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Richie Kotzen

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War paint
Walk with me
Love is blind
Go faster
Fooled again
OMG (what's your name?)
Help me
Bad situation
Lie to me
Fear
You can't save me
Doing what the devil says to do
Remember (reprise)
What is
High
Change
Special
Paint it on
Holding on
Until you suffer some (fire and ice)
The road
Regret
Damaged
War paint
(Verse)
Take my days when building the me
Old man struggle lifting his feet
I'm not tied to you
I'm not tied
Wrapped up tight and won't let me go
Tell myself I'm cuttin' the rope
I'm not tired to you
Cut me open, oh
(Chorus)
I wanna bury my feelings
Until my mind escapes me
I wear the war paint to fight off my daemons
I'll tell them all to find me
Honey, oh, honey, you'll never find me
(Verse 2)
Could be free, but baby you scream
All them vultures want you to bleed
You're not tied to what they see
There's still time, if you believe
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Take a second, maybe suddenly you'll see
You're not tied, take it, take it from me, oh
(Chorus)
I wanna bury my feelings
Until my mind escapes me
I wear the war paint to fight off my daemons
I'll tell them all to find me
Don't you say good until it's over
I wear the war paint to fight off my daemons
I'll tell them all to find me
Honey, oh, honey, you'll never find me
(Instrumental break)
(Chorus)
I'm gonna bury my feelings
Until my mind escapes me
I wear the war paint to fight off my daemons
I'll tell them all to find me
Don't you say good until it's over
I wear the war paint to fight off my daemons
I'll tell them all to find me
Honey, oh, honey, you'll never find me
				
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Walk with me
(Verse)
I'm not your maker, you're living dangerous
You wanna push your independence to the light
Where is our innocence? We're rhythmless(?)
We've started out of time
I'm feeling dangerous, I'm afraid of us
I know we've crossed the line
(Chorus)
If you could walk with me, different tonight
If you could walk with me, there's not wrong or right
Where is our innocence? We're rhythmless(?)
And live(?) your part tonight
If you could walk with me, till we're out of sight
(Verse 2)
I feel unstable, I'm having crazy thoughts
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I wanna test my limitations all the time
And how did it come to this? 
Our socialness taken over life
I'm feeling dangerous, I remember us
Back when you were mine
(Chorus)
If you could walk with me, different tonight
If you could walk with me, there's not wrong or right
Where is our innocence? We're rhythmless(?)
And live(?) your part tonight
If you could walk with me, till the end of time
Walk with me till the end of time
Where is our innocence? We're rhythmless(?)
And live(?) your part tonight
(Bridge)
Aw, baby, walk with me till the end of time
				
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Love is blind
Oh this time, she got the best of me
And I've got nothing to stand by

Help me preacher
No one's praying for me now
They're all up off knees o' uh o'

Call the dealer
I've got to change that constitution
This woman's got me so spun out
So I keep rollin', rollin', rollin' through my days
I was playing like the gambler
What's my name

But I know this time, she got the best of me
And I've got nothing to stand by
Oh this time, I gotta make the deal
I know it's suicide, but love is blind

Mother Nature has somehow stunt my evolution
Cuz I'm trippin backwards oh
Cut my losses
Someone paid me restitution
Woman's got me so tore up
Believe me but I'm rollin', rollin', rollin' through my days
I was playing like the gambler
What's my name

But I know this time, she got the best of me
And I've got nothing to stand by
Oh this time, I gotta make the deal
I know it's suicide, but love is blind

Oh oh,
What am I gonna do?
I'm falling, falling, falling ... for you
What am I gonna do?
Just don't say I love you, What am I gonna do?
What am I gonna do?

But I know this time, she got the best of me
And I've got nothing to stand by
Oh this time, I gotta make the deal
I know it's suicide, but love is blind 
				
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Go faster
Yeah I've been racing ever since I was 15
And ain't nobody ever catch me
Yeah I was hurtling and taking that money
We made it look so damn easy

You can't slow me down, slow me down
Only got one speed

I'm gonna run till
I can't see the ground
I just wanna keep going faster
Yeah yeah yeah
I'm gonna fly
and I ain't coming down
I just wanna keep going faster
Baby that's going faster
Yeah yeah yeah
That's what I gotta do

I won so many times
I've never been busted
I don't remember how to loose
You're always saying
that I can't escape justice
How many times I gotta tell you 
				
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Fooled again
Here I go playing the fool again...
Yeah I am, I am, I am
Tired and broken by the changing hands
Missing what I never had

Not a dream not a thought not a one desire
Nothin' needed
All the fear, all the loss, all the pain in me
Has all faded

I'm losin' sleep for the last time
I'm in too deep it's no surprise

So here I go playin' the fool again...
Yeah I am, I am, I am
Tired and broken by the changing hands
Missin' what I never had

I shoulda known by the jaded past
Times can change but nothing lasts
I never thought of being fooled again
But I am, I am, I am

Not a lie, not a fight, won't be traumatized
By my anger... not too strong, not too weak
I can't turn around for a stranger
I feel the heat, I'm tempted still
I can't be led by your own will 
				
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OMG (what's your name?)
Bored by the day to day, I'm gonna fly then drift then fall away
Don't you bother waking me up if you not gonna thrill me
How you gonna justify the world if you can't justify today
Born like a baby in the cradle, burned like judas did to Jesus
You know you better learn to laugh it off before it gets too deep into ya... Yea

I say o' o' o'
No but I'm sinking...

O' my god what's your name?
I think I'm putting my hand up on the bible because I feel like I'm born again
O' my god I hope she saves, cause I believe that she's the key to my survival
You say why? I don't know I just say it again

Out in the midnight in the valley, war is the feeling on the street
I got a little bit of heat on my back, I gues I'm gonna have to use it

I say o' o' o'

O' my god what's your name?
I think I'm putting my hand up on the bible because I feel like I'm born again
O' my god I hope she saves, cause I believe that she's the key to my survival
You say why? I don't know I just say it again 
				
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Help me
I've been thinking so much but
Can't remember everything
Maybe I was hypnotized by last night

Asking all my friends about it
They can't tell me nothing
All I wanna do is know why

Help me, lady
Help me remember
Help me I'm unfortunate
Lady, I'm just a poor boy

Help me, I'm crazy
Help me, I love you
(You know I don't)
I say, help me, I'm confused

Help me with the things I don't get so well
Help me with the things I can't do

Help me, can you help me?
Gonna try, gonna try this time
'Cause I don't wanna lose

Help me understand it
Understand it, understand it
Understand it, understand it
All right

Help me to forget about the past that I'm running from
Help me to remember
Remember how I feel about you

Help me, Stacy
Help me, Alicia
Help me, Leticia
It's gotta be one of you

It's making me crazy
My eyesight is hazy
You're torturing me, baby
Now where're we at?

I say, help me, I want you
Help me, I need you
Help me, I'm bleeding you
I'm so confused
				
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Bad situation
I can't let it go
I can't stop thinkin how you feel
Why you ever come around me
Doing everything.. that's what you do
Causing a pain...
And making a pleasure
Leaving baby
But leave me alone!

You're so bad for me girl
Bad for you, see
Oh it's just a bad situation all around

And it's too bad for me that I keep waiting for you
Just a bad situation all around
If you're in love with me,
Why don't you tell him? Come clean..
It's a bad situation all around

I've been havin doubts
Maybe I'm meant to be alone
I've been thinking love escapes my kind
But I don't know for sure
Why you're playing with me..
Why can't I let it go?

You're so bad for me girl
Bad for you, see
Oh it's just a bad situation all around

Every time I touch you, I wanna say I love you
But you know I, I know I can't just trust you
I say it ain't fair.. I should've been aware
That you had a husband when you said "I want you"

You're so bad for me girl
Bad for you, see
Oh it's just a bad situation all around

I want to be one with you
I want to run with you
I want to have fun with you baby, alright 
				
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Lie to me
You know I feel like
I'm leaving hanging by a thread
Last night I believed in everything you said
I don't sweat on the details because the pictures in my head
I just need to believe in everything you said

So come on and lie to me lie to me baby
Tell me what I wanna hear
You know anything's believable if we both say so
I want you to lie to me lie to me baby
Show me what I wanna feel
You know anything is possible when you can't say no

Lie to me lie to me
Tell me what
I wanna hear
Lie to me lie to me
I'll believe it

I'm so caught up you got me hooked again
I cant stop thinking about it I can't let it end
I know I might pay for it later but I know the cost
I can't blame you no, or thank you, because I've already lost

I just want you to lie to me lie to me baby
Tell me what I wanna hear
Anything's believable if we both say so i want you to lie to me lie to me baby
So we can feel how we wanna feel You
Know anything is possible when you can't say no

It's not about the future or anything we did before
It's nothing that we can control
It's just letting go

I want you to lie to me lie to me baby
Tell me what I wanna hear
You know everything's believable if we both say so
I want you to lie to me lie to me baby
Feel how you wanna feel
Anything is possible when you cant say no
Don't say no
Lie to me lie to me tell me what I wanna hear
Lie to me lie to me baby feel how you wanna feel
Lie to me lie to me baby I just wanna believe
Anything is possible when you can't say no
Don't say no 
				
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Fear
I shut the door and promising
The shallow word that suffocates the air
There's always hope but then your never there
What can I do to forget that I'm breaking

And I fear that I've finally reached the end
And I feel like I'm gone again, gone again
Fear, I know it's never gonna end
And I feel like I'm going down, going down, breaking, ooh, ooh

I'm alone no matter where I am
The shadow led me to my own distress
Here I go into the black again
But you won't hear me when I'm waking with the dead

And I fear that I've finally reached the end
And I feel like I'm gone again, gone again
Fear, I know it's never gonna end
And I feel like I'm going down, going down, breaking
My mind tricked my mind and my soul sold my soul
My heart broke my heart and I'm wasted
And I'm wasted throught my fear

And I fear that I've finally reached the end
And I feel like I'm gone again, gone again
Fear, I know it's never gonna end
And I feel like I'm going down, going down, breaking, ooh, ooh 
				
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You can't save me
I sold my soul
Just so I could feel paid
I broke my heart
So I couldn't feel pain
I lost my faith
'Coz I can't justify the wait
I've got no hope
That's only for losers and fakes

I'm nothing but user
And none abuser
You don't wanna know what's on my mind
I know I'm just a fool
but I'm not foolin',
I'm not afraid of make fool out of my self

Fuck your money
Fuck your fame
Fuck my life
I'll walk away
Fuck our love
Fuck I'm sorry for anything i've ever done

You can't save me
You better keep yourself to someone else
Fading, I'm just fallin' into my condition
Faded, you better put your time in somethin' else
Save me, but don't worry about it now
Better save your-fucking-self

I lost my mind
Just so I could escape
I still got time
But I know, is too late
I still got friends
To tell me I'm ok
I still alive
But I keep on testing fate

I'm nothing but user
And none abuser
You don't wanna know what's on my mind
I'm nothing but a fool
but I'm not foolin'
I'm not afraid of make fool out of my self

Fuck your money
Fuck your fame
Fuck my life
I'll walk away
Fuck our love
Fuck I'm sorry for anything i've ever done

You can't save me
You better keep your self to someone else
Faded
I'm just fallin' into my condition
Failed, you better put you time in something else
Save me, but don't worry about it now, you better save
your-fucking-self

Try just a little, understand what I'm telling you
I'm not what you think
Start it off
Do the right thing
Life got in the way
You don't know what to say
I'm not asking why

You can't save me
You better give yourself to someone else
Fading, I'm just fallin' into my condition
Faded, you better put your time in somethin' else
Save me, but don't worry about it now
Better save your fuckin' self 
				
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Doing what the devil says to do
I find it hard, to believe
It took all of my living years for me to see
The most of the things I've ever wanted
And most of the things I've ever owned,
Keep me from knowing my soul

I feel I'm falling into a trial
I'm listening to a lot of people telling me what I could have
And you know, it's sound so good, when your head is full of substances and deceive
I don't wanna be lonely, I need a word
I don't wanna be hurt the way that I am

So I'm trying to talk to an angel
But I feel like I'm talking to myself
No matter how hard I try to live
Or how much I believe in you, I'll keep doing what the devil says to do
I'll keep doing what the devil says to do

I keep talking to myself and the conversation never seems to change
You're a liar, you're a fool and you think you're paying dues
Saying that you're hopeless, faithless, but that ain't true
You're just living something I can't find my way out of

And I'm trying to talk to an angel
But I feel like I'm talking to myself
No matter how hard I try to live
Or how much I believe in you
I keep doing what the devil says to do
I'll keep doing what the devil says to do

And I'm trying to talk to an angel
But I feel like I'm talking to myself
No matter how hard I try to live
Or how much I believe in you
I'll keep doing what the devil says to do
I'm just doing what the devil says to do
I'll keep doing what my heart tells me to do
And I listen to my heart
And I listen to my soul
I'll keep doing what the devil says to do 
				
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Remember (reprise)
I can read your mind
Don't you know it's easy for me after all this time
And I know when you lie
If were talking on the phone or one on one
The truth you never hide

I don't need you to teel me there's something wrong
Because your eyes give you away
I can't seem to get my head around you
Being gone

So before you go, so before you leave
Remember, remember, remember
That your heart's not unbreakable
Remember, remember, remember
That I still love you

All the things I thought I'd never see
Have now come to be
You said our love was strong
I said that we belong
But somehow I lost you suddenly

I can't seem to forget about you being gone
'cause your eyes are unmistakeable
I can't seem to get my head around you
Being gone

So before you gone, so before you leave
Remember, remember, remember
That your heart's not unbreakable
Remember, remember, remember
That I still love you

I can't seem to get my head around you
Being gone

So before you gone, so before you leave
Listen to me , listen
Remember, remember, remember
That your heart's not unbreakable
Remember, remember, remember
That I still love you

You said I would never leave you
I said i think you're crazy
You said I would never leave you
I said I think you're crazy 
				
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What is
I don't love, I don't give, I don't care' cause
I've already been there
I don't want, I don't need, I don't take,
'cause I had it all
I don't guess, I just know, what this is,
is a place to die from

I am not what you see, you are real but not for real
I'm not scared, I'm not high, I'm a man
and I'm all right
We are here, we are gone, and the rest are
left to wonder

What is life, in the hand of illusion, what is life
to a man in confusion
What is right, for a life that is losin', what is time,
what is, what is, what is?

Take look, open up, look inside, what is there
In your heart, in your mind, in your soul
there's the answer
Why you want, why you need, the side effects of
what you see

What is life, in the hand of illusion
What is life, to a man in confusion
What is right for a life that is losin', what is time,
what is, what is, what is?

I don't pay, I just know what this is,
is a place to die from... 
				
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High
I am so innocent I swear to God o but you pressure me
And I can't help but unwind
By now you know I'm not the stable kind
But you keep on testing me
Until I make you cry how long can I take you
You should know that the only way I can deal

Is to get high so high until everything in gone
And I can't say a word
I get high so high
Just to shut you out so I can't hear a word

I know your lookin' for an endless love
But this thing ain't what you think
It's more like endress work
You say I'm jaded and my mind is thick
And that I'm blind to trust
But I can see right through you
How long can I take you
You should know that the only way I can feel

Is to get high so high until everything in gone
And I can't say a word
I get high so high
Just to shut you out so I can't hear a word

When I am away from you my head is strong
When I get near you make sure my mind is gone
The only way to deal with you is to get high... 
				
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Change
You keep runnin' but there's no escape
You try move but your lying in the way
You look around and all your friends
Have been through what your doin'
And your doin' it all thinkin'

(chorus)
Everything is gonna change
But life ain't gonna wait
you can fight it but you know it
Never will change
ain't nothing gonna change till you change

You're goin' out tonight been up two days
You're dead inside but you're still awake
You walk around and everybody's tellin' you beautiful
And your doin' it all thinkin'

Everything is gonna change
But life ain't gonna wait you can fight it but you know it
Never will change ain't nothing gonna change
Till you change

So far away from your home
No voice of reason completely alone
You know your shadow wont keep you warm

(chorus) 
				
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Special
You said to me I'm not what your looking for
You're movin' on somebody else can give you more
So I let you go thinking will never meet again
Buy here you are and baby I wanna know

Did you wanna be rich did you wanna feel special
Did you wonder in all this time how I
Was livin without you
Did you wanna be cruel did you think that I never would go on
Now all the things you thought you had have gone
Let that be a lesson to you

Its funny how life can change
You never know until you walk away
I see you now and your lost and afraid
Because you know had love
And you wanted more

I give your more than I ever got back
You left me here to forget about that
All the things you thought you had have gone
Let that be a lesson to you

You're special you're so special you're so special to me
All the things you thought you had have gone
All things that you wanted now you know were wrong
You gave up love for something more let that be a lesson to you 
				
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Paint it on
Come on down
I'm am waiting
I've been so down
And i need some truth from you
Cause' my time is used and abused

Don't you know..
I, i got to paint me on
When i smile, i've got to paint it on
If i cry, i got to paint me on, my tears
It's not that i'm hidding, oh no
I'm just too stoned

I'm not running, and i'm not stucked
I have been running, to all my used
As much we all use
It's just the same old song
Sad but strong

Don't you know..
I, i got to paint me on
When i smile, i got to paint it on
If i cry, i got to paint me on, My tears
It's not that i'm hidding, oh no
I'm just stoned

[Solo]

Don't you know..
I, i got to paint me on
When i smile, i've got to paint it on
When you tell hi, i got to paint, all
When i cry, i got to paint it all, My tears

There's no love, or pain, or fear.
There's no light, or dark, not here.
There's no past, no now, no future
I've got to paint, all. 
				
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Holding on
It's so easy to see
Where we've been
Made us what we are

We can try to pretend
That it's more
More than what it is

So do it
Lie to ourselves
Know what we know
Act like we're okay

And laugh through the pain
It's maybe the change
Could lift us all

We keep holding on, holding on
To something that we don't believe in
Moving on, moving on
Something keeps us from leaving
All this time is just giving us a past
We both know that
We want something to last

Come on teach me this time
'cause I'm free
My eyes open wide
There's something left to persist
But the dream that we can't define

That's why I can't walk away
All that you say
Is coming from inside
You gotta leave what you can,
Leave what you can behind

We're holding on, holding on
To something that we don't believe in
We're moving on, moving on
But something keeps us from leaving
All this time is just giving us a past
We both know that we want something to last

We're holding on, holding on
To something that we don't believe in
We're moving on, moving on
But something keeps us from leaving
Moving on, moving on
Something keeps us from leaving
All this time is just giving us a past
We both know that we need something to last 
				
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Until you suffer some (fire and ice)
Lately I can tell that something ain't right
I don't' see the fire when I look in your eyes
One time up and the next time down
This may be the last time that you'll see me around...said

Well it sure seems to me nothing matter tonight
And all those things we worked out
They got lost in the fight
It's not enough, girl, that I gave you my soul
I just want to know if we've got
Anything left at all, and I say

[Chorus:]
Hold on now baby
This could be the last time we stand
This could be the last time that we say good-bye
The picture shatters
Can't find the words to save it
Tell me what to do how can I make it right?
We will always be fire and ice

Well promises made, in the heat of the night
You could sure spit them out, girl
But they've long passed me by
Nobody knows about, the show you put me through
This could be the last time that I get through to you

[Chorus]

Well I can't stand to see no more damage done
But you'll never understand until you suffer some

[Chorus] 
				
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The road
I take my time, 'cause I know where I'm going
I know the signs, 'cause I've been there before
Like trying to teach an old dog a brand new set of tricks
You know your feelins may change
But the patterns will stick

It's why I keep going down, the same road
That I've been, expecting changes
You know I keep going down, the same road (same road)
Like I don't know, where it's taking me
It's the same old road

Don't try to take me
Where I don't wanna go
I'm tired of breaking
And my spirit it's too old
Now, I don't wanna let you down with false hope
'Cause I feel those things
Your young heart brings
I've got to let you go

I keep going down, the same road
That I've been, expecting changes
You know I keep going down, the same road (same road)
Like I don't know where it's taking me
It's the same old road, the same old life,
I can't escape the signs, I keep movin' on, for something more, I can't [?]

You know I keep going down, the same road
Oh, that I've been, expecting changes (changes)
You know I keep going down, the same road (same road)
Like I don't know where it's taking me
It's the same old road, it's the same path taking me,
I know I got on the same road, the same way, and I can't escape it, babe
You know I try to run, I try to avoid, I can't run, Oh

It's why I keep going down, the same road
That I've been, expecting changes
You know I keep going down, the same road, the same way
I don't know, where it's taking me
I keep going down the same old road
I live here
And it's my home
I'm never leaving
It's the same old road
I've been there
And I'm going be
What it's making me
It's the same old road
I live here
And I gotta be, what it made me
Yes it's the same old road 
				
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Regret
How many times are we gonna play the game
Thinkin that it's gonna change?
I wish I could somehow forget your face
It ain't easy to turn and walk away

So if I'm nothin to you
Everything is everything that you wanted

How did I let myself go?
We've been down this road before, I've seen it
I guess by now we should know
But you make it hard to let go

How many times are you gonna make me pay
For my feelings that I can't deny?
You show me hope then then you take away
Keep me believing, it's something in your eyes

But I'm feelin' that anything can change
Everything is everything that we make it

How did I let myself go?
We've been down this road before, I've seen it
I guess by now we should know
Maybe this time we should leave it all behind

I paid debt
And now I think I understand regret
I guess it's time to be a man
And face the time that I've spent using you
How did I know I'd regret?

Oh, I've paid debt
And now I understand regret
It's time to be a man
And face all the time that I spent losing you
How could I know I would regret?
I didn't know I was losing you 
				
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Damaged
I don't think I should be here
But maybe we can make it through the night
I don't know what I'm feeling
Maybe that it's better somewhere else

Somewhere where my mind turns off
And my heart becomes the guide
And maybe my guard is down
But I don't seem to mind, oh

But I'm damaged from the man that I was yesterday
Yeah, it's the damage from the light that one time used to shine on me
And now it's over and done

You make me think I'm feeling
But you know I'm just a vulture on your heart
And I don't want to be this
I'm sorry I misled you from the start

To somewhere I've never been
And I could never be
So maybe my time is up
And I should let it be, oh

But I'm damaged from the man that I was yesterday
I guess I'm damaged from the path that I walked led me astray
And now it's over and done

Yeah, I'm damaged from the man that I was yesterday
I guess I'm damaged from the path that I walked led me astray
I guess I'm damaged from the choices I made yesterday
And you know it's damage done, there's nothing more I can say
And now it's over and done 
				
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