Caught up in the 80s
...and those great songs
I don't know who originated this list, but it came to me through Sib of the 80s Gang.
(The answers are here, but they are all visible. Don't click until you're ready to see them all.)
- And she's lovin him with that body I just know it
- I'm on the hunt, I'm after you
- Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?
- Let me tell you 'bout the girl I met last night
- Well I like takin off, don't like burnin out, every time you turn it on, makes me wanna shout
- Buying bread from a man in brussels, he was 6 foot 4 and full a muscles
- With every breath I'm deeper into you
- Distant eyes, losin ground I'm reachin for you, you, you
- Music does the talkin, says the things you wanna hear
- And I've never been a loser and I just can't lose tonight
- I'm gonna buy me a one way ticket, nothin's gonna hold me back. Your love's like a slow train comin and I can feel it comin down the track- whoah
- At this moment, you mean everything!
- I tried my imagination, but I was disturbed
- Making love to you was never second best
- I've got to, run away from the pain you drive into the heart of me
- So wild, so free, so far from me. You're all I want, my fantasy
- If you got the money honey we got your disease
- And mama always told me be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls' hearts
- My baby may not be rich, he's watchin every dime
- Take your passion, and make it happen
- I think they got the alias, that you been livin under
- I had a premonition that he shouldn't have gone alone
- And when the night is cold and dark, you can't see, you can't see light
- Don't drink, Don't smoke, what do ya do?
- I don't wanna be a girl like that, do you wanna see a grown man cry?
- Somebody's callin after somebody, somebody turns the corner out of sight. Lookin for somebody, somewhere in the night
- A week without you, thought I'd forget, two weeks without you and I still haven't gotten over you yet
- Strange voices are saying, ah what did they say? Things I can't understand
- Been workin, so hard. I'm punchin, my card
- I know just how to whisper, and I know just how to cry
- I was a high school loser never made it with a lady til the boys told me somethin I missed
- I knew right from the beginning, that you would end up winnin, I knew right from the start, you'd put an arrow through my heart
- You got to roll with the punches to get to what's real
- Just a look at that girl with the lights comin up in her eyes
- It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you, it's nothing that a
hundred men or more could ever do
- And heart to heart you win, if ya survive
- Play the guitar on the MTV
- So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills, you know the one, Dr. everything be all right
- Tin roof......Rusted
- You're givin me the chills baby please baby don't
- I knew he must a been about seventeen
- With the touch of a velvet glove
- It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
- Slight of hand and a twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait
- She's so fine, she's all mine, the girl is all right!
- And your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're no friends of mine
- Your feet are going to be on the ground, your head is there to move you around
- Oceans apart, day after day, and I slowly go insane
- I guess I should a known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn't last
- You're all the things I've got to remember
- I need some company, a guardian angel, to keep me warm when the cold winds blow
- Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye
- So many times, it happens too fast, you trade your passion for glory
- Nations go to war over women like you, it's just a form of appreciation
- Before I put another notch in my lipstick case You better make sure you put me in my place!
- You tell me that you want me, you tell me that you need me, you tell me that you love me, and I know that I'm right cause I hear it in the night.
- I got a picture of you- ahh-ha-ahh-ha-ah-ah
- I, I was standing, you were there
- Every claim you stake I'll be watching you
- Shoot me like a rocket into space!
- This is the world we live in, and these are the hands we're given
- Don't wish it away, don't look at it like this forever
- And even though I wander, I'm keepin you in sight, you're a candle in the wind on a cold dark winters night
- If you say goodbye to me tonight, there will still be music left to write
- Oh yeah I, just wanna watch the girls go by
- I'll be alone, dancin, you know it baby
- And you may say to yourself, My god, what have I done?
- Scratches his head and does his best James Dean
- Oh thinkin about all our younger years, it was only you and me, we were young and wild and free
- Like a knight in shining armor, from a long time ago
- Stop walking down my street. Who do you expect to meet?
- I've been meaning to tell you, I've got this feeling that won't subside
- Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be
- I had a friend was a big baseball player, back in high school
- See yourself, give your freewill a chance, you've got to work to succeed
- One likes to believe in the freedom of music
- Heirs of the cold war, that's what we've become. Inherited troubles, I'm mentally numb.
- Kid can't read at seventeen, the words he knows are all obscene but, it's all right
- I sailed away to China, in a little row boat to find ya, you said you had to get your laundry clean
- I never believed in things that I couldn't see, I said if I can feel it, how could it be
- Don't take money, don't take fame, don't need no credit card to ride this train
- The school bell rings, you know it's my cue, I'm gonna meet the boys on floor number two
- I never meant to be so bad to you. One thing I said that I would never do
- Put me in coach, I'm ready to play, today
- Just like the one wing dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing
- So let's sink another drink, cause it'll give me time to think
- I need fifty dollars to make you holler
- I said mom this shirt is plaid with a butterfly collar
- Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down
- I can make it, I know I can. You broke the boy in me, but you won't break the man
- And the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all
- I've had the blues, the reds and the pinks
- At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head
- I'm lying in the rain, but I never wave bye bye, but I try
- Don't want no Captain Crunch don't want no raisin bran
- I can see the sun in Win-ter-time
- Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath
- And then the conversation turned, until the sun went down
- Who's gonna block your ears, when you scream?
- Come on everybody if you wanna take a chance
- I touch you once, I touch you twice
- All the cops in the donut shop say way-o way-o
- You are so hard to read, you play hide n seek with your true intentions
- She stepped off the bus, out into the city street
- You put the boom boom into my heart, you set my soul sky high when your lovin starts
- You want a piece of my heart, you better start from the start. You wanna be in the show, come on baby lets go!
- I think of you and let it go...
- I'll be back when I found my fears, and I'll see you again in a thousand years
- I can wait another day, until I call you
- When I'm lost at sea, I hear your voice and it carries me
- Another kiss, and you'll be mine, one track mind!
- If you wanna taste my kisses in the night then,
- I was born to love you, but I will never be free, you'll always be a part of me
- There doesn't seem to be anyone around
- Speed so fast, felt like I was drunk
- They see your every move
- No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
- An invisible man sleepin in your bed..
- I sold the Renoir and the TV set
- Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
- I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
- Open up your fruitcage
- There's a new band in town, but you can't get the sound from a story
in a magazine
- In the basement, lock the cellar door
- Like a video vamp
- You're under the gun, out on the run, tryin' to set the night on
fire
- Drinkin' beer through straws
- Worlds apart, hearts broken in two
- I'm comin' down like a monkey, and it's all right
- You say I've got an evil mind
- Fifty thou a year will buy a lot of beer
- Is this Kentucky Fried?
- You'll never be the boy you always wanted to be
- My heart it burns a gem-like flame
- Twenty four hours to go
- The muezzin was a-standing on the radiator grill
- I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
- They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trial
- When we got undressed it was a big ol' mess
- All the world's a candy store, he's been trick or treatin'
- When you flash that fragile smile
- I had to run away high so I don't come home low
- You never ever worry and you never shed a tear
- Girl I think about you every day now
- Play upon her darkest fears
- When I dial my baby's number I get a click every time
- Lookin' like a true survivor, feelin' like a little kid
- Sittin' in a window by the river, playin' guitar
- Dressed in pink and blue just like a child
- I don't care now what you say, I never did believe you much anyway
- With a thrill in my head, and a pill on my tongue
- They don't play baseball, don't go to restaurants
- Waiting for the big boom
- Gaze out at the auburn sky
- Livin in a river of darkness beneath the neon lights
- John F. Kennedy and the Beatles
- It's so damn easy makin' love to you
- Midnight angel, won't you say you will
- All you need is love
- * (keep in mind, this is supposed to be an 80s song.)
- It belongs to them, let's give it back
- My sister got lucky, married a yuppie
- Only time will tell if we stand the test of time
- Tomorrow's so far away, there's something I just have to say
- The jockeys who were there before me
- I wanna live, but you just take more than you give
- And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
- Strewn with time's dead flowers bereft in deathly bloom
- Who can say where they're blowing
- Love come down upon us 'till you flow like water,
- I don't know the answer to that question
- They masquereded as his bride
- A stain on my notebook says nothing to me
- There's always something happening and it's usually quite loud.
- Is this message understood?
- I can lock all my doors
- You gotta heartful of complacency too
- Ain't no finer boy in town
- She would be ready but she'd always make them wait
- Open fire on my burning heart
- Unaware I'm tearing you asunder
- 1773, he writes his first piano concerto
- You said you'd stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
- it's poetry in motion
- Cover me, when I breathe
- But making mistakes is a part of life's imperfections
- Pictures came and broke your heart
- Funny how I blind myself
- Shoes thrown at me from a mean old man
- Modern medicine falls short of your complaints
- but I'm frightened of the things I might find
- Not under the thumb of the cynical few
- Eating barbecued iguana
- 4, 3, 2, 1...
- I wouldn't spend my life just wishing
- Call the police, there's a madman around