The Human League

Released: May 7, 1984

Songwriter: Philip Oakey Philip Adrian Wright

Producer: The Human League Chris Thomas Hugh Padgham

Funny sometimes how you let
The little things
Get in your way
Funny how you just can't talk
Although sometimes
You've got so much to say
Silly when you know you've got the thing
That everybody
Needs so bad
Stupid if you let those jealous people
Telling lies
Make you sad

I thought I heard a voice
Telling me go home
No need to run no more
Needn't be alone

I don't care what you do
I'm coming back
I can look forward too
I'm coming back

Crazy feelings that you get
Sometimes they make you
Want to run away
The provocation that you let
Overcome you
When you ought to stay

I thought I saw her face
In every single crowd
I heard her voice again
Calling me aloud

I don't care what you do
I'm coming back
I can look forward too
I'm coming back

I thought I never could
Return where I belong
But with her waiting there
I knew I could be strong

I don't care what you do
I'm coming back
I can look forward too
I'm coming back
I don't care what you do
I'm coming back
I can look forward too
I'm coming back

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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