Tears Run Ring - Marc Almond

Year: 1988

Artist: Marc Almond

Hit Song: Bitter Sweet

Album: Stars We Are

I have high respect for singers who just don’t sing but also write and conceive melody for their songs as well, for me that’s pure talent. Having a great voice is a dime a dozen but for performers who achieved multiplatinum status for formulating their own sound is a real class act.

Peter Mark Sinclair Almond or Marc Almond, shot to fame as the other half of the synth duo Soft Cell and produced the UK #1 hit ‘Tainted Love’. For band with high commercial success there’s always this pattern for the most talented individual to go astray and test the waters so in 1983 he went solo and delivered his best songs ever- Tears Run Ring and Bitter Sweet.

“For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.”- Marc Almond

On heavenly rain

You fell into my life

Unforgettable smile

Unforgettable lies

In the name of the cross

Or a banner of love

With the hand of a friend

Or under a blanket of trust

The angels sighed

A little girl cried

The tears run rings around my eyes

We're going to set fire

To the house in my heart

We're going to set fire

To the whole damn world

I don't understand

The wicked things we do

In the name of the good

In the name of the few

The angels sighed

The little girl cried

The tears run rings around my eyes

Don't look at me

With your innocent smile

When the bed is burning

Around my head

When a war breaks out

It'll be no surprise

Your unforgettable smile

Your unforgettable lies

And i've got to stop running

To make my start

We've got to get together

Before we fall apart

They're pulling down the old slums

To build the new

They're bringing back the old rules

To please the few

In the name of the cross

Or a banner of love

With the hand of a friend

Or under a blanket of trust

The angels sighed

A little girl cried

The tears run rings around my eyes

Pull down the old slums

To build the new

Pull down the love

I built with you

Promise of tomorrow

You never kept

And you try to burn the house down

When i slept

The nation's in disorder

There's chaos in my heart

We've got to get together

Before we fall apart

More to lose - Seona Dancing

Year: 1983

Artist: Seona Dancing

Hit Song: Bitter Heart

Album:  Seona Dancing

New wave is synonymous with the song ‘More to Lose’ by Seona Dancing. My friends and I are in awed of this song. You’re never ‘in’ if you haven’t heard the tune and memorized the poetic lyrics. Its piano intro in ostinato became the soundtrack of countless highschool dances. Who would have thought that one of the man behind this 80′s hit has seven BAFTA Awards, four British Comedy Awards, three Golden Globes, 2 Emmys, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Apart from this, has three sell-out stand-up comedy tours and written the best-selling Flanimals book series. I have seen most of his film- Stardust, Night at the Museum and Ghost Town, in which he assumes the leading role. He also played the lead role in The Office as David Brent. Ricky Dene Gervais, born 25 June 1961 is an English comedian, author, actor, director, producer, screenwriter and former pop musician.

In his final year in 1983 as a student at UCL, Gervais and his friend Bill Macrae formed a pop duo, Seona Dancing named after a friend and fellow student Seona Myerscough. They were signed by record label London Records, which released two of their singles—”More to Lose” and “Bitter Heart”.

We used to cry
About the day when one of us might fall
Weak and blindly into another's arms

Demands are gained from jealousies
Would flow like water drowning us
But leaving us with just another
Lover's false alarm

And now it's over
Both of us free
But I feel colder

A thousand tortured lives have fallen
Wounded dying cut down by the
Questions that we've sharpened
Just to save our losing days

We thought we'd nothing more to lose
We'd tear our hearts with jagged truths
And everything we'd hung to for so long
Just slipped away

I was tired of thinking that
Our love can shine your thoughts
Of our arrangements
Were really not like mine

I thought it over
And it was plain to see the love you said
You once needed
Could just not come from me

And now we're moving to new beginnings
But as we move we looked once behind
To see what we might find out
Lost loves and old thoughts of our nights of winnings
That lunge, tear and grasp
at lost wanting minds