ROXETTE

2nd CD

The big L.

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
She’s the top, she’s got the world on a stringShe makes me boogie makes me do anything, yea yea
Hey now touch the skyYou’ve got a certain kind of look in your eyes
Well she’s a miracle, she’s all that I needLike the water and the air that I breathe, yea yea
Hey now reach the skyThere’s a certain kind of look in your smile
And I know what love can doYes, I know what hearts can do
The big loveIs taking the wheelThe big loveGoes head over heelsThe big lustBring it into the small worldThe bigger, the better...
Big loveWaiting to catch the big oneHead over heelsThe big oneBring it into the small worldI’m building the big, big love
I’m building the big, big love
It’s kinda strange, a bit mysteriousI got to take it oh so, so serious
Hey now, touch the skyYou’ve got a certain kind of look in your eyes
It used to be so hard so lonely at nightWell she’s my baby and I’m feeling alright
Hey now, move the skyThere’s a certain kind of look in that smile
When I’m making love with her (I'm making...)When I’m making love to her, yeah...
The big loveIs taking the wheelThe big loveGoes head over heelsThe big lustBring it into the small worldThe bigger the better...
Big love (hmmm)Waiting to catch the big one (hmmm)Head over heelsThe big oneBring it into the small worldI’m building the big, big love...
Yeah
I’m building the big, big love
It has to be a big thingIt’s bringing me to my kneesHas to be a big thing, big thing (big thing)Ya know what I’m saying…

The big loveIs taking the wheelThe big loveGoes head over heelsThe big lustBring it into the small worldThe bigger the better...
Big love (hmmm)Waiting to catch the big one (hmmm)Head over heelsThe big oneBring it into the small worldI’m building the big, big love
You know, I’m building the big, big love
Big love
I'm building the big love
Big love...

(Do you get) Excited?

(letra de Per Gessle e música de Per Gessle e Mats "MP" Persson)
When the day gets darkOver a thousand streetsAnd you feel your heart
Is a living beat
When you’re all aloneAnd you close your eyesNaked to the boneThe dream comes alive
Do you get excitedWhen I touch you in the night?My oh my…Do you get excitedWhen I meet you every night?You won’t let the night pass you by
When your body’s hotThe window’s open wideThis moment’s all you gotIn this race of lifeWhen you feel the fireIs getting close to youHey baby, you know
I’m lonely too...

Do you get excitedWhen I touch you in the night?My oh my…Do you get excitedWhen I meet you every night?You won’t let the night pass you by
Ohh, do you get excitedWhen I touch you in the night?My oh my…Do you get excited, excited...When I meet you every night?My oh my…Do you get excited...When I touch you in the night?My oh my…
Do you get excited...When I meet you every night?You won’t let the night pass you by, oh oh...
I wanna knowI gotta knowHmmm, I wanna know

Things will never be the same

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Lay it downPull my heart to the groundTime’s getting coldNow the leaves all turn hard and blue
And I knowWhen I gaze to the sunNo place to hideI got nowhere to runFrom you away from youAway from you
Hold me nowGirl, I don’t know whenWhen we will ever meet againThat was then, baby, this is nowI try to get over you
Losing you…Things will never be the sameCan you hear me call your name?If we changed it back againThings would never be…
In your handBabe I don’t understandYou’ve got the eyes of a childBut you hurt like a manAlways do always doAlways do...
Touch me now girlI don’t know whenWhen we will ever meet againThat was then baby this is nowTime won’t get over you
Losing you…Things will never be the sameCan you hear me call your name?If we changed it back... AgainThings would never be…
Losing you…Things will never be the sameCan you hear me call your name?If we changed it back... AgainThings would never be the same
Things would never be the sameCan you hear, can you hear me call your name?If we changed it back againThings would never be...The same

The sweet hello, the sad goodbye

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Red like fire was the day I met youI tell you now there are no regretsIn this room there are many memoriesSome are good, some I try to forget
I thought we were the chosen onesWho were supposed to fly
We’re very much the same, you and IThe sweet hello, the sad goodbyeStill waiting to get hurt time after timeThe sweet hello, the sad goodbyeWhen love lies in our handsWe seem to run and hideAnd I can’t help but wonder whyThe sweet hello, the sad goodbye
My heart was like a runaway train, babeI don’t believe I’ve ever felt more aliveIn this room I hear voices lingerWe never talked about the price
You know you’re not the only oneWho knows how to cry...
We’re very much the same, you and IThe sweet hello, the sad goodbyeStill waiting to get hurt time after timeThe sweet hello, the sad goodbyeWhen love lies in our handsWe ran away and hideAnd I can’t help but wonder whyThe sweet hello, the sad goodbye
Hmm...The sweet hello, the sad goodbye
We’re very much the same, you and IThe sweet hello, the sad goodbyeStill waiting to get hurt time after timeThe sweet hello, the sad goodbyeWhen love lies in our handsWe ran away and hideAnd I can’t help but wonder whyThe sweet hello, the sad goodbyeGoodbyeThe sweet hello, the sad goodbye...
The sweet hello, the sad goodbyeThe sweet hello, the sad goodbye

Love spins [demo - 01/1990]

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Hold back the nightI wonder what she's doing when she's not in sightI wonder where she's going, who she holds tonightI wonder if she's sleeping alone
And hold back the painI cover up the teardrops in the pouring rainMy heart has been run over by a runaway trainI wonder if she's ever aloneLet it go, let it go, let it go
Her love spins like a merry-go-roundGoing up and down, she's far away boundHer love expression of vision and soundIt's setting me up, and then it's kicking me down
Don't fade to grayI wonder if she's ever coming back to stayShe's running on the edge, she hit the harder wayI wonder if she's only a dream
So, hold back the nightI wonder what she's doing when she's not in sightI wonder where she's going, who she holds tonightI wonder if she's lost in a dreamLet it go, let it go, let it go
Her love spins like a merry-go-roundGoing up and down, she's far away boundHer love expression of vision and soundIt's setting me up, and then it's kicking me down
Her love spins like a merry-go-roundGoing up and down, she's far away boundHer love, expression of vision and soundIt's setting me up, and then it's kicking me down
Her love spins like a merry-go-roundGoing up and down, she's far away boundHer love expression of vision and soundIt's setting me up, and then it's kicking me down
Her love spins like a merry-go-roundGoing up and down, she's far away boundHer love expression of vision and soundIt's setting me up, and then it's kicking me down

Seduce me [demo - 22/08/1990]

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Don't ever say you doDon't ever say you want to make me shineYou keep your mystery, don't ever tryTo be my guiding lightMmm...
Don't ever say you careDon't follow when I'm here and everywhereI'm blinded by your looks but there's a scentOf heartache in the airIn the air...
Hey you!Walk out through that doorAnd into that dreamWhere I met you beforeOh oh...
Babe, you seduce meYou take my heart and use meMy feelings all run wildWhen you seduce me all the time
Don't ever call me upI never wanna hear your voice againOh lay your pretty hands on someone elseSomebody who don't know you wellKnow you well...
Hey you!You sweet, sweet talking selfOh get back to that dreamLet's both keep it that wayHey hey...
Oh you seduce meYou pull my heart and use meAnd I keep running blindWhen you seduce me all the time
Mmmm... get back to that dreamLet's both keep it that wayHey hey...
I'll tell you once again...
You seduce meYou take my heart and use meMy feelings all run wildWhen you seduce me all the timeWhen you seduce me all the timeYou seduce me all the timeYou seduce me...

How do you do!

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
I see you comb your hairAnd gimme that grinIt’s making me spin nowSpinnin’ withinBefore I melt like snowI say helloHow do you do!
I love the way you undress now, baby beginDo you caressHoney my heart’s in a messI love your blue-eyed voiceLike Tiny Tim shines thruHow do you do!
How do you do!
Well here we are crackin’ jokes in the corner of our mouthsAnd I feel like I’m laughing in a dreamIf I was young I could wait outside your school'Cos your face is like the cover of a magazine, magazine
How do you do!Do you doThe things that you doNo one I know could ever keep up with youHow do you do!Did it ever make sense to youTo say bye, bye bye?
I see you in that chairWith perfect skinWell how have you been, babyLivin’ in sin?Hey, I gona knowDid you say helloHow do you do!
How do you do!
Well, here we are spending time in the louder part of townAnd I feels like everything’s surrealWhen I get old I will wait outside your house'Cos your hands have got the power meant to heal
How do you do!Do you doThe things that you doNo one I know could ever keep up with youHow do you do!Did it ever make sense to youTo say bye, bye bye?
Well here we are crackin’ jokesHow do you do!
Well, here we are spending time
OoohhhhHow do you do!Do you doThe things that you doNo one I know could ever keep up with youHow do you do!Did it ever make sense to youTo cry bye, bye bye?
OoohhhhHow do you do!Do you doThe things that you doNo one I know could ever keep up with youHow do you do!Did it ever make sense to youTo say bye, bye bye?
Yeah...How do you do!You do, the things you doNo one I know could ever keep up with youHow do you do!Did it ever make sense to youTo say bye, bye bye?

The heart shaped sea

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Babe it’s timeTo tell me that it’s overTell me that it’s overIt’s plain to see
And this timeWe won’t be starting overNo crying on your shoulderInto the heart shaped sea
Oh you’ve been a-runningFrom our doorAnd you’ve been enchantedBy the gracious voice of love
Babe it’s timeTo look me in the eyesTime to say goodbyeIt’s clear to me
And this time (I won’t let you down...)I won’t let you down (You can turn around...)You can turn aroundI’ll set you free
Oh you’ve been a-sailingFrom our shoreAnd you’ve been enchantedBy someone from afarHmmm...Oooohhh....
Babe it’s timeTo gather all the harvestTo pray before the winterAnd sail the heart shaped sea
Oh you’ve been a-runningFrom my loveAnd you’ve been enchantedBy the powers up above
Hmmm...

The rain

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Falling down on me...
I was raised the Northern wayAnd my father had a Northern nameI did my cryingOut in the pouring rain
And a season turned into another oneI found a heart bright like the morning sunHe touched my lips... so softly... with his fingertips
But I kept the rainFalling down on meAll the timeAll the time
Ohh, I kept the rainFalling down on meAll the timeAll the time...
And some things in life won’t ever change (ooohhh...)There’s a smell of a rusty chain (ooohhh, ahhh...)And of love
Disappearing like an aeroplaneOoohhh...
I’ve kept the rainFalling down on meAll the timeAll the time
Hmm...I’ve kept the rainFalling down on meAll the timeAll the time
All the time...
I kept the rainFalling down on meAll the timeAll the time
I kept the rainFalling down on meAll the timeAll the time
I kept the rainFalling down on meAll the timeAll the time
I kept the rainFalling down on me, falling down on meAll the timeAll the time
All the time...All the time...
I kept the rainFalling down on meFalling, falling down...
Aahhh....
I kept the rainFalling down on meOoohh... ahhh...

Never is a long time

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
You build it up and tear it downThere’s no reason to follow youYou left the song without a soundYou left the story I made for youSoftly angels bow and cryIn the stillness of the night
Never is a long time – goodbyeNo answers for the askingIt’s a long time – goodbyeNo mercy for the achingIt’s a long timeOh, ISee no light on the forsakenNever is a long time – goodbyeLet’s spend the night when this dreamHas come to an end
Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cryAnd yes, I’ve cried over youYou’ve left me blind in paradiseYeah, you’ve left me hungering for the touch of youSnow white angels run and hideIn the blackness of the nightEee....
Never is a long time – goodbye (never is a long time...)No answers for the askingIt’s a long time – goodbye (never is a long time...)No mercy for the achingIt’s a long timeOh I (never is a long time...)See no light on the forsakenNever is a long time – goodbyeLet’s spend the night when this dreamHas come to an end
Never is a long timeOh, oh, oh...Oh, never is a long timeOh, oh, oh...Hm, never is a long time...Hm, hm, hm...

Silver blue

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
I got to get a message throughI don’t know where we’re goingI wrap my arms around your naked shouldersTake cover for the night
I see you in the morning rainOh step inside and lay beside meTender can you close my eyes and blind meOh give me just a smile
Before I fade to silverSilver blue for youBefore I fade to silverSilver blue for you
I’ve turned into the broken oneWho lost the inspirationI want to give you all my loveLike water to a blood red rose
The passion – I can’t deal with herThe pain – well I can do without himAnd this is like the milky wayAn ocean that only grows and grows
And babe I fade to silverSilver blue for youI turn and fade to silverSilver blue for you
And babe I fade to silverSilver blue for youI turn and fade to silverSilver blue....
I wrap my arms around your naked shouldersTake cover for the night

And babe I fade to silverSilver blue for youI turn and fade to silverSilver blue for you

And babe I fade to silverSilver blue for you, for youI turn and fade to silverSilver blue...

Come back (Before you leave)

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Come back before you leave
Come back before you leave

Never looked back on a love affairI never spent minutes on historyIt made me sadIt made me so sad
And in no time no time at all a change has begunAnd the name is youI feel strangeYou’ve made my life strange
'Cos baby when you get close to meI say there’s a certain chemistry
Come back before you leaveI haven’t got room for a broken heartCome back before you leaveYou shouldn’t go at allYou shouldn’t go at all
So many years and so many nightsI still can recallOh, the way that you move when you danceDo you want to dance?We’ve had our habits and attitudesYou make me remember the power when everything’s rightPlease stay the night
'Cos baby when you get close to meThere’s something about you I really need, oh
Come back before you leaveI haven’t got room for a broken heartCome back before you leaveYou shouldn’t go at allAt all

Come back before you leave (come back before you leave)I haven’t got room for a broken heartCome back before you leave (come back before you leave)You shouldn’t go at all (you shouldn't go)No, you shouldn’t go at all
Babe, come back before you leaveI’ll be the air for you when you breatheI’ll be the rising sun
Close the door, let’s make loveAll god’s angels sing aboveInto the rising sun
Come back before you leaveI haven’t got room for a broken heartCome back before you leaveYou shouldn’t go at allNo
Come back before you leave (come back before you leave)I haven’t got room for a broken heartCome back before you leave (come back before you leave)You shouldn’t go at all (you shouldn't go)Hey, you shouldn’t go at all

Come back before you leave
(Come back before you leave...)

Before you leave

Queen of rain

(letra de Per Gessle e música de Per Gessle e Mats "MP" Persson)
In that big, big house there are fifty doorsAnd one of them leads to your heartIn the time of spring I passed your gateAnd tried to make a start
All I knewWas the scent of sea and dewBut I’ve been in love beforeHow about you?
There’s a time for the good in lifeA time to kill the pain in lifeDeam about the sun you queen of rain
In that big old house there are fifty bedsAnd one of them leads to your soulIt’s a bed of fear, a bed of threatsRegrets and sheets so cold
All I knew, your eyes so velvet blueI’ve been in love before how about you?
There’s a time for the good in lifeA time to kill the pain in lifeDream about the sun you queen of rain
It’s time to place your bets in lifeI’ve played the loser’s game of lifeDream about the sun you queen of rain
Time went by as I wrote your name in the skyFly, fly away, bye bye...
[Bo Eriksson tocando Oboé]
It’s time to place your bets in lifeI’ve played the loser’s game of lifeDream about the sun you queen of rain
Dream about the sun you queen of rainDream about the sun you queen of rainHmm...Dream about the sun you queen of rainDream about the sun...

Almost unreal

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Ahhh....
Babe, come in from the coldAnd put that coat to restStep insideTake a deep breathAnd do what you do best
Yea, kick off them shoes and leave thoseCity streetsI do believe
Love came our wayAnd fate did arrange for us to meet
I love when you do that hocus pocus to meThe way that you touchYou’ve got the power to healYou give me that lookIt’s almost unrealIt’s almost unreal
Hey, we can’t stop the rainLet’s find a placeBy the fireSometimes I feelStrange as it seemsYou’ve been in my dreams all my life
I love when you do that hocus pocus to meThe way that you touchYou’ve got the power to healYou give me that lookIt’s almost unrealIt’s almost unreal...
It’s a crazy world out there (it's a crazy...)Let’s hope our prayers are in good hands tonight
Oohhh, I love when you do that hocus pocus to meThe way that you touchYou’ve got the power to healYou give me that look (you've got the power...)It’s almost unrealIt’s almost unrealSo unreal...
Yeah come on and do that hocus pocus to meThe way that you touchYou’ve got the power to healYou give me that look (you've got the power...)It’s almost unrealIt’s almost unreal... yeah!
It's almost unreal...Do the hocus pocus to meDo the hocus pocus to meIt's almost unreal...Do the hocus pocus to meYeahDo the hocus pocus to meDo the hocus pocus to me...

Sleeping in my car [Single edit]

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
I'll tell you what I've doneI'll tell you what I'll doBeen driving all nightJust to get close to youBaby, babe, I'm moving so fastYou'd better come on
The moon is alrightThe freeway's heading southMy heart is going boomThere's a strange taste in my mouthBaby, babe, I'm moving real fastSo try to hold onTry to hold on
Sleeping in my carI will undress youSleeping in my carI will caress youStaying in the back seat of my carMaking up, oh, oh
So come out tonightI'll take you for a rideThis steamy old wagonThe radio is getting wildBaby, babe, we're moving so fastI try to hang onTry to hang on
Sleeping in my carI will undress youSleeping in my carI will caress youStaying in the back seat of my carMaking love, oh, yeah
Sleeping in my carI will possess youSleeping in my carCertainly bless youLaying in the back seat of my carMaking up, oh, oh
The night is so prettyAnd so youngThe night is so prettyAnd so youngSo very young, yeah
Sleeping in my carI will undress youSleeping in my carI will caress youStaying in the back seat of my carMaking love, to you
Sleeping in my carI will possess youSleeping in my carCertainly bless youLaying in the back seat of my carMaking up, making up
(Sleeping in my car) I will undress you(Sleeping in my car)The night is so pretty and so young, yeah

Crash! Boom! Bang! [Single edit]

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
My Papa told me to stay out of trouble“When you’ve found your man,Make sure he’s for real!”
I’ve learned that nothing really lasts foreverI sleep with the scarsI wear that won’t healThey won’t heal
'Cos every time I seem to fall in loveCrash! Boom! Bang!
I find the heart but then I hit the wallCrash! Boom! Bang!
That’s the call, that’s the gameAnd the pain stays the same
I’m walking down this empty road to nowhereI pass by the houses and blocks I once knew
My Mama told me not to mess with sorrow (sorrow)But I always did, and lord, I still do
I’m still breaking the rules...
I kick it upI kick it down
'Cos every time I seem to fall in loveCrash! Boom! Bang!
I find the heart but then I hit the wallCrash! Boom! Bang!
That’s my realMiddle-nameIt has alwaysBeen the sameThat’s the callThat’s the gameAnd the painStays the same...
I still feel the heat (slowly fallin’ from the sky...)And the taste of the kissingShattered by rain (comin’ tumblin’ from behind...)And the wildHoly war, oh...
I kick it upI kick it down
Oooh, and every time I seem to fall in loveCrash! Boom! Bang!
I find the roses dying on the floorCrash! Boom! Bang!Crash! Boom! Bang!
That’s the callThat’s the gameAnd the painStays the sameThat’s my realMiddle-nameIt has alwaysBeen the same
Oh yeaOh yeaIt has always been the same

Vulnerable [Single edit]

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Everywhere I look I see her smileHer absent-minded eyesAnd she has kept me wondering for so longHow this thing could go wrong
It seems to me that we are both the samePlaying the same gameBut as darkness falls this true love falls apartInto a riddle of her heart
She's so vulnerable, like china in my handsShe's so vulnerable, and I don't understandI could never hurt the one I loveShe's all I've gotBut she's so vulnerableOh so vulnerable
Days like these no one should be aloneNo heart should hide awayHer touch is gently conquering my mindThere's nothing words can say
She's colored all the secrets of my soulI've whispered all my dreamsBut just as nighttime falls this vision falls apartInto a riddle of her heart, yeah
She's so vulnerable, like china in my handsShe's so vulnerable and I don't understandI could never hurt someone I loveShe's all I've gotBut she's so vulnerableOh so vulnerable
Don't hide your eyes...
She's so vulnerable, like china in my handsShe's so vulnerable and I don't understandI could never hurt the one I loveShe's all I've got
She's so vulnerable, like china in my handsShe's so vulnerable and I don't understandI could never hurt someone I loveShe's all I've gotBut she's so vulnerableOh so vulnerable
She's so vulnerableMy Baby, She's vulnerableShe's so vulnerable

The first girl on the moon

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
Hmmm...
She was the firstGirl on the moonShe didn’t compromise
When she took offThat cold afternoonHeading for theNorthern skies
I told her I could comeThat I could come along
She was the firstGirl on the moonI think I was herOnly friend
She brought her raygunAn old harpoonJust in case ofAccidents
I told her I could comeThat I could come along (but she didn’t let me come along...)Wave goodbyeWave goodbye
She was the firstGirl on the moonStanding tallFlag in hand
She looked aroundHumming a tuneThe strangest songKnown to man
I told her I could comeThat I could come along (but she didn’t let me come along...)Wave goodbyeWave goodbye

I’m sorry

(letra e música de Per Gessle)
The first time we metTime stood stillYou left me breathlessSuddenly speechless
Within the hourWe were oneTwo total strangersKissing the moonlight
OhYou know I’m sorry, I had to goI’m really sorry, it had to dieI’m really sorry, I made you cryCry
We fell in love between the nightsOf too many loversAnd too many teardrops
And fate won’t resistSome satin sheets
I was so helplessTotally ruthless
OhYou know I’m sorry I had to go (I'm really sorry...)I’m really sorry you’re hurt inside (I'm really sorry...)I’m really sorry I made you cryCry cry
Love is lifting you up and draggin’ you downMakes you go round and round and roundTime makes a stopThen it’s all goneFunny how memories keep lingering on
OhYou know I’m sorry I had to go (I'm really sorry...)I’m really sorry, it had to die (I'm really sorry...)I’m really sorry I made you cry (I'm really sorry...)You know I’m sorry I had to go (I'm really sorry...)I’m really sorry you’re hurt inside (I'm really sorry...)I’m really sorry I made you cry (I'm really sorry...)Cry cry
I’m really sorry (I'm really sorry...)Cry cryI'm really sorry...Cry cryI made you cryI'm really sorry I made you cryI'm really sorry...Cry cry

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