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La Roux - Trouble In Paradise Album Lyrics



La Roux - Trouble In Paradise Lyrics






Uptight Downtown

Streets are lined with people
People who want to move move move
How can all these people
Have so much to prove prove prove

Oh I can only ask myself
Oh where are you all going
And won't you take me with you to
Where all the sirens are blowing

[Chorus x2:]
Uptight downtown
All the blue lights fighting with the crowds
And oh I know the temperature is rising, is rising

Streets are lined with people
With nothing left to lose, lose, lose
When did all these people
Decide to change their shoes, shoes, shoes

Oh I can only ask myself
Oh where are you all going
And won't you take me with you to
Where all the sirens are blowing

[Chorus x2:]
Uptight downtown
All the blue lights fighting with the crowds
And oh I know the temperature is rising, is rising

(Uptight) [x8]
Uptight downtown [x4]

Why are we fighting
I don't understand
Oh but the temperature's rising tonight

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Writer: ELLY JACKSON, BEN LANGMAID, IAN SHERWIN
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management




Kiss And Not Tell

Ten thousand stories sent
Two lovers disguise
You've seen the future now
A love that is blind

Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell

You've dialled that number now
So where's the surprise
Temptations calling you
A secret reply

Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell

All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not tell

You say in evidence
They won't take you alive
But when the sun goes down
You cover your lies

Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell

You like the elegance
But it's weighing you down
And sometimes you just need a night on the town, oooh

Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell

All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not...
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes me want to kiss and not tell

Makes you want to kiss and not tell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell

All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell

All along I... Feelings I can't...
Feelings I can't help
All I want is... to come right out my... to come right out my shell

All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not...
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes me want to kiss and not tell

All along I've had feelings I can't help
Makes me want to kiss and not...
And all I want is to come right out of my shell
Makes you want to kiss and not tell
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Writer: ELLY JACKSON, BEN LANGMAID, IAN SHERWIN, DARREN BERRY
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management




Cruel Sexuality

I've been talking to myself
Oh, I think I need your help
Oh, this love is make believe
Trapped inside a fantasy

And he came running out of the water
In the dead of the night he could see
As his shadow came towards her
She felt what she wanted to see
She whispered use me

What you touch you believe
It's a dangerous scene
When passion turns into greed

Cruel sexuality
Am I a fool
To let you trouble me?
Cruel sexuality

I don't even know myself
'Cause I'm becoming someone else
Where is rationality
When I'm lost inside a dream
I say just use me

When you chose to deceive
It's a dangerous scene
When passion turns into greed

Cruel sexuality
Am I a fool
To let you trouble me?
Cruel sexuality
Sexuality

Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me in your prison at night?
Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me, why must you keep me

Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me in your prison at night?
Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me, why must you keep me

Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me in your prison at night?
Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me, why must you keep me

Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me in your prison at night?
Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me, why must you keep me

(Cruel sexuality)
Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me in your prison at night?

(Am I a fool
To let you trouble me?)
Oh, you make me happy in my everyday life
Why must you keep me in your prison at night?

Cruel sexuality
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Writer: ALEXANDER WILLIAM SHUCKBURGH, ELEANOR JACKSON
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management




Paradise Is You

Walking along on a sandy beach
Everybody's laughing under cigarette trees
And the water here is crystal clear and bright
The air is rich with a hawaiian breeze
The grass is alive with sugar weeds
And the hill tops tuck in the bay for the night

And the palm trees make it feel like paradise
But without you here there's nothing nice
'Cos in your eyes
That's my paradise

When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new
My paradise is you, my paradise is you
When everything I know is slipping out of view
My paradise is you, my paradise is you

You
My heaven is you

The runners run and the teasers tease
But none of these faces can set me free
And the water here is crystal clear and bright
When I compare this pleasure beach
To all the places in your eyes that I have seen
It could be anywhere, if you're not by my side

And the palm trees make it feel like paradise
But without you here there's nothing nice
Cos in your eyes
That's my paradise

When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new
My paradise is you, my paradise is you
When everything I know is slipping out of view
My paradise is you, my paradise is you

When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new
My paradise is you, my paradise is you
When everything I know is slipping out of view
My paradise is you, my paradise is you

You
My heaven is you
My heaven is you
My heaven is you

All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view)
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(You)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(My heaven is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(My heaven is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(My heaven is you)
All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying
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Writer: ELLY JACKSON, BEN LANGMAID, IAN SHERWIN
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management




Sexotheque

He wants to know
What it feels like
To mess around, mess around
She wants to know
What it feels like
To settle down, settle down

He's got the money but
Oh it's not enough
He wants to pounce
He wants to pounce

Never know if he's giving you up
Are you just not good enough

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooo - ooh
Ooh ooh ooh

She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque

He wants to go
Where the red lights
Shine so bright, shine so bright
He wants to know
Why he feels so cold inside, cold inside

He turns and looks around
He doesnt hear a sound
No ones around, no ones around

Never know if he's giving you up
Are you just not good enough

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooo - ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh

She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque

She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque

She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque
He never answers the phone
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque

She wants to know why he's not home
Oh I bet money money money I bet
He's at the sexotheque

[Ad lib]

[Repeats:]
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooo - ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh

He's at the Sexotheque

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Writer: ELLY JACKSON, BEN LANGMAID, IAN SHERWIN
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management




Tropical Chancer

Can't take the money, and the food that's on my hand
But you have to understand that he's a dreamer
Living and laughing in a mind you can't believe
This place turns honest men into thieves
And I can see it in bizarre
It is that time
To sail out from the night

I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer

He'll trade your loving for the things he's never seen
The place he's never been
Above the member he is just a good pretender
And he doesn't give his love away for free
And I can see it in bizarre
It is that time
To sail out from the night

I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer

I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
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Writer: JEFF BHASKER, GRACE JONES, ELLY JACKSON, IAN SHERWIN
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.




Silent Partner

I've been living in the light of the shadows
Why won't you let me leave?
And I've been trying to find my way to the shallows
But the water's just too deep
Always something inside of me keeps dragging me down
I'm going deep below the undertow
And it won't let go
All I need is
Silence

There's a thumping that's filled with violence
And it creeps in through the walls at night when
When I can't see happy from sad, good or bad
All I need is silence
All I need is silence
I'm crying out for silence
You're not my partner, no you're not a part of me
I need
Silence

So tired of breathing in numbers
Trying to stop my racing heart
Oh, all I know is that I want it to stop
And I don't know where to start
Your always on my shoulder praying I won't try anymore
Conversations that begin to shout
Are you happy now?
All I need is
Silence

All I need is

Silence

There's a thumping that's filled with violence
And it creeps in through the walls at night when
When I can't see happy from sad, good or bad
All I need is silence
All I need is silence
I'm crying out for silence
All I, all I know, all I need, all I need is silence
All I need is silence
I'm crying out for silence
All I, all I know, all I need, all I need is silence

There's a thumping that's, thumping that's

Silence
Silence

All I need is silence
All I need is silence
I'm crying out for silence
All I, all I know, all I need, all I need is silence

There's a thumping that's filled with violence (silence)
And it creeps in through the walls at night when (silence)
When I can't see happy from sad, good or bad
All I need is silence

There's a thumping that's filled with violence (silence)
And it creeps in through the walls at night when (silence)
When I can't see happy from sad, good or bad
All I need is silence

There's a thumping that's filled with violence (silence)
And it creeps in through the walls at night when (silence)
When I can't see happy from sad, good or bad
All I need is silence (silence, silence)

Silence

There's a thumping that's filled with
There's a thumping that's filled with violence

Silence
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Writer: ELLY JACKSON, IAN SHERWIN
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management




Let Me Down Gently

Can't take the money, and the food that's on my hand
But you have to understand that he's a dreamer
Living and laughing in a mind you can't believe
This place turns honest men into thieves
And I can see it in bizarre
It is that time
To sail out from the night

I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer

He'll trade your loving for the things he's never seen
The place he's never been
Above the member he is just a good pretender
And he doesn't give his love away for free
And I can see it in bizarre
It is that time
To sail out from the night

I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer

I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
I met him through a dancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
A tropical chancer
Didn't know he was a tropical chancer
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Writer: ELLY JACKSON, BEN LANGMAID, IAN SHERWIN
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.




The Feeling

Takin' the time to make me feel right
Takin' the time to make me feel nice
Can't stay up thinkin' about you all night
Tossin' and turnin', it's not right
Don't leave me here waiting

When it's all okay, we know, you know
And I know, I've got the feelin'
When I wake up and there you are
I get the feelin'
For you are away waiting the ball
'Cause I've got the feelin'
The feelin'
I get the feelin'

There's plenty of time to get me in shape
I promise I'll keep the promises I made
And respect along the forest, say goodbye
Running away, and it's swing to comeback
When you love it makes me love too
I can't believe I let you get through
Get through, get through

Don't leave me here waiting

When it's all okay, we know, you know
And I know, I've got the feelin'
When I wake up and there you are
I get the feelin'
For you are away waiting the ball
'Cause I've got the feelin'
The feelin'
I get the feelin'

On the outside I might seem strong
But really, inside, I'm just alone
I don't believe wherever we go
I'm just a child whenever you show

On the outside I might seem strong
But really, inside, I'm just alone
I don't believe wherever we go
I'm just a child whenever you show
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Writer: ELLY JACKSON
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management




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Trouble in Paradise is the second studio album by English singer Elly Jackson, known professionally as La Roux. It was released on 18 July 2014 by Polydor Records. La Roux originally consisted of Jackson and producer Ben Langmaid, who collaborated during the earlier stages of production. However, Jackson was left to complete the record in early 2014 after Langmaid departed from the group in early 2012. Consequently, she partnered with producer Ian Sherwin during the later stages of production. Their efforts resulted in a primarily new wave record, which Jackson described as being "warmer" and "sexier" than her debut studio album, La Roux (2009).

Upon its release, Trouble in Paradise received positive reviews from music critics, who commended La Roux's shift in musical style and viewed it as an improvement on its predecessor. The album debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 8,391 copies. It debuted at number 20 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, where it also became La Roux's first album to top the Dance/Electronic Albums chart. "Uptight Downtown" was released as the lead single from the album, peaking at number 63 on the UK Singles Chart. "Kiss and Not Tell" was released as the album's second single, but failed to chart.
Performed By: La Roux
Genre(s): Synth-pop, new wave, disco
Producer(s): Elly Jackson, Ian Sherwin
Length: 41:27
Released: July 18th, 2014
Year: 2014

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