Week Twenty-Five: Pagan Rhythms/Cassingles - Howard Jones - "Lift Me Up" - Single

Week Twenty-Five belongs to a super-cool vinyl/CD/cassette tape shop that was near the intersection of Lovers Lane & Greenville Avenue in Dallas, TX - called Pagan Rhythms - and their massive selection of used cassingles...

**The photos included in this week's posts are actual images of my cassingles**

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Most people remember Howard Jones for his super-fancy hairstyle in his super-amazing videos for his super-sweet tunes, "No One Is To Blame" & "Things Can Only Get Better" (both included below the lyrics).  I imagine that it was one of those tunes that was my initial exposure to Mr. Jones.  He has so many hits that I cannot be certain which one I actually heard first, but I think it was the one of the two I just mentioned.

However, in 1992, "Lift Me Up" was in heavy rotation on the airwaves.  I found it to be an incredibly feel-good tune, and the video is amazingly clever, even though he had left behind his super-fancy hairstyle!!

If you are not familiar with Howard Jones, you should check out his earlier work because it is phenomenal.  Sadly, I could not get into the album on which "Lift Me Up" appears. Again, that was where these lovely little cassingles came in super-handy!!

I've got your picture in the palm of my hand
And I'm squeezin' it I'm teasin' it
I'd follow you to the edge of this land
But I'm losin' it, confusin' it

This is a man who has lost control
Lost the road to a higher soul
Stop me from fallin' you know I need you

To lift me up
Won't you lift me up yeah
Won't you take me to a place that I once knew
And when you can see
You've always been there for me
I'm waiting for your love

There'll be a time when all our rhythms of love
Are shakin' it we're makin' it
There'll be a place where life is livin' to give
This harmony it will come to me

And when I think of those who love you now
If I had my chances again somehow
Stop me from fallin' you know I need you
To lift me up
Won't you lift me up yeah
Won't you take me to a place that I once knew
And when you can see
Another side of me
I'm waiting for you

I'm not eating I'm not sleeping this tension this worry
You don't call you don't write me
I need your love in a hurry
Teach me, Reach me, Meet me, Beat me,
Tease me, Please me,
Come and seize me

This is a man who has lost control
Lost the road to a higher soul
Catch me from fallin' you know I need you

To lift me up
Won't you lift me up yeah
Won't you take me to a place that I once knew
And when you can see
You've always been there for me
I'm waiting for your love
And when you can see
The changes I've made in me
Well I'm waitin' for, you know I'm waitin' for your love