The Human League

Songwriter: Rob Barton Philip Oakey Jarrod Gosling Dean Honer

Producer: I Monster

Electric shock
You make me feel
You make me real
Around the clock

Electric shock
It feels so right
A flash of light
Electric shock

Electric shock
I just can't stop
From toe to top
From head to sock

Electric shock
A human spark
Electric arc
Electric shock

The static hits
Burning up and down my spine
I'll risk a blitz
For a touch of the divine
Won't shy away
'Til my spirit starts to climb
I'm here to say
One more time

Electric shock
You make me feel
You make me real
Around the clock

The static hits
Burning up and down my spine
I'll risk a blitz
For a touch of the divine
Won't shy away
'Til my spirit starts to climb
I'm here to say
One more time

Electric shock
A point sublime
The whole of time
To now o'clock

Electric shock
A crackling sound
Much faster then
A pulse can pound

Through smoke and curiosity
A boy for you a girl for me
A beautiful philosophy
Ozone and electricity

Electric shock
You make me feel
You make me real
Around the clock

Electric shock
A crackling sound
Much faster then
A pulse can pound

Electric shock

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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