@ALBUM: KNEE DEEP IN THE HOOPLA By STARSHIP Released 1985 * transcribed by Frantic Freddy * * corrections are welcome * @SONG: WE BUILT THIS CITY Chorus: We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll Say you don't know me, or recognize my face Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight Too many runaways eating up the night Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll chorus Someone's always playing corporation games Who cares they're always changing corporation names We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage They call us irresponsible, write uf off the page Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll chorus It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street Well if you got the toco, oh, then we just lost the beat Who counts the money underneath the bar Who writes the wrecking ball in two wild guitars Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're just simple fools Looking for America, coming through your schools (I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday, I've seen that low amount of traffic) Don't you remember (remember) (Here's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps) Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll chorus repeats 2x (We built, we built this city) built this city (we built, we built this city) (repeats out) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: SARA Go now, don't look back, we've drawn the line Move on, it's no good to go back in time I'll never find another girl like you, for happy endings it takes two We're fire and ice, the dream won't come true Chorus: Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes Danger in the game when the stakes are high Branded, my heart was branded while my senses stood by I'll never find another girl like you, for happy endings it takes two We're fire and ice, the dream won't come true Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time, oh Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time for goodbyes ('Cos Sara) Loved me like no one has ever loved me before (And Sara) Hurt me, no one could ever hurt me more (And Sara) Sara, nobody loved me anymore (Solo) I'll never find another girl like you We're fire and ice, the dream won't come true Sara, Sara, no time is a good time, oh chorus Sara, Sara, storms are brewin' in your eyes Sara, Sara, no time is a good time, no Ooh Sara, why did it, why did it, why did it all fall apart... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: TOMORROW DOESN'T MATTER TONIGHT You already made up your mind Just who you're looking for and what kind of love you'll find Holding out for a dream But I can see you're lonely, living isn't only a fantasy I don't fit into your plans, but you can reach for my hands Chorus: Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, I'm holding you and it feels so right I know you didn't plan it this way, let yourself go if you want to stay It's alright, 'cos tomorrow doesn't matter tonight I really hate to see you confused I want no promises, so what have you got to lose When you look in my eyes Don't think about tomorrow, this feeling isn't meant to be analyzed Why should you be all alone 'til your heart finds a home chorus (Solo) (Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, tomorrow) Let yourself go! (Tomorrow doesn't matter tonight, tomorrow) chorus repeats 2x... Tonight! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: ROCK MYSELF TO SLEEP Yeah! Chorus: Every night I rock myself to sleep, every night I rock myself to sleep Every night I rock myself to sleep, thinkin' about you, thinkin' about you chorus And I wanna say, it's not the same since you went away And it's not right, you're not here with me tonight And it's a crime, just lying here, wasting my precious time I'm so lonely and I'm so blue, thinkin' 'bout the things I could do to you chorus And I wanna know, don't you see how you hurt me so Going out of my head, yeah I'm here in this empty bed And it's a crime, whoa, just lying here, wasting my precious time I'm so lonely, baby, I'm so blue Thinkin' 'bout all the things I could do to you chorus (Solo) chorus repeats out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: DESPERATE HEART One night, one empty room, one man gettin' over you One star, one lonely moon, I make a wish, I know it'll never come true You call my name, and you beg me to hold you again But the truth remains, I'm only a fool who can't help but pretend Chorus: It's all over but I'm holding on, I can't let go until the love is gone It's all over but I keep holding on with a desperate heart With my desperate heart Some nights I try in my mind, I see myself learning someone new Still I know I'm wasting my time, no one can take the place of you So I close my eyes, I swear I feel you here by my side But it's all only a lie, I need to believe for my heart to survive chorus - I keep holding on (Solo) All this time I've been drowning in hopeless illusions I'm keeping inside That someday you'll walk out of the shadows and back into my life It's all over but I'm holding on, I can't believe your love for me is gone It's all over but I keep holding on (with a desperate heart) With my desperate heart, I can't let go until the love is gone (All over but I'm holding on) I keep holding on (All over but I'm holding on) I can't believe your love for me is gone (All over but I keep holding on) (All over but I'm holding on, all over but I keep holding on)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: PRIVATE ROOM Know what she's done to me, and I have been around She sure can bring you pleasure, and she can bring you down I should not tell you, if you want to learn To take a tip from me now, don't turn your back on her When she's promising you pleasure all night long She may turn around and cut you to the bone Chorus: In a private room, she'll dance for you In a private room, with just her high heel shoes In a private room, she'll take your heart And with you under her control, she will leave you all alone, all alone I was a midnight runner on her side of town I used to get there early, to watch her dance around She had this way of provin', you tend her like a crowd When she lays eyes on you, you'd better watch out While she's promising you pleasure all night long She may turn around and cut you to the bone chorus She's no angel Late at night she might get lonely, I know what she really needs Someone who can hold her all night long, all night long, in a private room In a private room, she'll dance for you, oh yeah In a private room, with just her high heel shoes, not too much more In a private room In a private room, she'll dance, she'll dance, dance for you Oh! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: BEFORE I GO Turn me around, don't let me walk out forever If there's a chance, the slightest chance, darling never say never You know it's out of my hands, 'cos I'm in way over my head But it won't take me long, you could blink and I'll be gone In your dark oversight, there must be one last breath of our life Chorus: Now if there's something I can say, to make you see it half my way Just tell me once, before I go And if there's something I can do, to make it all back up to you Just tell me once, before I go, before I go Angel of pride, girl won't you come and release me Is it such a crime, oh such a crime, to surrender so easy You know how hard I've tried, well maybe I've tried too damn hard But it won't take you long, you can break this liaison chorus I don't know where this road ever ends The point of existence, your die-hard resistance And I don't know where the shoulder begins And gravity crumbles, tenacity tumbles (Solo) But it won't take me long, you could blink and I'll be gone In your dark oversight, there must be one last breath of our life chorus And if there's something I can say, to make you, make you see it half my way Just tell me once, before I go, before I go Ooh tell me once before I go If there, if there's something I can say to you To make you see it half my way, tell me, tell me If there's something I can say, oh now baby, to make you turn around... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: HEARTS OF THE WORLD WILL UNDERSTAND Give me a minute, give me some time, give me a second to make up my mind Just wait a moment, I want a chance to think it over You say you can't wait forever, but something holds me back Between the two of us, we can't decide, just where the answer lies Chorus: You know hearts of the world will understand, you know they will Hearts of the world will understand I feel a pressure I can't resist, intoxicated from the first kiss Over the limit, your invitations leave me breathless Although I can't wait much longer, something holds me back Between the two of us the tensions rise, this feeling won't subside chorus My mind is torn between right and wrong, the two extremes and I hate it I won't give in to you, just 'cos you want me too, ooh, life's so complicated Ah but given time I might change my mind, we just have to face it Between the two of us, we can't decide, just where the answer lies (Solo) Although I can't wait much longer, something holds me back Between the two of us the tensions rise, this feeling won't subside chorus - you know they will Hearts of the world will understand, hearts of the world will understand (repeats out) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @SONG: LOVE RUSTS Here I am now, somewhere on the highway I just checked into some low-lit room I call my service back in San Francisco Tell me landlord, I'll be home by June But what about me, boy, back in California What about the blue-eyed girl you call a child You held me for ransom, like some beautiful bandit Going down for the third time, drowning in your life Chorus: Love rusts when it rains on romance Thunder rolls in on a clear blue day We used to shine like the eye of a diamond But something happened, the weather changed I should have known better, you read just like a roadmap Staying in one place doesn't interest you at all Maybe I don't move as fast as I used to But youth is something we can't hold on too long Love rusts when it rains on romance Hailstones hammer on this empty heart It crowds the window where I used to watch you Down by the shoreline in the dark chorus Something happened and the weather changed Something happened, then the weather changed Ooh, I tell you we used to shine (how love rusts) (We used to shine, how love rusts) We used to shine Ooh, we used to shine, you know (We used to shine, how love rusts, we used to shine, how love rusts) (We used to shine, how love rusts, we used to shine, how love rusts) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------