Mayday

Rick Santers – lead vocals, electric guitar and keyboards
Mark Santers – drums, background vocals
Rick Lazaroff – bass, background vocals

Produced by Bob Connolly

Recorded live at the Queensbury Arms, May 1, 1982  Toronto ON
Recorded by Comfort Sound Mobile, engineered by Doug Clement
All songs mixed at Phase One Studios Toronto ON, engineered by Robin Brouwers
Remastered by Edward Tobin at ECV Mastering Studio, Toronto ON

Cover Photography: Deborah Samuel
Back Cover Photography: Phillip Kamin
Original Art Direction and Design: Dean Motter for DIAGRAM 

Words and Music by Rick Santers
All songs © 1980-1982 Santoonz Music (SOCAN)
except “The Rapper” written by Dominic lerace © Don Iris Music (BMI), EMI Unart Catalog Inc. (BMI), Souler Two Music (BMI),
and “The Song Remains the Same” written by R. Plant/J. Page © Superhype Music (BMI)

Lyrics used by permission. All rights reserved. 

Original sound recording ℗  © 1982, 2019 Dandelion Records 

Paths Of Heart
Words and Music by Rick Santers

Leave the highland to wander through endless streams, through the valleys of sights too real to be seen. Songs of life they echo on through the trees. I’m homeward bound the sun is reaching out to me. The water flows and the shadows grow inside us. The window pain and it sees the strain on you. Never-ending, fast sequences of life, they heed to borrow from paths of life’s delight. Silent wonder, to whom to give a sigh. An aging singer who song throws judgment nigh.  chorus  Leave the highland to wander through endless streams, through the valleys of sights too real to be seen. Songs of life they echo on through the trees. I’m homeward bound the sun is reaching out to me.  chorus 

Crazy Ladies
Words and Music by Rick Santers

Sometimes I think I’m a pretty lucky guy. I walk around the streets at night and there’s the reason why. Standing on the corner I see those big brown eyes. The movement and the glances just take me to the skies. It’s getting late, is it worth the time to try? I wonder why they lie. Walking down the road I see some more sweet scenery. It seems to me the ones I see wanna come to me. Using all my money and they’re taking all my time. Tell me girl, can you give to me more than just a rhyme? It’s getting late, is it worth the time to try? I wonder why they lie. Crazy ladies you’re driving me wild. Take me to the stars. Crazy ladies you’re driving me wild. Take me oh so far, away.  chorus  Understand the reasons why they want to act this way. If I had a wish I wish that I would see them change. Never hesitate to say that they’re crazy in their ways. Crazy ladies are all around and I know that they’re here to stay. Getting late, is it worth the time to try? I wonder why they lie.  chorus 

Back Streets
Words and Music by Rick Santers

I am the walker through city streets. You are the talker who cries to the beat. And people come and go, just like the sun and snow. And I have come a long way to see the light of day. Back streets, hear me coming down the road. Back streets! Back streets, hear the music as I go. Back streets! Machines in action, turning to rust. Your next attraction rises from the dust. And people come and go, just like the sun and snow. And I have come a long way to see the light of day.  chorus

Mistreatin’ Heart

Words and Music by Rick Santers

Girl, you’re looking at me like someone who’s never seen love before, and you’re making it seem that it’s me, I’m the one you chose to open the door. You say that you’re lonely; you say that you’re sad. It’s the world that is driving you mad. I’ll make you a promise but make no mistake. Don’t abuse me or we’re gonna break. Your mistreatin’ heart is gonna tear us apart. Your mistreatin’ heart puts us back to the start. There’s always a chance things will change, but I’ve seen your games before. You say you’ll play fair from now on, but you still leave my heart on the floor. You say that you’re lonely; you say that you’re sad. It’s the world that is driving you mad. Make me a promise but make no mistake. Don’t abuse me or we’re gonna break.  chorus  Girl the way you’re treating me, it just ain’t fair. You say you’re gonna miss me, but you just don’t care. No, no!  chorus

Time After Time
Words and Music by Rick Santers

I just can’t help but think there’s got to be a way. Since I met you girt I can’t get through the day. The way you left me with my life on the line, just ain’t fair to call when you got the time. Time after time, you got me wanting you. Time after time, after time, girl you got me on the line. You can change yourself from black into white. You kept me hanging on, all through the night. You think you’re smart the way you fool around with me. I tell you now I know how it’s gonna be.  chorus  I just can’t help but think there’s got to be a way. Since I met you girl, I can’t get through the day. The way you left me with my life on the line, just ain’t fair to call, when you got the time.  chorus

You Turn Me On
Words and Music by Rick Santers

I’m trying, I’m trying but I just can’t find a way to escape. Relying, relying on you to make the first mistake. I’m dying, I’m dying ’cause I see what you got in store. I’m trying, I’m trying its so hard you know I can’t take no more. You turn me, you turn me on, ooh! all night long. You turn me, you turn me on, ooh! all night long. I’m burning, I’m burning oh, I’m getting so close to your fire. Learning, and learning to control my aching heart. You’re teasing, you’re teasing don’t you know you’re gonna drive me insane. You’re pleasing, you’re pleasing ’cause you know my pleasure is your pain.  chorus  I’m trying, I’m trying but I just can’t find a way to escape. Relying, relying on you to make the first mistake. I’m dying, I’m dying ’cause I see what you got in store. In trying, I’m trying it’s so hard you know I can’t take no more.  chorus

Shot Down In Flames
Words and Music by Rick Santers

I drive so fast at night never do look back. Always run the red lights off the beaten track. Living one for all and breathing all for one. Forever on the run always jump the starting gun. Shot down in flames, only just begun. Shot down in flames, under the gun. Shot down in flames, now my song is sung. Shot down in flames. Naked in the light through the fire line. I’m taking hold tonight ignoring all the signs. My lady luck is coming I feel her by my side. I’ll never let the straight life take me for a long lost ride.  chorus

Caught In The Wind
Words and Music by Rick Santers

I’m weary! Oh days turn to nights without end. And always to feel just a spiral descend. I’m leaving those bright city lights behind. To follow the beckoning voice I must find. I’m caught in the wind. I’m taking my chances with you. I’m caught in the wind. Maybe some day we’ll get through. I’m turning through pages of my life and times. And meeting the few that tell me they are mine. And never to recapture those moments again. To follow the onward and up warding trend.  chorus  I’m weary! Oh days turn to nights without end. And always to feel just a spiral descend. I’m leaving those bright city lights behind. To follow the beckoning voice I must find.  chorus

Points Of Resistance
Words and Music by Rick Santers

When temperance ceases from conflict and lesions, time’s cynical teacher revolves in confusion. Friction increases as two worlds collide. The sensible virtues from chaos subside. Occurring in cycles, life’s aesthetic preacher survives in the riddles provided by seekers.  chorus  Maybe I’m a rich man and don’t know what I like. Maybe I’m a poor man with everything in life. Some say there’s a reason hidden in the rhyme. So I’ll take my chances and I will take my time. From now he is sleeping protected by ego. But time may arouse him and he must let his shields go.  chorus  

The Rapper
Words and Music by Dominc Ierace

Hey girl I bet you, there’s someone out to get you. You’ll find him anywhere – on a bus, in a bar, in a grocery store. And he’ll say, “Excuse me, haven’t I seen you somewhere before? Rap, rap, rap, they call him the rapper. Rap, rap, rap, you know what he’s after. So, he starts his rappin’, hoping something will happen. He’ll say he needs you, a companion, a girl he can talk to. He’s made up his mind. He needs someone to sock it to. chorus He’s made an impression, so he makes a suggestion. Come up to my place, for some coffee, or tea, or me. Well he’s got you where he wants you. Girl you’ve gotta face reality.  chorus 

The Song Remains the Same
Words and Music by James Patrick (Jimmy) Page and Robert Anthony Plant 

I had a dream. Crazy dream. Anything I wanted to know, any place I needed to go. Hear my song. People won’t you listen now? Sing along. You don’t know what you’re missing now. Any little song that you know. Everything that’s small has to grow. And it has to grow! California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain, Honolulu Starbright – the song remains the same. Sing out Hare Hare, dance the Hoochie Koo. City lights are oh so bright, as we go sliding… sliding… sliding through. 

Still I am
Words and Music by Rick Santers

I found the time to search my mind, see where it was leading me. I suddenly saw that I always was, I am, and will always be. Maybe if I were to close my eyes and eliminate this coloured world. But I can’t escape I have to wait for my life it will soon unfold. The meaning’s gone but the dream goes on and it’s better just to find the time. Being right for me is the only plea that I’ll make to this troubled mind. Still I am, here I stand. Still I am. Days go by and I always try to be better than I was before. But I’m to blame if I stay the same ’cause time’s not supposed to score. The meaning’s gone but the dream goes on and it’s better just to find the time. Being right for me is the only plea that I’ll make to this troubled mind.  chorus

Management: Powerhouse

Thanks to Gerry of Music Masters, Alex Andronache, Willy Bagnel, David Kirby, 
Keith Elshaw, Gottlieb, Linda and Axel, Andy Holland, Ray van Doorn, Gene Kroth, Tom Smith. 

Crew: Sound – Garth “Dudley” Richardson, Lights – Kevin “Skid” Sims, Stage – Jim Rhodes

Mayday stands as SANTERS first full-length live concert recording performed at the Queensbury Arms in Toronto.  Recorded in between sessions for the Racing Time album, the band’s label at the time, Ready Records, were eager to release some of the band’s newly recorded songs. It was decided that an EP would be released that was a hybrid of the band performing live and in the studio. Mayday’s original release included two songs from this live recording and two new studio songs, Mistreatin Heart and Still I Am, which were remixed and included on the band’s sophomore album Racing Time.

Rick Santers would write almost all of the band’s songs while on the road and the band test them out in concert before recording them. The full Mayday concert showcases some of the upcoming tracks to be released on Racing Time.  Mayday – The Definitive Remasters release includes the entire live performance along with the early original mixes of Mistreatin Heart and Still I Am.

With the release of “The Definitive Remasters Collection” SANTERS fans can finally listen to the band’s vast catalogue of rock classics mastered to the level of sound quality that was originally intended. So, sit back, crank it up and listen to SANTERS the way they were meant to be heard. 

Enjoy!

COMING SOON!