Collective Heartbeat - Howard Jones

Studio Version

(Thoughts and actions?) of words you’ve spoken

Write the scripts of life and open up the possibilities

To choose the role you feel happy in

Positive and negative

Hiding in the fabric of every choice and every wish

So choose a role you feel happy in

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

Here’s the card that you’ve been given

It’s not much but its neatly written

Here’s the life that you are living

Choose a role that you feel happy in

You get hurt and end up leaving

But to stay is most revealing

Take the knocks and get the meaning

Choose a role you feel happy in

You’re feeling like a stranger in your own world

Listen to the Collective Heartbeat

You’re feeling like a stranger in your own world

Listen to the Collective Heartbeat

(Choose a role you feel happy in) repeat x8

Beat, Beat

Listen to the Collective Heartbeat

(You're feeling like a stranger in your own world)

(Listen to the Collective Heartbeat)

(Thoughts and actions?) words you’ve spoken

Write the scripts of life and open up the possibilities

To choose the role you feel happy in

Positive and negative

Hiding in the fabric of

Every choice and every wish

So choose a role you feel happy in

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

(Choose a role you feel happy in)

You’re feeling like a stranger in your own world

Listen to the Collective Heartbeat

You’re feeling like a stranger in your own world

Listen to the Collective Heartbeat

(Choose a role you feel happy in) repeat x 8

You’re feeling like a stranger in your own world

Listen to the Collective Heartbeat

You’re feeling like a stranger in your own world

Listen to the Collective Heartbeat

Acoustic Version

There’s a person that I know

OK its you and me

Keeps coming up against a brick wall

Always blaming and complaining but sustaining

While their luck doesn’t change at all

Obstacles and ridicule

Are common in his head

Does he even listen

To that collective heartbeat

Here’s the card that you’ve been given

Its not much but its neatly written

And here’s the life that you are living

Choose a role that you feel happy in

You get hurt and end up leaving

But to stay is most revealing

Take the knocks and get the meaning

Before moving on up to hit the imaginary ceiling

Beyond that firewall is a devastating view

Take the time to listen to the collective heartbeats

Here’s the card that you’ve been given

Its not much but its neatly written

And here’s the life that you are living

Choose a role that you feel happy in

You can go round it or under it or over it or back away

Face on, head to head

Idle away tomorrow but today

Here’s the card that you’ve been given

Its not much but its neatly written

And here’s the life that you are living

Choose a role that you feel happy in

Choose a role that you feel happy in

Choose a role that you feel happy in

Choose a role that you feel happy in

Choose a role that you feel happy in

Choose a role that you feel happy in

Choose a role that you feel happy in

Choose a role that you feel happy in