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Written for the second record and recorded around 1992.

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2nd record, 1992.  A very fun song to work on and play.  I was girl crazy... before I was married, of course.  Now I'm only crazy for my beautiful wife Jennifer!!!!

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I wrote this song in college, in about 1984, about a girlfriend, of course.  Updated some of the words in 1990.

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2nd record, 1992.  Kind of a different sound for BT, but a cool song.

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2nd record, 1992.  One of my absolute favorites.  We really nailed that one.

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Written years before the first BT record.  I was working my day job in 1986 and wrote it at my desk very quickly.  It was one of my first well developed songs theme-wise, and I was 20 years old.

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2nd record, 1992.  Cool song, big sound, just for fun.

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2nd record, 1993.  I absolutely love this song.  It's a stretch for me, very different and spooky.  It's about a young girl who loses her sailor husband to the sea.  She lives in a lighthouse and keeps the beacon lit to show him his way home, and at the end of the song, he comes back for her in her old age.  A shining boat sailing over the horizon... cool song.

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This is the first song written for the 2nd record, in 1990, while we were still on and off the road doing shows.  Written during a long stint at home.

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2nd record, 1992.  Super cool sounding song.

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2nd record, 1992.  Snapshots of my youth, as I've said before on MelodicRock.com.  As a child, I was terrified of tornados - with good reason.  A few years before I was born, a tornado ripped through my small town, killing a lot of folks.  They talked about it for years.  There were train tracks through the woods near where I lived, and a train would come through every night about midnight.  A train from a distance sounds very much like a tornado.  I'd be terrified, of course... I'm about 6-7 years old maybe.  My mother would come in and tell me it was only the train... the midnight train.  As I grew older, the train became intertwined with different events of my life: parking out in a field with my girlfriend, hearing the train whistle blowing in the distance... Meatloaf on the radio... "Paradise by the Dashboard Light."  It was a great time, very romantic.  Anyway, you get the idea.

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1st record, 1987.  This is the very first song I wrote for my own voice in Blue Tears.  We had just lost our original singer; he was very Steve Perry like; and were left without one.  I thought I'd give it a shot, even though most of the guys in the band had no faith in me as a singer at all, and I don't blame them.  I remember writing "Follow Your Heart" and just going nuts when I heard the demo on the radio.  So, that song has a very special meaning to me.  We used to close the show with that one back in the day.

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Another very early song, around 1986.  It's basically the idea that we are all the same.  It doesn't have to be Russia.  It could be almost anywhere.  We have the same dreams, fears, etc.  The recording is big and moody.  I love it.  We used to play it even before the first album.  It helped us get the deal.

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2nd record, 1992.  Written with Bryan Hall, from BT.  The song pretty much speaks for itself.  The radio is the "Love Machine", not me... ha ha.

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1993.  A very painful song to listen to, I wrote this at the very end of my first marriage, the saddest time of my life.  We both knew it was coming, but hadn't talked about it.  She'd hear me play it on my piano every night, working out the lyrics.  The whole song is very true.  A month after our divorce was final, she came and sang with me one last time in a writer's showcase.  We sang 'The Last Serenade' and cried.  Very hard to do, can't do it to this day.

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2nd record, 1992.  We've been working all week.  Worn out?  Ready to have a good time?  Live it up!  That's probably either the show opener or closer on a Saturday night.  One of my favorites, it sort of channels the Boss a little, but if you're going to channel someone, that's a pretty good one.