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The Ballad Hits
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The Ballad Hits
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the eleventh album...

Roxette's Ballad Hits demonstrates what it is that's made their band successful. It's a simple formula, but it works every time. After a quiet, exquisitely maudlin verse, Marie Fredriksson unleashes that shockingly big voice, the drums crash, huge guitars and keyboards attack and Roxette burst into another ludicrously memorable chorus. No one can match their jubilant revelling in the torment of love. From 1989 to 1991, they dominated the US charts with a string of super-dramatic hits. "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love", "Fading like a Flower", classics all, and they're all here, along with much else. For Roxette, ballads don't always follow the duo's own comic dictum--"Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus". "Queen of Rain", with its moving oboe breaks, takes time to grow, as does the string-laden "Crash! Boom! Bang!" And it's not all great, either. "You Don't Understand Me", cowritten with hit-maker Desmond Child, is a weak song only just rescued by Fredriksson, while "Salvation" sounds like a Robbie Williams-style collage of other people's work. Fortunately, the two new tracks, "A Thing About You" (sung by songwriter Per Gessle) and "Breathe" are sweet and strong enough to repair the damage. Thus, despite the enormous power of those early smashes, the surprisingly varied Ballad Hits is consistently brilliant throughout.

01. A Thing About You 3:51

02. It Must Have Been Love 4:19

03. Listen To Your Heart 5:14

04. Fading Like A Flower 3:54

05. Spending My Time 4:39

06. Queen Of Rain 4:57

07. Almost Unreal 3:59

08. Crash! Boom! Bang! 4:25

09. Vulnerable 5:03

10. You Don't Understand Me 4:28

11. Wish I Could Fly 4:40

12. Anyone 4:32

13. Salvation 4:38

14. Milk And Toast And Honey 4:03

15. Breathe 4:34

16. The Weight Of The World 2:52

17. It Hurts 3:54

18. See Me 3:47

19. Every Day 3:24

 

A Thing About You

I pick up the phone, I'm dialing your number

While I pray you're at home, at home and alone

'Cause I can't function on my own

And i'll never stop believing

The reapwork is done. You are the one

The radio is on but sound is all gone

And I wanna walk out in the sun

But lately that's been very hard to do

I've got a thing about you

And I don't really know what you do

'Cause i've got a thing about you, hey you

I pick up the phone, I'm dailing that number

And my heart like a stone waits for the tone.

Oh, I can't make it on my own,

And i'll never stop believing.

I know what is right and this is so wrong

Alone in my bed, better off on my own

The TV is on, but the colours are gone

And lately you’ve been painting my world blue

I've got a thing about you

(i've got a thing about you)

And I don't really care what you do

I've got a thing about you

(i've got a thing about you)

Hey you

I've got a thing about you

I've got a thing about you-ou-ou-ou

Lately you've been painting my world blue

I've got a thing about you...

I've got a thing about you...

And I don't really know what to do

 

Breathe

Breathe your life...

I've got to come down

I've been awake for far too long

My eyes look torn, they were so strong

I wore the crown, I wrote the song

Now it's fading

My heart was open

Like a window to a summer breeze

I breaaaathed your love,

I filled my lungs and veins

And I breaaathed your love

Until I felt the pain

And like rain it slipped away

I tried to find out

What love was realy all about

Behind the curtain waits the sky

It's rare I feel enough to cry

I'm drying up inside

My life was open

Like a window to the summer breeze

I breathed your love,

I filled my lungs and veins

And I breathed your love

Until I met the pain and like rain

It slipped away, just like a little rain.

I breathed your love

And nothing stayed the same.

Yes, I breathed your love

And filled my heart in vain cos like rain

It slipped away, just like rain it swept away.

 

The Weight Of The World

Sunday morning

I'm still hiding in bed

Listening to the rhythm of the rain above my head

And all that I have said

I sure saved a lot for you

But what could I do?

If I'd been talking to the wall

It wouldn't make any difference to you

That's the art of being you

I think I carry...

The weight of the world

Sometimes you lose

The weight of the world

Sometimes you cryyyyy

I kiss your smile

I wish you'd stay the night

I put my arms around your golden head

And turn out the light

Oh I love to watch your eyes

When I make love to you

Wait little world

Sometimes you lose

The weight of the world

Sometimes you cryyyyy

Sometimes you cryyyyy

The weight of the world

Sometimes you lose

The weight of the world

Sometimes you cryyyyy

Yes, sometimes you cryyyyy

 

It Hurts

Can you tell me where we'd meet

When it's never ending

Can you tell me where to go

When noone's home

And I know you know it hurts

It hurts to be alone

Your arm, your arm

On a one way train going down

Can you tell me what to say

When there's noone listening

Can you show me what to do

When all is done

Oooooh, I know you know it hurts

It hurts to be alone

The plan has gone wrong

Like a one way train going down

Going down, down, down

Going down.

Yes I know you know it hurts

It hurts to be alone

Your arm, oh your arm

On a one way train going down

Going down, down, down

Going down.

It hurts to be alone, it hurts to be alone

Going down...

 

See Me

Ooooohh

Nananananana

Mmm-mmm

With the moon and the sun in his eyes

He's arriving

And I don't know what I'd do without him

I got life suddenly

See,

See me - I've got nothing to hide

See me - I've got nothing to hide

See me

I'm leaving my heart in the palm of his hand

So gently

I know he knows that I love him

Though I've never said

Is there an easy way?

See,

See me - I've got nothing to hide

See me - I've got nothing to hide

See me

Coming home

I'm coming home

It feels like I'm coming home

Coming home

I'm coming home

See (see me see me)

See me - I've got nothing to hide (nothing to hide)

See me - I've got nothing to hide (nothing to hide)

See (see me see me)

See me

 

Every Day

Every day I see him coming

Every day he walks on by

Life used to be so plain and simple

Before he came into my life

Every night I keep on dreaming

Every night I take him home

We always go to bed together

I always wake up all alone

Oh it’s strange, so strange

What he’s doing to me

Oh it’s strange so strange

Did this ever happen to you

The way it has happened to me

The way it just happened to me

Every day outside my window

Always minutes close to eight

I wish he'd stay a little longer

But this basis never laid

Every night he dances lonely

I play the music he adores

Like the themes that we're talking

All important thing for short

 

***** My Roxette Fansite *****