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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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VictoriousSockPuppet · 26/07/2020 22:42

Dear prudence. Siouxsie and the beatles

KatherineJaneway · 26/07/2020 22:43

@Honeyroar 👍

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 26/07/2020 22:49

@VictoriousSockPuppet Correct 😊

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Honeyroar · 26/07/2020 22:51

I know!🤣. We’ve already established, on just about every one of these threads, that my street cred is on the floor. I only nipped on for five minutes and that’s the one up for guessing!!🤣🤣

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 26/07/2020 22:53

I got to have a shot
Of what you got
It's oh so sweet
You got to make it hot
Like a boomerang I need a repeat
1980s

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 26/07/2020 22:55

@Honeyroar Street cred? What street cred? 🤔 Mine waved bye bye ages ago 🤣

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 26/07/2020 22:56

He was born on a summer day, 1951

1970s

xsquared · 26/07/2020 22:58

@SingingBabooshkaBadly

He was born on a summer day, 1951

1970s

Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold?
xsquared · 26/07/2020 23:03

I've got one but nobody has guessed the other one I posted earlier yet.

There's just another life to save.

80s

ellie1967 · 26/07/2020 23:08

It’s a teenage dream to be seventeen
Late 70s

Willow2017 · 27/07/2020 00:31

@ellie1967

It’s a teenage dream to be seventeen Late 70s
Give a little love BCR 😄
Willow2017 · 27/07/2020 00:35

Glares at willow
😂😂 missed that earlier
Sorry!

SimplySteveRedux · 27/07/2020 00:45

There's just another life to save.

Hmm. Fuzzbox, International Rescue ? Girl band, Thunderbirds song.

I love when you do
That hocus pocus to me
The way that you touch
You've got the power to heal

Early 90s.

KatherineJaneway · 27/07/2020 05:59

Dumb hearts get broken
Just like china cups
The language of love
Has left me broken on the rocks

Bluesheep8 · 27/07/2020 06:56

katherine Who's that Girl by Eurythmics

Bluesheep8 · 27/07/2020 06:58

Oh in another world, yeah he can wear a dress. 90s I think.

Honeyroar · 27/07/2020 07:06

Wonder stuff - Welcome to the cheap seats

ThatLibraryMiss · 27/07/2020 08:24

@CoffeeBeansGalore

Like a boomerang I need a repeat

Gimme All Your Lovin' by ZZ Top. Haven't seen anything from them on the other threads(but I missed a load).

Bluesheep8 · 27/07/2020 08:26

honeyroar correct!

ellie1967 · 27/07/2020 08:29

Willow yes correct well done

TwigTheWonderKid · 27/07/2020 08:52

Morning all!

Humanity's rising
Barometer's getting low

Willow2017 · 27/07/2020 09:02

@TwigTheWonderKid

Morning all!

Humanity's rising
Barometer's getting low

Did you mean 'humidity? ?auto correct😄

It's raining men
The weather girls.

TwigTheWonderKid · 27/07/2020 09:07

Grin oh extra points for getting it in spite of my autocorrect trying to scupper things, @Willow2017!

TwigTheWonderKid · 27/07/2020 09:10

Plug into her electric cool
Where things bend and break
And shake to the rule
80s

Honeyroar · 27/07/2020 09:11

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow. No tomorrow
(80s)