Duran Duran
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|Duran Duran |Rio |
|Girls On Film 4 |Rio 13 |
|Planet Earth 5 |My Own Way 14 |
|Anyone Out There 6 |Lonely In Your Nightmare 15 |
|Careless Memories 7 |Hungry Like The Wolf 16 |
|Is There Something I Should Know? 8 |Hold Back The Rain 17 |
|Night Boat 9 |New Religion 18 |
|Sound Of Thunder 10 |Last Chance On The Stairway 19 |
|Friends Of Mine 11 |Save A Prayer 20 |
|Tel Aviv (instrumental) - |The Chauffer 21 |
|To The Shore 12 | |
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|Seven And The Ragged Tiger |Arena |
|The Reflex 22 |Is There Something I Should Know? 8 |
|New Moon On Monday 23 |Hungry Like The Wolf 16 |
|(I’m Looking For) Cracks In The Pavement 24 |New Religion 18 |
|I Take The Dice 25 |Save A Prayer 20 |
|Of Crime And Passion 26 |Wild Boys 30 |
|Union Of The Snake 27 |The Seventh Stranger 29 |
|Shadows On Your Side 28 |Union Of The Snake 27 |
|Tiger Tiger (instrumental) - |Planet Earth 5 |
|The Seventh Stranger 29 |Careless Memories 7 |
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|Notorious |Big Thing |
|Notorious 31 |Big Thing 41 |
|American Sience 32 |I Don’t Want Your Love 42 |
|Skin Trade 33 |All She Wants Is 43 |
|A Matter Of Feeling 34 |Too Late Marlene 44 |
|Hold Me 35 |Drug (Is’s Just A State Of Mind) 45 |
|Vertige (Do The Demolition) 36 |Do You Belive In Shame? 46 |
|So Misled 37 |Palomino 47 |
|“Meet El Presidente” 38 |Interlude One (instrumental) - |
|Winter Marches On 39 |Land 48 |
|Proposition 40 |Flute Interlude (instrumental) - |
| |The Edge Of America 49 |
| |Lake Shore Driving (instrumental) - |
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|Decade |Liberty |
|Planet Earth 5 |Violence Of Summer (And Loves Taking Over) 51 |
|Girls On Film 4 |Liberty 52 |
|Hungry Like The Wolf 16 |Hothead 53 |
|Rio 13 |Serious 54 |
|Save A Prayer 20 |All Along The Water 55 |
|Is There Something I Should Know? 8 |My Antarctica 56 |
|Union Of The Snake 27 |First Impression 57 |
|The Reflex 22 |Read My Lips 58 |
|Wild Boys 30 |Can You Deal With It? 59 |
|A View To A Kill 50 |Venice Drowning 60 |
|Notorious 31 |Downtown 61 |
|Skin Trade 33 | |
|I Don’t Want Your Love 42 | |
|All She Wants Is 43 | |
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|Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) |Thank You |
|Too Much Information 62 |White Lines 75 |
|Ordinary World 63 |I Wanna Take You Higer 76 |
|Love Voodoo 64 |Perfect Day 77 |
|Drowning Man 65 |Watching The Detectives 78 |
|Shotgun 66 |Lay Lady Lay 79 |
|Come Undone 67 |911 Is A Joke 80 |
|Breath After Breath 68 |Success 81 |
|UMF 69 |Crystal Ship 82 |
|None Of The Above 70 |Ball Of Confusion 83 |
|Femme Fatale 71 |Thank You 84 |
|Shelter 72 |Drive By 85 |
|To Whom It May Concern 73 |I Wanna Take You Higher Again 76 |
|Sin Of The City 74 | |
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|Medazzaland |Greatest |
|Medazzaland 86 |Is There Something I Should Know? 8 |
|Big Bang Generation 87 |The Reflex 22 |
|Electric Barbarella 88 |A View To A Kill 50 |
|Out Of My Mind 89 |Ordinary World 63 Save A Prayer 20 |
|Who Do You Think You Are? 90 |Rio 13 |
|Silva Halo 91 |Hungry Like The Wolf 16 |
|Be My Icon 92 |Girls On Film 4 |
|Buried In The Sand 93 |Planet Earth 5 |
|Michael (You Got A Lot To Answer For) 94 |Union Of The Snake 27 |
|Midnight Sun 95 |New Moon On Monday 23 |
|So Long Suicide 96 |Wild Boys 30 |
|Undergoing Traetment 97 |Notorious 31 |
| |I Don’t Want Your Love 42 |
| |All She Wants Is 43 |
| |Electric Barberella 88 |
| |Serious 54 |
| |Skin Trade 33 |
| |Come Undone 67 |
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|Pop Trash |Astronaut |
|Someone Else Not Me 98 |(Reach Up For The) Sunrise 108 |
|Lava Lamp 99 |Want You More! 109 |
|Playing with Uranium 100 |What Happens Tomorrow 110 |
|Hallucinating Elvis 101 |Astronaut 111 |
|Starting To Remember 102 |Bedroom Toys 112 |
|Pop Trash Movie 103 |Nice 113 |
|Fragment (instrumental) - |Taste The Summer 114 |
|Mars Meets Venus 104 |Finest Hour 115 |
|Lady Xanax 105 |Chains 116 |
|The Sun Doesn’t Shine Forever 106 |One Of Those Days 117 |
|Kiss Goodbye (instrumental) - |Point Of No Return 118 |
|Last Day On Earth 107 |Still Breathing 119 |
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|Red Carpet Massacre |All You Need Is Now |
|The Valley 120 |All You Need Is Now 131 |
|Red Carpet Massacre 121 |Blame The Machines 132 |
|Nite-Runner 122 |Being Followed 133 |
|Falling Down 123 |Leave A Light On 134 |
|Box Full O' Honey 124 |Safe (In The Heat Of The Moment) 135 |
|Skin Divers 125 |Girl Panic! 136 |
|Tempted 126 |The Man Who Stole A Leopard 137 |
|Tricked Out (instrumental) - |Runway Runaway 138 |
|Zoom In 127 |Before The Rain 139 |
|She's Too Much 128 |Mediterranea 140 |
|Dirty Great Monster 129 |Too Bad, You're So Beautiful 141 |
|Last Man Standing 130 |Other People's Lives 142 |
| |Networker Nation 143 |
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|Paper Gods | |
|Paper Gods 144 | |
|Last Night In The City 145 | |
|You Kill Me With Silence 146 | |
|Pressure Off 147 | |
|Face For Today 148 | |
|Dancephobia 149 | |
|What Are The Chances? 150 | |
|Sunset Garage 151 | |
|Change The Skyline 152 | |
|Butterfly Girl 153 | |
|Only In Dreams 154 | |
|The Universe Alone 155 | |
|Planet Roaring 156 | |
|Valentine Stones 157 | |
|Northern Lights 158 | |
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|B-Sides/Demos/Live |B-Sides/Demos/Live |
|Ball And Chain 159 |Magic Bus 183 |
|Beautiful Colours 160 |Matter Of Fact 184 |
|Bomb (aka Capitol Chill) 161 |Money On Your Side 185 |
|Bottleneck 162 |My Family 186 |
|Boys Keep Swinging 163 |On Evil Beach 187 |
|Cinderella Ride 164 |P.L. You 188 |
|Come Up And See Me (Make Me Smile) 165 |Plastic Girl 189 |
|Cry Baby Cry 166 |Pretty Ones 190 |
|Diamond Dogs 167 |Rebel Rebel 191 |
|Dreamboy 168 |Salt In The Rainbow 192 |
|Early Summer Nerves 169 |Secret October 193 |
|Falling Angel 170 |Seven And The Ragged Tiger 194 |
|Fame 171 |Silent Icy River 195 |
|Faster Than Light 172 |Sinner Or Saint 196 |
|Follow In My Footsteps 173 |Stop Dead 197 |
|God (London) 174 |The Needle And The Damage Done 198 |
|Grey Lady Of The Sea 175 |This Is How A Road Gets Made 199 |
|I Believe/All I Need To Know 176 |This Lost Weekend 200 |
|In Between Woman 177 |Time For Temptation 201 |
|Instant Karma 178 |Too Close To The Sun 202 |
|Khanada 179 |TV vs. Radis 203 |
|Know It All - |Virus 204 |
|Late Bar 180 |Water Babies 205 |
|Like An Angel 181 |We Need You 206 |
|Lonely Business 182 |Yo Bad Azizi 207 |
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|Arcadia |The Devils |
|So Red The Rose |Dark Circle |
|Election Day 208 |Memory Palaces (instrumental) - |
|Keep Me In The Dark 209 |Dark Circles 217 |
|Goodbye Is Foreever 210 |Big Store 218 |
|The Flame 211 |Come Alive 219 |
|Missing 212 |Signals In Smoke 220 |
|Rose Arcana - |Lost Decade 221 |
|The Promise 213 |Aztec Moon 222 World Exclusive 223 |
|El Diablo 214 |Hawks Don’t Share 224 |
|Lady Ice 215 |Newhaven Dippe 225 |
|Say The Word 216 |Barbarellas 226 |
| |Tinsal Ritual (instrumental) - |
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|The Power Station |The Power Station |
|The Power Station |Living In Fear |
|Some Like It Hot 227 |Notoriety 235 |
|Murderess 228 |Scared 236 |
|Lonely Tonight 229 |She Can Rock It 237 |
|Communication 230 |Let’s Get It On 238 |
|Get It On (Bang A Gong) 231 |Life Forces 239 |
|Go To Zero 232 |Fancy That 240 |
|Harvest For The World 233 |Living In Fear 241 |
|Still In Your Heart 234 |Shut Up 242 |
| |Dope 243 |
| |Love Conquers All 244 |
| |Taxman 245 |
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Girls On Film
See them walking hand in hand
Across the bridge at midnight
Heads turning as the lights flashing out
Are so bright
And walk right out to the four line track
There's a camera rolling on her back
On her back
And I sense a rhythm humming in a frenzy
All the way down her spine
Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Girls on Film
Lipstick cherry all over the lens as she's falling
And miles of sharp blue water coming in
Where she lies
The diving man's coming up for air
'Cause the crowd all love pulling Dolly by the hair
By the hair
And she wonders how she ever got here
As she goes under again
Girls on Film (Two minutes later)
Girls on Film
Girls on Film (Got your picture)
Girls on Film
Wider, baby, smile and you've just made a million
Fuses pumping live heat twisting out on a wire
Take one last glimpse into the night
I'm touching close
I'm holding bright, holding tight
Give me shudders in a whisper,
Take me up til I'm shooting a star
Girls on Film (she's more than a lady)
Girls on Film
Girls on Film (Two minutes later)
Girls on Film
Girls on Film (see you together)
Girls on Film
Girls on Film (see you later)
Girls on Film
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Planet Earth
Only came outside to watch the night fall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme
like some new romantic looking for the tv sound
you'll see I'm right some other time
look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
this is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
my head is stuck on something precious
let me know if you're coming down to land
is there anybody out there trying to get through?
my eyes are so cloudy I can't see you
look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
is is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
this is planet earth
bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
this calling planet earth
bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
this looking at planet earth
bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
this is planet earth
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Anyone Out There
I never found out what made you leave
and now the day is over just an hour to go
I tried to phone last night but you didn't answer
just left me ringing on the line
outside
is there anyone out there, anyone else outside?
outside love
is there anyone out there, anyone else outside?
my face in the mirror shows a break in time
a crack in the ocean which does not align
I tried to sleep last night but I've caught your dreaming
about days we used to wonder away
outside
is there anyone out there, anyone else outside?
outside love
is there anyone out there, anyone else outside?
look out of the window
maybe you can call by my name
another night over
another light comes on in vain
I tried to phone last night but you never answered
just let me ringing in the air
is there anyone out there? ohoh
anyone out there, anyone out there? ohoh
anyone out there, anyone out there? ohoh
anyone out there, anyone out there? ohoh
anyone out there?
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Careless Memories
So soon,
just after you've gone
my senses sharpen
But it always takes
so damned long
before I feel how much
my eyes have darkened
Fear hangs a plane of gunsmoke
drifting in our room
so easy to disturb
with a thought
with a whisper...
with a careless memory
On the table
signs of love life scattered...
and the walls break
we go crashing within
It's not as though--
as though you really mattered
But being close,
how could I let you go
without some feeling
some precious sympathy following
Fear hangs a plane of gunsmoke
drifting in our room
so easy to disturb
with a thought
with a whisper...
with a careless memory
I walk out into the sun
I try to find a new day
but the whole place
it just screams in my eyes
where are you now?
cuz I don't want to meet you
I think I'd die--
I think I'd laugh at you--
I think I'd cry--
What am I supposed to do,
follow you?
Outside the thoughts
come flooding back now...
I just try to forget you...
So easy to disturb
with a thought...
with a whisper...
with a careless memory...
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Night Boat
Standing...
on the edge of the quay
no lights flashing
on the water for me
fog in my mind
darkens in my eyes
silently screaming
for a distant sound
ripple river yellow--
rising for a breath
of breeding and drowns
stillness overcome me
in the night
listen...
to the rising water moan
I'm waiting
waiting, for the nightboat
I'm waiting
waiting, for the nightboat
Shadows all through me
shudder away
echo me, echo me...
am I alone,
or is the river alive?
cuz it echoes me, echoes me--
echoes me...
I'm waiting
waiting, for the nightboat
I'm waiting
waiting, for the nightboat
I'm waiting...
waiting for the nightboat..
I'm waiting...
waiting for the nightboat....
I'm waiting for the nightboat...
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Sound Of Thunder
I've been in this grass here for the last 10 hours
My clothes are dirty but my mouth isn't dry
How does it happen? Does it fly through the air?
Oh I gave up asking days away
I gave up asking
Days away
And now I'm lying here waiting for the Sound of Thunder
Waiting for the Sound of Thunder
Here I am, I'm a dotted line
Cut the corner, stick me to your door
I'm the man who stepped off the path
and I just lie here
It's what I was made for
And now my eyes are closing, but I still feel the land
Leaning out for the touch of my hand
The world spins so fast that I might fly off
The world spins so fast that I might fly off
The world spins so fast, I might fly off
Waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
fade out
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Friends Of Mine
friends of mine - They said they were friends of mine
Said they were passing time - More like a waste of time
Close the door - I said close the door
I've told you twice before - What are you waiting for?
Georgie Davies is coming out
No more heroew, we twist and shout
Oh no, not me, I'm not too late,
And I know that I'm not taking any more
Rocky Picture has lost his gun
Leave him out now, he's having fun
Oh no, not me, I'm not too late
And I know that I'm not waiting any more
Hey hey
Through the eyes - Don't have to advertise
When will you realize - I'm sick of your alibis?
Running cold - The water's running cold
It's time that you were told - I think you're growing old
Georgie Davies is coming out
No more heroes, we twist and shout
Oh no, not me, I'm not too late,
And I know that I'm not waiting any more
Rocky Picture has lost his gun
Leave him out now, he's having fun
Oh no, not me, I'm not too late,
And I know that I'm not taking any more
Hey hey
(pictures on the wall
they're all friends of yours
see them sell your alibi
it runs you by
think yourself lucky!)
Friends of mine - They said they were friends of mine
They were just wasting time - Out on the dotted line
The money's gone - I've known it all along
Why don't you say I'm wrong? - Why don't they drop the bomb?
'Cause Georgie Davies is coming out
No more heroes, we twist and shout,
Oh no, not me, I'm not too late,
and I know that I'm not waiting any more
Rocky Picture's thrown away his gun
Leave him out now, he's having fun
Oh no, not me, I'm not too late,
And I know that I'm not taking any more
What you doing, friends of mine
Holding back now, friends of mine
I've always heard you calling...
Duran Duran – Duran Duran Japan Editon (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Is There Something I Should Know?
please please tell me now
please please tell me now
please please tell me now
please please tell me now
I made a break I run out yesterday
tried to find my mountain hideaway
maybe next year maybe no go
I know you're watching me every minute of the day yeah
I've seen the signs and the looks and the pictures
they give your game away yeah
there's a dream that strings the road
with broken glass for us to hold
and I cut so far before I had to stay
please please tell me now i
is there something i should know
is there something I should say
that would make you come my way
do you feel the same 'cos you don't let it show
people stare and cross the road from me
and jungle drums they all clear the way for me
can you read my mind can you see in the snow
and fiery demons all dance
when you walk through that door
don't say you're easy on me
you're about as easy as a nuclear war
cos the dream that strings the road
with broken glass for us to hold
and I got so far before I had to say
please please tell me now
is there something I should know
is there something I should say
that would make you come my way
do you feel the same 'cos you don't let it show
please please tell me now
is there something I should know
please please tell me now
can you see what makes me blow
please please tell me now
is there something I should know
is there something i should say
that would make you come my way
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – EMI/Capitol – Tritec Music Carlin Music)
To The Shore
When your nine day feed is up
And you've drained your loving cup
Come stands reeling to the shore
When the brave are coming out
The dry fight and the dusty shout
See you crawling on the floor
And diamond stars shine glitter bright
Gorging your sanhedralite
Words are falling to the floor
Glands stand pouring fruit tree
Now they glisten on the waterline
See how you are at the shore
I'm moving chrissie pretty flowers in the shutter maze
Haul up all your petty desires
Leave it lying down before
Wash away the rusty disease
Of your brown town days in our silver sea
Leave it dying at the door
Feather yell you've time to leave
Open out your arms and breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Rio
Wow!
Moving on the floor now babe,
You're a bird of paradise
Cherry ice cream smile, I suppose it's very nice
With a step to your left and a flick to the right
You catch that mirror way out west
You know you're something special
And you look like you're the best
CHORUS
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande
I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on TV
Two, of a billion stars, it means so much to me
Like a birthday or a pretty view
But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you
CHORUS
Hey now (wow), look at that,
Did he nearly run you down?
At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive,
You make me feel
Alive, alive, alive
I'll take my chance, 'cause luck is on my side
I tell you something, I know what you're thinking
I tell you something, I know what you're thinking
CHORUS
Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand
I might find her if I'm looking like I can
Oh Rio, Rio hear them shout across the land
From mountains in the north down to the Rio Grande
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd/ Peterman Music/ Carlin Music.)
My Own Way
I saw you at the airace yesterday
April showers get out of my way
Fear of flying, no not me
I'm never bothered, what you say
Someone's kid just lives for today
I ain't your problem anyway
CHORUS
'Cause I've got my own way
I can find my own way
'Cause I've got my own way
No. 1 public figure, what a pain
Just puts another rattle in your brain
Take another green but it's not the same
Now you're on the Sandlane everyday
Dancing with the bulls in any old way
Running like a fox to keep up with me
CHORUS
I'm on 45th between Sixth and Broadway
7UP between Sixth and Broadway
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Lonely In Your Nightmare
even on the darkest night
when empty promise means empty hand
and soldiers coming home like shadows turning red
when the lights of hope
are fading quickly then look to me
I'll be your homing angel I'll be in your head
because you're lonely in your nightmare
let me in
and there's heat beneath your winter
let me in
I see the delta traces
living lonely out on the limb
and the passing glimmer warm beneath your skin
please treat so gently on the ground
when all around you earth turns to fire
only get a second chance when danger's on the wind
because you're lonely in your nightmare
let me in
and there's heat beneath your winter
let me in
must be lucky weather when you find the kind of wind that you need
come on show me all the light and shade that made your name
I know you've got it in your head I've seen that look before
you've built your refuge, turns you, captive all the same
because you're lonely in your nightmare
let me in
and it's barren in your garden
let me in
because there's heath beneath your winter
let me in
because it's silent in your stone field
let me in
and you're lonely in your nightmare
let me in
because you've waited through the ice age
let me in
because you're so lonely in your nightmare
let me in
and it's cold out on your stone range
let me in
because there's heat beneath your winter
let me in
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Hungry Like The Wolf
Darken the city, night is a wire
Steam in the subway, earth is a afire
Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo
Woman, you want me, give me a sign
And catch my breathing even closer behind
Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo
In touch with the ground
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Straddle the line in discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mouth is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Stalked in the forest, too close to hide
I'll be upon you by the moonlight side
Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo
High blood drumming on your skin, it's so tight
You feel my heart, I'm just a moment behind
Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dodo
In touch with the ground
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme
I howl and I whine, I'm after you
Mouth is alive, al lrunning inside
And i'm hungry like the wolf
Hungry like the wolf
Hungry like the wolf
Hungry like the wolf
Burning the ground, I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you
I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Strut on a line, it's discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt, I'm after you
Mouth is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Hold Back The Rain
We're miles away from nowhere
And the wind doesn't have a name
So call it what you want to call it
Still blows down the lane
People tell me I haven't changed at all
But I don't feel the same
And I bet you've had that feeling, too
You just can't laugh all the time
CHORUS
And if the fires burn out,
There's only fire to blame
No time for worry 'cause we're on the roam again
The clouds all scatter and
We ride the outside lane
Not on your own, so help me,
Please hold back the rain
So what if the words ain't rhyming
Did you think that it's just a game
I probably didn't even say that right
And I really don't give a damn
Okay, go off and wander
I'm guilty just the same
Sometimes you're needed badly
So please come back again
CHORUS
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
New Religion
I've been now sauntering out and down the path sometime
Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew
Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things
Telling me not there, man, it's no go – (Don't go there boy)
I need a reason, I can't think without one now
Too much learning got to show
Call it treason - Maybe catch her, don't know how
Too many things, too much to know
Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind
Lady screaming, lady leave me out
'Cause sometimes people stare
Coming down, electric chair
And steaming crowds they gather and they shout
CHORUS
(Don't know why this evil bothers me)
Take another chance boy, carry the fight, you can take him if you're fast
(So why is he trying to follow me?)
didn't I say if you're holding on you'd be laughing at the last
(How many reasons do they need?)
I get along fine with them friends of mine but you have to make a choice
(I might just believe this time)
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time and it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself, It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself, It's a new religion
Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the sun
But someone sees the departmental lie
You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife
Only get one look before you die
CHORUS
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself, It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself, It's a new religion
Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners in regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things
Walking in formation down the lane, they carry their cross, make a church bell ring
Army majors pull a mean cool truth, there lying in a swimming pool
Searching for the undeniable truth that a man is just a fool
CHORUS
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself, It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself, It's a new religion
(repeat to fade)
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Last Chance On The Stairway
I don't remember quite how I met you,
Wasn't long ago
Just get a picture of sun
In your eyes, the waves in your hair
Maybe it's something said in a movie
Or you could've said last night
Just took me out on a limb
And I don't really know what I'm doing here
And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beat's so in time, can you look at me
I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right
I've had my last chance on the stairway
Funny, it's just like a scene out of Voltaire
Twisting out of sight
'Cause when all the curtains are pulled back
We'll turn and see the circles we traced
Ain't no game...when you're playing with fire
It doesn't seem right that we fight
So the party runs on all night
And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beats so in time, can you look at me
I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right
So nervous to say, tell me, can't you see
If you want, I fall out forever
I can't say no more...bebe dance with me
And please don't say leave it till later
I've had my last chance on the stairway
Wonder why
Wonder why...what makes me rise so high
Maybe it's something they put in your perfume
Or the look in your eyes
It could be the atmosphere sinking
I don't even know what you're thinking
Don't even know what you're drinking
But it keeps this heaven alive
And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beats so in time, can you look at me
I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right
So nervous to say, tell me, can't you see
If you want, I fall out forever
I can't say no more...bebe dance with me
And please don't say leave it till later
I've had my last chance on the stairway
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Save A Prayer
You saw me standing by the wall,
Corner of a main street
And the lights are flashing on your window sill
All alone ain't much fun,
So you're looking for the thrill
And you know just what it takes and where to go
Don't save a prayer for me now,
Save it 'til the morning after
No, don't say a prayer for me now,
Save it 'til the morning after
Feel the breeze deep on the inside,
Look you down into the well
If you can, you'll see the world in all his fire
Take a chance
(Like all dreamers can't find another way)
You don't have to dream it all, just live a day
Don't say a prayer for me now,
Save it 'til the morning after
No, don't say a prayer for me now,
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after,
Save it till the morning after
Pretty looking road,
try to hold the rising floods that fill my skin
Don't ask me why I'll keep my promise,
I'll melt the ice
And you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance
But fear is in your soul
Some people call it a one night stand
But we can call it paradise
Don't say a prayer for me now,
Save it 'til the morning after
No, don't say a prayer for me now,
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after
Save a prayer 'til the morning after
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
The Chauffeur
Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving
All looking for a new place to drive
You sit beside me, so newly charming
Sweating dew drops glisten, freshing your side
CHORUS
The sun slips down bedding heavy behind
The front of your dress all shadowy lined
And the droning engine throbs in time
With your beating heart
Sing Blue Silver
Way down the lane away, living for another day
The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze
Swim seagull in the sky
Towards that hollow western isle
My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze
CHORUS
And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling
What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind
To tear out from your eyes
With a word to stiffen brooding lies
But I'll only watch you leave me further behind
CHORUS
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
The Reflex
"You've gone too far this time"
But I'm dancing on the valentine
I tell you somebody's fooling around
With my chances on the dangerline
I'll cross that bridge when I find it
Another day to make my stand
High time is no time for deciding
If I should find a helping hand
CHORUS
So why don't you use it?
Try not to bruise it
Buy time don't lose it
The reflex is an only child he's waiting in the park
The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre
Every little thing the reflex does
Leaves you answered with a question mark
I'm on a ride and I want to get off
But they won't slow down the roundabout
I sold the Renoir and the TV set
Don't want to be around when this gets out
CHORUS
Oh the reflex what a game he's hiding all the cards
The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark
And watching over lucky clover isn't that bizarre
Evey little thing the reflex does
Leaves you answered with a question mark
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
New Moon On Monday
Shake up the picture the lizard mixture
With your dance on the eventide
You got me coming up with answers
All of which I deny
I said it again
Could I please rephrase it
Maybe I can catch a ride
I couldn't really put it much plainer
But I'll wait till you decide
Send me your warning siren
As if I could ever hide
Last time La Luna
CHORUS
I light my torch and wave it for the
New moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite
Breaking away with the best of both worlds
A smile that you can't disguise
Every minute I keep finding
Clues that you leave behind
Save me from these reminders
As if I'd forget tonight
This time La Luna
CHORUS
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
(I’m Looking For) Cracks In The Pavement
I shed my skin
When the party was about to begin
I'm light years away but I'm walking back tonight
Of all nights
When I should be feeling just right
Don't want to be in public
My head is full of chopstick
I don't like it
CHORUS
Something on my mind
Breaking open doors I had sealed up before
Something on my mind
Makes me run when I thought I'd run too far
Somebody shaking my tree
Maybe that somebody is me
I'm standing in the light but
I'm making a break for the shadows
On the cinema wall
They should be mine but I'm not that tall
Now I'm saying this in privaate
If I had a car I'd drive it
Insane
CHORUS
I'm looking for cracks in the pavement
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
I Take The Dice
Midnight I think I'm gonna make it
Feel the magical lash of the roll
and the crash in their lives
Headline in tomorrow's papers
Kill that light it's so bright
And you're shining it right in my eyes
CHORUS
Show me your secret and tell me your name
Catch me with your fizzy smile
Try to remember again and again
What it is that I recognise
Don't ask me now
When I need you I don't know how
To believe in your advice
Just this once I take the dice
Midnight so what's the point of faking
For a kiss or a whisper
you pull out a desperate prize
Hold tight onto Daddy's bracelet
Make them pay for their chances
With money they don't think that's nice
CHORUS
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Of Crime And Passion
Why did you let me run
When you knew I'd fall for the gaping hole
Where your heart should be
Liar-couldn't cut me deeper with a knife if you tried
Just take a look (before you run off and hide)
At your victim
arise
Clouds on you shoulder
Aren't they grazed by the afterglow
How quiet they gather
When the storm is about to blow
CHORUS
No don't look away
Caught in the crossfire
And it ain't no wind of change
I'm talking of crime and passion's rage
Summer of madness or the undertow
Dragged me up an alley for the blossoming fire
On a stranger's smile
Bride of wire-how disguise so easily cracked
Saw your heart turn spade
This orchid's turned to black
Graze on your shoulder
Like the clouds in the afterglow
How quiet they gather
When the storm is about to blow
CHORUS
Way down by the shoulder
In the haze of the afterglow
Stranded together
And the storm is about to blow
CHORUS
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Union Of The Snake
Telegram force and ready
I knew this was a big mistake
There'sa fine line drawing
My senses together
And I think it's about to break
If I listen close I can hear them singers
Voices in your body coming through on the radio
The Union of the Snake is on the climb
Moving up it's gonna race it's gonna break
Through the borderline
Nightshades on a warning
Give me strength at least give me a light
Give me anything even sympathy
There's a chance you could be right
The Union of the Snake is on the climb
It's gonna race it's gonna break
Gonna move up to the borderline
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
Shadows On Your Side
Shackled and raised for a shining crowd
They want you to speak but the music is louder than
All of their roar with the heat of the planet's core-but
CHORUS
The shadows are on your side
As soon as the lights go down
In the darkest place you can find
You belong to the hands of the night
Promises made with a distant friend
Truth should be known it can only bend
To a tune of its own
Hey you'll never hear that voice again
Scandal in white on a tangled vine
With everybody to say that you're having the
Time of your life when your life is on the slide-but
CHORUS
Spinning a compass to choose your way
You can run you can dive you can stand and you can soar
Whichever way you can be sure-that
CHORUS
Shadows on your side
The shadows are on your side
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1983 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd.)
The Seventh Stranger
Those words are all remainders
Echoes growing in the heart of twilight
They lay back laughing at naivety's star
Awaken all those whispers in the dusty shadow of a
passing favour
I wouldn't say that you were ruthless or right
I couldn't see from so far
Was I chasing after rainbows
One thing for sure you never answered when I called
And I wiped away the water from my face
To look through the eyes of a stranger
For rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd
Trading in my shelter for danger
I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
In the eyes of a stranger
Can't tell the real from reflections
When all these faces look the same to me
In every city such a desolate dream
Some days are strange to number
some say the seventh sounds a little bit stranger
A year of Sundays seems to have drifted right by
(I could have sworn) in one evening
And I'm not seized in desperation
No steel reproaches on the table from before
But I still can feel those splinters of ice
I look through the eyes of a stranger
For rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd
Trading in my shelter for danger
I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
In the eyes of a stranger
I must be chasing after rainbows
One thing for sure you never answer when I call
And I wipe away the water from my face
To look through the eyes of a stranger
For rumour in the wake of such a lonely crowd
Trading in my shelter for danger
I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
Walking away like a stranger
From rumours in the wake of such a lonely crowd
Trading in my shelter for danger
I'm changing my name just as the sun goes down
In the eyes of a stranger
Duran Duran – Arena (1984 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music)
Wild Boys
The wild boys are calling
on their way back from the fire
in august moon's surrender to
a dust cloud on the rise
wild boys fallen far from glory
reckless and so hungered
on the razors edge you trail
because there's murder by the roadside
in a sore afraid new world
they tried to break us,
looks like they'll try again
wild boys never lose it
wild boys never chose this way
wild boys never close your eyes
wild boys always shine
you got sirens for a welcome
there's bloodstain for your pain
and your telephone been ringing while
you're dancing in the rain
wild boys wonder where is glory
where is all you angels
now the figureheads have fell
and lovers war with arrows over
secrets they could tell
they tried to tame you
looks like they'll try again
wild boys never lose it
wild boys never chose this way
wild boys never close your eyes
wild boys always shine
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
Notorious
No-no-Notorious. Notorious. Ah. No-no-Notorious.
I can't read about it.
Burns the skin from your eyes.
I'll do fine without it.
Here's one you don't compromise.
Lies come hard in disguise.
They need to fight it out.
Not wild about it.
Lay your seedy judgements.
Who says they're part of our lives?
CHORUS
You own the money ;
You control the witness.
I'll leave you lonely.
Don't monkey with my business.
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons.
I heard your promise,but I don't believe it.
That's why I've done it again. No-no-Notorious.
Girls will keep the secrets (uh)
so long as boys make a noise.
Fools run rings to break up.
Something they'll never destroy.
Grand Notorious slam (bam).
And who really gives a damn for a flaky bandit?
Don't ask me to bleed about it;
I need this blood to survive.
CHORUS
That's why I've done it again. No-no-Notorious.
CHORUS
CHORUS
That's why I've done it again. No. No.
That's why I've done it again. No-no-Notorious.
That's why I've done it again. No-no-Notorious.
No-no-Notorious. Yeah.
That's why I've done it again. No-no-Notorious.
No-no-Notorious. Yeah.
That's why I've done it again. No-no-Notorious.
No-no-Notorious.
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
American Science
It's a little bit late now,
but there's times you will
Get a little bit out of hand,
making all of a spill.
And if we can lay this down,
you're going all the way.
Take a look and I'll check it out,
'cause I can always find it.
Such a lonely place. Ooh.
This room without your face. Ooh.
CHORUS
Ooh. American Science.
All night long she can two-step and sway.
Ooh, it's such awful manners.
Don't keep me waiting, come and lie beside me.
A little megalomania becomes you, evidently.
There ain't a thing you can acquire
with your cling-wrap plaything.
Just look at this state.
I crawl around in a daze,
like symptomatic case
of your soul persuasion.
Such a lonely place. Ooh.
This room without your face. Ooh.
CHORUS
Ooh, it's a little bit later now,
And there's time you will let it all get
Out of hand when you feel you feel.
I just switched on the operation.
Such a lovely face. Ooh.
It pulls me into place. Ooh.
CHORUS (Repeat for FADE)
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
Skin Trade
Working on the weekend, baby.
She's working all through the night.
A jump into the deep end gave her
the evidence she required.
Takes five; she's got pearls.
Don't fake it when it comes to making money.
So she smiles. But that's cruel.
If you know what she thinks
If you knew what she was after.
Sometimes she wonders,
And she laughs in her frustration.
CHORUS
Would someone please explain
The reason for this strange behaviour.
In exploitation's name
We must be working for the Skin Trade.
Doctors of the revolution gave us
the medicine we desired.
Besides being absolutely painless
It's a question of compromise.
They got steel.
So cool to get angry at the weekend
and go back to school.
So big deal; it's what rules.
When it comes to making money,
Say yes, please; thank you.
Sometimes you wonder, and ask yourself the question.
CHORUS (Repeated)
I know the answer, but I'm asking you the question.
CHORUS (Repeat for FADE)
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
A Matter Of Feeling
How does it feel
when everyone surrounds you?
How do you deal?
Do crowds just make you feel lonely?
What do you say
when people come and try to pin you down?
Acquaintances smile,
but that's no understanding.
How, after a while
you keep falling off the same mountain.
Try to explain it,
but nothing really gets them that high.
CHORUS
Steal away in the morning;
love's already history to you.
It's a habit you're forming.
This body's desperate for something new.
Just A Matter of Feeling
These moments of madness are sure to pass,
And tears will dry as you're leaving.
Who knows, you might find something to last.
Emotion's a game,
saved up for a rainy Monday.
But you laugh just the same,
'cause it's been pouring on Sunday.
Call up your numbers,
and never let the zeros bring you down.
How does it feel?
Is time too heavy to hold?
Whatever you decide for the moment is holy.
Whenever you slow down to see life is passing by.
CHORUS
You can...CHORUS
A matter of feeling. A matter of feeling.
A matter of feeling. A matter of feeling.
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
Hold Me
Yeah, this time.
Shall we walk?
Shall we run through my head, you understand?
Does the body you conceal
need the touch of someone's hand?
Ashes; violations.
Who would they burn for?
In your isolation what can't you see?
I wonder if the light's down.
I wonder if they're listening.
CHORUS
Hold me. Lay your shame away.
Show me where your lovers stay.
Hold me. Lay your ghost away.
Show me for yourself.
You are lost and alone,
but a prisoner of your pride.
When the passions you ignore
you can never hide.
One of these days you're gonna find out,
'cause one of these days you're gonna try.
And what did I say
to make you wind up
with this spear of guilt inside.
I wonder if the light's down.
I wonder if they're listening.
CHORUS
Na na na na na na na. Hold Me.
Na na na na na na. Show me.
No na na na na na na na na na.
CHORUS
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
Vertigo (Do The Demolition)
Hey guys, turn it up to get sleazy.
Twist it in a vice
Nobody said it was easy.
Just use your naked eyes, oh.
How to see and how to hide it.
How to save it. Well, maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
You can take it and eat it, and chew your life supply.
Where's the real life in your illusion?
On the dark side your power's in confusion.
Do the dance. Do the demolition.
And lose the chance to hear when you don't listen.
Don't you feel edgy?
Bite your lips and bleed.
Conversation is empty;
Abandoned in the freeze.
Freedom is your condemnation.
Free to say well, maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.
You can take it or leave it.
Just need a little hit tonight.
Where's the real life in your illusion?
On the dark of power in confusion.
Do the dance. Do the demolition.
Don't lose the chance to hear 'cause you don't listen.
Maybe. Maybe. Maybe you can try to believe it.
Just need a little help tonight.
Where's the real life in your illusion?
On the dark side of power in confusion.
Do the dance. Do the demolition.
And lose the chance to hear when you don't listen.
Where's the real life in your illusion?
On the dark side of power in confusion.
Do the dance. Do the demolition.
And lose the chance to hear when you don't listen.
Repeat for FADE:
Hear it when you listen.
You don't hear when you don't listen.
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
So Misled
I,.......So Misled.
In the summer of a London life,
"Gold," she said, was a month before I
Realised sold instead.
Babe, it's such an awful choice.
Don't break my back.
Take it easy, now you whipping boy.
Don't wanna feel the crack.
Trust my head to say lose it;
Now my body's got to use it.
CHORUS
I should not be So Misled.
I should not be So Misled.
Saw an advert in a magazine;
Safe it said, with the satisfaction
Guaranteed to cool your head.
I can't see the solution
To this state of confusion.
CHORUS
Instrumental ad lib.
CHORUS (Repeated for FADE)
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
"Meet El Presidente"
Miss November Tuesday,
bend your rubber rules.
Take your time, but don't take
off your high heeled shoes.
She's in demand at dinner time;
she's on the factory wall.
And when the gentlemen retire
guess who's in control?
She blew your money
on taking a cruise.
If that isn't funny,
well, watch out teacher.
CHORUS
Ooh, ooh. When the chamber's empty
She said ooh, ooh, Meet El Presidente.
Dressed in flimsy clothing,
use your lipstick line
To colour fear and loathing
with a pink disguise.
You've never refused when she lies back
Put a stripe on the union; and a star on the jack.
She's on the case at dinner time.
She's on the evening news.
And if you dare step out of line
you're going to be abused.
You may not like it;
you may not be scared.
But hell has no fury like a
young girl's ego.
CHORUS
Ooh, ooh. Doo, doo, doo.
You might adopt an attitude;
look on the moral side.
But if police are after you,
where's the best place to hide?
For this production
they gave her a gun.
Ain't no director--
so watch out actors!
CHORUS (Repeat till finish)
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
Winter Marches On
The trade's on.
She drains emotion
To drink from her breast of fortune.
Dreams have frozen crystal in the morning.
Birth time rose;
A thorn for coronation.
All arise from your rest.
We will find enough there to feed you.
Soon you'll belong to the blest.
Spare us your lives while we need you.
Loud is the music the crowd is bringing
Out of my head as the winter marches on.
Loud is the music. The sky is ringing.
Out of my head as the winter marches on.
Loud is the music the crowd is bringing
Out of my head as the winter marches on.
Loud is the music. The sky is ringing.
Out of my head as the winter marches on.
And on.
Winter marches on.
.
Duran Duran – Notorious (1986 – EMI/Capitol - Tritec Music Ltd, D.D. Productions Ltd.)
Proposition
"Bring back that child," she said.
Spare me the price of freedom.
Cold is my baby's head,
blown by the wind of reason.
Even the rage behind
cries out to see
We're still standing
under the closing edge.
Pay for the crime of feeling.
When all your pride is dead
you must be scared instead.
CHORUS
A quiet word is my Proposition.
A promise made of a fierce day.
A body bleeds for this coalition.
Without surrender if you stay.
"Show me my youth," she cried.
Wasted for desolation.
Hold up the sacrifice.
Pull down your institution.
Resting while anger flies.
Question's the same.
Who's deciding after the clouds have lain.
Shame on your generation.
When all your guilt lies dead
you must be scared instead.
CHORUS
When all your pain lies dead
you must be scared instead.
CHORUS (Repeating for FADE. Vocal ad lib.)
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Big Thing
get it up get it out get it in time
hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing
move it in move it out move up the line
bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing
brothers and sisters let me hear it
get it up get it on get it in time
give me the green light and watch me move it
move it up move it out move up the line
this is temptation power rotation
give me the friction and watch me make it
make it up making out making it slide
so glad you came along
this time you won't be wrong
you love to turn it on
and you'renot the only one
Brothers and sisters we can take it
shake it up shake it out shake it all the time
give me the suction we can stick it
lick it up suck it up stick it outside
this is temptation (station)
power rotation (to station)
give me the playlist and watch me eat it
eat it up beat it up beat it in time
so glad you came along
this time you won't be wrong
you love to turn it on
and you'renot the only one
get it up get it out get it in time
hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing
move it in move it out move up the line
bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing
get it up get it out get it in time
hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing
move it in move it out move up the line
bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
I Don't Want Your Love
I don't mind if you're keeping someone else behind
I don't care 'cause you've got something I can share
Hey, take a chance, even if it's only
only while we're dancing in the
light of your second sight because
when you understand me
you might feel good around me now.
CHORUS
I don't want your love to bring me down
I don't want your love so turn it around
I won't turn you out if you've got someone else
someone else you care about
because you must realise
my obsessive fascination is in your imagination
CHORUS
Your rhythym is the power to move me
It's something you control completely
I don't want your love
I don't want your love
I like noise 'cause I like waking up the house
I cannot sit down. I can't shut my mouth
But when you understand me,
you might feel good around me
CHORUS
Your rhythym is the power to move me
It's something you control completely
I don't want your love
I don't want your love
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
All She Wants Is
All she wants is
All she wants is
All she wants is
Spend your money on the corner now
Know you've gotta save some
for the shoeshine boys
You've been pulling 'em
by the hand inside
Oh...collecting all your toys
If you need a lead heaven now,
just stick around--
You're going to be there
What do you dare?
What do you care?
What does your heart say now?
All she wants is
All she wants is
All she wants is
Divine intervention
couldn't keep the word
from leaking out
With your pleasure in suspension
Not to mention
what you hang it around
If you need a lead to heaven, yeah
A place to share
In every position
What do you dare?
What do you care?
What does your heart say now?
All she wants is
All she wants is
All she wants is
More...
All she wants is (repeat to fade)
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Too Late Marlene
Waking out of nowhere
And I let you in
Til my imagination went for a spin
I seen you every night
Been making out since then
And still I wonder why everybody's saying
That ice is thin.
And I think I know you
Just a little bit by nowA
And I think I can show you
You see baby, I don't want to fight about it
Send down your rain
Then who's to blame
And you'll understand
because its' much too late to change
Awaken to this hunger
And then watch my heat
Grow paler than the moonlight
That you made me eat
And if we run our lives
Along a one way street
We'll always wonder why everytime
It still tastes just as sweet
Send down your rain
Then who's to blame
You'll understand
Because it's much too late to change
I will explain
We're to much the same
No I won't leave
Because it's just too late Marlene
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Drug (It’s Just A State Of Mind)
Take me every morning
Take me every night
Take me when you're feeling low
Take me when you want to stay
up all night
Before you slip into the white
there's something i want you to know
in all your stretch of consciousness
you've still got a long way to go
Some make you spin,
Some make you sweat,
it's only here for you to choose
Some like it hot,
But I like it wet, so tell me...
what have we got to lose now?
Take me every morning
Take me every night
Take me when you're feeling low
Take me when you want to stay
up all night
(a hit, a hit)
A hit to fit reality
It's just a state of mind
and you, and it, it's more than just
and that's what you've got to find
we'll make you spin,
we'll make you sweat
all you have to do is choose me
and if you would try
and alternative high
then tell me, what have we got to lose now?
Take me every morning
Take me every night
Take me when you're feeling low
Take me when you want to stay
up all night
Take me every morning
Take me every night
Take me when you're feeling low
Take me when you want to stay
up all night
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Do You Believe In Shame?
Do you believe in love?
Do you believe in shame?
And if love can conquer all
then why do we only feel the pain?
I heard you speak my name
heard you singing The Stones
maybe heard you laughing in a line of static
on my telephone
So why your eyelids are closed,
inside a case of rust
And did you have to change
all your poets fire into frozen dust
I've tried to justify it to learn from your mistake
But where's the stupid lie that has to make it's point
with such a pointless waste
Come out
Do you believe in shame?
Do you believe in love?
And if they taste the same
would you love again or abandon both?
I don't think I ever can
belive my friend has gone
Keep saying it's alright I'm going to bring you back
but I know I'm wrong
There's nothing I can say
there's nothing left to do
It's just that lately I feel so damn lonely
when I think of you
And it may seem selfish now
but I'll hold on to the memory
Until all this fear is washed away
Do you believe in love?
Do you believe in life?
'Cos I believe a little part of you inside of me
will never die...
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Palomino
She lays on the wall
watching the strangers drift away
mid-day's ore--thick
with the sun of Arabia
she surrenders her voices
they gather, on the wind
talkin, chanting, breathing
into her body...yesterday
Awakened beside
the scent of burnt sugar--on the skin
painting eyes--thick
with the color she brings in
oh, and sure and strong
when the lightning tumbles down
don't you frown
everything will be in time for this evening
if there's secrets
she has to be pardoned to
every one of them
if there's heaven
she gets to the heart
CHORUS
and you'll know...
why she says
when I run out of blue
help me rise instead
then I will run to you
why she says
when I run out of blue
give me rain instead
now let me run... (let me run)
if there's secrets
she has to be pardoned to
every one of them
if there's heaven
she gets to the heart
CHORUS
Hey-hey....
why she says
when I run out of blue
help me rise instead
then I will run to you
why she says
when I run out of blue
give me rain instead
then I will run to you
(repeat to fade)
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Land
Baby, I'm really sorry
to break your dream
when it's so early
Headlights
on the windowpane
they're getting lost
in the light of day
tomorrow is today
and soon my ship will sail
Away from here
to walk a howling sealane
stay for me
your love is life
for love is land
Baby, just hear my story
before I leave
before we write the end
Standing, across the ocean stream
I'll need to know
I'll need your country then
tomorrow and today
you keep my landfall safe
away from here (away from here)
to walk a howling sealane (away from you)
stay for me (stay for me)
I need your love to land
away from here (away from here)
to walk a howling sealane (away from you)
stay for me (stay for me)
your love is life, for love is land
away from here (away from here)
to walk a howling sealane (away from you)
stay for me (stay for me)
I need your love to land
away from here (away from here)
to walk a howling sealane (away from you)
stay for me (stay for me)
your love is life, for love is land
love is land
love is land
love is land
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
The Edge Of America
Walk the edge of America
A concrete beach to scrape my hand
inside the subway stinking fear and shame
becomes the violent breath
Vigilantes out on dawn patrol
but now there's nothing left to hide
I'm just a number on the metal fence
which marks the great divide
Hey boy
give your dreams a rest
if you're tired of searching
this is where it ends
there's nothing left to lose
nothing to protest
learn to love your anger now
anger here is all you possess
welcome to the age
Below the towers of the citadel
Seems someone overlooked the cost
Forgotten soldier of paradise
now paradise is lost
Recognition never realized
Salvation lost among the crowd
So tell me beside this sterile sea
where is your nation now?
And we say
Hey boy
give your dreams a rest
if you're tired of searching
this is where it ends
there's nothing left to lose
nothing to protest
learn to love your anger now
anger here is all you possess
welcome to the edge
Duran Duran – James Bond Soundtrack (1985, Danjaq S.A.)
Written By: Duran Duran & John Barry
A View To A Kill
Meeting you with a view to a kill
Face to face in secret places feel the chill
Nightfall covers me
But you know the plans I'm making
Still over sea
Could it be the whole earth opening wide
A sacred why
A mystery gaping inside
The weekends why
Until we
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance in the the fire
To fatal sounds of broken dreams
Dance in to the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
Choice for you is the view to a kill
Between the shades assasination standing still
First crystal tears
Fall of snowflakes on your body
First time in years
To drench your skin with lovers rosy stain
A chance to find
A phoenix for the flame
A chance to die
But can we
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
To fatal sounds of broken dreams
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
When all we see is the view to a kill
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over)
Pick it up - this'll get you out of your head
China's hangin' out by the railings
of the motorshed
she goes with a real hit biker
he's a metalhead
she looks me up and down
talkin' dirty eyes
sweet sayin' boy baby
I could lick ya any time
keep it up- that's right...here we go again
Bit later I'm gonna run
into her round the back
while other guys break heads
in the Shugar Shack
don't give me drink I don't wanna
get too stoned
then we're gonna see who's gonna
take who home
the violence of summer
a love's taking over
it starts with desire
ends up under cover
those lips will make me rise
you may look down but don't think twice
slow death is on the way
so what man I still want to play....
one, two
this'll get you out of your mind
this'll get you up...let's go
maybe take a ride goin' south
where her mother writes
before bad news catches up
we still got a little time
we'll leave it all so far away
one thing is sure we shouldn't stay
I take it all little Chine gonna
get the runaround a run... a runaround
the violence of summer
a love's taking over
it starts with desire
ends up under cover
china... na china...nanana china... na china...nanana
china... na china...nanana china... na china...nana
the violence of summer
a love's taking over, it starts with desire
ends up under cover...mmm... love's takin' over
yes love's takin' over… love's takin over...
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Liberty
i'll tell you something
to let you understand the way i feel
just what you mean to me
thank you for fine times
we nearly made it all the way but no
it wasn't meant to be
you say we feel the same
there ain't no blame to decide
but if a little time could change your mind i'll be here...
and you can call me (if you want to stay with me)
at your liberty
you can hold me (if you want to be with me)
at your liberty
do you remember
how lovers ripe on summer's heathen night
would never seem to end?
and does December (December)
come stirring with that finger of desire (desire)
to feel it once again?
you worry 'bout your friends
what if they find what's going on
but a little time could change your mind i'll be here
and you can call me (if you want to stay with me)
at your liberty
you can hold me (if you want to be with me)
at your liberty
help me out
i live in doubt
sort me out
yeah....
don't make it every night
don't wanna be the love of your life
so if you are inclined
to spend a little time
i'll be here
and you can call me - at your liberty
and you can hold me - at your liberty
and you can call me - at your liberty
and you can touch me girl - at your liberty
...touch me girl (at your liberty)
help me out (at your liberty)
...sort me out (at your liberty)
...or you can set me free
(if you wanna stay with me
if you wanna be with me
if you wanna stay with me
if you wanna write to me)
at your liberty
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Hothead
(We will continue...er...to...er...watch
this situation very closely)
here in the shadows where we stand
watching lady, watching man
(And it may take nature three years the experts
say to make up for the damage done)
greedy for pictures as they roll
we see the planet lose control
(The average credit card holder has
about $750 of revolving debt)
Hothead! evolution nonstop evolution
Hothead!
Hothead! evolution nonstop evolution
Hothead! ....... Hothead
time, time will change the picture
(Ah it's a good sign)
about time, time will change the picture
Power to change the point of view
but what is fake and what is true
(There are charges today that a consumer product
is torching homes and killing Americans)
blow by blow you're telling me
you'll change the course of history
(Our television tends to come out of Hollywood
action cars, crashes, chases)
hothead! evolution nonstop evolution
hothead!
hothead! evolution nonstop evolution
hothead! ....... hothead
time, time will change the picture
(Ah it's a good sign)
about time, time will change the picture
I turn you on you turn me off
right now I'm suffering from this culture shock
spread confusion wherever you can
with shaking heads and shaking hands
cue propoganda to manipulate
where there's megabucks you protect the state
let the body break and the body tumble
so you build it up, then you watch it crumble
time will change the picture
evolution, nonstop evolution
about time, time will change the picture
evolution, nonstop evolution
about time, time will change the picture
evolution, NONSTOP!
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Serious
oh woman you make me feel
like I'm on fire
oh woman you make it real
it's the only way for me
so if we sometimes fight
doesn't mean we got problems
ain't always black and white
'n who cares anyway?
doesn't have to be serious
doesn't have to be serious
serious
doesn't have to be serious
doesn't have to be serious
oh baby you get so wild
too much understanding
oh baby you're such a child
full up with on love and tears and cryin'
don't worry if you're confused
we all tend to be sometimes
the whole world is getting used
that's just the way it is...
may be right, ooh it may be wrong
doesn't have to be serious
being hard isn't being strong
doesn't have to be serious
fighting for love, fighting for pain
doesn't have to be serious
and if you win, oh what do you gain?
doesn't have to be serious
ooh, doesn't have to be serious
maybe right, oh but maybe wrong
doesn't have to be serious
fighting for love, fighting for pain
doesn't have to be serious
and if you win, oh what do you gain?
doesn't have to be serious
maybe right, oh but maybe wrong
doesn't have to be serious
being hard, isn't being strong
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
All Along The Water
Guess you know
where I wanna go
got to see the water flow
try to understand
Got me trapped
playing with me like a cat
scrape your fingers down my back
pin me to the ground
All along the water baby
Take me to your water babe
All along the water babe
I get fired
can't you see I'm burning up
when you come and turn it up
higher every time
If I stay
oh the end is near
come and get me out of here
come and get me now
All along the water baby
Take me to your water babe
All along the water babe
Tell me is there any left
I wanna drink it up
drink it up
baby, if there's any left
I'll drink it up, drink it up, drink it up
All along the water baby
Take me to your water baby
All along the water baby
All along the water baby
Take me to your water baby
All along the water baby
All along the water baby
Thirsty for your water babe
Spare me from this torture baby
Take me to the water babe
All along the water baby
Sliding on your torso babe
Take me to your water babe
All along the water babe
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
My Antarctica
once I thought that I was in control
but that was just another trick of fate
playing with my life
there have been some times
I was so tied up
and I said to myself
gotta break it all
but didn't really try
two hearts beating in this place you've made
you know nothing changes my Antarctica
you can make your rhymes
and paint your rules
in black and white
for me to memorize
but never understand
and there will be time
for a thousand vows
oh a thousand promises
we forgot
to be realized
two hearts beating in this place you've made
you know nothing changes my Antarctica
one life pumping
we make love to make our heat
and we throb in my Antarctica
we'll keep the rhythm going
and we'll remember
we'll keep the laughter flowing
and we'll remember
we let the music jangle
and we'll remember
two hearts beating in this place you've made
you know nothing changes my Antarctica
one life pumping
we make love to make our heat
and we throb in my Antarctica
caught and sheltered this is what you made
you know I will stay here
in Antarctica
and you
will stay here
with me
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
First Impression
(rock-n-roll star)
he turns on the animal
it's that time of day
here comes little Johnny
from the back streets of the UK
he's got the answer
doesn't go away
who's gonna treat you right
who's gonna change the world tonight...tonight
the lasting first impression
is what you're looking for
I said oh, is that your first impression
and is that good enough for you?
Don't want illusion
a power glory ride
doesn't run with the neighborhood shadows
on a death trip body slide
he won't give up
and he won't give in
and he won't let up until
he gets inside your pretty skin
I said oh, the lasting first impression
is what you're looking for
I said oh, is that your first impression
and is that good enough for you?
he turns on the animal
it's that time of day
to make a little honey
in the backstreets of the UK
and he loves the noise
and he loves to play
just living here and now boys
coz tomorrow's on the way
I said oh, the lasting first impression
is what you're looking for
I said oh, is that your first impression
and is that good enough for you?
good enough for you
enough for you
and is that good enough for you?
the possibility he sees the possibility
to seize the opportunity he sees the possibility
to turn on the animal
I said oh, the lasting first impression
is what you're looking for
I said oh, is that your first impression
and is that good enough for you?
good enough for you
enough for you
and is that good enough for you?
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Read My Lips
(ROCK IT!)
I got something
you got nothing to lose
I could give you
so much more than you're used to
move a little closer
maybe we can slip away
right now we could use a little privacy
all too much attention from your friends in here
move a little closer
trust me
I'm not on the make
(That's a lie)
if I could pull you over
c'mon lady, what d'you say
get a grip
don't resist
read my lips
it's a trip
ain't a risk
read my lips
get a grip
don't resist
read my--
(lips)
part of you wanna get lucky
part of you wanna go trade
part of you wanna come looking
part of you want to stay.....
(ROCK IT)
get a grip
don't resist
read my lips
it's a trip
ain't a risk
read my lips
she's all mine...
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Can You Deal With It?
There must be somebody
who'll make love to me
Blow the rules away
trash these yesterdays
Live in sympathy
use psychology
To find the twist in me
Can you deal with it?
A recent enquiry
showed no boundary
Love's the only way
can you handle it?
Can you deal with it?
Can you deal with it?
Can you deal with it?
Can you deal with it?
Can you deal with it?
(when you ain't sorry...)
Can you deal with it?
(for all that you apologize)
Working up to something
I know you're up to something
Can you deal with it?
(something's got to happen)
Can you deal with it?
(something's got to get me up)
Can you deal with it?
(nothing ever happens)
Can you deal with it?
(nothing's ever good enough)
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Venice Drowning
Venice breeding shy chimeras
of sex and violence
in the purple evening silence
Venice dreaming of a partner
Fills your hands with breasts of marble
from the cradle to the table
coax this naked treasure from
your saviour
come swim into my love
come swim into my life
divine blasphemer tempting
holy beads of jism
with the scarlet catechism
her lips will answer
(oh, her lips will answer)
how to be ther perfect stranger
the perfect lover wanting
and as you'll discover...giving
and as you'll discover...being
come swim into my love
come swim into my life
enter this sublime corrosion
Venice drowning in emotion
the body stirs and is reanimated
only briefly--
but then life is very brief
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Venice drowning
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – EMI/Capitol – Skintrade Music Ltd.)
Downtown
Deliver us from evil
we go with the flow
but here's a little secret
I think you ought to know
Providers and abusers
they know where to go
with Sunday refugees from Sunday TV shows
Downtown all of the way down
Downtown all of the way downtown
Let's sink imagination
past your wildest wild
(all of the way downtown)
Go way below below below
is it such a crime?
The uptown can't teach you how to live
they don't have the time
Coz where i'm gonna take you
is a state of mine
Downtown all of the way down
Downtown all of the way downtown
Downtown all of the way down
Downtown all of the way downtown
you better learn to use your heart
you got to loose your money
you better use it all up
coz you can't take it with you
when you're going down...
You'll never come home babe
You'll never come home baby
And you'll never be alone
All of the way downtown
all of the way...
down
down
down
Downtown...
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Too Much Information
Destroyed by MTV,
I hate to bite the hand that
feeds me so much information
The Pressure's on the screen
to sell you things that you don't need
it's too much information for me
Hey TV Child look into my eyes
Here by intervention I want your attention
Promotion Boy in a suit and tie
He wants you to use it
You're too shot to loose it
It's pumpin down the cable
Like never seen before
A Cola manufacturer is sponsoring the war
Here comes the news with love from me to you
Destroyed by ABC
I hate to bite the hand that
feeds me so much information
The Pressure's on the screen
to sell you things that you don't need
it's too much information for me
Turn on the tube
Hits you with the Groove
advertizin muzik
We want you to choose it
These teeth are white trainers Ultra Brite
This band is perfect just don't scratch the surface
We covered all the angles
the survey people said
Just put us on the cover we'll be smilin anyway
This video was made with Love to you
Destroyed by BBC
I hate to bite the hand that
feeds me so much information
The Pressure's on the screen to
sell you things that you don't need
it's too much information for me
Destroyed by MTV
I hate to bite the hand that
feeds me so much information
The Pressure's on the screen to
sell you things that you don't need
it's too much information for me
Dialate your Mind - Dialate your Mind - Dialate your Mind
Got to give it to me - Got to listen to me
Got to give to me - Now I'm on the line
I try......Yes I Try
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Ordinary World
Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue
thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio
still I can't escape the ghost of you
What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is the life that I recognize?
gone away
But I won't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
and as I try to make my way
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window cross the rooftops run away
left me in the vacuum of my heart
What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away
but I won't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
somehow I have to find
and as I try to make my way
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
here today, forgot tomorrow
ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need
ours is just a little sorrowed talk
And I don't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
and as I try to make my way
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
every world is my world (I will learn to survive)
any world is my world (I will learn to survive)
any world is my world
every world is my world
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Love Voodoo
When I first met you on the roof
You cought me in your web of youth
But now I know the wicked truth
It's much to late so what's the use in fighting?
You peel me like an onion skin
And wonder at the state I'm in
One day you'll turn up to begin
And find there's nothing left but innuendo
Beside you others fade away
Like Amateurs in love's charade
Much more than just a game you play
These certain rules become a way of living
Night after night I try to prove
That I can resist you
Tied up inside your Love Voodoo
Designed to Manipulate
The Queen of sensuality
You shelter me from Liberty
It's nothing short of Piracy
That's not to say it doesn't please me sometimes.
Now this may come as no surprise
But I'm content to compromise
Until the day you realize
That I have been manipulating you
Night after night I try to prove
That I can resist you
Tied up inside your Love Voodoo
Designed to Manipulate
MID
Yes, I'm tied up inside your loving
But it's voodoo to me
Everynight how I try
How I try to resist you
But it's no good to me
Night after night I try to prove
That I can resist you
Tied up inside your Love Voodoo
Designed to Manipulate
Night after night I try to prove
That I can resist you
Tied up inside your Love Voodoo
Designed to Manipulate
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Drowning Man
He's sinking faster than a drowning man
He'll grab a hold of anyone he can
Gun in his poket and a heart of ham
Uncle Sam
He's dying faster than a rabid dog
Infect us all now he's losing blood
Nose for trouble and a soul of rock
Smokey's man
Don't drag me down
I don't wanna drown
Your going down
NA NANA NA NANA NANA NA NA
There's not much flesh
Just skin and bone
Cheeks sunk deep
Eyes popping wide
Don't put out a hand to help him
This drowning man will bite it right off
RIGHT OFF
RIGHT OFF
RIGHT OFF
Don't drag me down
I don't wanna drown
Your going down
NA NANA NA NANA NANA NA NA
MID
He's selling faster than a magazine
Infect us all with his TV Screen
Don't drag me down
I don't wanna drown
Your going down
NA NANA NA NANA NANA NA NA
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Shotgun
Get it together
Thing is jumpin'
I wanna see your
Bullets pumpin'
Shotgun
Itchy finger
On the trigger
Got to make the
Shooter bigger
Shotgun
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Come Undone
Mine, immaculate dream made breath and skin
I've been waiting for you
Signed, with a home tattoo,
Happy birthday to you was created for you
(can't ever keep from falling apart
At the seams
Can't I believe you're taking my heart
To pieces)
Oh, it'll take a little time,
might take a little crime
to come undone now
(PRECHORUS)
We'll try to stay blind
to the hope and fear outside
Hey child, stay wilder than the wind
And blow me in to cry
(CHORUS)
Who do you need, who do you love
When you come undone
(repeat)
Words, playing me deja vu
Like a radio tune I swear I've heard before
Chill, is it something real
Or the magic I'm feeding off your fingers
(Can't ever keep from falling apart
At the seams
Can I believe you're taking my heart
To pieces)
Lost, in a snow filled sky, we'll make it alright
To come undone now
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Written By: Duran Duran & Milton Nascimento
Breath After Breath
Breath After Breath
Ama! Danca!
Every day I wake up in this room and I don't know
Where I come from, where I'm going to
then I hear the voice
Senhora musa da paz Me abraca me carrega no teu andor
Dormir no colo da dor Amiga, arrasa!
A tua mao desenhou O sonho na areia
Agora, entrega de vez Meu rumo E vida
From where I stand
The truth isn't black and white
Alone we live and die
We love and fight
Breath after breath
we carry this mortal coil
Safe for tomorrow
Do I dare oh do I dare
follow through the goorsteps
my whole body hears
Beating on my heart like a feather
beating of a moment til I disappear
Diga uma palavra alegre Manda um recado
Que seja agoca Faz o mundo ficar novo
E dancar no colo do tal de amor
From where I stand
The truth isn't black and white
Alone we live and die
We love and fight
Breath after breath
we carry this mortal coil
Safe for tomorrow
Circles in sand are washed out into the sea
Just as we slip on through to eternity
Breath after breath
we carry this mortal coil
Safe for tomorrow
Diga uma palavra, cara Bem alegre
Corre, manda logo um recado Me abraca
Faz um clima doce Me arrepia!
Chega de sufocol Me poe louco!
Me faz diamante Teu amante
Danca ao som do vento Me ensina
Basta de sufoco Nao faz jogo...
A flame of love is burning … Always
The song is of the planets oh whooooooo
The dance is to the rhythm of the rain
Where everyone is coming from is coming to
And birth is just a breath after breath
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
UMF
Here we stand in the shadow of the master plan
Makin' touble wherever we can,
stir it up, stir it up, stir it up
Can't you see this boy is going cheap -
knockdown to a basement deal
But I really won't stop til I get to the top
Take it from me, I'm waiting here on my knees
And I love the way you tease me
(oh) such a wonderful person
Don't play rough - it's easy when you know your stuff
Say please and sure enough, so kind,
I'm makin love to the ultimate mind
Come on, take a look, put it to me, baby
You could feel a love come tumbling down
I just want to wrap myself in you baby
We could tell the world we're fooling around
Ultimately, I'd say shes toying with me
It's a case of wait and see,
but right now I'm gonna keep my pants on
A to Zed, shes doin' it to my head
We don't need to go to bed, you'll find,
to make love to the ultimate mind
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) Put it to me, baby (you could feel a love...)
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) Wanna wrap myself in you, baby (we'll tell the world...)
Talk me round, let's do it right here and now
I don't want you cooling down,
turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up
We could fit reality's two-way split personality
Life's a bitch, but I'm fine,
making love to the ultimate mind
Heaven's bent, we're completely innocent
We all got to pay the rent,
and in time we learn to compromise
Talkin' tall, but I feel invisible
Can you see me after all that I said,
there's only one thing for it
Take a look, put it to me, baby
You could feel a love come tumbling down
I just want to wrap myself in you baby
We can tell the world were fooling around
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) Come on, take a look, put it to me, baby
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) You could be a love come tumbling down
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) I just want to wrap myself in you baby
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) We could tell the world we're fooling around
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) Come on, take a look, put it to me, baby
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) You could feel a love come tumbling down
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) I just want to wrap myself in you baby
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) We could tell the world we're fooling around
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) Come on, take a look (put it to me baby)
(Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) (Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...) (Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh...)
I'm making love to the ultimate mind - Ultimate mind - Ultimate mind...
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
None Of The Above
There was a time I was so afraid
Of everything people around me said
That I wanted to hide my face in the shadows
There was a time on a bed of nails
I was dreaming a plan I thought could not fail
But no power under the sun could pull it together
I can't take this attitude
Got to show now I got to move on
God knows where I'm going to
Its a lonely burning question
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
If there's a time that we ever see
The nature of life in reality
Then I want to be there
To kick at the answer
I can't take this attitude
Got to show now I got to move on
God knows where I'm going to
Its a lonely burning question
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
None of the above
I stand by none of the above
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Lou Reed – Original Artist: The Velvet Underground featuring Nico
Femme Fatale
Here she comes you better watch your step.
She's going to break your heart in two
Its true it's not hard to realize
Just look into her false coloured eyes
She'll build you up just to put you down,
What a clown
'Coz everybody knows... she's a femme fatale
Things she does to please, sees just a little tease
See the way she walks, hear the way she talks
You're written in her book,
You're number 37 take a look
She's going to smile to make you frown, what a clown
Little boy she's from the street
Before you start your're already beat
She's going to play you for a fool
Yes it's true
'Coz everybody knows... she's a femme fatale
Things she does to please, sees just a little tease
See the way she walks, hear the way she talks
She will try to put you doen, the hardest girl around
'Coz everybody knows... she's a femme fatale
Things she does to please, sees just a little tease
She's a femme fatale.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Shelter
I watch you from my window working this vicious road
You shudder when the wind blows
girl you're looking beat and cold
Don't know your situation but you look so alone to me
In my imagination this is how the message reads
Just come softly to me in the shelter of my heart
Trust my intuition you're the one I've got to know
I give without condition wouldn't try to save your soul
Money or reputation doesn't mean a thing to me
Special communication it's the only thing we need
Reaching out... Calling out
Just come softly to me
Calling out...
Hear me now
In the shelter of my heat
Reaching out... calling out...
Hear me now... do you read me?
In the shelter of my heart.
Here is no pain to feel
Here is safe for lips unsealed
Just come softly to me
Reaching out
Reaching out for your love babe
Calling out
Calling out for your love
for your love babe
Just come softly to me in the shelter of my heart
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
To Whom It May Concern
Dear Mr. Bones, I've [We've] had enough
you can try to pull us down
With your pinstipe weasle stuff
but word travels in this town
I wouldn't write home about you
we're better off without you
without you Mr. Bones
Some people feed on other people's troubles
Some people beat on other people's meat
Some people want to bleed us dry
and some people...Gonna down on your feet.
You said "Boy's I'll get you more
but you have got to pay me by the hour".
Anyways you are just another bore
who believes he's a superpower.
When you talk about loyalty
I just hope you realize
since you ate my roalities
Mr. Bones this is goodbye.
This is goodbye and such hereinafter shall be reffered.
Notwithstanding or foregoing statements unpreferred.
Don't claim you understand
when you've not heard a single word, a dicky bird.
Some people feed on other people's troubles.
Some people beat on other people's meat.
Some people want to bleed us dry
and some people... gonna drown on your feet.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 – EMI/Capitol – Publisher Music Ltd.)
Sin Of The City
Coat check girl up in Happyland
has a violent row with a Cuban man
Julio leaves in a drunken rage
Comes back with the gasoline
The club has no fire exit
The club had no door
Only five people came out alive
The sin is that 89 died
89 dead
89 dead
89 dead
89 dead
The sin is that a year and a half
before the fire chief's out
and he's raising cain brands
Happyland hazzard close down but no.
No-one ever paid him no mind
City living heavy trouble
City living rough
We are given angry heart
But angers not enough
Daily News reviews of the landlords life
found six thousand code violations light.
The city has more a hundred thousand wars
all for one of Forbes' Four Hundred whores.
Just one fire cracker on a big bonfire
of self serving penny pinching wiseguy style.
Never allowing for the human condition.
The sin is that these guys survive.
City living heavy trouble
City living rough.
We are given angry heart
But anger's not enough... rpt.
You're using your people up.
Stop killing your people now.
Stop wasting your people now
Sin of the City.
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Melvin Glover, Sylvia Robinson – Original Artist: Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
White Lines (Don’t Do It)
White! Ooh-white! White! Ooh-white! White! Ooh-white! White! Ooh-white!
(White Lines) Vision dreams of passion (Going through my mind)
And all the while I think of you (Pipeline)
A very strange reaction (Yours to unwind)
The more I see, the more I do
Something of a phenomenon, Telling your body to come along
Cause White Lines blow away Blow! Rock! Blow!
Ticket to ride a white-line highway tell all your friends they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul pound for pound it costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay my white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein with nothing to gain except killing your brain
Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all) Rock (say freeze, come on!) [Repeat 3 times]
Aaaaah...
Higher baby, get higher baby, get higher baby and don't ever come down... Free base!
Pipeline (pure as the driven snow)
connected to my mind (and now I'm having fun, baby!)
Highrise (it's getting kind of low)
'cause it makes you feel so nice (I need some one on one, baby!)
Tell me it'll blow your mind away (baby)
going to your little hideaway 'Cause white lines (what do white lines do?)
blow away Blow! - Rock! - Blow!
A million magic crystals painted pure and white a multi-million dollars almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt and if you get hooked baby,
it's nobody else's fault - so don't do it!
Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all) Rock (say freeze, come on!) [Repeat 3 times]
Aaaaah...
Higher baby, get higher baby, get higher baby and don't ever come down... Free base!
(Don't you get too high) Don't you get too high, baby (It turns you on)
You really turn me on and on (Can't you ever come down)
My temperature is rising ('Til the thrill is gone) No, I don't want you to go
A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time He got out three years from now
just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught with twenty four kilos He's out on bail, and out of jail,
and that's the way it goes!
Cane! Sugar! Cane! Sugar! Cane!
Athletes reject it - governors correct it
Gangsters, punks, and smugglers are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided - the women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke it's hard as hell to fight it - don't buy it!
Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all) Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all) Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! - Rock (say freeze, come on!) Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!) Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!) Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all)
Rock (put 'em up, put 'em up, put 'em up!) Aaaaah...
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Sylvester Stewart – Original Artist: Sly and The Family Stone
I Wanna Take You Higher (Again)
Beat is getting stronger, feel it getting stronger
Sound is getting longer, too Music is a thought to me
I want to, I want to
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher) Whoo!
Beat is nitty gritty, feel it nitty gritty
Sound is in your city, too
Music's been a thought to me
Don't you, don't you, don't, don't don't you wanna get higher (take you higher)
Don't you wanna get higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Boom shaka-laka-laka!
Boom shaka-laka-laka!
Boom shaka-laka-laka!
Beat is nitty gritty...
I 'm gonna take you high...
Beat is there, I'm with you
Beating there to lose you
Sound is there to help you groove
Music's been a thought to me
Everybody take your places
I'm gonna take you higher (take you higher)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Higher, higher, higher, mmm...
I wanna take you (take you higher)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I'm gonna take you higher (take you higher)
Don't you wanna get higher (take you higher)
(Take you higher)
I'm gonna take you high (higher)
I'm gonna take you high (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby - baby, baby, baby (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (take you higher)
Higher (take you higher)
(Take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby - baby, baby, baby (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (take you higher)
Higher (take you higher)
(Take you higher)
I'm gonna take you (take you higher)
I'm gonna take you (take you higher)
I'm gonna take, gonna take, gonna take you higher (light my fire)
I wanna take you, I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my (take you higher)
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Lou Reed – Original Artist: Lou Reed
Perfect Day
Just a Perfect Day
Drank Sangria in the Park
And Later, when it gets dark
We go Home
Just A Perfect Day
Feed Animals in the Zoo
And Later, a movie too
And then Home
It's Such a Perfect Day
I'm Glad I spent it with you
Such a Perfect Day
You Just keep me hanging on
You Just keep me hanging on
Just a Perfect Day
Problems all Left Alone
Weekenders on our own
Such Fun
Just a Perfect Day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone new
It's Such a Perfect Day
I'm Glad I spent it with you
Such a Perfect Day
You Just keep me hanging on
You Just keep me hanging on
You're gonna reap just what you sow.
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Elvis Costello – Original Artist: Elvis Costello
Watching The Detectives
Nice girls not one with a defect
Cellophane shrink-wrapped so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs
She looks so good that he gets down and begs
She is watching the detectives, oh he's so cute
She is watching the detectives
When they shoot shoot shoot shoot.
They beat him up until the teardrops start.
But he can't be wounded cos he's got no heart
Long shot of that jumping sign
Visible shivers running down my spine
Cut the baby taking off her clothes
Close-up of the sign that says "we never close"
You snatch a tune, you match a cigarrette.
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet
I don't know how much more of this I can take
She filing her finger nails
while they're dragging the lake
She is watching the detectives oh he's so cute
She is watching the detectives
Oh they shoot shoot shoot shoot
They beat him up until the teardrops start
But he can't be wounded
cos he's got no heart
Now you think you're alone until you realize
you're in it
Now fear is here to stay love is here for a visit.
They call it instant justice when it's past
the legal limit.
Someone's scratching at the window. I wonder
who is it?
The detectives come to check if you belong to
the parents
Who are ready to hear the worst about their
daughter's disappearance.
Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay
It only took my little fingers to blow you away
Just like watching the detectives. Don't get cute
It's just like watching the detectives.
I get so angry when the tear-drops start
but he can't be wounded cause he's got no heart.
Watching the detectives.
It's just like watching the detectives.
Watching the detectives. Watching the detectives.
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Bob Dylan – Original Artist: Bob Dylan
Lay Lady Lay
Lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
Lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I show them to you and you see them shine
Lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
Stay lady stay
stay with your man a while
Until the break of day
let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his, his hands are clean
And you are the best thing that he's ever seen
Stay lady stay
stay with your man a while
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
you can have your cake and eat it, too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
when he's standing in front of you
Lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
Stay lady stay
stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay lady stay
stay while the night is still ahead
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: W. Drayton, K. Shocklee, E. Sadler – Original Artist: Public Enemy
911 Is A Joke
Now I dialed nine one one a long time ago
Don't you see how late they're reactin'
They only come and they come when they wanna
So get the morgue truck and bag the goner
They don't care 'cause they get paid anyway
They treat you like an ace that can't be betrayed
I know you stumble with no use people
If your life is on the line then you're dead today
Late comings with the late comin' stretcher
That's a body bag in disguise
y'all I'll betcha
I call 'em body snatchers
quick they come to fetch you
with an autopsy ambulance
just to dissect ya
They are the kings 'cos they swing amputation
Lose your arms your legs to them it's compilation
I can prove it to you watch the rotation
It all adds up to a funky situation
So get up get get get down
911 is a joke in yo town
Get up get get get down
Late 911 wears the late crown
911 is a joke (Repeat)
Everyday they don't never come correct
You can ask my man right here
with the broken neck
He's a witness to the job never bein' done
He would've been in full effect 911
They the token to your life when it's croakin'
They need to be in a pawn shop on a
911 is a joke we don't want 'em
I call a cab 'cause a cab will come quicker
The doctors huddle up and call a flea flicker
The reason that I say that 'cause they
Flick you off like fleas
They be laughin' at ya
while you're crawlin' on our knees
And to the strength so go the length
Thinkin' you are first when you really are tenth
You better wake up and smell the real flavor
Cause 911 is a fake life saver
Repeat
Ow, ow 911 is a joke
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Ricky Gardner – Original Artist: Iggy Pop
(Here Comes) Success
Here comes success
Over my hill
Here comes success
Here comes my car
Here comes my Chinese rug
Here comes success
Yeow!
In the last ditch
I'll think of you
In the last ditch
I will be true
Sweetheart, I'm telling you
Here comes the zoo
Here comes success
Hoo-ray success
Oh oh success
Hoo-rah success
Oh Oh Sucess
I can't help myself
I just gotta gotta gotta...
I can't stand it!
I need success
Ah, Ah, Ah
Here comes my face
It's plain bizzare
Here comes my face
Out of the crowd
Sweetheart I'm telling you
Here comes the zoo
oh oh oh
Baby lets blast off
We blast of for success
I'm gonna crash my car
I'm gonna wear a dress
Oh you slay me baby
Were gonna do the twist
Were gonna hop like a frog
Cause we love success
da, da, da, da, da, (repeat)
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: The Doors – Original Artist: The Doors
Crystal Ship
Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss
The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time you ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again
So tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why
You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly
The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back, I'll drop a line
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong – Original Artist: The Temptations
Ball Of Confusion
People moving out People moving in Why?
Because of the color of their skin
Run, Run, Run but you sure can't hide
An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth
Vote for me, I'll set you free
Rap on brother, rap on
Well the only person talking about love thy brother is a preacher
See, No body is interested in learning but the teacher
Segregation
Domination
Demonstration
Integration
Aggrivation
Humiliation
Obligation to the nation
Ball of Confusion, Ball of Confusion
That's what your world today
Ball of Confusion, Ball of Confusion
That's what your world today
is like an all time high
City's aflame in the summer time, and oh, the beat goes on
Evolution, Revolution, Evolution....
Gun Control, the sound of soul
Politicians, can you fucking believe them?
And the band played on And the band played on
Round and around and around we go where ever we're standing no body knows
Take a look around Can't you hear me talking to you?
Just a
Ball of Confusion, Ball of Confusion That's what your world today
Ball of Confusion, Ball of Confusion That's what your world today
See it in the air Tension everywhere Unemployment rising fast Killers gangs watch your ass
Gun control, the sound of soul
Segregation
Domination
Demonstration
Integration
Aggrivation
Humiliation
Obligation to the nation
Ball of Confusion, Ball of Confusion That's what your world today
That's what your world today Ball of Confusion, Ball of Confusion.... repeat
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Written By: Jimmy Page, Robert Plant – Original Artist: Led Zeppelin
Thank You
If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be lovin' you.
When mountains crumble to the sea,
There will still be you and me.
Kind woman, I give you my all,
Kind woman, nothing more.
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain,
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong
With you there is no wrong,
Together we shall go until we die.
My, my, my,
Inspiration is what you are to me,
Inspiration, look see.
And so today, my world it smiles,
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done,
For you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad,
Happiness....I'm glad.
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – EMI/Capitol)
Drive By
It was the hottest day in July
And all along Santa Monica Blvd
cars were stood still
And a gleaming metal tube
Would stretch all the way from Highland
Back to La Brea.
And she met under Los Angeles sunshine
Young man was sitting at the wheel
On his way to make a pickup
Turned off the air-con
Rolled down the window
And began to sweat
Out over the Hollywood hills
He saw the clouds building
Like great dark towers of rain
Ready to come tumbling down
Any day now
Not a day too soon
(any day now)
And as the music drifted in
From other cars
His eyes started to slip
This is the story of his dream
Silver...
(Sing Blue Silver, Sing Sing Blue Silver)
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Medazzaland
(Oh, Medazzaland)
I have a problem, they said they can solve
Soon I won’t speak
I have no words left in me
I dream in pictures
But the sound is muted
I have no way to understand what they say
(Into Medazzaland)
People are starting to talk
But I don’t hear them anymore
Now I can’t see
But I am still able to think
Do I have any feeling left?
What are they saying about me?
Do they really understand what’s wrong?
I feel their hands on my skin
The time has come for them to begin
I’m sinking deeper and deeper
Into Medazzaland
I can feel the scalpel on my skin
It’s cutting in
Deeper and deeper
I’m in Medazzaland
(Oh Medazzaland)
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music, Skin Trade Music, and Lipps is a Penny Music)
Big Bang Generation
Falling into space
At the end of time
Black as the black in your eye
Staring through a hole in the ozone
There’s nobody home
To play back your ansaphone
Climax out of blue
Is it just another high?
No there must be something new
Now that I’m so alien
Entering the atmosphere
Don’t know what is waiting here (oh no)
If there’s nothing left to fear
When they come together in
the Big Bang Generation
Teardrop in the sky
Bursting my eye
Sound of morning sighs
This life is stranger than fiction
Surreal addiction
It’s all I recognize
Feeding off the habit
Losing control
Where is it leading to?
Now that I’m the alien
Entering the atmosphere
Don’t know what is waiting here
If there’s nothing left to fear
When we come together in
the Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing control)
Big Bang Generation
(Now that I'm here alone)
Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing control)
Big Bang Generation
(Feel like I'm losing it)
We’re gonna come together here
Where you coming from?
When we gonna burn out? Don’t know
Having so much fun
Greetings from the Big Bang Generation
Big Bang Generation
Meet you in the Big Bang Generation
Together in the Big Bang Generation
Together we're the Big Bang Generation
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music, Skin Trade Music, and Lipps is a Penny Music)
Electric Barbarella
I knew when I first saw you on the showroom floor
You were made for me
I took you home and dressed you up in polyester
Princess of my dreams
Emotionless and cold as ice
All of the things I like
The way you look
The way you move
The sound you’re makin’
In ultra-chrome, latex and steel
I plug you in
Dim the lights
Electric Barbarella
Your perfect skin
Plastic kiss
Electric Barbarella
Try to resist
Then we touch
Hallucinate and tranquilize
(she’s so fine)
(she’s all mine)
Our private life is subject to investigation
No time to waste
People say they heard about our deviation
But you never looked so good
Wear the fake fur and fake pearls for me
And put on your mystery
The way I feel you know
I'll never keep you waiting
In ultra-chrome, latex and steel
I plug you in
Dim the lights
Electric Barbarella
Your perfect skin
Plastic kiss
Electric Barbarella
Try to resist
Then we touch
Hallucinate and tranquilize
Princess of my dreams
Princess of my dreams
Major domo plasticomo Barbarella
(She’s so fine)
Pro-genetic you Electric Barbarella
(She’s all mine)
My pretty pretty pretty pretty Barbarella
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Out Of My Mind
Light a candle
Lay flowers at the door
For those who were left behind
And the ones who’ve gone before
But here it comes now
Sure as silence follows rain
The taste of you upon my lips
The fingers in my brain
Ever gentle as it kills me where I lay
Who am I to resist?
Who are you to fail?
Got to get you out of my mind
But I can’t escape from the feeling
As I try to leave the memory behind
Without you what’s left to believe in?
And I could be so sorry
For the way it had to go
But now I feel your presence
In a way I could not know
And I wonder
Do you ever feel the same
In whispering darkness
Do you ever hear my name?
Got to get you out of my mind
But I can’t escape from the feeling
As I try to leave the memory behind
Without you, what’s left to believe in?
How could you dare
To become so real
When you’re just a ghost in me
And I’ve got to get you out of my mind
But I can’t escape from the feeling
As I try to leave the memory behind
Without you, what’s left to believe in?
Here in the back of my mind
Deep in the back of my mind
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Who Do You Think You Are
I’m giving you the news
Your domination’s through
You gave the best you’ve got
Now I’m out on top
If you’re in any doubt
Listen to me
I’ve got a right to say
If you know what it’s all about
Who do you think you are?
Don’t want to be your enemy
If I’m not the one you want me to be
And I’ve got to do things the way that I do
Always trying to control me
Who do you think you are?
Our time on earth is running through
(This is not a question of my pride)
Sometimes I think it’s a game to you
(Ever wonder how I feel inside?)
And sometimes I play along
But man I’ve got a mind!
You’ve got to live with yourself
For the rest of you life
Do you understand?
Everybody asks themselves the question
Who do you think you are?
Why do you feel ashamed
When you can’t explain the things I say
To other people
It's just occurred to me
A possibility
The thought that you might really want to be me?
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Silva Halo
You shine
Where others fade
You dare
To be so brave
Don’t compromise
No one can touch you
Just believe
Just believe
Come to heaven, silva halo
Come to heaven, silva halo
Silva halo
Silva halo
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Be My Icon
I follow you, I wait for you
You know there’s no escape from me
You’re more than wallpaper in my room
I write you letters and bring you gifts
I’m going through all your trash
I love you so much,
I keep your cigarette butts
Now is the time to come out
Come out of the shadows
No need to be scared
You’re gonna be so happy
I built you a shrine
Now you can Be My Icon
I’m out on the edge
There’s no way back inside
All my friends are gone
They didn’t understand me
It makes so much sense
It’s no coincidence
Just you and I alone here
And I need you
Oh
How many hours have I stared at my face in the mirror
I get worried sometimes that the image will shatter
No need to be scared
You’re gonna be so happy
I built you a shrine
Now you can be my icon
No need to be
Scared
Now you can
Be My Icon
I know this is real believe it we belong together
What ever happens you’re gonna be with me forever
Be my icon
You will be my icon
Be my icon
you will be my icon
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Buried In The Sand
Can’t say that I was surprised
When you broke the ties
They were hanging by a thread
But now I have realized
It couldn’t be the same
Cause everything has changed
And still I held out my hand
Tried to pull you back
But you were buried in the sand
I’m glad that you came along
But here our journey ends
I say goodbye to you
My very dear friend
You were buried in the sand.
Head buried in the sand.
You were buried in the sand.
Head buried in the sand.
You are buried in the sand.
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Michael (You've Got A Lot To Answer For)
I came over your place today
In a roundabout sort of way
Nothing holding me
Just the company
Gentle killing the afternoon
Don’t ever try to be any more
Michael, you’ve got a lot to answer for
You unlocked some of the doors
To my soul
And I don’t see you for awhile
Thinkin of you will make me smile
You never bother me with responsibility
Misbehaving in candlelight
Don’t ever try to give any more
Michael, you’ve got a lot to answer for
You got me wakin up wise to the world
Trust you to get caught up in somebody’s war
You’ll come out of it all in time, I’m sure
Just remember what friends were put here for
Michael, you’ve got a lot to answer for
And I know that you’re gonna call
If you need me
When you need me
If you need me
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music, Skin Trade Music, and Lipps is a Penny Music)
Midnight Sun
As I watch you flickering slowly
In the shadows, nothing to hold
It’s as if I don’t recall our time before
And would it be so wrong
Not to remember?
There are times I look at you differently
Like I’d never seen you before
Funny after all we’ve done
You could be someone I don't know at all
(Don’t know you at all)
Catch me I don’t want to fall
But you pull the mountain from under me
Look, I’m dangling up in the blue
And it’s a cartoon coyote eternity
Before I drop down to you
What am I supposed to do now?
There is something beautiful shining
In the far off night of your hair
Funny for a while it seemed to come from the sky
But it’s in your head
Yes it fills your head
You and I don’t always fly
Let me go I want to fall
Deep into the dark
But I’ll get back to you
And I’ll always know how to find you
Cause you shine like the midnight sun
Yes I'll always be here beside you
When I follow the midnight sun
Follow follow follow the midnight sun.
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
So Long Suicide
Do you know how to feel?
Do you know what it means?
Rock-a-bye baby it’s time to break
The habit that you fed
Sweet sorrow while the cherished dead
Blow in my mouth, every breath I take
Although I need you I don’t want to bleed for you
So long suicide
Going right out of sight, out of mind
Leave me alone and abandoned
Hello, I’m alive
I’m loaded alive, yes I know
In my bones I know what is going to do it for me
I steal the beauty and I taste the hurt
There’s always time for pretty flowers
growing in the dirt
But time is your needle aimed to my heart
And I must be hollow because I can't follow there
So long suicide
Gone right out of sight, out of mind
Leaving me alone and abandoned
Hello, I’m alive
I’m loaded alive and I know
In my bones I know what I’m good for
Hello I’m alive
I’m loaded alive yes I know
In my bones I know what I'm doing
And I’m scared of being ordinary
God I swear to live like anyone
And you know it’s hard to swallow
But life goes on
And after all this crash and swell
We are just human
And after all is said and done
We’re only human
You’re out of sight and out of mind
I’m saying so long suicide
The half dreamed shade of yesterday
In bloom tomorrow
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Undergoing Treatment
We are undergoing treatment
Watching others in the news
Studying our worst reviews
They say we’ll get over it
Disappear like dinosaurs
To the sound of small applause
Resign to the mid-price section
If you see me walking in the garden
Don’t ever ask me for an autograph
If you ever catch me in the arcade
Don’t even stop me for a photograph
We are undergoing treatment
'Til our ethic fits the scene
Laid out in Q Magazine
They crave our conformity
Mediocre to the bone
Terrified testosterone
But why do we still face the music?
If you see me walking in the garden
Don’t ever ask me...
Now and then you get the strangest notion
That there’s something missing
But it keeps you guessing
Wild ambition can you really blame us?
Can you entertain us?
Can you give a little more?
If you see me walking in the garden
Don’t ever ask me for an autograph
If you ever catch me in the arcade
Don’t even stop me for a photograph
We are undergoing treatment
But will the doctors ever cure
These delusions of grandeur?
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Someone Else Not Me
Now while the beat is slow
Here in your arms I sway
Now that the light is low
Something I want to say
I guess you've known it for a while
But I mean trouble
I only want to see you smile
And I burst this bubble
The hardest thing is to let go
When love is real...
Like a flower loves a bee
But I know you're meant to give yourself to someone else
Not me
And I could carry on with you
Does that sound crazy?
I think you feel the same way too
And you can't face it
The hardest thing is to let go
But it's not defeat
When you set somebody free
And I know you're meant to be yourself with someone else
Not me
Can you let go?
‘Cause that's love that's real
Like a flower loves a bee
And you know you're meant to give yourself to someone else
Not me
Somebody else not me
Meant for somebody else not me
Somebody else not me
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Lava Lamp
In the half light of the evening
I can almost see you glow
Can tell by the way you’re moving
Time may be right to let you know
You got many coloured halo,
The body of Venus, a babe rainbow
And if I come any closer I might fall into your silhouette
But the shape of things to come is constantly changing
So let it, so let it, so let it flow
La la la la lava lamp
La la la la lava lamp
Indigo, violet and blue
Can we meet where the edges blur?
Because I am coming at you
Like a bug eye heading for the burn
Truth is I can't stay away
No, I wanna let you light my volcano
And maybe it's just in my imagination
But you never know
Because the shape of things to come is constantly changing
So let it, so let it, so let it flow
La la la la lava lamp (I'd love to turn you on)
La la la la lava lamp (I'd love to turn you on)
La la la la lava lamp (I'd love to turn you on)
La la la la lava lamp (I'd love to turn you on)
So let it, so let it, so let it...
La la la la lava lamp (I'd love to turn you on)
La la la la lava lamp (I'd love to turn you on)
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Playing With Uranium
In for an evening
Of light entertainment
And who would believe you
Could worry the neighbours?
Come on over to my place
Playing with uranium
If it blows up in your face
See you on the other side
Come on over to my place
Playing with uranium
Reinvent the human race
You just got the invitation
We go undiscovered
‘Cause people are careless
One way or another
They'll never forget us
Come on over to my place
Playing with uranium
And if it blows up in your face
See you on the other side
Come on over to my place
Never be the same again
Reinvent the human race
You just got the invitation
Playing with uranium
Playing with uranium
Never be the same again
Because we're playing with uranium
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Hallucinating Elvis
(I was hallucinating, I was hallucinating)
I was hallucinating Elvis
Hawaii to Las Vegas
Special treatment all the way
Hallucinating Elvis
Missing 18 hours
Losing oxygen to the brain
Lying on the floor
There's a limit how much more I can take
Rhinestone inside my shoe
Because I’m turning into you
I was hallucinating, I was hallucinating, I was hallucinating...Elvis
FBI tapping the King's phone
74, he’s trapped in his home
Hidden cameras, 2-way mirror walls
Walkie-talkie, kung-fu
Then the president calls
I was hallucinating Elvis
Hawaii to Las Vegas
Special treatment all the way
Hallucinating Elvis
Missing 18 hours
Losing oxygen to the brain
Whoever has to know
Tune in to my show
What you see ain't what you get
I’m shooting movies and the TV set...
Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis
I was hallucinating Elvis
Hawaii to Las Vegas
Special treatment all the way
Hallucinating Elvis
Missing 18 hours
Losing oxygen to the brain
I was hallucinating, I was hallucinating, I was hallucinating...Elvis
Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis
Hallucinating, hallucinating, hallucinating
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Starting To Remember
How to begin do I shed a skin?
Now that I am starting to remember
It takes a while
But you find a way to open up the door
Let demons walk
Now that I am starting to remember
Can't change my world
I was happy ever after
Was it only yesterday?
That I bought the dream?
But I don't sleep no more
Counting the hours
‘Til the dawn
Now that I am starting to remember
How to love
How to learn draw like a child
Run for miles and miles
Now that I am starting to remember
Who I am
Another lonely night ahead for me now
Buried in the darkening day
That lingers on
And drags me down
But you've got to believe
Time will heal.
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Pop Trash Movie
Saw a close up of your pretty face
Overnight sensation
Smiling for cameras
From all around the world
If I rewind back to yesterday
And stop the tape there
No one knew who you were
But now they're at your door
I'm living in a pop trash movie
We star together in every scene
We’ll all be famous for just a few minutes
Part of a celluloid dream
Watching slow-mo going frame-by-frame
Might have blurred my vision
Your life went flashing by
Where did it all go wrong?
I'm living in a pop trash movie
We star together in every scene
We’ll all be famous for fifteen minutes
Part of a celluloid dream
I'll wait in the wings for you
I'll read your lines to you
But now the script is final you know, it's time to go
So we'll have to say goodbye
I'm living in a pop trash movie
We star together in every scene
We’ll all be famous for those fifteen minutes
Part of a celluloid dream
We star in every scene
And it's never quite what it seems
(Never)
I'm living in a pop trash movie
I know we’ll make it with that pop trash - yeah
We’ll all be famous for those fifteen minutes
Part of a celluloid dream, yeah
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Mars Meets Venus
Thirtysomething graduate - green eyes -
perfect Christian lady - candlelit dinner -
slim female figure - sense of humour -
extrovert where are you?...
where are you?...where are you?
Let's start as friends -
seeking soul mate – long-term relationship -
choose life - soul sister -
hippie chick for soul brother bluesman -
genuine American frog seeks princess..
Someone is perfect for you (when Mars meets Venus)
Do you wanna bet your life
They're gonna be perfect for you too? (Mars meets Venus)
New-age man - shake me up, wild girl - gay guy -
romantic German - Indian – long-term relationship -
beauty with brains - missing something -
say...are you the one?... are you the one?
Someone is perfect for you (when Mars meets Venus)
Do you wanna bet your life
They're gonna be perfect for you too? (Mars meets Venus)...
Here’s looking at you.
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Lady Xanax
Here comes the morning light you can't face
Lie on your bed staring into space
Watch the time slip gently by
Don’t ask why
So many friends but nobody calls
Can’t be alone when the darkness falls
Got to make it to the party
Socialise, break the ice
Oh, Lady Xanax where were you last night?
All the cracks in your make-up are starting to show
Don’t think that you realise how far away you go now
Look into the future and don't be afraid...afraid
Of what is on your mind
There, in the emptiness deep inside
You are the one that's been left behind
So you paint with your mascara
Social eyes, don't look twice
Oh, Lady Xanax where were you last night?
All the cracks in your make-up are starting to show
Don’t think that you realise how far away you go now
Look into the future and don't be afraid...afraid
Lady Xanax, you're out tonight
Lady Xanax, you're, oh, so tired
Lady Xanax, sleep well tonight
Lady Xanax (Xanax)
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever
At the end of the rainbow
Found each other there
Strange, we never thought the colours would fade
Be easy to walk
But it's much harder to stay
Why, oh why, are we reckless today?
You and I
Got to hold on together
Because in this life
Maybe the sun doesn't shine forever
Could say that I'm sorry
But there's no one to blame
Anger seems to dissolve into tears
Been so many good times
Not only despair
Somehow we'll find the love we can share
You and I
Got to hold on together
Because in this life
Maybe the sun doesn't shine forever
You and I
Make this life for each other
Because I believe
We’ve got enough for when the sun doesn't shine
You and I
Got to hold on together
Because in this life
Maybe the sun doesn't shine forever
Duran Duran – Pop Trash (2000 – Hollywood Records/EDEL – Skin Trade Music and Private Parts Music)
Last Day On Earth
Mesmerised
You get sucked in by the hype
Headlights in your eyes
Flame burns fast
Then your soul goes up in smoke
Where’s your faith in life?
Now what would you do
If there was no tomorrow?
And where would you go
If you knew this was your last day on Earth?
Having the time of your life
But you don't realise
Play to win
So you got to roll the dice
It’s a vicious game
One false move
That’s how fortunes change
And you're going down
Now what would you do
If there was no tomorrow?
And where would you go
If you knew this was your last day on Earth?
This is the time of your life
But you don't realise
Now what would you do
If you knew this was your last day on Earth?
I'd kiss you goodbye
Last chance, living, taking, giving, having,
losing, needing, loving, waking, standing,
hoping, dreaming, smiling, laughing, feeling,
crying, wanting something, touching, living….
Your last day on Earth
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
(Reach Up For The) Sunrise
Now the time has come, the music's between us
Though the night seems young - is at an end
Only change will bring you out of the darkness
In this moment everything is born again
Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life
Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life
Now the fireball burns, we go round together
As the planet turns into the light
Something more than dreams to watch out for each other
Coz we know what is means to be alive
Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life
Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch, touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life
Feel the new day enter your life
Feel the new day
Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life
Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch, touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life
Reach up for the sunrise
Put your hands into the big sky
You can touch, touch the sunrise
Feel the new day enter your life
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Want You More!
You had plans all along
Musta seen me coming down a mile above the ground
Coz I am weak where you are strong
It's a thrill that makes me curious
Whatever I'm thinking of
You always seem to know
Coz nothing is good enough
There's always something to keep me guessing
What if it's real, what if you're just faking?
What if you knew you could?
What if you get off on manipulating?
Why does it feel so good?
Drivin' the car turn up the sound
Gets yer head in a hailstorm, man I'm gonna feel the blast
I pick you up - you throw me down
And it only gets more serious
What could you be thinking of?
You never let it show
Coz you give me just enough
There's always something
You keep it coming
What if it's real, what if you're just faking?
What if you knew you could?
What if you get off on manipulating?
Why does it feel so good?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I feel so torn?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I want you more?
What could you be thinking of?
You never let it show
Coz you give me just enough
There's always something. You keep it coming. Just keep it coming
What if it's real, what if you're just faking?
What if you knew you could?
What if you get off on manipulating?
Why does it feel so good?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I feel so torn?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I want you more?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want?
Why do I want you more? Why do I want you?
Why do I want you more?
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
What Happens Tomorrow
Child don't you worry
It's enough your growing up in such a hurry
Brings you down, the news they sell you
To put in your mind that all mankind is a failure
But nobody knows what's gonna happen tomorrow
We try not to show how frightened we are
If you let me - I'll protect you - however I can
You've got to believe it'll be alright in the end
You've got to believe it'll be alright again
Fighting because we're so close
There are times we punish those who we need the most
No we can't wait for a saviour
Only got ourselves to blame for this behaviour
But nobody knows what's gonna happen tomorrow
We try not to show how frightened we are
It would seem lonely - if you were the only - star in the night
You've got to believe it'll be alright in the end
You've got to believe it'll be alright again
And nobody knows what's gonna happen tomorrow
So don't let go, now we've come this far
Hold my hand please, understand - we're never alone
We've got to believe it'll be alright in the end
Nobody knows
We've got to believe it'll be alright my friend
So don't let go
And yes we believe it'll be alright again
So don't let go
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Astronaut
Makes my hair stand up on end
Something alien happening
Synchronized but don't comprehend
Coz where I stop that's where you begin
I know the moment I commit
A pleasure rising when I take the hit
And I'm addicted to the state you're in
Coz you're getting me out of it
Wasted
There is nothing gonna ace this
And we're gonna go to space kid
Coz I'm leaving with an astronaut
Groovin-out to x-ray spex
Something tells me you're the alien sex
I can't imagine now; what comes next
When this astronaut connects?
Coming-on when I touch your skin
A kind of strange light you emit
I feel your gravity pull me in
Now you're getting me out of it
Wasted
There is nothing gonna ace this
And we're gonna go to space kid
Coz I'm leaving with an astronaut
Wasted
There is nothing gonna ace this
And we're gonna go to space kid
Coz I'm leaving with an astronaut
Bare-feet for quantum leap
Because space is hot & deep
And we follow giant footprints as we fall...in
Falling like the twins through Saturn's holy rings
And if they can't hold us
Where it's gonna end up - anybody knows
An a-stronaut, an a-stronaut
Wasted
There is nothing gonna ace this
And we're gonna go to space kid
Coz I'm leaving with an astronaut
Wasted
There is nothing gonna ace this
And we're gonna go to space kid
Coz I'm leaving with an astronaut
Boop-Boop Boop-Boop Boop-Boop
- An a-stronaut, an a-stronaut, an a-stronaut, an a-stronaut
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Bedroom Toys
You want it, you got it, now whatcha gonna do with it?
You want it, you got it, now whatcha gonna do with it?
I been around the world, I seen a lot a things'd make your chicken curl
You squeeze 'm like boys 'n' tease 'm like girls who please 'm like boys and girls
Plan an exit route, parachute, rubber suit
"Are you ready for a little swim?"
There's regular, queen-size, flip it on the b-side
Solid Gold...oh my god what's this?
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm stallin'
I can't believe my eyes
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm crawlin'
I've learned to improvise
Checkin' out the five star atmosphere - you want some expertise
If you got treasure a-paying for the pleasure, it'll bring you to your knees
Silicone romance, "What's yer name fancy pants?"
Got your eye on the employees
Forgot about the reel-in, Talkin' 'bout the feelin'
Solid gold...oh my god what's this?
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm stallin'
I can't believe my eyes
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm crawlin'
I've learned to improvise
You want it, you got it, now whatcha gonna do with it?
You want it, you got it, now whatcha gonna do with it?
Now you're washed up beat, smash 'n' grab, no receipt
Takes the platinum off your shine
Lazy bed-star, lahdidah, petit bourgeois "Oh my would ya look at the time."
Until we wise-up you know we're gonna line-up
For pimps and snitches to dip into yer riches
If you can't destroy it, might as well enjoy it
Solid Gold...oh my god what's this?
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm stallin'
I can't believe my eyes
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm crawlin'
I've learned to improvise
I saw the bedroom toys now I'm crawlin'
I've learned to improvise
You want it, you got it, now whatcha gonna do with it? I can't believe my
eyes
You want it, you got it, now whatcha gonna do with it? I've learned to
improvise
I can't believe my eyes
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Nice
There is nothing better than being with you
And I'm feeling so nice
Feeling so nice
Take the beautiful sting of a Scorpio
A careless smile and it begins to snow
And it hurts me to think you might never know
That I've got this thing about you
Case you don't understand, there's somethin' else I meant to tell ya
There is nothing better than being with you
And I'm feeling so nice
There is nowhere better than here with you
And it's feeling so nice
Stayin' up with the moon, walking home in the rain
Mixed with your perfume and never twice the same
I got a lot to lose but everything to gain
When I really think about it
You haven't got a clue it's all that I can do to hide it
There is nothing better than being with you
And I'm feeling so nice
There is nowhere better than here with you
And it's feeling so nice
Did I already say?
Coz you make me forget
I might as well be brave and tell ya
Now it hurts me to think you might never know will it hurt as much being
true, I might as well be brave and tell ya
There is nothing better than being with you
And I'm feeling so nice
There is nowhere better than here with you
And it's feeling so nice
There is nothing better than being with you
And I'm feeling so nice
Yeah, I'm feeling
Yeah, it's feeling so nice
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Taste The Summer
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Can you, can you taste the summer?
I do, I find it in your mouth
Now, if I have a weakness it's for sweetness and it's floating on your
breath the sweetest melody
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Sure we can make it 'til the evening's
Cool haze is reflected off your thighs
Long days are coming up they're staying out and playing
Music, of the falling stars - a melody
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Wild orchid on the wind you know just where it's blowing
So fresh; from your lips is born the melody
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Doodoodoo dobedoo doodoodoo doodoodoo
Can you taste the summer?
Taste the summer
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Finest Hour
How does it feel out on the ice?
You speak to the crowd but nobody hears
It's not a dream and you are no Christ
And your not alone, come in from the fear
Gonna take it back, take back the life that you want to lead been under
quiet attack, but now it's time for you and me
Gonna take it back you've got to fight for what you believe
We're gonna make this stand the finest hour that we see
When did out choice become erased?
Where is the violence in this crowd?
Now that our voice has been replaced
With a silence that screams out loud
Gonna take it back take back the life that you want to lead been under quiet
attack, but now it's time for you and me
Gonna take it back you've got to fight for what you believe
We're gonna make this stand the finest hour that we see
Yeah yeah
Gonna take it back take back the life that you want to lead been under quiet
attack, but now it's time for you and me
Gonna take it back you've got to fight for what you believe
We're gonna make this stand the finest hour that we see
Take it back take back the life that you want to lead been under quiet
attack, but now it's time for you and me
Gonna take it back you've got to fight for what you believe
We're gonna make this stand the finest hour that we see
The finest hour that we see
We're gonna make this stand the finest hour that we see
Yeah, yeah
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Chains
An hour since the sundown, the ghosts are creeping in
A-gathering around me like starlings in the wind
Dark shapes a-gather round
Voices like my brothers are whispering to me
But I don't know these others who want to set me free
Come home you're out of time
But the life can not let go
It's a chain cuts across my soul anchoring in this world... I
Put my hand into the flame
Burning but I feel no pain
Don't speak, don't speak my name
Hold on to this life of chains
The door is standing open but I'm too tired to be afraid
My whole life's in this moment, I've been fighting all the way
Just need a li'l more time
'Coz the life just can't let go
It's a chain cuts across my soul
Anchoring in this world... I
Put my hand into the flame
Burning but I feel no pain
Don't speak, don't speak my name
Hold on to this life of chains
Na-na na-na na-na x(6)
I... put my hand into the flame
Burning but I feel no pain
Don't speak, don't speak my name
Hold on to this life of chains
Chains
Chains
Chains
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
One Of Those Days
Suddenly it all looks so familiar
Gone and wreaked it, like I always did
Don't you know it life is out to kill ya
But you still go getting on with it
Seen better times than right now
But I'm not running away no nothings gonna bring me down
It's just been one of those days
I'm not the only one
They can drag me to the gates of hell now
There's nothing left but I'm still hangin'in
Not for me, ain't no final showdown
I'm too shattered to do anything
Seen better times than right now
But I'm not running away
Coz nothing's gonna bring me down
It's just been one of those days
I'm not the only... one feeling this way
And I'm not sorry...
I'm not the only... one feeling this way
And I'm not sorry... not running away
I'm not the only... one feeling this way and I'm not sorry... I hear you say
No, I'm not sorry
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Point Of No Return
The random aspects of our lives
Come together once in a while
So blinding and decidedly
Naivety falls from our eyes
And we'll not regain
As we watch the tower falling down
Maybe things can change - only if you want
Maybe things can change - only if you want
You know, you know there's no avoiding
The lesson to be learned
The point of no return
You say "What if" but can you live it?
It's all that we deserve
The point of no return
Don't blame yourself, don't blame me
But we're the ones - who can feed the ground
So this poison tree don't ever grow again
And from this glass and broken nerve
There is a way - there can be built
A better life for everyone
Maybe things can change - only if you want
Maybe things can change - only if you want
You know, you know there's no avoiding
The lesson to be learned
The point of no return
You say "What if" but can you live it?
It's all that we deserve
The point of no return
You know, you know there's no avoiding
The lesson to be learned
The point of no return
You say "What if" but can you live it?
It's all that we deserve
The point of no return
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Still Breathing
Home, it's not brick or stone
Or comfort in the firelight, not in that sense anyway
Dreams, if only I had known
But these things always seem
So much clearer at a distance
I'm walking out of this town
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there
I'll burn the place to the ground
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again
Words only could break that ring
You know the words still sting so much harder than the blows ever did
Heart, though it's hot and violent
My head is cool and quiet
As the ashes that fall from the sky
I'm walking out of this town
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there
I'll burn the place to the ground
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again
Now, I know this shattered feeling
Trampled but still breathing
I'm just waiting for a good day
I'm walking out of this town
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there
I've burn the place to the ground
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again
I'm never going back there, I'm never going back there again
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass
The Valley
these are days of hit and run
in the stream with everyone
these are moments of our lives
on a wandering river
going on together
many journeys to arrive
I been walking through the valley through the tall grass and the shadows
and I feel it, I can see it, yes I need it, I believe it
through the city and the towers turning minutes into hours
and I feel it, I can see it, yes I need it, I believe it
when I think I'm being strong
and I lose direction
then a life starts looking mischievous
finding revelation
out of desperation
always stretching time but it’s never long enough
you think you’re happy, think you’re free but maybe we’re just comfortably deceived
but I'm running through the valley through the tall grass and the shadows
and I feel it, I can see it, yes I need it, I believe it
through the city and the towers turning minutes into hours
and I feel it, I can see it, yes I need it, I believe it
but I'm running through the valley through the tall grass and the shadows
and I feel it, I can see it, yes I need it, I believe it
through the city and the towers turning minutes into hours
and I feel it, I can see it, yes I need it, I believe it
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass
Red Carpet Massacre
dark sun rose on the ridge cut clear across the sky
as good a day as any to die
no reservation Madam no reason to know why
running late stiletto heels
strike the crew, send up the wheels
you spend a life in preparation for this day
breathe in the air it’s loaded with fame
check out those weapons sister before you hit the fray
string o pearls -V- ditzy gems
enter the battle of the lenses
red carpet massacre
don't wanna hassle ya
red carpet massacre
death squad paparazzi ah!
red carpet massacre
It's gonna mess wiv ya
we’re in business - you're on the hit-list
there's not so many now, still standing on their feet
the knives are out and singing so sweet
engaged with sharper minds that cut you when you meet
ain't the place to mess around
when someone wants to take you down
maybe you think you're above it
but baby we know that you love it
baby you know where to shove it
apply your lipstick, for dying in public
red carpet massacre
don't wanna hassle ya
red carpet massacre
death squad paparazzi ah!
red carpet massacre
don't wanna mess wiv ya
now it’s time - next in line
we’re so busted – done and dusted
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Nate Hills.
Lyrics: Simon LeBon, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Nate Hills
Featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland
Nite-Runner
you're nocturnal only come out at nite
I'm learning all the ways you wanna ride
you're on the roam but not until the darkness arrives
but I'm certain I'll catch up to you one of these times
Can I put my hands on you tonight
I must be feeling something
Something tells me I’m in for the ride
I wonder if you see me coming
Can I put my hands on you tonight
Tonight has got me running
Something tells me I’m in for the ride
right into your nite-time world
coz of a
nite-runner I think I'm falling for you
nite-runner got a spell to put me under
nite runner what you gonna do with it?
nite-runner nite nite runner
Light scatters when you walk into the room
Under shadow I can feel the heat in you
Should I be surprised I see the possibility moving right across to me
It all matters when I'm getting close to you
Can I put my hands on you tonight
I must be feeling something
Something tells me I’m in for the ride
I wonder if you see me coming
Can I put my hands on you tonight
Tonight has got me running
Something tells me I’m in for the ride
right into your nite-time world
coz of a
nite-runner I think I'm falling for you
nite-runner got a spell to put me under
nite runner what you gonna do with it now?
nite-runner nite nite runner
love is haunting she wanted to go that's what she told me
love is haunting she wanted to go but I cannot cannot
nite-runner I think I'm falling for you
nite-runner got a spell to put me under
nite runner what you gonna do with it now?
nite-runner nite nite-runner
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Justin Timberlake
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Produced by Justin Timberlake
Featuering Justin Timberlake
Falling Down
once was a man who consumed his place and time
he thought nothing could touch him
but here and now it's a different story-line
like the straws he is clutching
why has the sky turned grey?
hard to my face and cold on my shoulder
and why has my life gone astray?
scarred by disgrace I know that it’s over
because I'm falling down
with people standing round
but before I hit the ground
is there time could I find
someone out there to help me?
howl at the wind rushing past my lonely head
caught in silent slow-motion
how I wish it was somebody else instead
howling at all this corrosion
why did the luck run dry?
laugh in my face so pleased to desert me
why do the cruel barbs fly?
now when disgrace can no longer hurt me
because I'm falling down
with people standing round
but before I hit the ground
is there time could I find
someone out there to help me?
You see I'm falling down
with people standing round
but before I hit the ground
is there time could I find
someone out there to help me?
because I'm falling down
with people standing round
but before I hit the ground
is there time could I find
someone out there to help me?
You see I'm falling down
with people standing round
but before I hit the ground
is there time could I find
someone out there to help me?
I don’t know… where to go
I don’t know… here I go
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass
Box Full O’Honey
at the sharp end of the view
the edge of me and you
in all good sense dare tread no further
and as the ghost will shiver trees
how I'm trembling on my knees
but I'm still drawn on by the murmur
are you laughing at me now?
in my circumstance
when still I wear your crown
my life's penitence for what?
what's so funny
box full o' honey
what I thought a pretty tune
was howling at the moon
to keep me company this evening
it's so lonely in the dirt
a-scratching at the hurt
that I so generously did leave you
are you laughing at me now?
in my circumstance
when still I wear your crown
some cruel penitence for what?
what's so funny
box full o' honey
is she flirting with me now
ooh is she dallying with me now?
ooh are you flirting with me now?
you'll always be my
queen of tumbledown
miss melancholy
are you laughing at me now?
in my circumstance
when still I wear your crown
and my life's a penitence for what?
what's so funny?
ain't it funny
box full o' honey
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran, Timbaland, Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon and Timbaland
Co-produced: Duran Duran, Timbaland, Nate Hills
Featureing Timbaland
Skin Divers
walking under skies, waiting for the fall
meet me at the cornershop I show you it all
free you of your mind, something you won’t find
in the West End pages with yer Google-dirty fingers
it’s a skin dive (in deep, silence, we are) ... going underwater
it’s a lifeline (teardrop, bullets, all night) ... dip into the water
Baby, that's what it feels like when you come up for air When you come up for air
You feel brand new, when you come up for air When you come up for air
That's what it feels like when you come up for air When you come up for air
You feel brand new, when you come up for air When you come up for air
wipe us off the face of the human race
whichever way you look it’s indisposed or disgraced
fighting on the shore, the hoi polloi want more
howling bloody murder but it’s nothing, just a murmur
in your skin dive (in deep, silence, we are) ... going underwater
it’s a lifeline (teardrop, bullets, all night) ... slip into the water
Baby, that's what it feels like when you come up for air When you come up for air
You feel brand new, when you come up for air When you come up for air
That's what it feels like when you come up for air When you come up for air
You feel brand new, when you come up for air When you come up for air
a blushing rose is torn from these sugar walls
I misplaced my future, could I please borrow yours?
paint it opalscene, you know what I mean
anything you want to be, the only thing you want from me ...
skin dive (in deep, silence, we are) ... going underwater
it’s a lifeline (teardrop, bullets, all night) ... going South Dakota
Baby girl, you swimmin' a little too deep
So deep that I think you might hit a reef
I think you're low on oxygen and your tube got a leak
Baby girl, swim to the top
Grab my hand and hold me and breath
Baby, that's what it feels like when you come up for air When you come up for air
You feel brand new, when you come up for air When you come up for air
That's what it feels like when you come up for air When you come up for air
You feel brand new, when you come up for air When you come up for air
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass
Tempted
Jupiter rising through the flow
you require a little bit more
to excite you to go
getting busy on the floor
all about the way you move it
when you really got to prove it
finally you will know
what it is you're turning on
That is gonna tempt you - oh yeah
Like you know it's meant to - oh yeah
Devil gonna tempt you - oh yeah
How much do you want to? - oh oh
give thanks to London coming undone
when you ride the underground
sonic islands breaking silence
got your party started now
and you love way you move it
when you really got to prove it
finally it's what you do
what it is you're turning on
That is gonna tempt you - oh yeah
Like you know it's meant to - oh yeah
Devil gonna tempt you - oh yeah
How much do you want to? - oh oh
That is gonna tempt you
Like you know it's meant to
oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, ...
If you want to know what it is you're turning on
Do you want to know what it is you're turning on
..............................What it is you're turning on
Finally you will know what it is you're turning on
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran, Timbaland, Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced: Duran Duran, Timbaland, Nate Hills
Zoom In
Stood on the line
you understand I been waiting forever
come rain come shine
in the wind in the snow in the filthy weather
you got it all worked out
yeah but it knocks you out
I’m zooming in
now she arrives
in a flaming crash like a falling star
Headed straight for the dive
gonna make some cash with that avatar
you got it all worked out
I know you know I don’t want you to go
yeah but it knocks you out
I’m zooming in on you on you
don’t look back we’re an art attack
don’t look back we’re an art attack
don’t look back we’re an art attack
don’t look back we’re an art attack
you got it all worked out
yeah but it knocks you out
we’re not alone
in this second life there are millions like us
right here in the stones in the air too bright
all the new insiders
you got it all worked out
I know you know I don’t want you to go
yeah but it knocks you out
I’m zooming in on you on you
na nananananana
I know you know I don’t want you to go
na nananananana
I’m zooming in and out on you
I’m zooming in and out on you
zooming in and out on you
na nananananana
I know you know I don’t want you to go
na nananananana
I’m zooming in and out on you
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass
She’s Too Much
she's gentle to the touch
she's everything head-first
so happy to be causing trouble
sometimes the pressure gets too much
and you think she's going to burst
and shatter like a Xmas bauble
I'll be there when the world is coming down upon her
when she's scared I'll be there fighting in her corner
she cries when she's alone
for all life’s little knocks
everything that's supposed to make us tougher
thinking it doesn't really show
but I know how she hurts
and I can't bear to see her suffer
I'll be there when the world is coming down upon her
when she's scared I'll be there fighting in her corner
I'll be there when the walls are closing to surround her
in the air as she falls with my arms around her
holding on I'm looking out for her thin skin
because she's everything - and I don't think she knows
She’s such a gentle touch
She’s too much a gentle touch
she likes to catch the sun
plays with it like a ball
and never mind whatever keeps it burning
someday she might just be the one
who's going to save us all
if this apocalypse is coming
I'll be there when the world is coming down upon her
when she's scared I'll be there fighting in her corner
I'll be there when the walls are closing to surround her
in the air as she falls with my arms around her
holding on I'm looking out for her thin skin
because she's everything – but I don't think she knows
I don’t think she knows
she is such – a gentle touch - I don’t think she knows
she’s too much – the gentle touch - I don’t think she knows
she is such – a gentle touch - I dont think she knows
she’s too much – the gentle touch
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass
Dirty Great Monster
There's a dirty great monster in this house
we pretend that it's not there
and there’s no escape from it’s grip
but nobody seems to care
do you ever wonder
about the days
when we were straight?
but Daddy got the hunger
so much to hide
we learned to lie
so watch yourself in the hallway
you’re not supposed to know
but we're all afraid of each other
we’re the victims in this show
well do you ever wonder
about the days
when we were straight
when Daddy got the hunger
so much to hide
we learned to lie
silently outnumbered
we made mistakes
because we were straight
now we're all going under
and so with sigh
we say good-bye
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre (2007 – SMI EPIC / Sony BMG)
Music: Duran Duran and Nate Hills
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran, Nate Hills and Jimmy Douglass
Last Man Standing
Now an unexpected peace comes to the day
as the howling din of fighting dies away
when the hanging dust is clearing from air
you begin to see a lonely figure there
he's the last man standing on the track
he does not look down he does not look back
he's the last man standing on the track
you can't hold him down you can't hold him back
the last man standing on the track
he does not look down he does not look back
he's the last man standing on the track
you can't hold him down you can't hold him back
he is sorry for wrong that he has done
and he's cries out for the anger borne so long
all the cuts and bruises suffered in who's name
but now is not the time to face his shame
he's the last man standing on the track
he does not look down he does not look back
he's the last man standing on the track
you can't hold him down you can't hold him back
the last man standing on the track
he does not look down he does not look back
he's the last man standing on the track
you can't hold him down you can't hold him back
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP)) and Mark Ronson (EMI Music Publishing (ASCAP)) and Dom Brown (PRS)
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
All You Need Is Now
It’s all up to you now find yourself in the moment
go directly to the voodoo now the channel is open
lose your head lose control
you come on delicate and fine like a diamond in the mind
woah, yeah, when you move into the light you’re the greatest thing alive
woah... and you
SWAY in the moon the way you did when you were younger
and we told everybody all you need is now
STAY with the music let it play a little longer
you don’t need anybody all you need is now
Everybody’s gunning for the VIP section
but you’re better up and running in another direction
with your bones in the thrall
throw a shadow on the vine, bat your lashes let it shine
woah, yeah, every moment that arrives you’re the greatest thing alive
woah... and you
SWAY in the moon the way you did when you were younger
and we told everybody all you need is now
STAY with the music let it play a little longer
you don’t need anybody all you need is now
all you need, all you need is now
all you need, all you need is now
all you need, all you need is now
... and we will
SWAY in the moon the way we did when we were younger (when we were younger)
when we told everybody all you need is now
STAY with the music let it play a little longer (a little longer)
you don’t need anybody all you need is now
all you need, all you need is now
all you need, all you need is now
all you need, all you need is now
all you need, all you need is now
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP)) and Dom Brown (PRS)
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Female Voice: Nina Hossain
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Blame The Machines
I’m driving up the autobahn
losing my way as the night gets long
the headlights shining in my face
scream out the danger of this place
and now there’s no way home this love affair is ended
I should have known when I bought into the dream
so like your solid soul to leave me lost and stranded
I blame myself and I blame the machines
I’m flying blind I’m speeding through
I hate to think I’ve been fooled by you
an interactive nightmare show
which never ends, it just goes on and on and on and on
and now there’s no way home this love affair is ended
I should have known when I bought into the dream
so like your solid soul to leave me lost and stranded
I blame myself and I blame the machines
and now turn left
I have control
you are not required
to think at all
everything we hear (goes on and on)
everything we see,
everything we love (goes on and on)
everything we feel,
everything we want, (goes on and on)
everything we do, (and on)
everywhere we go (and on)
everything we know (and on)
and now there’s no way home this love affair is ended
I should have known when I bought into the dream
so like your solid soul to leave me lost and stranded
I blame myself and I blame the machines
oo-oh oo-oh — I blame the machines
oo-oh oo-oh — blame the machines
repeat…
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP)) and Dom Brown (PRS)
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Female Backing Vocal: Anna Ross
Cello: Jamie Walton
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Being Followed
To the voyeur, seated in a darkened room.
Do you thrill when the green light starts pulsing?
Paranoia, the only valid point of view.
If you know what I’m saying.
I’m not alone, being followed
someone always watching what we do
never alone, but I’m in the shadows
I dream things I don’t want you to know
something shifting between the sirens and the glow
of red lights and the blue slowly turning
the fog is lifting
a silhouette begins the show
then the moment is stolen
I’m not alone, being followed
someone always watching what we do
never alone, I’m in the shadows
I dream things I don’t want you to know
In this chamber lit by scandal
you’re the bullet in the barrel
you’re the last thing as I’m falling
bloody roaring still I’m calling out
I’m calling out
I’m not alone, being followed
never alone, I’m being followed
I’m not alone, being followed
never alone, I’m being followed
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP)) and Dom Brown (PRS)
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Leave A Light On
So come the evening
I’m out on the dunes
looking for a token
something to prove
all I remember
is more than a flame
in my fantasy fire
whatever I’ve done to receive
whatever I need to redeem
whatever you say
even if I wait a lifetime
I know, I swear, if you leave a light on, if you leave a light on for me
I’ll come there
You can leave a light on for me
In comes the morning
I’m stood in my track
looking at the reasons
for me to head back
so unexpected
the kindness you’ve shown
that I will not forget it
whatever I’ve done to receive
whatever I need to redeem
whatever you say
even if I wait a lifetime
I know, I swear, if you leave a light on, if you leave a light on for me
I’ll come there
You can leave a light on for me
you breathe the will into the weak
and coax the cage bird to fly free
you ease the lost cause out of me
with your sweet hand to bring me home
I’m not alone
I know, I swear, if you leave a light on, if you leave a light on for me,
I’ll come there
You can leave a light on for me
I know, I swear, if you leave a light on, if you leave a light on for me,
I’ll come there
You can leave a light on for me
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP)) and Mark Ronson (EMI Music Publishing (ASCAP)) and Dom Brown (PRS) and Ana Matronic (EMI Music Publishing)
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Featuring: Ana Matronic (Polydor Ltd.)
Female Backing Vocal: Tawiah
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Safe (In The Heat Of A Moment)
(People say you’ve been around
How ‘bout you and me get down?
How ‘bout you and me get down?
Babe I know you’ve been around
Unmake your bed
Don’t think about what lies ahead
Don’t you want to be misled?
Don’t you want to be misled?)
Fame, seems a far off day when enough was never enough
vain, how I played my hand one more reckless man in the rough
strange, how we explain the story that we’ve lived through
change, my karma train, the person I can be for you is…
Chorus:
SAFE — safe in the heat of the moment —
a stillness that comes to me when I’m close to you
SAFE — safe at the speed of atonement —
a feeling that runs so deep that it scares me too
dazed by my own escape from the single state I was used to
face my catch-22 can I stay this way if I choose to?
wrong, to be so contained now I can’t explain what is happening
strong, is the human chain, as it pulls me through, what I bring to you is…
Chorus
Chorus
Fame, seems a far off day when enough was never enough
vain, how I played my hand one more reckless man in the rough
(Hook a finger wink an eye
Caresses running up your thigh
Scratch my surface dig in deep
There’s always secrets left to keep
Safe not sound who made these rules
Crowd control for enlightened fools
So come on boy let’s change the pace
Come feel the chill of my embrace
People say you’ve been around
How ‘bout you and me get down?
How ‘bout you and me get down?
Babe I know you’ve been around
Unmake your bed
Don’t think about what lies ahead
Don’t you want to be misled?
Don’t you want to be misled?)
Chorus
Chorus
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP)) and Mark Ronson (EMI Music Publishing (ASCAP)) and Dom Brown (PRS)
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Girl Panic!
I came by invitation to general Chelsea mayhem
then going on to somewhere, yes I was going somewhere
a single random meeting with your eyes and I am beaten
and now I’m going nowhere, I know I’m going nowhere
with all the voices in my head
the clever words I never said
of all the things to happen
in a girl panic, that’s driving naked through my mind
it’s a crush panic, she’s got me atomized
you beg me to get closer, dress falling off your shoulder
then heat is wrapping round us, this city strapped around us
coz now I sense your mission is my coming demolition
and you just hold me under, I know I’m going under
with all the voices in my head
the clever words I never said
and you just let it happen
in a girl panic, that’s driving naked through my mind
it’s a crush panic, she’s got me atomized
in a girl panic, the midnight traffic in her eyes
like a hypnotic, and I am mesmerized
you know you know I want you; I know you know I want you
with all the voices in my head
the clever words I never said
and you just let it happen
in a girl panic, that’s driving naked through my mind
it’s a crush panic, she’s got me atomized
in a girl panic, the midnight traffic in her eyes
like a hypnotic, and I am mesmerized
in a girl panic
a crush panic
she’s a hypnotic
it’s a girl panic !
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Featuring: Kelis (will.i.am Music Group)
Female Voice: Nina Hossain
Strings: Owen Pallett (St. Kitts String Octet)
Orchestral Sample: Valzer Ai Laghi (Nino Rota)
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
The Man Who Stole A Leopard
Do you know where we are?
I’m longing for the dark
of our nocturnal life
it begins and ends with you
don’t spill my secret
you were once running wild hiding in the morning mist
game demands I make you mine
I thought that I could resist but the leopard in you
silently preyed on me
I made my way back home (did you follow her?)
I handled her with care (were you in control?)
so elegant and sleek (were you not afraid?)
I need her to be near (does she belong to you?)
don’t spill my secret
you were once running wild hiding in the morning mist
game demands I make you mine
thought that I could resist but the leopard in you
silently preyed on me
deserted by my friends (don’t they understand?)
she’s so much more than them (how could they compare?)
so now she’s just for me (no one else can see)
I watch her while she sleeps (be sure she dreams of you)
don’t spill my secret
(It’s been quite a while)
since we were last outside (and do you miss the chase?)
now that we’ve both been tamed (inside this gilded cage)
prisoners of our thoughts (you saved me from myself)
don’t spill my secret
[Today a man was taken from his apartment on the New Jersey shore and arrested
under suspicion of entrapment of a wild animal. Police, after forced entry,
discovered a caged leopard in the building! The fully-grown feline was said
to be surprisingly domesticated by zoological experts who gave her a thorough
examination before preparing her for relocation. A large crowd was gathered outside to watch the beautiful creature as a giant cage was lowered slowly onto the street by a crane. From here, the leopard was transferred into the back of a truck for the journey ahead. A thoughtful
onlooker said, "It's extraordinary to think that any human being could have lived in such close quarters with such a dangerous animal." Police are saying the captor was simply besotted with the creature and barely left her side. It's alleged that he hunted her in the wild and expertly forged
documents to facilitate her illegal export to the United States of America. The incident has already created much controversy and is now likely to lead to a major international investigation into the life of
the man who stole a leopard.]
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP)) and Dom Brown (PRS)
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Runway Runaway
At the door blowing a kiss she’s
careful not to wake her sister
knowing that she will be missed
it feels a little bad girl
on the corner engine running
taxi driver sees her coming
chilly in the morning sun
she seems a little sad
say goodbye, she’s not afraid of leaving
no-one by her side, nothing to hang on
wave goodbye, to everything familiar
there’s a world to find, runway runaway just run away
looking back she sees the pattern
hidden princess in the attic
realise this picture that
is more than she will hope for
happy when her heart is jumping
desperately seeking something
trying to be strong enough
to choose another road
say goodbye, she’s not afraid of leaving
no-one by her side, nothing to hang on
wave goodbye, to everything familiar
there’s a world to find, runway runaway just run away
runway runaway just run away
runway runaway… run away
runway runaway just run away
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Cello: Jamie Walton
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Before The Rain
a stormy summer
is rolling closer
lighting up this holy smoker
and if this drinking
could ease the thinking
I toast to my home truth with this glass
all rise you promises broken
call my lovers by their names
lost hearts and words that are spoken to the wind
which blows before the rain
little pin-pricks
and how my ears bleed
on the bomb ticks that is my heartbeat
in every life-flash
in every car crash
I hear the silence waiting to fall
all rise you promises broken
call my lovers by their names
lost hearts and words that are spoken to the wind
which blows before the rain
for all I carry
are murdered secrets
the price of my blue star-eyed weakness
and so we travel
and we unravel
towards the place where all loose ends go
all rise you promises broken
call my lovers by their names
lost hearts and words that are spoken to the wind
which blows before the rain
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Mediterranea
Across the sky
A jet trail following
The wish that I was on the plane
On my way to some out destination
Undiscovered never mentioned
Sipping on the high of expectation
I awaken to the shade
Maybe it's the rain of town
One you wanted to leave behind
When the winter's on the ground
If you ever wonder
Chorus
We believe in the cold grey lights we dream
There's a place for us
Mediterranea
Yes we believe where the white sands touch the sea
There's space for us
Mediterranea
I'm trading in for touch down ecstasy
Arriving there in a wave of heat
Lying in the beach tequilla mayhem
Summer of all suburbian daydreams
Waiting for a look the invitation
I awaken to the shade
Maybe it's the rain of town
One you wanted to leave behind
When the winter's on the ground
If you ever wonder
Chorus
I imagine
Summer fashion, see yourself in another town
Let the sunshine out of your mind
A bed of light to lay you down
Chorus
And we believe
Yes we believe
There's a place for us
Mediterranea
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Too Bad, You're So Beautiful
Here I go again
I must have flowers in my brain
The same mistake I made before
But I'm a hostage to that face of yours
Lay me on your bed
I watch you smoke my cigarette
I wish you knew what's in my head
I could be more than just a friend
(Chorus)
Too bad you're so beautiful and so
Complicated
I may be a deluded fool but still
Fascinated
Too bad you're so beautiful when I'm
King of nothing
This can only go one way
Ice queen on top of the mountain
Give me the freeze, minus twenty and counting
My lunar dreams, how do I stop them?
But it's not your problem, when you're above it all
Lay me on your bed
I want to stroke your sleepy head
I wish that I was you instead
of being just your weekday friend
(Chorus)
King of nowhere speaks another line
In the low light I'm here to entertain
When it starts to rain
I'm a lucky man...
(Chorus)
Ahhhhhh
Too bad you're so it's too bad you're soooo....
Oh-oh-oh-ohhhh
Beautiful, umm-uh-umm
Beautiful, it's too bad
Just too bad, it's too bad
Beautiful, ohh-ohh
It's too bad
Just too bad, it's too bad
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mark Ronson
Other People's Lives
Selling exes down the river
Every Katie's got her price
And the details make you shiver
But it's hard to escape when your head is stuck in vice
Because nothing matters
In the self obsessive age
Where they dare you not to notice
But it's everywhere in shocking colour on the page
(Chorus A)
In the magazine
Staring out at me
Out of my TV
(Chorus B)
Other people's lives
Pixelated lives
Just like yours and mine
Every weekend I bear witness
To the social suicides
To the thief who stays for breakfast
To the poster child screwing everybody's wife
Yeah it's just a story
But it keeps me hanging on
For the needy soul,
The glory hole confessional
I got to see what's going down
(Chorus A)
(Chorus B)
Read the headlines...
Hear the sirens
I'm re-united... out of rehab... again
It's everywhere
It's shocking colour in on the page
(Chorus A)
(Chorus B)
(Chorus A)
(Chorus B)
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Matthew Hager
Networker Nation
(D-U-R-A-N-D-U-R-A-N)
You can call me wrong
You can put me straight
Say the very thing
That I love or hate
Another YouTube star
You know how it's gonna end
Looking for the real world
With my facebook friends
(Chorus A)
Elegant times
For no conversation
'Cause now we're online
A networker nation
(Chorus B)
dada da da dadada dada
dada da da dadada dada
dada da da dadada dada
dada da da dada
We write in the book
It's a piece of cake
We could change the world
If we can stay awake
In a screen lit room
Halfway into the night
Words spark the news
Set the story alight
(Chorus A)
(Chorus C)
And nobody minds
if it's imitation
We're living our lives
A networker nation
(Chorus B)
(Chorus A)
(Chorus C)
(Chorus B)
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Featuring: Mr. Hudson
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mr. Hudson
Paper Gods
[Oh, the paper Gods in the sky of gray. All the fools in town are ruling today, today]
(Chorus)
[Oh] Bow to the paper Gods
[the pa-] in a world that is paper thin
[per Gods] Fools in town
[in the sky of gray] are ruling now
[All the fools in town] Bleeding from paper cuts
[are ru-] money for head shots
[ling today] Fools leading
[Today] Who needs it?!
Hey, you're gonna want it all the talking men declares
Go running to be first in line for what? Nobody cares!
The next thing you must have find piece with matching bag
It's nothing to be glad about all sad when you forget about it
And rather races on the restful on the streets
The slaver in a sweatshop, putting trainers on your feet
I'm walking through the rain, oblivious to pain
To shelter from the blame without a reason to complain about it
(Oh oh oh) don't complain about it
(Oh oh oh) don't complain about it
(Oh oh oh) forget about it
(Oh oh oh )
(Chorus)
She's staring out in underwear from your computer screen
It's all of sell for dirty cash we can wash it clean
So hang it out online, confessing you feel fine
and if you got the time to spare we want to know
Which name you're wearing
And when the final curtain finally comes down
We'll all be in the party room, no wiser as to how
the total human race it came a basket case
It's nothing to lose faith about it,
It's really not a place to doubt it
(Chorus)
Paper Gods falling down, paper house, paper town
Paper Gods falling down, a paper world just falling down
Paper Words falling down, paper house, paper town
Paper Gods falling down, a paper world just falling down
Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down
[Oh] Bow to the paper Gods
[the pa-] in a world that is paper thin
[per Gods] Fools in town
[in the sky of gray] are ruling now
[All the fools in town] Bleeding from paper cuts
[are ru-] they go for the money shot
[ling today] The fools leading
[Today] Who needs them?!
[Oh, the paper Gods in the sky of gray. All the fools in town are ruling today, today]
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Featuring: Kiesza
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mr. Hudson
Last Night In The City
[I'm not gonna sleep tonight till the morning fills the sky
No one's getting left behind, this is our time, This is our time!]
(Chorus A)
We're gonna live this night, ye-yeah
Live it like it's our last night
'Cause nobody cares,
If there's no tomorrow.
I'm not thinking 'bout the future [the future]
It's somewhere out there
We are all busy being human [human]
We remember
Hearts' spinning all around on me [together]
Now they're surrounding me
This is how we get connected
Running out the shadows into light!
(Chorus A)
(Chorus B)
We're gonna love this night, ye-yeah
Loving like it's our last night
Stars up in the air, ye-yeah
It's our last night in the city!
I've been traveling around now
Big world with my brothers,
Always moving to a new town
No time to put the rules down
We can't stop believing [can't stop]
Now we believe in you
'Cause when you're standing in the spotlight
The only thing that matters is tonight
(Chorus A)
(Chorus B)
Ye-yeah - Last night in the city
Ye-yeah - Last night in the city
[I'm not gonna sleep tonight till the morning fills the sky
No one's getting left behind, this is our time, This is our time!]
(Chorus A)
(Chorus B)
Ye-yeah - Last night in the city
Ye-yeah - Last night in the city
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mr. Hudson
You Kill Me With Silence
You're thin ice
I should be on solid ground
I know so quite advice
I can hear that cracking sound
But I remain
despite your deadly aim
to drive another lad insane
when you won't speak
my name
(Chorus)
You kill me with silence
that's your style girl
You're letting me know
This deafening silence
The only reason that you're in control
(you're in control)
It's emotional violence
I can't breathe now
but I can't let go
You kill me with silence
silence...silence...
True to life,
things are hoting up in here
If I had a knife,
you could cut the atmosphere
Something else,
I like this bed of nails
That's what I tell myself,
couldn't be much worse
in hell
(Chorus)
You kill me with silence
You kill me with silence
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Featuring: Janelle Monae & Nile Rodgers
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mr. Hudson & Nile Rodgers & Mark Ronson
Pressure Off
(Intro)
Steppin' out, steppin' out, steppin' out, and jumpin' up and
Steppin' out, steppin' out, steppin' out, and jumpin' up and
Steppin' out, steppin' out, steppin' out, and jumpin' up and
Pressure off, pressure off, pressure pressure pressure off
The past is another country, the present will never last
The future, it's still tomorrow, Are we living too fast?
Searchlight the crowd, I'm fixed on your face
I know it well, but it's a dream I can't place
Something is happening to me
Maybe it's happening to you, you, you, you
(Chorus)
Everybody everywhere, feel it in the air
Oh yeah, it's time to take the pressure off
Everybody everywhere, step out into the future
It's time to take the pressure off
(Post-Chorus)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh - Oh oh oh oh
It's up to you now - It's time to take the pressure off
(Post-Chorus)
(Steppin', Steppin', Steppin', It's time to take the pressure off)
Swimming with the rat race or running against the tide
It's everybody's business when there's nowhere to hide
Searchlight the crowd, I'm fixed onto you
There's a way out of this into the blue
Something is happening to me
Maybe it's happening to you, you, you, you
(Chorus)
(Post-Chorus)
(Post-Chorus)
(Intro)
[I'm lost, don't wanna be found I'm up and not gonna be down
Outside looking in on myself Just me, I couldn't be anyone else
Is it bad when you're feeling this good? Are we all misunderstood?
It's fine, going out of my mind, going out of my mind, going out of my mind]
(Chorus)
(Post-Chorus)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh - Oh oh oh oh - It's up to you now
Step out into the future
Oh oh oh oh oh oh - Oh oh oh oh - Jump up into the future
Oh oh oh oh oh oh - Oh oh oh oh - Step out into the future
Oh oh oh oh oh oh - Oh oh oh oh - Jump up into the future
Oh oh oh oh oh oh - Oh oh oh oh - Step out into the future
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, Brown
Produced by Duran Duran
Face For Today
A little rain of comfort in the afternoon
to brighten up the room
to lighten up your mood
the whole world is an mix spot on a plastic spoon
You can fight it, or invite it
Live beside it, laugh'in till you're crying
Hold on in your time boy
Don't be scared of what they'll say
You're putting a fight girl
If you got the face for today, yeah
(oh yeah, oh yeah, hmmm)
Around, around the wall of death
Around you go
What keeps you in the air
Is having not they care (yeah)
And time flies like a dancing man
On crystal glow
You can fight it, or invite it
Live beside it, laugh'in until you're crying
Hold on in your time boy
Don't be scared of what they'll say
You're putting a fight girl
You've got that thing which makes them smile, yeah
Hold on in your time boy
(Make up, you're on that cut up shape)???
You're putting a fight girl
If you got the face for today, yeah
Yeah
When you got the face for today, yeah
Hold on in your time boy
Don't be scared of what they'll say
You're putting a fight girl
You've got that thing which makes them smile, yeah
Hold on in your time boy
Wake up on that speeding train
You're putting a fight girl
If you got the face for today, yeah
The face for today, yeah
The face for today, yeah
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, Brown, Mr. Hudson
Featuring: Lindsay Lohan
Produced by Duran Duran
Dancephobia
(coming over ya, Dancephobia, coming over ya)
You're on the floor
What you're gonna do
I'm in the system
I'm trying to get to you
We both waited
For so long
Nothing can stop us
Come on this is our song
(Pre-Chorus)
Look around
forget the crowd
Take my hand
and sing it a-loud
(Chorus)
I know what it is coming over ya [coming over ya]
You don't dance, Dancephobia [Dancephobia]
I know what it is coming over ya [coming over ya]
You don't dance
nothing at all
You don't dance
You're in the car
We go into
turn up the volume
And I'm getting through to you
Open the window
See what you got
I'm in the speakers
It's time we head up
(Pre-Chorus)
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
[Can you hear me? If you can hear me, let me know! I'm your doctor.
We maybe experiencing feelings of confusion. Don't be afraid! I've seen this symptoms before.
10 / 20 new cases each week. We call this condition: Dancephobia! I gonna keep you in for observation. I may have to work on you through all the night. We have to trust each other. And together I think we can beat this thing before the music ends.]
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, Brown
Featuring: John Frusciante (Guitar)
Produced by Duran Duran
What Are The Chances?
Any other day and you might have gone walking by
Without a second look
Any other way but I'm still mystified
I'm just trying to change my luck
Staring out the world and waiting for the one
But the world won't look away
The world does not explain
(Chorus)
So, what are the chances?
We'll never know
If we take it for granted
A diamond explodes
What are the chances?
Playing with your life or is it destiny
Which sets you on a path?
Is it out of choice that you're here next to me
Or just the aftermath
Of moments as they pass
(Chorus)
We are lost in the flow
I'm looking for answers, oho
(chorus)
We are lost in the flow
I'm looking for answers, oho
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, Brown
Produced by Duran Duran & Mr. Hudson
Sunset Garage
So, half way drunk
you'd never fail
with your big eyed punk
fashioned fingernails
Something cooking
when you play guitar
What the stake we're in
How do we get so far?
(Chorus)
Whatever happens we're ok
Hey we're still alive
To watch a sunset garage day
Heading to the light
Oh Oh, where did it all goes wrong?
We gonna make it all our own
Upon this sunset garage day
oh-ohoh
See how the town comes out
like a bruise
When the wheels go round
we can do anything
Nobody looking
and they fix my car
Maybe later, later
Could take it up from here
(Chorus)
Oh Oh, where did it all goes wrong?
We gonna make it all our own
Oh Oh, if they bring us down
we gonna break out of this town
come to our sunset garage day
ohoh
Yesterday look so taint, so far away
From this point of disarray waiting for a sun burn into frame
It's so fine, about the high water life
Shifting with the paradise drifting as the drain move into flame
Oh Oh, if it all goes wrong
We gonna make it all our own
Oh Oh, if it all goes wrong
We gonna make it all our own
It's a sunset garage day
It's a sunset garage day
It's a sunset garage day
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, Mr. Hudson
Featuring: Jonas Bjerre
Produced by Duran Duran
Change The Skyline
This is where it starts
Standing on the roof up here
Saying goodbye to darkness
Now I can see the big idea
Cities east and west
You won't miss me when I'm gone
The only thing that left is
the feeling that I'm moving on
[Saw you walk the line
'Cause something psychic says 'no way'
I'll use in time, 'Cause I (re-far)??? you now]
(Chorus)
I can change the skyline
Out of range but in-time
Time to change the skyline
I see far horizons
And if I rid the day
Build some hope but burn by the sun
But I'm happy to watch you fade
When I can't raise it up again
[Openin' my eyes
And maybe it's not impossible
Don't you think it's time
'Cause now it's long enough]
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, Brown
Featuring: John Frusciante (Guitar)
Produced by Duran Duran
Butterfly Girl
By the look on your face
You've been awake all night
It started raining in the early light
You're fooling the mirror
But you don't fool me
A drift in your own sympathy
(Pre-Chorus)
[Can't stand falling apart, don't stay too long in the dark
Alone deep in the dark, of your devotion
Hey go the longer he (stone)??), let go you got to let go
Together back in control, of your emotions]
(Chorus)
You can make it through tomorrow [Set free your butterfly girl]
And when you rise above the sorrow [You be a butterfly girl]
Now you're drunk in the dream
Of your life as dirt
It might last forever
And that really hurts
And I still hope you're gonna realize
There's only one kind of happy in the glass of wine
(Pre-Chorus)
(Chorus)
(Pre-Chorus)
(Chorus)
You can fly [Set free your butterfly girl]
You go higher [You be a butterfly girl]
[Set free your butterfly girl]
[Set free your butterfly girl]
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, Rodgers, Ronson
Featuring: Nile Rodgers (Guitar)
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Mr. Hudson & Nile Rodgers & Mark Ronson
Only In Dreams
Only in dreams, girl
I'm a part of your world
My heart it screams
Oh so it seems
Only in dreams
[Only in my, in my dreams, only here in my dreams
Only in my, in my dreams, only here in my dreams]
Only in dreams, girl
When my crime goes on, hurt
What does it mean
To fly the scene
only in dreams, girl
(Chorus)
There's a vampire in the limousine
The sun's going down like a symphony
She keeps her guard up
While her nails are wet
I don't wanna wake up
Only in dreams, I'm
In dopamine, time
It's in my dreams
It gets its dreams
Only in dreams
How did I dream, you
You're the queen of steel, dunes
Look what you've done
My colors run
Whenever you come to
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
On the roof top, we can feel the drop(?)
She bathes in the moon while the shadows watch
She be nervous that my eyes forget
I don't wanna wake up
I'm not gonna wake up
I don't wanna wake up
[Only in my in my dreams, only in my dreams]
I don't wanna wake up
[Only in my in my dreams, only in my dreams]
I don't wanna wake up
Dreams
Dreams
Dreams
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Featuring: London Youth Chamber Choir, Voce Chamber Choir
Produced by Duran Duran
The Universe Alone
It's beautiful, the dying sun
The end of everything and everyone
So shall we make a plan my friend
As if we have the chance to live it all again
(Chorus)
I'll see you in some other lifetime
On the other side of what we'll never know
Together we have walked a fine line
Now we go to face the universe alone
In plain view, the mistakes we've made
But is there anything you'd really want to change?
To win and lose then win again
To have it all, then throw it all away
(Chorus)
How beautiful the closing down
The fading out, it spins and goes around
With darkness and the heart of man
And here we are back where it all began
I'll see you in some other lifetime
The universe alone
The universe alone
The universe alone
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Produced by Duran Duran
Planet Roaring
Look where we are
We travelled so far
Together here
And sum up for year
Across the fields
The lights turn on
And still they come
To hear the drum
The Drum
The Drum
(Chorus)
Friends we come here calling
Can you hear the planet roaring
Now the stars are falling
We'll be singing to the morning
This burning sky [this burning sky]
This burning band [this burning band]
We fire up the night [we fire up the night]
We light up the land [we light up the land]
At liberty [at liberty]
The world to see [the world to see]
We carry on [we carry on]
We are the Song
The Song
The Song
(Chorus)
[The things we do to be together
Things you take to feel together
Everything is coming up with you
Everybody, do what you wanna do]
Ohhhhh ... It's the sound of celebration
[The things we do to be together
Things you take to feel together
Everything is coming up with you
Everybody, do what you wanna do]
[Ohhhh...]
It's the sound of celebration
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Produced by Duran Duran
Valentine Stones
Down here with the strays and the damaged all stood in a line
This recovery so they tell me is one day at a time
And you think you can help me maybe
You can turn on your heals and save me
But I don't wanna be like the boys that you keeping toe
(Chorus)
Like a valentine stones
Stones
Stones
Your valentine stones
All roads lead from my resurrection to your sympathy
An empty space which boils your collection that was bend for me
And you say you can help me maybe
You can turn on your charms and save me
But I don't want to be just a toy that you keep at home
(Chorus)
Lost souls - Diamonds and gold
Cold, cold - Valentine Stones
Lost souls - Diamonds and gold
Cold, cold - Valentine Stones
And you think you can help me maybe
You can turn on your heals and save me
But I don't wanna be like the boys that you keeping toe
Like a valentine stones
Souls - Diamonds and gold
Cold, cold - Valentine Stones
Lost souls - Diamonds and gold
Cold, cold - Valentine Stones
Oh... Diamonds and gold
Oh... Valentine Stones
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Produced by Duran Duran
Northern Lights
[Lookin' up from the polar sheet
Out in the stars this one I want to meet
I am a signal somewhere in your place
So do you hear, do you hear my wish]
(Pre-Chrous)
You coming down now [down there]
You coming round now [to share]
You got a ??? [I care]
[I care about, I care about]
(Chorus)
If you want to stay tonight
Write your name across the sky
Nothing I would bother like
To see you in the northern light
[Up on the roof I listen for the moan
Of your soft footstep on the snow
Now I lift somebody else's glow
As they tune in to watch the show]
(Pre-Chorus)
(Chorus)
If you want to play the night
We could take the evening flight
Shine out from my higher height
And we will be in the northern light
(Chorus)
If you want to play the night
We could take the evening flight
Shine out from my higher height
And we will be in the northern light
Write your name across the sky
Write your
Write your
Write your name across the sky
Write your
Write your
Duran Duran – Medazzaland Bonustrack (1997 – Capitol - Private Parts Music and Skin Trade Music)
Ball And Chain
Early morning
as the day is dawning
you're street gutter crawling
when the sun comes up
Baby crying
says today she's dying
but she's always lying
& that's a ball n chain
You got the ball n chain
You're in the ball n chain gang
coz you're the ball n chain man
Bruises for breakfast
Ain't nobody's business
but pain's a lonely mistress
and you can't give up
(that's a ball n chain)
Flame Burning
money that you're earning
and you will be returning
with a ball n chain
You got the ball n chain
You're in the ball n chain gang
coz you're the ball n chain man
Middle
Why do you love me
when you don't need me
why do you want me all of the time?
In my whole life, didn't get no peacetime
'n I don't care if I live or die
(that's a ball n chain)
You got the ball n chain. You got the ball n chain.
You got the ball n chain. You got the ball n chain.
You got the ball n chain. You got the ball n chain.
You got the ball n chain. You're the one to blame.
You got to love that pain.
Duran Duran – Astronaut Demo (2004)
Beautiful Colours
Today, riding the slow train along the way,
Going to who knows where and who knows when -
Not knowing where you're rolling - it's the learning of this journey....
I feel, all you good people gather and believe
Being of flesh and breathing in is enough
Promise to carry on, from each moment to the next one
These beautiful colours infinite patterns are what I see
And thought we're all of the same stuff there's not one of you who is the same as me
What a beautiful colours indifferent patterns for you to see
Sometimes the beauty of it all seems unbearable 'til the colours bleed
Keep moving
Design - everyone's own their universe
Besides - life is a standard issue is customize
Ashes to supernova is the nature of existence
These beautiful colours infinite patterns are what I see
And though we're all of the same stuff there's not one of you who is the same as me
What a beautiful colours indifferent patterns for you to see
Sometimes the beauty of it all seems unbearable 'til the colours bleed
Keep moving
Keep breathing
Keep loving
These beautiful colours infinite patterns are what I see
And though we're all of the same stuff there's not one of you who is the same as me
What a beautiful colours indifferent patterns for you to see
Sometimes the beauty of it all seems unbearable 'til the colours bleed
Keep moving
Keep breathing
Keep loving
Duran Duran (1988 – During the Big Thing Session)
Bomb (aka Capitol Chill)
it is too nice to paint your eyes
I took a tear, I don't even want
we don't like, we don't like
the things they say
it takes true life, to you paint your eyes
you don't dare with your imagination
we don't like, we got some
we find you've failed
you don't wait around
you don't realise there's something else
you'd better lock yourself
that I don't think it is all been really there
it's said so the rumour's dead
but I don't say it
that is the world you paint beside
and in a 9 to 5 around town
he's obsessed to make it
you'll understand
here's back to love, you made it out
I've never really, never really bored
he's obsessed to make it
you'll find yourself
yeah
you don't believe it
don't listen to everything you know
you're mine in, in your sacred letter
you're my baby
your voice is so important to me
you've lied it, she's my babe to set a feeling
it's all on my back, you may see that
I'm not your man and your soul thing
you don't search the findings
the world's at stake
you might to love but might not to have
but there's a thing she made me every morning
I don't lie, cause I say
you're my best friend
you may like everything
and that's a fantastic story
Duran Duran –
Bottleneck
hear that man say he’s not cool
he ain’t no better than he ain’t no fool
listen hard listen a lot
care about everything
but that man he’s not wrong
he’s been talking about everyone for years
he talks to himself
he don’t care for anyone
I’m in a bottleneck
standing up to my waist in it
fighting to get hold of something new,
something new and something strong
I’m in a bottleneck
now I’m up to my neck in it
fighting to get a bite of something good,
something good and something strong
fire fears got me hot
fears got me burning, burning, burning
burning down to my soul
fire tears in my eyes
and I can’t decide which way to go
and which way’s home anyhow
I’m in a bottleneck
standing up to my waist in it
fighting to get a hold of something good,
something good and something strong
I’m in a bottleneck
biting to get a hold of something good
something good and something strong
I’m in a bottleneck now I’m up to my neck in it
I’m in a bottleneck
I’m in a bottleneck
in a bottleneck
in a bottleneck
in a bottleneck
in a bottleneck
in a bottleneck
in a bottleneck
I’m up to my neck in it
in a bottleneck
Duran Duran – We Were So Turned On (A Tribute To David Bowie ) (2010)
Written By: David Bowie and Brian Eno – Original Artist: David Bowie
Boys Keep Swinging
Heaven loves you
The clouds part for you
Nothing stands in your way
When you're a boy
Clothes always fit you
Life is a pop of the cherry
When you're a boy
When you're a boy
You can wear a uniform
When you're a boy
Other boys check you out
You get a girl
To say your favorite things
When you're a boy
Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
Uncage the colours
Unfurl the flag
Luck just kissed you hello
When you're a boy
They'll never clone you
You're always first on the line
When you're a boy
When you're a boy
You can buy a home of your own
When you're a boy
Learn to drive and everything
You'll get your share
When you're a boy
BoysBoys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes, D. Brown
Produced by Duran Duran
Cinderella Ride
Cinderella will you ride, will you ride with me?
Out into a smoke-filled night, across the bridge of tears
Where children with their eyes sewn shut, lay begging on the stones
And will we lead them from this dust? Yes we will lead them home!
All away, let it all away
'til there's nothing to carry and nothing to worry
Now fall away, let it fall away
'til you're light as a bird in the air
Cinderella riding down on the ebbing tide
Down to mend the broken cups and their foolish pride
Solace to the angry mob, succour to the weak
Cinderella, cup of love, their pain is what you seek
All away, let it all away
'til there's nothing to carry and nothing to worry about
Fall away, let it fall away
'til you're light as a bird in the air
All away, let it all away
'til there's nothing to carry and nothing to worry about
Fall away, let it fall away
'til we're light as the birds in the air
Cinderella, queen of bells, Cinderella ride
Leave them with their fond farewells and their petty crimes
Leave behind the blood-let clouds, rise up on sparrow wings
And you shall be a queen of shrouds, the queen of helpless things
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1984 – B-Side The Reflex)
Written By: Steve Harley – Original Artist: Cockney Rebel
Come Up And See Me (Make Me Smile)
You've done it all, you've broken every code
and pulled the Rebel to the floor
You spoilt the game, no matter what you say
for only metal-what a bore!
Blue eyes, blue eyes, how come you tell so
many lies?
Come up and see me, make me smile
or do what you want, run on wild
There's nothing left, all gone and run away
Maybe you'll tarry for a while
It's just a test, a game for us to play
win or lose, it's hard to smile
Resist, resist, it's from yourself you have to hide
(chorus)
There ain't no more, you've taken everthing
from my belief in Mother Earth
How can you ignore my faith in everything
when I know what Faith is and what it's worth
Away, away, and don't say maybe you'll try
(chorus)
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre – Japan Bonus Track (2007)
Cry Baby Cry
One of these nights you wait and see
One of these nights you're gonna realize
The way your pride comes at a cost
Leaving you short on sympathy
Where is the evidence you need to know
You're better off than the rest
Given attention more than touch
Over the time it's nothing much to show
Keeping it all together
Seems like forever
One of these days you'll kiss and tell
It's in the mirror, gonna spill it out
Whatever do you know, what do you, do you know?
A selfish obsession, a fake suicide
You can't see the truth for the dollars in your eyes
They're fading and that makes you
Cry Baby Cry
But it ain't gonna kill you now
Can you depend on your champagne
Socialist friends to drop your name in their
(questionable) Four Viper supernova rides
however great they claim to be
only betrays their insecurity--yeah
See how they fall from those highs
Afraid of dragons in the smoke
Gonna go rehab but that's a joke
It's getting old don't tell them all we've heard it
before
You're welcome to celebrity
Doing the thing so famously
Must wear your reputation wrong, it must be such a bore
A selfish obsession, a fake suicide
You can't see the truth for the dollars in your eyes
They're fading and that makes you
Cry Baby Cry
But it ain't gonna kill you now
Cry Baby Cry
Cry Baby Cry
A selfish obsession, a fake suicide
You can't see the truth for the dollars in your eyes
They're fading and that makes you
Cry Baby Cry
But it ain't gonna kill you now
It does make you stronger, yeah
Cry Baby Cry
Cry Baby Cry
Cry Baby Cry
Cry Baby Cry
Duran Duran – Thank You Bonustrack (1995)
Written By: David Bowie – Original Artist: David Bowie
Diamond Dogs
As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump and your ten inchy stump
Dressed like a priest you was,
Todd Browning beast you was
Crawling down the alley on your hands and knees,
I'm sure you're not protected
For its plain to see
The Diamond Dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees
Hunt you to the ground they will
Mannequins with kill-appeal
Will they come? I keep a friend serene
Will they come? Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come? Well, she's come, been, and gone
Come out of the garden, baby
You'll catch a death in the fog
Young girl they call them the Diamond Dogs
Young girl they call them the Diamond Dogs
Now halloween jack is a real cool cat,
And he lives on top of Manhattan Chase
The elevators broke so he slides down a rope
Onto the street below
Oh tarzie go man, go
Meets his little hussy with his ghost-town approach
Her face is sans feature but she wears a Dali brooch
Sweetly reminiscent something mother used to bake
Wrecked up and paralyzed
Diamond Dogs are sable-ized
Will they come? I keep a friend serene
Will they come? Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come? Well, she's come, been, and gone
(chorus)
In the year of the scavenger The season of the bitch
Sashay on the board-walk scurry to the ditch
Just another future song lonely little kitch
There's gonna be sorrow try and wake up tomorrow
Will they come? I keep a friend serene
Will they come? Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come? Well, she's come, been, and gone
(chorus)
Duran Duran –
Written By: Le Bon/ Woods
Dreamboy
Summer time it's supposed to bring out the best in eveybody
But here I lie, waiting for my phone to ring,
Man, I could be anybody.
and I wonder, don't you wonder what is my intention
and if I could ever really truly make you happy
If it's not enough to keep me hanging around
I'm such a flake boy
When the morning comes,
I could be running away
Just like your dream boys
Send this dream back to yesterday,
I don't have the face for tomorrow
Lonley yawning, sleepy this way
Lead me through the trees to your hollow
and i wonder, cos I wonder if i'm gonna lose all this loving that I feel
cos if it could ever really truly make me happy
If it's not enough to keep me hanging around
I'm such a flake boy
When the morning comes,
I could be running away
Just like your dream boys
I don't want to be your dream boy
Don't make your dream boy
I'm not your dream
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Matthew Hager
Early Summer Nerves
What were the chances for me
When I spoke to her last night
What were the chances I'd be
Here lying by her side
Why does it look so risky
Hiding in the morning light
Now as the memory hits me
Right between the eyes
Strange nobody else can hear those fingers tapping on the glass
With reviews of early summer nerves
Welcome to miss adventure
Oh she is a slippery slope
Welcome to glamour central
Where I'm hanging on a rope
Who exactly am I trying to fool with all those snazzy words
Just a case of early summer nerves
This won't get me out of it but finally I understand
You've got to love those early summer nerves
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993 - B-Side Come Undone)
Fallen Angel (aka Falling Angel)
From this cloud where I hang, dangled in the blue
I spy you all tiny creatures on the ground below
For my being reckless got me strung up in the sky
Love is flawed now, see the lawless cry
Cut my cord now, better then, better off to die
Here am I, your falling angel, dangled in the blue
I'm your angel, and I wish that I could be like you
It's my time, all I have for my crime is such
Knowing that the thing I love is that which I can't touch
So I watch your fragile beauty changing in the sun
Love is flawed now, see the lawless cry
Cut my cord now, better then, better off to die
But here am I, your falling angel, dangled in the blue
I'm your angel, how I wish that I could be with
Falling angel, dangled in the blue
I'm your angel, and I wish that I could be like you
I believe in you, I dont believe it all
But I believe in you, I dont believe it all
But I believe in you, I dont believe it all
But I believe in you, I dont believe it all
But I believe in you, I dont believe it all
But I believe in you, I dont believe it all
But I believe in you
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – B-Side Careless Memories)
Written By: D. Bowie, J. Lennon, C. Alomar – Original Performed By. David Bowie
Fame
Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there, where things are hollow - Fame..
Fame, hurts your brain, just a flame
A funny tin to dip you inside - Fame..
Fame, what you like is in the Limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow - Fame..
Fame, the dirty swine, it's just his line
He's only trying to drive you to crime.. (crime) - Fame..
Is it any wonder - I'll reject you first
Is it any wonder - You're too cool to prove
Fame
A ticket for you, a ticket for me
I've gotta get to Witchitta - Fame..
Fame (Rpt x23)
What's your name? What a game.. What a shame.. What a shame..
Here is an alternate lyric printed in a Bowie Songbook
Fame, makes a man take things over
Fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow
Fame, puts you there where things are hollow
Fame
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame
That burns your change to keep you insane
Fame Fame, what you like is in the limo
Fame, what you get is no tomorrow
Fame, what you need you have to borrow
Fame
Fame, "Nien! It's mine!" is just his line
To bind your time, it drives you to, crime
Fame Could it be the best, could it be?
Really be, really, babe?
Could it be, my babe, could it, babe?
Really, really?
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame, fame, fame, fame
Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool
Fame
Fame, bully for you, chilly for me
Got to get a rain check on pain
Fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame
Fame, fame, fame
Fame
What's your name?
(whispered) Feeling so gay, feeling gay? Brings so much pain?
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 - B-Side Girls On Film – Tritec Music Carlin Music)
Faster Than Light
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Why I see your face
Moving in the aerospace
White Light shining, we're all alone
Scare of flying, cos here we come
White light, homing in
The speed of light, moving in
Faster than light (the light)
Faster than light (the light)
Faster than light..
Faster than light (the light)
Faster than light (the light)
Faster than light..
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You see ways by the door
Pulling over years before
White light shining bright, you're all alone
Scare of flying, cos here we come
(chorus)
Light Light Light Light Light
Light Light Light Light Light
Light Light Light Light Light
(chorus)
Duran Duran – (with Susanna Hoffs)
Follow In My Footsteps
Where the earth receives
The seeds from the sky
Where the ancient fill the newborn
With a breath of life
I will run once more
Before this body dies
I go running and I feel my muscles
Burning in the light
In our innocence the world is young and strong
Feeling that the center of perfection
Is this heart of mine
Feel the mountain move to hear our song
See the children stand where they belong
Follow in my footsteps now
Follow in my footsteps Follow in my footsteps Follow in my footsteps
I am the lightning streak
Across the brooding sky
I am witness to the spirit
Of your sunrise
Call if your fevers rage
Is in need of tenderness
Feel that I am, feel that I am
Feel that I am the medicine
Feel the mountain move to hear our song
Hear the thunder rolling for our song
Call the wind Call the rain
Call the first ones by their names
Call the moon Call the sun
Call the blood back to my vains
Follow in my footsteps now
Follow in my footsteps Follow in my footsteps Follow in my footsteps
Feel the mountain move to hear our song
Hear the thunder rolling for our song
Call the wind Call the rain
Call the first ones by their names
Call the moon Call the sun
Call the blood back to my vains
Follow in my footsteps now
Follow in my footsteps Follow in my footsteps Follow in my footsteps
You can follow in my footsteps
Follow in my footsteps
Follow in my footsteps yeah
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – B-Side Do You Believe In Shame?)
God (London)
God created the world,
then created the Devil
to blame for his mistakes
I closed the door of my hotel room behind me,
it was like closing a chapter in the book of life.
Outside thirty floors below I could hear
the police using their sirens like wolf whistles
to pick up young girls.
On TV Oliver North (his fifteen minutes of fame
ticking steadily away) was being fuzzy about
crucial events which had happened a year earlier
what a flake...but then who isn't?
-that was Regan's defence at least.
The worst thing is how politics begin to
lead into your life.
Back in our innocence we used to simply stick
two fingers up to politics, say "fuck the Queen",
that was about all you had to say anyway
and go back to the more important business
of making music.
So why was I sitting there feeling angry about
covert operations and illegal aid to the contras?
I mean I'm not even American (may be we all
are a little bit). Then I realised it was just the idea
that in this particular democracy and probably
every other one in the world, there is somebody
in power who thinks he is more right
than all the people who put him there,
all the people who for once in their lives
took an interest.
Outside the wind was howling the "Who Who's"
from Sympathy for the Devil round and round
the concrete hotel walls and corners.
That was then, this is...!
Duran Duran –
Grey Lady Of The Sea
You've whispered out loud
But your breeze doesn't bend
We're lying in the palm of your hand
No land we see, no place to be
The salt of your tears, adds stain to our hearts
There's no long years can tear us apart
Our futures entwined with your past
Because when we lie awake
We'll be thinking of you
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Bravado is all but gone
And patience is down
You scared us and you've turned us around
But you won't let us drown
Because when we lie asleep
We'll be dreaming of you
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
So answer us when we call
And say if you think we're old
When life is so short we can stay long
But you'll never be alone
Because one day we'll return
We'll be waiting for you
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow, Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 - B-Side All She Wants Is – DD Productions Ltd.)
I Believe/All I Need To Know (Medley)
The taxman's in your pocket book, the pressmen are by the bar
And all the world is at your door
It's strange that you should lock it up then preach an open heart
But you know what they're waiting for
You can turn your face away now and don't think twice
I'm just the ordinary guy you used to know
I'm not after your money or even your advice
I believe you'll follow me it's all I need to know
To walk away
I was tempted by the devil in his deep blue swimming pool
Until the devil's makeup ran
And my future is in the stranglehold of ever changing rules
I don't intend to understand
You can stop pretending now that I had you fooled
I'm still the ordinary guy you used to know
I'm not after your money to paralise my soul
I believe you'll follow me it's all I need to know
Promise me you'll try to understand before I go
To walk away
You can turn your face away now and don't think twice
I'm just the ordinary guy you used to know
I'm not after your money or even your advice
I believe you'll follow me it's all I need to know
Promise me, you'll try to understand before I go
All I need to
All I need to
All I need to know.
Repeat last three lines to fade.
Duran Duran –
In Between Woman
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
I don’t like it I don’t like it
I don’t like it I don’t like it
like a dog in a parking lot
chasing after tail pipes
like a boy on the starting block
up all night on tall tails
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
I don’t like it I don’t like it
I don’t like it I don’t like it
like a frog on friday nights
after all been and done
I kissed her once and touched her twice
I’ll have to cut myself a slice
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
I don’t like it I don’t like it
I don’t like it I don’t like it
I don’t like it I don’t like it
I don’t like it I don’t like it
like a dog in a parking lot
chasing after tail pipes
like a dog in a parking lot
chasing after tail pipes
like a boy on the starting block
up all night on tall tails
like a boy on the starting block
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
in between woman
in between women
I don’t like it I don’t like it
in between women
I don’t like it I don’t like it
in between women
in between women
Duran Duran – Make Some Noise (The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur) (2006)
Written By: John Lennon – Original Performed By. John Lennon
Instant Karma!
Instant Karma's gonna get you
Is Gonna kick you in the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you
Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin'
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin' at fools like me
Who on earth d'you think you are
A super star well, right you are
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
On and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
Instant Karma's gonna get you
It's gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
It's ev'ryone you meet
Why in the world do we here
Surely not to live in fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're ev'rywhere come and get your share
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on
On and on and on on and on
Sun and all things All shine on
Like the stars All shine on
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 - B-Side Careless Memories)
Khanada
Didn't no one tell you
Money is the game
You're playing so hard to get now
I don't even know your name
Chorus:
Don't play with me, I've nothing to lose Khanada I'll get by
It ain't no ones day, coming so soon Khanada I'll get by
I dont believe in dragons or blues Khanada I'll get by
I don't believe in nobody's rules Khanada I'll get by
Heavy as the rain falls
I might go outside
Just because you're with me
Doesn't mean you're not the same
(Chorus)
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (1981 – B-Side Planet Earth)
Late Bar
There's a hole
in the wall next to you
Things with legs
are crawling through
the man is searching
for the door
and you run
you're coming out
you're going down
Chorus 1:
There's an all night party
in room 7609
la la la late bar
la la la la la la la late
Chorus 2:
And you can dance together
all night, if you've got the time
la la la late bar
la la la la la la la late
The bodies move
like flies on the wall
You want to run
but there's no space at all
The dancers spinning on the mirror ball
You're coming out
you're going round
(chorus 1)
(chorus 2)
(chorus 1)
(chorus 2)
Duran Duran – Rio (1982 B-Side My Own Way)
Like An Angel
Oohh, Do-do do-do-do
Da da da da da
Things that you used to say now take on different meanings you realise
Can't be to careful about the lines.
Come on you know you're not so young you cannot hide behind disguise
Listen to your own desire.
Eyes like an angel - so wise, don't lie
You never felt like this before.
Fly like an angel - so high this time,
You send your senses streaming free.
Places you used to go when you were young look different in the dark,
Don't you worry it's O.K.
And maybe I can help you find your way tonight I think you will agree
Summer reason's run away.
Eyes like an angel - so wise, don't lie
You never felt like this before
Fly like an angel - so high this time
You've got your senses streaming free
[MID]
Oh I hear your heart is beating even faster now than mine
Now you know just what I mean.
So take your place among those twilight gleaming rivers that you read
Give me reasons to believe
Eyes like an angel - so wise don't lie
You never feel like this again
Fly like an angel - so high this time
You send my senses streaming free
Like an angel... da da da-da
Like an angel... da da daa
Duran Duran – Astronaut Demo (2004)
Lonely Business
Waiting for you
It’s a lonely business
What more can I do
I could be here until Christmas
Why do you want to go saying those sins about me?
Don’t you know that a girl can’t be made to hurry?
Don’t you want me to feel like a million dollars?
I’m just taking some time out to make a difference
Chained, one step over the line
Trying to get something to work
All I need is someone to say
After all
What’s the mystery?
When everybody wants to know
About destiny
Just trying to kill a little time
Working hard day to day
Why complain about it
Don’t you know that a man can’t be mad about it
Woman at the top
Why’s the story so familiar
Something’s got to drop
For this hombre to remain here
Chained, dream up some while she’s trying
Trying to find something to wear
All you need is someone to say
Here we go
What’s the mystery?
When everybody wants to know
About destiny
Are you ready for the use of time?
Waiting for you
It’s a lonely business
What more can I do
I could be here until Christmas
Chained, one step over the line
Trying to get something to work
All I need is someone to say
After all
What’s the mystery?
When everybody wants to know
About destiny
Just trying to kill a little time
What’s the mystery?
Cuz everybody wants to know
What’s their destiny?
Are you ready for the use of time?
What’s the mystery?
Duran Duran –
Magic Bus
Every day I get in the queue
Too much magic bus
Get on the bus that takes me to you
Too much magic bus
I'm so nervous I just sit and smile
Too much magic bus
House is just another mile
Too much magic bus<
Thank you driver for getting me here
Too much magic bus
There'll be an inspector, have no fear
Too much magic bus
I don't wan't to cause no fuss
Too much magic bus
But, can I buy your magic bus
Too much magic bus
I don't care how much I pay
Too much magic bus
I wanna drive my and baby each day
Too much magic bus
I drive to my baby every way
Too much magic bus
Each time I take her a different way
Too much magic bus
Thruppence and sixpence every day
Just to drive to my baby
Thruppence and sixpence each day
Every day Every way Any day
Magic bus Wo - oah
Magic bus Yeah Yeah
Magic bus I'm on the magic bus - Magic bus I'm on the magic bus
Magic bus I'm on the magic bus - Magic bus I'm on the magic bus
Magic bus oh oh
Now I got my magic bus
Too much magic bus
I drive my baby every way
Too much magic bus
Each time I go a different way
Too much magic bus
Got a magic bus magic bus - Got a magic bus magic bus
I wanna magic bus magic bus - with my magic bus magic bus
Every day you'll see the dust
Too much magic bus
Cos' I dive my baby in the magic bus
Too much magic bus
Magic Bus wo-ah wo-ah Magic bus Yeah
Magic Bus wo-ah wo-ah Magic bus Yeah
Duran Duran –
Matter Of Fact
On to the crossroads let's stay awhile
Watch the sunrise just one last time
They'll set forever I couldn't bare the meaning
I know we can't stay together still we can't say good-bye, yeah
It's just a matter of fact that you only see me smiling
If I don't feel it inside it's not for want of trying
Now we saw eye to eye don't want you to see me crying
It's just a matter of fact
I'm looking at your picture at my point of view
When I look closer it doesn't look like you
As if the movie's over and I don't understand it
still don't know each other maybe we never wanted to, yeah
It's just a matter of fact that you only see me smiling
If I don't feel it inside it's not for want of trying
Now we saw eye to eye don't want you to see me crying
It's just a matter of fact
Turn around now that the night is gone look away into the haze
Changes every reason now it's gone
It's just a matter of fact that you only see me smiling
If I don't feel it inside it's not for want of trying
Now we saw eye to eye don't want you to see me crying
It's just a matter of fact, it's just a matter of fact, it's just a matter of fact
Duran Duran –
Money On Your Side
hey child I love to hear your voice
it’s time to pull away your toys
too shy you let it the way she comes
but that is always uncontrolled
how long – your love is on the ride
how long – that money’s on your side
this time is what you’re waiting for
but that’s all you’re gonna score
why fools can press you through the line
see what there’s all you get from mine
how long – your love is on the ride
how long – that money’s on your side
how long – your love is on the ride
how long – that money’s on your side
got to go to the other side
got to live the other life
got to go to the other side
got to live the other life
tears come run a wall in time
kill time is all I can with you
too much a problem here you see
but that well I don’t wanna take
how long – your love is on the ride
how long – that money’s on your side
how long – your love is on the ride
how long – that love is on the slide
got to go to the other side
got to live the other life
got to go to the other side
got to live the other life
(repeat 3x)
how long – your love is on the ride
how long – that money’s on your side
how long – your love is on the ride
how long – that love is on the slide
Duran Duran –
My Family
walk me over
and then wind me in
and I feel you come to it over flowed
down this wire
but you’re feeling cold
but you’re very empty and through this storm
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
sorry’s out
then wipe me out
and decense cries every time he shout’s
keep yourself
what you did not know
then you kick it hard and you kick it low
watching now
so you’ll understand
if you want to play it the very game
got me home
you might as well stay
there’s a whole lot of trouble if it’s heading this way
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
family family
family family
family family
family family
I want you
hold your fire baby
got yourself
be myself
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
didn’t anybody tell you about my family
Duran Duran – Paper Gods (2015 – Warner Bros. Records)
Written by: J. Taylor, Le Bon, R. Taylor, Rhodes
Produced by Duran Duran
On Evil Beach
A drop of blood on evil beach
And soon the sharks swim to the pool
She makes a splash red face on him
In front of the entire school
Here lies the misadventure
Feel the same as you yourself
Creatures eyes in full dimensions
Give it all that we got left
We light a spark on evil beach
And soon the sharks swim to the pool
She makes a splash red face on him
In front of the entire school
Here lies the misadventure
Feel the same as you yourself
Creatures eyes in full dimensions
Give it all that we got left
Duran Duran –
P. L. You
Well there's no surprise
One look into those eyes
Having sex every Saturday
In the afternoon, with the TV on
It's all you know
It really makes you wanna throw
It could be time for a holiday
On the S. O. F. or a Spanish isle
Too much comes too soon
Money doesn't buy you anything good
No love can be alone
Just lay back and give it to the bastards!
Nothing ever really matters
Who cares about you anyway?
Nothing ever really matters
Who cares who lives, who dies?
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Not me
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Or you
Oh you claim distressed
When you are so casually blessed
With a look in the alleyway
Consume a tuna fish in an old tin can
Too much, you come too soon
Money doesn't buy you anything good
No love can be alone
Just lay back and give it to the bastards!
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Who cares about you anyway?
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Who cares who lives, who dies?
Welcome back my ...
Welcome back ,oh end of the life
Understand me here and now ....
Got to get away
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU), (P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU)
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU), (P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU)
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Who cares about you anyway?
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P,L,YOU, P,L,YOU) Who cares who loves, who stays
In the end, Of this song
Not me
I'm gone....
Duran Duran –
Plastic Girl
Hey! Hey!
Plastic Girl
Seams on a magazine
Plastic Girl
She's logging on a TV screen
Cos I know where you're going
Cos I know where you've been
Plastic Girl is coming ---- is to be real
Hey!
Plastic Girl
Seams on a magazine
Plastic Girl
She's logging on a TV screen
Cos I know where you're going
Cos I know where you've been
Plastic Girl is coming ------is to be real
Hey!
"Bye bye Bob is was nice to have known you .........after 4 here we go"
Plastic Girl I .......
"You can always rely on a lead guitarist to play lead guitar when you want to sing a vocal"
Hey!
Here's to plastic genius,
Genius of the magazine
Because you know where you're coming from
And we know where you've been
.........
Just...
Just...
Just...
Hey!
Just Just
Just Just
Just Just
Just
Duran Duran – Astronaut Demo (2004)
Pretty Ones
Pony up, girl
Show and tell,
Go Chanel on crocodile.
Hipster low slung lazy feet
Hit the street latino style.
Going down to the disco
Where she's gonna star in some fiasco
Anywhere the party's on
Break of day
San Tropez to Fresno,
She's the type.
And another thing
(You pretty ones)
We love the way you are.
We'll do anything
(You pretty ones)
Older than n'est paz.
All the pretty ones
Love the way you are
You pretty ones
Here she comes
Off the rail,
Dna laced with nicotine
Shame the sun, walking proud
Talking loud for all you glamour queens
We're going down to the disco,
And we're gonna grind out a floor show.
Every days a change.
Round the world, daddy's girl wherever she may be.
And another thing
(You pretty ones)
We love the way you are.
We'll do anything
(You pretty ones)
Older than n'est paz.
All the pretty ones
Love the way you are
(You pretty ones)
La la la la la
Duran Duran – Thank You Bonustrack (1995)
Written By: David Bowie – Original Performed By. David Bowie
Rebel Rebel
Got your mother in a whirl
Got your mother in a whirl 'cause
She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl
Hey, babe, your hairs alright
Hey, babe, lets go out tonight
You like me, and I like it all
We like dancing, and we look divine
You love bands when they play it hard
You want more, and you want it first
Put you down, say I'm wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on
Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel Rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so!
Doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo
(1st verse) (chorus)
Don't ya?
Ow
Doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo
Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel Rebel, how could they know?
I love you so much!
You've torn your dress, your face is a mess
You can't get enough, but enough ain't the test
You've got transmission and a live wire
Got your cue lines and a handful of ludes
You wanna be there when they count up the dues
And I love your dress
You're a juvenile success
Because your face is a mess
So how could they know?
I said, how could they know?
To what you wanna know
Calamitys child, chi-chile, chi-chile
Where'd you wanna go?
Can I do for you? Looks like you've been there too
'Cause you've torn your dress
And your face is a mess
Ooo, ooo, your face is a mess
Ooo, ooo, so how could they know?
How could they know? Ha
Ha-ha
Duran Duran – Astronaut Demo (2004)
Salt In The Rainbow
Something to remember
in some far off time
when you get that lonely shine in your eye.
Dreams and lovers,
ever wonder why
When everything starts breaking down
they're reaching for the sky.
You are forever
all I understand.
I hold forever
here within my hands.
Picking through the pieces
and what do you have at all?
Just the danger of relying on those who'd let you fall.
So you try,
try much harder
until the truth is drawn (gone?).
The very thing you've been searching for
has been yours all along.
We are forever
all we understand.
This is forever
here within our hands.
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger (1984 – B-Side Union Of The Snake)
Secret October
Wise on a birthday party
in a world
full of surprising fireworks
and sudden silence
Lies on a stranger's bed
the new day breaks
like a speeding train
on an old friend
ever expected,
but never knocking
Holding your own
in a battered car
All night parties
cocktail bars
and smile
when the butterfly escapes
the killing jar
Chorus:
Sure eyes awake
before the dancing is over
Wise or naked in
Secret Oktober
Freefall
on a windy morning shore--
nothing but a fading track
of footsteps, to prove
that you'd ever been there
Spoken
on a cotton cloud
like the sound of gunshot
taken by the wind
and lost in distant thunder
Racing
on a shining plane
Tomorrow won't be content
to watch as the lightning
plays along the wires,
and you'll wonder...
(chorus x2)
Duran Duran – Seven And The Ragged Tiger Bonustrack (1984)
Seven And The Ragged Tiger
You told me once a second chance was not worth waiting for
A million chances later, you don't know how right you were
Don't mean you don't dream cause the beating on the door
The Russian high who needs to die begins to realise
That all those days in mischief have your soul in Paradise
I don't know that those time that you were foolish and unwise
and I've seen all reason hit the floor
I don't need no reservations
but I can do things that I've never done before
Playing with a fire ball you can't touch
But you can soar with Seven and the Ragged Tiger (2X)
Like the morning wild warning
Fires are alive, don't have a choice
The Danger Boys are hoping for a fight It seems
I can't bleed i don't dance anymore
All armed with superstition 'til the birds have flocked our way
Somebody ought to tell them we don't care what people say
Not afraid don't believe In those stories anymore
They just hang their victims to the wall
At least tell me something
It seems that their vision has something within their law
Brother can you feel the heart inside
You're running for your life
You're running Seven and the Ragged Tiger (4X)
All happy like a rainy day is everything to gain
Just the smell of independence he defends his life again
Don't mean I don't dream in no music anymore
Cause I've heard those reasons die before
Oh please tell me something
It seems their vision has something within
Brother can you feel the heart inside
You're running for your life
You better Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Duran Duran – Astronaut (2004 – B-Side What Happens Tomorrow)
Silent Icy River
Following the love you receive
Holding on to what you believe
Following the love you receive
Holding on to what you believe
Following the love you receive
Holding on to what you believe
Following the love you receive
Holding on to what you believe
Time is a ribbon
A silent, icy river froze us all
Running deep
Deep and fast enough to get lost down in the flow
Thrashing around
Tiny lives mean everything
Following the love you receive
Holding on to what you believe
Following the love you receive
Holding on to what you believe
Duran Duran – Medazzaland (1997 – B-Side Out Of My Mind)
Sinner Or Saint
Stand bold, for the ride,
Right now, you know that is the place to be
To watch humankind, stumble into another century
Take no prisoners,
Their sure at giving you the run-around
Violance, on your mind,
Cus your attention is the battleground
What are you?
A sinner or saint
You gotta be
A sinner or saint
Ice cool walawyers,
Straight up and guerentee your gonna get
All that you deserve,
Sit down, blockin your way, seen nothin yet
(chorus)
What are you?
That is your fate
You gotta be
A sinner or saint
Some people love too fast
Some people live too long
And so I've got to ask
Do you know right from wrong?
Disa-ssembler, will you ever, really be a saint...
Still on for the ride,
Who cares if you loose or win
They can bleed you dry,
When you're, a pumping the adrenelin
(chorus)
What are you?
It's never too late
You gotta be
A sinner or saint..
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) Bonustrack (1993)
Stop Dead
Stop!
Stop!
Stop dead,
Stop stop stop stop stop stop
I pulled up at a west end junction (seeker of attention)
A full body kit and bass bins pumping (size the competition)
Come on red light, get into green,
I hit the brake, I must be dreaming..
I'm stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Got to fix on you.
Don't wanna lose you, from my sight
Where ya going to?
Gotta know now..
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Got to fix on you.
Don't wanna lose, you from my sight
Where ya going to?
Oh-oh-oh
I've got my eyes on the action (killer reputation)
Beat crazed in full satisfaction (we're going one phase up)
Do what you do and do it to me,
Body in motion, now you see me
(chorus)
Gotta know know.. Stop!
Come on now, Come on now
Come on now, Come on now
Wise up to remain young victim (come on, waves of attraction)
A full scale attack on the system (another one fires up)
Do what you do and do it to me,
I'm into red line territory
And I'm..
(chorus)
Stop!, dead in my tracks again,
I'm stop dead in my tracks
Stop!, in my tracks (yeah)
I'm stop dead in my tracks
(oh-oh) Gotta know know..
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Duran Duran – Thank You (1995 – B-Side Perfect Day)
Written By: Neil Young – Original Performed By. Neil Young
The Needle And The Damage Done
2,3,4..
I caught you knocking on my celler door
I love you baby can I have some more
Oh, Oh, the damage done
I hit the city and I lost my pen
I watch the needle take another man
Gone, gone,the damage done
Oh, Oh, Oh
I sing this song because I love the man
I know some of you don't undertand
Miller, to keep from running out
I seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie is like the setting sun
Duran Duran – Big Thing (1988 – B-Side Do You Believe In Shame?)
This Is How A Road Gets Made
This is how a road gets made.
Somebody walked on a virgin (land).
Someone else saw their tracks
and followed them, leaving a path.
It seemed as though i were looking
down the hill when I first saw it,
but, as I waled on, I realized
I was going up.
Somebody whistled behind and
urning round, they seemed far below.
Then I came to where
there had been a fire and was shaded
from the sun by the trees.
Figure of eight. It's our year,
it always was.
Credentials:
Made of earth, drinks water,
breathes air, makes fire.
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Matthew Hager
This Lost Weekend
by the evening I can
smile at the memory
the taint of scandal on my skin, yeah
and it seems that I’ve been manic
so gravelly quite
the joker on a string
so I’m leaving all my trouble to history
but you know how I will pretend, oh
ah ha high high…
show no mercy to this clown please remind me
should I forget this lost weekend, oh oh
why ah ah…
lucky nothing
could have done without the sighing
(should I forget this lost weekend)
you can’t work the humbling
trying to hush it all up now
(should I forget this lost weekend)
don’t blow it all or nothing
don’t watch me now I’m blushing
(should I forget this lost weekend)
don’t bother me or nothing
I, I’m busy working
(should I forget this lost weekend)
I’m working on to something
I ah ah
(should I forget this lost weekend)
and your testing my all entire meds?
(should I forget this lost weekend)
should I forget this lost weekend
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) Bonustrack (1993)
Time For Temptation
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do
(good, good, good, good temptation)
Why you chasing a lost religion of guilty feelings
-that belong in yesterday?
Spy the preachers a politician, he carries the cross like a gun
- whip you into shape
Heres the rub, now, no secret hours locked in the backroom if you
- come together right
Check your vision and push it out there
- you make the question, define what its all about
(chorus)
(oh) Oh...
With chains or heaven across your shoulder,
A slave for promotion to the afterlife
The boss gets fat while you just get older, here comes a mission
- set to put you right
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do - oh
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do
(No damnation...)
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do - oh
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do - oh
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
(good, good, good, good temptation)
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do
(good, good, good, good temptation)
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
(good, good, good, good temptation)
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do
(good, good, good, good temptation)
Time for temptation
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now (2010 – Tapemodern)
Music: Duran Duran (Skin Divers (ASCAP))
Lyrics: Simon LeBon
Co-produced by Duran Duran & Matthew Hager
Too Close To The Sun
ahh-ya-ayja..
too close to the sun
tell-tale light in the eyes
slip into your pain
painkiller heels comatose
mighty ah high
times ah high
you're looking out for something - some escape from
the antique dark of nothing new - automatic sky
out where the cupids dare to climb - soon these pretty feathers burn
as you' ll discover when you fly
too close to the sun
too close to the sun
stay while you're by
back for a night not back for long
salon it's unfolding by the time we realise
ah high
still looking out for something - some escape from
the antique dark of nothing new - automatic sky
out where the cupids dare to climb - soon these pretty feathers burn
as you' ll discover when you fly too close to the sun
still looking out for something - some escape from
the antique dark of nothing new - automatic sky
out where the cupids dare to climb - soon these pretty feathers burn
as you' ll discover when you fly too close to the sun
too close to the sun
too close to the sun
too close to the sun
are you flying too close to the sun?
Duran Duran – Astronaut Demo (2004)
TV vs. Radio
Hey wait a minute - news: here we go again
so open to abuse so one night stand
It's just a milky breast oh gimme gimme yeah (woo-hoo)
We don't really care we're watching cartoons
We want that music (we won't stop)
bangin' on the radio (we love you)
and we want TV (stop)
what is gettin' on that video? (video)
We use it (we won't stop)
TV versus radio (we love you)
believe me (stop)
we need it more than ever now, you know (video)
I'll get down on your knees if that's what you love
a little striptease a little push and show
Do you scroll your prayers for daddy money, yeah (woo-hoo)
We don't really care we're watching cartoons
We want that music (we won't stop)
bangin' on the radio (we love you)
and we want TV (stop)
what is gettin' on that video? (video)
We use it (we won't stop)
TV versus radio (we love you)
believe me (stop)
we need it more than ever now, you know (video)
Duran Duran – Astronaut Japanese Bonus Track (2004)
Virus
I am the virus,
I am a siren in the rain.
I am a courier bring the
spiral into your brain.
Alter connections, encoding now,
intial sequence is loading down
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS
When I interface
Difference erase.
Nothing will remain.
Everything will change forever.
Viral subdivide
target and align
the message will survive
everything will change forever.
boohoo, haha
I am the virus
I lay a coil around your spine.
I bring the silence,
I am protection for your mind.
Alter connections, encoding now,
intital sequence is loading down
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS
When I interface
Difference erase.
Nothing will remain.
Everything will change forever.
Viral subdivide
target and align
the message will survive
everything will change forever.
boohoo, haha
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 – B-Side Serious)
Water Babies
Guess you know, where I wanna go
Got to see the water flow, try to understand
Got me trapped, playing with me like a cat
Scrape your fingers down my back, pin me to the ground
All along the water baby
Take me to your water baby
All along your water babe
(chorus)
I'll get by, can't you see I'm burning up
When you come and turn it up, higher every time
If I stay , Oh the end is near
Come and get me out of here, come and get me now
(chorus)
(chorus)
(Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohhh!)
Tell me is there any left?
I wanna drink it up
I'll drink it up.
Baby, if there's any left
I'll drink it up, drink it up, drink it up!
(chorus)
(chorus)
Thirsty for your water baby,
Spanning from your torture babe,
Take me to your water baby.
(chorus)
(Got me trapped)
Thirsty for your water baby,
Sliding on your torso baby,
Take me to your water baby.
(chorus)
Thirsty for your water baby,
Spanning from your torture babe,
Take me to your water babe.
Duran Duran – Notorius (1986 – B-Side Skin Trade)
We Need You
Time will see we're not searching for
A wild excuse
To put emotion on hold.
Too much has gone down,
We know what you're doing
But do you feel the same way.
You look sharp inside your pointed shoes
I have this picture
Hanging in my room
I refuse to take you down
Or shake you down
When we could bring you gently round
If that's what you choose
For a point of view
I think you'll find it's true
Words like sand just get blown away
But all the same we'd like to....say
We need you, we need you, we need you,
We need you, we need you, we need you,
we need you.
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990 - B-Side Serious)
Yo Bad Azizi
...happy birthday Mr. President, happy birthday to you....
nuclear war
nuclear war
yo bad azizi aza nuclear war
nuclear war
nuclear war
yo bad azizi aza nuclear war
nuclear war
nuclear war
yo bad azizi aza nuclear war
nuke
nuke
nuclear war
nuclear war
they say the lights are always bright
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi aza nuclear war
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi aza nuclear war
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi aza nuclear war
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi aza nuclear war
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi
yo bad azizi
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
Election day
Wild kind of look to the day,
opening eyes impale neon flickers
She moon she turning away,
the city's her slave but he's cheating his mistress
She's moody and grey,
she's mean and she's restless (so restless)
All over you as they say
rumours or rivals yell at the strike force
Hi guys, by the way,
are you aware you're being illegal
It's making your savior behaviour look evil
'scuse my timing but say,
how d'you fit in with this flim flam and judy
Maximum big suprise
your smile is something new
I pull my shirt off and pray,
we're sacred and bound to suffer the heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
we're coming up on re-election day
Don't even try to induce,
In all my restrain there's no hesitation
All the signs on the loose
'cause sanity's rare this end of the hard day
(yeh) Shadows are crawling out of the subway
Any way that you choose
in every direction just to confuse me
Maximum big suprise
she knows something new
I pull my shirt off and pray,
I'm saving myself to suffer the heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray,
we're coming up on re-election day
By roads and backways a lover's chance down wind
Cut open murmurs and sounds becalm hands on skin
Carry further oh...entangled strands all sing
Saving some time to slip away we could dance oh..
Shouldn't be asking wild and scheming
Could be my election day
Stretching my luck down the way
To your invitation stretching my body
Use your intuitive play
cause maybe we have more play time than money
Maximum big suprise
you know something new
I pull my shirt off and pray,
we're sacred and bound to suffer this heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
we're coming up on re-election day
Re-election day
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
Keep Me In The Dark
hen the evening's sunlight fingers
stretch across the floor
cover up your eyes with feathers
softly close the door
Take me in your heavy lips
take me where the shadows slide
and with your blindfold secrets
tie me fast and loose
the lacy intrigue of this weekend
should not be abused
You could take me where you want
could you take me all the time
CHORUS
Away yeah...wait a little longer
don't go too far
I wouldn't like
I wouldn't like you keeping me in the dark
Tender is the truce I'm tasting
but watching you dictates
heady nights of sleepless wasting
a face I can't escape
We could wave the world goodbye
to all of the boys cheerio
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Help me now cause I'm slipping deeper
tell me what to say
when without words you draw me closer
each time you turn away
Something inside you cries
but is it something I'll never find
(Chorus)
Away yeah...wait a little longer before we go to far
I wouldn't like
I wouldn't like to think you were keeping me in the dark
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
Goodbye Is Forever
Sometimes you have no choice
sometimes you got no voice to say
say if you will the words
say if your world is so grey
we can decide it
without no tears
no tragedy
Sure I wouldn't break and cry, if...
you walk away
believe me
Hey, goodbye
goodbye is--forever
Hey, forever
goodbye is--forever
and ever...
Sometimes it makes no sense,
this side of cruel coincidence
caught up in our own barbed wire
to set us free
belive this--
Hey, goodbye
goodbye is--forever
Hey, forever
goodbye is--forever
and ever...
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
The Flame
I could feel the breeze blowing change
Blowing through my doorway
Warm and restless just as you walked by
Inside of smoky halls a circle drawn
And voices call
To raise some magic wind in my world
Strange coincidence each time you look my way
This sinking feeling scares me
Know my weakness call it deja-vu
Never puy my trust in fate
suprises do arrive so late
Why should I be suprised by you
Straight to the heart
straight for this precious shining
How do you dare step into my flame
One from the heart, one for this precious shining
How can you steal my flame
Sometimes cards are drawn and the tables turn
The waiting game is over
Take this dealers hand and steal away the dawn
Don't give me any chance to wander back from this
innocence
Don't give me any chances at all
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
Missing
And as I wander down to where you lay
the blood rushed up to meet the roses in your hair
I thought I saw you smile
but now I don't see you anywhere
Whispering your love song in my ear
how can you touch me
when you're not really here?
Stumbling out I made my way towards the open door
climbing fast the sun poured streaming
laughter down into your empty gaze
where can I find out
now I want to join in your game
I hear you calling
I hear you ... calling calling calling calling
Whispering your love song in my ear
how can you touch me?
how do you really dare?
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
The Promise
Whose tears on a gaping voice
Whose stretching arms match the hunger of mine
These lips will they never join
But always draw me closer and further entwined
With a promise dealer understand all
freedoms fade away
To a point of view where many different
pathways meet
And we're standing on this precipice with
nothing much to gain
But the deep blue screams of falling dreams
with our next move
Heaven hide your eyes
Heaven's eyes will never dry
The shades of a thousand steel
Come flashing by my face in the fury of war
In desolation and abandoned fields
The hungry make their stand when they'll stand for
no more
Hear the passion in their voices
See the heaven in their eyes
Their hopes and schemes are waiting dreams of
less than paradise
And sometimes we make promises we never mean to keep
For blackmail is the only deal a promise dealer sees
Heaven hide your eyes
Heaven's eyes will never dry
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
El Diablo
Enter newborn players and gather
Weigh their innocence
Only the brightest shine
but not forever
Many lights die, many tears rain
When those tears run dry
On a mountain madness day
You were just in time
for a foolish deal for love I sold
I can't stand another howling day
inside this empty skin
While the beacons burn I'll say
await return from so far away
CHORUS
One life with the devil do I play
for so long el diablo is to blame
Oh el diablo, el diablo, won't you sell me back my soul?
Oh el diablo, el diablo, won't you sell me back my soul?
The wedding is on the wind, does she blow my way?
She can dance and she can sing
she will tear your heart away
While the promise burns I'll stay
and will you return from so far away?
CHORUS (x2)
One life but the devil is in my way...
Arcadia – So Red The Rose (1985 - Gloucester Place Music Ltd.)
Lady Ice
Lady Ice slips into her soul
Lady Ice leaves a house so cold
Lady Ice did you know that the world was lonely too?
Drifting snows searching plains and high
Turning stones as she looks for the heart
somebody stole
She knows the violation,
in lovers' arms without occassion
But who knows where to find a true heart for Lady Ice
Mezmerized in the candle flame
Compromised by the cruel bands of steel
around her breasts
She knows the desolation
of lovers' arms their isolation
but who knows where to find the true heart for Lady Ice
Lady's eyes slip away to the part she plays in school
She knows of roles and hide-aways,
suppose she knows but turns away
She knows where to find a true heart for Lady Ice...
Lady Ice, step outside your soul.
Lady Ice, do you know that the world is frightened too?
Arcadia – So Red The Rose Bonustrack (1985)
Say the Word
Theres a skill, its nothing we could learn at school
With a will to survive beneath this rule
Money thrives as corruptions president
Waste the life of the yong and innocent
But after all and the resistant can be disobeyed
So, when we call, please dont think twice or be afraid
Hey, mister, say something
Say the word - if your eyes are open
Say the word - before this love is broken
(Say the word)
The lights are down, but you dont sleep so tight
The words around that we play for keeps tonight
As we all know even the best made plans go wrong sometimes
But if it blows well be the ones they victimize
Hey, mister, say something
(chorus) (chorus) (chorus) (chorus) (chorus)
To put this right
(Ha!)
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Dark Circles
You're moving in dark circles
Dark circles show me your eyes
It's black magic with no perfume
You're all tv & white lies
Move move move move
No rainbow all snow storm
A trans lunar jezebel
Your Stockhausen with pictures
Ulysses in ugly shoes
Move move move move
Dark circles
Black magic
Dark circles
And white lie
Black magic
Dark circles
Black magic
And white lies
Dark circles
Black magic
Dark circles
No perfume
Black magic
Dark circles
Black magic
And white lies
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Big Store
I'm going out tonight
Leaving god alone
Every rivers running dry
I'm going out tonight
We drink small sour drinks
& smoke long cigarettes
I'm going out tonight
Leaving god alone
In a big store.
I ain't no fun time Barbie
I ain't no fun time Mandy
I ain't no fun time Charlie
I'm no fun at all
I like going shopping
Shopping in the big store
Shopping in the large store
Or any store that's big
Is a big store
I'm going out tonight
Leaving god alone
Every rivers running dry
I'm going out tonight
We drink small sour drinks
& smoke long cigarettes
I'm going out tonight
Leaving god alone
In a big store.
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Come Alive
I'm a liar and I lie to you
I'm a liar to myself too
I'm lying in my bed
I'm lying in my head
It's the last thing that you said
I'm a liar
But you only know what's true
You know I'm guilty till I'm blue
Come along for the ride
There's nowhere left to hide
A.L.I.V.E Come alive for me
A.L.I.A.R. I'll steal you a car.
A.L.I.V.E Come alive for me
A.L.I.A.R. I'll steal you.
I'm alive I'm alive to you
I'm alive to myself to too
I'm alive in my bed
I'm alive in my head
It was the first thing that you said
I'm alive
But you only know what's true
You know I'm guilty till I'm blue
Come along for the ride
There's nowhere left to hide
A.L.I.V.E Come alive for me
A.L.I.A.R. I'll steal you a car.
A.L.I.V.E Come alive for me
A.L.I.A.R. I'll steal you.
A.L.I.V.E Come alive for me
A.L.I.A.R. I'll steal you a car.
A.L.I.V.E Come alive for me
A.L.I.A.R. I'll steal you.
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Signals In Smoke
Signals in smoke fade away
The signs on the screen tell me
You won't stay
What we can't see
Will never change
& the bells of your costume
Have rung there last change
We had so much & nothing to loose
Signals in smoke tell me
We all loose
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Lost Decade
When I came back from the east
I found you in uniform
Standing to attention tall
With no glimpse of the human heart
I needed you in my arms
But I was all you scorned
& I fell hard for you
As I fell far for you.
Take me now; show me you love me,
Take me now; show me what you take me for
In this lost decade
Could you love me like you did before?
Telephoning city to city
Notified of second thoughts
Of how you came to rust in me
When all around you were betrayed
So now your suitcase stands by the doorway
You turn the lights off in the hallway
Call a taxi say good-bye
& one fine morning
Take me now; show me you love me,
Take me now; show me what you take me for
In this lost decade
Could you love me like you did before?
(We all make mistakes you said
You were lucky to escape I said
Tomorrow we will run much faster
& one fine morning.)
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Aztec Moon
I hear in the Aztec night birds flying overhead
Flying far away & leaving me alone
Alone in the Aztec night
Disowned in the Aztec night.
My destination is unclear
Each day I ride around
I read magazines & books
However, never buy I thing
From the big store Aztec moon
I will climb every mountain
Every one before me placed
& I will climb up to the stars
For to the stars I'm not disgraced
Aztec moon
I'm going to catch a train
To take me far away
Far away where I will live alone
But never be alone Aztec moon
I will climb every mountain
Every one before me placed
& I will climb up to the stars
For to the stars I'm not disgraced
Aztec moon.
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
World Exclusive
I heard a thousand words
Saw a million faces
I travelled everywhere
Stayed in several places
Like a strange and empty land
Where I became forsaken
Completely out of hand
& everything was taken.
Hear my world exclusive
I'm the greatest man alive
Aint got no excuses
It's easy to forget
I gave myself to you
We took what we were given
And that left us wasted
It wasn't far from grace
Where we found how life tasted
We weren't being rude
Just trying to be offensive
Obscurity vacation
Not somewhere we could live
Hear my world exclusive
I'm the greatest man alive
Aint got no excuses
It's easy to forget
I gave myself to you
I gave myself to you
I want my money back.
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Hawks Don’t Share
Dark eyes you've got new clothes
Please stay with me I love you
You are a dream believe me
We cut our hair
We go to bed
Sleep scented head
Now we know our promises were true
& we know a burden has been shared
But Hawks don't share they gather in
Hawks don't share
Hawks don't share they gather in
Hawks don't share
Hawks don't share
No history to forget
Not fame & fortune to regret
We tried so hard to find the truth
Don't leave me here
Then I see your hands outstretched to me
& I know the role I played was false
But Hawks don't share they gather in
Hawks don't share
Hawks don't share they gather in
Hawks don't share
Hawks don't share they gather in
Hawks don't share
Hawks don't share
Dark eyes you've got new clothes x4
Clothes
Clothes.
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Newhaven Dieppe
Everyone else has gone
But we remain a little longer
I know that i'm losing you
& losing will never do
do what you did for me
our transparent history
soon will fall apart
were back at the start
& we can't help it
You know why you're running
Newhaven - Dieppe
You know that I'll always be on your step
But do you know why you're lonely tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Everyone else has gone
But we remain a little longer
Between the paperbacks
sleep the insomniacs
on sheets of black again
With only yourself to blame
For loss of self control
& how youre looking old
& no wonder
You know why you're running
Newhaven - Dieppe
You know that I'll always be on your step
But do you know why you're lonely tonight
Tonight
Tonight
The Devils – Dark Circles (2002)
Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas
Full of hope at Barbarellas
We named our first group after Barbarellas
Got to play on stage at Barbarellas
Car park now instead of Barbarellas
I loved you at Barbarellas
Felt we belonged at Barbarellas
That was ours at Barbarellas
Do you want to go to Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas
I met you at Barbarellas
& the rest of my life at Barbarellas
We all shut down with Barbarellas
I'll see you down at Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas.
Barbarellas Barbarellas
Barbarellas Barbarellas
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - Bungalow Music N. V. Administered by Ackee Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/Tritec Music, Ltd.)
Some Like It Hot
We want to multiply, are you gonna do it?
I know you qualify, are you gonna do it?
Don't be so circumscribe, are you gonna do it?
Just get yourself untied, are you gonna do it?
Feel the heat, pushing you to decide
Feel the heat, burning you up, ready or not
(chorus)
Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on
Some feel the heat and decide that they can't go on
Some like it hot, but you can't tell how hot 'til you try
Some like it hot, so lets turn up the heat 'til we fry
The girl is at your side, are you gonna do it?
She wants to be your bride, are you gonna do it?
She wants to multiply, are you gonna do it?
I know you won't be satisfied, until you do it!
Feel the heat, pushing you to decide
Feel the heat, burning you up, ready or not
(chorus)
Feel the heat, pushing you to decide
Feel the heat, burning you up, ready or not
(chorus)
Some like it hot.. some like it hot
Some like it hot.. some like it hot
Some like it hot... some like it hot
Some like it hot... some like it hot!
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - Bungalow Music N. V. Administered by Ackee Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/Tritec Music, Ltd)
Murderess
She says your money's safe
You needn't keep your head down
Now who's kidding who?
Her picture's all over town
I always knew that she was on the run
I read the paper are it said so
I know you like them to be troublesome
Take it to the maximun
She's a murderess, murderer
She likes to go for the jugular
Murderess, murderer
That woman of yours is a killer
I heard his breath escape
She left the gun on the floor
He left his key with me
I hadn't been there before
I always knew that she was on the run
I read the paper are it said so
I know you like them to be troublesome
Take it to the maximun
(chorus)
She says she's innocent
She says she's your 'baby face'
Ah who's kidding who?
Your things are in a suitcase
I always knew that she was on the run
I read the paper are it said so
I know you like them to be troublesome
Take it to the maximun
(chorus)
(chorus)
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - Bungalow Music N. V. Administered by Ackee Music, Inc./Bernard Edwards Productions, Inc. Administered by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP))
Lonely Tonight
Lonely tonight, lonely tonight, lonely tonight, lonely tonight
Lonely tonight, lonely tonight, lonely tonight, lonely tonight
We're enchanted, struck by lightning
What can we do when the feeling's so exciting?
We just ran into each other
Now we can't refuse, 'cos the night is so inviting
You sure took me by surprise, I ain't fooling
Everything was synchronized in a movement
When I met you, I knew there was a reason
Every moment that we've shared guarantees it
We.. We won't be lonely tonight
Must be miles ago since we first said "hello"
We. We won't let us out of our sights
Passion has to grow, darling because we know
Riding our tide, luck is with us
No risk to take, when we've got so much to give us
Fate's on our sidem it's our moment
We're getting warm, 'cos we give each other shivers
Yeah, let's keep the fire alight
Nothing can go wrong, we're together for now on
Oh, all the love we excite
Loneliness has gone, did it take us so long
Can't remember life without your music
Oh, there never was a doubt, don't we prove it?
You sure took me by surprise, I ain't fooling
Everything is synchronized in a movement
We're enchanted, stuck by lightning
What can we do when the feeling's so exciting?
We just ran into each other
Now we can't refuse, 'cos the night is so inviting
We won't be lonely tonight
Must be miles ago since we first said "hello"
We won't let us out of our sights
Passion has to grow, darling because we know
Yeah, let's keep the fire alight
Nothing can go wrong, we're together for now on
Oh, all the love we excite
Loneliness has gone, did it take us so long..
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - Bungalow Music N. V. Administered by Ackee Music, Inc./Tritec Music, Ltd./Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. Administered by Virgin Music for the U.S.A. and Canada (ASCAP))
Communication
Airmail, cassettes.. postcards, telex
Drop me a line, be my grapevine
I'm always trying to reach you, can't get through
Our communication depends on me and you
Got to stay in touch even though we're on the move
Keep your lines open, say, what's new
Exchange the facts, keep in contact
I keep on trying to call you but I can't get through
Our communication must get through
Communication.. don't hang up
Communication.. keep in touch
Communication.. don't put me on hold
Situation.. soul to soul
Send word, stay tuned, call me real soon
Every time I phone you, you're not home
We've got to stay in touch on the telephone
I keep on trying to reach you
But I can't get through
Our communication must get through
Communication.. baby, talk to me
Communication.. information, please
Communication.. don't put me on hold
Situation.. soul to soul
Communication.. don't hang up
Communication.. keep in touch
Communication.. don't put me on hold
Situation.. soul to soul
Communication.. baby, talk to me
Communication.. information, please
Communication.. don't put me on hold
Situation.. soul to soul
Communication.. baby, don't hang up
Communication.. keep in touch
Communication.. don't put me on hold
Situation.. soul to soul
Communication.. baby, talk to me
Communication.. information, please
Communication.. don't put me on hold
Situation.. soul to soul
Communication.. Ahh, don't hang up....
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - 1971 Westminster Music, Ltd., London TRO-ESSEX Music International, Inc., N.Y., Controls All Publication Rights For The USA and Canada)
Written By: M. Bolan
Get It On (Bang A Gong)
Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet oh yeah
Well you're slim and you're weak
You got the teeth
Of the hydra upon you
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're built like a truck
Oh my
You're an untamed youth
That's the truth
With your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
Well you're windy and wild
You got the blues
I'm in your shoes and your stockings
You're windy and wild
Oh yeah
You're built like a car
You got a hubcap
Diamond star halo
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
Get it on - Bang a gong - Get it on
Get it on - Bang a gong
Get it on - Bang a gong
Get it on
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - Bungalow Music N. V. Administered by Ackee Music, Inc. (ASCAP))
Go To Zero
Hey, hey on your marks, get set go to zero
Present and correct go to zero
North, South, East and West go to zero
Nothing is best go to zero
I do this and I do that, and when it's cold, I wear a hat,
It's mostly cold
It pays to advertise thay say, I'll keep my hat on anyway
Or so I'm told
When you're on patrol go to zero
By remote control go to zero
Forward, pause, return go to zero
All roads lead astern go to zero
(chorus)
When you miss your cue go to zero
Start the dance, anew go to zero
Black, red, white and blue go to zero
When you lose the one go to zero
Rewind can be fun go to zero
Nudge it left and right go to zero
Don't wait 'til tonight go to zero
Go to Zero!
(chorus)
(Go to Zero)
Everywhere you go go to zero
Nough is apropos go to zero
North, South, East and West go to zero
Nothing is Best go to zero
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - 1976 Bovina Music, Inc. Administered by April Music, Inc.)
Written By: O. Isley, R. Isley, R. Isley, M. Isley, E. Isley, C. Jasper
Harvest For The World
All babies together
Ev'ry one a seed
Half of us are satisfied
The other half of us in need
Love's bountiful in us
Tarnished by our greed
Oh, when will there be a harvest.. for the world?
(Harvest for the world)
A nations planted
So concerned with gain
As the seasons come and go, we won't wait in vain
Far too many, feelin' the strain
(chorus)
(A harvest.. A harvest)
(A harvest.. A harvest)
(A harvest.. A harvest)
(A harvest.. A harvest)
(A harvest for the world)
Dress me up for battle
When all I want is peace
Those of us who pay the price
Come home with the least
And nation after nation, tuning into beasts
(chorus)
When will there be.. a harvest
When will there be.. a harvest
When will there be.. a harvest
When will there be.. a harvest
When will there be.. a harvest
When will there be.. a harvest
When will there be.. a harvest..
The Power Station – The Power Station CD (1985 - Bungalow Music N. V. Administered by Ackee Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/Tritec Music, Ltd)
Still In Your Heart
The night you met, it was a magic start
All the connections were made in your heart
Following you everywhere, you could feel her eyes -
A glimpse of somebody, takes you by surprise
Another place and day, now where's she gone?
You can't forget her face, or things you left undone
Re-run memories from the start -
The time has flown
All the time you've been appart
And she's still in your heart
Try as you might the recollections stay
Like a photographic memory of each day
You can feel her by your side in an empty room -
And words like 'forever', you spoke too soon
Another place and day, now where's she gone?
You can't forget her face, or things you wish you'd done
Re-run memories from the start -
The time has flown
Where's end ending and the start?
Is she still in your heart?
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Notoriety
You say I never pay attention
What makes you think I look the other way?
You let me be the judge
I don't believe what they say
Your name came up in conversation yesterday
My best bet was to feign indifference
You've got an awful reputation by the way
The table made a joke at your expense
Didn't believe a word
I don't believe what they say
It smacked of jealousy
I know it's only notoriety
My reputation might precede me baby
Forget the rumours and the hearsay
You think I never pay attention to you
I guess you think I look the other way
I don't care what you've heard
Why d'you believe what they say?
I'll come to your defense
You know it's only notoriety
To hell with our outrageous fortune baby
We've got a sea of troubles in our sights
We don't need recklessness or caution
To catch the gossip-mongers dead to rights
Let them all speculate
They ain't got a clue anyway
Just use your common sense
You know it's only notoriety
Hear no evil and speak no evil
See no evil lest it come your way
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Scared
You never said you'd love me like you do
You said you'd never hurt me like you do
You can't seem to decide
If you're in love with me
Scared
You say you're losing your identity
You say you've sacrificed your freedom to me
You won't commit to me
'Til I submit to you
Scared
You're not the only one who feels confused
Sooner or later you will have to choose
I can't make up my mind
Where I will draw the line
Scared
She loves you - she loves you not
She's only scared
Forget me - forget me not
You're only scared
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
She Can Rock It
She got goose-egg power-chords
And a nasty 2 & 4, she can rock it
She can tap in 32
She can show you her tattoo - she can rock it
What good's a rock without a roll?
It's a sorry lookin' donut if it doesn't have a hole
She gets so hot, she's infra-red
She can show you a position that's prohibited
She's got kisses like cocaine
She's got access to a plane - she can rock it
Check out her anatomy
In her trashy lingerie - she can rock it
She's got an axe, she's got a rig
You know she'll never miss a beat-
And she ain't never missed a gig
She'll pin you down, she'll knock you out
She can wrestle with your ego
'Til your pride goes out
She can rock it
She's a shake that comes with fries
Never listens to your lies - she can rock it
She can set your pants on fire
She can strip you to the wire - she can rock it
She can nail you to a frame
Say that you're the one to blame - she can rock it
She can tell you what to wear
She can strip your conscience bare -
She can rock it
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Written By: M. Gaye, E. Townsend
Let’s Get It On
I've been really tryin , baby
Tryin to hold back these feelings for so long
And if you feel, like I feel baby
Come on, oh come on,
Let's get it on
Lets get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on
We're all sensitive people
With so much love to give, understand me sugar
Since we got to be
Lets say, I love you
There's nothin wrong with me
Lovin you---
And givin yourself to me can never be wrong
If the love is true
Don't you know how sweet and wonderful, life can be
I'm askin you baby, to get it on with me
I aint gonna worry, I aint gonna push
So come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Stop beatin round the bush....
Let's get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Life Forces
You build a dream in the clouds floating over you
The wind just blows it away
So many sins from the past catching up with you
You can't avoid judgement day
Anima/Animus/Pneuma/Prana/Atman/Jivatman/Jiva
Life forces act on you, life forces your hand
So many omens that tell of your future
You don't know what they convey
Life forces you to choose, life forces at play
Life forces - nature's tools, life forces you to obey
You think you'll feel love by trying to find it
But love comes looking for you
That power which erring men call only chance
You feel it working on you - talkin' 'bout
Anima/Animus/Pneuma/Prana/Atman/Jivatman/Jiva
Life forces rule the world, life forces at work
Life forces you instinctively, life forces you on
Life forces act on you, life forces your hand
Life forces you to go on, life forces command
Just when you think you've a grip on your future
Destiny changes your plans - talkin' 'bout
Life forces act on you, life forces your hand
Life forces you to choose, life forces command
Life forces - nature's tools, life forces you to obey
Life forces rule the world, life forces your hand
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Fancy That
You see that girl over there -
With big sunglasses on?
She can't take her eyes offa you
She's up and down 'bout seven times to the john
She's about to turn around her baseball hat
Just fancy that
You see that girl over there -
With the predatory stare?
She's about to make her big gambit - watch it
She's got a dangerous air - don't watch her
You know she wants you to
Better turn around before she makes her play
Just fancy that
You see that girl over there -
With the high-heel sneakers on?
She's been looking at you side long for half an hour
If you ask me, you better call a taxi and get uptown
You don't wanna wake up with a fatal disease
Just fancy that
Better cool your jets 'fore you lose your cool
Better hedge your bets or you'll look like a fool
Don't get all wound up, you're too out of it
Better settle up before you lose your wits
You see that teenager with no inhibitions on?
She's about to come and test the strength -
Of your resolve and how
She's got an ugly friend for insurance in the crowd
It's a game, a tease, she'll only sneer
If you try a pass
Just fancy that
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Living In Fear
Living in fear, heartquakes
Don't lift a finger for fear you'll offend
You can't tell your conscience from an instinct -
Or a trend
Last year's neuroses are now all the rage
Your aberrations could be earning you a wage
Take 'em to the stage
Constant anxiety - panic is near - living in fear
Rampant paranoia - everyone's a victim
God's become a lawyer - everything's addicting -
Heartquakes
Living in fear, heartquakes
Get yourself sued for an incorrect thought, oh no
Hide your opinions or end up in court
I'll give you a figure - go ahead and sue
Got a hair trigger - got a short fuse -
Gimme and excuse
Constant anxiety - panic is near - living in fear
Legislated passion - prenuptial agreements
Ugliness as fashion - prophylactic demons
Your foundations shaking - prices keep inflating
Values all corrupted - coitus interruptus
Heartquakes
Living in fear, heartquakes
Living in fear, constant anxiety - panic is near
Hide from your conscience, you're living in fear
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Shut Up
Get 'em off me, get 'em off me
Get their hands and their legs from above me
When you want it and you need it
But you can't seem to quite understand it
Get 'em off me, get 'em off me
Take their legs and their elbows from around me
Schizophrenia don't mean that you're living -
In the world not a dream
I said shut up, you're not incurably ill
You got the motivation, you got the pill
Don't mess it up, I go down on my knees
Don't blow it big time babe, I'm begging you please
I said shut up
I said shut up
What you complaining about?
You got the tonic money, you got the truth
Don't mess it up
Let's stick together on this
We got everything and more, so baby -
Why should we quit?
I said shut up
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Dope
I can take you all right now
Kick the shit tomorrow too
I know what you make me say
I know what you make me do
Tired of being pushed around
By a chemical like you
Doesn't matter who you use
Dope is what dopers do
Pick 'em up and throw 'em down
You're a source of revenue
Pulverise and snort you up
Turn all kinds of shades of blue
I could give you all my dough
I could lose my life to you
Swallow, shoot, inhale or chew
Dope is what dopers do
I could use another hit
Anything you've got'll do
I can take you unrefined
I can take you cut in two
You give me a one track mind
Maybe you could make that two
I seem to be out of cash
Let's make that an i.o.u.
Vanish in a cloud of smoke
Disappear up a tube
Dopin' is a dopers does
Dopin' is what dopers do
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Mulino Music - BMG Music Publishing Ltd. - Copyright Control - Tony Thompson Songs/BMI Adm. By Koch Music Publishing)
Love Conquers All
In the beginning, darlin'
You made your first play
Living in a dream
Finding your way
Now it's for real
Learn from your feelings
Feel your resolve getting stronger with every day
Welcoming change
So wake up your heart and make a difference
Don't let your life and ambition just fade away
Make it real
And know that love conquers all
You can depend on it
Take a firm hold on your present,
Your past and your future
Don't lose your grip, hold on tight
Life ain't about winning, darlin'
It's how you play the game
Living in a dream - ain't that a shame
So wake up your heart and make a difference
Feel your resolve getting stronger with every day
Make it real
And know that love conquers all
You can depend on it
Don't make the same mistake
That you made over and over
Wake up, take hold of your life
Oh, oh, oh
Faint hearts don't make the grade
Go for it all
You know that love conquers all
You can depend on it
The Power Station – Living in Fear (1996 - Published by Northern Songs Ltd)
Written By: George Harrison
Taxman
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cos I'm the taxman - yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cos I'm the taxman - yeah, I'm the taxman
If you drive a car I'll tax the street
If you try to sit I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk I'll tax your feet
(Taxman)
'Cos I'm the taxman - yeah, I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for
(Taxman Mr. Clinton)
If you don't want to pay some more
(Taxman VAT)
'Cos I'm the taxman - yeah, I'm the taxman
And my advice for those who die
(Taxman)
Declare those pennies on your eyes
(Taxman)
'Cos I'm the taxman - yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me
(Taxman)
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