Released: April 10, 1989
Songwriter: Duran Duran
Producer: Nile Rodgers Duran Duran
[Intro]
No-no-Notorious
Notorious
(Ah)
No-no-Notorious
[Verse 1]
I can't read about it
Burns the skin from your eyes
I'll do fine without it
Here's one you don't compromise
Lies come hard in disguise
They need to fight it out
Not wild about it
Lay your seedy judgements
Who says they're part of our lives?
[Chorus]
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
That's why I've done it again
[Refrain]
No-No-Notorious
[Verse 2]
Girls will keep the secrets (uh)
So long as boys make a noise
Fools run rings to break up
Something they'll never destroy
Grand Notorious slam (bam)
And who really gives a damn for a flaky bandit?
Don't ask me to bleed about it
I need this blood to survive
[Chorus]
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
That's why I've done it again
[Instrumental Bridge & Refrain]
Notorious
Notorious
[Chorus]
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
That's why I've done it again
[Outro]
No
No
That's why I've done it again
No-Notorious
Yeah, that's why I've done it again
No-no-Notorious
Yeah, that's why I've done it again
No-Notorious
No-no-Notorious
Yeah, that's why I've done it again
No-Notorious
No-no-Notorious!
No-no-Notorious
Notorious
(Ah)
No-no-Notorious
[Verse 1]
I can't read about it
Burns the skin from your eyes
I'll do fine without it
Here's one you don't compromise
Lies come hard in disguise
They need to fight it out
Not wild about it
Lay your seedy judgements
Who says they're part of our lives?
[Chorus]
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
That's why I've done it again
[Refrain]
No-No-Notorious
[Verse 2]
Girls will keep the secrets (uh)
So long as boys make a noise
Fools run rings to break up
Something they'll never destroy
Grand Notorious slam (bam)
And who really gives a damn for a flaky bandit?
Don't ask me to bleed about it
I need this blood to survive
[Chorus]
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
That's why I've done it again
[Instrumental Bridge & Refrain]
Notorious
Notorious
[Chorus]
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
You own the money
You control the witness
I'll leave you lonely
Don't monkey with my business
You pay the prophets to justify your reasons
I heard your promise, but I don't believe it
That's why I've done it again
[Outro]
No
No
That's why I've done it again
No-Notorious
Yeah, that's why I've done it again
No-no-Notorious
Yeah, that's why I've done it again
No-Notorious
No-no-Notorious
Yeah, that's why I've done it again
No-Notorious
No-no-Notorious!
more tracks from the album
The Singles 1986-1995
- Come Undone [Edit]
- Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
- Skin Trade (Parisian Mix)
- Ordinary World [Single Version]
- Water Babies
- Yo Bad Azizi
- Skin Trade [Radio Cut]
- Ordinary World (Acoustic version)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Dub Sound Of A Powerful Mix)
- This Is How A Road Gets Made
- I Don’t Want Your Love (7" mix)
- I Believe / All I Need To Know
- Decadance
- Meet El Presidente (7" Remix)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (Rock mix)
- Hungry Like the Wolf [130 B.P.M. Version]
- Notorious (Live)
- Come Undone (12" mix - Comin’ Together)
- Throb
- All She Wants Is (US Master Mix)
- I Don’t Want Your Love (Big Mix)
- Palomino (Edit)
- God (London)
- Skin Trade (Stretch Mix)
- Notorious (Extended Mix)
- Notorious [45 Mix]
- Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
- The Krush Brothers LSD Edit
- All She Wants Is [45 Mix]
- Vertigo (Do the Demolition)
- My Antarctica
- All Along The Water
- Serious
- Violence Of Summer (Love’s Taking Over)
- Skin Trade
- Do You Believe in Shame?
- Come Undone
- Save a Prayer
- Girls on Film
- Is There Something I Should Know?
- Meet El Presidente
- Winter Marches On
- I Don’t Want Your Love
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Power Mix)
- Perfect Day (acoustic version)
- Violence of Summer (Love’s Taking Over) (The Story mix)
- The Reflex (7'’ version)
- Meet el Presidente (Meet el Beat)
- Too Much Information
- We Need You
- The Needle And The Damage Done
- Burning The Ground
- Perfect Day
- White Lines
- A View to a Kill
From the albums
- The Singles 1986-1995 (2004)
- Notorious (2010) (2010)
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
- Drug (It’s Just a State of Mind)
- Faster Than Light
- Hungry Like the Wolf (Night Version)
- American Science (Meltdown Dub)
- Girls on Film [Night Version]
- I Believe / All I Need To Know
- I Don’t Want Your Love (7" mix)
- This Is How A Road Gets Made