Released: September 8, 1986

Songwriter: Philip Oakey Philip Adrian Wright Jim Russell

Producer: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

[Verse 1:]
The sun that's shining through the shattered window
Is breaking into colors in the car
Through the heat the dust blows round the pueblo
The sounds of people drift in from afar

[Pre-Chorus:]
Can we really lose everything
On a matter of pride?
Is this really the end of our love?
How am I to decide?

[Chorus:]
Are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?

[Verse 2:]
Another village rises in the distance
To mark the passage to the journey's end
The droning of the engine is existence
It's too far for the mind to comprehend

[Pre-Chorus:]
Can we really lose everything
On a matter of pride?
Is this really the end of our love?
How am I to decide?

[Chorus:]
Are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?

[Chorus:]
Are you ever coming back?
Ooh, are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?
Ooh, are you ever coming back?

[Chorus:]
Are you ever coming back?
Ooh, are you ever coming back?
Are you ever coming back?
Ooh, are you ever coming back?

The Human League

The Human League are a synth pop band from Sheffield, England, formed in 1977. They generated a string of synthesizer-backed dance pop hits throughout the 80s. David Bowie dubbed the group “the sound of the future” in 1981.

The band is best known for its third studio album released in 1981, Dare! The fourth single from Dare, “Don’t You Want Me,” catapulted to #1 in the UK and US.

Phil Oakey is the only core member of the group. The band’s first incarnation was as an arty all-male synthesizer group, composed of Oakey, Martyn Ware, and Ian Craig Marsh. In the 1980s, Ware and Marsh left the group after continued conflicts with Oakey—they went on to form Heaven 17.