LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SOMETHING ABOUT YOU/LEVEL 42

How, how can it be
That a love carved out of caring
Fashioned by fate
Could suffer so hard
From the games played once too often
But making mistakes
Is a part of life's imperfections
Born of the years
Is it so wrong
To be human after all

Drawn into the stream
Of undefined illusion
Those diamond dreams
They can't disguise the truth

That there is something about you
Baby, so right
I wouldn't be without you
Baby, tonight

If ever our love was concealed
No one can say that we didn't feel
A million things and a perfect dream of life
Gone, fragile but free
We remain tender together
If not so in love
It's not so wrong
We're only human after all

These changing years
They add to your confusion
And you need to hear
The time that told the truth

Because there's something about you
Baby, so right
I couldn't live without you
Baby, tonight

ALBUM: WORLD MACHINE (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HEAD OVER HEELS/TEARS FOR FEARS

I wanted to be with you alone and talk about the weather
But traditions I can trace against the child in your face
Won't escape my attention
You keep your distance with a system of touch and gentle persuasion
I'm lost in admiration, could I need you this much
You're wasting my time, you're just, just, just wasting time

Something happens and I'm head over heels
I never find out till I'm head over heels
Something happens and I'm head over heels
Don't take my heart, don't break my heart
Don't, don't, don't throw it away
(Throw it away, throw it away)

I made a fire and watching it burn
Thought of your future
With one foot in the past now just how long will it last
No, no, no, have you no ambitions
(What's the matter with)
My mother and my brothers used to breathing clean air
(Nothing ever changes when you're acting your age)
And dreaming I'm a doctor
(Nothing gets done when you feel like a baby)
It's hard to be man when there's a gun in your hand
(Nothing ever changes when you're acting your age)
I feel so

Something happens and I'm head over heels
I never find out till I'm head over heels
Something happens and I'm head over heels
Don't take my heart, don't break my heart
Don't, don't, don't throw it away

And this is my four leaf clover
I'm on the line, one open mind
This is my four leaf clover

In my mind's eye
One little boy, one little man
Funny how time flies

ALBUM: SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SORRY FOR LAUGHING/PROPAGANDA

It took ten years to realize
Why the angel stopped crying
When you sail on down the lane
Your happy smile, your funny name
It's so hopeless to define
When you jump to close the blinds
You know I'd help you if I could but
Both my arms are made of wood
I just don't mean the things that I say
It's only cause you're made that way

Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening
Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening

When we grooved on into town
Charles Atlas stopped to frown
Cause he's not made like me and you
Just can't do the things we do
I'm not being mean so don't take it hard
When I ask you to run round the 

Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening
Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening

At times like these you don't have to say
So sorry it turned out that way

Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening
Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening


ALBUM: A SECRET WISH (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EL DIABLO/ARCADIA

Enter newborn players and gather
Weight their innocence
Only the brightest shine but not forever
Many lights die
Many tears rain
When those tears run dry
On a mountain madness day
You were just in time
For a foolish deal
For love I sold
I Can't stand another howling day
Inside this empty skin

While the beacons burn I'll say
Await return from so far away

One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame

El diablo, el diablo
Won't you sell me back my soul
El diablo, el diablo
Won't you sell me back my soul

Wedding is on the wind
Does she blow my way
She can dance and she can sing
She will tear your heart away

While the promise burns I'll stay
And you will return from so far away

One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame
One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame
One life but the devil is in my way

ALBUM: SO RED THE ROSE (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HUNTING HIGH AND LOW/A-HA

Here I am
And within the reach of my hand
She's sound asleep
And she's sweeter now than the wildest dream
Could have seen her
And I watch her slipping away
But I know I'll be hunting high and low
High
There's no end to the lenghts I'll go to
Hunting high and low
High
There's no end to the lenghts I'll go to
Find her again
Upon this
My dreams are depending through the dark
I sense the pounding of her heart
Next to mine
She's the sweetest love I could find
So I guess I'll be hunting high and low
High
There's no end to the lenghts I'll go to
High and low
High
Do you know what it means to love you?

I'm hunting high and low
And now she's telling me
She's got to go away

I'll always be hunting high and low
Only for you
Watch me tearing myself to pieces
Hunting high and low
High
There's no end to the lenghts I'll go to
For you I'll be hunting high and low

ALBUM: HUNTING HIGH AND LOW (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: P-MACHINERY/PROPAGANDA

Motor
Power, force, motion, drive
Power, force, motion, drive
Power, force, motion, drive
Power, force, motion, drive
Propaganda

On joyless lanes we walk in lines
A calm but steady flow
Accompanied by loud commands
Our strength is running low

Another hope feeds another dream
Another truth installed by the machine
A secret wish the marrying of lies
Today comes true what common sense denies

Rotating wheels of destiny
Inflame the city lights
Machines call out for followers
Far out into the night
The calls of the machines
Drowning in the steam

Another hope feeds another dream
Another truth installed by the machine
A secret wish the marrying of lies
Today you find is true what common sense denies

The calls of the machines
Drowning in the steam

On joyless lanes we walk in lines
A calm but steady flow
Our strength is running low
Another hope
Another dream
Another truth
Installed by the machine
Installed by the machine

ALBUM: A SECRET WISH (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: 19/PAUL HARDCASTLE

In 1965 Vietnam seemed like just another foreign war
But it wasn't
It was different in many ways, as so were tose that did the fighting
In world war II the average age of the combat soldier was 26
In Vietnam he was 19
Nineteen

The shooting and fighting of the past two weeks continued today
25 miles west of Saigon
I really wasn't sure what was going on
19

In Vietnam the combat soldier typicaly served a twelve month tour of duty
But was exposed to hostile fire almost everyday
19

In Saigon a US military spokesman said today more than 700 enemy troops
Were killed last week in that sensitive border area
Throughout all of South Vietnam the enemy lost a total 2689 soldiers

All those who remember the war
They won't forget what they've seen
Destruction of men in their prime
Whose average was 19
Destruction
Destruction

According to a Veteran's Administration study
Half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffered from what psychiatrists call
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Many vets complain of alienation, rage, or guilt
Some succumb to suicidal thoughts
Eight to ten years after coming home almost eight hundred thousand men
Are still fighting the Vietnam war

None of them received a heroes welcome
19
Saigon
19

Vietnam
Saigon

I wasn't really sure what was going on
I wasn't really sure what was going on

ALBUM: PAUL HARDCASTLE (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DON'T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME)/SIMPLE MINDS

Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love's strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Don't you try to pretend
It's my feeling we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
When you walk away

Or will you walk away?
Will you walk on by?
Come on call my name
Will you all my name?

ALBUM: THE BREAKFAST CLUB (Soundtrack) (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SOME LIKE IT HOT/THE POWER STATION

We want to multiply, are you gonna do it?
I know you qualify, are you gonna do it?
Don't be so circumscribe, are you gonna do it?
Just get yourself untied, are you gonna do it?

Feel the heat, pushing you to decide
Feel the heat, burning you up, ready or not

Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on
Some feel the heat and decide that they can't go on
Some like it hot, but you can't tell how hot 'til you try
Some like it hot, so lets turn up the heat 'til we fry

The girl is at your side, are you gonna do?
She wants to be your bride, are you gonna do it?
She wants to multiply, are you gonna do it?
I know you won't be satisfied, until you do it

Feel the heat, pushing you to decide
Feel the heat, burning you up, ready or not

Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on
Some feel the heat and decide that they can't go on
Some like it hot, but you can't tell how hot 'til you try
Some like it hot, so lets turn up the heat 'til we fry

Feel the heat, pushing you to decide
Feel the heat, burning you up, ready or not

Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on
Some feel the heat and decide that they can't go on
Some like it hot, but you can't tell how hot 'til you try
Some like it hot, so lets turn up the heat 'til we fry

Some like it hot, some like it hot
Some like it hot, some like it hot
Some like it hot, some like it hot
Some like it hot, some like it hot

ALBUM: THE POWERSTATION 33⅓ (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD/TEARS FOR FEARS

Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the
Most of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do, I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world

Say that you'll never, never, never, never need it
One headline, why believe it?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

ALBUM: SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: A VIEW TO A KILL/DURAN DURAN

Meeting you
With a view to a kill
Face to face in secret places
Feel the chill

Nightfall covers me
But you know the plans I'm making
Still oversea
Could it be the whole world opening wide?
A sacred why
A mystery gaping inside
The weekends why
Until we

Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
To fatal sounds of broken dreams
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire

Choice for you
Is the view to a kill
Between the shades
Assassination standing still

The first crystal tears
Fall as snowflakes on your body
First time in years
To drench your skin
With lover's rosy stain
A chance to find the phoenix for the flame
A chance to die
But can we

Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
To fatal sounds of broken dreams
Dance into the fire
That fatal kiss is all we need
Dance into the fire
When all we see
Is the view to a kill

ALBUM: A VIEW TO A KILL (Soundtrack) (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LISTEN/TEARS FOR FEARS

Mother Russia badly burned
Your children lick your wounds

Pilgrim father sailed away
Found a brave new world

ALBUM: SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IT'S ALRIGHT (BABY'S COMING BACK)/EURYTHMICS

It's alright, baby's coming back
And I don't really care where he's been
It's alright, baby's coming back
And I won't turn him around this time

I'll be your cliff (you can fall down from me)
I'll be your ledge (you can lean upon me)
I'll be your bridge, your flowering tree
You can still depend on me
And I'll be (the ticking of your clock)
And I'll be (the numbers on your watch)
And I'll be (your hands to stop the time)
I'll even be your danger sign


It's alright, baby's coming back
And I don't really care where he's been
It's alright, baby's coming back
And I won't turn him around this time

And I'll be (your grace, your dignity)
And I'll be (your night, your destiny)
And I'll be (your comfort and your ease)
I will be your storm at seas
And I'll be (your sharp intake of breath)
And I'll be (your work I'll take no rest)
And when the world falls to decline
I'll be yours and you'll be mine


It's alright, baby's coming back
And I don't really care where he's been
It's alright, baby's coming back
And I won't turn him around this time
(Make it easy on yourself tonight)

ALBUM: BE YOURSELF TONIGHT (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON T.V./A-HA

Touch me
How can it be?
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me

I Reached inside myself
And found nothing there
To ease the pressure off
My ever worried mind
All my powers waste away
I fear the crazed and lonely looks
The mirror's sending me
These Days

Touch me
How can it be?
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me

Please don't ask me to defend
The shamefull lowlands
Of the way I'm drifting
Gloomily through time
(Touch me)
I reached inside myself today
(Give all your love)
Thinking there's got to be some way
To keep my troubles distant

Touch me
How can it be?
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me

Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
To me

ALBUM: HUNTING HIGH AND LOW (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GET IT ON (BANG A GONG)/THE POWER STATION

Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you're slim and you're weak
You got the teeth
Of the hydra upon you
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl

Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on

You're built like a car
You got a hubcap diamond star halo
You're built like a truck, oh my
You're an untamed youth
That's the truth
With your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl

Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on

Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on

ALBUM: THE POWERSTATION 33⅓ (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHAKE THE DISEASE/DEPECHE MODE

I'm not going down on my knees begging you to adore me
Can't you see it's misery and torture for me
When I misunderstood try as hard as you can
I've tried as hard as I could
To make you see how important it is for me

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Understand me
Understand me
Understand me
Understand me

Some people have to be permanently together
Lovers devoted to each other forever
Now I've got things to do and I've said before
That I know you have too when I'm not there
In spirit I'll be there

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Understand me
Understand me
Understand me
Understand me

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

ALBUM: SHAKE THE DISEASE (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SPECIALTY/HOWARD JONES

Don't chop off his head
To make yourself look tall
Don't tear a strip off
To make yourself feel wonderful
Who wants to compare
As if this was a competition
Leave that to teachers at school
Must preserve their tradition

'Bout time you realized
You are a specialty
There is no one like you
Spend your life worrying
'Bout what you could have been
Can't you like being you

Don't need a scalp
Don't need to be a juror
Take care of yourself
No need to feel so insecure
Waste of energy
To prove a holier than him
Waste of energy
To find out who commits what sin

'Bout time you realized
You are a specialty
There is no one like you
Spend your life worrying
'Bout what could have been
Can't you like being you

ALBUM: DREAM INTO ACTION (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ONCE UPON A TIME/SIMPLE MINDS

And you
Yes you speak to me tonight
And you say so, say so
That once upon a time
When love, love was a white dove
And hope, long live hope, could spin the whole world 'round
I'm talking east to west
I'm talking lost and found
Get up to the mountain top
I'm going to drop unto the ground
That's once upon a time
You raise me up when I know you're around
But God only knows, what God only knows
You lift me up and you spin me around
God only knows, but God only knows
That's time
Time looked around herself
Time got excited
That's when we all got started
Still I hear you, yes still you speak to me tonight
You say then how come out of love, is all this cruelty arising?
Well I said, look, well will you look at you, you're frightened
I see that you smile through weariness
But there is not much else enlightened
Well, that's a question down to time
You life me up when I know you're around
God only knows, God only knows
Still you raise me up when I know you're around
God only knows, God only knows
That's time

ALBUM: ONCE UPON A TIME (1985)