 Genius Lyrics
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Pat Benatar – Love Is a Battlefield
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The video was choreographed by Michael Peters, who appears briefly in the video. It was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video and was viewable on the DVD for
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Pat Benatar – True Love
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Never been no fragile flower / I always got too much to say / Never had much luck with love and romance / I guess it's always been that way / But I've been seriously thinking
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Pat Benatar – Hell Is for Children
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Benatar became inspired to write these lyrics when in 1979 she read an exposé on child abuse.
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Pat Benatar – So Sincere
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We say I love you and we're so sincere / I look in your eyes and it becomes quite clear / You want what I want, you need what I need / When I turn to leave / You plead, and plead
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Pat Benatar – Heartbreaker
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[Verse 1] / Your love is like a tidal wave / Spinning over my head / Drownin' me in your promises / Better left unsaid / [Pre-Chorus] / You're the right kind of sinner / To release
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Pat Benatar – Strawberry Wine
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How am I supposed to make it through another day? / What am I supposed to do now that you've gone away? / Is there anything encouraging you can say to me? / Did you really think my
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Pat Benatar – Go
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You say you'll always be there / But I know you won't / You say you love me, you swear / But I know you don't / I got better things I can do, you know / Than waste all of my time
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Pat Benatar – We Belong
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This is one of Benatar’s most recognized songs, and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984.
The song is generally interpreted as a song about the struggle of a married
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Pat Benatar – Girl
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Do you like the way it feels when you get hurt? / Maybe you should take a long hard look at your self worth / There's an emptiness inside; it started many years ago / You always
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Pat Benatar – Invincible
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[Verse 1] / This bloody road remains a mystery / This sudden darkness fills the air / What are we waiting for? / Won't anybody help us? / What are we waiting for? / [Chorus] / We
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Pat Benatar – All Fired Up
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Livin' with my eyes closed / Goin' day to day / I never knew the difference / I never cared either way / Lookin' for a reason / Searchin' for a sign / Reachin' out with both hands
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Pat Benatar – The Outlaw Blues
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It was rainin' in heaven when you went down / You were better than the best / Stayed a notch above the rest / It was rainin' in heaven when you went down / Your mother cried, said
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Pat Benatar – Purgatory
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We will be the forgotten ones / They will shake their heads and pity us / We who sacrificed our sons and daughters / With the sweet taste of victory on our lips / They will cry
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Pat Benatar – I Want Out
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Ooh baby, got a hold on me, I can't deny it / You locked the door and you swallowed the key / And I...and I kept quiet / Yeah baby, got a hold on me / I didn't want to be alone / I
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Pat Benatar – Evil Genius
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They were so ecstatic when the letter arrived / A certified genius at the age of five / They planned his future so carefully / He was everything they hoped he'd be / He was a model
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Pat Benatar – Here's My Heart
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Our two worlds met in strange surprise / I hid my love in thin disguise / I tried to leave, how could I stay? / What if my heart gave me away? / I always thought I'd be prepared
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Pat Benatar – Promises in the Dark
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Never again, isn't that what you said / You've been through this before / You swore, this time, you'd think with your head / No one would ever have you again / And if takin' was
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Pat Benatar – We Live for Love
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[Verse 1] / Your love's contagious / One kiss is dangerous / But I have more to risk than you to lose / [Verse 2] / I feel passion growin' / I know that love is only / Just one
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Pat Benatar – Every Time I Fall Back
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I don't know if it's me / Or just the sign of the times / But I want a better life / Than the one I've been livin / Ain't no one says / That you can't change who you are / Ain't no
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Pat Benatar – Christmas in America
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It's Christmas in America / There's carols in the air / The snow falling on the ground / There's holly everywhere / The people they're all different too / Their troubles put aside
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Pat Benatar – Angry
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I walk around pretending you were never here / But the smell of you is everywhere / I ache so bad for you I want to shed my skin / Try and keep my thoughts from turning into you
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Pat Benatar – Little Paradise
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Can you see the view? Can you feel the heat? / I'm savin' no time for you, no time for me / You're up on the news, I'm wild in the streets / I'm under the lights, tonight I won't
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Pat Benatar – Fire and Ice
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Ooh, you're giving me the fever tonight / I don't wanna give in, I'd be playing with fire / You forget, I've seen you work before / Take 'em straight to the top, leave 'em crying
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Pat Benatar – Dirty Little Secrets
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It seems I've loved you for so long / It seems like all of my life / Just like a child who doesn't belong / You'd run, til even the sun became your shadow / And I know you better
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Pat Benatar – Tell It to Her
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I'm the one you put all your stories on / She's the one, you keep it a secret from / She believes you, just like I did at the start / When you wrapped up my heart, and played with
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Pat Benatar – Somebody's Baby
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He used to be sombody's baby / Someone used to hold him close / And rock him gently / He used to be the light in someone's eyes / He used to matter / He used to matter / He used to
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Pat Benatar – You & I
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Are you lonely tonight? / Are you thinkin of me? / Do you ever wonder hot I should feel? / Close your eyes now and picture me there / You can push us aside / You can tear us apart
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Pat Benatar – Silent Partner
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Background voices calling from a distance / See no evil, hear no evil / Static on the line of least resistance / Don't say nothing at all / Don't say nothing at all / Don't say
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Pat Benatar – Precious Time
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I don't want to argue about who is the victim / Cause maybe we both got burned / I don't want to talk about who is the traitor / Cause both of our loyalties turned / I don't want
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Pat Benatar – I Won't
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I was there when you cried like a baby / When you thought that maybe / Things weren't going your way / I was there when you asked me / Just 'cause you asked me / And I didn't
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Pat Benatar – Tell Me Why
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Tell me why the stars do shine / Tell me why the ivy twines / Tell me why the sky's so blue / And then I'll tell you just why I love you / Because God made the stars to shine
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Pat Benatar – I Need a Lover
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[Chorus] / I need a lover that won't drive me crazy / I need a lover that won't drive me mad / I need a lover that won't drive me crazy / I need a lover that won't drive me crazy
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Pat Benatar – Sex as a Weapon
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You really do know how to strut that stuff (strut that stuff) / You really do know how to act tough (act tough) / Your body's just like a centerfold / A fantasy (a fantasy), anyone
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Pat Benatar – If You Think You Know How to Love Me
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A breathless drive on a downtown street / Motorbike ride in the mid-day heat / The dust that hung from the desert skies / Run, though we run it still burned our eyes / Oh, yes we
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Pat Benatar – In the Heat of the Night
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In the heat of the night, when you know it ain't right / But you do what you wanna do / You do what you feel, no one can feel like you / Out in the summertime city, ain't it a pity
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Pat Benatar – Cerebral Man
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What's your line this time, cerebral man / Whenever you walk through my door / I start to sweat. I'm falling in slow motion / And I'm losing control / And the walls are too high to
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Pat Benatar – Anxiety (Get Nervous)
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Get nervous...get nervous / Get nervous...get nervous / Get nervous...get nervous / Get nervous...get nervous / Get nervous...get nervous / I feel a little shaky, I can't control
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Pat Benatar – Ooh Ooh Song
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Just when we think we conquered it / It seems we lose the fight again / But there's just no stoppin' it / It's like a bad dream that never ends / It puts up walls between us that
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Pat Benatar – Le Bel Age
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There comes a time, when you should see things clear / Free from my innocence, there is no circumstance too severe / Only the need for us, for us to believe again / There is a time
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Pat Benatar – Wide Awake in Dreamland
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Movin' light, dream machinery / Crashin' in, through my balcony - oh no / I shout down the line but could not get through / Cause the telephone never rings when you want it to
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Pat Benatar – You Better Run
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What ya tryin' to do to my heart / What ya tryin' to do to my heart / You go around tellin' lies / And now you wanna compromise / What ya tryin' to do to my heart / You better run
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Pat Benatar – Rescue Me
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Rescue me / Take me in your arms / Rescue me / I want your tender charm / 'Cause I'm lonely / And I'm blue / I need you / And your love too / Come on and rescue me / Come on, baby
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Pat Benatar – Helter Skelter
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When I get to the bottom / I go back to the top of the slide / An' I stop, an' I turn, an' I go for a ride / Til I get to the bottom / An' I see you again / Yeh / Do you, don't you
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Pat Benatar – Big Life
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You punch your way through a world of good intentions / People don't matter, all you want to do is win / And nothing ever comes too fast for a man of means / 'Cause all you want is
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