Deeper Shades Of Blues

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1. Leavin' My Blues Behind
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, rhythm & lead guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass

(1st verse)
Light the candle say your prayers
Words don't mean nothin' unless you care

(chorus)
I've got to live just one day at a time
Well you've got your troubles baby
Lord knows I've got mine
But sure as the sun rises I'm leavin' my blues behind

(2nd verse)
With all the wisdom misunderstood
Time has come to knock on wood

(chorus)

But sure as the crow flies
I'm leavin' my blues behind

(solo)

(3rd verse)
Love is magic dangerous fun
But when it's gone best to leave it alone

(chorus)

But sure as the sun rises
I'm leavin' my blues behind

(solo vamp)

Sure as the sun rises
I'm leavin' my blues behind
Sure as the crow flies
I'm leavin' my blues behind

Sure as the sun rises
I'm leavin' my blues behind

2. Love With You
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & lead guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass

(1st verse)
Burnin' burnin' heart and soul
Flamin' passion, burnin' out of control
Yearnin' yearin' wild desire
Steamin' hot, love is on fire

(chorus)
I just want to make love with you
You, you, you, you baby
I just want to make love with you

(2nd verse)
Down down down down deep inside
Deep at the bottom, where love has no pride
Turnin' turnin' spinnin' round
Girl you turn my world completely upside down

(chorus)

(solo)

(3rd verse)
Take me take me do or die
Take my love baby, don't be shy
Churnin' churnin' cherry pie
Your love has takin' me completely by surprise

(chorus)

(solo)

(chorus)

I just wanna make love with you

3. Deeper Shades Of Blues
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, bass, rhythm & lead guitars
David Northrup: Drums
Dean Germain: Organ
Dave Gross: Synthesizer strings

(1st verse)
Used to be so happy, how could love be so cruel
Even though, I had to let you go
I found that love, was no gift from above

(chorus)
Time please mend this broken heart
Save this sad lonely fool
Make all the pain fade away
From the deeper shades of blues

(2nd verse)
Hopelessly I wonder
So often sad but true
Some days I find, you lingering in my mind
It used to be, so easy to be free

(chorus)

(bridge)
Now most of my days are filled with rain
But I know in my heart we will never be the same again

(3rd verse)
Love has left me lonely
Sweet sweet memories of you
Remember when we were lucky to have been
Loved by one then never by none

(chorus)

4. Strange Love
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & slide guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
David Paich: Organ

(1st verse)
I told ya baby what I like
You said there's nothin' to it
So why don't it feel right
Honey let's get down to it
You're always takin' what you want
And I'm gettin' less than what I need
Here's hopin' that ya don't
Make my poor heart bleed

(chorus)
You've got strange love
You've got strange love
You've got strange love
Well you must be from hell
Cause you ain't from above

(2nd verse)
For such an innocent little girl
Whose love is always on time
It might be your world baby
But this one's on my dime

(chorus)

(solo)

(3rd verse)
Some things are best left unsaid
But how could you be without mercy
Another fool mislead, another love is history

(chorus)

5. Assault And Battery
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Rhythm & lead guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
David Paich: Organ & synthesizers
Charlie Dechant: Alto sax & saxello

Instrumental

6. Your Love
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & lead guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
David Paich: Organ
Jerry Riggs: Harmonic fills & vamp lead guitar

(1st verse)
It's mighty peculiar how you treat me this way
You love me tomorrow, you hate me today
Nevermind, you wasted my time I know
Here I am like it or not
I'd like to say that I liked you a lot
But nevermind, you wasted my time I know

(chorus)
Your love is like burning fire
Your love is wild desire
Your love ain't takin' me higher
And you'll never know

(bridge)
And you
Ya wasted my time, wasted my time
So nevermind, so nevermind
Cause I know, I know baby, I know baby, yeah

(solo)

(2nd verse)
So here I go like it or not
I'd like to say that I liked you a lot
But nevermind, you're wasting my time I know

(chorus)

7. Maybe Forever
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & lead guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
David Paich: Synthesizers

(1st verse)
Sentimental breakdown
Hounds are scratchin' at my door
Clouds began to thunder
Do you really want some more
I slowly dialed your number
Your face never left my mind
This spell you got me under
Had to catch up in time

(chorus)
Better hold on to me tonight
Whatever will be we'll be alright
Maybe forever through the lonely nights

(2nd verse)
Silent mumbles, secret voices cry
For this person, I just can't deny

(chorus 2x)

(solo)

(3rd verse)
Just beyond the back yard
Girl you're only as wise as a fool
The stranger is calling
But I'm the one who still loves you

(chorus 2x)

It maybe forever baby
It maybe forever baby
It maybe forever

8. Come Back To Me
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, acoustic & dobro guitars
Michael Galloway: Harmonica
Dave Gross: Synthesizer strings

(1st verse)
I just got a letter from my baby
She's comin' home to me
She's leavin' Thursday on the Noon train from Tennessee

(chorus)
Come back to me, come back to me little girl
Come back to me, come back to me little girl

(2nd verse)
Just talked to my sugar long distance telephone
She's catchin' a greyhound headin' out of San Anton

(chorus)

(bridge)
Lady please
Girl if you could see me now
I know you'd see the change
Here's to hopin' that somehow
Your journey will arrange, you to

(chorus)

(3rd verse)
Western Union man knockin' on my front door
Telegram says three days she'll be in Baltimore
Two weeks gone by and I'm wonderin'
Why I'm wonderin' at all
Just then the phone rang
Collect from Niagra Falls

(chorus)

(bridge)

(chorus 2x)

9. Moulin Rouge
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead & background vocals, rhythm & slide guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
David Paich: Organ

(1st verse)
She put her high heels on
She's goin' out tonight
She wears a short dress short
She likes to wear it tight
Moulin Rouge
She's queen of Pigal
Well she's nobody's fool
She ain't the kind to tell

(chorus)
She's got ways, lovin' in the backseat
She's got ways, to make a man cry
She's got ways, walkin' down the bad streets
She's got a way to, she's got a way to,
She's got a way to

(2nd verse)
She's a wild eighteen, her look will hypnotize
Legs long and lean, she's a sweet surprise
Hey Moulin Rouge
She's a can-can girl
Well she's nobody's fool
Welcome to her world

(chorus)
To tantalize

(bridge)
She knows what to do, to make you feel just right
She knows how to move, ooh Moulin Rouge

(solo)

(3rd verse)
She put her party face on
She's got sex in her eyes
She'll keep ya up ‘til dawn
She'll make a dumb man wise
Hey Moulin Rouge
She ain't the kind to tell
Well she's nobody's fool
She's figures oh what the hell

(chorus)

Moulin Rouge, Moulin Rouge

10. You Make Me Ill
(written by Les Dudek)
Les Dudek: Lead vocal, rhythm & lead guitars
Jeff Porcaro: Drums
Max McGuire: Bass
David Paich: Organ

(1st verse)
Paid for my shame, I'm here ‘til the end
Cause I know you still need me, so go on and pretend
Or maybe I'm in trouble, in a witches spell
But I'm lookin' towards heaven, you can have all this Hell

(chorus)
Well I was a man yesterday
Nothin' could betray my will
But somehow from so cold
Your words now I behold, make me ill

(2nd verse)
I was so lonely, I thought you were the one
But now that ya own me, you're havin' no fun
Well I hope that your runnin', will stop before you
Find yourself wishin', you weren't such a fool

(chorus)

(solo)

(3rd verse)
Life has no pity, love suffers the cost
I'm givin' up to the city, to forget the lost
I said bring on a new day, let it shine to be
Cause I'm makin' my getaway, I gotta find me

(chorus)

But somehow from so cold
Your words now I behold, make me ill

Les Dudek (Deeper Shades Of Blues)
Album Credits & Liner Notes


Produced by: Les Dudek

Engineers: Thomas Sehringer and Wally Walton

Assistant engineers: Ken Allardyce and Darren Schneider

Mixed by: Wally Walton

Recorded at: Schnee Studios, North Hollywood, California

Additional recording and mixed at: Greg Rike Productions, Altamonte Springs, Florida

Front & back cover photography: Bob Feather

Guitar picks photography: Tim Tew

Special Thanks to:
"The Moms" Dudek, Papa & Momma Sehringer, Steve Bussey, Paul Rivera, Curt Mangan, Greg Rike, Joe Skinner, and Mike Capaldi

In Loving Memory of three people who inspired my life and music:

My Father: Harold Jasper Dudek October 5, 1916 – October 9, 1985

My Mother: Alma Madeline Dudek November 28, 1925 – December 7, 2000

Fellow musican and dear friend: Jeff Porcaro April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992

Manufactured by: Eflat Productions, Inc.

Goober Music / ASCAP