The Perfect Wave Surround Me

All The Things She Said
Simple Minds (1986)

Although New Wave was starting to cede its mainstream ground to Hair Metal by 1986, there was still a lot of excellent music in the genre that debuted in the second half of the decade.  Included among these was this Simple Minds song, which was released as a single thirty years ago this month.  It was the third single to be released from the band's 1985 album Once Upon A Time after Alive And Kicking and Sanctify Yourself.

Don't you look back on a big lost world

Don't you look down like the heroes say

Come tell me all about it

Take me to the streets where the bonfires burn

Take me in your arms and I'll fade away

When I hear you say what you got to say

Anywhere you go, you know I'll still be waiting

All the things she said, she said

Little darling close your eyes, there'll be no compromising

Of all the things she said, she said

Throw me to the street where the heartbeats beating

To the peaceful revolution

And the perfect wave, surround me

Tell me 'bout the ocean moving in slow motion

I see it glitter in the sun

Then it's freezing in the moonlight

Never look back, never look back, never look away

If freedom comes and goes, you know I'll still be waiting

All the things she said, she said

You've fought the fight so long, no surrender to temptation

Of all the things she said, she said

Stars will fall out for you

Luck will surrender

I'm calling out to you

To be near you in the first morning light

I'd be with you, I dream about you

If I could leave here, I would leave here tonight

I'd be with you, I'd stay with you tonight

Tonight

Anywhere you go, you know I'll still be waiting

Of all the things she said, she said

When I look into your eyes, I see a new day rising

Of all the things she said, she said

Through the eyes of love, and to never know what hate is

Of all the things she said, she said

She said, this is our time, she said, this is our place

This is the space my heart wants to be

Little darling close your eyes, there'll be no compromising

All the things she said, she said