FabSwingers.com forum: Think you know your 80s songs...

By *voryforebony OP Man
over a year ago

boogie town

Okay then, what's this line from...

...The first cut won't hurt at all...

Second line in 5 posts time if no-one gets it!

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

The second only makes you wonder ?

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By *voryforebony OP Man
over a year ago

boogie town

"The second only makes you wonder ?"

Bloody hell... Take a cake!

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By *voryforebony OP Man
over a year ago

boogie town

"The second only makes you wonder ?"

So L... That was obviously too easy!!

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By *manda63Woman
over a year ago

Southampton

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

Songs are about the only thing I can remember lol

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Curious to the song now? Definitely not Bad Manners or Madness

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

"Curious to the song now? Definitely not Bad Manners or Madness

Duel, think the band was propaganda or something

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

How about 'my manners are failing me, i'm left feeling ugly'......?

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By *erces LetiferMan
over a year ago

Somewhere off the edge of the map... 'ere there be monsters

"Curious to the song now? Definitely not Bad Manners or Madness

Duel, think the band was propaganda or something"

Yes - a right good tune!

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By *actileGent69Man
over a year ago

East Cheshire

Should have left you standing right where you stood, should have let you go, should have had the sense to know"....

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

"Should have left you standing right where you stood, should have let you go, should have had the sense to know"...."

A bit of Madonna I believe

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By *owithflow321Man
over a year ago

Molesey

"Should have left you standing right where you stood, should have let you go, should have had the sense to know"....

A bit of Madonna I believe "

Let’s take a walk together near the ocean shore...

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

We are going to be hear the hole summer what a bummer.

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

"Should have left you standing right where you stood, should have let you go, should have had the sense to know"....

A bit of Madonna I believe

Let’s take a walk together near the ocean shore..."

hand in hand you and i

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By *heekyweebissimWoman
over a year ago

fife,

"How about 'my manners are failing me, i'm left feeling ugly'......?"

The alcohol loves you while turning your blue

Brilliant song!

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By *actileGent69Man
over a year ago

East Cheshire

"It's a beautiful day and I just wanna ride it, ride the wave right there to your side... It's a beautiful day, who am I to deny it, we'll ride away to a beautiful night"

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

Hello, you fool, i love you...

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

"Hello, you fool, i love you..."

Got to love a bit of Roxette

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

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

"Hello, you fool, i love you...

Got to love a bit of Roxette"

My absolute favourite..i have about 18 albums..

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

Don't you know so many things they come and go

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

"We are going to be hear the hole summer what a bummer. "

Peaches: The Str@nglers

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By *havenbabe01Couple
over a year ago

bedfordshire

i found someone cher

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By *aked-coffeeMan
over a year ago

denby

I want to touch you but I’d better not touch

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

Alice cooper poison

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By *havenbabe01Couple
over a year ago

bedfordshire

poison alice cooper

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

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left, we all fall down

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

I know that when you look at me

There's something much that you just don't see

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

"Step by step, heart to heart, left right left, we all fall down"

Toy soldiers

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

"Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight, but the little green wheels are following me. Oh no, not again."

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

"Step by step, heart to heart, left right left, we all fall down

Toy soldiers"

Martika

One of my favourite tracks

New one:

It's so good,

Baby when you're at the wheel,

It's such a rush,

Just being with you

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

Rush hour

Can't think who sings it

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

"Rush hour

Can't think who sings it"

Jane Wiedlin - one third of The Go-Go's, back in the day

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

"If you want a longer trip we could call on people I know in Newcastle, or maybe even in Glasgow..."

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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire

""Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight, but the little green wheels are following me. Oh no, not again."

Ashes to ashes

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By *ecky and justCouple
over a year ago

Godalming

“You & I in a little toy shop”

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

Buy a bag of balloons with the money we got

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"Buy a bag of balloons with the money we got"

99 balloons - was it Nina ?

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By *ecky and justCouple
over a year ago

Godalming

99 Luftballoons by Nena.

Released 1983 Germany.

Bizarrely, the German lyrics are different and the balloons aren’t red.

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

"Hello, you fool, i love you...

Got to love a bit of Roxette"

No you don’t terrible band lol

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"99 Luftballoons by Nena.

Released 1983 Germany.

Bizarrely, the German lyrics are different and the balloons aren’t red. "

Just had to go look that up

Amazingly the lyrics are almost completely different when translated aren't they

Never knew that, every day is a learning day lol

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer’s deadly toy?

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By *uskymotoMan
over a year ago

Cumbria

"99 Luftballoons by Nena.

Released 1983 Germany.

Bizarrely, the German lyrics are different and the balloons aren’t red. "

They were zeppelins in the German version

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By *azza72Man
over a year ago

Leeds

“If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind”

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By *uskymotoMan
over a year ago

Cumbria

"“If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind”"

U2 bad

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By *uskymotoMan
over a year ago

Cumbria

They came for him one winter's night.

Arrested, he was bound.

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

"How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer’s deadly toy? "

Sting - Russians

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"They came for him one winter's night.

Arrested, he was bound."

Gary Moore - over the hills and far away

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

'....and sometimes i say "hey mark, you're spoiling all the paintwork'

Paintwork The Fall

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

Just close your eyes and then remember

The thoughts you've locked away

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By *ecky and justCouple
over a year ago

Godalming

"Just close your eyes and then remember

The thoughts you've locked away"

Strawberry Switchblade..

excellent. Massive crush in the day.

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"Just close your eyes and then remember

The thoughts you've locked away

Strawberry Switchblade..

excellent. Massive crush in the day.

Indeed it was,

showing my age but it was Kim Wilde that was mine

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By *ecky and justCouple
over a year ago

Godalming

"Just close your eyes and then remember

The thoughts you've locked away

Strawberry Switchblade..

excellent. Massive crush in the day.

Indeed it was,

showing my age but it was Kim Wilde that was mine

Cathy Dennis and Wendy James were mine.

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

A couple more from us then...

..................

The last that ever she saw him

..................

And...

I was twenty one years when I wrote this song

I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"Just close your eyes and then remember

The thoughts you've locked away

Strawberry Switchblade..

excellent. Massive crush in the day.

Indeed it was,

showing my age but it was Kim Wilde that was mine

Cathy Dennis and Wendy James were mine.

Oh god yeah, Wendy James.... phew!!! lol

The vamps still get played in our house every now and again

Cathy Dennis has written barrow loads of hits for other people since then,

but you probably know that anyway

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

"The second only makes you wonder ?"

The third will have you on your knees

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By *wickermanMan
over a year ago

Staines

I was twenty one years when I wrote this song

I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long

Billy Bragg and then Kirsty McColl

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By *wickermanMan
over a year ago

Staines

I was twenty one years when I wrote this song

I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long

Billy Bragg and then Kirsty McColl"

New England

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By *ilver_medallistMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

The last that ever she saw him

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Carried away on a moonlight shadow..

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

lol yes that's it _wickerman

It's probably the Kirsty McColl version that everyone knows best, great song.

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Had me stumped Danny72 lol

So had to look it up and recognised the song it when it started playing,

saying nothing though, someone else might get it

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

The last that ever she saw him

..................

Carried away on a moonlight shadow.."

Yes it was, a song to get lost in that one lol

Wondered if one line was too little but you nailed it

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

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By *azza72Man
over a year ago

Leeds

"“If I could throw this lifeless lifeline to the wind”

U2 bad"

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

If I had to live my life without you near me

The days would all be empty

The nights would seem so long

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

"If I had to live my life without you near me

The days would all be empty

The nights would seem so long"
nothings gonna change my love for you.

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

Rick Astley

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

"If I had to live my life without you near me

The days would all be empty

The nights would seem so long nothings gonna change my love for you. "
Glen medeiros

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

Children behave that's what they say when we're together

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

"Children behave that's what they say when we're together"
I think we're alone now

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

"Children behave that's what they say when we're together I think we're alone now "

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

It's all the same it's only the name that's change

Everyday feels like we're wasting away

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"It's all the same it's only the name that's change

Everyday feels like we're wasting away"

Wanted dead or alive - bon jovi

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

I sighed and you swooned

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

I got 20 acres

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Best decade for music by a mile

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

Ah jeez... thinking

and you've got...

wurzels - combine harvester ?

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"Ah jeez... thinking

and you've got...

wurzels - combine harvester ?"

To mamcam that was lol

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing "

No one got mine right!

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Think you're going to have to give us another line keef lol

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By *musedforlifeMan
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"I sighed and you swooned "

I saw the crescent,

You saw the whole of the moon.

Great song

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By *voryforebony OP Man
over a year ago

boogie town

"How about 'my manners are failing me, i'm left feeling ugly'......?

The alcohol loves you while turning your blue

Brilliant song! "

Associates, party fears two

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

'it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it'

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By *elboy321Man
over a year ago

Paisley

"How about 'my manners are failing me, i'm left feeling ugly'......?"

The Asscociattes- Party Fears Two

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By *elboy321Man
over a year ago

Paisley

Ten years before I saw the light of morning

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By *ulldog_71Man
over a year ago

Sedgefield

Hey in the pouring rain when the smell of terror brings a thousand eyes,

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By *akbearMan
over a year ago

Newbury

"Just close your eyes and then remember

The thoughts you've locked away

Strawberry Switchblade..

excellent. Massive crush in the day.

.mmmm Wendy James, and then Vanessa Paradis as we moved into the 90s

Indeed it was,

showing my age but it was Kim Wilde that was mine

Cathy Dennis and Wendy James were mine.

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune!

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune! "

It's beaten me lol

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune!

It's beaten me lol

Is it time for a clue?

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune!

It's beaten me lol

Is it time for a clue? "

Yup

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune!

It's beaten me lol

Is it time for a clue?

Yup

It wood involve Aretha and Praying

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune!

It's beaten me lol

Is it time for a clue?

Yup

It wood involve Aretha and Praying

Someone help me out here

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune!

It's beaten me lol

Is it time for a clue?

Yup

It wood involve Aretha and Praying

Someone help me out here

I will help you by letting the answer slip....

It’s Wood Beez by Scritti Politti ( each time I go to bed I pray like Aretha Franklin)

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By *arracksCouple
over a year ago

Deal

"Should have left you standing right where you stood, should have let you go, should have had the sense to know"....

A bit of Madonna I believe

Let’s take a walk together near the ocean shore..."

Kool & the gang, Cherish, my very first 12 inch

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By *voryforebony OP Man
over a year ago

boogie town

"Should have left you standing right where you stood, should have let you go, should have had the sense to know"....

A bit of Madonna I believe

Let’s take a walk together near the ocean shore...

Kool & the gang, Cherish, my very first 12 inch

Fnarr fnarr

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

"There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you want for nothing

No one got mine right!

Come on fabbers, it’s not difficult and it’s a top tune!

It's beaten me lol

Is it time for a clue?

Yup

It wood involve Aretha and Praying

Someone help me out here

I will help you by letting the answer slip....

It’s Wood Beez by Scritti Politti ( each time I go to bed I pray like Aretha Franklin) "

No, I'd never have got that lol, do remember them vaguely though

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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago

village life, closest main town inverness

Here I go out to sea again,

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