Released: December 4, 1989
Songwriter: Duran Duran
Producer: Chris Kimsey
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
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
- Liberty (1990)
- 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
- 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