 Genius Lyrics
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Spandau Ballet – True
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True was written by Gary Kemp at his parents' house.
Part of the song is a tribute to Marvin Gaye and part of it was about Gary Kemp’s platonic relationship with Clare Grogan (
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Spandau Ballet – Gold
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Gold was written by Gary Kemp and his brother, Martin.
According to Gary:
“*I used to get my brother Martin to come in when I was writing songs to give an opinion, muck about on
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Spandau Ballet – Round and Round
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[Verse 1] / I don't have to be so wise / You're just my fantasy and I will fantasise / Something more or less to make things started / We're the artisans and we've been crafted / [
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Spandau Ballet – The Freeze
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Blue sing La Lune, sing Lagoon / These visions are making me stay / The art in pretending it's art / The question is where do you pay? / I'll pack my case one more time / I'll
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Spandau Ballet – Only When You Leave
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Only When You Leave is the fourth single released from Spandau Ballet’s album Parade.
The song peaked at #3 on the U.K. Singles chart and #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984
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Spandau Ballet – Lifeline
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Changing her colors she's off to the shore / She rides the soul train and he fight the law / There's a power in his voice and it makes her feel so sure / So live and let live in
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Spandau Ballet – Musclebound
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We're building fires that will burn until morning / The smell of books and hot stone surround us / Tough is the leather that's strapped to my skin / Strong are the bonds that we
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Spandau Ballet – I'll Fly For You
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Passion, take the wind / And break me from this tie / We're mortals on the Earth / Oh, but God's up in the sky / I haven't got a clue / I haven't
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Spandau Ballet – To Cut a Long Story Short
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Ha! / Soldier is turning / See him through white light / Running from strangers / See you in the valley / War upon war / Heat upon heat / To cut a long story short, I lost my mind
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Spandau Ballet – Communication
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Communication always leaves me incomplete / The grass is greener, but it's grown beneath my feet / Love inspiration is a message on a wing / But I have left it in the words you'll
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Spandau Ballet – Pleasure
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Pleasure's in my car / Even in the bar, as I'm searching / Oh, in the love that's strong / Breathing in the song, I'm learning / I'm learning / Pleasures in the sand / Warm within
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Spandau Ballet – Love Is All
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You can't always be / What you wanted to me / And with every drop of rain / You can't hide / But with all that we can feel / And with time / You see what's real / It's by your side
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Spandau Ballet – Foundation
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Hello, this is me to you / It's better now we're comin' through / And I don't really know just who we are / I'll stay here till my love's full up / So stir this cocktail, shake me
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Spandau Ballet – Snakes and Lovers
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I just don't understand it / Well there's something at our door / Now we're fighting together / As dogs of war / When the moon is shining / And you're wrapped around our sins
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Spandau Ballet – Soul boy
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You were my soul / I was your boy / And we would dance an endless dance / The lights were spinning all around / Oh how we love this new romance / Forever young and we were cool
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Spandau Ballet – Chant No 1
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[Intro] / I checked the time, it was almost time / A curious smell, an intangible crime / I'm washing my clothes, but the stain still grows / Cover your eyes, the stain still shows
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Spandau Ballet – Be Free With Your Love
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Be free with your love / Free with your love / Be free with your love / Free with your love / Two young babes in a foreign land / Draw no milk from the dusty sand / Close heir eyes
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Spandau Ballet – Through the Barricades
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Mother doesn't know where love has gone / She says it must be youth that keeps us feeling strong / See it in her face that's turned to ice / And when she smiles / She shows the
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Spandau Ballet – She Loved Like Diamond
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[Verse 1] / She ran the risk from unity / Obsession dies alone with tragedy / [Chorus] / She loved like diamond / She loved like diamond / And cut so hard she died / [Verse 2] / A
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Spandau Ballet – Steal
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I, I.. / I, I.. / [Verse 1] / I, I need something / No, no don't rush it / Hold on to the mood / It's part of the mystery / If I'm giving into this / [Verse 2] / Help, help I'm
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Spandau Ballet – Instinction
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[Verse 1] / Cheap bed in the red / Sleep the words out of your head / Cold floor nice and raw / Eat the meat that's on the floor / High tide some disguise / Loving makes the cream
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Spandau Ballet – Glow
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Glow / Take out this foreign heart / Wash oof the sand that seeps out through my eyes / I've still sleep in my eyes / Cold / Cold's how we felt so long / Accuse me of crying and
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Spandau Ballet – Raw
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I've been running round town for a new identiy / I've been dreaming hot dreams of insecurity / I've been chasing my heart through the streets of my mind / I've been clinging to the
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Spandau Ballet – Code of Love
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He put so much into her life / She took so much out of his / It was a crucial assignment / No one ever asked for this / It was a little confusin' / He thought, he knew what to do
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Spandau Ballet – Fight for Ourselves
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Everybody, we've got to fight for ourselves / Everybody, we've got to fight for ourselves / Everybody, we've got to fight for ourselves / Everybody, we've got to fight for
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Spandau Ballet – A Matter of Time
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He lays alone cries on his own / For horizons that he'll never reach / And all of those dreams are washed on the beach / She's drowning in oceans of shackled emotions / Going round
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Spandau Ballet – How Many Lies?
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Once there were times / Once there were reasons filled with rhymes / Everything shared, everything told / You keep me so warm / Protect me from all those mighty storms / And dreams
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Spandau Ballet – Confused
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Ooh I don't get it, what the hell it is / All the things we say / In the papers, about the papers / Read 'em yesterday / You hear it again from another friend / And I'm running
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Spandau Ballet – Mandolin
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Oh Mandolin, oh mandolin / Waiting in the dark / Centuries passed down upon / Your smooth Venetian skin / Memories oh memories / Lay stains upon your heart / When lovers dance into
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Spandau Ballet – Windy Town
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There's gotta be something more to this life we're given / Gotta be peace o' mind and a piece o' living / When the losers have won / And the damage is done / Only then will you be
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Spandau Ballet – This Is The Love
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This is the love / This is the love / I was miles away / Lost within another day / Stepping out with feet of clay to get by / Couldn't buy more time / Couldn't even spin a dime
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Spandau Ballet – Highly Strung
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[Verse 1] / This is the song of little Jo / She's not the girl I used to know / Forever screaming all the day and night / She used to be a diplomat / But now she's down the
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Spandau Ballet – Toys
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We are the night / We'll tempt you and turn you on / Live in our hearts / And play with your man / Oh these are your toys / Hold them and they'll obey / From blood into life / Thy
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Spandau Ballet – Innocence and Science
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Water from my mind / Breaks the ropes and binds / Water comes from inside / And frees me / Innocence and science / Metal sings my name / Poisoned love sustained / Metal breaks me
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Spandau Ballet – Heaven Is a Secret
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She'll sing a West-Side song / You could be the boy in the film / Heaven is a secret / Heaven is a secret / Where are the West-Side boys? / Fighting on the scaffold of love
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Spandau Ballet – Reformation
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Bleak and tired Western skies / Silence crashing with quiet lies / Shattered glass reflects elation / Reformation, Reformation / I saw you running through my dreams / Question held
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Spandau Ballet – Gold - 12'' mix
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Thank you for coming home / Sorry that the chairs are all worn / I left them here I could have sworn / These are my salad days / Slowly being eaten away / Just another play for
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Spandau Ballet – Age of Blows
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Instrumental
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Spandau Ballet – Always in the Back of My Mind
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Oh, you're always in the back of my mind / Nothing ever changes / Oh, I wish to god it did / Just another drink and you'll be gone / 2 a.m. raining again / I saw you making faces
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Spandau Ballet – Coffee Club
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Matthew didn't stay home / He went abroad instead / Journeys to glory they were breathing in his head / Got caught up with shoe horns / But he couldn't get a shine / Matthew bought
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