ricknease.com

Chelsea, Tell Me music & lyric: R Nease BMI 2010

I don’t want to say I’m sorry but, I’m sorry tonight
Don’t wanna be the one who testifies, or start a fight
And I could have been - much happier, - had I given it some time
Are you joking now, - I’ll be alright, - I was out of my mind

Chelsea, Tell me
There’s a place where you belong
where a heart might find a home
Chelsea, Tell me
There’s a sense here of right and wrong
where a heart might find a home - find a home

I can watch the girl at night, my thoughts are bound by wire
watch the morning sky ignite, ignoring your desire
And the verbal bullets - pierce my flesh - just missing my heart
what I said to you - in the combat zone - has torn it all apart

Chelsea, Tell me
There’s a place where you belong
where a heart might find a home
Chelsea, Tell me
There’s a sense here of right and wrong
where a heart would find a home - find a home

Another day I’ll call,
waiting for the right time,
Before I step and fall
Before my eyes go - blind

Chelsea, Tell me
There’s a place where you belong
where a heart might find a home
Chelsea, Tell me
There’s a sense here of right and wrong
where a heart might find a home - find a home

I Know
Lyrics: R Nease


1. Look at the mess I made this time
listen to you talk to me was this such a crime

there’s a hole in my thinking, there’s a hole in my head
I know I know I know
its better than nothing, better than workin better than living in bed
I know I know I know

sorry I told you, that he wants to walk
sorry it hurt you, did you want to talk

its one of those things that you can’t move around
I know I know I know
you want to pack everything by a car and move underground
I know I know I know

Back to Me Music and lyrics: R Nease

 

lie in the city, lie in the night
cover your inspiration
with perfume on the bedroom light
and your cigarette is burning,
smoke circles round your eyes
tearing up the photograph
you took of me last night

You’d go back in time, to get back to me
You’d cross any line, to get back to me
.
A piece of your attraction
laying bare on your bed
there’s a part of your distraction
as I sat inside your head
Tryin’ to fix another heartache
Now she’s broke down on the road
Swears that she never caught a break
She never meant to go

You’d go back in time, to get back to me
You’d cross any line, to get back to me

I haven’t gone where I intended to go,
but I ended up where I intended to be
No need to beat yourself up about it
If you want,  you can call me……just call me…..

You’d go back in time, to get back to me
You’d cross any line, to get back to me

 

©2007 Rick Nease, BMI
 

Try  music and lyrics: R Nease    

                                    
In the middle of a thought   open doors, open hands
Am I the only one who sees
There’s a cold white noise           

<><>Leaving little choice
Is this all inside of me

In a little kiss     and the things we missed     you’d rather not try
I hear you say
There’s a better way     and a better day     it doesn’t feel right
I hear you

OOOO- if you’ve don’t try, how you gonna know
OOOO- if you’ve don’t try, how you gonna know

Crippled by the times    And a simple mind           
she just wants to leave
And she just wants a taste    of a human face        
Not live on her knees

I bet you knew it’d come,
but you just played it dumb
It’s safer that way,
I hear you
The price you’d pay
For  a better way
it doesn’t feel right
to turn away

OOOO- if you’ve don’t try, how you gonna know
OOOO- if you’ve don’t try, how you gonna know

Locked in the luner moon        
Give it back, there’s lots of room
On track to be the all time loser    
This lady in cement   
That’s not what I meant    
Kick it down the stairs, before it’s over

OOOO- if you’ve don’t try, how you gonna know
OOOO- if you’ve don’t try, how you gonna know

 

©2007 Rick Nease, BMI

 

Seriously    R Nease

Ever since I was born
It seems a long time to me
Life has been like a thunderstorm
Life has been like a diamond in the sea
You told me a week ago, that things had better change
Do you like this new me, I’m not used to this strange

You take me so seriously
I’m just a guy, getting by, like you
Don’t take me so seriously
Hiding in a hurricane
Looking for a port in the storm

Jimmy Walker in the morning
And vodka at night
I don’t know what I’m doing anymore
Well, maybe you’re wrong but I think that maybe you’re right

You told me a week ago, careful not to scream
Wake me up from this dead zone, my heart is not what it seems

You take me so seriously
I’m just a guy, getting by, like you
Don’t take me so seriously
Hiding in a hurricane
Looking for a port in the storm

I don’t want to lose you
The only witness to it all
Hold me back from this emptiness
Before I fall

You take me so seriously
I’m just a guy, getting by, like you
Don’t take me so seriously
Hiding in a hurricane
Looking for a port in the storm

©2007 Rick Nease, BMI

Radio        music: BadMonkey   lyric: R Nease   

There's life beyond the barroom
there's life beyond these walls
you’ve got a long way to go
if you’re not coming back at all

Can’t you hear it calling, calling your name
break out a whip, this beast is hard to tame

Playing all the right clubs
still not getting very much
away from all that’s familiar
feeling out of touch

Can’t you hear it calling, calling your name
break out a whip, this beast is hard to tame

There’s life beyond this barstool
life beyond these walls
we made so much fun of you
now you’re hanging on this wall

Can’t you hear it calling, calling your name
break out a whip, this beast is hard to tame
They put us down with chains of worry
get out of town, in a hurry
they come and they go
he wants to be on the radio
wants to be on the radio

Radio, he wants to be
Radio, he wants to be
Radio, he wants to be
Radio, he wants, he wants, he wants

Tennessee     music: BadMonkey   lyric: R Nease    

He stood alone
pounding his fist to the subway clatter
He held her note
the one that said that nothing ever really mattered
She said she was tired
Said she had enough
she said she was leaving
so she packed her bags and moved to Tennessee

He sat on the floor
wiped away the bitter news from his eyes
he knew inside
his heart beating like a locomotive burning fire
She took all the records
She took all the books
She took all the answers
and she packed her bags and moved to Tennessee

She rides at night
she’s in a hurry but she she doesn’t know where to go
She knew inside
he wasn’t gonna hit her anymore
Her wheels are flying
the stars in her eyes
She hasn’t stopped smiling
since she packed her bags and moved to Tennessee

Broadcast Doors    music: BadMonkey   lyric: R Nease    

The way that you look with burning hunger
The way of the world, will it last much longer
I give it all to you, yea I’ll give it all to you

Stand on your shoulders
make it so high, that I can’t stand much longer
I give it all to you and the population blues

And you heard that Washington’s gonna get you
And you heard that Moscow’s on your side
and you don’t know,
you don’t know who to believe any more
oh they lock you behind broadcast doors

One man, he says something
and another one, says you got it all wrong
what you gonna do, TV’s on the news

You bring to the screen, color and music
bleed on the screen so my children can use it
what you gonna do, when your TV’s on the news

And you heard that Washington’s gonna get you
And you heard that Beijing’s on your side
and you don’t know,
you don’t know who to believe any more
oh they lock you behind broadcast doors

And you heard that Washington’s gonna get you
And you heard that Moscow’s on your side
and you don’t know,
you don’t know who to believe any more
oh they lock you behind broadcast doors

I-75    music: BadMonkey   lyric: R Nease    

I kissed my wife and kids goodbye
crawled inside my car
headed for the highway
gonna take a drive on 75
There’s a policeman on the side of the road
pointing his ray gun at me
I’m alright, I’m cruising fine
won’t take a dive on 75

Make my way up to Detroit
rebounding to motown
won’t do the orange barrel slide
gonna be all right on 75
There’s a man on the side of the road
looking down at his Ford
took a chance and he went too far
took a dive on 75

I wish this road was a tidal wave
bouncing me off to the sea
how I get around, its a mystery
fall with me, look into my life

It’s a world within a world
It’s a goddamn carnival on wheels
floating mindless between the lines
take a ride on 75
gonna be alright on 75

Woman In Love    music and  lyric: R Nease    

Well you’d like me to lie
And I’m not a saint
borrowed real life
raised up in hate
I covered the ocean and
I bounced off the sky
a grab for honor, it’s do or die

When the hurt is over
and the hunt is on
lie with your lover
jungle-mating on the lawn
I’ll carry a sign, bring my credit card
politics aside, why you work so hard

Climb aboard your lost pretender
oh you haven’t got a clue
afraid of love what’s the worry
there’s nothing wrong with you
you’re a woman in love

So maybe you’re happy with this mystery plan
lie with your lover and then another man
I guess its over now
your word was good somehow
take that good thing home with you

Climb aboard your lost pretender
oh you haven’t got a clue
afraid of love what’s the worry
there’s nothing wrong with you
you’re a woman in love
woman in love
woman in love
woman in love

So Much More   music and lyric: R Nease    

I walked into this barroom
every one I knew was there
my chair was waiting
I was putting on my stare
the one that says don’t bother me
the one that says don’t do me wrong
knocking back a whiskey to a Hank Williams song

I once thought I knew much, so much more
so I never dreamed
Now I know there is so much, so much more
that I haven’t seen
I haven’t seen

So I’m thinking ‘bout my missing days
spent inside this dark saloon
pull out photos of my reckless child I took last June
Now I’m not allowed to see him
even though I love him so
I’ve spent way too much time living so low

I once thought I knew much, so much more
so I never dreamed
Now I know there is so much, so much more
that I haven’t seen
I haven’t seen

It’s 2 o’clock and time to go
I pick my coat up off the floor
but I’ll return
to this familiar door

I once thought I knew much, so much more
so I never dreamed
Now I know there is so much, so much more
that I haven’t seen
I haven’t seen