Lyrics to Knee Deep In The Hoopla
KNEE DEEP IN THE HOOPLA


WE BUILT THIS CITY
SARA
TOMORROW DOESN'T MATTER TONIGHT
ROCK MYSELF TO SLEEP
DESPERATE HEART
PRIVATE ROOM
BEFORE I GO
HEARTS OF THE WORLD (WILL UNDERSTAND)
LOVE RUSTS


WE BUILT THIS CITY

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Say you don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Someone always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh then we just lost the beat

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball in two rock guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on another gorgeous sunny Saturday, not seein' that bumper to bumper traffic)

Don't you remember ('member)('member)

(What's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

(We built, we built this city) built this city (We built, we built this city)

(Repeats out)


SARA

Go now, don't look back, we've drawn the line
Move on, it's no good to go back in time

I'll never find another girl like you, for happy endings it takes two
We're fire and ice, the dream won't come true

Chorus:
Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes
Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes

Danger in the game when the stakes are high
Branded, my heart was branded while my senses stood by

I'll never find another girl like you, for happy endings it takes two
We're fire and ice, the dream won't come true

Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes
Sara, Sara, no time is a good time, oh
Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes
Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes

('Cos Sara) Loved me like no one has ever loved me before
(And Sara) Hurt me, no one could ever hurt me more
(And Sara) Sara, nobody loved me anymore

(Guitar solo)

I'll never find another girl like you
We're fire and ice, the dream won't come true

Sara, Sara, no time is a good time, oh

Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes
Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes

Sara, Sara, -- storms -- are brewin' in your eyes
Sara, Sara, no time is a good time, no
Ooh Sara, why did it, why did it, why did it all fall apart
Sara, Sara...


TOMORROW DOESN'T MATTER TONIGHT

You already made up your mind
Just who you're looking for and what kind of love you'll find
Holding out for a dream
But I can see you're lonely, living isn't only a fantasy

I don't fit into your plans, but you can reach for my hands

Chorus:
Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, I'm holding you and it feels so right
I know you didn't plan it this way, let yourself go if you want to stay
It's all right, 'cos tomorrow doesn't matter tonight

Really hate to see you confused
I want no promises, so what have you got to lose
When you look in my eyes
Don't think about tomorrow, this feeling isn't meant to be analyzed

Why should you be all alone 'til your heart finds a home

Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, I'm holding you and it feels so right
I know you didn't plan it this way, let yourself go if you want to stay
It's all right, 'cos tomorrow doesn't matter tonight

(Guitar solo)

(Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, tomorrow) Let yourself go!
(Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, tomorrow)

Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, I'm holding you and it feels so right
I know you didn't plan it this way, let yourself go if you want to stay
It's all right

Tomorrow doesn't matter at all, I'm holding you and it feels so right
I know you didn't plan it this way, let yourself go if you want to stay
It's all right, tomorrow doesn't matter tonight

Tonight!


ROCK MYSELF TO SLEEP

Yeah!

Chorus:
Every night I rock myself to sleep, every night I rock myself to sleep
Every night I rock myself to sleep, thinkin' about you, thinkin' about you
Every night I rock myself to sleep, every night I rock myself to sleep
Every night I rock myself to sleep, thinkin' about you, thinkin' about you


And I wanna say, it's not the same since you went away
And it's not right, you're not here with me tonight
And it's a crime, just lying here, wasting my precious time
I'm so lonely and I'm so blue, thinkin' 'bout the things I could do to you

Every night I rock myself to sleep, every night I rock myself to sleep
Every night I rock myself to sleep, thinkin' about you, thinkin' about you

And I wanna know, don't you see how you hurt me so
Going out of my head, yeah I'm here in this empty bed
And it's a crime, whoa, just lying here, wasting my precious time
I'm so lonely, baby, I'm so blue
Thinkin' 'bout all the things I could do to you

Every night I rock myself to sleep, every night I rock myself to sleep
Every night I rock myself to sleep, thinkin' about you, thinkin' about you

(Guitar solo) (Rock, myself to sleep)

(Chorus repeats out)


DESPERATE HEART

One night, one empty room, one man gettin' over you
One star, one lonely moon, I make a wish, I know will never come true
You call my name, and you beg me to hold you again
But the truth remains, I'm only a fool who can't help but pretend

Chorus:
It's all over but I'm holding on, I can't let go until the love is gone
It's all over but I keep holding on with a desperate heart
With my desperate heart

Some nights, I try in my mind, I see myself learning someone new
Still I know, I'm wasting my time, no one can take the place of you
So I close my eyes, I swear I feel you here by my side
But it's all only a lie, I need to believe for my heart to survive

It's all over but I'm holding on, I can't let go until the love is gone
It's all over but I keep holding on with a desperate heart
With my desperate heart, I keep holding on

(Guitar solo)

All this time I've been drowning in hopeless illusions I'm keeping inside
That someday you'll walk out of the shadows and back into my life

It's all over but I'm holding on, I can't believe your love for me is gone
It's all over but I keep holding on (With a desperate heart)
Yeah with my desperate heart, I can't let go until the love is gone
(All over but I'm holding on) I keep holding on
(All over but I'm holding on) I can't believe your love for me is gone
(All over but I keep holding on)
(All over but I'm holding on)
(All over but I keep holding on)...


PRIVATE ROOM

Know what she's done to me, and I have been around
She sure can bring you pleasure, and she can bring you down
I should not tell you, if you want to learn
To take a tip from me now, don't turn your back on her

When she's promising you pleasure all night long
She may turn around and cut you to the bone

Chorus:
In a private room, she'll dance for you
In a private room, with just her high heel shoes
In a private room, she'll take your heart
And with you under her control, she will leave you all alone, all alone

I was a midnight runner on her side of town
I used to get there early, to watch her dance around
She had this way of movin', to tantalize a crowd
When she lays eyes on you, you'd better watch out

While she's promising you pleasure all night long
She may turn around and cut you to the bone

In a private room, she'll dance for you
In a private room, with just her high heel shoes
In a private room, she'll take your heart
And when you're under her control, she will leave you all alone, all alone

She's no angel

Late at night she might get lonely, I know what she really needs
Someone who can hold her all night long, all night long, in a private room

In a private room, she'll dance for you, oh yeah
In a private room, with just her high heel shoes, not too much more
In a private room

In a private room, she'll dance, she'll dance, dance for you

Oh!


BEFORE I GO

Turn me around, don't let me walk out forever
If there's a chance, the slightest chance, darling never say never
You know it's out of my hands, 'cos I'm in way over my head

But it won't take me long, you could blink and I'll be gone
In your dark oversight, there must be one last breath of our love

Chorus:
Now if there's something I can say, to make you see it half my way
Just tell me once, before I go
And if there's something I can do, to make it all back up to you
Just tell me once, before I go, before I go

Angel of pride, girl won't you come and release me
Is it such a crime, oh such a crime, to surrender so easy
You know how hard I've tried, well maybe I've tried too damn hard
But it won't take you long, you can break this liaison

And if there's something I can say, to make you see it half my way
Just tell me once, before I go
And if there's something I can do, to make it all back up to you
Just tell me once, before I go,

I don't know where this road ever ends
The point of existence, your die-hard resistance
And I don't know where the shoulder begins
And gravity crumbles, tenacity tumbles

(Guitar solo)

But it won't take me long, you could blink and I'll be gone
In your dark oversight, there must be one last breath of our life

If there's something I can say, to make you see it half my way
Just tell me once, before I go
And if there's something I can do, to make it all back up to you
Just tell me once, before I go,

And if there's something I can say, to make you, make you see it half my way
(Just tell me once), before I go, before I go

Ooh tell me once before I go
If there, if there's something I can say to you
To make you see it half my way, tell me, tell me
If there's something I can say, oh now baby, to make you turn around...


HEARTS OF THE WORLD (WILL UNDERSTAND)

Give me a minute, give me some time, give me a second to make up my mind
Just wait a moment, I want a chance to think it over

You say you can't wait forever, but something holds me back
Between the two of us, we can't decide, just where the answer lies

Chorus:
You know hearts of the world will understand, you know they will
Hearts of the world will understand

I feel a pressure I can't resist, intoxicated from the first kiss
Over the limit, your invitations leave me breathless

Although I can't wait much longer, something holds me back
Between the two of us the tensions rise, this feeling won't subside

You know hearts of the world will understand, you know they will
Hearts of the world will understand

My mind is torn between right and wrong, the two extremes and I hate it
I won't give in to you, just 'cos you want me too, ooh, life's so complicated
Ah but given time I might change my mind, we just have to face it
Between the two of us, we can't decide, just where the answer lies

(Guitar solo)

Although I can't wait much longer, something holds me back
Between the two of us the tensions rise, this feeling won't subside

You know hearts of the world will understand, you know they will
Hearts of the world will understand - you know they will

Hearts of the world will understand, hearts of the world will understand
Hearts of the world will understand, hearts of the world will understand
(repeats out)


LOVE RUSTS

Here I am now, somewhere on the highway
I just checked into some low-rent room
I call my service back in San Francisco
Tell my landlord, I'll be home by June

But what about me, boy, back in California
What about the blue-eyed girl you call a child
You held me for ransom, like some beautiful bandit
Going down for the third time, drowning in your life

Chorus:
Love rusts when it rains on romance
Thunder rolls in on a clear blue day
We used to shine like the eye of a diamond
But something happened, the weather changed

I should have known better, you read just like a road map
Staying in one place doesn't interest you at all
Maybe I don't move as fast as I used to
But youth is something we can't hold on too long

Love rusts when it rains on romance
Hailstones heavy on this empty heart
It crowds the window where I used to watch you
Down by the shoreline in the dark

Love rusts when it rains on romance
Thunder rolls in on a clear blue day
We used to shine like the eye of a diamond
But something happened, the weather changed

Something happened and the weather changed

Something happened, then the weather changed

Ooh, I tell you we used to shine (how love rusts)
(We used to shine, how love rusts)
We used to shine
Ooh, we used to shine, you know
(We used to shine, how love rusts, we used to shine, how love rusts)
(We used to shine, how love rusts, we used to shine, how love rusts)

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