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80s Song LyricsThread

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 09:17

Just thought I'd start a thread of guessing the song from the lyrics - they did it on a facebook group before and it was fun.
This isn't the easiest to start with:

"And I guess it took some time
For me to decide
If you were just my hero, or my friend?
Watching with my innocent eyes
Your silver stallion ride
Across my room I'd listen
As I cried.."
(cut to song title)

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 20:44

"A/M F/M all that jazz
I'd rather sing along with Yazz."

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AntsDeck · 28/05/2020 20:47

Ok, next few lines...

Sidewalk social scientists don't get no satisfaction from your cigarette,
It's ten to ten and time is running out,
Lock up all your memories, get outa here, you know that we can run....

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 20:48

"In 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war.
But it wasn't. It was different in many ways.
In World War 2, the average age of a US combat soldier was 26..."

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attackedbycritters · 28/05/2020 20:49

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 20:49

"Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel."

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 20:50

yes! - attackedbycritters

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Iggi999 · 28/05/2020 20:54

I've no idea what the sidewalk scientists one is, though I feel I should!
pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy

CoolCarrie · 28/05/2020 20:55

Mike And The Mechanics:Silent Running

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 20:56

Yes CoolCarrie

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CoolCarrie · 28/05/2020 20:56

That’s for ItsNotJaneFonda

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 20:57

"Maybe love is letting people be just what they want to be
The door always should be left unlocked..."

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CoolCarrie · 28/05/2020 21:00

“She wanted to test her husband, she knew exactly what to do, a pseudonym to fool him, she couldn’t have made a worst move”

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 21:01

CoolCarrie - Kate Bush - Babooshka

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 21:01

"Built a moon for a rocking chair
I never guessed it would rock her far from here"

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 21:04

"The Salvation Army Band Played
And the children drank lemonade
And the morning lasted all day, all day"

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Iggi999 · 28/05/2020 21:09

Billy Idol - sweet sixteen?
Dream academy, life in a northern town (love that one!)

petermaysawthefuture · 28/05/2020 21:12

"Tonight I need your sweet caress, hold me in the darkness,
Tonight you calm my restlessness, you relieve my sadness'

AntsDeck · 28/05/2020 21:13

@Iggi999 small town boy?

Iggi999 · 28/05/2020 21:23

Antanddec yes! Small town boy
I was listening to Breathe on Spotify yesterday Blush

Sparklingbrook · 28/05/2020 21:27

Pull the strings of emotion
Take a ride into unknown pleasure
Feel like a child on a dark night
Wishing there was some kind of heaven

AntsDeck · 28/05/2020 21:48

@Iggi999 yay, go me Smile one of my fave 80's songs that is

Crispsnatcher · 28/05/2020 22:05

This wouldn't be the first time
Things have gone astray
Now you've thrown it all away

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 22:10

Yes to Billy Idol and Dream Academy Iggi.!!

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 22:11

Sparklingbrook - Culture Club/Victims!

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ItsNotJaneFonda · 28/05/2020 22:12

petermaysawthefuture - I know the song but not band or title - know it was very LATE 80s though!

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