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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 7

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 20/07/2020 21:31

Ok folks here we go again!

Post a few lines of lyrics & let the rest of us have a go at guessing the song & artist.
Songs from 70s, 80s 90s.

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 22/07/2020 20:33

@ThatLibraryMiss - sorry, just spotted you got Poison Ivy first!

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 22/07/2020 20:37

A couple from the 90s

Got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs

Take a left down echo park, a kid asks do I want some crack
T.V. sets are spewing Baywatch through the windows into black

CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/07/2020 20:47

Yes to those that got Take That 😊

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Willow2017 · 22/07/2020 20:47

I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late
70s

CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/07/2020 20:48

@NeedToKnow101, Jack & Diane. Love the tune. Wayne Sleep & Bonnie Langford did a dance to it, that was the first time I heard it.

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 22/07/2020 20:49

Three from the 80s

I'm the child that never learns to read
'Cause no-one spared the time

I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you

No she does not really see me
'Cause she sees her own reflection

PawFives · 22/07/2020 20:49

@Willow2017 Paranoid by Black Sabbath

CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/07/2020 20:53

A bit more of my outstanding one:
It's not love, I'm a running from
It's the heartbreak I know will come
'Cause I know you're no good for me,
but you've become a part of me
Ev'rywhere I go, your face I see, ev'ry step I take,
you take with me yeah

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NeedToKnow101 · 22/07/2020 20:54

@SingingBabooshkaBadly -

I'm the child that never learns to read
'Cause no-one spared the time
1 in 10 by UB40

CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/07/2020 20:54

@SingingBabooshkaBadly. The middle one is Romeo & Juliet, Dire Straits. Love, love it!

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ThatLibraryMiss · 22/07/2020 20:56

@SingingBabooshkaBadly

No she does not really see me
'Cause she sees her own reflection

That's Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega.

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 22/07/2020 21:01

Yes, well done @CoffeeBeansGalore, @ThatLibraryMiss and @NeedToKnow101 😊

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 22/07/2020 21:03

@CoffeeBeansGalore - Romeo and Juliet is one of those songs I just didn’t appreciate at the time but I love it now.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/07/2020 21:09

@SingingBabooshkaBadly I only came across it when my husband played a Dire Straits album (cassette 🤣) in the car when we first started dating in 1988. Fell in love with him and the song at the same time.

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Honeyroar · 22/07/2020 21:36

I love Dire Straits. My dad loved them and I was brought up on it!

Iggi999 · 22/07/2020 21:52

@NeedToKnow101

But how many corners do I have to turn? How many times do I have to learn

90s

Has this been guessed? I think it's Lucky Man by Ocean Colour Scene
NeedToKnow101 · 22/07/2020 22:02

@Iggi999 - it is Lucky Man, but it's not by Ocean Colour Scene!

xsquared · 22/07/2020 22:02

Lucky man is by The Verve

Iggi999 · 22/07/2020 22:05

So it is! What did OCS sing then? Confused

CrepuscularCritter · 22/07/2020 22:08

Yes to Pretty In Pink Babooshka. And the "child that never learned to read" is UB40 One In Ten.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/07/2020 22:09

Ok, I am now seriously back in the 80s. Here you go

If you wanna leave, baby
I won't beg you to stay
And if you gotta go darling
Maybe it's better that way

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CrepuscularCritter · 22/07/2020 22:09

And Iggi OCS was The Day We Caught The Train.

CrepuscularCritter · 22/07/2020 22:11

OCS did The Day We Caught The Train.

shinynewapple2020 · 22/07/2020 22:11

@CoffeeBeansGalore

Ok, I am now seriously back in the 80s. Here you go

If you wanna leave, baby
I won't beg you to stay
And if you gotta go darling
Maybe it's better that way

That's don't turn around , Aswad
CrepuscularCritter · 22/07/2020 22:14

Sorry for the repetition. Have rebooted my connection 3 times now...