80s song lyric thread 2

[ProseccoBubbleFantasies]

Put up a line or two from an 80s song for people to guess.

Starting you off with...

you feel the cold hand
And wonder if you'll ever see the sun

“Oh I know I should come clean, but I prefer to deceive.”

Digging your scene. The blow monkeys.

Yes @awwlook

“At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.”

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

And here's an easy one, cos the one above probably wasn't

Self-doubt and selfism

I thought this was really easy, but I'll give you the next line.

Self doubt and selfism
Were the cheapest things I ever brought

@RiftGibbon was your earlier one Kylie with Nick Cave? Eliza

Bruce Springsteen, lilgreen
I'm on fire, I think (but I've got everything else wrong today)

Spot on @prosecco

I used to love I’m on Fire, but it’s just so creepy really!

I know what you mean @honey but not sure if I’m projecting. I just love the song and can’t think that Bruce would mean it that way.

Oh that’s bad
No that’s good.

If the mountain should crumble or disappear into the sea, not a tear, not not I.

S Express

There are a lot of songs I used to love that had lyrics that are really annoying now. So many songs about cheating and waiting for them to come back to you - No! Bin him now!!

Yes it was S Express lilgreen. Yours is the wonderful Pride by U2.

@Honeyroar

Or they're about sex and drugs... I was blissfully ignorant at the time! I've just read lyrics to Heaven 17 Come live with me 'I was 37 you were 17'

Not Pride @Honeyroar

@RiftGibbon

kemosabe it would fall into Indie. I believe it came out in 1988. The singer has since been very successful as a solo artist.

I think it is Bjork - am grappling for the song title though

@lilgreen yours is Stand By Me

No @TinDogTavern

.....It’s raining outside yeah, you must be soaking wet.

Prosecco. Echo and the Bunnymen Back of Love?

No, lilgreen - I think that may have been a later song.
The one that's still outstanding was by a band fronted by a female singer. They were in the indie camp - the sort of thing John Peel would play. The singer is now well known although still quite ....um...indie. Well, odd, maybe a better word.

Oh, talking of songs that we didn’t notice had dodgy lyrics at the time, here’s an ok bit from a lyric I now find really disturbing

When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could believe, do, and share in what was true

@lilgreen Sorry, The Unforgettable Fire then, which is also epic!

@Fleamaker123 I know, I loved Come Live with me too! Someone mentioned a Mission song on the last thread that was absolutely gross, but it practically went over my head at the time!