80’s Lover

 

VERSE I

 

I have dreams of Mr Roboto

And he’s dancing in the dark

He’s going footloose until he has a total eclipse of the heart

I tell him he’s a maniac on the floor

And the truth cuts like a knife

He says “It’s still rock n roll to me”

And I say, “You may be right.”

 

The dream changes

And I’m in Rio

The lady in red

Is dancing on the sand

I’m hungry like a wolf

And my parents don’t understand

 

She spins me right round

Like a record

And pours some sugar on me

I said, “Let’s dance in the purple rain.”

She said, “Do you really want to hurt me?”

 

 

VERSE II

 

She says she’s like a virgin

And she tells me to stop

But I love her 99 red balloons

And I want to watch them pop

She does a flash dance for me

Cuz I’m a Tarzan boy

She’s naked except for her legwarmers

And a belt that says Boy Toy

 

I said we can have a white wedding

In our honeymoon suite we’ll rebel yell

She said you’re kissing to be clever

Throw your careless whispers down your wishing well

Like you were on Fame

And I was on Moonraker

Where the streets have no name

Cuz you ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker

 

 

VERSE III

 

 I met this Karma Chameleon

Wearing Dexie’s Midnight Runners

I said that look is over

She said that look is down under

She said “I like to walk like an Egyptian,

And my Adidas help me get some.”

I said, “I walk this way in my raspberry beret,

Cuz girls just wanna have fun.”

 

And she said, “Hey Na Na Na...

Are you living in a northern town?

I used to be a small town boy

In a big country now I’m a man inside a gown.”

 

I said “It must hurt so good, to turn a Jack into a Dianne.”

She said, “Beat it , Billie Jean,

I’m saving a prayer for Duran Duran.”

© cb shaw 2002

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