1984 The Works - Queen

 Vinyl L.P · U.K · EMI Records · EMC 240014.

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Album Lyrics:

Radio Ga Ga.

(Taylor)

I’d sit alone and watch your light 

My only friend through teenage nights 

And everything I had to know 

I heard it on my radio 

Radio.

You gave them all those old time stars 

Through wars of worlds – invaded by Mars 

You made ’em laugh – you made ’em cry 

You made us feel like we could fly.

So don’t become some background noise 

A backdrop for the girls and boys 

Who just don’t know or just don’t care 

And just complain when you’re not there 

You had your time, you had the power 

You’ve yet to have your finest hour 

Radio.

All we hear is Radio ga ga 

Radio goo goo 

Radio ga ga 

All we hear is Radio ga ga 

Radio blah blah 

Radio what’s new? 

Radio, someone still loves you!

We watch the shows – we watch the stars 

On videos for hours and hours 

We hardly need to use our ears 

How music changes through the years.

Let’s hope you never leave old friend 

Like all good things on you we depend 

So stick around cos we might miss you 

When we grow tired of all this visual 

You had your time, you had the power 

You’ve yet to have your finest hour 

Radio – Radio.

All we hear is Radio ga ga 

Radio goo goo 

Radio ga ga 

All we hear is Radio ga ga 

Radio goo goo 

Radio ga ga 

All we hear is Radio ga ga 

Radio blah blah 

Radio what’s new? 

Radio, someone still loves you!

Tear It up.

(May)

Are you ready? – well are you ready? 

Give me your mind baby give me your body 

Give me some time baby let’s have a party 

It ain’t no time for sleepin’ baby

Soon it’s round your street I’m creeping

We gonna Tear it up 

Stir it up 

Break it up – Baby –

You gotta Tear it up 

Shake it up 

Make it up – as you go along.

Tear it up 

Square it up 

Wake it up – Baby.

Tear it up 

Stir it up 

Stake it out – and you can’t go wrong. 

(Hey) 

I love you cos you’re sweet and I love you cos you’re naughty 

I love you for you mind but give me your body 

I wanna be a toy at your birthday party 

Wind me up – wind me up – wind me up – let me go –

Tear it up 

Stir it up 

Break it up – let me go.

Tear it up 

Shake it up 

Make it up – as you go along.

Tear it up 

Turn it up 

Burn it up.

It’s a Hard Life.

(Mercury)

I don’t want my freedom 

There’s no reason for living with a broken heart.

This is a tricky situation – 

I’ve only got myself to blame 

It’s just a simple fact of life 

It can happen to anyone –

You win – you lose 

It’s a chance you have to take with love 

Oh yeah – I fell in love 

But now you say it’s over and I’m falling apart.

It’s a hard life 

To be true lovers together 

To love and live forever in each others hearts – 

It’s a long hard fight 

To learn to care for each other 

To trust in one another right from the start 

When you’re in love –

I try and mend the broken pieces 

I try to fight back the tears 

They say it’s just a state of mind 

But it happens to everyone –

How it hurts – deep inside 

When your love has cut you down to size 

Life is tough – on your own 

Now I’m waiting for something to fall from the skies 

Waiting for love.

Yes it’s a hard life 

Two lovers together 

To love and live forever in each others hearts 

It’s a long hard fight 

To learn to care for each other 

To trust in one another – right from the start 

When you’re in love – 

Yes it’s a hard life 

In a world that’s filled with sorrow 

There are people searching for love in every way –

It’s a long hard fight – 

But I’ll always live for tomorrow 

I’ll look back on myself and say I did it for love 

Yes I did it for love – for love – oh I did it for love.

Man on the Prowl.

(Mercury)

I’m gonna take a little walk on the wild side 

I’m gonna loosen up and get me some gas 

I’m gonna get me some action 

Go crazy, driving in the fast lane 

My baby left me alone 

She done me dirty and I’m feeling so lonely 

So come home, come home 

If you don’t you’re gonna break my heart.

Man on the prowl 

You better watch out 

I’m on the loose and I’m looking for trouble 

So look out – look out 

I’m a man on the prowl.

I don’t wanna be a rock ‘n’ roll steady 

I just wanna be low down trash 

I wanna go to the movies 

All I wanna do is sit on my ass 

So honey come home 

Don’t leave me when I’m feeling so lonely 

Come home – come home 

If you don’t you’re gonna break my heart.

Man on the prowl 

You better watch out 

I’m on the loose and I’m looking for trouble 

So look out – look out 

I’m a man on the prowl.

Well I keep dreaming about my baby 

But it ain’t gonna get me nowhere 

I wanna teach my baby dancin’ 

But I ain’t no Fred Astaire.

So baby look out – I’m a man on the prowl 

Look out – man on the prowl – yeah 

Baby, baby, baby look out – man on the prowl.

Baby come home 

I’m on the loose and I’m looking for trouble 

Baby come home – oh yeah 

Cause I’m a man on the prowl 

So honey come home – come home 

Cause I’m a man on the prowl – yeah 

Man on the prowl.

Machines (Back to Humans).

(May/Taylor)

It’s a Machine’s world 

Don’t tell me I ain’t got no soul 

When the machines take over 

It ain’t no place for you and me.

They tell me I don’t care 

But deep inside I’m just a man 

They freeze me they burn me 

They squeeze me they stress me 

With smoke-blackened pistons of steel they compress me 

But no-one, but no-one, but no-one can wrest me away 

Back to Humans.

We have no disease, no troubles of mind 

No thank you please, no regard for the time 

We never cry, we never retreat 

We have no conception of love or defeat.

What’s that Machine noise 

It’s bytes and megachips for tea 

It’s that Machine, boys 

With Random Access Memory 

Never worry, never mind 

Not for money, not for gold.

It’s software it’s hardware 

It’s heartbeat is time-share 

It’s midwife’s a disk drive 

It’s sex-life is quantised 

It’s self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised.

Back to Humans 

Back to Humans.

Back to Machines.

Living in a new world 

Thinking in the past 

Living in a new world 

How you gonna last 

Machine world… 

It’s a Machine’s world…

Change.

Back to Humans.

I Want to Break Free.

(Deacon)

I want to break free 

I want to break free 

I want to break free from your lies 

You’re so self satisfied I don’t need you 

I’ve got to break free 

God knows, God knows I want to break free.

I’ve fallen in love 

I’ve fallen in love for the first time

And this time I know it’s for real 

I’ve fallen in love, yeah 

God knows, God knows I’ve fallen in love.

It’s strange but it’s true 

I can’t get over the way you love me like you do 

But I have to be sure 

When I walk out that door 

Oh how I want to be free, baby 

Oh how I want to be free, 

Oh how I want to break free.

But life still goes on 

I can’t get used to, living without, living without, 

Living without you by my side 

I don’t want to live alone, hey 

God knows, got to make it on my own 

So baby can’t you see 

I’ve got to break free.

I’ve got to break free 

I want to break free, yeah 

I want, I want, I want, I want to break free.

Keep Passing the Open Windows.

(Mercury)

This is the only life for me 

Surround myself around my own fantasy 

You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself 

Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

Do you know what it’s like to be alone in this world 

When you’re down and out on your luck and you’re a failure 

Wake up screaming in the middle of the night 

You think it’s all been a waste of time 

It’s been a bad year 

You start believing everything’s gonna be alright 

Next minute you’re down and you’re flat on your back 

A brand new day is beginning 

Get that sunny feeling and you’re on your way.

Just believe – just keep passing the open windows 

Just believe – just keep passing the open windows 

Do you know how it feels when you don’t have a friend 

Without a job and no money to spend 

You’re a stranger

All you think about is suicide 

One of these days you’re gonna lose the fight 

You better keep out of danger – yeah 

That same old feeling just keeps burning deep inside 

You keep telling yourself it’s gonna be the end 

Oh get yourself together 

Things are looking better everyday

Just believe – just keep passing the open windows 

Just believe – just keep passing the open windows.

This is the only life for me 

Surround myself around my own fantasy 

You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself 

Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself 

Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

Love is all you need – baby – love is all you need.

Just believe – just keep passing the open windows.

Hammer to Fall.

(May)

Here we stand or here we fall 

History won’t care at all 

Make the bed, light the light 

Lady Mercy won’t be home tonight.

You don’t waste no time at all 

Don’t hear the bell but you answer the call 

It comes to you as to us all 

We’re just waiting 

For the hammer to fall

Oh every night, and every day 

A little piece of you is falling away 

But lift your face, the Western Way – 

Build your muscles as your body decays.

You don’t waste no time at all 

Don’t hear the bell but you answer the call 

It comes to you as to us all 

We’re just waiting 

For the hammer to fall

Tow the line and play their game 

Let the anaesthetic cover it all 

Till one day they call your name 

You know it’s time for the Hammer to Fall.

Rich or poor or famous for 

Your truth it’s all the same 

Lock your door but rain is pouring 

Through your window pane 

Baby now your struggle’s all vain.

For we who grew up tall and proud 

In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud 

Convinced our voices can’t be heard 

We just wanna scream it louder and louder

You don’t waste no time at all 

Don’t hear the bell but you answer the call 

It comes to you as to us all 

We’re just waiting 

For the hammer to fall

What the hell are we fighting for? 

Just surrender and it won’t hurt at all 

You just got time to say your prayers 

While you’re waiting for the Hammer to Fall.

Is This the World We Created…?

(May/Mercury)

Just think of all those hungry mouths we have to feed 

Take a look at all the suffering we breed 

So many lonely faces scattered all around 

Searching for what they need.

Is this the world we created 

What did we do it for 

Is this the world we invaded 

Against the law 

So it seems in the end 

Is this what we’re all living for today 

The world that we created.

You know that everyday a helpless child is born 

Who needs some loving care inside a happy home 

Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne 

Waiting for life to go by.

Is this the world we created, we made it on our own 

Is this the world we devasted, right to the bone 

If there’s a God in the sky looking down 

What can he think of what we’ve done 

To the world that He created.

Bonus Track:

I Go Crazy.

(May)

I took my baby to see a heavy band 

But I never saw my baby ’till the encore 

She had the singer by the hand 

I didn’t wanna cry ’cause I had to be cool 

I didn’t wanna tell you that you’re too cruel 

Did you have to run off with that dog-gone fool?

All I gotta do is think about you 

Ev’ry night and day I go crazy 

All I gotta do is get my hands on you 

You better stay away from me baby

I wouldn’t mind the postman if the neighbours didn’t know 

Or the gas man the electric man – man to fix the car 

I’d have to let it go 

But you had to bring me down for a rock ‘n roll clone 

Leave me like a sucker standing all alone 

Did you have to run off with that rolling stone?

All I gotta do is think about you 

Ev’ry night and day I go crazy 

All I gotta do is get my hands on you 

You better stay away from me baby

So I ain’t gonna go and see the Rolling Stones no more 

No more

I don’t wanna go see Queen no more no more

Now I don’t wanna hurt you like you been a-hurting me 

But you know that I’ll be watching 

Rolling on the floor next time you’re on TV 

Had enough of your pretending that you know where it’s at 

Coming on to all the boys like a real spoilt brat 

To think that I nearly let you get away with all that 

No way man

All I gotta do is think about you 

Ev’ry night and day I go crazy 

All I gotta do is get my hands on you.

Singles:

1984 Hammer To Fall (The Headbangers Mix) / Tear It Up.

 Single U.K · EMI Records · 12QUEEN 4.

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Liner notes:

Produced by Queen / MACK; Engineered by MACK

Additional engineering in L.A. by Mike Beiriger. Assistance by Stefan Wissnet and Ed Delena.

Thanks to Fred Mandel for rip-roaring piano finale on “Prowl”, synthesiser arrangement and programming on “Radio Ga Ga”.

Also synth on “Break Free” and candy-floss on “Hammer To Fall”.

Demolition Fairlight programming on “Machines” by Mack.

Produced at the RECORD PLANT, Los Angeles, California, USA

and MUSICLAND STUDIOS, Munich, Germany. August 83 – January 84.

Equipment supervision by Peter Hince, Chris Taylor, Brian Zellis and Peter Freestone.

THANKS TO: Jim Beach, Gerry Stickells, Paul Prenter, Julie Nash, Sara Juszkiewicz, Roseanne Nemes, Melanie Martin, Peter Chant,

Neal Levin, Lisa Abrhams, Jacky Gunn, Andy Evans, Rose Mann, Steve Whysall, Peter Jones and Ben’s guitar.

Sleeve Design by: Bill Smith

Photographed by: George Hurrell

1991 Hollywood Records Remaster

Digitally Remastered by Eddy Schreyer at Future Disc Systems, Hollywood.

2001 Remaster

Remastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios 2001.

2011 Remaster

This 2011 version has been meticulously re-created using the finest modern analogue

and digital technology from the original first-generation master mixes.

Executive Producers: Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Mastered by Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME.

Audio Supervised by Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson.

Additional audio restoration by Kris Fredriksson.

Additional audio supervision by Joshua J Macrae.

Special thanks: Greg Brooks, Gary Taylor.

Queen management: Jim Beach

Bonus EP

Executive Producers: Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Bonus EP Mastered by Adam Ayan, except tracks 2 and 6 mastered by Bob Ludwig, at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME.

Audio restoration by Kris Fredriksson.

Audio supervised by Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson.

I Go Crazy (B-Side): Produced by Queen and Mack. Engineered by Mack. Additional engineering by Nigel Mills.

I Want To Break Free (Single Remix): Produced by Queen and Mack. Engineered by Mack. Additional engineering by Mike Beiriger.

Hammer To Fall (Headbanger’s Mix): Produced by Queen and Mack. Engineered by Mack. Additional engineering by Mike Beiriger.

Is This The World We Created…? (Live in Rio, January 1985): Produced by Queen. Mixed by Joshua J Macrae and Justin Shirley-Smith.

It’s A Hard Life (Live in Rio, January 1985): Produced by Queen. Mixed by Joshua J Macrae and Justin Shirley-Smith.

Thank God It’s Christmas (Non-Album Single): Produced by Queen and Mack. Engineered by Mack. Additional engineering by Nick Froome.

Special Thanks: Greg Brooks, Gary Taylor, Declan O’Regan and all at FX Copyroom.