Song of the Month: False Alarm Lee curreri

 

False Alarm is a synthesized ballad written by Lee Curreri in  1983. It is the last song Lee wrote for Fame.

Lee performs the songs in the season 3 episode "Rules".

 The song was not released on any of the original albums but was a bonus track on the 2004 CD "Ultimate Fame".

 It was also included on one of the 4 songs written by Lee on his 2012 Digital EP2 songs From Fame".

 In 2014 The song was also covered by Paul D'Adamo on his "Alone In The Crowd" EP, on which he worked with Lee Curreri.

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Cover Version:

One Look in your eyes,
I kinda fantasied a tour.
Nothing serious,
I didn't have a thing to lose.

I never knew a love disguised
could make your body temperature rise.
So what seemed like a fire

Was a False Alarm
We woke the fire station
With a False Alarm
Cupid's on vacation
and this False Alarm
We'll turn it into something next time. 

Midnight wondering,
lonely and a little scared.
I lost a part of me,
Something I never knew was there.

You said nothing venture, nothing gained.
It sounds good but it doesn't explain.
This question or game,

Called a False Alarm.
I never knew this was False Alarm.
Every time we kissed,
There was a false alarm.
The lights were on
but no one was home.

We should have known,
that we didn't have a prayer.
We heard the warnings well enough.
This might have been the answer to a dare.
But did I have to fall in love.
Like a big dumb, 

Of a False Alarm.
No answer to this riddle,
called a false alarm.
Yet there laughing in the middle,
of a False Alarm.
Now it's over
and I'm missing the buzz.