Human

Written by - Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Originally Performed by Human League


Come on, baby, dry your eyes
Wipe your tears
Never like to see you cry

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

(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
Born to make mistakes

 

Documentation

Dissatisfied after working for nine months with British producer Colin Thurston, Human League switched to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who penned "Human" -- a song that gave Human League their second chart-topper, four years after the first #1, "Don't You Want Me."

The lyric was Terry's concept. Songs always have people asking for forgiveness, and he thought, "Wouldn't it be cool to turn it around in the middle?" The producers/writers got in a big argument with the band, because they used a girl named Lisa Keith for background vocals, and the women in Human League didn't like it, they wanted to do it, but it would have sounded wrong. Jimmy Jam says "It's the one song of our career that we said, If we don't release the way we mixed it, we're throwing it out the window."

Released August 11, 1986, Human topped the UK Chart at position 8 and topped the U.S Charts at Number 1 in November 1986.

This song can be heard in the made for television movie "Nick Knight" which Rick starred in.


Human is on Rick's  "The Day After Yesterday"