The Human League Album

Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times
Hard times.

When you're in love you know you're in love
No matter what you try to do
You might as well resign yourself
To what you're going through
If you're a hard man or if you're a child
It still might get to you
Don't kid yourself
You've seen it all before
A million mouths have said that too, ooh

I've had my hard times (hard times!) in the past
I've been a husband and a lover too
I've laid alone and cried at night
Over what love made me do

And the loved ones who let me down
And couldn't share my point of view
But this is Phil talking
I want to tell you
What I found to be true

I love your love action
Lust's just a distraction
No talking just looking
Watching your love action

I believe I believe what the old man says
Though I know that there's no Lord above
I believe in me
I believe in you
And you know I believe in love
I believe in truth
Though I lie a lot
I feel the pain from the push and shove
No matter what you put me through
I'll still believe in love, and I say

I love your love action
Lust's just a distraction
No talking just looking
Watching your love action

I love your love action
Lust's just a distraction
No talking just looking
Watching your love action

I love your love action
Lust's just a distraction
No talking just looking
Watching your love action

Love action
Love action
Love action

I love your distraction
I love your love action
Lust's just a distraction
No talking just looking
Watching your love action

I love your love action
Lust's just a distraction
No talking just looking
Watching your love action

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down, too

Don't, don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

It's much too late to find
You think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back
Or we will both be sorry

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me?
Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me
Oh!

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
But even then I knew I'd find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do

Don't, don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me
Don't, don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you
When you say that you don't need me

It's much too late to find
You think you've changed your mind
You'd better change it back
Or we will both be sorry

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me?
Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me?
Oh!

Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me?
Oh!
Don't you want me, baby?
Don't you want me?
Oh!

[No lyrics]

Those cocky little fires you started in the night
The independent claims that just meant "hold me tight"
The bruises on your body that you swore were from a fight
I'll pass at your insistence

Alsatians fall unconscious at the shadow of your call
One glance from your direction and the government will fall
Whole continents of misery don't bother you at all
But for me you have persistence

Run all day, run all night
Do or die, do or die
Got to run for your life
Do or die, do or die

I'd like to leave so would you kindly look the other way
You tell me to be honest but I've nothing left to say
Just like your feet my goddess, my brain has turned to clay
An end to all resistance

Run all day, run all night
Do or die, do or die
Got to run for your life
Do or die, do or die

Run all day, run all night
Do or die, do or die
Got to run for your life
Do or die, do or die

Run all day, run all night
Do or die, do or die
Got to run for your life
Do or die, do or die

Run all day, run all night
Do or die, do or die
Got to run for your life
Do or die, do or die

All day
Hiding from the sun
Waiting for the golden one
Waiting for your fame
After the parade has gone

Outside
Was a happy place
Every face had a smile like the golden face
For a second

Your knuckles white as your fingers curled
A shot that was heard around the world
For a second

It took seconds of your time to take his life
It took seconds

And when it hurts you know
They love to tell you
How they warned you
They say "don't be surprised
At someone's lies"
They think they taunt you
But if you can stand the test
You know your worst is better
Than their best

And so you stand here
With the years ahead
Potentially calling
With open heart
Or with a spirit dead
You walk on

Lies the reason
Faith or treason
Playing a part
End concealing
Try revealing
Open your heart
Dare to feel
Take the chance
Make the deal

Being an island
Shying from trying
Seems the easy way
Such an easy way
But there's no future
Without tears

Lies the reason
Faith or treason
Playing a part
End concealing
Try revealing
Open your heart

But if you can stand the test
You know your worst is better
Than their best
Lies the reason
Faith or treason
Playing a part
End concealing
Try revealing
Open your heart

Put your hand in a party wave
Pass around
Make a shroud pulling combs through a backwash frame
Find the copies in a carbon mount
Pass around
Stroke a pocket with a print of a laughing sound

Get around town
Get around town
Where the people look good
Where the music is loud
Get around town
No need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd

The shades from a pencil peer
Pass around
A fold in an eyelid brushed with fear
The lines on a compact guide
Pass around
A hat with alignment worn insde

Get around town
Get around town
Where the people look good
Where the music is loud
Get around town
No need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd

Get in line now
Get in line now
Stay in time with the rhythm and rhyme
Get around town
Get around town
Where the people look good
Where the music is loud
Get around town
No need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd

Get around town
Get around town
Where the people look good
Where the music is loud
Get around town
No need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd

Get around town
Get around town
Where the people look good
Where the music is loud
Get around town
No need to stand proud
Add your voice to the sound of the crowd