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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 9

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 08/08/2020 10:00

Ok folks here we go again!

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

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 17/08/2020 22:05

Ok, here’s more of the two that have been hanging around a while. Both 80s. I think you might get them now - or at least the second one. The first was a one hit wonder, I remember it well but I can’t remember if it made much of an impact on the charts.

And in her mouth, an amethyst
And in her eyes, two sapphires blue
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you
And you need her and she needs you

In coats of many colour
Reptile man drop
Stay below it
Stay below it
Stay below it
Stay below it
Temperature drop

Honeyroar · 17/08/2020 22:06

🤣 that’s my other regular thread. Married at first sight. Absolutely crap, but absolutely addictive too.

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 17/08/2020 22:14

@SingingBabooshkaBadly sorry, none the wiser. Weird & wonderful 👍😄.

Night all, I'm bushed 😴

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 17/08/2020 22:21

70s
To change the mood a little I've been posing down the pub
On seeing my reflection, I'm looking slightly rough

80s
Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?

90s
Another mother's breaking heart is taking over

SimplySteveRedux · 17/08/2020 22:22

Just heard this for the first time in years, 80s

Breathing shifts your careless head
Untroubled by the chaos of our lives.
Another day, another night
Has taken you again my dear.

SimplySteveRedux · 17/08/2020 22:24

@Honeyroar

Oh simplysteve even a male can see Micheal Hutchence was sexy! Bet it was my clue that Gabito away ! 😃 But well done on guessing one of my favourite songs from them.
Now Freddie Mercury was sexy....
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CoffeeBeansGalore · 17/08/2020 22:26

@SingingBabooshkaBadly 1st one is Squeeze, Cool for Cats

Right I am really going to bed now! Night all

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VictoriousSockPuppet · 17/08/2020 22:27

Sleep well, coffee.

Babooshka, your old ones aren't speaking to me..

But cool for cats, squeeze and love
will tear us apart, joy division and I think paul young

SimplySteveRedux · 17/08/2020 22:29

"Another mother's breaking heart is taking over"

The Cranberries - (the excellent) Zombie?

VictoriousSockPuppet · 17/08/2020 22:32

Grrr

VictoriousSockPuppet · 17/08/2020 22:35

Freddie mercury sexy???? 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Tartyflette · 17/08/2020 22:43

She's 41 and her Daddy still calls her Baby
All the folks round Townsville say she's crazy
70s

I don't like your fashion business mister
I don't like those drugs that keep ya thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
80s

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 18/08/2020 00:10

Yes, well done Victorioussockpuppet and SimplySteve 😊

SimplySteveRedux · 18/08/2020 00:25

@CoffeeBeansGalore

Could you please, pretty please, give consideration to expanding to include 90s too, there's sooo many great songs/lyrics in that decade Smile

NeedToKnow101 · 18/08/2020 05:36

@SimplySteveRedux - we're allowed anything between 60s and end of the 90s. Don't even think about going beyond 2000 though!

SimplySteveRedux · 18/08/2020 05:54

But I like to live dangerously..... Grin

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 18/08/2020 08:22

Sorry @CoffeeBeansGalore - I missed that you were first to get Cool for Cats.

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 18/08/2020 09:06

@SingingBabooshkaBadly No worries 😊
@SimplySteveRedux as need to know says, 90s is allowed. 👍

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SimplySteveRedux · 18/08/2020 10:49

Oh goodie, well, this is 90s, but I doubt anyone will get it, but it's one of my favourite, favourite, songs! Smile

She grew up with the children of the stars
In the Hollywood hills and the boulevards.
Her parents threw big parties. Everyone was there.
They hung out with folks like Dennis Hopper and Bob Seger and
Sonny and Cher.

NeedToKnow101 · 18/08/2020 11:30

@SimplySteveRedux

But I like to live dangerously..... Grin
😂😂 I really want to put an early 2000 one in now... so tempted..
SingingBabooshkaBadly · 18/08/2020 12:03

SimplySteve
That'a Lullaby by Shawn Mullins. I posted it on a previous thread but no one knew it!

It formed part of the soundtrack to the first holiday DH and I had together. We were driving round California and it kept coming on the radio but we never heard the details so didn't know who it was or the name. I ended up having to sing it to an unlucky record store assistant to identify it😂

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 18/08/2020 12:04

I love it too Steve Smile

SimplySteveRedux · 18/08/2020 12:13

@SingingBabooshkaBadly

I love it too Steve Smile
You have amazing taste!
SimplySteveRedux · 18/08/2020 12:17

Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?

Written in 1992, released as a b-side in 1995, when nobody really knew the band. Then global success upon inclusion on a certain album, in cough 2002. I've seen this band live, perhaps the best concert ever.

AJumpedUpPantryBoy · 18/08/2020 13:57

Nobody has answered one of mine so I'm going to add some more lines

Eighties

Down by the docks the talking turned:
"As some are striving to survive,
the others thrive"
(Reaching the realm of no return)
"I don't want charity, just half a chance
and it's all up to you, yes it's all up to you"