Dokken - Dysfunctional (1995)+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don Dokken - Lead Vocals George Lynch - Guitars Jeff Pilson - Bass Mick Brown - Drums Bobby Blotzer - Drums on "The Maze" All Songs Produced by Don Dokken except "Shadows Of Life", "Sweet Chains", "Lesser Of Two Evils" and "What Price" Produced by Michael Wagener for Double Trouble Productions, Inc. and Don Dokken. "Inside Looking Out", "The Maze", "Too High To Fly", "Nothing Left To Say" and "Long Way Home" Originally Produced by Michael Wagener for Double Trouble Productions, Inc. and Don Dokken. All Songs Mixed by Wyn Davis except "Shadows Of Life", "Sweet Chains", "Lesser Of Two Evils" and "What Price" Mixed by Michael Wagener. Engineered by Michael Wagener, Myn Davis and Darian Rundall. Additional Engineering by Don Dokken and Kenny Oswald. Recorded at 710 Studios and Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, CA. Mixed at Total Access Recording. Mixing Assistant: Jared Johnson. String Arrangement on "Nothing Left To Say" by John Keane. John Calodner : John Calodner Art Direction: David Coleman. Photography: Rocky Schenck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Inside Looking Out (Dokken, Pilson) 4:08 2) Hole In My Head (Dokken, Pilson, Brown) 4:33 3) The Maze (Dokken, Pilson, Lynch) 4:50 4) Too High To Fly (Dokken, Lynch) 7:10 5) Nothing Left To Say (Dokken, Pilson) 4:30 6) Shadows Of Life (Dokken, Pilson) 4:33 7) Long Way Home (Dokken, Pilson, Lynch) 5:12 8) Sweet Chains (Dokken) 5:46 9) Lesser Of Two Evils (Dokken, Pilson, Lynch) 4:03 10) If The Good Die Young (Dokken, Pilson) 4:54 - Japanese bonus track 11) What Price (Dokken, Brown, Pilson) 5:45 12) From The Beginning (Greg Lake) 4:12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Inside Looking Out (Dokken, Pilson) 4:08 Let go off your mind And see what there is to see It can be real No just a fantasy Open your eyes And leave the world behind Open your mind Come along for the ride Do what you want to do Be what you want to be Do what you want to do It's just a short trip from reality Chorus: I'm on the - inside Looking - outside I'm on the - inside looking out I'm going - somewhere Feelin' - nowhere I'm on the - inside looking out I can't be free Till I know what free is I can't be me Till I know who I am Do you believe there's no more than what you see All that we need ... is some free association Painted pictures in a room of glass Looking through the floor above Don't know what has brought me to this place Ecstasy confused by love Chorus I'm on the inside In the dark so long What's been going on (On the outside) Come and look inside my mind Chorus Inside looking out (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Hole In My Head (Dokken, Pilson, Brown) 4:33 I feel ... something's not right in my head I know ... must have been something I've said What could be drawing me in Closer and closer again All of the visions escape from the holes in my head Can you ... see what I'm trying to say All my ... feelings are turning to gray The light in the tunnel grows dim My silver lining has left all these clouds in my head Watching the thoughts grow in rows in the fields of my mind Into an ocean of words that I cannot define Open my eyes (2) I see ... everything's right in my head I see ... must have been somthing I've said Suddenly everything's clear All my experience left me with nothing to fear What could be drawing me in All of the visions escape from the holes - in my head Hole in my head (6) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) The Maze (Dokken, Pilson, Lynch) 4:50 Chorus 1: Down these halls with many doors Around each corner right back where I started Deep inside my mind it seems I try to find an open door to go through So they can't see I'm all right Chorus 2: Wanderin' round inside without a key Watching with these open eyes Locked inside the place that no one sees Talking to eternity, trying to explain Chorus 3: Why I'm stuck inside the maze - All the corners look the same Thought I'd finally found the way - But I'm right back where I started Now I'm stuck inside the maze - All the corners look the same Thought I'd finally found the way... Another door, an empty room No one seems to have been here for some time Where have they gone An endless world of corridors Searching for the one that shows the way They're locked insane I'll remain Chorus 2 & 3 Chorus 1 Ah ah aah ah ah - Now I'm stuck inside the maze Ah ah aah ah ah - All the corners look the same Ah ah aah ah ah - Now I'm right back where I started Ah ah aah ah ah ah ah Another door (now I'm stuck inside the maze) another room I've been at this place before All the corners look the (all the corners look the same) same Now I'm stuck inside the maze - Now I'm stuck inside this maze All the corners look the same (2) Now I'm stuck inside the maze All the corners look the same Now I'm stuck inside the maze... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Too High To Fly (Dokken, Lynch) 7:10 We sold our sons and we sold our daughters Pretty soon we'll sell our brothers We took the gold, but the gold was water I tried to save the world, but I failed her She cries the tears that I never left her I left them all behind You were sitting in your darkest hour Ooh, summer's gone We tried to make the world so much better We sent our words in a pretty perfumed letter You sit alone in your ivory towers I'm just one person, I don't matter You drop the needle on your way to heaven You left it all behind Now you're feeling oh so better Ooh ooh oh Chorus: Too high to fly You should've seen me there Yeah yeah yeah Too high to fly, my baby But you were almost there Yeah yeah The sun shines down on my face But she don't feel a thing, no no no Lines in the streets and the smoke rises You looked too long for heaven Now you're blind, baby Another morning sun, another day gone by Oh oh oh The storm's coming with the pouring rain Ooh ooh oh Chorus (2) Lines on the street and the smoke rises Wandering 'round for forty days I hope you'll find it You couldn't get any higher But you're higher than me You couldn't get any higher... No no no Chorus Too high to fly You should've seen me there You should've seen me ... there Drop the needle It won't take you there It's not salvation... Ooh, this way... Yeah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Nothing Left To Say (Dokken, Pilson) 4:30 There were day when we were closer You were all I had Lost a soul but not forgotten Had to give it back Chorus 1: We were lost, feeling so lost No more tears can we shed And time ... slipping through our minds Wishing I could forget Chorus 2: Guess there's nothing left to say Guess there's nothing left to say - Nothing left to say When there's nothing left Memories of the days now passing Still they come and go Visions of a word we tried to say We didn't know Chorus 1 & 2 There were other days When I believed we'd make it through I was such a fool For the way it used to be Now it's time to set you free Chorus 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Shadows Of Life (Dokken, Pilson) 4:33 (Japanese timing for this song is 4:36) Tale of woe open up my eyes Keeping me from the other side Satisfied what my ... soul believes If I could only see Chorus 1: On a red sky In a greed sea On a black night I fell on my knees Chorus 2: Sace it for the innocent Save it for the cruel, yeah And leave it in the shadows of life On a ship full of hopes and dreams I took a trip down to misery Realized that I'd been before I found it hard to believe Chorus 1 & 2 Read between the lies Resurrecting time Read between the lies Resurrecting time Chorus 2 Leave it in the shadows of life Read between the lies Resurrecting time Read between the lies Resurrecting time On a red sky On a black night Read between the lies In the shadows... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Long Way Home (Dokken, Pilson, Lynch) 5:12 (the Japanese version of this song is different from the American one) Sitting in the crossfire all alone Waiting for the world to show the way Tried to find a rose - without a thorn Such a foolish motion fades away If it's all, if it's all in my mind Then why does it feel ... like there isn't any time Walk the road - follow the (madness) - of someone's path Search for self - well it doesn't mean (you're wrong) - if you can 'Cause it gonna be - it gonna be - a long way home Wander through the trail of all the fear In my mind it makes no sense at all Tell what am I supposed to do Crucifying Christ without my cross If it's all, if it's all in my mind Then why does it feel ... like I'm running outta time And we walk the road - follow the (madness) - of someone's path Search for self - well it doesn't mean (you're wrong) - if you can Cause it's gonna be (2) a long way home A long way home Long way home Mythical past Future behind me ... - shattered I could not be ... someone beside Take back my soul, my soul Walk the road - follow the (madness) - of someone's path You will search for self - well it doesn't mean (you're wrong) - if you can Cause it's gonna be (2) a long way home A long way home Long way home, yeah A long way home ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Sweet Chains (Dokken) 5:46 (Japanese timing for this song is 6:09) Sun shine on me You were my sunflower Been a long cold winter Summer's come and gone Your words were so bitter My resurrection's just begun Dead of winter No pain only sorrow You drink of my soul You taste a bitter sorrow They say the sun won't shine Where I'm going It's too late to change my mind It's over Sweet chains You were the one that took me there Yeah All the king's horses All the king's men Never gonna put my love ... back into your arms again They say the sun won't shine Where I'm going The bitter sorrow'll shine It's over Sweet chains Sweet (sweet) chains (chains) Sweet chains You were the one that took me there Yeah (Spoken): Tears of joy ... for a soul that had died The soul kept for so long ... in a fear of its passing So would he ... or at least, so would he have believed Revelation came late and unexpected The soul dies only to be reborn A birth of pain and peace The pain of knowing the hurt It had brought to so many Hmm, revelation... The piece of life unfolding through eyes anew A chance of finding the truth Or at least, so would we have believed My resurrection's just begun (3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Lesser Of Two Evils (Dokken, Pilson, Lynch) 4:03 (Japanese timing for this song is 4:35) (Too many days come and go Can't find a reason to go inside Too many things running through my mind Has it all been said and done I try to find some piece of mind Searching everywhere For all the answers that I can't find Doesn't really matter It's hard to rise above) You might find me ... in a downward spin My wings are all aflame I saw the world beneath me, uuh yeah Wonder where I'm gonna stay I tried to embrace the sun But it's hard to fly when you just wanna die Chorus: Thought I knew where I was going - It's hard to see Thought I knew where I'd been - It should have been so simple Caught in a world of believing - It could have been me I'm caught in between ... the lesser of two evils Sail the sea of indecision I tried to find the reason why Just like staring at a picture I watched the world go by I hear the whispers in the darkness From the voices that I locked away Ooh oh Chorus I tried to touch the sun, yeah But it just kept getting colder I tried to find my soul, yeah But he said, son you ain't getting any closer Chorus The lesser of two evils (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) If The Good Die Young (Dokken, Pilson) 4:54 - Japanese bonus track I was so blind, led the life of a sinner And livin' the life was taken its toll I look in my eyes - it's hell invitation I realize I gave up my soul Are we so blind can't you see that we're doin' A child has its innocence - but never its day If the good die young we're gonna live forever Heaven and earth, couldn't stand in our way If the good die young we're gonna live forever And that's the price we're gonna pay Searchin' for truth in a sea of deception Find only the face of a child that's in pain Another soul in a world of damnation I see myself and the world ain't far behind How do we stop the wheels of destruction The heaven we're talkin' is the hell that we're walkin' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) What Price (Dokken, Brown, Pilson) 5:45 (Japanese timing for this song is 6:05) Picture yourself in a river Drowning inside of your heart Finding there is no tomorrow Only this place that you are That you are Alone in your darkness ... let your spirit go When judgement comes ... it'll lay be the side of the road Of the road Leaving all the worlds behind it seems so vain to me Thinkin' about the past I only see my broken youth Locked inside the world where only liars seem to live Not a chance for happiness, his mother's checkered past Psychologically induced by all the things he'd seen What the hell in going on inside Chorus: Though shall not give onto life without love - What price for life For ye shall open the scar of the wound - What price for truth Though shall not take from the weaker mankind - What price for youth Fate begets sorrow the trail of doom I can see the visions it's emitting from your mind Dig another grave so I can bury you alive Like a poison ocean that's been running through the rye What the hell is going on inside Chorus Shyzophrenic symptoms of a problem in your past Handed down to newborn generations to be cast Take your friend's emotions and dissolve it with a lie Put your plague to rest when you fall down and fucking die And the mother cried And the child cried As the father replied I guess I went to far (4) Then he heard a voice ... and it said "Now it's time to go (it's time to go) Your soul is getting cold (getting cold) I'm gonna leave your spirit dead by the side of the road" Still the child cried ... on and on (Spoken): And then a voice was gone And everyone smiled ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) From The Beginning (Greg Lake) 4:12 (from Emerson, Lake & Plamer "Trilogy" (1972)) It might have been things I missed But don't be unkind It don't mean I'm lying When I think a thing or two I think of lying in bed I shouldn't have said But there it it Chorus: You see it's all clear You were meant to be here From the beginning Maybe I might have changed And not been so cruel Not been such a fool Whatever is done is done I just can't recall It doesn't matter at all Chorus From the beginning (2) From the beginning (2) Aah aah ah ah ah Aah aha aha ah ah Aah aha aha ah ah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don Dokken would like to give Special Thanks to ... Sara for giving me the inspiration for the song "Nothing Left To Say", ... . Dear Michelle There are no words to describe how much I miss you. I can only say that when you closed your eyes for the last time, the world truly lost a precious little girl who only knew how to love everyone. I look forward to seeing your pretty blue eyes again and in the space of time it will seem like only a blink of an eye to you. And we will be together again. So, until that time comes, I will think of you often, knowing you have gone to a better place. Please watch over us and all children who sometimes have to suffer the pain this world sets upon them. I love you. Your uncle Don. Your spirit is free now to fly like an angel. To fly wherever it might dream to. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ George Lynch uses ESP Guitars, Seymour Duncan Pickups, GHS Strings, Full Tone Effects Pedals, Marshall Amplifiers, Bogner Amplifiers, Fender Amplifiers and Peavey Amplifiers. Jeff Pilson uses Fender Guitars and Basses, Through Ampeg Amps, with Dean Markley Strings and the brilliant technical work of Eric Guitars, Van Nuys, CA. Mick Brown uses Tama Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Vater Drum Sticks, Aquarian Drum Heads and LP Latin Percussion.