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1993 - Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

Too Much Information
Ordinary World
Love Voodoo
Drowning Man
Shotgun
Come Undone
Breath After Breath
UMF
Femme Fatale
None Of The Above
Shelter
To Whom It May Concern
Sin Of The City
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Time For Temptation
Stop Dead
Falling Angel

Too Much Information

Destroyed by MTV, I hate to bite the hand that feeds me
So much information
The Pressure's on the screen to sell you things that you don't need
It's too much information for me
Hey TV Child, look into my eyes
Here by intervention, I want your attention
Promotion Boy in a suit and tie
He wants you to use it
You're too shot to loose it
It's pumpin down the cable
Like never seen before
A COLA manufacturer is sponsoring the war
Here comes the news with love from me to you

Destroyed by ABC I hate to bite the hand that feeds me
So much information
The Pressure's on the screen to sell you things that you don't need
It's too much information for me

Turn on the tube
Hits you with the Groove
Advertizin muzik -
We want you to choose it.
These teeth are white, trainers ultra brite,
This band is perfect just don't scratch the surface.
We covered all the angles, the survey people said
Just put us ont he cover we'll be smilin anyway
This video was made with love to you.

Destroyed by BBC I hate to bite the hand that feeds me
So much information
The Pressure's on the screen to sell you things that you don't need
It's too much information for me...

Destroyed by MTV I hate to bite the hand that feeds me
So much information
The Pressure's on the screen to sell you things that you don't need
It's too much information for me

Dialate your mind...
Dialate your mind...
Dialate your mind...

Got to give it to me, Got to listen to me
Got to give in to me... Now I'm on the line

Got to give it to me, Got to listen to me
Got to give in to me... Now I'm on the line

I try... (information)
Yes I try... (information)

Got to give it to me, Got to listen to me
Got to give in to me...

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Ordinary World

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly.
I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you
What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some'd say,
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away...

But I won't cry for yesterday, there's an ordinary world,
Somehow I have to find.
And as I try to make my way, to the ordinary world...
I will learn to survive.

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window cross the rooftops, run away,
Left me in the vacuum of my heart.
What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say,
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away...

(chorus)

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

(Just blown away...)

And I don't... (chorus)

Every world, is my world... (I will learn to survive)
Any world, is my world... (I will learn to survive)

Any world, is my world...
Every world is my world...

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Love Voodoo

When I first met you on the roof,
You cought me in your web of youth,
But now I know the wicked truth,
It's much to late so what's the use in fighting?

You peel me like an onion skin,
And wonder at the state I'm in,
One day you'll turn up to begin, And find there's nothing left but innuendo... (innuendo)

Beside you others fade away,
Like amateurs in love's charade,
Much more than just a game you play,
The secertain rules become a way of living... (way of living)

Night after night I try to prove
That I can resist you
Tied up inside your Love Voodoo
Designed to Manipulate

The Queen of sensuality,
You shelter me from Liberty,
It's nothing short of Piracy,
That's not to say it doesn't please me sometimes.

Now this may come as no surprise,
But I'm content to compromise,
Until the day you realize,
That I have been manipulating you... (no surprise, no surprise)
(Man-ipu-lat-ing)

(chorus)

(Yes, I'm tied up inside your loving
But it's voodoo to me
Everynight how I try
How I try to resist you
But it's no good to me)

(chorus)

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Drowning Man

He's sinking faster than a drowning man
He'll grab a hold of anyone he can
Gun in his poket and a heart of ham
Uncle Sam...

He's dying faster than a rabid dog
Infect us all now he's losing blood
Nose for trouble and a soul of rock
Smokey's man...

Don't drag me down
I don't wanna drown
Your going down
(Hay) NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

There's not much flesh
Just skin and bone
Cheeks sunk deep
Eyes popping wide
Don't put out a hand to help him
This drowning man will bite it right off
Right off , Right off , Right off...

(chorus)

He's selling faster than a magazine
Infect us all with his TV screen

He's selling faster than a magazine
Infect us all with his TV screen

He's selling faster than a magazine
Infect us all with his TV screen

He's selling faster than a magazine
Infect us all with his TV screen

(chorus)

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Shotgun

(Shotgun...)

Get it together, fingers jumpin'
Now I've seen the bullets pumpin'
(Shotgun)

Itchy finger, on the trigger
Got to make the shootin' bigger
(Now shoot...)
(Shotgun)

(Shotgun...)

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Come Undone

Mine, immaculate dream, made breath and skin,
I've been waiting for you,
Signed, with a home tattoo,
Happy birthday to you was created for you.

(Can't ever keep from falling apart... At the seams)
(Can't I believe you're taking my heart... to pieces)

Ahh, it'll take a little time, might take a little crime to come undone
Now we'll try to stay blind, to the hope and fear outside,
Hey child, stay wilder than the wind
And blow me in to cry.

Who do you need?
Who do you love?
When you come undone.

(chorus)

Words, playing me deja vu,
Like a radio tune I swear I've heard before,
Chill, is it something real,
Or the magic I'm feeding off your fingers

(Can't ever keep from falling apart.. at the seams)
(Can I believe you're taking my heart.. to pieces)

Lost, in a snow filled sky, we'll make it alright, to come undone,
Now we'll try to stay blind, to the hope and fear outside,
Hey child, stay wilder than the wind -
And blow me in to cry.

(chorus)

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Breath After Breath

Breath after breath
Ama!
Breath after breath
Danca!

Every day I wake up in this room,
And I don't know know,
Where I've come from, where I'm going to
Then I hear the voice...

Senhora musa da paz
Me abraca
Me carrega no teu andor
Dormir no colo dar dor
Amiga, arrasa!
A tua mao desenhov
O sonho na areia
Agora, entrega de vez
Meu rumo, e vida

From where I stand, the truth isn't black and white,
Alone we live and die, we love and fight,
Breath after breath, we carry this mortal coil,
Safe for tomorrow.

Do I dare, Oh do I dare,
Follow through the message my whole body hears?,
Beating on my heart like a feather
Beating of a moment til I disappear.

Diga uma palaura alegre
Manda um recado que seja agora
Faz o mundo ficar novo
E dancar no colodo tal de amor

(chorus)

Circles of sand are washed out into the sea,
Just as we slip on through to eternity
Breath after breath we carry this mortal coil,
Safe for tomorrow

Diga uma palavra
Cara bem alegre
Corre manda logo um recado
Me abraca
Faz um clima doce
Me arrepia
Chega de sufoco
Me poe louco

A flame of love is burning
Always...
The song is of the planets
oh whoooooooo

The dance is to the rhythm, of the rain
Where everyone is coming from, is coming to
And birth is just a breath after breath.

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UMF

(Going to the top)

Here we stand in the shadow of the master plan
Makin touble wherever we can, (stir it up, stir it up, stir it up)
Cant you see this boy is going cheap - knockdown to a basement deal
But I really won't stop til I get to the top
Take it from me, Im waiting here on my knees
And I love the way you tease me ooh such a wonderful person
Dont play rough - its easy when you know your stuff
Say please and sure enough, so kind,
I'm makin' love to the ultimate mind

Come on, take a look, put it to me, baby,
You could feel a love come tumbling down.
I just want to wrap myself in you baby,
We could tell the world were fooling around.

Ultimately, I'd say she's toying with me
Its a case of wait and see,
But right now I'm gonna keep my pants on
A to Z, shes doin it to my head
We dont need to go to bed, you'll find,
To make love to the ultimate mind.

Put it to me, baby (you could feel a love, love...)
Wanna wrap myself in you, baby (well tell the world, world...)

Talk me round, lets do it right here and now
I don't want you cooling down,
Turn it up, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up
We could fit, realitys two-way split, personality
Lifes a bitch, but I'm fine,
Making love to the ultimate mind
Heavens bent, were completely innocent
We all got to pay the rent, and in time we learn to compromise
Talkin' tall, but I feel invisible
Can you see me after all, that I said, theres only one thing for it...

Take a look, put it to me, baby
You could feel a love come tumbling down
I just want to wrap myself in you baby
We can tell the world were fooling around

Come on, take a look, put it to me, baby
You could feel a love come tumbling down
I just want to wrap myself in you baby
We could tell the world were fooling around

Come on, take a look (put it to me baby)

I'm making love to the ultimate mind, mind...
Ultimate mind, mind...
Ultimate mind, mind, mind, mind...

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Femme Fatale

Here she comes,
You better watch you're step.
She's going to break your heart in two, it's true.

It's not hard to realise
Just look into those false coloured eyes,
She'll build to up just to put you down, what a clown,
Coz everybody knows...

(she's a femme fatale)
Things she does to please (she's a femme fatale)
She's just a little tease (she's a femme fatale)
See the way she walks
Hear the way she talks

You're written in her book,
But 37, take a look
She's going to smile to make you frown, what a clown.

Little boy she's from the street
Before you start you're already beat
She's going to play you for a fool, yes it's true,
Coz everybody kowns...

(chorus)

(Yeh, I seen that girl, so man, I know where you're
commin' from. She's all lips and eyes and legs, and then
it's great, but you know what, she's going to mess you up pal..)

She will try to put you down,
The hardest girl around,
Coz everybody knows...

Things she does to please
She's just a little tease
A everybody knows...

She's a femme fatale...

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None Of The Above

I am, I myself alone,
and realise, I never had to use no-one.
When it comes down to my soul,
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above

There was a time I was so afraid
Of everything people around me said
That I wanted to hide my face in the shadows

There was a time on a bed of nails
I was dreaming a plan I thought could not fail
But no power under the sun, could pull it together

I can't take this attitude
Got to show now I got to move on
God knows where I'm going to
It's a lonely burning question

I am, I myself alone
Realise I never nedd to use no-one
Money, power, holy roads,
Freedom puts my faith in none above.

If there's a time, that we ever see
The nature of life in reality
Then I want to be there -
To kick at the answer

I can't take this attitude
Got to show now I got to move on
God knows where I'm going to
It's a lonely burning question

I am, I myself alone
Realize I never need to use no-one
Money, power, holy roads,
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above

(chorus)

I am, I myself alone
Realize I never need to use no-one
Money, power, holy road,
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above

(chorus)
(None of the above)
(My faith in none of the above)
(None of the above)
(I stand by none of the above)
(None of the above)
(I stand by none of the above)

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Shelter

Just come softly to me
I the shelter of my heart
I watch you from my window, working this vicious road
You shudder when the wind blows,
Girl you're looking beat and cold
Don't know your situation, but you look so alone to me
In my imagination this is how the message reads

(Reaching out for you're love, for you're love babe)
Just come softly to me,
(Reaching out... Calling out for you're love, for you're love babe)
In the shelter of my heart

Trust my intuition you're the one I've got to know
I give without condition wouldn't try to save you're soul
Money or reputation doesn't mean a thing to me
Special communication it's the only thing we need

Reaching out... Calling out
Just come softly to me
Calling out... Hear me now
In the shelter of my heat

(Reaching out... calling out for you're love, for you're love babe)
Calling out... Hear me now
Just come softly to me
(Calling out... Calling out for you're love babe)
Hear me now... do you read me?
In the shelter of my heart.

Here is no hurt to feel
Here is safe for lips unsealed
In the shelter of my heart

Reaching out, for your love, for your love babe
(Just come softly to me)
Reaching out, calling out for your love, for your love babe
(In the shelter of my heart)

(chorus)

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To Whom It May Concern

(Telephone call for Mr Bones...)

Dear Mr. Bones, I've had enough
You can try, to pull us down
With your pinstipe weasle stuff
But word travels in this town

(I wouldn't write home about you)
(We're better off without you, without you)
Mr. Bones

Some people, feed on other people's troubles
Some people, beat on other people's meat
Some people, want to bleed us dry and
Some people... Gonna down on your feet.
(Some people... )

You said "Boy's I'll get you more,
But you have gotta pay me by the hour".
Anyways you are just another bore
Who believes he's a superpower.

When you talk about loyalty
(I wouldn't write home about you)
I just hope you realize
Since you ate my roalities
(Were better off without you)
Without you.

Mr. Bones,
This is goodbye and such hereinafter shall be reffered.
Notwithstanding or foregoing statements unpreferred.
Don't claim you understand -
When you've not heard a single word, a dicky bird.

(chorus)

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Sin Of The City

Coat check girl up in Happyland
Has a violent row with a Cuban man
Julio leaves in a drunken rage -
Comes back with the gasoline
The club has no fire exit
The club only had one door
Only five people came out alive
The sin is that 89 died

89 dead! 89 dead! 89 dead! 89 dead!

The sin is that a year and a half before
The fire chief's out and he's raising cain
Brands Happyland hazzard close down but no.
No-one ever paid him no mind...

No-one ever paid him no mind...
No-one ever paid him no mind...
No-one ever paid him no mind...
No-one ever paid him no mind...

City living, heavy trouble
City living rough
We are given angry heart
But angers not enough

(chorus)

Daily News reviews of the landlords life
Found six thousand code ciolations light.
The city has more a hundred thousand wars
All for one of Forbes' four hundred whores.

Just one fire cracker on a big bondfire
Of self serving penny pinching wiseguy style.

Never allowing for the human condition
Never allowing for the human condition
Never allowing for the numen condition
The sin is that these guys survive

(chorus)

The sin of the city
Stop killing your people now
Stop wasting your people now
Your jacking your people off

Sin of the City
Stop killing you're people how
You're wasting you're people yeah

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Time For Temptation

Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do

Why you chasing a lost religion of guilty feelings
That belong in yesterday?
Spy the preachers a politician, he carries the cross
Like a gun whip you into shape
Heres the rub, now, no secret hours locked in the backroom
If you come together right
Check your vision and push it out there you make the question,
Define what its all about

(chorus)

With chains or heaven across your shoulder,
A slave for promotion to the afterlife
The boss gets fat while you just get older, here comes a mission
Set to put you right

Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do - oh
Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do

(No damnation...)

Time for temptation, what you see is there for you
Time for temptation, no damnation for what you do...
(good, good, good, good temptation)

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Stop Dead

I pulled up at a west end junction (seeker of attention)
A full body kit and bass bins pumping (size the competition)
Come on red light, get into green,
I hit the brake, I must be dreaming...

I'm stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Got to fix on you.
Don't wanna lose you, from my sight
Where ya going to?

Gotta know now...

Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)
Got to fix on you.
Don't wanna lose, you from my sight
Where ya going to?

Oh-oh-oh
I've got my eyes on the action (killer reputation)
Beat crazed in full satisfaction (we're going one phase up)
Do what you do and do it to me,
Body in motion, now you see me

(chorus)

Gotta know know... Stop!

Come on now, Come on now
Come on now, Come on now

Wise up to remain young victim (come on, waves of attraction)
A full scale attack on the system (another one fires up)
Do what you do and do it to me,
I'm into red line territory
And I'm...

(chorus)

Stop!, dead in my tracks again,
I'm stop dead in my tracks
Stop!, in my tracks (yeah)
I'm stop dead in my tracks
(oh-oh) Gotta know know...
Stop! (stop), dead! (dead), in my tracks (in my tracks)

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Falling Angel

From this cloud where I hang, dangled in the blue
I spy you all tiny creatures on the ground below
For my being reckless got me strung up in the sky

Love is flawed now, see the lawless cry
Cut my cord now, better then, better off to die
Here am I, your falling angel, dangled in the blue
I'm your angel, and I wish that I could be like you

It's my time, all I have for my crime is such
Knowing that the thing I love is that which I can't touch
So I watch your fragile beauty changing in the sun

Love is flawed now, see the lawless cry
Cut my cord now, better then, better off to die
But here am I, your falling angel, dangled in the blue
I'm your angel, how I wish that I could be with

Falling angel, dangled in the blue
I'm your angel, and I wish that I could be like you

I believe in you, I dont believe it all
But I believe in you, I dont believe it all...