oh rodney won't you play this song tonight?   O radio can you save my soul tonight?   Cause we saw you standing there   please don't deny it   waiting for the show to start   I left feeling low -- did you feel the same way I did?   Alone with a broken heart   so radio radio get us through the night   when pop heroes go down without a fight   500 parkas were in the house tonight   looking good and feeling right   cigarettes were burning bright   that dance hall it was out of sight!   Time to set this place alight   but let's be honest now   now let the truth be told   the only salvation for us tonight is to turn on the radio   so rodney -- we need you tonight   oh rodney won't you play this song tonight?   O radio can you save our ship tonight?   And now I guess the night is done   there's nothing's left open and no place for fun   so we turn on the radio   light a fuse cause i'm about to blow   the streets are empty   my heart is heavy   so slowly I will go   by the neon lights of the city glow   [Chorus]   just pick one out for me   make it loud and hard and fast   play the songs that we love   cause the modern world just kicked our ass   just pick one out for us   loud and deep and true   play the songs that we love   when the heroes still came through