HUMAN LEAGUE - HUMAN

HUMAN

THE HUMAN LEAGUE

SONGWRITERS: JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: CRASH

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE: SYNTHPOP

YEAR: 1986

Crash is the fifth studio album by British synthpop band The Human League, released on 8 September 1986. Crash would provide the band with their second US number-one single, "Human", the same year. It was produced by the American production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who also wrote several tracks.

The Human League are an English electropop/synth-popband formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit "Don't You Want Me." The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including "Mirror Man," "(Keep Feeling) Fascination," "The Lebanon," "Human" (a US No. 1) and "Tell Me When."

The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17. Under Oakey's leadership, the Human League then evolved into a commercially successful New Pop band with a new line-up including female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Since the mid-1990s, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley with various sidemen.

Since 1978, the Human League have released nine studio albums, two remix albums, one live album, six EPs, 30 singles and several compilation albums. They have had five albums and eight singles in the UK Top 10 and had sold more than 20 million records worldwide by 2010. As an early techno-pop (electropop) act who received extensive MTV airplay they are regarded as one of the leading artists of the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US.

Come on, baby, dry your eyes

Wipe your tears

Never like to see you cry

Won't you please forgive me?

I wouldn't ever try to hurt you

I just needed someone to hold me

To fill the void while you were gone

To fill this space of emptiness

I'm only human

Of flesh and blood I'm made

Human

Born to make mistakes

So many nights I longed to hold you

So many times I looked and saw your face

Nothing could change the way I feel

No-one else could ever take your place

I'm only human

Of flesh and blood I'm made

Human

Born to make mistakes

I am just a man

Please forgive me

The tears I cry aren't tears of pain

They're only to hide my guilt and shame

I forgive you now I ask the same of you

While we were apart I was human too

I'm only human

Of flesh and blood I'm made

I am just a man Human

Human born to make mistakes.