Back To America |
1985
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Published on Bandcamp on April 22, 2023
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Note: This is an EP, not a full album
messiah
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Messiah took this world by force
Messiah took the world by force
I could hear children crying
I could see people dying
I could see the cities falling
I could hear the saviour calling
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) He took this world by force x2
Red clouds blotted out the sun
Darkness fell on everyone
Rivers of blood were running
I could see the armies coming
I could see their weapons falling
I could hear the angels calling
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) He took this world by force
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) He took this world by force
The bear from the north
And the dragon from the east
Descended upon the armies of Israel
And slaughtered them
And in that moment
The chosen of Israel cried out for Messiah
And Messiah came
Messiah Messiah
(Messiah Messiah Messiah took this world by force)
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) He took this world by force x2
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) Took this world by force
Messiah took this world by force
Messiah took the world by force
I could hear children crying
I could see people dying
I could see the cities falling
I could hear the saviour calling
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) He took this world by force x2
Red clouds blotted out the sun
Darkness fell on everyone
Rivers of blood were running
I could see the armies coming
I could see their weapons falling
I could hear the angels calling
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) He took this world by force
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) He took this world by force
The bear from the north
And the dragon from the east
Descended upon the armies of Israel
And slaughtered them
And in that moment
The chosen of Israel cried out for Messiah
And Messiah came
Messiah Messiah
(Messiah Messiah Messiah took this world by force)
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) He took this world by force x2
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah) Messiah
(Messiah took this world by force) Took this world by force
it's only today that counts
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It ain’t no good to lay in bed at night
And worry about the past
And think of how you could have done things differently
But things just happened way too fast
Just close your eyes and go to sleep
Let the angels guide your dreams
And let that pain unwind behind you
And float away on silent streams
You must live your life the best you can
Though you sometimes do your worst
And learn to laugh when you fail
It’s not the end of the world
Your life’s a play you can’t rehearse
Don’t make big plans for tomorrow
You can’t control what lies ahead
You must try to live each moment as it comes instead
There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last
It never helps to worry
And it never hurts to pray
Tomorrow will come soon enough
Try to take care of today
Just relax and trust your life to God
The future is in his hands
Only faith will help you face this life’s demands
There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
And it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
Live it like it might be your last
So live it like it might be your last
It ain’t no good to lay in bed at night
And worry about the past
And think of how you could have done things differently
But things just happened way too fast
Just close your eyes and go to sleep
Let the angels guide your dreams
And let that pain unwind behind you
And float away on silent streams
You must live your life the best you can
Though you sometimes do your worst
And learn to laugh when you fail
It’s not the end of the world
Your life’s a play you can’t rehearse
Don’t make big plans for tomorrow
You can’t control what lies ahead
You must try to live each moment as it comes instead
There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last
It never helps to worry
And it never hurts to pray
Tomorrow will come soon enough
Try to take care of today
Just relax and trust your life to God
The future is in his hands
Only faith will help you face this life’s demands
There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
And it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
Live it like it might be your last
So live it like it might be your last
interview - introduction
[This features overlapping excerpts of Larry talking, over an instrumental track. The following transcription is incomplete, as it is very difficult to determine what exactly is being said].
….in 1976. I started recording a new kind of songs
I couldn’t get it released
Was really frustrated. I couldn’t get any albums out. ‘Cos all the albums……
….in 1976. I started recording a new kind of songs
I couldn’t get it released
Was really frustrated. I couldn’t get any albums out. ‘Cos all the albums……
stop this flight
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Sixteen hours from London
Flying on a DC-10
You know I wonder if when that plane sets down
I'll ever be able to walk again
I spent thirty five days in Europe
Singing 'til my voice is gone
You know there's never time enough to get a good night's sleep
What is this road that I've been running on
I've got to stop this flight
I got to get back to earth
Hey, I'm a human being
God knows what that's worth
I'm not meant to be stranded on some empty stage
And end up lonely in my old age
I've got to stop
Stop this flight
[INTERVIEW PART ONE STARTS]
People try to twist your message
Reporters try to twist your mind
You know I just can't wait
[SOUL ON FIRE CROSS FADES WITH STOP THIS FLIGHT]
Sixteen hours from London
Flying on a DC-10
You know I wonder if when that plane sets down
I'll ever be able to walk again
I spent thirty five days in Europe
Singing 'til my voice is gone
You know there's never time enough to get a good night's sleep
What is this road that I've been running on
I've got to stop this flight
I got to get back to earth
Hey, I'm a human being
God knows what that's worth
I'm not meant to be stranded on some empty stage
And end up lonely in my old age
I've got to stop
Stop this flight
[INTERVIEW PART ONE STARTS]
People try to twist your message
Reporters try to twist your mind
You know I just can't wait
[SOUL ON FIRE CROSS FADES WITH STOP THIS FLIGHT]
interview - part one
I’m coming back to America with The Young Lions. We’re gonna do 200 concerts, go to all fifty states. Ah there’s a new album coming out, and there’s a live album and video from my foreign tours that’ll be available next year
soul on fire
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When I was a young boy
In a all black neighbourhood
Well it was rough and tumble in a concrete jungle
Hard to do the things you should
But I walked straight and narrow
Hmm I kept looking high
Because Jesus, he set my soul on fire
An' when I was a young man
[INTERVIEW PART TWO STARTS]
Temptation was all around
You know when darkness finds you, it slips up behind you
And tries to knock you to the ground
But I just kept on walking
Hmm hmm hmm I was so inspired
Because Jesus, hmm he set my soul on fire
And then a light from above shone down on my face
And lifted me up to a heavenly place
I heard the singing of angels on a distant shore
And Jesus healed me
And brought me back to life once more
[Scatting]
When I was a young boy
In a all black neighbourhood
Well it was rough and tumble in a concrete jungle
Hard to do the things you should
But I walked straight and narrow
Hmm I kept looking high
Because Jesus, he set my soul on fire
An' when I was a young man
[INTERVIEW PART TWO STARTS]
Temptation was all around
You know when darkness finds you, it slips up behind you
And tries to knock you to the ground
But I just kept on walking
Hmm hmm hmm I was so inspired
Because Jesus, hmm he set my soul on fire
And then a light from above shone down on my face
And lifted me up to a heavenly place
I heard the singing of angels on a distant shore
And Jesus healed me
And brought me back to life once more
[Scatting]
interview - part two
I grew up in San Francisco, started writing songs really after I became a christian when I was five. And at that time I started writing songs about, oh I, I always wanted a dog and we couldn’t have one in the city. So that’s one of the things I wrote about, a dog. My uncle was a clown, so I wrote about him. And cowboys because, that’s what you played in those days, cowboys and indians, ha
And when I was nine I got real serious about music and started writing about my feelings, my beliefs, things that were happening to me and friends at school. Em, it was a rough neighbourhood you know, I grew up in a black neighbourhood. It wasn’t easy being the only white kid in the neighbourhood, ‘cos people would pick on you just ‘cos you were white. You, you know, you didn’t fit
But I was real familiar with the music that I heard in the neighbourhood. Well when Elvis Presley came along he wasn’t doing anything new. He was just doing black gospel music, only instead of talking about his saviour he talked about his baby. Rock and roll came from the church. It belongs to the church. Rock and roll now seems to be the province of non believers, while the church sits on the side and eh denounces rock and roll, says that it’s ungodly music and that if you play it backwards you hear secret satanic messages
Certainly the lifestyles of the people performing rock and roll don’t coincide with the moral overviews of the christian church. But rock and roll was black music and it came from the early American black church. And I don’t know why we should let anybody steal it from us, it belongs to us. I think we should steal it back
And when I was nine I got real serious about music and started writing about my feelings, my beliefs, things that were happening to me and friends at school. Em, it was a rough neighbourhood you know, I grew up in a black neighbourhood. It wasn’t easy being the only white kid in the neighbourhood, ‘cos people would pick on you just ‘cos you were white. You, you know, you didn’t fit
But I was real familiar with the music that I heard in the neighbourhood. Well when Elvis Presley came along he wasn’t doing anything new. He was just doing black gospel music, only instead of talking about his saviour he talked about his baby. Rock and roll came from the church. It belongs to the church. Rock and roll now seems to be the province of non believers, while the church sits on the side and eh denounces rock and roll, says that it’s ungodly music and that if you play it backwards you hear secret satanic messages
Certainly the lifestyles of the people performing rock and roll don’t coincide with the moral overviews of the christian church. But rock and roll was black music and it came from the early American black church. And I don’t know why we should let anybody steal it from us, it belongs to us. I think we should steal it back
woman of god
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I need a woman who doesn't take drugs and mess with men
Believes the bible, despises sin
Lifts me up instead of knocking me down
And follows God 'stead of running around
I need a woman who's kind and true
I haven't found her but until I do
I'll be looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
You know I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart
I need a woman who knows the measure of what she's worth
Stores up treasure but not on earth
Seeks God's will in all that's done
And keeps her mind on the holy one
I need a woman who's kind and true
I haven't found her but until I do
I'll be looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
You know I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart
The bible says a good wife who can find, she's more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband is glad in her. She does him good and not evil, all his days. Her lamp does not go out at night. And her children, her children shall rise up and call her blessed [Spoken]
I'm looking for a woman of God
[INTERVIEW - PART THREE STARTS]
A woman with a righteous heart
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart
Oh oh oh
I'm looking for a woman of God [CROSS FADES INTO AND WE SING THE TUNE]
A woman with a righteous heart
You know I'm looking
I need a woman who doesn't take drugs and mess with men
Believes the bible, despises sin
Lifts me up instead of knocking me down
And follows God 'stead of running around
I need a woman who's kind and true
I haven't found her but until I do
I'll be looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
You know I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart
I need a woman who knows the measure of what she's worth
Stores up treasure but not on earth
Seeks God's will in all that's done
And keeps her mind on the holy one
I need a woman who's kind and true
I haven't found her but until I do
I'll be looking for a woman of God
A woman with a righteous heart
You know I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart
The bible says a good wife who can find, she's more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband is glad in her. She does him good and not evil, all his days. Her lamp does not go out at night. And her children, her children shall rise up and call her blessed [Spoken]
I'm looking for a woman of God
[INTERVIEW - PART THREE STARTS]
A woman with a righteous heart
I'm looking for a woman of God
Who doesn't easily fall apart
Oh oh oh
I'm looking for a woman of God [CROSS FADES INTO AND WE SING THE TUNE]
A woman with a righteous heart
You know I'm looking
interview - part three
A long time ago I wrote A Woman Of God, you know looking for a woman of God, a woman with a righteous heart, looking for a woman of God who doesn’t easily fall apart. I wrote that over in England in 1981 when I was all alone wondering what my future held. Not knowing what God wanted but certainly wanting to do whatever it was
and we sing the tune
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[INTRODUCTION IS CROSS FADED WITH A WOMAN OF GOD AND AN INTERVIEW]
I was alone and without love
Hope was fading fast
Slipping right on past
Then by some grand design
She came along and heard my song
And sang the harmony
She was right on key
And she was right on time
And I am hers, she is mine
We sing together now
She knows the words somehow
And I love her true
And we sing the tune
[BACK TO AMERICA INTERVIEW - PART FOUR STARTS]
Love is a song from heaven
She is the one that I've been given
I was afraid, I was unsure
She reached out to me
And she helped [FADES OUT]
[INTRODUCTION IS CROSS FADED WITH A WOMAN OF GOD AND AN INTERVIEW]
I was alone and without love
Hope was fading fast
Slipping right on past
Then by some grand design
She came along and heard my song
And sang the harmony
She was right on key
And she was right on time
And I am hers, she is mine
We sing together now
She knows the words somehow
And I love her true
And we sing the tune
[BACK TO AMERICA INTERVIEW - PART FOUR STARTS]
Love is a song from heaven
She is the one that I've been given
I was afraid, I was unsure
She reached out to me
And she helped [FADES OUT]
interview - part four
Yes I just had a little baby boy, August 17th. Eh his name is Michael David Finch Norman. He’s not gonna be on this tour, he’s sleeping right now. Haha. I really love being a parent, it’s an unusual, em experience to look at, at this child and see my wife’s features in him and see my own features in him, and think this is not me and this is not Sarah. This is Michael. Where did he come from you know, it’s hard for me to understand how he got here. Life is such a miracle. And I really love being a father, I love being a husband
if the bombs fall
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[INTRODUCTION OVERLAPPED BY END OF AN INTERVIEW SEGMENT]
If the bombs fall, baby I love you
If they end it all, baby I love you
If the bombs fall, I want you to know I love you
[ANOTHER INTERVIEW SEGMENT STARTS HERE]
Who can say tomorrow will find its way
Who can say the sun will shine today
Every year we're older and watch this world grow colder
You and I are still so very young
And with love the best is yet to come
God has let me choose you, I don’t wanna lose you
If the bombs fall, baby I love you
If they end it all, baby I love you [INTERVIEW SEGMENT ENDS]
If the bombs fall, I want you to know I love you
And through the years and all the long hard miles
We’ll shed some tears but we will share the smiles
Don’t cry, baby you know I love you
[ANOTHER INTERVIEW SEGMENT STARTS HERE]
If the bombs fall, baby I love you (Ooh ooh ooh ooh)
If they end it all, baby I love you (Ooh ooh ooh ooh)
(If the bombs fall, baby I love you)
And through the years and all the long hard miles
We’ll shed some tears
[SONG CROSS FADES BRIEFLY WITH LETTER TO A FRIEND AS INTERVIEW SEGMENT CONTINUES]
[INTRODUCTION OVERLAPPED BY END OF AN INTERVIEW SEGMENT]
If the bombs fall, baby I love you
If they end it all, baby I love you
If the bombs fall, I want you to know I love you
[ANOTHER INTERVIEW SEGMENT STARTS HERE]
Who can say tomorrow will find its way
Who can say the sun will shine today
Every year we're older and watch this world grow colder
You and I are still so very young
And with love the best is yet to come
God has let me choose you, I don’t wanna lose you
If the bombs fall, baby I love you
If they end it all, baby I love you [INTERVIEW SEGMENT ENDS]
If the bombs fall, I want you to know I love you
And through the years and all the long hard miles
We’ll shed some tears but we will share the smiles
Don’t cry, baby you know I love you
[ANOTHER INTERVIEW SEGMENT STARTS HERE]
If the bombs fall, baby I love you (Ooh ooh ooh ooh)
If they end it all, baby I love you (Ooh ooh ooh ooh)
(If the bombs fall, baby I love you)
And through the years and all the long hard miles
We’ll shed some tears
[SONG CROSS FADES BRIEFLY WITH LETTER TO A FRIEND AS INTERVIEW SEGMENT CONTINUES]
interview - part five
Yes in the past I have produced a lot of artists. I felt that I could help artists who had never been recorded before. I met Randy Stonehill when he was younger, before he was a christian, and I worked for a long time to bring him to a point where he could understand christianity. And then I recorded an album for him. I enjoyed producing, you know on Solid Rock. Besides Randy Stonehill I helped eh Mark Heard get started and produced Tom Howard and, Daniel Amos was on the point of breaking up and I said you know why break up, you know I’ll, I’ll get you an album. You guys have something to say
interview - part six
I met Keith Green before he was a christian. And I was interested in his music, eh as a way of expressing what he had experienced in Christ. I at that time couldn’t really help him and so I was happy when he ended up with Sparrow Records, I thought somebody could help him. Ah I had a tape of Steve Taylor’s years ago and couldn’t help him. You know if you don’t have distribution, you could produce an album but you, who’d distribute it? So it’s been frustrating for me to produce people like Sheila Walsh and want her to come out on Solid Rock Records, but not really have distribution. So [????] came out on Sparrow. You know Sparrow has been really helpful to me in em channelling some of my musical desires in helping people get started an', an' eh helping to establish their ministry
letter to a friend
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[INTRODUCTION IS CROSS FADED WITH AN INTERVIEW SEGMENT (AND VERY BRIEFLY WITH IF THE BOMBS FALL)]
Every time I see you, you know I start to cry
I know what you’re doing and that you’re living a lie
And Jesus keeps calling outside your door
But you don’t love him like before
And you don’t listen anymore
You speak of compassion but you don’t really care
You can talk of heaven but are you going there
God’s trying to touch you but you’re out of reach
And you don’t practice what you preach
I know the shadows you seek, I know the places you're weak
Down you go
And you’re looking so much older
Down you go
And your spirit’s getting colder
So get the weight off your shoulder
[ANOTHER INTERVIEW SEGMENT STARTS HERE]
You seek after fortune and you live for yourself
You stand in the spotlight and leave God on the shelf
You smile, you gesture, each hair is in place
But I can see behind your face, the sorrow you can’t erase
Woh ho oh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
[INTRODUCTION IS CROSS FADED WITH AN INTERVIEW SEGMENT (AND VERY BRIEFLY WITH IF THE BOMBS FALL)]
Every time I see you, you know I start to cry
I know what you’re doing and that you’re living a lie
And Jesus keeps calling outside your door
But you don’t love him like before
And you don’t listen anymore
You speak of compassion but you don’t really care
You can talk of heaven but are you going there
God’s trying to touch you but you’re out of reach
And you don’t practice what you preach
I know the shadows you seek, I know the places you're weak
Down you go
And you’re looking so much older
Down you go
And your spirit’s getting colder
So get the weight off your shoulder
[ANOTHER INTERVIEW SEGMENT STARTS HERE]
You seek after fortune and you live for yourself
You stand in the spotlight and leave God on the shelf
You smile, you gesture, each hair is in place
But I can see behind your face, the sorrow you can’t erase
Woh ho oh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
interview - part seven
Came to a point where the kind of music I started writing, I, I didn’t know what, really where it could go. See in ’75 I’d recorded In Another Land and then I, as soon as I finished that I started recording Something New Under The Son. But in 1976 I started writing a new kind of music and I couldn’t get it released. I know, it was a little strange. It was street music. It was more like punk is. Eh, I’d already known about ska and reggae for years and I’d done rap music before it was rap music because it was poetry. And if I couldn’t sing a song, if I couldn’t squeeze all the words, the lyrics into a tune I’d just say ‘em. So I had rap music that I had written for Bootleg, and, and em, that was in seventy one. So as I kept evolving as an artist I kept writing the kind of music that I was interested in expressing, and yet eh, yeah I, I felt like suddenly having had the success from In Another Land, to be told well we don’t want this kind of album, can you just do another one like In Another Land? Well that was a bit frustrating, so I ended up going to Europe, where I could sing what I wanted to sing and not have to worry about whether it charted or whether it got a good write up. Or whether the distributers understood it. And now things have changed so much, music scene, seems so wide open I feel like it’s time to come back with, with all of my albums and get them all out
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Phydeaux / Stress Records ST-001 [1985, USA]
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Kode: BTA-US1
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Matrix, etched, side one: 'ARF-1018-A' (scored out), 'ST- 001-A', 'SLM △11008', '1-1'. Side two: 'ARF-1018-B' (scored out), 'ST- 001-B', 'SLM △11008-X, '1-1'
There at at least two vinyl variants - one with (BTA-US1, shown above) and one without (BTA-US2) a small diameter indent under the labels. At least some copies contained a photograph of Larry and his brother Charles
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Phydeaux / Stress Records STC-001 [1985, USA]
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Kode: BTA-US3
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