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Duran Duran

Seven And The Ragged Tiger
Matter Of Fact
Bomb
Plastic Girl
People Like You
Un Autre Que Moi
A Alguien Que No Soy Yo
Lonely Business

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Simon Le Bon

Follow In My Footsteps
Grey Lady Of The Sea
Dream Boyz
Nobody Knows

Seven And The Ragged Tiger

You told me once a second chance was not worth waiting for
A million chances later, you don't know how right you were
Don't mean you don't dream cause the beating on the door
The rush 'n high who needs to die begins to realise
That all those days in mischief have your soul in Paradise
I don't know that those time that you were foolish and unwise
And I've seen all reason hit the floor

I don't need no reservations
But I can do things that I've never done before
Playing with a fire ball you can't touch
But you can soar with Seven and the Ragged Tiger

Like the morning wild warning fires are alive
Don't have a choice the Danger Boys are hoping for a fight
It seems I can't bleed I don't dance anymore
All armed with superstition 'til the birds have flocked our way
Somebody ought to tell them we don't care what people say
Not afraid don't believe in those stories anymore
They just hang their victims to the wall
At least tell me something
It seems that their vision has something within their law
Brother can you feel the heart inside
You're running for your life
You're running Seven and the Ragged Tiger

All happy like a rainy day is everything to gain
Just the smell of independence he defends his life again
Don't mean I don't dream in no music anymore
Cause I've heard those reasons die before
Oh please tell me something
It seems their vision has something within
Brother can you feel the heart inside
You're running for your life
You better Seven and the Ragged Tiger

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Matter Of Fact

Come to the crossroads let's stay awhile
Watch the sunrise just one last time
They'll set forever I couldn't bare the meaning
I know we can't stay together still we can't say good-bye, yeah

It's just a matter of fact that you only see me smiling
If I don't feel it inside it's not for want of trying
Now we saw eye to eye don't want you to see me crying
It's just a matter of fact

I know we can picture in my point of view
When I look closer it doesn't look like you
As if the movie's over and I don't understand it
Still don't know each other maybe we never wanted to, yeah

It's just a matter of fact that you only see me smiling
If I don't feel it inside it's not for want of trying
Now we saw eye to eye don't want you to see me crying
It's just a matter of fact

Turn around now that the night is gone look away into the haze
Change is never easy but now it's come
It's just a matter of fact that you only see me smiling
If I don't feel it inside it's not for want of trying
Now we saw eye to eye don't want you to see me crying
It's just a matter of fact...

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Bomb

It is too nice to paint your eyes
I took a tear, I don't even want
We don't like, we don't like
The things they say

It takes true life, to you paint your eyes
You don't dare with your imagination
We don't like, we got some
We find you've failed

You don't wait around
You don't realise there's something else
You'd better lock yourself
That I don't think it is all been really there
It's said so the rumour's dead
But I don't say it

That is the world you paint beside
And in a 9 to 5 around town
He's obsessed to make it
You'll understand

Here's back to love, you made it out
I've never really, never really bored
He's obsessed to make it
You'll find yourself

Yeah you don't believe it
Don't listen to everything you know
You're mine in, in your sacred letter
You're my baby
Your voice is so important to me
You've lied it, she's my babe to set a feeling

It's all on my back, you may see that
I'm not your man and your soul thing
You don't search the findings
The world's at stake

You might to love but might not to have
But there's a thing she made me every morning
I don't lie, cause I say
You're my best friend

You may like everything
And that's a fantastic story

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Plastic Girl

Hey! Hey!
Plastic Girl seams on a magazine
Plastic Girl she's logging on a TV screen
Cos I know where you're going
Cos I know where you've been
Plastic Girl is coming
---- is to be real

Hey! Plastic Girl seams on a magazine
Plastic Girl she's logging on a TV screen
Cos I know where you're going
Cos I know where you've been
Plastic Girl is coming
---- is to be real

Hey! "Bye bye Bob is was nice to have known you...
After 4 here we go"
Plastic Girl I ...

Simon: "You can always rely on a lead guitarist
to play lead guitar when you want to sing a vocal"

Hey! Here's to plastic genius,
Genius of the magazine
Because you know where you're coming from
And we know where you've been
Just... Just... Just...
Hey!
Just...

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People Like You

Well there's no surprise
One look into those eyes
Having sex every Saturday
In the afternoon, with the TV on
It's all you know
It really makes you wanna throw
It could be time for a holiday
On the S. O. F. or a Spanish isle

Too much comes too soon
Money doesn't buy you anything good
No love can be alone
Just lay back and give it to the bastards!

Nothing ever really matters
Who cares about you anyway?
Nothing ever really matters
Who cares who lives, who dies?
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Not me
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Or you

Oh you claim distressed
When you are so casually blessed
With a look in the alleyway
Consume a tuna fish in an old tin can

Too much, you come too soon
Money doesn't buy you anything good
No love can be alone
Just lay back and give it to the bastards!

(P, L, U. P, L, U) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Who cares about you anyway?
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Who cares who lives, who dies?

Welcome back my...
Welcome back, oh end of the life
Understand me here and now... Got to get away

P, L, U. P, L, U...
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Who cares about you anyway?
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, U. P, L, U) Who cares who loves, who stays

In the end, Of this song, not me I'm gone...

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Un Autre Que Moi (Someone Else Not Me - French)

Quand je suis dans tes bras
Je n'ai plus rien à dire
J'aime quand tout est lent
Pour mieux nous attendrir

Depuis longtemps, tu le savais
Ma vie s'écroule
Je voulais juste que tu sois bien,
Mais j'ai brisé le lien,
Et c'est si dur de te quitter...

Quand l'amour est vrai
Comme la fleur aime l'abeille
Mais je sais qu'tu pars
Pour te donner à quelqu'un d'autre que moi

Je voulais tant que cela dure,
Comment te le dire
Depuis longtemps, tu le sentais
Mais n'en voulais plus
Et le plus dur c'est d'accepter...

Mais c'est pas la fin
De mes espoirs sur nous deux
Et même si tu pars
Pour te donner à quelqu'un d'autre que moi
Aimer un autre que moi

Vas-tu lâcher ? Ça, c'est l'amour vrai,
Comme la fleur aime l'abeille
Et tu sais qu'tu pars
Pour te donner à quelqu'un d'autre que moi

Aimer un autre que moi
Juste pour aimer un autre que moi

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A Alguien Que No Soy Yo (Someone Else Not Me - Spanish)

Acuéstate junto a mi
Que la noche ya llegó
No prendas la luz mi amor
Te tengo una confesión
Desde hace tiempo has de saber
No quiero herirte
Me importa tu felicidad
Pero no sé cómo
Y lo peor es el adiós

Si el amor es grande
Como abeja en la flor
Sé que tu te quieres
Entregar a alguien que no soy yo

Podría seguir contigo, si
Y suena loco
Tal vez te pase igual que a mí
Mas no lo aceptes
Y lo peor es el adiós

Si el amor es grande
No sentir que te perdí
Se que tu te quieres entregar
A alguien que no soy yo

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Lonely Business

Waiting for you
It's a lonely business
What more can I do
I could be here until Christmas

Why do you want to go saying those sins about me?
Don't you know that a girl can't be made to hurry?
Don't you want me to feel like a million dollars?
I'm just taking some time out to make a difference

Chained, one step over the line
Trying to get something to work
All I need is someone to say

After all
What's the mystery?
When everybody wants to know
About destiny

Just trying to kill a little time

Working hard day to day
Why complain about it
Don't you know that a man can't be mad about it

Woman at the top
Why's the story so familiar
Something's got to drop
For this hombre to remain here

Chained, dream up some while she's trying
Trying to find something to wear
All you need is someone to say

Here we go
What's the mystery?
When everybody wants to know
About destiny

Are you ready for the use of time?

Waiting for you
It's a lonely business
What more can I do
I could be here until Christmas

Chained, one step over the line
Trying to get something to work
All I need is someone to say

After all
What's the mystery?
When everybody wants to know
About destiny
Just trying to kill a little time
What's the mystery?
Cuz everybody wants to know
What's their destiny?
Are you ready for the use of time?
What's the mystery?

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Follow In My Footsteps

Where the earth receives the seeds from the sky
Where the ancient fill the newborn with the breath of life
I will run once more before this body dies
I go running and I feeling my muscle burning in the light
In our innocence the world is young and strong
Beating at the center of perfection is this the heart of a man?

Feel the mountain move to hear our song
See the children stand where they belong
Follow in my footsteps now, follow in my footsteps
Follow in my footsteps, follow in my footsteps

I am the lightning streak across the brooding sky
I am witness to the spirit of your sunrise
Call if your fevers rage is in need of tenderness
Feel that I am, feel that I am, feel that I am the medicine

Feel the mountain move to hear our song
Hear the thunder rolling for our song
Call the wind, call the rain, call the first ones by their name
Call the moon, call the sun, call the blood back to my veins
Follow in my footsteps now, follow in my footsteps
Follow in my footsteps, follow in my footsteps

Feel the mountain move to hear our song
Hear the thunder rolling for our song
Call the wind, call the rain, call the first ones by their name
Call the moon, call the sun, call the blood back to my veins
Follow in my footsteps now, follow in my footsteps
Follow in my footsteps, follow in my footsteps
You can follow in my footsteps, follow in my footsteps
Follow in my footsteps

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Grey Lady Of The Sea

We've whispered out loud
But your breeze doesn't bend
Lying in the palm of your hand
No land we see, no place to be
The salt of your tears, that sting to our hearts
There's no long years can tear us apart
Our future is entwined with your past
Because when we lie awake
We'll be thinking of you

Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home

The battle is all but gone
And patience is down
You've scared us and you've turned us around
But you won't let us drown
Because when we lie asleep
We'll be dreaming of you

Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow your ships back
Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home

So answers when we call
And save you think we're wrong
When life is so short
We can't stay long
But you'll never be alone
Because one day we'll return
And we'll be waiting for you

Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow your ships back
Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home
Blow your ships back
Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home

Blow...Grey Lady blow your ships back home

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Dream Boyz

Summertime it's supposed to bring out the best in everybody
But here I lie waiting for my phone to ring
Man I could be anybody
And I wonder, don't you wonder what is my intention
And if I could ever really truely make you happy

If it's not enough to keep me hanging around I'm such a flake boy
When the morning comes I could be running away just like your dream boys

Suck this dream back to yesterday
I don't have the face for tomorrow
Only your lips feed me this way lead me through the trees through your hollow
And I wonder yes I wonder if I'm gonna lose all this loving that I feel
As if it could ever really truely make me happy

If it's not enough to keep me hanging around I'm such a flake boy
When the morning comes I could be running away just like your dream boys

I don't wanna be your dreamboy don't make me your dreamboy
I'm not your dream

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Nobody Knows

Creeping slowly like a bad connection
Closing up the shutters on perception
How long
Alone in the dark
Til you turn it all around
Nobody knows
How many times
You turn it all around
Nobody knows
How many times

I dread this moment of indecision
The space between us is my subtle prison
Held fast within these walls

You turn it all around
Nobody knows
How many times
You turn it all around
Nobody knows
How many times

And then it finds me
But I never chose it
I'm seeing colours inside the music
I'm touching the top of the world

You turn it all around
Nobody knows
How many times
You turn it all around
Nobody knows
How many times...

Noboby knows...