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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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CoffeeBeansGalore · 25/07/2020 22:22

You got the better of me
Just snap your fingers and I'm walking
Like a dog hanging on your lead
1970s

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 22:25

@SingingBabooshkaBadly

Ok...I think you’ve worked out who it’s by - these are the entire lyrics, minus the title.

Xxxxxx am I deceived or did you sigh?
For all I know you let you love light
Shine on me
Xxxxxx you never close, who's got the time?
I can wait until your love light
Shine on me
Xxxxx seems to me you fill the skies
I'm far below so let your love light
Shine on me
Xxxxxxx on the wing and open wide
No matter how high the moon
Shine down on me

Is this not angel eyes, then? I guessed it was a little while ago
VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 22:28

@CoffeeBeansGalore

I was all right for a while, I could smile for a while But when I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight When you stopped to say "Hello" 80s
Crying Roy orbison. Wasn't it also a hit for him previously? 60s?

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 22:30

@CoffeeBeansGalore

You got the better of me Just snap your fingers and I'm walking Like a dog hanging on your lead 1970s
Leo sayers. You make me feel like dancin'
VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 22:30

Sorry, didn't see that flanker got crying before me

VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 22:31

Fleamaker 😂
Dontcha just love auto-correct!

CrepuscularCritter · 25/07/2020 22:31

Coffee Like a dog hanging on your lead - Leo Sayer You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

CrepuscularCritter · 25/07/2020 22:32

Beaten by a Speedy Sock Grin

VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 22:32

Sayer. I typed sayer!

NeedToKnow101 · 25/07/2020 22:32

Ooh I loved Leo Sayer when I was 7!

I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way that I want
To say and do whatever I please
60s

Iggi999 · 25/07/2020 22:36

It was indeed the Power of Love by Huey Lewis (from Back to the Future)

When tragedy befalls you
Don't let it drag you down
Love can cure your problems
You're so lucky I'm around

(80s)

shinynewapple2020 · 25/07/2020 22:38

@NeedToKnow101

Ooh I loved Leo Sayer when I was 7!

I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way that I want
To say and do whatever I please
60s

You don't own me

Don't tell me what to do.
Don't tell me what to say
When you go out with me don't put me on display

This is the song , not sure of the title and I don't know who sings it !

CoffeeBeansGalore · 25/07/2020 22:45

Yes, Leo Sayer 👍

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xsquared · 25/07/2020 23:05

@shinynewapple2020 It is called "you don't own me" sang by Leslie Gore in the 60s and others have covered it since.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 25/07/2020 23:07

You don't own me. Originally done in 1963 by Lesley Gore, probably better known by Dusty Springfield in 1964, & then numerous covers. Used in Dirty Dancing. 😊

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idlevice · 25/07/2020 23:08

Here's a 90s one:

The null of losing
Can you afford that luxury?
A sore winner
But I'll just keep my mouth shut

CoffeeBeansGalore · 25/07/2020 23:11

With my body and soul
I want you more than you'll ever know
So we'll just let it go
Don't be afraid to lose control, no
1980s

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 25/07/2020 23:13

@VictoriousSockPuppet - Yes, it is Angel Eyes -sorry, must have missed your post. I thought it was weird no one had got it. Saw the post when you said you thought it was Roxy. music and were going back to take another look but did’t spot anything after that.

CoffeeBeansGalore · 25/07/2020 23:14

A few more lines of this one.

Here I am, I'm playing daydreaming fool again
My favourite game
And you are the one who's got my head in the clouds above
You're the one that I love and
You're my baby, xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

1990s

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 23:20

@CoffeeBeansGalore

With my body and soul I want you more than you'll ever know So we'll just let it go Don't be afraid to lose control, no 1980s
This is time of your life from dirty dancing. No idea who sang
VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 23:21

Wasn't the 80s version of you don't own me by the blow monkeys?

A band name that sounds quite rude suddenly. Or is that just me?

CoffeeBeansGalore · 25/07/2020 23:21

@VictoriousSockPuppet Yes, well done. Bill Medley & Jennifer Warne. 😊

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 25/07/2020 23:22

@VictoriousSockPuppet 🤣🤣🤣 Correct, and yes 😁

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 25/07/2020 23:24

@VictoriousSockPuppet

Got it!!!!

Let your love light shine on me is angel eyes.

Still don't know the second one, even though half the song seems to be there Blush

Honest, babooska. Posted at 20:12
SingingBabooshkaBadly · 25/07/2020 23:25

It’s entirely possible that someone got this days ago and I missed it as I clearly missed Victorioussockpuppet guessing Angel Eyes but if it’s still evading everyone here are all the lyrics minus the title.

Apologies if you’ve all been screaming the answer at me for the last day!

Don't tell me
That you get sick of living
When the summer's so forgiving, although we have stolen
All of the things that we thought we had owned then
Have disappeared

All these things in flavour
Won't do you no favours
When the summer's light is fragrant with scents of returning
You relent, you resent, now you're burning
For nothing to change

There's something there
Among the fallen fruit and flowers, won't rest
Only minutes, only hours unless
Now the morning breaks in showers, I guess
We'll remember this all of our lives
On Xxxx (Repeated)

All the leaves are turning
Autumn's fingers burnished
Furnished here in hope and in faith in the meantime
Kinda working my way through a dream I
Was having alone
Was having alone

There's something there
Among the fallen fruit and flowers, won't rest
Only minutes, only hours unless
Now the morning breaks in showers, I'm left
With the north wind breathing down my neck
On xxxx (repeated)

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