Released: December 4, 1989
Songwriter: Nick Rhodes John Barry Duran Duran
Producer: John Barry
Pick it up
This'll get you out of your head
China's hangin' out by the railings
Of the motorshed
She goes with a real hit biker
He's a metalhead
She looks me up and down
Talkin' dirty eyes
Sweet sayin' boy baby
I could lick ya any time
Keep it up
That's right...here we go again
Bit later I'm gonna run
Into her round the back
While other guys break heads
In the Shugar Shack
Don't give me drink I don't wanna
Get too stoned
Then we're gonna see who's gonna
Take who home
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover
Those lips will make me rise
You may look down but don't think twice
Slow death is on the way
So what man I still want to play....
One, two
This'll get you out of your mind
This'll get you up...let's go
Maybe take a ride goin' south
Where her mother writes
Before bad news catches up
We still got a little time
We'll leave it all so far away
One thing is sure we shouldn't stay
I take it all little Chine gonna
Get the runaround a run... a runaround
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover
China... na china...nanana
China... na china...nanana
China... na china...nanana
China... na china...nana
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover...mmm... love's takin' over
Yes love's takin' over
Love's takin over...
This'll get you out of your head
China's hangin' out by the railings
Of the motorshed
She goes with a real hit biker
He's a metalhead
She looks me up and down
Talkin' dirty eyes
Sweet sayin' boy baby
I could lick ya any time
Keep it up
That's right...here we go again
Bit later I'm gonna run
Into her round the back
While other guys break heads
In the Shugar Shack
Don't give me drink I don't wanna
Get too stoned
Then we're gonna see who's gonna
Take who home
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover
Those lips will make me rise
You may look down but don't think twice
Slow death is on the way
So what man I still want to play....
One, two
This'll get you out of your mind
This'll get you up...let's go
Maybe take a ride goin' south
Where her mother writes
Before bad news catches up
We still got a little time
We'll leave it all so far away
One thing is sure we shouldn't stay
I take it all little Chine gonna
Get the runaround a run... a runaround
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover
China... na china...nanana
China... na china...nanana
China... na china...nanana
China... na china...nana
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover...mmm... love's takin' over
Yes love's takin' over
Love's takin over...
more tracks from the album
Strange Behavior
- My Own Way (Night version)
- Meet El Presidente (12" Version)
- Rio (Carnival Version)
- All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)
- Skin Trade (Stretch Mix)
- Notorious (Extended Mix)
- Hold Back the Rain (Alternate Remix) [Strange Behaviour Remix]
- New Religion (Carnival Remix)
- The Wild Boys (Wilder Than Wild Boys Extended Mix)
- Planet Earth (Night mix)
- Union of the Snake (Monkey Mix)
- New Moon on Monday (Extended Mix)
- American Science (Chemical Reaction Mix)
- Is There Something I Should Know? (Monster Mix)
- Girls on Film [Night Version]
- Hungry Like the Wolf (Night Version)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Power Mix)
- The Reflex (Dance Mix)
- I Don’t Want Your Love (Dub Mix)
From the albums
- Strange Behavior (1999)
- The Singles 1986-1995 (2004)
Duran Duran popular songs
- 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