the human league - don t you want me
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too
Don't, don't you want me
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find, you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Don't you want me baby
Don't you want me, oh
Don't you want me baby
Don't you want me, oh
I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I live my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do
Don't, don't you want me
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me
It's much too late to find, you think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry
Chorus
the human league - together in electric dreams
I only knew you for a while
I never saw your smile
Till it was time to go
Time to go away (time to go away)
Sometimes its hard to recognise
Love comes as a surprise
And its too late
It's just to late to stay (to late to stay)
[Chorus]
We'll always be together
However far it seems (love never ends)
We'll always be together
Together in electric dreams
Because of the friendship that you gave
Has taught me to be brave
No matter where I go
I'll never find a better prize (find a better prize)
Though your miles and miles away
I see you everyday
I don't have to try
I just close my eyes
I close my eyes
[Chorus till fade]
the human league - heart like a wheel
Calling up the promised land. Johnny Seven's coming over
the sea. He's taking your time. When you want to be free.
Holding out a helping hand. Are you ready for a real
career? Will you be so cool. When it's happening here?
It don't say nothing that I haven't heard. If what I hear is
true. You won't keep the law with a broken word. So what
are you going to do?
Heart like a wheel. Turning away from anything that's real.
Heart like a wheel. Changing in time. Beating colder steel.
Pass the message around the world. The medium is in
retreat. The power is here. And packing some heat.
Sell your soul to a holy war. Set the captive free. We make
no promises anymore. But it isn't fooling me
Heart like a wheel. Turning away from anything that's real.
Heart like a wheel. Changing in time beating colder steel.
You can't keep the wheels turning anymore. With anger,
blood and fear. Or make any friends with an M16. When
you blast your way through here.
Heart like a wheel. Turning away from anything that's real.
Heart like a wheel. Changing in time beating colder steel.
Heart like a wheel. Turning away from anything that's real.
Heart like a wheel. Changing in time beating colder steel.
Heart like a wheel. Turning away from anything that's real.
Heart like a wheel. Driving the world is going to be a steal.
the human league - moraleyou ve lost that loving feeling
Don't talk
Close the door
You've been here before
Your shape dim
I'm an old man now
The air's thin
The walls very damp now
And if I don't go
I'll always be stuck here in this poor little room
With a view of the corner
I don't forget
The light growing weak now
Experience is useless
Unless you can learn
And I've never met anyone
Who used their knowledge
To avoid those mistakes made again and again
And if I don't go
I'll always be stuck here in this poor little room
With a view of the corner
You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips
And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips
You're trying hard not to show it (baby)
But baby, baby I know it
You've lost that loving feeling
Woah, that loving feeling
You've lost that loving feeling
Now it's gone, gone, gone
Woah-woah
Now there's no welcome look in your eyes when I reach for you
And girl you're starting to criticise little things I do
It makes me just feel like crying (baby)
'Cos, baby, something beautiful's dying
You've lost that loving feeling
Woah, that loving feeling
You've lost that loving feeling
Now it's gone, gone, gone
Woah-woah
Baby, baby, I'd get down on my knees for you
If you would only love me like you used to do, yeah
We had a love, a love, a love you don't find every day
So don't, don't, don't, don't let it slip away
Bring back that loving feeling
Woah, that loving feeling
Bring back that loving feeling
Now it's gone, gone, gone
And I can't go on
Baby (baby), Baby (baby)
I want you please (woooo)
Please (woooo)
I need your love (I need your love)
I need your love (I need your love)
Now it bring it on back (bring it on back
) Bring it on back now (bring it on back now)
Now bring it on back
the human league - never again
I'll miss your naked body
I'll miss your mind
Human beings learn to miss
The things they leave behind
Another romance broken
It's time to go
Too late to contradict
What we already know
Closed my eyes
To the truth
And the lies
Never again
Won't ask why
Don't reply
I'll just say
Never again
Time tells
Your heart compels
Never again
Never take a chance
Again
Time tells
Your heart compels
Never again
Never break a heart again
Never again never again
But until then
Never again never again
Never again
Never again never again
Never again never again
I know I couldn't keep you
I know the score
I know I'm surplus
To the life you're looking for
'Though nothing lasts forever
Still hope remains
We never go back to
The way we were before
From now on
To the end
Won't pretend
Say it again
Won't commit
Won't submit
'Til I know
Never again
Woman
Runaway woman,
Never again
Woman
Oh my woman,
Woman
Runaway woman,
Never again
Woman
Oh my woman,
Never again
Never break a heart again
Time tells
Woman
Your heart compels
Runaway woman,
Never again
Woman
Oh my woman,
Never take a chance
Again
Time tells
Woman
Your heart compels
Runaway woman,
Never again
Woman
Oh my woman,
Never break a heart again
Never again never again
But until then
Never again never again
Never again
Never again
Never again never again
Never again never again
the human league - being boiled
Listen to the voice of Buddha
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some Gods stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting
Just because the kid's an orphan
Is no excuse for thoughtless slaying
People don't forget this torture
Just because you call her mother
Doesn't mean that she's your better
Once more with the voice of Buddha
He'll say carry on your slaughter
Who cares for the little children
You may slice with no conviction
Blind revenge on a blameless victim
Listen to the voice of Buddha
Saying stop your sericulture
He'll say carry on your slaughter
Who cares for the little children
You may slice with no conviction
Blind revenge on a blameless victim
Listen to the voice of Buddha
Listen to the voice of Buddha
Listen to the voice of Buddha
the human league - kiss the future
Forgiveness and mercy. In short supply. So lonely, so
faithful. No reason why. In my mind at this time. Just clear
blue sky. Your story just starting. Now learn to fly.
It takes a miracle to make you see. My consciousness
exploded.
Your past life. Don't suit you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
Let fortune. Uproot you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
No time now for sorrow. Meet life full-blast. Let's take on
tomorrow. Forget the past.
It takes a miracle to make you see. My consciousness
exploded.
Your past life. Don't suit you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
Let fortune. Uproot you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
It takes a miracle to make you see. My consciousness
exploded.
Your past life. Don't suit you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
Let fortune. Uproot you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
This is what you came here for. Stop the engine slam the
door. Leave that lonesome corridor.
Take the plunge and wipe the slate. Smile your smile -
you're feeling great. Soon you're going to celebrate.
Time has gone to hesitate. Nothing now can make you
wait. Take control of your own fate.
Take tomorrow in your hand. Make the others understand.
One break you must demand.
Your past life. Don't suit you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
Let fortune. Uproot you. Take my hand. Kiss the future.
the human league - marianne
(As interpreted by Virgin Records Japan)
(Accuracy is NOT guaranteed)
I take one look at you
It leaves me breathless
I see your dream's come true
You're not so restless
Or light, or bright
Marianne
One day I might not care
What happens to me
Your lack of sympathy Fails to disturb me
I've got a life of my own
I remember the day
I thought we couldn't lose
Running round the garden In your mother's shoes
Playing silly sisters
And drinking green tea
On a cold autumn day
Someone's car had broken down
The best of summer ends
When you give a celebration
We can leave but we can't really go on
It would spoil the celebration
Anita, all that's left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
One day I might not care
What happens to me
Your lack of sympathy
Fails to disturb me
I've got a life of my own
Anita, all that's left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
Marianne
Anita, all that's left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
Marianne
Anita, all that's left is us facing a life
That goes on as before
Marianne
Anita, all that's left is us facing a life
At the end of the world
Marianne
the human league - austerity girl one
In the town
The start of day
The father thinks in sadness
On why his daughters went away
On youth and other madness
I know we don't choose who we love
And malice is so human
When your principle's no good
It's time to find a new one
I was brought up to believe
That to avoid disaster
In life as in your dreams
You've got to be the monster
When you've done your very best
When things turn out unpleasant
When the best of men take bribes
Isn't it the fool who doesn't?
In the town
By the house
The journalist is waiting
And near this place
There is a space
A subject contemplating
You've got your keys to get back in
You've washed your face so you can smile
You've got your pockets full of lending cash
Your ticket to the ladies mile
You brush away a flake of zinc
Advance toward the street outside
You close your mind so you can't think
The hide, the ride, the tide
But the scenes come rushing in
Like eels into your net
And it's just like Joseph said
Another walk you can't forget
But you push into the bleak
Where all the women walk in fear
Another three-word phrase
The near, the clear, the dear
You're a lonely little girl
Who just wants to please her dad
So you thought you'd be a nurse
Just like your mother had
But you make the patients worse
And the doctors know you're bad
(Better get back to the oracle)
The oracle in this case
Is a message on your phone
It says where you go
Gravity has gone
You know this is true
But you want to speak of love
Prediction and ambiguity
Go hand in glove
The oracle in this case
Is a face on your wall
It says where you go
People will fall
And near this place
There is a space
A subject contemplating
And in the town
The sun goes down
No-one investigating
the human league - hard times
the human league - the snake
the human league - toyota city
the human league - swang
Swang
Grab your partner
Swang her round
Swang that girl all upside-down
And if that girl won't
Swang with me
I'll swang me another girl, yes sirree
Swang me a girl
Who thinks she's cool
Swang her 'til her face turns blue
And if that girl can't
Swang with me
I'll swang me another girl, yes sirree
Swang
Real city dancing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Swang
Real city dancing
Yeah
Now turn that girl all upside down and
Swang, swang, swang, do it
Swang, swang, swang, yeah
Swang, swang, swang, do it
Swang, swang, swang
Swang me a girl
Who thinks she's down
Swang her face across the ground
And if that girl can't
Swang with me
I'll swang me another girl, yes sirree
Swang me a girl
With brown eyes deep
Swang her 'til she starts to weep
And if that girl can't
Swang with me
I'll swang me another girl, yes sirree
Swang
Real city dancing
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And I've got to do that
Swang
Real city dancing
Yeah
Now turn that girl all upside down and
Swang, swang, swang, do it
Swang, swang, swang, yeah
Swang, swang, swang, do it
Swang, swang, swang
Come on, people
Swang, swang, swang
Well I'll be dancing
Across the floor
'Cause I like to
Swang, swang, swang, yeah
And, yes, she digs me
She wants some more, so I'll
Swang, swang, swang, do it
Swang, swang, swang, ooh
Swang, swang, swang, yeah
Swang, swang, swang
Swang
Swang
Come on and swang
Everybody grab a girl and let's do it
Swang
Hey
Hey you
Swang
Let's do it
You can do it
Swang
Well I'll be dancing
Across the floor
'Cause I like to
Swang
Do you like it
Yeah
Let's do it
And then they'll come up
And ask for more, so I'll
Swang
Come on, people
You can do it
Everybody
Swang
the human league - these are the days
Ah ah
Here's a song
About living in the past
If it was so good then
How come it didn't last?
If it helps you
I'll put it in a phrase
Those were the times
But these are the days
These are the days
These are the days
These are the days
These are the days
These are the days
The times you're smiling back on
Had that great sitcom
It hardly compensated
For the terror of the bomb
Let me help
'Cause you're looking through a haze
Those were the times
These are the days
These are the days
Hey hey hey
These are the days
Can you hear me now?
These are the days
Look around look around look around
These are the days
These are the days
Hey hey live today
These are the days
It's time to put the past away
These are the days
The more you do the more you say
These are the days
The more I need to get away
You're longing for a time
there never was
Now tell me the truth
You're looking for the reason
It's because
You're fighting for youth
But if I have to listen any more
To fantasy talk
Or any other bug you have
I'm leaving
Now I'm not saying
Everything is really great
Hey hey hey
After sixteen years
Of legalised class hate
Why waste time
Looking back for things to praise?
Those were the times huh
But these are the days
These are the days
Looking back in history
These are the days
Time to get contempory
These are the days
The past is not the place to be