break every rule

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compilations

1994	2004

all the best | collected recordings - sixties to nineties

sampler

with track: paradise is here

1987	1987	1987	1988	1988

Formel Eins : space hits [1987] ■ mega hits [vol.] 2 [1988] ■ pop highlights [1987] ■ pop on the top 4/87 [1987] ■ Sassaricando - Internacional [1988] ■ starlights - Die Sieger der Berolina '87 [1987]

lyrics

9

overnight sensation
(Mark Knopfler)

Well I guess I been a long time
Workin’ in the backline
Tryin’ to make a song fit
You know it never was mine
Two dollar hi-heel shoes and a honky tonk dress
In the rhythm and the soul revues
I had a dream I guess
Yes, yes

And I had to beat the stagefright
I had to cry all night
Tryin’ to make a song fit
You know it never was right
I said “girl – get up and get out of this mess
you’re gonna be an overnight sensation
be an overnight success”

And all through the badlands
Rockin’ on the bandstands
It’s so hard in the barbands
When there’s no-one there who I understands
And Lady luck’ll pass you by
And she’ll never say “yes
you’re gonna be an overnight sensation
gonna be an overnight success”

Well I used to be a sweet little rock ’n’ roll singer
Chasin’ after fortune and fame
What’s your story? What’s your payola?
Me I’m in the music game

Well I guess I been a long time
Workin’ in the backline
Tryin’ to make a song fit
You know it never was mine
What can I tell you
I made a break I guess
Now I’m an overnight sensation
I’m an over overnght
I’m an over overnight success

Rondor Music (London) Ltd/Strait Jackett Songs Ltd

10

paradise is here
(Paul Brady)

You say you want to live some
Move out into the fast lane
You say you need excitement
To make you come alive
Some place a million miles from
The shadows that surround you

I look for your attention
You’re lost out in the future
Where lovers ask no questions
And shadows never fall
Some pilgrim bound for paradise
No compromise

But paradise is here
It’s time to stop your crying
The future is the moment
And not some place out there
Tonight I need your love
Don’t talk about tomorrow
Right now I need your loving
Right now give it to me
Right now I want your loving
Right now – now now now now

You talk about your new plans
To move on up the stairway
You dream about the high life
That’s waiting for you there
A world of fame and fortune
That’s just around the corner
But I don’t need no high life
To make me feel a woman
And I don’t need to reach for
No castles in the sky
Just put your arms around me
Devour me

‘cos paradise is here
It’s time to stop your crying
The future is the moment
And not some place out there
Tonight I need your love
Don’t talk about tomorrow
Right now I need your loving
Right now give it to me
Right now I want your loving
Right now

Rondor Music (London) Ltd