TOTO


Turn Back

(1981)



1. Gift With A Golden Gun 4'01
(Bobby Kimball / David Paich)
2. English Eyes 6'08
(Bobby Kimball / David Paich / Steve Porcaro / Jeff Porcaro)
3. English Eyes 4'01
(Steve Lukather)
4. A Million Miles Away 4'38
(David Paich)
5. Goodbye Elenore 4'54
(David Paich)
6. I Think I Could Stand You Forever 5'20
(David Paich)
7. Turn Back 3'58
(Bobby Kimball / Steve Lukather)
8. If It's The Last Night 4'39
(David Paich)

Total Time: 37:39


  • David Hungate: Bass, Acoustic Guitar On "I Think I Could Stand You Forever"
  • Bobby Kimball: Lead And Backing Vocals
  • Steve Lukather: Guitars, Lead And Backing Vocals
  • David Paich: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  • Jeff Porcaro: Drums, Percussion
  • Steve Porcaro: Keyboards, Electronics, Backing Vocals
  • Joe Porcaro: Additional Percussion On "If It's The Last Night"

    Producers: TOTO and Geoff Workman
    Engineer: Geoff Workman
    Recordist: John Weaver
    Tony Lane - Design, Illustrations, Cover Design

    Recorded at
    CHEROKEE STUDIOS, Los Angeles



    1. Gift With A Golden Gun

      It's a twelve o'clock depression, my mind is in recession
      And I can't answer you
      It's the day I can't remember, I think it's late September
      Or is it April blue

      I can't find peace of mind in a world so unkind
      It's just a little heartbreaker, just a little heartbreaker, yeah

      It's a sticky situation when I'm near hallucination, and I refuse to bow
      They used to think me funny when I promised them their money
      But they're not laughing now

      Chorus:
      I can't find peace of mind, then she calls me just in time
      She's a gift with a golden gun, and she's got them on the run
      She's a gift with a golden gun, 'cause she knows what they've done

      (Instrumental break)

      Chorus

      Just what they've done, done, done, done, done
      What they've done, done, done, done, done
      Just what they've done, done, done, done, done...

    2. English Eyes

      What you're sayin' it never really crossed my mind
      I hear playin' and everybody's keepin' time
      I'm recallin' that girl I met in London town
      She was strange, young and tender and narrowed all my choices down

      Chorus:
      we ran away into the night hypnotized
      You carved your name right next to mine, English Eyes

      I was tryin' to read her lips and knew the time was drawing near
      I forgot what she said but I remember how she whispered in my ear
      I can hear laughter coming from the places we once knew
      There were stories from a stranger out of nowhere but they seemed so true

      Chorus

      English Eyes, English Eyes

      (Instrumental break)

      English Eyes

      Red sky warning, girl you really put a spell on me
      Never told me 'bout the daddy you refused to please
      You took the bishop when the king was standing right in front of you
      There's nothing in it if I can't have a girl with eyes like you

      Chorus repeats 2x

      English Eyes, yeah, English Eyes, English Eyes

    3. Live For Today

      Baby, I'm a liar when I tell you that I just don't care
      Babe, I've got to have you but you're never ever, ever there
      Hey, the game is over, give it up right now
      You're teasin' me, baby, how do you expect me to be without you

      Chorus:
      You let your hair down low
      You didn't want to know about lovin' me, babe
      Let's live for today, tomorrow may never come
      Let's live for today, tomorrow may never come
      But you just can't tell anymore

      Baby, you're a teaser but you just don't dare
      Baby, keep your secrets, this whole thing just ain't fair
      Tonight is almost over, tomorrow you'll be gone away
      So please baby, won't you stay

      Chorus


      (Instrumental break)

      Chorus

    4. A Million Miles Away

      I don't want to know the reason why you don't love me
      I don't want to know the reason why you don't care
      I don't want to know the reason why you're leavin' me
      I'm not the only one that lost my love way down there - way down there

      I don't want to hear the reason why you don't need me
      I don't want to hear the reason why you don't stay
      I don't want to hear the reason why you're seeing him
      All I know is that I want you back, but you're

      Chorus:
      A million miles away and it's killin' me inside
      There's a stranger in a carriage and he's takin' her out tonight
      The devil's ridin' on a full moon and he sends his love
      When I'm a million miles away

      (Instrumental break)

      I don't want to be the reason why you don't love me
      And I don't want to be the reason why you don't care
      I don't want to be the reason why you're leavin' me
      I'm not the only one that lost my love

      Chorus

      He sends his love and I'm a hundred million miles away

    5. Goodbye Elenore

      I wanna give her something she'll remember
      And she say, "No, no, no, no, no"
      I wanna squeeze her tight and not offend her, yeah
      She said, "No, no, no, no, no"
      (And he thought that she was coming back, but she wrote him a letter)
      Sealed it with a kiss and placed it in front of my door

      Chorus:
      Seems as though you've got your way before
      You left me standing helpless just when I need more
      You broke my heart for the last time, you broke my heart for the last time
      You broke my heart for the last time, goodbye Elenore

      I tried to tell the boys all about her, yeah
      And they say, "No, no, no, no, no"
      They told me she was loose, no doubt about her
      Well I say, "No, no, no, no, no"
      (And he thought that she was coming back, but she wrote him a letter)
      Sealed it with a kiss and placed it in front of my door

      Chorus
      (Instrumental break)

      Chorus You broke my heart for the last time, broke my heart, it's the last time
      You stole my heart and now you're gone forevermore

    6. I Think I Could Stand You Forever

      Would you say no if I asked you for your hand
      Could you believe in the same words that I don't understand
      And would you cry if I told you I must go

      Chorus:

      I've been waiting such a long, long time, I think I could stand you forever
      I've been wanting you a long, long time, I think I could stand you forever

      Would you say no if I asked you for this one chance
      Am I a fool to believe that this night is circumstance
      I wish that for once you could see the look in your own eyes

      Chorus

      (Instrumental break)

      Chorus

      I think I could stand you forever
      Think I could stand you, think I could stand you forever, yeah
      Think I could stand you forever, yeah - I think I could stand you
      Think I could stand you forever, yeah - forever and ever
      Think I could stand you forever, yeah
      Think I could stand you forever and ever and ever

    7. Turn Back

      Only the wind sang the words he could hear
      Born of the sand washed ashore on a tear
      Time wrote the lines on his face like a scroll
      Love is a loss to the man with no soul

      Chorus:
      Run through the darkness he hears - turn back
      There's no survivors, you can't turn back
      Dreams keep him turning back the years

      (Instrumental break)

      Raising his sail cast away on his own
      Motherless child on a sea all alone
      Morpheus calls but they won't lay him down
      Creatures of midnight appear with no sound

      Chorus

      (Instrumental break)

      Run through the darkness, turn back the years, turn back the years

    8. If It's The Last Night

      I don't know if you'll understand
      But I'm hopin' that you'll follow me down to the waterway
      I'll be there if you change your mind
      Listening to the ticking of the hands on a clock working overtime

      Chorus:
      If it's the last night it oughta be left for lovin', girl
      If it's the last night it oughta be left for lovin', girl
      If it's the last night it oughta be left for lovin', girl

      Now you're here standing next to me
      I've seen your face on every girl that I've held since you went away
      It's getting late and I have to know
      I'm mending the wings of a heart that was broken not so long ago

      Chorus

      (Instrumental break)

      If it's the last night it oughta be left for lovin', girl