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Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu

Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Xanadu Soundtrack
Released: 1980

Xanadu Lyrics

A place where nobody dared to go
The love that we came to know
They call it Xanadu
And now, open your eyes and see
What we have made is real
We are in Xanadu

A million lights are dancing
And there you are, a shooting star
An everlasting world
And you're here with me, eternally
Xanadu, Xanadu
(Now we are here) in Xanadu
Xanadu, Xanadu
(Now we are here) in Xanadu
Xanadu, your neon lights
Will shine for you, Xanadu

The love that echoes of long ago
You needed the world to know
They are in Xanadu
The dream that came
Through a million years
That lived through all the tears
It came to Xanadu

A million lights are dancing
And there you are, a shooting star
An everlasting world
And you're here with me, eternally
Xanadu, Xanadu
(Now we are here) in Xanadu
Xanadu, Xanadu
(Now we are here) in Xanadu

Now that I'm here
Now that you're near, in Xanadu
Now that I'm here
Now that you're near, in Xanadu
Xanadu

Writer/s: LYNNE, JEFF
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The word Xanadu showed up in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Xanadu is the fictional name of the land where Khubla Khan ordered the dome to be built. The word Xanadu came to mean a paradise. In the movie Citizen Kane, Xanadu was the name of Charles Foster Kane's house.

This was written for the movie musical of the same name. Newton-John starred in the film with Gene Kelly. The movie was a bomb, but the soundtrack, which contained all songs by Newton-John and The Electric Light Orchestra, was a hit.

In the trailer for the film, Olivia-Newton John is billed as "the girl you loved in Grease." This song plays over the end of the trailer. Quite a bit is made of the singing and dancing and starring cast, not much is mentioned about the plot.

Newton-John recorded this with The Electric Light Orchestra. Although the song is noted for being performed with Olivia Newton John for the movie Xanadu, The Electric Light Orchestra had in fact performed the song with Jeff Lynne taking over the lyrics in a more mellow sounding vocal to Olivia's operatic sounding voice. (thanks, Logan - Troy, MT)

For those of you who have heard of this film's reputation but not yet seen it, you might be asking yourself, "What on earth is so terrible about it?" It's famous for being a box-office flop, but what, did it stink all over? And you might even go hunting down reviews online, only to find a queue of user reviews on IMDB defending it for dear life and crying that it's not that bad.

Here's the gist of it:

The concept, story, and overall dialog is pathetic, even though everything else is great.

They blew $20 million cool ones on the budget for this in 1980! Consider that Star Wars, released just three years previously, had a budget of $11 million. And there's no way Xanadu would have outsold The Force, even with dialogue by Shakespeare.

It's basically a roller-disco fantasy made at a time when (a) disco, (b) roller-skating, and (c) fantasy all became as dead as fried chicken. It was the dawn of the '80s; Reagan was in office and people wanted either hard sci-fi or down-home country folk, and it was time for heavy metal and greed.

The studio executives made bone-headed decisions slapping this together, like with the animated sequence in the middle which just confused the bejabbers out of everybody. It was basically just thrown in for the sole purpose of Universal thumbing their nose at Disney.

Key words from above point: "slapped together." Including one each of every kind of music genre. The whole thing plays like it was built by sugar-hyped six-year-olds who couldn't resist gluing on "one more cool thing," whether it fit or not.

Nevertheless, it is a guilty pleasure, Olivia sings her sweet little heart out, Gene dances up a storm, ELO rocks out, and it's all now an interesting historical period piece with a modern-day cult following.

Kodaline - The One

Kodaline - The One Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Coming Up For Air
Released: 2015

The One Lyrics

Tell me, tell me that you want me
And I’ll be yours completely, for better or for worse
I know, we'll have our disagreements
Be fighting for no reason, I wouldn't change it for the world
'Cause I knew, the first day that I met you
I was never gonna let you, let you slip away
And I still remember feeling nervous
Trying to find the words to get you here today

You make my heart feel like it's summer
When the rain is pouring down
You make my whole world feel so right when it’s wrong
That’s how I know that you are The One
That’s why I know you are the one

Life is easy to be scared of
With you I am prepared for what is yet to come
'Cause our two hearts will make it easy
Joining up the pieces, together making one

You make my heart feel like its summer
When the rain is pouring down
You make my whole world feel so right when it’s wrong
That’s how I know you are the one
That’s why I know you are the one

When we are together you make me feel like my mind is free
And my dreams are reachable
You know I never ever believed in love or believed one day
That you would come along

Free me
You make my heart feel like its summer
When the rain is pouring down
You make my whole world feel so right when its wrong
That’s how I know you are the one
That’s why I know you are the one
That’s why I know you are the one
That’s how I know you are the one

Writer/s: Garrigan, Stephen Joseph / Prendergast, Mark Daniel / May, Vincent Thomas / Lee, Garret
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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This anthemic tune was written the night before Kodaline engineer Phil Magee's wedding, and performed for the first time at the ceremony. "There were only 100 people there but it was scarier than playing Glastonbury," vocalist Stephen Garrigan told Q magazine.

Garrigan wrote the song for the happy couple as a last minute wedding present. "Like an idiot, I left writing it until the night before," he recalled.

Other songs originally written as wedding presents, which became successful releases in their own right include "The Day Before You" by Rascal Flatts and "Love Song" by The Cure.

Kodaline hadn't planned to record this for their Coming Up For Air album. During a gig in Toronto, a fan proposed to his fiancée onstage. She said yes, so Kodaline played Phil Magee's wedding song to mark the occasion. Some fans at that Toronto concert recorded their own version of the song and put it up on YouTube. Kodaline were so pleased with it, they decided to record the tune. Garrigan told Radio.com : "It's weird that it took somebody covering our own song to actually make us think about recording it and putting it on the album. That was definitely a first."

The Doors - End Of The Night

The Doors - End Of The Night Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Doors
Released: 1967

End Of The Night Lyrics

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This is a "confession" of Jim Morrison's aims in life. To the end of the night was his aim through many ways of speeding up death, a kind of death through hallucinations and visions into other worlds (drugs). He was trying to get somewhere nobody had ever been before, a place of complete peace. (thanks, scarlett - winchester, England)

Some of the lyrics were inspired by the French novel Journey To The End Of The Night .

The line, "Realms of bliss, realms of light, some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to the endless night." is taken almost verbatim from the poem Auguries Of Innocence by William Blake. (thanks, max - geneva, IL)

This helped The Doors get a record deal. They included it on a demo they made for Aura Records in 1965. It didn't get them signed, but they landed a deal with Electra 2 years later.

This was released as the B-side of "Break on Through."

Matisyahu - Confidence

Matisyahu - Confidence Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Akeda
Released: 2014

Confidence Lyrics

Three shots upon the sky
Three bluebirds flying by
Three sons remind me why
I ended up in Crown Heights

Where's my Confidence?
You know you want it all
Believe in yourself
Even after the fall
I wish I knew that one
A long time ago

Now when I walk in the street
Got that hop in my step
Chest out head back
Yeah you know what I rep
Strut like a Rasta
Though I'm being chased by death
I'll be gone 'til whenever
Like the song by Wyclef
Listening to music
Always gave me vision
So when you see me on the street
I'll be walkin' to the rhythm
Focus in my face
That's the way I'm straight livin'
Champion heart
From the start of the beginning
I've been lookin' for the palace
A crown and a throne
Click-clack
Around Krakow
Typing on my phone
Tackling my demons
But you know that by now
Chassidic reggae superstar
Tell you all how
Got it on the inside
I don't need to wear it out
Can't say I'm not religious
I just let go of the doubt
And right about now
Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey
I like old things
Things that go slow
Antiques and such
So what ya know?
I'm an old soul
That's the way I like to go
Thankful for the bumps
I like to feel the road
How can I defend
Against snakes and scorpions?
Trying to be your friends
Then they cut you in the end
Feel the sleep moving
Collapse and give in then I start again
How can I pretend?

Where's my confidence?
You know you want it all
Believe in yourself
Even after the fall
I wish I knew that one
A long time ago

Where's my confidence?
You know you want it all
Believe in yourself
Even after the fall
I wish I knew that one
A long time ago

Got it on the inside
I don't need to wear it out
Can't say I'm not religious
I just let go of the doubt
And right about now
I'm a let go of this trout
Whispering my pleas, I ain't gotta be loud
Throw it in the sea, throw it back to the sea
Underneath the clouds
Know what I mean
This is my silent scream
Doing as I please
I bless you with the ease
Why these dudes judging me?

Take a piece of herb and break it up
Roll it up, take a shot to the head top
Hit nice, Hit nice
Me a wine wit the gal dem
Everyting nice, ting nice
Everybody have vibes and me no wan hear no gun shot
Hear vibes, good vibes
Over some foolishness, some people, dem a come shot
So people are rich yo
Some people dem a hit yo
Some people a go tru life and not care about nobody else
A little bit yo
Yi have the confidence to keep strong
Have the confidence to hol on
No more pestilence in our residence
The Lord Testament from All em'
It's not the easy road but we have to live it
Anything in life
Put in all of your heart, your mind, and your soul
Remember the greatest gift is love

I need some confidence
How can I walk tall
With the critic in my head?
Won't rest till I feel small

I need some confidence
How can I walk tall
With the critic in my head?
Won't rest till I feel small

Writer/s: HARPER, COLIN / MILLER, MATTHEW / BROOKS, STU BASSIE / TOMINO, JOSEPH ANTHONY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Matisyahu wrote this one morning as he walked around the streets of Krakow in Poland.

The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Doors
Released: 1967

Break On Through (To The Other Side) Lyrics

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This was the first song on The Doors first album, and also their first single. It got some airplay on Los Angeles radio stations after their friends and fans kept requesting it.

The original line in the chorus was "She gets high." Elektra records censored "high," making it sound like, "she get uuggh," but the "high" line can be heard in live versions. You can also hear the song as intended in the 1999 reissue of the album, which was overseen by their original engineer Bruce Botnick. He also replaced Jim Morrison's "f--k"s on "The End."

Jim Morrison got some of the lyrics from John Rechy's 1963 book "City of Night."

The guitar melody was inspired by Paul Butterfield's "Shake Your Money Maker."

John Densmore added the knocking drum sound by hitting his drumstick sideways across the snare.

This was one of 6 songs The Doors recorded for a demo on Aura Records while they were trying to get signed in 1965. Robby Krieger was not yet with the group.

The vocals are a mix of two of Morrison's takes.

In year 2000, the surviving members of The Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Scott Weiland from The Stone Temple Pilots sang on this track.

This was included on the Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate , with Scott Weiland on vocals.

As John Densmore states in The Doors Box Set , the beat of this song was inspired by Brazilian Bossa Nova like Joao Gilberto and Tom Jobim.

In The Doors Box Set, Ray Manzarek said this was the last song they played live. It was during the Isle of the Wight Festival in the summer of 1970. The festival occurred while Morrison was on trial in Miami faced with charges of indecent exposure, and the band got a special five days of recess to be in England and get back to US. "This was to be the first gig of an European tour just as Miami was to be the first gig of a 20-city US tour. We never got beyond the first date of either one," said Ray. (thanks, Nisio - Belo Horizonte, Brazil, for above 2)

In an episode of The Simpsons, Krusty the Klown sings this when he shows the crowd a tape of him when he was younger. (thanks, bob - Laguna Beach, CA)

MisterWives - Hurricane

MisterWives - Hurricane Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Our Own House
Released: 2015

Hurricane Lyrics

Leeches, you're sucking up the life
Creatures, you're not afraid to fight
We're not letting you steal what molded us
If you only knew you're made of dust

We are not your property
See with our own clarity
Ears close, eyes open, voice won't be broken
Won't dance within your walls

You'll find us running around every town, unchained and all your bounds
Everyone's used to crowd, throwing your words to the ground
Let do this all our own way
Can't change the storm of a Hurricane
We'll dance to our own beat, won't sing to your melody
We will not care if we're the only ones swimming in the sea
Let do this all our own way
Can't change the storm of a hurricane

Made me care what you think
Only made our bodies sink
Couldn't continue playing the game right
Running with you is your fake right
Tell us how it's good for us again
Raise your brow, get it out and comprehend
This is not working, my lungs are choking
No longer at your call

You'll find us running around every town, unchained and all your bounds
Everyone's used to crowd, throwing your words to the ground
Let do this all our own way
Can't change the storm of a hurricane
We'll dance to our own beat, won't sing to your melody
We will not care if we're the only ones swimming in the sea
Let do this all our own way
Can't change the storm of a hurricane

Don't go change your fold, what happened to be mold
Shaking of what we were told, not do your own
Let do this all our way
Can't change the storm of a hurricane

We are not your property
See with our own clarity
Ears close, eyes open, voice won't be broken
Won't dance within your walls

You'll find us running around every town, unchained and all your bounds
Everyone's used to crowd, throwing your words to the ground
Let do this all our own way
Can't change the storm of a hurricane
We'll dance to our own beat, won't sing to your melody
We will not care if we're the only ones swimming in the sea
Let do this all our own way
Can't change the storm of a hurricane

Writer/s: ACCETTA, AARON / GOODMAN, MICHAEL / DUFFY, AMANDA LEE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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New York-based MisterWives came together after frontwoman Mandy Lee decided she needed a band to give her songs some additional instrumentation. "I remember my old manager told me about backing tracks, and I was like, 'Wait, what?,'" she told Billboard magazine. "For me, that was something I was never going to touch."

Lee hooked up with Etienne Bowler, Will Hehir, Marc Campbell and Dr. Blum and the quintet came up with a gender-corrected version of the Mormon term "sister wife" for the group's name.

This is a track from MisterWives' debut album Our Own House. "We hope 'Hurricane' is an anthem for those who believe in individuality and don't give a f--k about what others think," Lee told Billboard.

The Who - The Ox

The Who - The Ox Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: My Generation
Released: 1965

The Ox Lyrics

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An instrumental studio jam at the end of the album, this song was titled for The Who's bass player John Entwistle, who was nicknamed "The Ox" for his strong constitution and ability to out-eat and out-drink the other band members. Considering that this song is both powerful and features an amazing bass lead, it is fitting that it's named after him.

Session man Nicky Hopkins played the piano. Because it was an improvised jam, he got a writing credit along with Pete Townshend, Keith Moon and John Entwistle.

Bass player John Entwistle named his side band The Ox.

John Atkins' book The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963-1998 describes this song as "put together in the studio as an instrumental blowout. Every instrumental and surf artist from the Ventures to Sandy Nelson and Link Wray are simultaneously acknowledged and overpowered by the heavy barrage of heavy riffing, machine-gun drumming, distortion, and feedback.

This instrumental was also the basis for a later song titled "Top Gear" on The Who's 1967 album The Who Sell Out.

On the final bars of the riff, Townsend seems to have sacrificed yet another guitar. Listen amid the acoustic feedback and you'll hear the crackle and buzz of the guitar lead shorting out.

Other instrumentals named after an animal include Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross," Bent Fabric's "Alley Cat," Weather Report's "Birdland," Radiohead's "Hunting Bears," Allman Brothers' "Kind Of Bird, Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick," Cole Porter's "Song Of The Birds," Herb Alpert's "Spanish Flea," and Yes' "The Fish." To name some of them.

Natalie Prass - Why Don't You Believe in Me

Natalie Prass - Why Don't You Believe in Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Natalie Prass
Released: 2015

Why Don't You Believe in Me Lyrics

We've had enough time to find what we are
The reason we should be walking in the dark
But now we should know how cruel love can be

You take so long to say, it only makes it harder
You're pushing me away farther and farther
You pretend as if you don't know how it's bringing me down

Why Don't You Believe in Me?
Oh, what did I do?
Ooh, and now that you're leaving
Because you need something new
Yeah, wish I was with you

Tried to remain constant like a flowing stream
And I tried my best to be all that you need
Please don't close the door, take a step back

I wake up all alone, the nights keep getting harder
I wanna call you but I don't, I want to be smarter
I'm afraid to make my next move and it's bringing me down

Why don't you believe in me?
Oh, what did I do?
Ooh, and now that you're leaving
Because you need something new
Yeah, wish I was with you

Writer/s: JABE BEYER, KYLE RYAN, NATALIE PRASS
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Natalie Prass broke up with boyfriend Kyle Ryan Hurlbut during the recording of her debut eponymous album. She wrote the lyrics to this song the night before it was recorded. Prass told Uncut that it's "obviously about Kyle."

The Doors - Soul Kitchen

The Doors - Soul Kitchen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Doors
Released: 1967

Soul Kitchen Lyrics

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This is a tribute to a soul food restaurant Jim Morrison ate at on Venice Beach called Olivia's. Morrison often stayed too late at Olivia's, where he liked the food because it reminded him of home and warmed his "soul." They often kicked him out so they can close, thus lines like: "let me sleep all night, in your soul kitchen."

"Soul Kitchen" as a restaurant title, would have of course referred to "soul food." That's a traditional kind of cuisine popular with African Americans of the mid-20th century, named in harmony with other "soul" affectations. Soul food usually revolved around ham (cuts like hog's feet and hog jowls), beans, okra, hushpuppies, cornbread, collard greens, and other one-offs of standard American fair. The idea is to that the food is both economical and very filling. People in colder climates (from any culture) may also find soul food comforting in the heart of winter, since you're going to burn all those calories shoveling snow anyway.

According to the Greil Marcus book The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years, "Soul Kitchen" was The Doors' own "Gloria," comparing the steady climb toward a looming chorus. It also quotes Paul Williams' May 1967 article in Crawdaddy! opining that it was more comparable to "Blowin' in the Wind," in that both songs have a message, but the message of "Soul Kitchen" is of course "learn to forget."

Meanwhile, John Densmore's book Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors declares that the title restaurant Olivia's was a "small soul food restaurant at the corner of Ocean Park and Main." The author describes a meal there with Morrison, commenting that the restaurant "belonged in Biloxi, Mississippi" and resembled "an Amtrak dining car that got stranded on the beach" and was packed with UCLA film students. Another famous diner was Linda Ronstadt.

He is not credited on the album, but Larry Knetchel was brought in to play bass. The Doors usually did not use a bass player, but producer Paul Rothchild felt this needed it.

This song was used as part of the soundtrack to the 1994 blockbuster film Forrest Gump and in the 2003 documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip. The song "I'm a Tree" by alternative Hip-Hop artist Imani Coppola samples this song, and Coppola's song appears in many more film and TV episode soundtracks.

Jim Morrison sang lead and harmony. His vocals were overdubbed.

The punk rock band X released a cover of this song on their 1980 album Los Angeles.

In terms of time length, at 3 min. 35 seconds, this song is the second-longest on The Doors' debut album. With the longest, of course, being "The End."

Papa Roach - Skeletons

Papa Roach - Skeletons Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: F.E.A.R.
Released: 2015

Skeletons Lyrics

I can see myself in a broken reflection
This magnifies my imperfection
Beaten down, and I'm crawling, I'm craving affection
A fade out projection
Comfort in violence, suffer in silence
Lost in self deception
Is there no salvation?

Brick by brick I've built this wall
I shut you out to break the fall
I will shed my sins
I'll show you my Skeletons
One by one we cast the stones
Flesh and blood, and broken bones
Burn away the sins
We all have our skeletons

We all have our skeletons

I have lost myself in my addictions
There's no faith in fear or self-destruction
Falling out, falling down
And I'm crawling to you to confess my intentions
Suffer the violence, comfort in silence
Lost in self deception
Is there no salvation?

Brick by brick I've built this wall
I shut you out to break the fall
I will shed my sins
I'll show you my skeletons
One by one we cast the stones
Flesh and blood, and broken bones
Burn away the sins
We all have our skeletons

We all have our skeletons

Brick by brick!

Skeletons!

Brick by brick I've built this wall
I shut you out to break the fall
I will shed my sins
I'll show you my skeletons
One by one we cast the stones
Flesh and blood, and broken bones
Burn away the sins
We all have our skeletons

Writer/s: KEVIN CHURKO, JERRY HORTON, TOBIN JOSEPH ESPERANCE, JACOBY DAKOTA SHADDIX
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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This song finds Jacoby Shaddix in a reflective mood as he implores:

Brick by brick I've built this wall
I shut you out to break the fall
I will shed my sins
I'll show you my skeletons

"That comes from a place of secrets," Shaddix told Artist Direct . "You're only as sick as your secrets are. As I'm living this dark life, I tend to shut people out and build this wall between me and them by not reaching back out. If they call me, I don't call them back. If I'm up to no good, I start to isolate. I build this wall around myself. I find myself in this prison, which is not a healthy place to be. There's a comfort for me in isolation, but it's a dysfunction."

"I have to realize we've all got our issues, skeletons, and secrets," he continued. "I always find freedom when I bare everything in myself and all of the darkness. If I get enough strength to break down this wall and be honest, I can be part of."

"Stylistically, I wanted the song to have this snaking groove to it.," Shaddix added. "It's got a tortured vibe to it, but the chorus is so uplifting and epic. That's one of my favorites."

The Doors - Back Door Man

The Doors - Back Door Man Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Doors
Released: 1967

Back Door Man Lyrics

Wha, yeah!, c'mon, yeah, yeah, c'mon, yeah
I'm a Back Door Man, I'm a back door man
The men don't know, but the little girl understand

Hey, all you people that tryin' to sleep
I'm out to make it with my midnight dream, yeah
'Cause I'm a back door man, the men don't know
But the little girls understand, all right, yeah

You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken, than any man ever seen, yeah, yeah
I'm a back door man, wha, the men don't know
But the little girl understand

Well, I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
Whoa, baby, I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand

Writer/s: WILLIE DIXON
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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A Willie Dixon blues song from 1961, this has been covered by John Hammond Jr. and Howlin' Wolf, among others. The Doors decided to cover this after their guitarist Robby Krieger heard John Hammond Jr.'s version.

A "Back Door Man" is a guy who has relations with a woman while her husband has been out slaving away to provide for her. The usual guilty perpetrator if a wife was caught cheating was a regular tradesman caller (Ice Man, Insurance Salesman etc.). He would then run out the back door as the husband entered the front door.

The "Back Door Man" theme has been taken up in several Soul and Blues songs, including "Back Door Santa" by Clarence Carter. (thanks, Gary - Thetford, England, for above 2)

At a show at Winterland in San Francisco, The Doors stopped in the middle of this when their taped performance came on The Jonathan Winters Show. They watched the segment from a TV on stage, picked up their instruments, and finished the song.

In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Former Cult lead singer Ian Astbury sang on this track. He became their new lead singer when Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek re-formed The Doors a few years later. Astbury told us: "I can really say that for me it was authentic. It wasn't something I was doing as a career move. It's something I did because I was an absolutely venerated devotee. I put them in a very, very high place." (Read more about his Doors experience in our interview with Ian Astbury .)

The Doors played a lot of Blues songs in their early days when they were playing clubs, but this is the only one they recorded until 2 years later, when they did "Crawling King Snake" on LA Woman.

The Doors performed this at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. The Doors didn't play well, as Morrison was worried about his trial resulting from a Miami concert where he was accused of exposing himself to the crowd. Morrison was convicted of indecent exposure, but died while the case was under appeal. In 2010, the governor of Florida granted Morrison a posthumous pardon after a fan requested a review of the case.

The Doors were playing this in New Haven, Connecticut on December 9, 1967 when Jim Morrison was arrested on stage for "giving an indecent or immoral exhibition." He was angry about being confronted backstage by police after he was seen in an allegedly sexual encounter with a young girl. When he took the stage, during the middle section of this song, he said this before three officers arrested him, making him the first rock star arrested in mid-performance:

"We started talking and we wanted some privacy and so went into this little show room. We weren't doing anything. You know, just standing there talking, and then this little man in a little blue suit and a little blue cap came in there. He said 'Whatcha doin' there?' 'Nothin'.' But he didn't go away, he stood there and then he reached round behind him and brought out this little black can of something. It looked like shaving cream. And then he sprayed it in my eyes. I was blinded for about 30 minutes."

Jim Morrison left out lyrics from the original version about being accused of murder.

The Doors often opened their concerts with this song. Typically, the concerts ended with "The End." They rarely did encores. (thanks, John - Topeka, KS)

Papa Roach - War Over Me

Papa Roach - War Over Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: F.E.A.R.
Released: 2015

War Over Me Lyrics

War Over Me

I'm standing on the front lines
I'm fighting for my soul
I've walked a self-destructive lonely road

I wrap the warning signs
But I was too blind to see
I had to feel the pain
'til I believed

This is war
This is war
Since the day I was born
I will die just to live,just to play

No more fight for my life
'til I wil see the light
This is war
It's war over me
War over me
War over me

My pretty face destruction
My hunger turns to greed
But nothing ever fills this whole in me

Bno peace on the horizon
No peace in anything
I had to hurt myself???
'til I believed

This is war
This is war
Since the day I was born
I will die just to live,just to play

No more fight for my life
'til I wil see the light
This is war
It's war over me
War over me
War over me

This kicked off desperation
Is exactly what I need
I'm crawling out yout name
I'm locked in my own prison
Tell me hope is on the way
Tell me hope is on the way

This is war
This is war
Since the day I was born
I will die just to live,just to play

No more fight for my life
'til I wil see the light
This is war
It's war over me
War over me
War over me
This is war
This is war
Since the day I was born
I will die just to live,just to play

No more fight for my life
'til I wil see the light
This is war
It's war over me
War over me
War over me

This is war
It's war over me
War over me
War over me

Writer/s: JACOBY DAKOTA SHADDIX, TOBIN JOSEPH ESPERANCE, JERRY HORTON, KEVIN CHURKO, ANTHONY ESPERANCE
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

War Over Me Song Chart

The F.E.A.R. album was recorded in Las Vegas as producers Kane and Kevin Churko couldn't make it to the band's home city of Sacramento. Vocalist Jacoby Shaddix was nervous about spending time in Sin City as he was trying to maintain a clean and sober lifestyle, but was eventually strengthened by the experience. This was one of the songs the band wrote in the process.

Jacoby Shaddix explained the song's lyrical content to Artist Direct : "I had to go there (Las Vegas) with my armor and protection. I was standing in the middle of the good and the bad and sin and salvation. Those elements were tugging at me."

"Truly, Vegas was the perfect place for me to make this record because it really strengthened me. If I could go out on the road and keep my life together and stay on the right track here in Vegas and enjoy myself, that's it. It's a war out there in this crazy ass world."

Speaking about the song in a live Google+ Hangout session Jacoby Shaddix described this as a "dope track." He added: "I mean, seriously, just big chorus, rad lyrics, great riffs… good drums on it. And it's very adventurous, man. The production that we're getting from the Churkos, it's, like… it's cool, man."