Dar: As I watch your face
I can see my life go by
You mean everyhing to me
Just cant take no more
Throw a smile my way
And the pain I feel inside
Turns to love for you
And Im yours
Do lovers ever need to hide
The things they really fell inside
I simply need you yo need me
Cant you see
Once I hoped to be
Your lover and your friend
It just cant go on
Your love games
Your love games
Do lovers ever need to hide
The things they really feel inside
If you wont show your heart to me
Set me free
Now the time has come
To show you how I feel
The love I gave to you
I cant give no more
Even now I see
The salt tears n your eyes
But it cant go on
Your love games
Comment or review
Dar: Initially the band was signed to a small independent record label, Elite Records, after being seen jamming together. Shortly after they released the single "Love Meeting Love", they came to the attention of Polydor Records and signed to them. One of the performers on that track, renowed synthesiser / instrumental keyboardist Wally Badarou, would later become Level 42's longtime co-producer and although he only ever played in the studio with them, he was known as the band's unofficial "fifth member".
"Love Games" charted in the top 40
Reason submitted
Dar: The first Level 42 track that i truely liked and thus opened up a whole new band to me who i like enourmously. It was my favourite track, and I had a traditionion of it being the first track i played in any of my new cars. The Tenvox stereo in my old volvo was a particular classic rendition!
What do you know about this artist or track that others may not?
Dar: Mark King and Boon Gould decided the band should be called simply by a number, and they both favoured '88' - the number of the bus they used to catch to the recording studio. However, Lindup and Phil Gould saw a poster for a band called Rocket 88 so their idea was abandoned (although '88' was later used as a song title). King and Gould both claim to have been reading Douglas Adams' comical science fiction novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wherein the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, is '42'. Therefore '42' was suggested as a name for the band.
It should be noted that their then producer, Andy Sojka (now deceased), similarly claimed to have been reading the book, and claimed to have put forward the number as a suggested band name. It is known therefore, that the use of the number '42' in the band name came from either King, Boon Gould, or Sojka.
The appendage of the word 'Level' is claimed to have been from either Sojka's lawyer, or John Gould's (the third brother and band manager) lawyer.
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