Live And Learn (Lyrics & Credits)

Lyrics and Credits

All spoken parts written by Kerry Murray

On this album
• Kerry uses
Takamine 6-string acoustic guitar,
PRS McCarty electric guitar,
Shure microphones,
Coors light vocal cord lubrication

• Bert uses
Fender ’89 Stratocaster with Vintage Noiseless pickups,
Fender ’94 Ultra Strat with Lace Sensor pickups,
Ovation 12-string acoustic guitar,
PRS McCarty,
Shure and Audiotechnica microphones,
Coors light vocal cord lubrication

INTRADA IN ROCK
music: Bert Erdmann

Kerry Murray … accoustic guitar
Bert Erdmann … lead guitar, Cubase SX programming
Torsten Schmah … drums
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE
© 1990 Red Label

HISTORIC BLOOD
words: Kerry Murray
music: Bert Erdmann, Kerry Murray

Emotional placebo saw promises moonlit
He’s left her sentenced loves expatriate
This time she has a reason for feeling great unrest
This creature forces her to fill her breast

And so in sotto voce she plans for her son to be
Her true embodiment of hopes and dreams
This time she will not falter, no chance of retrograde
This child’s become a nascent barricade

Inside the dark surrounds me
Eternal warmth vibrates
The molecules around me as moisture permeates

Outside the light is calling
A purpose for my eyes
The air it wants to fill me, inflating nature’s prize

You called me here against advice
The product of double helix crossed
You called me here to justify
I am the fruit of loves labors lost
You called me here to be the living proof
The incarnation of hedonistic cost

But I can’t be just how you planned me
Even though you nurture me to fill your empty space
You protect me and correct me but nature’s influence you can’t erase

What will you do when I fall short
Will you be able to forgive me this
What will you do as I mature
Your baby’s eyes will slowly become his
What will you do when others what my time
Will happiness be true when she steals my kiss

But I can’t be just how you planned me
Even though you nurture me to fill your empty space
You protect me and correct me but nature’s influence you can’t erase

I am symbolic of the freedom you sacrificed
No form of restitution ever could suffice
I will remain in touch with this sense of guilt and love
Forever bound to you by this historic blood

Kerry Murray … vocals, acoustic guitar
Bert Erdmann … guitars, Cubase SX programming
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE

SOMEONE TOLD ME ONCE
words & music: Kerry Murray

My girlfriend from Wataga left me standing in the fog about a mile or so outside of town without a penny to my name
I hitched a ride with Daphne who broke my heart in half she said she’d take me home but then she’d have to be back on her way
I hit the switch and laid around, I considered going underground but someone told me once that you can’t win if you don’t play
I woke up next to Betty grable who showed up on my cable just to let me know that someone was approaching my front door
I looked out through the peephole and I saw a dozen people who danced in their pajamas while their children sat and cried

I hit the switch, dropped to the floor, I crawled away from my front door
But someome told me once that cheaters never win the game

I woke up in the morning and I went down to the store and then I bought a dozen bananas to teach my chimp to type
I handed over my cart to a boy I knew as Bart who said he saw me just the other night out walking’ in the fog

I hit the switch, the lights came on, I did not know her folks weren’t gone
But someone told me once to get my ducks all in a row
I got my ducks in a row, I got my ducks in a row
I got my duck’s in a row

Kerry Murray … accoustic guitar, vocals
Bert Erdmann … guitar, Cubase SX programming
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE

FAÇADE
words: Kerry Murray
music: Bert Erdmann & Scott Stauffer

She don’t know I saw her without her frontstage mask
I didn’t know her well enough to get a backstage pass
So I hid behind the curtain as the closing number played
As the critics and fanatics left I held my breath and stayed

I saw her façade

I don’t know who does her make-up but they don’t get paid enough
To cover up that weathered skin surely must be rough
She plays the part of innocence, a victim of betrayals
But I saw the power in her eyes and the blood beneath her nails

Now you might think I ran away screaming through the night
And under normal circumstances I’d say that you’d be right
But one fact remains that you just do not know
Last week she hid in my backstage as I came down from my show

I saw her façade

She saw me shed my chivalry and cast my faith aside
She clenched her fists and shed a tear as she found out how I’d lied
And as she saw my jaded skin I kept tucked underneath
She hear the snap of heartstrings caught in my teeth

Kerry Murray … vocals
Bert Erdmann … guitar, Cubase SX programming
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE

FEEL
words: Kerry Murray
music: Bert Erdmann & Kerry Murray
concept: Bert Erdmann

I feel like I’ve seen it all before
There are no surprises left for me anymore
I feel like there’s nothing left to do
But watch the tube ‘til my brains turn to goo
And if there’s an alternative I haven’t got a clue

I feel like throwing in the towel
Trade in my youthful smile for a grumpy mans scowel
I feel like staying here in bed
To conversate with the voices in my head
And give in to the habits that I know I’ll never shed

I could feel you, you could feel me too
No one should feel like we do
I want to feel new

You feel like you’ve seen it all before
This happens every time and it’s becoming such a bore
You feel like there’s nothing left to do
For years you’ve tolerated my bad moods
And there might be something better than avoiding my bedroom

You feel like throwing in the towel
It’s sad what I’ve become and how I’ve drug you down
You feel like staying here in bed
But you’ve made a liberation plan instead
You’ve got to leave in spite of all the voices in your head.

Kerry Murray … lead guitar, vocals
Bert Erdmann … acoustic guitar, back vocals, Cubase SX programming
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE

LIE TO ME
words: Kerry Murray
music: Bert Erdmann

I can feel it, You sell a smile to me
They used to be for free
I can feel it, the promises of wealth
The warmth found in yourself
I can feel it, I can’t afford much more
I know what’s in store
I can feel it, Time robbed us of share
And left us cold and bare

I’m not strong enough tonight
So wait till morning light

Lie to me, won’t you acquiesce this plea
Lie to me, I can’t take such honesty.
Lie to me, tomorrow’s years away for me
Lie to me, it’s the only thing tonight I can believe

I can see it, our future seemed so bright
We hat it sewn up tight
I can see it, with no more time to spare
Our hearts became threadbare
I can see it, We lost our warranty
And life time guarantee.
I can see it, and due to sloth and greed
Our strength has atrophied

Kerry Murray … vocals
“Carlos Dave VanClapton” aka Bert Erdmann … guitar, Cubase SX programming
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE

CARPE DIEM
words: Kerry Murray
music & concept: Bert Erdmann

I had love for you, we were a pair
When you’d walk in I’d have to stop and stare
But things changed and we fell apart
When something ends another must start
We said ‘til death do us apart
And you made a gravestone of my heart
So let’s call a spade a spade
And put an end to this mess we made

We broke down, that’s okay,
I’m exhausted by the games we play
This union is not exempt
Familiarity has bred contempt

(Seize the day now) no shame in giving in
(Seize the day now) to quit is not a sin
(Seize the day now) I claim carpe diem

We said ‘til death do us part
And you made a gravestone of my heart
So let’s call a spade a spade
And put an end to this mess we made

We had our good times, that is true
But now I do things just to avoid you
I take this entropy, gather it up and make it work for me

Kerry Murray … acoustic guitar, vocals
Bert Erdmann … guitar, backing vocals, Cubase SX programming
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE

WHERE WERE YOU
words & music: Bert Erdmann

Where were you,
when they burned the houses down
Where were you,
when they hunted him down the street
Where were you,
when they shouted there’s no space for aliens
Where were you,
where were you that night?

Where were you,
when a friend needed a helping hand
Where were you,
when he started to build the wall
Where were you,
when he talked about suicide
Where were you,
where were you that night?

Where were you,
when the dog was fed while man starved next door
Where were you,
when the tramp froze to death
Where were you,
in that dark and freezing cold night
Where were you?
(And) where are you tonight?

Kerry Murray … accoustic guitar, vocals
Bert Erdmann … lead guitar, vocals, Cubase SX programming
Torsten Schmah … drums

HERE AND THERE
(in the middle somewhere)
words: Kerry Murray
music: Kerry Murray & Bert Erdmann

Miles and miles of empty space
That’s what I cover just to see your face
Taillights flash through pouring rain
Missed opportunities get washed away
Facts don’t bend, facts don’t break
How many more facts can we take
Sometimes it’s hard to keep believing
When one of us is always leaving

I want you here, you want me there
Our love gets lost in the middle somewhere
We spend more time on the telephone line
Than I do in your arms and I think that’s a crime
I want you here, you want me there
Our love gets lost in the middle somewhere

Hours and hours of thinking time
Until the early morning alarm chimes
Counting beans ‘til Friday appears
Don’t focus on the longing Sunday rears
The past lives, the past thrives
We can’t get past the tact of separate lives
Which one of us gives in to the other
Which one forgets about their druthers

I want you here, you want me there
Our love gets lost in the middle somewhere
You’re got your home, I’ve got mine, too
We both have our roots but baby what can we do
I want you here, you want me there
Our love gets lost in the middle somewhere

Kerry Murray … acoustic guitar, vocals
Bert Erdmann … lead guitar, back vocals, Cubase SX programming
© 2004 / 2006 / 2013 KayaMBeE

SHE BROKE ME
words: Kerry Murray
music: Bert Erdmann, Kerry Murray

Mother said when I was young she’d keep me free from sin
But every time she’d look away I’d bite the apple again
I’d try to hide my dirty knees to steer clear of her wrath
She always saw right through the leaves and drug me to the bath

It’s funny how it really didn’t take all that long
And I believed that she must be completely wired wrong
And looking back it isn’t hard for anyone to see…

She broke me, of all my mortal sins
She broke me, and made me clean again
She broke me, of nonconformity
She broke me, but I just could not agree

I took a wife, the kind of girl that momma warned about
She took me far away from home and made me twist and shout
I thought the scales from my eyes so I could finally see
But all I really saw as just how blind a boy can be

It’s funny how it really didn’t take all that long
And I believed that my friends were completely wired wrong
And looking back it isn’t hard for anyone to see

She broke me, of all my hopes and dreams
She broke me, of happiness it seems
She broke me, of any self-respect
She broke me, well what did I expect

All alone without a cause I thought my life was through
Pieces scattered everywhere and that’s when I met you
You kept me from the epilogue at the bottom of the hill
With dozens of blank pages for the two of us to fill

It’s funny how it really didn’t take all that long
And I believed that I must be completely wired wrong
But looking back it isn’t hard for anyone to see…

She broke me, of my feelings of self-doubt
She broke me, and showed me what life’s about
She broke me, of thinking of the end
She broke me, and put me back together again

TAKE MY ADVICE
words: Kerry Murray
music & arrangement: Bert Erdmann

Spent a lot of time tryin’ to do it just right
You’ve been sleeping through the days just to lay awake at night
You live for all the others trying to be what they all need
And the social expectations have destroyed your creed
You can’t make em all happy and keep up your mental health
You might provide the wool for their eyes but you’ll never fool yourself
The diagnosis is quite simple, it will never do you wrong
You’ve got to put it all behind you cuz it’s time to move on

Empower yourself, you have the power to progress
Empower yourself, decide to move on and not regress

Seize the day now and put the past away
Seize the day now and live life your own way

Years and years you piss away
Because you want to have things your own way
If you want a love profound
Then work together, find a common ground

Empower yourself, you have the power to progress
Empower yourself, decide to move on and not regress

Where were you, did you think to look inside yourself
Where were you, behind the finger that you point at someone else?

Well sir, we all put on a mask but not to seem what we are not
We want to hide away our shame for what we feel we haven’t we got
So if you can find the worth in what you have got to say
Than you can take pride in your face and finally throw that mask away

Empower yourself, you have the power to progress
Empower yourself, decide to move on and not regress

Let her feel you
You should feel her too
They’ll want to feel like you two
Each day will feel new

It could all end tomorrow despite your brave reprise
What kind of life will you see pass before your eyes

Empower yourself, you have the power to progress
Empower yourself, decide to move on and not regress