Desperate But Not Serious

Album: Friend Or Foe (1982)
Charted: 33 66
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  • If I ask you difficult questions
    If I make improper suggestions
    Would you find that a risk to your health
    Would you put me up on the bookshelf

    With the books and the plants?
    Desperate but not serious
    Your kisses drive me delirious
    If I were kind and adoring

    How would that be?
    Very boring
    Mister Pressman with your penknife
    Always asking about my sex life

    And who with and how many times?
    Desperate but not serious
    Your kisses drive me delirious
    All the advice seemed so unkind

    "If you don't stop, you will go blind!"
    Tell you it's none of their business
    Then console you with a big kiss
    On the lips and on the back of your neck

    Desperate but not serious... Writer/s: ADAM ANT, MARCO PIRRONI
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 1st 1983, Adam Ant performed "Desperate But Not Serious" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Two months later on March 6th, 1983 the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #86; and two weeks later on March 20th, 1983 it peaked at #66 {for 1 week}...
    On the same 'Bandstand' show he also performed "Goody Two Shoes"; and at the time it was at #25, then six weeks later it peaked at #12 for three weeks...
    Adam Ant, born Stuart Leslie Goddard, celebrated his 60th birthday just under two months ago on November 3rd {2014}.
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