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By *ools and the brain OP Couple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Our lips are sealed.

Fun boy Three.

In fact almost everything with Terry Hall ,he seems to be one of the most underrated artists ever!

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

God that’s a blast from the past!!

Great song!!

I’ll have a think….

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Mother Of Earth - The Gun Club

Perpetuum Mobile - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Absolute - Scritti Politti

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By *ools and the brain OP Couple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

OMG a song 40 years old and the lyrics are absolutely so relevant today as now more than ever.

Do yourself a favour and go listen to the whole thing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lana Del Rey “Gods and Monsters” here’s a little bit of the lyrics

In the land of Gods and Monsters

I was an angel looking to get fucked hard

Like a groupie incognito, posing as a real singer

Life imitates art

Bloody sexy song x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Martha's Harbour - All About Eve

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By *issYeuxBleusWoman
over a year ago

My boudoir - S Wales

Deeply dippy

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

"Deeply dippy"

Good shout, the whole album is pretty amazing

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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago

Worcestershire

Driving Away From Home by It's Immaterial

Virtually unknown but a great track (and album)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Deeply dippy

Good shout, the whole album is pretty amazing "

Have to separate the art and the artists there. Pair of pillocks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lazarus - Porcupine Tree

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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago

Worcestershire

Free Electric Band by Albert Hammond

Justifies / explains a musician's lifestyle perfectly

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

"Driving Away From Home by It's Immaterial

Virtually unknown but a great track (and album)

30 miles or more

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"Our lips are sealed.

Fun boy Three.

In fact almost everything with Terry Hall ,he seems to be one of the most underrated artists ever!

The Go-Go’s released this as their debut single in 1981. It was co-written by Jane Wiedlin & Tony Hall. Fun Boy Three released their version in 1983

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"Martha's Harbour - All About Eve "

Love this xx

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

"Martha's Harbour - All About Eve

Love this xx "

Ah yeah! Haven't heard that in ages!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

UB40- rarely shown the respect here they have elsewhere in the world. One in Ten is over 40 years old, as relevant now as ever in places- Beautiful and depressing in equal parts.

I am the one in ten

A number on a list

I am the one in ten

Even though I don't exist

Nobody Knows me

But I'm always there

A statistical reminder

Of a world that doesn't care

My arms enfold the dole queue

Malnutrition dulls my hair

My eyes are black and lifeless

With an underprivileged stare

I'm the beggar on the corner

Will no-one spare a dime?

I'm the child that never learns to read

'Cause no-one spared the time

I am the one in ten ...

I'm the murderer and the victim

The licence with the gun

I'm a sad and bruised old lady

In an ally in a slum

I'm a middle aged businessman

With chronic heart disease

I'm another teenaged suicide

In a street that has no trees

I am the one in ten ... etc

I'm a starving third world mother

A refugee without a home

I'm a house wife hooked on Valium

I'm a Pensioner alone

I'm a cancer ridden spectre

Discovering the earth

I'm another hungry baby

I'm an accident of birth.

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Monsters and Angels - Voice of the Beehive

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Backfield in Motion

Mel & Tim

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By *he Running Man 2022Man
over a year ago

Shipley, Bradford

The First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters.

Nobody ever seems to know what song I'm referring to, whenever i mention it!? Lol

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By *inkyKissCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

Joshua Kaddison

Jessie

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By *utcock61Man
over a year ago

glasgow

lovely tune.

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By *utcock61Man
over a year ago

glasgow

Nick Drake.....Northern Sky.

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By *lubchuckerMan
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

Waterboys

The whole of the Moon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Our lips are sealed.

Fun boy Three.

In fact almost everything with Terry Hall ,he seems to be one of the most underrated artists ever!

The Go-Go’s released this as their debut single in 1981. It was co-written by Jane Wiedlin & Tony Hall. Fun Boy Three released their version in 1983"

Love both versions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters.

Nobody ever seems to know what song I'm referring to, whenever i mention it!? Lol"

I know it well...great tune.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Squeeze me macaroni - Mr. Bungle

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"Our lips are sealed.

Fun boy Three.

In fact almost everything with Terry Hall ,he seems to be one of the most underrated artists ever!

I feel the same about Prefab Sprout…

Cars and Girls

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Underrated song , gonna go with Desert Moon, Dennis De Young ..great tune ..l think anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ARY-the sea

https://youtu.be/1-tKbnakMk8

So tranquil

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By *urious is the VoyeurMan
over a year ago

Rickmansworth

Where have all the lyricists gone ??

Some great tunes mentioned in this thread.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"UB40- rarely shown the respect here they have elsewhere in the world. One in Ten is over 40 years old, as relevant now as ever in places- Beautiful and depressing in equal parts.

I am the one in ten

A number on a list

I am the one in ten

Even though I don't exist

Nobody Knows me

But I'm always there

A statistical reminder

Of a world that doesn't care

My arms enfold the dole queue

Malnutrition dulls my hair

My eyes are black and lifeless

With an underprivileged stare

I'm the beggar on the corner

Will no-one spare a dime?

I'm the child that never learns to read

'Cause no-one spared the time

I am the one in ten ...

I'm the murderer and the victim

The licence with the gun

I'm a sad and bruised old lady

In an ally in a slum

I'm a middle aged businessman

With chronic heart disease

I'm another teenaged suicide

In a street that has no trees

I am the one in ten ... etc

I'm a starving third world mother

A refugee without a home

I'm a house wife hooked on Valium

I'm a Pensioner alone

I'm a cancer ridden spectre

Discovering the earth

I'm another hungry baby

I'm an accident of birth. "

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"UB40- rarely shown the respect here they have elsewhere in the world. One in Ten is over 40 years old, as relevant now as ever in places- Beautiful and depressing in equal parts.

I am the one in ten

A number on a list

I am the one in ten

Even though I don't exist

Nobody Knows me

But I'm always there

A statistical reminder

Of a world that doesn't care

My arms enfold the dole queue

Malnutrition dulls my hair

My eyes are black and lifeless

With an underprivileged stare

I'm the beggar on the corner

Will no-one spare a dime?

I'm the child that never learns to read

'Cause no-one spared the time

I am the one in ten ...

I'm the murderer and the victim

The licence with the gun

I'm a sad and bruised old lady

In an ally in a slum

I'm a middle aged businessman

With chronic heart disease

I'm another teenaged suicide

In a street that has no trees

I am the one in ten ... etc

I'm a starving third world mother

A refugee without a home

I'm a house wife hooked on Valium

I'm a Pensioner alone

I'm a cancer ridden spectre

Discovering the earth

I'm another hungry baby

I'm an accident of birth.

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genuinely great band, outstandingly great track.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"The First Picture of You - The Lotus Eaters.

Nobody ever seems to know what song I'm referring to, whenever i mention it!? Lol"

Sir, Sir I know it!!!

The first picture of you

The first picture of summer

See the flowers, sing their joy.

Fantastic song.

I always thought it would have been a brilliant sound track to One Summer: Billy and Icky's misguide escapade, in search of Benlech mountain. Great telly deserves great music.

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"Where have all the lyricists gone ??

Some great tunes mentioned in this thread."

Tori Amos - is hugely underrated lyricist.

Crucify,

Me and a gun

Tear in your hand,

Northern lad

China

1000 oceans

Way too many too list. She is a poet.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Where have all the lyricists gone ??

Some great tunes mentioned in this thread.

Tori Amos - is hugely underrated lyricist.

Crucify,

Me and a gun

Tear in your hand,

Northern lad

China

1000 oceans

Way too many too list. She is a poet.

What the hell is a cornflake girl? some times great abstract lyrics are just that, great.

I'd love her to write sing with Peter Gabriel just like Kate Bush, Sinead O'connor Paula Cole and Laurie Anderson. How has the female maverick songstress not got him as a backing singer?

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"Where have all the lyricists gone ??

Some great tunes mentioned in this thread.

Tori Amos - is hugely underrated lyricist.

Crucify,

Me and a gun

Tear in your hand,

Northern lad

China

1000 oceans

Way too many too list. She is a poet.

What the hell is a cornflake girl? some times great abstract lyrics are just that, great.

I'd love her to write sing with Peter Gabriel just like Kate Bush, Sinead O'connor Paula Cole and Laurie Anderson. How has the female maverick songstress not got him as a backing singer?"

Ohh duet with the PG would be awesome

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ten o'clock postman secret service

Feel good song for me anyway

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

Chuck Berry....My Ding a Ling.

For the time, very naughty.

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By *as2cheatMan
over a year ago

harrow

I was in Ireland last month and a band In a pub sang a Scottish song called Caledonia it blew me away completely in love with this song now and so many beautiful versions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My unknown love - Count Indigo

Winston

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Control (People go where we send you)

The JB's

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby

Queen - You Take My Breath Away

Guns & Roses- Estranged

Eva Cassidy- You Don't Know Me

Joji- Glimpse Of Us

Finneas- Break My Heart Away

Willow Smith- Meet Me At Our Spot

Paul Simon- The Coast

Bipolar Sunshine- Drowning Butterflies

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By *jorkishMan
over a year ago

Seaforth

Anything by X-Ray Spex

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn

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By *avid4olderMan
over a year ago

North Coast

"I was in Ireland last month and a band In a pub sang a Scottish song called Caledonia it blew me away completely in love with this song now and so many beautiful versions "

I agree that it’s an amazing song - still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand and want to go back in Scotland

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By *issalignedTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Debris - Ronnie Lane/ Rod Stewart

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By *eic-sidneyMan
over a year ago

Leicester

"I was in Ireland last month and a band In a pub sang a Scottish song called Caledonia it blew me away completely in love with this song now and so many beautiful versions "

Written by Dougie MacLean, his rendition with several guests on YouTube is brilliant

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby

Diana Ankudinova - Dernière Danse (Last Dance), has anyone listened this song? Her voice is just wow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn "

Like this not heard it in ages

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By *andy and DannyCouple
over a year ago

Barnstaple

All you good good people , embrace ,

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Life in a northern town: Dream academy

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Where have all the lyricists gone ??

Some great tunes mentioned in this thread.

Tori Amos - is hugely underrated lyricist.

Crucify,

Me and a gun

Tear in your hand,

Northern lad

China

1000 oceans

Way too many too list. She is a poet.

What the hell is a cornflake girl? some times great abstract lyrics are just that, great.

I'd love her to write sing with Peter Gabriel just like Kate Bush, Sinead O'connor Paula Cole and Laurie Anderson. How has the female maverick songstress not got him as a backing singer?

Ohh duet with the PG would be awesome"

This needs doing, seeing how She's made Cornwall her home, time zones are no longer an excuse.

Tori can be on the big grand piano and Peter can be in that red dress with the fox head.

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By *0ng0 furyMan
over a year ago

Birkenhead

this mortal coil - song to the siren

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn "

This......

Winston

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Crown - Gary Byrd & The GB Experience

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oldie….but Spanish Stroll by Mink De’Ville is a great song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cry for help

Rick Astley

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By *ools and the brain OP Couple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Siobhan Donaghy

Don't give up.

Part of the original line up of the sugar babes,when she left and went solo she released this cracking song.

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Eddie Murphy- Party all the time

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By *ools and the brain OP Couple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"Eddie Murphy- Party all the time "

Hard to argue against this, it's a pretty good tune. Pretty sure it got to number 1 so underated?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sweetest Smile - Black

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By *ools and the brain OP Couple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

And in complete contrast to my previous pick.

Marilyn Manson.

Disposable Teens.

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

George Michael - praying for time

The way it is - Bruce Hornsby and the range

Both still lyrically very relevant today and great tunes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Forgotten Town - The Christians

Connected - Stereo MC's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Life in a northern town: Dream academy"

Class

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tempted…. Squeeze

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

See The Day - Dee C Lee

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By *utcock61Man
over a year ago

glasgow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stop! - Sam Brown

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Songbird Eva Cassidy

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Not a massive fan of this group but….

Queen, on the Works album is a song called ‘Keep passing the open windows’ just one of those great album tracks.

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By *aysOfOurLivesCouple
over a year ago

Essex

"Life in a northern town: Dream academy

Class

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YUUP!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am kloot-these days are mine

Tremendous song

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Owner of a lonely heart ....yes

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Life in a northern town: Dream academy

Class

Hey I'm on my.... has been sampled quite a bit.

Dario G and Shakespeare's Sister, are two I can remember.

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By *ig rig hullMan
over a year ago

Hull

Uncle kracker- follow me! It’s a right belter

Mark Owen - 4 minute warning is deffo under rated

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By *ovingSussexLifeMan
over a year ago

West Sussex

McCartney- Maybe I'm Amazed

Baby, I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time

And maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time

You hung me on the line

Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man

Who's in the middle of something

That he doesn't really understand

Baby, I'm a man

And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me

Baby, won't you help me to understand?

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man

Who's in the middle of something

That he doesn't really understand

Baby, I'm a man

And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me

Baby, won't you help me to understand?

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time

Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song

Right me when I'm wrong

Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you

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By *ig rig hullMan
over a year ago

Hull

"McCartney- Maybe I'm Amazed

Baby, I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time

And maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time

You hung me on the line

Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man

Who's in the middle of something

That he doesn't really understand

Baby, I'm a man

And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me

Baby, won't you help me to understand?

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man

Who's in the middle of something

That he doesn't really understand

Baby, I'm a man

And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me

Baby, won't you help me to understand?

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time

Maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you

Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song

Right me when I'm wrong

Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you"

Gotta love the copy and paste dude

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