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Cat Stevens - Moonshadow

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Album: Teaser And The Firecat
Released: 1971

Moonshadow Lyrics

[Chorus:]
Oh, I'm bein' followed by a Moonshadow, moon shadow, moonshadow---
Leapin and hoppin' on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow---
And if I ever lose my hands, lose my plough, lose my land,
Oh if I ever lose my hands, Oh if I won't have to work no more.

And if I ever lose my eyes, if my colours all run dry,
Yes if I ever lose my eyes, Oh if I won't have to cry no more.

[Chorus]

And if I ever lose my legs, I won't moan, and I won't beg,
Yes if I ever lose my legs, Oh if I won't have to walk no more.

And if I ever lose my mouth, all my teeth, north and south,
Yes if I ever lose my mouth, Oh if I won't have to talk...

Did it take long to find me? I asked the faithful light.
Did it take long to find me? And are you gonna stay the night?

[Chorus]
Moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow.

Writer/s: YUSUF ISLAM, CAT STEVENS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Stevens wrote this about finding hope in any situation. Be present and joyful. See life as it is, right now, and don't compare it to others' lives, or other times in your life. Every moment in life is rich and unique; whether we are aware of it or not, we are always leaping and hopping on a moonshadow - the inescapable present moment. If we are wrapped up in our whirlpools of worry and concern about what could be, or what has been, we are missing the richness of life as it is.

In the bridge of the song, Stevens seems to be speaking of faith, indicating clearly that, although he is experiencing this ecstasy in the present, despite all the losses and suffering of existence, it is the light that has found him, and not the other way around. He is surrendering to a power greater than himself - the "faithful light." (thanks, Ted - Victoria, Canada, for above 2)

When he appeared on The Chris Isaak Hour in 2009, Stevens said of this song: "I was on a holiday in Spain. I was a kid from the West End (of London) - bright lights, ect. - I never got to see the moon on its own in the dark, there were always streetlamps. So there I was on the edge of the water on a beautiful night with the moon glowing, and suddenly I looked down and saw my shadow. I thought that was so cool, I'd never seen it before."

Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, considers this his favorite of his old songs. It's one of the songs that convinced him to release a Greatest Hits record of his work as Cat Stevens. He felt its uplifting message could help people.

Director John Landis wanted to use this song in his 1981 horror comedy An American Werewolf in London. The film featured a number of songs with "moon" in the title ("Moon Dance", "Blue Moon", etc.) but Stevens, who had recently converted to Islam, refused permission because he did not like the subject matter of the film. (thanks, Bob - The Colony, TX)

Stevens has in recent years called this song the "Optimist's anthem." (thanks, Mary - Little Rock, AR)

This song was used for a "Teaser And The Firecat" animation. The cover of the album came to life as the boy and cat ride on the moon while this song plays. It can be found on the Cat Stevens - Majikat (Earth Tour 1976) DVD. (thanks, christy - Southlake, TX)

Artists to record this song include LaBelle, Roger Whittaker and Mandy Moore.

Overkill - Elimination

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Album: The Years of Decay
Released: 1989

Elimination Lyrics

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This song is about the AIDS epidemic, which was still widely misunderstood. In our interview with Overkill lead singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth , he explained: "When the band had started in the early '80s, AIDS was 'the gay cancer.' But by '89, people had a better view of it: it wasn't a gay disease, it was a human disease. The idea behind 'Elimination' was to say, 'This is about us, it's not about you or about you, it's about us collectively.'"

Cat Stevens - Peace Train

Cat Stevens - Peace Train Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Teaser And The Firecat
Released: 1971

Peace Train Lyrics

Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Something good's bound to come

For out on the edge of darkness
There runs the Peace Train
Peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train
Peace train's a holy roller
Everyone jump upon the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
This is the peace train

Get your bags together
Come bring your good friends too
Because it's getting nearer
Soon it will be with you
Come and join the living
It's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer
Soon it will all be true

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train

I've been crying lately
Thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating?
Why can't we live in bliss?

For out on the edge of darkness
There rides the peace train
Peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Peace train sounding louder
Ride on the peace train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the peace train

Come on, come on, come on the peace train

Writer/s: YUSUF ISLAM, CAT STEVENS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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When he appeared on The Chris Isaak Hour in 2009, Stevens said of this song: "Musically, I was revisiting a very Greek-sounding riff - the kind of thing you'd hear on a Greek island. The words were attached to that time, my peace anthem. It ended every show that I did and was quite a show stopper. It was a very important song for me because it stated one of the big goals of my life which was heading straight for that peace."

This was Stevens' first US Top-10 hit. It was not released as a single outside of America because Stevens' European label, Island, wanted to encourage people to buy the albums rather than the 45s.

This became a hippie anthem, and was often used by protesters to spread a message of peace.

In 1987, 10,000 Maniacs covered this, but the song was dropped from future copies of their In My Tribe album in 1989 after Stevens, who had changed his name to Yusuf Islam, condoned the death wish on Salmon Rushdie for defaming the Prophet in his book The Satanic Verses.

In 2003, Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, re-recorded this for a compilation album called Hope, which was a benefit for children in Iraq. It was his first English language recording since 1978. The US and Britain had invaded Iraq, which was perceived by many to be an attack on Muslims. Stevens explained: "As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution to the dangerous path some world leaders today seem to be taking."

In 2010, John Stewart and Stephen Colbert staged a Train Wreck, having Stevens perform this song at their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, DC, only to have Ozzy Osbourne interrupt with a performance of "Crazy Train."

The bit didn't go over well with Salman Rushdie, an author who had a fatwa issued against him that Stevens supported. When Rushdie complained to Stewart, the Daily Show host said that he shouldn't have done it. "Death for free speech is a deal-breaker," said Stewart.

The Yardbirds - Ha Ha Said the Clown

The Yardbirds - Ha Ha Said the Clown Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Little Games
Released: 1967

Ha Ha Said the Clown Lyrics

[Chorus]
Ha Ha Said the Clown
Has the king lost his crown,
Is the knight being tight on romance?
Ha ha said the clown,
Is it bringing you down,
That you've lost your chance.

Feeling low, gotta go,
See a show in town.
Hear the jokes, have a smoke,
And a laugh at the clown.
In a whirl, see a girl,
With a smile in her eyes.
Never thought I'd be brought,
Right down by her lies.

[Chorus]

In a trance, watch her dance,
To the beat of the drums.
Faster now, sweating brow,
I'm all the fingers and thumbs.
Wonder why I hit the sky,
When she blows me a kiss.
In a while run a mile,
I'm regretting all this.

[Chorus]

Time to go, close the show,
Wave the people good-bye.
Grab my coat, grab my hat,
Look that girl in the eye.
Where's your home?
What's your phone number?
Stop fooling round.
Could have died she replied.
"I'm the wife of the clown"

[Chorus]

Writer/s: Hazzard, Tony
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., SHAPIRO BERNSTEIN & CO. INC.
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This was a cover of the Manfred Mann UK pop hit, written by Tony Hazzard.

Although not included on the original Little Games release, this was added to the track list for the 1992 expanded version.

British producer/songwriter Mickie Most was brought in to produce this album to boost the band's commercial success which, according to drummer Jim McCarty , was a mistake.

"Working with Mickie Most was the kiss of death for the band," he said in an August 2011 Interview. "Mickie never really got what we were about. His attitude was that we were just another '60s band that needed a hit. Consequently the songs he supplied us with (most notably the catchy but very un-Yardbirds-like 'Little Games' and 'Ha, Ha Said The Clown,' which ironically was the band's last single and only featured one member of the group, singer Keith Relf) went nowhere.

I know I said it before but being a singles band is definitely what killed us. It was what people expected of us. And the irony is that about the time we broke up, the whole singles thing was on the way out and albums and progressive rock were on their way in. If we had hung together for another year or two we might have been in a position to go in the studio and make a Pink Floyd kind of album and then who knows what might have happened. At our best, we were more than capable of becoming Pink Floyd." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

This was the band's last single to break into the Top 50 on the pop charts.

Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun

Cat Stevens - I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Matthew And Son
Released: 1967

I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun Lyrics

I've been demoralized too many times
But now I realize, Ah ah, no more.
I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun
I'm gonna get me a gun
And all those people who put me down
You better get ready to run,
'cause I'm gonna get me a gun

I know my destiny is like the sun
You see the best of me when I have got my gun
I'm gonna get me a gun
I'm gonna get me a gun
And all those people who put me down
You better get ready to run,
'cause I'm gonna get me a gun

So you think you can push me around
And make me run
Well I'm gonna tell you now
I'm gonna get me a gun
I'm gonna get me a gun
And all those people who put me down
You better get ready to run,
'cause I'm gonna get me a gun

Gonna get me a gun

Writer/s: ISLAM, YUSUF
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Stevens wrote this song for a musical about Billy The Kid that was never produced. It is noteworthy that in the late '60s and early '70s, gun-toting revenge fantasies such as the Death Wish series gained great popularity. This is partly attributable to the Baby Boomers, having lived in a vacuum of free love and communes through the '60s, began to settle down, get jobs, and suddenly own property, at which point they saw the value of defending it.

A promotional poster featuring guns was issued by his record company. Stevens denounced the poster years later when he became a Muslim.

According to the book Sociology in Perspective by mark Kirby, this is one of the songs banned from the radio by the BBC during the Gulf War. A song about guns is likely to cause controversy, but not likely to encourage actual violence. Michael Moore's 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine examines the American fascination with guns, and counters all the media speculation of the effects of music and video games on the perpetrators of the Columbine high school massacre by suggesting that maybe a culture steeped in violence with guns and ammunition readily available everywhere had something to do with it.

Along with "I Love My Dog" and "Matthew And Son," this was one of the songs Stevens would play while touring with Jimi Hendrix and Engelbert Humperdinck.

The White Stripes - Your Southern Can Is Mine

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Album: De Stijl
Released: 2000

Your Southern Can Is Mine Lyrics

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This was originally written and recorded by blues legend Blind Willie McTell in 1930.

The album title is taken from the Dutch art movement, also known as neoplasticism, founded in 1917 in Amsterdam. Abstract artist Piet Mondrian, who coined the term neoplasticism, explained the style:

"As a pure representation of the human mind, art will express itself in an aesthetically purified, that is to say, abstract form. The new plastic idea cannot therefore, take the form of a natural or concrete representation – this new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color."

Jack White explained why he chose the cover to Guitar World, February 2006: "When we were finishing that album, I decided I wanted to dedicate it to Blind Willie McTell. During that time it hit me that McTell and most of the great country bluesmen were recording and performing in the early-'20s, which was the same time period as when the De Stijl art movement was taking root. They were both doing the same things: breaking things down to their essences. In my mind, both the country blues and the De Stijl movement represented a new beginning of music and art, perhaps for the rest of eternity. Both broke their respective arts down to its very core. You couldn't get anymore simple and pure than the De Stijl school. They only used squares, circles, horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors. That's it. The country blues of Son House and Charley Patton also brought music down to its fundamentals. I wanted to draw those comparisons between these two things, which made people think that Meg and I were art students, which we weren't. I couldn't afford it. I probably would've gone if I could." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Cat Stevens - Matthew And Son

Cat Stevens - Matthew And Son Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Matthew And Son
Released: 1966

Matthew And Son Lyrics

Up at eight, you can't be late
For Matthew And Son, he won't wait.
Watch them run down to platform one
And the eight-thirty train to matthew & son.

Matthew & son, the work's never done, there's always something new.
The files in your head, you take them to bed, you're never ever through.
And they've been working all day, all day, all day!

There's a five minute break and that's all you take,
For a cup of cold coffee and a piece of cake.

Matthew and son, the work's never done, there's always something new.
The files in your head, you take them to bed, you're never ever through.
And they've been working all day, all day, all day!

He's got people who've been working for fifty years
No one asks for more money 'cause nobody cares
Even though they're pretty low and their rent's in arrears

Matthew and son, Matthew and son, Matthew and son, Matthew and son,
And they've been working all day, all day, all day!

Writer/s: CAT STEVENS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This was inspired by a sign Stevens saw in a shop window while riding a bus in London. By the time it got to his stop, he thought up the story of the worker that became the main character in the song.

This was Stevens' first Top-10 hit in England. It's the title track of his first album.

This was recorded with an orchestra.

This is the first track on Stevens' 2000 Greatest Hits compilation. After converting to Islam, Stevens (who became known as Yusuf Islam) made only religious music, but came to accept that his previous work had a lot of meaning and agreed to release it as a Greatest Hits album.

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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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.

The Doors - Hyacinth House

The Doors - Hyacinth House Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: LA Woman
Released: 1971

Hyacinth House Lyrics

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Hyacinthus was a young love of the Greek God Apollo. Apollo accidentally killed him, and from his blood sprang the hyacinth, a plant with a fragrant cluster of flowers.

The line, "I see the bathroom is clear" could refer to the bathroom in the studio where the song "L.A. Woman" was recorded. At the time, Jim Morrison insisted on recording the vocal track remotely from the bathroom rather than in the studio with the rest of the band. (thanks, Sam - Lincoln, NE)

The song was written at guitarist Robby Krieger's house, which inspired some of Morrison's lyrics with its flowers (hyacinths) and cats ("lions").

According to Uncut magazine September 2011 the line, "I see the bathroom is clear," was literal. Morrison's friend Babe Hill emerged from the bathroom just as he was writing that verse.

The Rolling Stones - Everything Is Turning to Gold

The Rolling Stones - Everything Is Turning to Gold Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sucking in the Seventies
Released: 1981

Everything Is Turning to Gold Lyrics

I don't care if your love grows cold
Found love in someone else's home
Don't like standin' in the snow

Everything's turning to gold
Everything's turning to gold
Everything's turning to gold

You used to know me long ago
Was so lost and way down low.
Now that the love juice starts to flow,
Now that the love juice starts to flow,
Everything's turning to gold
Everything's turning to gold

Everything's turning, everything's turning
Everything's turning, everything's turning to gold

I'm tired, I'm tired of doing what I'm told.
Things are moving way too slow.
I got no problems, I got no problems, child.
It ain't my business, it ain't my business, ain't my style.
Now that the love juice starts to flow,
Now that the love juice starts to flow.

Writer/s: JAGGER, MICK/RICHARDS, KEITH/WOOD, RON
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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Written by Jagger, Richards and Ron Wood, this was recorded between October and December 1977 at Pathé Marconi Studios, in Paris, France, and released in June 1978 in the US as a single as the B-side to "Shattered." Stones guitarist Ron Wood explained: "I came up with the chorus when my son Jesse was born. It was inspired by him. I basically wrote the whole thing. Mick wrote the verses - there's few verses actually, and the whole song relies on the choruses."

This features Mel Collins on saxophone and Sugar Blue on harmonica. Collins was a popular horn player throughout the 1970s and '80s, recording with the likes of Humble Pie, Uriah Heep, Bad Company and Bryan Ferry. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)

The Doors - L'America

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Album: LA Woman
Released: 1971

L'America Lyrics

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The Doors recorded this months before the other songs on LA Woman. It was intended for the movie Zabriskie Point by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. He rejected the song so The Doors put it on the album.

Jim Morrison intended the word "L'America" to mean "Latin America."

The Jayhawks - Blue

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Album: Tomorrow the Green Grass
Released: 1995

Blue Lyrics

Where have all my friends gone?
They've all disappeared.
Turned around maybe one day, you're all that was there.
Stood by on believing, stood by on my own.
Always thought I was someone, turned out I was wrong.
And you brought me through and you made me feel so Blue,
Why don't you stay behind?
So blue. Why don't you stop, and look at what's going down.

If I had an old woman she'd never sell me a lie
It's hard to sing with someone who won't sing with you.
Give all of my mercy, give all of my heart.
Never thought that I'd miss you, that I'd miss you so much.
And you brought me through and you made me feel so blue.
Why don't you stay behind?
So blue.
Why don't you stop and look at what's going down.

All my life (staying while) I'm waiting for (staying while)
Someone I could (waiting around) show the door
(now that I'm blue) but nothing seems to change (that I'm blue from now on)
You come back that month so blue.
Why don't you stay behind?
So blue.
Why don't you, why don't you stay behind?
So blue.
Why don't you, why don't you stay behind?
So blue
Why don't you stop and look at what's down

Writer/s: ISH LEDESMA /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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At a 2012 solo concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gary Louris was asked by an audience member about the dual vocals on the bridge. Louris explained that he and co-writer Mark Olson each had an idea about what to sing and were too stubborn to let the other guy have his way. They each sang their bridges and just put them together. (thanks, Jack - Newton, MA)