True Album

 

ã All songs written by Gary Kemp

Produced by Tony Swain, Steve Jolley & Spandau Ballet

Published by reformation publishing co ltd.

 

Pleasure

 

Communication

 

Code of Love

 

Gold

 

Lifeline

 

Heaven is a secret

 

Foundation

 

True

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pleasure

 

Pleasure’s in my car

Even in the bars I’m searching

In love that’s strong, I’m learning

(I am learning)

Pleasures in the sand

 Warm within the hand she’s holding.

It is on the screen

Adventures at nineteen, I’m searching

I am searching in my heart

 

Pleasure in my heart

Never let us part for pleasure

Work, work today

Never let them pay for pleasure

Leave or lose her from my heart.

 

Pleasure is your name

I accept the blame for falling

It is down the phone

Living in your home, I’m calling

(I am calling)

 

Pleasure is a word

When love is left unheard, its burning

It is on the screen

Adventures at nineteen, I’m searching

I am searching in my heart

 

Why do you feel like breaking my heart?

What made you feel like breaking my heart tonight?

Now I am crying, now I am crying

Now I am crying, now I am crying

 

Pleasure in my heart

Never let us part for pleasure

Work, work today

Never let them pay for pleasure

Leave or lose her from my heart.

 

 

ã1983 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

 

 

 

Code of Love

 

He put so much into her life

She took so much out of his

It was a crucial assignment

No one ever asked for this

 

It was a little confusing

He thought he knew what to do

But now their walking in silence

Little girl and soldier blue

 

Well she wrote you a song saying that she approved

But you didn’t understand

And when love comes along it’s just a catcher in the rye

It’s hard to make those long term plans.

 

Well it’s the code of love

You don’t understand her

Well it’s the code of love

You could never ask for more

You could never ask for more

 

They made a certain agreement

He’s bound to do what he’s told

He ran back home with the message

Screwed up in a pocket cold

 

She sat at home with her reason

A sour note and a tear

But love comes home for the season

Breaking down the walls of fear.

 

Well it’s the code of love

You don’t understand her

Well it’s the code of love

You could never ask for more

You could never ask for more

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

Heaven is a secret

 

She’ll sing a Westside song

You can be the boy in the film

Heaven is a secret

Oh heaven is a secret

Where are the west side boys

Fighting on the scaffold of love

Scripted pleasures made forever

Easier said than done together

 

Heaven is a secret

It’s a passion

It’s a long way over there

Far from her arms tonight

Heaven is a secret

It’s a passion

It’s a long way over there

Far from her arms tonight

Far from her arms tonight

 

Here is her model home

Listen to the call of the wild

Heaven is a secret

Heaven is a secret

Facts are an awful shame

The shadow of a doubtful affair

Scripted pleasures made forever

Easier said than done together

 

Heaven is a secret

It’s a passion

It’s a long way over there

Far from her arms tonight

Heaven is a secret

It’s a passion

It’s a long way over there

Far from her arms tonight

Far from her arms tonight

 

Act ones the same as you read in the book

Could this be the thing that they shout about

No more in distress, now it’s rushed through the door

And you can’t believe that the secret’s out

Scripted pleasures made forever

Easier said than done together.

 

Heaven is a secret

It’s a passion

It’s a long way over there

Far from her arms tonight

Heaven is a secret

It’s a passion

It’s a long way over there

Far from her arms tonight

Far from her arms tonight

 

 

 

 

 

ã1983 Gary Kemp published by Reformation Publishing Ltd

 

Foundation

 

Hello, this is me to you

It’s better now were coming through

And I don’t really know just who we are

I’ll stay here till my loves full up

So stir this cocktail shake me up

Drink me down and take me from the bar.

 

We’ll build a foundation,

build a foundation

build a foundation

you know we’re gonna build

build it up.

 

Spent the night in tumble down

A hundred mile from west of town

Plans were laid no compromise was made

Gentle up to meet the blue

Left a note and signed it True

Those construction games were all we played.

 

We’ll build a foundation,

build a foundation

build a foundation

you know we’re gonna build

build it up

 

oh I know you’re gonna give your best

so more or less gonna put it to the test

don’t you know you’ve got the whole world in your hands.

 

surrender up and lay down your arms

the fighting hurts but the loving calms

oh I know you’ve got the whole world in your arms

 

We’ll build a foundation,

build a foundation

build a foundation

you know we’re gonna build

build it up

 

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