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Rating: Narcissistic rock, so perfectly proportioned to look up from above. In The Heart Of The Young is an album that can feast with the greatest works of the absolute music greats. Maybe I say this because it's my all-time favorite? And yet, in the now twenty-year-old night that has fallen on 80/90s rock, some supernova continues to shine, and the one with the brightest effusions has astral coordinates perpendicular to me and is called Winger. I wish Kip knew that I consider him a point of reference and a magical artist. His solo works are diary pages that perfectly align with my reality. But this record (anno domini rockorum 1990) truly managed to tell the story of a society. Or, more than telling it, it managed to describe states of consciousness with music from which a psychologist could draw a group profile. The joyous, rowdy, golden, flamboyant, steel 1990 was the launch year of a generation that made a leap, falling into the void of oblivion. Not even Winger knew the world was about to change irreversibly, but they were the first to infuse anxiety and veiled unease into that rock that seemed to be reaching God while forgetting that stretched towards the sky, a earthly body would eventually be subject to gravity.
In The Heart Of The Young does not forget at all to be a part of a trend. But it wants to estrange from it, wants to keep it under and under slap. The technique and atmospheres are catchy and virile, and are put at the service of magic. Instrumental acrobatics and turns are brilliant and of exquisite intelligence. Every single drumbeat maintains this micro-universe in balance, made up of floating notes that hold together like stars coexist in the Milky Way. And if the drums already sound so indispensable for the perpetual motion of this music, try to imagine what happens with the other instruments.
There are no dreamlike atmospheres, it would be nonsense to say so. However, as I said before, there is the musical description of a society's reflections and its intermittent states of consciousness. Here, the album in question has the power to keep you wide-eyed while dreaming of dreaming. While you reflect alone in your room and see a love vanish or be born, emotionally and physically involving your thoughts, so much so that you move as you enact what you wish would happen. While you feel someone distant so immaterially close.
In the majestic display of unique compositional skills, Winger at times seems to touch, reaching from behind, the brink of nightmare. Much of the light that comes to the album seems reflected from that poetic unease of someone who shines so much but perceives that something is beginning to fade. Many of you will know the album and probably will disagree with me. I think of what Kip wrote later, I answer you in advance this way.
Our lucid visionaries propose a certified New York hard rock registered at the anagraph. There are plenty of songs to burn the advance sales of world arenas. I think of Easy Come, Easy Go and Can't Get Enough in particular, with riffs that would justify the feeling of envy from those who didn't write them. But there's a part of the album that could have been published on its own: the quartet lined up from Under One Condition, Miles Away, Rainbow In The Rose and The Day We'll Never See is really what should have been perceived at the time as the future of music and justifies everything I've written so far. A hard rock suspended in the air that rewrites AOR and tickles prog.
When I see the latest photos of Kip Winger playing the last album, Karma, in a very dismal room scattered in Greece in front of a flock of die-hard fans, I think that the hard work he's doing now is precisely what will deliver him to history. Having the humility to do a world tour today, without arenas but in small rock nooks to fill, honors an artist who had such foresight as to avoid falling into the artistic chasm and the grave mourning that struck him. Kip Winger and In The Heart Of The Young deserve a score that goes far beyond what one can give here.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Can't Get Enuff (04:19)
Can't Get Enuff (4:19) (Winger/Beach)
You don't make it easy, you never keep it straight
But you're so damn sexy, I can't keep away
I need your love, I need your skin
I need you baby to let me in
I can't get enough of you baby
I can't get enough, it's never enough
I can't get enough, I'm still hungry
Baby, give it up, cause I can't get enough (huh)
It's alright, it feels good
When I'm in your chains, it's understood
That you're my owner, my only will
Come and get me while I'm quiet and still
I can't get enough of you baby
I can't get enough, it's never enough
I can't get enough, I'm still hungry
Baby, give it up, don't you know
I can't get enough of you baby
Can't get enough of you baby
Never enough, do you want to give me some?
Can't get enough, don't keep me waiting
Never enough (hey, hey)
(Put it right here)
I can't get enough of you baby
Can't get enough of you baby
Never enough, do you want to give me some?
Can't get enough, don't keep me waiting
Never enough
It's alright, it feels good
When I'm in your chains, it's understood
My soul confession, devil's due
Come and get me girl, it's up to you
(repeat chorus)
02 Loosen Up (03:28)
I've had enough got to get away
It's about that time / got to get away
Get a little closer to a fast car
Get away from the grind / it's about that time
Every damn day we're under pressure
About to lose it lose my mind
I need to loosen up / loosen up
I need a little juicin up
I've been hangin from the noose
Baby won't you cut me loose
Come on everybody loosen up
I need it fast I'm in need of the buzz
When we're all together / I'm in need of the buzz
Like a time bomb I'm about to explode
We've got to come together / before I blow
I'm spendin too many days under pressure
About to lose it lose my mind
I need to loosen up / loosen up
I need a little juicin up
I've been hangin from the noose
Baby won't you cut me loose
Come on everybody loosen up
03 Miles Away (04:11)
So this is love
or so you tell me
as you're walkin
out the door
the months go by
and I know for certain
it's not the love
I'm looking for
but sometimes
just for a moment
I reach out
hope you're still there
Miles away
no you're never turning back
and I just can't wait anymore
Miles away
nothing left of what we had
just when I needed you most
you were miles away
it's hard to tell
what you're going through
you kept your feelings locked inside of you
open your heart and chances are
what you're feeling
I'm feeling too
if only just for a moment
hold on to the dreams that we had
Miles away
no you're never turning back
and I just can't wait anymore
Miles away
nothing left of what we had
just when I needed you most
you were miles away
when times were tough
and you were down and out
who was there by your side
but now you're gone
and I'm so tired of being alone
with only your promises
the loneliness just fades away
thoughts of you just memories
no cryin out for what you're missing
time won't forget
what you meant to me
if only just for a moment
hold on to the dreams that we had..
04 Easy Come Easy Go (04:03)
Easy Come Easy Go (4:03) (Winger)
If you start to feel like there's no time to waste
Baby, try to let go - there's
Nothing that strong - can't break your heart
Easy Come Easy Go
And the only only only way you find it...
Is if you're not digging too deep
Though it's easier said than done
You've got to feel it in your blood
Play the game like you've already won
And you only only only own it when you say...
Easy Come Easy Go
This won't break my heart don't you know
Sometimes high, sometimes low
Easy Come Easy Go
You fell in a trap that won't let you win
You try again and again
You let the heat burn your feet
Baby try to understand that you
Only only only own it when you say...
(repeat chorus)
So if you start to feel like there's no time to waste
Baby try to let go - there's
Nothing that strong - can't break your heart
Sometimes high, sometimes low
And you only only only own it when you say...
(repeat chorus)
05 Rainbow in the Rose (05:33)
Rainbow In The Rose (5:34) (Winger/Beach)
Deep inside my hunger grows
Got to find the rainbow in the rose
Somewhere the spirit shines
Like the moonlight - I move on....
Somewhere the spirit shines - but
I'm still....
Searching for the rainbow in the rose
Rainbow in the rose
If you can lead the way, than baby I will follow
Searching for...
I'm still looking for the
Rainbow in the rose
In the howling wind I first heard the voice
To be free again, it said
Find the rainbow in the rose
Somewhere the spirit shines
Like a holy light - we move on....
Someday it will be mine - but
I'm still....
Searching for the rainbow in the rose
Rainbow in the rose
If you can lead the way, than baby I will follow
Searching for...
I'm still looking through the window at the...
Rainbow in the rose
Owner of my devotion
The deeper my hunger grows - oh
Got to look inside, got to try to find the
Rainbow in the.... rose
Seaching for the rainbow in the rose
If you can lead the way, than baby I will follow
To find the rainbow
I'm just looking through the window at the
Rainbow in the rose....
07 Under One Condition (04:27)
She's looking in the eye of a
Mind made up that the
Pain will last forever
And he's headed for a heart
All closed up
Will you ever open up?
She said: never
What is the secret to
Keeping your head and your promises? (oh)
I'll mend your broken heart (she said)
Under one condition
If I lift you up, you'll never let me down
Darling under one condition
She stares at the sky
Wondering why the night
Isn't telling her: believe him
If he could only read to her the pages of his heart
She could see they feel the
Same
Learning the secret to
Keeping their heads and their promises (oh)
I'll mend your broken heart (he said)
Under one condition
If I llet you in, you'll never push me out
Darling under one condition
This is my one, this is my one condition
He's getting closer and she's getting closer
Just one more question, one more answer
It was all they ever wanted
(repeat chorus #1)
08 Little Dirty Blonde (03:31)
Little Dirty Blonde (3:32) (Winger/Taylor)
She was a classic case, a baby face all
Duded up, but kinda out of place
Out to show the world she was so bad (so bad)
I thought I had it sussed, it was only lust
She's not the type, that I could trust
So how did I end up in her trash?
Tell me is this love?
No, it's anything but love
But I just can't shake the fever
For the little dirty blonde
The thrill is over and my luck is gone
For good I misunderstood
You don't look for love in the neighborhood
Well I guess I stayed just a little too long (too bad)
She won't talk to me
She won't talk to me
And my addiction won't let me be
It just leaves me down, down on my knees
Beggin' for the love
It's anything but love
But I just can't shake the fever
For the little dirty blonde
The girl's as cold as the night is long
Little dirty blonde
The thrill is over and my luck is gone
10 You Are the Saint, I Am the Sinner (03:35)
You Are The Saint, I Am The Sinner (3:35) (Winger/Beach)
Do you really believe that I
Can't see inside your cold heart
I have witnessed you, now let the
Truth be a light in the dark
Yeah I can see so clearly
Right through your crying there's no denying
You point the finger, cast the first stone
Knowing you're guilty you're
Sstill blaming me, sayin'...
You are the saint I am the sinner
You laugh as my heart turns to stone
You are the saint I am the sinner
Prey til my flesh hits the bone
You love watching the blood dripping
Off of your hands
But like the rising sun your reflection will come
Put you up on the stand
Yeah I can see so clearly
Right through your crying there's no denying
You point the finger from up on your throne
You promise, you wink, you honestly think that...
(repeat chorus)
Soon to your demon you will be a slave
Watching these words but until that day...
(repeat chorus)
11 In the Heart of the Young (04:37)
In The Heart Of The Young (4:36) (Winger)
There's a fire in the heart of the young
Human temples - drawing power from the sun
Raising sails - navigating the dawn
Hear the thunder - now we're a million strong
(Whoa) The lights shines in the heart of the young
(Whoa) We're fighting for a new way to say
"Carry on" and see behind this material illusion
The future of all is alive in the heart of the young
There's a song in the heart of the young
Loud and clearly the band goes marching on
With the force of a thousand gods
Hear the music - now we're a million strong
(Whoa) Put your trust in the heart of the young
(Whoa) The rise of the rebellion has only
Just begun, the trupets sound off the
Countdown for a new day's dawn, the
Future of all will survive, it's alive
(Show me you're still alive)
And there's fire in the heart of the young
See the lightning strike the curtain
With the force of a thousand gods
Hear the thunder - it's in the
Heart of the young
(Whoa) Can't you feel it burn in the
Heart of the young
(Whoa) We're fighting for a new way to say
"Carry on", the trumpets sound off the
Countdown for a new day's dawn, the
Future of all is alive in the
Heart of the young
The future of all will survive, it's alive....
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