Now he could read along without lyrics stress. After all, I’d saved him hours of strenuous listening to figure out the words. He was so happy when I gave it to him, even though Journey’s songs were relatively clear and easy to decipher. I copied the lyrics to every song, by hand, onto looseleaf for a friend. When I got my hands on Journey’s Escape album, circa 1981, I was thrilled to find the lyrics inside. Melting “with” someone is different than melting “for” someone, right? A quick azlyrics search doesn’t reveal any secret switchover from the nice-I-want-to-date-you-and-love-you “with” to the wow-he-wants-to-like-MELT-for her “for.”)

My friend and I insisted that somewhere in the song the chorus changed to “I’ll Stop the World and Melt For You,” which totally changes the entire song. (Ready for your irrelevantly relevant factoid of the day? Case in point: Modern English’s “I’ll Stop the World and Melt With You” (1983-ish). Sounds silly, but sometimes one word can make or break a song, especially to an emotional teenager. I’d camp on the floor with my ear to the speaker and hit rewind, stop, play, rewind, stop, play over and over on my cassette tape deck to figure out one measly word from a song. Of course, this begs the question: What on God’s green earth is a “radar phone” AND WHERE CAN I GET ONE?īack in the old days, I’d get so mad when albums didn’t include lyrics. According to azlyrics, the lyric is “Living like a lover with a radar phone.” Today as I sipped my morning coffee at my desk, I googled the line. Eventually, we accepted that a “red owwf” was either something British or we just didn’t have the ears to hear it right. Maybe it’s not red at all?”Įvery time I hear the song, I think of Leanne. We sat on the beach, tanning, talking, and discussing that line for a nice chunk of time. Leanne was a classmate and fellow Def Leppard fan (we’d been to numerous DL concerts), who (hide your eyes, Mom) cut school with me one day to go to the beach. In fact, I distinctly remember a late-eighties conversation with a girl named Leanne. What exactly is a “red owwf”? I never knew that line. “Love is like a bomb, baby, c’mon get it on.

That song always jets me back to high school at warp speed. On the way to work today, Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” played on the radio.

Pour some sugar on may no words