The Human League

Released: January 23, 1995

Songwriter: Ian Stanley Philip Oakey

Producer: Ian Stanley

Once there was a vision
Once there was a glow
Once there was a certainty
No chance could overthrow
Hope was scorched by summer
Crushed and beaten down
Once there was a winner
Now there was a clown
Without you life had seemed so
But now I'm

Filling up with Heaven
Without you life had
Seemed so hostile
Filling up with Heaven
But maybe with you it's all worthwhile
Now I'm filling up with Heaven

No baby no baby no baby no
Filling up
No baby no baby baby baby no
Filling up
No baby no baby no baby no
No baby no baby baby baby no

All the fortune that my
Luck had brought
It couldn't even make me smile
Without you life had seemed so
A lonely hideaway my last resort
All achievement infantile

Now I'm
Filling up with Heaven
Without you life had
Seemed so hostile
Filling up with Heaven
But maybe with you it's all worthwhile
Hey hey hey

As the years had passed by
I became more cynical
All the magic had died
My existence clinical
Ow ow ow ow

But now I'm
Filling up with Heaven
Down down
Down down
Filling up

Without you life had
Seemed so hostile
Down down
Down down
Hey hey hey hey
Filling up with Heaven
But maybe with you it's all worthwhile
Woah woah woah woah

Now I'm
Filling up with Heaven
Without you life had
Seemed so hostile
Down down
Down down
Filling up filling up
Filling up with Heaven
But maybe with you it's all worthwhile
Ow ow ow ow ow
Woah woah woah

Now I'm
Filling up with Heaven
Without you life had seemed so
Hostile
Down down
Down down
Filling up with Heaven
But maybe with you it's all worthwhile
Hey hey hey hey

Without you life had
Seemed so hostile
Down down
Down down
Filling up
But maybe with you it's all worthwhile

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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