Poetic Lyrics of Duran Duran

Chorus of 'the man who stole a leopard:

You were once running wild hiding in the morning mist
Game in bonds - I make you mine
I thought that I could resist
But the leopard in you... silently... preyed on me

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Leave a Light on--From Duran Duran's 13th cd "all you need is now"

o come the evening
I'm out on the dunes
Looking for a token, something to prove
All I remember, is more than a flame
In my fantasy fire

Whatever I've done to receive
Whatever I need to redeem
Whatever you say
Even if I wait a lifetime

CHORUS
I know, I swear
If you leave a light on, if you leave a light on for me
I'll come there
You can leave a light on for me

In comes the morning
I'm stirred in my track
Looking at the reasons for me to head back
So unexpected
The kindness you showed
That I will not forget it

Whatever I've done to receive
Whatever I need to redeem
Whatever you say
Even if I wait a lifetime

CHORUS
I know, I swear
If you leave a light on, if you leave a light on for me
I'll come there
You can leave a light on for me

You breathe the will into the we
And coax the cage bird to fly free
You ease the lost cause out of me
With your sweet hand to bring me home

I'm not alone

Oh, Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh
Oh, Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh
Oh, Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh
Oh, Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh

CHORUS
I know, I swear
If you leave a light on, if you leave a light on for me
I'll come there
You can leave a light on for me

REPEAT CHORUS 

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FALLING DOWN

Once was a man who consumed his place and time
He thought nothing could touch him
But here and now it’s a different storyline
Like the straw he is clutching

Why has the sky turned grey
Hard to my face and cold on my shoulder
And why has my life gone astray
Scarred by disgrace, I know that its over

Because I’m falling down
With people standing round
But before I hit the ground
Is there time
Could I find someone out there to help me ?

Howl at the wind rushing past my lonely head
Caught inside in slow motion
How I wish it was somebody else instead

Howling at all this corrosion

Why did the luck run dry
Laugh in my face, so pleased to desert me
Why do the cruel barbs fly ?
Now when disgrace can no longer hurt me

Because I’m falling down
With people standing round
But before I hit the ground
Is there time
Could I find someone out there to help me ?

You see I’m falling down
With people standing round
But before I hit the ground
Is there time
Could I find someone out there to help me ?
I don’t know…. Why… 






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SHE'S TOO MUCH

She's gentle to the touch
She's everything head first
So happy to be causing trouble
Sometimes the pressure gets to much
And you think she's going to burst
And shatter like a Christmas bauble

I'll be there when the world is coming down upon her
When she's scared, I'll be there fighting in her corner

She cries when she's alone
For all life's little knocks
Everything is supposed to make us tougher
Thinking it doesn't really show
But I know how she hurts
And I can't bear to see her suffer

I'll be there when the world is coming down upon her
When she's scared, I'll be there fighting in her corner
I'll be there when the walls are closing to surround her
In the air as she falls with my arms around her
Holding on I'm looking out for her thin skin

Because she's everything
And I don't think she knows

She is such a gentle touch
She's too much, a gentle touch

She likes to catch the sun
Plays with it like a ball
And never mind whatever keeps it burning
Someday she might just be the one
Whose going to save us all
If this apocalypse is coming

I'll be there when the world is coming down upon her
When she's scared, I'll be there fighting in her corner
I'll be there when the walls are closing to surround her

In the air as she falls with my arms around her
Holding on I'm looking out for her thin skin
Because she's everything
But I don't think she knows

I don't think she knows
I don't think she knows
She is such a gentle touch
I don't think she knows
She's too much, a gentle touch 

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BOX FULL O HONEY

At the sharp end of the view
The edge of me and you
And all good sense that tread no further
And as the ghost will shiver trees
How I'm tremblin' on my knees
But I'm still drawn on by the the murmur

Are you laughing at me now ?
In my circumstance
When still I wear your crown
My life's penitence
For what ? What's so funny ? 
A Box full o' honey

What I thought a pretty tune
Was howling at the moon
To keep me company this evening
It's so lonely in the dirt
A scratching at the hurt
That I so generously did leave you


Are you laughing at me now ?
In my circumstance
When still I where your crown
Some cruel penitence
For what ? What's so funny ?
A Box full o' honey

Is she flirting with me now ?
Is she dallying with me now ?
Are you flirting with me now ?
You'll always be my queen of tumble down
Miss Melancholy
Are you laughing at me now ?
In my circumstance
When still I wear your crown
And my life's a penitence 
For what ? What's so funny ?
Ain't it funny ?
A Box full o' honey 





Astronaut:

"Makes my hair stand up on end, 
Something alien happening, 
Sychronize but don't comprehend, 
'Cause where I stop that's where you begin! 

Another moment I commit, 
A pleasure as I'm gonna' take the hit, 
And I'm addicted to the state you're in, 
'Cause you're getting me out of it! 

Wasted, there's nothing gonna ace this, 
And were gonna go to space it, 
'Cause I'm leaving with an astronaut! 

Groovin' out to X-ray specs, 
Something tells me your the alien sex, 
I can't imagine now what comes next, 
When this astronaut connects! 

Coming on when I touch your skin, 
A kinda' strange light you emit, 
I hear you're gravity pull me in, 
Now your getting me out of it! 

Wasted, there's nothing gonna ace this, 
And were gonna go to space it, 
'Cause I'm leaving with an astronaut! 

There, feat for quantum leap, 
Because space is hot and deep, 
And we follow giant footprints, 
As we fall in, falling like the twins, 
Through Saturn's holy rings, 
And if they can't hold us, where it's gonna end up, 
Anybody knows"

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Careless Memories:

"So soon just after you've gone my senses sharpend
But it always takes so damn long before I feel how much my eyes have darkened

Fear hangs a plane of gunsmoke drifting in our room
So easy to disturb, with a thought with a whisper
With a careless memory with a careless memory

On the table signs of love lies scattered
And the walls break with a crashing within
It's not as though as though you really mattered
But being close how could I let you go without some feeling
Some precious sympathy following

Fear hangs a plane of gunsmoke drifting in our room
So easy to disturb, with a thought with a whisper
With a careless memory with a careless memory
With a careless memory with a careless memory

Oh I walk out into the sun I tried to find a new day
But the whole place it just screams in my eyes
Where are you now cause I don't want to meet you
I think I'd die I think I'd laugh at you I know I'd cry
What am I supposed to do follow you
Outside the thoughts come flooding back now I was trying to forget you

So easy to disturb with a thought with a whisper
With a careless memory with a careless memory
With a careless memory with a careless memory
With a careless memory

Look out look out look out look out!"

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Lonely in Your Nightmare:

"Even on the darkest night when empty promise means empty hand
And soldiers coming home like shadows turning red
And when the lights of hope are fading quickly then look to me
I'll be your homing angel I'll be in your head

Because you're lonely in your nightmare let me in
And there's heat beneath your winter let me in

I see the delta traces living lonely out on the limb
And a passing glimmer warm beneath your skin
Please tread gently on the ground when all around you earth turns to fire
Only get a second chance when danger's on the wind

Because you're lonely in your nightmare let me in
Because there's heat beneath your winter let me in

Must be lucky whether when you find the kind of wind that you need
Come on show me all the light and shade that made your name
I know you've got it in your head I've seen that look before
You've built your refuge turns you captive all the same

Because your lonely in your nightmare let me in
And it's barren in your garden let me in
Because there's heat beneath your winter let me in
Because you're so lonely in your nightmare let me in
And it's cold out on the stone range let me in
Because there's heat beneath your winter let me in."

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Ordinary World: 

"Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights the TV and the radio but still I can't escape the ghost of you
What is happening to me crazy some would say

Where is the life that I recognize, gone away

And I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say pride will tear us both apart
Well now pride's gone out the window cross the rooftops runaway
Left me in the vaccuum of my heart
What is happening to me crazy some will 
say where is my friend when I need you most gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and grief
Fear today forgot tomorrow beside the news of holy war and holy need
Our's is just a little sorrowed talk, just blown away

And I won't cry for yesterday there's an ordinary world somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way to the ordinary world I will learn to survive
Every world is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world is my world, every world is our world, every world

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Planet Earth:
"Only came outside to watch night fall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme like
Some new romantic looking for the TV sound
I'll see you're right some other time love

Look now look all around there's no sign of life
Voices another sound can you hear me now this is planet earth
You're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth

My head is stuck on something precious let me know
If you're coming down to land is there
Anybody out there trying to get through
My eyes so cloudy I can't see you

Look now look all around there's no sign of life
Voices another sound can you hear me now this is planet earth
You're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth

Look now look all around there's no sign of life
Voices another sound can you hear me now this is planet earth
You're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop calling planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth!"

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New Moon On Monday:

"Shake up the picture the lizard mixture with your dance on the eventide
You got me coming up with answers all of which I deny
I've said it again but could I please rephrase it
Maybe I can catch a ride I couldn't really put it much plainer 
but I'll wait till you decide
Send me your warning siren as if I could ever hide

Last time la luna I light my torch and wave it for the new moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night I stayed the cold day with a lonely sattelite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely sattelite

Breaking away with the beast of both worlds a smile that you can't disguise
But every minute I keep finding clues that you leave behind
Save me from these reminders as if I forget tonight

This time la luna I light my torch and wave it for the new moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night I stayed the cold day with a lonely sattelite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely sattelite

I light my torch and wave it for the new moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely sattelite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely sattelite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night (firedance through the night)
I stayed the cold day with (I light my torch and wave it for the) a lonely sattelite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night (firedance through the night)
I stayed the cold day with a (I light my torch and wave it for the)
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night (firedance through the night)
I stayed the cold day with a (I light my torch and wave it for the)lonely sattelite."

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New Religon (A Dialogue between the Ego and the Alter ego):

"I've been now sauntering out and down a path
sometime.
Come on, it takes me nowhere which I knew
Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs and
things
Telling me not there man, it's no go (Don't go
there boy)

I need a reason (I can't think without one now)
Too much learning got to show
Call it treason (Maybe catch her don't know how)
Too many things too much to know

Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind.
Lady screaming, lady leave me out
'cause sometimes people stare (Coming down,
electric chair)
And steaming crowds they gather and they shout

Don't know why this evil bothers me (Take
another chance boy carry the
fight You can take him if you're fast)

So why is he trying to follow me? (Didn't I say if
you're holdin' on
You'd be laughing at the last)

How many reasons do they need? (I get along fine
with them friends of
mine, But you have to make a choice)

I might just believe this time (You're singing out of
tune, but the beats
in time. And it's us who make the noise)

I'm talking for free. I can't stop myself, It's a new
religion
I've something to see, I help myself, It's a new
religion

Okay my reasoning might be clouded by the sun
But someone sees the departmental lie
You know this peacetime, jabbing fist in stabbing
knife
Only get one look before you die

Don't know why this evil follows me (Gotta take
pay for the saints 'n'
sinners. In regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things)

So why does he try to bother me? (Walking in
formation down the lane. They
carry their cross make a church bell ring)

How many reasons do they need? (Army majors
pull a mean cool truth
There lying in a swimming pool)

I might just be right this time (Searching for the
undeniable truth,
That a man is just a fool)..."

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Hold Back The Rain:
"Hold back the rain
Yes we're miles away from nowhere and the wind doesn't have a name
So call it what you want to call it still blows down the lane
People tell me I haven't changed at all but I don't feel the same
And I've bet you've had that feeling too you can't laugh all the time

And if the fires burn out there's only fire to blame (hold back the rain)
No time for worry cause we're on the roam again (hold back the rain)
The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane (hold back the rain)
Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain

So what if the words ain't rhyming did you thing that it's just a game
I probably didn't even say that right and i really don't give a damn
Okay go off and wander I'm guilty just the same
Sometimes you're needed badly so please come back again
And if the fires burn out there's only fire to blame (hold back the rain)
No time for worry cause we're on the roam again (hold back the rain)
The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane (hold back the rain)
Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain

And if the stars burn out there's only fire to blame (hold back the rain)
No time for worry cause we're on the roam again (hold back the rain)
The clouds all scatter and we ride the outside lane (hold back the rain)
Not on your own so help me please hold back the rain
Hold back the rain, hold back the rain. hold back the rain
Hold back the rain (hold back the rain), hold back the rain
(Hold back the rain), hold back the rain (hold back the rain)
Hold back the rain (hold back the rain), hold back the rain!"

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El Diablo-(By Arcadia)

Enter newborn players and gather
Weigh their innocence
Only the brightest shine
But not forever
Many lights die, many tears rain
When those tears run dry
On a mountain madness day

You were just in time
For a foolish deal ... a lover sold
I can't stand another howling day
Inside of this empty skin

While the beacons burn a flame
Please return from so far away

One life with the devil do i play
For so long el diablo is to blame

Oh el diablo, el diablo, won't you sell me back my soul?
Oh el diablo, el diablo, won't you sell me back my soul?

Weddings on the wind, will she blow my way?
He can dance and she can sing
She will tear your heart away
While the promise burns a flame
And will you return from so far away?

One life with the devil do i play
For so long, el diablo is to blame
One life with the devil do i play
For so long, el diablo is to blame
One life but the devil is in my way 




 



One Of Those Days:
"Suddenly it all looks so familiar 
Gone and wrecked it like I always do 
Don't you know it? 
Life is out to kill 'ya 
But you still go getting on with it 

Seen better times than right now 
But I'm not running away 
No nothing's gonna bring me down 

It's just been one of those days 
I'm not the only one 

They can drag me to the gates of hell now 
There's nothing left but I'm still hanging in 
Not for me, ain't no final showdown 
I'm too shattered to do anything 

Seen better times than right now 
But I'm not running away 
'Cause nothing's going to bring me down 

It's just been one of those days 
I'm not the only one feeling this way 
And I'm not sorry 

I'm not the only one feeling this way 
And I'm not sorry 
Not running away.."

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Virus-

I am the virus,
I am a siren in the rain.
I am a courier bring the
spiral into your brain.
Alter connections, encoding now,
intial sequence is loading down
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS

When I interface
Difference erase.
Nothing will remain.
Everything will change forever.
Viral subdivide
target and align
the message will survive
everything will change forever.
boohoo, haha

I am the virus
I lay a coil around your spine.
I bring the silence,
I am protection for your mind.
Alter connections, encoding now,
intital sequence is loading down
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS
Into the BIOS

When I interface
Difference erase.
Nothing will remain.
Everything will change forever.
Viral subdivide
target and align
the message will survive
everything will change forever.
boohoo, haha 


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Still Breathing:

"Home, it's not brick or stone 
Or comfort in the firelight, 
Not in that sense anyway. 
Dreams, if only I had known 
But these things always seem 
So much clearer at a distance. 

I'm walking out of this town 
I'm never going back there, 
I'm never going back there. 
I'd burn the place to the ground. 
I'm never going back there, 
I'm never going back there again. 

Words only could break that ring 
You know the words still sting 
So much harder than the blows ever did. 
Heart, though it's hot and violent 
My head is cool and quiet 
As the ashes that fall from the sky 

I'm walking out of this town 
I'm never going back there, 
I'm never going back there. 
I burn the place to the ground. 
I'm never going back there, 
I'm never going back there again. 

Now, I know this shattered feeling, 
Trampled but still breathing. 

I'm just waiting for a good day 
I'm walking out of this town 
I'm never going back there, 
I'm never going back there. 
I've burn the place to the ground. 
I'm never going back there, 
I'm never going back there again. 
Never going back there again, 
I'm never going back there again."

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Goodbye is forever-Arcadia

Sometimes you have no choice
sometimes you've got no voice to say
say if you will the words--
say if your world is so gray
we can decide this
there'll be no tears--
no tradgedy
Sure I wouldn't break and cry, if...
you walk away--
believe me

Hey, goodbye
goodbye is--forever
Hey, forever
goodbye is--forever
and ever...

Sometimes it makes no sense,
this side of cruel coincidence
caught up in our own barbed wire
to set us free
belive this--

Hey, goodbye
goodbye is--forever
Hey, forever
goodbye is--forever
and ever...  

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---A Poem By Simon LeBon of Duran Duran 

(This is a great Pagan Incanatation invoking the Moon Goddess)---

She shines with mystic beauty bright
Casting silver through the sky
Queen of heavens, Goddess of Light
She’s a sweet delight
Loneliness never fills my heart
When moonlight fills the sky
She’s my friend, She’s my fate
She’s my immortal and immaculate
Her skin is pale and lily-soft
Her hair is dark as night
Her eyes the stars, her feet the ground
And all is clothed in white
Who knows who the Moon is?
Riding through the sky
Some long forgotten magic
That will not pass us by

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Grey lady of the Sea-(Solo) by Simon LeBon

You've whispered out loud but your breeze doesn't bend
we're lying in the palm of your hand, no land we see, no place to be
The salt of your tears adds stains to our hearts
There's no long years can tear us apart
our fitures entwined with your past
because when we lie awake we'll be thinking of you,
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Bravado is all but gone Patince is down
You scared us and you turned us around
But you won't let us drown
because when we lie asleep we'll be dreaming of you
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
So answer us when we call
and say if you think we are wrong 
When life is so short we can't stay long
but you'll never be alone
becuase one day we'll return
we'll be waiting for you
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home
Blow
Grey lady blow your ships back home

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Folow in my footsteps-)(solo) Simon LeBon

Where the Earth Recieves the seeds from the sky
where the ancient fill the newborn with the breath of life
I will run once more before this body dies
I go running and I feel my muscles burning in the light
in our innocence, the world is young and strong
beating at the center of perfection is this heart of mine
Feel the mountian move to hear our song
See the children stand where they belong
Follow in my footsteps now
Follow in my footsteps 
Follow in my footsteps 
I am the lightning streak across the brooding sky
I am witness to the spirit of your sunrise
Call if your fever rage
Is in need of tenderness
Feel that I am (feel that I am Feel that I am) the Medicine
Feel the mountian move to hear our song
Hear the thunder rolling for our song
Call the wind
call the rain
call the first ones by their names
call the moon
call the sun
call the blood back to my veins

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