The Human League

Released: September 8, 1986

Songwriter: Philip Oakey Jim Russell

Producer: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

[Verse 1:]
Starting over
To feel the way I do
A sudden stranger
To everything I knew
All the years together
Now the days we are apart
New experiences
New sensation for the heart

[Pre-Chorus:]
But you know that you will go back
Where you used to

[Chorus:]
Jam
Got to get some jam
Jam
Got to get some

[Verse 2:]
To be alone was frightening
But I knew I had to stay
'Til all the dreamers came
To take my loneliness away

[Pre-Chorus:]
But you know that you will go back
Where you used to

[Chorus:]
Jam
Got to get some jam
Jam
You've got to get some

[Verse 3:]
If all our life is dancing
Then let's just let the music play
What good is crying?
I'm going to jam my life away

[Pre-Chorus:]
But you know that you will go back
Where you used to
Jam
Where you used to

[Breakdown:]
Jam
Jam
Jam
Jam

Starting over
To feel the way I do
A sudden stranger
To everything I knew

But you know that you will go back
Where you used to
But you know that you will go back
Where you used to

[Chorus:]
Jam
Got to get some jam
Jam
Got to get some

[Chorus:]
Jam
Got to get some jam
Jam
Got to get some

Jam
Jam
Jam
Jam

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.

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