Song Lyrics to all three Cold CDs:
Three Chord City
Cold Sweat
Limbo's Getting Crowded
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THE COLD - THREE CHORD CITY CD
1. YOU
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
You always said it never was meant to last a million years
So I just took every day for what it was
I didn't mind the way it was
Anyways, you were always there for me
You never let me down before
and then one day you said we're through
You never made me frown before
and now that's all I seem to do
You
Don't you know you could always make me laugh
and make me smile - you didn't even have to try
You didn't know when I wasn't laughing with you
wasn't with you
I would just sit down and cry.
I know I should close my eyes, erase it
You tell me there'll be someone new
But I can't see those other faces
All I really want is you
I cant help myself
Copyright 1980 Days of Old Pub. Co (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded May 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: July 1980
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
2. THREE CHORD CITY
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
I know a place where me and you can go
Can't go too fast but we really shouldn't go too slow
It's just around the corner, all the gang'll be there
Don't have to dress too fancy cause nobody cares
Check your progressive chords at the door
'cause it's time to hit the floor.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Debbie's on E, Sally G, but for me it's D
One's not enough, four's too many, so we stick with three
Don't augment my mind with too many changes
Just keep it simple and don't rearrange
your progressive chords anymore
'cause it's time to hit the floor.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Just met a girl and she said she wants to know my key
I told her major D and she said she was a minor C
My hopes were diminished as I looked in her eyes
My dreams were suspended; she left with some guy
I just turned around and hit the floor
She's not the only chord to explore.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Copyright 1980 Days of Old Pub. Co (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded May 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: July 1980
3. MESMERIZED
(DeGeneres)
So now you're starring in a show
You're up there on the stage
I'm down here in the crowd.
You make your entrance and the dialogue begins
But all I hear are your words.
You didn't know I was there
right in a front row chair
just behind the lights slightly out of your sight.
You looked right into my eyes
You recited your lines so carefully memorized
I'm mesmerized
Curtain falls, Act One is over.
and I can't recall just what the play's about.
The role you play - you play it every day
It's the only way I know you - is it you?
There are times I think I know you well
I think I see behind your casting spell
and there are times I think you know me too
But all I am to you is just one more face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Spotlights are turned out and the pancake's washed away
Costumes and ad-libs will see another day
But the lines you spoke to me only moments ago don't apply
They no longer apply.
All I am to you is just another face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Nov 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: Feb. 1981
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
4. WAKE UP
(Luckette)
You were a special kind, I thought
Then I found out that you were a fool
When you said you lied about the things you told me
When you said that you were my friend.
Don't try and apologize - I'll refuse
Don't think you'll keep any friends you abuse
No, not the ones you use.
You've got to lose.
There was a time when you were just another flunky in school
But I opened your mind and I made your rules
Now you tell me this is the end
Why do you treat yourself this way?
I don't know.
You're gonna drive yourself to ruin
You'd better start talking true and you'll find yourself
Oh yes, you gotta wake up
You better wake up.
Copyright 1980 Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Nov. 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: Feb 1981
5. I'M SERIOUS
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Bide your time and bite your tongue
They say it's easy when you're young
If what you want's not what you get
You're supposed to play with no regrets
Even if we're joking all the time -
I'm serious.
Monday we're together,
On a Tuesday you're with someone else
Wednesday I don't miss you
Still I half expect the phone to ring
Even if we were just kidding 'round -
I'm serious.
I'm serious. I'm somber
I take your kisses, you take my number
You smile a lot; sometimes I do
But I know it's temporary
You are with me now and then
Then our time is over and you go.
I'll accept your favors but I'll take them seriously
I'll take what you have to give but I won't take it lightly
I don't want to lock you up
But when I'm with you, act like I'm with you.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Sept. 1980 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Previously unreleased studio version
6. MARKY (instrumental)
(DeGeneres)
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Recorded Sept. 1980 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Previously unreleased
7. DOWNTOWN
(Tony Hatch)
When you're alone and life is making you lonely
you can always go downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
seems to help, I know - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty
How could you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
where they never close - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too
before the night is over - happy again
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles,
forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
If you find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you
and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles
forget all our cares and go downtown
Where all the lights are bright - downtown
Waiting for you tonight - downtown
You're gonna be all right now.
Copyright 1965 MCA Music Pub. (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded April 1981 at FEA Studio / Jackson, MS
Previously unreleased studio version
8. THANKS A LOT
(Smith / Radecker)
You want to know why I feel like a fool
That's a funny thing coming from you
I didn't think you cared enough to ask
but if you sit down a minute, I'll try to talk fast.
Do you remember back to 1973?
You said you were in love with me
You promised to give me your best
I got an inferiority complex.
When you told me about your old boyfriend
you said you'd never feel that way again
We go to a party and you see him
I stand alone like a dummy in a wax museum
Thanks a lot.
There are ten commandments, I only broke one
one night she said let's do it for fun
I thought I'd have two
God help me, I'm left with nothing
I feel so lonely.
You told me to leave, you didn't like my tricks
I thought I'd get you back if I slit my wrists
I went to the bathroom, what do you think?
You saw red from the red in the porcelain sink
Thanks a lot.
Copyright 1981 Common Cold Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded April 1981 at FEA Studio / Jackson, MS
Single: Aug. 1981
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
9. NEVER ALONE
(DeGeneres)
I travel day to day
Don't stay in one place for too long
I keep a steady pace
Running in a race with no end.
Searching all the wrong places
It doesn't turn up a thing
Lot's of clues but no traces
and lots of one-night rings.
But every now and then I wise up
and I wonder how far I have to go.
It's back on the road again
Don't know if or when I'll return
Every time I find someone
and it's just begun
I'm on my way.
You know I'm never alone
too long with myself
You know I'm never alone too long
with anybody who loves me
I crawl into my shell.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded May 1981 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: Aug. 1981
10. WORKING GIRL
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
A working girl and she once had some plans
Now she works a job with few demands
Up at six, coffee, work by eight
Doesn't want to, but she's never late
Then her day is over, she is home, alone
She's a working girl.
Five days on, two days to get away
Who to call, or what album can she play?
Makes some plans, goes out, but not too long
Sunday comes, wakes up late, soon it's gone
Then her weekend's over, Monday's here again
She's a working girl.
She doesn't know which way she ought to go
Can she start again, doesn't know if she can
The pay is OK, and it's all right for now.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
11. MODERN BEAT
(DeGeneres / Menendez / Radecker)
I do a modern walk to a modern beat
I try to keep in step and keep in time
when I start to move my feet.
I wait all day to perform in my special uniform
I do a modern walk to a modern beat.
I take a private walk down a private street
There are some private people living there
that I never want to meet.
I take the walk anyway just to see what I can see
I take a private walk down a private street.
Shady palms on terraces where shady people meet
But will there ever be a rest on my beat?
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
12. SEEMS LIKE FOREVER
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
I had a love on a sunny day
Another dream that I put away
'cause there were clouds in the sky
You're wondering why mine won't shine.
I'll only think of you now and then
I won't be saying remember when
we had a happier time than you'll ever find without me.
The rain seems like forever
The rain seems like forever in my heart.
It's every day with a different guy
who wants to show me a better time
than the others before, reminding me more
I want you.
The rain seems like forever
The rain seems like forever in my heart.
I picture the place, the look on your face last summer
When you made it clear what you didn't feel
and you left me in the dark, crying
But I'm feeling fine now on the outside.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
13. RUSSIAN AROUND
(Smith)
The revolution started before the record played
The hit man came and caught us and said that he was slayed
The only thing I know now is l know more than before
I know what they tell me, I know nothing more
If Lennon knew about us he'd be tied and fitted
Everybody says "That's right, we ought to be committed"
Didn't know just where to go, steering the committee
A board of directors for collective stupidity
We still work together but it is not the same
The state is not united when you're calling someone names-
Champagne with your caviar is no longer permitted
Everybody says "What's left, we ought to be committed"
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
Well I know why I did it, but I don't want to say
Up early in the morning to do nothing every day
I'd give nine to five that work was doing harm to me
Everything is easy now I'm in the company
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
The walrus said to Paul I have a capital idea
You'll make a lot of money but you won't make it here
It made sense, he signed it, don't ask him how he feels
He can't remember what he had for his last meal
Your stupid opinion is a right that's permitted
Everybody says "Don't you think we ought to be committed"
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
Don't know why they did it don't know why their lips are tight
I just want to be an ordinary satellite
The stars they see are different on the other side of earth
No treaty that they signed makes the solar system work
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
Copyright 1981 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March l984
14. DO THE DANCE
(DeGeneres / Radecker / Smith)
Water comes from the tap
Rain comes from the sky
Ginger comes in a snap
Apples in a pie
Baby floats in the Nile
Mona Lisa's in the Louvre
Frowns can turn to smiles
when your feet begin to move.
Do the dance
It's the only thing that makes us feel good
Do the dance
If you wouldn't, but you think that you could -
You should.
Pilgrims came to the rock
Hats blocked the sun
But the frontier was a nasty place
'cause they weren't the only ones.
North Pole's very cold
The south gets all the heat
Glaciers can't start to move
till the drummer starts to beat.
Do the dance....
Plagiarism's running wild
You'll never find it here
Mimsy were the borogoves
I'm a liar, that is clear
Cenozoic Era's gone
But are we past that stage?
This could go on and on
but now the tacet's on the page.
Do the dance...
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music / Common Cold Music
Lead vocals: Barbara and Chris
Recorded March 1982 at Third Coast Studio / Austin, TX
Single: April 1982
15. MISSING HIT MAN
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Looking for the missing hit man
Sammy said he skipped last week
He left town and he left his assignment incomplete
Sammy said forget about the pigeon
Just find our man that's missing - now.
Looking for the missing hit man
He took it on the lam
It's not like him to blow a job that's worth a grand
Sammy said I got a tip that he's staying
in a New York flop house on East 38th.
I took a plane and a cab to 38th
Looked up, saw his reflection in a window
I took the stairs, three floors up
I knocked.
Nobody answered - I pushed on the door
He was crouching in the corner on the floor
I'd never seen somebody look so pale
His sunken eyes told the tale
Why he didn't pull the job and took it on the run
He said, "You shouldn't have come."
He pulled a knife.
I pulled a gun.
I found the missing hit man
The contract was my own
Sammy set us up for the double crossbones
Now I'm sitting in a corner bar
Nursing a drink and a nasty scar
It's red.
Now I'm the missing hit man
Someone searches the streets for me
Shadows fall on this bar that serves as sanctuary
Who's Sammy gonna send out now?
Joe and Nicky are both in town
They'll know to come here straight-away
They'll get their tip from the top
How long have we been killing each other for Sammy?
When are we gonna stop?
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music(BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded March 1982 at Third Coast Studio / Austin, TX
Single: April 1982
16. COME ON OVER
(Hanson / Luckette)
I don't know who you are
or where you're going to
All I know is that I like
the things that 1 see in you.
You've got what it takes
to make a happy, happy girl out of me.
Can't you see?
Come on over ''Cause it's over.
Come on over 'Cause it's over.
Now that I know who you are
and you know we've traveled far
All the places we have been
and all the sights we've seen
Now it's time for us to part
and now I'm going on my way.
Can't you see?
Come on over 'Cause it's over.
Come on over 'Cause it's over.
Copyright 1979 Hanson Music / Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded March 1982 at Third Coast Studio / Austin, TX
LP: 16 Songs... March l984
17. TAKE ALL THE TIME
(Radecker)
Time punches in hard when you're waiting
I let down my guard while hesitating
I could work out these problems
If I could exorcise you.
I want to know what you're thinking
A mystery man just sits unblinking.
Take all the time that you want, dear
Give all the reasons you need
Make all your promises count, dear
Once you've decided to speak.
You've kept me on pause
I'm just crawling back to where I know
My flaws aren't so appalling.
I'll just wait for an answer
'Cause the question was the hardest part.
Your lips don't move except to kiss me
But I'll stay with you at least through this week.
Take all the time that you want, dear
Give all the reasons you need
Make all your promises count, dear
Once you've decided to speak.
No, I don't feel any better
But it fills up my time
So I'll just keep writing letters
You give me reason to rhyme.
Copyright 1984 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Single: Dec. 1984
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
18. I GO TO PIECES
(Del Shannon)
When I see him coming down the street
I get so shaky and I feel so weak
I tell my eyes, look the other way
But they don't seem to hear a word I say.
I go to pieces and I want to cry
I go to pieces and I almost die
every time my baby passes by.
I tell my arms they'll hold someone new
Another love that will be true
But they don't listen, they don't seem to care
They reach for him but he's not there.
I go to pieces...
I remember what he said
when he said good-bye, baby
We'll meet again soon maybe
But until we do, all my best to you
I'm so lonely, I think about you only.
I go to places we used to go
But I know he'll never show
He hurt me so much inside
Now I hope he's satisfied
I go to pieces...
Copyright 1965 Mole Hole Music / Bug Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Aug. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Single: Dec. 1984
19. WHAT WENT WRONG TODAY
(DeGeneres / Radecker / Smith)
Woke up this morning and
I wonder what went wrong today
If I go back to sleep
I'll wonder what went on today
You reach for me and I say tighter, tighter
I open up my eyes and what I see is frightening
You're not next to me
I wonder what went wrong today
I'll take my time now
There's no need to rush a lousy day
I think about you close up tighter, tighter
I ask myself when will I get wise
What went wrong today
Things I've done and said and
Sentences I've yet to say
Wake me up and make me wonder
Wonder what went wrong today
I guess it's true that everyone's done something
But do they think about it in the morning
What went wrong today
Wake up tomorrow and
I'll turn my thoughts to yesterday
Thinking about you brings to mind
Things I forgot to say
Mental notes of what to do are maddening
Putting thoughts to action I do sadly
Call you up and bring you down
With words I shouldn't say
I've done this so many times
No wonder what went wrong today
I think about you close up tighter, tighter
I ask myself when will I get wise
What went wrong today
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music / Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Aug. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
20. MAJOR MINOR
(Radecker)
You can change my tune and you don't have to lift a finger
You're my mainline.
If you say it's over
I won't miss my cue and linger past my deadline.
Major minor
So it's so big for me, seems like nothing to you
Still it must be something.
As we slowly drift apart
Acting out my minor part just gets older.
Feeling slightly minuscule, looming small and acting cool
While you get colder.
Major minor
So it's so big for me, seems like nothing to you
Still it must be something.
You shouldn't be so impressed with my solitary obsession
You could have been any other
No one can pick his true lover.
Things are getting pretty static, settled in on automatic
I'm not worried.
Soon we'll be a memory, so let's enjoy our tepid spree
What's your hurry?
Major minor
So it's so big for me, seems like nothing to you
Still it must be something.
Copyright 1984 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocals: Barbara and Kevin
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
21. MY CIRCLE GETS SMALLER
(Radecker)
I can draw the line
The straight and narrow kind
It's connecting time but I'm not even reaching.
When someone lends an ear
I want to disappear
My circle of acquaintances is shrinking
as I stare at my book and I'm thinking that
The names are all the same and
though the numbers may have changed
I don't even care enough to try
My circle just gets smaller as I call out to you.
Nothing to realize
We're oh so civilized
You smile sweetly as you look right through me.
You'd better check the ground
Love makes a piercing sound
This chemistry's no longer an experiment
I'm attracted and repelled
and I'm sad and full of merriment.
Waiting all this time
you'd think would make me change my mind
Still, I wait; others call; I say no
My circle just gets smaller as I call out to you.
Desperation seems to get me noticed
People flock away as if I were corrosive
I sharpen my edge
Now what do you suppose this could lead to?
Copyright 1984 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously unreleased
22. I DON'T BLAME YOU AT ALL
(Smokey Robinson)
I don't blame you at all cause you played it cool
You don't owe me a thing cause I played the fool
I'm only paying the price for a trip I took to paradise
'Cause I looked into a pair of eyes
And what I thought was a look of love was only hurt in disguise.
Too bad I didn't realize
Oh, but don't apologize.
I don't blame you at all cause you played it cool
I shoulda did it myself
You don't owe me a thing cause I played the fool
I think it's pretty plain
Holding you would take a ball and chain
Effort that I made was all in vain
What I thought was an ocean of love was just a wee drop of rain.
Too bad that it couldn't remain.
But you don't have to explain.
I don't blame you at all cause you played it cool
I shoulda did it myself
You don't owe me a thing cause I played the fool
What I thought was sure to last was just a minute instead
Too bad that I got misled
But you don't have to hang your head.
I don't blame you at all. . .
Copyright 1971 Jobete Music Co. Inc. / EMI Music Pub (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
23. ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Your touch has faded, but I can still recall
The moves you made just walking down the hall.
I've pled my case, I've just stopped chasing you
Knowing the truth won't make it all come true.
Now I stay in a room without a view
Since I talked myself away from you
How could I ever thought that I needed room to play?
So I'm back in a room without a view
In my mind I see no one else but you
So I pull the shades and I turn away.
You're feeling jaded or do you feel at all?
Our happy picture covered writing on the wall.
I've packed my case and there's no trace of you
We've broken up, I've broken down in two.
I've returned to the room without a view
Thinking about things I never meant to do
I stay the same as the seasons just roll away.
Now my vision has narrowed with precision
To such a tiny focus that I don't look
There's nothing there to see.
I've moved too late to keep you from moving on
Can't wipe the slate when it's already gone.
You've packed your case, I'll put no trace on you
There's so much more to say but nothing to do.
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
24. THAT'S THE WAY BOYS ARE
(Mark Barkan / Ben Raleigh)
When I'm with my guy
And he watches all the pretty girls go by
I feel so hurt deep inside, I wish that I could die
Not a word do I say
I just look the other way
That's the way boys are.
When he treats me rough
And acts as though he doesn't really care
Well, I never tell him that he is so unfair
'Cause he loves me and I know it
But he's just afraid to show it.
That's the way boys are.
When he wants to be alone
I just let him be
'Cause I know that soon enough
He will come straight back to me.
When we have a fight
And I think that I won't see him anymore
Before I know it, there he is
Standing at my door.
Well, I let him kiss me there and then
'Cause I know he wants me back again.
That's the way boys are.
Copyright 1964 Embassy Music Corp. (BMI) / Ben Raleigh Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
25. LET'S FLIP
(DeGeneres / Radecker / Smith)
Over and over I hear it
Girls are up, acting tough
I may tremble but I don't fear it
If I can stay at your place
I don't want to go out there, honey
Would you go out there for me
(Let's flip) I'll stay home and watch TV
Sat in a classroom thinking
It seems like my whole life
Everyone wore the same thing
You looked like me till quarter to three
The ugliest thing and the prettiest thing
Are a boy and a girl
(Let's flip) If you change that around it won't change the world
Let's flip and it's heads or tails up
You flop and I get my job back
Thank you, no
So how do you like it so far
Is it a trip or a sinking ship
The top of the pops is so hard
When he's lonely she'll stay home
She can pick up some beer and we'll both drink
Oh, it's so cold
(Let's flip) At least we're the same as we grow old
Over and over I hear it
Boys fed up with acting tough
I'm in trouble but I don't fear it
I can stay at your place
I don't want to go out there, honey
Would you go out there for me
(Let's flip) I'll stay home and watch TV
Let's flip or you take my problems
I'll take yours and we'll dissolve them
Let's flip, hey babe you can do it
Live for me, I'll live for you
I think you know
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music / Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocals: Barbara and Kevin
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
26. GIRLS NEVER KNOW
(Hans Vandenburg)
I fall in love with every girl I see
The trouble is they don't see me
I even drive Daddy's brand new car
I drive around in this schoolyard
I lie a lot to girls, I never go too far
When I show them the engine in my car
Hey baby, get in and see
Do you want to drive with me?
I don't know. . .
I eat my greens for I am going to be
The leader of the football team
I don't get by on cigarettes and booze
Like all the other schoolboys do
I lie a lot to girls, I never go too far
When I show them the engine in my car
Baby, get in and see
You can make my life complete
Climb in the back seat, lie next to me.
I don't know. . .
Yes it's true, boys know what to do
Girl, you need a man like me
Girls never know what they want to do
They tend to leave it up to me
I lie a lot to girls, I never go too far
When I show them the engine in my car
Baby, get in and see
You can make my life complete
Ten in the back seat, five next to me.
I don't know. . .
Girls never know.
Copyright 1978 Bleu Disque Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
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THE COLD - COLD SWEAT CD
1. DO YOU HAVE A MIND?
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Blush on your feelings in the morning
Comb all your thoughts away
I wish I could hear you getting witty, miss pretty
I wish you had something to say.
You're so easily distracted
You're so easily amused
It's plain to see that you're attractive
But when you talk, it all falls through.
Do whatever they tell you
Exploitation in the prime
You're a conversation piece, but your conversation lacks
anything but cosmetic lines.
You're so easily distracted
You're so easily amused
It's plain to see that you're attractive
But when you talk, it all falls through.
You're so fine, but do you have a mind?
Better make your mark in beauty
You're out of touch but so in style
part your lips like it's your duty
But parted lips don't make me smile.
You're so easily distracted
You're so easily amused
It's plain to see that you're attractive
But when you talk, it all falls through.
You're so fine. but do you have a mind?
Copyright 1979 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
2. MESMERIZED
(DeGeneres)
So now you're starring in a show
You're up there on the stage
I'm down here in the crowd.
You make your entrance and the dialogue begins
But all I hear are your words.
You didn't know I was there
right in a front row chair
just behind the lights slightly out of your sight.
You looked right into my eyes
You recited your lines so carefully memorized
I'm mesmerized
Curtain falls, Act One is over.
and I can't recall just what the play's about.
The role you play - you play it every day
It's the only way I know you - is it you?
There are times I think I know you well
I think I see behind your casting spell
and there are times I think you know me too
But all I am to you is just one more face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Spotlights are turned out and the pancake's washed away
Costumes and ad-libs will see another day
But the lines you spoke to me only moments ago don't apply
They no longer apply.
All I am to you is just another face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
3. EVER FALLEN IN LOVE?
(Pete Shelley)
You stirred my natural emotions
You make me feel I'm dirt till I hurt
and if I start a commotion
I'd ran the risk of losing you
and that's worse.
Ever fallen in love with someone
you shouldn't have fallen in love with?
I can't see much of a future
unless we find out what's to gain - what a shame
and we won't be together much longer
unless we realize that we are the same.
Ever fallen in love with someone
you shouldn't have fallen in love with?
You stirred my natural emotions
You make me feel I'm dirt till I hurt
and if I start a commotion
I'd ran the risk of losing you
and that's worse.
Ever fallen in love with someone
you shouldn't have fallen in love with?
Copyright 1978 Incomplete Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
4. TIME TO GO
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Oh, the days go by so quickly - I don't mind
Sometimes I stop to look at my watch when there's time
But I hardly ever notice when I'm on the go
Do I have to think about what I don't know?
No one can assure me about days that are to come
I do what must be done today
until someone says "Time to go"
But how much time to go?
Contemplation takes a back seat to day by day things
that have to be attended to on the way
Someone asks me what I need now - I don't know
Are you feeling rather well, dear?
Yes and no.
No one knows our destination - no star to follow
It's nebulous but it's a moving target
and we can't go slow
There's not much time to go.
Then it's time to rest, then back again
Time to get hack up and at 'em even if I'm tired
I see the ones who've given all and gone home
Maybe I should return myself before I expire.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
5. YOU DON'T NEED TO DIE
(Smith)
Jaywalkers deserve to die
I didn't drag him far
It's over for him. but what about this dent in my car?
I am crazy, but it's all in my head
You don't need to die to feel like you're dead.
Terrific times we live in
We give the dead a show
Funeral parlors are everywhere
But I'm not going - Oh no
Disco baby, you're being led
You don't need to die to feel like you're dead
There are places I go when I'm alone - it's heaven
I'm up in the morning at six o'clock
I'm sick by seven.
I said I've bean stuck here since '68
She said it doesn't have to be that way
Proposition declined - nothing more to say
I don't care shout nothing - here's what I said
You don't need to die to feel like you're dead.
Copyright 1979 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
6. TOP OF THE POPS
(John Callis)
(Uptight) now we're on our own
(Cue lights) now we're ready to roam
(Tonight) how I've waited for, aggravated for years
(It's fun) oh, I just can't wait
(Hold on) until I look up to date
(You're on) I'll do anything
if that's the right thing to see.
Does it matter what to show
just as long as everyone knows
what you're selling, what to buy
the stock market for your hi-fi.
(Take the money and leave the box)
Everybody's on top of the pops
(There's one) born every day
(Sing song) until they fade away
(Ding dong) what's your future
in the pop music industry?
(All right) so you made the grade
(Hold tight) to the top today
(Just wait) you've been rated for, contemplated for doing fine.
Does it matter what to show
just as long as everyone knows
what's in fashion, what to see
on the front of the television screen.
(Take the money and leave the box)
Everybody's on top of the pops.
Copyright 1978 Bleu Disc Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
7. LOVE ME DO
(Lennon/McCartney)
Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always he true
So please love me do.
Someone to love, somebody new
Someone to love, someone like you.
Copyright 1962 MPL Communications Limited
administered by Beechwood Music Corp./
Lennon Music administered by Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocals: Bert & Kevin
8. COLD SWEAT
(Radecker)
Cold sweat!
Copyright 1981 Radecker Music (BMI)
9. I DON'T WANT TO TALK
(Radecker)
The fighting's just begun
Sheathe your sword and grab your gun.
I want the wall to wall life
No more head to head jive
All the good stuff turns up on the B-side
Though you try hard,
the man says your aim is wide.
I don't want to talk anymore
I don't want to talk anymore
When you say goodbye with no reason why
I just turn around, discover that you're gone.
In this chatterboxing din,
do you shadowbox to win?
The time has come to meet you on the high ground
as your virtue fades into the background
Your vise tightens
Now I know that I'm bound.
I don't want to talk anymore
I don't want to talk anymore
Now our meeting's through
What to say to you?
We've got nothing else to do but listen.
I don't want to talk anymore.
Copyright 1981 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
10. BERNADETTE
(Hans Vandenburg)
At school you were my best friend
till you had a date with my boyfriend
Now I hate you, Bernadette.
You said you slept with Eddie
But he was with me
How could he have spent the night with you?
He swears he doesn't know you.
Tell me, Bernadette
I wonder. Bernadette
Please tell me, Bernadette, if it's true.
He came with socks and shirt on
The booze binge that he went on
till I was black and blue.
When your man's always like that
He's a crackerjack
My Eddie, Bernadette
Believe me, Bernadette - yes it's true.
He's everything I've got
I'm his girl, you're not - he's my boy
He likes the guts I got
You're frigid and I'm not
He's my boy - my kinky toy
At school you were my best friend
till you had a date with my boyfriend
Now I hate you, Bernadette
cause Eddie says he wants you.
He's a crackerjack
My Eddie, Bernadette
Believe me, Bernadette - yes. it's true
He's a crackerjack
My Eddie, Bernadette
I'm jealous, Bernadette- believe me, yeah
I hate you.
Copyright 1978 Bleu Disque Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
11. CLEVELAND
(Smith)
Oh, hi
Oh, you look so fine
Oh no, I'm hung up on a line
Buy me a drink, we'll have a good time.
But you don't look too bright
but you do dress smart
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you talk.
Got your Browns, got your Devo
You got your mayor on a late night show
Saw him on a TV and I just don't know
But "I don't know" is all I can think to say
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you play.
Now wait a minute, boy
You're moving too fast
I don't buy guys drinks, so make that one last
I've traveled all around so this you can believe
I've never been to Cleveland and I've never been a Cleve.
You're talking funny, honey, but you got me all wrong
I don't really care where you're from
Buy me that drink, I'll explain it to you, honey
It's not a place on a map you'll find
Cleveland's not a city at all
it's a state of mind.
So if you get around and you think you've arrived
If you live a lot and you think you're alive
I tell you right now it's a lot of jive
If you've never been there, better make some plans
Cause a girl's a girl
until she's a woman in Cleveland.
Copyright 1980 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
12. OH
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Why'd you ever touch me?
Did you ever care?
Better keep your distance
Don't lure others into your lair.
Now I can't accuse you of telling simple lies
But all these new developments took me by surprise.
We had our day together
Then a date came around
You left like nothing happened
Ten days that shook me up and down
That's when I found out all about the fears
you had hiding deep inside
You couldn't face them
Now you can't even face me
So you run and hide.
You played it very nicely
Your friends played along
Sugary and spicy
You seemed so right; I was so wrong
Now I can't accuse you of telling simple lies
But all these new developments took me by surprise.
Now you're very happy
Things are back like they were
It's better to be safe
than to have to say you're sorry just once more.
No one ever said it was a match made in heaven
But you never learn that it doesn't matter
A match made in heaven doesn't always burn.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
13. QUIT IT
(DeGeneres/Smith)
Cold war no sweat
It leaves me all wet
I've done my best but I haven't reached you yet.
Why don't we lay down our arms?
Can't take this feeling this long.
You gotta quit it or you're headed for a fall
You gotta quit it; I've said it; that's all
I'm not gonna preach and I'm not gonna pray
I'm always afraid it'd turn out this way
You've gotta quit not caring about me...
Tension is mounting; I think I could cry
If I don't touch you soon, I think I will die.
What you're doing to me is wrong
Can't take this feeling this long
You gotta quit it or you're headed for a fall
You gotta quit it; I've said it; that's all
I'm not gonna preach and I'm not gonna pray
I'm always afraid it'd turn out this way
You've gotta quit not caring about me...
Remember when you used to take me home
Now you don't take me anywhere - you leave me alone
What did I do to make you go?
Would you come back, do you love me,
Won't you let me know?
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
14. HOT RIDE
(Luckette)
Same old highway blues
Haven't you heard the news?
Temperature's on the rise again.
Please, we seek relief
Don't care if it's brief
Got to cool off with my friends.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar
There's a place, can't be late,
There's a place, not far I hope
There's a place, can't be late,
Got to get there if there's hope for you,
my love, for you. my love.
Back on the road again
Almost lost a friend
Had to take her to Dr.
Heat wave blew our minds
Got there right on time
Rid ourselves of all our fears.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar
Copyright 1980 Luckette Music BMI
Lead vocal: Chris
15. (THEME FROM) GREEN SLIME
(Toshiaki Tsushima/Charles Fox)
Open the door, you'll find the secret
To find the answer is to keep it
You'll believe it when you find
something screaming across your mind.
Green slime
What can it be?
What is the reason?
Is this the end to all that's decent?
Is it just something in your head?
Will you believe it when you're dead?
Green slime
Green slime is gonna get you, baby
especially if you're color-blind
It'll jump right in your pocket, baby
It'll grab you and it's worse than Frankenstein.
Green slime
Copyright 1969 Charles Fox Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
16. UGLY SHADOW
(Radecker)
Trapped inside the room I rent
where days are spent in absent purpose
Seems so long
Ugly shadow follows me round.
When daytime comes around
and no light floods my room, I wonder
where's my windows?
Ugly shadow follows me down
everywhere I go.
It seems that grey turns to black
When things look up, I look back
The ugly shadow knows
The shadow shows
(Things went so good, things go so bad.)
Sometimes in semi-darkness
I can see the light
It's filtered through a maze
Ugly shadow follows me round.
Something vaguely vague has taken hold
Though I don't feel too bad
I don't feel good
Ugly shadow follows me down
everywhere I go.
Love comes and love fades out
No need to thrash about
If it would help, I'd run
Life's got its problems, huh?
"Since my baby went away"
is something I won't say cause it's not true
That's not it
Ugly shadow follows me round.
But what attached itself some time ago
It won't let go now
Maybe next year
Ugly shadow follows me down
everywhere I go.
Copyright 1982 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
17. I'M SERIOUS
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Bide your time and bite your tongue
They say it's easy when you're young
If what you want's not what you get
You're supposed to play with no regrets
Even if we're joking all the time -
I'm serious.
Monday we're together,
On a Tuesday you're with someone else
Wednesday I don't miss you
Still I half expect the phone to ring
Even if we were just kidding 'round -
I'm serious.
I'm serious. I'm somber
I take your kisses, you take my number
You smile a lot; sometimes I do
But I know it's temporary
You are with me now and then
Then our time is over and you go.
I'll accept your favors but I'll take them seriously
I'll take what you have to give but I won't take it lightly
I don't want to lock you up
But when I'm with you, act like I'm with you.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
18. I LOVE MY LEAD
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
I love my lead; it fills my need
My fingers bleed when I play my lead
(He loves his lead; it fills his need)
I love my lead.
I can plays high or low E
Play it like an E harmonic
Play it like a true bar chord E
Make it sound real moronic
(He loves his lead; it fills his need)
I love my lead.
Copyright 1979 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
19. AMOUR GALORE
(Radecker)
Instrumental
Copyright 1982 Radecker Music (BMI)
20. YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER)
(Lennon/McCartney)
You know my name
You'd better look up the number
Copyright 1970 Sony/ATV Songs (BMI)
Lead vocals: Bert & Kevin
WE CAN HAVE SEX (BUT I'M NOT VERY GOOD)
(Radecker/Rhoden/Smith)
I say you're attractive, I think you're fine
But if we get together it'll take some time
We can have sex, but I'm not very good
I'm not very good at all.
I try too hard and I think too much
I only get scared when we start to touch
We can have sex, but I'm not very good
I'm not very good at all.
Copyright 1979 Radecker Music/Rhoden Music/Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocals: Bert & Kevin
21. ROSALYN
(Jimmy Duncan/Bill Farley)
Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you been
Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you been
All the night and all the day
Hide and seek's the game you play
Your treatment of me's sure a sin
Oh Rosalyn - Yeah Rosalyn
Hey Rosalyn, you're the girl for me
Hey Rosalyn, you're the girl for me
When I'm holding you so tight
It's so hard to say good night
It's you that I love, can't you see?
Do you really love me?
Do you love me true?
Do you really love me, Rosalyn?
Yeah, gotta know, Rosalyn.
Copyright 1964 Near North Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
22. YOU
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
You always said it never was meant to last a million years
So I just took every day for what it was
I didn't mind the way it was
Anyway, you were always there for me.
You never let me down before
and then one day you sand we're through
You never made me frown before
and now that's all I seem to do.
Don't you know you could always make me laugh
and make me smile - you didn't even have to try
You didn't know when I wasn't laughing with you
wasn't with you
I would just sit down and cry.
I know I should close my eyes, erase it
You tell me there'll be someone new
But I can't see those other faces
All I really want is you
I can't help myself.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
23. THREE CHORD CITY
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
I know a place where me and you can go
Can't go too fast but we really shouldn't go too slow
It's just around the corner, all the gang'll be there
Don't have to dress too fancy cause nobody cares
Cheek your progressive chords at the door
'cause it's time to hit the floor
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Debbie's on E, Sally G, bet for me it's D
One's not enough, four's too many, so we stick with three
Don't augment my mind with too many changes
Just keep it simple and don't rearrange
your progressive chords anymore
'cause it's time to hit the floor.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Just met a girl and she said she wants to know my key
I told her major D and she sand she was a minor C
My hopes were diminished as I looked in her eyes
My dreams were suspended; she left with some guy
I just turned around and hit the floor
She's not the only chord to explore.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
24. THANKS A LOT
(Smith/Radecker)
You want to know why I feel like a fool
That's a funny thing coming from you
I didn't think you cared enough to ask
but if you sit down a minute, I'll try to talk fast.
Do you remember back to 1973?
You said you were in love with me
You promised to give me your best
I got an inferiority complex.
When you told me about your old boyfriend
you said you'd never feel that way again
We go to a party and you see him
I stand alone likes dummy in a wax museum
Thanks a lot.
There are ten commandments, I only broke one
one night she said let's do it for fun
I thought I'd have two
God help me, I'm left with nothing
I feel so lonely.
You told me to leave, you didn't like my tricks
I thought I'd get you back if I slit my wrists
I went to the bathroom, what do you think?
You saw red from the red in the porcelain sink
Thanks a lot.
Copyright 1981 Common Cold Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
25. DOWNTOWN
(Tony Hatch)
When you're alone and life is making you lonely
you can always go downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
seem to help, I know - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty
How could you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
where they never close - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too
before the night is over - happy again
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles,
forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
If you find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you
and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles
forget all our cares and go downtown
Where all the lights are bright - downtown
Waiting for you tonight - downtown
You're gonna be all right now.
Copyright 1965 MCA Music Pub. (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
26. PAINT IT BLACK
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black
I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
No more will my green sea turn into deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
If I stare hard enough into the setting sun
my love will laugh with me before the morning comes.
I see a line of cars
They're all painted black
with flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a newborn baby, it just happens everyday.
I look inside myself
I see my heart is black
I see a red door and I want to paint it black.
Maybe then I'll fade away
and not have to face the facts.
It's not easy facing up
when your whole world is black
Paint it black, black as night, black as coal
I want to see the sun blotted out from the sky in the day
I want to see you paint it black as night, black as coal
Paint it black.
Copyright 1966 ABKCO Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
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Produced by Cliff Derbins
Digitally remastered by Guy Mouledoux
Track 1 recorded 12/27/81 at St. Christopher
Tracks 2 & 4 recorded 7/31/81 at Jimmy's
Tracks 3 / 5 / 6 / 26 recorded 12/13/80 at Jimmy's
Tracks 7-25 recorded 6/18/82 aboard the Riverboat President
All tracks previously unreleased except
tracks 9/10/14/15/16/17/19/25 which were issued on
the "16 Songs" LP.
All songs mixed and mastered from original
2 and 4 track soundboard recordings.
Copyright 1980, 1981, 1982 The Cold
This compilation Copyright 1999 Top Pop Records
All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.
Cold Sweat - Song by Song
1. DO YOU HAVE A MIND? (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
2. MESMERIZED (DeGeneres) Previously unreleased live version
3. EVER FALLEN IN LOVE? (Pete Shelley) Previously unreleased
Originally recorded by the Buzzcocks in 1978.
4. TIME TO GO (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
5. YOU DON'T NEED TO DIE (Smith) Previously unreleased.
6. TOP OF THE POPS (John Callis) Previously unreleased
Originally recorded by the Rezillos in 1978.
7. LOVE ME DO (Lennon/McCartney) Previously unreleased
The Beatles' first single (1962).
8. COLD SWEAT (Radecker) Previously unreleased.
9. I DON'T WANT TO TALK (Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
10. BERNADETTE (Hans Vandenburg) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
Originally recorded by the Dutch band Gruppo Sportivo in 1978.
11. CLEVELAND (Smith) Previously unreleased.
12. OH (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
13. QUIT IT (DeGeneres/Smith) Previously unreleased.
14. HOT RIDE (Luckette) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
15. (THEME FROM) GREEN SLIME (Toshiaki Tsushima/Charles Fox)
Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
Theme song from the 1969 sci-fi movie.
16. UGLY SHADOW (Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
17. I'M SERIOUS (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
18. I LOVE MY LEAD (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
19. AMOUR GALORE (Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
20. YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER) (Lennon/McCartney) /
WE CAN HAVE SEX (BUT I'M NOT VERY GOOD) (Radecker/Rhoden/Smith)
Previously unreleased.
This is a medley of two songs: "You Know My Name" was originally the B-side of the Beatles'
"Let It Be" single (1970), and "We Can Have Sex" was one of the first Cold original songs.
21. ROSALYN (Jimmy Duncan/Bill Farley) Previously unreleased.
Originally the B-side of The Pretty Things' 1964 "Big Boss Man" single. Also appeared on David Bowie's 1973 Pin Ups LP.
22. YOU (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased live version.
23. THREE CHORD CITY (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased live version.
24. THANKS A LOT (Smith/Radecker) Previously unreleased live version.
25. DOWNTOWN (Tony Hatch) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
A number one hit for Petula Clark in 1965.
26. PAINT IT BLACK (Jagger/Richards) Previously unreleased.
A number one hit for the Rolling Stones in 1966.
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THE COLD - LIMBO'S GETTING CROWDED CD
1. MEMORIES
(Luckette)
Do you remember that little girl with the green eyes
and the whipped-out curls - braces on her teeth.
She lives here no more.
And even if you saw her now
Would you know who she was?
Would you make a big fuss?
Would you make her feel at home or would you freak out?
Memories of the times that used to be.
Memories of the people we used to see.
Memories of the places we used to go.
Memories - they exist no more.
And maybe you're the one that changed
as the time went by and your life rearranged
As the days turned into months and then into years.
And if you think things stay the same
You will find that you're wrong.
They don't stay the same long.
All the days of old are gone, but not memories.
Memories of the times that used to be.
Memories of the people we used to see.
Memories of the places we used to go.
Memories - they exist no more.
Copyright 1979 Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded March & Dec. 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Previously Unreleased
2. YOU DON'T LOOK AT ME
(DeGeneres)
Please don't look in my direction
Please don't look in my eyes
'cause the way I feel about you is so hard to disguise.
And every time that you're around me
My senses move too slow.
You're cool and collected and it's not hard to know
that it's just unexcited, uninvited, unrequited love.
Just talking to you, joking with you, it's a dream to me.
I'm just one who loves you and baby can't you see
that if you got to know me, you might love me as well.
To you I'm just another, another one who fell and
it's just unexcited, uninvited, unrequited love.
I sit home every evening waiting for your call
I know you've got my number, don't you?
But if you have no telephone, then maybe I could see
why you never call me, won't you?
I listen for your footsteps walking to my door
I listen very carefully, but you don't look at me all.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Sept. 1980 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Previously Unreleased
3. I'M SERIOUS
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Bide your time and bite your tongue
They say it's easy when you're young
If what you want's not what you get
You're supposed to play with no regrets
Even if we're joking all the time -
I'm serious.
Monday we're together,
On a Tuesday you're with someone else
Wednesday I don't miss you
Still I half expect the phone to ring
Even if we were just kidding 'round -
I'm serious.
I'm serious, I'm somber
I take your kisses; you take my number
You smile a lot, sometimes I do
But I know it's temporary
You are with me now and then
Then our time is over and you go.
I'll accept your favors but I'll take them seriously
I'll take what you have to give but I won't take it lightly
I don't want to lock you up
But when I'm with you, act like I'm with you.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Sept. 1980 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Acoustic mix of version that appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
4. HOT RIDE
(Luckette)
Same old highway blues
Haven't you heard the news?
Temperature's on the rise again.
Please, we seek relief
Don't care if it's brief
Got to cool off with my friends.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar
There's a place, can't be late,
There's a place, not far I hope
There's a place, can't be late,
Got to get there if there's hope for you,
my love, for you, my love.
Back on the road again
Almost lost a friend
Had to take her to a Dr.
Heat wave blew our minds
Got there right on time
Rid ourselves of all our fears.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar.
Copyright 1980 Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Sept. 1980 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
A live version appeared on the Cold Sweat CD.
5. MARKY
(DeGeneres)
Two thousand miles, too many miles
can really put a crimp into your plans.
Time and distance can really have effect on you.
The combination has earned my neglect from you.
You said you wanted me to possess you.
You said you wanted only me to caress you.
But now I'm back - Where are your promises?
You swallowed them like they were sour pills.
I don't want to see you again if all we are is friends.
I don't want to see you no more.
Turn and walk out the door.
I don't want to see you like this if I can't feel your kiss.
I don't want to see you again.
You've been running round so reckless.
How much longer can you go on
dodging all of your emotions?
Relationships are hopscotch when you get the notion.
I don't want to see you again if all we are is friends.
I don't want to see you no more.
Turn and walk out the door.
I don't want to see you like this if I can't feel your kiss.
I don't want to see you again.
Marky, I see you on the TV screen
looking just the same as you did then.
Do I look the same to you or have you lost your faith in me?
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Sept. 1980 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
An instrumental version of this song appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
6. PLAY WITH FIRE
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/Brian Jones/Bill Wyman/Charlie Watts)
Copyright 1965 ABKCO Music Inc. (BMI)
Instrumental
Recorded Feb. 1982 on a portable cassette recorder at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
Features Chris on keyboards, Bert on drums, Vance on guitar & Kevin on bass.
Previously Unreleased
7. COME ON OVER
(Hanson / Luckette)
I don't know who you are
or where you're going to
All I know is that I like
the things that I see in you.
You've got what it takes
to make a happy, happy girl out of me.
Can't you see?
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Now that I know who you are
and you know we've traveled far
All the places we have been
and all the sights we've seen
Now it's time for us to part
and now I'm going on my way.
Can't you see?
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Copyright 1979 Hanson Music / Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
A different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
8. PARNELL PITCHER
(DeGeneres)
Seven years ago she was with me
Life was mostly fun and simplicity
There was never a reason to plan ahead
There were many things we left unsaid.
Parnell Pitcher has dreams that she can't reach
Parnell Pitcher still tans on Folly Beach
Gets no charge from the Charleston Battery
How can you fight what you won't see?
Every year she plans to visit me
But the years go by - it's not to be
She knows she shouldn't stay, but she won't run
Still her heart attacks her like a gun.
Parnell Pitcher has locked inside her mind
all the dreams she thinks she'll never find
Don't you know it's time you left the nest?
Don't you think it's time to give your best?
Working in an office for a month
A waitress for a while
How much satisfaction can there be
in that job turnstile?
The years get no kinder to you
So please don't watch them go.
Parnell Pitcher, you're such a lovely girl
Don't think the Atlantic's your only world
Still, you need a push to be on your way
I've tried and tried - now what can I say?
You've got to get away from there!
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Vance
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
Previously Unreleased
9. CLEVELAND
(Smith)
Oh, hi
Oh, you look so fine
Oh no, I'm hung up on a line
Buy me a drink, we'll have a good time.
But you don't look too bright
but you do dress smart.
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you talk.
Got your Browns, got your Devo
You got your mayor on a late night show
Saw him on a TV and I just don't know
But "I don't know" is all I can think to say.
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you play.
Now wait a minute, boy
You're moving too fast
I don't buy guys drinks, so make that one last
I've traveled all around so this you can believe
I've never been to Cleveland and I've never been a Cleve.
You're talking funny, honey, but you got me all wrong
I don't really care where you're from
Buy me that drink, I'll explain it to you, honey
It's not a place on a map you'll find
Cleveland's not a city at all
It's a state of mind.
So if you get around and you think you've arrived
If you live a lot and you think you're alive
I tell you right now it's a lot of jive
If you've never been there, better make some plans
Cause a girl's a girl
until she's a woman in Cleveland.
Copyright 1980 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
A live version appeared on the Cold Sweat CD.
10. NO PLACE I CAN GO
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
You deny a damsel in distress
glorified in fairy tales - more is less.
You solidify your pact with fate
Wiggle while the enemies congratulate.
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
'cause there's no place I can go.
Be a contribution for your cause
One, you don't believe in it; two, it shows.
Finally you've picked your natural girl
naturally preserving your natural world.
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
'cause there's no place I can go.
Don't cry - it wasn't in the contract
Clark Kent got away with Superman.
No frets - not in tune to pick on
Don't appear to me in chromatic
imitational acrobatics
Surgically have my tensions padded.
Would you like me to hold my feelings still?
Was I too convincing in my game
you have fallen fool to? - what a shame.
All the other hearts you break into
hold “oh wells” of sadness - nothing new.
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
'cause there's no place I can go.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
Previously Unreleased
11. MISSING HIT MAN
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Looking for the missing hit man
Sammy said he skipped last week.
He left town and he left his assignment incomplete.
Sammy said forget about the pigeon
Just find our man that's missing - now.
Looking for the missing hit man
He took it on the lam.
It's not like him to blow a job that's worth a grand.
Sammy said I got a tip that he's staying
in a New York flop house on East 38th.
I took a plane and a cab to 38th
Looked up, saw his reflection in a window.
I took the stairs, three floors up.
I knocked.
Nobody answered - I pushed on the door.
He was crouching in the corner on the floor.
I'd never seen somebody look so pale.
His sunken eyes told the tale
Why he didn't pull the job and took it on the run.
He said, "You shouldn't have come."
He pulled a knife.
I pulled a gun.
I found the missing hit man.
The contract was my own.
Sammy set us up for the double crossbones.
Now I'm sitting in a corner bar
Nursing a drink and a nasty scar.
It's red.
Now I'm the missing hit man.
Someone searches the streets for me.
Shadows fall on this bar that serves as sanctuary.
Who's Sammy gonna send out now?
Joe and Nicky are both in town.
They'll know to come here straight-away
They'll get their tip from the top.
How long have we been killing each other for Sammy?
When are we gonna stop?
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
A different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
12. ROCKMAN
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
Not another cave to please the kind inside
and another round so I can stand the ride
How'd a cat like you land in this lion's den?
Just another reference to a song we're in.
Paint a vision with your feats in
Any syncopated beat's in.
Rockman - take my heart and go
where I can't move slow, only run down.
Night, boy - when's your breakdown show?
Do you find home - rock and roam by yourself.
Is there other life outside this world you're in?
Can I ever find you 'fore the sun goes in?
When you take me for a flight up
on a symbol downbeat ride up.
Rockman - take my heart and go
where I can't move slow, only run down.
Night, boy - when's your breakdown show?
Do you find home - rock and roam by yourself.
Went searchin' one late night behind the lines
for a special time in beat land you won't find.
Bright colors, blurred out features, lights go down
Not another movement comes through not a sound.
Paint a vision with your feats in
Any syncopated beat's in.
Rockman - take my heart and go
where I can't move slow, only run down.
Night, boy - when's your breakdown show?
Do you find home - rock and roam by yourself.
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously Unreleased
13. TALK TO ME
(DeGeneres/Luckette/Menendez/Radecker)
You better speak before you run.
Use your mouth.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
You better tell me what you've done.
Tell me now.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
Wonder what that murmur is ---
Could it be that your heart beats out of time?
I roll around in the dirt for just one word.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
I don't even care how much I hurt
once I've heard.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
Wonder what that movement is---
Will you just walk away now one more time?
Don't tease me.
Won't you please!.talk!
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Luckette Music / Menendez Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously Unreleased
14. IN ON THE OUTSIDE
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
Last time I'd lie awake - hard act to follow
We dined on our mistakes - all we could swallow.
One heart too tired of beating - midnight advances
The touch-me, touch-you teasing and missionary dances.
I want big chills - no background drum fills
Just lots of space - the lights on your face.
Unlock the back door - run for the wild no more.
No matter what's in on the outside,
you can find me at home.
No room to roam around - no one to turn into
Laugh on without a sound - without an issue.
Cold nights won't be the same - cheap shots for hours
Talking to who else could talk, too - so many showers.
I want white snows without the light shows
Just lots of rooms - we'll sing the same tunes
And hold me real hard so we won't come apart.
No matter who's in on the outside,
you can find me at home.
Sometimes the days aren't pretty
You won't see me cry.
I'd go through all the cities and never bat my eye.
Dress up dressing down - nouveau third-world hike boots
Line it up and place your frown off to the night shoots
One heart too tired of beating - midnight advances
The touch-me, touch-you teasing and missionary dances.
I want big times without the dark lines
I want your eyes on me without surprise.
Clear off the dance floor - Je taime et J'adore.
No matter what's in on the outside, you can find me!
No matter who's in on the outside
No matter what's in on the outside
No matter who's in on the outside
I'm at home. I'm at home.
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Aug. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously Unreleased
15. MODERN BEAT
(DeGeneres / Menendez / Radecker)
I do a modern walk to a modern beat
I try to keep in step and keep in time
when I start to move my feet.
I wait all day to perform in my special uniform
I do a modern walk to a modern beat.
I take a private walk down a private street
There are some private people living there
that I never want to meet.
I take the walk anyway just to see what I can see
I take a private walk down a private street.
Shady palms on terraces where shady people meet
But will there ever be a rest on my beat?
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
This version appeared on the Major Minor LP;
a different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
16. WORKING GIRL
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
A working girl and she once had some plans
Now she works a job with few demands
Up at six, coffee, work by eight
Doesn't want to, but she's never late
Then her day is over, she is home, alone
She's a working girl.
Five days on, two days to get away
Who to call, or what album can she play?
Makes some plans, goes out, but not too long
Sunday comes, wakes up late, soon it's gone
Then her weekend's over, Monday's here again
She's a working girl.
She doesn't know which way she ought to go
Can she start again, doesn't know if she can
The pay is OK, and it's all right for now.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
This version appeared on the Major Minor LP;
a different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
17. AGNES ENGLISH
(Andrew Bernard / John Fred)
Agnes English Agnes English
There's a woman living in my town
Her name is Agnes English.
She owns a house on Carnaby Street
where the high-hat cats all gather to meet.
With a two story house with holes of all sorts
The windows were deceiving.
When I saw her looking out at me that day
I was so unbelieving.
Folks say she was sweeter than an ice cream cone
Now she owns a house of her own
She was Agnes English
The lady with the funny face.
She was Agnes English with the lips I like to trace.
Agnes English - sophisticated - Agnes English
Her daddy was a drugstore man
Her mama ran a gift shop.
My long-legged sister, her freckle-faced brother
worked together undercover.
Selling outlaw buttons saying take me down
It was really unbelieving.
Stop, I think I hear a sound
Noise can't be deceiving
You can't live this life you're living
Broken signs and the people singing
Agnes English - The lady with the funny face.
She was Agnes English with the lips I like to trace.
Agnes English Agnes English Agnes English
Copyright 1968 Su-Ma Pub. Co. Inc (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Dec. 13, 1980 at Jimmy's.
Previously Unreleased
18. I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND CRY (OVER YOU)
(Joe Thomas / Howard Biggs)
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you
And if you ever say goodbye
And if you ever even try
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you.
I'm gonna love you more and more every day
I'm gonna love you more and more every way
And if you ever say goodbye
And if you ever even try
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you.
Gonna tell your mama
Tell your papa too
So they'll know exactly what I'm gonna do.
And if you ever say goodbye
And if you ever even try
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you.
Copyright 1954 Angle Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
19. LIMBO'S GETTING CROWDED
(Radecker)
Limbo's getting crowded more every day.
An unfinished novel gets put away.
A song minus a middle eight or
a play without a character of interest.
An idea that once seemed bright has faded.
Now it's not all it might be.
Limbo's getting crowded every day.
File away something you always meant
to say or do when the time was right.
But the perfect time never seemed to come.
No one will ever know the feelings that
are felt today.
Won't they last another day?
Limbo's getting crowded every day.
An unspoken love is kept inside.
It never gets to see the light of day.
It's safer to keep a love well-hidden, undisturbed
and there it stays.
But ideas and emotions left in limbo!
They die if unattended.
Then one day they've ended.
Copyright 1980 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
20. I'M ON E
(Deborah Harry / Chris Stein)
I'm on E, I'm on E, I'm on E, got nothing to say.
I used to have a car of my own.
I'm on E, I'm on E, I'm on E, but E is there.
Stay out for maybe a week.
I want my freedom too before
I'd give my life for a car of my own.
I'm on E, I'm on E, two witches on Saturn, it was on TV.
I'd like a show of my own.
But you see I'm still on E even though
everything is happening to me.
So when you're driving or on the phone.
Don't regret your loud home.
I'm on E, I'm on E, I gave my car to a guy named Vinnie.
I feel like dancing my feet.
They total, and it skips a beat.
I used to have a car of my own.
28 or 58, walking to refrigerator
Two to bump, two to pump
Still on E, I think that's all
I'm on E and I'm on E
I'll never have to dance my feet
28 or 58, walking to refrigerator
Two to bump, two to pump
Still I'm here, I think that's all
I'm on E and I'm on E
I'll never have to dance my feet up.
Copyright 1977 Jiru Music Inc. / Monster Island Music Pub. Corp. (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
21. MY WAY
(Paul Anka/Claude Francois/ Jacques Revaud/Gilles Thibaut)
And now the end is here
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and every highway.
But more, much more than this, I did it!.
He did it his, he did it his, he did it his own way.
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
when I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
The record shows I took the blows and did it!
He did it his, he did it his, he did it his own way.
Regrets, I've had a few.
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
and saw it through without exemption.
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway.
But more, much more than this, I did it!.
He did it his, he did it his, he did it his own way.
Copyright 1969 Chrysalis Standards Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocals: Kevin & Bert
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
22. I'M DOWN
(Lennon / McCartney)
You tell lies thinking I can't see.
You don't cry,cause you're laughing at me.
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down.
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
Man buys ring, woman throw it away.
Same old thing happen every day.
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down.
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
We're all alone and there's nobody else.
You still moan, "keep your hands to yourself"
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down.
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
Copyright 1965 Sony / ATV Songs / EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
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Copyright: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984 The Cold
This compilation: Copyright 2005 Top Pop Records
THE COLD - THREE CHORD CITY CD
1. YOU
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
You always said it never was meant to last a million years
So I just took every day for what it was
I didn't mind the way it was
Anyways, you were always there for me
You never let me down before
and then one day you said we're through
You never made me frown before
and now that's all I seem to do
You
Don't you know you could always make me laugh
and make me smile - you didn't even have to try
You didn't know when I wasn't laughing with you
wasn't with you
I would just sit down and cry.
I know I should close my eyes, erase it
You tell me there'll be someone new
But I can't see those other faces
All I really want is you
I cant help myself
Copyright 1980 Days of Old Pub. Co (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded May 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: July 1980
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
2. THREE CHORD CITY
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
I know a place where me and you can go
Can't go too fast but we really shouldn't go too slow
It's just around the corner, all the gang'll be there
Don't have to dress too fancy cause nobody cares
Check your progressive chords at the door
'cause it's time to hit the floor.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Debbie's on E, Sally G, but for me it's D
One's not enough, four's too many, so we stick with three
Don't augment my mind with too many changes
Just keep it simple and don't rearrange
your progressive chords anymore
'cause it's time to hit the floor.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Just met a girl and she said she wants to know my key
I told her major D and she said she was a minor C
My hopes were diminished as I looked in her eyes
My dreams were suspended; she left with some guy
I just turned around and hit the floor
She's not the only chord to explore.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Copyright 1980 Days of Old Pub. Co (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded May 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: July 1980
3. MESMERIZED
(DeGeneres)
So now you're starring in a show
You're up there on the stage
I'm down here in the crowd.
You make your entrance and the dialogue begins
But all I hear are your words.
You didn't know I was there
right in a front row chair
just behind the lights slightly out of your sight.
You looked right into my eyes
You recited your lines so carefully memorized
I'm mesmerized
Curtain falls, Act One is over.
and I can't recall just what the play's about.
The role you play - you play it every day
It's the only way I know you - is it you?
There are times I think I know you well
I think I see behind your casting spell
and there are times I think you know me too
But all I am to you is just one more face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Spotlights are turned out and the pancake's washed away
Costumes and ad-libs will see another day
But the lines you spoke to me only moments ago don't apply
They no longer apply.
All I am to you is just another face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Nov 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: Feb. 1981
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
4. WAKE UP
(Luckette)
You were a special kind, I thought
Then I found out that you were a fool
When you said you lied about the things you told me
When you said that you were my friend.
Don't try and apologize - I'll refuse
Don't think you'll keep any friends you abuse
No, not the ones you use.
You've got to lose.
There was a time when you were just another flunky in school
But I opened your mind and I made your rules
Now you tell me this is the end
Why do you treat yourself this way?
I don't know.
You're gonna drive yourself to ruin
You'd better start talking true and you'll find yourself
Oh yes, you gotta wake up
You better wake up.
Copyright 1980 Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Nov. 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: Feb 1981
5. I'M SERIOUS
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Bide your time and bite your tongue
They say it's easy when you're young
If what you want's not what you get
You're supposed to play with no regrets
Even if we're joking all the time -
I'm serious.
Monday we're together,
On a Tuesday you're with someone else
Wednesday I don't miss you
Still I half expect the phone to ring
Even if we were just kidding 'round -
I'm serious.
I'm serious. I'm somber
I take your kisses, you take my number
You smile a lot; sometimes I do
But I know it's temporary
You are with me now and then
Then our time is over and you go.
I'll accept your favors but I'll take them seriously
I'll take what you have to give but I won't take it lightly
I don't want to lock you up
But when I'm with you, act like I'm with you.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Sept. 1980 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Previously unreleased studio version
6. MARKY (instrumental)
(DeGeneres)
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Recorded Sept. 1980 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Previously unreleased
7. DOWNTOWN
(Tony Hatch)
When you're alone and life is making you lonely
you can always go downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
seems to help, I know - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty
How could you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
where they never close - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too
before the night is over - happy again
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles,
forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
If you find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you
and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles
forget all our cares and go downtown
Where all the lights are bright - downtown
Waiting for you tonight - downtown
You're gonna be all right now.
Copyright 1965 MCA Music Pub. (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded April 1981 at FEA Studio / Jackson, MS
Previously unreleased studio version
8. THANKS A LOT
(Smith / Radecker)
You want to know why I feel like a fool
That's a funny thing coming from you
I didn't think you cared enough to ask
but if you sit down a minute, I'll try to talk fast.
Do you remember back to 1973?
You said you were in love with me
You promised to give me your best
I got an inferiority complex.
When you told me about your old boyfriend
you said you'd never feel that way again
We go to a party and you see him
I stand alone like a dummy in a wax museum
Thanks a lot.
There are ten commandments, I only broke one
one night she said let's do it for fun
I thought I'd have two
God help me, I'm left with nothing
I feel so lonely.
You told me to leave, you didn't like my tricks
I thought I'd get you back if I slit my wrists
I went to the bathroom, what do you think?
You saw red from the red in the porcelain sink
Thanks a lot.
Copyright 1981 Common Cold Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded April 1981 at FEA Studio / Jackson, MS
Single: Aug. 1981
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
9. NEVER ALONE
(DeGeneres)
I travel day to day
Don't stay in one place for too long
I keep a steady pace
Running in a race with no end.
Searching all the wrong places
It doesn't turn up a thing
Lot's of clues but no traces
and lots of one-night rings.
But every now and then I wise up
and I wonder how far I have to go.
It's back on the road again
Don't know if or when I'll return
Every time I find someone
and it's just begun
I'm on my way.
You know I'm never alone
too long with myself
You know I'm never alone too long
with anybody who loves me
I crawl into my shell.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded May 1981 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Single: Aug. 1981
10. WORKING GIRL
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
A working girl and she once had some plans
Now she works a job with few demands
Up at six, coffee, work by eight
Doesn't want to, but she's never late
Then her day is over, she is home, alone
She's a working girl.
Five days on, two days to get away
Who to call, or what album can she play?
Makes some plans, goes out, but not too long
Sunday comes, wakes up late, soon it's gone
Then her weekend's over, Monday's here again
She's a working girl.
She doesn't know which way she ought to go
Can she start again, doesn't know if she can
The pay is OK, and it's all right for now.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
11. MODERN BEAT
(DeGeneres / Menendez / Radecker)
I do a modern walk to a modern beat
I try to keep in step and keep in time
when I start to move my feet.
I wait all day to perform in my special uniform
I do a modern walk to a modern beat.
I take a private walk down a private street
There are some private people living there
that I never want to meet.
I take the walk anyway just to see what I can see
I take a private walk down a private street.
Shady palms on terraces where shady people meet
But will there ever be a rest on my beat?
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
12. SEEMS LIKE FOREVER
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
I had a love on a sunny day
Another dream that I put away
'cause there were clouds in the sky
You're wondering why mine won't shine.
I'll only think of you now and then
I won't be saying remember when
we had a happier time than you'll ever find without me.
The rain seems like forever
The rain seems like forever in my heart.
It's every day with a different guy
who wants to show me a better time
than the others before, reminding me more
I want you.
The rain seems like forever
The rain seems like forever in my heart.
I picture the place, the look on your face last summer
When you made it clear what you didn't feel
and you left me in the dark, crying
But I'm feeling fine now on the outside.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March 1984
13. RUSSIAN AROUND
(Smith)
The revolution started before the record played
The hit man came and caught us and said that he was slayed
The only thing I know now is l know more than before
I know what they tell me, I know nothing more
If Lennon knew about us he'd be tied and fitted
Everybody says "That's right, we ought to be committed"
Didn't know just where to go, steering the committee
A board of directors for collective stupidity
We still work together but it is not the same
The state is not united when you're calling someone names-
Champagne with your caviar is no longer permitted
Everybody says "What's left, we ought to be committed"
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
Well I know why I did it, but I don't want to say
Up early in the morning to do nothing every day
I'd give nine to five that work was doing harm to me
Everything is easy now I'm in the company
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
The walrus said to Paul I have a capital idea
You'll make a lot of money but you won't make it here
It made sense, he signed it, don't ask him how he feels
He can't remember what he had for his last meal
Your stupid opinion is a right that's permitted
Everybody says "Don't you think we ought to be committed"
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
Don't know why they did it don't know why their lips are tight
I just want to be an ordinary satellite
The stars they see are different on the other side of earth
No treaty that they signed makes the solar system work
I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian, I'm Russian around.
Copyright 1981 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded Feb. 1982 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
LP: 16 Songs... March l984
14. DO THE DANCE
(DeGeneres / Radecker / Smith)
Water comes from the tap
Rain comes from the sky
Ginger comes in a snap
Apples in a pie
Baby floats in the Nile
Mona Lisa's in the Louvre
Frowns can turn to smiles
when your feet begin to move.
Do the dance
It's the only thing that makes us feel good
Do the dance
If you wouldn't, but you think that you could -
You should.
Pilgrims came to the rock
Hats blocked the sun
But the frontier was a nasty place
'cause they weren't the only ones.
North Pole's very cold
The south gets all the heat
Glaciers can't start to move
till the drummer starts to beat.
Do the dance....
Plagiarism's running wild
You'll never find it here
Mimsy were the borogoves
I'm a liar, that is clear
Cenozoic Era's gone
But are we past that stage?
This could go on and on
but now the tacet's on the page.
Do the dance...
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music / Common Cold Music
Lead vocals: Barbara and Chris
Recorded March 1982 at Third Coast Studio / Austin, TX
Single: April 1982
15. MISSING HIT MAN
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Looking for the missing hit man
Sammy said he skipped last week
He left town and he left his assignment incomplete
Sammy said forget about the pigeon
Just find our man that's missing - now.
Looking for the missing hit man
He took it on the lam
It's not like him to blow a job that's worth a grand
Sammy said I got a tip that he's staying
in a New York flop house on East 38th.
I took a plane and a cab to 38th
Looked up, saw his reflection in a window
I took the stairs, three floors up
I knocked.
Nobody answered - I pushed on the door
He was crouching in the corner on the floor
I'd never seen somebody look so pale
His sunken eyes told the tale
Why he didn't pull the job and took it on the run
He said, "You shouldn't have come."
He pulled a knife.
I pulled a gun.
I found the missing hit man
The contract was my own
Sammy set us up for the double crossbones
Now I'm sitting in a corner bar
Nursing a drink and a nasty scar
It's red.
Now I'm the missing hit man
Someone searches the streets for me
Shadows fall on this bar that serves as sanctuary
Who's Sammy gonna send out now?
Joe and Nicky are both in town
They'll know to come here straight-away
They'll get their tip from the top
How long have we been killing each other for Sammy?
When are we gonna stop?
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music(BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded March 1982 at Third Coast Studio / Austin, TX
Single: April 1982
16. COME ON OVER
(Hanson / Luckette)
I don't know who you are
or where you're going to
All I know is that I like
the things that 1 see in you.
You've got what it takes
to make a happy, happy girl out of me.
Can't you see?
Come on over ''Cause it's over.
Come on over 'Cause it's over.
Now that I know who you are
and you know we've traveled far
All the places we have been
and all the sights we've seen
Now it's time for us to part
and now I'm going on my way.
Can't you see?
Come on over 'Cause it's over.
Come on over 'Cause it's over.
Copyright 1979 Hanson Music / Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded March 1982 at Third Coast Studio / Austin, TX
LP: 16 Songs... March l984
17. TAKE ALL THE TIME
(Radecker)
Time punches in hard when you're waiting
I let down my guard while hesitating
I could work out these problems
If I could exorcise you.
I want to know what you're thinking
A mystery man just sits unblinking.
Take all the time that you want, dear
Give all the reasons you need
Make all your promises count, dear
Once you've decided to speak.
You've kept me on pause
I'm just crawling back to where I know
My flaws aren't so appalling.
I'll just wait for an answer
'Cause the question was the hardest part.
Your lips don't move except to kiss me
But I'll stay with you at least through this week.
Take all the time that you want, dear
Give all the reasons you need
Make all your promises count, dear
Once you've decided to speak.
No, I don't feel any better
But it fills up my time
So I'll just keep writing letters
You give me reason to rhyme.
Copyright 1984 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Single: Dec. 1984
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
18. I GO TO PIECES
(Del Shannon)
When I see him coming down the street
I get so shaky and I feel so weak
I tell my eyes, look the other way
But they don't seem to hear a word I say.
I go to pieces and I want to cry
I go to pieces and I almost die
every time my baby passes by.
I tell my arms they'll hold someone new
Another love that will be true
But they don't listen, they don't seem to care
They reach for him but he's not there.
I go to pieces...
I remember what he said
when he said good-bye, baby
We'll meet again soon maybe
But until we do, all my best to you
I'm so lonely, I think about you only.
I go to places we used to go
But I know he'll never show
He hurt me so much inside
Now I hope he's satisfied
I go to pieces...
Copyright 1965 Mole Hole Music / Bug Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Aug. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Single: Dec. 1984
19. WHAT WENT WRONG TODAY
(DeGeneres / Radecker / Smith)
Woke up this morning and
I wonder what went wrong today
If I go back to sleep
I'll wonder what went on today
You reach for me and I say tighter, tighter
I open up my eyes and what I see is frightening
You're not next to me
I wonder what went wrong today
I'll take my time now
There's no need to rush a lousy day
I think about you close up tighter, tighter
I ask myself when will I get wise
What went wrong today
Things I've done and said and
Sentences I've yet to say
Wake me up and make me wonder
Wonder what went wrong today
I guess it's true that everyone's done something
But do they think about it in the morning
What went wrong today
Wake up tomorrow and
I'll turn my thoughts to yesterday
Thinking about you brings to mind
Things I forgot to say
Mental notes of what to do are maddening
Putting thoughts to action I do sadly
Call you up and bring you down
With words I shouldn't say
I've done this so many times
No wonder what went wrong today
I think about you close up tighter, tighter
I ask myself when will I get wise
What went wrong today
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music / Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Aug. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
20. MAJOR MINOR
(Radecker)
You can change my tune and you don't have to lift a finger
You're my mainline.
If you say it's over
I won't miss my cue and linger past my deadline.
Major minor
So it's so big for me, seems like nothing to you
Still it must be something.
As we slowly drift apart
Acting out my minor part just gets older.
Feeling slightly minuscule, looming small and acting cool
While you get colder.
Major minor
So it's so big for me, seems like nothing to you
Still it must be something.
You shouldn't be so impressed with my solitary obsession
You could have been any other
No one can pick his true lover.
Things are getting pretty static, settled in on automatic
I'm not worried.
Soon we'll be a memory, so let's enjoy our tepid spree
What's your hurry?
Major minor
So it's so big for me, seems like nothing to you
Still it must be something.
Copyright 1984 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocals: Barbara and Kevin
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
21. MY CIRCLE GETS SMALLER
(Radecker)
I can draw the line
The straight and narrow kind
It's connecting time but I'm not even reaching.
When someone lends an ear
I want to disappear
My circle of acquaintances is shrinking
as I stare at my book and I'm thinking that
The names are all the same and
though the numbers may have changed
I don't even care enough to try
My circle just gets smaller as I call out to you.
Nothing to realize
We're oh so civilized
You smile sweetly as you look right through me.
You'd better check the ground
Love makes a piercing sound
This chemistry's no longer an experiment
I'm attracted and repelled
and I'm sad and full of merriment.
Waiting all this time
you'd think would make me change my mind
Still, I wait; others call; I say no
My circle just gets smaller as I call out to you.
Desperation seems to get me noticed
People flock away as if I were corrosive
I sharpen my edge
Now what do you suppose this could lead to?
Copyright 1984 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously unreleased
22. I DON'T BLAME YOU AT ALL
(Smokey Robinson)
I don't blame you at all cause you played it cool
You don't owe me a thing cause I played the fool
I'm only paying the price for a trip I took to paradise
'Cause I looked into a pair of eyes
And what I thought was a look of love was only hurt in disguise.
Too bad I didn't realize
Oh, but don't apologize.
I don't blame you at all cause you played it cool
I shoulda did it myself
You don't owe me a thing cause I played the fool
I think it's pretty plain
Holding you would take a ball and chain
Effort that I made was all in vain
What I thought was an ocean of love was just a wee drop of rain.
Too bad that it couldn't remain.
But you don't have to explain.
I don't blame you at all cause you played it cool
I shoulda did it myself
You don't owe me a thing cause I played the fool
What I thought was sure to last was just a minute instead
Too bad that I got misled
But you don't have to hang your head.
I don't blame you at all. . .
Copyright 1971 Jobete Music Co. Inc. / EMI Music Pub (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
23. ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Your touch has faded, but I can still recall
The moves you made just walking down the hall.
I've pled my case, I've just stopped chasing you
Knowing the truth won't make it all come true.
Now I stay in a room without a view
Since I talked myself away from you
How could I ever thought that I needed room to play?
So I'm back in a room without a view
In my mind I see no one else but you
So I pull the shades and I turn away.
You're feeling jaded or do you feel at all?
Our happy picture covered writing on the wall.
I've packed my case and there's no trace of you
We've broken up, I've broken down in two.
I've returned to the room without a view
Thinking about things I never meant to do
I stay the same as the seasons just roll away.
Now my vision has narrowed with precision
To such a tiny focus that I don't look
There's nothing there to see.
I've moved too late to keep you from moving on
Can't wipe the slate when it's already gone.
You've packed your case, I'll put no trace on you
There's so much more to say but nothing to do.
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
24. THAT'S THE WAY BOYS ARE
(Mark Barkan / Ben Raleigh)
When I'm with my guy
And he watches all the pretty girls go by
I feel so hurt deep inside, I wish that I could die
Not a word do I say
I just look the other way
That's the way boys are.
When he treats me rough
And acts as though he doesn't really care
Well, I never tell him that he is so unfair
'Cause he loves me and I know it
But he's just afraid to show it.
That's the way boys are.
When he wants to be alone
I just let him be
'Cause I know that soon enough
He will come straight back to me.
When we have a fight
And I think that I won't see him anymore
Before I know it, there he is
Standing at my door.
Well, I let him kiss me there and then
'Cause I know he wants me back again.
That's the way boys are.
Copyright 1964 Embassy Music Corp. (BMI) / Ben Raleigh Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
25. LET'S FLIP
(DeGeneres / Radecker / Smith)
Over and over I hear it
Girls are up, acting tough
I may tremble but I don't fear it
If I can stay at your place
I don't want to go out there, honey
Would you go out there for me
(Let's flip) I'll stay home and watch TV
Sat in a classroom thinking
It seems like my whole life
Everyone wore the same thing
You looked like me till quarter to three
The ugliest thing and the prettiest thing
Are a boy and a girl
(Let's flip) If you change that around it won't change the world
Let's flip and it's heads or tails up
You flop and I get my job back
Thank you, no
So how do you like it so far
Is it a trip or a sinking ship
The top of the pops is so hard
When he's lonely she'll stay home
She can pick up some beer and we'll both drink
Oh, it's so cold
(Let's flip) At least we're the same as we grow old
Over and over I hear it
Boys fed up with acting tough
I'm in trouble but I don't fear it
I can stay at your place
I don't want to go out there, honey
Would you go out there for me
(Let's flip) I'll stay home and watch TV
Let's flip or you take my problems
I'll take yours and we'll dissolve them
Let's flip, hey babe you can do it
Live for me, I'll live for you
I think you know
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music / Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocals: Barbara and Kevin
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
26. GIRLS NEVER KNOW
(Hans Vandenburg)
I fall in love with every girl I see
The trouble is they don't see me
I even drive Daddy's brand new car
I drive around in this schoolyard
I lie a lot to girls, I never go too far
When I show them the engine in my car
Hey baby, get in and see
Do you want to drive with me?
I don't know. . .
I eat my greens for I am going to be
The leader of the football team
I don't get by on cigarettes and booze
Like all the other schoolboys do
I lie a lot to girls, I never go too far
When I show them the engine in my car
Baby, get in and see
You can make my life complete
Climb in the back seat, lie next to me.
I don't know. . .
Yes it's true, boys know what to do
Girl, you need a man like me
Girls never know what they want to do
They tend to leave it up to me
I lie a lot to girls, I never go too far
When I show them the engine in my car
Baby, get in and see
You can make my life complete
Ten in the back seat, five next to me.
I don't know. . .
Girls never know.
Copyright 1978 Bleu Disque Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
LP: Major Minor Dec. 1985
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THE COLD - COLD SWEAT CD
1. DO YOU HAVE A MIND?
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Blush on your feelings in the morning
Comb all your thoughts away
I wish I could hear you getting witty, miss pretty
I wish you had something to say.
You're so easily distracted
You're so easily amused
It's plain to see that you're attractive
But when you talk, it all falls through.
Do whatever they tell you
Exploitation in the prime
You're a conversation piece, but your conversation lacks
anything but cosmetic lines.
You're so easily distracted
You're so easily amused
It's plain to see that you're attractive
But when you talk, it all falls through.
You're so fine, but do you have a mind?
Better make your mark in beauty
You're out of touch but so in style
part your lips like it's your duty
But parted lips don't make me smile.
You're so easily distracted
You're so easily amused
It's plain to see that you're attractive
But when you talk, it all falls through.
You're so fine. but do you have a mind?
Copyright 1979 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
2. MESMERIZED
(DeGeneres)
So now you're starring in a show
You're up there on the stage
I'm down here in the crowd.
You make your entrance and the dialogue begins
But all I hear are your words.
You didn't know I was there
right in a front row chair
just behind the lights slightly out of your sight.
You looked right into my eyes
You recited your lines so carefully memorized
I'm mesmerized
Curtain falls, Act One is over.
and I can't recall just what the play's about.
The role you play - you play it every day
It's the only way I know you - is it you?
There are times I think I know you well
I think I see behind your casting spell
and there are times I think you know me too
But all I am to you is just one more face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Spotlights are turned out and the pancake's washed away
Costumes and ad-libs will see another day
But the lines you spoke to me only moments ago don't apply
They no longer apply.
All I am to you is just another face in the crowd
All you are to me is just intangible reality.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
3. EVER FALLEN IN LOVE?
(Pete Shelley)
You stirred my natural emotions
You make me feel I'm dirt till I hurt
and if I start a commotion
I'd ran the risk of losing you
and that's worse.
Ever fallen in love with someone
you shouldn't have fallen in love with?
I can't see much of a future
unless we find out what's to gain - what a shame
and we won't be together much longer
unless we realize that we are the same.
Ever fallen in love with someone
you shouldn't have fallen in love with?
You stirred my natural emotions
You make me feel I'm dirt till I hurt
and if I start a commotion
I'd ran the risk of losing you
and that's worse.
Ever fallen in love with someone
you shouldn't have fallen in love with?
Copyright 1978 Incomplete Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
4. TIME TO GO
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Oh, the days go by so quickly - I don't mind
Sometimes I stop to look at my watch when there's time
But I hardly ever notice when I'm on the go
Do I have to think about what I don't know?
No one can assure me about days that are to come
I do what must be done today
until someone says "Time to go"
But how much time to go?
Contemplation takes a back seat to day by day things
that have to be attended to on the way
Someone asks me what I need now - I don't know
Are you feeling rather well, dear?
Yes and no.
No one knows our destination - no star to follow
It's nebulous but it's a moving target
and we can't go slow
There's not much time to go.
Then it's time to rest, then back again
Time to get hack up and at 'em even if I'm tired
I see the ones who've given all and gone home
Maybe I should return myself before I expire.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
5. YOU DON'T NEED TO DIE
(Smith)
Jaywalkers deserve to die
I didn't drag him far
It's over for him. but what about this dent in my car?
I am crazy, but it's all in my head
You don't need to die to feel like you're dead.
Terrific times we live in
We give the dead a show
Funeral parlors are everywhere
But I'm not going - Oh no
Disco baby, you're being led
You don't need to die to feel like you're dead
There are places I go when I'm alone - it's heaven
I'm up in the morning at six o'clock
I'm sick by seven.
I said I've bean stuck here since '68
She said it doesn't have to be that way
Proposition declined - nothing more to say
I don't care shout nothing - here's what I said
You don't need to die to feel like you're dead.
Copyright 1979 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
6. TOP OF THE POPS
(John Callis)
(Uptight) now we're on our own
(Cue lights) now we're ready to roam
(Tonight) how I've waited for, aggravated for years
(It's fun) oh, I just can't wait
(Hold on) until I look up to date
(You're on) I'll do anything
if that's the right thing to see.
Does it matter what to show
just as long as everyone knows
what you're selling, what to buy
the stock market for your hi-fi.
(Take the money and leave the box)
Everybody's on top of the pops
(There's one) born every day
(Sing song) until they fade away
(Ding dong) what's your future
in the pop music industry?
(All right) so you made the grade
(Hold tight) to the top today
(Just wait) you've been rated for, contemplated for doing fine.
Does it matter what to show
just as long as everyone knows
what's in fashion, what to see
on the front of the television screen.
(Take the money and leave the box)
Everybody's on top of the pops.
Copyright 1978 Bleu Disc Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
7. LOVE ME DO
(Lennon/McCartney)
Love, love me do
You know I love you
I'll always he true
So please love me do.
Someone to love, somebody new
Someone to love, someone like you.
Copyright 1962 MPL Communications Limited
administered by Beechwood Music Corp./
Lennon Music administered by Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocals: Bert & Kevin
8. COLD SWEAT
(Radecker)
Cold sweat!
Copyright 1981 Radecker Music (BMI)
9. I DON'T WANT TO TALK
(Radecker)
The fighting's just begun
Sheathe your sword and grab your gun.
I want the wall to wall life
No more head to head jive
All the good stuff turns up on the B-side
Though you try hard,
the man says your aim is wide.
I don't want to talk anymore
I don't want to talk anymore
When you say goodbye with no reason why
I just turn around, discover that you're gone.
In this chatterboxing din,
do you shadowbox to win?
The time has come to meet you on the high ground
as your virtue fades into the background
Your vise tightens
Now I know that I'm bound.
I don't want to talk anymore
I don't want to talk anymore
Now our meeting's through
What to say to you?
We've got nothing else to do but listen.
I don't want to talk anymore.
Copyright 1981 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
10. BERNADETTE
(Hans Vandenburg)
At school you were my best friend
till you had a date with my boyfriend
Now I hate you, Bernadette.
You said you slept with Eddie
But he was with me
How could he have spent the night with you?
He swears he doesn't know you.
Tell me, Bernadette
I wonder. Bernadette
Please tell me, Bernadette, if it's true.
He came with socks and shirt on
The booze binge that he went on
till I was black and blue.
When your man's always like that
He's a crackerjack
My Eddie, Bernadette
Believe me, Bernadette - yes it's true.
He's everything I've got
I'm his girl, you're not - he's my boy
He likes the guts I got
You're frigid and I'm not
He's my boy - my kinky toy
At school you were my best friend
till you had a date with my boyfriend
Now I hate you, Bernadette
cause Eddie says he wants you.
He's a crackerjack
My Eddie, Bernadette
Believe me, Bernadette - yes. it's true
He's a crackerjack
My Eddie, Bernadette
I'm jealous, Bernadette- believe me, yeah
I hate you.
Copyright 1978 Bleu Disque Music (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
11. CLEVELAND
(Smith)
Oh, hi
Oh, you look so fine
Oh no, I'm hung up on a line
Buy me a drink, we'll have a good time.
But you don't look too bright
but you do dress smart
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you talk.
Got your Browns, got your Devo
You got your mayor on a late night show
Saw him on a TV and I just don't know
But "I don't know" is all I can think to say
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you play.
Now wait a minute, boy
You're moving too fast
I don't buy guys drinks, so make that one last
I've traveled all around so this you can believe
I've never been to Cleveland and I've never been a Cleve.
You're talking funny, honey, but you got me all wrong
I don't really care where you're from
Buy me that drink, I'll explain it to you, honey
It's not a place on a map you'll find
Cleveland's not a city at all
it's a state of mind.
So if you get around and you think you've arrived
If you live a lot and you think you're alive
I tell you right now it's a lot of jive
If you've never been there, better make some plans
Cause a girl's a girl
until she's a woman in Cleveland.
Copyright 1980 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
12. OH
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Why'd you ever touch me?
Did you ever care?
Better keep your distance
Don't lure others into your lair.
Now I can't accuse you of telling simple lies
But all these new developments took me by surprise.
We had our day together
Then a date came around
You left like nothing happened
Ten days that shook me up and down
That's when I found out all about the fears
you had hiding deep inside
You couldn't face them
Now you can't even face me
So you run and hide.
You played it very nicely
Your friends played along
Sugary and spicy
You seemed so right; I was so wrong
Now I can't accuse you of telling simple lies
But all these new developments took me by surprise.
Now you're very happy
Things are back like they were
It's better to be safe
than to have to say you're sorry just once more.
No one ever said it was a match made in heaven
But you never learn that it doesn't matter
A match made in heaven doesn't always burn.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
13. QUIT IT
(DeGeneres/Smith)
Cold war no sweat
It leaves me all wet
I've done my best but I haven't reached you yet.
Why don't we lay down our arms?
Can't take this feeling this long.
You gotta quit it or you're headed for a fall
You gotta quit it; I've said it; that's all
I'm not gonna preach and I'm not gonna pray
I'm always afraid it'd turn out this way
You've gotta quit not caring about me...
Tension is mounting; I think I could cry
If I don't touch you soon, I think I will die.
What you're doing to me is wrong
Can't take this feeling this long
You gotta quit it or you're headed for a fall
You gotta quit it; I've said it; that's all
I'm not gonna preach and I'm not gonna pray
I'm always afraid it'd turn out this way
You've gotta quit not caring about me...
Remember when you used to take me home
Now you don't take me anywhere - you leave me alone
What did I do to make you go?
Would you come back, do you love me,
Won't you let me know?
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
14. HOT RIDE
(Luckette)
Same old highway blues
Haven't you heard the news?
Temperature's on the rise again.
Please, we seek relief
Don't care if it's brief
Got to cool off with my friends.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar
There's a place, can't be late,
There's a place, not far I hope
There's a place, can't be late,
Got to get there if there's hope for you,
my love, for you. my love.
Back on the road again
Almost lost a friend
Had to take her to Dr.
Heat wave blew our minds
Got there right on time
Rid ourselves of all our fears.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar
Copyright 1980 Luckette Music BMI
Lead vocal: Chris
15. (THEME FROM) GREEN SLIME
(Toshiaki Tsushima/Charles Fox)
Open the door, you'll find the secret
To find the answer is to keep it
You'll believe it when you find
something screaming across your mind.
Green slime
What can it be?
What is the reason?
Is this the end to all that's decent?
Is it just something in your head?
Will you believe it when you're dead?
Green slime
Green slime is gonna get you, baby
especially if you're color-blind
It'll jump right in your pocket, baby
It'll grab you and it's worse than Frankenstein.
Green slime
Copyright 1969 Charles Fox Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
16. UGLY SHADOW
(Radecker)
Trapped inside the room I rent
where days are spent in absent purpose
Seems so long
Ugly shadow follows me round.
When daytime comes around
and no light floods my room, I wonder
where's my windows?
Ugly shadow follows me down
everywhere I go.
It seems that grey turns to black
When things look up, I look back
The ugly shadow knows
The shadow shows
(Things went so good, things go so bad.)
Sometimes in semi-darkness
I can see the light
It's filtered through a maze
Ugly shadow follows me round.
Something vaguely vague has taken hold
Though I don't feel too bad
I don't feel good
Ugly shadow follows me down
everywhere I go.
Love comes and love fades out
No need to thrash about
If it would help, I'd run
Life's got its problems, huh?
"Since my baby went away"
is something I won't say cause it's not true
That's not it
Ugly shadow follows me round.
But what attached itself some time ago
It won't let go now
Maybe next year
Ugly shadow follows me down
everywhere I go.
Copyright 1982 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
17. I'M SERIOUS
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
Bide your time and bite your tongue
They say it's easy when you're young
If what you want's not what you get
You're supposed to play with no regrets
Even if we're joking all the time -
I'm serious.
Monday we're together,
On a Tuesday you're with someone else
Wednesday I don't miss you
Still I half expect the phone to ring
Even if we were just kidding 'round -
I'm serious.
I'm serious. I'm somber
I take your kisses, you take my number
You smile a lot; sometimes I do
But I know it's temporary
You are with me now and then
Then our time is over and you go.
I'll accept your favors but I'll take them seriously
I'll take what you have to give but I won't take it lightly
I don't want to lock you up
But when I'm with you, act like I'm with you.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
18. I LOVE MY LEAD
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
I love my lead; it fills my need
My fingers bleed when I play my lead
(He loves his lead; it fills his need)
I love my lead.
I can plays high or low E
Play it like an E harmonic
Play it like a true bar chord E
Make it sound real moronic
(He loves his lead; it fills his need)
I love my lead.
Copyright 1979 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
19. AMOUR GALORE
(Radecker)
Instrumental
Copyright 1982 Radecker Music (BMI)
20. YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER)
(Lennon/McCartney)
You know my name
You'd better look up the number
Copyright 1970 Sony/ATV Songs (BMI)
Lead vocals: Bert & Kevin
WE CAN HAVE SEX (BUT I'M NOT VERY GOOD)
(Radecker/Rhoden/Smith)
I say you're attractive, I think you're fine
But if we get together it'll take some time
We can have sex, but I'm not very good
I'm not very good at all.
I try too hard and I think too much
I only get scared when we start to touch
We can have sex, but I'm not very good
I'm not very good at all.
Copyright 1979 Radecker Music/Rhoden Music/Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocals: Bert & Kevin
21. ROSALYN
(Jimmy Duncan/Bill Farley)
Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you been
Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you been
All the night and all the day
Hide and seek's the game you play
Your treatment of me's sure a sin
Oh Rosalyn - Yeah Rosalyn
Hey Rosalyn, you're the girl for me
Hey Rosalyn, you're the girl for me
When I'm holding you so tight
It's so hard to say good night
It's you that I love, can't you see?
Do you really love me?
Do you love me true?
Do you really love me, Rosalyn?
Yeah, gotta know, Rosalyn.
Copyright 1964 Near North Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
22. YOU
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
You always said it never was meant to last a million years
So I just took every day for what it was
I didn't mind the way it was
Anyway, you were always there for me.
You never let me down before
and then one day you sand we're through
You never made me frown before
and now that's all I seem to do.
Don't you know you could always make me laugh
and make me smile - you didn't even have to try
You didn't know when I wasn't laughing with you
wasn't with you
I would just sit down and cry.
I know I should close my eyes, erase it
You tell me there'll be someone new
But I can't see those other faces
All I really want is you
I can't help myself.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
23. THREE CHORD CITY
(DeGeneres/Radecker)
I know a place where me and you can go
Can't go too fast but we really shouldn't go too slow
It's just around the corner, all the gang'll be there
Don't have to dress too fancy cause nobody cares
Cheek your progressive chords at the door
'cause it's time to hit the floor
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Debbie's on E, Sally G, bet for me it's D
One's not enough, four's too many, so we stick with three
Don't augment my mind with too many changes
Just keep it simple and don't rearrange
your progressive chords anymore
'cause it's time to hit the floor.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Just met a girl and she said she wants to know my key
I told her major D and she sand she was a minor C
My hopes were diminished as I looked in her eyes
My dreams were suspended; she left with some guy
I just turned around and hit the floor
She's not the only chord to explore.
Going to Three Chord City
I really want to take you there.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
24. THANKS A LOT
(Smith/Radecker)
You want to know why I feel like a fool
That's a funny thing coming from you
I didn't think you cared enough to ask
but if you sit down a minute, I'll try to talk fast.
Do you remember back to 1973?
You said you were in love with me
You promised to give me your best
I got an inferiority complex.
When you told me about your old boyfriend
you said you'd never feel that way again
We go to a party and you see him
I stand alone likes dummy in a wax museum
Thanks a lot.
There are ten commandments, I only broke one
one night she said let's do it for fun
I thought I'd have two
God help me, I'm left with nothing
I feel so lonely.
You told me to leave, you didn't like my tricks
I thought I'd get you back if I slit my wrists
I went to the bathroom, what do you think?
You saw red from the red in the porcelain sink
Thanks a lot.
Copyright 1981 Common Cold Music/Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
25. DOWNTOWN
(Tony Hatch)
When you're alone and life is making you lonely
you can always go downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
seem to help, I know - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon signs are pretty
How could you lose?
The lights are much brighter there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
where they never close - downtown
Listen to the rhythm of the gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too
before the night is over - happy again
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles,
forget all our cares and go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure - downtown
Everything's waiting for you.
If you find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you
and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles
forget all our cares and go downtown
Where all the lights are bright - downtown
Waiting for you tonight - downtown
You're gonna be all right now.
Copyright 1965 MCA Music Pub. (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
26. PAINT IT BLACK
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
I see a red door and I want to paint it black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black
I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
No more will my green sea turn into deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
If I stare hard enough into the setting sun
my love will laugh with me before the morning comes.
I see a line of cars
They're all painted black
with flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a newborn baby, it just happens everyday.
I look inside myself
I see my heart is black
I see a red door and I want to paint it black.
Maybe then I'll fade away
and not have to face the facts.
It's not easy facing up
when your whole world is black
Paint it black, black as night, black as coal
I want to see the sun blotted out from the sky in the day
I want to see you paint it black as night, black as coal
Paint it black.
Copyright 1966 ABKCO Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
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Produced by Cliff Derbins
Digitally remastered by Guy Mouledoux
Track 1 recorded 12/27/81 at St. Christopher
Tracks 2 & 4 recorded 7/31/81 at Jimmy's
Tracks 3 / 5 / 6 / 26 recorded 12/13/80 at Jimmy's
Tracks 7-25 recorded 6/18/82 aboard the Riverboat President
All tracks previously unreleased except
tracks 9/10/14/15/16/17/19/25 which were issued on
the "16 Songs" LP.
All songs mixed and mastered from original
2 and 4 track soundboard recordings.
Copyright 1980, 1981, 1982 The Cold
This compilation Copyright 1999 Top Pop Records
All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.
Cold Sweat - Song by Song
1. DO YOU HAVE A MIND? (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
2. MESMERIZED (DeGeneres) Previously unreleased live version
3. EVER FALLEN IN LOVE? (Pete Shelley) Previously unreleased
Originally recorded by the Buzzcocks in 1978.
4. TIME TO GO (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
5. YOU DON'T NEED TO DIE (Smith) Previously unreleased.
6. TOP OF THE POPS (John Callis) Previously unreleased
Originally recorded by the Rezillos in 1978.
7. LOVE ME DO (Lennon/McCartney) Previously unreleased
The Beatles' first single (1962).
8. COLD SWEAT (Radecker) Previously unreleased.
9. I DON'T WANT TO TALK (Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
10. BERNADETTE (Hans Vandenburg) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
Originally recorded by the Dutch band Gruppo Sportivo in 1978.
11. CLEVELAND (Smith) Previously unreleased.
12. OH (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
13. QUIT IT (DeGeneres/Smith) Previously unreleased.
14. HOT RIDE (Luckette) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
15. (THEME FROM) GREEN SLIME (Toshiaki Tsushima/Charles Fox)
Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
Theme song from the 1969 sci-fi movie.
16. UGLY SHADOW (Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
17. I'M SERIOUS (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
18. I LOVE MY LEAD (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased.
19. AMOUR GALORE (Radecker) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
20. YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER) (Lennon/McCartney) /
WE CAN HAVE SEX (BUT I'M NOT VERY GOOD) (Radecker/Rhoden/Smith)
Previously unreleased.
This is a medley of two songs: "You Know My Name" was originally the B-side of the Beatles'
"Let It Be" single (1970), and "We Can Have Sex" was one of the first Cold original songs.
21. ROSALYN (Jimmy Duncan/Bill Farley) Previously unreleased.
Originally the B-side of The Pretty Things' 1964 "Big Boss Man" single. Also appeared on David Bowie's 1973 Pin Ups LP.
22. YOU (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased live version.
23. THREE CHORD CITY (DeGeneres/Radecker) Previously unreleased live version.
24. THANKS A LOT (Smith/Radecker) Previously unreleased live version.
25. DOWNTOWN (Tony Hatch) Previously released on the 16 Songs LP.
A number one hit for Petula Clark in 1965.
26. PAINT IT BLACK (Jagger/Richards) Previously unreleased.
A number one hit for the Rolling Stones in 1966.
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THE COLD - LIMBO'S GETTING CROWDED CD
1. MEMORIES
(Luckette)
Do you remember that little girl with the green eyes
and the whipped-out curls - braces on her teeth.
She lives here no more.
And even if you saw her now
Would you know who she was?
Would you make a big fuss?
Would you make her feel at home or would you freak out?
Memories of the times that used to be.
Memories of the people we used to see.
Memories of the places we used to go.
Memories - they exist no more.
And maybe you're the one that changed
as the time went by and your life rearranged
As the days turned into months and then into years.
And if you think things stay the same
You will find that you're wrong.
They don't stay the same long.
All the days of old are gone, but not memories.
Memories of the times that used to be.
Memories of the people we used to see.
Memories of the places we used to go.
Memories - they exist no more.
Copyright 1979 Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded March & Dec. 1980 at Knight Studio / Metairie, LA
Previously Unreleased
2. YOU DON'T LOOK AT ME
(DeGeneres)
Please don't look in my direction
Please don't look in my eyes
'cause the way I feel about you is so hard to disguise.
And every time that you're around me
My senses move too slow.
You're cool and collected and it's not hard to know
that it's just unexcited, uninvited, unrequited love.
Just talking to you, joking with you, it's a dream to me.
I'm just one who loves you and baby can't you see
that if you got to know me, you might love me as well.
To you I'm just another, another one who fell and
it's just unexcited, uninvited, unrequited love.
I sit home every evening waiting for your call
I know you've got my number, don't you?
But if you have no telephone, then maybe I could see
why you never call me, won't you?
I listen for your footsteps walking to my door
I listen very carefully, but you don't look at me all.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Sept. 1980 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Previously Unreleased
3. I'M SERIOUS
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Bide your time and bite your tongue
They say it's easy when you're young
If what you want's not what you get
You're supposed to play with no regrets
Even if we're joking all the time -
I'm serious.
Monday we're together,
On a Tuesday you're with someone else
Wednesday I don't miss you
Still I half expect the phone to ring
Even if we were just kidding 'round -
I'm serious.
I'm serious, I'm somber
I take your kisses; you take my number
You smile a lot, sometimes I do
But I know it's temporary
You are with me now and then
Then our time is over and you go.
I'll accept your favors but I'll take them seriously
I'll take what you have to give but I won't take it lightly
I don't want to lock you up
But when I'm with you, act like I'm with you.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Sept. 1980 at the Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
Acoustic mix of version that appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
4. HOT RIDE
(Luckette)
Same old highway blues
Haven't you heard the news?
Temperature's on the rise again.
Please, we seek relief
Don't care if it's brief
Got to cool off with my friends.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar
There's a place, can't be late,
There's a place, not far I hope
There's a place, can't be late,
Got to get there if there's hope for you,
my love, for you, my love.
Back on the road again
Almost lost a friend
Had to take her to a Dr.
Heat wave blew our minds
Got there right on time
Rid ourselves of all our fears.
Please, next stop, don't be far
Maybe there'll be a freeway bar.
Copyright 1980 Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Sept. 1980 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
A live version appeared on the Cold Sweat CD.
5. MARKY
(DeGeneres)
Two thousand miles, too many miles
can really put a crimp into your plans.
Time and distance can really have effect on you.
The combination has earned my neglect from you.
You said you wanted me to possess you.
You said you wanted only me to caress you.
But now I'm back - Where are your promises?
You swallowed them like they were sour pills.
I don't want to see you again if all we are is friends.
I don't want to see you no more.
Turn and walk out the door.
I don't want to see you like this if I can't feel your kiss.
I don't want to see you again.
You've been running round so reckless.
How much longer can you go on
dodging all of your emotions?
Relationships are hopscotch when you get the notion.
I don't want to see you again if all we are is friends.
I don't want to see you no more.
Turn and walk out the door.
I don't want to see you like this if I can't feel your kiss.
I don't want to see you again.
Marky, I see you on the TV screen
looking just the same as you did then.
Do I look the same to you or have you lost your faith in me?
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Sept. 1980 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / New Orleans, LA
An instrumental version of this song appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
6. PLAY WITH FIRE
(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/Brian Jones/Bill Wyman/Charlie Watts)
Copyright 1965 ABKCO Music Inc. (BMI)
Instrumental
Recorded Feb. 1982 on a portable cassette recorder at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
Features Chris on keyboards, Bert on drums, Vance on guitar & Kevin on bass.
Previously Unreleased
7. COME ON OVER
(Hanson / Luckette)
I don't know who you are
or where you're going to
All I know is that I like
the things that I see in you.
You've got what it takes
to make a happy, happy girl out of me.
Can't you see?
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Now that I know who you are
and you know we've traveled far
All the places we have been
and all the sights we've seen
Now it's time for us to part
and now I'm going on my way.
Can't you see?
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Come on over
'cause it's over.
Copyright 1979 Hanson Music / Luckette Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
A different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
8. PARNELL PITCHER
(DeGeneres)
Seven years ago she was with me
Life was mostly fun and simplicity
There was never a reason to plan ahead
There were many things we left unsaid.
Parnell Pitcher has dreams that she can't reach
Parnell Pitcher still tans on Folly Beach
Gets no charge from the Charleston Battery
How can you fight what you won't see?
Every year she plans to visit me
But the years go by - it's not to be
She knows she shouldn't stay, but she won't run
Still her heart attacks her like a gun.
Parnell Pitcher has locked inside her mind
all the dreams she thinks she'll never find
Don't you know it's time you left the nest?
Don't you think it's time to give your best?
Working in an office for a month
A waitress for a while
How much satisfaction can there be
in that job turnstile?
The years get no kinder to you
So please don't watch them go.
Parnell Pitcher, you're such a lovely girl
Don't think the Atlantic's your only world
Still, you need a push to be on your way
I've tried and tried - now what can I say?
You've got to get away from there!
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Vance
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
Previously Unreleased
9. CLEVELAND
(Smith)
Oh, hi
Oh, you look so fine
Oh no, I'm hung up on a line
Buy me a drink, we'll have a good time.
But you don't look too bright
but you do dress smart.
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you talk.
Got your Browns, got your Devo
You got your mayor on a late night show
Saw him on a TV and I just don't know
But "I don't know" is all I can think to say.
You must be from Cleveland
I can tell by the way you play.
Now wait a minute, boy
You're moving too fast
I don't buy guys drinks, so make that one last
I've traveled all around so this you can believe
I've never been to Cleveland and I've never been a Cleve.
You're talking funny, honey, but you got me all wrong
I don't really care where you're from
Buy me that drink, I'll explain it to you, honey
It's not a place on a map you'll find
Cleveland's not a city at all
It's a state of mind.
So if you get around and you think you've arrived
If you live a lot and you think you're alive
I tell you right now it's a lot of jive
If you've never been there, better make some plans
Cause a girl's a girl
until she's a woman in Cleveland.
Copyright 1980 Common Cold Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
A live version appeared on the Cold Sweat CD.
10. NO PLACE I CAN GO
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
You deny a damsel in distress
glorified in fairy tales - more is less.
You solidify your pact with fate
Wiggle while the enemies congratulate.
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
'cause there's no place I can go.
Be a contribution for your cause
One, you don't believe in it; two, it shows.
Finally you've picked your natural girl
naturally preserving your natural world.
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
'cause there's no place I can go.
Don't cry - it wasn't in the contract
Clark Kent got away with Superman.
No frets - not in tune to pick on
Don't appear to me in chromatic
imitational acrobatics
Surgically have my tensions padded.
Would you like me to hold my feelings still?
Was I too convincing in my game
you have fallen fool to? - what a shame.
All the other hearts you break into
hold “oh wells” of sadness - nothing new.
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
I want to surround myself now
'cause there's no place I can go.
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
Previously Unreleased
11. MISSING HIT MAN
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
Looking for the missing hit man
Sammy said he skipped last week.
He left town and he left his assignment incomplete.
Sammy said forget about the pigeon
Just find our man that's missing - now.
Looking for the missing hit man
He took it on the lam.
It's not like him to blow a job that's worth a grand.
Sammy said I got a tip that he's staying
in a New York flop house on East 38th.
I took a plane and a cab to 38th
Looked up, saw his reflection in a window.
I took the stairs, three floors up.
I knocked.
Nobody answered - I pushed on the door.
He was crouching in the corner on the floor.
I'd never seen somebody look so pale.
His sunken eyes told the tale
Why he didn't pull the job and took it on the run.
He said, "You shouldn't have come."
He pulled a knife.
I pulled a gun.
I found the missing hit man.
The contract was my own.
Sammy set us up for the double crossbones.
Now I'm sitting in a corner bar
Nursing a drink and a nasty scar.
It's red.
Now I'm the missing hit man.
Someone searches the streets for me.
Shadows fall on this bar that serves as sanctuary.
Who's Sammy gonna send out now?
Joe and Nicky are both in town.
They'll know to come here straight-away
They'll get their tip from the top.
How long have we been killing each other for Sammy?
When are we gonna stop?
Copyright 1981 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Feb. 1982 at The Cold's rehearsal studio / Jefferson, LA
A different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
12. ROCKMAN
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
Not another cave to please the kind inside
and another round so I can stand the ride
How'd a cat like you land in this lion's den?
Just another reference to a song we're in.
Paint a vision with your feats in
Any syncopated beat's in.
Rockman - take my heart and go
where I can't move slow, only run down.
Night, boy - when's your breakdown show?
Do you find home - rock and roam by yourself.
Is there other life outside this world you're in?
Can I ever find you 'fore the sun goes in?
When you take me for a flight up
on a symbol downbeat ride up.
Rockman - take my heart and go
where I can't move slow, only run down.
Night, boy - when's your breakdown show?
Do you find home - rock and roam by yourself.
Went searchin' one late night behind the lines
for a special time in beat land you won't find.
Bright colors, blurred out features, lights go down
Not another movement comes through not a sound.
Paint a vision with your feats in
Any syncopated beat's in.
Rockman - take my heart and go
where I can't move slow, only run down.
Night, boy - when's your breakdown show?
Do you find home - rock and roam by yourself.
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously Unreleased
13. TALK TO ME
(DeGeneres/Luckette/Menendez/Radecker)
You better speak before you run.
Use your mouth.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
You better tell me what you've done.
Tell me now.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
Wonder what that murmur is ---
Could it be that your heart beats out of time?
I roll around in the dirt for just one word.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
I don't even care how much I hurt
once I've heard.
Talk to me. Talk to me.
Wonder what that movement is---
Will you just walk away now one more time?
Don't tease me.
Won't you please!.talk!
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Luckette Music / Menendez Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously Unreleased
14. IN ON THE OUTSIDE
(DeGeneres / Menendez)
Last time I'd lie awake - hard act to follow
We dined on our mistakes - all we could swallow.
One heart too tired of beating - midnight advances
The touch-me, touch-you teasing and missionary dances.
I want big chills - no background drum fills
Just lots of space - the lights on your face.
Unlock the back door - run for the wild no more.
No matter what's in on the outside,
you can find me at home.
No room to roam around - no one to turn into
Laugh on without a sound - without an issue.
Cold nights won't be the same - cheap shots for hours
Talking to who else could talk, too - so many showers.
I want white snows without the light shows
Just lots of rooms - we'll sing the same tunes
And hold me real hard so we won't come apart.
No matter who's in on the outside,
you can find me at home.
Sometimes the days aren't pretty
You won't see me cry.
I'd go through all the cities and never bat my eye.
Dress up dressing down - nouveau third-world hike boots
Line it up and place your frown off to the night shoots
One heart too tired of beating - midnight advances
The touch-me, touch-you teasing and missionary dances.
I want big times without the dark lines
I want your eyes on me without surprise.
Clear off the dance floor - Je taime et J'adore.
No matter what's in on the outside, you can find me!
No matter who's in on the outside
No matter what's in on the outside
No matter who's in on the outside
I'm at home. I'm at home.
Copyright 1984 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded Aug. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
Previously Unreleased
15. MODERN BEAT
(DeGeneres / Menendez / Radecker)
I do a modern walk to a modern beat
I try to keep in step and keep in time
when I start to move my feet.
I wait all day to perform in my special uniform
I do a modern walk to a modern beat.
I take a private walk down a private street
There are some private people living there
that I never want to meet.
I take the walk anyway just to see what I can see
I take a private walk down a private street.
Shady palms on terraces where shady people meet
But will there ever be a rest on my beat?
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Menendez Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Chris
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
This version appeared on the Major Minor LP;
a different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
16. WORKING GIRL
(DeGeneres / Radecker)
A working girl and she once had some plans
Now she works a job with few demands
Up at six, coffee, work by eight
Doesn't want to, but she's never late
Then her day is over, she is home, alone
She's a working girl.
Five days on, two days to get away
Who to call, or what album can she play?
Makes some plans, goes out, but not too long
Sunday comes, wakes up late, soon it's gone
Then her weekend's over, Monday's here again
She's a working girl.
She doesn't know which way she ought to go
Can she start again, doesn't know if she can
The pay is OK, and it's all right for now.
Copyright 1980 DeGeneres Music / Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Dec. 1984 at Studio Solo / Slidell, LA
This version appeared on the Major Minor LP;
a different recording appeared on the Three Chord City CD.
17. AGNES ENGLISH
(Andrew Bernard / John Fred)
Agnes English Agnes English
There's a woman living in my town
Her name is Agnes English.
She owns a house on Carnaby Street
where the high-hat cats all gather to meet.
With a two story house with holes of all sorts
The windows were deceiving.
When I saw her looking out at me that day
I was so unbelieving.
Folks say she was sweeter than an ice cream cone
Now she owns a house of her own
She was Agnes English
The lady with the funny face.
She was Agnes English with the lips I like to trace.
Agnes English - sophisticated - Agnes English
Her daddy was a drugstore man
Her mama ran a gift shop.
My long-legged sister, her freckle-faced brother
worked together undercover.
Selling outlaw buttons saying take me down
It was really unbelieving.
Stop, I think I hear a sound
Noise can't be deceiving
You can't live this life you're living
Broken signs and the people singing
Agnes English - The lady with the funny face.
She was Agnes English with the lips I like to trace.
Agnes English Agnes English Agnes English
Copyright 1968 Su-Ma Pub. Co. Inc (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded Dec. 13, 1980 at Jimmy's.
Previously Unreleased
18. I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND CRY (OVER YOU)
(Joe Thomas / Howard Biggs)
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you
And if you ever say goodbye
And if you ever even try
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you.
I'm gonna love you more and more every day
I'm gonna love you more and more every way
And if you ever say goodbye
And if you ever even try
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you.
Gonna tell your mama
Tell your papa too
So they'll know exactly what I'm gonna do.
And if you ever say goodbye
And if you ever even try
I'm gonna sit right down and cry over you.
Copyright 1954 Angle Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
19. LIMBO'S GETTING CROWDED
(Radecker)
Limbo's getting crowded more every day.
An unfinished novel gets put away.
A song minus a middle eight or
a play without a character of interest.
An idea that once seemed bright has faded.
Now it's not all it might be.
Limbo's getting crowded every day.
File away something you always meant
to say or do when the time was right.
But the perfect time never seemed to come.
No one will ever know the feelings that
are felt today.
Won't they last another day?
Limbo's getting crowded every day.
An unspoken love is kept inside.
It never gets to see the light of day.
It's safer to keep a love well-hidden, undisturbed
and there it stays.
But ideas and emotions left in limbo!
They die if unattended.
Then one day they've ended.
Copyright 1980 Radecker Music (BMI)
Lead vocal: Kevin
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
20. I'M ON E
(Deborah Harry / Chris Stein)
I'm on E, I'm on E, I'm on E, got nothing to say.
I used to have a car of my own.
I'm on E, I'm on E, I'm on E, but E is there.
Stay out for maybe a week.
I want my freedom too before
I'd give my life for a car of my own.
I'm on E, I'm on E, two witches on Saturn, it was on TV.
I'd like a show of my own.
But you see I'm still on E even though
everything is happening to me.
So when you're driving or on the phone.
Don't regret your loud home.
I'm on E, I'm on E, I gave my car to a guy named Vinnie.
I feel like dancing my feet.
They total, and it skips a beat.
I used to have a car of my own.
28 or 58, walking to refrigerator
Two to bump, two to pump
Still on E, I think that's all
I'm on E and I'm on E
I'll never have to dance my feet
28 or 58, walking to refrigerator
Two to bump, two to pump
Still I'm here, I think that's all
I'm on E and I'm on E
I'll never have to dance my feet up.
Copyright 1977 Jiru Music Inc. / Monster Island Music Pub. Corp. (ASCAP)
Lead vocal: Barbara
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
21. MY WAY
(Paul Anka/Claude Francois/ Jacques Revaud/Gilles Thibaut)
And now the end is here
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and every highway.
But more, much more than this, I did it!.
He did it his, he did it his, he did it his own way.
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
when I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
The record shows I took the blows and did it!
He did it his, he did it his, he did it his own way.
Regrets, I've had a few.
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
and saw it through without exemption.
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway.
But more, much more than this, I did it!.
He did it his, he did it his, he did it his own way.
Copyright 1969 Chrysalis Standards Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocals: Kevin & Bert
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
22. I'M DOWN
(Lennon / McCartney)
You tell lies thinking I can't see.
You don't cry,cause you're laughing at me.
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down.
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
Man buys ring, woman throw it away.
Same old thing happen every day.
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down.
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
We're all alone and there's nobody else.
You still moan, "keep your hands to yourself"
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down.
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
How can you laugh when you know I'm down?
Copyright 1965 Sony / ATV Songs / EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI)
Lead vocal: Bert
Recorded June 18, 1982 aboard the Riverboat President.
Previously Unreleased
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Produced by:
- Vance DeGeneres & Cliff Derbins: track 1
- Cliff Derbins: tracks 2 - 5, 7 - 11, 17 - 22
- The Cold: track 6
- Vance DeGeneres & David Farrell: tracks 12 - 14
- Dan Van Patten: tracks 15 & 16
Copyright: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984 The Cold
This compilation: Copyright 2005 Top Pop Records
