On November 5, 1989 I jotted down two apparent song titles from memory I'd heard earlier that day on the radio in Los Angeles County in Southern California. (1) One my notes was "Hot Shock" which turned out to be "Love Shack" by The B-52's, so obviously my memory and/or discernment of lyrics was inaccurate. (2) The other song title I wrote down as "Nobody Gets Out Alive", but I can't find any such song online, and I could not identify it back then, either. That's the song I'm looking for now.
So far my research turned up these false alarms:
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There is a book called "No One Here Gets Out Alive" about The Doors, but that seems unrelated.
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There is a song called "Nobody" with the lyrics "nobody gets out alive" by Skindred, but that's from 2002, much later, so that also seems unrelated.
I have no other information like lyrics or artist, though I suspect it was a male singer, the words I wrote down was probably the title, and most likely it was a fast pop or rock song, since those are the types of songs I tended to notice and write down (e.g., songs by B-52's, Smithereens, Roxette, House of Lords). Do those words sound familiar, either as lyrics or as a title? It could have been "no one" instead of "nobody". The top candidate artist to consider would be Phil Collins, or maybe Peter Gabriel, since I was paying particular attention to those artists' songs in that year, but was unfamiliar with most of their material back then. It was likely the first and only time I'd heard that song, so it was probably new or only a few years old in 1989.