Wang Chung

The longer love survives The more it's easy to be blind When it is obvious it's over I put my trust in you I spent my love and I thought I knew But now things just don't look the same I paid the price with a love I thought was strong Counting on you I was wron...

(Jack Hues) A man lives in the city Surrounded by machines They take away his pity And give him what he dreams A stream of information On a green letter screen Makes him feel in touch with the world And sure of what it means Chorus: At the speed of light you...

Songwriters: WANG CHUNG, PETER WOLF (Wang Chung / Peter Wolf) We met as friends of friends while still at school I was all you ever really knew When we met it was like a dream For all I knew we could not fail But now I know of your betrayal Living in the old...

(Jack Hues) You woke me from my sleep we quietly crept Outside This memory I'll keep of bitter crimson Winter sunrise lost in the icy silence Our warm breath fading in the air I'm not sure why I tell you still less what I mean It's like a dream and maybe the...

China, china, on the sea shore China, china, on the dance floor China, china, I must have seen your face before I've been to cairo and I've been to khartoum I've seen them places from my rented room I've been to paris and I've been to marseille But that was n...

A star is shining Into my eyes It will not fall A star is wise Across the harbor Perfumed hills The silent waters And all is still Oh yeah Chinese girls stand, see right through you Chinese girls can sway Chinese girls will melt your heart And take your breat...

Take your baby by the hand And make her do a high handstand and take your baby by the heel And do the next thing that you feel We were so in phase In our Dance Hall Days We were cool on craze When I, you and everyone we knew Could believed, do, and share in w...

(Jack Hues) If you have to leave after all that we've Been through, been through Been through I can't be a friend if your heart has the end In view, in view In view Chorus: Because lovers never can be Just devoted friends How can we meet on a day in the wee...

You had your dreams You required a scheme of things That evolved and resolved through the years And I had my part (when you wrote me out) But you broke my heart (when you wrote me out) Now you spend your whole time trying To burn me to the ground Chorus: Don'...

I got your letter I felt so scared to Pick up the paper knife and read within I read the contents I got what you meant I know it's hard for you but don't give in Maybe, maybe slow things go fast Maybe, maybe it's all in the past Chorus: Oh oh if you...

I'm picking up paper I'm doing the things that I never thought I'd do again I'm writing you letters I'm getting the better Of things I thought I'd lose again Chorus: You know I wish I was your lover Even if you dream of him I wish I was your brother Baby when...

Id drive a million miles To be with you tonight So if youre feeling low Turn up your radio The words we use are strong They make reality But now the musics on Oh baby dance with me Rip it up - move down Rip it up - move it down to the ground Rip it up - cool...

(Wang Chung) On her televison, on her mamma's radio She could paint a picture More alive than all she ought to know Her imagination running wild, she let it grow In her imagination Oh she felt she loved him so Chorus: The eyes of the girl are following me Lo...

Fire In The Twilight by Wang Chung Hot on the run from the grip of the power game, The man who leads the way, the man who leads the way. Shell in its box from his home that theyll never tame, The man who leads the way, the man who leads the way. He is bu...

(Nick Feldman) I don't wanna play these games of power I don't wanna fight this war no more Don't wanna twist the knife Just wanna better life for me & you & me & you Chorus: Is this what you call love Is this what we've been fighting for Is this...

Living at speed It's so hard, turns a year to days The things that I need It's so sad, but they will always change So when you call my name And the answer's not the same Hold back the tears The tears Oh, it's raining Though water's pouring down my face There...

Darlin', I believe in love Since I met you, baby I believe in love The way you hold me My heart is stirred You can control me Without a word Turn on you white light In my open eyes Oh girl, you hypnotize me I feel your white light You're so bright I'm hypnoti...

(jack Hues) From my window I can see the skylight And the clouds gathering out to sea A light rain falls And the street lights make the road shine And I can't sleep People talking about the war I can't sleep People talking about the war I can't sleep Over t...

(Jack Hues) Times are hard and times will change Things can never be the same A love that's fallen, that makes no sense It's better than indifference I can't help all things I feel But I don't need a compact seal A love that's over, a love that's spent I'll...

Meet me in a restaurant Meet me on the top of the world Meet me and we'll talk The language of love I'll meet you anywhere you want I'll meet you on a ballroom floor Meet me and we'll float To a level above I wish you'd drop What you're doing And g...

Logic and Love (Feldman / Chandler) Love and logic just don't go together Try to force it, you'll be trying forever Why discuss it when you're missing the point Girl Forget the fakin' all I care is that you're Chorus: Making all the right moves You're makin...

It's hard to recall how we were at school Our ambitions and conditions And our hopes for the future The teachers we had, our mums and our dads Their decisions and revisions And their hopes for the future Chorus: But look at me now I cannot count the cost Of a...

Let's go out tonight Put on your shoes Get away from here Far from the local blues Let's go out tonight Let's make our escape From the city lights And all the familiar shapes We can drive all night We can stop in a field Hear the starlight Traveling for millio...

(Feldman / Chandler / Hues) What got into you got into me too What came over you is coming over me Feel like I've had enough of all the old stuff I saw the writing on the wall on my t.v. It's another second coming, like it or not, yeah, Oh yeah It's another s...

Simple scenes that I've never seen A hole in my living, a kind of in-between A geisha girl, a hard won world A wall that divides us from an eastern spell So we're rising in the east I've seen america, america Where they're so tired of living, they don't walk...

(Jack Hues) Let's rent a place in town Somewhere we can call our own Let's knock these barriers down We need to spend some time alone Everything in the world has a name Oh doesn't it make you feel Like you've moved into a rented apartment Everything is real Bu...

Yeah Drifting on the spaceway By the betelguese Hotel Mapping out constellations Of the place I know so well Sifting through the system For the piece that knows my name Endlessly I listen In the master game Welcome to my world (Welcome to my worl...

We all need lovers We all need girls And there will be no other In all the world Chorus: I got a feeling straight from my heart I got a feeling straight from my Straight from my heart Straight from my heart Straight from my.... We all need airplanes We all n...

Songwriters: DAVID SYLVIAN (Nick Feldman) Baby ben really likes to swing Baby ben really feels like a king As the wail of the horns make his body sway Peggy sue likes to rock and roll Peggy sue gonna lose control As electric guitars play all her fears away...

(Jack Hues / Nick Feldman) These days our problems seem to come in waves Sometimes it's hard to count them all You're reading all alone when suddenly You feel yourself about to fall Chorus: If you need someone to talk it out Then talk it out with me If you n...

Tall trees in a blue sky Stand together don’t ask why Stretch up to the blue sky Pierce that ceiling if you try You say these feelings do not last Well I am gonna prove you wrong You say our future’s in the past But I am gonna turn you on Bright leaves in the...

(Wang Chung) I wanna paint your portrait in bright color I wanna paint the lines in red and blue I wanna make your eyes appear like starlings Saying, "Darling, I love you!" I wanna set your face upon a landscape I wanna show the love and toil and sweat I wanna...

(Jack Hues) Well I'm sitting on a hillside On the warmer side of cool With the future laid before me Like a green and misty jewel And to climb above the tree line Is only for the fools So they say So they say Chorus: On the warmer side of cool What you feel...

Working at your job all day Sends the time spinning away Watch tv from half past six Cook, make love and pick up sticks But you can hear the waves crash on the beach At night Books you read can sublimate Music seems to dissipate And maybe just a bottle of win...

(Wang Chung) The world in which we live is peopled by people who Fuck, shit, screw everybody, don't care, swear Do things without a care, are seen everywhere And write about each other The world in which we live is peopled by people who Can't afford to eat,...

(Jack Hues) You're sending messages to me girl I feel them flashed across the land It's such that I can disbelieve girl And what you feel is in my hand Chorus: Ti na na, Ti na na ne girl Ti na na, Ti na na ne Ti na na, Ti na na ne girl Ti na na, Ti na...

(Jack Hues) In the heat of the day Every time you go away I have to piece my life together Every time you're away In the heat of the day In the dark of the night Every time I turn the light I feel that God is not in heaven In the dark of the night The dark of...

Chorus: True love is the answer to everything True love is the answer True love is the thing Long days spent on the edge of space oh Maybe someone will come along love All day with every familiar face oh Tells me you're very very wrong love Repeat ch...

Streetcorners seem designed to lie in wait For a chance to get involved in lovers' fate And this one seems as good as any I've seen So wait here with me until six-fifteen Chorus: I'm waiting for you But you're very late I know you'll come anyway And I can har...

Wake up, stop dreaming The sun is in the sky again There's a hole in the ocean And water's pouring through Oh, wake up stop dreaming And wipe the sleep from your eyes Are you frightened of heights Are you falling Chorus: Wake up stop dreaming There's more tha...

(Feldman / Hues / Chandler) You're awake as dawn breaks, another day And the grey clouds weep how you feel But the way she touch you just bring you back to life Don't let them bury your soul in concrete and steel Chorus: So what's so bad about feeling go...

(Jack Hues) I feel the tension In your hand I'm on a plane to a Foreign land So far away with no Telephone line I'm flying into spring And leaving winter behind I know it'll be winter In your heart Icy stone cold winter All the time we're apart Chorus: As I...

(Jack Hues / Nick De Spig) It's good to have a good time It's good to let your feelings be known It's good to go out dancing And it's good to have your people back home The fashions, oh they're way out babe I love the colour of your hair Darling can we go now...