Haven't I Been Good To You
Recording Artist: Rick Springfield
Writers: Rick Springfield
Jim Vallance
Date Written: November 1989 / Vancouver Canada
Albums: The Day After Yesterday/Limited Edition (2005)
Audio:
 
Rick Springfield: vocals, guitar
Jim Vallance: keyboards, guitar, bass, drums
 
Recorded 1989 at Distorto Studios, Vancouver.
Cover Versions: Also recorded by Sanne Salomonsen
Comments:
"Haven't I Been Good To You" was written with Rick Springfield during one of his visits to Vancouver, in November 1989. 

This version, our basement demo (see audio, above) appears on Rick's 2005 CD release, "The Day After Yesterday/Limited Edition".  Only 2,500 copies were issued, each of them signed and numbered by Rick.

(Thank you to photographer Renata Hearn for bringing this recording to my attention).
Lyrics: Well I'll be lyin' awake, baby, late at night
And I'll call you up, but you're not alone
I'd wait for you but it just ain't right
To keep my soul on fire with your heart of stone

And I still see, how it use to be
But somewhere somethin' changed
And I don't know why

All my friends, you know they love to talk
And they've been sayin' that we'll never make it
I just can't help the way I feel inside
Y'know it makes me crazy, but I just can't shake it

It'd be a crime, after all this time
If we had to say goodbye

Before you walk away think it over
Haven't I been good to you
Don't wanna hear you say that it's over
Haven't I been good to you

You could leave, you could let it go
Or we could try and make it one way or another
I'll tell you somethin'
It breaks my heart to know it could've been easy
But it keeps on getting' harder

Now I'm seein' signs in between the lines
Things that I don't wanna know

Before you walk away think it over
Haven't I been good to you
Don't wanna hear you say that it's over
Haven't I been good to you

I could wait for a miracle
But I'd be waitin' for nothin' at all, oh yeah
'Cause I know there's no miracle
I'm just waitin' for the curtain to fall

Now I'm seein' signs in between the lines
Things that I don't wanna know

Before you walk away think it over
Haven't I been good to you
Don't wanna hear you say that it's over now
Oh haven't I been good to you baby

Before you walk away think it over
Haven't I been good to you
Don't wanna hear you say that it's over now
Haven't I been good to you baby

Before you walk away think it over
Haven't I been good to you
Don't wanna hear you say that it's over
Haven't I been good to you