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The Reds at the Stereo Society
The Reds: Cry Tomorrow
Download a bundle of ten long excerpts from Cry Tomorrow (22Mb): mp3 | m4a
Additional engineering: Carl Beatty
Production assistants: Jason Appleton, Valerie Ghent,
Laura Janisse, James Rosenthal
Mastered by Leon Zervos at Absolute Audio, New York City
Produced by Mike Thorne
Cover design by JR Rost
Booklet design and print production by Jim Mokarry
Cover photograph from the video Cry Tomorrow directed by Michael Hilf
Production management by Jeanette Buckley
Scroll to the individual tracks for lyrics, details and streaming audio excerpts.
Waiting For You
written by Rick Shaffer
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Mike Thorne: bass, drums & percussion
Tish & Snooky: backing vocals
Waiting For You
Lyrics
So it shall remain
I walked the wire so tightly
Make it through another night
Come on baby, take a chance with me
To find and you will follow
So long and endlessly
Darkness is my friend
I try to find the order
To a slow hypnotic end
Gimme Shelter
written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Mike Thorne: bass, drums & percussion
BJ Nelson, Tawatha Agee & Gina Taylor:
backing vocals
Gimme Shelter
Lyrics
Oh a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter
Oh yeah I’m gonna fade away
War, children
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
See the fire sweeping
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
Rape, murder
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
The floods are threatening
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I’m gonna fade away
Love, sister
It’s just a kiss away
It’s just a kiss away
Torn And Frayed
written by Rick Shaffer
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Mike Thorne: bass, drums & percussion
Valerie Ghent: backing vocals
Torn And Frayed
Lyrics
You’re not the one, you’re not the one
It wasn’t long ago I remember you said
Don’t let go, don’t let go
It’s feeling torn and frayed
And realising there’s no end to pain
Who’ll say the words and dry our eyes?
Please hold the ones with torment in their hearts
Burning so bright, no cries tonight
It’s feeling torn and frayed
And realising there’s no end to pain
Terror In My Heart
written by Rick Shaffer
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Laura Janisse: bass
Mike Thorne: drums
Terror In My Heart
Lyrics
Many times I’ve died
Tried all I want to
Tried all I want to hide
Mistaken dreams of trust
Passion screams of lust
Where are the believers
Where are the believers now?
How could you know the terror in my heart?
Why can’t you see that’s tearing me apart?
Darkness from within
You know I’ve walked with him
Just for a moment
Just for a lifetime now
Eternal sleep so deep
Promise I will keep
Only the love lies
Only the hate remains
How could you know the terror in my heart?
Why can’t you see that’s tearing me apart?
How could you know?
This Time
written by Rick Shaffer & Bruce Cohen<
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards & bass
Mike Thorne: drums & percussion
Tish & Snooky, Jason Appleton, Laura Janisse & Mike Thorne: backing vocals
This Time
Lyrics
What’s lost for me is real
Never think that I planned it
One mistake, is that the deal?
Till you walk awhile in my shoes?
Please don’t judge me too severely
‘Cos it’s you I hate to lose
One More Time
written by Rick Shaffer & Bruce Cohen
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen:keyboards
Valerie Ghent:bass
Mike Thorne: bass, drums & percussion
BJ Nelson, Tawatha Agee & Gina Taylor: backing vocals
One More Time
Lyrics
You never let me down
So take me back
In your arms
I really need you now
I need to feel your heart
Heart and soul
One more time with you
I don’t belong
Desire so deep
I wait so long
A means to end
A love survives
I can’t defend
One more time with you
All So Wrong
written by Rick Shaffer & Bruce Cohen
Rick Shaffer:l ead vocals& guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Mike Thorne: bass, drums & percussionals
All So Wrong
Lyrics
What it means to me, what it means to me.
Is it in the song, is it in the song?
Is it all so wrong, is it all so wrong?
You will never know me
But you will always hurt me
And you can never change my mind
Can you pay the price, can you pay the price?
I say sometimes
More than once or twice, more than once or twice
I try hard to find
Recognition of the bored
Is it all reward, is it all reward?
You will never know me
But you will always hurt me
And you can never change my mind
Is it in the plan, is it in the plan?
I say sometimes
Where it all began, where it all began
I try hard to find
And the fawning smiles and the fawning smiles
Just to be the man, to be the man
You will never know me
But you will always hurt me
And you can never change my mind
All so wrong
All so wrong
Cry Tomorrow
written by Rick Shaffer
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Laura Janisse: bass
Mike Thorne: backing vocals, synthesizer, drums & percussion
Cry Tomorrow
Lyrics
Tomorrow waits
Left with nothing
I can’t escape
I can’t unwind
So where’s your desire
So hard to find
It’s not like you care
It’s just sorrow for something
The madness grows higher
It’s just like we’re old friends
So cry tomorrow
Tomorrow waits
Tomorrow ends
Outside Door
written by Rick Shaffer
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Laura Janisse: bass
Mike Thorne: backing vocals, drums, bass, drums & percussion
Jason Appleton: backing vocals
Outside Door
Lyrics
Lonely Town’s a place I’d rather be
Holding out so they won’t own me
Trying hard so you can understand
Finding out it’s harder to begin
A new life don’t seem to change much
Ain’t no use in trying to pretend
Do you still believe?
Will you stand with me
When others disbelieve?
It was not so wrong
Just to disagree
Knowing what you’ll find, my friend
Looks like your heart’s been broken
You’re in lonely town, trying to find an end
Shaken Cold
written by Rick Shaffer & Bruce Cohen
Rick Shaffer: lead vocals & guitar
Bruce Cohen: keyboards
Laura Janisse: bass
Mike Thorne: percussion & marimba
Valerie Ghent: backing vocals
Shaken Cold
Lyrics
And I can hardly speak
A thousand flowers are dying now
And I can’t keep from crying
I’m not the only one
Who’s crying
Baby, who’s crying now?
Another ritual of sight
There’s no resolution in your killing now
And not a thing can make it right
I’m not the only one
Who’s crying
Baby, who’s crying now?
You can pray if you want to
Deny if you want to, to save yourself
Deny if you want to
You keep missing what what I’m saying
Who am I talking to?
It’s just the innocence, that’s murder
That gets you through