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Sting - All This Time

Sting - All This Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Soul Cages
Released: 1991

All This Time Lyrics

I looked out across the river today.
Saw a city in the fog and an old church town where the seagulls play.
Saw the sad shire horses walking home in the sodium light,
Two priests on the ferry.
October geese on a cold winter's night.
All This Time the river flowed endlessly to the sea.

Two priests came 'round our house tonight,
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying to serve the final rite.
One to learn, one to teach which way the cold wind blows.
And fussing and flapping in priestly black like a murder of crows.
All this time the river flowed endlessly to the sea.

If I had my way, take a boat from the river and I'd bury the old man.
I'd bury him at sea.

Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth.
Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of the needle.
As these words were spoken I swear I hear the old man laughing.
What good is a used up world and how could it be worth having?
All this time the river flowed endlessly like a silent tear.

All this time the river flowed.
Father, if Jesus exists then how come he never lives here?
Yeah yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah yeah.

Teachers told the Romans built this place.
They built a wall and a temple and an edge of the empire garrison town.
They lived and they died.
They prayed to their gods, but the stone gods did not make a sound.
And their empire crumbles 'till all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found.
All this time the river flowed in the falling light of a Northern sun.
If I had my way, take a boat from the river.
Men go crazy in the congregations, they only get better one by one.
One by one. One by one by one. One by one.

(I looked out across)
Sad shire horses walking home in the sodium light.
(the river today)

Writer/s: STING
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is about a boy who wants to bury his father at sea over the objections of two priests. It's a satire of rituals - the priests think the man should be buried according to their practices.

Sting's father died shortly before he wrote this song, and The Soul Cages album was a result of his grief. Sting wrote in Lyrics By Sting: "We'd had a difficult relationship, and his death hit me harder than I'd imagined possible. I felt emotionally and creatively paralyzed, isolated, and unable to mourn. I just felt numb and empty, as if the joy had been leached out of my life."

He added: "I became obsessed with my hometown and its history, images of boats and the sea, and my childhood in the shadow of the shipyards."

The music is based on a Cello suite from Bach.

Sting used the river to represent continuity. Civilizations and structures can come to an end, but rivers are always there. He explained in an acceptance speech when he was honored by his hometown of Newcastle:

"I was born with in sight of that river [The River Tyne]. It runs through my veins, as surely as it runs through the landscape of my dreams. It is a constant recurring theme in many of my songs: 'All this time the river flowed endlessly to the sea.' I wrote that song about the time of the death of my father, gaining some solace in the idea that one human life may come to an end, but the river carries on, just as those of us who are left must carry on."

Most of the images, including the priests, shire horses and ferry, are based on things Sting encountered when he was growing up.

Sting became interested in the burial at sea theme after reading about cultures that bury their dead in boats, which are supposed to take them to the afterlife.

Melanie Griffith is in the video along with Sting's wife, Trudie Styler. They play French maids.

Sting used this to open most of the shows on his Soul Cages tour.

Sting used this as the title to his 2001 concert album. The show was recorded in Italy on Sept 11, the day of the terrorist attacks on America. The planned webcast was pulled after one song, but the concert continued with a somber tone.

Sting wrote this in Normandy while staying in the room novelist Marcel Proust used to occupy. He told The Independent: "OK, I'm in Proust's room, Remembrance of Things Past and all that, right, sat down and looked at the sea. Wrote a few images down, a bit of free association, and then after a while you get some idea of a structure. Songwriting has always been a miraculous process which is incredibly satisfying, and I don't necessarily understand how it's done. And, for me, it happens with less and less frequency, actually. Which is scary, I suppose."

Along with "Island of Souls" and "When We Dance," this was one of three previously released songs that Sting included in his 2014 musical The Last Ship, which was inspired by his childhood growing up in a shipbuilding community. Sting, who wrote all the music for the play, joined the cast of the Broadway production a few months after it opened.

Rae Sremmurd - My X

Rae Sremmurd - My X Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: SremmLife
Released: 2015

My X Lyrics

My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch

My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch

The ho should've never chose me
And I should've never chose her
Now I'm in the same predicament that you was in
Back then when you was fuckin' 'round with her
A ho just gon' be a ho
And a slut just gon' be a slut
But now my money long, real, real, real long
And I just can't give two fucks
Look, you should've had a check, bitch
(Hold on a second)
You could've had a check, bitch
Shoulda, coulda, woulda, now I'm with my next bitch
And you just another name on the checklist
These hoes been tossed and thrown 'round
Bitch oh pee-yew, you so foul
How you gon' do all of that there and put your head down?
As a man that's all I really got to say about you
Damn, gon' call my phone askin', "Can we start over?"
She interruptin' me, countin' my money, I had to start over

My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch

My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch

My ex bitch, must have been defective
But my new bitch, look like Cinderella
She a dime bitch, ain't too much you can tell her
Upgrade everything, new whip, new bitch, new bezel
Got the Lam bitch chopped, it ain't nothin', I'm the real Hugh Hefner
And you didn't work out, that's cool cause my new bitch better
Bitch, you busted, it ain't no more red bottoms
No more overseas shoppin' but yes I'll still take that sloppy
I know you see me in that 'Rari cause it ain't no ceilings
When I see you in the city, it ain't no hard feelings
Ho', you shoulda used your head, bitch
Hey, you coulda had a check, bitch

My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch

My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch
My ex-bitch, I'm shinin' on my ex-bitch

Writer/s: Aaquil Brown, Khalif Brown
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Rae Sremmurd's Slim Jimmy commented to Complex magazine: "This is pretty much everything everybody in America wants to say to their ex. Everybody wants take a s--t on they ex-bitch."

Swae Lee recalled the story of the song: "We made that song with Mike WiLL, we were in his car actually in his S6 like, 'My S6, I'm riding in my S6.' [Singing together] But what we were like, 'What about our ex bitch? My ex bitch I'm shinin on my ex bitch.' I had about two serious relationships with girls.†‹ But at the end we're rolling stones. Jimmy was in love. I was in love probably like 'two times.'"

Young Chop supplied the beat. The Chicago producer's other credits include DJ Khaled's "Suffering From Success," Big Sean's "Guap" and Chief Keef's "Love Sosa."

Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene

Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Leadbelly Volume One
Released: 1950

Goodnight Irene Lyrics

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This is a folk standard, meaning no one knows who wrote it. Leadbelly's version has become the most widely recognized.

Leadbelly, whose real name was Huddie Ledbetter, developed this while he was in jail for attempted murder from 1918-1924. It won him his freedom when the warden let him go after hearing this.

In 1930, Leadbelly was once again jailed for attempted murder. Once again, his music won him his freedom when John Lomax and his son Alan convinced prison officials to release him. John and Alan Lomax were anthropologists and music historians who collected songs to preserve in the Library of Congress. They led a successful campaign to free Leadbelly and got him released in 1934. Leadbelly continued to record, and although he never made much money, his music is considered a big piece of US history, as it describes the struggles of black Americans.

Most recorded versions are much more tame than Leadbelly's original, with the line "I'll get you in my dreams" replaced with "I'll see you in my dreams."

In 1950, one year after Leadbelly died, this was a #1 hit for the folk group The Weavers. Other artists to record the song include Ry Cooder, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Chieftains, Tom Waits and Peter, Paul and Mary. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Rae Sremmurd - Up Like Trump

Rae Sremmurd - Up Like Trump Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: SremmLife
Released: 2015

Up Like Trump Lyrics

Up like Donald Trump, up, word?
Up, up, up, up

Up like Donald Trump (up)
Chain swings like nunchucks
She gon' chew you up, yeah
Twerk like she from Russia
Don't get me wile'd up (up)
Soldiers at a 10 hut
Look what you've don' done (up)
Now you've done fucked up, up

Up like Donald Trump (up)
Chain swings like nunchucks
She gon' chew you up, yeah
Twerk like she from Russia
Don't get me wile'd up (up)
Soldiers at a 10 hut
Look what you've don' done (up)
Now you've done fucked up, up

Read my lips, I do my own stunts
Bitch wanna go on a date
Pull up to Suntrust
Wear my hat to the front, yeah
Like I drive a truck
Like I drive a truck
All white Bentley truck
ATM go nuts
I do what I want
I say what I want
I grew up on Pac
Kush smell just like must
Turn it into dust
Man my style is tough
Y'all huffed all that puss
Twerk like she from Russia
Try hard not to love her
But she so damn bad
I might have to cuff her
Rock like Billy Ray
That's a nigga idol
Forbes list, Forbes list, Forbes list, Forbes, read it like the Bible

Up like Donald Trump (up)
Chain swings like nunchucks
She gon' chew you up, yeah
Twerk like she from Russia
Don't get me wile'd up (up)
Soldiers at a 10 hut
Look what you've don' done (up)
Now you've done fucked up, up

Up like Donald Trump (up)
Chain swings like nunchucks
She gon' chew you up, yeah
Twerk like she from Russia
Don't get me wile'd up (up)
Soldiers at a 10 hut
Look what you've don' done (up)
Now you've done fucked up, up

Up Like Trump, all of a sudden
Solo cup when brought to the public
Balmain's clean as a whistle
Green ain't the issue
Lil bit of money make a difference
Nothin' is somethin', it's so hard to function
With all of these hoes in the house
Fuck y'all social, my blood still rushin
My hearts still thumpin'
Up like Trump
Kickin' like Ike
Got bitch twerkin' on Skype
MGM every night
Sremm at the door
King of the swipe
Mu'fuckers worry bout' lice
Only bitches, they ain't got a single dollar, or a nickel
They ain't even got a penny, for the strippers
And they wanna pop bottles, like winners
Check my pedigree I always been a money fiend
All these fuckin' rings I'm shinin' like a fuckin' king
Breakin' down the kush, don't it look so plush?
Take a couple puffs, I'm like Donald Trump, up!

Up like Donald Trump (up)
Chain swings like nunchucks
She gon' chew you up, yeah
Twerk like she from Russia
Don't get me wile'd up (up)
Soldiers at a 10 hut
Look what you've don' done (up)
Now you've done fucked up, up

Up like Donald Trump (up)
Chain swings like nunchucks
She gon' chew you up, yeah
Twerk like she from Russia
Don't get me wile'd up (up)
Soldiers at a 10 hut
Look what you've don' done (up)
Now you've done fucked up, up up
Up like Trump

Writer/s: BROWN, AAQUIL / BROWN, KHALIF / UWAEZUOKE, SONNY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song finds the Rae Sremmurd duo paying tribute to American business magnate Donald Trump. Swae Lee told Complex: "I think Donald Trump is cool. I him and I'm like, "That's a cool motherf---er." He's rich as f—k."

Donald Trump become a national celebrity through hosting the NBC reality show The Apprentice. Mac Miller's first hit single "Donald Trump" also pays tribute to the infamous entrepreneur.

Set in Donald Trump's hometown of New York City, the video finds the rap duo living it up at a penthouse party. The pair are also seen in the middle of Times Square and taking over a double-decker bus. Swae Lee recalled: "When we go to the top of the bus we look down and Donald Trump is on there. Nobody knows it, but when we first got on the bus after the shoot we just look at the bus and Donald Trump is there. Not on the bus, just a picture of him. It didn't get in the video, but it's a fun fact I guess."

The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time

The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Aftermath
Released: 1966

Out Of Time Lyrics

You don't know what's going on
You've been away for far too long
You can't come back and think you are still mine
You're out of touch, my baby
My poor discarded baby
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're Out Of Time

Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
You are all left out
Out of there without a doubt
'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time

A girl who wants to run away, discovers that she's had her day
It's no good thinking that you are still mine
You're out of touch, my baby, my poor unfaithful baby
I said baby, baby, baby you're out of time

Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
You are all left out
Out of there without a doubt
'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time

You thought you were a clever girl giving up your social whirl
But you can't come back and be the first in line
You're obsolete, my baby, my poor old fashioned baby
I said baby, baby, baby you're out of time

Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Yes, you are all left out
Out of there without a doubt
'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time

Baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time

Writer/s: RICHARDS, KEITH / JAGGER, MICK
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
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In this song, Mick Jagger sings about snubbing a girl who wants him back. Getting the upper hand in a relationship was becoming a common theme with The Stones.

In England, this was a #1 hit for Chris Farlowe in 1967. Farlowe also covered The Stones' "Think" and "Ride On, Baby." Farlowe's cover, (which was produced by Mick Jagger), is the only Jagger/Richards written chart topper in the UK performed by another act. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

This was left off the US version of Aftermath. A different version was included on the compilation album Flowers.

Brian Jones played the marimbas. He played many unusual instruments for the Stones until his death in 1969.

The Stones released a symphonic version on their album Metamorphosis. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends

Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Cities To Love
Released: 2014

Bury Our Friends Lyrics

Today I am stitched, I am sewn
Patch me up, I've got want in my bones
Like some doll you thought you could throw away
I found my legs

Ready to climb out from under concrete
Only I get to be sickened by me
My body a smudge
Can't make out the details
Want to start over and come into being

Exhume our idols and Bury Our Friends
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
We're sick with worry
These nerve less days
We live on dread in our own guilded age

This dark world is precious to me
My scars make me breathe in so deep
My body has no need for sleep
This time around

Ready to find fragments of stillness
Only I get to be punished by me
Your voice is a crumb, it leads me from the wildness
Wanna start over, forget everything

Exhume our idols and bury our friends
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
We're sick with worry
These nerve less days
We live on dread in our own guilded age

Make me a headline
I wanna be that bold
Make me a spotlight
So I can see the gold

Make me a headline
I wanna feel that bold
Make me a spotlight
So I can see the gold

Exhume our idols and bury our friends
We're wild and weary but we won't give in
We're sick with worry
These nerve less days
We live on dread in our own guilded age

We speak in circles
We dance in code
Untame and hungry
On fire in the cold
Exhume our idols and bury our friends
We're wild and weary but we won't give in

Writer/s: CORIN LISA TUCKER, CARRIE RACHEL BROWNSTEIN, JANET LEE WEISS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This sledgehammer of a rock song finds Sleater-Kinney insisting "We're wild and weary but we won't give in!" Guitarist and co-vocalist Carrie Brownstein explained during an interview with NPR that the track was about, "trying to posit yourself — your body or your mind — into a space that is... assured, and safe, and sort of rejecting criticism."

The Rolling Stones - Flight 505

The Rolling Stones - Flight 505 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Aftermath
Released: 1966

Flight 505 Lyrics

Well, I was happy here at home
I got everything I need.
Happy bein' on my own
Just living the life I lead.

Well, suddenly it dawned on me
That this was not my life.
So I just phoned the airline girl
And said, "Get me on flight number 505,
Get me on flight number 505."

Well, I confirmed my reservation.
Then I hopped a cab.
No idea of my destination
And feeling pretty bad.

With my suitcase in my hand.
In my head, my new life.
So then I told the airline girl
"Well, get me on flight number 505,
Get me on flight number 505."
Alright.

Well, I sat right there in my seat.
Well, feeling like a king.
With the whole world right at my feet.
"Of course I'll have a drink!"

Well, suddenly I saw
That we never ever would arrive.
He put the plane down in the sea.
The end of flight number 505.
The end of flight number 505.
Alright.

Whew, they put the plane down in the sea.
The end of flight number 505.
The end of flight number 505.

Writer/s: JAGGER, MICK / RICHARDS, KEITH
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
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The common misinterpretation of this song is that Flight 505 was the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper in 1959, but this is not true. It is not officially confirmed by a news source that the plane crash of "The Day the Music Died" was actually flight #505. In any case, the lyrics to this Rolling Stones song have the line "He put the plane down in the sea," which of course, couldn't mean the Holly/Valens/Bopper crash that happened on dry land in Mason City, Iowa in 1959:

• Here is a fact page on the crash site, dry land, no sea.
• Here is the full text of the Civil Aeronautics Board Aircraft Accident Report on the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, loaded with minute details down to tachometer readings and altimeter settings, and there's no flight number mentioned there either.
• In any case, a flight heading from Mason City, Iowa, to Moorhead, Minnesota would have been a northbound flight, and northbound flights are traditionally assigned even numbers.
• Finally, this was a private chartered flight, not a commercial flight. So it's unlikely that an official flight number would have been assigned. Sometimes small aircraft use their plane's serial ID for the flight number; in this case, the plane's ID ("tail number") was "N3794N."

Crosby & Nash - Take the Money and Run

Crosby & Nash - Take the Money and Run Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wind on the Water
Released: 1975

Take the Money and Run Lyrics

Take the Money and Run
Like a thief across a neighbor's yard
Take the money and run
Like a ghost out in the night.

Take the money and run
'Cause you found out that it wasn't hard
To take the money and run
Because you were out of sight.

You cannot tell me any more lies
You cannot pull the wool over my eyes
Take the money and run
Take the money and run

'Cause the summer sun is sinking down
Take the money and run
'Cause the four winds may not blow
Take the money and run

'Cause the verdict has been handed down
Take the money and run
Because there's no place left to go.
You cannot give me any more time.

You've already taken too much of mine
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Like a thief across a neighbor's yard

Take the money and run
Like a dog out in the night
Take the money and run
Because you found out that it wasn't hard

To take the money and run
Because you were out of sight.
You cannot give me any more time.
You've already taken too much of mine

Take the money and run

Writer/s: NASH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Written by Graham Nash, this was the second single released from Crosby & Nash's second studio album. Not be confused with the Steve Miller Band's song of the same name, this was inspired by the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion tour in the summer of 1974.

Production engineer Don Gooch explained the meaning of this song in Johnny Rogan's Complete Guide To The Music of CSN&Y: "Basically enjoy the music for what it is and if you can relate to it from your own personal experiences, do so. As for 'Take the Money,' it is basically about managers in general and people who don't give a damn about anything but the money. Those people think that money is the 'end,' when it should be a 'means to an end.' If you knew the horror stories behind that [CSNY 1974] tour you would have a complete understanding of the song but I am sure if you use your imagination in your own life experiences, it will apply and become clear to you also. Most songs are based on personal experiences (good or bad) and while the exact experiences is personal it also will apply in some form to each individuals experiences in the same areas." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

Oasis - Live Forever

Oasis - Live Forever Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Definitely Maybe
Released: 1994

Live Forever Lyrics

Maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows cos I just want to fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain?
In the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone

Maybe I just want to fly I want to live I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breathe maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me we see things they'll never see you and I
were gonna Live Forever

I said maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows cos I just want to fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain?
In the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone

Maybe I will never be all the things that I want to be
But now is not the time to cry now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me we see things they'll never see you and I
We're gonna live forever

Maybe I don't really wanna know
How your garden grows cos I just want to fly
Lately, did you ever feel the pain?
In the morning rain as it soaks you to the bone

Maybe I just want to fly I want to live I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breathe maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me we see things they'll never see you and I
You and I are gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever

Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Gonna live forever

Writer/s: GALLAGHER, NOEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Noel Gallagher started writing this song when he was a roadie for The Inspiral Carpets. It helped convince his brother Liam to let him join his band, Oasis.

The melody is based on The Rolling Stones' "Shine A Light" from Exile on Main St. The part Noel took was from the chorus: "May the good Lord Shine a Light on you." Noel wrote it in his flat in Manchester using the melody from the song. He took it to the band and they rehearsed it once and played it that night at a gig. (thanks, Nick - Southampton, England)

This is one of the most enduring songs in Britain, but it was never a hit in America. Oasis never came close to matching their UK success in the States.

The lyrics are partly a tribute to Gallagher's mother. She was an avid gardener, and her garden is mentioned in the song.

Some of the video was shot in New York's Central Park.

This was voted Oasis's best song in a poll taken on the band's official website. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)

On the cover of the CD single is John Lennon's childhood home, 251 Menlove Avenue. It was bought by Yoko Ono who donated it to the National Trust. (thanks, Connagh - London, England)

According to Q magazine, the opening couplet, "Maybe I don't really want to know/ How your garden grows" was inspired by Gallagher's childhood memories of waiting around, bored, on his parents' allotment.

Liam Gallagher told Q magazine October 2008 that this is his favorite Oasis song. He explained: "I think the words still mean something powerful. You talk about Oasis capturing a spirit, and I think that song is how a lot of people feel when they're down on their luck. I think I first heard it in the Boardwalk in Manchester when our kid (Noel Gallagher) was trying it out. Even when we're starting it now I always feel like we're going to perform our best version of it. It makes me think of me mam. And it's the song that makes me feel I have the best job in the band. I may not have written it but I get to sing it. It's weird cos it's outlasted other tunes."

Noel Gallagher seems to be pretty proud of this tune. He told Q magazine in 2011: "With every song that I write, I compare it to The Beatles. I've got semi-close once or twice, with 'Live Forever,' for example... the solo on that is one of the greatest things in rock music."

Co-producer Owen Morris also mixed Definitely Maybe. He recalled to Q magazine: "When Noel's solo on Live Forever goes high on the second half, all I could think of was Slash in leather keks with a wind machine on the Grand Canyon. So I muted it and thought I was making it cooler. I had a message from Noel not to cut it in half on the final mix."

This was recorded in Clear Studios at Manchester, England. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Noel Gallagher told NME May 11, 2013 how this was inspired by a Nirvana B-side. "It was written in the middle of grunge," he explained, "and Nirvana had a tune called 'I Hate Myself And I Want To Die.' I was like, 'I'm not f--king having that,' Kids don't need to hear that nonsense. Here was a guy who had everything and was miserable about it. We had f--k all, and I still thought getting up in the morning was the greatest f--king ever."

Noel took a shot at his brother's high-pitched vocals on this song during his commentary for the 2010 box set, Time Flies. "Yeah, matey boy soon gave up singing the falsetto bit after that," recalled the Oasis guitarist. "I think he thought he was a bit gay, though there's nothing wrong with being gay, obviously."

Noel Gallagher said during a Reddit AMA that he never had a life goal until he penned this song. "Where I came from, and the times that I grew up in, it was best not to have any ambitions. It was quite a bleak time," he said. "I never had a life goal until I wrote 'Live Forever.' And then when I wrote 'Live Forever,' I wanted to be in the biggest band in the world."

In an interview with Daniel Rachel (The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters), Noel said the line "the brains I had went to my head" was inspired by the antics he and his friend would get into that nobody else could understand, like driving all night in the rain to go to discos, get drunk, and sleep in bus shelters. "It was like a thing between me and him; they don't get it, we get it," he said.

The Specials - The Boiler

The Specials - The Boiler Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: released as a single
Released: 1982

The Boiler Lyrics

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This disturbing song describes a rape in stark detail from the victim's perspective. The vocals are spoken by Rhoda Dakar, who tells the story of going on a date that goes horribly wrong, ending with her being assaulted in an alleyway.

She feels like "an old boiler" when this guy asks her out. She accepts, and all goes well until she makes the mistake of following him after rejecting his advances.

This song would have been controversial in any case, but was even more so due to an unfortunate juxtaposition with a real rape case.

At Ipswich Crown Court on January 5, 1982, a businessman named John Allen was convicted of the rape of a teenage hitchhiker. Allen had pleaded not guilty, but after the victim broke down in court he changed his plea. In sentencing him, Judge Bertrand Richards said the girl had been "guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence." Then he fined him £2,000. Unsurprisingly the judge's words and the extraordinary sentence caused outrage.

Later that month, Rhoda Dakar was interviewed in New Musical Express by Adrian Thrills. In the article The reality of rape that they're trying to ban, the single was said to have been "uncannily timed."

The song was played on Radio One but was dropped from the playlist; the station denied it had been banned, but that is arguable.

According to Dakar, the song emerged from a jam but was not written deliberately to shock or (thankfully) from personal experience. It features some haunting keyboard work, and was certainly one of the most original releases of the year. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2)

The Specials were going through a transition when this song was released, with Dakar a recent addition as a lead vocalist (she had sung backup with the band). It was credited to "Rhoda with The Special AKA featuring Nicky Summers."

Summers and Dakar were members of the all-female group The Bodysnatchers, which like The Specials, were signed to the 2 Tone label. When The Bodysnatchers split up, they teamed up with Specials members Dick Cuthell (cornet), John Shipley (guitar), and John Bradbury (drums) to record this track, which they had been working on in their former group (the single notes: "Based on an original idea by The Bodysnatchers").

Jerry Dammers of The Specials produced the track and played organ; Summers played bass. The songwriting credits go to Dammers and the members of The Bodysnatchers.

The Rolling Stones - Lady Jane

The Rolling Stones - Lady Jane Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Aftermath
Released: 1966

Lady Jane Lyrics

My sweet Lady Jane
When I see you again
Your servant am I
And will humbly remain
Just heed this plea, my love
On bended knees my love
I pledge myself to lady Jane

My dear lady Anne
I've done what I can
I must take my leave
For promised I am
This play is run, my love
Your time has come, my love
I pledge my troth to lady Jane

Oh, my sweet Marie
I wait at your ease
The sands have run out
For your lady and me
Wedlock is nigh my love
Her station's right my love
Life is secure with Lady Jane

Writer/s: RICHARDS, KEITH / JAGGER, MICK
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
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This might be about Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. She was one of the few wives not executed, but died at childbirth while bearing his only son. Another possibility is that it's about Jane Ormsby-Gore, a British woman Mick Jagger was involved with.

Brian Jones, who was The Stones guitarist until his death in 1969, played the dulcimer, an instrument you play on your lap by plucking or strumming the strings. Jones could learn just about any instrument very quickly. He had just recently learned how to play it when they recorded this.

Keith Richards: "Brian was getting into dulcimer then because he dug Richard Farina. We were also listening to a lot of Appalachian music then too. To me, Lady Jane is very Elizabethan. There are a few places in England where people still speak that way, Chaucer English."

Mick Jagger: "Lady Jane is a complete sort of very weird song. I don't really know what that's all about myself. All the names are historical but it was really unconscious that they should fit together from the same period." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)

Jack Nitzsche played the harpsichord, which gave this an Elizabethan feel. Nitzsche was a prolific keyboard player and producer. He died in 2000 at 63.

This was left off the US version of Aftermath. It was on the Flowers compilation.

This was the basis for the Neil Young song "Borrowed Tune," which appears on his Tonight's The Night album. He sings the lyric, "I'm singin' this borrowed tune I took from the Rolling Stones." (thanks, John - UK, England)

Chip Monck, who handled lighting and production duties for the Stones in the late '60s and early '70s, often played an instrumental version of this song over the sound system after the band left the stage. He said it was "like a madrigal, really. Have a good evening, get home safely, we look forward to seeing you the next time around."

Who Cares? - Doctor In Distress

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Album: released as a single
Released: 1985

Doctor In Distress Lyrics

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The long-running BBC cult TV series Doctor Who is one of the most popular in the world, and charity singles have often had a big appeal. Put the two of them together and you get... something that is probably best forgotten.

Doctor Who was first seen on UK TV in 1963, but by 1985 there were signs that it had run its course, and the BBC suspended production for a year. This led to the recording of "Doctor In Distress." Written by Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench, it was recorded by sundry performers including comedienne Faith Brown and singer-songwriter Jona Lewie under the obvious pun Who Cares?

Released on the Radio Shack label March 1985 in both 7-inch and 12-inch formats, the latter runs to 6 minutes and is backed by an instrumental version that runs to 6 minutes 28 seconds. Profits went to Cancer Relief. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2)