Rock & Pop

What's It Gonna Take

Lyrics: Lucy Prasad
Music: Philippe Perelman
Artwork : Lejla Ahmedspahic https://www.behance.net/molecula

From the album Lucy, Racquel and me
https://www.facebook.com/lucyracquelandme/

Coffee queen

A song from 2012 about running away together.
©Greg Achord 2012

©2012 Greg Achord

This is a song about standing up for yourself in a relationship. Recorded in my home studio. For more information, lyrics and other songs please visit my site at http://johnsongs.com/page147.html The song uses a backing track from Drums on Demand https://www.drumsondemand.com/collections/my-co-writer-backing-tracks which I then augmented with an organ track from Band In A Box, tambourine and guitar fills and vocals from yours truly. Thanks for taking a listen!

I can handle anything I see on my horizon.
I’m the man who can, the one with no flies on.
Don’t try to catch me out, you know I won’t let it.
You’ll get it back in spades; you know you’ll regret it.

You always held me down and I’m mad that I let you,
I rolled over so I didn’t upset you.
Your love was selfish and I’m done with forgiving,
Get outta my life now, I want to start living.

I struggled through the dark and found the light.
I found that you were wrong and I was right.

Don’t mess with me, just let me be,
I’ve been to hell and back but now I’m in control.
Don’t mess with me ‘cos now I’m free,
My life is back on track, I’m on a roll.

So now it’s over and I see you come crawlin’,
With your tears a-flowin’ and your old caterwaulin’.
I smile and shrug and say that you had it coming,
It’s time to leave my dear, you’d better get moving.

You put stuff in my life to strangle and choke me,
To get my back up, to poke and provoke me.

Don’t mess with me, just let me be, etc.

I deserved better: a little respect.
I stood up to you and that’s something you didn’t expect.

Don’t mess with me, just let me be, etc.

Don't Mess With Me

This started out as a country song I wrote with Rob Simbeck in 2003. Thanks to Band-in-a-Box I reinvented it as a Motown-feeling song, which my producer Roger morphed into more of a blues rocker with new drum, bass, and guitar parts. The piano and sax are from BIAB.

This version is not final. Still needs work on vocals, drums, sax part, mix, etc.

Don't Mess With Me

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