shows half past four
And the light breaks out to sea
And I just think of those things your said to me
And I said to you and you ...
jack hues
Times are hard and times will change
Things can never be the same
A love that's fallen, that makes no sense
It's better than indifference
I can't help all things I feel
But I don't need a compact seal
A love that's over, a love that's spent
I'll never be indifferent
Chorus:
I never want to love you in a half hearted way
Oh, oh, oh
repeat
I never want to love you in a half hearted way...
Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh
EveryBody Was stop,drop and rolling,
It all started by some lightning,
In fact it was a lil bit frightning,
how everybody was Fire Fighting,
There were funky firemen from funky fire town,
they were putting out the fires and they never let you down,
There was a fire in the hall, straight away they got the call,
they put the fire out before the trophys melt,
EveryBo...
Meet me in a restaurant
Meet me on the top of the world
Meet me and we'll talk the language of love
I'll meet you anywhere you want
I'll meet you on a ballroom floor
Meet me and we'll float to a level above
I wish you'd drop what you're doing
And get on the case
We could blow this existence
Right out into space
And share a sweet isolation
Let's go there today
Go today, go today
Every way, righ...
Logic and love
feldman / chandler
Love and logic just don't go together
Try to force it, you'll be trying forever
Why discuss it when you're missing the point
Girl
Forget the fakin' all I care is that you're
Chorus:
Making all the right moves
You're making all the moves that hit the spot
You're speaking only half-truths girl
Just tell me all the things I like a lot
Stop thinking you're much to...
It's hard to recall how we were at school
Our ambitions and conditions and our hopes for the future
The teachers we had, our mums and our dads
Their decisions and revisions and their hopes for the future
But look at me now, I cannot count the cost
Of all the friends I lost and though my heart did break
Look at me now, I'm on the candle flame
I have a different name, I have your hand to take
Bu...
Let's go out tonight
Put on your shoes
Get away from here
Far from the local blues
Let's go out tonight
Let's make our escape
From the city lights
And all the familiar shapes
We can drive all night
We can stop in a field
Hear the starlight
Traveling for millions of years
Sing a lullaby to the night repeat
We can rock and roll
We can dance all night long
To the stars above
And we won't be stron...
I've got an ornamental elephant made of ivory
I've got an ornamental elephant made of ivory
The ornamental elephant element's in our soul
The ornamental elephant element's in our soul
My ornamental elephant hangs from my earring
My ornamental elephant hangs from my earring
The elephant is very small
The elephant is very small
The ornamental elephant element
resides in our soul
In our soul
I've...
What got into you got into me too
What came over you is coming over me
I've had enough of all the old stuff
I saw the writing on the wall on my TV
It's another second coming, like it or not, yeah, oh yeah
It's another second coming, like it or not
You better start praying to a new God
Start praying, praying to a new God
Start praying to a new, new God
They're saying the Devil's got a new job
S...
jack hues / nick de spig
Simple scenes that I've never seen
A hole in my living, a kind of in-between
A geisha girl, a hard won world
A wall that divides us from an eastern spell
So we're rising in the east
I've seen america, america
Where they're so tired of living, they don't walk alone
And my europeans, just do what they're told to do
That means me and you, me and you
So we're rising in the...
jack hues
Let's rent a place in town
Somewhere we can call our own
Let's knock these barriers down
We need to spend some time alone
Everything in the world has a name
Oh doesn't it make you feel
Like you've moved into a rented apartment
Everything is real
But it doesn't belong to you
Chorus:
All the words are dead, so we need to
Snakedance
All the words are dead, so we need to
Snakedance
Let's...
Yeah
Drifting on the spaceway
By the Betelgeuse Hotel
Mapping out constellations
Of the place I know so well
Sifting through the system
For the piece that knows my name
Endlessly I listen
In the master game
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my only world
Welcome to my only world
It is full of space junk
But your words are coming through
I'm riding on the space junk
And it's br...
jack hues
We all need lovers
We all need girls
And there will be no other
In all the world
Chorus:
I got a feeling straight from my heart
I got a feeling straight from my
Straight from my heart
Straight from my heart
Straight from my....
We all need airplanes
We all need cars
Because there's no other way babe,
From here to mars
Repeat chorus
nick feldman
Baby ben really likes to swing
Baby ben really feels like a king
As the wail of the horns make his body sway
Peggy sue likes to rock and roll
Peggy sue gonna lose control
As electric guitars play all her fears away
Chorus:
You gotta swing down tonight
Swing it real tight
Swing with your baby tonight
You gotta swing down tonight
It's gotta feel right
Swing with your baby tonight
Sw...
jack hues / nick feldman
These days our problems seem to come in waves
Sometimes it's hard to count them all
You're reading all alone when suddenly
You feel yourself about to fall
Chorus:
If you need someone to talk it out
Then talk it out with me
If you need someone to talk it out
Then I'm the one you need
Your fear of past mistakes intensifies
Your fear of everything that's new
You need a fr...
jack hues
Tall trees in a blue sky
Stand together don't ask why
Stretch up to the blue sky
Pierce that ceiling if you try
You say these feelings do not last
Well I am gonna prove you wrong
You say our future's in the past
But I am gonna turn you on
Bright leaves in the sunshine
Pick me up when I feel down
Deep freeze if we don try
Seems like we go round and round
You say a dream will not last
...
wang chung
I wanna paint your portrait in bright color
I wanna paint the lines in red and blue
I wanna make your eyes appear like starlings
Saying, quot;darling, I love youquot;
I wanna set your face upon a landscape
I wanna show the love and toil and sweat
I wanna show your beauty like a crystal
In an all-night launderette
Chorus:
Oh this line is the flat horizon
And you are the shape on the ...
jack hues
Well I'm sitting on a hillside
On the warmer side of cool
With the future laid before me
Like a green and misty jewel
And to climb above the tree line
Is only for the fools
So they say
So they say
Chorus:
On the warmer side of cool
What you feel in your heart is all
On the warmer side of cool
Being cool it's so easy to be cold
Well I'm sitting by the seaside
On the warmer side of coo...
jack hues / darren costin / nick feldman
Working at your job all day
Sends the time spinning away
Watch tv from half past six
Cook, make love and pick up sticks
But you can hear the waves crash on the beach
At night
Books you read can sublimate
Music seems to dissipate
And maybe just a bottle of wine
And a couple of smokes and you'll be fine
But you still hear the waves crash on the beach
At n...
wang chung
The world in which we live is peopled by people who
Fuck, shit, screw everybody, don't care, swear
Do things without a care, are seen everywhere
And write about each other
The world in which we live is peopled by people who
Can't afford to eat, can't make ends meet
Got nowhere to sleep, can't feel the heat
Can't get out
Can't find a voice to scream it out
The world in which we live
...
jack hues
You're sending messages to me girl
I feel them flashed across the land
It's such that I can disbelieve girl
And what you feel is in my hand
Chorus:
Ti na na, ti na na ne girl
Ti na na, ti na na ne
Ti na na, ti na na ne girl
Ti na na, ti na na ne
It's cold outside, I can't breathe girl
Without a pain inside my heart
And if I should ever leave girl
And even then without a start
So I'm ...
In the heat of the day
Every time you go away I have to piece my life together
Every time you're away in the heat of the day
In the dark of the night every time I turn the light
I feel that God is not in Heaven
In the dark of the night, dark of the night
I wonder why I live alone here
I wonder why we spend these nights together
Is this the room I'll live my life forever
I wonder why in L.A., t...
True love is the answer to, to everything
True love is the answer, true love is the thing
True love is the answer to, to everything
True love is the answer, oh, is the thing
True love is the answer to, to everything
True love is the answer, true love is the thing
True love is the answer to, to everything
True love is the answer, true love is the thing
Long days spent on the edge of space
Oh, m...
Street corners seem designed to lie in wait
For a chance to get involved in lovers' fate
This one seems as good as any I've seen
So wait here with me until six-fifteen
I'm waiting for you but you're very late
I know you'll come anyway
And I can hardly wait
Evidently, there's a difficulty
I know you'll come anyway
And I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait, wait
I see you approaching, you're the e...
Wake up, stop dreaming
The sun is in the sky again
There's a hole in the ocean
And water's pouring through
Oh, wake up, stop dreaming
And wipe the sleep from your eyes
Are you frightened of heights?
Are you falling?
Wake up, stop dreaming
There's more than just two steps to heaven
I'm saying if you wanna get to heaven
You'd better wake up
Wake up, stop dreaming
I'm talkin' 'bout dream and real...
You're awake as dawn breaks, another day
And the gray clouds weep how you feel
Oh but the way she touch you just brings you back to life
Oh, don't let them bury your soul in concrete and steel
So what's so bad about feeling good?
What's so bad, what's so bad?
What's so bad about feeling good?
What's so bad, what's so bad?
Why hold back when you know you should?
Break the chains of your life an...
jack hues
I feel the tension
In your hand
I'm on a plane to a
Foreign land
So far away with no
Telephone line
I'm flying into spring
And leaving winter behind
I know it'll be winter
In your heart
Icy stone cold winter
All the time we're apart
Chorus:
As I look at you
Looking back at me
The wordless tears in your eyes
What's inside of you?
What's inside of me?
You may not realize for days and d...
Jack Hues / Nick De Spig
It's good to have a good time
It's good to let your feelings be known
It's good to go out dancing
And it's good to have your people back home
The fashions, oh they're way out babe
I love the colour of your hair
Darling can we go now, oh no
I don't think that you care
Why do you laugh
When everybody's crying
Why do you laugh
When everybody's crying
Why do you, Why do yo...
