Cyndi Lauper

Released: September 15, 1986

Songwriter: Cyndi Lauper Rick Derringer

Producer: Lennie Petze Cyndi Lauper

[Verse 1]
I can get up on the right side of the bed
But that don't stop the rain from coming down on my head
I can live my life playing hide and seek
But when I look inside, it's hard to make believe
Ah-ha
Ooh-ha

[Verse 2]
'n lately
You seem so far away
I wish I could say something, but I don't know what to say
I can feel your eyes, I don't have to look at you
Boy, discontentment is a sneakin'-through
Ah-ha

[Chorus]
You never really want anything
But what you really need is everything
I'll give you something only life can bring
The calm inside the storm
Love me a little, love me long
Ooh-woah, woah-yeah
The calm inside the storm
Love me a little, love me long
Ah-ah

[Verse 3]
Don't you know you should be holding me?
But you're all locked inside
Why don't you throw me your keys?
I'm like a rockin' ship on your rollin' sea
You know crash and lightnin' never frightens me, nah-nah

[Chorus]
You never really want anything
But what you really need is everything
I'll give you something only life can bring
The calm inside the storm
Love me a little, love me long
Oh-woah, woah-yeah
The calm inside the storm
Love me a little, love me long

[Bridge]
You never really want it
But when you really need it
I wanna give you something
Hmm-hmm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]
You never really want anything
But what you really need is everything
I'll give you something only life can bring
The calm inside the storm
Love me a little, love me long
Oh-woah, woah-yeah
But what you really need is everything
I'll give you something only life can bring
The calm inside the storm
Love me a little, love me long
Oh-woah, woah-yeah
The calm inside the storm
Love me a little, love me long
Woah-woah-woah-woah-woah-oh
The calm inside inside the storm

[Outro]
Love me a little, love me long!

An 80’s pop starlet that skyrocketed her way to the top of the mainstream game, Cyndi Lauper has made her mark as an artist both socially and musically.

Beginning her solo career in the 1983 with hit debut album She’s So Unusual, Lauper came to be a household name with the four top-five hits that came with the record, including breakthrough single “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and the visceral, chart-topping “Time After Time”. Her camp attitude, electrifying vocals, and unrelenting earworms made an impression on the general public, and she would take home Best New Artist and Best Album Package at the Grammy’s for She’s So Unusual, amidst 4 other nominations. Lauper would never reach the same sort of stardom again musically following She’s So Unusual, but her legacy was far from over.

She’s So Unusual set the ground for her next True Colors. Released in 1986, the album most notably contained title-track “True Colors”, which would grow to become a primary anthem of the gay rights movement. Lauper would later serve as a key advocate of the LGBT community, and she has fairly consistently addressed homophobia throughout her career.

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