How Well Do You Know America’s Top Songs Of The 80s?

People always told me be careful of what you do/ And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts/ And mother always told me be careful of who you love/ And be careful of what you do 'cause the lie becomes the truth.

I saw him dancin' there by the record machine/ I knew he must a been about seventeen/ The beat was goin' strong/ Playin' my favorite song.

And it all comes down to you/ Well you know that it does, well/ Lightning strikes maybe once maybe twice/ Oh and it lights up the night.

You sit around getting older there's a joke here somewhere and it's on me/ I'll shake this world off my shoulders come on baby the laughs on me.

And I'm lookin' in the mirror all the time/ Wonderin' what she don't see in me I've been funny;/ I've been cool with the lines/ Ain't that the way love's supposed to be?/ Tell me why can't I find a woman like that?

But I can see you/ Your brown skin shining in the sun./ You got your hair combed back/ And your sunglasses on, baby./ I can tell you my love for you will still be strong/ After the boys of summer have gone.

She's been living in her white bred world/ As long as anyone with hot blood can/ And now she's looking for a downtown man/ That's what I am.

Well, my friends, the time has come/ To raise the roof and have some fun/ Throw away the work to be done/ Let the music play on/ (Play on, play on)

I come home in the morning light/ My mother says when you gonna live your life right/ Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones.

It may seem to you that I'm acting confused/ When you're close to me/ If I tend to look dazed I've read it someplace/ I've got cause to be/ There's a name for it/ There's a phrase that fits/ But whatever the reason you do it for me.