All words and music written by JimDel
Produced by Bill Sperl and JimDel

1. High Way
2. Radio Love Song
3. Behaviorals
4. Miss Taken
5. Sleep, My Baby (Brianna’s Lullaby)
6. Chivalry Lives
7. Try
8. *Drummer Boy




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The High Way

Highway hypnosis
has got my weary eyes and aching head
It was the perfect evening
but don’t leave just yet your conscience said
bright lights – distinct sound
My jaw - my knee
All the world’s gone dark on me
I can’t believe ...

I’ve seen the Almighty
I’ve wandered the halls of truth
I’ve danced with souls of lightning
I’ve been beyond and back for you

Narcoleptic traffic jam
epileptic turn in the left-hand lane
I see a flash of the good-life burning down
as the scream of the brake lights pound on me

Who knows who holds me
wipe my tearing eyes, hold my broken hand
Internal bleeding
I feel a warming smile and a heavenly hand
Bright lights – indistinct sound
Harmony
A new world has dawned on me
I can’t believe ...

I’ve seen the Almighty
I’ve wandered the halls of truth
I’ve danced with souls of lightning
I’ve been beyond and back for you

I’ve seen the Almighty
I’ve wandered the halls of truth
I’ve danced with souls of lightning
I am beyond –

Who knows who told me
shock my fearing eyes and my shaking head
No-one’s leaving
as it happens only in fairy-tales
Bright lights – distinct sound
Eternity
The new world belongs to me
without you here

I see the Almighty
I wander the halls of truth
I dance with souls of lightning
I am beyond without you

I’ll see you when I’m around
Don’t you know I’m always around ...

High Way
Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Drums and percussion
Bill Sperl – Keyboards
Eddie Profet Jr. - Bass
Matthew Schilling - Guitars
Josh Schmidt – Guitar solo
Wendy Frankonis – Backing vocals Shoshana Rahmani – Backing vocals


Radio Love Song

When our paths crossed I saw you standing there
All dressed up
Donned in black I nearly lost my breath
I was all choked up
Should I call
Should I fade or
Should I stand and stare

Babe, when I met you
All the love songs on the radio
they, at last, came true

We laughed and talked, drank and danced
All night long
I held you close, smelled your hair
I never want to let go

Babe, when I kissed you
All the love songs on the radio
they, I swear, came true

But I see a tearful healing
you can’t let it go
Why can’t we kiss the past goodbye

You’re worried about what they’ll say
I don’t care, I’ll pave the way
You’re worried about what they’ll do
I don’t care, babe
‘Cause I love you

Babe, when I left you
All the sad songs on the radio
they, I cry, came true

Even for just the summer time ...
What a long drive home, that night ...
You don’t know what you’re missing ...

Radio Love Song
Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Drums and Percussion,
Programming: Keyboards, Strings, Drums and Percussion
Bill Sperl – Keyboards
Eddie Profet Jr. - Bass
Matthew Schilling - Guitars


Behaviorals

You ask me for help
fall to your knees
You light one up and get beat down
then do what you please
You say you know the way
but never walk the line
Cruising ‘till the break of day
the hearts you break are fine

Behaviorals, behaviorals
Wide – eyed, turn your head away
Behaviorals, behaviorals
Why?

Your feat is one on one
I hear the canter of feet on sand
You jump the fence
and slice homeroom
you never take the hand

Now I have faith in you
and I want to understand
But your pocket’s full -
you won’t open
Will you ever be a man

Behaviorals, behaviorals
Wide – eyed, turn your head away
Behaviorals, behaviorals
Why?

Tabula rasa
Natura versus nutritus
Ea in quibus versamur
Behaviorals, behaviorals
Wide – eyed, turn your head away
Behaviorals, behaviorals
Why?

Behaviorals, behaviorals
Stand tried - turn your head away
Behaviorals, behaviorals
Mine!

Behaviorals
Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Programming: Drums and Percussion (what?!), Bass, Keyboards, String Orchestration
Tim Eckstrum - Bass
Josh Schmidt – Guitar



Miss Taken

You can see
but you can’t feel
And you want to order
but the menu is all sold-out

You’re on the sea
and you feel a bite
And you want to reel
but she’ll flash the gold and hold-out

Every nice girl is another man’s woman
all the fine times are just smiles to lend
Her warm lying eyes show temporary moments
I’m hoping that my babe’ll be as faithful as them
I have Miss Taken again
Made another friend

I can’t lie
yeah I’d like to buy
You know I’ve got the money
and I want your honey
First you’re talking but then you’re walking

Every nice girl is another man’s woman
all the fine times are just smiles to lend
Her warm lying eyes show temporary moments
I’m hoping that my babe’ll be as faithful as them
I have Miss Taken again

Made another friend
Don’t want another friend
You won’t let me in
Will it ever end ...

Miss Taken
Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Drums and Percussion
Bill Sperl – Piano and Keyboards
Eddie Profet Jr. – Bass
Pat Montefusco – Lead and Acoustic Guitars
Matthew Schilling – Rhythm Guitar
Wendy Frankonis – Backing vocals
Shoshana Rahmani – Backing vocals



Sleep, My Baby (Brianna’s Lullaby)

Baby, you want to see
Baby, you are the world
Sunshine peeks through your smile
It lets rainbows live in the night

So dry your eyes
Sleep tonight
Ease your reason until the morning
Close your eyes
Dream tonight
With innocence
Sleep, my baby now ...

Mommy whispers sweet and
Daddy holds you tight
Send a kiss to clouds, from fallen ice-cream
May your belly-laughs ring through your life

So dry your eyes
Sleep tonight
Ease your reason until the morning
Close your eyes
Dream tonight
Glowing golden
Sleep, my baby now ...

Baby, grow to be strong
And always ask why
For someday you’ll sit beside me
Holding my hand through the night

So dry your eyes
Sleep tonight
Ease your reason until the morning
Close your eyes
Dream tonight
Love tomorrow
Sleep, my baby now ...

Sleep, My Baby (Brianna’s Lullaby)
Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Percussion, Programming: Piano, Keyboard, Bass, Drums and Percussion, Horns, Strings
Bill Sperl – Digital Strings
Ken Borrmann - Clarinet
Lynn Borrmann – French Horn


Chivalry Lives

I don’t know why
you don’t hold the door
You know what’s right
but you choose not to
She’s going to fly
she can’t take no more
She’s lost her faith
So you must show her ...

Chivalry lives
Chivalry lives on

I don’t know why
you don’t help yourself
You need a cause
Well it all comes back
I see in your eyes
you’re all nose to stone
I’ve been there too
but babe, you’ve got to know ...

Chivalry lives
Chivalry lives on

I know I
want to break the tide
I will serve
with a bowed-head smile and
I will fight
with feet on fire
I will die to
pump life into ...

Chivalry lives
Chivalry lives on

Chivalry Lives
Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Drums and Percussion
Bill Sperl – Keyboards
Eddie Profet Jr. - Bass
Tony DeMaio – Lead Guitar
Matthew Schilling – Guitar
Josh Schmidt - Guitar


Try

I just want to love the one who loves me
That’s all I want to do

I can’t start the fire that burns in me
I want to love you

You’re the warmest to the real thing
I don’t want to hurt you

So take your flame that won’t ignite me
I wish I loved you

Oh, oh ...

I just want to love the one who loves me
That’s all I want to do

I can't try to love the one who loves me
I wish I loved you

Try
Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Drums and Percussion, Programming: Piano, Keyboard, and Orchestration of Strings, Brass and Woodwinds


*Drummer Boy

Jim Del – Lead and Backing Vocals, Live Drums and Percussion, Programming: Drums and Percussion


All words and music written by JimDel

Produced by Bill Sperl and JimDel

1. High Way
2. Radio Love Song
3. Behaviorals
4. Miss Taken
5. Sleep, My Baby (Brianna’s Lullaby)
6. Chivalry Lives
7. Try
8. *Drummer Boy

©2001. All rights reserved – JimDel in association with ADRENALIN RECORDS.

*Courtesy of Harry Fox Agency with participants EMI Music, Inc. and International Korwin Corp. License #1010250023. The Little Drummer Boy: written by Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone.