80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 15

[CoffeeBeansGalore]

Thread 15 !!!!

Come on over 😊

Post some lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s (may push slightly either way) with the decade & we will try & guess the song & singer

@Honeyroar
@FlouncerInDenial
@Fleamaker123
@FlouncingBabooshka
@shinynewapple2020
@xsquared
@KatherineJaneway
@Willow2017
@Iggi999
@ThatLibraryMiss
@CrepuscularCritter
@NeedToKnow101
@ellie1967
@TwigTheWonderKid
@idlevice
@midgebabe
@SimplySteveRedux
@CarnageAtTheGardenCentre
@AJumpedUpPantryBoy
@Torvean32
@everythingisginandroses
@SophieGiroux
@Bluesheep8

I love Blondie, even 🙄🙂

@Honeyroar

You can’t not love Blondie really.

True @Honeyroar

Four o clock I've been walking all night
It's the time I always think of you
If you could only see through my eyes
Then you'd know just what I'm going through

80s

Yes to Blondie @CarnageAtTheGardenCentre and agree @Honeyroar

Glad to see you've bounced back @FlouncerInDenial

Night time. City beat.
The radio is calling
The lost and lonely in vain
(80s)

Get some revaluation
Put into your hands
Save you from your misery
Like rain across the land
(90s)

@shinynewapple2020

Can you explain *@midgebabe* hotel California ? Is the song about a dream then ?

Oh fuck, shiny. Don't go into the dark recessed depths of THAT mind

The diving man’s coming up for air
Cause the crowd all love pulling dolly by the hair
By the hair
(80s)

I’m quite fascinated/amused by Midge’s mind. And also completely baffled.

(that’s not a lyric - but could be quite a good one if anyone wants to do some composing!)

@midgebabe

Well I always think it's a bad dream, nightmare, the kind where you keep waking up only you haven't really ? My version usually involves falling down the stairs entangled in the duvet, so on balance being trapped in a hotel in California might be better

It's an allegory for Hollywood/the movie industry

But...but...but....

Hollywood = Dreamtown
Simpler perhaps

I never knew that Flouncer. It doesn’t work for me?!

@Honeyroar

The diving man’s coming up for air Cause the crowd all love pulling dolly by the hair By the hair (80s)

Is it Girls on film - Duran Duran @Honeyroar?

It is Carnage.✅

I'm at a stage of drunkenness that I can't even read the lyrics being posted 🤣

Google says it's about the excesses and dark underbelly of the American dream

A bit more of my last one (clue - it was 1973 & sounds like self indulgent twaddle 😁 I found it on a list of "dream" songs)

Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face gettin' clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life's in books, written pages
Live and learn, from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All of the things you do
Come back to you

@midgebabe

Google says it's about the excesses and dark underbelly of the American dream

But particularly about the film industry

flouncer you can be right if I can be right?

I googled it and it said it was about Southern California and possibly drugs! Whatever, it’s a great track.

I only knew you for a while
I never saw your smile til it was time to go

80s

Together in electric dreams
Human league