Bigbeautiful fridaynight
 (Lyrics and Music by Rick Springfield)

Another day passes like a ghost
And you're wishing you were any place but here
From your prison cell of flesh and bone
You send a prayer on it's suicide last flight
Into the air, into the rain
And it sends you nothing back again

Hey Maria
It's a big beautiful friday night
Yeah Maria
Hey na na, hey na na na yeah

Day to day and coast to coast
Everything seems anything but clear
Inside your skin of steel and stone
Your need for somebody wakes you late night
But there's something there you can't explain
As you come in bed alone again

Hey Maria
It's a big beautiful friday night
Yeah Maria
Hey na na, hey na na na yeah
Hey Maria
Why don't we drink 'til we just don't care tonight
Yeah Maria
Hey na na, hey na na na yeah

Life is a perfect song with a fractured beat
Yeah it's a one way sign on a dead end street

Hey Maria
You sure look beautiful tonight

Hey Maria
It's a big beautiful friday night
Yeah Maria
Hey na na, hey na na na yeah

Hey Maria
Don't let it be so complicated tonight
Hey Maria
Yeah Maria
Hey na na, hey na na na yeah

(total playing time 3:12)

Song Facts: This song appears as the last track on Karma (the regular US Release - it is not included in the Japanese release).  It is an unlisted track.  Rick has actually called it a "hidden" track, but it's not hidden. A hidden track appears at the end of a listed track kind of riding piggy back on it, truly hidden. 

Rick performed part of this song in Harris, MI on 6/16/00.

According to US

I think of this one as Rick's *Bon Jovi* song. From the first time I heard it, I could have sworn Jon Bon Jovi had a hand in this one. Both the words and the music just remind me so much of that band. I mean that as a compliment. Seriously.

I really like this song for lots of reasons. Rick sounds wonderful. It's not too fast, it's not too slow. The words are splendidly written. Oh, and they're a bit naughty. Right up my alley :-)
Oh c'mon - did you think I wouldn't mention the "as you come in bed alone again" line? I remember not really noticing it the first few (hundred) listens through. Then someone mentioned it somewhere on some list....and holy cow! I read the posts, and thought "Is he really saying that?" Yep. He's really saying that. Big difference between "to" -- what I thought he said there, and "in" - what he did say there. Alrightly then. Let's move on.

I was dying to know who Maria was. So bad that I asked Rick. Biggest mistake of my life. As soon as the question left my lips and I saw the uneasiness move into his face, I wish I could have taken it back. You'd have thought I was Barbara Walters asking him a really difficult question. He shuffled back and forth, and stuttered -- oh and let me also say that it was in a room filled with a couple hundred people and he had a microphone in his hand. If I could have crawled under something, I probably would have. He basically said it was a woman he knew a long time ago who had some problems, and this was his advice to her - that everything looks huge when you're in the midst of it. Sometimes though you have to take a step back, relax, and enjoy what've you got in front of you.

Gotta love that man sometimes. :-) - Michelle P.

I guess I'm kind of lukewarm about this song. Parts of it I like, parts of it are just ok. This is another one of those songs that has a line that you hear over and over and you just aren't hearing what he's saying, then when you find out, you're like "OMG!" I liked the song just a little bit more after that, too, for some reason. Such a naughty boy :-O

Some of the lines ring with a bit of familiarity and I'm not sure if it's his work repeating itself or familiar from somewhere is. The suicide last flight kind of reminds me of Invisible Girl with Life's a Suicide Mission, and then there's the dead end street seems familiar for some reason. Flesh and bone....familiar imagery.
On a side note, my media player lists this song as "Hey Maria". - rlh