Kelly's first album
with Baton Rouge, "Shake Your Soul"
This is the debut album with the band that put Kelly in the public eye. An
excellent album that shows a lot of the style that people would readily
recognize as Kelly Keeling’s own in the future. Kelly was the principle
songwriter and lead vocalist for this band.
THERE IS NO OFFICIAL HOME PAGE FOR BATON ROUGE
RELEASED 1990, Atlantic Recording Group.
"Doctor"
"Walks Like a Woman"
"Big Trouble"
"It's About Time"
"Bad Time Comin' Down"
"The Midge" (Instrumental)
"Baby's So Cool"
"Young Hearts"
"Melenie"
"There Was a Time" (The Storm)
"Hot Blood Movin'"
"Spread Like Fire"
BAND MEMBERS
Kelly Keeling; vocalist, guitar
Lance Bulen; lead and rhythm guitars, vocals
Scott Bender; bass, vocals
Corky McClellan; drums, percussion, vocals
David Cremin; keyboards, guitar, vocals
LYRICS
"DOCTOR"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
With the mornin' light sneakin' through
In a cold cold sweat I shake for you
I must be crazy I can't stop thinkin' bout her eyes
(They paralyze)
So if I'm dreamin' somebody take me off this ride
(I'm startin' to slide)
I need a shot I'm goin' fast
There's one thing that can cure me
Doctor I'm losin' sleep get me a doctor
I've lost control
Doctor what do I need hey doctor
It burns me to the bone
Skin tight stiletto, some cool obsession in the
night
(Colder than ice)
I try to touch her, her picture doesn't come alive
(Let me inside)
I need a shot I'm goin' fast
Maybe she can cure me
Take it easy, a passion attack is a walk on fire
Take it easy, what you need is built on your desire
I'm burnin' up I'll never last
Don't know if I can make it
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"WALKS LIKE A WOMAN"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
High-strung girl gotta sing for your supper
Ten feet tall best get you down to size
Now I don't know what makes you think you're so special
See someday soon you're gonna realize
Sticks and stones can break your bones
But broken hearts can shake your soul
Bad break no escape
Coulda got away lord you know I should've
Oh no she walks like a woman
Cool eyes electric thighs
Tried to find her heart but you know I couldn't
Oh no she walks like a woman
But she acts like a little girl
I know you think that life's for the takin'
Satin sheets caress you in the night
Someday soon be a big rude awakin'
Now everything can change before your eyes
Tell me will your garden grow
If the sun don't shine and no one's home
I'm getting' real tired of your nursery rhymes
Kinda makes me feel like I'm doin' time
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"BIG TROUBLE"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
Way back at the dawn of time
Adam and Eve did a terrible crime
He followed her down on lover's lane
Now I'm payin' for his mistake
Aphrodite and Godiva too
Gotta' take the blame for what I'm goin' through
It's never gonna' change only getting' worse
Women of the world lord it's gotta' be a curse
Tonight there's gonna' be a showdown
Cause tonight you know it's only you and me
You know it's gonna' be
Big trouble
I know where to find
Big trouble
You know what I like
Big trouble
Couldn't keep me away
Big trouble
There ain't no escape from
Big trouble
I understand that you gotta change
I'll bend for you baby but I ain't gonna break
Lipstick hides all the words that you say
A high gloss finish on a hand grenade
My heart's in danger my soul's on leave
I play for fun but you play for keeps
I'll never think twice and I'll never learn
When temperature's risin' someone's gonna get burned
They make me crazy with the things that they do
I love 'em all that sufferance abuse
Talkin' all they can they'll hang you dry
The power of a woman is like slow suicide
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"IT'S ABOUT TIME"
Music: Keeling / Lyrics & Melodies Keeling, Ponti, Swerski, MCA Inc./Snoody
Tunes
I know you're thinking it's over
It's only time to make a change
The way that we are
Together apart
You know we're really not to blame
Just too many years involved in the story
Where everything's right but it's wrong
We grew to depend on only each other
While neither of us grew strong
It's about time
We learned how to live
It's about time
We take it easy babe
It's about time
To wonder what if
It's about time
It's about time
To move along
You sigh when I say that I'm sorry we can't turn
the hands of time
The way that we feel is all for the better
We should give it a try
We really don't have any reason
For breaking away
Or tearing apart
I know it sounds a bit cliche'
But I need to find my heart
It's about time
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"BAD TIME COMING DOWN"
Keeling, Bulen, Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
You say I don't bring you diamonds
You say I just bring you lies
It seems I can't make you happy
As hard as I try
Money can't make you smile
But you'll go along for a ride
Ya won't say what I need to hear now
You keep it inside keep it inside
(You know we got a)
Bad time comin' down
Watchin' as the pieces all hit the ground
Bad time comin' down
You make me want to run for your love
Bad time comin' down
I try to keep it goin' but I don't know how
Bad time comin' down
You make me want to run for your love
You tell me you're walkin' the wire
You're settin' me up for a fall
What you can't buy I give you
But you want it all
I see you won't learn your lesson
I wonder if I learned mine
You mess with the ways of a woman
She'll eat you alive eat you alive
I don't want to fight with you baby
Can't you see that I've had enough
If I have to fight well then maybe
You'll see that the goin' gets rough
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"THE MIDGE" (Instrumental)
Lance Bulen, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
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"BABY'S SO COOL"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
The sun beats down on the valley of my baby
Deep down in her soul there's a city of desire
A Cadillac shake and a lust burnin' hemi
I'm gonna' chase her down on a highway of the
night
Like a shark in the water I'm gonna take a bite
"Baby's so cool" when baby's on fire
Lookin' like an angel but the devil's inside
"Baby's so cool" baby's so mean
Me and pretty baby and the devil make three
Me and pretty baby and the devil make three
Front heavy balance on a set of long legs
The things that she do ain't the things that she says
A pitcher full of her could be spillin' out my bed
I'm gonna fit you tight like the stocking on your
thigh
Takin' what I need then I'm gonna say goodbye
Take me all the way
Take me through the night
Come on take a ride I'm your roller coaster
Take me all the way
Gotta get inside
We're movin' faster time to paralyze
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"YOUNG HEARTS"
Music: Keeling, Bulen, Ponti, Pepe/ Lyrics & Melodies: Keeling/Ponti,
Bulen Keeling - Snoody Tunes Music ASCAP, MCA Music Publishing/ BMG Music
So life is bringing you down
Some how you just can't get it right
You're running in circles
Where you gonna run to now
You've had enough of this town
Somehow you can't keep up the fight
You wanna go higher
You've gotta hit the top somehow
No one can understand the strain
You're caught and the pressure's breaking
Young hearts searching for an answer
Hard time on the edge of the dark
Young hearts searching for an answer
Something better give tonight
Something better break for young hearts
You've taken all that you can
Each time you turn around you find
Another dead end road
Another brick wall to climb
No one can hide you from the rain
You're the storm and the thunder's breaking
Young hearts searching for an answer
Hard time on the edge of the dark
Something better give tonight
Something better break
Some anger's hard to take
Some dreams keep you up all night
Some day you'll make your escape
In time to light a match on the dynamite line
Chorus
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"MELENIE"
L. Bulen, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
Everywhere I look I see your pretty face
You know it's haunting me, though we may never meet
There's something you should know
I have you in my dreams
Turn out the lights what do you see?
Is there a man who looks like me?
But with your life, what could you need is all that glitters pretty
Melenie
I can feel you turnin' on tonight
Melenie
I can't have you if I could I'd die
Melenie
Everybody seems so different in you world
But everybody bleeds
I would love to trade everything I have
To spend one night in your scene
I must be hard, the faceless crowds the speed of light
Spins you around, but if your life should get you down,
what's in the mirror's pretty.
Now if you look outside the lights, I bet what you see ain't pretty.
Melenie
I can feel you turnin' on tonight
Melenie
I can't have you if I could I'd die
Melenie
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"THERE WAS A TIME (THE STORM)"
Jaimie Kyle, Jack Ponti, Kelly Keeling, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
Here I am beneath the rain
With empty promises that thunder in the night
Something's coming on the wind
Tell my heart it's gonna be alright
So why'd you take so long?
My soul is aching
You know I'm not that strong
There was a time
I'd live and die for you
Gave you my heart every time
There was a time
I'd laugh and cry with you
Only the strong can survive
The storm
So tell me how you've been my friend
Do you think of me
Ever in your life
You gotta lose to learn to win
I never knew it cut you like a knife
So why'd you take so long?
I'd wait forever
But forever's far too long
Chorus
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"The Storm" may be my favorite memory from Baton Rouge days
because there were people coming up to me saying how it had touched them
, One in particular had just gotten back from Desert Storm, The War. He
said , No Offense sir, but I didn't like your music after hearing that tape
over and over again. Only the strong can survive "The Storm",
But My best friend played that tape every day. And Here are His nametags
from around his neck. I know he would have wanted you to have them. He didn't
make it back from the war. Heavy. This was right before I went on stage.
We were in Texas.-Kelly Keeling-
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"HOT BLOOD MOVIN'"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, V. Pepe, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
Full moon risen, no mistake
I got the urge to start it movin'
I hear somethin' call my name,
Somewhere there's more than what I'm doin'
Come on teacher send me home,
I got the fever on the rise
Mr. Preacher save my soul,
I see a storm on the horizon
I'll pay the piper when the devil gets his due.
. .
and I'll keep the change, I'll keep the change,
I won't lose my balance when I'm dancin' on the wire
Hot blood movin', somethin' comin' down
I got hot blood movin' best not be around
Hot blood movin, better run and hide
I got hot blood movin, burning in the night
Imperfect timing, lesson's learned,
It's all in how you play, you're never losin'
Place your bet now take your turn,
Follow down the road that's of your choosin',
I'll find the answers to the secrets deep inside
It's all the same, all the same
Can't be a winner if you never play the game
I turn around to find I'm chasin' dream after
dream,
Don't know anymore what I'm searchin' for,
But things as they are aren't as bad as they seem,
the truth that I am, lies there in my hands
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"SPREAD LIKE FIRE"
L. Bulen, K. Keeling, J. Ponti, MCA Inc./Snoody Tunes
Out in the wild for a big time Saturday night
A hot cold fever when you aim right between the eyes
Now hey pretty baby whatcha gonna do,
When you catch on fire and the flames burn through to your heart?
In the heat of the dark.
Get your ticket for a nighttime hurricane
All aboard, it's a fast movin' diesel train.
You spin too fast, you can't come apart
You're pure gunpowder and you're waitin' for the spark
To light. In time it's gonna
Burn, spread like fire
You can never break that spell
Burn, spread like fire
You'll find your poison drinkin' from the wishing well
Head over heels with your back up against the
wall
Now you're backed in a corner when you thought
You could handle it all
Now hey pretty baby how's it gonna feel
When you're losin' touch with all that's real
In your life? You'll find it's gonna
Somebody falls, somebody slides
Somebody learns in the heat of the night
Walkin' on ice, throwin' it down
Breakin' the glass but it don't make a sound
Livin' on the edge you can fall apart,
the cain talkin' louder, know you're waitin' for the spark
To ignite. How many times? It's gonna burn.
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