Chords for Rick Springfield - O'Reilly 12/26/07

Plus a TV [A#] icon, an American heartthrob.
Rick [G] Springfield opens up to O'Reilly about [Fm] life as a sex [C] symbol and what he's doing to
support our troops.
A TV icon who is as famous for his daytime stardom as for his rock and roll when the factor continues.
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[F] _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _ [Gm] In a moment, he [G] broke hearts and broke records.
Tonight, [C] TV icon when the factor returns. _ _ _ _ _
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[F#] In the back of the book segment tonight, a TV icon and rock and roll heartthrob.
Just _ [A] _ _ _
[D] this [A] girl, _ I want [D] just this girl.
I'm begging [G] you, [A] please.
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] _ Stay, [A] baby, don't you.
_ _ _ [Bm] Stay, don't [G] you.
_ _ _ Remember those songs?
I guess I'm old enough that I do.
They put Rick Springfield on the map back in 1981, setting off a frenzy among young women.
At the same time, Springfield bolstered his fame with a star turn as Dr.
Noah Drake on
TV's daytime drama, General Hospital.
Now at age 58, he's out with a new Christmas album called Christmas With You and proceeds
go to the gold star mother.
Springfield recently entered the no spin zone with [D] Bill. _ _ _ _
[B] _ Today is Rick Springfield day. _
_ [F#m] _ _ No, [G] you don't need to use your_
1985, [F#] you're a big star, one of the biggest stars in the country, General Hospital.
You don't have to throw [B] bouquets my way just because we got stuck on triage duty together.
[Cm] I wouldn't throw them if they [E] weren't deserved.
He gets [D] huge albums and all that.
I'm [C] watching the stream of [G] steel flow. _
_ _ And then you kind of disappear.
And I understand it's because you had a depression situation.
Well, actually, it was triggered by the disappearance was triggered by birth of my son.
I was pretty burned out at 85 [N] and it was getting, starting to get into some issues.
I'd lost my dad earlier and hadn't really dealt with it.
And suddenly I became a father and I had to, and it was just, it was the right time for me to stop and start to look at things.
So your son is born and you want to spend more time with him and the family, [F#] but you did have a depression.
Yeah, I went through some pretty dark stuff.
Tell me about that because what people don't understand, I mean, you're guys like me, we [G] [Bm] remember you.
I mean, [A] huge.
Oh, I wish I [D] had Jesse's [A] girl.
[Bm] _ _ [A] I want [D] Jesse's girl.
[F#] Women throwing themselves at you.
[C#] How could you be depressed?
I think it was to the point where you realize that you're, [G#] that the material things won't bring you [F#] happiness in and of itself.
You have to, and that was really the wall I hit was that wall.
So [Bm] you weren't happy with all his [D] fame and fortune.
You got the flower, [A] you got the love.
[D] Take me [G] to heaven or [A] leave me to heartbreak.
[G] I did feel fortunate that I'd gone, that I [B] finally hit something, but in the end, when it was just me by myself, it [D#] was, [F#] I was still me.
So you were lonely?
Was that it?
Darkness that _ _ this wasn't what I thought it would be.
This didn't heal me.
Why did you need to be healed?
I don't know anybody who _ truly goes, _ _ I'm right there.
You know, everybody is dealing with issues.
You were born with great [G] talent, obviously.
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[C#] Did you ever pinpoint the fact that why you were unhappy when you got [G] into this situation [D] where you were one of the biggest stars in the world?
I've been a pretty, a pretty dark teenager, you know, it's not a happy kid.
No, I was a happy kid [Dm] up until I hit the teen years.
Now, were you drug involved at all back then?
That have anything to do with it?
Yeah.
No, no, I'd actually [G#] gone through my whole drug phase in the 70s.
When I was in Vietnam, I started smoking dope and I got into acid for a while.
And, but it was all, that was, I was very, I've always been a very driven person and that was very counter to me doing what I wanted [D] to do.
Lately [Bm] something's changed, [Gm] it ain't hard to [D] define.
Jesse's got [B] himself a girl [E] and I wanna make her mine.
Now, you're 58 [B] years old and [F] you have a new Christmas album here.
The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I sent it [D] around was the song Christmas with you from the point of view of [C#m] the soldiers in Iraq.
[E] [C#m] I'd give [A] anything _ just to see you [E] again and [D] to [A] have this [E] Christmas with _ you.
The proceeds go to the Gold [E] Star mothers who are parents who have lost _ [A] _ sons and daughters over there.
You do understand the sacrifice.
Absolutely.
You know, I just got back from Afghanistan, it's hard to get people to go over there, celebrities [N] like yourself, to even shake their hands.
I performed for the troops in Vietnam in 68 and 69 and it's a very different war now.
And I think, you know, I see soldiers walking through the airports and people applauding or saying hi to them.
But not the celebrities, the celebrities haven't stood up.
No Bob Hope.
I think it's probably mainly fear.
You think so?
They're afraid?
My friend Gary Sinise has gone over there.
Great guy.
I know people who have gone over there and we're planning [B] to go over there hopefully April, May.
We applaud that.
[D] You're helping out the Gold Star moms and we wish you the best with the album Mr.
Springfield.
Thank you. _ _ _ _ _
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