B E N V E N U T O
Ho qui voluto inserire una raccolta dei testi
di uno dei gruppi mitici degli anni '80.
Sono canzoni che ancora oggi suscitano molte
emozioni. E poi credo che la musica di quel periodo sia ineguagliabile....
MAN IN CHAINS
I've only myself to blame,
Now that I'm tangled up in chains,
So you say, ooh, so you say
Caught in this human cage,
Trapped, and I'm fired up with rage
And somebody's got to pay
I can never talk about it,
I can never say what I want to say
So I'll take your tip and I'll bite my lip
And hope it goes away
You say I'm a man of straw
Well, baby, I'm gonna break your law
Then it's war, ooh, yes it's war
Love on a thin white line,
Love that was just a waste of time,
Oh, not anymore
I can feel it coming at me,
I can feel it coming like the wind
But, I'm locked away and I'm bound to stay,
So no one can get in
I'm a man in chains, I'm a man in chains
Oh, I'm a man in chains, I'm a man in chains
I only pray that before I die,
Just like a phoenix I will rise and fly
Tell me who's to blame,
Oh, I'm a man, now I'm a man in chains
There must be a reason why
You're pulling the wool down on my eyes
It's a lie, it's a lie
Dragging this ball and chain,
Oh, how long can I take this pain?
But somebody has to try, yeah
Oh, I can feel the pressure on me,
I can feel it taking me from the start
Sticks and stones will smash my bones,
But never break my heart
I'm a man in chains, I'm a man in chains
Oh, I'm a man in chains, I'm a man in chains
I only pray that before I die,
Just like a phoenix I will rise and fly
Tell me who's to blame,
Oh, I'm a man, now I'm a man in chains
I can never talk about it,
Oh, I can never say what I want to say
So I'll take your tip and I'll bite my lip
And hope it goes away
I'm a man in chains, I'm a man in chains
Oh, I'm a man in chains, I'm a man in chains
I only pray that before I die,
Just like a phoenix I will rise and fly
Tell me who's to blame,
Oh, I'm a man, now I'm a man in chains
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WITH THE PRIDE
Just leave me with the pride
that I worked for
now they've taken the reason away
just leave me with the pride
that I worked for
today
build on rock, or build on sand,
they're never gonna lend a hand
so nothing grows or nothing stands
I can't take any more
I can't take any more
there's not a lot of space for me
but I've still got my dignity
I've got my price
don't say I'm free
I can't take anymore
I can't take anymore
but I'm hungry
I could eat anything
but I'm hungry
oh, let's dance, oh, let's swing
and all that I hear are the words that she sings
now they've taken it all
now they've taken it all
I'd rather take this cure for life
than make myself a sacrifice
if living is to pay the price
I can't take anymore
I can't take anymore
it takes a while to understand
when your eyes are full of sand
when only time is in your hands
I can't take anymore
I can't take anymore
but I'm hungry
I could eat anything
but I'm hungry
oh, let's dance, oh, let's swing
and all that I hear are the words that she sings
now they've taken it all
now they've taken it all
just leave me with the pride
that I worked for
now they've taken the reason away
just leave me with the pride
that I worked for
today.
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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 to somewhere unknown
and what I'm feeling is thrilled to the bone
been chasing rainbows all of 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 I can't contrive
these are the days that we'll think that we dreamed
for the rest of our lives
this moment takes 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 the day
we're on the eve of experience now
and nothing will take away
just one look of encouragement
and what I have here is Heaven sent
and sent 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
I just crashed into love
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VIRGIN
I could tell you a fairytale,
Hold your hand oh so small and frail,
But these lies are to no avail
In these blues
I could give you security,
Protect your eyes from what you see,
But I can't give you a guarantee,
Win or loose
Just trust in my love now baby,
I'll show you what's wrong,
Oh this is all I can give you baby,
So sing this song, sing it, sing it
Oh, we are virgin,
Just as bright as the blinding snow
Oh, we are virgin
And we just don't wanna let go,
We are virgin
Your skin is new and your eyes are wide,
Don't let that evil get inside,
I know it's hard to run and hide,
In these times
So hold your face to the sun today,
I'll take your hand and we'll walk away,
Show them all you don't have to pay
For these crimes
Just trust in my love now baby,
I'll show you what's wrong,
Oh this is all I can give you baby,
So sing this song, sing it, sing it
Oh, we are virgin,
Just as bright as the blinding snow
Oh, we are virgin
And we just don't wanna let go
And so if you go away,
I'll keep the fire burning,
Keep the fire burning all night
All through the wind and the rain
I'll keep the fire burning,
Keep the fire burning
Just trust in my love now baby,
I'll show you what's wrong,
Oh this is all I can give you baby,
So sing this song, sing it, sing it
Oh, we are virgin,
Just as bright as the blinding snow
Oh, we are virgin
And we just don't wanna let go,
We are virgin
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NATURE OF THE BEAST
It is the key to all the doors,
it is the crashing on the shores.
It lives in your steering wheel.
It hides in the wind and rain,
with voices as cold as steel
it's calling your name
it is the smile upon his face
it is the winning of the race.
It lives in the red-alert.
It lives in the power game
it's easy to take to heart
but harder to tame
this is the nature of the beast
(this is the nature)
this is the nature of the beast
(this is the nature)
without all this heat
they'll be dancing west to east
this is the nature of the beast
it is the glowing in his eyes
it is the reason for his lies
how many know you're there
how many play your game
he's always the man to dare
you're always to blame
it is the need to understand
it is the trigger in his hand
it lives in the uniform
it grows from the need to gain
with faces so old and torn
it's calling your name
this is the nature of the beast
(this is the nature)
this is the nature of the beast
(this is the nature)
without all this heat
they'll be dancing west to east
this is the nature of the beast.
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BE FREE WITH YOUR LOVE
Be free with your love
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 heir eyes from the night so cold
feel the love in their mothers 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
be free with your love
free with your love
science stands on 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
two young girls shining in the sun
feel your pain but they dance for everyone
be free with your love
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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
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 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
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 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 you're ready and armed with love
Well if you're head is steady,
And your soul is ready,
We're going up above
So whatever you wanna be,
Just come on 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 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 truth as the casualty?
How many times must we say, "it's for the best",
And leave nothing, yeah
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HANDFUL OF DUST
Your pressed your face against my heart
I felt that you could look right through me
we live in days that have no time
we live in times that now refuse me
and somewhere out beyond his town
there lies a world that now can turn us round
and we need it and we need it
oh got to have some thing to believe in
I've got enough to believe in you
what can I give just to know that it's true?
But I've gotta begin to say
now they've taken my pride in this way.
How can you give me your love?
I just can't give you enough
how can you give me your trust
with a handful of dust?
I feel to thin before your eyes
I feel so naked under open skies
I once stood tall within this town
but now the time has come to bring us down.
We must have more with his power in hand
we must believe things will go as we planned
but I've gotta begin to say
now they've taken my pride in this way.
How can you give me your love?
I just can't give you enough
how can you give me your trust
with a handful of dust,
with a handful of dust?
Making love through electric skies
now I know where my fortune lies
breathe the air and feel this land
'cause it's slipping through me
like dust from my hand.
How can you give me your love?
I just can't give you enough
how can you give me your trust
with a handful of dust?
How can you give me your love?
I just can't give you enough
how can you give me your trust
with a handful of dust?
How can you give me your love?
How can you give me your love?
Now give me your love!
how can you give me your trust
with a handful of dust?
How can you give me your love?
Give me
how can you give me your trust
with a handful of dust?
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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
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
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 a 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
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 your hand
Everybody, we've got to fight for ourselves
fight for ourselves
Oh so many people now, there's 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
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 your hand
Everybody, we've got to fight for ourselves
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SWEPT
Be careful what you say,
Loose talk could sink this ship
Well the way that I am as weak as a lamb,
See it on my shaky lip
There's more to these actions,
That you could ever know
With the moon and the tide I'm drawn to your side
And moving with the flow
When it's time to choose and it's sink or swim,
I know I'll drown this time
When the cold wind blows and I'm falling in,
Throw the line
Now I'm swept,
And I'm lost within my mind
On a love that makes me blind
And this feeling I just can't forget,
Now I'm swept
On a tide that's in my soul
And this feeling that I have is losing me control
And I hope it doesn't end just yet,
Now I'm swept
Mind over matter,
No matter where this mind will be
There's more to be said, oh, for games in the head
Than anything you'll ever see
There's safety in dreaming,
So wrap me in things that I know
With my head in the sand, I'm at your command
And moving with the flow
When it's time to choose and it's sink or swim,
I know I'll drown this time
When the cold wind blows and I'm falling in,
Throw the line
Now I'm swept,
And I'm lost within my mind
On a love that makes me blind
And this feeling I just can't forget,
Now I'm swept
On a tide that's in my soul
And this feeling that I have is losing me control
And I hope it doesn't end just yet,
Now I'm swept
Now I'm swept
When it's time to choose and it's sink or swim,
I know I'll drown this time
When the cold wind blows and I'm falling in,
Throw the line
Now I'm swept,
And I'm lost within my mind
On a love that makes me blind
And this feeling I just can't forget,
Now I'm swept
On a tide that's in my soul
And this feeling that I have is losing me control
And I hope it doesn't end just yet,
Now I'm swept
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SNAKES AND LOVERS
I just don't understand it,
Well there's something at our door
Now we're fighting together,
As dogs of war
When the moon is shining,
And you're wrapped around our sins
Then our souls starts a-howling
And the show begins
Over where the city starts,
Something comes and slips into its heart
Snakes and lovers,
Try to shed our sins
We're undercover,
But it's slipped beneath our skins
Snakes and lovers,
Holding on in the night
Are you sleeping tight?
In our Garden of Eden,
With the poison in disguise
We had grown love together
In paradise
Now utopia's falling
And the messages are clear
That the evil is crawling,
And fear is near
Now temptation comes to try,
So I bite the apple of my eye
Snakes and lovers,
Try to shed our sins
We're undercover,
But it's slipped beneath our skins
Snakes and lovers,
Holding on in the night
Are you sleeping tight?
Now you're alone in your room,
And all of the walls they are turning
And down on the streets where I walk,
The light on my eyes it is burning
So come on and take me, my dear
And bear the fruits of what we know
Then our minds will be clear,
And our hearts will not let go
Just one more step and we will be over
Snakes and lovers,
Try to shed our sins
We're undercover,
But it's slipped beneath our skins
Snakes and lovers,
Holding on in the night
Are you sleeping tight?
Holding on in the night
Are you sleeping tight?
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BIG FEELING
Come next September I'll be out upon the road again
and there'll be times when I can hardly even say your name
but now we're sticking to the sheets and I can't sleep tonight
and like a dream love we're moving into light
oh I feel like this is warning
oh I feel like ten feet tall
and don't ever let me down
don't ever let me down.
Big feeling
oh it's getting hard to hide
big feeling
like a river running growing wide
you are my thunder
and there's lighting here inside.
Oh come on darling now day has turned it's time for home
I won't forget that night we slept out on the beach alone
now the sun has come to take the moon and light the sky
Wave o'er me flow over me
and oh I feel like this is warning
oh I feel like ten feet tall
and don't ever let me down
don't ever let me down.
Big feeling
oh it's getting hard to hide
big feeling
like a river running growing wide
you are my thunder
and there's lighting here inside.
Don't ever let me down
don't ever let me down
don't ever let me down
Big feeling
oh it's getting hard to hide
big feeling
like a river running growing wide
you are my thunder
and there's lighting here inside.
Big feeling
Oh come on darling now day has turned
it's time for home
big feeling
I won't forget that night we slept out on the beach alone
you are my thunder
and there's lighting here inside
lighting here inside.
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A MATTER OF TIME
He lays alone cries on his own
for horizons he'll never reach
and all of those dreams are washed on the beach.
She's drowing in oceans of shackled emotions
going round and around in her head
while out on the streets people forget
that it's love you want
love you want
love you want.
She speaks of hoping he speacks of fighting
and tells her that they will come through
'cause he wants to feel the shock of the new
people that hurt you and they burn you
with acid the falls that falls from the sky
while out of the silence your voice says why?
If it's love you want
love you want
love you want
It's a matter of time a matter of time
but you're asking why oh life makes you cry?
Turn moss into roses and blood into wine.
It's a matter of time a matter of time
but all of your past still plays on your mind
and maybe tomorrow you'll live by design
it's a matter of time.
This isn't giving this isn't living
oh just days that pull you apart
and tears turn to rust that fall on steel hearts
so swallow youe maybes and cradle your babies
tell them that they will come through
their gonna feel the shock of the New
and if it's love you want
love you want
love you want
It's a matter of time a matter of time
but you're asking why oh life makes you cry?
Turn moss into roses and blood into wine.
It's a matter of time a matter of time
but all of your past still plays on your mind
and maybe tomorrow you'll live by design
it's a matter of time.
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MOTIVATOR
I can make you feel so good
hold me by the arm
I can take your speckles of sweetness
and turn them into stars
I can make your dreams so real
just think what we could do
oh I could be your messiah
and I'll take you higher
and maybe I won't stop till I do
'cos I'm your motivator
I'm behind everything you do
yes I'm your motivator
if your heart is thumping
I can give you something
feel me with the crack of my whip.
I will be your inspiration
movin' in your soul
I'll be your little bit of muscle
and move and take control
I can be just simple persuasion
so take me as your guide
but when your mind is cooking
remember who's looking
'cos baby I'm that something inside
'cos I'm your motivator
I'm behind everything you do
yes I'm your motivator
if your head is reeling
get off on this feeling
hold me now and shoot from the hip.
Do do do
you give something something I need.
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WINDY TOWN
There's gotta be something more to this life we're given
gotta be peace o' mind and a piece o' living
when the losers have won
and the damage is done
only then will you be saved.
She dancing on thin ice while her mind is skating
he's building on the dust that is suffocating
and a baby that cries
in a city of lies
for a freedom that is craved
and high will you fly tonight
in dreams you can hold this tight
but when will love blow round
when will love blow through Windy Town.
Sunny had a street that she couldn't live in
Sunny had a room that she couldn't breath in
but a heart that could feel
and a hand that could heal
and a passion filled with rage.
I never felt the air with a wind of change
I only felt a storm with a wind and rain
a city so deep
a soul without sleep
and a heart that's filled with pain
and high will you fly tonight
in dreams you can hold this tight
but when will love blow round
when will love blow through Windy Town.
Look out on a million dreams
there's fire in all those schemes
feel the burn of investigation
love will be your inspiration.
Baby lets go again
on me and you it all depends
the power of love is a powerful friend
and I will love you till the end.
and high will you fly tonight
in dreams you can hold this tight
but when will love blow round
when will love blow around
when will love blow through Windy Town.
Baby through Windy Town
when will love blow.
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EMPTY SPACES
Once there were times Love
when we could touch the air between
and out acroos this room
we'd just touch hands life would shine
with electric dreams.
No matter how many miles
nothing hurt long-distance-hearts
and there was always something there
that space could never keep apart
but now I know inside that something is died
when we're apart
all we have are
empty spaces.
It's not like we're building walls
too hard to climb to make us blind
it's just so much numbing space
to hollow out the heart and mind
and I can hear echoes of ghosts of love
we left behind.
I'll always love April
we fell in love and we planted seeds
but now we walk through fallen trees
and leaves are crushed beneath
and I will always live in Autumn
now we're agreed
all we have are
empty spaces.
Ithought this was meant to be
our love had an energy
but only as time evolved
and all of our strength dissolved
and we'll never feel the flame that burned so naked
again.
I walk through Kentish Town
and all the rain rain pouring down
so many people here
but space like this I've never found
and as I get back home and step inside
I realise all I have
All I have are
empty spaces.
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Tutte queste canzoni sono state scritte da Gary Kemp tranne Motivator scritta da Steve Norman,
e pubblicata a cura della Reformation Music Co.Ltd.
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