These liner notes, written by Jody Turner, appeared on the fold-out poster included in the original pressing of Rock Goddess (1983).
Note: "One Way Love" and "Make My Night" are listed below in the order they were listed on the sleeve, on the record the running order is reversed.
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Heartache
The song's quite a recent one with a fairly simple storyline about trying to forget someone but being unable to. All of my songs are love songs actually; I don't know why but they almost always seem to be about love. I mean, a lot of bands write about politics or whatever... but I don't.
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Back to You
You see, if you read through the titles of the songs on the first side of the album, it runs like a story. Very strange. I never noticed before! This is about a couple who keep breaking up, over and over again but always ending up back together again. Is it personal? Well, a lot is about an old relationship but this song, like most of them, is only partly personal. I write songs better if I'm inspired by something - something that happened maybe - but, as I write, I add my own imagination.
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The Love Lingers Still
Again, this is a bit like 'Heartache', about losing someone you love but being unable to forget... commercial butI think the commercial side of our songs is important. Rock Goddess is a heavy metal band but we want to appeal to people about of it so good songs are essential. Not that other HM bands haven't got good songs...
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To Be Betrayed
We wanted this song to have a sort of biblical atmosphere. It's about being betrayed by a bloke but there's a kind of comparison with the way that Jesus was betrayed, hence the big harmony thing in the middle. One of the funny things about working with Vic (Maile) is that he records when you're not expecting it, when you're experimenting. But we got some good ideas out of it.
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Take Your Love Away
The title says it all really. Telling a bloke that you once loved him and needed him you've come out of the other end of the relationship, it's the 'dawning of a new life'.
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My Angel
This is about young love, 13 to 15 or maybe a bit older. On stage, it's turned out to be our anthem. Aside from the actual lyrics, we tend to call all the people in the audience our 'angels'. It's literally a pet name.
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Satisfied Then Crucified
(Tracey - I love playing this song. I think we've always started the set with it, it's so full of energy.)
It's about a guy who's two faced, a bit schizo; one moment he loves you, the next he hurts you. Hey, all this makes it sound like I really have it bad! These are not biographies! -
Start Running
I like this one because I can make my voice really heavy and aggressive, there's a real personality in it. You know, sort of 'get on your bike and run for your life, you pig!'.
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One Way Love
Another love song. God, sometimes I wish I had written about cars!
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Make My Night
It's just saying 'come on and make my night for me'; take me to a restaurant and... you know! I mean, lyrics like that are so much better than I love you and birds fly in the sky, all that sort of thing.
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Heavy Metal Rock 'n' Roll
A cliche? No! It's all the 'I love you' songs that are cliches. With lyrics like 'it's better than love, it's better than sex' that's my way of saying that I put music before everything else - we all do. I like other types of bands such as Squeeze, The Who, Rush who I listen to a lot, but what it all boils down to is how much all of the band love heavy metal.