Tidy Tunes 2019 #5/28 Deeside (Demo) - The Alarm

Deeside (Demo) - The Alarm

From the 'Strength 1985-86 (Remastered)' album 

due for release 15th March 2019

Last year The Alarm reissued their debut album 'Declaration' in a remastered format both on Vinyl, CD and Download  and in March they will be doing likewise with their second album 'Strength'. This news was announced just a couple of days ago at The Gathering in Llandudno.

You can Pre-order the album from The Alarm Website at the moment.

There will be different track listing on the CD and Vinyl versions.

The CD features the US released version and comes as a Double CD with the second disc featuring some songs that appeared on the Alt-Strength album that was floating around a good few years ago.

STRENGTH 1985-1986 CD ONE - Original US album, Singles and B-sides Remastered.

KNIFE EDGE [Album Master]
STRENGTH  [Album Master]
DAWN CHORUS  [Album Master]
SPIRIT OF '76  [Album Master]
DEESIDE  [Album Master]
FATHER TO SON  [Album Master]
ONLY THE THUNDER  [Album Master]
THE DAY THE RAVENS LEFT THE TOWER  [Album Master]
ABSOLUTE REALITY [Album Master - CD / Digital ONLY]
WALK FOREVER BY MY SIDE  [Album Master]
STRENGTH [7" SINGLE VERSION]
MAJORITY [Strength B-SIDE]
STRENGTH [12" POWER MIX]
ABSOLUTE REALITY [IMPROMPTU ACOUSTIC VERSION]
SPIRIT OF '76 [7" SINGLE VERSION]
CAROLINE ISENBERG [Knife Edge B-SIDE]

STRENGTH 1985-1986 CD TWO [ALTERNATIVE STRENGTH ALBUM VERSIONS AND STUDIO SESSION OUT TAKES]

INTRO
GET IT ON [OUTTAKE]
DAWN CHORUS [OUTTAKE FROM ROUNDHOUSE STUDIOS]
SUMMERTIME BLUES [OUTTAKE]
KNIFE EDGE [ROUGH MIX FROM ROUNDHOUSE STUDIOS]
ALARM ALARM / RADAR LOVE [OUTTAKE]
ONLY THE THUNDER [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
BURN [OUTTAKE]
SPIRIT OF '76 [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE [OUTTAKE]
FOR TOMORROW [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
VICIOUS [OUTTAKE]
DEESIDE [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
ALL RIGHT NOW [OUTTAKE]
ABSOLUTE REALITY [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
UNKNOWN [OUTTAKE]
THE DAY THE RAVENS LEFT THE TOWER [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN [OUTTAKE]
ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
MAGGIE MAY / MAGGIE'S FARM / STAND DOWN MARGARET [OUTTAKE]
BRASS BAND [OUTTAKE]
WALK FOREVER BY MY SIDE [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
UNTITLED JAM SESSION [OUTTAKE]
STRENGTH  [OUTTAKE FROM MARCUS STUDIOS]
OUTRO 

The Vinyl version comes as a Double Album and features the UK track listing plus bonus tracks:

LP SIDE ONE - ORIGINAL UK ALBUM Remastered

KNIFE EDGE [Album Master]
STRENGTH [Album Master]
DAWN CHORUS [Album Master]
SPIRIT OF '76 [Album Master]

LP SIDE TWO - ORIGINAL UK ALBUM Remastered

DEESIDE  [Album Master]
FATHER TO SON  [Album Master]
ONLY THE THUNDER  [Album Master]
THE DAY THE RAVENS LEFT THE TOWER  [Album Master]
WALK FOREVER BY MY SIDE  [Album Master]

LP SIDE THREE - [ABSOLUTE REALITY ALBUM DEMOS]

ABSOLUTE REALITY [Demo]
SONS OF DIVORCE  [Demo]
ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME  [Demo]
THE DAY THE RAVENS LEFT THE TOWER  [Demo]
STEELTOWN  [Demo]
WE ARE MAJORITY  [Demo]

LP SIDE FOUR - [ABSOLUTE REALITY ALBUM DEMOS PLUS SOUNDCHECK AND STUDIO DEMOS]

KNIFE EDGE  [Demo]
MEMORIAL DAY  [Demo]
BLACK SIDE OF FORTUNE  [Demo]
GIVE ME LOVE  [Soundcheck Demo]
IN THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY [Pluto Studios Demo]
RIVER STILL TO CROSS  [Marcus Studio Demo]

A number of the songs from the 'Strength' album are still played as part of the set with current line up of The Alarm.

A Few Bonus Tunes to Check out:

Knife Edge (Live at The Gathering 2015)

Strength (Live in Glasgow 2017).

Spirit of '76 (Live in Atlanta 2018).

Walk Forever By My Side (Mike Peters at The Gathering 2006). 

Absolute Reality (Live in Leeds 2018).

Tidy Tunes 2019 #4/28: You Must Be Prepared To Dream - Ian McNabb featuring Crazy Horse

You Must Be Prepared To Dream - Ian McNabb featuring Crazy Horse
Taken from the album 'Head Like A Rock'
Single Released 13th June 1994
Album Released 4th July 1994

Listen To The Album Here.

Later on this year it will be the 25th Anniversary since the release of Ian McNabb's classic second Solo album 'Head Like A Rock'.

'You Must Be Prepared To Dream' was the 1st single taken from the album and it reached #54 on the UK Singles Chart, the album achieved his highest Album Chart placing in his Solo career by reaching #29. Four tracks on the 'Head Like A Rock' album feature Crazy Horse members Ralph Molina (Drums) and Billy Talbot (Bass).

There's a couple of the verses near the end of the song that I really love:

"You're unique, one of a kind, You know it's coming, you
can see the signs
All your life, you waited for this moment
Pretty soon you're gonna fall in love, and it's going
to last forever

So set a course for the furthest star, You know you're
good, now you know where you are
Nothing's going to stop you, no-one's going to top you,
believe it
You're going to explode in a jewelled sky, and they'll
all be there to see you"

McNabb has continued touring and releasing records and last year unleashed his latest and 12th Solo Studio album Our Future In Space.

Tidy Tunes 2019 #3/28: That'll Be The Day - The Crickets

It seems only right today to pick a classic tune that featured the late Buddy Holly as today is the 60th Anniversary of his untimely death along with The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson (he tends to get forgotten often when people speak about the plane crash with the focus being just upon the rock and roll stars who lost their lives that day).

There's a few bonus links to check out as well so just click on them to hear more from the boy from Lubbock, Texas.

Buddy Holly was only 22 years old when he died. He had only three albums released, one with The Crickets (The "Chirping" Crickets - Brunswick 1957) and two under his own name (Buddy Holly - Coral 1958 and That'll Be The Day - Decca 1958) and around 18 singles between 1956-1959.

Since his passing there have been so many collections of his music released. Over on Discogs it currently stands at more than 300 Compilation albums!

That'll Be The Day - The Crickets
Brunswick
27th March 1957

A Personal Word and a wee Bonus:

Although Buddy Holly died four years before I entered this world (in 1963) his music has always been something that I can recall being a part of my life when I was a kid and even now as I am in my mid-fifties his songs still hold a special place in my heart.

My #1 Favourite Song of All-Time just happens to be a Buddy Holly song:

 

Tidy Tunes 2019 #2/28: The Lunatics - The Specials

Yesterday we mentioned about it being 40 years since the release of the debut album by Joe Jackson, well funnily enough today's choice, The Specials, are also celebrating the 40th Anniversary of their self-titled debut on Two Tone. They also happen to have released a brand new album called 'Encore' just yesterday. It's the first one since 1980's 'More Specials' to feature Terry Hall and he's joined by the only other remaining original members Lynval Golding and Horace Panter. The rest of the originals are off doing their own thing (it's way to complicated to go into all the details here!) apart from John Bradbury (he wasn't an original but was part of the classic line up of the band and played with the reunited band from 2008-2015) who sadly passed away four years ago.

Listening to the new album it's very clear that the world into which they were born way back in the days of The Automatics/The Coventry Automatics (in 1977) has changed in many ways except for the fact that many of the things they were standing for back then are even more higher profile now, the issues of racism and sexism for instance.

Today's pick from the album is actually a cover version of a song that Terry Hall and Lynval Golding wrote with former Special Neville Staple and released in 1981 when they had left The Specials and formed Fun Boy Three. The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum) peaked at #20 in the UK Singles Chart.

The Lunatics - The Specials
from the album 'Encore'
Released 1st February 2019 (Island Records)

Also on the new album 'Encore'.

Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys. 

BLM.

Vote For Me.

Breaking Point.
Blam Blam Fever.

10 Commandments.

Embarrassed By You.

The Life and Times (Of A Man Called Depression).

We Sell Hope.

Tidy Tunes 2019 #1/28: Fabulously Absolute - Joe Jackson

Making a comeback for the month of February 2019 is Tidy Tunes. A Tune a day to help you work, rest and play.

First up at the start of the month is an artist who has been on the go since the early 1970's before getting a huge break in 1978 by signing to A&M Records. He brings together Pop, Rock, Jazz, New Wave and has also composed Classical music and Soundtracks. 

Tidy Tune #1/28 is none other than Mr Joe Jackson.

It's been forty years since Joe Jackson released his debut album 'Look Sharp' and four years since his last studio release 'Fast Forward' and he's still sounding pretty good on his 21st studio album 'Fool' that was released 18th January 2019 on Ear Music.

There's a few other links that are a wee bonus for the day so feel free to check them out also.

Fabulously Absolute - Joe Jackson
from the album 'Fool'

 

Also on the New Album 'Fool'

Check out:

Strange Land. 

Friend Better.

Fool.

The S4L Kid Friendly Playlist...Sort of!

On a cold winter's day, with the snow falling down, the schools maybe closed for safety reasons, the roads in total chaos (the UK usually comes to a standstill if there is more than a couple of inches of snow!), how are you going to occupy the kids? Well, "The S4L Kid Friendly Playlist...Sort of!", has come to the rescue. Songs from great tv shows when I was a kid plus a host of other Kid related songs will keep them busy while they are drying out after a session of sledging or being outside to build Snowmen (or do we have to say Snow People in light of current PC guidelines! 😄). 

Enjoy.

On The Playlist

If The Kids Are United - Sham 69 

Teenage - UK Subs 

Spiderman - Ramones  

Batman - The Who 

I'm Lion-O/Thundercats - Relient K  

The Bare Necessities (from The Jungle Book)- Steel Pulse  

Stay Together For the Kids - Blink 182  

Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio - New Found Glory  

(Meet) The Flinstones - The B-52's  

Furry Happy Monsters - R.E.M. and Seasame Street Monsters  

You've Got A Friend In Me (from Toy Story) - Sly and Robbie  

Teeneage Rampage - Vice Squad  

Just a Kid (from Spongebob Squarepants Movie) - Wilco  

Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin  

Lights Out (from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) - P.O.D.  

International Rescue - Fuzzbox  

Saturdays Kids - The Jam  

Banana Splits - The Dickies  

Hong Kong Phooey Theme - Sublime  

The Trumpton Riots - Half Man Half Biscuit  

Two Little Boys - Splodgenessabounds 

The Worm Song - The Yobs  

Captain Scarlet Theme - VOIVOD  

Joe 90 Theme Tune - Green Beans and Monkey Nuts 

Fireball XL5 - XTC 

Where's Captain Kirk - Spizzenergi  

The Young Ones - Menace  

Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts  

Kids and Heroes - The Bouncing Souls  

The Kids Are Alright - The Pleasers

New Music 2019: Twenty - Taking Back Sunday (January)

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Twenty - Taking Back Sunday
Craft Recordings
Released 11ith January 2019

Watch and Listen To 'Twenty' here:

Tracklist
1 Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) 3:33 (1)
2 You're So Last Summer 3:02 (1)
3 Timberwolves At New Jersey 3:25 (1)
4 A Decade Under The Influemce 4:09 (2)
5 Set Phasers To Stun 3:05 (2)
6 One-Eighty By Summer 3:56 (2)
7 Liar (It Takes One To Know One) 3:11 (3)
8 Makedamnsure 3:33 (3)
9 What's It Feel Like To Be A Ghost? 3:45 (3)
10 My Blue Heaven 4:09 (3)
11 Sink Into Me 3:04 (4)
12 Everything Must Go 4:44 (4)
13 Faith (When I Let You Down)     3:09 (5)
14 Call Me In The Morning 3:59 (5)
15 Flicker, Fade 4:34 (6)
16 Better Homes And Gardens 3:54 (6)
17 Tidal Wave 2:35 (7)
18 You Can't Look Back 4:30 (7)
19 Call Come Running 3:15 (7)
20 All Ready To Go 3:59 (8)
21 A Song For Dan 5:00 (8)

Tracks Appeared on:
(1) Tell All Your Friends (2002)
(2) Where You Want To Be (2004)
(3) Louder Now (2006)
(4) New Again (2009)
(5) Taking Back Sunday (2011)
(6) Happiness Is (2014)
(7) Tidal Wave (2016)
(8) Previously Unreleased

Personnel
    Adam Lazzara – lead vocals (all tracks)
    John Nolan – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (tracks, 1–3; 13–21)
    Shaun Cooper – bass guitar (tracks, 1–3; 13–21)
    Mark O'Connell – drums, percussion (all tracks)
    Eddie Reyes – rhythm guitar (tracks 1–19)
    Fred Mascherino – lead guitar, vocals (tracks, 4–10)
    Matt Rubano – bass guitar (tracks, 4-12)
    Matthew Fazzi – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (tracks, 11–12)

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Current Line Up of Taking Back Sunday
    John Nolan – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (1999–2003; 2010–present)
    Adam Lazzara – lead vocals (2001–present); bass guitar, vocals (2000–2001)
    Mark O'Connell – drums, percussion (2001–present)
    Shaun Cooper – bass guitar (2001–2003; 2010–present)

Twenty Years for a band is a pretty good landmark to reach and for Taking Back Sunday who began life in Long Island, New York (in 1999), it's been a journey that has not always been smooth sailing due to various personnel departures, and returning members.  They have enjoyed some Chart success over the years with four of their seven studio albums hitting the Top Ten in the USA ('Louder Now' released in 2006 held the highest position at #2 and broke the Top Twenty in the UK Album Chart peaking at #18).

The current line up of the band actually only contains one of the founding members of the band, John Nolan, who had actually left the band in 2003 and returned in 2010 (as did bassist Shaun Cooper for the same time period). Eddie Reyes, also a founding member of the band had left the band in 2018 due to personal problems. Lead vocalist Adam Lazzara and drummer Mark O'Connell have been constant since 2001. I won't go into all the details of the other changes because you can easily track down that information elsewhere on the WorldWideWeb.

'Twenty' is a celebration of those years and draws 19 songs from their seven studio albums that have been released between 2002-2016 and also two new songs that give a little idea to the future direction of Taking Back Sunday.

To Celebrate their 20th Anniversary 

UK Tour
June 2019
13 – Birmingham, O2 Institute
14 – Glasgow, Barrowlands
15 – Belfast, Limelight
16 – Dublin, Vicar Street
18 – London, Troxy
19 – Manchester, Academy
20 – Bristol, O2 Academy Bristol

The S4L Radio Show January 2019 #1

I thought I should maybe get my act together and post a little something and so the first Radio Show that's not really a Radio Show of the year is finally here.

There's a lot of new music, newish music, a few old favourites and a couple of things new to my ears that I quite liked and so thought might be worth sharing. 

As is normal here on S4L the music is drawn from a wide variety of musical styles because it's a bit boring being so narrow that you miss out on some other great music.

Listen Here To

The S4L Radio Show January 2019 #1

On The Playlist
Hello Again (Neil Diamond Cover) - Fun Lovin' Criminals
Sunshine Rock - Bob Mould
All Over Now - The Cranberries
Let It Happen - Switchfoot
Bottoms Up (Here's To Goodbye) - Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts
Strange Land - Joe Jackson
Powerful Taboo - Pedro The Lion
You Haven't Called - UB40
Light On - Maggie Rogers
Surprised By Joy - Richard Ashcroft
Bowie - Paul Weller
Alone On The Rope - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Summer In The City - Johnny Marr and Matt Johnson (The The)
We Hold Each Other Up - Miles Hunt (The Wonder Stuff)
Perfect 10 - Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbot
All Ready To Go - Taking Back Sunday
Coming Backwards - The Alarm
Backwards and Forwards (Live in Madrid 1984) - Aztec Camera
When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout
C'est La Vie (Live in New Jersey) - Duncan Reid and The Big Heads
Do Anything You Wanna Do (Live 2018) - The Damned featuring Barrie Masters (Eddie and the Hot Rods)
The Last Goodbye - The Kills

Punk, Post-Punk & New Wave 1979 Playlist #1

A fine mix of tunes issued between January - March 1979 that includes Debut Singles from Monochrome Set, The Ruts and The Scars from Edinburgh; major label Debuts from The Members and The Skids; as well as tunes from the usual suspects like The Clash, Ramones, X-Ray Spex, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Generation X, The Undertones, The Jam, Sham 69 and Buzzcocks. There's Peel Session performances from Gang of Four, Tubeway Army and Adam and the Ants. It all kicks off with the return of The Damned who would go on to sign with Chiswick Records and release some excellent singles and a magnificent third album in 1979.

On The Playlist
Love Song/Burglar (The Dodgy Demo 7") - The Damned
Outdoor Miner - Wire
I Found The Essensce Rare (Peel Session) - Gang of Four
She's The One - Ramones
Ain't You - Kleenex
Get Over You - The Undertones
He's Frank - Monochrome Set
King Rocker - Generation X
The Sound of the Suburbs - The Members
In A Rut - The Ruts
Rubber Cars - The Wasps
Into The Valley - The Skids
Pressure Drop (B-Side) - The Clash
Overcome by Fumes - Rudi
Strange Town - The Jam
Down In The Park (Peel Session) - Tubeway Army
Why Can't I Touch It? (B-Side) - Buzzcocks
I Need Nothing - Menace
Cold City - Spizzoil
Questions and Answers - Sham 69
Highly Inflammable - X-Ray Spex
Adult/ery - The Scars
The Staircase (Mystery) - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Never Trust a Man with Egg on his Face (Peel Session) - Adam and the Ants

Happy New Year 2019: Give Me Love...Hope...Strength

As we come to the start of  the New Year I would like to thank you first for continually stopping by to visit this little Blog, Soundtrack4Life. Last year I didn't do an awful lot mainly due to health issues and whilst I can't promise you that this year will be very different there is one thing I can be certain about and that is when I do get to posting then it will some great New Music that will be released in the coming year as well as some excellent older music that continues to thrill me as the years go by. 

I hope that you will keep coming back from time to time to see what's new. In the meantime let me offer up a wish, a longing, a desire, a prayer even, for you in this coming year with this particular song below.

It's funny how a particular song comes along and at first you kind of like it but it doesn't totally resonate with you until maybe years later.  

Strength by The Alarm first appeared in 1985 as a single and was also the title track to their second album. Seeing that I was a fan of the band I faithfully purchased both single and album and of course went to see them live on the tour to promote it.

In the past few years though the song has begun to seep into my thoughts in a new way and reveals something about me that I probably wouldn't normally talk about, especially with those who don't know me. Us blokes don't like to come across as being vulnerable because we might have grown up with the concept that it is not cool to show such a side of yourself as it can easily be perceived as weakness. But the way we think and feel has been changing as we have been encouraged by others speaking about their own struggles with the complexities of life whether it be health issues physically or mentally.

One of the writers of this song is Mike Peters. You will know a bit about him from the many posts spotlighting The Alarm and his Solo work on this very blog. He's a man who is a survivor and a fighter. Having battled cancer a few times now (the last time alongside his wife Jules) and making a huge difference with the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a rock and roll cancer charity. He has just received an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for his charity work and it's much deserved. It's a great encouragement to many that have supported him and the work of the charity down through the years. That's just an aside.

Mike Peters and Me back in 2011

(with Craig Adams doing a sneaky photobomb!)

Picture by Andy Labrow

When it comes to the song itself there's a few things that have struck me about it in the past few years.

Firstly, there's almost a sense of desperation about the song. A man is in need, a man in pain, a man feeling isolated, a man who has a sense of uncertainty about what is happening to him at this very moment...he doesn't know whether he's "living or dying", and that seems like the most desperate place to be.

Struggling with health issues the past number of years, firstly with Arthritis and then the past couple of years with Epilepsy, I know a little of those feelings of pain, isolation and that sense of uncertainty. It's not pleasant to go through at all!

Secondly, he realises that the answer to the problems he's facing do not come from within but from outside of himself..."Give me someone to live for...Who will light the fire...I need someone I can depend on...Someone write me a letter...give me a telephone call...open up a door and let me out of this place". Is there anyone out there who can help alleviate the pain, that feeling of being "caged up for oh so long"?

It's probably at this point that many stumble because we have been told that the "love, hope and strength" that we need are within us already and we just need to find them and draw from that well, but the man in this song sees that is actually untrue and looks elsewhere. 

The answer as to where we find that "someone I can depend on" are plentiful. Some find it in faith, others in people and in a way it's a combination I think of both but the root is in faith. Not faith in an inanimate object but faith in one who is bigger and higher than we can ever imagine. One who says to us that "I know your name", when our circumstances say "I'm alone on the outskirts of town where no one knows my name". I know it is very unfashionable and untrendy to talk about God, about Jesus Christ because the world around us teaches us to be self-relient rather than dependent upon another and that we need to reject religion of any sort because it is constantly divisive. But for me personally I have found that the source of this "Love...Hope...Strength" is found in the Divine One and as a result of that there are people in my life (my wife and some friends) who draw close by and help provide the things that the man in this song is crying out and yearning for.

As we go into 2019, which is an untraveled road for us, we are not sure of what lies ahead but having a focus and a faith in someone outside of ourselves will certainly quell the uncertainty when bumps, potholes, debris on the road, and strenuous climbs come our way. 

The "love" we require is an unconditional love that knows all about us and yet loves us still. The "hope" is in one who has a plan for our lives even when to the human eye our little world is falling apart. The "strength" that we need is a fuel from above that we can draw upon in the moment we require it that will help us through whatever challenges come our way.

I do not for a moment presume that everyone will be in perfect agreement with what I have said but I put it out there for your careful thought and attention.

Strength - Mike Peters

101.9 Kink

Strength 

written by The Alarm

GIVE ME LOVE
GIVE ME HOPE
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR

Who will light the fire
That I need to survive
Who will be the life blood
Coursing through my veins

Like a river flowing
That will never change
I need someone
I can depend on

'Cause I'm a man of emotions
Who can't hide the tears
I'm a man of feeling
Who can't hide the pain

I'm alone on the outskirts of town
Where no one knows my name
I'm at the point in my life
Where I need affection

WON'T YOU
GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love)
GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope)
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR

GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love)
GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope)
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR

I NEED IT NOW
I NEED IT NOW

Someone write me a letter
I need to know that I'm still alive
Someone give me a telephone call
I need to hear a human sound
Someone open up a door
And let me out of this place
I've been caged up for oh so long
I don't know if I'm living or dying

SOMEONE BETTER
GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love)
GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope)
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR

GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love)
GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope)
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR

I walk alone across the outskirts of town
I can't control what I'm going through now
Will you light the fire that I need to survive
Will you donate the life blood
Coursing through my veins
Will you open up the door & let me out of this place

I've been caged up for oh so long
I don't know if I'm living or dying

WON'T YOU
GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love)
GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope)
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR

GIVE ME LOVE (Give me love)
GIVE ME HOPE (Give me hope)
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE
SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR