Blue Murder (1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Sykes - Lead Vocals, Guitars Tony Franklin - Bass Carmine Appice - Drums, Background Vocals Nik Green - Keyboards. Produced by Bob Rock. Recorded by Mike Fraser. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Riot (Sykes) 2) Sex Child (Sykes) 3) Valley Of The Kings (Sykes, Martin) 4) Jelly Roll (Sykes) 5) Blue Murder (Sykes, Franklin, Appice) 6) Out Of Love (Sykes) 7) Billy (Sykes) 8) Ptolemy (Sykes) 9) Black-Hearted Woman (Sykes, Franklin, Appice) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This album is dedicated to Phil Lynott. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Riot (Sykes) There's been a riot down on mainstreet tonight They just went crazy set this whole damn town alight Whisky to water, turn water to wine Run for your life run for your life There's been a riot The boy was running he had nowhere left to hide They cut him down to the ground Still they didn't find the knife They say it's murder - murder in the first degree They have no suspect, now those hound dogs follow me Chorus: Whisky to water-turn water to wine Run for your life run for your life There's been a riot - nowhere to run There's been a riot - nowhere to hide They've got an innocent boy for an innocent crime They cut him down to the ground when he Didn't have nowhere to hide You gotta fight to survive-run for your life No way did I commit this crime No way am I about to die No way can I forgive myself For the things I've never done There's no way you're gonna make me pay No way I'm coming back today No way you're gonna bring me back alive There's been a riot they say it's murder There's been a riot He's just an innocent boy for an innocent crime There's been a riot no way you'll get me To come back alive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Sex Child (Sykes) Baby your lovin' is driving me insane I've never known such a crazy girl But I still don't wanna change Using me up and you're wearing me out You know I just can't seem to stop She got long lean legs and a silk covered bed I'm gonna use till I'm gonna drop Chorus: Yeah yeah Sex child Gonna slip'n'slide gonna come inside girl Yeah yeah Sex child Yeah yeah Sweet little momma gonna keep you satisfied I'm burning with fever and you're the one I crave My heart and soul belong to you I'm like a prisoner in your cage I've got a '57 chevy with the chrome blown off But I'll tell you what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take your body to the limit tonight I'm gonna make sweet love to you Give your love to me, sex child You make me beg and plead sex child See the love flow out of me sex child I tell ya get down on your knees Baby your loving is driving me insane My heart and soul belong to you I'm like a prisoner in your cage Your're shakin' me up when you're taking it down And now I just can't seem to stop You're gonna shake them hips when I lick your lips We're gonna do it till we're gonna drop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Valley Of The Kings (Sykes, Martin) In a distant place in time a pharaoh wandered In his mind he could see a kingdom With this king they could not reason Enslaved in the wish and the dream of a man who's planned their destiny There is no way out, there can be no doubt All he wants is his dream fulfilled and until the day When the kingdom's built There is no way out, there can be no doubt The blood will flow, a thousand souls plead for mercy A thousand times over You'll hear it on the wind, these sinners never sinned Stone on stone they built till the day their life is over They control with the whips and chains They bequeath us with a life of pain No way out of this place you gotta work until it's over See the fire in the sky, in glory die Cry if you must but die you will The valley of the kings will still be built See the fire in the sky, in glory die The king looks on and sees his dream arising One's grave will found in the end, his spirit's lost But one will be saved And with him he will take it all jewels and gold will guard his soul Feel the kiss on the wind, and the blood on the sand It was built with flesh and blood It wasn't built by any God Feel the kiss on the wind, and the blood on the sand ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Jelly Roll (Sykes) She said come lay with me darling She said take my love from me She said I'll be yours forever If you just believe in me Any way you want me, boy, my love I give to you For I was born to love you, take me any way you choose Heartache coming my way, angel, feels like my dying day Chorus: I don't need no doctor - don't need no priest All I need is my baby girl To bring it on home to me I just need her loving each and every day Only she can set me free and take my blues away She said trust in me my darling For together we are strong She said you are I live for I would never do you wrong She done foolin' with my head She take possession of my heart Now I'm standing all alone here 'N' my world just fall apart Heartache coming my way, angel, feels like my dying day I don't need no doctor - don't need no priest All I need is my baby girl To bring it on home to me I just need her loving each and every day Only she can set me free 'N' take my blues away Scream to the heavens My God make me strong No one can hear me, my love she has gone What can I say What can I do Baby I tell you my love still belongs to you Only love can break heart Love can break your heart I gave you all I had to give No words could say how much I miss you Love can break your heart Only love can break your heart Love can break your heart Only love can break your heart ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Blue Murder (Sykes, Franklin, Appice) Give me the money now reach for the sky You better believe, when I say I'm gonna bleed you dry A few dollars more will keep you alive Get down on the floor if you'd like to survive Chorus: They're screaming blue murder I'm scheming to survive Blood money they want me Loud hailers screaming dead or alive There's blood on my face and I'm out on a limb I'm fighting for life and I don't know if I'm going to win Sirens are wailing there's no time to waste They're shooting to kill-get me out of this place I'm rolling in money I'm down on the floor Smashing the windows and kicking the doors They'll take me alive and that's all that I'll fear They're getting so close but all I can hear is The bullets are flying all over my head I aim to escape I don't care whose blood is shed A shot in the dark with a loaded gun They're shooting on sight till this war is won Chorus They're screaming blue murder I'm scheming to survive Blood money they want me Loud hailers screaming dead or alive They're screaming blue murder I'm scheming to survive Blood money they want me Loud hailers screaming dead or alive Blue murder ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Out Of Love (Sykes) I'm standing here looking at your photograph I can't believe I'm all alone and you're not coming back On and on we rode the storm I sometimes wish I'd never been born Alone here crying out for love When times were hard we struggled through A long long time ago But things have changed much more than this I never thought you'd go Taken in my tears subside I'm feeling lost Can I survive without you, I'm outta love again Out of love Chorus: All the nights when you held me tight Life was good and love seemed right And now I'm here I can't believe you're gone You used to say love would never die But you were wrong and I've just died inside I'm outta love again-I'm outta love again The love we shared will never ever die inside my heart I swear I never dreamed that we would ever drift apart Taken in my tears subside I'm feeling lost, can I survive without you I'm outta love again ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Billy (Sykes) It was the midnight hour when the boy broke Out of Frisco Running scared he's moving from the heat The electric chair was the sentence there But they didn't take the time or care to see That it wasn't Billy They call him public enemy No. 1 But they can't know what's going on They call him public enemy No. 1 But they can't know what's going on Cruising in a car heading down the main street To see my girl, she's waiting there for me The cops are tailing with their sirens wailing But the one thing they can see is there ain't Just Billy oh no Gonna race this car get away from here Start a new life, there'll be no more fear for me No no no They call me public enemy No. 1 But they won't know what's going on They call me public enemy No. 1 But they don't know what's going on with me I'll tell you girl if we make it to the borderline We will be free just you and me I swear I will make you mine till the end of our time Now Billy's got a gun and he's heading for the border Moving fast they're almost in the clear Police are waiting with an ambush, saying There ain't nothing passing here, not even Billy They're gunning Billy down in the middle of the street Till him full of lead and his girl begins to scream no no no They called him public enemy No. 1 But they don't know what's going on They called him public enemy No. 1 But they don't know what's going on They called him public enemy No. 1 Gotta shoot to kill cause he's on the run They called him public enemy No. 1 They called him Billy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Ptolemy (Sykes) People at the city say he's buried underground They're turning over the stones But there's nothing here to be found Looking to the desert in a cool moonlight Nobody watching, there is no one out tonight Standing in the shadows there's a real mean guy I don't know if I'll make it and I don't know if I'm gonna die tonight Take a caravan to the limit of the city Smoke the hookah pipes where the people have no pity Ptolemy The dogs will howl in the market square You'll bargain for your life But you leave their treasures there Don't you go astray on the wrong side of the city Fighting for your life where the people have no pity Ptolemy I wish I'd never listened To that old high priest He told me of the riches They buried beneath Down in the crypt where the men fear to tread She danced the seven veils and the boy was nearly dead Don't you go astray on the wrong side of the city Fighting for your life where the people have no pity Ptolemy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) Black-Hearted Woman (Sykes, Franklin, Appice) When she walked in the room I was drawn Like a fool almost hypnotised You made my heart beat, baby, like never before Underneath her disguise I saw trouble and lies But I walked right in She said tonight I'm gonna make you push it And that's the score Chorus: I don't want her, don't need her I'll just take what I want in the morning I'll leave her But she took me, she shook me now I'm under her spell And there's no getting over the black-hearted woman Now to her it's a game trading passion for pain And there's no way out She's gonna use and abuse, take your body Control your life Like a demon possessed she put me to the test Only just survived she said tonight I'm gonna make You use it like never before She's a filthy girl-dressed in black Walk them heels up and down your back Chain you up, pure desire Gonna set your soul on fire When she walked in the room, I was drawn like a fool I was hypnotised She made my heart beat, baby, like never before Underneath her disguise I saw trouble and lies But I walked right in She said tonight I'm gonna make you push It like never before ------------------------------------------------------------------------