Rio

Duran Duran Rio Lyrics
1.Rio

Wow!
Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird of paradise.
Cherry ice cream smile I suppose it's very nice
With a step to your left and a flick to the right
You catch that mirror way out west
You know you're something special and you look like you're the
best.

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand.
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land.
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande.

I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on T.V.
Two, of a billion stars, it means so much to me
Like a birthday or a pretty view
But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you

Hey now (wow), look at that. Did he really run you down?
At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive you make me feel
alive alive alive

I'll take my chance 'cause luck is on my side
I tell you something I know what you're thinking
I tell you something, I know what you're thinking

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twists across a dusty land.
And when she shines she really shows you all she can.
Oh Rio Rio dance across the Rio Grande
Her name is Rio she don't need to understand
I might find her if I'm looking like I can
Oh Rio Rio hear them shout across the land
From mountains in the North down to the Rio Grande


2.My own way

I saw you at the airace yesterday
April showers get out of my way.
Fear of flying no not me

I'm never bothered what you say
Someone's kid just lives for today
It ain't your problem anyway

'Cos I've got my own way
I can find my own way
'Cos I've got my own way

No. I public figure what a pain
Just puts another rattle in your brain
Take another green but it's not the same

Now you're on the Sandlane everyday
Dancing with the bulls in any old way
Running like a fox to keep up with me.
I'm on 45th between 6th & Broadway
7UP between 6th & Broadway.


3.Lonely in your nightmare

Even on the darkest night when empty promise means empty hand
And soldiers coming home like shadows turning red
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
and it's silent in your stone field let me in

Must be lucky weather when you find the kind of wind that you
need
C'mon 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 you're 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 it's silent in your stone field let me in)
(and you're lonely in your nightmare let me in)
(Because you've waited through the ice age let me in)
Because you're so lonely in your nightmare let me in
and it's cold out on your stone range let me in
Because there's heat beneath your winter let me in


4.Hungry like the wolf

Ha ha!
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
And I'm hungry like the wolf

Dark in the city, night is a wire
Steam in the subway, earth is afire
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
Woman you want me give me a sign
And catch my breathing even closer behind
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do

In touch with the ground
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Smell like I sound I'm lost in a crowd
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Straddle the line in discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mouth is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf

Stalked in the forest too close to hide
I'll be upon you by the moonlight side
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
High blood drumming on your skin it's so tight
You feel my heart I'm just a moment behind
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do

In touch with the ground
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Strut on a line it's discord and rhyme
I howl and I whine I'm after you
Mouth is alive all running inside
And I'm hungry like the wolf

Hungry like the wolf
Hungry like the wolf
Hungry like the wolf

Burning the ground I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
I smell like I sound, I'm lost and I'm found
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Strut on a line it's discord and rhyme
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Mouth is alive with juices like wine
And I'm hungry like the wolf

Burning the ground I break from the crowd
I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Scent and a sound, I'm lost and I'm found
And I'm hungry like the wolf
Strut on a line it's discord and rhyme
I howl and I whine I'm after you
Mouth is alive all running inside
And I'm hungry like the wolf

Strut on a line it's discord and rhyme
I howl and I whine I'm after you
Mouth is alive


5.Hold back the rain?

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 bet you've had that feeling too
You just can't laugh all the time

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

So what if the words ain't rhyming
Did you think that it's just a game
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


6.New Religion

I've been now sauntering out and down the path sometime
Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew
Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in 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 holding 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 beat's in time and it's us
who makes the
noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself, it's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't 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 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 holding 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 beat's in time and it's us
who makes the
noise

I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself, it's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself, it's a new religion
Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners in regulation hats 'n
scarves 'n things
Walking in formation down the lane, they carry their cross, make
a church
bell ring
Army majors pull a mean cool truth, there lying in a swimming
pool
Searching for the undeniable truth that a man is just a fool

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 holding 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 beat's in time and it's us
who makes the
noise

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


7.Sound of Thunder

I've been in this grass here for the last 10 hours
My clothes are dirty but my mouth isn't dry
How does it happen? Does it fly through the air?
Oh I gave up asking days away
I gave up asking
Days away

And now I'm lying here waiting for the Sound of Thunder
Waiting for the Sound of Thunder
Here I am, I'm a dotted line
Cut the corner, stick me to your door
I'm the man who stepped off the path
and I just lie here
It's what I was made for

And now my eyes are closing, but I still feel the land
Leaning out for the touch of my hand
The world spins so fast that I might fly off
The world spins so fast that I might fly off
The world spins so fast, I might fly off

Waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder
I'm waiting for the Sound of Thunder


8.Last chance on the stairway

I don't remember quite how I met you wasn't long ago
Just get a picture of sun,
in your eyes. The waves in your hair
Maybe it's something said in a movie
or you could've said last night.
Just took me out on a limb
And I don't really know what I'm doing here.

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beat's so in time can you look at me
I'm out of reach I'll talk if it feels right
I've had my last chance on the stairway.

Funny it's just like a scene out of Voltaire twisting out of
sight
'Cause when all the curtains are pulled back
We'll turn and see the circles we traced
Ain't no game... when you're playing with fire
It doesn't seem right that we fight
So the party runs on all night

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beat's so in time can you look at me
I'm out of reach I'll talk if it feels right
So nervous to say tell me can't you see
If you want I'll fall out forever
I can't say no more... bebe dance with me
And please don't say leave till later
I've had my last chance on the stairway.

Wonder why...
what makes me rise so high
Maybe it's something they put in your perfume
Or the look in your eyes
It could be the atmosphere sinking
I don't even know what you're thinking
Don't even know what you're drinking
But it keep this heaven alive


9.Save a prayer

You saw me standing by the wall, corner of a main street
And the lights are flashing on your window sill
All alone ain't much fun, so you're looking for the thrill
And you know just what it takes and where to go

Don't save a prayer for me now, save it 'til the morning after
No, don't say a prayer for me now, save it 'til the morning
after

Feel the breeze deep on the inside, look you down into the well
If you can, you'll see the world in all his fire
Take a chance (like all dreamers can't find another way)
You don't have to dream it all, just live a day

Don't say a prayer for me now, save it 'til the morning after
No, don't say a prayer for me now, save it 'til the morning
after
Save it 'til the morning after, save it till the morning after

Pretty looking road, I try to hold the rising floods that fill
my skin
Don't ask me why I'll keep my promise, I'll melt the ice
And you wanted to dance so I asked you to dance
But fear is in your soul
Some people call it a one night stand
But we can call it paradise

Don't say a prayer for me now, save it 'til the morning after
No, don't say a prayer for me now, save it 'til the morning
after
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after
Save it 'til the morning after

Save a prayer 'til the morning after


10.The chauffeur

Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving
All looking for a new place to drive
You sit beside me, so newly charming
Sweating dew drops glisten, freshing your side

The sun slips down bedding heavy behind
The front of your dress all shadowy lined
And the droning engine throbs in time
With your beating heart
Sing Blue Silver

Way down the lane away, living for another day
The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze
Swim seagull in the sky towards that hollow western isle
My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze

The sun slips down bedding heavy behind
The front of your dress all shadowy lined
And the droning engine throbs in time
With your beating heart
Sing Blue Silver

And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling
What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind
To tear out from your eyes with a word to stiffen brooding lies
But I'll only watch you leave me further behind

The sun slips down bedding heavy behind
The front of your dress all shadowy lined
And the droning engine throbs in time
With your beating heart
Sing Blue Silver