80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 8

[CoffeeBeansGalore]

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.

Sticking to the theme of class:

His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floors for many
And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny

1970s

@NeedToKnow101 I remember the song but I didn't know who she was either 😁

Sleep baby sleep
Now that the night is over
And the sun comes
Like a god into our room
All perfect light and promises
1980s

The wonderful INXS and New Sensation. 💕

Ps, I remember the song as just being by Spagna.

@Honeyroar Correct 👍😊

Maybe it's just an ego problem
Problem is that I've been fooled before
By fair-weather friends and faint hearted lovers
And every time it happens it just convinces me more
70's

Stuck on you?

@Fleamaker123, that's When you're in love with a beautiful woman by Dr Hook. Maybe the Medicine Show too - I can't remember when the name change happened.

See a clinic full of cynics
Who want to twist the peoples' wrist
They're watching every move we make
We're all included on the list

Nice cheery 80s one!

Correct @ThatLibraryMiss 👍
I've never heard the Medicine Show bit!

@Fleamaker123

Correct *@ThatLibraryMiss* 👍 I've never heard the Medicine Show bit!

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. I am old, which is why I know the 70s stuff. You 90s whippersnappers need to get off my lawn!

Trust me, I ain't no Whippersnapper 😂🤣

@NeedToKnow101

Sticking to the theme of class:

His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floors for many
And you'd best believe she hardly gets a penny

Stevie Wonder - Just Enough For The City

@KatherineJaneway - correct! 🙌🏽

It's not in the way that you hold me
It's not in the way you say you care
It's not in the way you've been treating my friends
It's not in the way that you stayed till the end
It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do

70's

Is that called something like love isn't always on time??? Kinda rock-y

I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud

70s then 90s

Victorious - that's Killing Me Softly by the Fugees in the 90s, possibly Roberta Flack earlier?

Yes and yes idlevice.

Sorry I've not been posting many lyrics recently.

Arghh Fleamaker, with the "it's not the way..." type lyrics I can't get past Wishing I Had a Photograph of You by Flock of Seagulls

Victorious, you've got the right song, you're so close!

idlevice... yes those lyrics nearly fit Wishing ☺️

@Fleamaker123

It's not in the way that you hold me It's not in the way you say you care It's not in the way you've been treating my friends It's not in the way that you stayed till the end It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you'll do

70's

The song is Hold the Line. Is it by Foreigner?