CONTENDERS Heaven 17

CONTENDERS We're going to stop this world from turning We build it up you knock it down If you go high then we'll go higher Beyond the sky without a sound It's gonna take a lot but we got plenty

Contenders (Edit) Heaven 17

We build it up, you knock it down If you go high then we'll go higher Beyond the sky without a sound all around We've won, we've lost, we've counted up the cost And we've evened out the scores we are contenders

The Contenders The Kinks

Hush little mammy don't you cry I've got to see what it's like on the world outside Got to get out of this life somehow Got to be free, got to be free now I don't want to be a constructor of high...

The Contenders Kinks

Hush little mammy don't you cry I've got to see what it's like on the world outside Got to get out of this life somehow Got to be free got to be free now <Interlude> I don't want to be a cons...

DESIGNING HEAVEN Heaven 17

DESIGNING HEAVEN How demanding life can be With a taste for luxury It's such a modern way to live A new hotel for the heartbroken A bright new generation Running out of time Step up for the

FREAK! Heaven 17

FREAK! Text as printed in booklet Real text from LP version Freak There's a hole in me that's ten feet wide There's a window come and look inside Tell me everything you see Because some very stran...

CAN YOU HEAR ME ? Heaven 17

CAN YOU HEAR ME ? So you send them back And I began to cry But I can let you know That I will let you go You cover up your smile And I'm afraid to move This time I get it right I'll get somebody n...

FASCIST GROOVE THANG Heaven 17

(Everybody move to prove the groove) Have you heard it on the news About this fascist groove thang Evil men with racist views Spreading all across the land Don't just sit there on your ass Unlock ...

REPUTATION Heaven 17

REPUTATION I don't have a reputation Falling faster all the time Help me make my reputation I'll help yours if you'll help mine My clothes are too big for my body My body's too big for my mind I ...

FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT Heaven 17

FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT Text as printed in booklet Real text from LP version Break or be broken A sensitive target A thirty day boy in A twenty day city Nothing is easy You know their methods (Ye...

GIVING UP Heaven 17

GIVING UP When I was young I was told what to want I've got a wife and babies too I've tried so hard But all my feelings have gone So have my wife and money too So I'm giving up Time for easy acti...

IF I WERE YOU Heaven 17

IF I WERE YOU The tenth of May It seems so far away When you and I were strangers moving close together Sometimes it seems It's almost like a dream Driving across the country and the road is endl...

SOMEBODY Heaven 17

SOMEBODY You've got to face the fact That in the world today They try and take away the blue skies And all the children that play But it's a curious fact In every hour in every place That when th...

LET ME GO Heaven 17

ahead but now those thoughts are dead Let me go All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me Let me go I walk alone and yet I never say goodbye Let me go A change of heart a change of mind and heaven

PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT Heaven 17

PENTHOUSE AND PAVEMENT Sweat my youth away With the rules we have to play Speeding through your magazine Pistol, pavement, no T.V. Talk and talk No time, night time Burnt inside Here comes the da...

UNREAL EVERYTHING Heaven 17

UNREAL EVERYTHING I don't believe everything I see God only knows I believe in science Mr. Einstein, help me please I'd like to know what's really real Keeping up with the times when everyone loo...

SONG WITH NO NAME Heaven 17

SONG WITH NO NAME Can't sleep, trying hard to find a rhyme Can't work, I am tired all the time Can't eat, since my appetite has gone Can't think, when it started to go wrong Can't move, I've no e...

THIS IS MINE Heaven 17

THIS IS MINE No more wasting time Synchronize Tell them this is mine Don't Walk the other way Tell me you will stay Give me one more day So give up, I'm going on If you stop, It won't change One...

WE LIVE SO FAST Heaven 17

WE LIVE SO FAST Please don't ask me to stay I'm leaving this town Don't worry now Believe me as I believe that Luck is on my side The future is mine If I can find A way through these strange days...

THE FUSE Heaven 17

THE FUSE I wish I'd never heard the news (Never had a good day) Baby wants a pair of shoes (How'm I gonna repay?) A thousand fingers touch my heart I need so much Blue Force is tearing me apart ...

DO I BELIEVE ? Heaven 17

DO I BELIEVE ? You spoke softly my name Not wishing to be heard by anyone Your gravity take me and pulls me Into a mysterious world A sense of expectation when you leave It's time to go There goe...

THE LAST SEVEN DAYS Heaven 17

THE LAST SEVEN DAYS You don't wake up You (?) wake up There's someone hiding in the dark Who is pulling his country apart I've had seven days And we want forget The last seven days And then it's o...

TEMPTATION Heaven 17

TEMPTATION I've never been closer I've tried to understand That certain feeling Carved by another's hand But it's too late to hesitate We can't keep on living like this Leave no track Don't look ...

DIVE Heaven 17

DIVE Please don't be afraid Believe what you see Whisper it a hundred times A lesson soon to be forgotten If you feel that life has passed you by (Dive) Come with me we'll flow into tomorrow (Di...

RESPONSIBILITY Heaven 17

RESPONSIBILITY It's not my responsibility If you say you love me (Ooooooh) (repeat paragraph) I know for sometime One day I would see you (?) what you say Did I get it right Is it you and me tonig...

MOVE OUT Heaven 17

MOVE OUT I fell in love on the day we met It was a purely physical thing We talked and talked I like your mouth Your mind's O.K. but I love your body We haven't slept for days now Ooh your body W...

COME LIVE WITH ME Heaven 17

COME LIVE WITH ME I was thirty-seven You were seventeen You were half my age The youth I'd never seen Unlikely people meeting in a dream Heaven only knows the way it should have been Here today

THE FOOLISH THING TO DO Heaven 17

THE FOOLISH THING TO DO I was thinking just the other day How it started in such a strange way It ended in a strange way too And this is why I am singing this song for you It's a foolish thing to ...

SOUL WARFARE Heaven 17

SOUL WARFARE If I was someone else Would you still say what you're saying? If I were someone else Would you conscience be straying? Soul warfare It's all that I can do To put my faith in you It'...

THE HEIGHT OF THE FIGHTING Heaven 17

THE HEIGHT OF THE FIGHTING Heat War (They sent you to do it, do it) Sweat Law (If you can't move it, prove it) At The Height Of The Fighting He-la-hu At The Height Of The Fighting He-la-hu Heat ...

TRAIN OF LOVE IN MOTION Heaven 17

TRAIN OF LOVE IN MOTION (All aboard) Train of love in motion Heading for the ocean It's powered by emotion Train of love in motion Put on your best dress We're travelling light before the dawn An...

KEY TO THE WORLD Heaven 17

KEY TO THE WORLD I'm working every hour but I'm heading for a crash I'm sick of living fast and running short of cash Tell me what's so bad about wanting to feel so good I want a better life and ...

THE BIG DIPPER Heaven 17

THE BIG DIPPER The national nightmare has begun Empire of fantasy with a dark gloved fist aloft While the challenger explodes Banks are failing coming down hard The way things are going I'm movin...

WE BLAME LOVE Heaven 17

WE BLAME LOVE It couldn't be clearer I'll apologise right now In spectacular language I think you'll understand somehow If I need to reach you We've got to walk a path where love's forgotten (Lov...

ANOTHER BIG IDEA Heaven 17

ANOTHER BIG IDEA I'm waiting for someone to find me Someone to pick me up And make some use of me In this life of wild adventure There's so much I could give Now that's what I call positive The w...

THE BEST KEPT SECRET Heaven 17

THE BEST KEPT SECRET The view outside The best kept secret No one can reach it No one believes It's in the air A chance to run now So here I come now It's time to leave Who can remember just who ...

BIGGER THAN AMERICA Heaven 17

BIGGER THAN AMERICA There's a bookstore in town where no-one reads And those who remember will disappear I hate to see them getting old But they're better dead than read I've just discovered some...

SNAKE AND TWO PEOPLE Heaven 17

SNAKE AND TWO PEOPLE There is a snake with the evil In the Garden of Eden There is a tree with the apple And the apple was eaten Now the trouble has started In the Garden of Eden But there is only...

LOW SOCIETY Heaven 17

LOW SOCIETY A judge a dentist or physician In this low society Trade ambition for position In this low society Have you heard it's in the stars Next July we collide with Mars Have you heard it i...

CRUSHED BY THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRY Heaven 17

CRUSHED BY THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRY Call me in the morning just before the breakfast show We'll watch TV and analyse the weather Before we go to work we'll have planned the day ahead We'll while aw...

Dangerous Heaven 17

Dangerous You can see them on the corners They are short and tall (and tall) And everybody warns us They are over the wall (over the wall) They are every color, every race They are fat and thin (a...

GEISHA BOYS AND TEMPLE GIRLS Heaven 17

GEISHA BOYS AND TEMPLE GIRLS Look ahead, on the screen, Slim perfect creatures and they're just 16 Their eyes meet, this is it, The contact so much more than words can transmit he stands up, she ...

FREE Heaven 17

FREE Here as I sit in this lonely square This train of thought runs through my mind I like it best when the choice is mine I want to be free to speak my mind And if I cry I want no-one to be ther...

MAYBE FOREVER Heaven 17

MAYBE FOREVER Tell me Should I be surprised By the thought of something new Slowly As I realise Start a fire in my mind Through earthly desire To find a better place Trying to find a way To heaven

BIG SQUARE PEOPLE Heaven 17

BIG SQUARE PEOPLE Another square day And another square week And another square year And another square lifetime If you turn me on like you turn it on Big Square People If you look at me the way y...

SUNSET NOW Heaven 17

SUNSET NOW Sun crazed in our room It was an endless afternoon It seemed that we were so immune The nights were stronger and longer I fell on my pillow saying "Tell the world that lucky's calling ...

RED Heaven 17

RED The streets are full of stars again tonight And an angel writes a word across the sky When the people laugh there's no sound And the words keep falling round and round And the world just keep...

FLAMEDOWN Heaven 17

FLAMEDOWN Underneath the bridge The glowing streets Light up the heavy sky Out of nowhere I return to you Even as we meet This curious girl Fell back to sleep This time for keeps But I won't surr...

PLAY TO WIN Heaven 17

PLAY TO WIN City clubland, theatre, dockland Empty house, no audience Smiles of fortune, no man master Play to win and break the bank Play to win Turn professional, know your job Be up to every t...

TROUBLE Heaven 17

TROUBLE I'm in a place where nothing ever happens I'll try one day to walk away But for now I'll hand around I am a fool without exception I break every rule But I never break away (Trouble) - I...