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Sheryl Crow - Crazy Ain't Original

Sheryl Crow - Crazy Ain't Original Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Feels Like Home
Released: 2013

Crazy Ain't Original Lyrics

Crazy Ain't Original these days
The world was going half-crazy anyway
Anything you can think of, it's all been done before
Crazy ain't original no more

Checking in and out and in and out of rehab
It ain't quite the shame it used to be
Well you're just a bigger star 'cause one bad
Mug shot makes you much more interesting

Crazy ain't original these days
The world was going half-crazy anyway
Anything you can think of, it's all been done before
Crazy ain't original no more

Well those neighbors we all tried to stay away from
Twelve kids were not enough, they had thirteen
And what everybody used to call a freak show
Well now we call reality TV

Crazy ain't original these days
The world was going half-crazy anyway
Anything you can think of, it's all been done before
Crazy ain't original no more

Yea all these bankers down on Wall street riding Harleys
Weekend warriors breaking all the rules
All those grandmothers with their cosmetic surgeons
Do their best to look like they're still in high-school

Crazy ain't original these days
The world was going half-crazy anyway
Anything you can think of, it's all been done before
Crazy ain't original no more

Anything you can think of, it's all been done before
Crazy ain't original no more

Writer/s: AL ANDERSON, LESLIE SATCHER, SHERYL SUZANNE CROW
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Crazy Ain't Original

Crow wrote this song with Al Anderson and Leslie Satcher after being inspired by Nashville legend Merle Haggard following the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony where he was honored in 2010. "After playing the Kennedy Center Honors, I came home and was thinking about what it must be like to be a songwriter from that generation," she told Billboard magazine, "and writing about what's happening around you. That was the inspiration for that."

Sheryl Crow - We Ought to Be Drinkin'

Sheryl Crow - We Ought to Be Drinkin' Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Feels Like Home
Released: 2013

We Ought to Be Drinkin' Lyrics

We Ought to Be Drinkin'

Crow considers this song about boozy nights at home to be a sister song to her breakthrough hit, "All I Wanna Do." "My first big song was about sitting in a bar, drinking, and it had pedal steel in it from the very beginning to the very end," she said. "So 'We Ought to Be Drinkin' is kind of the laid-back post-cursor to that song. If that's a word."

The acoustic guitar melody that starts the song is an intentional nod to Bobbie Gentry's 1967 "Ode To Billie Joe."

Crow did her own whistling on the song.

The song finds Crow singing about getting "a little rowdy," "s---faced" and "(roll[ing) a big fat blunt."

"It's like 'If It Makes You Happy,"' she told The Daily Telegraph, before quoting the 1996 single's lines with a laugh, "'I still get stoned … I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home' … I'm still the same person!"

Sheryl Crow - Hard to Make A Stand

Sheryl Crow - Hard to Make A Stand Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sheryl Crow
Released: 1996

Hard to Make A Stand Lyrics

Old James Dean Monroe
Hands out flowers at the Shop N Go
Hopes for money but all he gets is fear
And the wind blows up his coat

And this he scribbles on a perfume note
"If I'm not here then you're not here"
And he says
"Call me Miscreation
I'm a walking celebration"

[Chorus]
And it's Hard to Make A Stand
And it's hard to make a stand
It's hard to make a stand
It's hard to make s stand

My friend, o lawdy,
Went to take care of her body,
And she got shot down in the road
She looked up before she went,

Said, "This isn't really what I meant"
And the Daily News said, "Two with one stone"
And I say,
"Hey there, Miscreation,
Bring a flower, time is wasting"

[Chorus]

Yes it is

We got loud guitars and big suspicions,
Great big guns and small ambitions,
And we still argue over who is God
And I say,

"Hey there, Miscreation,
Bring a flower, time is wasting"
I say,
"Hey there, Miscreation,
We all need a revelation"

[Chorus]

Writer/s: CROW, SHERYL / BOTTRELL, BILL / WOLFE, TODD STEWART / BRYAN, SCOTT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Hard to Make A Stand

This song seems to look at the world through the eyes of a person trying to make sense of this world. It mixes the morbid with a strange sense of hope. Plenty of black humor to go around, as well.

This was the third single from the album. (thanks, Stephanie - Thurmont, MD, for above 2)

Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun

Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: C'mon C'mon
Released: 2002

Soak Up The Sun Lyrics

My friend the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can't afford his gas
So I'm stuck here watching tv

I don't have digital
I don't have diddly squat
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got

[Chorus]
I'm gonna Soak Up The Sun
I'm gonna tell everyone
To lighten up, I'm gonna tell 'em that
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up

I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun

I've got a crummy job
It don't pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love

Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do

[Chorus]

I'm gonna soak up the sun
While it's still free
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me

Don't have no master suite
But I'm still the king of me
You have a fancy ride, but baby
I'm the one who has the key

Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe I am crazy too

[Chorus]

I'm gonna soak up the sun
Got my 45 on
So I can rock on

Writer/s: CROW, SHERYL / TROTT, JEFF
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Soak Up The Sun

Crow's co-writer, Jeff Trott, came up with the idea for this on a flight from Portland, Oregon, to New York. He told Songfacts : "I'm thinking this is really ironic that I'm leaving Portland being soaked in rain, and I'm actually going to New York to soak up some sun. I'm going to New York to soak up some sun. That's got a ring to it. That's kind of cool.

Then I started thinking about the sun, and I started thinking of these Beach Boys-style harmonies. On that five-hour flight, I had come up with the whole song completely in my head, not all the lyrics necessarily. I had a good chunk of the chorus of 'Soak Up The Sun,' but I had harmonies and everything all in my head, and I'm just having to scratch it down on a piece of paper."

As Trott and Crow started working on the song together, they started talking about the then-recent Columbine shootings, where two students went on a killing spree at their high school before committing suicide.

"We kind of carried that over into the song as the voice of Sheryl as a young teenager with a lot of oddball friends who can't really quite make out why people are the way they are," Trott told us. "There's a reference to 'I've got my 45 on so I can rock on.' The 45 on was like a kid with a gun, originally, and then we thought that's a little scary.

We were talking about Columbine and we're like okay I've got my 45 on, so I can rock on, like I can blast you guys. I'm going to blast all the people that are bugging me. That's kind of where we were at with it, and then we said that's just a little too... over the top."

The video was part of a promotional deal with American Express. During the shoot, footage was also collected for an American Express commercial, which came out looking very similar to Crow's video. American Express helped pay the production costs, hoping that viewers would remember their product every time they saw the video, since it looked so much like the commercial. MTV does not allow sponsors to pay for videos, but because the card never appeared in the video, they didn't know about the deal and gave it plenty of airplay. Sting had a similar deal with Jaguar in his video for "Desert Rose."

In the video (directed by Wayne Isham) Sheryl Crow showed off more skin than she ever had before. She also posed provocatively for the cover of Stuff magazine around the time this was released. She said she did it to prove that women over the age of 40 could still be sexy. (thanks, Adrian - Brookings, SD)

Crow had some high-profile help with the backing vocals on C'mon C'mon. Liz Phair sang backup on this track, and Stevie Nicks sang on the title track and "Diamond Road." In 2001, Sheryl helped Stevie write and produce some of her album Trouble In Shangri-La.

This casual song about enjoying the simple things in life was very marketable for Crow, as it enjoyed success on pop radio and was a #1 on the Adult Top 40 chart.

Trott was shocked when he first saw the music video, which completely dulled the song's edge and transformed it into a fun-in-the-sun surf song. "I thought, 'Oh my God, Sheryl's surfing. What the hell is that? It's not even close to what it's about.'

I think having Sheryl on a surfboard, being at the beach, is probably more palatable then having her in a trench coat shooting people in a lunch cafeteria. Not that I thought that that's what the song was, but my impression from writing it was that it was much edgier than what came across. The video of course is like, hey, we're having a holiday. We're surfing. We're catching some sun. Everything's cool. Strum acoustic guitar. Like, wow! That's not even close to what we thought it was about."

Sheryl Crow - Stay At Home Mother

Sheryl Crow - Stay At Home Mother Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Feels Like Home
Released: 2013

Stay At Home Mother Lyrics

Riding in the backseat, sipping on a Pepsi
Looking out the window, driving to the bus stop together
I tell her only three sleeps and I'll be right back
And then we're gonna have a good time when I come together

And I call her every single night
I'll miss her every day
And if she kissed me and waved goodbye
I could hear her say

Stay at home, mother
Stay at home
Stay at home, mother
Stay at home

I've been working late nights making up for the times
That I wasn't in the crowd cheering out loud at our school plays
Tickets to a circus, maybe a new bike
I just want her to know that I love her more than working all day

But the price will never measure up
To what's inside a box
While I run all around the world
She tells me to stop

And stay at home, mother
Stay at home
Stay at home, mother
Stay at home

We could play house and pretend
That tomorrow you won't be gone
Stay at home, mother
Stay at home

Wishing things were different
Doesn't change one memory
My little girl grew up
While I was too busy to see
Now she's become the one thing
That I could never be

Stay at home, mother
Stay at home
Stay at home, mother
Stay at home

She could have a house and a couple of kids
And never have to be involved
As a Stay At Home Mother
Stay at home mother
Stay at home

Writer/s: Hemby, Natalie / Crow, Sheryl
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Stay At Home Mother Song Chart

This emotional, circle-of-life story finds Crow describing the guilt a mother feels balancing work and family. "Last year my then six-year-old happened to wake as I was leaving the house at 5.30 am and he just dropped to his knees and started crying, 'You're not leaving,'" she told The Daily Telegraph. "It's not normal for a child to have his mom leave and I made a promise to him in that moment: 'I will figure out a way to bring you guys with me.'"

"It's hard being a single mom," Crow added. "It's the best and hardest job in the world. I'm not a mom who phones it in or hands over to the nanny. I make myself emotionally available to my children 24 hours a day."

Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough

Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tuesday Night Music Club
Released: 1993

Strong Enough Lyrics

God I feel like hell tonight
The tears of rage I cannot fight
I'd be the last to help you understand

Are you Strong Enough to be my man
My man

Nothing's true, and nothing's right
So let me be alone tonight
'Cause you can't change the way I am

Are you strong enough to be my man

Lie to me, I promise I'll believe
Lie to me, but please don't leave

I have a face I cannot show
I make the rules up as I go
Just try and love me if you can

Are you strong enough to be my man
Are you strong enough to be my man
Are you strong enough
My man

When I've shown you
That I just don't care
When I'm throwing punches in the air
When I'm broken down and I can't stand

Would you be man enough to be my man

Lie to me, I promise I'll believe
Lie to me, but please don't leave

Writer/s: RICKETTS, DAVID / GILBERT, KEVIN / BAERWALD, DAVID / MACLEOD, BRIAN / CROW, SHERYL / BOTTRELL, BILL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Strong Enough Song Chart

The follow-up to her breakthrough hit "All I Wanna Do," this song finds Crow frustrated in a relationship and trying to reconcile it by asking the question, "Are you strong enough to be my man?"

Crow says that the song is autobiographical, but "thematically universal," even to men. Said Crow: "Women will relate to 'Strong Enough,' but everyone has felt sick of their situation."

Crow says that "holding my own amongst a bunch of guys" gave her inspiration for this song, referring to the musicians she worked with on the Tuesday Night Music Club album. The LP was named after the Tuesday night gatherings Crow helped organize among a group of musical friends in Los Angeles. At the sessions, the general rules were:

- Nobody could play their favorite instrument.
- An entire song had to be written.

These are the same musicians who played on the album and co-wrote the songs with Crow. The writing credits on "Strong Enough" go to Crow, David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Kevin Gilbert, Brian MacLeod and David Ricketts. Bottrell also produced the album.

In her Song By Song special, Crow said: "'Strong Enough' was really the brainchild of the mood and the vibe of the Tuesday Night Music Club. I love a great country hook, and 'strong enough to be my man' is straight from the book of country."

Along with her song "No One Said It Would Be Easy," this was used in the 1993 Brad Pitt movie Kalifornia. Crow was happy to get the songs placed in the movie, but regretted it after she saw the violent film. "Glorifying these characters for socio-pathological reasons worries me," she told Vox in 1995.

Sheryl Crow - What I Can Do for You

Sheryl Crow - What I Can Do for You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tuesday Night Music Club
Released: 1993

What I Can Do for You Lyrics

I'm so glad you're awake
That you're not like the others
'Cause they're so straight-laced
And no fun
Gosh that's nice
That lingerie
Makes me feel like
Oh, I don't know

You're a very pretty thing
You remind me of someone
You must have heard
Some awful nasty things about me, but

What I Can Do for You
There's no one else
On God's green earth can do
What I can do for you
There's no one else
On God's green earth can do

Just ask anybody
They'll tell you that it's true
There's no one else on earth
Can do the things that I can do for you

You're never gonna make it
All by yourself
You're gonna need a friend
You're gonna need my help
I have so much to offer
If you just be nice
If you do what I say
And don't make me say it twice

Do you mind if I just
Rub my hand up thus
Come on just my hand
Come on just my hand
You got to understand
I'm gonna be your man
I'm gonna be your man
You're gonna need me

Writer/s: BAERWALD, DAVID FRANCIS / CROW, SHERYL SUZANNE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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What I Can Do for You Song Chart

In this song, Crow sings from the perspective of a predatory man offering sleazy come-ons to a woman and offering to help her career if she takes him up on it. "Listening to it you should feel slimy and creepy," Crow explained.

The lyrics are based on real things unscrupulous guys have said to Crow. When she moved from Missouri to Los Angeles and worked as a backup singer, she became a target for some unsavory types in the industry. Crow says she faced sexual harassment every day at this time.

This wasn't released as a single in the US, but was issued as her second single in the UK, following "Run, Baby, Run." It made little impact at the time, but her subsequent singles (especially "All I Wanna Do") did well on the UK charts, so "What I Can Do for You" was re-released in 1995, well over a year after the album came out. This time, the single made #43 UK.

Crow has mentioned Frank DiLeo as one of the sexist industry types she worked with. On the Tuesday Night Music Club track "The Na-Na Song," she sings:

Clarence Thomas organ grinder Frank Dileo's dong
Maybe if I'd let him, I'd have had a hit song

DiLeo, who played the character Tuddy Cicero in the movie Goodfellas, managed Michael Jackson's Bad tour, on which Crow sang backup.