 Genius Lyrics
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Cyndi Lauper – All Through the Night
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“All Through The Night” was penned quickly by Jules Shear in a rented house in England as his wife’s band rehearsed. He released it on his own album the same year it was covered by
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Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun
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Written and demoed by Robert Hazard in 1979, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was found and revived by Rick Chertoff and rewritten by Hazard (who retained all songwriting credits) for
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Cyndi Lauper (Ft. Chuck D) – What's Going On
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[Intro] / Mother, mother / There's too many of you crying / And brother, brother, brother / There's far too many of you dying / You know you've got to find a way / To bring back
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Cyndi Lauper – Heading West
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[Verse 1] / I drop my hat to a restless wind / Ooh, this time I'm not gonna chase it again / In a jigsaw dream with soft spoken words / I woke up crying and no one heard / [Pre-
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Cyndi Lauper – Yeah Yeah
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“Yeah Yeah” is the closing track of American pop culture icon Cyndi Lauper’s debut album She’s So Unusual.
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Cyndi Lauper – She Bop
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Released as the third single from 1983’s “She’s So Unusual”, this song was the first track on side B of the vinyl album.
A somewhat cryptic song that celebrates (female
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Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
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Written by Lauper, with assistance from Rob Hyman, “Time After Time” is one of the all-time great love ballads. It was Lauper’s first #1 hit and arguably her signature song.
After
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Cyndi Lauper – Witness
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[Verse 1] / You're sorry now / And you'll change somehow / I am what you need to get out / [Chorus] / I don't wanna be / I don't wanna be / I don't wanna be a witness / No, I don't
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Cyndi Lauper – You Don't Know
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[Chorus 1] / You don't know where you belong / You should be more careful / As you follow blindly along / You just need to belong somehow / [Verse 1] / Relying on rhetoric / Not
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Cyndi Lauper – Shine
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[Chorus] / Shine I'll stand by you / Don't try and push me away / Cause I'm just gonna stay / You can shine I won't deny you / And don't be afraid it'll all be ok / [Verse 1] / Do
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Cyndi Lauper – One Track Mind
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[Intro] / Got a one track mind / [Verse 1] / Something's happening, I want everything / What does the moment bring? I want it now / (Got a one track mind) / I want it, I need it
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Cyndi Lauper – Iko Iko
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[Verse 1] / My grandma and your grandma were sittin' by the fire / My grandma told your grandma, "I'm gonna set your flag on fire" / [Refrain] / Talk-in' 'bout / Hey now, hey now
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Cyndi Lauper – 911
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[Verse 1] / There's a riot in the kitchen and the bed's on fire / There's a locket in my pocket that I can't find / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh, I'm at the window whistling in the wind / I'm
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Cyndi Lauper – Silent Night
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Silent night, holy night / All is calm, all is bright / Round yon virgin mother and child / Holy infant so tender and mild / Sleep in heavenly peace / Sleep in heavenly peace
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Cyndi Lauper – That's What I Think
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[Chorus] / Sometimes I think / Things are overwhelming / Sometimes I think / I don't know what I'll do / But I forget the world / And everything around me / That's what I think
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Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything
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‘Money Changes Everything’ by Tom Gray appears on the 1984 Cyndi Lauper album, She’s So Unusual. It’s a first person story song about a girl who leaves her guy for someone with
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Cyndi Lauper – Fearless
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I'm afraid when you go / Sometimes I'm afraid when you come home / Underneath it all / I think I'm afraid when there's nothing wrong / [Chorus] / But if I was
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Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
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Being one of the few songs on the album not written by Lauper, “True Colors” is still a signature song for the American singer. Lauper came up with “a very, very creative departure
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Cyndi Lauper – Maybe He'll Know
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[Intro] / Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh, oh-oh / [Verse] / Maybe he'll know / Well, I'm not so sure / Maybe he'll know why / Maybe he'll be, be my cure / [Refrain] / Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh
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Cyndi Lauper – When You Were Mine
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[Verse 1] / When you were mine / I gave you all of my money / Time after time, huh / You done me wrong / Just like a train / Let all my friends come over and eat / You were so
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Cyndi Lauper – The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
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[Verse 1] / Here we are / Hanging onto strains of greed and blues / Break the chain then we break down / Oh, it's not real if you don't feel it / Unspoken expectations / Ideals you
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Cyndi Lauper – Early Christmas Morning
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Listen to the children sing / Watch them dancing all 'round the Christmas tree ... / Waiting for the opening / Early Christmas morning ... / All around the world is sleeping
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Cyndi Lauper – Come On Home
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It will be / Whatever it is you're looking for / It will be / Whatever it is you need / It will be better / Even though I know you're not sure / Remember the rain even comes down
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Cyndi Lauper – Primitive
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[Verse 1] / My heart keeps beating me to death / I see you move and I can't catch my breath / I wanna touch you with my lips / I wanna touch you with a kiss / My heart keeps
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Cyndi Lauper – I'm Gonna Be Strong
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I can see / You're slipping away from me / And you're so afraid / That I'll plead with you to stay / But I'm gonna be strong / And let you go your way / Love is gone / There's no
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Cyndi Lauper – I'll Kiss You
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[Verse 1] / Went down to the local gypsy / And I handed her the same line / "You know what I want from you / So honey, won't ya gimme number 9?" / [Refrain 1] / 'Cause you know
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Cyndi Lauper – Lies
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[Verse 1] / The street light through my window / Makes me feel secure / There's no one to distract me / I'm locking the door / You cannot barge into my own little world / You can't
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Cyndi Lauper – Unconditional Love
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[Verse 1] / I wanna fall into you / And I wanna be everything you want me to / But I'm not sure I know how / I lose faith and I lose ground / Then I see you and remember / [Refrain
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Cyndi Lauper – Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
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Hey now, hey now / What's the matter with you? / Girls just wanna have fun now / Come on / Hey now, hey now / What's the matter with you? / Girls just wanna have fun now / Yeah
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Cyndi Lauper – I Drove All Night
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While this song was originally recorded by Roy Orbison in 1987, it wasn’t released at that time because, according to songwriter Billy Steinberg:
Roy didn’t have a recording
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Cyndi Lauper – Change of Heart
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[Verse 1: Cyndi Lauper] / Here I am / Just like I said I would be / I'm your friend / Just like you think it should be / Did you think I would stand here and lie? / While our
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Cyndi Lauper (Ft. Sarah McLachlan) – Time After Time (Body Acoustic)
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[Verse 1: Cyndi Lauper] / Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you / Caught up in circles / Confusion is nothing new / Flashback, warm nights / Almost left behind
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Cyndi Lauper – Echo
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Woke up to the clock / What knob makes it stop / Time to be aware / Time to just be there / You go, go , go, go / I go, go , go, go / Conversations rare / Trail off in the air
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Cyndi Lauper – New Year's Baby (First Lullaby)
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When I first saw you you looked alien / Like someone in mid dance / Like a little old man / When you first held me in your tiny grip / You seemdd just like Popeye / With your cap
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The Hives & Cyndi Lauper – A Christmas Duel
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[Verse 1: Howlin Pelle] / I bought no gift this year / And I slept with your sister / I know I should have thought twice / Before I kissed her / But with the year we had last / And
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Cyndi Lauper – Boy Blue
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[Intro] / Where are you? / [Verse 1] / You never knew yourself well enough, ah / But she never knew you at all / [Pre-Chorus] / And when she put you out on your own / It may have
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Cyndi Lauper – Into the Nightlife
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[Verse 1] / Got this endless itch to ride / Into the night / Fortune cookie says I'm right / Kung Fu-like / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Shake your body, mister / Gonna make ya body blister
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Cyndi Lauper – Sally's Pigeons
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[Verse 1] / When I was eight I had a friend / With a pirate smile / Make believe and play pretend / We were innocent and wild / Hopped a fence and slammed the gate / Running down
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Cyndi Lauper – Mother
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[Verse 1] / Over land and over sea / She reaches out to me / Weaving and threading the loom / From womb to womb / [Verse 2] / Slaves and merchants / Pilgrims and thieves / Felt her
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Cyndi Lauper – Oh, Dolores
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[Chorus] / Oh, oh, Dolores / You've come undone / It happens every time, now isn't it a crime / How they drag you down, Dolores? / [Verse 1] / Girl you kill it if you coulda / Get
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Cyndi Lauper – Stay
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[Chorus] / Stay just a little bit longer / Please, please, please, please, please / Tell me that you're going to / Stay just a little bit longer / Please, please, please, please
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Cyndi Lauper (Ft. Emmylou Harris) – Detour
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Headed down life's crooked road, lots of things I never knowed / Because of me not knowin', I now pine / Trouble got in the trail, spent the next five years in jail / Should have
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