The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

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Live in Japan (1984)


Lyrics: The Style Council - Long Hot Summer

I play out my role
Why Ive even been out walking
They tell me that it helps
But I know when Im beaten
All those lonely films
And all those lonely parties
But now the feeling is off-screen
An the tears for real not acted, anymore

Im all mixed up inside
I want to run but I cant hide
And however much we try
We cant escape the truth and the fact is

Dont matter what I do
It dont matter what I do
Dont matter what I do
Dont matter what I do
Dont matter what I do
cause I end up hurting you

One more covered sigh
And one more glance you know means goodbye
Cant you see thats why
Were dashing ourselves against the rocks of a lifetime

(in my mind different voices call)
What once was pleasure nows pain for us all
(in my heart only shadows fall)
I once stood proud now I feel so small
(I dont know whether to laugh or cry)
The long hot summer just passed me by

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The Style Council - The Lodgers (Live): '87 Japan Tour

Live in Japan, 1987.

Video: The Style Council - The Lodgers (Live)


Lyrics: The Style Council - The Lodgers

No peace for the wicked - only war on the poor
They're batting on pickets - trying to even the score
It's all inclusive - the dirt comes free
And you can be all that you want to be
Oh an equal chance and an equal pay
But equally there's no equal pay
There's room on top - if you tow the line
And if you believe all this you must be out of your mind

There's only room for those the same
Those who play the leeches game
Don't get settled in this place
The lodger's terms are in disgrace

Getcha brains blown out - in a captain's mess
Stand for the queen if you can stand the test
It's all thrown in and the lies come free
And you can be all that they want you to be

Oh if you work hard you can be the boss
But if you don't work at all then that's nobody's loss
There's room on top - if you dig in low
And the idea is what they reap you sow

With an old school tie and a reference
You can cover up crimes in their defence
It's all thrown in and the lies come free
And you can be all that they want you to be

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The Style Council - Wanted (The Roxy 1987)

Live on The Roxy - Tyne Tees Studios, England, 1987.

Video: The Style Council - Wanted


Wanted (lyrics)

There's a girl in my office
She keeps on stopping
Right in front of my eyes
Though I try and try
I can't hide anymore
Letting my feelings speak for me

But when I try to speak
My tongue gets weak
I stay the lonely man I am

Why should it be
That my heart's under lock
And I can't find the key
Tell me, why should it seem
That I'm diving inside without making a try

Why oh, well I only want to be wanted

There's a girl in my dreams
Working nights on my scenes
Till she has me in little bits

There's a time and a place
But it moves at a pace
And I can't seem to keep in time

There's a word for the way
But no words can I say
So a lonely man I stay

Why should it be
I confess that it's hard
turning hopes into dreams but -
Why did I see
You cocoon yourself nights
Finding soup in your flies

Oh, I only to be wanted

Why should it be
That my heart's under lock
And I can't find the key
Tell me, why should it seem
That I'm diving inside without making a try

Why oh, well I only want to be wanted

The Style Council: Live Aid 1985

The songs Internationalist and Walls Come Tumbling Down played at the Live Aid Concert on July 13th 1985.

Video: The Style Council: Live Aid 1985


Internationalist (lyrics)

If you believe you have an equal share
In the whole wide world and all it bears
An' that your share is no less or more than
Your fellow sisters and brother man
Then take this knowledge and with it insist
Declare yourself - an internationalist!
If you lay no blame at the feet of next door
An' realise this struggle is also yours
An' that without the strength of us altogether
The world as it stands will remain forever
Then take this challenge and make it exist!
Rise up as - an internationalist!

If your eyes see deeper than the colour of skin
Then you must also see we are the same within
An' the rights you expect are the rights of all
Now it's up to you to lead the call
That liberty must come at the top of the list
Stand proud as - an internationalist!

If you see the mistake in having bosses at all
You will also see how they all must fall
For under this system there is no such thing
As the Democracy our leaders would have us sing
No time for lies now as only truth must persist
Rise up now and declare yourself - An Internationalist!

Walls Come Tumbling Down (lyrics)

You don't have to take this crap
You don't have to sit back and relax
You can actually try changing it
I know we've always been taught to rely
Upon those in authority -
But you never know until you try
How things just might be -
If we came together so strongly

Are you gonna try to make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt
You see things can change -
YES an' walls can come tumbling down!

Governments crack and systems fall
'cause Unity is powerful -
Lights go out - walls come tumbling down!

The competition is a colour TV
We're on still pause with the video machine
That keep you slave to the H.P.

Until the Unity is threatend by
Those who have and who have not -
Those who are with and those who are without
And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot -
Until you don't know where you are

Are you gonna realize
The class war's real and not mythologized
And like Jericho - You see walls can come tumbling down!

Are you gonna be threatend by
The public enemies No. 10 -
Those who play the power game
They take the profits - you take the blame -
When they tell you there's no rise in pay

Are you gonna try an' make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt -
You see things CAN change -
YES an' walls can come tumbling down!

The Style Council - The Paris Match

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The Paris Match (lyrics)

Empty hours
Spent combing the street
In daytime showers
They’ve become my beat;
As I walk from cafe to bar
I wish I knew where you are;
Because you’ve clouded my mind
And now I’m all out of time
Empty skies say try to forget
Better advice is to have no regrets;
As I tread the boulevard floor
Will I see once more;
Because you’ve clouded my mind
’till then I’m biding my time

I’m only sad in a natural way
And I enjoy sometimes feeling this way
The gift you gave is desire
The match that started my fire

Empty nights with nothing to do
I sit and think, every thought is for you;
I get so restless and bored
So I go out once more;
I hate to feel so confined
I feel like I’m wasting my time

Paul Weller - I'm Only Dreaming (Steve Marriott)

Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher at Steve Marriot memorial.

Video: Paul Weller - I'm Only Dreaming (Small Faces)


Lyrics: I'm Only Dreaming

If the smile on my face
Doesn't mean much any more
Then its all been just a waste of time
So wont you close your door
But when I look into your eyes
I feel there's still something there
And something's all I need to hold on to
I can lie to myself
I still care
I still care about the way...
And the little things you say
Won't you please come out to play
I'm only dreaming
I'm only dreaming
What good does dreaming do, when you're nowhere?
I got nobody to hold on to,
But I keep on smiling, crying
See me walking down the street
Just turn your head and walk away
'Cos by now you ought to know how I feel
and there's no more
I'm only dreaming
I'm only dreaming
Oh, yeah

The Style Council - The Whole Point - Live

1990 Japanese TV

Video: The Style Council - The Whole Point - Live


The Style Council - The Whole Point Of No Return - Lyrics

The lords and ladies pass a ruling
That sons and girls go hand in land
From good stock and the best breeding
Paid for by the servile class
Who have been told all lie in state
To bow down forth and face their fate
It’s so easy.
So, so easy

All righteousness did build thy arrow
To shoot it straight into their lies
Who would expect the mighty sparrow
Could rid our world of all their kind?

Rising up and taking back
The property of every man
Oh it’s easy.
So, so easy

Rising up to break this thing
From family trees the dukes do swing
Just one blow to scratch the itch
The law’s made for and by the rich
It would be easy.
So, so easy.

The Style Council - Live at Full House Rock Show [1987] - DVD

Track Listing:

1. Intro Alan Bangs
2. With Everything To Lose
3. Walking The Night
4. Heavens Above
5. Internationalists
6. Everlasting Love
7. Homebreakers
8. Money Go Round
9. Shout To The Top
10. Interview

Video: The Style Council - Heavens Above


The Style Council - Heavens Above - Lyrics

Heavens above what have we done
Oh, we've killed off the thing we had so little of
True, love has no truth without a price
But the cost of loving has been blown sky high
Spend on the hope the call the peacemaker
And pray to their god - the heavy rainmaker
Paegans of wealth they dance so freely
As they give away the life that comes so cheaply

Don't you see - there's a better way for us to be
And in the back of your mind - you know its just a matter of time

Time here today is life tomorrow
Oh but life means less now the time is borrowed
Paid for in blood, the donors seem keen
As they realise too late they've been so cheated

Surely by now we've paid the price
What is there left to sacrifice
You take the power - you take the pay
You steal the will and have the say
I'm sure by now there's not much left
One hand on heart - one on a breast
You steal the milk - you milk the land
But your time is up - your time is sand!

The Style Council - Classic Style Council (2005) - DVD

Track Listing:

1. You're The Best Thing
2. It Didn't Matter
3. Life At The Top
4. Shout To The Top!
5. Speak Like A Child
6. Walls Come Tumbling Down
7. Boy Who Cried Wolf
8. How She Threw It All Away
9. My Ever Changing Moods
10. Long Hot Summer

Video: The Style Council - You're The Best Thing


You're The Best Thing - Lyrics

I could be discontent and chase the rainbows end
I might win much more but lose all that is mine
I could be a lot but I know I'm not
I'm content just with the riches that you bring
I might shoot to win and commit the sin
Of wanting more than I've already got
I could runaway but I'd rather stay
In the warmth of your smile lighting up my day
(the one that makes me say, heh)

'Cause you're the best thing that ever happened to me or my world
You're the best thing that ever happened - so don't go away

I might be a king and steal my peoples things
But I don't go for that power crazy way
All that I could rule but I don't check for fools
All that I need is to be left to live my way
(say listen what I say)

I could chase around for nothing to be found
But why look for something that is never there
I may get it wrong sometimes but I'll come back in style
For I realise your love means more than anything
(the song you make me sing - yeah)

Style Council - Style Council On Film - DVD

Track Listing:

Disc one SHOWBIZ (original release May 1986)

The Big Boss Groove
(When You) Call Me
Shout To The Top!
Home Breakers
With Everything To Lose
Our Favorite Shop
Headstart For Happiness
Long Hot Summer
Walls Come Tumbling Down
A Stones Throw Away
Soul Deep Medley
Internationalists

jerUSAlem (original release February 1987)

Angel
It Didn't Matter
Heavens Above
Fairy Tales
Waiting

Confessions Of a Pop Group

It's A Very Deep Sea
Why I Went Missing
Life At A Top People's Helth Farm
Changing Of The Guard
How She Threw It All Away
Confessions Of A Pop Group
(Band Interview)
original release July 1988

Disc Two PROMO CLIPS
Come To Milton Keynes
It Didn't Matter
Money Go Round
Promised Land
How She Threw It All Away
Shout To The Top!
Solid Bond In Your Heart
Walls Come Tumbling Down
Big Boss Groove
Boy Who Cried Wolf
Have You Ever Had It Blue?
Life At A Top Peoples Health Farm
My Ever Changing Moods
Long Hot Summer
Waiting
Speak Like A Child
The Lodgers
Wanted
You're The Best Thing

Video: Come To Milton Keynes


Come To Milton Keynes - Lyrics

May I walk you home tonight
On this fine and lovely night tonight -
We'll walk past the luscious houses
Through rolling lawns and lovely flowers -
Our nice new town where the curtains are drawn
Where hope is started and dreams can be borne
Let us share our insanity
Go mad together in community
Boys on the corner looking for their supper
Boys round the green looking for some slaughter -
We used to chase dreams now we chase the dragon
Mine is the semi with the union jack on

In our paradise lost we'll be finding our sanity
In this paradise found we'll be losing our way -
For a brave new day

May I slash my wrists tonight
On this fine conservative night tonight -
I was looking for a job so I came to town
I easily adopt when the chips are down -
I read the ad about the private schemes
I liked the idea but now I'm not so keyne

The Style Council - The Complete Adventures of the Style Council [Box set]

Disc: 1
1. Speak Like a Child
2. Party Chambers
3. Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 & 2 [Bevans, Bert Alernate Remix]
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. Mick's Up
6. Long Hot Summer
7. Paris Match
8. Lédepart
9. Solid Bond in Your Heart
10. It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
11. My Ever Changing Moods [12" Version]
12. Mick's Company
13. Spring, Summer, Autumn
14. Mick's Blessings
15. Whole Point of No Return
16. Me Ship Came In!
17. Blue Café
18. Paris Match
19. My Ever Changing Moods
20. Dropping Bombs on the White House
21. Gospel

Disc: 2
1. Strength of Your Nature
2. You're the Best Thing
3. Here's One That Got Away
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. Council Meetin'
6. Big Boss Groove
7. Shout to the Top!
8. Ghosts of Dachau
9. Piccadilly Trail
10. Soul Deep [Bevans, Bert Remix]
11. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
12. Whole Point II
13. Bloodsports
14. Spin' Drifting
15. Homebreakers
16. All Gone Away
17. Come to Milton Keynes
18. Internationalists
19. Stone's Throw Away
20. Stand Up Comic's Instructions
21. Boy Who Cried Wolf

Disc: 3
1. Man of Great Promise
2. Down in the Seine
3. Lodgers
4. Luck
5. With Everything to Lose
6. Our Favorite Shop
7. (When You) Call Me
8. Have You Ever Had It Blue? [Uncut Version]
9. Mr. Cool's Dream
10. It Didn't Matter
11. All Year Round
12. Right to Go
13. Heavens Above
14. Fairy Tales
15. Angel
16. Walking the Night
17. Waiting
18. Cost of Loving
19. Woman's Song
20. Francoise

Disc: 4
1. Wanted
2. Cost of Loving [12" Version]
3. Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm [Um & Argh Mix]
4. Sweet Loving Ways
5. It's a Very Deep Sea
6. Story of Someone's Shoe
7. Changing of the Guard
8. Little Boy in a Castle/A Dove Flew Down from the Elephant
9. Gardener of Eden (A Three Piece Suite)
10. Why I Went Missing
11. How She Threw It All Away
12. Iwasadoledadstoyboy
13. Confessions 1, 2, & 3
14. Confessions of a Pop-Group
15. In Love for the First Time
16. I Do Like to Be B-Side the A-Side/The Mixed Companions

Disc: 5
1. Promised Land [Longer Version]
2. Can You Still Love Me?
3. Long Hot Summer '89
4. Everybody's on the Run/Modernism: A New Decade
5. New Decade
6. Can You Still Love Me?
7. World Must Come Together
8. Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha)
9. That Spiritual Feeling
10. Everybody's on the Run
11. Love of the World
12. Sure Is Sure

Video: Changing of the Guard


Changing of the Guard (lyrics)

Changes of clothes and summer showers
Like changing the guard it only lasts for hours,
Wondering what and where did it go
Crying over nothing worth crying for
Once in a while - I still think about,
The smile on your face girl, the first time around,
Im wondering what and who your doing it with
Crying over nothing - worth crying for, still -

Just now and then - I still get it,
That same old feeling, I cant forget it
Wondering why and where did I go
Trying not to let them get to me so -

Once in a while I just cant help it
Its that same old feeling and how I regret it,
Wondering why - I miss you so,
Crying over nothing worth it all

Baby please, if theres a chance,
Lets throw out the past and get something back,
Im wondering why - did we part at all
Crying over nothing worth crying for,
Crying over nothing worth crying for,
Crying over nothing worth crying for.

The Style Council - The Sound of the Style Council (2003)

1. Speak Like A Child
2. Money-Go-Round (Part 1)
3. Headstart For Happiness
4. Long Hot Summer
5. The Paris Match
6. It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands
7. My Ever Changing Moods
8. The Whole Point Of No Return
9. You're The Best Thing
10. Shout To The Top
11. Ghosts Of Dachau
12. The Piccadilly Trail
13. Walls Come Tumbling Down
14. Spin' Drifting
15. Homebreakers
16. A Man Of Great Promise
17. Have You Ever Had It Blue
18. Waiting
19. It's A Very Deep Sea
20. Changing Of The Guard
21. Spring, Summer, Autumn

Video: Have You Ever Had It Blue


Have You Ever Had It Blue (lyrics)

Have you ever chased the night that sailed in front of you
On a boat thats bound for hope - but left you in the queue
With your shouting, waving, taunting, flaunting friends as crew
Telling you that every lie you ever heard was true
Have you stood upon that deck - have you ever had it blue.
Have you ever woke to find the morning didnt come
Undelivered with the papers - stolen by someone
Found the milkman bound and gagged and shackles round the sun
And the holder of the keys turns out to be the one
The girl you had your heart set on - have you ever had it blue.

Have you ever watched the day, passing by your door
Powerless to change its course, your feet fixed to the floor
When all the people you thought you knew are changing more and more
Even the girl you thought would see, seems only to ignore
The only love worth fighting for - have you ever had it blue

The Style Council - The Style Council Collection (1996)

1. Speak Like A Child
2. Headstart For Happiness
3. Long Hot Summer
4. The Paris Match
5. It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands
6. My Ever Changing Moods
7. The Whole Point Of No Return
8. Ghosts Of Dachau
9. You're The Best Thing
10. The Big Boss Groove
11. A Man Of Great Promise
12. Homebreakers
13. Down In The Seine
14. A Stones Throw Away
15. With Everything To Lose
16. Boy Who Cried Wolf
17. The Cost Of Loving
18. Changing Of The Guard
19. Why I Went Missing
20. It's A Very Deep Sea

Video: A Man Of Great Promise (Live on the Tube - late 1984)


A Man Of Great Promise (lyrics)

I bought the paper yesterday and I saw the obituary
And I read of how you died in pain -
Well I just couldnt understand it
If I could of changed that, then lord knows Id do it now
But there is no going back -
And whats done is done forever

But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt -
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt

And I think of what you might have been,
A man of such great promise
Oh but, you seem to forget the dream -
And the more you saw you hated

But lets not talk of blame, for what is only natural
Like a moth going to a flame -
You had a dangerous passion

But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt -
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt

All the things that you might have been - but who am I to say?
Still I wonder -
If its the cold earth you prefer to lay -
If its the cold earth - you prefer to stay

The Style Council - Headstart For Happiness (1991)

LONG HOT SUMMER
WHY I WENT MISSING
ANGEL
WAITING
MOVE ON UP
SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN
COME TO MILTON KEYNES
WANTED
HEAVEN'S ABOVE
EVERYBODY'S ON THE RUN
SPIN DRIFTIN'
FRANCOISE
IT JUST CAME TO PIECES IN MY HANDS
HEADSTART FOR HAPPINESS

Video: Headstart For Happiness


Headstart For Happiness (lyrics)

When i find you waiting hours; oh,
You're there to save my life for our obvious goal
We've got a headstart for happiness
For our part, guess we must be blessed
For this feeling to be so strong
Tell me is that so wrong?
The space betweeen us for days has been so far;
I've spent a lonely week
Now i wanna be where you are
We've got a headstart for happiness, for our part
Guess we must be kissed by this force i feel inside
Now i'm not gonna hide.

All the roads that lead to struggles
Bring you back to where you need
Some reassurance in your own depth,
Only you can see, but let others feel
Peace in my mind i'm so happy to find
As i get on my trek with a headstart back to you.

When i find you waiting hours, oh
It's my heart, not my head that takes control
And you've got to lead where your heart says go
And this hope that it turns out so
And that's all that you can hope for
Can you expect much more?

Naive and wise with no sense of time
As i set my clock with a heart beat, tick tock
Violent and mild - common sense says i'm wild
With this mixed up fury, crazy beauty
It's healthy to find all these feelings inside
As i get on my trek with a headstart back to you.

The Style Council - Here's Some That Got Away (1993)

1. Love Pains
2. Party Chambers
3. The Whole Point II
4. The Ghosts Of Dachau
5. Sweet Loving Ways
6. A Casual Affair
7. A Woman's Song
8. Mick's Up
9. Waiting On A Connection
10. Night After Night
11. The Piccadilly Trail
12. (When You) Call Me
13. My Very Good Friend
14. April's Fool
15. In Love For The First Time
16. Big Boss Groove
17. Mick's Company
18. Bloodsports
19. Who Will Buy
20. I Ain't Goin' Under
21. I Am Leaving
22. A Stone's Throw Away

Video: (When You) Call Me


(When You) Call Me (lyrics)

I know you have time
But believe me it will fly by -
And if it don't treat you right
I want you to know that you can call me.
Into each life, some rain must fall
But if the storm becomes too much for you all -
Don't be afraid to enter my life
I will be there when you call me.

Don't let your pride get in the way of your view
Of how we used to be -
Oh, to you it's long ago, but to me, yesterday,
The passing of time is like the crashing of waves
It wears down on your memory and you can forget
That if it all gets too much i will always be there
For you to call me - if you need to call me.

Into each life, some rain must fall
But when the storm becomes too much for you all -
Don't be ashamed to enter my life
I will be there when you call me.

The Style Council - The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council (1989)

1. You're The Best Thing
2. Have You Ever Had It Blue (12in Version)
3. Money Go Round (Parts I & II)
4. My Ever Changing Moods (12in Version)
5. Long Hot Summer (12in Version)
6. The Lodgers
7. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
8. Shout To The Top!
9. Wanted
10. It Didn't Matter
11. Speak Like A Child
12. A Solid Bond In Your Heart
13. Life At A Top People's Health Farm
14. Promised Land
15. How She Threw It All Away
16. Waiting

Video: Wanted



Wanted (lyrics)

There's a girl in my office
She keeps on stopping
Right in front of my eyes
Though I try and try
I can't hide anymore
Letting my feelings speak for me

But when I try to speak
My tongue gets weak
I stay the lonely man I am

Why should it be
That my heart's under lock
And I can't find the key
Tell me, why should it seem
That I'm diving inside without making a try

Why oh, well I only want to be wanted

There's a girl in my dreams
Working nights on my scenes
Till she has me in little bits

There's a time and a place
But it moves at a pace
And I can't seem to keep in time

There's a word for the way
But no words can I say
So a lonely man I stay

Why should it be
I confess that it's hard
turning hopes into dreams but -
Why did I see
You cocoon yourself nights
Finding soup in your flies

Oh, I only to be wanted

Why should it be
That my heart's under lock
And I can't find the key
Tell me, why should it seem
That I'm diving inside without making a try

Why oh, well I only want to be wanted

The Style Council - Confessions of a Pop Group (1988)

1. It's A Very Deep Sea
2. The Story Of Someone's Shoe
3. Changing of The Guard
4. The Little Boy In A Castle(A) Dove Flew Down From The Elephant(B)
5. The Garden Of Eden
6. Life At The Top Peoples Health Farm
7. Why I Went Missing
8. How She Threw It All Away
9. Iwasadoledadstoyboy
10. Confessions 1, 2, & 3
11. Confessions Of A Pop Group

Video: It's A Very Deep Sea


It's A Very Deep Sea (lyrics)

Ill keep on diving til I reach the ends,
Dredging up the past to drive me round the bendz,
What is it in me that I cant forget
I keep finding so much that I now regret.
But no, on I go down into the depths
Turning things over that are better left
Dredging up the past that has gone for good
Trying to polish up what is rotting wood.

Something inside takes me down again
Diving not for goblets but tin cans
Dredging up the past for reasons so rife
Passing bits of wrecks that once passed for life.

But Ill keep on diving till I drown the sea,
Of things not worth, even mentioning
Perhaps Ill come to the surface and come to my senses
But its a very deep sea around my own devizes.

Diving, diving.

The Style Council - The Cost of Loving (1987)

1. It Didn't Matter
2. Right to Go
3. Heavens Above
4. Fairy Tales
5. Angel
6. Walking the Night
7. Waiting
8. Cost of Loving
9. Woman's Song



Video: It Didn't Matter


It Didn't Matter (lyrics)

I remember all the early days
Trying to think of the right things to say
I didnt want you to think I was like the rest
Who think they own you just because youve laid with them
It didnt matter - really didnt matter
It didnt matter now we are together

There are crystal hearts just waiting to be smashed
And out to break them are the ones who never last
To soon today and gone tomorrow
And taking with them just another little piece of you

There are those who think its smart
Thinking that theyve stole your love and broke your heart
Too much too soon and gone tomorrow
Well my love doesnt need to lend or steal or borrow

The Style Council - Home & Abroad - Live (1986)

1. Big Boss Groove
2. My Ever Changing Moods
3. Lodgers
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. (When You) Call Me
6. Whole Point of No Return
7. Our Favourite Shop
8. With Everything to Lose
9. Homebreakers
10. Shout to the Top!
11. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
12. Internationalists

Video: Walls Come Tumbling Down!


Walls Come Tumbling Down! (lyrics)

You dont have to take this crap
You dont have to sit back and relax
You can actually try changing it
I know weve always been taught to rely
Upon those in authority -
But you never know until you try
How things just might be -
If we came together so strongly

Are you gonna try to make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt
You see things can change -
Yes an walls can come tumbling down!

Governments crack and systems fall
cause unity is powerful -
Lights go out - walls come tumbling down!

The competition is a colour tv
Were on still pause with the video machine
That keep you slave to the h.p.

Until the unity is threatend by
Those who have and who have not -
Those who are with and those who are without
And dangle jobs like a donkeys carrot -
Until you dont know where you are

Are you gonna realize
The class wars real and not mythologized
And like jericho - you see walls can come tumbling down!

Are you gonna be threatend by
The public enemies no. 10 -
Those who play the power game
They take the profits - you take the blame -
When they tell you theres no rise in pay

Are you gonna try an make this work
Or spend your days down in the dirt -
You see things can change -
Yes an walls can come tumbling down!

The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop (1985)

1. Homebreakers
2. All Gone Away
3. Come To Milton Keynes
4. Internationalists
5. A Stones Throw Away
6. The Stand Up Comics Instructions
7. Boy Who Cried Wolf
8. A Man Of Great Promise
9. Down In The Seine
10. The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter)
11. Luck
12. With Everything To Lose
13. Our Favourite Shop
14. Walls Come Tumbling Down
15. Shout To The Top (USA Remix)

Video: Boy Who Cried Wolf


Boy Who Cried Wolf (lyrics)

As the rain comes down, upon this sad sweet earth
I lie awake at nights and - think about me
All those usual things like what a fool Ive been
I curse the awful way - that I let you slip away
For what was forged in love, is now cooling down
With only myself to blame for playing that stupid game
I thought I need only call and you would run
But that day you never showed honey - well I sure learnt -

That it seems I need you more each day
Heaven knows why that it goes that way -
Now its far too late - an Ive lost this time -
Like the boy who cried wolf

An yes - I know its far too late
To ever win you back -
No tale of nightmares at my gate -
Could make you turn -
My lost concern

And now the night falls down, upon my selfish soul
I sit alone and wonder - where did I go wrong?
It always worked before you kept the wolf from my door
But one day you never showed and honey - now Im not so sure -

That is seems I need you more each day
Heaven knows why that it goes that way -
Now its far too late - an Ive lost this time -
Like the boy who cried wolf