 Genius Lyrics
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Laura Branigan – Self Control
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“Self Control” is the lead single and title track of Branigan’s third album. The song explores “losing your self-control to the night or to someone”.
It was an international smash
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Laura Branigan – Name Game
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Come on, everybody / I say now, let's play a game / I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody's name / The first letter of the name / I treat it like it wasn't there / But a 'B
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Laura Branigan – Ti Amo
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Ti amo / God, how I love you so / My heart just won't let go / Day after day I'm still holding on / Even though you're gone / Ti amo / Wasn't I good to you? / I did all that I
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Laura Branigan – Solitaire
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[Verse 1] / I still remember how much I used to need you / Tried so hard to please you, but you didn't need me / You knew I loved you, knew I always would be there / You just did
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Laura Branigan – Over You
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I don't lose my breath / When I hear a step on the stairway / And my heart doesn't stop / When I hear a knock at my door / I say to myself it's just some old friend of mine / I don
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Laura Branigan – Lucky
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Maybe I'm a fool, one day we'll know / Maybe I'm a fool, only time can show / But now these lonely nights are killin' me / I'm so far away from reality / The pain grows stronger
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Laura Branigan – Lovin' You Baby
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[Verse 1] / I try to be all of the things you say I'm not / You never fail to remind me of what I haven't got / I get so tired of pleasin' you / You never give me a reason to / If
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Laura Branigan – I Found Someone
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I Found Someone peaked at #90 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #25 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart in 1986.
When Cher covered the song for her self-titled 1987 album, the song
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Laura Branigan – Hold Me
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Hold Me is the second single & title song from Laura Branigan’s album “Hold Me.”
The song peaked at #82 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #39 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Music\Club Play
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Laura Branigan – Satisfaction
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[Verse 1] / Don't know what you're doin' / But you're doin' something I think I like / Not sure what I'm feelin' / But it feels like something so right / The sound of your sigh
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Laura Branigan – All Night With Me
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[Verse 1] / I wish I knew what you were thinkin' / Sometimes with you it's hard to tell / You lay beside me without speakin' / Words are hard to find, better left behind / You pull
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Laura Branigan – Imagination
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[Verse 1] / He says that he can read my mind / The power to turn iron into gold / She says she's seen the other side / And knows the place the fire burns all night / [Pre-Chorus
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Laura Branigan – Whatever I Do
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I fight the night / To be alone has never frightened me / Behind the light / The shadow of your memory / Oh, who are you to turn the knife? / I am not your sacrifice / Who are you
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Laura Branigan – Power of Love
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“The Power of Love” is well-known for being sung by artists Jennifer Rush and Celine Dion.
Laura Branigan’s version (titled “Power of Love”) peaked at #26 on the US Billboard Hot
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Laura Branigan – Shadow of Love
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Feel it tonight / Raining down as cold as ice / The air that we breathe / Is all we share between us / Wearing the scars / Deep inside our desert hearts / Tell me where did it go
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Laura Branigan – Breaking Out
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[Verse 1] / She breathes a sigh / Watching as her life goes by / Caught in the trap of a working day world / Tired of just being somebody's girl / She's feelin' her frustration
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Laura Branigan – Forever Young
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[Verse 1] / Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while / Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies / Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst / Are you gonna drop the
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Laura Branigan – Living a Lie
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[Verse 1] / You've been calling and there's no answer / Now you're wondering why / How'd you get in this situation? / Now it's your turn to cry / [Chorus] / You're living a lie
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Laura Branigan – Maybe Tonight
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[Verse 1] / Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow / It's just a matter of time / Until you're running back in my arms again / Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow / I hear you knock on my door
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Laura Branigan – Touch
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Let me tell you baby what I want to do / There's something that I really got to say / Let me tell you everything that's on my mind / Don't say no, I'll tell you anyway / Sometimes
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Laura Branigan – The Lucky One
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You can break away / Or you can stay / You choose your life / You're free to fly / Go on and fly / Go on and fly / She had it in her own time / To get away and try to find
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Laura Branigan – Find Me
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If you see me trembling 'cause you're near / Please come closer, it's not you I fear / Find me, touch me, never let me go / Darlin', I'm so cold, hold me / If you hear me cryin' in
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Laura Branigan – Over Love
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My head touches the pillow / Dreams of us come rushing through / They light the dark like fireflies / Slowly filling up the room / Everywhere I look tonight / I can see how I cried
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Laura Branigan – Over My Heart
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I've been burned by love, fooled by deception / Though times have changed I still feel the pain / I would hold back my true emotions / And if someone got close I would change my
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Laura Branigan – Sharpshooter
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[Verse 1] / No one's ever had the skill to come inside / And warm the chill that's freezing me / This heart's a willing target / Need someone to shoot the mark that's deep in me
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Laura Branigan – Spanish Eddie
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“Spanish Eddie” is the lead single from Laura Branigan’s fourth album Hold Me.
The song peaked at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100, #29 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart & #26
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Laura Branigan – Maybe I Love You
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Maybe I love you, maybe I don't / Maybe I'll need you and maybe, baby, I won't / I guess I don't take the time / To let you know what's on my mind / Maybe I've been blind / Maybe I
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Laura Branigan – Down Like a Rock
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Was there light on the water when I fell in and drowned? / Did anyone see my body go down? / Did he call out "Someone help, she can't swim!"? / Or did he just laugh when I slipped
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Laura Branigan – Shattered Glass
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Shattered Glass was originally sung by Ellie Warren in 1980, but it went unnoticed.
Laura Branigan’s version peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100, #27 on Billboard’s Adult
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Laura Branigan – Take Me
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I fancied you for a very long time / You finally got around to making your move / But when you picked me up, you looked so very / I wish we could dispense with the preliminaries
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Laura Branigan – Mama
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Mama / Remember how you warned me that he would only hurt me? / Remember how I didn't listen then, wasn't listening? / Mama / You said I shouldn't see him, said I didn't need him
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Laura Branigan – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
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Tonight you're mine completely / You gave your love so sweetly / Tonight the light of love is in your eyes / But will you love me tomorrow? / Is this a lasting treasure / Or just a
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Laura Branigan – How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?
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[Verse 1] / I could hardly believe it when I heard the news today / I had to come and get it straight from you / They said you were leavin', someone swept your heart away / From
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Laura Branigan – Fool's Affair
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Forgive my emotions / I can't control them tonight / It's been so wrong / Now it's so right / I feel you shaking / Well, I'm shaking too / Just like before / It's always been you
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Laura Branigan – Self Control (Extended Version)
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[Verse] / Oh, the night is my world / City light painted girl / In the day nothing matters / It's the night time that flatters / In the night, no control / Through the wall
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Laura Branigan – Didn't We Almost Win It All
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You don't act the same / And your eyes have changed / I don't want to hear the words you say / I don't want to know the pain / And I see your lips move / But I can't hear the sound
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Laura Branigan – Dim All the Lights
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Chorus: / Dim all the lights, we darlin' / Cause tonight it's all the way / Turn up the old victrola / Gonna dance the night away / Love it dont come easy / No it seldom does
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Laura Branigan – Deep in the Dark
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[Intro] / Check it out, Joe / [Verse 1] / I'll tell you a secret if you know where to keep it / And you promise not to tell / Got a tale or two about a girl that you could have
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Laura Branigan – Cry Wolf
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Cry Wolf was the third single from Laura Branigan’s album Touch.
The song only peaked at #20 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart in 1987.
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Laura Branigan – Love Me Tonight
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I've had a man, fine as he could be / First time that I looked at him / He was looking straight through me / Did not take too long to find, our love came easily / Singin Oh lordy
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Laura Branigan – Please Stay, Go Away
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[Verse 1] / I'm caught in a crossfire with nowhere to run / I'm keepin' my head down 'cause I've got only one / I'm up on a high wire with nothing but air / I'm feelin' so nervous
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Laura Branigan – Reverse Psychology
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All the girls are runnin' after you / And I've got to admit that it includes me too / All the girls are puttin' on a show / We all try to catch your eye / But you don't want to
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Laura Branigan – Gloria
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“Gloria”—a cover of the Italian original by Umberto Tozzi— was Laura Branigan’s first major hit, and her self-described ”signature song.” It stayed for 36 weeks in the Top 100—a
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Laura Branigan – Let Me In
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Driving through the city / As I look out through the window / Wonderin what it's like to be sleepin' on the outside / Watch me take a picture of the place that I grew up in / Sorry
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Laura Branigan – Foolish Lullaby
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You always run to me whenever she leaves you / We trade philosophy, but nothing can free you / Too many poison arrows hit the heart you've tried to hide / Can't you say goodbye to
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Laura Branigan – Is There Anyone Here But Me
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(Kevin Wells/Andre Pessis) / Sitting in La Casolette / The same place we first met / Trying to talk it out before the fall / You look the other way / I struggle for the words to
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Laura Branigan – I Know You By Heart
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Midnights in winter / The glowing fire / Lights up your face in orange and gold / I see your sweet smile / Shine through the darkness / Its line is etched in my memory / So I'd
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Laura Branigan – When the Heat Hits the Streets
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When the Heat Hits the Streets was used in a TV ad campaign for the Chrysler Laser.
Chrysler Laser Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jsGt22GVMw
At the time, Chrysler was a
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