Meissner, Stan - Undertow

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		Track Name	Length
	1	It's No Secret	03:36
	2	River of Fire	04:31
	3	No Way Out	03:32
	4	Someone Like You	04:33
	5	If It Takes All Night	04:44
	6	Shelter in the Heart	04:58
	7	Day After Day	04:06
	8	When I Look In Your Eyes	04:56
	9	I Don't Believe It's Over	05:27
	10	The Lucky One	04:15

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Stan Meissner: all vocals & instruments, except
Peter Cardinali: bass on "Someone Like You", "If It Takes All Night", "Shelter In The Heart" & "Day After Day"
Pat Perez: soprano sax on "River Of Fire"
John Panchyshyn: sax solo on "If It Takes All Night"
Carl Dixon: background vocals on "It's No Secret" & "I Don't Believe It's Over"
Terry Crawford: background vocals on "River Of Fire" & "Shelter In The Heart"
Lori Yates: background vocals on "Shelter In The Heart"

Produced and Engineered by Stan Meissner at the Wychwood Studio, Toronto
Assisted by Rags Schnauzer
Mixed by John Naslen at Manta Sound, Toronto assisted by John 'Wheels' Hurlbut, John Rodd & Brad Haehnel
Additional mixing by Mark Linett at Your Place Or Mine, Glendale, CA and by Stan Meissner at The Wychwood Studio
Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles, CA
Art Direction, Design and a little extra tension by Linda Kozlowski for WHAT? Graphics
Photography by Chris Chapman

Special thanks to: David Steinberg, Carl Dixon, Rob Yale, Peter Cardinali, Glen Burtnick, Shari Saba, Judy Stakee, John Bonci, Jennifer O'Sullivan, Annie Croft, Linda Worden, Andrew Mech, Harvey Wolfe, Mark Linnett, Doug Sax, Jason Vorheis, Naz, E.T., David Roberts, David Quinton, Rags, Wilf & Faigie, Michael, Russell, Barbara, Bernie, Jonathan, Bryan & Joanna and all of the other brave individuals who put up with me through the making of this album.

Very Special Thanks to Andy Hermant, Ross Munro, Melinda Skinner and all the staff at Duke Street Records and MCA Records. Thanks also to Nancy Glatt

Extra Special thanks to Fred Mollin & Clive Desmond for help, insight, support and for just being damn good friends.

A Million Extra Special Thanks to Jerry Renewych & Geoff 'dude' Kulawick and all at at Warner-Chappell for loyal support and assitance so far above and beyond the call of duty that it isn't even funny!!!!

"If It Takes All Night" was recorded with the assistance of Factor

Dedicated to Wendy Vincent whose spirit shall live forever.

IT'S NO SECRET
(Stan Meissner, Fred Mollin)

Too many nights I walk in the shadows
Too many days I've been living a lie
Playing this game just tears me up inside

When I call I keep it simple
When I see you I can't look in your eyes
What's gonna happen when these two worlds collide

It's gone on for far too long
Now the pieces have come undone

It's no secret
I can't fight it
It's no secret
When you tear down the walls
It's no secret
I tried to hide it
But it's no secret at all

Somebody's got to go the distance
Somebody's got to take the fall
In love there's just no justice at all

I gotta let you know
That I don't wanna let her go

It's no secret
I can't fight it
It's no secret
When you tear down the walls
It's no secret
I tried to hide it
But it's no secret at all

There's no easy way to say
I never wanted you to find out this way
But I can't stand to let this go on forever

I guess you had to find out

It's no secret
I can't fight it
It's no secret
When you tear down the walls
It's no secret
I tried to hide it
But it's no secret at all

© 1992 Warner-Chappell-Meissongs Music/Zoomar (SOCAN)

RIVER OF FIRE
Stan Meissner/Glen Burtnick

The night lights up ghosts in my heart
I watch them burn as I stare in the dark
Wrestling emotions I'm drawn to the flame
Caught in the shadows that call out your name

Seraching for some kind of escape
I found my way right here to this place
Where the night has no end

All of my life
My dreams run wild
Now I stand alone
In this river of fire

Through days of despair
And nights of desire
I wait for you
In this river of fire

I still remember that look in your eyes
I wish I knew then that it was goodbye
I try to fight it but I know I can't win
Sometimes your dreams just get lost in the wind

But something beyond all time and space
Leads me right back here to this place
At the edge of this world

All of my life
My dreams run wild
Now I stand alone
In this river of fire

Through days of despair
And nights of desire
I wait for you
In this river of fire

I burn for you

©1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs SOCAN
WB Music Corp/War Bride ASCAP

NO WAY OUT
Stan Meissner

I don't know why
Things worked out this way without you
I can't deny
I never saw the cracks before our dreams fell through

Your voice still echoes down my hall
But I don't hear it at all

My heart just pounds inside this room
Night calls outside my door
But I'm climbin these walls for you

I don't understand it
But I'm so locked up in these doubts
Looks like there's no way out

Last night it rained
I thought about the times when we were just pawns in the game
And then you caught the bus to this hurricane

Now I don't even know what's right
We just wound up too tight

My dreams keep flying across this room
As I try to understand
How we ended up breaking in two

Now we're through compromising
But I'm still locked inside these doubts
Looks like there's no way out

No way out, No way out, No way out

And when you come knocking on my door
My heart won't live there no more

I'm still here playin' this game for fools
But I know I'll never win
When you're always changing the rules

It feels so never ending
When I'm lost in what it's all about
Looks like there's no way out

©1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs Music SOCAN

SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Stan Meissner

Sometimes it seems so far
When you don't know where you're going
And I wonder where you are
But would it make any difference knowing

Cause in a million years
Through the countless tears
I'll be looking for somone like you

So many endless nights
Without a hope in sight
I'll be looking for somone like you

It's been a real hard road
Seen too many poor hearts crying
How much longer
I don't know
I lose all track of time

But in a million years
Through the countless tears
I'll be looking for somone like you

So many endless nights
Without a hope in sight
I'll be looking for somone like you

How much longer am I supposed to take it
Any day now and my will will be shaken
I'm walking on glass
Waiting for you to break through
Looking for someone too


©1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs Music SOCAN

IF IT TAKES ALL NIGHT
Stan Meissner

We must be crazy
To fight for so long
But somehow in the darkness
We still keep trying to hold on

If we can make it through till the morning
There's no chance our love will break us down without a warning

If it takes all night
Babe I'm gonna let you know
If it takes all night
I don't wanna turn around and let it slip away

I can't fight
Something I don't understand
But if it takes all night
Maybe we'll find a way to have it all again

Too many tears
Fall through the night
Too much resistance
But we keep trying to tow the line

If we could just get back to where we started
There's no way we'd end up broken down or broken hearted

If it takes all night
Babe I'm gonna let you know
If it takes all night
I don't wanna turn around and let it slip away

I can't fight
Something I don't understand
But if it takes all night
Maybe we'll find a way to have it all again

When it seems like all our hope is gone
Our electric dreams will keep us burning all night long

© 1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs Music SOCAN

SHELTER IN THE HEART
Stan Meissner/Fred Mollin/Jesse Harms

Looking at the morning paper
Trying not to care
Danger signs in troubled times
We've all seen our share

It's been such a struggle lately
We're never eye to eye
Got to get a grip on it now
Cause in the end there's only you and I

We better hold on a little bit tighter
Cause there's nowhere else we can turn

When there's no ending in sight and you're goin under
There'll be a light that shines right through the darkest hour
We can stand up and fight against the rain and thunder
When the world around us falls apart apart
There's shelter in the heart

Everybody needs a candle burning
Some comfort in the dark
The simple truth can be hard to find
So many lovers miss the mark

But we've got something stong enough
To break apart these chains
It takes a lot of love and purpose
If you're gonna rise above the pain

We can't go on hiding anymore
Cause there's so much left to lose

When there's no ending in sight and you're goin under
There'll be a light that shines right through the darkest hour
We can stand up and fight against the rain and thunder
When the world around us falls apart apart
Take shelter in the heart

We've been on this broken road
For far too long
Maybe these aren't the best of times
But somehow we've got to find our way back home

©1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs/Zoomar SOCAN
Geffen Music/Thornwall Music ASCAP

DAY AFTER DAY
Stan Meissner/Billy Sherwood

Sometimes I seem so far away from you
Maybe I'm afraid to get close to the truth
Then the walls break down again and a little light shines through
Does it ever get to you?

You say there's nothing wrong
But I know that can't be right
I thought that we once were strong

But day after day
You set my heart on fire while love gets colder
Day after day
I try to convince myself that it's not over
Day after day
I'll still be waiting here
Waiting for you

I don't know how much more of this I can take
I'm caught in the middle of something I can't explain
I try to let go of you, but I keep wanting more
Just like every time before

When will I ever learn
You can't tame a reckless heart
I'm tired of getting burned

Day after day
You set my heart on fire while love gets colder
Day after day
I try to convince myself that it's not over
Day after day
I'll still be waiting here
Waiting for you

I don't know what went wrong
We had a love so strong
I just cant throw it all away
So I'll wait one more day

When will I ever learn
You can't tame a reckless heart
Watching the tables turning

Day after day...

©1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs SOCAN
WB Music Corp./Backyard Levitation ASCAP

WHEN I LOOK IN YOUR EYES
Stan Meissner

Midnight rain fades to grey without a trace
Like falling stars somehow we fell from grace

You and I are like a lock and key
Separated at the heart, bound by destiny
Maybe we're just too blind to see

But when I look in your eyes
I feel the heat of my heart's desire
When I look in your eyes
I walk right into this raging fire
Babe there's no use in pretending
I see where true passion lies
When I look in your eyes

Here we stand with all our hopes in chains
The feeling's so strong that we can't throw it all away

I don't know how a love can survive
If we can't break through all the pain inside
But the truth and our dreams will collide

When I look in your eyes
I feel the magic of your desire
When I look in your eyes
I walk right into this raging fire
Babe there's no use in pretending
I see where true passion lies
When I look in your eyes

Somehow our love got lost in the wind
I know we're gonna find a way to have it all back again

©1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs Music SOCAN

I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S OVER
Stan Meissner/Carl Dixon

What can I do
I get so crazy over you
I've been walking half the night
Wondering if it's right
To hold on any more

What can I say
I can't take another day
Of twisting in the wind
But where do we begin
To make it like before

Maybe I'm a dreamer
Maybe I'm a fool
Maybe we've got something
That's breakin all the rules

It would be a shame if we walk away
When I don't believe it's over
It won't be the same if we end this way
When I don't believe it's over
If everything we had got lost in the wind
We'd still have each other and a love that never ends
I just can't throw it all away
When I don't believe it's over

Oh now can't you see
That we're not living in a dream
But after all is said and done
You're still the only one
Who makes me feel this way

Maybe we got restless
Maybe we got confused
But when you've got so much
You've got so much to lose

It would be a shame if we walk away
When I don't believe it's over
It won't be the same if we end this way
When I don't believe it's over
If everything we had got lost in the wind
We'd still have each other and a love that never ends
I just can't throw it all away
When I don't believe it's over

This world is a hard world
When you're barely holding on
And if this chance is the last one we've got
We just can't keep runnin'
From the heat of a fire so strong

©1992 Warner-Chappell/Meissongs/Diamond Ditty SOCAN

THE LUCKY ONE
Stan Meissner

In my heart it's pouring rain
There's an undertow that feels like a hurricane
There's no refuge from this night
From the broken dreams in the cold dark light

But I can wait till the stars fall from the sky
Till the fever burns cold or the river runs dry
I can wait till kingdom come
And maybe someday
I'll be the lucky one

I've been walking down this road
For so long now it's starting to feel like my home
Sometime, somewhere I'll find my way clear
To break out of this darkness and break away from here

But I can wait till the stars fall from the sky
Till the fever burns cold or the river runs dry
I can wait till kingdom come
And maybe someday
I'll be the lucky one

Once in a lifetime somebody like you
Could tear down these walls that I can't break through
Once in a lifetime it's just a heartbeat away
So I'll keep on searching till I find you someday

And I can wait till the stars fall from the sky
Till the fever burns cold or the river runs dry
I can wait till kingdom come
And maybe someday
I'll be the lucky one

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