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Dido - NYC

Dido - NYC Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Greatest Hits
Released: 2013

NYC Lyrics

White house on the beach
My steps down to the sand
The plane takes off and we
We are just when it lands

Waiting in a room
Where the windows won't open
Got coffee with no mud
And my heart still ain't broken
Still ain't broken
Still ain't broken

And the music stops
And the beat goes on
And the music stops
But I'm dancing on

I won't be home until I've walked
Every street in New York
And I'll walk on without your love
Without your love
Dancing on til I'm alone
There's no need to return
Without your love, until I have walked
Every street in New York

Boat goes
From one island to the next
An old man drinkin' beer
Women on the bench

And the music stops
And the beat goes on
And the music stops
But I'm dancing on

I won't be home until I've walked
Every street in New York
And I'll walk on without your love
Without your love
Dancing on til I'm alone
There's no need to return
Without your love, until I have walked
Every street in New York

Glory when my plane takes off
Don't know me when I'm home
Say your prayers with your fingers crossed
Forget to call fore I go

If I had to phone tonight
To say I made you sad
And though I've fallen in your call and palm

I won't be home until I've walked
Every street in New York
And I'll walk on without your love
Without your love
Dancing on til I'm alone
There's no need to return
Without your love, until I have walked
Every street in New York

Writer/s: Kurstin, Gregory Allen / Armstrong, Florian / Unknown, Writers
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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NYC

This is the one brand new song on Dido's 2013 retrospective Greatest Hits. The English songstress penned the tune with Greg Kurstin the same time they wrote the Girl Who Got Away tracks, "End Of Night," "Happy New Year," and "Let's Runaway," but didn't finish it. Dido told Billboard magazine: "I actually thought this was the perfect album for it to go on, because it references lyrically when I first started and first came to America. I came over to New York with a point to prove to my brother (producer Rollo Armstrong) who basically said, 'You can't do this.' I was walking the streets of New York thinking, 'I'm not going home until something happens, and I won't go home until I've walked every street in this town.' I thought this was the perfect album to put it on, as opposed to the next record."

Dido - Life For Rent

Dido - Life For Rent Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life For Rent
Released: 2003

Life For Rent Lyrics

I haven't ever really found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking
It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
'cause nothing I have is truly mine

I've always thought that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone and live more simply
I have no idea what's happened to that dream
'cause there's really nothing left here to stop me
It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
'cause nothing I have is truly mine

While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
'cause nothing I have is truly mine

Writer/s: ARMSTRONG, DIDO/ARMSTRONG, ROLLO
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Life For Rent

The title track of Dido's sophomore album, this was released as its second single with some success reaching the Top 10 in the UK, Ireland and Italy.

According to Dido, the meaning of 'Life For Rent' is, "that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine."

The song was used to soundtrack pivotal moments in US TV series Smallville and Nikita.

Life For Rent was the top selling album in 2003 in the UK with over 2 million sales.

Dido recalled the story of the song to Canada.com : "I wrote 'Life For Rent' in America," she said. "I had basically run away from England at that point, for various reasons — I was being chased around a lot by the press and also I had just ended this relationship and stuff — and wrote pretty much the whole album while I was in America. This song was one of the first songs I wrote there and it still resonates with me. There's a line in there that says I want to live by the sea — well I still do and I still don't."

Sophie Muller, who would also direct Pink's "Trouble" video the same year, helmed the clip which follows Dido singing throughout a house.

Dido - Sand In My Shoes

Dido - Sand In My Shoes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life For Rent
Released: 2003

Sand In My Shoes Lyrics

Two weeks away feels like the whole world should have changed,
But I'm home now, and things still look the same.
I think I'll leave it 'til tomorrow to unpack,
Try to forget for one night that I'm back in my flat.
On the road where the cars never stop going through the night,
To a life where I can't watch the sun set.
I don't have time.
I don't have time.

I've still got Sand In My Shoes,
And I can't shake the thought of you.
I should get on, forget you.
But why would I want to?
I know we said goodbye,
Anything else would have been confused.
But I want to see you again.

Tomorrow's back to work and down to sanity,
Should run a bath and then clear up the mess i made before i left here.
Try to remind myself that i was happy here,
Before I knew that I could get on a plane and fly away,
From the road where the cars never stop going through the night,
To a life where I can watch the sun set,
And take my time.
Take all my time.

I've still got sand in my shoes,
And I can't shake the thought of you.
I should get on, forget you.
But why would I want to?
I know we said goodbye,
Anything else would have been confused.
But I want to see you again.

Two weeks away,
All it takes,
To change and turn me around,
I've fallen.
I walked away,
And never said,
That I wanted to see you,
Again.

I've still got sand in my shoes,
And I can't shake the thought of you.
I should get on, forget you.
But why would I want to?
I know we said goodbye,
Anything else would have been confused.
But I want to see you again.

I've still got sand in my shoes,
And I can't shake the thought of you.
I should get on, forget you.
But why would I want to?
I know we said goodbye,
Anything else would have been confused.
But I want to see you again.

I've still got sand in my shoes,
And I can't shake the thought of you.
I should get on, forget you.
But why would I want to?
I know we said goodbye,
Anything else would have been confused.
But I want to see you again.
I want to see you again.
I want to see you again.

Writer/s: NOWELS, RICK / ARMSTRONG, DIDO
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Sand In My Shoes

Dido wrote this song with San Francisco songwriter Rick Nowels, with whom she previously collaborated with on the transatlantic hit, "White Flag."

This finds the singer reminiscing about a romantic encounter she had on holiday, having returned to the drudgery of everyday life. Dido commented to Canada.com : "A classic holiday romance song — that feeling where you go away, have this amazing time, feel like you've gone away forever and then you get back and nothing's changed and you're trying to recreate that feeling when you're back at home."

Here are a few more songs about holiday romances:

"Watch The Sun Come Up" by Example
"Brighton Rock" by Queen
"Vienna" by Ultravox
"Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" by Spiller
"Vacation" by The Go-Go's.

Dido - Here With Me

Dido - Here With Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Angel
Released: 1999

Here With Me Lyrics

I didn't hear you leave
I wonder how am I still here
And I don't want to move a thing
It might change my memory

[Chorus]
Oh I am what I am
I'll do what I want
But I can't hide
And I won't go, I won't sleep
And I can't breathe
Until you're resting Here With Me
And I won't leave, and I can't hide
I cannot be until you're resting here with me

I don't want to call my friends
They might wake me from this dream
And I can't leave this bed,
Risk forgetting all that's been

[Chorus]

And I won't go
And I won't sleep
And I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me
And I won't leave
And I can't hide
I cannot be until you're resting here with me

[Chorus]

And I won't go
And I won't sleep
And I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me
And I won't leave
And I can't hide
I cannot be until you're resting here with me

Writer/s: DIDO ARMSTRONG, PASCAL GABRIEL, PAUL STATHAM
Publisher: FOX MUSIC, INC.
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Here With Me Song Chart

This was the theme song to the WB television show Roswell.

P. Gabriel is listed as a writer on this. It is not Peter Gabriel, but Pascal Gabriel.

This was the first hit single in the UK for Dido, who is the sister of Faithless member/producer, Rollo. It did well on college radio stations in the US, but was not a hit.

Speaking to Canada.com in 2013, she recalled: "It was the first song I wrote that was any good. It's a simple love song, written in quite a dark time. I played it for my brother (Rollo) and he took it to his company's A&R meeting and said, 'Look, we need to find someone like this' and they all looked at him like, '…and we can't sign your sister because?' The thought hadn't even crossed his mind. Obviously after that he signed me. It's the track that launched everything for me so it has a soft spot in my heart."

Two videos were made. The first cost $500,000 to make, but MTV did not play it. After Dido became popular in the US, a new video was shot which aired on VH1.

Dido wrote this the day after meeting her boyfriend, a lawyer named Bob Page, at a London nightclub in 1995. They got engaged in 2001.

In 2002, this was released on a soundtrack album with music from the TV show Roswell. Other artists on the album include Coldplay, Travis, and Sheryl Crow.