Lou GRAMM


Ready Or Not

(1987)



1. Ready Or Not 3'29
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
2. Heartache 4'29
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
3. Midnight Blue 3'58
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
4. Time 3'23
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
5. If I Don't Have You 4'39
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
6. She's Got To Know 4'01
(Lou Gramm)
7. Arrow Thru Your Heart 3'47
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
8. Until I Make You Mine 3'31
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
9. Chain Of Love 4'02
(Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon)
10. Lover Come Back 5'19
(Lou Gramm)

Total Time: 40:38


  • Lou Gramm -Vocals
  • Nils Lofgren - Lead Guitar
  • Bruce Turgon - Bass & Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards, Lead Guitar on "Lover Come Back"
  • Ben Gramm - Drums
  • Philip Ashley - Keyboards & Programming
  • Additional Musicians:
  • Richard Grammatico - Lead Guitar on "If I Didn't Have You" & Additional Guitar on "Time"
  • Stanley Sheldon - Bass Guitar on "Midnight Blue" & "If I Don't Have You"
  • Dan Mancuso - Additional Guitar on "Chain Of Love"
  • Mark Rivera - Soprano Sax on "Lover Come Back"

    Horns:

  • Ben Grammatico, Sr. - Lead Trumpet
  • Ben Grammatico, Jr.: Trumpet Mark Rivera - Tenor Sax
  • Crispin Cioe - Tenor / Baritone Sax

    Background Vocals:

  • Mark Rivera, Sherryl Marshall, Cookie Watkins

    Produced by Pat Moran & Lou Gramm
    Engineered by Pat Moran
    Assistant Engineer: Chris Bubacz
    2nd Assistant Engineers: Victor Deyglio, Roger Talkov
    Mastering: Ted Jensen
    Cover Photography: Timothy White.
    Grooming: Elizabeth Fried.
    Art Direction: Bob Defrin.
    Representation: Dennis Katz. Production Coordinator: Stephen Nider.

    All Tracks Written by Lou Gramm & Bruce Turgon
    Except: Track 6 & 10 by Lou Gramm
    Arranged by Lou Gramm and Bruce Turgon

    Special Thanks:

    Rosanne Gramm, Nickolas and Matthew Gramm, Ben and Nikki Grammatico, Delores Runfola, Doug Morris, Paul Cooper, Bob Defrin, Bob Alpert, Kathryn Kierleis

    Recorded at BEAR TRACKS RECORDING STUDIOS, Suffern, NY and The HIT FACTORY RECORDING STUDIOS, NY.
    Mixed at
    The HFRS, NY.
    Mastered at
    STERLINg SOUND, NY by Ted Jensen.





    1. Ready Or Not

    Chorus:

    Here I come ready or not
    Here I come ready to go
    Here I come ready or not
    Here I come ready to go
    VERSE:
    Something that you said
    Goes 'round my head
    You know I'm gonna ride tonight
      You look at me
      But all I want to see
      Is you tonight

      Nothing can stop me now
      Nothing can stop me now
      Just a question of time

      Nothing can stop me now
      Nothing can stop me now
      Now that I've made up my mind
    Chorus:

    Here I come ready or not ...
      Verse:

      Girl you got the look
      As if you wrote the book
      But I don't understand
      How one girl can be so sure
      You've got me in the palm of your hand

      Nothing can stop me now
      Nothing can stop me now
      Just a question of time

      Nothing can stop me now
      Nothing can stop me now
      Now that I've made up my mind
    Chorus:

    Here I come ready or not. ..

    2. Heartache

      Heartache's done nothing but cover me
      Heartache don't know when to let me be
      Heartache won't learn no lesson in love

      I get no reply or tell-tale lie
      It's all the same in love
      You give me a hard time
      But I can't deny
      It's you I'm thinking of

      Oh lonely nights have taken their toll
      I don't care anymore
      I just want you to know
      There's a place in my heart
      You're a part of my soul
      And I Can't let go

      Heartache's done nothing but cover me
      Heartache don't know when to let me be
      Heartache won't learn no lesson in love

      I know there's a way, I'm sure there's a way
      though it seems we're worlds apart
      If love is the crime
      then it's yours and it's mine
      We're prisoners of our hearts

      Oh lonely nights, they have taken their toll
      I don't care anymore
      I just want you to know
      there was nothing to gain
      losing passion for pain
      but I won't let go

      Heartache's done nothing but cover me
      Heartache don't know when to let me be
      Heartache won't learn no lesson in love

      Oh lonely nights have taken their toll
      I don't care anymore
      I just want you to know
      there was nothing to gain
      losing passion for pain
      but I
      won't let go

      Heartache's done nothing but cover me
      Heartache don't know when to let me be
      Heartache won't learn no lesson in love

    3. Midnight Blue

      Ain't got no regrets and I ain't losin' track
      Of which way I'm going
      I ain't gonna double back
      no.
      Don't want no misplay
      put on no display

      An angel? No! But I know my way
      oh yeah
      oh.
      I used to follow
      yeah
      that's true

      but my following days are over

      Now I iust got to follow through.
      I remember what my father said.
      He said: Son
      life is simple
      it's either cherry red or -
      Midnight blue
      oh
      midnight blue
      oh!

      You were the restless one and you did not care
      That I was the trouble boy
      lookin' for a double dare.
      I won't apologize for the things I've done and said

      But when I win your heart I'm gonna paint it cherry red.
      I don't want to talk about it
      what you do to me

      I can't live without it
      and you might think that it's
      Much too soon for us to go this far into the -
      Midnight blue
      oh
      it's midnight blue
      oh!

      Things could be difFerent
      but that's be a shame

      'Cause I'm the one who could feel the sun
      right in the pouring rain.
      I won't say where and I don't know when

      But soon there's gonna come a day
      baby
      I'll be back again.
      Yeah
      I'll be back for you
      you see
      I'm saving up my love.

      Midnight blue
      oh
      into the midnight blue
      oh!
      Another midnight blue
      oh
      give me this midnight blue
      oh!
      Into the midnight blue
      oh midnight blue

      oh
      midnight blue
      oh!

    4. Time

      There was a girl, she led a life of a runaway
      She didn't dream, she couldn't feel, she had to get away
      from everything she knows

      Where do you go?
      Who do you turn to, when you're all alone?
      The world is cold do what you have to, to make it on your own

      It takes Time to live
      Time to love
      Time to do anything you're thinking of
      Take Time... , cause
      Time rolls on

      There was a boy, he had a dream, he had to get away
      A need to see, the other side of life so far away
      from the world he knows

      The world is hard, but there's a small chance
      I know how he feels
      To chase a dream, you got to run, boy
      You've got to make it real

      It takes Time to live
      Time to love

      Time to do anything you're thinking of
      Take Time... , cause
      Time rolls on

      It takes Time to live
      Time to love
      Time to do anything you're thinking of
      Take Time... , cause
      Time rolls on

      You have been my dream
      Do you believe in me?
      Then let our hearts be strong
      and let it go go go go

      It takes Time to live
      Time to love
      Time to do anything you're thinking of
      Take Time... , cause
      Time rolls on

      (4x)

    5. If I Don't Have You

      Another lonely day
      Watching the blues turn to gray
      I never felt so much sorrow
      Don't know if I can face tomorrow
      Don't know where this love lies
      Need to know but that's all right
      Feel lost and alone and last
      I need to be needed

      Not if I don't have you
      There's nothing for me tomorrow
      Not if I don't have you
      Loneliness turns to sorrow

      Another lonely day
      Watching the blues turn to gray
      I never felt so much sorrow
      Don't know if I can face tomorrow
      Don't let this love die
      Like the sun at last daylight
      You can't leave love alone
      How long would it last

      Not if I don't have you
      There's nothing for me tomorrow
      Not if I don't have you
      Loneliness turns to sorrow

      Another lonely day

    6. She's Got To Know

      She's got to know
      She's got to know why
      you love her so
      tell her why
      show her how you love her hard
      she got to know
      give her reason
      show her why

      I can't believe
      you don't want to see,
      she's slipping away from you
      can't you remember
      the way you won her heart
      you see it's tearing her apart
      you don't say the things you used to

      She's got to know
      She's got to know why
      you love her so
      tell her why
      show her how you love her hard

      I know this love is like a raging sea
      but she's drifting away, away from you
      you'd better think about it
      can you do without it?

      She's got to know what you want to do
      You better tell her
      oh yeah
      I said tell her
      Oh yeah
      Tell her
      Oh yeah
      She's got to know

      I can't believe
      you don't want to see
      she won't be hanging around
      she's your woman
      she makes you proud
      you feel ten foot tall
      strutting 'round this town

      She needs to be seen
      seen by your side
      Walking hand in hand
      with her loving man

      She dresses up for you
      does her hair for you
      She wears your ring
      it means everything

      Now take a look around
      who's looking at your woman
      They wished they had
      the sweet thing that you have

      Take my advice
      don't want to say it twice
      Don't let her go
      oh no no no

      You've got to
      hold her
      squeeze her
      you know how to please her

      Show her the soul of a man
      Now if everything feels right
      you tell her tonight
      she's gonna love you like
      no one else can

      You'd better tell her
      oh yeah
      Come on tell her...
      oh yeah
      I said tell her
      oh yeah

      She's got to know

    7. Arrow Thru Your Heart

      I can't take her light
      She's walking dynamite
      We go sin for sin
      Sometimes I wish I'd been more careful

      She's got her lights on low
      You better come on slow
      The way she keeps her late night promises
      It's all to let you know

      She'll put an arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart
      She'll put an arrow thru your heart
      Put an arrow thru your heart

      Monday-I need her
      Tuesday-I need her more
      Wednesday-still no answer when
      Thursday-I know she's home
      She calls late, late Friday night
      Whatever's wrong she will make it right
      Saturday-I get my way
      but Sunday-I need her again

      She'll put an arrow thru your heart
      An arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart

      An arrow thru your heart
      Another arrow thru your heart
      Yeah an arrow thru your heart
      need to hit me hard
      Arrow through your heart
      An arrow thru your heart

      LEAD GUITAR SOLO

      She'll put an arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart
      She'll put an arrow thru your heart again
      An arrow thru your heart again
      Arrow thru your heart
      (Arrow thru your heart)
      Arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart, yeah
      Put an arrow thru your heart
      Put an arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart
      Arrow thru your heart

    8. Until I Make You Mine

      I see your face and I remember when
      So much has changed between now and then
      There was a time you had to make up your mind

      The feeling grows, it was born on tears
      and kept alive for all these years
      But I won't rest until I make you mine, all mine

      I used to fantasize that you were mine
      You tried to hide your feelings but I'm not blind
      I saw it when I looked into your eyes
      I've had a thing about you for a long, long time

      Why do I wait? When I know nothing's changed
      This love should fade, but feels the same
      I can't believe, that you still think of me

      How many times have I been dreaming of?
      Whispering the words, my words of love
      I can't believe that you still dream about me

      I used to fantasize that you were mine
      You tried to hide your feelings, but I'm not blind

      I saw it when I looked into your eyes
      I've had a thing about you for a long, long time


      Now I dream
      Over and over again
      The same dream
      I'd better stop

      I see your face and I remember when
      So much has changed between now and then
      There was a time you had to make up your mind

      I used to fantasize that you were mine
      You tried to hide your feelings, but I'm not blind
      I saw it when I looked into your eyes
      I've had a thing about you for a long, long time
      For a long, long time
      For a long, long time
      I love you for a long, long time

    9. Chain Of Love

      I can't find, I can't find the words to rescue me
      but this time, this time I've got to make you see

      You, you were the one the only one who understands
      Do you hear me?
      Do you know what I need?
      You've got to take me as I am

      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me
      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me

      I can't lie, I can't lie, my heart will tell me true
      You know me, you know me better than I think I want you to

      Now, I go it alone
      A solitary man
      This is something I must do for myself
      You got to take me as I am

      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me
      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me

      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more

      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me
      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me
      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me
      Saying it once, I'll say it again
      No chain of love on me

      Let's take a walk
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more
      Take a walk down Lonely Street once more

    10. Lover Come Back

      And you said we were thru but I already knew
      It was over

      Now it's all I can do, just to keep my promise to you
      So lover come back

      Back to the arms of the one who let you down
      needs to hold you

      I know I'm not an easy man but I'll do anything I can
      just to hold you

      Lover Come Back
      Lover Come Back
      Come on home

      First you say that we'll try
      Then you say it's goodbye
      If I thought that you might
      I would wait here all night

      I feel a shadow cross my heart
      I hear an echo of your voice in my mind
      Now it's tearing me apart
      'cause I've loved you for such a long time

      Lover Come Back
      Come Back

      Come on home

      Lover Come Back
      Lover Come Back
      Come on home
      Lover Come Back
      Lover Come Back
      Lover Come Back
      Ohhh, Lover Come Back
      Lover come home
      Lover Come Back
      Lover Come Back
      Come on home
      Lover Come Back
      Come back
      Come on home
      Come on home
      Come on home
      Lover come home
      Come on home
      Come on home
      Come on home
      Come on home
      Lover Come Back
      Lover Come Back