Dokken - Shadowlife (1997)+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don Dokken - Lead Vocals George Lynch - Guitars Jeff Pilson - Bass, Lead Vocals on "Here I Stand", Backing Vocals Mick Brown - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Kelly Gray. Recorded at Vintage Recorders, AZ and 710 Studios, Redondo Beach, CA. Gutiars Recorded at Albacore Studios, Cave Creek, CA. Mixed at Vintage Recorders, AZ. Assisted by Aaron Carey. Art Direction / Design / Digital Paintings by Ioannis for Vivd Images. Additional Design by Steven Jacaruso and Alisa Vanacore. Band Photography: Ross Pelton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Puppet On A String (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:22 2) Cracks In The Ground (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 5:00 3) Sky Beneath My Feet (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:35 4) Until I Know (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 2:17 5) Hello (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 3:11 6) Convenience Store Messiah (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:28 7) I Feel (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:22 8) Here I Stand (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson, Gray) 4:43 9) Hard To Believe (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:29 10) Sweet Life (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:23 11) Bitter Regret (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 3:57 12) I Don't Mind (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson, Gray) 3:18 13) Until I Know (Slight Return) (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson, Gray) 2:41 14) How Many Lives? (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:48 - Japanese bonus track 15) Deep Waters (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 6:06 - Japanese bonus track ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Puppet On A String (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:22 Why do you - invade me I beg you - don't leave me Don't trust you - don't trust me I stand here - benignly What is inside that's pushing me We're all puppet on a string This wooden world is just like me We're all puppets on a string On a string I hurt you - you killed me I loved you - you hated me You gave in - and thrilled me Your sex was - fulfilling What is inside that's pushing me Like a puppet on a string This wooden world is just like me We're all puppets on a string On a string I hurt you - you tortured me I loved you - you hated me You gave in - and thrilled me Your sex was fulfilling I hurt you - you cut me Your painful emission of how you felt How do you felt - how do you felt My ego - could not take What is inside is playing me Like a puppet on a string This wooden world is just like me We're all puppets on a string On a string (2) We're all puppets on a string You bared me You buried me - on a string ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Cracks In The Ground (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 5:00 Wait for me behind - the walls behind the sky Revolution finds - the road to ease our minds Can we walk outside and leave our fragile pride Within the holes forever deeper we must hide Shattered pictures of a moment lost in time Between the cracks in the ground (2) I see a painted face - through a colored haze An enchanted place - it's time to sail away In my eyes I've lived a life that's so surreal My imagination questions what is real Shadows spinning in my mind just like a wheel Between the cracks in the ground (2) Passing through the doors, I stop to close them one by one Looking through the keyholes far behind Between the cracks in the ground (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Sky Beneath My Feet (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:35 So - so incomplete We look into the world - find no peace Once it seemed serene We'd be forever young and so it seemed What does it mean - I find no answers Kept in a dream - soft colored layers I see myself through the looking glass A shade of gray, a shade of black No ups or downs, just in betweens Chorus 1: The gentle rain begins to fall Come with me and see it all Rise above the world upon my wings I was - sleeping - sleeping - with the sky beneath my feet With the sky beneath my feet Now I drift endless and free With the wind that carries me What does it mean - what does it matter Kept in a dream - with soft colored layers Chorus 1 Rise above the world upon my wings I was - sleeping with the sky beneath my feet With the sky beneath my feet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Until I Know (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 2:17 Overtake me - seize the vision through my eyes and reinstate me Bathe me in your sunlight Until I know, until I know Constant motion - kept me standing still Howling silence - penetrate and break my will So re-embrace me - then release me one more time until I know Until I know Re-embrace me - then release me one more time until I know Until I know ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Hello (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 3:11 Liquid fused around my body, swimming in the night's black water Justifies a child's existence, innocence abounds within us But what does it matter Watch my hand turns a shade of gray, feel my life's breath fade away Soon I'll walk through gates of steel to a place not yet revealed But what does it matter (2) Chorus: Hello death, hello death Hello death - how do you do? I don't remember calling you All I need is just a drink of water Help me Jesus - try to ease my pain All I need is just to drink of water Hello Mr. Death please go away Here I go into the earth and here I'll wait until my birth I will rise again someday, tranquillity will find a way But what does it matter Chorus (2) All I need is just a drink of water Help me Jesus - won't you ease my pain All I need is just to drink of water Hello Mr. Death please go, please go away Please go away ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Convenience Store Messiah (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:28 I'm walkin' down these dark streets - all alone A light ahead, free coffee - if you have no home A parking lot full of people - same as me Waiting for the Messiah - his shift will start at three Chorus: He's a real convenience store messiah Idol worship for an idle mind He's a real convenience store messiah Turning bottled water into wine Waiting - for the papers to come outside They make such nice warm blankets - get in line Sometimes he might let us - stay inside The only one who will listen - he can be so kind Chorus They see through eyes Lookin' through his window A glowing light Staring at his vision late at night They idolize They realize Reaching out their hands Chorus Into wine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) I Feel (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:22 Seeing no one, touching something, fingers reaching out Senses burning, all from learning No one sees the colors in my mind Silent darkness speaks my name - everything changes Yet stays the same Like darkness into day I know what is to come Long days without sun I feel (2) Slowly moving, endless motion floating towards now Soaring higher, drifting nowhere I felt that I was somewhere else Total blindness still remains, everyone changes I feel the same The hours slip away I'll feel this pain no more My future waits outside the door I feel (2) Crystallized - open wide I feel The sun is shining over me Warning my senses I make my plea I'm guilty of feeling It's my time of healing So why is it so hard to see I feel Crystallized - piece of time I feel Blood stained eyes - open wide I feel (7) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Here I Stand (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson, Gray) 4:43 I will rise up - over this 'Til I come to a higher place I will find strength - let go Of all the ties of my disgrace Ooh I am no more - and no less Than anyone else Looking for a new horizon I can find in myself Chorus: It's all right - the shadow's gone Shine your light - with the rising sun It's all right - take me as I am Yeah yeah yeah - cuz here I stand No hesitation - holding back I'll take each step one by one But I might fall - I could stray If I loose my eyes today I'm only one in a crowd I'm just one voice on the line Looking for a new horizon Another place another time Chorus Yeah In our hands the light shines, we still wonder Change our world into sand, we still hunger Like a child - fears the night - draws near its mother Like a son - fears no one - will cast our shadow forever Here I stand Oh, here I stand Yeah This is where I stand Here I stand Yeah yeah ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Hard To Believe (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:29 I the middle of the night you know I heard the voices call Said they'd tried to see me through my pain Then I started to question am I sane or confused Don't think that I will ever know Chorus: It's hard to believe that the sun still sets without you I was so afraid to let you know It's hard to believe that the world still turns without you I was so afraid to let you go I was starting to believe that I was destined for the worst It was all the life I'd ever know I was getting to the point that I'd thought I'd not return I was so unsure of where I'd go Chorus In the middle of the night sometimes I hear the voices call Don't think that I will ever know Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Sweet Life (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:23 Take me along to the place I remember Where all of my friends - now they're gone forever Ooh, how they love the sweet life (2) Chorus: I'm destined to run with the Holy I must wait Dying inside ever slowly I'll be on my way I saw the flame of the candle burning down so low I danced with my friends 'til they had to go My spirit stayed - give me no release (2) Ooh, how they loved the sweet life Chorus I'm sitting alone in a darkened room Trail of smoke and a warn out mind Mister depression's overstayed his welcome Something inside - took me away Take me along to the place I remember All of my friends - thought I knew them better Ooh, how they loved the sweet life (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Bitter Regret (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 3:57 Darlin' - don't you let me go Until the last train rides - I wanna stay with you When the morning comes - and it's time to rise But I can't lift my head - baby let me die Chorus: Release the sorrow - deep within my eyes Life's only borrowed Don't build you world with bitter regret 'Cuz I still feel it's not over yet What we've done we'll have to forget Or all you'll reap - is bitter regret Wonderin' - how this came to pass Why my future runs - through the hour-glass Talk to me, yeah - 'cuz I can't leave my head Anti-social suicide lyin' on my bed Chorus Don't build your world with bitter regret 'Cuz I still feel it's not over yet What we've done we'll have to forget Of all we'll reap - is bitter regret Yeah yeah yeah Bitter regret Ooh ooh oh Talkin' to my friend misfortune, take me for a ride How I wish that I could only - give you back your life again Again Darlin' - I wanna stay with you 'Til the morning comes - and that last train rides ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12) I Don't Mind (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson, Gray) 3:18 I was lost without you I was sinking in a storm I thought the world had left me Now I know that I was wrong It's Resurrection Day Gonna leave it all behind Gonna clear my mind of you Gonna pave my own road I don't mind - what you want I don't mind when your hounds begin to beg No, I don't mind when you kick the ones that fall No, I don't mind - I don't mind at all It's better to be lonely Than to live with all your pain I was walking through the desert I was calling out your name But I never got an answer Still I loved you just the same The sun began to burn me Reminded me of all those days I don't mind - what you want I don't mind when your hounds begin to beg I don't mind when you kick the ones that fall No, I don't mind - I don't mind at all When you leave for another I won't be calling out your name Now that burning sun is setting Only one thing left to say I don't mind - what you want I don't mind when your hounds begin to beg No, I don't mind when you kick the ones that fall I don't mind - I don't mind at all I don't mind at all (2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13) Until I Know (Slight Return) (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson, Gray) 2:41 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14) How Many Lives? (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 4:48 - Japanese bonus track Patiently I'm waiting (seemed so long) To take another fall (out of the dark) Am I anticipating (something is wrong) Certain final call (one last for the part) The hands of time keep turning (bring me to life) The world begins to turn Chorus: How many lives are remaining How many souls is he saving How many lives are remaining How many souls is he saving All of us keep trying (hope for the best) To place a higher bid (into the night) On your knees and praying (laying to rest) Let's not and say we did (image shining bright) What's the point you're making (show me it's right) The point of no return Chorus Someone told me forgiveness comes from you So I wasted one There was nothing to lose Now I see that faith is for the few Absolution came Standing in the queue You know I lost my faith standing next to you Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15) Deep Waters (Brown, Dokken, Lynch, Pilson) 6:06 - Japanese bonus track It's been a long time since I felt this way You know I haven't lost my mind I'm just tired I see the souls on the street They're all crying I'm not trying to be 'cuz I'm no better than the dying No I'm not trying to be the one Chorus: And when I leave this place That other realm I'll find Strawberry streams we'll drink from White frosted clouds we'll sail on And when I leave this place That other realm I'll find Sun dripping rainbow colors I'm sailing to You know I never thought I'd see the loneliness of dying You know I thought I'd be the one that wasn't fighting How I wish that I could leave and find a place that's quiet 'Cuz I truly do believe that someday I will find Deep waters we sail on No wonder I falter How does life release this fear So we can set out on that journey we call life When my friend comes to call Will I recognize all the things that have been told Will it fill my eyes When the sun releases me And the night begins to cradle All the visions I have seen Guide me into deep waters Chorus Deep waters I can't seem to find you - no (2) I can't seem to find you Deep waters ------------------------------------------------------------------------