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i can't stand the rain
against my window
bringing back sweet memories
i can't stand the rain
against my window
because he's not here with me
hey window pain
do you remember
how sweet it used to be
when we were together
everything was so grand
now that we're parted
there's a one sound
that i just can't stand
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i can't stand the rain
against my window
bringing back sweet memories
i can't stand the rain
well the men come in these places
and the men are all the same
you don't look at their faces
and you don't ask their names
you don't think of them as human
you don't think of them at all
you keep your mind on the money
keeping your eyes on the wall
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i'm your private dancer
a dancer for money
i'll do what you want me to do
i'm your private dancer
a dancer money
any old music will do
i wanna make a million dollars
i wanna live out by the sea
have a husband and some children
yeah i guess i want a family
all the men come in these places
and the men are all the same
you don't look at their faces
and you don't ask their names
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deutschmarks or dollars
american express will nicely thank you
let me loosen up your collar
tell me do you wanna see me do the shimmy again
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when i was younger
so much younger than today
i never needed anybody's
help in anyway
and now those days are gone
i'm not so self assured
and now i find
i've changed my mind
i've opened up the doors
chorus
help me if you can
i'm feeling down
and i do appreciate
you being 'round
oh help me get my feet back on the ground
won't you please please help me
and now my life has changed
in oh so many ways
my independence seems to
vanish in the haze
and every now and then
i feel so insecure
and now i just need you like
i never did before
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nineteen eighty four
someday they won't let you
now you must agree
the time they are a telling
and the changing isn't free
you read it in the tea leaves
and the reacks are on tv
beware the savage jaw
in nineteen eighty four
they'll split your pretty cranium
and fill it full of air
they'll tell you that you're eighty
and really you won't care
you'll be shooting up on everything
tomorrow's never there
beware the savage jaw
in nineteen eighty four
come see come see
remember me
i played in an all night movie role
you said it would last
but i guess we've enrolled
in nineteen eighty four
who could ask for more
nineteen eighty four
who could ask for more
i'm looking for a vehicle
i'm looking for a ride
i'm looking for a party
i'm looking for a side
i'm looking for a treason
that i knew in sixty five
beware the savage door
in nineteen eighty four
come see come see
remember me
i played in an all night movie role
you said it would last
but i guess we've enrolled
in nineteen eighty four
who could ask for more
nineteen eighty four
who could ask for more
i made a resolution
and i plan to keep my word
but i need you to make it work
you've gotta read the message
understand what's on my mind
cause not to see would be a crime
and we could lose it anytime
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we've got to show some respect
we've got to learn to protect
don't take it for granted i know
that if you want to stay close
we've got to show some respect
but i believe in working
then i believe in a little help
cause i'm not a light unto myself
without a thing of value
why settle for second best
we don't know what's up ahead
we can't let ourselves forget
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for the things that i love about you
from the woman that you see inside
don't let it walk out the door
love follows every time
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a night in television wonderland
just one more
fairytale about some rich bitch
lying by the swimming pool
its golden school
living's easy when you make the rules
last friday was the first time
it took only about half a minute
on the stairway
it was child's play
the odds turn out even
when you give up believing in the
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cold law steel claw
try to get on board you find the lock is on the door
well i say 'no way
don't try to keep me out or there'll be hell to pay'
i don't know who's right or who's wrong
but it doesn't really matter when you're lying in the gutter
its a see saw
a long hot battle with the cold law
is what you get for messing with the steel claw
the politicians have forgotten this place
except for a flying visit in a black mercedes
no election time
they cross the line
and everybody runs to watch the pantomine
if they could see what's going on around here
so many people hanging on the edge
crying out for revolution
retribution
the odds turn out even
when you give up believing in the
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sometimes i think i'm going crazy
sometimes i do a line
makes me laugh
makes me want to take a joyride
on the high tide
sometimes i'm contemplating suicide
meanwhile eddy's on the west coast
he's making out with some sweet senorita
up in frisco you and i know
the odds turn out even
when you give up believing
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a prisoner of your love
entangled in your web
hot whispers in the night
i'm captured by your spell captured
oh yes i'm touched by this show of emotion
should i be fractured by your lack of devotion
should i should i
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you better be good to me
that's how it's gotta be now
cause i don't have no use
for what you loosely call the truth
oh you better be good to me
i think it's also right
that we don't need to fight
we stand face to face
and you present your case
and i know you keep telling me that you love me
and i really do wanna believe
but did you think i'd just accept you in blind faith
oh sure babe anything to please you
chorus
you better be good to me
that's how it's gotta be now
cause i don't have the time
for your over loaded lines
you better be good to me
and i really don't see
why it's so hard to be
good to me
and i don't understand
what's your plan
that you can't be
good to me
what i can't feel i surely cannot see
why can't you be
good to me
and if it's not real
i do not wish to see
why can't you be
good to me
let me say that since
since we've been together
loving you forever
is all i need
let me be the one you come running to
i'll never be untrue
oh baby
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let's let's stay together
loving you whether whether
times are good or bad
happy or sad
i'm i'm so in love with you
whatever you want to do
is all right with me
let me be the one you come running to
i'll never be untrue
oh baby
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why oh tell me why do people break up
and turn around and make up
i just came to see
you'd never do that to me would ya baby
being around you is all i see
oh baby
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i'm a new pair of eyes
everytime i am born
an original mind
because i just died
i'm scanning the horizon
for someone recognizing
that i might of been queen
for every sun that sets
there is a new one dawning
for every empire crushed
there is a brand new nation
let the waters rise
i have ridden each tide
from the gates of the city
where the first born died
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and i might have been queen
i remember the girl in the fields with no name
she had a love
oh but the rivers won't stop for me
no the rivers won't stop for me
i'm a new pair of eyes
an original mind
with my senses of old
and the heart of a giant
and i'm searching through the wreakage
for some great recolletion
that i might have been queen
for every sage that falls
there is an ancient child
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and i might have been queen
i remember the girl in the fields with no name
she had a love
oh but the rivers won't stop for me
no the rivers won't stop for me
i look up to the stars
with my perfect memory
i look through it all
and my future's no shock to me
i look down but i see no tragedy
i look up to my past
a spirit running free
i look down i look down and i'm there in history
oh i'm a soul survivor
you must understand
though the touch of your hand
makes my pulse react
that it's only the thrill
of boy meeting girl
opposites attract
its physical
only logical
you must try to ignore
that it means more than that
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what's love got to do got to do with it
what's love but a second emotion
what's love got to do got to do with it
who needs a heart when a heart can be broken
it may seem to you
that i'm acting confused
when you're close to me
if i tend to look dazed
i read it some place
i've got cause to be
there's a name for it
there's a phrase fits
but whatever the reason
you do it for me
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i've been taking on a new direction
and i have to say
i've been thinking 'bout my own protection
it scares me to feel this way
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what's love got to do got to do with it
what's love but a sweet old fashioned notion
what's love got to do got to do with it
who needs a heart when a heart can be broken
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