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Nature of the Beast | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | The Law | ||||||||||||
| Writers: | Jim
Vallance Bryan Adams |
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| Date Written: | 1986? | ||||||||||||
| Albums: | The Law (1991) | ||||||||||||
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| Audio-1: | Studio version |
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| Audio-2: | Live version |
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In
1993 Paul Rodgers appeared with Bryan Adams on the UK radio show "Johnny
Walker Session", recorded live at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. Here's a snippet from that broadcast. |
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| Comments: |
No-one can be faulted for expecting great things. Ultimately however, The Law did not deliver. I'm a huge fan of Paul Rodgers, but I must confess I was a bit disappointed with his version of "Nature Of The Beast". In fact I much prefer the home-studio recording I did with Adams (in my opinion there are few singers who can match Bryan's phrasing and intonation). We originally wrote "Nature Of The Beast" for Tina Turner. When we were working on the lyrics we tried to "climb inside Tina's head" and imagine what she'd say to her ex-husband Ike, as if SHE were writing the song. We had applied exactly the same principle when writing another song for Tina, "Back Where You Started" ... even though she'd told us NOT to write about her life. It was cheeky of us, but we thought we'd sneak it past her. Tina recorded "Back Where You Started", but she didn't record "Nature Of The Beast" (perhaps the thinly veiled references to Ike were TOO obvious this time). A year or so later, the song found it's way to Paul Rogers. |
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| Lyrics: | I hear
you 'bin up to your old tricks It seems you're never gonna learn If you keep puttin' your hand in the fire, babe You're gonna get your fingers burned Who'd believe you ever cared for me The way you tried to run my life Ahh - you ain't nothin' but a gutter rat sister Crawlin' on the edge of a knife You come on like a fever You say "I'm never gonna leave ya" The lines are drawn but baby, somethin' ain't right You steal my lovin' like a thief in the night Now you're caught between the famine and the feast Ahh - that's the nature of the beast You 'bin sneakin' around like an alley cat Tell me, is it money or love? And all those things you've 'bin sayin' to me Are 'bout as clear as Mississippi mud I wouldn't take a million dollars No, I wouldn't take a diamond ring If you think there's a way you can get me back Well, babe you better think again You came on like a princess But now you're losin' my interest The lines are drawn between the black and the white You steal my lovin' like a thief in the night You're movin' in closer but I'm still outa reach Ahh - but that's the nature of the beast Solo The lines are drawn but baby, somethin' ain't right You steal my lovin' like a thief in the night Now you're caught between the famine and the feast Uh-huh, oh ya The time has come and now you better see the light I'd stand up to ya but it ain't worth the fight You're movin' in closer but I'm still outa reach Ahh - but that's the nature of the beast Uh-huh, the nature of the beast |
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