> THE WORKS

  • 1. Radio ga ga

  • 2. Tear it up

  • 3. It's a hard life

  • 4. Man on the prowl

  • 5. Machines(or 'Back to humans')

  • 6. I want to break free

  • 7. Keep passing the open windows

  • 8. Hammer to fall

  • 9. Is this the world we created...?





    • RADIO GA GA

    I'd sit alone and watch your light
    My only friend through teenage nights
    And everything I had to know
    I heard it on my radio
    Radio.

    You gave them all those old time stars
    Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
    You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
    You made us feel like we could fly. 

    So don't become some background noise 
    A backdrop for the girls and boys 
    Who just don't know or just don't care 
    And just complain when you're not there 
    You had your time,you had the power 
    You've yet to have your finest hour 
    Radio. 

    All we hear is Radio ga ga 
    Radio goo goo 
    Radio ga ga 
    All we hear is Radio ga ga 
    Radio blah blah 
    Radio what's new? 
    Radio,someone still loves you! 

    We watch teh shows - we watch the stars 
    On videos for hours and hours 
    We hardly need to use our ears 
    How music changes through the years. 

    Let's hope you never leave old friend 
    Like all good things on you we depend 
    So stick around cos we might miss you 
    When we grow tired of all this visual 
    You had your time,you had the power 
    You've yet to have your finest hour 
    Radio - Radio. 

    All we hear is Radio ga ga 
    Radio goo goo 
    Radio ga ga 
    All we hear is Radio ga ga 
    Radio goo goo 
    Radio ga ga 
    All we hear is Radio ga ga 
    Radio blah blah 
    Radio what's new? 
    Radio,someone still loves you!

     

    TEAR IT UP

    Are you ready? - well are you ready?

    Give me your mind baby give me your body
    Give me some time baby let's have a party
    It ain't no time for sleepin' baby
    Soon it's round your street I'm creeping
    -You better be ready-

    We gonna Tear it up
    Stir it up
    Break it up -Baby-

    You gotta Tear it up
    Shake it up
    Make it up -as you go along.

    Tear it up
    Square it up
    Wake it up -Baby-

    Tear it up
    Stir it up
    Stake it out -and you can't go wrong.

    (Hey)
    I love you cos you're sweet and I love you cos you're naughty
    I love you for your mind but give me your body
    I wanna be a toy at your birthday party
    Wind me up -wind me up - wind me up - let me go-

    Tear it up
    Stir it up
    Break it up -let me go.

    Tear it up
    Shake it up
    Make it up -as you go along.

    Tear it up
    Turn it up
    Burn it up

     - Are you ready? (Oh yeah)
    Baby baby baby are you ready for me? (Oh yeah)
    Baby baby baby are you ready for love? (Oh yeah)
    Are you ready - are you ready - are you ready for me?
    I love you so near,I love you so far
    I gotta tell you baby you're driving me Ga Ga.

     

    IT'S A HARD LIFE

    I don't want my freedom
    There's no reason for living with a broken heart.

    This is a tricky situation-
    I've only got myself to blame
    It's just a simple fact of life
    It can happen to anyone-

    You win - you lose
    It's a chance you have to take with love
    Oh yeah - I fell in love
    But now you say it's over and I'm falling apart

    It's a hard life
    To be true lovers together
    To love and live forever in each others hearts-
    It's a long hard fight
    To learn to care for each other
    To trust in one another right from the start
    When you're in love-

    I try and mend the broken pieces
    I try to fight back the tears
    They say it's just a state of mind
    But it happens to everyone-

    How it hurts - deep inside
    When your love has cut you down to size
    Life is tough - on your own
    Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies
    Waiting for love.

    Yes it's a hard life
    Two lovers together
    To love and live forever in each others hearts
    It's a long hard fight
    To learn to care for each other
    To trust in one another - right from the start
    When you're in love-
    Yes it's a hard life
    In a world that's filled with sorrow
    There are people searching for love in every way-

    It's a long hard fight
    But I'll always live for tomorrow
    I'll look back on myself and say I did it for love
    Yes I did it for love - for love - oh I did it for love.

    MAN ON THE PROWL

    I'm gonna take a little walk on the wild side
    I'm gonna loosen up and get me some gas
    I'm gonna get me some action
    Go crazy, driving in the fast lane
    My baby left me alone
    She done me dirty and I'm feeling so lonely
    So come home, come home
    If you don't you're gonna break my heart.

    Man on the prowl
    You'd better watch out
    I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
    So look out  - look out
    I'm a man on the prowl.

    I don't wanna be a rock'n'roll steady
    I just wanna be low down trash
    I wanna go to the movies
    All I wanna do is sit on my ass
    So honey come home (come home come home)
    Don't leave me when I'm feeling so lonely
    Come home - come home
    If you don't you're gonna break my heart.

    Man on the prowl
    You'd better watch out
    I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
    So look out - look out
    I'm a man on the prowl

    Well  I keep dreaming about my baby
    But it ain't gonna get me nowhere
    I'm gonna teach my baby dancin'
    But I ain't no Fred Astaire.

    So baby look out - I'm a man on the prowl
    Look out - man on the prowl - yeah
    Baby,baby,baby look out - man on the prowl.

    So baby come home
    I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
    Baby come home - oh yeah
    Cause I'm a man on the prowl
    So honey come home - come home
    Cause I'm a man on the prowl - yeah
    Man on the prowl.


    MACHINES (or 'BACK TO HUMANS')

    It's a Machines world
    Don't tell me I ain't got no soul
    When the machines take over
    It ain't no place for rock and roll.

    They tell me I don't care
    But deep inside I'm just a man
    They freeze me they burn me
    They squeeze me they stress me
    With smoke-blackened pistons of steel they compress me
    But no-one,but no-one,but no-one can wrest me away
    Back to Humans.

    We have no disease, no trouble of mind
    We are fighting for peace, no regard for the time
    We never cry, we never retreat
    We have no conception of love or defeat.

    What's that Machine noise
    It's bytes and megachips for tea
    It's that Machine, boys
    With Random Access Memory
    Never worry,never mind
    Not for money,not for gold.

    Its software is hardware
    Its heartbeat is time-share
    Its midwife's a disk drive
    Its sex life is quantised
    It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised.

    Back to Humans.
    Back to Humans.

    Back to machines.

    Living in a new world
    Thinking in the past
    Living in a new world
    How you gonna last
    Machine world...it's a Machine's world...

    Change.

    Back to Humans.


    I  WANT TO BREAK FREE

    I want to break free
    I want to break free
    I want to break free from your lies
    You're so self satisfied I don't need you
    I've got to break free
    God knows, God knows I want to break free

    I've fallen in love
    I've fallen in love for the first time
    And this time I know it's for real
    I've fallen in love,yeah
    God knows, God knows I've fallen in love

    It's strange but it's true
    I can't get over the way you love me like you do
    But I have to be sure
    When I walk out that door
    Oh how I want to be free,baby
    Oh how I want to be free,
    Oh how I want to break free.

    But life still goes on
    I can't get used to living without, living without,
    Living without you by my side
    I don't want to live alone,hey
    God knows, got to make it on my own
    So baby, can't you see
    I've got to break free.

    I've got to break free
    I want to break free,yeah
    I want, I want, I want, I want to break free.


    KEEP PASSING THE OPEN WINDOWS

    This is the only life for me
    Surround myself around my own fantasy
    You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
    Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

    Do you know what it's like to be alone in this world
    When you're down and out on your luck and you're a failure
    Wake up screaming in the middle of the night
    You think it's all been a waste of time
    It's been a bad year
    You start believing everything's gonna be alright
    Next minute you're down, and you're flat on your back
    A brand new day is beginning
    Get that sunny feeling and you're on your way.

    Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
    Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
    Do you know how it feels when you don't have a friend
    Without a job and no money to spend?
    You're a stranger

    All you think about is suicide
    One of these days you're gonna lose the fight
    You'd better keep out of danger - yeah
    That same old feeling just keeps burning deep inside
    You keep telling yourself it's gonna be the end
    Oh get yourself together
    Things are looking better everyday

    Just believe - keep passing the open windows
    Just believe - keep passing the open windows

    This is the only life for me
    Surround myself around my own fantasy
    You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
    Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

    You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
    Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

    Love is all you need - baby - love is all you need.

    Just believe - just keep passing the open windows.


    HAMMER TO FALL

    Here we stand or here we fall
    History won't care at all
    Make the bed, light the light
    Lady Mercy won't be home tonight.

    CHORUS
    You don't waste no time at all
    Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
    It comes to you as to us all
    We're just waiting
    For the hammer to fall

    Oh every night,and every day
    A little piece of you is falling away
    But lift your face,the Western Way-
    Build your muscles as your body decays.

    CHORUS
    Toe your line and play their game
    Let the anaesthetic cover it all
    Till one day they call your name
    You know it's time for the Hammer to Fall.

    Rich or poor or famous for 
    Your truth it's all the same
    Lock your door the rain is pouring
    Through your window pane
    Baby, now your struggle's all vain.

    For we who grew up tall and proud
    In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud
    Convinced our voices can't be heard
    We just wanna scream it louder and louder

    CHORUS
    What the hell we fighting for?
    Just surrender and it won't hurt at all
    You just got time to say your prayers
    While your waiting for the Hammer to Fall.

     

    IS THIS THE WORLD WE CREATED...?

    Just look at all those hungry mouthswe have to feed
    Take a look at all the suffering we breed
    So many lonely faces scattered all around
    Searching for what they need.

    Is this the world we created
    What did we do it for
    Is this the world we invaded
    Against the law
    So it seems in the end
    Is this what we're all living for today
    The world that we created.

    You know that every day a helpless child is born
    Who needs some loving care inside a happy home
    Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne
    Waiting for life to go by.

    Is this the world we created,we made it on our own
    Is this the world we devastated,right to the bone
    If there's a God in the sky looking down
    What can he think of what we've done
    To the world that He created.