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T'Pau: The Greatest Hits

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Label: Disky Records
Released: 1999
Time:
 55:48
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Roy Thomas Baker, Carol Decker
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tpau.org
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2001.05.16
Price in €: 5,99



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[1] China In Your Hand (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 5:06
[2] Heart And Soul (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:15
[3] Valentine (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 3:56
[4] Only A Heartbeat (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:39
[5] Whenever You Need Me (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:03
[6] Secret Garden (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:04
[7] Sex Talk (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:15
[8] Road To Our Dream (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:40
[9] This Girl (T'Pau) - 4:02
[10] Only The Lonely (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:23
[11] Bridge Of Spies (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 5:23
[12] I Will Be With You (Carol Decker & Ron Rogers) - 4:04
[13] No Sense Of Pride (T'Pau) - 3:50
[14] Strange Place (T'Pau) - 4:30
[15] Hold On To Love (T'Pau) - 4:18
[16] Promise (T'Pau) - 3:59
[17] Place In My Heart (T'Pau) - 3:58

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CAROL DECKER - Vocals, Producer
RONNIE ROGERS - Guitars
MICHAEL CHETWOOD - Keyboars
PAUL JACKSON - Bass
TIM BURGESS - Drums

RPY THOMAS BAKER - Producer

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Biography 1987-1992:

T'pau burst onto the music scene in 1987 with the hit "Heart & Soul" reaching No. 4 in both the UK & US charts. Taken from the debut album "Bridge Of Spies," its innovative use of a rap verse by a white female vocalist introduced the world to the distinctive lead vocals of Carol Decker. Signed to Siren Records, T'pau comprised of songwriters Carol & Ron Rogers (guitar), plus four session players.

"Heart & Soul" led to a meteoric rise in T'pau's fortunes. After a UK arena tour supporting Bryan Adams, the band immediately toured UK City Halls as headliners to tie in with the next single, the classic ballad "China In Your Hand." Nobody could have predicted the enormous impact of "China" which stayed at No. 1 for 5 weeks - the longest serving No. 1 of the year!

To date, "China In Your Hand" has appeared on more than 150 compilations, and has become one of the most played songs of the 1980's. After further hits such as "Valentine," "I Will Be With You," and "Sex Talk," the "Bridge Of Spies" album was certified quadruple platinum in the UK, selling 1.2 million copies.

Always a hard working band, T'pau toured constantly throughout Europe and North America, and in the UK were selling out shows at Wembley Arena & Hammersmith Apollo.

Two further albums followed: the platinum "Rage" (1988), and "The Promise" (1991). In all, T'pau scored 8 top 30 UK hit singles, UK album sales of 2 million, and world-wide sales of over 4 million.

The original line up of T'pau split in 1991 after the final hit "Whenever You Need Me" (No. 16), following the merger of Siren with Virgin Records. The final album, "Heart & Soul: The Very Best Of T'pau," was released in 1993. Ron Rogers returned to production and studio work, whilst Carol embarked upon a co-writing career, occasionally performing solo and guesting on other artists albums.



Buy it if you like any of the T'Pau songs you've heard! I like this album. It contains 17 tracks with a total playing time of over 70 minutes. I don't have any of T'Pau's other albums, so I don't know if these songs are their best. But I know most of them are good and some are fantastic. I love the "China In Your Hand", "Whenever You Need Me" and "Bridge Of Spies". This is a very good album that I think you will like if you like any of the T'Pau songs you've heard.

Carl Lindstrom from Lund, Sweden
 

 L y r i c s


CHINA IN YOUR HAND

It was a theme she had
On a scheme he had
Told in a foreign land
To take life on earth
To the second birth
And the man was in command
It was a flight on the wings
Of a young girl's dreams
That flew too far away
And we could make the monster live again

Oh hands move and heart beat on
Now life will return in this electric storm
A prophecy for a fantasy
The curse of a vivid mind

Don't push too far
Your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard
Because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might
Have set upon yourself
China in your hand

Come from greed
Never born of the seed
Took a life from a barren hand
Oh eyes wide
Like a child in the form of man
A story told
A mind of his own
An omen for our time

Don't push too far
Your dreams are china in your hand
Don't wish too hard
Because they may come true
And you can't help them
You don't know what you might
Have set upon yourself
China in your hand
Oh your hand
Your dreams are china in your hand, wooah
Here in your hand
China in your hand, woh oh oh woh oh oh woh oh
Here in your hand

Woh! You take a flight on the wings of fantasy
Then you push too far
And make your dreams reality
Yeah! For the china in your hand
But you shouldn't push too hard

You take a flight on the wings of fantasy
Then you push too hard
You make those dreams reality
Yeah! China in your hands
But they're only dreams


HEART AND SOUL

Something in the moonlight catches my eye
The shadow of a lover goes dancing by
Looking for a little bit of love to grow, so
Give me love, give me heart and soul
You never let me cross to the other side now
I'm tied to the hope that you will somehow
Hard on the heels of something more
But I lost your love, heart and soul

The tear in my heart as you walk on by (more than an ocean)
I feel so low and your head is high
Everything you do convinces me more (keeps us apart)
Please, give me love, give me heart and soul
Looking to the day when I saw your face (I feel a tearing in half of my heart)
I wasn't in the running, I wasn't in the race
You move in a way that I've known before
Now I want your love, heart and soul

Tired eyes, tears that dried (leaving you ain't easy now)
On the bed, on the pillow, where the love has died (loving you's the harder part)
A turn of the key, through the door you go (you never want me for myself)
Don't look back, to hurt me more (now I've needed you right from the very start)
Everything you said was to the point
Can't you try to (oh won't you even try to)

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit of heart and soul

Walking on the water, walking on the air (a walk on the water)
That was the heart of the love we shared
Do you keep secret left untold (is all that I need)
Can't give love, heart or soul
I used to have a lover with a Midas touch (but miracles are not happening)
I turned to gold but he turned to dust
Left me for another, I turned to stone
Now give me love, heart and soul

Tired eyes, tears that dried (living in a fantasy)
On the bed, on the pillow, where you told your lies (there's never any room to breathe)
A turn of the key, my blood runs cold (hoping every waking hour)
Don't look back to hurt me more (you'll turn around and say that we can start)
Everything you did just said it all
Can't you try to (oh won't you even try to)

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit of heart and soul

Somehow, I lost my way
Looking to see something in your eyes
But love will never compromise
Now this is the politics of life, yeah!

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit, little bit

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know
A little bit, little bit

Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
Give a little bit of love to grow
Give a little bit of heart and soul (give a little bit of heart and soul)
And don't you make me beg for more (must I beg you)
Give a sign, I need to know, whoooah!
Give a little bit of heart and soul
Give a little bit of heart and soul


VALENTINE

Songs for my valentine
Give the game away
In rhyme I make mine
Sing all that I cannot say
I know mine are the tears I never cry
I know mine is a love I must deny

We go our separate ways
With nothing but a smile
Hearts break in many ways
Oh how, you've broken mine
I know mine are the arms you'll never hold
I know mine is a love remains untold

Hey, hey, hey!
Sunny valentine
Come on shine
Your love my way

Songs for my valentine
Give the game away
Come on, take it away yeah

I know mine are the tears I never cry
I know mine is a love I must deny

Hey, hey, hey!
Sunny valentine
Come on shine, please shine
Your love my way

Oh! Come on and shine
You've got to shine
Please shine
My way, my way
Oh! Come on now shine
You've got to shine
Please shine my way
It's my turn my way my way

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Oh come on and shine
You've got to shine
Please shine my way...


ONLY A HEARTBEAT

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WHENEVER YOU NEED ME

I came to see if you will listen to me now
Came to atone
For all the wrong I've done
Won't you forgive a stupid girl
Who didn't realise she owned the world
Till you left me alone

I won't make the same mistake
And let the fate
Of some poor fool who never knew
The beauty of a precious love
Come fill my heart
Can't we go back to the start

Chorus:
Whenever you need me now
In a world without love
If you hear the song again
Don't make it a requiem
If we put this aside, oh I'm sure
We could talk and make up your minds
Make it the best of times again

Can you believe I never knew
The answer lay within you
I, I went searching everywhere
Sometimes it's very hard
To see through the familiarity of what is there

But if you tell me I can't be the one you need
I'm gonna shout it from a mountain high
I let our love be sacrificed
Threw it away
Please let me try it again

Whenever you need me now
In a world without love
If you hear the song again
Don't make it a requiem
We belong, we belong together
I'm gonna shout it from a mountain high
I let our love be sacrificed
Threw it away

Chorus

You keep that in mind
Can't we just try


SECRET GARDEN

There’s more to this feeling
Than a differing mind to anatomy
On my own
Who’s going to hold me
A burning heart
Lifts me up to my own life
I can’t run from the truth
And I won’t try

´Cause it wouldn’t matter who you are
In this world
There’s nothing on earth that we can’t change
But on the inside I could never be the same
Oh oh oh oh

Chorus:
Come into the garden babe
Oh you got to come on in
Come into the secret garden
We’re changing the way we’re made
And in our own eyes
We’re going to move the mountain
Oh oh oh oh

So how do you see me now
Can you see me
Don’t butter me up and tell me lies
I’ve seen the black and white
Coloured in your eyes

But trapped in a cage
Is not the place
You can leave me
Or cover it up to ease your mind
In this confusion I can always see the light
Into the garden

Chorus

You’ll never know how it feels
Not to be one thing or the other
If there was a world without hypocrisy
You never know I might just be
Something you need

It wouldn’t matter who you were
In this world
Knowing yourself is so much more
Take one step forward and you open up the door
Into the garden

Chorus


SEX TALK

I just feel like talking to someone
I don't care who it is
I just wanna have a laugh
You know how it is, yeah yeah
All of the day in the same old room
Well, I'm going out of my mind
I can't throw this out of the window
It's mine all mine
You better believe it
Hell, you know I mean it
I've been on my own too long
In desperation I learned many things
But mostly it's each to their own

Sex talk
Intimate strangers
Well it's only sex talking on the phone
Love without a face

I just need a pat on the back
Tell me that I'm still alive
Like spider man
I'm climbing the walls
I want my prize, yeah yeah
I don't remember
When it crept up behind me
I don't know when I got so wet
All I know is I was looking for something
But I forget

You see that I can't go on living like this
I've been on my own too long
You know I looked around
Never found love
Far away it called one day

Sex talk
Intimate strangers
Well it's only sex talking on the phone
Love, love, love, without a face

I don't remember when it crept up behind me
I don't know when I got so wet
You see all I know is I was looking for something
What was it? What was it? I forget

Ah well, it's easy for you
To be shocked at what I do
You've probably got someone at home
I never had anyone to love me
Anyone to hold me
I take what I can on the telephone

Sex talk, intimate strangers
Well it's only sex talking on the phone
My kind of love without a face
And we talk oh! yeah!
Intimate strangers
Well it's only sex talking on the phone
Love, love, love, without a face

Gimme your love
Gimme your love
Talk to me, woh yeah!
Sex talk
We talk
We have a good time on the telephone lines
We talk oh yeah!
Intimate strangers
Well it's only sex talking on the phone
You say what I want on the telephone
Sex talk oh! yeah!


ROAD TO OUR DREAM

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THIS GIRL

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ONLY THE LONELY

We run in circles
That never connect at the same time
Heaven help the lonely ones
As another day older we get, and here we go
Spending our money
Filling the house with things we hope
Will bring us happiness again
And then we cover empty hearts up
With a full smile that has no joy
Lying for love, we’re dying for more
Well you can have anything these days I’m sure

Making your mind up
It never did anyone no good
For how do you touch what you can’t have
You cover the hurt
Pretend you don’t care
It’s living I guess but it hardly compares

Chorus:
Gimme some time
Lend me a hand
Reach into the darkness and you’ll understand
Only the lonely know
Would you go anywhere
Do anything
Falling so low that you see
What the lonely know

Hiding your poor heart
You wouldn’t think could be so hard
From the roaring giant of love
Oh but he won’t leave
Andso you keep silently screaming
Filling your head with a love song
That noone will ever want
And yes we are keeping up resistance
To a good time in case we fall
Put up a wall you can’t overcome
Well I believe every home should have one

Fortunes, persistence
It never did anyone no good
When a taste is worse than none at all
It opens the hurt
Makes you so scared
I see a world that is empty out there

Chorus

We cover our empty hearts up
With a full smile
But it has no joy
Put up a wall you can’t overcome
To cover the hurt
Pretend you don’t care
I see a world that is empty out there

Chorus


BRIDGE OF SPIES
written by Carol Decker & Ron Rogers

Woh oh oh woh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Woo ooh Woo ooh

So long I've waited
For you to come to me
Anticipating what I would say
And no one could know
How it feels to be
In your embrace again
So tender

Yeah, there were times
I could not hold on
With each day that came
A little more hope was gone
I'd look into my heart
To see what I had done
And now I can't believe
The day is finally come

I am walking
Over the bridge of spies today
Freedom is only one more step away
You only have to hold me
Take me to you

Now the things we wanted
Well they're so far away it seems
Your love is a distant thing
That I kept deep inside of me
Now if I could show you
Where I lived in my fantasy
On the continent of dreams
You'd be with me

I don't know if I could go through it all again
For what's the point if you are never free to say
This is what I believe
This is a part of me
No hero, no regrets
But only meant to be

I am walking
Over the bridge of spies today
Freedom is only one more step away
You only have to hold me
Yeah! Yeah!

Walking
Over the bridge of spies today
Freedom is only one step away, yeah
You only have to hold me, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hold me, hold me
Hold me, hold me
Hold me, hold me


I WILL BE WITH YOU

I have this fantasy
You come back and you forgive me
Oh I'm so sorry now
I hear this melody
Our tryst in rhapsody
And I am listening
I never thought I'd see the day when you and me
We'd be so far apart
And I miss you so much now
But I know there's no way back to yesterday

I will be with you
You're here in my heart
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart
I miss you so much
Wherever you are
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart

Here in my deepest dream
Running through another scene
I win your love again
And no, it doesn't bother me
The time I spend in imagery
Well it's how I live
You see, I don't believe that we tried
Everything before our love died
And I just can't forget
Oh, is the one chance all we get

I will be with you
You're here in my heart
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart
I miss you so much
Wherever you are
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart

Now I have such memories
But I don't like to resurrect them
Oh you know they hurt me so much now
And I know there's no way you'll be coming home

I will be with you
You're here in my heart
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart
I miss you so much
Wherever you are
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart

I will be with you
You're here in my heart
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart
I miss you so much
Wherever you are
But if you never come back again
We'll never be far apart


NO SENSE OF PRIDE

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STRANGE PLACE

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HOLD ON TO LOVE

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THE PROMISE

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A PLACE IN MY HEART

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