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Boston - Magdalene

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Album: Walk On
Released: 1994

Magdalene Lyrics

I, I know I'm a dreamer
It's easy to see I want to be a believer
And fly right through the air
Now I'm wide awake
I want you to take me there
The things that you told me
I don't know if I was dreaming
And dreams aren't enough
Life is so lonely
I need someone to believe in
Are you in love?
Can't you see that's everything to me
That's enough

Magdalene, let me hear it said so I am sure
Answer me, can't you see that's all I'm waitin' for?
Here I am on my knees once more
Magdalene

Time must lead you somewhere
I don't want to wait
I know you can take me there

The way that you hold me
I don't know if I was dreaming
And dreams aren't enough
Life is so lonely
I need someone to believe in
Someone to love
Can't you see that's everything to me
That's enough

Magdalene let me hear it said so I am sure
Answer me, can't you see that's all I'm waiting for?
Here I am on my knees
Oh, I'm begging you please
Magdalene

Magdalene
Magdalene
Magdalene

Writer/s: FOULKE, RUSTY T. JR. / SCHOLZ, TOM / SIKES, DAVID ARTHUR
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Magdalene

This was the only cover song Boston ever recorded. It was originally done by a Pennsylvania band called Hybrid Ice, who had a singer reminiscent of Brad Delp. Rusty Foulke, the guitarist for Hybrid Ice, also did some other work with Tom Scholz.

Boston - Didn't Mean To Fall In Love

Boston - Didn't Mean To Fall In Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life, Love & Hope
Released: 2013

Didn't Mean To Fall In Love Lyrics

I Didn't Mean To Fall In Love
I didn't mean to fall in love

And all I mean to say
I can't go on the way things are
How can I lead the way
It feels so wrong to be so far away

Ooh, from you tonight
If I, if I lose you, I can't survive

Didn't know you would've come tonight
Didn't hang on long enough
Didn't want to go and start a fight
Didn't mean to go, go and fall in love

It's like an avalanche
Once you fall you're swept away
I didn't stand a chance
Hangin' on every word you say

Hey, we can find a place for love
Ooh, do you want it bad enough

I didn't mean to fall in love
I didn't mean to fall in love

So could you catch a plane
Come back home for one more try
I'll never be the same
I fell so hard out of the sky today

For you, you see
And you would never believe what you do for me
Can't you see you're all I need
Didn't know you would've come tonight
Didn't hang on long enough
Didn't want to go and start a fight
Didn't mean to go, go and fall in love

Writer/s: SCHOLZ, TOM / MINTO, JANET / SMITH, CURLY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Didn't Mean To Fall In Love

The second track on Life, Love & Hope is actually a remastered version of a song that was included on Boston's previous album, Corporate America. Boston leader Tom Scholz explained to Ultimate Classic Rock : "I did remaster it and change the mix a little bit, but that's basically the same song that was released back in 2002."

"That's the only song on the album that I didn't write in its entirety," Scholz added. "Curly Smith and a friend of his wrote that verse and I just really liked the song. So my goal was to try to get a bigger audience for it than it got with Corporate America. It was no mistake that I put it in there in the #2 position. I really wanted people to hear this song."

Boston - You Gave Up On Love (2.0)

Boston - You Gave Up On Love (2.0) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life, Love & Hope
Released: 2013

You Gave Up On Love (2.0) Lyrics

You gave up on love
You gave up so easily
You gave up on love

You say love is all you need
So the story goes
There's no changin' what you believe
But you're the one who knows

You gave up on love
You gave up so easily
Guess you're not so tough
You gave up on everything love could be

Saw the way so long ago
Guess it was beyond us
You won't say but you still know
You just broke your promise

You gave up on love
You gave up so easily
Guess your not so tough
You gave up on everything love could be

Hey you run to me but it's just not enough
Hey you couldn't see that you had to be
You had to be in love

You gave up on love (you gave up on love)
You gave up on everything (you gave up on love)
(You gave up on love)
(You gave up on everything)

You gave up on love
You gave up so easily

You gave up on love
You gave up on everything love could be

Writer/s: SCHOLZ, TOM
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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You Gave Up On Love (2.0)

One of three refreshed versions of songs that appeared on 2002's Corporate America, Boston leader Tom Scholz told Ultimate Classic Rock how this differs from the original: "With that one, I saved some of the tracks from the original recording, but it's essentially a new recording," he said. "Now, the moment those giant three-part a capella harmonies come in, you know it's a Boston song. I thought Tommy (DeCarlo) did a great job of covering that first verse lead vocal and finishing out the choruses. It works for me now and the slide guitar should have been there in the first place and it's a nice offset to Kimberley Dahme's flute line at the start of each verse."

Boston - Last Day Of School

Boston - Last Day Of School Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life, Love & Hope
Released: 2013

Last Day Of School Lyrics

Last Day Of School

MusicRadar.com asked Boston leader Tom Scholz whether this song was always intended as an instrumental? He replied; "Yes. When I first started working on it, I knew that it had to be an instrumental. I wasn't sure that I was going to put the heavy guitars on it – it started out as just a keyboard piece. The keyboard part is pretty demanding, so I was a little hesitant about covering it up. But I really enjoyed playing guitar to it, so that became a dominant part of the arrangement."

Boston - If You Were In Love

Boston - If You Were In Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life, Love & Hope
Released: 2013

If You Were In Love Lyrics

Dreams slipping away, just like sand in the tide
Like words you'll never say, it's so wrong, but feels so right

And now, lost in a dream I sail on your sea
Somehow in my fantasy I believe in dreams

We could settle down, wouldn't fool around
Wouldn't have a doubt If You Were In Love
If you'd feel the same, I'd do anything,
We could find a way, if you were in love with me
oh, oh, if you were in love with me

Hope, time after time, with my heart on my sleeve
And love will find me tonight, in my dreams when you leave

Oh I, I just dream about you, it brings me to my knees
I can't hide what I feel about you, I want to beg you, please

We could settle down, wouldn't fool around
Wouldn't have a doubt, if you were in love
If you'd feel the same, I'd do anything
We could find a way, if you were in love with me
Oh I, I dream about you

And now, I'm lost in a dream I sail on your sea
Somehow in my fantasy, I believe in dreams

Oh, oh if you were in love with me
Oh, oh, if you were in love with me

We could settle down, wouldn't fool around
Wouldn't have a doubt if you were in love with me
If you'd feel the same, I'd do anything,
We could find a way
If you were in love with me

[Repeat]

Writer/s: SCHOLZ, TOM
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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If You Were In Love

This song features the voice of bassist Kimberley Dahme, who has been performing with Boston since the 2002 Corporate America album and tour. Leader Tom Scholz explained her contribution to Ultimate Classic Rock : "I thought that Kimberley would sound great on 'If You Were In Love' and I wrote it because of that, for a female voice, but I had always intended to have it accompanied by harmonies that had male voices with her. But when I heard her sing the song and I heard the second verse harmonies come in, I just said, 'This couldn't possibly be any better,' so she ended up singing the thing in its entirety. So you never know."

Boston - Rock And Roll Band

Boston - Rock And Roll Band Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Boston
Released: 1976

Rock And Roll Band Lyrics

Well, we were just another band out of Boston
On the road to try to make ends meet
Playin' all the bars, sleepin' in our cars
And we practiced right on out in the street
No, we didn't have much money
We barely made enough to survive
But when we got up on stage and got ready to play
People came alive.

Rock And Roll Band
Everybody's waitin'
Gettin' crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Dancin' in the streets of Hyannis
We were getting pretty good at the game
People stood in line and didn't seem to mind
You know everybody knew our name
Livin' on rock-n-roll music
Never worry 'bout the things we were missing
When we got up on the stage and got ready to play
Everybody'd listen.

Rock and roll band
Everybody's waitin'
Gettin' crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Playin' for a week in Rhode Island
A man came to the stage one night
He smoked a big cigar
Drove a Cadillac car
And said, "boys, I think this bands outta-sight
Sign a record company contract
You know I've got great expectations
When I hear you on the car radio
You're goin' to be a sensation!"

Rock and roll band
Everybody's waitin'
Gettin' crazy
Anticipating love and music
Play, play, play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Writer/s: Scholz, Donald T.
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, NEXT DECADE ENTERTAINMENT,INC.
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Rock And Roll Band Song Chart

This song is not about the band. Many people assume it is because the lyrics are in the first person and they sing about being from Boston, which they are. Group leader Tom Scholz wrote the song based on conversations he had with Jim Masdea, a musician who has played with many local bands in Boston. Masdea was always telling Scholz about struggling bands trying to get signed to record contracts.

Boston had quite the opposite experience of the group they sing about here. Rather than paying their dues on the road, Boston released a well-produced album that was an instant hit. They did not tour before releasing their album.

Boston - More Than a Feeling

Boston - More Than a Feeling Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Boston
Released: 1976

More Than a Feeling Lyrics

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away

It's More Than a Feeling (more than a feeling) when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
Till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
Yet I still recall as I wander on
As clear as the sun in the summer sky

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling), when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
Till I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walkin' away

When I'm tired and thinking cold
I hide in my music, forget the day
And dream of a girl I used to know
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
She slipped away

It's more than a feeling (more than a feeling), when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling)
And I begin dreaming (more than a feeling)
Till I see Marianne walk away

Writer/s: T. SCHOLZ
Publisher: NEXT DECADE ENTERTAINMENT,INC.
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More Than a Feeling Song Chart

Group leader Tom Scholz wrote this song. A graduate of MIT, he was working at Polaroid up until this was released.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, Scholz was inspired by the "heart-tugging mood" of the Left Banke's 1967 song "Walk Away Renee." He worked on the song for five years in his basement studio before it was released on this album. (thanks, Scott - chicago, IL)

This was Boston's first single, and a surprising hit. The group's rise was sudden and unexpected; they recorded most of their first album in Tom Scholz, which was stocked with equipment he bought with earnings from his job at Polaroid. When they finally got a record deal with CBS, they had to abide by union rules and complete it in a proper studio, which Scholz felt was a hindrance.

When "More Than a Feeling" was released, the group's managers spent a lot of time pitching it to radio stations, and the song took off. Suddenly, this unknown band with an album recorded mostly in a basement was a major player on the rock scene.

The album Boston is one of the best selling of all time. It sold very well in the '80s and '90s due to catalog sales, which were these offers record companies made to the public where you could get something like "25 CDs for a penny" as long as you chose from their selection and agreed to buy a certain number of albums in the future.

The single was edited from the album version.

Nirvana sometimes played the beginning of this as an intro to "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

On Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest songs of all time, this song is #500. (thanks, Julian - Anaheim, CA)

When Mike Huckabee ran for US president in 2008, he used this song at some of his campaign rallies. Huckabee plays the bass, and at some events, former Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau joined him on stage to perform this song. This didn't go over well with Tom Scholz, who wrote Huckabee a letter that was printed in Rolling Stone magazine. Scholz wrote: "While I'm flattered that you are fond of my song, I'm shocked that you would use it and the name Boston to promote yourself without my consent. Your campaign's use of 'More Than a Feeling,' coupled with the representation of one of your supporters as a member 'of Boston' clearly implies that the band Boston, and specifically one of its members, has endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true. Your claim that this was 'the guy who originally did it' is a bit mystifying, since he never played on that recording, nor has he been 'of Boston' since he left my band over a quarter century ago, after performing with us for only three years."

Scholz went on to say that his band has never endorsed a political candidate, "and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything Boston stands for. In fact, although I'm impressed you learned my bass guitar part on 'More Than a Feeling,' I am an Obama supporter. While this may seem like a little thing to you, Boston has been my life's work." The response from Huckabee's campaign: "Governor Huckabee plays 'Sweet Home Alabama.' Does that mean Lynyrd Skynyrd is endorsing him? He plays 'Louie Louie.' Does that mean The Kingsmen are endorsing him?"

For many years Boston was the best selling debut album in the US with 17 million sales. However their record was broken on September 23, 2008 when the Recording Industry Association of America certified Guns N' Roses' debut set Appetite for Destruction for 18 million sales.

The song returned to the UK singles chart in 2010 as a result of its use in a TV commercial for Barclaycard. The ad was a follow-up campaign to the one that soundtracked the Bellamy Brothers track "Let Your Love Flow," which helped the song back to #21 in November 2008.