new wave
classic "Kids in America
". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes
' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On
" topped the charts. Starting in 1998, while still active in music, she has branched into an alternative career as a landscape gardener.
The eldest child of 1950s rock 'n' roller Marty Wilde
(birth name Reginald Smith) and Joyce Baker, who was earlier a member of the singing and dancing group The Vernons Girls
, Kim Smith was born in the West London
suburb of Chiswick
and attended Oakfield Preparatory School
, in the Southeast London
area of Dulwich
.
I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.
Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.
There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair
I watch you sleep in the still of the night / You look so pretty when you dream / So many people just go through life / Holding back, they don't say what they mean / But it's easy for me / Since you came
When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real
You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here
Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape
And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity