Wild Wild West

Album: Wild Wild West (1988)
Charted: 1
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  • Forty-seven dead beats living in the back street
    North east west south all in the same house
    Sitting in a back room waiting for the big boom
    I'm in a bedroom waiting for my baby

    [Chorus]
    She's so mean but I don't care
    I love her eyes and her wild wild hair
    Dance to the beat that we love best
    Heading for the nineties
    Living in the wild wild west
    The wild wild west

    Mandy's in the backroom handing out Valium
    Sheriff's on the airwaves talking to the D.J.'s
    Forty-seven heartbeats beating like a drum
    Got to live it up live it up
    Ronnie's got a new gun

    [Chorus]

    Now put your flags in the air and march them up and down
    You can live it up live it up all over the town
    And turn to the left, turn to the right
    I don't care as long as she comes tonight

    [Chorus]

    Heading for the nineties living in the eighties
    Screaming in a back room waiting for the big boom
    Give me give me wild west
    Give me give me safe sex
    Give me love give me love
    Give me time to live it up

    [Chorus] Writer/s: AMOS PIZZEY-SHAPIRO, JOHN CHRISTOFOROU, JOHN HOLLIDAY, MILAN ZEKAVICA, TREVOR STEEL
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Tania from Brisbane, AustraliaAlmost got suspended from school for singing this in the back of a sex Ed class! “That” line was a brilliant way to get teens, and well everyone really, talking about what is safe sex!
  • Sandy from Enterprise, FlOne of the best dance tunes of all time that is not Motown. Danced to it in the 80s and I'm still dancin' to it
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