Bronski Beat

No more war please
No more destruction of innocent life
No more living in fear
No more on our bended knees
To live is our right

No more war
No more war please
It's got to stop oh we've got to make it stop

No more money for bombs
When the poor people hungry on the street
No more sending young men to fight
As they die for false glory and false pride (do or die)

No more war please
Who wants to die
No more war please
Who wants to die
No more war no more war no more

Who wants to die who wants to die

Truthdare Doubledare
Shake your body
Lose your mind
We set our standards
In this world of mine
Let's do it do it once again
Let's do it do it one more time
Let's do it while the night is young
Don't keep, don't keep your distance

You look so good
You look so fine
The question is your state of mind
Let's do it, do it once again
Let's do it, do it one more time
Let's do it while the night is young
Don't keep, don't keep your distance

Gonna shake
Gonna shake your body

Chorus

The presure's lifting
I'm feeling high
You cannot reach me
In this world of mine
Move your body
Close to mine
We've got our standard, in this world of mine

Truthdare Doubledare
Gotta be careful who I meet tonight
Put up the struggle, I'll put up the fight
Loving is different, so full of fear
Can't love you right, until the cure is here

It's physical breakdown
It's emotional blackmail
It's uncontrollable it affects us all

Here I am Dr John
Here I am do you know what to do

The papers report in the wrong way
Don't care what they say, they don't educate
People look on it with a different view
Can you help me, explain
Do you know what to do

Used to be careless and so carefree
That old life-style will be the death of me
Dreading the system in this modern age
It's killing our people, must try to be brave

There must be something we can do
It's catching up, breaking through
There falls a silence across our land
The situation's out of hand

The situation is out of hand

Do you know what to do

Truthdare Doubledare
I start crying
In my dreams
Can't sleep at night
No point in living
No place to run, no place to hide

I want love to stay with me
Close by your side
Living in my dreams
I want love to stay with me
Right by your side
Living in my dreams

I'm asking the questions
That play on my mind
I'm killing time
Memories to find
Thinking 'bout the friends
I've left behind

I'd make the wrong move
Again and again
I sing the same blues
Again and again

I keep searching
In my dreams
These tears won't dry
No point in lying
You know our love will never die

No place to run
No place to hide
No place to roam
With you on my mind

Truthdare Doubledare
We stand here trapped and so angry
These walls are crumblin' down around me
We've never got any money
It never seems to be around any more

So c'mon c'mon release me baby
Only if you could
C'mon c'mon relieve me darlin'
This boy ain't what he should be tonight

This is no big-big moment
Can't see a second chance
They'd even stops us from dancing
And try to end our romance
The emptiness that surrounds me
This inner city decay
It doesn't stop me from waiting
To live our life our own way

So c'mon c'mon release me baby
Only if you could
C'mon c'mon relieve me darlin'
This boy ain't what he should be tonight

This boy ain't what he should be tonight
This boy ain't what he should be tonight
Together we fight
We'll make it tonight

The same the whole world over
No love to save our souls
Some people think it's funny
Alredy reached their goals
Preaching victorian values
Now in this day and age
No wonder we're still angry
We can't contain our rage any more

Obe diama

Obe denusu

C'mon c'mon release me baby
C'mon c'mon relieve me darlin'
This boy ain't what he should be tonight

Searching for some company
Feel the rhythm dance with me
Them beat boy blues seem out of place
Now they want to party pace party pace
Dance dance on the floor
Dance dance move some more
Dance dance feel the heat
Hit that perfect beat boy, hit that perfect beat beat boy

I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got them feeling the perfect beat
I've got that feeling that perfect feeling
That perfect feeling all over me
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Hit that perfect hit that perfect hit that perfect beat boy

Come come close to me I want this to be
That perfect feeling all over me
Come come close to me I want this to be
That beat boy feeling all over me
Too close for comfort too close for joy
Boys in the back room their hearts destroy
Touch and kiss a stranger if all else fails
Hiding from the danger that's been sent from hell

I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got them feeling the perfect beat
I've got that feeling that perfect feeling
That perfect feeling all over me
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Beat boy beat boy beat beat beat beat
Beat boy beat boy hit that perfect beat boy
Hit that perfect hit that perfect hit that perfect beat boy

Beat beat beat beat
Beat beat beat beat boy

Hit hit hit hit that perf-
Beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat boy
I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got that feeling that perfect beat
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling that perfect feeling
That perfect feeling all over me
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings
I've got them feeling that perfect beat
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling that perfect feeling (feeling)
That perfect feeling all over me (hit that perfect beat)
I've got that feeling them beat boy feelings (feelings)
I've got that feeling that perfect beat
(Beat boy beat boy) I've got that feeling that perfect feeling (feeling)
That perfect feeling all over me (hit that perfect beat boy) (all over me)

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home
The love that you need
Will never be found at home

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they'd talk about around town
As they put you down

And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry
But you never cried to them
Just to your soul
No, you never cried to them
Just to your soul

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Cry, boy, cry...

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Contempt in your eyes
As I turn to kiss his lips
Broken I lie
All my feelings denied
Blood on your fist

Can you tell me why?

You in your false securities
Tear up my life
Condemning me
Name me an illness
Call me a sin
Never feel guilty
Never give in

Tell me why?

You and me together
Fighting for our love

Can you tell me why

It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The tings that you're liable to read in the bible
It ain't necessarily so.
Uavid was small but oh my
David was small but oh my.
He shot Goliath
Who lay down and dieth.
David was small but oh my
David was small but oh my.
Jonah
He lived in a whale
Jonah
He lived in a whale.
He made his home in that fishes abdomen.
Jonah
He lived in a whale
Tonah
He lived in a whale.
Moses was found on a stream
Moses was found on a stream.
Floated on water old Pharaoh's daughter
Fished him she says from that stream.
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
They tell all your children
The devil
He's a villain
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so.
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
Things that you're liable to read in that bible
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily
It ain't necessarily so.

My man love my first love
My closetness and pain
My lying my deceiving
My rivers keep on crying

My father my action man
My hiding in the crowd
My mother my sisters eyes
My seniors and their prying

My freedom my prison cell
My tempting to destroy
My fantasies my lost control
My confusion disillusion

My hero my schoolboy
My physical abuse
My loneliness my aching brain
My pounding in the head

Machismo my manhood
My wanting just to scream
Scream yeah yeah heah

Truthdare Doubledare
I've been working
On the line
To earn my pay
To get away
From all the pressure
In this town
When I walk around
It brings me down

I leave it up
Up to you
What you want
Want me to do
Keep hearing rumours
About our love
I can't go on
I've had enough

This heart, heart of mine
It just keeps me rolling on
You small town boy, you've got everything to fight for
That old hard rain has fallen once before
This heart, heart of mine
It just keeps me from going under
You smalltime boys, you've got everything to fight for
Pick up that bag and walk right out that door

Is there relief
This pain inside
Can't get it out
Out of my mind
What have I done?
Deserving this?
Where is the fun
When you love someone?

Work for money spend money
Spend for love love for money
Pain and love love and pain
Pain and lust lust for money

Love and money
Love and money

Exploit for money kill for love
Love for money exploited love

Love and money
Love and money

Burning me up
Oooh it's burning me up
Bruning me up
Oooh it's burning me up

Work for money spend money
Spend for love love for money
Money is the root of all evil
Money is the root of all evil
Money is the root of all evil
Money is the root of all evil

Hey-yah-hey

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home
The love that you need
Will never be found at home

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they'd talk about around town
As they put you down

And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry
But you never cried to them
Just to your soul
No, you never cried to them
Just to your soul

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Cry, boy, cry...

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Hey we're headin' for a summer heatwave
Boys we're headin' for a summer heatwave
Summer he-e-e-e-e-eat wave yeah
Summer he-e-e-e-e-eat wave yeah

Tattoos and muscle passion and sweat
Summer he-e-e-e-e-eat wave
Yeah yeah

Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah


Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah
Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah
Dee dab dee ra dee dab dee dab doo yeah

Summer heat save
Summer heat save
Summer heat save
Summer heat save

De ha ra doo yeah

He can't take the street no more
Street too full full of junk
Thinks he'll hide in his room
Room too full full of junk

He turns to his T.V. T.V. full full of junk
Processed zombies pushing junk
Junk food junk clothes
Dressed in junk from head to toe

Eat what you're given
Eat what you get
Eat what you're given
Eat what you get
Eat what you're given
Eat what you get
Eat what you're given

And be thankful what you get
He screams for more
Hits the night life once again
Night life full full of junk

Junk is all he'll ever know
Junk music junk dance
Too many junkheads on the floor

(Repeat chorus to end)

The Age Of Consent (Somerville/Steinbachek/Bronski)
Need a man blues
He-e-hey!

I got those need a man blues
Driving me mad
I go those need a man blues
Hurting me bad

Sweet sweet sweet
Is the taste of a man
And sweeter still is the taste
Of his sweet tasting love

Evil, wicked or angel
Just give me a man
Evil, wicked or
Angel

Need a man blues
Need a man blues
Angel hurting me bad
Boys and heroes lovers and men

Turning me upside down
Again and again
Again and again

He-e-hey

I got those need a man blues
I got those need a man blues
Hurting me oh so bad

And the sweetest thing of all
Is men loving men loving men loving men
Is men loving men loving men loving men
I got those need a man blues
I got those need a man blues

Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues
Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues
Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues
Ne-he-he-he-he-he-he-ed a man blues

Angel!

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave
But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home
The love that you need
Will never be found at home

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy
You were the one
That they'd talk about around town
As they put you down

And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry
But you never cried to them
Just to your soul
No, you never cried to them
Just to your soul

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away

Cry, boy, cry...

You leave in the morning
With everything you own
In a little black case
Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain
On a sad and lonely face

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away
Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away