John Parr

Songwriter: Peter Goalby John Parr

Producer: John Parr

You'll soon get over it, you'll find somebody new
You're better off out of it, that girls no good for you

Cry if you wanna cry, shout if you wanna shout
Why don't you let it out, but they don't realise

I heard it all a million times, tried to explain, but here it comes again

Everytime I hear those sad songs, makes me wanna try again
All this time and I'm still hurtin', love will get you everytime

You'll find somebody new, she's not the only one
She left you black 'n' blue, you should be glad shes gone

Cry if you wanna cry, shout if you wanna shout
Come on and let it out, but they don't realise

It's getting harder every day, I feel the same, and here it comes again

Everytime I hear those sad songs, makes me wanna try again
All this time and I'm still hurtin', love will get you everytime

I stare at your photograph, times we laughed, oh the memory of you
Was it all so bad, all we had left with you

You were the one, you gave me life
Why did you change, when I still feel the same

Everytime I hear those sad songs, makes me wanna try again
All this time and I'm still hurtin', love will get you everytime
Everytime, everytime, it's gonna get you everytime...

John Parr (born 18 November 1952) is a Grammy-nominated English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 single “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)” and for his 1984 single “Naughty Naughty” (US Rock #1). Parr was nominated for a Grammy award for “St Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.

Parr first entered the music scene when he was 12 years old and formed a band with two fellow schoolmates, which they named The Silence. The band had achieved some success. They eventually became professional and started to tour Europe. He then joined a band named Bitter Suite who were a huge success in the working men’s clubs in Yorkshire, he then formed a “Super Band” with musicians from other working men’s club bands, and named the band Ponders End , a band that set a new precedent for the bands in the north.

Parr secured a publishing deal with Carlin America in 1983 and in the same year Meat Loaf asked him to write some songs for his new album. It led to a fateful meeting with John Wolff, who was tour manager for The Who. Foreseeing the initial demise of The Who, Wolff was looking for a new venture and considered Parr to be a suitable partner. Parr first visited America in 1984 and worked with Meat Loaf on Bad Attitude. Meanwhile, Wolff secured Parr’s solo Atlantic recording deal in New York.

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