Erasure • Lyrics
Singles Box Set 2
I don't wanna look like some kind of fool
I don't wanna break my heart over you
I'm building a wall
Everyday it's getting higher
This time I won't end up another victim of love
You say that I could show some emotion
That I've been keeping secrets from you
But I can see through all your sweet talk
And all of your affections untrue
I'm gonna find you out
If I scream and I shout
You won't break down my protection
I don't wanna look like some kind of fool
I don't wanna break my heart over you
I'm building a wall
Everyday it's getting higher
This time I won't end up another victim of love
I'm gonna lock up what I'm feeling inside
Ain't no way you can break down the door
'Cause this time I've learned my lesson
You can take this declaration of war
Step right back
Put on your coat and your hat
Gonna avoid all complication
I don't wanna look like some kind of fool
I don't wanna break my heart over you
I'm building a wall
Everyday it's getting higher
This time I won't end up another victim of love
Slow the years go by
They stole your man off to war
Will you see the child
As you sing battle songs?
And it pains me
To think of the soldier's plight
I will pray
For your god to guide you home
And she cries for the soldier's return
Despair at feeling alone for so long
By the light of the candle that burns
For his life for the day of the soldier's return
Hear the cannon fire
Lost voices echo in the night
See the spoils of war
Young men are falling, ooh
Hear the drummer
Marching over the hill
Love returning
And the graves of the battle lie still
And she cries for the soldier's return
Despair at feeling alone for so long
By the light of the candle that burns
For his life for the day of the soldier's return
Hear the drummer
Marching over the hill
Love returning
And the graves of the battle lie still
And she cries for the soldier's return
Despair at feeling alone for so long
By the light of the candle that burns
For his life for the day of the soldier's return
Young men are falling
Make the world a little better
I don't believe you know what you're talking about
I don't believe you go and ever find out for yourself
Always got a lot to say
Well I'm not listening anyway
I'm not listening anyway
If I could make the world a little better
You know I would make the world a little better
If I could make the world a little better
I don't believe you care about the consequences
I don't believe you share in what you know we know is true
Turning keys and locking doors
I won't accept that anymore
Won't accept that anymore
If I could make the world a little better
You know I would make the world a little better
If I could make the world a little better
I don't believe you know about the hearts you've broken
I don't believe you show what your intentions really are
Can you hear? What have you done?
There's not enough for everyone
Not enough for anyone
If I could make the world a little better
You know I would make the world a little better
If I could make the world a little better
If I could make the world a little better
You know I would make the world a little better
If I could make the world a little better
If I could, you know I would
Anything you want, everything you need
Every time you take what's on offer
You can step on out, you can do without
You don't have to me like every other
Don't dance to the rhythm
Do something about it
Don't dance to the rhythm
You can do without it
Don't dance to the rhythm
Do something about it
Don't dance to the rhythm
You can do without it
Always stay in line, fool you every time
Wonder why it ends up in sorrow
You don't have to go, all you say is no
There's no rhythm that you have to follow
Don't dance to the rhythm
Do something about it
Don't dance to the rhythm
You can do without it
Don't dance to the rhythm
Do something about it
Don't dance to the rhythm
You can do without it
Don't dance to the rhythm
Do something about it
Don't dance to the rhythm
You can do without it
Everywhere you go, everything you do
Got to make the best just that bit better
You can step on out, you can do without
You don't have to be like every other
Don't dance to the rhythm
Do something about it
Don't dance to the rhythm
You can do without it
Don't dance to the rhythm
Do something about it
Don't dance to the rhythm
You can do without it
It wasn't me that saw you standing by the neon-lit door
It wasn't me that saw you clinging to somebody I deplore
Baby, don't show your face, don't move in my direction
Leave me to bleed
Your love, love can be fatal
Leave me to bleed
Your love, love can be fatal
It wasn't me that heard you whisper a name I'd never heard before
It wasn't me that heard you steal out to meet behind a secret door
I've been suspecting, I've done my own detecting
Leave me to bleed
Your love, love can be fatal
Leave me to bleed
Your love, love can be fatal
It wasn't me that saw you pick up a letter fallen on the floor
It wasn't me that heard you say you couldn't love me anymore
There's no mistaking, I guess I'll just be waiting
Leave me to bleed
Your love, love can be fatal
Leave me to bleed
Your love, love can be fatal
Leave me to bleed
Your love, love can be fatal
Call it new technology and they use it to burn and they show no concern
Work for their prosperity while the big wheels turn, now it's too late to learn
Don't upset the teacher
Though we know he lied to you
Don't upset the preacher
He's gonna close his eyes for you
And it's a shame
That you're so afraid
Just a worker waiting in the pouring rain
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Father worked in industry, now the work has moved on and the factory's gone
See them sell your history where once you were strong and you used to belong
There was once a future
For a working man
There was once a lifetime
For a skillful hand
Yesterday
And it's a shame
That you're so afraid
Just a worker waiting in the pouring rain
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Don't upset the teacher
Though we know he lied to you
Don't upset the preacher
He's gonna close his eyes for you
And it's a shame
That you're so afraid
Just a worker waiting in the pouring rain
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Tempers fray so easily in desperate despair, is there anyone who cares?
Just another tragedy, just a personal affair in a room somewhere
There was once a future
For a working man
There was once a lifetime
For a skillful hand
Yesterday
And it's a shame
That you're so afraid
Just a worker waiting in the pouring rain
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream (broken dream)
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Of a broken, of a broken dream
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream (broken dream)
Putting back the pieces of a broken dream
Show me the way, they say safety in numbers
I lift up my eyes to the sky
And imagine a crowd of hearts that surround me
And give me the courage to die
Were you to weep and lie soft at my feet
Then you'd wash all my troubles away
And imagine the host of angels around me
That give me the courage to die
I try hard to put you out of my mind
Every night alone I'm thinking about you
How can I avoid this pain without you?
I won't cry, I won't be sorry no more
I know that this is something I'll get over
Maybe I can learn to love another
It's just a matter of time
A matter of time
Just because I lock myself in my room
It doesn't mean that I'm afraid to talk to
Those people I know that might have seen you
No return, I keep reminding myself
I won't look back, won't regret a single moment
I'm gonna mend this heart inside you've broken
It's just a matter of time
A matter of time
It's just a matter of time
A matter of time
Show me the way, they say safety in numbers
I lift up my eyes to the sky
And imagine a crowd of hearts that surround me
And give me the courage to die
Were you to weep and lie soft at my feet
Then you'd wash all my troubles away
And imagine the host of angels around me
That give me the courage to die
You are on one side and I am on the other
Are we divided?
You are on one side and I am on the other
Are we divided?
Why can't we live together?
There are no rights
This isn't your decision
We need to talk of changing things
But no one wants to listen
It doesn't have to be like that
It doesn't have to be like that
It doesn't have to be like that
A heart on the inside the same as any other
Are we divided?
Someone always has to suffer
We are broken
There's no one left to change it
Is that the way it has to be?
Why can't we rearrange it?
It doesn't have to be like that (one against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (one against one)
It doesn't have to be like that
Alava mo ja na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Zimbabwe abo naga na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Alava mo ja na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Zimbabwe abo naga na me me limbaniango limbaniago
What is the secret in calling me a brother?
Are we divided?
Always one against the other
We are strong now
Put down the ammunition
For what we know is right
Is gonna break down this division
It doesn't have to be like that (one against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (one against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (one against one, one against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (one against one, one against one)
It doesn't have to be like that
You are on one side and I am on the other
Are we divided?
Who needs love like that?
There's something going on, something not quite right
There something strange a-happening to me
There's someone at the door, I hear voices in my head
It seems things aren't the way they ought to be
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
It seemed so clear before I held my point of view
I kept my conversation never changed
And now it's all gone wrong and words are kinda hard
And nothing else around me looks the same
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
Love can turn you upside-down then leave you cold
It's plain to see you're losing all control
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
I'd like to understand, like to find out why
I can't remember all the lines I should say
But then I see your face and nothing really counts
Don't tell me now this feeling will stay
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
Love can turn you upside-down then leave you cold
It's plain to see you're losin' all control
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
Who needs love like that?
In my dreams, I have a plan
If I got me a weathly man
I wouldn't have to work at all
I'd fall around and have a ball
Half past twelve, and I'm watching the late show
In my flat all alone
How I hate to spend an evening on my own
Autumn winds blowing outside the window
As I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
There's not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness till the break of the day
Movie stars, find the end of the rainbow
With that fortune to win
It's so different from the world I'm living in
Tired of T.V., I open the window
And I gaze into the night
But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight
There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness till the break of the day
There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness till the break of the day
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness till the break of the day
Gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme, gimme
It's not the way you lead me by the hand into the bedroom
It's not the way you throw your clothes upon the bathroom floor
Been thinking about you, I just couldn't wait to see
Fling my arms around you as we fall in ecstacy
Ooh, sometimes
The truth is harder than the pain inside, yeah
Ooh, sometimes
It's the broken heart that decides
It's not the way that you caress me, toy with my affection
It's not my sense of emptiness you fill with your desire
Climb in bed beside me, we can lock the world outside
Touch me, satisfy me, warm your body next to mine
Ooh, sometimes
The truth is harder than the pain inside, yeah
Ooh, sometimes
It's the broken heart that decides
Woah
Ooh, sometimes
The truth is harder than the pain inside, yeah
Ooh, sometimes
It's the broken heart that decides
Say what
Make out
Say what
Make out
There's a crazy situation keeps my body hot
What's infatuation? Something you ain't got
There's fire inside
A love so bright
Say what
The hell do you think you've done?
Drive me higher and higher
Make out
There ain't nothing going on
Oh you're such a liar
Without no future what's the use in keeping tight?
Always wrapped up in yourself, oh you're alright
Why should I fall?
No love at all
Say what
The hell do you think you've done?
Drive me higher and higher
Make out
There ain't nothing going on
Oh you're such a liar
Momma said that you're as good as dead
If you don't call the shots yourself
Love don't come easy
Say what
Love, love, love
Love don't come easy
Make out
Why'd you try to fool me? I see, got no heart
Fool me, try to rule me, tore my head apart
Say lover, move on
See right from wrong
Say what
The hell do you think you've done?
Drive me higher and higher
Make out
There ain't nothing going on
Oh you're such a liar
Momma said that you're as good as dead
If don't call the shots yourself
Say what
The hell do you think you've done?
Drive me higher and higher
Make out
There ain't nothing going on
Oh you're such a liar
Oh l'amour
Broke my heart and now I'm aching for you
Mon amour
What's a boy in love supposed to do?
Looking for you,you were looking for me
Always reaching for you, you were too blind to see
Oh love of my heart why leave me alone?
I'm falling apart, no good on my own
Oh l'amour
Broke my heart and now I'm aching for you
Mon amour
What's a boy in love supposed to do?
Why throw it away? Why walk out on me?
I just live for the day, for the way it should be
There once was a time I had you here by my side
You said I wasn't your kind, only here for the ride
Oh l'amour
Broke my heart and now I'm aching for you
Mon amour
What's a boy in love supposed to do?
No emotional ties, you don't remember my name
I lay down and die, I'm only to blame
Oh love of my heart, it's up to you now
You tore me apart, I hurt inside-out
Oh l'amour
Broke my heart and now I'm aching for you
Mon amour
What's a boy in love supposed to do?
I can't believe what is happening to me
My head is spinning
The flowers and the trees are encapsulating me
And I go spinning
He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn't know that one and one was two
Two and two were four
He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn't know that, really didn't know that
Oh what a poor soul
Ooh, do we not sail on a ship of fools?
Ooh, why is life so precious and so cruel?
I close my eyes and I try to imagine
What you're dreaming
Why can't you see what you're doing to me?
My world is spinning
You were the baby of the class you know
You really didn't know that one and one was two
Two and two were four
You were the baby of the class
You were so young and so uncertain
Suffer little children
Oh what a poor soul
Ooh, do we not sail on a ship of fools?
Ooh, why is life so precious and so cruel?
He was the baby of the class you know
He really didn't know that one and one was two
Two and two were four
He was the baby of the class you know
He was so young and so uncertain
Suffer little children
Oh what a poor soul
Ooh, do we not sail on a ship of fools?
Ooh, why is life so precious and so cruel?
Ooh, do we not sail on a ship of fools?
Ooh, why is life so fragile and so cruel?
Ooh, do we not sail on a ship of fools?
Ooh, why is life so precious and so cruel?
I'd like to be a child again, so many things to do
Playground noise and coloured toys and everything brand new
I'd like to be a pirate ship in search of hidden gold
On ocean waves I'd swim away and sail around the world
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
I'd like to be a soldier, a general I would be
In battle and in glory with ten thousand men to lead
I could be almost anything, there is so much to see
I'd live a different story if you were next to me
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
I could be almost anything, there is so much to see
I'd live a different story if you were next to me
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
Where, where were you when I needed you most, when I needed a friend?
When I was a little girl
I had a rag doll
The only doll I ever owned
Now I love you just the way
I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown
And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper, love it stays
It gets higher day by day
And, do I love you my oh my?
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (yeah, yeah, yeah)
If I lost you would I cry?
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby
When you were a young boy
Did you have a puppy
That always followed you around?
Well I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
No I'll never let you down
'Cause it goes on and on like a river flows
It gets bigger baby heaven knows
It gets sweeter baby as it grows
And, do I love you my oh my?
River deep, mountain high (yeah, yeah, yeah)
If I lost you would I cry?
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby
And, do I love you my oh my?
River deep, mountain high (yeah, yeah, yeah)
If I lost you would I cry?
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby
When I was a little girl
I had a rag doll
The only doll I ever owned
Now I love you just the way
I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown
And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper, love it stays
It gets higher day by day
And, do I love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (yeah, yeah, yeah)
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby
I love you baby like a flower loves the spring
I love you baby like a robin loves to sing
I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his bag
I love you baby river deep, mountain high
Ah river deep
Ah river deep
Ah river deep
Ah river deep
And, do I love you my oh my
Yeah, river deep, mountain high (yeah, yeah, yeah)
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby
How can I explain when there a few words I can choose?
How can I explain when words get broken?
Do you remember there was a time when people on the street were walking hand in hand in hand?
They used to talk about the weather, making plans together, days would last forever
Come to me, cover me, hold me
Together we'll break these chains of love
Don't give up, don't give up
Together with me and my baby, break the chains of love
Do you remember once upon a time when there were open doors?
An invitation to the world
We were falling in and out with lovers, looking out for others, our sisters and our brothers
Come to me, cover me, hold me
Together we'll break these chains of love
Don't give up, don't give up
Together with me and my baby, break the chains of love
Together we'll break these chains of love
How can I explain when there a few words I can choose?
How can I explain when words get broken?
We used to talk about the weather, making plans together, days would last forever
Come to me, cover me, hold me
Together we'll break these chains of love
Don't give up, don't give up
Together with me and my baby, break the chains of love
Together we'll break these chains of love
Don't give up, don't give up
Together with me and my baby, break the chains of love
Together we'll break these chains of love
I don't suppose it's gonna do any good
If I sit down and write you a letter
You made it plain and I guess I understood
There's no way that things can get better
I was never so wrong
I thought we would go on forever
Always together
Now it's hard to believe you would walk out
And leave me crying
Feel like I'm dying
Dream maker, heart breaker
I would do anything you say
Dream maker, heart breaker
You would take everything away
I've never felt like I feel lonely tonight
Like a river so deep filled with sorrow
I won't be sleeping I won't turn out the light
I've got heartache enough for tomorrow
And I know I should learn
But wherever I turn you find me
Always remind me
Dream maker, heart breaker
I would do everything you say
Dream maker, heart breaker
You would take everything away
And I want you to know
That it's hurting me so inside me
Need you beside me
Dream maker, heart breaker
I would do anything you say
Dream maker, heart breaker
You would take everything away
Dream maker, heart breaker
I would do anything you say
Dream maker, heart breaker
You would take everything away
Dream maker, heart breaker
I would do anything you say
Dream maker, heart breaker
You would take everything away
Dream maker, heart breaker
I would do anything you say
Dream maker, heart breaker
You would take everything away
I try to discover a little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you gimme no reason why you make me work so hard
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please
Give a little respect to me
And if I should falter would you open your arms to me?
We can make love not war and live at peace with our hearts
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
What religion or reason could drive a man to forsake his lover?
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Don't you tell me no
Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please
Give a little respect to me
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you gimme no reason, you know you make me work so hard
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
That you gimme no
Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please (give a little respect)
Give a little respect to me
Soul, I hear you calling
Oh baby please (give a little respect)
Give a little respect to me
She wanted to be the hostess of the Big Game Show
Like Loni Anderson
She wanted to be seen on Spectravision
She told her friends that one day
She would be the movie queen
Like Krystle Carrington
Pay her weekly visit
To the top beauticians
Soul corruption, self destruction
(Are you prepared to fight?)
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
New sensation, Cecil B. DeMille creation
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
She wanted to marry a big movie star
Like Omar Sharif
Her walk-on part
In the b-movie was a big success
She did a voiceover selling Hershey bars
Just like Betty White
But for now she is a temporary waitress
Soul corruption, self destruction
(Are you prepared to fight?)
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
New sensation, Cecil B. DeMille creation
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
All the way to Hollywood
All the way to Hollywood
All the way to Hollywood
All the way to Hollywood
She told her friends that
One day she would be the movie queen
Like Zsa Zsa Zsa Gabor
But for now she is a waitress in a cocktail bar
Soul corruption, self destruction
(Are you prepared to fight?)
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
New sensation, Cecil B. DeMille creation
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
Soul corrupt, self destruct
Soul corrupt, self destruct
All the way to Hollywood
All the way to Hollywood
All the way to Hollywood
All the way to Hollywood
Are you prepared to fight?
She wanted to marry a big movie star
Like Omar Sharif
Soul corrupt, self destruct
Are you prepared to fight
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
Soul corrupt, self destruct
You can make a lotta money
Take a little bit, take a little bit, run
Love is colder than death they say
To warm your heart to the bone
Hold me closer, don't dare to speak
Because soon my love I'll be gone
Cherish the moment with me
Love for all, love for all, all eternity
Golden dance with the moon tonight
The starlight to serenade you
Venus the goddess of love
Love for all, love for all, all eternity
Love for all, love for all, all eternity