Lyrics: Get Happy!!

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Love For Tender

You won't take my love for tender

You can put your money where your mouth is

But you're so unsure

I could be a miser or a big spender

But you might get much more than you bargained for


Checking on a checkmate

Grassing on a classmate

So beautiful and fortunate

You're the one who hates to love

But he's the one who loves to hate

He can fix you all for good

Because he is the neighbourhood

You can get money for blood

Blood money for doing no good


Better tell me now, have you made your selection?

Are you ready for correction?

'Cause the wages of sin are an expensive infection

It'll make you bankrupt

Better pay up now, don't interrupt

So in love, I'm so sincere

Just like a well-known financier

You know I've never been corrupt


I'll pay you a compliment

And you'll think I am innocent

You can total up the balance sheet

And never know if I'm a counterfeit

You won't take my love for tender...

Opportunity

Born in the middle of a second big baby boom

Those noisy boys just might have spoken up too soon

Now I'm looking for a little girl, I wonder where she's gone

Big money for families having more than one


Chorus:

Opportunity, opportunity

This is your big opportunity

They shop around

Follow you without a sound

Whatever you do now

Don't turn around

Don't turn around


Whatever happened to the pride of the nation?

They say, "Just wait until you break formation"

She was sitting pretty on a velvet cushion

But her bedroom eyes were like a button she was pushing

She said, "When they get to Dover they'll be be taking over"

I said I'd come to her defense and then she pulled me over


(Chorus)


I'm in the foxhole, I'm down in the trench

I'd be a hero but I can't stand the stench

The Fitness Institute was full of General Motormen

And the "Hello House of Beauty" wouldn't stand a chance with them

The chairman of this boredom is a compliment collector

I'd like to be his funeral director


(Chorus)


Please don't turn around...

Opportunity

Born in the middle of a second big baby boom

Those noisy boys just might have spoken up too soon

Now I'm looking for a little girl, I wonder where she's gone

Big money for families having more than one


Chorus:

Opportunity, opportunity

This is your big opportunity

They shop around

Follow you without a sound

Whatever you do now

Don't turn around

Don't turn around


Whatever happened to the pride of the nation?

They say, "Just wait until you break formation"

She was sitting pretty on a velvet cushion

But her bedroom eyes were like a button she was pushing

She said, "When they get to Dover they'll be be taking over"

I said I'd come to her defense and then she pulled me over


(Chorus)


I'm in the foxhole, I'm down in the trench

I'd be a hero but I can't stand the stench

The Fitness Institute was full of General Motormen

And the "Hello House of Beauty" wouldn't stand a chance with them

The chairman of this boredom is a compliment collector

I'd like to be his funeral director


(Chorus)


Please don't turn around...


Love For Tender; Opportunity; The Imposter; Secondary Modern; King Horse; Possession; Men Called Uncle; Clowntime Is Over; New Amsterdam; High Fidelity
Side 2: I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down; Black And White World; 5ive Gears In Reverse; B-Movie; Motel Matches; Human Touch; Beaten To The Punch; Temptation; I Stand Accused; Riot Act<

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