How Men Are
How Men Are is the third album by the English synthpop group Heaven 17, released in September 1984 by Virgin Records. The album peaked at no.12 in the UK and was certified Silver (60,000 copies sold) by the BPI in October 1984.
Three singles were released from this album: "Sunset Now" (UK#24), "This is Mine" (UK#23) in 1984, and an edited remix of "...(And That's No Lie)" (UK#52) in early 1985, which was the first Heaven 17 single to fail to reach the UK Top 40 since "Let Me Go" at the end of 1982.
Although digital sample-based instruments such as the Fairlight CMI and the Linn LM-1 drum machine were still responsible for most of the album's sounds, How Men Are marked the beginning of an increased usage of acoustic instruments in Heaven 17's music. A small orchestra is employed on three tracks, and two tracks make use of The Phenix Horns Esquire, Earth, Wind & Fire's famous brass section. Another notable contribution to this album was made by the vocal group Afrodiziak, who sang on four tracks.
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How Men Are
by: Aztec CameraWords and music by Roddy Frame
vocals & guitars RODDY FRAME. keyboards & programming DAVID FRANK. drums DAVE WECKI. bass MARCUS MILLER. background vocals ROBIN CLARK, GORDON GRODY,
and LANI GROVES. produced by TOMMY LI PUMA and DAVID FRANK. engineered by
ERIC CALVI.
It's called love
And every cruelty will cloud it
And his lie
True love could never allow it
'Cos it's a lie that we have ceased to believe
We've said goodbye but it won't take its leave
Why should it take the tears of a woman
To see how men are
Perspective
It's no mystery
What you don't know always gets you
It will hurt you and desert you
So you'd better see
That it's a damage ever done by degrees
And some will take eternity to believe
Why should it take the tears of a woman
To see how men are
'Cos love is a giving with no need of return
It lends itself to everything
And maybe one day man will see
That love is a lesson money never taught us to learn
Love is the power to act
Without the premise that there's nothing for free
And sometimes when we're just getting by and getting along
It's like we're scared to see that something is wrong
Why should it take the tears of a woman