The Human League

Released: April 11, 1983

Songwriter: Philip Oakey Jo Callis

Producer: Martin Rushent

[Verse 1]
If it seems a little time is needed
Decisions to be made
The good advice of friends unheeded
The best of plans mislaid

Just looking for a new direction
In an old familiar way
The forming of a new connection
To study or to play

[Pre-Chorus]
And so the conversation turned
Until the sun went down
And many fantasies were learned
On that day

[Chorus]
Keep feeling fascination
Passion burning
Love so strong
Keep feeling fascination
Looking, learning
Moving on

[Verse 2]
Well, the truth may need some rearranging
Stories to be told
And plain to see the facts are changing
No meaning left to hold

[Pre-Chorus]
And so the conversation turned
Until the sun went down
And many fantasies were learned
On that day

[Chorus]
Keep feeling fascination
Passion burning
Love so strong
Keep feeling fascination
Looking, learning
Moving on

[Pre-Chorus]
And so the conversation turned
Until the sun went down
And many fantasies were learned
On that day

[Chorus]
Keep feeling fascination
Passion burning
Love so strong
Keep feeling fascination
Looking, learning
Moving on
Keep feeling fascination
Passion burning
Love so strong
Keep feeling fascination
Looking, learning
Moving on
Keep feeling fascination
Passion burning
Love so strong
Keep feeling fascination
Looking, learning
Moving on

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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