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Duran Duran - Big Thing Album Lyrics



Duran Duran - Big Thing Lyrics






Big Thing

Get it up get it out get it in time
Hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing
Move it in move it out move up the line
Bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing

Brothers and sisters let me hear it
Get it up get it on get it in time
Give me the green light and watch me move it
Move it up move it out move up the line
This is temptation power rotation
Give me the friction and watch me make it
Make it up making out making it slide

So glad you came along
This time you won't be wrong
You love to turn it on
And you're not the only one

Brothers and sisters we can take it
Shake it up shake it out shake it all the time
Give me the suction we can stick it
Lick it up suck it up stick it outside
This is temptation (station) power rotation (to station)
Give me the playlist and watch me eat it
Eat it up beat it up beat it in time

So glad you came along
This time you won't be wrong
You love to turn it on
And you're not the only one

Get it up get it out get it in time
Hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing
Move it in move it out move up the line
Bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing

Get it up get it out get it in time
Hang it up hanging out hanging on a big thing
Move it in move it out move up the line
Bang it up bang it out banging on a big thing

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Writer: SIMON JOHN CHARLES LE BON, NICK RHODES, JOHN NIGEL TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






I Dont Want Your Love

I don't mind if you're keeping someone else behind
I don't care 'cause you've got something I can share

Hey, take a chance, even if it's only
Only while we're dancing in the
Light of your second sight
Because When you understand me
You might feel good around me now

I don't want your love to bring me down
I don't want your love, so turn it around

I won't turn you out if you've got someone else
Someone else you care about
Because you must realize
My obsessive fascination is in your imagination

I don't want your love to bring me down (I don't want your love, I don't want your love)
I don't want your love, so turn it around (I don't want your love, I don't want your love)

Your rhythm is the power to move me
It's something you control completely
I don't want your love
I don't want your love (I don't want your love)

I like noise 'cause I like waking up the house
I cannot sit down, I can't shut my mouth
But when you understand me
You might feel good around me now

Your rhythm is the power to move me
It's something you control completely
I don't want your love
I don't want your love (I don't want your love)

I don't want your love to bring me down (I don't want your love, I don't want your love)
I don't want your love, so turn it around (I don't want your love, I don't want your love)

I don't want your love (I don't want your love), I don't want your love (I don't want your love)
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Writer: Simon John Charles Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Nigel Taylor
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing






All She Wants Is

All she wants is
All she wants is
All she wants is

Spend your money on the corner now
Know you've gotta save some
For the shoeshine boy
You've been pulling 'em
By the hand inside
Oh...collecting all your toys
If you need a little heaven now,
Just stick around--
You're going to be there
What do you care?
What does your heart say now?

All she wants is
All she wants is
All she wants is

Divine intervention
Couldn't keep the word
From leaking out
With your pleasure in suspension
Not to mention
What you're hanging around
If you need a lead to heaven, yeah
A place to share
In every position
What do you care?
What do you dare?
What does your heart say now?

All she wants is
All she wants is
All she wants is

More...

All she wants is (repeat to fade)

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Writer: SIMON JOHN CHARLES LE BON, NICK RHODES, JOHN NIGEL TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing






Too Late Marlene

Waking out of nowhere
And I let you in
Til my imagination went for a spin
I seen you every night
Been making out since then
And still I wonder why everybody's saying
That ice is thin

And I think I know you
Just a little bit by now
And I think I can show you
You see baby, I don't want to fight about it

Send down your rain
Then who's to blame
And you'll understand
Because it's much too late to change

Awaken to this hunger
And then watch my heat
Grow paler than the moonlight
That you made me eat
And if we run our lives
Along a one way street
We'll always wonder why everytime
It still tastes just as sweet

Send down your rain
Then who's to blame
You'll understand
Because it's much too late to change
I will explain
We're to much the same
No I won't leave
Because it's just too late Marlene

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Writer: SIMON JOHN CHARLES LE BON, NICK RHODES, JOHN NIGEL TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






Drug (It's Just a State of Mind)

[Chorus]
Take me every morning
Take me every night
Take me when you're feeling low
Take me when you want to stay
Up all night

Before you slip into the white
There's something I want you to know
In all your stretch of consciousness
You've still got a long way to go
Some make you spin
Some make you sweat
It's only here for you to choose
Some like it hot
But I like it wet, so tell me
What have we got to lose now?

[Chorus]

(A hit, a hit)
A hit to fit reality
It's just a state of mind
And you, and it - it's more than just
And that's what you've got to find
We'll make you spin
We'll make you sweat
All you have to do is choose me
And if you would try
And alternative high
Then tell me, what have we got to lose now?

[Chorus x 2]
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Writer: NICK RHODES, SIMON JOHN LE BON, JOHN NIGEL TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.






Do You Believe In Shame?

Do you believe in love?
Do you believe in shame?
And if love can conquer all
Then why do we only feel the pain?

I heard you speak my name
Heard you singing The Stones
Maybe heard you laughing in a line of static
On my telephone

So why your eyelids are closed,
Inside a case of rust
And did you have to change all your poets fire
Into frozen dust

I've tried to justify it
To learn from your mistake
But where's the stupid lie
That has to make it's point
With such a pointless waste?

Come out

Do you believe in shame?
Do you believe in love?
And if they taste the same
Would you love again or abandon both?

I don't think I ever can
Belive my friend has gone
Keep saying it's alright I'm going to bring you back
But I know I'm wrong

There's nothing I can say
There's nothing left to do
It's just that lately I feel so damn lonely
When I think of you

And it may seem selfish now
But I'll hold on to the memory
Until all this fear is washed away
Do you believe in love?
Do you believe in life?
'Cos I believe a little part of you inside of me
Will never die...

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Writer: ELEANOR BROADWATER, DALE HAWKINS, STANLEY J LEWIS, NIGEL JOHN TAYLOR, NICK RHODES, SIMON JOHN CHARLES LE-BON
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.






Palomino

She lays on the wall
Watching the strangers drift away
Mid-day's ore--thick
With the sun of Arabia

She surrenders her voices
They gather, on the wind
Talking, chanting, breathing
Into her body...yesterday

Awakened beside
The scent of burnt sugar--on the skin
Painting eyes--thick
With the color she brings in
Oh, and sure and strong
When the lightning tumbles down
Don't you frown
Everything will be
In time for this evening

If there's secrets
She has to be pardoned to
Every one of them
If there's heaven
She gets to the heart
and you'll know...

Why she says
When I run out of blue
Help me rise instead
Then I will run to you
Why she says
When I run out of blue
Give me rain instead
Now let me run...(let me run)

If there's secrets
She has to be pardoned to
Every one of them
If there's heaven
She gets to the heart
and you'll know...

Why she says
When I run out of blue
Help me rise instead
Then I will run to you
Why she says
When I run out of blue
Give me rain instead
Now let me run...(let me run)

Hey-hey....
Why she says
When I run out of blue
Help me rise instead
Then I will run to you
Why she says
When I run out of blue
Give me rain instead
Then I will run to you

(Repeat to fade)

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Writer: SIMON JOHN CHARLES LE BON, NICK RHODES, JOHN NIGEL TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






Interlude One


[Instrumental]
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Land

Baby, I'm really sorry
To break your dream
When it's so early
Headlights
On the windowpane
They're getting lost
In the light of day

Tomorrow is today
And soon my ship will sail

Away from here
To walk a howling sealane
Stay for me
Your love is life
For love is land

Baby, just hear my story
Before I leave
Before we write the end
Standing, across the ocean stream
I'll need to know
I'll need your country then

Tomorrow and today
You keep my landfall safe

Away from here (away from here)
To walk a howling sealane (away from you)
Stay for me (stay for me)
I need your love to land
Away from here (away from here)
To walk a howling sealane (away from you)
Stay for me (stay for me)
Your love is life, for love is land

Away from here (away from here)
To walk a howling sealane (away from you)
Stay for me (stay for me)
I need your love to land
Away from here (away from here)
To walk a howling sealane (away from you)
Stay for me (stay for me)
Your love is life, for love is land

Love is land
Love is land
Love is land

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Writer: SIMON JOHN CHARLES LE BON, NICK RHODES, JOHN NIGEL TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






Flute Interlude


[Instrumental]
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The Edge Of America

Walk the edge of America
A concrete beach to scrape my hand
Inside the subway stinking fear and shame
Becomes the violent breath

Vigilantes out on dawn patrol
But now there's nothing left to hide
I'm just a number on the metal fence
Which marks the great divide

Hey boy
Give your dreams a rest
If you're tired of searching
This is where it ends
There's nothing left to lose
Nothing to protest
Learn to love your anger now
Anger here is all you possess
Welcome to the edge

Below the towers of the citadel
Seems someone overlooked the cost
Forgotten soldier of paradise
Now paradise is lost

Recognition never realized
Salvation lost among the crowd
So tell me beside this sterile sea
Where is your nation now?

And we say
Hey boy
Give your dreams a rest
If you're tired of searching
This is where it ends
There's nothing left to lose
Nothing to protest
Learn to love your anger now
Anger here is all you possess
Welcome to the edge

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Writer: SIMON JOHN CHARLES LE BON, NICK RHODES, JOHN NIGEL TAYLOR
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC , Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






Lake Shore Driving


[Instrumental]
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Back to: Duran Duran


Big Thing is the fifth studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran. It was released on 17 October 1988 by EMI Records. Produced by the band, Jonathan Elias and Daniel Abraham, it continued the sonic musical change the band explored with their previous album Notorious (1986).

Unlike Notorious which was funk and R&B oriented, Big Thing strives for a more diverse approach. Side 1 consists of intense techno tracks with synthesized bass lines and rhythmic guitar riffs, while Side 2 leans towards a more avant-garde feel with a post modern atmosphere. The band features drummer Sterling Campbell and guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, who previously started work with the band on Notorious after the departure of Andy Taylor. Both would become members of the group in 1989.

The album was a moderate commercial success, reaching number 15 on the UK Albums Chart and number 24 on the US Billboard 200. The album received mixed reviews by critics, but some praised the experimental compositions and the band's evolving musical style. The album would be spearheaded by two top 20 hits: the first, "I Don't Want Your Love", which went to number 14 in the UK and number 4 in the US, with the second single "All She Wants Is" reaching number 9 in the UK and number 22 in the US, the last of Duran Duran's top 10 hits during the 1980s.

Like Notorious, the album would develop a cult following for the band's changing musical direction. A CD reissue (with one bonus track) was released in 1994. The album was reissued again by EMI in 2010.
Performed By: Duran Duran
Genre(s): Synth-pop, house, alternative dance, experimental rock
Producer(s): Duran Duran, Jonathan Elias, Daniel Abraham
Length: 44:48
Released: October 17th, 1988
Year: 1988

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