Shake It Up (1981)

Since You're Gone

Lead Vocal: Ric Ocasek

since you're gone the nights are getting strange

since you're gone nothing's making sense

since you're gone i stumble in the shade

since you're gone everything's in perfect tense

i can't help it when you fall apart

i can't help it i guess you better start

that is forgetting about you

since you're gone the nights are getting strange

since you're gone i'm throwing it all away

i can't help it everything's a mess

i can't help it you're so treacherous

when it comes to tenderness

since you're gone

since you're gone i miss the peak sensation

since you're gone i took the big vacation

since you're gone i never feel sedate

since you're gone the moonlight ain't so great

Shake It Up

Lead Vocal: Ric Ocasek

dance all night play all day

don't let nothing get in the way

dance all night keep the beat

don't you worry 'bout two left feet

just shake it up

dance all night get real loose

you don't need no bad excuse

dance all night with anyone

don't let nobody pick your fun

just shake it up

dance all night go go go

dance all night get real low

go all night get real hot

shake it up with all you've got

dance all night whirl your hair

make the night cats stop and stare

dance all night go to work

do the move with quirky jerk

just shake it up

I'm Not the One

Lead Vocal: Ric Ocasek

i'm not the one

that you'll be shooting for

i'm not the one

who's coming back for more

you know why

we've been through this so many times

you know why

it's never clear it's pantomime

going round and round

'cause you can't get on your feet

going round and round

still taking all the heat

going round and round

never touching down

i'm not the one

whose memory you still keep

i'm not the one

who's talking in your sleep

you know why

i don't have to tell you twice

you know why

i knew when you weren't so nice

i'm not the one

that you'll be breaking in

i'm not the one

who could be taken in

you know why

i tried and tried to crack the shell

you know why

when you fake it's hard to tell

Victim of Love

Lead Vocal: Ric Ocasek

she can take you

anywhere she wants to

she can show you things

that make you weak

she can make you think

that you're the only one

she can steal your heart

with just one wink

she'll hold you tight she won't let go

she'll make it last put on a show

she'll tell you things

that you should not know

'cause you're the victim

the victim of love

framed by the night

touched by the glove

you're the victim

the victim of love

she can freeze you

when she doesn't want to talk

she can work it on in

she can go take a walk

she can have it or leave it

she can do the skidoo

you better believe it

she's having fun on you

when she's calling you out

you better run to her

when she's just falling out

you better care

when she needs somebody

you better run to her

when she gives in too soon

it's just not fair

Cruiser

Lead Vocal: Benjamin Orr

big city noise disappears

sucker punch is in your heart

light is reason light is due

my shape is shapeless in your suit

chrome red eyeballs reflect and roll

simple sun is slowly sinking

roman shoes and pretty hats

glitter bombs that beat the beat

you comb the night 'cause you're a cruiser

and you never get enough

when you're cruising down the street

and you're chasing off the heat

when you're on the moonlight run

floating jets and big vignettes

get the treatment grab a cab

set aside the screaming fish

tell the world why you're so glad

flip the switches pull the plug

you always wait for better news

you need a hit you need a slug

you don't easily get amused

A Dream Away

Lead Vocal: Ric Ocasek

five in the morning all alone in your room

door locked tight private moon

no faces to face no one to blame

nonexistent inside this frame

take it on the run

there's a cheetah walking high

liquid whispers dragonfly

charleston booties painted toes

drop the knot ivory soul

take it on the run

the good life is just a dream away

choke emotion lose control

chicken counters fill your bowls

the lonely crowd is decomposed

lost obsession future froze

This Could Be Love

Lead Vocal: Benjamin Orr

oh yea i got time

oh yea i guess i'm doing fine

till i met you in the dark

i was chasing little sparks

you were slinked and dressed in pink

here with someone you wouldn't think

is this the kill is this the thrill

i'll wait until you say

this could be love

oh yea i got hope

oh yea it comes and goes

till i met you things were easy

till i met you things were sleazy

doesn't matter once i told

you were someone i could hold

oh yea i need you

oh yea more than you want me to

till i met you in the dark

i was chasing little sparks

when you think you're going to sink

comes someone you wouldn't think

Think It Over

Lead Vocal: Benjamin Orr

everytime i see you i got to jump and shout

i haven't got a clue to what it's all about

i never had a dream that looked so much like you

i'd do anything that you want me to

think it over think it over

there's nothing you could do to make me want to stop

think it over think it over

everytime you run around it makes me want to pop

what's it going to take to make you change your line

what's it's going to take to get your valentine

how can i be sure that you're the one for me

i only know that you wanted to be free

Maybe Baby

Lead Vocal: Ric Ocasek

i heard stories about you

i'd like to think that they were true

i did not know you'd be like that

with those surprises under hat

be my maybe baby

when you dance between the stars

in the night late sweet and dark

turn them over one by one

you don't need to jump the gun

when the night is feeling flush

when the night is all a hush

electric look electic blue

keep one dream that won't come true

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