Animotion - I Engineer 1986

Don't count on me, I engineer
On every move we make from here
I'll take the lead
You take the pain
You see, I engineered this game

Who do you think you fool when you talk about us?
Why do you walk on glass when you know it cuts?
There must be a reason why,
You put my life in overdrive.
I'm up to here with push and shove...
From here on in, I've had enough!

Don't count on me, I engineer
On every move we make from here
I'll take the lead
You take the pain
You see, I engineered this game

I'll leave it all behind in a cloud of dust,
There's an even chance I'll shine or rust.
On my own I've got the time...
There's a light ahead at the end of the line.
Seeing you leaves me no doubt,
I'll take the wheel from here on out.

Don't count on me, I engineer
On every move we make from here
I'll take the lead
You take the pain
You see, I engineered this game

On my own I've got the time...
There's a light ahead at the end of the line.
Seeing you leaves me no doubt,
I'll take the wheel from here on out.

Don't count on me, I engineer
On every move we make from here
I'll take the lead
You take the pain
You see, I engineered...

Bronski Beat - Screaming 1984

My man love, my first love
My closetness and pain
My lying, my deceiving
My rivers keep on crying

My father, my action man
My hiding in the crowd
My mother, my sisters eyes
My seniors and their prying

My hero, my schoolboy
My physical abuse
My loneliness my aching brain
My pounding in the head

My freedom, my prison cell
My tempting to destroy
My fantasies my lost control
My confusion disillusion

Machismo, my manhood
My wanting just to scream
Scream yeah yeah yeah

Bronski Beat - Rain (Pascal Gabriel Mix) 1989

Here comes a rain
Here comes a rain
Rain..

Here comes a rain, ooh
Here comes a rain, ooh
Shiver in my soul

Did you know that rain it could kill?
Who'd believe that rain it could kill?
I believe the rain, it could kill
The rain it could kill
The rain it could kill
The rain it could kill

It's burnin', it's burnin, it's burnin'
It's burnin', the rain

Here comes a rain, ooh
Here comes a rain, ooh
Here comes a rain, ooh
Here comes a rain, ooh

Here comes a rain
Here comes a rain

The Communards - Breadline Britain 1986

This is Breadline Britain
This free and promised land
Breadline Britain
Where the rich don't give a damn
People gettin' hungry and people gettin' poor
People gettin' destitute and more

Ooh, this is Breadline Britain
Oh, you've got to understand
Breadline Britain
Where evil's in command
Where money buys only bad dreams
And a worker's life is damned
Democracy and freedom are a
Far-off foreign land

Ooh, this is Breadline Britain
Where the sick don't stand a chance
Breadline Britain
Where fascism leads a new dance
Where they'd privatize your mother
If given half a chance
This is Breadline Britain
You've got to make a stand

Breadline, breadline, breadline Britain
Breadline, breadline, breadline Britain
This free and promised land

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes 1986

When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score
Score no more! Score no more!
When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score
Working for the black gas

Cowboy No. 1
A born-again poor man's son
Poor man's son
On the air America
I modeled shirts by Van Heusen
Working for the black gas
Yeah..

You know..

When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score
Score no more! Score no more!
When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score
Working for the black gas

Switch off your shield
Switch off and feel
I'm working on loving, yeah. Yow
Giving you back the good times
Ship it out, out!
Working for the black gas
A point is all that you can score
When two tribes go to war

When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score

We've got two tribes
We got the bomb! We got the bomb! Yeah! Yeah..
Sock it to me biscuits, now

Are we living in a land where sex and horror are the new Gods?
Yeah

When two tribes go to war (ow! ow! ow!)
A point is all you can score

The White Album - Bent Out Of Shape 2014

I never know just want to expect
Until morning has spoken
Looking for any kind of relief
I'm gonna stand here broken

I'm bent out of shape
Downing in shame
Would I be the same
if redemption never came?

Into the bedroom I watch you go
Holding my breath for a moment
Closing my eyes, ignoring the pain
Floating away for the better

It feels like I'm falling, slowly
Speaking in silence
Unable to let go

I'm bent out of shape
Drowning in shame
Would I be the same
If redemption never came?

Dead Or Alive - Far Too Hard 1984

Hey there
Take a look at me
No, I couldn't look no better
Oh, oh, oh

Oh, I am young man
Fascinated by my profile in my mirror
And that's a dangerous direction
Never ever make it with your own reflection

And I would like to apologize
But no, I don't
That would be far too hard
It is far too hard

Oh, it is me
That holds my steering wheel
For me I have a strange appeal
And my mind's drowning
On the pools I've made from self-love

And if I told you all the ways
That I have come right face to face
It would be far too hard
It is far too hard

Oh, don't you, don't you know?
I am young man
Fascinated by my profile in my mirror
And that's a dangerous direction
Men should never make it with their own reflections

And I would like to apologize
But no, no, no
I would like to apologize
But no I don't
That would be far too hard
It is far too hard

Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman 1975

You made a fool of me
But them broken dreams have got to end

Hey woman, you got the blues
'Cause you ain't got no one else to use
There's an open road that leads nowhere
So just make some miles between here and there
There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in
You took my body and played to win
Ha, ha, woman, it's a cryin' shame
But you ain't got nobody else to blame

Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman

Rolled in from another town
Hit some gold, too hot to settle down
But a fool and his money soon go separate ways
You found a fool lyin' in a daze
Ha, ha, woman, what you gonna do?
You destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave you
It's so good that you're feeling pain
But you better get your face on board the very next train
(Hey, hey-hey-hey)

Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman (You're an evil woman)
Evil woman

Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey

Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman (You're an evil woman)
Evil woman

Evil woman, how you done me wrong
But now you're tryin' to wail a different song
Ha, ha, funny how you broke me up
You made the wine, now you drink the cup
I came runnin' every time you cried
Thought I saw love smilin' in your eyes
Ha, ha, very nice to know
That you ain't got no place left to go
(Oh, oh-oh-oh)

Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman (You're an evil woman)
Evil woman
Evil woman
Evil woman (You're an evil woman)
Evil woman (Such an evil woman)
Evil woman (You're an evil woman)
Evil woman (Such an evil woman)
Evil woman (You're an evil woman)
Evil woman (Such an evil woman)

Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right 1982

There's more besides joyrides
The little house in the countryside
Understand, learn to demand
Compromise, and sometimes lie

Get the balance right
Get the balance right

Be responsible, respectable
Stable but gullible
Concerned and caring, help the helpless
But always remain ultimately selfish

Get the balance right
Get the balance right

When you think you've got a hold of it all
You haven't got a hold at all
When you reach the top, get ready to drop
Prepare yourself for the fall
You're gonna fall
It's almost predictable (almost)

Don't turn this way, don't turn that way
Straight down the middle until next Thursday
First to the left, then back to the right
Twist and turn 'til you've got it right

Get the balance right
Get the balance right
Get the balance right
Get the balance right
(Almost)
Get the balance right
Get the balance right
(Almost)
Get the balance right
Get the balance...

Erasure - My Heart So Blue 1986

I've got her picture
It's there on the wall
I can't remember why
I keep it at all
The doors are cold and
All the windows seem grey
I write the book
There's so much more I should see

Wave goodbye
See my heart so blue
Wave goodbye
Lost for you

And now it's over
I write it all down
No one to notice
One less face in the crowd
Our eyes are open
When it suits us to see
Dear God in heaven
Show no mercy to me

Wave goodbye (Wave)
See my heart... so blue
Wave goodbye (Wave)
Lost for you

I shed no tears
And there's no reason for shame
A small consolation
Hides a stone with her name
Just a victim
Still the light shines all bright
I've got her picture
Think I'll hold it tonight

Wave goodbye (Wave)
See my heart so blue
Wave goodbye (Wave)
Lost for you

Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove 1993

I thought that you knew it all
Well you've seen it ten times before
I thought that you had it down
With both your feet on the ground
I love slow, slow but deep
Feigned affections wash over me
Dream on my dear
And renounce temporal obligations
Dream on my dear
It's a sleep from which you may not awaken

You build me up then you knock me down
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in disillusionment

I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you

I thought that I knew it all
I'd seen all the signs before
I thought that you were the one
In darkness my heart was won

You build me up then you knock me down
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in a domestic graveyard

I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you

Never let it be said I was untrue
I never found a home inside of you
Never let it be said I was untrue
I gave you all my time

Miranda Sex Garden - Gush Forth My Tears 1991

Gush forth my tears
And stay the burning
Of my poor heart
Or her eyes
Choose you whether
O' peevish fond desire
Alas my sighs
Sighs out
Still blow the fire

St. Etienne - Burnt Out Car

A simple, good morning
Or hello would have done
The silence, 10 am
Not my idea of fun
The papers, the photos
Things were found in the fire

Something that you said
The look upon your face
Something in the way you hold me
I know what they say
I know what this means
I know that you never told me

A change of hair color
Clairol Baby-Blond
I'm not quite used to it
It never takes too long
No makeup, no earrings
Nothing to identify me

Something that you said
The look upon your face
Something in the way you hold me
I know what they say
I know what this means
I know that you never told me

Goldfrapp - Clowns

Only clowns will play with dull balloons
What do all I bother for?
Did I already say adieu?

..

Goldfrapp - Paper Bag

No time to ----, but you like the rush
And where would we be without sums
Deals we make?

Brown paper bag, makes for a hat
When it rains on your head, mate
Cheers for that

When the world stops for snow
When you laugh, I'm inside your mouth

Sucking the sun, baboons and birds
With the weight of you dear, I forgot

Brown paper bag, makes for a hat
When it rains on your head, mate
Cheers for that

When the world stops for snow
When you laugh, I'm inside your mouth

I'm just cold, dear
Feels a tear

When you laugh, I'm inside your mouth

Pet Shop Boys - The Former Enfant Terrible

"Gimme a bandwagon and I'll jump on it!"
"Gimme a bandwagon and I'll jump on it!"

Pity him, the former
Enfant terrible
His career in aspic
Bent on pleasure
Gamely attempting
The tricky transition
From ageing outrage
To national treasure

"Gimme a bandwagon and I'll jump on it!
A drum to bang and I'll thump on it!
Criticism and I'll dump on it!
If you don't like it you'll be lumpin' it!"

He won't rest while there are
Cameras around
He'll start a quarrel
For the moral high-ground
It's not enough to win a brace of top awards
He won't be happy till he's in the House of Lords

"Gimme a bandwagon and I'll jump on it!
A drum to bang and I'll thump on it!
Criticism and I'll dump on it!
If you don't like it you'll be lumpin' it!"

At self-promotion he's a master
Although the midweek's a disaster
They used to fix things so much easier
Bring it on
The good old days were fun and sleazier

Pity him, the former
Enfant terrible
His career in aspic
Bent on pleasure
Gamely attempting
The tricky transition
From ageing outrage
To national treasure

"Gimme a bandwagon and I'll jump on it!
A drum to bang and I'll thump on it!
Criticism and I'll dump on it!
If you don't like it you'll be lumpin' it!"

Bring it on

Pet Shop Boys - Delusions of Grandeur

The cathedral's glittering on coronation day
Crowned heads and cardinals under military sway
I approach the altar slowly in a humble shroud
To receive the acclamation of the loyal crowd

Give me power over people
In a palace with a permanent guard
And the flags unfurled
Give devotion, dedication, celebration
Not some cheap charade
And I'll rule the world
All of these delusions of grandeur
'Cause they said: "We don't understand you"
And I want revenge

In audience I receive the media's pleas
They kiss my ring in interviews on bended knees
In victory I am magnanimous and charming when
I speak exclusively at length to CNN

About power over people
In a palace with a permanent guard
And the flags unfurled
With devotion, dedication, celebration
Not some cheap charade
I will rule the world
All of these delusions of grandeur
Because they said: "We don't understand you"
And I want revenge

Ring the bells, tell everyone
Ring the bells, tell everyone
Ring the bells, tell everyone
Revolution can be fun

All of these delusions of grandeur
'Cause they said: "We don't understand you"
And I want revenge
Give me power over people
In a palace with a permanent guard
And the flags unfurled
Give devotion, dedication, celebration
Not some cheap charade
And I'll rule the world

Ring the bells, tell everyone
Revolution can be fun

Death In June - Leper Lord 1985

There we stood
At the edge of the world
Snatching
The sun from the sky

Oh, leper lord
My leper lord
Make the angels cry

The black clouds melts
As eagles stalk
Tearing
To bits the lie

Oh, leper lord
My leper lord
Make the angels cry