 Genius Lyrics
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Nik Kershaw – Wouldn't It Be Good
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[Verse 1] / I got it bad / You don't know how bad I got it / You got it easy / You don't know when you've got it good / It's getting harder / Just keeping life and soul together
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Nik Kershaw – Don Quixote
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[Verse 1] / Your mind can play tricks / Makes you what you want to be / Just like superheroes / You saw them on TV / [Bridge 1] / Coast to coast, wall to wall / Got to go, duty
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Nik Kershaw – The Riddle
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“The Riddle” is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was released in 1984 as the lead single from the album of the same name. It was produced by Peter Colins, an
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Nik Kershaw – Nobody Knows
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I thought I heard a lover's sigh / It wasn't very loud / It came as I was passing by / Somebody else's cloud / The curtains were the finest lace / And when the night winds blew / I
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Nik Kershaw – Stuff
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Hot one, everybody's got one / Everybody else but you / Must have, better than the riff-raff / Better than the judges too / Tiny, little black and shiny / Couldn't live a day
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Nik Kershaw – When a Heart Beats
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Halfway to paradise / Or so it seems that way / Same as anyone / Same as any other day / We seek eternity / In all the things we buy / Not top priority / But it sure figures very
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Nik Kershaw – James Cagney
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Talk tougher than james cagney / Act smarter than charlie chan / Love longer than valentino / Or you never will be a man / I saw him down at the drive-in saturday / A forty five to
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Nik Kershaw – Shoot Me
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He's run his course. he's run his race / The years are etched upon his face / What was his name? / What was his name? / The scores are in, the bets are off / He's had his fill, he'
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Nik Kershaw – She Could Be The One
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Look at her, you catch her eye / She makes you laugh until you cry / Makes you want to go and get her / Don’t be stupid, that’s so sad / You’re old enough to be her dad / Old
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Nik Kershaw – Wounded Knee
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There we were, living on our island in the sun / Life was so easy, there was plenty for everyone / 'Long come a white man who saw the milk and honey / Now we're making due while he
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Nik Kershaw – These Tears
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I see the tears run down her face / Unhappy in her happy place / What it is I think I know / She's trying hard to let him go / She goes / These tears are all I have / Are all I
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Nik Kershaw – Yeah, Yeah
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All cried out and all used up / You’re as thirsty as hell / But someone stole your loving cup / And stopped ringing your bell / Draw the curtains, lock your door / And stay in to
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Nik Kershaw – Billy
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Billy is a new man / He does the best he can / To figure out what it's about / And what the hell he's meant to be / He does the right thing when expected / 'Nuff respect / Once in
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Nik Kershaw – Little Star
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[Verse 1] / Safe above soft beneath duvet / Light becomes dark, and a new day calls / Lullaby float you away / My little guy, go you to sleep and Dreamland / [Verse 2] / Wide awake
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Nik Kershaw – Oxygen (Acoustic)
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I take each breath / As if it is my first / I hold it there so deep inside me / Until I'm 'bout to burst / I speak each word as if it is your name / I move my lips and taste the
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Nik Kershaw – Wild Horses
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[Verse 1] / On the top of an office block / Sits a man of business, a man of means, he got / In-trays and ashtrays and he's / Up to his neck in computers and tragedy queens
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Nik Kershaw – Can't Get Arrested
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You’ve got to laugh though it’s not funny / You’ve got to laugh, or you would surely cry / Can’t buy a chance for love or money / Can’t get arrested however hard you try / Your
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Nik Kershaw – Runaway
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Runaway, Runaway, Runaway from me / I can't believe I did that / I didn't think it through / I made you cry / Now I could die / I'd run if I were you / Not like you didn't warn me
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Nik Kershaw – Red Strand
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Two souls beside the ocean / At the mercy of its tide / One warm and tender moment / One cold December night / There sat beneath the bright stars / How were we to understand / Our
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Nik Kershaw – Wounded
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We're wounded but walking, dumbstruck but talking still / And I don't think we've made it, don't think we ever will / We're radio rental, so accidental too / And I don't think we'
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Nik Kershaw – Radio Musicola
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Black vinyl man with black plasticised imagination / More fodder for the new lost generation / I got a question to send you to the nearest closet / "Why can't you let us do it like
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Nik Kershaw – Dancing Girls
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[Verse 1] / Cold and lonely, tired and bored / Just like the day before / Missing out on life's reward / Of that you can be sure / [Chorus 1] / So bring on the Dancing Girls / Take
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Nik Kershaw – Red Strand
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Two souls beside the ocean / At the mercy of its tide / One warm and tender moment / One cold December night / There sat beneath the bright stars / How were we to understand / Our
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Nik Kershaw – L.A.B.A.T.Y.D.
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Permanent wave / Temporary laughter / Morality's soul / Living happy ever after / Never see the end / Never in a million years / And never be afraid / Cos even when my head says
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Nik Kershaw – Roundabouts And Swings
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What you lose on the swings / You gain on the roundabouts / Right here right now / You treasure the ride / Cos cometh the hour / The fat lady sings / You lose on the roundabouts
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Nik Kershaw (Ft. Keely Hawkes) – The Sky's The Limit
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You could be a writer, fisherman or fighter / You could be the jewel in the crown / You could be a leader, doctor or a diva / You could be the talk of this town / You could be
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Nik Kershaw – The Chosen Ones
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[Verse 1] / Here, we are safe / We are wrapped in our bubble / Of disinfected trouble / We can't begin to know / [Verse 2] / There they are, where they are / Lost in the mire / Of
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Nik Kershaw – Already
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Ain't no stopping this thing he's chasing / Ain't no stopping this runaway train he's on / He's wishing his wishes and missing his station / It's there one t minute, and the next
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Nik Kershaw – Promises, Promises
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Just one look at those baby brown eyes / And all is understood / Ain’t no stopping you falling inside / And staying there for good / She won’t go doing those terrible things / Like
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Nik Kershaw – The Wind Will Blow
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[Verse 1] / Well, check it out, look at what's going on out there / It's chilly and choppy and chucking it down / We're locking in, chicken out, travelling nowhere / 'Cause I think
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Nik Kershaw – Faces
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[Verse 1] / They found me lost in space, nowhere to go / With the stakes so high and my resistance so low / They said "follow us, follow us today / We are the truth, we are the way
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Nik Kershaw – Cowboys And Indians
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I am a man with things to say / Got the real thing here without a doubt / My aim is true, I'm on my way / And I know what life is all about / I'll be around / One day / Gunslung
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Nik Kershaw – Bogart
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[Verse 1] / Now keep this to yourself but / My love plays games with me / I don't mean Gin or Monopoly / Strings me along like some pet animal or other / Why do I play her game
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Nik Kershaw – Old House
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I don’t want this silence breaking / Though who do I think I’ll be waking / Footsteps of mine on hallowed ground / 17 ghosts follow me around / But they’re not so good at talking
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Nik Kershaw – I Hope You're Happy Now
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That’s the limit, that’s enough / Time somebody called your bluff / You over educated thug / Degrees in looking down your nose / And supercilious repose / Plus a Phd in smug / Wind
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Nik Kershaw – Save The Whale
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[Verse 1] / In turquoise inner space / The giants live with grace / At peace with peace / At peace with god and men / [Verse 2] / Their spirits rise and fall / Much greater than us
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Nik Kershaw – Burning At Both Ends
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What's the matter with your face? / What's the matter with they way you talk? / What you doing with that spoon? / You should be eating with a knife and fork / Take a look at your
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Nik Kershaw – The Bell
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There's a wholeness in the half light / Of a new night when the day is done / And her soft skin has a warm glow / And I do know I'm the lucky one / In a small boat on a calm sea
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Nik Kershaw – Cloud Nine
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High above the push and shove / I float without a sound / Paradise found / I can see a lilac field / A blue and crimson sky / How lucky am I / And sunlight makes it alright / Makes
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Nik Kershaw – Get Up
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It's dark in there and you're quite unaware / That the cracks on the ceiling are mocking you / Your airless bag, your dust in a shaft of light / And you think you might / Yeah you
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Nik Kershaw – Elizabeth's Eyes*
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I told my tale with some words / From jail and a Bible vow / But fear and fury were my judge and / Jury so here I am now / There was a letter / A hundred letters / I wrote a letter
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Nik Kershaw – One World
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Sitting here feeding all these nimbers into my machine / A number for every little thing I see / I execute and they come dancing in / Dresses black and green / I recognise the
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Nik Kershaw – Die Laughing
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He's the wasp in the jam, he's the dad at the party / The trash in the beauty spot / He's the cloud in the sky, he's the fly in the ointment / The nail in the parking lot / Let's
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Nik Kershaw – I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
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[Verse 1] / Forty winks in the lobby, make mine a G&T / Then to our favorite hobby, searching for an enemy / Here in our paper houses, stretching for miles and miles / Old men in
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