Cruel Summer

Album: Bananarama (1983)
Charted: 8 9
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  • Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning, I sit around
    Trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry

    Strange voices are saying
    (What did they say)
    Things I can't understand
    It's too close for comfort
    This heat has got right out of hand

    It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
    Leaving me here on my own
    It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
    Now you're gone

    The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
    It's too hot to handle so I got to get up and go

    It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
    Leaving me here on my own
    It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
    Now you're gone
    You're not the only one

    It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
    (Leaving me), leaving me here on my own
    It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
    Now you're gone

    It's a cruel, cruel summer
    Leaving me here on my own
    It's a cruel, cruel summer
    Now you're gone
    You're not the only one

    It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
    (Leaving me) leaving me here on my own
    It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
    Now you're gone
    You're not the only one

    It's a cruel, (cruel), cruel summer
    (Leaving me), leaving me here on my own
    It's a cruel, (it's a cruel), cruel summer
    Now you're gone Writer/s: Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin, Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey, Steven Jolley, Tony Swain
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, O/B/O DistroKid, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 9

  • Stu La from Solent CityThis song is screaming out for a good dub version!!!
  • Tr from Fernandina Beach, Fl.'Vicki from Osteen, Fl' - You aren't the only one who thought that was a bad choice of words. I've always been puzzled by it. Generally if the air is said to be heavy, it is extremely humid!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 16th 1984, Bananarama performed "Robert DeNiro's Waiting" and "Cruel Summer" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    May 20th was the last day on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart for "Robert DeNiro's Waiting"; that was at position #95 and it had spent two weeks on the chart, the first week it was at #96...
    But in their native England on March 25th, 1984 it peaked at #3 for two weeks…
    While the following month on July 15th "Cruel Summer" entered the Top 100 at position #76; ten weeks later on September 23rd it would peak at #9 for one week...
    Between 1982 and 1989 the British female trio had eleven Top 100 records; three made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, a covered version of the Shocking Blues' "Venus", it was #1* for one week on August 31st, 1986...
    * On February 1st, 1970 the Shocking Blues' original version of "Venus" also peaked at #1 for one week.
  • Vicki from Osteen, FlOK, this may sound rather picky, being my first post and all, but I always wondered about those lyrics, "The air is so heavy and dry." Now, how in the world can that be? If the air was dry, what would it be heavy *with*? Guess that's why I'm not a poet.
  • Megan from Stevenson, AlHA!!! Reminds me of the Karate Kid! <3 Great song!
  • Mike from Hastings, NeThe song was also featured as the theme tune to the first series of UK channel Trouble's reality show of the same name, where a group of young adults were sent off to a holiday camp, only to be tortured and humiliated in an attempt to win a large sum of money.
  • Linc from Beaumont, TxI believe Ace of Bace did a cover of this...it wasn't very good, but then neither was they!
  • Reza from Shiraz, Irana cool song from a cool band. i loved them when i was 16. i still listen 2 them and get excited. reza kiania iran
  • Nessie from Danville, VaBlestenation did a rap mix with this song with singer Diana for the Blue Crush Soundtrack
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