80's Song Lyrics

Caravan Of Love - The Housemartins

Are you ready
Are you ready
Are you ready
Are you ready
Are you ready for the time of your life
It's time to stand up and fight
It's alright
It's alright
Hand in hand we take a caravan to the mother land
One by one we gonna stand up with pride
One that can't be denied
Stand up
Stand up
From the highest mountain, valley low
We'll join together with hearts of gold
Now the children of the world can see
This is a better place for us to be
The place in which we were born
So neglected and torn apart

Every woman every man
Join the caravan of love
(Stand up) stand up
Stand up
Everybody take a stand
Join the caravan of love
(Stand up) stand up
Stand up

I'm your brother
I'm your brother don't you know
She's my sister
She's my sister don't you know

We'll be living in a world of peace
And the day when everyone is free
We'll bring the young and the old
Won't you let your love flow, from your heart

Every woman every man
Join the caravan of love
(Stand up) stand up
Stand up
Every body take a stand
Join the caravan of love
(Stand up) stand up
Stand up

I'm your brother
I'm your brother don't you know
She's my sister
She's my sister don't you know

So are you ready ( he's coming )
Are you ready ( he's coming )
Are you ready ( he's coming )
Are you ready ( he's coming on the caravan )
You better get ready ( go for it )
You better get ready ( go for it )
You better get ready ( go for it )
You better get ready

Cool one djjd I have never heard of that one Thank you for posting it.

I Will Survive- Gloria Gaynor

First I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
without you by my side
But I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on
and so you're back
from outer space
I just walked in to find you here
with that sad look upon your face
I should have changed my stupid lock
I should have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
you'd be back to bother me

Go on now go walk out the door
just turn around now
'cause you're not welcome anymore
weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
you think I'd crumble
you think I'd lay down and die
Oh no, not I
I will survive
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

It took all the strength I had
not to fall apart
kept trying hard to mend
the pieces of my broken heart
and I spent oh so many nights
just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry
Now I hold my head up high
and you see me
somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person
still in love with you
and so you felt like dropping in
and just expect me to be free
now I'm saving all my loving
for someone who's loving me

Now that one is a classic Phoenix Great Karaoke song.

Here's one that I really like
Baby Love by Regina

Boy there's no one home tonight
The timing could be right
To forget the rules, we're not at school
Until tomorrow
But now (now) if only you could stay
There's so many games we'll play
Why should we pretend to be only friends
when we could be so much more

Chorus:
Baby love, you are my baby love
Just call it baby love, you are my baby love, just call it

Words don't mean so much to me
I'd rather wait and see
See what happens when the lights go down
Your in my arms
Time (time) to leave the world behind
Save it for another time
Cause I don't remember where I am
When you start to....love me

Chorus:
Baby love, you are my baby love
Just call it baby love, you are my baby love,

Baby, Baby love
Sweet and tasty, baby baby love

Boy I want you by my side
And the reason we should hide
How we feel when we are near each other
Undercover
Once I hold you close to me
You're perfection perfectly
Cause I don't remember where I am
When you start to....Love me

Repeat chorus 3x
baby love

Adult Education Lyrics
Artist: Daryl Hall & John Oates

Afternoon in the homeroom
They're about to let you go
And the locker slams
On the plan you had tonight
You've been messin around with a boyfriend
Maybe better left alone
There's a wise guy that you know
Could put you right
In the lot the boy that's idling by
doesn't rev your heart
Cause it's only lonely spots
He shares with you
And long halls and the gray walls
Are gonna split apart
Believe it or not
There's life after high school

And that's why the student body got
A bad reputation oh yeah, oh yeah
What they need is adult education
Back to school it's a bad situation
Oh yeah, oh yeah
But what you want is an adult education

The teacher don't know about how
To deal with the student body huh, huh
And the underclassmen are
Flashing hot and cool huh huh
All your girlfriends care about
Watch and wear and talkin about it huh huh
Believe it or not
There's life after high school

And that's why the student body got
A bad reputation oh yeah, oh yeah
What they need is adult education
Back to school it's a bad situation
Oh yeah, oh yeah
But what you want is an adult education

They're calling it preparation
You're waiting for a separation
You're nothing but another odd number
Memories that you won't remember
So you got a little education
And a lot of dedication
But you want a little night school
Maybe some of it'll rub off on you
The boys are busy in the mirrors
Trying to imitate their heroes
You make it with a false surrender
More memories you won't remember
The senior with the Junior Miss
I wonder what the junior wishes
That she could graduate to adult
That she could graduate to adult kisses

Mayor Of Simpleton - XTC

Never been near a university,
never took a paper or a learned degree,
and some of your friends think that's stupid of me,
but it's nothing that I care about.

Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun, and of mathematics well I want none,
and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,
but I know one things and that's I love you.
When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton.

I can't have been there when brains were handed
round
(please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton),
or get past the cover of your books profound
(please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), and some of your friends thinks it's really unsound that you're ever seen talking to me.

Well I don't know how to write a big hit song,
and all crossword puzzles well I just shun,
and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,
but I know one thing and that's I love you.

I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much, just feel I should say,
what you get is all real, I can't put on an act,
it takes brains to do that anyway. (And anyway...)

And I can't unravel riddles problems and puns,
how the home computer has me on the run,
and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,
but I know one thing and that's I love you (I love you).

If depth of feeling is a currency
(please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton), then I'm the man who grew the money tree
(no chain of office and no hope of getting one),
some of your friends are too brainy to see
that they're paupers and that's how they'll stay.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton
of all the Nobel prizes that I've never won,
and I may be the Mayor of Simpleton,
but I know one things and that's I love you.
When all logic grows cold and all thinking gets done, you'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton. You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor of Simpleton. You'll be warm in the arms of the Mayor.
(Please be upstanding for the Mayor of Simpleton.)

Don't Talk To Strangers By Rick Springfield

When you were just a young girl still in school
How come you never learned the golden rule
Don't talk to strange men, Don't be a fool
I'm hearin' stories, I don't think that's cool

Why don't you tell me someone's lovin you
'Cause you're my girl, some say it's no longer true
You're seeing some slick continental dude,I'm begging you please

Chorus:
Don't talk to strangers-baby don't you talk
Don't talk to strangers-you know he'll only use you up
Don't talk, don't talk, don't talk, don't talk, don't talk to him
Don't talk, Don't talk,nobody, nobody ever told you

Now tell me, how's life in the big city
I hear the competition's tough baby that's a pity
And every man's an actor, every girl is pretty
I don't like what's getting back to me

Now who's this Don Juan I've been hearin of
Love hurts when only one's in love
Did you fall first sight or did you need a shove, I'm begging you please

Chorus

(Bella amour aimez moi) what he's saying baby
(Vais lovez, mon amour) I asked you not to talk to
him
(Je te vieuz amer pour ce soir) I'm begging you

Chorus

House on Fire - The Boomtown Rats

I heard Tarzan outside playing on the Jungle Blues
I know 'cos I saw him shimmer in a Kenyan pool
Coming on in the vines with his leopard-skin lioncloth cool
Bony Watusi fingers
Beating on the bark of a tree
Now Tarzan and me, well, obviously we're like that
Me and Tarzan, yeah we get on like a house on fire

Look at cool Louise she's the one with the knick-knack eyes
She's only 17 but she knows how to make boys fight
Yeah she'll slit you with her eyes an' she'll slash you
With her cut-back smile
Ah she's as cruel as a pig but we love her like a house on fire
Louise and me now obviously we're like that
Yes me and Louise we'll make it like a house on fire

I saw a raw white angel executing loop-de-loops in the sky
Drawing lazy spirals with his slipstream smoke as he silently
Passed us by
But his halo got too heavy so he hung it down around his waist
Doing halo hula-hoops, executing loop-de-loops takes a lot of
Skill and bad taste
Now the angel and me obviously we're like that
Me and the devil we get it on like a house on fire

Close My Eyes Forever by Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne

Baby I get so scared inside, and I don't really understand
Is it love that's on my mind, or is it a fantasy
Heaven
Is in the palm of my hands, and it's waiting here for you
What am I supposed to do with a childhood tragedy

Chorus:
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain the same....

Sometimes
It's hard to hold on
So hard to hold on to my dreams
It isn't always what it seems
When you're face to face with me

You're like a dagger
And stick me in the heart
And taste the blood from my blade
And when we sleep, would you shelter me
In your warm and darkened grave

Chorus:
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain unchanged
If I close my eyes forever
Will it all remain the same..

Will you ever take me
No I just can't take the pain
But would you ever trust me
No, I'll never feel the same....Ohhh

I know I've been so hard on you
I know I've told you lies
If I could have just one more wish
I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes

Chorus Repeat

Close your eyes
Close your eyes
You gotta close your eyes for me

Rock The Casbah - The Clash


Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a-cruisin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille

CHORUS:
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

CHORUS

Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a whiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

CHORUS

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

CHORUS

He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it
You know he really hates it

Self Control by Laura Branigan

Oh the night it's my world
City lights Painted girls
In the day nothing matters
It's the nighttime that matters

In the night no control
Through the wall something breaking
Wearing white as you're walking
Down the street of my soul

You take my self, you take my self control
You've got me living only for the night
Before the morning comes, a story's told
You take my self, you take my self control

Another night, another day goes by
I never stop myself to wonder why
You help me to forget to play my role
You take my self, you take my self control

I, I live among the creatures of the night
I haven't got the will to try and fight
Against a new tomorrow
So I guess I'll just believe it like tomorrow never comes

I said night
I'm living in the forest of a dream
I know the night is not as it would seem
I must believe in something
So I'll make myself believe it , this night will never go


Oh, oh
Oh, Oh

Oh the night is my world
City lights painted girls
In the day nothing matters
It's the nighttime that matters

I, I live among the creatures of the night
I haven't got the will to try and fight
Against a new tomorrow
So I guess I'll just believe it like tomorrow never knows


I said night
I'm living in the forest of a dream
I know the night is not as it would seem
I must believe in something
So I'll make myself believe it, this night will never go


Oh, oH
Oh, oh

You take my self, you take my self control

People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band

Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East two-nine
Kathy was eleven when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

CHORUS:
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends
They just died

G-Berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam, took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died

CHORUS

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from his cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And, Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
(First time) And I salute you, brother
(Second time) This song is for you my brother

CHORUS

Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some, some bitchen proof
Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"
But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died

CHORUS

Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
He said, "Hey, I know it's dangerous,
But it sure beats Riker's"
But the next day he got off'd
By the very same bikers

CHORUS

Repeat through "Eddie"

When the Children Cry

little child
dry your crying eyes
how can I explain
the fear you feel inside
cause you were born
into this evil world
where mas is killing man
and no one knows just why
what we have become
just look what we have done
all that we destroyed
you must build again

when the children cry
let them know we tried
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins

little child
you must show the way
to a better day
for all the young
cause you were born
for all the world to see
taht we all can live
with love and peace
no more presidents
and all the wars will end
one united world
under god

when the children cry
let them know we tried
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins

what we have become
just look what we have done
all that we destroyed
you must build again
no more presidents
and all the wars will end
one united world
under god

when the children cry
let them know we tried
when the children fight
let them know it ain't right
when the children pray
let them know the way
cause when the children sing
then the new world begins

Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys

Been beat up and battered around.
Been sent up and I've been shot down.
You're the best thing that I've ever found.
Handle me with care.

Reputation's changable.
Situation's tolerable.
But Baby you're adorable.
Handle me with Care.

I'm so tired of being lonely.
I still have some love to give.
Won't you show me that you really care.

CHORUS:
Everybody's got someone to lean on.
Put your body next to mine and dream on.

I've been fobbed off, and I've been fooled.
I've been robbed and ridiculed.
In day care centers and night school.
Handle me with care.

Been stuck in airports, terrorized.
Sent to meetings, hypnotized.
Over-exposed commercialized.
Handle me with care.

I'm so tired of being lonely.
I still have some love to give.
Won't you show me that you really care.

CHORUS

I've been uptight and made a mess.
But I'll clean it up myself, I guess.
Oh, the sweet smell of success.
Handle me with care.

18 and Life

Ricky was a young boy, He had a heart of stone.
Lived 9 to 5 and worked his fingers to the bone.
Just barely got out of school, came from the edge of town.
Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down.
He had no money, oooh no good at home.
He walked the streets a soldier and he fought the world alone
And now it's

18 and life You got it
18 and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
18 and life to go
(repeat above)

Tequila in his heartbeat, His veins burned gasoline.
It kept his motor running but it never kept him clean.
They say he loved adventure, "Ricky's the wild one."
He married trouble and had a courtship with a gun.
Bang Bang Shoot 'em up, The party never ends.
You can't think of dying when the bottle's your best friend
And now it's

(chorus)


"Accidents will happen" they all heard Ricky say
He fired his six-shot to the wind that blew a child away.

(chorus)

Icicle Works
Birds Fly (whisper To A Scream)

Love comes, down upon us
Till you flow like water
Burning, with the hope of insight
Feathered, look they're covered
with a bright elation,
Stolen, in the sight of love
We are, we are,
we are but your children,
Finding our way around indecision,
We are, we are
we are ever helpless,
Take us forever,
A whisper to a scream
Birds fly, in the eye
of the faithless daughter,
Broken, at the bitter end
Wasted, sacrificed for a new Nirvana
Night time, sends us on our way
A whisper to a scream

Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran


Darken the city night is a wire
Steam in the subway earth is afire
Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dododo
Woman you want me give me a sign
And catch my breathing even closer behind
Do do do do do do do dodo dododo dododo

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 dododo
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 dododo

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 all running inside
And I'm 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

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

For some unfathomable reason, this silly little song has made a huge comeback right now it seems ... hear it all the ******* time in shops and so on.

Carl Douglas
Kung Fu Fighting

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we're into a brand knew trip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing

(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning

Echo & the Bunnymen
Bring on the Dancing Horses

Jimmy Brown
Made of stone
Charlie Clown
No way home
Bring on the dancing horses
Headless and all alone

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while I'm breaking

Your brittle heart

Billy stands
All alone
Sinking sand
Skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses
Wherever they may roam

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while I'm breaking
Your brittle heart

Brittle heart
Brittle heart
Brittle heart
And my little heart
Goes

Jimmy Brown
Made of stone
Charlie Clown
No way home

Bring on the headless horses
Wherever they may roam
Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while you're breaking
My brittle heart
Brittle heart
Brittle heart
And our little heart
Goes

Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam
Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam