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Level 42 – Something About You
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Something About You was a single from Level 42’s album World Machine.
The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the U.K. Singles chart.
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Level 42 – Forever Now
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[Intro] / Hey, yeah yeah yeah / [Verse 1] / I just learned that time will come to an end / In twenty thousand million years / I just heard the big bang / With my own ears / [Pre-
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Level 42 – It's Over
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[Verse 1] / I won't be here when you come home / I'm sorry if you don't understand, forgive me if you can / But I can see another road / And I ain't coming back / [Verse 2] / Don't
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Level 42 – Hot Water
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[Verse 1] / Tell me something / Why do I always find it hard just to get along / Try my best for nothing / Every little thing I do is wrong / [Pre-Chorus] / Feel it in my brain
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Level 42 – Starchild
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Starchild is a song written by Wally Badarou, Mark King and Phil Gould. It was released in 1981 as part of the British pop band Level 42’s debut studio album. The song was released
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Level 42 – Almost There
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[Verse 1] / Watch the paper window, see the stars / News and views to show you who you are / Keep the money moving, change the scene / Open up the market with our dreams / [Chorus
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Level 42 – Guaranteed
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Don't play this game with me / You know you came to be my world / When times were bad enough / Seems I was good enough / You run out my door / You come back, and beg for more and
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Level 42 – Micro-Kid
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Pushing all the buttons / Trying to come to something / Flying with his feet on the ground / Full of dreams and visions / In a world of indecision / He ain't about to be pushed
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Level 42 – A Kinder Eye
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In his widowed years of longing, in his windowed room of light / He lay the oil upon the canvas, brought sweet memory to life / His speckled beard a brush of colour, his spotted
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Level 42 – Lessons in Love
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[Verse 1] / I'm not proud, I was wrong / And the truth is hard to take / I felt sure we had enough / But our love went overboard / Lifeboat lies lost at sea / I've been trying to
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Level 42 – Tracie
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Steppin' out from underneath my shadow / Walking home from fridays nine to five / Rememberin' the long way round the meadow / The one we used to take from time to time / I thought
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Level 42 – Turn It On
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[Verse 1] / Reach into another day / And the world is just one step away / Making money living blind / It's time to change, leave it all behind / [Chorus] / Turn it on, whenever
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Level 42 – The Chinese Way
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Take a journey back in time / Leave the western world behind / Cross the mountains to Peking / Where the paper lanterns gently swing / The Chinese way / Who knows what they know
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Level 42 – Love Games
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Love Games is the first single from their first album. Basically their introduction single, since it was also their first single to hit any chart globally.
This also lead to their
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Level 42 – World Machine
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Some folks try to multiply / From sunrise to sunset / Leave behind more of their kind / So no one will forget / [Pre-Chorus] / But that ain't
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Level 42 – People
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I'm forever struck / By the people in this town / And the way they go about their world / Have they given up / All the fun they used to have in adolescent xanadu / Everything is
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Level 42 – Freedom Someday
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I'm not chasing miracles / I don't want no sympathy / I'm waiting for the world / To keep me company / Thinking 'bout the universe / Trying to keep my fears at bay / And all I'm
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Level 42 – To Be With You Again
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I've been making moves in chains / Wrapped around my hollow heart / The thought of you remains / I can't replace your face no matter how I try / And in the night I cry from wanting
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Level 42 – Children Say
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I keep to myself / What I might share with others / But they don't seem to understand / I open my mouth / To rediscover / That I don't have the words at my command / Holding out
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Level 42 – The Machine Stops
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I found the air / Down here in the chambers / You warned me of danger / But I want to stop this - for a moment / There must be someone - in the open / Waiting for the starlight
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Level 42 – Coup D'Etat
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On the border / There's disorder / Now they've gone too far / Wait for the coup d'etat / Fragmentation / We don't know who we are / Wait for the coup d'etat / No choice / Look what
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Level 42 – True Believers
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Stuck inside my harvard box / Behind the door the bauhaus locked / I'm wrestling with a new ideal / I'm working out the way I feel / I just came back from Cultureburg / Where I
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Level 42 – Her Big Day
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Too bad about the weather / But something even badder's gonna spoil her big day / He stands by the mirror / Feelin' he's gone fifteen rounds with Cassius Clay / He hears a cockney
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Level 42 – Take A Look
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I'm a ragged man with a ragged heart / But I wear my soul with pride / You can see me on the road / See my carrying my home / And perhaps it seems that I'm all alone / But I'm
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Level 42 – Love Meeting Love
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Ooh summer nights - making love / Together we're as one - in love's light / We have found our way - through another day / So tonight we'll stay / Drunk on loves sweet wine / Heaven
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Level 42 – Man
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Hey man where you been / You can't run away / From the life you made your own / Now that it's gone and left you down and out / You're not so complete / Now what do you say / All
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Level 42 – Why Are You Leaving?
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[Verse 1] / Tell me why are you leaving / When there's no place to go / What's this secret you're keeping / You don't want me to know / Only lies need defending / 'Cos the truth
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Level 42 – Play Me
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I must say you're really something else / The way you're tearing down my house / And I know you'd never stoop so low / As to rebuild it somewhere else / You know how to play me
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Level 42 – Physical Presence
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I leave as I enter / Another boy caught in-between / Now all I can muster / Are whispers to your screams / Don't you remember / How you eased my disgrace / Don't you remember / The
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Level 42 – Heaven In My Hands
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I'm going nowhere / Gotta face up to it / Gotta wake up to it / I feel so guilty / Killing time is a sin / There's no way you can win / A dam burst of dreams flows thru' me / They
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Level 42 – Running in the Family
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[Verse 1] / Our dad would send us to our room / He'd be the voice of doom / He said that we would thank him later / All day, he was solid as a rock / But by eight o'clock / We'd be
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Level 42 – All I Need
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I'm moving slowly / Trying to find my own way / Itís a struggle to get there / When I'm feeling this way / Is there someone to call / I can't seem to think / How can I go on / When
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Level 42 – Silence
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Lonely girl lies awake at night / Silence ringing in her ears / There's a boy who is on her mind / So much promise unfulfilled / She had waited so patiently / He had nothing more
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Level 42 – Love In A Peaceful World
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You came from out of nowhere / Yesterday / Well you blew my cool but that's ok! / I guess I couldn't run forever / Anyway / I knew I'd have to face the truth someday / Strange
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Level 42 – Follow Me
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On the streets / There's no more pavements of gold / In the heat / There's no more golden years – / There your feet / They try to run from the cold / No retreat there's nowhere
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Level 42 – Two Solitudes
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I saw the longing in your eyes / But I failed to see the anguish you so cleverly disguised / Your needs I clearly read / But I never knew your true intentions they were better left
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Level 42 – Rooted
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I talk to the empty air / I guess it's some kind of empty prayer / To no one who's never there / It doesn't matter if they exist / I'm aesthetically atheist / It only matters I
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Kendall Joshua – Level 42
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[Verse 1] / Uh yeah you know what to do / Kicking it with my crew that is Level 42 / I'm a starchild and you might be too I'm a starchild and you might be too / Guess the rumors
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Level 42 – Leaving Me Now
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It seems true love is so rare / Seems all I've known is deceit / Your laughter fills the air / Once more I'm sensing defeat / And I suppose you're leaving me now / I was so sure
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Level 42 – Two Hearts Collide
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Sold in silence / I never thought I could ever fall so deep / Now I need to know how you feel / And with a kiss / I steal the silence from your lips / Hearts colliding / Making
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Level 42 – Sun Goes Down
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Though I live on the edge time is on my side / All the doors to my life are open wide / Just as long as the wheels keep on turning 'round / I will live for the groove 'til the sun
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Level 42 – One In A Million
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Only one girl in a million / Is the one I'm searching for / And I know that she'll be different / From all I've known before / I have raised my expectations / I have followed every
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Level 42 – My Hero
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My hero ... / On Baker Street / The limousine stood blacker than the darkest thing / In the rain / Deep in the back / His life was ending / Still they would not let him be / Where
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Level 42 – Last Chance
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Waking up, sitting up / Troubled by a dream / You were here, arms around me sleeping / Should have known, I'm all alone / That's the way it's been since I lost you / Ah ... ah
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