Killer

Album: Liveandirect (1990)
Charted: 1
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  • So you want
    To be free
    To live your life
    The way you wanna be
    Will you give
    If we cry?
    Will we live
    Or will we die?

    Tainted hearts
    Heal with time
    Shoot that love
    So we can stop the bleedin'

    Solitary brother
    Is there still a part of you that wants to live?
    Solitary sister
    Is there still a part of you that wants to give?
    Solitary brother
    Is there still a part of you that wants to live?
    Solitary sister
    Is there still a part of you that wants to give?

    If we try
    And live your life
    The way you wanna (yeah)

    Solitary brother
    Is there still a part of you that wants to live?
    Solitary sister
    Is there still a part of you that wants to give?
    Solitary brother
    Is there still a part of you that wants to live?
    Solitary sister
    Is there still a part of you that wants to give?

    Racism in among future kings can only lead to no good
    And besides
    All our sons and daughters already know how that feels
    Yeah
    Made of love Writer/s: Adam Paul Tinley, Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 1

  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesThe first of several big hits for Seal between 1990 and 1995 - the others included "Crazy", "A Prayer For The Dying" and "Kiss From A Rose". Adamski's only other big hit was club anthem "NRG", which actually preceded "Killer" and peaked at UK No.12 in March 1990 - a week later, "Killer" entered the UK Top 40, and less than a month after that it was Number 1. No-one knows what happened to Adamski after that, but Seal'r recording career has continued until the present day, though he's struggled in the last decade to equal those releases from the first half of the 1990s. German dance act ATB's (best known for 1999 No.1 "9PM ('Til I Come)" cover version returned the song to the UK Top 10 in 2000, exactly a decade after original...
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