Lyrics - Blondie - Eat To The Beat

Shayla

Blondie

{Original}

Album Information
Album Name (Year): Eat To The Beat (1979)
Record Label: Chrysalis Records
Billboard Chart: The Billboard 200
Entry Week (Position): 10/20/1979 (n/a)
Peak Position: 17	Weeks On Chart: 51
Songs On This Album: (Click For Lyrics) 1. Dreaming 2. The Hardest Part 3. Union City Blue 4. Shayla 5. Eat To The Beat 6. Accidents Never Happen 7. Die Young Stay Pretty 8. Slow Motion 9. Atomic 10. Sound-A-Sleep 11. Victor 12. Living In The Real World

Album Notes

Unable to verify Billboard chart information prior to November 1983.

This album also spent 38 weeks on the British Charts starting 10/13/79, peaking at #1.

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Shayla worked in a factory
She wasn't history
She's just a number

One day she gets her final pay
And she goes far away

Oh oh-oh oh oh oh-oh oh
Oh oh-oh oh oh oh-oh oh

Green trees call to me
I'm free but life is so cheap
Scenery is still outside of me
All alone trapped by its purity

Shayla turned to run away
To leave in peace and end her stay
Years are few and anyway
Lost in space and down she came

Suddenly, some subtle entity
Some cosmic energy brushed her like shadows
Down here we stop to wonder
Cars on the freeway, bright lights and thunder

Oh oh-oh oh oh oh-oh oh
Oh oh-oh oh oh oh-oh oh
Oh oh-oh oh oh oh-oh oh
Oh oh-oh oh oh oh-oh oh

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Song Information
Song Written By: Chris Stein
Track Number: 04	Track Length: 3:57
Billboard Chart: Song did not chart
Entry Week (Position): - -
Peak Position: - -	Weeks On Chart: - -

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