Check out the sound of Rikka Z—Coastal Country. You can purchase her album, Cowboy Nights and Live at Maverick Saloon, online through her store. You can download her Cowboy Nights EP through Apple’s iTunes. You can listen to her sound bytes below using Quicktime.
Cowboy Nights-EP
1. Room Full of Romance | 4:43 | LYRICS | LISTEN
2. Cowboy Nights | 4:35 | LYRICS | LISTEN
3. Road to Forgiveness | 5:00 | LYRICS | LISTEN
Live at Maverick Saloon
1. Love Will Find a Way | 4:30 | LYRICS | LISTEN
2. Better Place | 4:46 | LYRICS | LISTEN
3. Road to Forgiveness | 5:14 | LYRICS | LISTEN
4. Stranger to Your Family | 4:26 | LYRICS | LISTEN
5. Love What Is | 4:43 | LYRICS | LISTEN
6. Room Full of Romance | 5:38 | LYRICS | LISTEN
7. Cowboy Nights | 6:36 | LYRICS | LISTEN
8. My Town | 5:27 | LYRICS | LISTEN
9. Hold You | 4:58 | LYRICS | LISTEN
10. Hell of a Long Time | 5:29 | LYRICS | LISTEN
Straight from the Studio...what we’re
working on right now.
1. With Me | LYRICS | LISTEN
2. Fly You Home | LYRICS | LISTEN
3. Matter of Time | LISTEN
4. Rodeo Heart | LISTEN
LYRICS
Room Full of Romance
through the window pane
there’s a toe head girl
spinning around
with flowers in her hair
watching her skirt fly
she wonders when she
will dance with her true love
in a room full of romance
you came to my window
I looked up in the sky
I had hung so many wishes
it was about time you arrived
I couldn’t wait,
for the rest of my life
to have and to hold you
in a room full of romance
In a room full of romance
we dance all night
In a room full of romance
I am still your brand new bride
once we became one
then there came two,
and three, and four
we kept building rooms
while closing the doors
there’s so many walls
do we stand a chance
to find our way back to
the room full of romance
in a room full of romance
I’ll be waiting still
in a room full of romance
all I need is you
please lover try, I’m waiting tonight
in the room where we all began.
sway with me now, feel me some how
don’t be a stranger, to your favorite melody
in our room full of romance
in a room full of romance
we’ll tear down these walls
in a room full of romance
we’ll make it somehow
in a room full of romance
I promise you now
you will fight for the light
that has left your vacant eyes
please lover try
I will have you
I will hold you
I promise to love you
through the window pane
I’m a toe head girl . . .
Rikka Zimmerman- vocals
Jonathan McEuen- vocals
Rory Anton- guitar
Scarlett Rivera- fiddle
Tom Lackner- Drums
Randy Tico- Bass
Robinson Eikenbury- dolcimer
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Cowboy Nights
summertime hot wind
blowing through the back screen
calling me from the window
come on and stir me wild
lets ride tonight . . .
sneaking out the window
headed to the corner while
under the cover of
the weeping willow tree
you wait for me . . .
as we drive down that old country road
you ask me just how far I want to go and I say . . .
I want to run, I want to fly
I want touch the southern sky
feel the wind at my feet
let my dreams carry me
fall into your cowboy arms
sing an old country song
show this California girl
her first, cowboy night
fall into the tall grass
rise into the twilight
dance through the long forgotten fields
of fireflies just you and I . . .
talking till the moon glow
melts into the cornrows
free in the fire
of this sleepy golden light
as we rise into that orange colored sky
If you ask me to meet you again tomorrow night then I’ll say . .
.
I want to run I want to fly
I want touch the southern sky
feel the wind at my feet
let my dreams carry me
fall into your cowboy arms
sing an old country song
show this California girl
her first, cowboy night
I hear the glass, crash,
a stone through my window . . .
I breath the breeze, please,
feel you inside
I feel the wind, begin,
won’t you be careful
this reckless heart, is not,
afraid to fly . . .
Rikka Zimmerman- lyrics & melody
Rory Anton- guitar
Scarlett Rivera- fiddle
Jesse Siebenberg- Drums
Randy Tico- Bass
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Road to Forgiveness
I hand you my weapons
all my shields and my swords
I lay down the love
you’ve been asking for
I’m tired of fighting
this love has me won
I surrender to you
my heart has a home
it's home is with you . . .
I have no more strength
left to deny
I tried to erase
your memory from mine
but the truth is if I lost you
I’d loose myself to
forever wandering aimless
in search of the love
the love of my life . . .
the long road to forgiveness
is hard as a stone
the long road to forgiveness
is our last chance home
the long road to forgiveness
will try hard divide
but if we hold on
walk on strong
our love will survive
take my heart now
keep it close to you
take my hand
never let go
together we’ll survive
all the trials that try
try to tempt us and lead us
away from the love
the love of our lives . . .
the long road to forgiveness
is hard as a stone
the long road to forgiveness
is our last chance home
the long road to forgiveness
will try hard divide
but if we hold on
walk on strong
our love will survive
if we hold on
walk on strong
our love will survive.
Rikka Zimmerman- lyrics & melody
Rory Anton- guitar
Scarlett Rivera- fiddle
Claudia Kiser- Cello
Tom Lackner- Drums
Randy Tico- Bass
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Hell of a Long Time
standing at the doorstep
stuck in a white dress
I hear the choir sound
those church doors open
I am hoping,
this voice would quiet inside
it says,
I know forever, is a hell of a long time
I don’t really know, if he’s supposed to be mine
each step I take that voice gets louder
ringing in my head
Half way down this long dark isle
I hug my daddy and say
I know forever, is a hell of a long time
one thing’s for sure, he won’t be mine
I run right out of those old church doors
I hear my daddy-yelling girl you better be sure
I dive into the carriage, high tail through the village
let’s crack that champagne girlfriends cause
I’m a free girlfriend again
I know forever, is a hell of a long time
one thing’s for sure, he won’t be mine
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Hold You
little nose, little eyes
little twist in your smile
little time between you and I
but I will hold you hold you
bigger thoughts, bigger sighs
bigger prayers calling out tonight
I’m a man who’s not supposed to cry
but I will hold you, hold you
I will hold you on your way
only heaven knows why you couldn't stay
I will show love and you will know love
if all that I have is tonight
your mother turns her love away
because she knows no words to say
oh she hides from you today
but I will hold you, hold you
she is full of emptiness
because she wonders just what she did
you will always be
a child conceived to leave
I feel the heavens calling
I hear their voices in the room
there her to take you home child
I see our time with you is through
I know this won’t be the last time
you will be in my arms
the hands of heaven are stronger than the sands of time
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My Town
I knew this time would come
when all that was will be no more
but still it is until tomorrow
lets’ do this town like we’ve done before
gonna be a long night
the kind you try to hide from morning
nothing but a good time
everything’s just right
in my town tonight
Dancing till the sun comes rising up
we’ll be laughing till we fall
making still frames we will forever hang
in our memorys of us all
gonna be a long night
the kind you try to hide from morning
nothing but a good time
everything’s just right
in my town tonight
now the mist is rolling by my tired eyes
with a two ton smile we’ll paint this town alive
give the night a life until it’s morning time
so when you make it to the place that you must go
remember this and the love that we still hold
a love that’s always there a love that feels like home
a love that echoes in your soul
gonna be a long night
the kind you try to hide from morning
nothing but a good time
everything’s just right
in my town tonight
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With Me
when the wind blows through the trees
as the quiet calls to me
I hear your voice whisper in the breeze
and I know that your with me
as the sky wells up with clouds
all the heavens rain down
I feel your tears wash me clean
and I know that your with me
I will rise up to meet you
I will fall into your ancient arms
I can hear the words you’ll say to me
you’ll say babe girl I’ve been here all along
tonight I held my first child
you can see she has your eyes
all at once I feel my heart catch fire
when I see you in her eyes
Better
Place to Start
I guess it’s time to leave now
time to disappear
become a gentle memory
of love no longer there
and when the world is quiet
you will here me whispering
a voice to remind you
of what you left behind
I can’t promise I will be there waiting for you
on the other side of my disregarded heart
but if one day you find that you
can’t get me off your mind
then maybe we could build a bridge
between the time we spent apart
maybe we will find
a better place to start
I know your up in arms now
drawing out your broken past
but honey my arms are open
if you would just come back
but your so far away
every day the distance grows
soon you’ll find the edge
then I hope you’ll come back home
I can’t promise that I’ll be there waiting for
you
on the other side of my disregarded heart
but if one day you find that you
can’t get me off your mind
then maybe we could build a bridge
between the time we spent apart
maybe we will find
a better place to start
a better place to start
where the past is far behind
a better place to start
babe tell me when it’s time
my secret hope I must confess
Is that beyond this recklessness
together we could find
a better place to start
together we could build a bridge
between the time we spent apart
together we will find
a better place to start
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Love What Is
twenty something
every one is
looking for the right one
you better settle down
they say catch them now
pretty soon all the good one are gone
so you hang around construct your dreams
building all these future things
where are you going?
then you turn around looking back
to reminess for your perfect past
now your missing
I don’t want to rush
I’ve got time enough
I don’t want to want to plant my feet deep in the ground
I don’t want to decide
I’ve got nothing but time
I know a secret to happy life
love what is
thirty something
your clock is ticking
you think this is could be your last chance
hurry find a man
better plant a family
then you’ll have the key to happiness
you played with all the ways to run
hide from what you think you’ve done
What’s the worry?
Is chasing what you think you want
better than loving what’s here?
are you ready?
well I don’t want to rush
I’ve got time enough
I don’t want to want to plant my feet deep in the ground
I don’t want to decide
I’ve got nothing but time
I know a secret to happy life
It isn’t waiting for sometime, that something will
come in and show us the way
the greatest treasure we can find is the beauty in all that is here
It isn’t hoping for someday that someone will bring us the joy that
we miss
The greatest pleasure we can feel is to love what is
well I don’t want to rush
I’ve got time enough
I don’t want to want to plant my feet deep in the ground
I don’t want to decide
I’ve got nothing but time
I know the secret to a happy life
love what is
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Love Will Find
a Way
our engine’s running, waiting in the drive
exaust is billowing a dark cloud in the night
now I can’t see any star’s left in our sky
we both know that it’s way past our time there’s just
one thing more before I walk out that door
do you want it one more night, one last time
before we say goodbye
I’ll show you what you never had the courage to see
you know it’s what you wanted from me
I’ll tell you what you never had the power to say
cause whether we do or whether we don’t
love will find a way
I know it’s late, I know your tired
here inside the silence screams a deeper desire
chasing us from room to room like a shadow on the wall
lets shed these clothes piece by piece
make a trail on down the hall this
engines ready lets take it out for a ride
do you want it one more night, one last time,
before we say goodbye
I’ll show you what you never had the courage to see
you know it’s what you wanted from me
I’ll tell you what you never had the power to say
cause whether we do or whether we don’t
love will find a way
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Stranger to Your Family
if you think I’m going to be
standing in the same place you left me
when you make up your mind
you’ll come to find
an empty house where you once felt home
a cold lonely room where you once felt warm
I’m on front porch swinging alone
wondering why
why you chose to be
a stranger to your family
why your making history
when what we need are more memories
if you walk away
don’t expect we’ll ever be the same
your writing your own history
as a stranger to your family
now I stand before you representing the love
remember daughter remember your son
I know you think with her your standing
in the greenest grass you’ve ever seen
but soon you’ll look down
again all around the grass has turned brown
why you chose to be
a stranger to your family
why your making history
when what we need are more memories
if you walk away
don’t expect we’ll ever be the same
you’re writing your own history
as a stranger to your family
why you made your history
such a tragic story
why your made our history
such a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
tragic story
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Fly You Home
I breathe in deep, and let it go
close the door of our aging station wagon
the sky is barely holding on
caving in around me
looks like the storm has found me
I give the nurse our last name
she breaks open and speaks
they are both in room thirteen
the babe’s dying her mother’s crying
calling out only your name
and so I hurry, there’s no time to waste
Love here I am don’t you cry
You are not alone, as long as I live
I will fly you home
You are safe inside my arms
I will go as far, as far I can go
I will stay with you until I know
You’re not alone
Angel, I will fly you home
By your bedside I break down
your eyes are closed
but can’t contain the tears rolling down your face
You whisper I’m so sorry love
I am not strong enough to see her, to be her mom
I won’t hold her cause I know that I could not let go
She will always be conceived to leave oh
I will fly you home
You are safe inside my arms
I will go as far, as far I can go
I will stay with you until I know
You’re not alone
Angel, I will fly you home
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