Difficult To Cure

    Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar
    Joe Lynn Turner - Vocals
    Boby Rondinelli - Drums
    Roger Glover - Bass
    Don Airey - Keyboards

    Produced by: Roger Glover
    Engineered by: Flemming Rasmussen
    Masterd by: Greg Colby


    1. I Surrender
    2. Spotlight Kid
    3. No Release
    4. Magic
    5. Vielleicht Das Nächste Mal
    6. Can't Happen Here
    7. Freedom Fighter
    8. Midtown Tunnel Vision
    9. Difficult To Cure

    I SURRENDER (Russ Ballard) 4:00

    I surrender to your heart babe
    
    do anything that you want me to do
    
    please be tender I'm in your hands girl
    
    this is a feeling I never knew
    
    you know I tried to make it on my own
    
    that's not the way it was meant to be
    
    spend my time waiting by the phone
    
    oh darling come back to me
    
    
    
    I surrder, I surrender
    
    I'm giving up the role of pretender
    
    oh be tender, girl be tender
    
    can't you feel the love that I send you
    
    I surrender.
    
    
    
    I remember, seems like a lifetime
    
    can't believe it's a matter of days
    
    since you left I'm near to heartbreak
    
    I want you so bad don't turn away
    
    what does it take to stay by my side
    
    you know I'll do what you want me to
    
    don't take away this feeling inside
    
    I'm still in love with you
    
    
    
    I surrender, I surrender
    
    I'm giving up the role of pretender
    
    oh be tender, girl be tender
    
    can't you feel the love that I send you
    
    I surrender.
    
    
    
    I surrender, I surrender
    
    darling now won't you be tender
    
    surrender, oh surrender
    
    feel the love that I send you
    
    I surrender.

    SPOTLIGHT KID (Blackmore/Glover) 4:52

    You don't know what's happening, you want to go home
    
    but there's nowhere to hide
    
    you walk out on stage, your first time alone
    
    the crowd's going wild
    
    and you feel so alive
    
    you could stand up and take this all night
    
    they love you but you're in love with the spotlight
    
    you're the spotlight kid
    
    
    
    Jokers and women they hang 'round your door
    
    they're all part of the scene
    
    just like a junkie you've got to have more
    
    it's a pleasure machine
    
    and you fly every night
    
    but the dressing room mirror don't lie
    
    they love you but you're in love with the spotlight
    
    you're the spotlight kid
    
    
    
    Your audience died, faded away
    
    leaving you on the stage
    
    it's been so many years since that first matinee
    
    it seems like an age
    
    encore one more time
    
    
    
    for the ghosts of the past in your mind
    
    they love you but you're in love with the spotlight
    
    you're the spotlight kid
    
    you're living in a dream
    
    you're the spotlight kid
    
    you're in love with the spotlight

    NO RELEASE (Blackmore/Glover/ Airey) 5:31

    Through this smoke the dancers move
    
    demonic dirty downtown groove
    
    visions of the day retreat
    
    come on baby feel the heat
    
    
    
    then I can disappear
    
    and be at peace
    
    but when my mind is clear
    
    I can't get no release
    
    
    
    In the dark the dancers shout
    
    scream the cry of freedom out
    
    strobe crescendos in the night
    
    minds take cover, souls take flight
    
    
    
    oh let me disappear
    
    set me free, set me free
    
    buy when my mind is clear
    
    I can't get no release
    
    
    
    set me free, set me free baby
    
    well I can feel it yeah
    
    I can feel it, feel it, feel it, feel it

    MAGIC (B.Moran) 4:05

    There's a light in the sky that hangs on the edge of illusion
    
    something very fine but it's something you know is there
    
    mystery of time hidden by a man of confusion
    
    but the hand is quicker than the eye
    
    only the stranger knows why
    
    'cos it's magic
    
    you know it's magic that you'll find
    
    you see it's magic
    
    I know who you are and there's magic in you
    
    
    
    keep your eye on the man
    
    and don't look away for a moment
    
    how is it done how does he make me see
    
    something up his sleeve when speaks you want to believe him
    
    but the hand is quicker than the eye
    
    only the stranger knows why
    
    'cos it's magic
    
    can' you see it's magic that you'll find
    
    you know it's magic
    
    I know who you are and there's magic in you
    
    
    
    driven by a force
    
    moving in another dimension
    
    here for today, gone for eternity
    
    seeking for truth hidden by the word of his wisdom
    
    but the hand is quicker than the eye
    
    only the stranger knows why
    
    can't you feel it's magic
    
    you know it's magic that you'll find
    
    I said it's magic
    
    I know who you are and there's magic in you

    Vielleicht Das Nächste Mal (Maybe next time) (Blackmore/ Airey) 3:16

    (Instrumental)

    CAN'T HAPPEN HERE (Blackmore/Glover) 4:56

    Contaminated fish and micro chips
    
    huge supertankers on Arabian trips
    
    oily propaganda from the leaders' lips
    
    all about the future
    
    there's people over here, people over there
    
    everybody's looking for a little more air
    
    crossing all the borders just to take their share
    
    planning for the future
    
    
    
    and we're so abused, and we're so confused
    
    it's easy to believe that someone's gonna light the fuse
    
    can't happen here, can't happen here
    
    all that you fear they're telling you, can't happen here
    
    
    
    Supersonic planes for a holiday boom
    
    Rio de Janeiro in an afternoon
    
    people out of work but there's people on the moon
    
    looking for the future
    
    concrete racktracks nationwide
    
    juggernauts carving up the countryside
    
    cars by the million on a one way ride
    
    using up the future
    
    
    
    and we're so abused, and we're so confused
    
    it's easy to believe that someone's gonna light the fuse
    
    can't happen here, can't happen here
    
    all that you fear they're telling you, can't happen here
    
    
    
    Satellites spying for the CIA
    
    the KGB and the men in grey
    
    wonder if I'm gonna see another day
    
    somewhere in the future
    
    We got everything we need for a peaceful time
    
    take what you want but you can't take mine
    
    everybody's living on the Siegfried line
    
    worried 'bout the future
    
    and we're so abused, and we're so confused
    
    it's so easy to believe that someone's gonna light it
    
    easy to believe someone's gonna light the fuse
    
    can't happen here, can't happen here
    
    all that you fear they're telling you, can't happen here can it?

    FREEDOM FIGHTER (Blackmore/Glover/Turner) 4:19

    You can't control me tell me what to do
    
    chained in mediocrity so I can be like you
    
    I am not a statue not part of a machine
    
    I'm sick and tired of the whole routine
    
    calculate your future, computerise your past
    
    instant replay if it's gone too fast
    
    take away my freedom, take away my home
    
    i'm only human but it might now show
    
    I'm not made of stone
    
    
    
    I'm a freedom fighter I got something to say
    
    I'm a freedom fighter get out of my way
    
    
    
    Hide behind your politics, hide behind your rules
    
    tell me I'm a man but you treat me like a fool
    
    it's the same old story with a different name
    
    you give us all a number and nothing changes
    
    out in the winter of a world upon it's knees
    
    everyone is watching but no one sees
    
    you can't take my freedom you know it is my right
    
    if you try and stop me I'm gonna fight
    
    with all of my might
    
    
    
    I'm a freedom fighter and I'm taking command
    
    I'm a freedom fighter and I'm making a stand
    
    
    
    Fighting for breath as the world gathers speed
    
    time's running out for the things that I need
    
    
    
    I'm a freedom fighter I gotta take a stand
    
    I'm a freedom fighter, yeah that's what I am
    
    I'm a freedom fighter I can't take it no more
    
    I'm a freedom fighter no no more
    
    I'm a freedom fighter but I'm not afraid
    
    I'm a freedom fighter get out of my way.

    MIDTOWN TUNNEL VISION (Blackmore/Glover/Turner) 4:30

    Take good care it's a tightrope ride
    
    neon city is on the dreamers' side
    
    prime time losers going underground
    
    they take you up and they shake you down
    
    
    
    can't see nowhere
    
    don't know, and I don't care
    
    'cos here comes another midtown tunnel vision
    
    
    
    Sidewalk cruiser in stiletto heels
    
    frozen heart, eyes of steel
    
    wrap your body around my soul
    
    electric love is gonna take its' toll
    
    
    
    can't see nowhere
    
    don't know and I just don't care
    
    that girl is the mother of my midtown tunnel vision
    
    
    
    Sunset skyline night turns to day
    
    down on the street you could fade away
    
    no second chances in this here wasted life
    
    it'll cut you down like a switchblade knife
    
    
    
    can't see nowhere
    
    don't know and I just don't care

    Difficult To Cure (Trad. Arr. Blackmore/Glover/ Airey) 5:50

    (Instrumental)


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