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🎵 80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 39 ⭐

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 12/09/2023 21:15

Come on in.
Post a few lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s with the decade & we will try to guess the song & artist.

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BlushingCaligula · 17/09/2023 09:37

BlushingCaligula · 16/09/2023 19:41

Outstanding ones with some extra lyrics - also changed an error in no.4

2 It won’t take you long
To learn the new smile
You have to adapt
Or you’ll be out of style

4 Kill the king when love is the law
And then we'll turn round

5 I thought, "Oh God, my chance has come at last”
But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn't ask

6 We were so young then
We thought that everything we could possibly do was right
Then we moved stolen from our very eyes
And I wondered where you went to

7 the truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark
It scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark
Missing line with title in it
Go on and hurt me, then we'll let it drop

9 And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me
'Cause it just belongs to you and me

10 I walked the ward for you, babe
A thousand miles for you
Now who dried my tears of pain, babe?
A million times for you, for you
I'd sell my soul for you, babe

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@Rogue1001MNer

You know nearly all of the others ... honestly

LauraNorda · 17/09/2023 10:53

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 16/09/2023 19:32

1 is I don't like Mondays - boomtown rats. You are right - it makes it a lot easier !

Correct. Just 3 and 6 to get.

Honeyroar · 17/09/2023 19:55

What was no 9???

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Imnotswallowingthat · 17/09/2023 20:04

9 is Iggy Pop - I Am the Passenger

Honeyroar · 17/09/2023 22:00

Oh yeah! Doh!

LauraNorda · 20/09/2023 16:56

LauraNorda · 17/09/2023 10:53

Correct. Just 3 and 6 to get.

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As there seems to be no takers, 3 was Shakatak - Nightbirds and 6 was Gap Band - Big fun.

Honeyroar · 20/09/2023 21:21

Thanks for the answers. Not songs I know that well.

midgemadgemodge · 22/09/2023 17:37

1: it must have been cold there in my shadow

2: we only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts

3; how do you think I'm going to get along
Without you when you're gone

4: from the young man in the 22nd row

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 22/09/2023 17:50

Midge is no 1 Wind beneath my wings? Multiple singers, one being Bette Midler.

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midgemadgemodge · 22/09/2023 18:01

Correct coffee and Bette was who o was thinking of

LauraNorda · 22/09/2023 18:34

Number 2 is Mike and The Mechanics - Living years

midgemadgemodge · 22/09/2023 18:55

Yes Laura!

Rogue1001MNer · 22/09/2023 22:10

4 is candle in the wind.
Elton john

midgemadgemodge · 23/09/2023 19:25

It was and hopefully someone will remind me what 3 was soon as I have forgot

BlushingCaligula · 23/09/2023 19:39

3 is Queen - another one bites the dust

midgemadgemodge · 24/09/2023 09:20

Thanks ! - I was sure it was a queen one!

FlockOfPigeons · 27/09/2023 19:10

Choo, choo, train a-trackin' down the track
Gotta travel on, ain't never comin' back

70's

Rogue1001MNer · 27/09/2023 21:49

One way ticket to the blues

FlockOfPigeons · 27/09/2023 22:12

Correct Rogue!

Honeyroar · 27/09/2023 22:21

Somethings wrong
you’re not naive
you must be strong
(80s)

Honeyroar · 27/09/2023 22:23

I swear I’m keeping you satisfied
cos you’re the one for me
(80s, I think)

Honeyroar · 27/09/2023 22:25

I don’t listen to their wasted lines
got my eyes wide open
and I see the signs
(80s but was a cover)

Honeyroar · 27/09/2023 22:29

I’m a housewife hooked on Valium
Im pensioner alone
im a cancer ridden specter
covering the earth
im another hungry baby
(80s)

BlushingCaligula · 27/09/2023 22:30

Honeyroar · 27/09/2023 22:25

I don’t listen to their wasted lines
got my eyes wide open
and I see the signs
(80s but was a cover)

Kirsty McColl - They don't know

BlushingCaligula · 27/09/2023 22:31

Honeyroar · 27/09/2023 22:21

Somethings wrong
you’re not naive
you must be strong
(80s)

Too shy shy ... Kajagoogoo

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