White Boy

Album Version

Black boys employ salassie
We kiss to define
White hands, white hearts, the gender
How can I make you mine

Take me to God
In a world of blank kisses
Who breaks the colors
I know what this is
A one man show
That's how we know
That's how we know
You're white does it show

You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're...

White boys fall out
In a whirl of decisions
Show me what is
Then show me what isn't
A heart too slow
That's how we know
That's how we know
You're white does the blood flow

You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're so white

White boy
White boy
White boy
White boy
White boy
White boy

White boy dance
Do something sweet
Like pull my heart
Like use your feet
Let's steal some culture
Let's fake this dance
A white boy kiss
A white boy chance
Don't take me over
Abuse my heart
When I change color
I'm here stop start

You're white
You're white
You're white
You're white
You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're white (dance like an enemy)
You're white (dance like an enemy)

Hey devil kiss me
I'm taking chances
Not faking my culture
The rhythm it dances
I love your wisdom
I love your mind
White boys are babies (Not my kind)
This lust is fashion
That's my sin
By falling out
We're falling in
Now I'm broken
Watch it flow
I'm taking over
Can't let go (falling out with the big boys)


Released in April 1982, White Boy was the first Culture Club single ever released, and reached 114 on the British charts after selling more than eight thousand copies.

You Know I'm Not Crazy

Say your mind has an overload
Your heart beats rhythm hot and cold
Your stature has a naked buzz
When you're near you're not like us

You know I'm not crazy
You know I'm not crazy

I caught on to the way you smile
Love could only last a while
I couldn't love, I couldn't touch
The situation was too much

You know I'm not crazy
You know I'm not crazy

Your love fails me
Your love it fails me
Your love fails me
Your love it drives me crazy

Don't tell me that lovers always mistrust
The lies in your eyes, the death in your lust
It's more than distraction, you touch you feel
Our hearts dance apart and you say this is real

You know I'm not crazy

Talk about the love we feel
The passion that our hearts conceal
Kiss and run the fools we trust
Love inside a blinding lust

You know I'm not crazy
You know I'm not crazy

Hold me to my every word
Forget about the things you heard
Time will conquer, time will state
We owe every tear to hate

You know I'm not crazy
You know I'm not crazy

Your love fails me
Your love it fails me
Your love fails me
Your love it drives me crazy

You Know I'm Not Crazy was the b-side to Do You Really Want To Hurt Me in the US.

I'll Tumble 4 Ya

Downtown we'll drown
We're in our never splendor
Flowers, showers
Who's got the new boy gender

I'll be your baby, I'll be your score
I'll run the gun for you and so much more

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 you

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble

Uptown their sound
It's like the native you send her
Junction, function
The boy with pop is slender

Did he say maybe or I'm not sure
He'll be a boy for you but you need more

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 you

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble

I get a crazy feeling
That chases in my head
It's nothing that you do to me
It's nothing that you said
It's love in stereo
And when I can't let go I say

I'll be your baby, I'll be your score
I'll run the gun for you and so much more

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 you

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble

Downtown we'll drown
We're in our never splendor
Flowers, showers
Who's got the new boy gender

I'll be your baby, I'll be your score
I'll run the gun for you and so much more

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 you

I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble 4 ya
I'll tumble

Another Top 10 hit for Culture Club in the US, the video clip for I'll Tumble 4 Ya featured 14-year-old "supermodel" Naomi Campbell.

Take Control

No defeat
Your dance is sweet
'Cause you ripped it from my soul
I'll kiss you
And we'll throw a view
It's the only way to take control

Boy I'm sweet
When you've got me beat
I can't turn it, I feel cold
It's for you
That my love is true
Got to blind a boy to take control

Take control (take it)
Take control (take it)
Take control (take it)
Take control

I was there
But you didn't care
And I know you're using me
(If it's true I've got the best of you)

Take control (take it)
Take control (take it)
Take control (take it)
Take control

Take control (God would let this thing go)
Take control (God would let this thing go)
Take control (God would let this thing go)

Love Twist

(Toast performed by Captain Crucial)

Footsteps movements finding people
Clutch to the forbidden soul
Twisting words to find a reason
How am I supposed to throw
Questions that I cannot answer?
Watch those boys they dance and go
Hung up like the rules that made them
I'll be gone before you know

If I cry
Let me be told
Or give me something
That I can hold

Rhythms take me
Do I need it
Will we kiss, will you let go
Twisting hearts or how we bleed them
How am I supposed to throw
Memories from where I keep them?
Words will only make us slow
We are brave on the assumption
She'll be back before you know

If I cry
Let me go
Or give me something
That I can hold

Toast:
bbrreecom, one selection shock attack
I chant for the white and black
bbbrrr/ let me tell ya
Let me tell you
Let me tell you 'bout love
Let me tell you
Let me tell you 'bout love
It's sweet like sugar
It's pretty like a dove
RRRRRRRR (RIGHT)
(repeat this section)

But me say
B it is for Babylon
F it is for fall
Me chant it 'pon a mike
Me bring dis love to one and all
Because I love ya

SSSSPRUNGDIDDLYDIDDLYLUV YA

RRRRRRRR (RIGHT)

And when you see me come
No bother sight up what you see
You sight a natty dreadlocks
Just me flashing down the street
WE DEAL IN LOVE

Footsteps movements finding people
Clutch to the forbidden soul
Twisting words to find a reason
How am I supposed to throw
Questions that I cannot answer?
Watch those boys they dance and go
Hung up like the rules that made them
I'll be gone before you know

If I cry
Let me be told
Or give me something
That I can hold

Love Twist featured as the B-side of White Boy and was the first of two Culture Club tracks to feature Captain Crucial - also known as Amos. The other track, Murder Rap Trap, features Captain Crucial on lead vocals and appeared on two B-sides: I'm Afraid Of Me and the Japanese-only singleMystery Boy.

Boy, Boy (I'm The Boy)

Boy, oh boy, boy you're a baby
Boy, oh boy, boy you're a baby

Words that pull the trigger
Fear the laughing sound
Haunts you to consider
Love might bring you around to
Face a blind emotion
Words like hey let's try
Words like thinking it over
They just don't apply

I'm the boy you made me
I'm the boy, I'm the boy
I'm the boy you made me
I'm the boy, I'm the boy

Love is what you make it
Love, the overflow
Play if you can take it
Some they just don't know if
All the rules they're making
Break somebody's heart
What's the use in taking
Babies fall apart

I'm the boy you made me
I'm the boy, I'm the boy
I'm the boy you made me
I'm the boy, I'm the boy

You made me realise
That love is just a word
That goes unheard in a situation
Where love is nothing
And you are all I can see

This boy's in love with you
You're everything I can see
This boy's in love with you
You have taken it all away from me

Words that pull the trigger
Fear the laughing sound
Haunts you to consider
Love might bring you around to
Face a blind emotion
Words like hey let's try
Words like thinking it over
They just don't apply

I'm the boy you made me
I'm the boy, I'm the boy
I'm the boy you made me
I'm the boy, I'm the boy

I'm Afraid Of Me

Some days in more ways
I need the distraction
Fire, desire, love and reaction
He must be someone
Yes, even me
Something for nothing
Some wish to see

Life beyond reason
Who will I be (who will i be)

I'm afraid of me
I'm afraid of me

Always survive days
Cut and discretion
Touched in a sane way
Leave no impression
He must be someone
Yes, even you
Fool my direction
Some wish to see

Love without treason
Who will love me (who will love me)

I'm afraid of me
I'm afraid of me
(afraid to love you)
I'm afraid of me
I'm afraid of me

June 1982 saw the release of I'm Afraid Of Me, the second Culture Club single, which reached 100 on the British charts.

White Boys Can't Control It

When you're a white boy
Life gets you high
You hold out thinking
That you know why
You hold out
With the law of men
And when you die
You're born again

Put down your gun
And find your heart
We're dying soldiers
We don't dance for the devil

When you're a white boy
Your life is lust
You kiss and run
And you mistrust
You hold out
With the nowhere men
You dance your dance
And try again

Put down your gun
And find your heart
We're dying soldiers
In the dark (we are no rebels)

You know white boys (can't control it)
You know white boys (never hold it)
You know white boys (hard to swallow)
You know white boys always follow

(follow who)

Put down your gun
And find your heart
We're dying soldiers
We don't dance for the devil

White Boys Can't Control It was the B-Side for Time in the UK.

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

Give me time
To realise my crime
Let me love and steal
I have danced inside your eyes
How can I be real

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Precious kisses
Words that burn me
Lovers never ask you why

In my heart the fire's burning
Choose my colour, find a star
Precious people always tell me
That's a step
A step too far

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry

Words are few
I have spoken
I could waste a thousand years
Wrapped in sorrow
Words are token
Come inside and catch my tears

You've been talking
But believe me
If it's true you do not know
This boy loves without a reason
I'm prepared
To let you go

If it's love you want from me
Then take it away
Everything is not what you see
It's over again

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry

Toast by Papa Weasel (features in Dub Version)

Like I say once
And I say twice
Love is a splendid thing
And love is a hurting thing
Love is a sickness no doctor can cure
So baby baby baby
Stop hurting hurting me
I need your love
So give me love in return
Oh girl, I want you so bad
So baby please stop hurting me
I'm a man and I don't want wanna cry over you
But baby I don't like it when you really hurt me
Oh well, you know, I really want you so
I really love you to my heart and soul
But if you keep on hurting me
Then I got to go


Released in September 1982, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me was Culture Club's third single and reached Number One in many countries, eventually selling seven million copies worldwide.

Time (Clock of the Heart)

Don't put your head on my shoulder
Sink me in a river of tears
This could be the best place yet
But you must overcome your fears

Ooh, in time it could have been so much more
The time is precious I know
In time it could have been so much more
The time has nothing to show

Because
Time won't give me time
And time makes lovers feel
Like they've got something real
But you and me
We know they've got
Nothin' but time
And time won't give me time
Won't give me time
(Time, time, time)

Don't make me feel any colder
Time is like a clock in my heart
Touch we, touch was the
heat too much
I felt I lost you from the start

Ooh, in time it could have been so much more
The time is precious I know
In time it could have been so much more
The time has nothing to show

Because
Time won't give me time
And time makes lovers feel
Like they've got something real
But you and me
We know they've got
Nothin' but time
And time won't give me time
Won't give me time
(Time, time, time)

Time was another Top 3 hit in both the UK and US, and it's video clip was the first one to feature Mikey Craig (who's brother Greg stood in for him in the Do You Really Want To Hurt Me clip) and backing vocalist Helen Terry.