Bronski Beat

Ain't Necessarily So

Da ra da am de ra am de
Ba ra ba am dee da am doo
Ba ra am de ba ra am de
Da ra doo dee

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible
It ain't necessarily so

David was small but oh my
David was small but oh my
He shot Goliath
Who lay down and dieth
Little David was small but oh my

Da ra da am de ra am de
Ba ra ba am dee da am doo
Ba ra am de ba ra am de
Da ra doo dee

Jonah he lived in a whale
Jonah he lived in a whale
He made his home in that fishes abdomen
Jonah he lived in a whale

Moses was found on a stream
Moses was found on a stream
Floated on water old Pharoah's daughter
Fished him she says from that stream

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
They tell all your children
The devil he's a villain
It ain't necessarily so

Da ra da am de ra am de
Ba ra ba am dee da am doo
Ba ra am de ba ra am de
Da ra doo dee

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so

Things that you're liable
To read in that Bible
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily so

C'mon C'mon

We stand here trapped and so angry
These walls are crumblin' down around me
We've never got any money
It never seems to be around any more

So c'mon c'mon release me baby
Only if you could
C'mon c'mon relieve me darlin'
This boy ain't what he should be tonight

This is no big-big moment
Can't see a second chance
They'd even stops us from dancing
And try to end our romance
The emptiness that surrounds me
This inner city decay
It doesn't stop me from waiting
To live our life our own way

So c'mon c'mon release me baby
Only if you could
C'mon c'mon relieve me darlin'
This boy ain't what he should be tonight

This boy ain't what he should be tonight
This boy ain't what he should be tonight
Together we fight
We'll make it tonight

The same the whole world over
No love to save our souls
Some people think it's funny
Alredy reached their goals
Preaching victorian values
Now in this day and age
No wonder we're still angry
We can't contain our rage any more

Obe diama

Obe denusu

C'mon c'mon release me baby
C'mon c'mon relieve me darlin'
This boy ain't what he should be tonight

Cadillac Car

Sell me your soul
And I'll make you a star
Fantasies turned realities
And a Cadillac car

Watch them hero worship
The boys at the bar
You they idolise
The all boy America

We will make them be your doggies
We will make them kiss you ass
As you bathe in gold and blood
May the best boy win

Let the winner beg for refuge
Feast upon the loser's heart
We could live in pain forever
If I made you a star

You, me the doggies and a
Cadillac car
De ba da dee da?

Close to the Edge

Ooooh.

Close to the edge, close to the edge
And I won't fall over, won't fall over no way
Close to the edge, close to the edge
And I won't fall over, won't fall over no way

Ooooh.

Don't stand and watch me, it's a long long way down
Don't stand and watch me, it's a long long way down, yeah
Watch me fall, would you catch me as I fell?
Watch me fall, would you catch me as I fell?

Ooooh.

Ooooh. Save me save me.
Ooooh. Save me save me.
Ooooh. Save me save me.
Ooooh. Save me save me.

It's a long way down. It's a long way down.
It's a long way down. It's a long way down.
It's a long way down. It's a long way down.
Close to the edge, but I won't fall off
Close to the edge, but I won't fall off

Do It

Shake your body
Lose your mind
We set our standards
In this world of mine
Let's do it do it once again
Let's do it do it one more time
Let's do it while the night is young
Don't keep, don't keep your distance

You look so good
You look so fine
The question is your state of mind
Let's do it, do it once again
Let's do it, do it one more time
Let's do it while the night is young
Don't keep, don't keep your distance

Gonna shake
Gonna shake your body

Chorus

The presure's lifting
I'm feeling high
You cannot reach me
In this world of mine
Move your body
Close to mine
We've got our standard, in this world of mine

Dr John

Gotta be careful who I meet tonight
Put up the struggle, I'll put up the fight
Loving is different, so full of fear
Can't love you right, until the cure is here

It's physical breakdown
It's emotional blackmail
It's uncontrollable it affects us all

Here I am Dr John
Here I am do you know what to do

The papers report in the wrong way
Don't care what they say, they don't educate
People look on it with a different view
Can you help me, explain
Do you know what to do

Used to be careless and so carefree
That old life-style will be the death of me
Dreading the system in this modern age
It's killing our people, must try to be brave

There must be something we can do
It's catching up, breaking through
There falls a silence across our land
The situation's out of hand

The situation is out of hand

Do you know what to do

Hard Rain

Turn your head look around you,
Can't you see things are falling apart?
Mother, time to stop them preparing your children for war.
Ooh, when hard rain falls
Ooh, when hard rain falls
Ooh, when hard rain falls
Ooh, when hard rain falls

Governments and evil lies leading to destruction,
Exploit, degrade, humiliate, communicate with violence.
Ooh when the fascist call what will you do?
Ooh when the fascist call what will you do?

Here he comes this Americain man,
Head so full with a deadly plan,
Says he'll tell you says no lies and blood is dripping
From his hands,
The blood is dripping from his hands.
Ooh when hard rain falls
Ooh when hard rain falls
Ooh when the fascists call what will you do?
Ooh when the fascists call what will you do?

Democracy crumbles, under what will you do?

Heatwave

Hey we're headin' for a summer heatwave
Boys we're headin' for a summer heatwave
Summer he-e-e-e-e-eat wave yeah
Summer he-e-e-e-e-eat wave yeah

Tattoos and muscle passion and sweat
Summer he-e-e-e-e-eat wave
Yeah yeah

Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah
Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah
Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah
Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah

Summer heat save
Summer heat save
Summer heat save
Summer heat save

De ha ra doo yeah

Hit That Perfect Beat

Searching for some company
Feel the rhythm dance with me
Them beat boy blues seem out of place
Now they want to party pace party pace
Dance dance on the floor
Dance dance move some more
Dance dance feel the heat
Hit that perfect beat boy, hit that perfect beat beat boy

I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got them feeling the perfect beat
I've got that feeling that perfect feeling
That perfect feeling all over me
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Hit that perfect hit that perfect hit that perfect beat boy

Come come close to me I want this to be
That perfect feeling all over me
Come come close to me I want this to be
That beat boy feeling all over me
Too close for comfort too close for joy
Boys in the back room their hearts destroy
Touch and kiss a stranger if all else fails
Hiding from the danger that's been sent from hell

I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got them feeling the perfect beat
I've got that feeling that perfect feeling
That perfect feeling all over me
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Beat boy beat boy beat beat beat beat
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Hit that perfect hit that perfect hit that perfect beat boy

Beat beat beat beat
Beat beat beat beat boy

Hit hit hit hit that perf-
Beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat boy
I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got that feeling that perfect beat
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling that perfect feeling
That perfect feeling all over me
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got them feeling that perfect beat
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling that perfect feeling (feeling)
That perfect feeling all over me (hit that perfect beat)
I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings (feelings)
I've got that feeling that perfect beat
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling that perfect feeling (feeling)
That perfect feeling all over me (hit that perfect beat boy) (all over me)

I Feel Love

Oh it's so good
Oh it's so good
Oh it's so good

Oh I'm in love
Oh I'm in love
Oh I'm in love

I feel love
I feel love
I feel love
I feel love
I feel love
I feel love

Oh what'll it be
Oh what'll it be
Oh what'll it be

You an me yeah

Oh I'm in love
Oh I'm in love
Oh I'm in love

I fell love
I fell love
I fell love
I fell love
I fell love

Johnny remember me
Johnny why don't you remember me
Johnny I feel love for you
Johnny
I love you

Why don't you come back

In My Dreams

I start crying
In my dreams
Can't sleep at night
No point in living
No place to run, no place to hide

I want love to stay with me
Close by your side
Living in my dreams
I want love to stay with me
Right by your side
Living in my dreams

I'm asking the questions
That play on my mind
I'm killing time
Memories to find
Thinking 'bout the friends
I've left behind

I'd make the wrong move
Again and again
I sing the same blues
Again and again

I keep searching
In my dreams
These tears won't dry
No point in lying
You know our love will never die

No place to run
No place to hide
No place to roam
With you on my mind

Infatuation / Memories

Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Memories, sweet memories
Lost in these memories
Lost I should stay

Days, brilliant days
Love filled these brilliant days
These days are foregone
Alone, alone I pray

Love that was wonderful
Love nobody knows
My head it cries from wall to wall
My heart will scream down down I fall

My heart, down I fall, down I fall

Down fall!

Junk

He can't take the street no more
Street too full full of junk
Thinks he'll hide in his room
Room too full full of junk

He turns on his T.V. T.V. full full of junk
Processed zombies pushing junk
Junk food junk clothes
Dressed in junk from head to toe

Eat what you're given
Eat what you get
Eat what you're given
Eat what you get
Eat what you're given
Eat what you get
Eat what you're given

And be thankful what you get
He screams for more
Hits the night life once again
Night life full full of junk

Junk is all he'll ever know
Junk music junk dance
Too many junkheads on the floor

(Repeat chorus to end)

Love and Money

Work for money spend money
Spend for love love for money
Pain and love love and pain
Pain and lust lust for money

Love and money
Love and money

Exploit for money kill for love
Love for money exploited love

Love and money
Love and money

Burning me up
Oooh it's burning me up
Bruning me up
Oooh it's burning me up

Work for money spend money
Spend for love love for money
Money is the root of all evil
Money is the root of all evil
Money is the root of all evil
Money is the root of all evil

Hey-yah-hey

Need a Man Blues

Need a man blues
He-e-hey!

I got those need a man blues
Driving me mad
I go those need a man blues
Hurting me bad

Sweet sweet sweet
Is the taste of a man
And sweeter still is the taste
Of his sweet tasting love

Evil, wicked or angel
Just give me a man
Evil, wicked or
Angel

Need a man blues
Need a man blues
Angel hurting me bad
Boys and heroes lovers and men

Turning me upside down
Again and again
Again and again

He-e-hey

I got those need a man blues
I got those need a man blues
Hurting me oh so bad

And the sweetest thing of all
Is men loving men loving men loving men
Is men loving men loving men loving men
I got those need a man blues
I got those need a man blues

Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues
Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues
Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues
Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues

Angel!

No more war

No more war please
No more destruction of innocent life
No more living in fear
No more on our bended knees
To live is our right

No more war
No more war please
It's got to stop oh we've got to make it stop

No more money for bombs
When the poor people hungry on the street
No more sending young men to fight
As they die for false glory and false pride (do or die)

No more war please
Who wants to die
No more war please
Who wants to die
No more war no more war no more

Who wants to die who wants to die

Punishment for Love

Rejected for no reason
He finds it easy to cry
Another day that pases
How he tries to hide
Confused with how he's feeling
Ends up wanting much more
Waits for the bell to ring
But no-one's at the door.
Living in a jail house
A cell of his own
Will he ever have his freedom
Inside of his home?
And the warden is his father
The watcher his mum
Under lock and key
Until he's 21

Uncertain where he's going
Uncertain of his love
Uncertain what is coming
Is this the punishment for love?

They gave him everything he wanted
And a little bit more
But nothing seems to please him
He stares at the floor
Watching from the window
His friends passing by
Wishing he could be there (never satisfied)
Living in a jailhouse
A cell of his own
Will he ever have his freedom
Inside of his home
The judge it is his father
The jury his mum
He'll just have to serve his sentence
Until he's 21

Well you know
Time waits for no-one
Got a pace of its own
The dawning of an idea
To go it alone
Longing for adventure
Fear of the unknown
Trying to find the courage
Make a break of his own
Fleeing from that jailhouse
His heart full of hope
There's a ride waiting for him
To take him to the smoke

Run From Love

Love is strong won't let you go
Hunts you down it wants you so.
Lost in love a fool can't see
Broken heart are meant to be

You can't run from love
You can't run.

Tears its way into your heart,
Leaves and you fall apart
Pain is all it has to give
All I want is to hold

Tears of pain, once tears of joy
Emptiness and a boy destroyed
A heart lies lost and slightly soiled
And still I cry to hold you

You can't run from love
You can't run.

Screaming

My man love my first love
My closetness and pain
My lying my deceiving
My rivers keep on crying

My father my action man
My hiding in the crowd
My mother my sisters eyes
My seniors and their prying

My hero my schoolboy
My physical abuse
My loneliness my aching brain
My pounding in the head

My freedom my prison cell
My tempting to destroy
My fantasies my lost control
My confusion disillusion


Machismo my manhood
My wanting just to scream
Scream yeah yeah heah

Small Town Boy

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home
The love that you need
Will never be found at home

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away.
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away.

Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they'd talk about around town
As they put you down

And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry
But you never cried to them
Just to your soul
No you never cried to them
Just to your soul

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away.
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away.

Cry , boy, cry...

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away.
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away.

This Heart

I've been working
On the line
To earn my pay
To get away
From all the pressure
In this town
When I walk around
It brings me down

I leave it up
Up to you
What you want
Want me to do
Keep hearing rumours
About our love
I can't go on
I've had enough

This heart, heart of mine
It just keeps me rolling on
You small town boy, you've got everything to fight for
That old hard rain has fallen once before
This heart, heart of mine
It just keeps me from going under
You smalltime boys, you've got everything to fight for
Pick up that bag and walk right out that door

Is there relief
This pain inside
Can't get it out
Out of my mind
What have I done?
Deserving this?
Where is the fun
When you love someone?

Truthdare Doubledare

Why don't you listen to the preacher, preacher man
Just be aware, if you can
There's a war on the horizon, yes they've got a bomb
Bea it right or be it wrong
You know the book, it will not save you
Will not save you from the fall
Yeas, why don't you keep on praying
That judgement day would end it all
End it all

Truthdare doubledare
Command or opinion
Truthdare doubledare
Truthdare doubledare
Dare to be different
Truthdare doubledare
To be yourself

Now judgement day is comin'
And the people will be free
We always think about our children
And the way it's got to be
I'm not praying for a miracle
I never listen to the law
I'm gonna put it all behind me
I want you all to know the score.

Why don't you listen to me preacher
Would Jesus like what you have done?
Why don't you know what you've been preaching
To each and everyone
You know your church has been a lying
Been unfaithful to us all
You know we gotta trust each other
Or we'll all go up with the bomb
Won't you listen to me preacher
Listen to me please
Hold your hand out to me preacher
I'd even get down on my knees
Yes there's war on the horizon
And yes they've got the bomb
This world it might be ending
Be it right or be it wrong

We Know How It Feels

How can they be so cruel,
When they call me names to hurt me,
Exception to the rule
No, they knowing nothing at all

No they don't understand,
How I could hold your hand
Will they ever understand
How I could hold your hand close to me

Oh, we know how it feels
Our love is real

I'm a prisoner in this age
It won't give in easy
They'll have to turn the page
Instead of putting you down

Needing a helping hand
I'm not so different after all
Needing a promised land
So we can get along

What are you doing about it

Oh, oh, oh, what are you doing about it
Oh pick me up baby
'cos I'm falling for your love
Won't give it up
For nothing, never had enough
My pleasure's yours honey
Feeling loose inside
You won't be sorry lover
For looking at my eyes
Through the night I stalk and prey
Looking for a place to stay
Something yearning in my heart
I couldn't stay another day
There could be no other way
My love is screaming to your heart

I've stuck arround this place too long baby
Another minute I'll go crazy
Have to find someone in need, honey
Must get my way, I must succeed
Check out this place
I see you there
The hunters being hunted
My pleasure's yours honey
Feeling loose inside
There's suspicion

Why

Contempt in your eyes
When I turn to kiss his lips
Broken I lie
All my feelings denied
Blood on your fist

Can you tell me why?

You in your false securities
Tear up my life
Condemning me
Name me an illness
Call me a sin
Never feel guilty
Never give in

Tell me why?

You and me together
Fighting for our love

Can you tell me why?