Escrita por
Clint Conley, foi gravada entre janeiro e março de 1981 e lançada
em agosto de 1981 no EP de lançamento da banda, chamado Signals,
calls and marches. Foi produzida por Richard W. Harte. Clint Conley
tocou baixo, cantou e tocou percussão. Martin Swope tocou percussão
e loops. Roger Miller tocou guitarra, fez backing vocals, tocou
piano, trompet e percussão. Peter Prescott tocou bateria, fez
backing vocals, e tocou percussão.
A letra:
Once I had my
heroes Once I had my dreams But all of that has changed
now They've turned things inside out The truth is not that
comfortable, no
And Mother taught us patience The
virtues of restraint And Father taught us boundaries Beyond
which we must go To find the secrets promised us, yeah
That's when I reach for my
revolver That's when it all gets blown away That's when I reach
for my revolver The spirit fights to find its way
A friend of mine once told me His
one and only aim To build a giant castle And live inside his
name Cry and whispers sing in muted pain Yeah
That's when I reach for my
revolver That's when it all gets blown away That's when I reach
for my revolver The spirit fights to find its way
Tonight the sky is empty But that is
nothing new Its dead eyes look upon us And they tell me we're
nothing but slaves
That's when I reach for my revolver
(just slaves) That's when I reach for my revolver That's when I
reach for my revolver That's when I reach for my revolver That's
when I reach for my revolver That's when I reach for my revolver
Escrita por
Dickey Betts e Johnny Cobb, foi gravada em março de 1981 e lançada
em julho de 1981, no compacto que tinha Leavin' como Lado B. Sairia
também no disco Brothers on the road, o oitavo disco da banda. Foi
produzida por John Ryan. Foi o primeiro top40 deles desde o auge e o
último. Chegou ao número 39 no Billboard Hot100.
A letra:
You've heard
every line before My life's a revolving door With no way out
and no way in You know just what's on my mind Could you take a
chance one more time Maybe we could start all over again Straight
from the heart Baby my love
Your eyes can't tell a lie I can see
what you're feeling inside Don't give up before we start 'Cause
this time love is Straight from the heart
I know what they're telling you I
wish I could say that it's not true Love is so hard to find But
I never took the time I never let you in Please let me try
again Straight from the heart
Your eyes can't tell a lie I can see
what you're feeling inside Don't give up before we start 'Cause
this time love is Straight from the heart
I thought I knew about love But I
didn't know at all Didn't take the time to see Until I started
to fall Straight from the heart
Escrita por
Rick Buckler, Bruce Foxton e Paul Weller, foi gravada em 1981 e
lançada como compacto em 29 de maio de 1981, com Disguises como Lado
B. Foi produzida pela banda e Peter Wilson. Disguises é um cover da
banda Who. Chegou ao número 4 no Reino Unido. A canção não
aparece em nenhum disco original da banda.
A letra:
Down in amongst
the streets tonight Books will burn, people laugh and cry in their
turmoil (Turmoil turns rejoiceful) Shed your fears and lose
your guilt Tonight we burn responsibility in the fire We'll
watch the flames grow higher But if you get too burnt, you can't
come back home
And as I was standing by the edge I
could see the faces of those who led Pissing theirselves laughing
(and the flames grew) Their mad eyes bulged, their flushed faces
said The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger
We feast on flesh and drink on
blood Live by fear and despise love in a crisis (What with
today's high prices) Bring some paper and bring some wood Bring
what's left of all your love for the fire We'll watch the flames
grow higher But if you get too burnt, you can't come back home
And as I was standing by the edge I
could see the faces of those who led Pissing theirselves laughing
(and the flames grew) Their mad eyes bulged, their flushed faces
said The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger
In the funeral pyre We'll watch the
flames grow higher But if you get too burnt, you can't come back
home In the funeral pyre We'll watch the flames grow higher But
if you get too burnt, you can't come back home In the funeral
pyre (Well I feel so old, when I feel so young Well, I just
can't grow up to meet the demands) We'll watch the flames grow
higher But if you get too burnt, you can't come back home (Well
I feel so old, when I feel so young Well, I just can't grow up to
meet the demands) (Well I feel so old, when I feel so young Well,
I just can't grow up to meet the demands)
Escrita por
Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill e Frank Beard, foi gravada em 1981 e
lançada no disco El loco, o décimo primeiro da banda, em 15 de
julho de 1981. Saiu também no compacto que tinha Don't tease me como
Lado B, na mesma data. Foi produzida por Bill Ham. Chegou ao número
77 no Billboard Hot100. Billy Gibbons tocou guitarra, steel guitar e
cantou. Dusty Hill tocou baixo. Frank Beard tocou bateria. Mark
Erlewine tocou pedal steel.
A letra:
She had a look
in her eye That could make you melt Made me feel better than I
ever felt But bless her heart, she couldn't stay I begged her
not to go away
She left my ex best friend out in old
Tucson Told me she was leaving And would be rolling on Now
the days just pass on by Losing her is the reason why
Leila,
Leila, your mind will be flying high And everything will be
alright
You know I love you girl more than I can say I
still think about you each and every day My lonesome old heart
still feels the same So Leila won't you steal away
Leila,
Leila, your mind will be flying high And everything will be
alright
Leila, Leila, your mind will be flying high And
everything will be alright
Escrita por
Joey Ramone, foi gravada entre março e abril de 1981, em New York
City e na Inglaterra, foi lançada em 20 de julho de 1981 no disco
Pleasant dreams, o sexto disco da banda. Sairia também em compacto,
com We want the airwaves como Lado A. Foi produzida por Graham
Gouldman. O protagonista da canção canta que sua namorada foi
raptada pela Ku Klux Klan quando estava indo pra Los Angeles pro
feriado e pede que o ouvinte ligue pras autoridades pra saber onde
ela está e se está viva. Na verdade ainda era resquício de Joey
puto com Johnny por ter roubado sua namorada Linda e por Johnny ser
racista porque Joey era judeu. Depois que isso aconteceu, Joey e
Johnny nunca mais se falaram. Johnny Ramone no entanto, disse que
essa era sua música favorita desse disco.
A letra:
She went away for the holidays Said
she's going to l.a. But she never got there She never got
there She never got there, they say
She went away for the holidays Said she's going to l.a. But
she never got there She never got there She never got there,
they say
The kkk took my baby away They took her away Away from
me The kkk took my baby away They took her away Away from me
Hey, ho, hey, ho,
I don't know Where my baby can be They took her from me They
took her from me
I don't know Where my baby can be They took her from me They
took her from me
Ring me, ring me, ring me At the president And find
out Where my baby went Ring me, ring me, ring me At the
fbi And find out if My baby's alive
Escrita por
Damian O'Neill e Michael Bradley, foi gravada em janeiro de 1981 no
Wisseloord Studios, na Holanda, e lançada em 21 de abril de 1981, no
compacto que tinha Fairly in the money now como Lado B. Saiu também
no disco Positive touch, o terceiro da banda, em 5 de maio de 1981.
Foi produzida por Roger Bechirian. Até então a maioria das músicas
da banda tinha sido sobre angústia adolescente e romance, essa foi a
primeira canção que rompeu isso. Aqui eles falam das greves de fome
que aconteceram na Irlanda do Norte nesse período. Também tem a
inclusão de “brass instruments” na gravação como novidade.
Chegou ao número 18 no Reino Unido e número 10 na Irlanda.
A letra:
Happens all the
time Its going to happen - happen - till your change your mind Its
going to happen - happen - happens all the time Its going to
happen - happen - till your change your mind
Best story I ever heard The truth
about fat Mr X and the young girl See how far he'll let you
go Before he persuades you when you're walking home
Happens all the time ...
Watching your friends passing by Going
to sleep without blinking a blue eye Too slow to notice what's
wrong Two faced to you when you're taking them on
Happens all the time ...
Everything goes when you're
dead Everything empties from what was in your head No point in
waiting today Stupid revenge is what's making you stay
Its going to happen - happen - till
your change your mind
Escrita
por Maurice White e Wayne Vaughn, foi gravada entre maio e setembro
de 1981 e lançada em setembro de 1981 no compacto que tinha a mesma
música na sua versão instrumental como Lado B. Sairia também no
disco Raise!, o décimo primeiro da banda, em 14 de novembro de 1981.
Foi produzida por Maurice White. Foi um enorme sucesso comercial,
sendo a melhor performance da banda em vários charts do mundo.
Chegou ao número 3 do Billboard Hot100 (sétimo e último TOP10),
número 1 do Billboard Hot Soul Singles, número 3 do Billboard Dance
Club Songs. Também número 3 no Reino Unido, número 2 na Nova
Zelandia e França, número 5 na Irlanda e Holanda, número 6 na
Finlandia, número 7 no Canadá, número 8 na Africa do Sul, número
9 na Bélgica, número 10 na Espanha e número 15 na Austrália. Tom
Saviano tocou sax, Don Myrick tocou sax alto, Andrew Woolfolk e Don
Myrick tocaram sax tenor. Verdine White tocou baixo. Frederick
Seykora, Jerome Kessler, Larry Corbett, Marie Louise Zeyen, Paula
Hochhalter e Selene Burford tocou cello. Fred White tocou bateria. As
guitarras foram tocadas por Beloyd Taylor, Johnny Graham e Roland
Bautista. Teclados foram tocados por Billy Meyers, David Foster e
Wayne Vaughn. Fred White, Maurice White, Phillip Bailey e Ralph
Johnson tocaram percussão. Larry Dunn tocou piano. Larry Dunn e
Michael Boddiker tocaram sintetizadores. Bill Reichnbach, Charles
Loper, Dick Hyde, George Bohanon, Lew McCreary e Louis Satterfield
tocaram trombone. Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Larry Hall,
Michal Harris, Oscar Brasheat e Rahmlee Michael Davis tocaram
trompete. Alan Deveritch, Virginia Majewski, Allan Harshman, Gareth
Nuttycombe e Pamela Hochhalter tocaram viola. Anton Sen,
Arkady Shindelman, Arnold Belnick, Betty Lamagna, Brian Leonard,
Denyse Buffum, Endre Granat, Haim Shtrum, Henry Ferber, Irving
Geller, Jerome Reisler, John Wittenbert, Mari Tsumura Botnick, Marvin
Limonick, Myra Kestenbaum, Nathan Ross, Norman Leonard, Reginald
Hill, Ronald Folsom, Sheldon Sanov, Thomas Buffum, William Hymanson e
William Kurasch tocaram violino. Os vocais principais foram feitos
por Beloyd Taylor, Maurice White, Ms. Pluto, Phillip Bailey e Ralph
Johnson. Os backing vocals foram feitos por Maurice White e Philip
Bailey.
A letra:
Let this groove, get you to
move, it's alright, alright let this groove, set in your
shoes, stand up, alright
Gonna tell you what you can do, with
my love, alright Let you know girl you're looking good you're
out of sight and alright
Move yourself and glide like a
747 loose yourself in the sky among the clouds in the heavens
Let this groove, light up your fuse,
alright Let this groove, set in your shoes
stand up, alright Let me tell you
what you can do with my love, alright
Gotta let you know girl you're looking
good you're out of sight, you're alright
Tell the DJ to play your favorite
tune then you know it's okay What you found is happiness, now
Let this groove, get you to move,
alright Let this groove set in your shoes stand up, alright
You will find peace of mind on the
floor Take a little time, come and see, you and me make a
little sign, I'll be there after a while if you want my love
We can boogie on down, down, down,
down Let's groove tonight share the spice of life baby slice
it right we're gonna groove tonight
Escrita por
Rick Springfield, foi gravada entre 1980 e 1981, foi lançada em
fevereiro de 1981, no disco Working class dog, o quinto disco de
Rick. Saiu também em compacto no mesmo mês, com Carry me away como
Lado B. Foi produzida por Keith Olsen. Fala sobre o amor de um cara
pela namorada do seu melhor amigo. Chegou ao número 1 do Billboard
Hot100, ficando lá no topo por duas semanas. É o único hit número
1 de Rick. Chegou ao número também na Austrália, país de Rick.
Número 6 no Canadá e número 21 na Nova Zelandia. Chegou ao número
43 no Reino Unido. Ganhou um Grammy Award for best male rock vocal
performance. Rick gravou uma versão acústica em 1999, no disco
Karma. VH1 nomeou-a número 20 das 100 greatest songs of the 80s. O
nome do amigo era Gary e não Jessie. Da namorada dele, Rick não se
lembra o nome. Jessie ele pegou de uma camisa que Gary estava usando
na época, do jogador de futebol Ron Jessie. Rick Springfield cantou
e fez backing vocals e tocou guitarra base. Neil Giraldo tocou
guitarra solo e baixo. Gabriel Katona tocou sintetizadores. Mike
Baird tocou bateria.
A letra:
Jessie is a
friend Yeah, I know, he's been a good friend of mine But lately
something's changed that ain't hard to define Jessie's got himself
a girl and I want to make her mine
And she's watching him with those
eyes And she's loving him with that body, I just know it Yeah,
and he's holding her in his arms late, late at night You know, I
wish that I had
Jessie's girl I wish that I had
Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman like that?
I'll play along with the charade There
doesn't seem to be a reason to change You know, I feel so dirty
when they start talking cute I wanna tell her that I love her, but
the point is probably moot
'Cause she's watching him with those
eyes And she's loving him with that body, I just know it And
he's holding her in his arms late, late at night You know, I wish
that I had
Jessie's girl I wish that I had
Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had
Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman- Where can I find a
woman like that?
And I'm looking in the mirror all the
time Wonderin' what she don't see in me I've been funny, I've
been cool with the lines Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?
Tell me, where can I find a woman like
that?
You know, I wish that I had
Jessie's girl I wish that I had
Jessie's girl I want Jessie's girl Where can I find a woman
like that?
Like Jessie's girl I wish that I had
Jessie's girl I want, I want Jessie's girl
Escrita por
Mick Jones e Lou Gramm, foi gravada em 1981 e lançada em 3 de julho
de 1981 no disco 4, obviamente o quarto disco da banda. Saiu também
em compacto, com I'm gonna win como Lado B, em 2 de outubro de 1981.
Foi produzida por Robert John Lange e Mick Jones. Se tornou um dos
maiores sucessos da banda globalmente, chegando ao número 2 no
Billboard Hot100 e número 8 no Reino Unido. Chegou ao número 2 no
Canadá, número 3 na Austrália, número 9 na Irlanda, número 10 na
Nova Zelandia, número 14 na África do Sul, número 16 na Holanda e
Áustria, número 18 na Bélgica e número 29 na Alemanha. A
introdução foi criada por Thomas Dolby, usano um sintetizador
Minimoog. Lou Gramm cantou. Mick Jones tocou teclado e fez backing
vocals. Rick Wils tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. Dennis Elliott
tocou bateria e fez backing vocals. Thomas Dolby tocou
sintetizadores. Bob Mayo tocou teclado. Ian Lloyd e Robert John Lange
fizeram backing vocals.
A letra:
So long I've
been looking too hard, I've waiting too long Sometimes I don't
know what I will find I only know it's a matter of time When
you love someone When you love someone
It feels so right, so warm and true I
need to know if you feel it too
Maybe I'm wrong Won't you tell me if
I'm coming on too strong This heart of mine has been hurt
before This time I want be be sure
I've been waiting for a girl like
you To come into my life I've been waiting for a girl like
you A love that will survive I've been waiting for someone
new To make me feel alive Yeah, waiting for a girl like you To
come into my life
You're so good When we make love
it's understood It's more than a touch or a word we say Only in
dreams could it be this way When you love someone Yeah, really
love someone
Now, I know it's right From the
moment I wake up till deep in the night There's no where on earth
that I'd rather be Than holding you, tenderly
I've been waiting for a girl like
you To come into my life I've been waiting for a girl like
you A love that will survive I've been waiting for someone
new To make me feel alive Yeah, waiting for a girl like you To
come into my life
I've been waiting waiting for
you I've been waiting I've been waiting come into my life
Escrita pelo
UB40, foi gravada em 1981 no The Music Centre Studio, em Wembley,
Inglaterra e lançada em 29 de maio de 1981, no disco Present arms, o
segundo da banda. Sairia também em compacto, com Present arms in dub
como Lado A. Foi produzida por Ray Falconer e UB40. Foi o quarto top
10 hit no Reino Unido. Chegou ao número 7 no Reino Unido, número 18
na Irlanda, número 20 na Nova Zelandia e número 87 na Austrália.
Esse número do título, um em dez, significa o número de pessoas
desempregadas em West Midlands no verão de 1981. É uma canção
protesto contra a primeira ministra britânica na época, Margaret
Thatcher.
A letra:
I am the one in
ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I
don't exist Nobody Knows me Even though I'm always there A
statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care
My arms enfold the dole queue
Malnutrition dulls my hair My eyes are black and lifeless
With an underprivileged stare I'm the beggar on the corner
Will no-one spare a dime? I'm the child that never learns to
read 'Cause no-one spared the time [Chorus]
I am the one in ten, I'm the
murderer and the victim The license with the gun I'm a sad
and bruised old lady In an ally in a slum I'm a middle aged
businessman With chronic heart disease I'm another teenage
suicide In a street that has no trees [Chorus]
I am the one in ten, I'm a starving
third world mother A refugee without a home I'm a house wife
hooked on Valium I'm a Pensioner alone I'm a cancer ridden
specter Covering the earth I'm another hungry baby I'm an
accident of birth. [Chorus]
Escrita por
Neil Young, foi gravada entre outubro de 1980 e julho de 1981, no
Modern Recorders, em Redwood City, California e lançada em 2 de
novembro de 1981, no disco Re-ac-tor, o décimo segundo disco de
Neil. Foi produzida por Davod Briggs, Neil Young, Tim Mulligan e
Jerry Napier. Shots foi apresentada inicialmente em maio de 1978, no
Boarding House em San Francisco, de maneira acústica. Aqui ela vem
carregada com banda e um barulho de metralhadora. É a primeira vez
que Neil usa um Synclavier. Neil cantou, tocou guitarra, synclavier,
piano e bateu palmas. Frank Sampedro tocou guitarra, sintetizador e
fez backing vocals. Billy Talbot tocou baixo e bateu palmas. Ralph
Molina tocou bateria, percussão, backing vocals e bateu palmas.
A letra:
Shots Ringing
all along the borders can be heard Striking out like a venom in
the sky Cutting through the air faster than a bird In the night
Children Are lost in the sand,
building roads with little hands Trying to join their father's
castles together again Will they make it? Who knows where or
when Old wounds will mend?
Machines Are winding their way
along, looking strong Building roads and bringing back loads and
loads Of building materials In the night
Men Are trying to move the borders
on the ground Lines between the different spots that each has
found But back home another scene was going down In the night
Lust Comes creepin' through the
night to feed on hearts Of suburban wives who learned to
pretend When they met their dream's end In the night
Shots I hear shots, I keep hearing
shots I keep hearing shots I hear shots
Shots I hear shots, I keep hearing
shots I keep hearing shots I hear shots
But I'll never use your love You
know I'm not that kind And so if you give your heart away I
promise to you Whatever we do That I will always be true
Escrita pelo
Rush e Pye Dubois, foi gravada entre outubro e novembro de 1980, e
lançada em 12 de fevereiro de 1981, no disco Moving pictures, o
oitavo da banda. Saiu também em compacto, com Witch hunt no Lado B,
em maio de 1981. Foi produzida por Rush e Terry Brown. Geddy Lee, o
cantor, baixista e tecladista da banda, disse que é uma canção que
define a banda. O site drumeo.com disse que é a maior “air-drumming
song of all time”. Tom Sawyer surgiu na fazenda de Ronnie Hawkins,
perto de Toronto. Neil Peart conheceu o poema de Pye Dubois chamado
Louis the lawyer, que ele modificou e expandiu. Então Lee e Lifeson
musicaram o poema. Neil disse que poema original era o retrato de um
rebelde moderno, que lutava contra o mundo atual. Neil então
acrescentou elementos de reconciliação desse rebelde com o homem
dentro dele e as diferenças entre o que as pessoas são e o que o
mundo percebem que elas são. Geddy Lee cantou, tocou teclado e
baixo. Alex Lifeson tocou guitarra e Neil Peart tocou bateria. Chegou
ao número 24 no Canadá, número 25 no Reino Unido e número 44 no
Billboard Hot100.
A letra:
A modern-day
warrior Mean, mean stride Today's Tom Sawyer Mean, mean
pride
Though his mind is not for rent Don't
put him down as arrogant His reserve, a quiet defense Riding
out the day's events The river
What you say about his company Is
what you say about society Catch the mist, catch the myth Catch
the mystery, catch the drift
The world is, the world is Love and
life are deep Maybe as his skies are wide Today's Tom Sawyer,
he gets high on you And the space he invades, he gets by on you
No, his mind is not for rent To any
god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows
changes aren't permanent But change is
And what you say about his company Is
what you say about society Catch the witness, catch the wit Catch
the spirit, catch the spit
The world is, the world is Love and
life are deep Maybe as his eyes are wide
Exit the warrior Today's Tom
Sawyer He gets high on you And the energy you trade He gets
right on to The friction of the day
Escrita por
Rosanne Cash, foi gravada em 1980 e lançada em 27 de fevereiro de
1981, no disco de mesmo nome, o terceiro da cantora. Sairia também
em compacto, com Blue moon with heartache. Foi produzida por Rodney
Crowell. Não vendeu fora dos Estados Unidos, mas chegou ao número 1
no Billboard Hot Country Songs e número 22 no Bllboard Hot100, um
grande feito pra uma música country. Além disso chegou ao número 6
no Canadá.
A letra:
You act like
you were just born tonight Face down in a memory but feeling all
right So, who does your past belong to today? Baby, you don't
say nothing when you're feeling this way
Girls in the bars thinking who is this
guy But they don't think nothing when they're telling you lies You
look so careless when they're shooting that bull Don't you know
heartaches are heroes when their pockets are full
Tell me you're trying to cure a
seven-year ache See what else your old heart can take Boys say,
"When is he gonna give us some room" The girls say,
"God, I hope he comes back soon"
And everybody's talking but you don't
hear a thing You're still uptown on your downhill swing The
boulevard's empty, why don't you come around? Baby, what is so
great about sleeping downtown?
There's plenty of dives to be someone
you're not Just say you're looking for something you might have
forgot Don't bother calling to say you're leaving alone 'Cause
there's a fool on every corner when you're trying to get home
Just tell 'em you're trying to cure a
seven-year ache See what else your old heart can take Boys say,
"When is he gonna give us some room" But the girls say,
"God, I hope he comes back soon"
Tell me you're trying to cure a
seven-year ache See what else your old heart can take Boys say,
"When is he gonna give us some room" The girls say,
"God, I hope he comes back soon"
Escrita por
Vince Clark, foi gravada em julho de 1981 no Blackwing Studios e
lançada em 7 de setembro de 1981, no compacto que tinha Any second
now como Lado B (Esse foi o terceiro compacto da banda, o primeiro a
ser lançado nos Estados Unidos). Sairia também no disco Speak and
Spell, o disco de estréia da banda, em outubro de 1981. Foi
produzida pelo Depeche Mode e Daniel Miller. Vince Clark, o
compositor, saiu da banda em dezembro de 1981. Chegou ao número 8 no
Reino Unido, número 4 na Austrália, número 14 na Suécia, número
16 na Irlanda, número 18 na Espanha, número 29 na Nova Zelandia e
número 30 na Bélgica. Em 2009, foi adaptada pelo Celtic Football
Club e usada desde então. Em 2011, os torcedores do Liverpool usavam
a música pra encorajar Luiz Suárez. Dave Gahan cantou e fez backing
vocals. Martin Gore tocou um sintetizador Yamaha CS-5, uma drum
machine Korg KR-55 e fez backing vocals. Vince Clark tocou um
sintetizador Roland Jupiter-4 e um Kawai 100F e fez backing vocals.
Andy Fletcher tocou um sintetizador Moog Prodogy e fez backing
vocals. Daniel Miller usou um ARP 2600 programming e um Roland MC-4
microcomposer sequencer.
A letra:
When I'm with
you baby I go out of my head And I just can't get enough And
I just can't get enough All the things you do to me And
everything you said I just can't get enough I just can't get
enough
We slip and slide as we fall in
love And I just can't seem to get enough of
We walk together We're walking down
the street And I just can't get enough And I just can't get
enough Every time I think of you I know we have to meet And
I just can't get enough And I just can't get enough
It's getting hotter, it's a burning
love And I just can't seem to get enough of
I just can't get enough I just can't
get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get enough I
just can't get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get
enough I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough I just can't
get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get enough I
just can't get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get
enough I just can't get enough
And when it rains You're shining
down for me And I just can't get enough And I just can't get
enough Just like a rainbow You know you set me free And I
just can't get enough And I just can't get enough
You're like an angel and you give me
your love And I just can't seem to get enough of
I just can't get enough I just can't
get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get enough I
just can't get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get
enough I just can't get enough I just can't get enough I
just can't get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get
enough
I just can't get enough I just can't
get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get enough I
just can't get enough I just can't get enough I just can't get
enough I just can't get enough I just can't get enough
Escrita por
Lionel Ritchie, foi gravada em 1981 e lançada em 26 de junho de 1981
na trilha sonora do filme de mesmo nome, Endless love. Saiu também
em compacto, com uma versão da mesma música só que somente
instrumental, no mesmo dia. Foi produzida por Lionel Ritchie e James
Anthony Carmichael. Foi regravada por Luther Vandross em dueto com
Mariah Carey, Kenny Rogers e Shania Twain em dueto com Lionel
Ritchie, entre outros. A Billboard disse que a versão de Lionel e
Diana é o maior dueto já gravado de todos os tempos. Endless love
só perdeu em vendas em 1981 pra Bette Davis eyes. Chegou ao número
1 no Billboard Hot100 (ficando em primeiro por 8 semanas), na
Austrália, Canadá e África do Sul. Número 3 na Nova Zelandia e
número 4 na Holanda. Número 5 na Suécia e número 6 ne Bélgica,
Finlandia e Suíça. Número 7 no Reino Unido e número 8 na Noruega.
Número 9 na Irlanda e número 24 na Itália. O último dueto
recordista tinha sido Wake up little Susie, dos Everly Brothers, de
1957. Litte Susie ficou 4 semanas no número 1 e no total, seis
meses. Endless love ganhou por uma semana. Foi o maior vendedor de
discos da carreira de Diana Ross, sendo o sexto e último número 1
dela no Billboard Hot100. Até então ela era recordista como mulher,
até a chegada de Whitney Houston, que conseguiu 7 números 1 no
chart. Também é o melhor compacto de Ritchie e o primeiro de muitos
dele nos anos oitenta. Lionel Ritchie cantou. Diana Ross cantou.
Reginald Burke tocou Fender Rhodes. Barnaby Finch tocou piano
acústico. Paul Jackson Jr. Tocou guitarra e fez solo no violão.
Fred Tackett tocou guitarra. Nathan East tocou baixo. Rick Shlosser
tocou bateria. Gene Page tocou horns.
A letra:
My love There's
only you in my life The only thing that's bright
My first
love You're every breath that I take You're every step I
make
And I (I-I-I-I-I) I want to share All my love
with you No one else will do...
And your eyes Your eyes,
your eyes They tell me how much you care Ooh yes, you will
always be My endless love
Two hearts Two hearts that
beat as one Our lives have just begun
Forever (Ohhhhhh) I'll
hold you close in my arms I can't resist your charms
And
love Oh, love I'll be a fool For you I'm sure You know
I don't mind Oh, you know I don't mind
'Cause you You
mean the world to me Oh I know I know I've found in
you My endless love
