Greatest Hits

Kim Wilde Greatest Hits Lyrics
1.2-6-5-8-0

Written:ricky & marty wilde

I watch a man sitting down the park
The flashy suit manufactured by the makers
He's got a pen and he circles an add
It makes him laugh 'cos he's reading dirty papers

2-6-5-8-0

She doesn't know but she's getting his call
He's talking straight but he wants it in a strange way
She combs her hair doesn't worry at all
He could be mad but its just another pay day

2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0 oh, dial it if you want to know me

She likes to live on the poor side of town
She's shacking down with a guy from west guiana
The boys around always look at the ground
Oh, what they'd give for a night with that piranha

2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0 oh, dial it if you want to know me

She doesn't have to make her money that way
She's such a pretty young girl
I guess they love it 'cos you hear when they stay
They cry oh, oh, oh

This guy arrives looking scared as a rat
He needs her love but he wants it like a brother
Three hours later he crawls out on his knees
She's laughing loud 'cos he's calling for his mother

2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0 oh, dial it if you want to know me

2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0
2-6-5-8-0 oh, dial it if you want to know me


2.Action City

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Suddenly there's a shadow on a nation
Suddenly it's a changing situation
Fear is on the face of every tiger as the jungle grows
Suddenly people running never walking
Nobody wants to know, nobody's talking
But rushing through the air
I feel the wind of change about to blow

Chorus:
Watch out tonight, the dogs are down in action city
There out tonight, there's trouble down in action city

Watching the police running from the station
Suddenly flashing lights and confrotation
The devil walks the streets
Just as the flames of hell begin to grow

Chorus

It's a brave new world, it's a brave new world
Such a brave new world
Well i don't know where it's going
But it's heading for some changes i know

People are wondering why there's such confusion
There is a face of youth with disillusion
Don't look for the reasons
They were sprayed on every wall i know

Chorus

It's a brave new world, it's a brave new world
Such a brave new world
Well i don't know where it's going
But it's heading for some changes i know


3.Cambodia

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Well he was thailand based
She was an airforce wife
He used to fly weekends
It was the easy life
But then it turned around
And he began to change
She didn't wonder then
She didn't think it strange
But then he got a call
He had to leave that night
He couldn't say too much
But it would be alright
He didn't need to pack
They'd meet the next night
He had a job to do
Flying to cambodia

And as the nights passed by
She tried to trace the past
The way he used to look
The way he used to laugh
I guess she'll never know
What got inside his soul
She couldn't make it out
Just couldn't take it all
He had the saddest eyes
The girl had ever seen
He used to cry some nights
As though he lived a dream
Ans as she held him close
He used to search her face
As though she knew the truth
Lost inside cambodia

But then a call came through
They said he'd soon be home
She had to pack a case
And they would make a rendez-vous
But now a year has passed
And not a single word
And all the love she knew
Has disappeared out in the haze
Cambodia - don't cry now - no tears now

And now the years have passed
With not a single word
But there is only one thing left
I know for sure
She won't see his face again


4.Can You Come Over

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Darlin', can you come over
Can you come over
Meet me tonight

I've been sitting here alone
Looking down this telephone
Thinking things i'd really love to say to you
Oh, it's true
I can't get enough of how you love
That's the truth i swear to you

Can you come over
Can you come over - think of what we could do
If you decide to, if you're alive to
What i want from a guy like you

Darlin, can you come over
Can you come over - meet me tonight

Watching movies on tv
Never does a thing for me
I get bored just living here and hanging 'round
Toss a coin it's heads or tails
If i run a bath or do my nails
What's it really matter when i'm far away from you

If you come over
If you come over - i could be good for you
Wouldn't you please me
It could be easy
Just stay here for a night or two

Darlin', can you come over
Can you come over - meet me tonight

I'm the girl who waits for you
I'm the girl who needs you too
I'm the girl who wants you tonight

Darlin', can you come over
Can you come over
Meet me tonight


5.Chaos At The Airport

I was driving out to meet you that night
Getting reports on the weather
You were coming home, had caught the last flight
But we would soon be together
You'd been gone such a long time
When my radio gave the warning

Chorus:
Chaos at the airport tonight, something ain' t right
No-one can land in the weather
Planes are crashing out of control
And all in all i think you've lost him forever

Looking up i started searching the skies
Was he still up there above me
Was the man who'd waved a million goodbyes
Now just a stranger who loved me
But as i drove to the terminal sign
I heard a great loud explosion

Chorus

I ran so, so fast but if i could only reach you
But you're so far away, you're oh so far away
Landing lights approaching
Out from a sea of darkness
But you're so far away, you're oh so far away

Like a bird of death it hovered around
Until the wheels started turning
Then i saw the jets just touching the ground
And i could see it recurring
And as i looked for the last time
My radio gave the warning


6.Chequered Love

Written:ricky & marty wilde

You say everything's alright
I say nothing can go right, yeah
Oh what a game you can play
Sad days add to confusion
Sad ways end in dillusion, yeah
That's the name of the game

Well i know your love is rough
And the road you take is tough
But i just can't get enough
Chequered love

Touch me, do what you want to
Say no, then, i just need you
Babe, your gonna drive me insane
You are man for all seasons
You are man with no reasons, yeah
You're the man with no pain

Well i know your love is rough
And the road you take is tough
But i just can't get enough
Chequered love

Oh i can't let go
Oh i can't let go
'cos i need you so tonight

You say everything's alright
I say nothing can go right, yeah
Oh what a game you can play
Sad days add to confusion
Sad ways end in dillusion, yeah
That's the name of the game

Well i know your love is rough
And the road you take is tough
But i just can't get enough
Chequered love

Oh i can't let go
Oh i can't let go
'cos i need you so tonight


7.Ego

Written:ricky & marty wilde

All the time i try to reason with you
But i just can't seem to make you understand
Nothing seems to ever really get through
Can't you feel emotions like any other man

You never cared for anyone (anyone)
You never cared for anyone (at all)
Any love that you've ever given me
You only gave me for your ego

Look at how you wanted all of my tears
Any time you felt you needed security
All the nights you let me out on my own
That's the thing that you just can't give back to me

You never cared for anyone (anyone)
You never cared for anyone (at all)
Any love that you've ever given me
You only gave me for your ego

You're only plan it seems is look after number one
You just can't comprehend what it means to love someone

Stay away, get lost, get out of my life
Can't you see the changes now and at last i'm free
Any plans i have just don't include you
And that's the one thing you won't take from me

You never cared for anyone (anyone)
You never cared for anyone (at all)
Any love that you've ever given me
You only gave me for your ego

Every time i tried to reason with you
But it seemed that i never made you understand
Nothing ever seemed to ever really get through
Can't you feel emotions like any other man

You never cared for anyone (anyone)
You never cared for anyone (at all)
Any love that you've ever given me
You only gave me for your ego


8.Everything We Know

Written:ricky & kim wilde

Don't bring your gun 'round here
Don't need you mouthing off your fear
It touches all you can build a wall
We all have tasted tears

Everything we know
Everything we know
Everything we know
Everywhere we go

We walked along the beach
Once lovers now we're out of reach
Windy skies, they kissed me goodbye
It takes experience to teach

Everything we know
Everything we know
Everything we know
Everywhere we go

Nobody laughed today
I went to watch the children play
Their smiles and mine were frozen in time
I'll just remember them that way

Everything we know
Everything we know
Everything we know
Everywhere we go


9.Falling Out

Written:ricky & marty wilde

What can i say now after all is said and done
You cut me up in pieces when the shooting first begun
What did i do to you to make you turn away
'cause now there's nothing left for me
There's nothing i can say

Now it's too late you feeling sorry
You'll never change
And there's nothing you can do about it

Falling out - why did you do it to me, yeah
Falling out - cutting me up into pieces
Falling out - you know that you upset me, yeah
Falling out - you know that i'm so hurt baby

You said you loved me, i believed you for a while
You sure could fool the angels
When you use that painted smile
I should have known that it was too good to be true
But now that it's all over, you know i won't forget you

Now it's too late you feeling sorry
You'll never change
And there's nothing you can do about it

Falling out - why did you do it to me, yeah
Falling out - cutting me up into pieces
Falling out - you know that you upset me, yeah
Falling out - you know that i'm so hurt baby

So now it's over and there's nothing left to say
The flame that burned within my heart
Now slowly fades away
So don't you ever think of knocking at my door
Just turn the light out, close your eyes
And think of me no more

And it's too late to say you're sorry
You'll never change
And there's nothing you can do about it

Falling out - why did you do it to me, yeah
Falling out - cutting me up into pieces
Falling out - you know that you upset me, yeah
Falling out - you know that i'm so hurt baby


10.Just A Feeling

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Stand at the mirror and look at my face
See all the changes i know somethings wrong
But when i think back to the love that we had
I look for escape 'cos i know that it's gone

I always looked on the touch of our love
As a soft stream running over me
But i always knew there would be a way out
But for you, not for me
Just a felling

Now all i see is the trace of a smile
Memories forgotten a long time ago
Never believed i could see you this way
I don't know what changed you, i'll just never know

I used to dream there was someone around
Who was there just to watch over me
Out in the crowds there was someone around
Who was meant just for me

Friends say 'impossible'
But i say it's got to be

Just a feeling

Repeat to fade


11.Kids In America

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Looking out a dirty old window
Down below the cars in the
City go rushing by
I sit here alone
And i wonder why

Friday night and everyone's moving
I can fell the heat
But it's shooting
Heading down
I search for the beat in this dirty town

Down town the young ones are going
Down town the young ones are growing

Chorus :

We're the kids in america (x 2)
Everybody live for the music-go-round

Bright lights the music gets faster
Look boy, don't check on your watch
Not another glance
I'm not leaving now, honey not a chance

Hot-shot, give me no problems
Much later baby you'll be saying never mind
You know life is cruel, life is never kind

Kind hearts don't make a new story
Kind hearts don't grab any glory

Ch.

Come closer, honey that's better
Got to get a brand new experience
Feeling right
Oh don't try to stop baby
Hold me tight

Outside a new day is dawning
Outside sububia's sprawling everywhere
I don't want to go baby
New york to east california
There's a new wave coming i warn you

Ch.

We're the kids
We're the kids
We're the kids in america


12.Our Town

Written:ricky & marty wilde

This is your town, this is my place
This is where my whole world is lived in
Nothing much, and just out of reach of all the city lights
It's a high town, it's a low town
It's get here, come on you grow town
No-one does, but everyone thinks they're gonna make it soon
This is one place i respected
Now i feel it's really dejected
No-one cares and the people just stare
And a man on the box says
'hey you, don't walk away, vote for me
You'll get more pay, keep working hard'
But they work slow

Here it comes now, sunday morning
Just another sleepy town yawning
Down below everything looks just like another day
But, in the warm glow of the sunrise
There's a child who's searching with young eyes
Looking 'round and feeling inside he's gonna fly away
There was one time i was leaving
But the folks around me kept grieving
Friends said go, but my dad said no
And my mum kept saying
'don't go, don't go away
Don't leave us, you've got to stay
Just raise them kids, oh mother no'

No prospects, just projects
Don't try to tell me we're living
There's no real need to try
Can't you see this town gonna die

Hail the new age, it's a rat cage
Join the place for breeding dumb spieces
All stacked up and doing whatever someone tells you to
Burn the place down, make it dead ground
Show the people just what they're missing
Wake up, wake up, can't you believe in what i'm telling you
There's a house where i was born in
Now it's changed without any warning
Cranes just crash and bricks just smash
While a billboard's saying
'let's go, let's get away
Come fly me, you've weeks to pay
When sunshine calls, but i won't go

This is our town


13.Take Me Tonight

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Lost in the dark the lovers embrace
As the last song plays, everyone makes for home
Now it's just me and you alone

And i won't really care if we can't meet again
You just live your life i'm just a night to pass
You're just a dream that couldn't last

Take me tonight
Take me tonight
Take me tonight
I want you, i want you - want me too ?

No way of knowing just where my life's going
Who cares if it's wrong or it's right
When all i believe in is just how i'm feeling tonight

Oh, take me tonight
Take me tonight
Take me tonight
I want you, i want you

To fade


14.Tuning In Tuning On

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Cruising 'round there's a sound with a place to go
Tuning in tuning on like a radio
Fell the sound in your head and you set the seal
I believe it's a force of the life you feel - tuning on

Do you know what the sounds that you hear will find
Reach to space to the stars and another time
I believe that they search like a seed to grow
In the end it's the same anyway you go

I really can't explain
I really can't explain

Crashing out for the last and the final time
Could a sound and a soul travel on combined
From the womb to the end is it everywhere
Feel the beat of my heart and you know it's there

I really can't explain

Spoken

I really believe that sound reaches infinity, do you know what i
mean. i think it goes on and on forever, and if that's true and
it was linked to the spiritual side of your lives, well, then
sou
Ould be alive. can you imagine the possibilities for the future
? linking the soul and the sound and then being able to make a
giant spiritual musical machine, actually a part of us and not
just
Thing you hear - it's fantastic - it's just fantastic

I really can't explain


15.View From A Bridge

Written:ricky & marty wilde

View from a bridge, can't take anymore
View from a bridge, can't take anymore

I guess it all began about a year ago
Like a cheap love magazine
You know the kind you read about
And have to laugh
At the pages in between
Now i can't believe that fool inside is me
'cos i just can't face the world
I've grown to see

View from a bridge, can't take anymore
View from a bridge, can't take anymore

I saw you kissing her
I saw you making her
In the soft sheets in between
But when you turned around
I saw your eyes were fire
And you crashed out all my dreams

And like a fool i just stood there
And let it go
I should have fought right back
And let my feelings show

View from a bridge, can't take anymore
View from a bridge, can't take anymore

You sure as hell knew how
To make a fool out of me
Well you cut me down
For the things you want
And now it's killing me

I'll lay it on the line now
You're running out of time now

But then a voice said jump
And i just let go
And i'm floating out in space
But then i feel your arms
And i turn around
To a ghost without a face

And i just don't know
What's fact or fantasy
'cos when i look below the bridge
I see it's me


16.Water On Glass

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Cascading down
There's a sound vaporising into vision
It's a sound in my head
That i feel and it shuts me in a prison

Say it won't last
Say it will pass
Always the sound in my brain
Can you hear it

Water on glass running down again
Water on glass that sound
Water on glass running round again
Help me, the sound of running water's
Coming down

Dancing away
Like the lights on a moving coloured river
Sounds in my head seem to run
And again i feel a shiver

Say it won't last
Pray it will pass
Always that sound in my brain
Can you hear it (can you hear it)

Water on glass running down again
Water on glass that sound
Water on glass running round again
Help me, the sound of running water's
Coming down

Water on glass running down again
Water on glass that sound
Water on glass running round again
Help me, the sound of running water's
Coming down


17.Wendy Said

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Lost in the night, out on the streets
And blown into the wind
She was just heading for trouble
When they got her downstairs

Cut by the lights, strands of her hair
Just tumble from her cheeks
She's just another caucasion in a crime worn day

Inside her heart was breaking
No-one knew what she'd been through
Inside her mind's escaping
To a world that no-one knew

Lost in the night, somebody said go easy on the girl
You'll never get a confession
If you treat her that way
Two pairs of eyes shout at her face and late into the night
They heard a softer whisper saying
'let me go'

Inside her heart was breaking
No-one knew what she'd been through
Inside her mind's escaping
To a world that no-one knew

Wendy sadd has flown away
Wendy found her freedom
No-one else could follow there
Not inside the world of wendy sadd

Somebody shouts, something is wrong and panick hits the room
They said she looked at the ceiling and the lights went out
Clutched in her hand
All they could find was a letter that she'd wrote
It said try and forgive them
For what they've done

Inside her heart was breaking
No-one knew what she'd been through
Inside her mind's escaping
To a world that no-one knew

Wendy sadd has flown away
Wendy found her freedom
No-one else could follow there
Not inside the world of wendy sadd


18.Words Fell Down

Written:ricky & marty wilde

I wake up in the morning, looking for reaction
Then i see your faces, only for fraction
Did you hurt my feelings ? you just nailed me to the wall

Never say you're sorry, never show emotion
Never show a good hand, never give a notion
Don't you feel it's obscene ? do you feel a thing at all ?

Chorus:
'cos you come right back with the same old story
Words fell down
Words fell down
You walk right back to the sound of glory
Words fell down
Words fell down
Oh, oh, oh, it's so helpless
Oh, oh, oh, it's so helpless, it's so helpless

Always a deceiver, never any answers
Living in the shadows, taking any chances
When you get a good line, come and talk in to my face

Chorus

You fight right back with the same reaction
Words fell down
Words fell down
The same old show with the same old caption
Words fell down
Words fell down
Oh, oh, oh, it's so helpless
Oh, oh, oh, it's so helpless, it's so helpless


19.You'll Never Be So Wrong

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Just two lovers in a seedy cafe
Someone's leaving, the waiter says 'hey, won't you wait'
Running nowhere, she hides in her room
What he told her had to get out and soon

It's just a bad affair you've had
No need to cry, don't take it bad
You'll soon be glad when you're far apart

You'll never be so wrong, not for a long time
You'll never be so wrong, not for a long time
'cause i'm never gonna find that feeling again
I'm never gonna find that feeling again

Now she's breaking but what can she do
Somewhere out there a car disappears out of view
Fumbles somewhere for stale cigarettes
Looks for numbers, the ones she could dial but forgets

No point in you just looking down
No way that you can turn it around
You've go to realise you''re free

You'll never be so wrong, not for a long time
You'll never be so wrong, not for a long time
'cause i'm never gonna find that feeling again
I'm never gonna find that feeling again

No point in you just looking down
No way that you can turn it around
You've go to realise you're free

You'll never be so wrong, not for a long time
You'll never be so wrong, not for a long time
'cause i'm never gonna find that feeling again
I'm never gonna find that feeling again


20.Young Heroes

Written:ricky & marty wilde

Everyone round keeps putting us down, let it go
It's the same old play in a grown up day
It's a stinging sensation
Hanging round on every corner
Where, all the young kids i know want to be

We only wanna stay young, we only wanna be free
He doesn't wanna be you, she doesn't wanna be me
We're all young heroes
We're all young heroes

Shouted down pushed and we're gettin' real bushed
Just have your say and we'll do it your way
If it makes you fell better
Nothing much to add to what i say
'cause i know just how it fells to be

We only wanna stay young, we only wanna be free
He doesn't wanna be you, she doesn't wanna be me
We're all young heroes
We're all young heroes

We only wanna be free