The Best Of

Blondie The Best Of Lyrics
1.Dreaming

(Hey, hello there
You seen us on TV
You read about us in the magazines
And you hear us on the radio
But right now, you e gonna see and hear
Blondie live)
When I met you in the restaurant you could tell I was no
debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure; 'A movie or a measure'?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
Dreaming is free
I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Real to real is living rarity
People stop and stare at me we just walk on by
We just keep on dreaming
Feet, feet, walking a two mile
Meet, meet, meet me at the turnstile
I never met him I'll never forget him
Dream, dream, even for a little while
Dream, dream, filling up an idle hour
Fade away radiate
I sit by and watch the river flow
I sit by and watch the traffic go
Imagine something of your very own; something you can have and
hold
I'd build a road in gold just to have some dreaming
Dreaming is free


2.Call Me

Color me your color baby
Color me your car
Color me your color darling
I know who you are
Come up off your color chart
I know where you e coming from
Call me, on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me, in my life
You can call me any day or night
Call me
Cover me with kisses baby
Cover me with love
Roll me in designer sheets
I l never get enough
Emotions come I don know why
Cover up love alibi
Call me, on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me, in my life
When you e ready we can share the wine
Call me
Ooh, he speaks the languages of love
Ooh, amore, chiamami, chiamami.
Oo, appelle-moi mon cherie, appelle-moi
Anytime anyplace anywhere anyway
Anytime anyplace anywhere any day, anyway
(Call me)
Take me out and show me off
And put me on the scene
Dress me in the fashions
Of the nineteen eighties
Your the man no in between
You know what your words can mean
Call me, on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me, for a ride
Call me, call me for some overtime
Call me, in my life
Call me, call me in sleep design
Call me, call me for your lovers, lovers alibi
Call me, on the line
Call me, call me, any, anytime
Call me, ohh, ohh, ahh
Call me, in my life
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me, in my life
Call me, call me for some sweet delight
Call me, ahh, ha
Call me, alright, uh-huh
Call me, any day or night
Call me, ohhh, ahhh, uh-huh
Call me, call me
Call me uh-huh
Call me


3.One Way Or Another

Lyrics:Harry/Harrison
Music:Harry/Harrison

One way or another, I'm gonna find ya'
I'm gonna get ya', get ya', get ya', get ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna win ya'
I'm gonna get ya', get ya' ,get ya', get ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna see ya'
I'm gonna meet ya', meet ya', meet ya', meet ya'
One day maybe next week, I'm gonna meet ya'
I'm gonna meet ya', I'll meet ya'
I will drive past your house and if the lights are all down
I'll see who's around
One way or another, I'm gonna find ya'
I'm gonna get ya', get ya', get ya', get ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna win ya'
I'll get ya', I'll get ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna see ya'
I'm gonna meet ya', meet ya', meet ya', meet ya'
One day maybe next week ,I'm gonna meet ya'
I'll meet ya' ah
And if the lights are all out I'll follow your bus downtown
See who's hangin' out
One way or another, I'm gonna lose ya'
I'm gonna give you the slip
A slip of the lip or another I'm gonna lose ya'
I'm gonna trick ya', I'll trick ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna lose ya'
I'm gonna trick ya', trick ya', trick ya', trick ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna lose ya'
I'm gonna give you the slip
I'll walk down the mall, stand over by the wall
Where I can see it all, find out who ya' call
Lead you to the supermarket checkout, some specials and rat food
Get lost in the crowd
One way or another I'm gonna get ya'
I'll get ya'
I'll get ya', get ya', get ya', get ya'
Where I can see it all, find out who ya' call


4.Heart of Glass

Once I had a love and it was a gas Soon turned out had a heart
of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find much o' mistrust
Love's gone behind
Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind (losing my mind)
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Much o' mistrust
Love's gone behind
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find much o' mistrust
Love's gone behind
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass
Seemed like the real thing only to find much o' mistrust
Love's gone behind
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh


5.The Tide Is High

Lyrics:Reid/Holt
Music:Reid/Holt

The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kinda girl who gives up just like that oh no
It's not the things you do, that tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things, you do to me
I'm not the kinda girl who gives up just like that oh no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'till it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl who gives up just like that oh no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Number one, number one
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait my dear 'till it's my turn
I'm not the kinda girl who gives up just like that oh no
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm gonna be your number one, your, number one


6.X Offender

Lyrics:Harry/Valentine
Music:Harry/Valentine

I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine
I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled
I laid my heart on the line
You read me my rights and then you said; 'Let's go' and nothing
more
I thought of my nights and how they were
They were filled with
I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then, you'd step in
I had to know so I asked, you just had to laugh
We sat in the night with my hands cuffed at my side
I look at your life and your style
I wanted nothing more
I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked you just had to laugh
Walking the line you were a marksman
Told me that law like wine is ageless
Public defender
You had, to admit you wanted, the love of a sex offender
I know you wouldn't go
You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in
I had to know so I asked, you just had to laugh
My vision in blue I call you from inside my cell
And in the trial you were there with, your badge and rubber
boots
I think all the time how I'm going to perpatrate love with you
And when I get out there's no doubt
I'll be sex offensive to you


7.Hanging On The Telephone

Lyrics:Jack Lee
Music:Jack Lee

I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store?
All those things she said I told you to ignore
Oh why can't we talk again?
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
It's good to hear your voice, you know it's been so long
If I don't get your calls then everything goes wrong
I want to tell you something you've known all along
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I had to interrupt and stop this conversation
Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
I'd like to talk when I can show you my affection
Oh I can't control myself!
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Oh hang there unrelieved!
(repeat)


8.Rip Her To Shreds

Lyrics:Harry/Stein
Music:Harry/Stein

Hey psst psst here she comes now
Oh you know her
Would ya look at that hair
Yeah you know her
Check out those shoes
She looks like she stepped out of the middle of somebody's blues
She looks like the Sunday comics
She thinks she's Brenda Starr
Her nose job is real atomic
All she needs is an old knife scar
Ehhh, she's so dull come on rip her to shreds
She's so dull come on rip her to shreds
Oh you know her 'Miss Groupie Supreme'
Yeah you know her 'Vera Vogue' on parade
Red eye shadow
Green mascara
Yuck
She's too much
She looks like she don't know better
A case of partial extreme
Dressed in a Robert Hall sweater
Acting like a soap opera queen
Ehhh, she's so dull come on rip her to shreds
She's so dull come on rip her to shreds
She got the nerve to tell me she's not 'on it'
But her expression is too serene
Yeah she looks like she washes with Comet
Always looking to create a scene
Ehhh, she's so dull come on rip her to shreds
She's so dull come on rip her to shreds
She's so dull
Rip her to shreds
Oh you know her 'Miss Groupie Supreme'
Yeah you know her 'Vera Vogue' on parade
Yeah you know her with the fish eating grin
She's so dull
Yeah she got the nerve to tell me
Huh she's so dull
Yeah there she goes now
She making out with King Kong
She take her boat to Hong Kong
Well bye bye sugar
And not a minute too soon


9.Rapture

(And now, here is a voice)
Toe to toe dancing very close
Body breathing almost comatose
Wall to wall people hypnotised
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in rapture
Back to back sacroiliac
Spineless movement and a wild attack
Face to face sightless solitude
And it's finger popping
Twenty four hour shopping in rapture
(The world is very different now
For man holds in his mortal hand
The power to abolish
All forms of human poverty
And all forms of human life)
Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly
DJ spinning I said 'My, My'
Flash is fast flash is cool
Francois c'est pas flashe non due
And you don't stop sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground
And out comes the man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night eating cars
You eat Cadillacs Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subaru
And you don't stop
You keep on eating cars
Then when there's no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face
Dance cheek to cheek
One to one
Man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move too slow 'cause the man from Mars is through with
cars
He's eating bars
Yeah wall to wall
Door to door
Hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture
Be pure
Take a tour through the sewer
Don't strain your brain
Paint a train
You'll be singing in the rain
Said don't stop to the punk rock
(We are here today, not a victory of party)
(Party)
(Good record)
(And now, here is a voice)
Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars where the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip hop
And you don't stop
Just blast off sure shot
Because the man from Mars stopped eating cars
And eating bars
And now he only eats guitars
Get up!
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
Ooh, oh
(repeat)


10.Atomic

Lyrics:Harry/Destri
Music:Harry/Destri

Uh huh make me tonight
Tonight make it right
Uh huh make me tonight
Tonight
Tonight
Oh uh huh make it magnificent
Tonight
Right
Oh your hair is beautiful
Oh tonight
Atomic
Tonight make it magnificent
Tonight
Make me tonight
Your hair is beautiful
Oh tonight
Atomic
Atomic
Oh


11.Picture This

Lyrics:Harry/Stein
Music:Harry/Stein

All I want is a room with a view
A sight worth seeing a vision of you
All I want is a room with a view, oooooh
I will give you my finest hour
The one I spent watching you shower
I will give you my finest hour oh yeah
All I want is a photo in my wallet
A small remembrance of something more solid
All I want is a picture of you
Picture this a day in December
Picture this freezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
If it weren't for your job at the garage
If you could only, oohh, oh
Picture this a sky full of thunder
Picture this my telephone number
One and one is what I'm telling you oh yeah
All I want is 20/20 vision
A total portrait with no omissions
All I want is a vision of you, ooooh
If you can
Picture this a day in December
Picture this freezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids
If it weren't for your job at the garage
If you could only
Picture this a sky full of thunder
Picture this my telephone number
One and one is what I'm telling you
Get a pocket computer, try to do what ya' used to do, yeah


12.In The Flesh

Lyrics:Harry/Stein
Music:Harry/Stein

Darling, darling, darling, I can't wait to see you
Your picture ain't enough
I can't wait to touch you, in the flesh
Darling, darling, darling, I can't wait to hear you
Remembering your love, is nothing without you in the flesh
Went walking one day on the lower east side
Met you with a girlfriend
You were so divine
She said; 'Hands off this one sweetie, this boy is mine'
I couldn't resist you
I'm not deaf dumb and blind
Darling, darling, darling, now you're out of town
Those girls that you run with, they bring my head down
Darling, darling, darling, watch out if I see you
'Cause if you say hello It'll mean you wanna see me in the flesh
Ooh warm and soft in the flesh
Ooh close and hot in the flesh


13.Denis

Oh, Denis
Oh, Denis
Oh, Denis
Oh, Denis
Oh when we walk
It always feels so nice
And when we talk
It seems like paradise
Denis, Denis
I so in love with you, oh-oh
You're my king and I'm in heaven every time I look at you
When you smile it's like a dream
And I'm so lucky, 'cause I found a boy like you
Denis, Denis
Oh with eyes so blue
Denis, Denis
I e got a crush on you
Denis, Denis
I so in love with you oh-oh
Denis, Denis
Oh won hold me tight
Denis, Denis
Please can we kiss all night
Denis, Denis
I so in love with you oh-oh
Oh Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you
Oh Denis
Oh Denis
Oh Denis (Bee-doo)
Oh Denis
Oh Denis
Oh Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you
Oh Denis
Oh Denis
Oh Denis (Bee-doo)
Oh Denis
Oh Denis
(repeat)
Oh Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you Denis (Bee-doo)
I in love with you


14.I'm Always Touched By Your Presence Dear

Lyrics:Valentine
Music:Valentine

Was it destiny?
I don't know yet
Was it just by chance?
Could this be kismet?
Something in my consciousness told me you'd appear
Now I'm always touched by your presence dear
When we play at cards you use an extra sense
It's really not cheating, you know?
You can read my hand I've got no defense
When you send your messages, whispered loud and clear
I'm always touched by your presence dear
Floating pass the evidence of possibilities
We could navigate together psychic frequencies
Coming into contact with outer entities
We could entertain each one with our theosophy
Stay awake at night and count your REM's
When you're talking with your super friends
Levitating lovers in the secret stratosphere
I am still in touch with your presence dear
I am still in touch with your presence dear


15.Union City Blue

Lyrics:Harry/Harrison
Music:Harry/Harrison

Oh-ho what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue
Tunnel to the other side
It becomes daylight
I say he's mine
Oh power, passion plays a double hand
Union, union, union city man
Arrive climb up four flights to the orange side
Rearrange my mind (lines)
In turquoise Union, Union, Union City blue
Skyline, passion, Union City blue
Power, passion, plays a double hand
Union, union, union city man
I say he's mine
I have a plan
I say he's my Union City man
Oh-oh what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue


16.The Hardest Part

Lyrics:Harry/Harrison
Music:Harry/Harrison

Twenty five tons of hardened steel, rolls on no ordinary wheel
Inside the armored car, ride two big armed guards
In a bulletproof vest, shatterproof glass, overdrive we're gonna
pass
Twenty five tons of hardened steel, rolls on no ordinary wheel
The hardest part of the armored guard
Big man of steel behind the steering wheel
Nitro and acetylene open la machine
No short heist no overnight big money
Take ya to Brazil
Bulletproof vest, shatterproof glass, overdrive we're gonna pass
Time bomb, greasy mob, count down ,hurry up, come on
The hardest part of the armored guard
Big man of steel behind the steering wheel
In a wire mesh cage with a twelve gauge
Radio - we're coming fast
Ooh need to feel some hardened steel
Deliver the big money deal
Of the armored guard here's what I heard
I'll tell you that he will no matter what you feel
The hardest part of the armored guard
Big man of steel behind the steering wheel
Twenty five tons of hardened steel deliver the big money deal


17.Island Of Lost Souls

Lyrics:Harry/Stein
Music:Harry/Stein

In Babylon on the boulevard of broken dreams my will power at
the lowest ebb
Oh what can I do?
Oh buccaneer!
Can ya help me put my truck in gear?
Can ya take me far away from here save my soul from sin?
'You wanna get away?
You've had it man?
Nothing's going right so come sit on the sands of the island!
Island of lost souls
No luxuries No, no!
Amenities Too dull your senses Oh oh!
Only primitive! Hey, hey 'really get away!' is what he said
Where did he go?
I'm tired of waiting here for him
Where can he be?
He's not with me!
Where did he go?
What will I do alone?
Why did he run, run away from me?
'The sky is blue the sea is warm and clear and golden sands
Are calling out to you Inviting Make a new man outta you
You can come for a while come with a friend forget about work
start all over again
Let the real you through Here's what we do
Where did he go?
I'm tired of waiting here for him
Where can he be?
He's not with me!
Where did he go?
What will I do alone?
Why did he run, run away from me?
Oh-oh, oh-oh!
Oh buccaneer!
Can ya help me put my truck in gear?
Can ya take me far away from here save my soul from sin?
No luxuries, no, no!
Amenities Too dull your senses Oh oh!
Only primitive hey hey really get away
Island of lost souls
Eee ya, ya, ya, ya, ya! Island of Lost Souls
Iya iya iya iya island Iya island
Island of lost so oh, oh, oh, oh
Iya iya Island of lost souls Forget about work
Forget about work! Start all over again!
Oh oh oh oh Island of lost souls
Island of lost so oh, oh, oh, oh
Far away from Babylon oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, on the boulevard
Oh oh Of broken dreams
Island of lost so oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!


18.Sunday Girl(French Version)

Lyrics:Stein
Music:Stein

Hey, J'ai vu ton mec avec une autre fille
Il semblait dans un autre monde
Cours te cacher Sunday Girl
Quand je t'ai revu j'ai did? Si ton amour ait pareil au mien je
Sunday girl
Dhe-toi, dhe-toi et attend
Toute la semaine absent et pourtant j'attend
J'ai le cafard, je t'en prie viens voir
Ce que ton amour reprente pour pour moi
Dhe-toi, dhe-toi et attend
Toute la semaine absent et pourtant j'attend
J'ai le cafard, je t'en pris viens voir
Ce que ton amour reprente pour moi
I got the blues