...but unfortunately I don't. What I do know is half of the spoken bit, the bit that goes: "I know when to go out. And I know when to stay in." Then I wait excitedly for the sung bit to start, because I think I know the words to the sung bit. I don't. I only know the first word, which is "I". And then I'm in trouble til "but I never wave bye-bye". I should really either stop trying to sing along to this song at parties, which won't happen, because it is one of my favourites, or I should learn the lyrics. What I don't need to keep doing is squawking "I" and then looking like a tit.
I don't know. Does this happen to anybody else?
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I catch the paperboy
But things don't really change.
I'm lying in the rain,
But I never wave bye-bye,
But I try
I try!
There's no sign of life,
It's just the power to charm
I'm lying in the rain
But I never wave bye-bye
But I try
I try
Never gonna fall for
(Modern love)
Walks beside me
(Modern love)
Walks on by
(Modern love)
Gets me to the church on time
(Church on time)
Terrifies me
(Church on time)
Makes me party
(Church on time)
Puts my trust in God and man
(God and man)
No confession
(God and man)
No religion
(God and man)
Don't believe in modern love...
I have been known to sing this walking down Oxford St. I get funny looks.
The question is, are you the sort of person that sings Bowie's parts, or the backing singers'?
Thanks for that.
I do the backing singers, and the clapping.
Oooh... "The Thin White Duke" era! One of those back-up singers is a dead ringer for Graham Norton...
Yup, I do this all the time. I even google the lyrics and it still doesn't work. As I use songs a lot when I'm writing this can be dead annoying. Current bete noire is a song to which I don't know the title, or the band and all I can remember is: She makes you high, but you don't even know yet/The sun's in the sky, deedadeedadeedumdum something rhyming with yet/You can't deny you're waiting for the sunset.
I have also identified the word "romance" and I know there's a line about this world turning to seafood. I have googled all of the above to no avail and I can't find it on You Tube. But it is a perfect jolly falling in love kind of song which I really want to be listening to when I right jolly falling in love kind of scenes...
Good choice btw, I love Bowie (which I hope makes up for my poor taste elsehwere.)
or even when I write. Should remember to proofread my own comments...
I don't know why, but I have a ludicrously good memory for song lyrics. Songs will come on the radio that I haven't heard or indeed thought about for 15 years, and I'll find myself happily singing along. I'm fairly sure that this is the reason my memory for faces, names, events and basically anything except lyrics is so poor: my brain is stuffed with 31 years of pop songs and there's no room for anything else. And isn't it sad to see that even David Bowie didn't manage to look cool in the 80s? It really was a cruel decade...
I found your song, Jane. It's
"She's Got You High" by Mumm-Ra. And it is on YouTube. I'll send you the details via your blog.
Just seen that Persephone, thank you! It's been driving me nuts. And I am obviously going deaf, otherwise I would realise this world has turned to seafood is not only nonsense, but is completely wrong...
I spent my formative years learning Abba song lyrics by heart: myself and friend next door had it down to such a fine art in the end that we could learn a whole album within a day of acquisition (this is in the days when tracks weren't endlessly previewed on radio for months before singles/albums came out*) Even down to 'correcting' any misprints on the lyrics provided on the inner sleeves. Cloud, on the other hand, pretty much ascribes to the school of 'the ants are my friends' in terms of recalling lyrics which is ironic given that Dylan lyrics dominant amongst those he actually can easily cite.
* yes, I know in the age of download an entire generation says 'album?' 'single?'
Ah Lisa, you have just reminded me... we used to learn all the words to all the latest songs from Smash Hits c 1978. I therefore can remember most of the words to every song in Grease even though I never saw the film till I was ever so old (it was considered too racy you see)...
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