Spandau Ballet

The Singles Lyrics Sheet

All songs written by and

ãGary Kemp

To cut a long story short

She loved like diamond

Through the barricades

How many lies?

Raw

Be free with your love

Crashed into love

Empty spaces

TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT

Soldier is turning

See him through white light

Running from strangers

See you in the valley

War upon war

Heat upon heat

To cut a long story short I lost my mind

Sitting on a park bench

Years away from fighting

To cut a long story short I lost my mind

Standing in the dark

I was waiting for the man to come

I am beautiful and clean

And so very, very young

To be standing in the street

To be taken by someone

Standing in the dark

I was waiting for the man to come

I am beautiful and clean

And so very, very young

To be standing in the street

To be taken by someone

Questions, questions

Give me no answers

That’s all they ever give me

Questions, questions

‘Oh look at the strange boy

He finds it hard existing’

To cut a long story short I lost my M-I-N-D

ã1980 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

THE FREEZE

Blue sing la lune, sing lagoon

These visions are making me stay

The artist pretending it’s art

The question is where do you pay

Unpack my case one more time

I’ll cancel my train once again

Destiny give me a day

Erogenous zones win again

ã1981 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

MUSCLEBOUND

We’re building fires that will burn until morning

The smell of books and hot stone surround us

Tough is the leather that’s strapped to my skin

Strong are the bonds that we make

We feel the steam as it rises around us

Up from the soil that it’s cracking it’s back

Tough is the leather that’s strapped to my skin

Strong are the bonds that we sing

Work ‘til you’re musclebound all night long

To hear a pulsing from chanter to mountain

Down through the vain and into the grain

Strong is the shoulder that moves to the time

Here is the land it can break

Ha! Strong is the leather that’s strapped to my skin

Strong are the bonds that we sing…

ã1981 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

CHANT NO 1

I check the time, it’s almost time

A curious smell, an intangible crime

I’m washing my clothes, but the stain still grows

Cover your eyes, the stain still shows

I feel the graze against my skin

I know this feeling is a lie

There’s a guilt within my mind

I know this feeling is a lie

I don’t need this pressure on

Oh I should question not ignore

Songs are always buried deep

There’s a lion in my arms there is motion in my arms

Oh I should question not ignore

I should believe and not ignore

I don’t need this pressure on

You go down, down, down

Pass the talk of the town

You go down Greek street

Then it’s underground

Well it’s Soho life

For this mobile knife

It’s the place to shoot

Friday night ‘Beat Route’

ã1981 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing. Ltd

Paint Me Down

Paint me down

I’m walking into studio

Consider strange appeal

Paint me in the home

I’m brushing up on sketchbook

Designed for love unreal

Paint me in the home

Oil and skin you’ll need to buy it

Consider what I mean

She sinks beneath the moving pictures

Prepare the brush for me

I’m craving with this need

Paint me down

I’m soaking up the surface

Conceiving new idea

Paint me in the home

She’s oiling up her subject

But all still life is here

Paint me in the home

All the boys with framed dimension

A cover up on lust

He’ll take his pain and paint it over

Prepare the brush for me

I’m craving with this need

Paint me down

ã1981 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Instinction

Cheap bed, in the red

Sleep the words out of your head

Cold floor, nice and raw

Eat the meat that’s on the floor

High tide, some disguise

Loving makes the cream taste nice

New shore, final score

Fresh demand, I’m wanting more

This might not last too long

So always take it

This might not last too long

So take it

Reasons, reasons were here from the start

It’s my instinction, it’s my instinction

Reasons, reasons are part of the art

It’s my instinction, it’s my instinction

You cry justify

But deep beneath the feelings lie

Photo, looking old

Memory makes the day feel cold

They’ve gone, sing your song

Walk the flow, ah, too slow

Post boom, second doom

Stealing cake to eat the moon

This might not last too long

So always take it

This might not last too long

So take it

Reasons, reasons were here from the start

It’s my instinction, it’s my instinction

Reasons, reasons are part of the art

It’s my instinction, it’s my instinction

Stealing cake to eat the moon

ã1982 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

She Loved Like Diamond

She ran the risk from unity

Obsession dies alone with tragedy

She loved like diamond

And cut so hard

She died

A passion course that leads to pain

An acid taste that laced her soul again

She loved like diamond

And cut so hard

She died

Another path, I’ve run them all

The rain has cleared the stains, no trace at all

She loved like diamond

And cut so hard

She died

ã1982 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Lifeline

Changing her colours she’s off to the shore

She rides the soul train and he fights the law

There’s power in his voice and it make her feel so sure

So live and let live in love

One day he’ll build a statue with his hands

So gentle when he tries to understand

This subterfuge he never really planned

Now you’re living in the lifeline

Exchanging their letters their exits begun

With deathless precision he’s aiming his gun

A democracy of sorts that justifies the sum

So live and let die in love

Neither has a ghost of a chance

Those decisions only can be made once

You never really know just what you’re giving

Till you’re living in the lifeline

He could have built a statue with his hands

So gentle when he tries to understand

You never really know just what you’re giving

Till you’re living in the lifeline

So live and let live in love…

ã1982 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Communication

Communication always leaves me incomplete

The grass is greener but it’s grown beneath my feet

Love inspiration is a message on a wing

But I have left it in the words you’ll never sing

Communication let me down

And I’m left here

Communication let me down

And I’m left here

Again

Telex or tell me but it’s always second hand

I’m incognito but no rendez-vous been planned

Dictate or relay I could send it to your home

“Return to sender” I could sing it down the phone

I’m sitting by the telephone

Waiting for the bell to ring

Short changed fumble

Dial-a-heart trouble

And I ain’t got time for searching through the rubble

Communication let me down

And I’m left here

Communication let me down

And I’m left here

Again

ã1983 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

True

So true

Funny how it seems

Always in time

But never in line for dreams

Head over heels, when toe to toe

This is the sound of my soul, this is the sound

I bought a ticket to the world

But now I’ve come back again

Why do I find it hard to write the next line

When I want the truth to be said

I know this much is true

With a thrill in my head

And a pill on my tongue

Dissolve the nerves that have just begun

Listening to Marvin all night long

This is the sound of my soul, this is the sound

Always slipping from my hands

Sand’s a time of it’s own

Take your seaside arms and write the next line

Oh I want the truth to be known

ã1983 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Gold

Thank you for coming home

I’m sorry that the chairs are all worn

I left them here I could have sworn

These are my salad days

Slowly being eaten away

Just another Play For Today

Oh but I’m proud of you, but I’m proud of you

There’s nothing left to make me feel small

Luck has left me standing so tall

Gold

Always believe in your soul

You’ve got the power to know

You’re indestructible

Always believe in, because you are

Gold

Glad that you’re bound to return

There’s something I could have learned

You’re indestructible, always believe in

After the rush has gone

I hope you find a little more time

Remember we were partners in crime

It’s only two years ago

The man with the suit and the pace

You know that he was there on the case

Now he’s in love with you, he’s in love with you

And my love is like a high prison wall

But you could leave me standing so tall

Gold

Always believe in your soul

You’ve got the power to know

You’re indestructible

Always believe in, because you are

Gold

Glad that you’re bound to return

There’s something I could have learned

You’re indestructible, always believe in

ã1983 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Only When You Leave

Laying in the afterglow,

I only want to learn what you know;

But now you’re leaving

How many hearts must you break?

How many calls must I make?

But now you’re leaving.

In this world, all that I choose has come unbearable.

But love is in your touch, Oh, it’s killing me so much

Only when you leave, I’ll need to love you

And when the action has all gone,

I’m just a little fool enough to need you,

Fool enough too long

Only when you leave, you’ll leave in danger,

Oh, I’ll make sure that you pay

So give a little passion to a stranger,

And take this soul away.

I only want to make things last,

So how could this have gone so fast;

And now you’re leaving.

How many times must I learn

It’s only when you’ve gone that I burn;

Now you’re leaving.

In the end, all that is left has become unbearable.

It’s hard to change your mind, so leave it all behind.

Only when you leave, I’ll need to love you

And when the action has all gone,

I’m just a little fool enough to need you,

Fool enough too long

Only when you leave, you’ll leave in danger,

Oh, I’ll make sure that you pay

So give a little passion to a stranger,

And take this soul away.

Laying in the afterglow,

I only want to learn what you know;

But now you’re leaving

How many hearts must you break?

How many calls must I make?

But now you’re leaving.

In this world, all that I choose has come unbearable.

But love is in your touch, Oh, it’s killing me so much

Only when you leave, I’ll need to love you

And when the action has all gone,

I’m just a little fool enough to need you,

Fool enough too long

Only when you leave You’ll leave in danger,

Oh, I’ll make sure that you pay

So give a little passion to a stranger,

And take this soul away.

No, no, no, no

ã1984 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Highly Strung

This is the song of little jo,

She’s not the girl I used to know

Forever screaming all the day and night.

She used to be a diplomat,

But now she’s down the Laundromat,

They washed her mind and now she finds it hard.

I know her name,

But now she never seems the same.

She don’t talk to me,

Cause she can’t take no sympathy.

Because she’s highly strung,

Highly strung, she’s undone

Highly strung

Highly strung, she’s undone

She’s stepping out upon the ledge,

She’s got a gun against her head,

She’s wired up to blow the power lines.

She’s walking out upon the knife

She’s take you to the edge of life

Just like the song, the pressures on again.

I know her name,

But now she never seems the same.

She don’t talk to me,

Cause she can’t take no sympathy

Because she’s highly strung,

Highly strung, she’s undone

Highly strung

Highly strung, she’s undone

ã1984 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

I’ll Fly For You

Passion take the wind

And break me from this tie.

We’re mortals on the earth

But god’s up in the sky.

I haven’t got a clue. I haven’t got a thing

But what I give to you, is all that I could bring.

I’ll give you all my time. That’s everything to me

You know my only crime. Is this flight of fantasy

Because there’s nothing else here for you

And just because it’s easier than the truth

Oh, if there’s nothing else that I can do

I’ll fly for you

Because I’ve nothing else here for you

And just because it’s easier than the truth

Oh, if there’s nothing else that I can do

I’ll fly for you

Passion take the wind

And break me from this tie.

We’re mortals on the earth

But god’s up in the sky.

I haven’t got a clue

I haven’t got a thing

But what I give to you

Is all that I could bring whoa, whoa, whoa

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Because there’s nothing else here for you

And just because it’s easier than the truth

Oh, if there’s nothing else that I can do

I’ll fly for you

Because I’ve nothing else here for you

And just because it’s easier than the truth

Oh, if there’s nothing else that I can do

I’ll fly for you, I’ll fly for you, I’ll fly

I’m just an average boy,

You’re more than average, girl,

And when you sing to me

The shoo-bee-doo’s you sing so well.

Oh, don’t you know that when I’m under you

I’m overjoyed

Because there’s nothing else here for you

And just because it’s easier than the truth

Oh, if there’s nothing else that I can do

I’ll fly for you

Because I’ve nothing else here for you

And just because it’s easier than the truth

Oh, if there’s nothing else that I can do

I’ll fly for you, I’ll fly for you, I’ll fly for you

I’ll fly…

ã1984 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Round And Round

I don’t have to be so wise,

You’re just my fantasy,

And I will fantasize,

Something more or less to make things started,

We’re the artisans,

And we’ve been crafted.

I wanna be your magical mystery

I wanna be your final history;

This is the news.

Nothings ever been so wild,

All that I get to do

Is what I give to you.

This is all about the circles we’ve found

And through the ups and downs

It goes round

Oh, I was just beginning to grow strong,

She was only eighteen summers long;

We were the news.

Round and round it goes,

And oh, don’t you know,

This is the game that we came here for

Round and round it goes

And oh, don’t you know

I don’t have to be so wise,

You’re just my fantasy,

And I will fantasize,

Something more or less to make things started,

We’re the artisans,

And we’ve been crafted.

I wanna be your magical mystery

I wanna be your final history;

This is the news.

Round and round it goes,

And oh, don’t you know,

This is the game that we came here for

Round and round it goes

And oh, don’t you know

This is the game that we came here for

Round and round it goes,

And oh, don’t you know,

This is the game that we came here for

Round and round it goes

And oh, don’t you know

You’re just my fantasy,

And I will fantasize

I wanna be your magical mystery

I wanna be your final history;

This is the news.

This is the news of my life

Oh, I was just beginning to grow strong,

She was only eighteen summers long;

We were the news.

We were the news

Round and round it goes,

And oh, don’t you know,

This is the game that we came here for

Round and round it goes

And oh, don’t you know

Round and round it goes,

And oh, don’t you know,

This is the game that we came here for

Round and round it goes

And oh, don’t you know

Round and round it goes

ã1984 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Fight For Ourselves

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves.

So many people so many problems,

There in the pretty city lights where we’ve thrown it all away,

Well if life is here before my eyes

Then I find it hard to see

How the methods that we’re told to use

Are gonna make us free,

Until then I say

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves.

All through the mystery, all through the heartache,

She’s got the only single thing that I’ll never throw away.

Oh if lightning strikes for the second time,

Will you come and pull me through?

It’s a battle that we all must make

So show me what to do,

And you said

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves.

(We’ve got to fight for ourselves)

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves.

Well there’s a feeling growing that is in this land

There’s a soul that’s burning and it’s in your hand

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves,

Fight for ourselves

(Fight, Fight).

Oh, so many people so many problems

There in the pretty city lights where we’ve thrown it all away,

Well if life is here before my eyes

Then I find it hard to see

How the methods that we’re told to use

Are gonna make us free,

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves

(We’ve got to fight for ourselves)

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves

Oh there’s a feeling growing that is in this land

There’s a soul that’s burning and it’s in your hand

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves,

Fight for ourselves

We’ve got to fight for ourselves

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves

(Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves)

Everybody, we’ve got to fight for ourselves

(Fight, Fight).

Everybody, fight for ourselves

(Everybody), we’ve got to fight for ourselves.

ã1986 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Through The Barricades

Mother doesn’t know where love has gone,

She says it must be youth that keeps us felling strong.

See it in her face that’s turned to ice,

And when she smiles she shows the lines of sacrifice.

And now I know what they’re saying as our sun begins to fade,

And we made our love on wasteland and through the barricades.

Father made my history,

He fought for what he thought would set us somehow free.

They taught me what to say in school,

I learned it off by heart but now that’s torn in two.

And now I know what they’re saying in the music of the parade,

And we made our love on wasteland and through the barricades.

Born on different sides of life,

But we feel the same and feel all of this strife,

So come to me when I’m asleep

And we’ll cross the line and dance upon the streets.

And now I know what they’re saying as the drums begin to fade,

And we made our love on wasteland and through the barricades.

Oh, turn around and I’ll be there,

Well there’s a scar right through my heart but I’ll bare it again.

Oh, I thought we were the human race but we were just another borderline case,

And the stars reach down and tell us that there’s always one escape.

Oh, I don’t know were love has gone

And in this troubled land desperation keeps us strong.

Friday’s child is full of soul,

With nothing left to lose there’s everything to go.

And now I know what they’re saying,

It’s a terrible beauty we’ve made

So we make our love on wasteland and through the barricades

And now I know what they’re saying as our hearts go to their graves

And we made our love on wasteland and through the barricades.

ã1986 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

How Many Lies

Once there were times, once there were reasons filled with rhymes,

Everything shared, everything told.

You keep me so warm,

Protect me from all those mighty storms and dreams seem so old.

So look at us now, just look at us now,

With our hands on our hearts oh and lines on our brow.

How many lies must we tell?

How many lies must we see?

How many times must we say “it’s for the best”

And leave the truth as the casualty?

Do you read through the lines

Or believe the TV and ‘the times’?

Where can we find more ways to see?

You strain on the truth

And make believe all when you cry wolf

And the lies you’re giving me.

So look at us now, just look at us now,

With our hands on our hearts oh and lines on our brow.

How many lies must we tell?

How many lies must we see?

How many times must we say “it’s for the best”

And leave the truth as the casualty?

Oh, well the truth is hard so when they write the book

Fiction’s what you wanna be,

Well it’s your freedom of choice

But you know that lies are the cancer of democracy,

You’ve painted your face

And now you’ve tainted your words

And now your ready and armed with love

Well if your head is steady and your soul is ready we’re going up above,

So whatever you wanna be

Just come on all along with me,

If there’s truth in our hearts

Maybe we can break free.

How many lies must we tell?

How many lies must we see?

How many times must we say “it’s for the best”

And leave the truth as the casualty?

How many lies must we tell?

How many lies must we see?

How many times must we say “it’s for the best”

And leave the truth as the casualty?

How many times must we say “it’s for the best”

And leave nothing, yeah.

ã1986 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Raw

I’ve been running round town for a new identity

I’ve been dreaming hot dreams of insecurity

I’ve been chasing my heart through the streets of my mind

I’ve been clinging to the bed the sweat is turning me blind

Well I’m plugging all the holes and sealing all the cracks

I’m like a galvanised nerve I just can’t seem to relax

She’s got fire on her breath and chilli on her lips

Teeth around her neck and she’s got jazz on her hips

There’s a flash in my brain like a shot from above

It’s a strange idea of love.

Like a wolf at the door

Like a scratch of a claw

She says “Come on baby, I want it Raw!”

A wolf at the door

A scratch of a claw

“I want it Raw!”

Well I’m driving out of town I’m on the verge of a storm

I’m sucking my St. Christopher and trying to keep calm

A mambo mamma on the back of my heels

And this incantation can trap my wheels

There’s a heat in my car there’s a fog on my screen

I’ve never felt so scared never dreamt such a dream

There’s a man on the corner preaching fire above

It’s a strange idea of love

Like a wolf at the door

Like a scratch of a claw

She says “Come on baby, I want it Raw!”

A wolf at the door

A scratch of a claw

Like a wolf at the door

Like a scratch of a claw

She says “Come on baby, I want it Raw!”

A wolf at the door

A scratch of a claw

“I want it Raw!”

ã1988 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Be free With Your Love

Be free with your love, free with your love

Two young babes in a foreign land

Draw no milk from the dusty sand

Close their eyes from the night so cold

Feel the love in their mother’s hold

Two old men on their different shores

Stretch the world with their tug of war

Tension pulls on a tightening cord

Spread your love over mans discord

Life’s your reward

So sing it to your Lord

Be free with your love, free with your love now baby

Be free with your love, free with your love

Science stands on the threshold of life

Man could be cut by a blow of its knife

Time to live by a new resolution

In the spirit of loves evolution

Two young girls shining in the sun

Feel your pain but they dance for everyone

Beauty lives in their innocent glow

Things so dear should be free to let grow

So let your heart flow

And sing it to your soul

Be free with your love, free with your love now baby

Be free with your love, free with your love

Be free with your love

Two young girls shining in the sun

Feel your pain but they dance for everyone

Be free with your love

ã1989 Gary kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

Crashed Into Love

We stand alone

Warmed by the light that reflects in your eyes

I feel inside an emotional storm

And a heart like a sky

This moment takes me to somewhere unknown

And what I’m feeling is thrilled to the bone

Been chasing rainbows all my life

Now I know that was wrong

I’ve found the Gold deep in my soul

And I want to hang on

Just one look of encouragement

And what I have here is heaven sent

And hit from above

I just crashed into love

Crashed into love

And I’m feeling that when powers inside

When forces collide

This can’t be denied

And now it hits me

Love overdrive

I try to stand my ground but can’t contrive

These are the days that we’ll think that we dreamed

For the rest of our lives

This moment takes me to somewhere unknown

And what I’m feeling is thrilled to the bone

And hit from above

I just crashed into love

Crashed into love

And I’m feeling that when powers inside

When forces collide

This can’t be denied

I just crashed into love

Crashed into love

And I know that I was hit by surprise

Between open eyes

Emotions arise

And now we’re living the June of our lives

In the heat of this day

We’re on the eve of experience now

And nothing will take this away.

Just one look of encouragement