Biography:
Joe Jackson (born 11 August 1954 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK, as David Ian Jackson) is a British musician. Jackson is probably best known for the hit singles Is She Really Going Out With Him? (1979) and Steppin' Out (1982). Although born in Staffordshire, Jackson grew up in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
He started off learning to play the violin but soon switched to piano. From the age of 16 he played in bars, and won a scholarship to study musical composition at London's Royal Academy of Music.
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God just made himself the master
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Gave us just two eyes but what we
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Keep on singing till I get it right
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Keep on dreaming till I get it right
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Even if I never get it right
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Lording it over us
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Seems to like to make us feel
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Ridiculous
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Gives us just one life then lets us
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Think it's not enough
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Where can you get a better deal
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But we can dream
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Or we can work and scheme and
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Make it go much too long
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And I could scream
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But it don't work and dreams are
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Maybe where God came from
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Keep on dreaming till I get it right
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God just made himself the master
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Of the Universe
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Made us into black and white and his and hers
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Gave us just two eyes but what we
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See is just a blur
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But we get to sleep at night
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And we get to dream
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Or we can work and scheme and
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Make it go much too long
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And I could scream
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But it don't work and dreams are
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Maybe where I belong
So I'll
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Keep on dreaming till I get it right
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Even if I never get it right
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Keep on singing till I get it right
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Keep on swinging till I get it right
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Keep on thinking till I get it right
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Keep on drinking till I get it right
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Keep on dreaming till I get it right
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Even if I never get it right
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