"Loser Gone Wild" lyrics

"Loser Gone Wild"

I don't mind the pain
Or the joker's cold refrain
The days pass by so slowly
I count them all again
The silence of a basement
Shades all closed at noon
(Loser gone wild)
Lie awake for fear of strangers

Darkness comes on slowly
Twilight is the ecstasy
Like a candle burning bright
Shadows dance until the light
Empty rooms and chilling smiles, ooh
(Loser gone wild)
They go on for miles and miles

But in the evening when the sun goes down (Oh-oh)
Crawl from the shadows, gotta get into town (Oh-oh)
Where the music is playing all across the night (Oh-oh)
And every cloud disappears from sight (Oh-oh)
There goes a loser (Loser)
Another loser gone
There goes another (Loser)
Another who's alone
There goes a loser (Loser)
Another loser gone wild

I don't mind if violins don't play
I won't listen to them anyway
I don't care what people say
(Loser gone wild)
Some things just can't be arranged

But in the evening when the sun goes down (Oh-oh)
Crawl from the shadows, gotta get into town (Oh-oh)
Where the music is playing all across the night (Oh-oh)
There goes a loser (Loser)
Another loser gone
There goes another (Loser)
Another who's alone
There goes a loser (Loser)
Another loser gone wild

(Loser)

But in the evening when the sun goes down (Oh-oh)
Crawl from the shadows, gotta get into town (Oh-oh)
Where the music is playing all across the night (Oh-oh)
And every cloud disappears from sight (Oh-oh)
There goes a loser (Loser)
Another loser gone
There goes another (Loser)
Another who's alone
There goes a loser (Loser)
Another loser gone wild

Icy fingers are touching you
Silent voices calling, too
What else is there to lose?
(Loser gone wild)
I'm here, but where are you?

(But in the evening when the sun goes down)
(Crawl from the shadows, gotta get into town)
(There goes a loser) Loser, ooh


Writer(s): Jeff Lynne
album: "Secret Messages" (1983)
Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages album cover
Buildings Have Eyes
(from "Secret Messages" single)
Mandalay
(from "Afterglow" box set)
After All
(Instrumental)
Hello My Old Friend
(from "Afterglow" box set)
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