Songwriter: Tracey Thorn Ben Watt
Producer: Ben Watt
"Dressed for Success" is a song by pop rock duo Roxette, released in Europe, on August 3, 1988 as the lead single from their second studio album, Look Sharp!. Following the international success of "The Look" – the album's third single in their home country, but the first to be released outside of Sweden – "Dressed for Success" was re-issued internationally in 1989 and became a worldwide hit, most notably in Australia, where it peaked in the top three and was certified platinum by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Read more on Last.fm.
Length: 4:11
So here we are in Italy
With a sun hat and a dictionary
The air is warm, the sky is bright
Your arms are brown, you're sleeping well at night
So why does England call?
The hedgerows and town halls
After all, there'll soon be nothing left at all
[Verse 2]
If we were born outside of place and time
To make our choice, well this would be mine
To live and die under a sun that shines
But something pulls, something I can't define
Tells me England calls, whatever she's done wrong
Always calls, "This is where you belong"
[Chorus]
I'm lonesome for a place I know
Yes, I'm lonesome for a place I know
[Verse 3]
Oh but Florence you tempt me here to stay
Amidst your hills to while my years away
But your roots in soil lie, mine in paving stone
And I hate what it's become, but in my bones
[Chorus]
I'm lonesome for a place I know
Yes, I'm lonesome for a place I know
Why does England call?
I'm lonesome for a place I know
Why does England call?
I'm lonesome for a place I know
Yes, I'm lonesome for a place I know
Why does England call?
I'm lonesome for a place I know
Idlewild
- Oxford Street
- Lonesome for a Place I Know
- Hang Out the Flags
- Love Is Here Where I Live
- Living on Honeycomb
- These Early Days
- Dyed in the Grain
- Another Day, Another Dollar
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It (Instrumental)
- Shadow on a Harvest Moon
- Blue Moon Rose
- Goodbye Sunday
- I Always Was Your Girl
- Apron Strings
- No Place Like Home
- Tears All Over Town
- Home From Home
- The Night I Heard Caruso Sing
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It
- How About Me?
- Idlewild (1988)
- Missing
- Night and Day
- Wrong
- Five Fathoms
- Rollercoaster
- Mirrorball
- Single
- Walking Wounded
- Hatfield 1980
- No Place Like Home
- Lullaby of Clubland (Jay Sinister Sealee Mix)
- Missing (Todd Terry club mix) (Blanco/Eternal radio edit)
- Get Me
- Walking Wounded (Omni Trio mix)
- 25th December
- Tears All Over Town
- Kid
- Don’t Leave Me Behind
- Home From Home
- Sean
- One Place
- Missing (Tee’s Beat)
- Time After Time
- Mine