80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 12

[CoffeeBeansGalore]

Here we go you lovely lot, Thread 11.

Post some lyrics of a song 70s, 80s, 90s (boundaries may be slightly pushed either way). State the decade & we will try to guess Artist(s) and song.

@Fleamaker123

I can call you Got your number Share my life with you a thousand miles away If you've hurt me I haven't shown it Times too tight to fight And we're never face to face

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Turning Japanese?

That last one is from the 60s.

Last one of mine I mean.

@FlouncingBabooshka

Someone a while ago -( was it Honey?) correctly identified this one as Sting but the song is still outstanding:

80s
There is no historical precedent
To put the words in the mouth of the president

This one also still outstanding so I’ve added more lyrics, with some blanks as, though not the full title, it would make it too obvious:

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Xxxxx
Xxxxx
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

I think the top one is Russians by Sting

NeedToKnow
Sorry not Turning Japanese

The angel in disguise one is Destiny by Lionel Richie.
@FlouncingBabooshka I thought the Sting one was Englishman in New York, but ‘‘twas only a guess.

Take it hip to hip, rock it through the wilderness
Around the world the trip begins with a kiss

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Correct Honeyroar for Lionel R ✅

@AJumpedUpPantryBoy that’s Cock Robin The Promise you made. (and ive always hated that line! Yes of course we’d divide in two matey!!)

Ah yes, of course it’s Russians. I’d completely forgotten that song.

You know I tried to make it on my own
That’s not the way it was meant to be
Spent my time waiting by the phone
Oh darling come back to me
(80s)

@Honeyroar is that Kim Wilde, you keep me hanging on?

@Honeyroar

You know I tried to make it on my own That’s not the way it was meant to be Spent my time waiting by the phone Oh darling come back to me (80s)

Is that On my own, Michael Mcdonald and Patti Labelle??

Wild guess btw

No neither of those, sorry. We’ve guessed it before.

(I think that’s not the way it was meant to be might also be a line from On My Own though!)

You say to me I don’t talk enough
But when I do I’m a fool
These times I’ve spent I’ve realised
I’m gonna shoot through and leave you
(90s)

This might be early 90s or late 80s. It might be tough.

The sunsets were yellow and red and purple and on fire.
And the clouds would catch the colours everywhere
That’s neat cause I used to look at them all the time when I was little
You don’t see that, you might still see them in the desert

In my dreams I’m dying all the time
Then I wake its kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
(90s)

@Honeyroar
You say to me I don’t talk enough
But when I do I’m a fool
These times I’ve spent I’ve realised
I’m gonna shoot through and leave you

Is this more spoken than sung?

Yes kind of.

Something like You're Unbelievable?

@Honeyroar

This might be early 90s or late 80s. It might be tough.

The sunsets were yellow and red and purple and on fire.
And the clouds would catch the colours everywhere
That’s neat cause I used to look at them all the time when I was little
You don’t see that, you might still see them in the desert

@Honeyroar - that's little fluffy clouds, the Orb.

Yes to Coffee and Needtoknow. it’s Unbelievable by EMF And Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb. (Hadn’t heard that for ages, it popped up on something and gave me a memory jolt)

To hide away from all my truth
Through the light I see

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