Released: May 10, 1982
Songwriter: Duran Duran
Producer: Colin Thurston
I've been now sauntering
Out and down the path sometime
Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew
Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things
Telling me not there, man, it's no go
Don't go there boy
I need a reason
I can't think without one now
Too much learning got to show
Call it treason
Maybe catch her, don't know how
Too many things, too much to know
Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind
Lady screaming, lady leave me out
'Cause sometimes people stare
Coming down, electric chair
And steaming crowds they gather and they shout
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
And it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself
It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself
It's a new religion
Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the sun
But someone sees the departmental lie
You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife
Only get one look before you die
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
And it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself
It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself
It's a new religion
Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners
In regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things
Walking in formation down the lane
They carry their cross, make a church bell ring
Army majors pull a mean cool truth
There lying in a swimming pool
Searching for the undeniable truth that
A man is just a fool
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
And it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself
It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself
It's a new religion
Out and down the path sometime
Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew
Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things
Telling me not there, man, it's no go
Don't go there boy
I need a reason
I can't think without one now
Too much learning got to show
Call it treason
Maybe catch her, don't know how
Too many things, too much to know
Bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind
Lady screaming, lady leave me out
'Cause sometimes people stare
Coming down, electric chair
And steaming crowds they gather and they shout
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
And it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself
It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself
It's a new religion
Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the sun
But someone sees the departmental lie
You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife
Only get one look before you die
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
And it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself
It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself
It's a new religion
Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners
In regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things
Walking in formation down the lane
They carry their cross, make a church bell ring
Army majors pull a mean cool truth
There lying in a swimming pool
Searching for the undeniable truth that
A man is just a fool
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
And it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself
It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself
It's a new religion
Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran
- My Own Way (Night version)
- The Wild Boys (Wilder Than Wild Boys Extended Mix)
- Union of the Snake (Monkey Mix)
- New Moon on Monday (Extended Mix)
- Is There Something I Should Know? (Monster Mix)
- Planet Earth (Night version)
- Girls on Film [Night Version]
- Hungry Like the Wolf (Night Version)
- Rio (Night version)
- New Religion (Night version)
- The Reflex (Dance Mix)
- Hold Back the Rain (Carnival remix)
- Ordinary World
- Come Undone
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Rio
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- The Reflex
- The Chauffeur
- Notorious
- A View to a Kill
- The Wild Boys
- New Moon on Monday
- Planet Earth
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Union of the Snake
- New Religion
- All She Wants Is
- Girl Panic!
- Do You Believe in Shame?
- All You Need Is Now
- Skin Trade
- (Reach Up For The) Sunrise
- Leave A Light On
- Blame The Machines