Wang Chung Lyrics on RINGTONES Z

(Jack Hues / Nick De Spig)

It’s good to have a good time
It’s good to let your feelings be known
It’s good to go out dancing
And it’s good to have your people back home
The fashions, oh they’re way out babe
I love the colour of your hair
Darling can we go now, oh no
I don’t think that you care

Why do you laugh
When everybody’s crying
Why do you laugh
When everybody’s crying
Why do you, Why do you
Oh why?
Is it just that you don’t notice
Is it so long since a tear passed your eye?

As your light is gone I’m gone
I seem to get me nowhere
The boys that try to raise a laugh
But there’s nothing to smile about down there
And all the faces you’re so bored
I know you’ve heard it all before
But what frightened me is all those people
What they want is more and more

Wang Chung are a British New Wave musical group.

The group found their greatest success in the United States with five Top 40 hits including the 1986 #2 hit “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” and their only UK hit, “Dance Hall Days”.

Altogether they put out 5 albums in the 80’s. Self-titled album “Huang Chung” (1982) (before they changed to Wang Chung), “Points On A Curve” (1984), the soundtrack to “To Live And Die In L.A.” (1985), “Mosaic” (1986), and ‘The Warmer Side Of Cool” (1989).

There has been news of a new Wang Chung album in the works for the last few years.

The name Huang Chung literally translates from Chinese as “yellow bell”, but refers to the standardized bass pitch of ancient China. Early on the band summarized the definition as “perfect pitch” and later, on American Bandstand, they claimed it was the sound a guitar made.

Originally called Huang Chung the band formed in 1979. The lineup consisted of vocalist/guitarist Jack Hues, bassist Nick Feldman, and drummer Darren Costin. Hues originally met Feldman after answering Feldman’s ad for a musician in the classifieds section of the weekly British music magazine Melody Maker in 1977.

Soon afterwards, Hues and Feldman formed with Bud Merrick and the late Paul Hammond in late 1977/early 1978 as ‘The Intellektuals’. In less than a year, the band split up, as Hues and Feldman joined up with future Wang Chung drummer Darren Costin, along with keyboardists Simon Campbell, Leigh Gorman and Glenn Gregory, to form ‘57 Men’. This lineup lasted for less than a year as well.

Huang Chung’s self-titled debut album was released by Arista Records in 1982 after several singles, including the minor post-punk hit “Isn’t It About Time We Were on TV”. In 1983, after being dropped by Arista and signed to Geffen Records, they changed their name to Wang Chung (at Geffen’s suggestion, to make pronunciation easier for English-speakers—consistent with the claim by VH1’s Pop Up Video that they changed it because people kept calling them “Hung Chung”) — and subsequently they released Points on the Curve, which yielded two major hits, “Don’t Let Go” (#36 US) and “Dance Hall Days” (#16 US).

-Wikipedia.

(Jack Hues)

I feel the tension
In your hand
I’m on a plane to a
Foreign land
So far away with no
Telephone line
I’m flying into spring
And leaving winter behind

I know it’ll be winter
In your heart
Icy stone cold winter
All the time we’re apart

Chorus:
As I look at you
Looking back at me
The wordless tears in your eyes
What’s inside of you?
What’s inside of me?
You may not realize for days and days
The consequences of that gaze
When love looks back at you
When love looks back at you

Love is a monster
With a need to devour
All who fall
In her power
And love is a sweet thing
With a need to caress
Security, stability and happiness
I’m flying, flying from
Reality
Where two things can be true
Simultaneously

Repeat Chorus

I feel a cold wind
In the street outside
A plane flies low
Through the rain-filled sky
Winter’s come to get me
And it’s tearing me apart
As cool blue summer
Floods your open heart

Repeat Chorus

Wang Chung are a British New Wave musical group.

The group found their greatest success in the United States with five Top 40 hits including the 1986 #2 hit “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” and their only UK hit, “Dance Hall Days”.

Altogether they put out 5 albums in the 80’s. Self-titled album “Huang Chung” (1982) (before they changed to Wang Chung), “Points On A Curve” (1984), the soundtrack to “To Live And Die In L.A.” (1985), “Mosaic” (1986), and ‘The Warmer Side Of Cool” (1989).

There has been news of a new Wang Chung album in the works for the last few years.

The name Huang Chung literally translates from Chinese as “yellow bell”, but refers to the standardized bass pitch of ancient China. Early on the band summarized the definition as “perfect pitch” and later, on American Bandstand, they claimed it was the sound a guitar made.

Originally called Huang Chung the band formed in 1979. The lineup consisted of vocalist/guitarist Jack Hues, bassist Nick Feldman, and drummer Darren Costin. Hues originally met Feldman after answering Feldman’s ad for a musician in the classifieds section of the weekly British music magazine Melody Maker in 1977.

Soon afterwards, Hues and Feldman formed with Bud Merrick and the late Paul Hammond in late 1977/early 1978 as ‘The Intellektuals’. In less than a year, the band split up, as Hues and Feldman joined up with future Wang Chung drummer Darren Costin, along with keyboardists Simon Campbell, Leigh Gorman and Glenn Gregory, to form ‘57 Men’. This lineup lasted for less than a year as well.

Huang Chung’s self-titled debut album was released by Arista Records in 1982 after several singles, including the minor post-punk hit “Isn’t It About Time We Were on TV”. In 1983, after being dropped by Arista and signed to Geffen Records, they changed their name to Wang Chung (at Geffen’s suggestion, to make pronunciation easier for English-speakers—consistent with the claim by VH1’s Pop Up Video that they changed it because people kept calling them “Hung Chung”) — and subsequently they released Points on the Curve, which yielded two major hits, “Don’t Let Go” (#36 US) and “Dance Hall Days” (#16 US).

-Wikipedia.