They are back !

Album    : Hallucination / U.S. :Warner Bros. CD: 2-45835
                           Japan:Wea Japan    CD: WPCR227
Members  : Jack Blades (vocals, bass, percussion, acoustic guitar)
           Tommy Shaw  (vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion)
           Steve Smith (drums)
           Michael Cartellone (drums)
Producers: Don Gehman, Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw
Songs    : 

About Jack Blades...
I'm also his fan since Night Ranger's single 'Secrets Of My Success'. I remember I enjoy Night Ranger's last concert in Japan very much. How happy and joyful!! I'm into their American Hard Rock.

Of course Damn Yankees is good. When they started from Japan for World Tour, I enjoy their first concert. I like 'High Enough', 'Coming Of Age', 'Runaway' and 'Coming Again'.

About "Hallucination".
...Excellent!! I can't help falling love with these songs. My most favorite song is .... oh! all!! No songs dislike. Since, I listen it every day, every night, several repeat. It make me be comfortable, so I feel gentle in their mind.

I'm glad that Tommy and Jack released good album and I can listen it. I think this album is one of the best works I listened before in this year, and will listen now and then.

Lying in an open grave
I didn't do it
Sign says you'd better get set
I wonder who they are talking to
Down to the hole in your pocket
Way down In the valley
Go nothing but time to spend
I guess you gonna waste that, too
Easy money
Is that what you need?
Pretty little people surround you as you bleed
Bonnie with a whip and chains
Bonnie won a cracker
So pretty but she got no brains
Don't you want her number, too


How does It feel to be used?
Easy to win when there is nothing to lose
How can you teel when it's over and
time to go home?

Throwing money down a dee p black hole
Like It doesn't matter
You tell me it belongs to you
Who you think you're talking to?
Slow dancing in a whiskey haze
Ah, year, you're the victim
keep it up
keep it up all night
Till you wake up and
YOu're someone new
Hey, hey,
So close the Window
Black out the day
I see your peace of mind
It's going the other way


How does It feel to be used?
Easy to win when there is nothing to lose
How can you teel when it's over
and time to go home?
People know it's closing time
hotel, motel time

How do you know what to feel
Sucked into a world where so little is real
Someday you'll awake to discover
It's time to go home
May be you're somebody, ooh
Somebody you'll wake up to find
You're never alone

STRAIGHT DOWN THE LINE

You've bought a one-way ticket
And you headed down to Mexico
Said you're gonna find the answers
But the questions I don't know
You can't help yourself
It's not someone else
When you look in the mirror
Tell me what do you see
Are you thinking of me?
Yeah

You've got a new age guru
Sitting cross-legged on the floor
Selling some kind of voodoo
But I think he only wants to score
You can't help yourself
No there's no one else
Take a good rook around now
Tell me what do you see
Are you thinkrng of me

Straight down the line
You'll find an answer
Straight down the line
You know I believe
When all's said and done
You'd be the one
Strarght down the line

You met a Hollywood agent
With a big house on the hill
Says he's gonna leave his wife
But you know that he never will
You can't help yourself
No, there's no one else
When you look in the mirror
Tell me what do you see
Are you thinking of me

Is it time to make a reservation
Do you need a ride to take you home
Or will it always be destination unnown
Oh, no!

Do you need a little reecreation
A little something that will feed your soul
Don't you love it when you finally
Find your way home...
Oh, yeah
Straight down the line

You'd be the one
Yeah, I believe it
Time ain't wasted
Time ain't wasted
Can I spend my time with you