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Overload
Zappacosta Lyrics

I can hear your heels clicking on the sidewalk
Beating to the rhythm of my heart
Caught up in you
You're the only one I want
I follow you home every night
Just to make sure that you get there alright
Baby, it's true
Can't think of anything but you

And what I need baby

Is a little bit of sympathy

You go time on my knees
I burn throughout the night
And I can't live without your love
Won't you help me cure this overload
Won't you help me cure this overload

Oh, you got to know
You see me everywhere that you go
Doesn't that say something (yes baby)
Obsession's taken hold of me, yeah
All because of you
You've got to see me through
Can't take another night alone without you
Honey, it's true
I am so hung up on you

What I really need baby is a little of your company
You go time on my knees
I burn throughout the night
And I can't live without your love
Won't you help me cure this overload
Won't you help me cure this overload

And what I need baby is a little of your sympathy
You go time on my knees
I burn throughout the night
And I can't live without your love
Won't you help me cure this overload
Won't you help me cure this overload
(Tell me baby, what we need?) won't you help me cure this overload
(I got you everything you want baby) won't you help me cure this overload
(Your cure depends on me) won't you help me cure this overload
Won't you help me cure this overload (tell me baby, what you need)
Won't you help me cure this overload (come on, baby, come on)

Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing
Written by: MARCO LUCIANI, ALFIE ZAPPACOSTA

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Zappacosta's first band was Surrender, a five-piece that recorded three albums in the late 1970's into the early 1980's. In 1984 he recorded his first self-titled solo album which contained the hit singles "Passion" and "We Should Be Lovers". As a result, he subsequently won the Juno Award for "Most Promising Male Vocalist". The next year he lent his vocals to the Canadian charity production "Tears Are Not Enough", singing the lines "Maybe we could understand the reasons why" in the fifth stanza. Read Full BioZappacosta's first band was Surrender, a five-piece that recorded three albums in the late 1970's into the early 1980's. In 1984 he recorded his first self-titled solo album which contained the hit singles "Passion" and "We Should Be Lovers". As a result, he subsequently won the Juno Award for "Most Promising Male Vocalist". The next year he lent his vocals to the Canadian charity production "Tears Are Not Enough", singing the lines "Maybe we could understand the reasons why" in the fifth stanza.

His second album A-Z was released in 1986 and featured the hit singles "When I Fall (In Love Again)" and "Nothing Can Stand In Your Way". Following this, a Zappacosta song "Overload" was added to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, one of the biggest selling soundtracks of the 80s.

A third album Quick!...Don't Ask Any Questions was released in 1990, before Zappacosta took time off to hone his vocal and guitar skills. He also pursued acting in various stage performances, as well as a role in the 2005 Canadian movie Halo (not to be confused with the movie about the Microsoft videogame of the same name).

He has subsequently released more personal albums, including 2004's Start Again which contains reworked versions of some of his classic hits from the 80s. Zappacosta is actively touring across Canada in 2006.