Wired For Sound

Album: Wired For Sound (1981)
Charted: 4 71
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  • I like small speakers, I like tall speakers
    If they've music, they?re wired for sound

    Walking about with a head full of music
    Cassette in my pocket and I'm gonna use it
    Stereo out on the street you know woh oh woh...

    Into the car go to work I'm cruising
    I never think that I'll blow all my fuses
    Traffic flows into the breakfast show woh oh woh...

    Power from the needle to the plastic
    AM FM I feel so ecstatic
    Now it's music I've found
    And I'm wired for sound

    I was small boy who don't like his toys
    I could not wait to get wired for sound

    I met a girl and she told me she loved me
    I said you love me then love means you must like what I like
    My music is dynamite woh oh woh...

    She said I'm not a girl you put on at a stand by
    I am a girl who demands that her love is amplified
    Switching to overdrive woh oh woh

    Power from the needle to the plastic
    AM FM I feel so ecstatic
    Now it's music I've found
    And I'm wired for sound Writer/s: ALAN TARNEY, B ROBERTSON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Lyrics Of The Lost Podcast from SydneyAmazing to learn the song is about wearing a wire to take down a criminal gang and then starting a vigilante squad of crime-fighters on skates. Episode 29.
  • Malcolm from New ZealandThe music video is enough to give you nightmares.....but I still love the song!
  • Darren from Bedford, United KingdomThe video was shot in Milton Keynes Shopping centre which was opened 2 years earlier (in 1979) and once held the record for the longest mall in the world.
  • Mark from Dublin, IrelandAnother great Cliff track,and another one by songwriter alan tarney,this time co-writing with ba robertson, cliff has used the song in the past to either open the show or finish the show,either way the song is a croud pleaser all over the world,the "wired for sound" video saw cliff in full leather gear on roller shates and listening to his walkman,the video was reasonly voted the worst video of all time on mtv but the song remains a classic...
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