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Jessie J - Alive

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Album: Alive
Released: 2013

Alive Lyrics

This is it, now it's in our hands
I know you feel it
We could've quit but we choose to dance
But best believe it

We took it in baby from the start
We choose the light and forgot the dark
So bright this moment with a million stars (stars)
So everybody sing with me

[Chorus]
Luckily see you 'cause of I
Don't play on it because tonight
We're flying free like birds in the sky
'Cause we're Alive (live)
Let's raise a glass to you and I
Let's show and tell that we survived
We're flying free like birds in the sky
'Cause we're alive
(1, 2, 3) We're alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) So alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) We're alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) So alive! (live, live)

Here we are, now it's in our hands
Oh yea we feel it
Don't let it stop, you got to dance
But best believe it

We took it in baby from the start
We choose the light and forgot the dark
So bright this moment with a million stars (stars)
So everybody sing with me

[Repeat x2]
Luckily see you 'cause of I
Don't play on it because tonight
We're flying free like birds in the sky
'Cause we're alive (live)
Let's raise a glass to you and I
Let's show and tell that we survived
We're flying free like birds in the sky
'Cause we're alive
(1, 2, 3) We're alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) So alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) We're alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) So alive! (live, live)

(1, 2, 3) We're alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) So alive! (oh oh)
(1, 2, 3) So alive! (live, live)

Writer/s: KELLY, CLAUDE / CORNISH, JESSICA / JERKINS, RODNEY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Alive

This is the title track of Jessie J's second album. She told Radio 1Xtra DJ Twin B: "I wrote that song with four chords on a piano and that was it. I wanted to write a song that represents how I feel right now."

"I feel like I now know what I need to be as an aunt," Jessie continued. "As a sister. As a mother one day. I know what I want to leave behind. I know what kind of friend I want to be. I'm not saying I am that person right now, but I'm saying that in the sense that I know how I want to get there and that's what the song is about."

Augustana - Alive

Augustana - Alive Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life Imitating Life
Released: 2014

Alive Lyrics

Well this is not a lesson
And this is not a cry for help
And this is not a test
And this is not for someone else

Yeah, this one's for you and everything you do
For every time I said this one's forever
And this one's for me, I'm starting to believe
You and I were born to be together

And I can feel it right now, just where I want to be
I reach out, you're right in front of me
We are unstoppable, we are unbreakable, we are invincible together
And I feel Alive with you
And I feel alive with you

Well this is not a battle
And this is not a field of blood
And this is not as easy,
Not as easy as it ever was

Yeah, this one's for you and everything you do
For every time I said this one's forever
And this one's for me, I'm starting to believe
You and I were born to be together

And I can feel it right now, just where I want to be
I reach out, you're right in front of me
We are unstoppable, we are unbreakable, we are invincible together
And I feel alive with you
And I feel alive with you

This is not a devil
And this is not a child of god
And this is not a message
And this is not a double shot
Hell, I'm just loving you, babe, with everything I got

And I can feel it right now, just where I want to be
I reach out, you're right in front of me
We are unstoppable, we are unbreakable, we are invincible together
And I feel alive with you
And I feel alive with you

Writer/s: LAYUS, DANIEL ROBIN / SCHNEIDER, CURT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Alive

Augustana mainman Dan Layus told AbsolutePunk the story of this song: "That was a really important song, not only for a refreshing direction of Augustana as a songwriter, but just as a human, as a person," he said. "I was just in desperate need of writing something that felt good. That was at a time where I had turned a lot of things around. I've been sober for nearly three years now, not quite but we're getting there. At that time I was freshly on the wagon there, getting my life together and figuring out how to live my life in a really positive way. I needed to write and perform something every night that felt great and that wasn't so blue and wasn't so down. That song is what came out."

"It flowers from being sober, I think," Layus continued. "It felt good to feel nervous at shows again. It felt good to feel butterflies and actually not be numb to everything around me all day and night, to actually be scared or excited or nervous, all those feelings that come back that I had sort of stuffed away and numbed for a lot of years. That's kind of what that's saying, and then it's also saying in the verses that this isn't a message and this isn't a lesson for anybody else. It's my experience. This isn't saying that this is going to work for everyone, it's just saying this is me and this is my experience. This is what I've been through, and now it feels so good to feel alive again. I know that road has been walked before, and that alludes to Life Imitating Life as well. It all ties together."

Pearl Jam - Alive

Pearl Jam - Alive Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Ten
Released: 1991

Alive Lyrics

Son she said
Have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy
Was nothin' but a fool

While you were sittin'
Home alone at age thirteen
Your real father was dyin'
Sorry you didn't see him
But I'm glad we talked,

Oh I, oh, I'm still Alive
Hey, hey, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive

Oh she walks slowly
Across a young man's room
She said I'm ready, for you
I can't remember anything
To this very day
'Cept the look, yeah the look
Oh, you know where

Now I can't see, I just stare
I, I, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive

I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh yeah

Is something wrong
She said
Of course there is
You're still alive
She said
Oh do I deserve to be?
And is that the question? Oh
And if so, if so
Who answers?
Who answers?

I, I, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive
I'm still alive

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Writer/s: Matkosky, Dennis Joseph / Cates, Jess Clayton / Benward, Aaron Jeoffrey
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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The music for this song was written by guitarist Stone Gossard before the band had a lead singer. It was part of a three song instrumental demo they made while looking for a vocalist and drummer. Jack Irons, a friend of Gossard's who played drums in The Red Hot Chili Peppers, was approached about joining the band, but he had another commitment. He thought Eddie Vedder might be a good fit as the singer, so he gave Eddie the demo tape. At home in San Diego, Vedder wrote lyrics and added his vocals to the song using his four-track recorder. The band liked what they heard and made him lead singer.

The instrumental demo of this song was titled "Dollar Short." Vedder's lyrics went in a direction the band didn't expect, but they loved what they heard and quickly agreed that he should be their lead singer - only one other guy had been tried. Reflecting on how everything came together so quickly, the band credit timing and fate for Vedder's arrival. Eddie says that it took him 12 hours to write and record the songs for the demo, and he could have easily blown it off.

Vedder's lyrics are about a boy who finds out his father is actually his stepfather, and that his real father is dead. Vedder later revealed that the song was "a work of fiction based on reality," and the chorus of "I'm still alive" was what he considered his curse, as he struggled to deal with the strained relationship with his stepfather and the fact that his real father was dead. In an episode of VH1's Storytellers, Vedder explained that the interpretation of the song had changed, as fans would react to the chorus by jumping around and celebrating - they heard "I'm still alive" as a positive thing, an affirmation of life. Said Vedder: "When they changed the meaning of those words, they lifted the curse."

Eddie's mother divorced his father when he was one year old, and he was raised by his stepfather without knowing it; he even met his true father without even realizing they were related. Vedder's real father, Edward Severson III, died of multiple sclerosis in 1981, before Eddie could see him again. This is the autobiographical part of the song that shows up in the opening lyrics. Eddie didn't get along with his stepfather, and took out his lyrical wrath on him in the song "Better Man." Until he dropped out of high school, Eddie was known as Eddie Mueller, but he took his mother's maiden name after finding out the truth about his real father. When Vedder became a father, he said that he would do everything he could to break the cycle of family dysfunction.

The other two songs on the demo Vedder worked on follow the story in this song. After Vedder put lyrics to them, the songs became "Once," where the boy goes nuts and starts killing people, and "Footsteps," where the boy is sentenced to death and blames his mother. Vedder called this the "Momma-Son" trilogy.

The black and white video for this song was made on the cheap - less than $20,000. It was filmed at a Pearl Jam concert at the club RKCNDY in Seattle on August 3, 1991. The band was still broke, and they thought blowing a lot of money on a video would be stupid, since burning through a lot of cash early on could get you dropped by a record label if you didn't sell. Even then, Pearl Jam had a disdain for traditional, lip-synched videos, so for this one they went against convention and used the live audio from the concert in the clip, capturing the energy of the show, which included crowd surfing, stage diving, and Vedder hanging from a lighting rig.

In the US, this was the first song Pearl Jam released as a single.

The drummer in the video is Matt Chamberlain. He took over after Pearl Jam's first album, but left soon after to join the Saturday Night Live band.

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready based his guitar solo on the one Ace Frehley played on the Kiss song "She." In an issue of Guitar Player magazine, Frehley said that his solo in "She" came from Robby Krieger's guitar work on The Doors' "Five To One." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

In 2000, the band was playing the Roskilde Festival in Denmark when 9 fans were crushed to death in the mosh pit. They were about to play this, but stopped the show when they saw people being pulled out of the crowd in real bad shape. Some of the 40,000 people in the crowd began singing "I'm still alive," unaware that the event had turned tragic. Pearl Jam left the stage and the next band, The Cure, refused to go on out of respect for the dead.

P.O.D. - Alive

P.O.D. - Alive Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Satellite
Released: 2001

Alive Lyrics

Everyday is a new day
I'm thankful for every breath I take
I won't take it for granted
So I learn from my mistakes

It's beyond my control, sometimes it's best to let go
Whatever happens in this lifetime
So I trust in love
You have given me peace of mind

[Chorus]
I feel so Alive for the very first time
I can't deny you
I feel so alive
I feel so alive for the very first time
And I think I can fly

Sunshine upon my face
A new song for me to sing
Tell the world how I feel inside
Even though it might cost me everything

Now that I know this, so beyond, I can't hold this
I can never turn my back away
Now that I've seen you
I can never look away

[Chorus]

[bridge:]
Now that I know you (I could never turn my back away)
Now that I see you (I could never look away)
Now that I know you (I could never turn my back away)
Now that I see you (I believe no matter what they say)

[Chorus: x2]

Writer/s: MARTINEZ, VICCI / SVENSSON, PETER ANDERS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song is about not taking anything for granted, living each day as if it was your last. P.O.D. lead singer Sonny Sandoval, who wrote the lyrics, told us how it came together: "We were recording in Valley Village, and I was going back home for the weekends to San Diego. So I'd literally leave late Friday night and then come back late Sunday night. And then hit the studio on Monday. But it was my turn to start laying down vocals. And my daughter was very young - she was not even one yet. And so here I was supposed to record the song 'Alive' on Monday, and I hadn't even finished the lyrics yet.

So it's a funny story. My wife's driving so I can sit and just kind of concentrate. I always know what I want to say, and I work better under pressure. So here we are, it's nighttime, we're driving late Sunday on the 405 freeway. It's dark, and from the traffic light, I look back and I look at my daughter. And I don't know if you have kids or not, but you always hear people say, 'He looks just like you,' and 'She looks just like you.' And like forever I never saw that. And everybody's like, 'Oh, she's the spitting image, she looks exactly like you.' And I just didn't see it, because it's just my little baby. And for some reason with the traffic light shining in, I look at her and for the first time I see myself in her. I can finally see it now. And it was like, wow. That was just the moment. That's almost completely what the song's about. For the very first time I see myself in my daughter. It was a beautiful moment. I see me." (Here's our full interview with Sonny Sandoval .)

Sonny Sandoval is a Christian who speaks openly about his faith. While this song was inspired by a specific incident in his life, he sees it as having a universal theme. In his Songfacts interview, Sandoval said, "It's just whatever moment that is for anybody. If I'm talking of faith, it has to do with my faith in God. We always keep it open for interpretation, because I never want to sound religious or preachy. It's kind of like a painting: 20 people can look at a piece of art and have 20 different interpretations. I believe it's supposed to speak to your soul. So the same thing with our music.

I've had kids come up to me and tell me what my songs mean to them, and I'm like Wow. You know what, you just spoke to me, because I'm blown away right now. That's amazing. But it's the way they heard it. It's their life, it's their situation. It could be one or two words, it could be a phrase."

P.O.D. writes their music first, and before they added lyrics to this track, they referred to it as "Beautiful," since that's how the music made them feel. Sandoval wrote appropriately upbeat words to match the music.

This was the first single from P.O.D.'s album Satellite, which was released on September 11, 2001. Albums are traditionally released on Tuesdays, and the day of the World Trade Center attacks was a popular one for album releases.

The music video, directed by Francis Lawrence, depicts an accident on the Los Angeles freeway where a bus crashes into the protagonist's car, with the band playing nearby. Lawrence killed off the character, but was forced to bring him back to life when the label thought the original ending was too dark. The crew also encountered some real-life violence when a driver who was upset the freeway was closed for the shoot pulled a gun, but thankfully drove away. Lawrence is also a film director who helmed three of The Hunger Games movies.