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The Dream Academy – Life in a Northern Town
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“Life In a Northern Town” is the debut single and signature song of The Dream Academy, and was a top 20 hit in five countries including the US & the UK in early 1986.
This somber
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The Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town (45 Version)
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The Salvation Army band played / And the children drunk lemonade / And the morning lasted all day, all day / And through an open window came / Like Sinatra in a younger day
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Little Big Town (Ft. Jake Owen & Sugarland) – Life in a Northern Town
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This song is a cover of The Dream Academy’s song, which peaked at number 7 of the Billboard Top 100 in 1986.
Little Big Town’s version was only performed live, as part of their
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The Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town (45 Version) Samples
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See all of “Life In A Northern Town (45 Version)” by The Dream Academy’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Rick Springfield – Life In A Northern Town
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A Salvation Army band played / And the children drank lemonade / And the morning lasted all day / All day / And through an open window came / Like Sinatra in a younger day
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Tritonal – Hey Mamama Samples
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See all of “Hey Mamama” by Tritonal’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The Dream Academy – One Dream
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There's one dream in my life / One that I love more / Then settle down, fool around / Games that only drag you down / So if you're blue and skies are gray / That's when I love more
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The Dream Academy – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
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[Verse 1: Gilbert Gabriel] / Good times for a change / Seems the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad / So please, please, please, let me, let me, let me / Let me get what I
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The Dream Academy – Bound to Be
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Well I'm bound to tell you a story that just happened to me / Bound to break down and bound not to break even / I was feeling lonely like a soledad brother / You came into my life
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The Dream Academy – Love Parade
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Look out your window any day / From June to September the love parade's / Out on the street where you live and you know / It's just a matter of time before it takes over / They've
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The Dream Academy – Moving On
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"All out", cried the boy and put the girl in danger / Whose only weapon was to believe in love / All out but don't say forever too late for re-arrangement / He's already thinking
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The Dream Academy – In Places on the Run
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All alone in bridge of silence / I suppose you shouldn't stay / All alone in dream's asylum / Don't you know we've come a long way / I suppose we were / Somewhere in the sun / We
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The Dream Academy – Johnny (New Light)
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Johnny was a child / When the wheels of progress came / And slowed things down again / Oh, when the wheat was high / And a big moon sailed in a rolling sky / And the stars came
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The Dream Academy – The Party
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There's danger in the air / They walk around in pairs / Dancing to the Dansette / Well God Almighty don't forget / You came here with me / While Cinderella's getting hypnotised
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The Dream Academy – This World
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Richard's on the street with all the lonely poeple / Trying to get a job and getting nowhere / So now this is what he got / A new kind of dedication / He doesen't feel lost / He
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Tritonal – Hey Mamama
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Hey Mamama (Hey Mamama) / Hey Mamama (Heya) / Hey Mamama (Hey Mamama) / Hey Mamama / Hey Mamama (Heya) / Hey Mamama (Heya) / Hey Mamama / Hey Mamama / Hey Mamama (Heya) / Hey
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The Dream Academy – Humdrum
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Just a touch of industry / Monday morning / Put on your collar and head straight out / Everyone's waiting, don't be late / Uptown midday / Sound of the city on slow decay / See the
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The Dream Academy – Waterloo
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A pale yellow morning moon hung over / Over the workaholics on the streets of rain / And high up in a window box / Were blue forget-me-nots / Right here / On the northern line
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The Dream Academy – Gaby Says
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All of the boys in this small town / Follow her eyes and follow her down / Over the grey horizon / That winter / I was the lucky one / I would keep up / And she would run
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The Dream Academy – Hampstead Girl
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Hampstead girl on Parliament Hill / Drinks in the situation / Hamstead brown not dressed to kill / In a thousand variations / And her blue eyes / See those dark shadows in the sky
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The Dream Academy – Twelve-Eight Angel
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Midnight and / Autumn leaves are turning brown / Night light / I look to find you not around & / The wind blows scorn into the face of fools / Who break hearts & / Turn their back
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The Dream Academy – Lowlands
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The low pressure band had broken up but not let go / As holy stormy Monday broke out on the streets below / If not to hear your voice is still the thing I can't replace / Somehow I
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The Dream Academy – Forest Fire
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For short lived cattle grazing land / With the whole world in their hands / They're cutting down and burning up the land / Asset stripping the medicine man / And all for one / And
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The Dream Academy – Doubleminded
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Would you like to come back out just for the ride / We will have to check it in my doublemind / 'Cause it's getting to the point of no return / And I'm finding there's one lesson I
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The Dream Academy – Here
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All our lives spent here / All our days / In this confusion / I hear your voice / In this confusion / Here / All nights end in silent dreams / Inside the night / Quiet / And in my
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The Dream Academy – Mercy Killing
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I believe in love to the power of ten / I don't believe retaliation strikes can make amends / I believe / I believe again / I cut down the flags on the wooden ship / Sail stateless
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The Hood Internet – 1985
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One, two / One, two, three / Hit it! / Eighties / (Chick-chicka) / Hmp, cha / Eighties / (Chick-chicka) / I need you, I need you / Come on (come on) / Eighties / (Chick-chicka) / I
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The Dream Academy – Love
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Love is real, real is love / Love is feeling, feeling love / Love is wanting to be loved / Love is touch, touch is love / Love is reaching, reaching love / Love is asking to be
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The Dream Academy – Power to Believe
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He was born and raised in privilege / Took everything it gave / Had financial help from his father / From the cradle to the grave / And this enabled him to believe in the things
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The Dream Academy – Indian Summer
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It was the time of year just after the summer's gone / When August and September just become memories of songs / To be put away with the summer clothes / And packed up in the attic
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The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Perhaps the Smiths at their most delicate, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” is a minimal, yet lush two minutes of almost otherworldly beauty.
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