Rich Goldberg "Rich G"

ABOUT

So....first a little history. Sadly, I attempted violin as a young child and was brutally bad. My parents had some how had me listening to classical music at that time which probably explains the violin attempt. Then a miracle happened...First, the Beatles arrived so, bye bye classical & then my aunt who was buying a new piano (the wealthier end of the family) offered me her old one. I'm 8 1/2 so I was still agreeable to anything so I promised to take lessons and really work at it.

I lied...After a year and a half I quit.....until I discovered Elton John. That was it! I was determined to be a musician. In the late 70's I joined a fairly succesful 50's/60's band called Slick. I played 6 nights a week and worked full time at a department store as a stock man (person in this politically correct universe). Exhaustion wasn't considered. I went to gigs with a thermos of tea and lemon since I was always sick. This lasted until the early 80's. I joined a band called Loose Change which (under my direction) played anything from the 1960's- whatever was current. That lasted 12 years. Many years of putting my ears in harms way and breathing in way to much bar smoke told me it was time to quit. This was somewhere around 1993/94 (I don't remember). The next time I played live was in 2004 at my local block party. That's what I needed to get the itch to play again but, I was working in retail at Sam Ash Music and simply had no time to gig. In 2007 I was offered a better job which offered me a 9-5 existence. The economy turned sour and earning extra cash became a priority. And then it happened....I walked into a local Italian restaurant called Vera's Trattoria to pick up a pizza and lo and behold (fancy words ehh?) a piano player was pumping out Jazz licks. Can you imagine? Live music! I decided to approach the owner to see if I could score a gig. He decided to try me the following week. I was hired as a permanent fixture on Saturday nights. Thus The Richie G Review was born. "A one man band Piano/vocals using backing tracks and a voice harmonizer to create a full band sound. My current song list represents over seventy artists including Elton John, Billy Joel , James Taylor, The Beatles and hits from the 1960's thru today. I'm up to 220 tunes and counting- Booking email

richiegreview@asylum.com." I played at Vera's for 14 months and then a new owner took over. He decided that entertainment was unnecessary. I got to work recording a CD of covers and creating business cards. The hard work paid off! I'm a permanent Wednesday night fixture at the Woodcliff lake Hilton as well as sprinkling in various weekend gigs.

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Lyrics from the soon to be released CD "The Fall" from Rich Goldberg

Another Love Song

I'm just trying to write another love song
I know it's all been said before
Tryin' to say it in a brand new way
that leaves 'em wanting more
But as hard as I try to reinvent the wheel
to turn it around give it a different feel
the old tried and true ways keep shining thru......

To some "I need you" sure seems played out
to others "I love you" has sure grown old
Yet we all run around in circles
Just beggin' to be told
So now I put my pen to paper
throwin' caution to the wind
Where message was last left off
Another now begins

A song to say I love
Just show how much I care
How lost I'd be without you
Just in case your not aware
It's 15 years and counting
Those memories sure are mounting
Sure hope your not too tired to here "I love you"

Another ballad for the radio
Repeated a thousand times
Professing ones love for the other
In the endless search, to make it all rhyme
A shameless love song with every verse
How could it be wrong?
To tell someone just how you feel
And play it out in song

It Appears to Be Love

You scare me
You thrill me
and sure do fill me
with feelings I've alluded till now

You've made it so inviting
to come out of my hiding
I'm holding on tight
but keep falling somehow

You look right through me
and always get to me
without even trying at all

It's the best and the worst
now who will blink first
and admit that they've taken
the fall

Yes, it appears to be love
and it appears to be true
Please I have no desire to be
crying over you
I've crossed this path before
I know the way well
So open up wide and
let me inside
Prepare for the love of your life

You shake me awake me
please don't forsake me
I've taken my chance on more
than one sad romance
I've seen it beleived it
and now you've retrieved it
The dream I had tossed
to the wind
Is back now to tempt me again
to tempt me again
You feel it I see it
So lets both just free it
And hope I don't wake up
this time

The Fall

What could you be thinking?
Are their no regrets at all
When did it start sinking?
The high begin to fall
How what was become what is at all

Thrown right off the back page
Now thought as ancient news
We now surmise your vows were lies
Told merely to amuse
Did you ever think of how much their was to lose

You've kept your heart well hidden *
You'll walk this path alone
The vulture circles over
this place you once called home
Picking at your tattered heart of stone

Robbed of half her birthright
Did it ever cross your mind?
She'll take her cue from the 2 of you
As you cut those ties that bind
Your self absorbed existence has
left you deaf dumb and blind

Was it all just an illusion
The promisies you told
What were your expectations
did your best laid palns grow old
You live your life based on the lies
which you have bought and sold

Breaking each and every rule
Playing those who once loved you for fools
Do you think it was all worth it
Are able to feel the pain
What was it that you had hoped to gain

I've got some news for you
It will break you in two
She'll survive, relive, renew without you

Life will carry on
Despite the damage that you've done
You've made your bed
You don't look so happy now

Have you found what you thought was missing
Those who know you just don't believe
What goes around comes back to those
to foolish to conceive
That an empty heart just can't be filled in those
who cannot grieve- (Go to *)

When did you stop thinking?
Have you no regrets at all
When did it start sinking?
The high begin to fall

Let's Knock Em Down

Why that look of shear amazement
Why be so surprised
We act as if we didn't see
what was right before our eyes

Bought hook line and sinker
Blindly we endorse
The man who would now be king
He's kept right to his course

He's got the power that we gave him
That we've regretted since day one
Leaving well enough alone
Just wouldn't be much fun

The tabloids would be empty
Of the trash we love to read
God forbid we now accept
What we were willing to concede

Let's bring 'em up just to knock 'em down
Let's see how hard they can hit the ground
CNN is calling, the book deals all but signed

Let's give it up then take it back
Let's plan out well our next attack
Rumage through the closet
Just to see what we can find

Lindsay fed our hunger, Then Miley Quenched our thirst
The goal has no morality
It's who can print it first

Lets vote 'em in support them well
Lets make each year a living hell
The Enquirer needs a story
Make one up if you have the time

Lets congregate then investigate
Crawl on in and determine fate
The emperor has fallen
who is next in line

The microscope keeps searching
For the scandal of the day
We claim its all for god and country
As we leap into the fray

What if the air waves were kept silent
Of all the hate and fear
The values we claim to hold to were actually sincere

Somewhere Lost in Time

Hey their can you show me
some of that long lost compassion
that you used to show to well

I realize these days
that being cold is the fashion
We all find our own way
from our own private hell

Yes I understand
I'm no longer in your plan
which to me by now
you know is just as well

But can't you take the time
and invest just one more dime
before I crawl on back into my shell

Is yesterday so far away
or did it simply not exist
or was what we had just
cravings of the mind

Just a single stroke of heartlessness
as you crossed me off your list
You'd think I would have learned by now
to take notice of the signs

You ask me "why do I complain"
"by now I should be used to all the pain"
Is it just a convenient excuse to write another line
You know it's stange how people change
How emotions rearrange
How the love is gone, yea the love is gone
Somewhere lost in time

Were you just another pseudo lover
in the course of a lifetime
each one promising more than
the one before

Eternity's grown short these days
forever's run away
the promises seem so empty
I guess there's nothing left to say

Still the dreamer stills dreams on
because he's learned well how to fall
and someday soon again will risk it all

If I'd only seen the signs
well they say that love is blind
and still is out there
hiding somewhere......
somewhere lost in time.

That is the Way Love Goes

No words to be written
No sorrows to be cast
Only one regret, I lost the bet
When I said our love would last

No questions need be answered
It all comes out the same
Me living my life through sad songs
and her living her life with
someone eles's name

Was it fate that was so damn unkind
or me that was completely blind
who know's, cause that's the way love goes

A friend and confident'
and a lover in disguise
the secrets held within her heart
nearly helped cause my dimise

Perhaps I'm stronger than she had thought
For at least I've learned love can't be bought
though the memory lingers on
the anguished cries of self pity are gone

I hope she's happy with what she's found
cause if the love runs out I won't be around
I've learned my lesson well
I have no more love to sell

Was it the fear of having no one to turn to
that held the truth from us
That gave the lies such lasting strength
as our love crumbled to dust

How long was the magic gone for
Perhaps we'll never know
but as time moves on we keep living on
cause that's the way that's the way love goes

The memories are good ones
the painful moments far and few
but I guess one to many had crossed our path
and I guess that's nothing new

We'd all like to think our hurts are special
rising far above the rest
but the one who claimed it better to
have loved and lost
likes to always have his claim put
to the test
I 'm reminded how lovers come and go
As I sit and watch this late night show
and try to write the words that will
finally let me know

Healing Song

I've hoped and I've dreamed for such a long tiime
Wondering when I'm to be blessed with you
Is this plan pre-determined Is their a sermon
To show a light shining through

I've struggled for faith for most of my life
I feel no right to lean on it now
I don't know how to feel you
How to open up my heart my heart some how

I've never known why dreams are taken
Why we awaken with no answers no truth
I place my trust in what I'm told is real
Oh if I could feel the blind faith of youth

All I can do is try to believe @
try to conceive
it's all been planned from the start
I can't help but wonder
why did I have my heart torn apart

sometimes my faith has faltered in my mind
As I dream I'm finally holding you
I've picture your face without knowing
What life's showing
What is false what is true

Hold On, Forgive
Clinging to what's in the past
can't help you to live
Things change, With time
You of all people know life can turn
on a dime
Hold On, Forgive
****Lead*****
Back To @
Lost in a world filled with sorrow
with no tommorrow
left with nothing inside
filled with cliche's
that were meant to heal
based on nothing real
wondering where could I hide

I know its time we faced our fears
We can dry the tears
and still have memories to hold
beleive in the path we're traveling on
look out beyond the same old story retold

Reach Out, Hang tight
Hold on to the ones you love
with all of your might
Things change, With time
You of all people know life can turn
on a dime
Hold On, have faith

Lost Friend

I'm not sure wear your heading
Would you mind if I followed to
Perhaps we could rediscover
The person I once knew

I won't pretend I know what your feeling
Or know if all you need is time
I just know I love and miss you
I'd like to help with your uphill climb

Has your perspective slightly slanted
How did our stock fall quite this fast
I'm sorry but I'm feeling a bit taken for granted
Like a child's old toy whose charm didn't last

I don't believe it's calculated
I just think you lost your way
Sometimes feeling cheat and hurt by life
We make the wrong ones pay
*******Chorus**********
My long lost friend
Don't forget the ones who'd die
just to support you
We're here to catch you
if you should fall
we're not the one who did abort you

I don't claim to know what your needing
But I'll help you to stop the bleeding
It might even bear repeating
My long lost friend
*****LEAD*******
We know a thing or two about heartache
let us help you to find your way
Because there's strength in numbers
Or at least that's what they say
*****Back To Chorus*******
Another night goes passing
The phone call never comes
I know I'll cave in to the temptation
Cause a little of you is better than none

I don't mean to sound frustrated
I know that's not what you need
But our love for you sometime feels lost
we're just not willing to concede

Alyssa

Your face is etched inside my mind
helped by photographs I have
Although I'll never hear you cry or laugh

Your life will play out in our hearts
writing each and every scene
Sometimes thing don't turn out as planned
as pictured in our dreams

I watched you enter into this world
said hello then said goodbye
We'll spend the rest of all our lives
trying to figure out why

I'll miss you each and every day
although we never really met
Your memories burned into my soul
Your face I can't forget

I know I won't see your first step
or watch you playing with your friends
Your first day of school
and your wedding...they
came to this sudden end

I've walked upon this sacred ground
Where we all will pass someday
I see your name carved in this stone
...so much still left to say

Focused upon the fathers words
gripped by the numbing cold
I saw my youth which was to be
suddenly turn old

I watched you enter into this world
said hello then said goodbye
We'll spend the rest of all our lives
trying to figure out why

I'll miss you each and every day
although we never really met
Your memories burned into my soul
Your face I can't forget

Material Love

Hey you, Why all the distance
I haven't seen you for a long long time
I can't understand all this resistance
Kindly explain to me what was my crime

Isn't something that I said
Have your feeling changed for me
Have I wronged you in some way
I simply cannot see

Are you still mourning your love that didn't last
Have you been purging your memories of the past
Have you forgotten so quickly all that we have been through
What you've meant to me
and I've meant to you

You're constantly running
from what I have no clue
I've grown weary of the chase
in trying to catch up to you

I keep hoping & searching for the right words to say
But I see you in the distance
Slowly pulling away

Now look in the mirror
stare at your face
You so damn concerned that every
hair is in place
So count up all your diamonds
Put on all your rings
hold on with both hands to
those material things

First I made headlines & now I'm yesterday's news
The page has been turned to the new ones you choose
With no explanation no hint, & no word
The excuses that you're offering to me now seem so absurd

When you needed a shoulder
to lean on I was there
You must be feeling better
you appear just to not care

Have you become so blinded?
a prisoner of your fears
the prizes your collecting
will not help to dry your tears

Your possessions will not soothe you
As reality sinks in
You're playing in a game with rules
that you can't hope to win

You live in search of fool's gold
No real value at all
This path is riddled with hidden traps
that will lead you to a fall

Hey you why all this distance
I hardly get to see you anymore
You've been give your space
at your insistence
Now it appears you've closed and locked the door

No Sad Song This Time

No sad songs this time
No axes to grind
No more senseless wondering
What the world's so unkind

The pains are all gone
Swept off on a breeze
A Warm gentle smile
Has brought fate to its knees

It's the same old dream
That too seldom comes true
That leaves that old empty feeling
In the same empty fool

But this one's for real
The tide has washed in
Been brought with a different life
For us both to begin

Chorus:
She's all the cliches
That love's ever seen
All the one-liners
Ever witnessed in dreams

All the hopes and the prayers
Ever sung in a song
The love that been so hard to find
That kept me waiting so long

The past is a blur
That time has obscured
The sorrows that once haunted me
Are now easily ignored

The feelings familiar
Yet so hard to believe
The second chance was all I'd asked
One final reprieve

But it's clear as can be that this will last forever
Or at least until the end of time
It was the last on I had wanted
But it's the best I've ever known
For the first and last time in my life
You'll be the place that I call home

Chorus:

New Years Song

Another Year has come and gone
Not all that much has changed
The quest continues just like the year before
I think the open wounds have closed a little more
Not all that much to write about
Just sit and wait, try to cleanse our doubt

Another sad anniversary
Descends upon us all
Though the cut doesn't run quite as deep
Sometimes I can find enough peace to sleep
I guess I've done all that I can do
Just sit back and wait and trust in you

The days pass in silence I'm not getting younger
But I'll wait for a lifetime, if that's what it takes
To be able to hold you and light up your way
I'll help avoid my countless mistakes
Shield you from pain make sure your kept warm
Keep you out of harms way in the midst of the storm

A time to wonder what might have been
If you had made it through
I can only imagine how life would have been
Sometimes I still wonder what was our sin
I wish I could learn just how to pray
What sacred words must I learn to say?

I hear about the mistreated and don't understand
Just where did we go wrong?
When will our call be answered?
This broken heart be healed
We can't help but wonder
What's it all about?
When will the answer finally be revealed?

We've never lacked shelter
We've never gone hungry
We've never been left to feel the chill of the night?
Yet we keep asking for the ultimate blessing
This New Years day wish
That we'll soon see the light

The Miracle

We've been on a mission
A dream in our minds eye
To realize our vision
A gentle lullaby

Glancing down upon our child
Stunned in disbelief
This gift that we've been given
Is still so hard to conceive

A song that I never
Thought I'd ever get to write
Is flowing just like water
Through my fingers tonight

Frozen in my footsteps
Amazed by what I see
A peace so long forgotten
Deep inside of me

How long we've been wishing
To an angel in the sky
We prayed for seems like forever
Sometimes we'd question why?

We've had our moments
We've had our doubts
Sometimes our faith had gone
But now we see through our child's eyes
Life eventually moves on

The kindness of what once had been strangers
Has forever changed my heart
This sacrifice which was made from love
Has given us a brand new start

Lost in my amazement
At these mysteries unsolved
How do these miracles happen?
Remains unresolved