‘Give Me Love’ [5:01] (The Alarm), The Alarm
Lead Vocals:Mike Peters
Lyrics
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You are the fire You're in my mind You are the life blood Coursing through my veins Like a river flowing That just won't change You are the life Of all I have depended Oh now I would Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for I need it now I could see you crying But there's no tears I hear your voice now But there's no sound All along the watchtower Voices are calling out I needed someone To hold me down Oh won't you Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for Someone to hold In the night I've got a fire It's in my mind I've got the life blood Flowing through my veins There's a river flowing And it will never change I got someone to depend on Oh now Oh won't you Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for Give me love Give me hope Give me strength Give me someone to live for I need it now I need it now I need it now I need it now I need it NOW Give me love I need it now I want someone to hold onto now
Notes
:An early version of Strength.
During “The Absolute Tour”, Mike Peters had written a new song called “Give Me Love” after the show at Newcastle City Hall on May 6th. A few days later the band played it for the first time during soundcheck for the show at Birmingham Odeon, a soundcheck which was recorded.
Mike Peters Notes
:Strength is a song that was one of the first songs we’ve ever written
together as a band. It started off during the tour. We were
rehearsing “Shout To The Devil” off Declaration to play one night,
and Dave was messing about with the riff to “Shout To The Devil”,
and all of a sudden he started playing what eventually became the
riff the “Strength”. When he got it into that shape, I just started
singing over the top, and then Eddie added some melody and Twist
added a bit. We played a particular inspirational show in Newcastle
one night, and I remember lying in bed in the hotel after the show,
thinking “Give Me Love”, I got this chorus in my head and I thought,
I’ve gotta get the guitar out, so I ran to the van in my underpants,
It was good there were no fans hanging about at the hotel, I got the
guitar out of the van, came back up into the hotel, and tried out
this chorus and thought “oh yeah, its quite good”, and then showed it
to the lads the next day. Dave changed a few of the chords around
in it, and then we had the song. The lyrics just came out of that
feeling of being caged up, and being suppressed. Its a very powerful
song. Its the first one we’ve done as the entire band, and I hope
it is not the last as it is one of the best songs we’ve ever written.
(1985, Backstage Pass 91X)
Dave Sharp Notes
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Eddie MacDonald Notes
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Nigel Twist Notes
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