 Genius Lyrics
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Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
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“She Blinded Me With Science” is a 1982 synth-pop/new-wave track written by Thomas Dolby and released on both Dolby’s Blinded By Science & The Golden Age of Wireless albums in the
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Thomas Dolby – Dissidents
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[Verse 1] / One more young writer slid away in the night / Over the border he will drown in light / [Pre-Chorus] / (And the man said) / Hold it (hold it) / (He said) / Wait a
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Thomas Dolby – Weightless
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Some nights he's weightless / He has to travel / His mouth is gravel / And there's an empty feeling within his heart / Eye on the fuel gauge / Westchester Thruway / That triple
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Thomas Dolby – Airhead
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[Verse 1] / I buy her all the right clothes and pretty jewels to wear / My friends say she's a dumb blonde but they don't know she dyes her hair / She thinks the fighting in
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Thomas Dolby – Simone
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A dustbowl spread across the prairies / The runway shimmered in the haze / A toothbrush, paperback, and bug spray / The sunrise flickered on her face / The seatbelt sign / Simone
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Thomas Dolby – The Flat Earth
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(Hold me, baby) / (Love me, darling) / (Believe me, darling) / The Earth can be any shape you want it / Any shape at all / Dark and cold or bright and warm / Long or thin or small
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Thomas Dolby – Leipzig
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Thirty-nine and you need some leeway / Soon you're eyeing the overseas page / The trains are running late as you close the garden gate / Step through your steel front door frame
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Thomas Dolby – I Scare Myself
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I scare myself just thinking about you / I scare myself when I'm without you / I scare myself the moment that you're gone / I scare myself and I let my thoughts run / And when they
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Thomas Dolby – Hyperactive!
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Hmm, tell me about your childhood / Oh / At the tender age of three / I was hooked to a machine / Just to keep my mouth from spouting junk / Ha, must have took me for a fool / '
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Thomas Dolby – Flying North
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Metal bird dip wing of fire / Whose airlanes comb dark Earth / The poles are tethers we were born in / On the brink of a whole new deal / On the floor of a Pan Am bar / I'm staring
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Thomas Dolby – Europa and the Pirate Twins
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[Intro] / Okay / I was fourteen / She was twelve / Father traveled, hers as well, Europa / Down the beaches, hand in hand / Twelfth of never on the sand / Then war took her away
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Thomas Dolby – Silk Pyjamas
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Silk pyjamas, silk pyjamas / She was wearing silk pyjamas / Usual outfit, big pith helmet / Dr. Martens and silk pyjamas / Said it was driving her round the bend / Just sitting and
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Thomas Dolby (Ft. Eddi Reader) – Oceanea
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[Thomas Dolby] / Cannonballs ricochet around the room / I hurry home to lick my wounds / I stumble home to Oceanea / A nightingale sang above my mother's tomb / Twilight in the
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Thomas Dolby – Pulp Culture
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I drove all over Hollywood / Looking at the stars / First I ate my Milky Way / And then I ate my Mars / But sucking on a Galaxy / I noticed something pretty bizarre / There's not a
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Thomas Dolby – Airwaves
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Strange how the scale forms / In tiny patterns / On my antenna / And the five o'clock show, 'Allo, 'Allo / Brooklyn is crawling with famous people / I turn my vehicle beneath the
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Thomas Dolby – Commercial Breakup
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Night so bright - transmission smooth / I take my head and I take my head / And stuff it in the tube / I find something that I can use / But there's no credit where no credit is
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Thomas Dolby – Radio Silence
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Caroline / Makes the final adjustments / In her rear-view mirror / She's nervous and tense / But she's thinking it over / With logic and sense / She'll overcome her phobia / Oh to
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Thomas Dolby – That's Why People Fall In Love
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That's why, why people fall in love / That's why, why people fall in love / Trains collide on a regular basis / Stars explode and fireworks don't / A sea runs dry and a moon leaves
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Thomas Dolby – White City
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Keith was the sole inhabitant / Keith was the sole inhabitant / Keith woke beside the fountain / From his dreams of china mountains / Far from the chatter of these autobanks / That
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Thomas Dolby – Windpower
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Switch off the mind and let the heart decide / Who you were meant to be / Flick to remote and let the body glide / There is no enemy / Etch out a future of your own design / Well
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Thomas Dolby – Urban Tribal
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She talked to boys from the far side of town / And in a while one chose her / They paint her face, bringing gifts for her father / And shower her with roses / In the early days
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Thomas Dolby – Don't Turn Away
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I don't know why you're not talking to me / I don't know what went wrong / Two people who had so much together / Really ought to get along - yeah / But something started to change
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Thomas Dolby & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Field Work (London Mix)
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[Chorus] / Better brush up on my field work (Field work) / Gonna brush up on my field work (Field work) / Gonna get my fingers dirty / Better brush up on my field work / [Verse 1
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Thomas Dolby – The Key To Her Ferrari
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This song is about how there are things that men love more than women – namely, a bright red 64 Ferrari GTO.
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Thomas Dolby – Puppet Theatre
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[Chorus] / One more night in the puppet theater / And I'm dancing on a string / One more pawn for the puppet master / The lines are drawn the hook is in / And they used me / For a
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Thomas Dolby – Toad Lickers
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Here come the toad lickers / Leapfroggy into town / Here come the toad lickers / Your world is upside down / Watch out, you shopkeepers / Petrol pump attendants / Cower, you burger
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Thomas Dolby – Valley Of The Mind's Eye
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Ma chère Josephine / Que le monde a changé depuis ma derniere lettre / Ainsi ce soir je prends ma plume / Non pas pour me merveiller / Sur l'epoque ou nous vivons / Mais pour
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Thomas Dolby – 17 Hills
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On his official blog, Thomas Dolby spoke about the song:
But the EP’s ‘coup de resistance’ is a 7’38″ epic entitled “17 Hills”. Very much in the tradition of “I Love You Goodbye
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Thomas Dolby – Screen Kiss
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Miller time at the bar where all the English meet / She used to drink in the hills / Only now she drinks in the valleys / Where every road has a name like Beachwood Avenue / Or so
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Thomas Dolby – Urges
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Early evening he get these urges / Skin tension under leatherette / A back bar somewhere in clubland / Cigarillo and the scene is set / See the bodies, now things are moving
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Thomas Dolby – I Live In A Suitcase
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When all the lights go down / This dirty desert town / Is theatre in the round / With stars instead of a crowd / I came here the hard way / And now I'm living in a suitcase / And I
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Thomas Dolby – To the Lifeboats
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In dreams the skies are azure blue / The sea's a mirror pond / Then you wake to howling wind and rain / Upon your roof tiles / It won't be long / It won't be very long now
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Thomas Dolby – Budapest By Blimp
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On the corners of boulevards I call your name / Now and again they play our tune / In the grip of a tiny hand over a flame / Pale as the phases of the moon / In the cafes and
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Thomas Dolby – I Love You Goodbye
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I would never normally go bowling / On a Friday morning in New Orleans / But I like to come here to remember / The kind of places you took me / Like the time we stole a Datsun
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Thomas Dolby – One Of Our Submarines
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[Intro] / (Missing, missing, missing, missing) / (Missing, missing, missing, missing) / (Missing, missing, missing, missing) / (Missing, missing, missing, missing) One of our
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Thomas Dolby (Ft. Regina Spektor) – Evil Twin Brother
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I wasn't there / That wasn't me / It must have been my evil twin brother / I couldn't hear / I didn't see / It must have been my evil twin brother / (Evil twin, my evil twin
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Thomas Dolby – Nuvogue
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That sugar, I like that Sugar Sally / But all she likes is cash / All she wants is cash / That Lincoln, he digs that Sugar Sally / But Sam took all his cash / Sam took all his cash
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Thomas Dolby – Therapy/Growth
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I was dreaming / Of a life on the farm / Therapy, growth, therapy / Wife and Rover / And a pipe in my hand / Therapy, growth, therapy / I was dreaming / Of a life somewhere else
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Thomas Dolby – May The Cube Be With You
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Late one night a happy martian with nothing to do / Made the perfect pleasure drug and he called it the Cube / A Cube so potent in a stroke it turned nightmares to dreams / He flew
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Thomas Dolby – Nothing New Under The Sun
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There is nothing new under the sun / Hippocratic oath / Apathy on toast / Psilocybin nutroast (nutroast, nutroast) / Panic on the seas / Mozzarella cheese / Diplomatic deep-freeze
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Thomas Dolby (Ft. Gabriel Byrne) – The Devil Is An Englishman
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A poet walks amongst the Gods / But jealous men have pulled me down / Now exiled in a foreign land / I coax my demons into life / While people cross themselves and say / The Devil
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Thomas Dolby – Cruel
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[Verse 1] / Cruel, what a thing to do / I've been cruel to you such a long time / And how can I hide my shame? / 'Cause there I go again at the wrong time / [Chorus] / And I know
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Thomas Dolby – The Ability To Swing
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Everybody thinking / Thinking pretty hard / Everybody thinking / 'Bout singing from the heart / If you want my opinion / It doesn't mean a thing / If you haven't got that / Ability
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