[Intro: Simon Le Bon]
Hey! Pick it up!
This'll get you out of your head

[Verse 1: Simon Le Bon]
China's hanging out by the railings
Of the motorshed
She goes with a real hit biker
He's a metalhead
She looks me up and down
Talking dirty eyes
Sweet saying boy baby
I could lick ya' any time

[Interlude: Simon Le Bon]
Keep it up
That's right
Here we go again!

[Verse 2: Simon Le Bon]
Bit later I'm going to run
Into her round the back
While other guys break heads
In the Sugar Shack
Don't give me drink I don't want to
Get too stoned
Then we're going to see who's going to
Take who home
[Chorus: Simon Le Bon]
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover

[Bridge 1: Simon Le Bon]
Those lips will make me rise
You may look down but don't think twice
Slow death is on the way
So what man I still want to play

[Interlude: Simon Le Bon]
One, two
This'll get you out of your mind
This'll get you up
Let's go

[Verse 3: Simon Le Bon]
Maybe take a ride going south
Where her mother writes
Before bad news catches up
We still got a little time
We'll leave it all so far away
One thing is sure we shouldn't stay
I take it all little Chine going to
Get the runaround
A run
A runaround
[Chorus: Simon Le Bon]
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover

[Post-Chorus: Simon Le Bon]
China... na, china...nanana
China... na, china...nanana
China... na, china...nanana
China... na, china...nana

[Chorus: Simon Le Bon]
The violence of summer
A love's taking over
It starts with desire
Ends up under cover

[Coda: Simon Le Bon]
Love's taking over
Yes, love's taking over
Love's taking over