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1. Life Is Pain
2. Secret Society
3. Throw Me Out A Line
4. I Hope Someday
5. Just Because
6. Calling Out
7. Pantomime
8. Do You Care
9. Maria
10. Ms. Jane

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Acknowledgements, Credits, Lyrics

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all who helped me complete this project: Robert Berry for his production and musical acumen at Soundtek, Prairie Prince for his inspirational drumming and artwork, Janice Kang for her enduring support and vision, and everyone who encouraged me to finish another record. This was a labor of love getting to work with friends past and present. A special shoutout to Eventide, John Suhr, and Sfarzo Strings. 

    — Roger 

Recorded and mixed at Soundtek Studios in Campbell, CA
Drums for Life Is Pain recorded at the Expression Center, Emeryville, CA 

Drums for Secret Society, Just Because, Pantomime, and Do You Care recorded by Chris von Sneidern at the Tape Vault Studio in San Francisco, CA 

Mastered by Rainer Gembalczyk at Sienna Digital, Half Moon Bay, CA 

Photos: John Staley Photography, Janice Kang, and Norman Seeff 

Artwork: Prairie Prince

Layout: Carol Sevilla
Produced by Roger Steen and Robert Berry 

Publishing: BMI
© 2023 Roger Steen, All Rights Reserved 

Life Is Pain

Steen/Waybill 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Bass, Vocals 

Robert Berry: Keyboards
Prairie Prince: Drums 


Pain is my loyal companion
I’m on a runaway train
Drive me to the edge of the canyon 

Might as well be in a parade 


Pain is the part of the story 

Hiding in the obvious lie
Try to find the fame and the glory 

Hate to open up your blind eye 


Chorus: 

And who
Do you believe
Love goes along comes the pain 

And tears fall like rain 


Pain keeps me on the ragged edge 

Never find the time to relax
I can’t let the phantom of doubt in 

Twist the knife that’s stuck in my back 


Chorus 


Falling like rain 

Falling like rain 

Tears falling like rain 

Falling like rain 

Falling like rain 

My tears are falling like rain 

Secret Society

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards 

Robert Berry: Bass
Prairie Prince: Drums 


I wake up in a room that’s filled with noise 

Pictures flash bright behind a voice
They orchestrate to spin a line
Muddy up the truth to feed a lie 


Pre chorus:
Pray tell are you say’n something 

Tell me again that it’s all or nothin’ 

This is a line of a secret society 


Silent weapons quiet wars
Won’t be anybody’s subtle foil 

Where it all ends we’ll never know 

What you believe is in your soul 


Pre chorus 


Wear my new suit 

When I go
Shine my shoes nice 

Pay me more 


Pre chorus 


Follow blindly 

Don’t look down
I’ll be with you
In the secret society 

Throw Me Out A Line

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Bass, Vocals 

Robert Berry: Drums 


Well some things I’ll never know
The way to heaven’s door
A fall I’ve found don’t change a mind 

Or why you’d ever go
And how you’ve braced me to entwine 

Who were you even then
Would love me I don’t need to know 

Or why you’d say it’s so 


Just throw me out a line 

Throw me out a line 


Where’d you go now child of mine 

I warned you even then
‘Cause you I will not ever doubt 

Can find another friend 

See I’ve been waiting overtime 

And you’ll leave me in the lane 

Should I believe you anyway 

Just to lose you once again 


So throw me out a line
Throw me out a line
Before these burdens brand your mind 

Don’t deny me things aren’t right
Just throw me out a line 


Throw me out a line
Just throw me out a line
Take me up in certain times
Before these burdens bend your mind 

Just throw me out a line 

I Hope Someday

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Vocals
Tony Paoletta: Pedal Steel
Robert Berry: Drums, Bass, Keyboards 


I’m catching that lonesome train 

It’s bound for where I’m going 

Maybe some other day
I’ll find a way of knowing 

She was the best part of me 

Old pictures still tell the story 


Ooo now she’s gone away 

Ooo now she’s gone away 


I’m hearing that lonesome wail
It’s been a long time leaving
If you’ve been lost in love
You’ll know just what I’m feeling
She wasn’t gonna understand that I
Just couldn’t keep the world from turning 


Ooo now she’s gone away 

Ooo now she’s gone away 

Ooo she’s gone away
Ooo now she’s gone away 


I hope someday she’ll change her mind yeh 

And love me for the things I do
Fall down on my knees and pray I’ll find her 

This lonely tear-stained world’s so blue 

I’m hoping that someday 

Hoping that someday 

Hoping that someday
I’ll find you 

Just Because

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Vocals 

Robert Berry: Bass, Keyboards 

Prairie Prince: Drums 


Chased on by a cold wind’s rage 

To find the only way back home 

Lost without a signpost
But a will to be alone no more 


Why can’t I understand 

How the story goes
Is it all just because 


Contemplate the moment
This endless space has frozen time 

When we go beyond the sky
To wander in deserts far away 


Why can’t I understand 

How the story goes
Is it all just because 



Calling Out

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Vocals 

Robert Berry: Drums, Bass 


I seem to run about and fall out of line oh 

Hoping to find some peace of mind today 

Faced with a new reality there’s some place 

I must be without you coming my way 


So many things that I wanna say 

Where does the real change start 

Will I ever be there 


Chorus:
Now I’m calling
For an angel
Guardian find me now 


If I could hold you just once again 

Tell you I understand
Now it’s forever this way
And through the night 

As all the stars keep on falling 

Your heartbeat inside me remains 


Chorus 


Hear me when I call have mercy please 

Maybe you’ll be all of my dreams
Next to me here
Together we’ll be 


Chorus 

Pantomime

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Bass, Vocals 

Prairie Prince: Drums 


You know what to say
You know what to talk about 

They can understand you
Never ever have a doubt
Watch ‘em while they run
Driving in your fancy car
Yeah, you’re the one they look for 

Someone that they think you are 


Pre chorus: 

Should we take a photograph 

Something we could magnify 

Is this all a fantasy
Somehow it all makes me cry 


Where you gonna go
Where you gonna run and hide 

What you gonna say
When they come and see you crying 

Where you gonna run to
I can’t say
I don’t wanna be there
When it comes to be your day 


Pre chorus 


You find that power lifts you beyond 

This pantomime is going on 


You think that power lifts you beyond 

This pantomime is going on 


You find that power lifts you beyond 

This pantomime is going on 

Do You Care

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Bass, Vocals 

Michael Cotten: Synthesizer 

Prairie Prince: Drums 


If there’s a mountain baby I’ll climb
If there’s a way up to the sunrise
Across the river on the great winding road 

If there’s a place to live in your heart
And skip the knife in Cupid’s pull cart
It’s time now to bring it all into light 

Holding on when you know it’s so
I breathe out to let it go
I got a feeling now it’s just all in vain
If I could make this simple thought 

Remember love and what it cost
You can’t deny we had it along our way 


It’s the money
  Don’t let the melody die 

The promise
  Hold on to it only darling 

It’s the money
  Well if the miracle breaks 

We run to
  It’s so easy now 

It’s the money
  Falling with never a mind 

You know it
  Gone with that memory 

It’s the money
  You will do what you like 

We run to
  I guess that 

It’s the money 

   I guess you’ll never be mine 

We run to now 


Do you care
Do ya truly care
Do you care tonight 


And if I make this simple thought 

Remember love and what it cost
You can’t deny we had it along our way 


It’s the money
  Going back will never be right 

The promise
  It’s no good now 

It’s the money
  Won’t make everything nice 

We run to
  Say what you like now 

It’s the money
  Well if the melody dies 

You know it
  Will it be the last one 

It’s the money
  Our love is too blind 

We run to 

   So listen 

It’s the money
  This love is too blind 

We run to now
  In your memory 

It’s the money
  This love is too blind to see 

We run to
  You need your liberty 

It’s the money 

We run to 

Maria

Steen 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Vocals 

Robert Berry: Drums 


Sunrise on the coastline
My feet can’t wait, my heart’s flying
All day I’ll be waiting, no need to understate that 

When I get to see her then I’ll ask if she’ll be mine 


No one has to tell me, nobody even knows 

There’s something about her
That’s captured my heart and soul 

Message to remind me, it’s the state I’m in 

Don’t even want to let it show 


Mona Lisa’s smiling, all we have is what’s inside 


My mind starts to wonder
How’s she gonna know just what I’m feeling 

Then I start believing
How it’s gonna be I don’t know
You be the wise one
Hope lives on a dream so, dream on 


Mona Lisa’s smiling, all we have is what’s inside 


Say I don’t wanna fall deeper no
But I just can’t stop saying her name
Maria can I see you, oh
Pray don’t you go away no
If I knew you better
Say maybe later, tell you maybe so many things 

Maria just like a rose
Say that you’re gonna stay oh 


Maybe we could walk along the border look out on the beyond
We could taste the cool water and the sweetest love song 

Show the wiseman and the prophet and the 

preacher some day that our love is for real now 

come along let’s get away 


Is this the beginning, from now on forever
This strange awakening has really changed the weather 

Is she the real love
Holding the world inside her smile no? 

Oh if only 


Mona Lisa thinks it’s funny 

All we have is what’s inside 


Say I don’t wanna fall deeper no
But I just can’t stop saying her name
Maria can I see you oh
Pray don’t you go away no
If I knew you better
Write you a letter
Tell you maybe baby all my dreams
Maria just like a rose
Cause me to cry tears oh no
Maria just like a rose
Say that you’re gonna stay oh
Maria that’s how it goes say that you will oh 

Ms. Jane

Steen/Welnick 

Roger Steen: Guitars, Bass, Lead Vocal 

Vince Welnick: Piano
Robert Berry: Drums, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals 


A thousand years, a thousand nights
We shared them all together
Open arms held us tight, don’t say goodbye 


A thousand tears, a thousand cries
We shared them all together
No one asked us why, don’t say goodbye 

A candle burns tonight 


Chorus: 

Dear Ms. Jane
I guess we’ll always know
You were everything to everyone 

Dear Ms. Jane
Ain’t it a gosh darn thing
That the life we live we’re so alone 

Why must we fade away 


A thousand years, a thousand nights
We shared them all together
Open arms held us tight, don’t say goodbye 

Candles burn tonight 


Chorus 


Dear Ms. Jane
I guess we’ll always know
You were everything to everyone 

Dear Ms. Jane 


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