Our Lips Are Sealed

Album: Beauty And The Beat (1981)
Charted: 47 20
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Jane Wiedlin, Terry Hall
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Royalty Network, Spirit Music Group, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 8

  • Loowaters from IowaNot sure why the original second verse was omitted for the single release. The song is pretty short even with it in.

    Careless talk
    Through paper walls
    We can't stop them
    Only laugh at them

    Spreading rumors
    So far from true
    Dragged up from the underworld
    Just like some precious pearl

    Performed it live and you can see it on a performance on YouTube of them on the UK show The Tube.
  • Nick from OhioThis is a masterpiece pop song. It’s really the pinnacle of their work. The bass line is so simple but extremely catchy. The lyrics are simple but perfect. This song will be remembered for decades to come.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 23rd 1982, the Go-Go's performed "Our Lips Are Sealed" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Exactly five months earlier on August 23rd, 1981 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on December 6th, 1981 it peaked at #20 (for 2 weeks)and spent a half-year on the Top 100 (30 weeks)...
    It reached #2 in Australia and #4 in Canada.
  • Anne from Sanilac County, MiI didn't know the story behind the song as a kid, so I found it odd seeing the video for Fun Boy Three's version of this song a couple of years later. It seemed like a strange choice for a cover version relatively soon afterward.

    It was only after hearing the story, sanitized to the point of not naming names, from Jane that I immediately realized who she was talking about, and that Fun Boy Three's version wasn't really a cover, but the co-writer's own take on it.

    Anyway, I've always loved the song, and the double-meaning of the title lyric, their lips are sealed because they aren't talking about their relationship, and also because they're sealed together in a kiss, always struck me as a very clever bit of wordplay.
  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnPop bliss - my fave Go-Go song.
  • Tanya from La Verne, CaGreat song, especially Jane's solo.
  • Hugh from Kansas City, MoI always thought this song was about their abstinence from sex....
  • Jonothan from Adelaide, AustraliaFun song. It's impossible to sing this song without looking happy - Hilary and Haylie Duff almost succeed!
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