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Grown Old
Dedicated to JLT
Every night I have the same old dream
Where Ritchie calls, I don’t hear the ring
So many chances, I always cry
Searchin’ low, searchin’ high
Do everything to get by his side
But I can’t get by her, or her mother’s lies
Crying in the darkness
Fading out of sight
Fame was here and gone like my hair it’s not right
Grown old…
And I grew to love it so well
Grown old
Can’t get away from fame’s spell
Tried to cross his castle’s moat
Carol saw me and sank my boat
The walls are so distant, so tall and gray
My voice like silk, where lovers dance
But she’s got breasts, I don’t stand a chance
We’re familiar strangers, with nothing to say
Crying in the darkness
Fading out of sight
Fame was here and gone like my hair it’s not right
Grown old
And I grew to love it so well
Grown old
Can’t get away from fame’s spell
Many thanks to Jim Collins for permission to reproduce this little gem here.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Well done!
April 9th, 2015 at 02:27Hahaha ha LOL. good reaaly good
April 9th, 2015 at 02:57Classic, I love a good sense of humour! Quality comedy is one of life’s necessities in my world, & many others also no doubt! Cheers.
April 9th, 2015 at 03:54Has to be the best use of the English language this guy has ever spewed. If only…
April 9th, 2015 at 04:22LOL Joe has to sing it. It will make Ritchie cry 😉
April 9th, 2015 at 05:09😀 Good one!!! I hope that Joolene will stop his cry for help and starts getting on with his own thing instead.
April 9th, 2015 at 05:19Ahahahahahahah poor Turner waiting for a a call ….I see him near the phone that doesn’t ring
April 9th, 2015 at 05:46At least Coverdale had the sense to move on!
April 9th, 2015 at 05:59Well Done, I lol. Thanks
April 9th, 2015 at 06:04🙂
April 9th, 2015 at 08:25Hahaha!!! Great!
April 9th, 2015 at 09:42Hahaha ! This was a good one !! Poor JLT….. Somebody has to show this to Ritchie !
April 9th, 2015 at 13:21And at the end: “Grown old… My dinner’s in the deep freeze!”
April 9th, 2015 at 13:33True!
April 9th, 2015 at 13:38Hahahahahaha, poor old JLT!
April 9th, 2015 at 16:26Good one
April 9th, 2015 at 16:45This is awesome, might be singing this all day!
April 9th, 2015 at 17:44Puerile is the word that springs to mind.
April 9th, 2015 at 21:36Perhaps he should show himself and take a bow.
April 9th, 2015 at 21:52nicely done…I too like a good laugh!!
April 9th, 2015 at 22:04Talked about the worst ever DP song on our MFRC recent podcast. The honour went to JLT.
April 9th, 2015 at 22:24Joe Lynn Turner is the “Spot Light Kid”!!!
April 10th, 2015 at 02:06That was FANTASTIC !!
April 10th, 2015 at 03:43Coverdale didn’t “move on”… The Whitesnake “Purple” album proves that!!!! : )
April 10th, 2015 at 04:57Hahahaha perfect! I will never listen “Stone Cold” the same way again! 🙂
April 10th, 2015 at 10:36This is so low. There is nothing wrong with wanting to reunite Rainbow,at least Joe is doing more than anyone else to make this possible. You should be thankful.
April 10th, 2015 at 16:26Don’t be too harsh on Joe Lynn Turner — he’s voicing an idea that a lot of us have: that Ritchie needs to do a little proper rock and roll for once, rather than all these 15th Century dirges. IF JOE WOULD HAPPEN TO SUCCEED IN THAT EFFORT “HURRAY!!!”
April 10th, 2015 at 20:20Ok, Larry. You got a preview of the album, we get the point. Move on.
April 10th, 2015 at 21:04@ 26
April 10th, 2015 at 22:27relax,it is a joke,funny…then again the guy had brought this one himself,cause he is contradicting himself in the same interview.If Blackmore wanted that to happen,it will happen,and JLT is not on the board at all.Please stop running the mouth and just hush Joe.
Hey Stoffer,
Got my Purple tickets for Nashville. YOU?????
April 11th, 2015 at 03:21Wow!!! best “Modern” version of stone cold so far. now if only Joe would sing it…. But honestly Joe, full marks for trying to get TMIB to get back to rock…
April 11th, 2015 at 04:26You all take the piss out of him but you will be there like a shot if Blackmore rolls up to your town to play rock again with JLT singing! Anyway the alternative to JLT is yet another Blackmore’s night gig where he leaves out the set all the decent BN songs and plays the nice sickly one’s no one wants to hear!
April 11th, 2015 at 10:16I have Nashville tickets. ..cant wait…..
April 11th, 2015 at 10:34Well, at least JLT can still sing.
April 11th, 2015 at 21:18Bravo, Jim my boy. Hey, give me a shout sometime, I still have our House Of Blues pictures from 1997.
April 13th, 2015 at 02:29Wow.. Ron Harper?!? Have not seen posts from you in ages! Where have you been hiding? I think the last time I heard from you was after you had an incident while driving, yes?
April 13th, 2015 at 16:15Since the title of this posting is “Grown Old” I will wish my fave musician of all a Happy Birthday here… Happy Birthday Ritchie! Wow… 70 big ones! I got into his music some 38 years ago. I remember getting LLR&R when it came out. What really attracted me though was the medieval/classical solo sections in the songs ‘Catch The Rainbow’ and ‘Mistreated’ on the “On Stage” LP. His studio recordings are great but live is where he shines!
April 14th, 2015 at 16:24Message me on Facebook, Scott. Good to talk to you too, old buddy.
April 14th, 2015 at 23:18Geez, forgot to mention that Im the Ron with the guitar collection in the picture, lol.
April 14th, 2015 at 23:21I’m getting tired of this shit. Just wait till the Man In Black speaks out. And yes, I’m hoping for a new Rainbow, with no old members involved. Fresh and clean. That would be nice. No reunion. A new Rainbow.
April 15th, 2015 at 23:42The fact that I got a preview is of no point, to spread the word according to policy and laugh at naysayers while I’m at it, is. Do you have a problem with that but not any other variety of which you might not agree people should be sharing here? If so or not, good for you.
April 16th, 2015 at 01:17While you’re at it, Svante. Might want to show me where I mentioned ANY album here to begin with. 😉 Quite a pile of ones own to step in.
April 16th, 2015 at 01:21Ron Harper! It’s been years and years man! I just came across my pics from the 1997 HOB tour too!
April 25th, 2015 at 23:34