Songs Lyrics and YT- Youtube Music Videos

Melanie - What Have They Done to My Song, Ma

Melanie - What Have They Done to My Song, Ma Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Candles in the Rain
Released: 1970

What Have They Done to My Song, Ma Lyrics

Look what they done to my song ma
Look what they done to my song
Well it's the only thing
That I could do half right
And it's turning out all wrong ma
Look what they done to my song

Look what they done to my brain ma
Look what they done to my brain
Well they picked it like a chicken bone
And I think I'm half insane ma
Look what they done to my song

Wish I could find a good book to live in
Wish I could find a good book
Well if I could find a real good book
I'd never have to come out and look at
What they done to my song

La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la

Look what they done to my song
But maybe it'll all be alright ma
Maybe it'll all be okay
Well if the people are buying tears
I'll be rich someday ma
Look what they done to my song

Ils ont change ma chanson, ma
Ils ont change ma chanson
Look what they done to my song ma
Look what they done to my song ma
Well they tied it up in a plastic bag
And turned it upside down ma
Look what they done to my song

C'est la seule chose que je peux faire
Et ce n'est pas bon, ma.
Ils ont change ma chanson.
Look what they done to my song ma
Look what they done to my song
It's the only thing I could do alright
And they turned it upside down
Oh ma
Look what they done to my song

Writer/s: MELANIE SAFKA
Publisher: CARLIN AMERICA INC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

What Have They Done to My Song, Ma Song Chart

This folk-pop broadside against the music business was written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Melanie for her Candles in the Rain album. Released as a single in Europe, it was a Top 40 hit in the UK, France and Norway.

The New Seekers released a cover as "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma," which peaked at #14 in the US and #44 in the UK. Ray Charles, Nina Simone and Billie Jo Spears have also all recorded versions of the tune.

The song was rewritten for a 1980s commercial for General Mills Raisin Crisp Oatmeal with the words "Look what they've done to my oatmeal."

In October 2012 Miley Cyrus released a video of her own acoustic version of the song . The Wrecking Ball songstress re-recorded the tune two years later for the movie satire Free the Nipple. Her rendition was produced by Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes of the Australian dance duo Pnau. According to Melanie it only took two takes for Cyrus to nail the recording.

Free the Nipple director Lina Esco described Cyrus' version to Variety as "more rock 'n' roll… It's very Johnny Cash. Her voice is so raw, and the song is so raw."

U2 - Kite

U2 - Kite Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Released: 2000

Kite Lyrics

Something is about to give
I can feel it coming
I think I know what it means
I'm not afraid to die
I'm not afraid to live
And when I'm flat on my back
I hope to feel like I did

And hardness, it sets in
You need some protection
The thinner the skin

I want you to know
That you don't need me anymore
I want you to know
You don't need anyone or anything at all

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know which way the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time's come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

In summer I can taste the salt in the sea
There's a Kite blowing out of control on a breeze
I wonder what's gonna happen to you
You wonder what has happened to me

I'm a man, I'm not a child
A man who sees
The shadow behind your eyes

Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to say what it is will break you
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time's come around
Don't want to see you cry
I know that this is not goodbye

Did I waste it?
Not so much I couldn't taste it
Life should be fragrant
Roof top to the basement
The last of the rock stars
When hip hop drove the big cars
In the time when new media
Was the big idea
That was the big idea

Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Kite Song Chart

Bono wrote this after flying a kite with his 2 daughters. Being a rock star, Bono was not used to flying kites. It crashed and they went home to play video games.

Bono wrote this for his father, Bob Hewson, who died of cancer on August 21, 2001. U2 played a concert in London a few hours after his death and Bono dedicated this to him.

The Edge considers this his favorite song on the album. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Bono also mentioned that "Kite" was his favorite song on the CD. He also referenced the death of Michael Hutchence, former singer for INXS while discussing the song. (thanks, Aziz Valika - Chicago, IL)

On the the Elevation tour of 2001, Bono said this was "about saying goodbye to somebody you don't want to say goodbye to." (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA)

Nicki Minaj - The Crying Game

Nicki Minaj - The Crying Game Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Pinkprint
Released: 2014

The Crying Game Lyrics

Here we go again, it's the game we love
Sheets all over the floor and they laced with drugs
You ain't play your cards right, you had the Ace of Clubs
Hit you with the Ace of Spade, in your face, and shrugged
Blood drippin' out your arm on my Asian rugs
We was just planning a wedding, caught cagin' doves
You was just tellin' your mans, that you hate the clubs
Now we in The Crying Game, heart laced with slugs

Are you alone?
Do you need someone?
Is it too late to talk?
Did I wait too long?
Thousand words don't change a thing
Is it only three?
Three words that you're missing?

Where did you go?
Couldn't see
I was too busy
Could've just said no
Where would you go?
I think I know

Who?
We're back to playing
We're back to playing
Who?
We're back to playing
The crying game

I could've given everything
Don't wanna let the tears begin
We're back to playing
The crying game
I could've given everything
Don't wanna let the tears begin
We're back to playing
The crying game

Welcome to the crying game where you lose your soul
Where it ain't no easy cash, you got to use the toll
Ain't no cruise control, you 'bout to lose control
Ain't no smilin' faces here, we slammin' doors and dishes
Sayin' we don't miss each other, but it's all fictitious
Sayin' that we had enough, but enough of what?
Another slap to the face, another uppercut
I'm just abusive by nature, not cause I hate ya
Not cause I wanna, guess I wanna imitate ya
I know it's hard, I know I intimidate ya
But is you stayin' or goin'?
I couldn't breathe and you ain't even know it
How come you never show it?
All this love you speak of
All I want is to love and to be loved
(To love and to be loved)

I'm losin' a thing I thought I'd win
And I'm coming undone
Cause the tears don't end

Where did you go?
Couldn't see
I was too busy
Could've just said no
Where would you go?
I think I know

Who?
We're back to playing
We're back to playing
Who?
We're back to playing
The crying game

I could've given everything
Don't wanna let the tears begin
We're back to playing
The crying game
I could've given everything
Don't wanna let the tears begin
We're back to playing
The crying game

Who?
Who?
Who?
Who?

Writer/s: MOSTYN, STEVE / WANSEL, ANDREW / MARAJ, ONIKA / WARE, JESSIE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The Crying Game Song Chart

Minaj wrote the lyric to this song about her ex-boyfriend Safaree Samuels. The couple had an 11-year relationship, and according to Minaj he wanted to get married, but she wanted to hold off.

Both Minaj and Samuels blame her rise to fame as a catalyst for their split, but for different reasons: Samuels says she started treating him like an employee, and Minaj says he changed when she became so successful.

"This business changed people that I really loved, and it's scary," Minaj said. "They start worshiping material things and forget about good, old-fashioned things like love and trust."

In the song, Minaj acknowledges she is partly to blame for it not working out: "I'm just abusive by nature, not cause I hate ya."

This song features a vocal contribution by Jessie Ware. It marks the first time the Trinidadian rapper and British singer have teamed up.

This shares its title with a 1992 movie and also its theme song, which was a hit for Boy George.

The production duo Pop & Oak sent Minaj the song's demo with Jessie Ware singing. The rapper asked Beyoncé to sing on it but they decided on "Feeling Myself" instead. "There was something so haunting about Jessie Ware's voice," Minaj said. "It had both (ex-boyfriend) Safaree and I in a trance for days."

Minaj didn't anticipate writing deeply personal tracks like this one when she set to work on The Pinkprint, but the album ended up being "an emotional roller coaster" for the singer, chronicling her real life ups and downs. "Brokenness leads to art sometimes, and I was really really broken writing this," she said of "The Crying Game."

The Rolling Stones - Love Is Strong

The Rolling Stones - Love Is Strong Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Voodoo Lounge
Released: 1994

Love Is Strong Lyrics

Love Is Strong Song Chart

This was the first Stones single bass player Bill Wyman did not play on. Darryl Jones, who had played with Miles Davis and Sting, took over on bass when Wyman quit.

The video was directed by David Fincher, whose films include Se7en and The Social Network. The clip contains stunning visual effects, which were done at the Digital Domain studio and supervised by Fred Raimondi. Done in black-and-white, we see the band as giants stomping through New York City like Godzilla going through Tokyo - an image that was used in much of the promotional material for the Voodoo Lounge tour.

In later years, the size-disparity effect would become commonplace, but it was no easy feat in 1994, when such attempts usually ended up looking like the Beastie Boys clip for "Intergalactic." Using advanced compositing techniques, Fincher and Raimondi were able to place the human figures in the setting with an uncanny realism, using camera moves to keep it interesting. The video won the MTV award for Best Special Effects.

R&B producer Teddy Riley cut 4 mixes of this for a CD sampler.

This was the first single from Voodoo Lounge. The album won the first ever Grammy for Best Rock Album. It was the first album The Stones recorded without Bill Wyman, a founding member of the band. It was also the Stones' first release on Virgin Records. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Nicki Minaj - Buy a Heart

Nicki Minaj - Buy a Heart Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Pinkprint
Released: 2014

Buy a Heart Lyrics

[Verse 1: Meek Mill]
Anybody wanna Buy a Heart?
Anybody wanna buy a heart?
Anybody wanna buy a heart?
Cause I don't use the shit anyway
But okay, I guess it's my fault
Westside shorty, with an eastside nigga
They say it's levels to this shit, I'm a G5 nigga
And every city I be in, you know she fly with us
It's like Hov got Bey, it's like Bey got Jigga
Really though let me take y'all back
'09, double R drop top with the top down
Pulled up, double parked, hopped out, tried to spit my game
It didn't work, got shot down
But I can tell by the bag, by the wrist, by the ring on that
Somebody had it on lockdown
The moral of the story not to speak on that
She on the team, shorty mine now
And we don't ever ever ever make love
And we don't ever ever ever say "love"
Unless I'm all up in it, she tellin' me she love that D on that, I don't ever say uh
Bad bitch, ain't nothin' made up
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy
The heart from a real one from Philly reppin' that north side?

[Hook: Meek Mill & (Nicki Minaj)]
Anybody? Anybody?
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy a heart?
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy love?
(Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy a heart?
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy trust)
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy a heart?
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy love?
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy?
Anybody, anybody, anybody wanna buy love?

[Verse 2: Nicki Minaj]
Rahmeek, I'mma have to tell the truth if I speak
Unless you want to play, you ain't say this the other day
You said you was in love, and I still didn't budge
Cause I already seen how you be going in when you be in them clubs
(I'm not even sure if this is right but, it feels good)
I could tell you was analyzing me, I could tell you was criticizing me
I could tell you was fantasizing that you would come slide in me and confide in me
He could tell that I was wifey material
He was liking my style in my videos
I wasn't looking for love I was looking for a buzz
So at times I would lie and say I'm busy, yo
Cause it's too much, and it's too clutch
Who wants rumors of the two of us
But when you're away I can't get you out of my mind
But what if I met the one and your wasting your time
But you waited

[Hook]

[Outro: Nicki Minaj]
It's a heart for sale who's buying
I don't care who's crying
It's trust for sale who's buying
I don't care who's lying

Writer/s: BROTHERS JR., KERRY / GRAHAM, AUBREY / AUGELLO-COOK, ALICIA / JANTUNEN, EDWIN / MARAJ, ONIKA / WILLIAMS, ROBERT / WARD, CHRISTIAN / SHEBIB, NOAH / REDMAN, ARMOND
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Buy a Heart Song Chart

This slow tempo love number features Meek Mill. The MMG rapper originally recorded his rhymes for singer K. Michelle's Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart album. However, despite titling the record after the track, she didn't use it, so he passed his song onto Minaj instead.

Meek Mill was serving a jail sentence for violating his probation during the recording of The Pinkprint, so he was unable to contribute any fresh rhymes. Minaj addressed their collaboration during an interview with Power 106's 'Big Boy's Neighborhood' in Los Angeles. "He had his people send me both of those songs for The Pinkprint… because he thought he was going to be home in time [from jail] to be on 'Favorite,'" she said. "When he realized he wasn't, his people reached out and said, 'You know Meek wants to give you a couple songs to choose from. He sent me five songs and I chose 'Buy a Heart' and 'Big Daddy.'"

Chicago producer Arch tha Boss (Driicky Graham's "Snapbacks & Tattoos," Nipsey Hussle's "10 Toes") supplied the beat. His instrumental samples Henry Krinkle's "Stay" and Alicia Keys' "Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)."

The Breeders - Little Fury

The Breeders - Little Fury Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Title TK
Released: 2002

Little Fury Lyrics

Round up, holler girl
Ah, I will sing
Title TK
If I don't black out

Dumb made for fucking
And missing from the party
That boy spun out
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got

While Xenia twists up, the sky
Akron flakes out
Grindcore Little Fury
(I feel hot tire)

Why is it floating in my beer
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got

My big drum
On your big face
The one-eyed jazz
As hickeys fade, fade

Round up, holler girl
We'll all need bigger uniforms
It's been a few days
And I know I will have spun out
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got

My big drum
On your big face
The one-eyed jazz
As hickeys fade, fade

Grindcore little fury
If I don't black out

Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Hold what you've got
Writer/s: Deal, Kim / Deal, Kelley / Presley, Richard / Medeles, Jose / Lopez, Jose
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Little Fury Song Chart

The title comes from the little switchblades that say "Fury" on them. Many truck stops sell them.

Title TK was the first Breeders album since 1993. The "TK" in the album is a reference to journalism shorthand for "To Come."

Vocals on this song are shared by Kim and Kelley Deal, who are twin sisters.

This was produced by Steve Albini, who had worked with The Breeders in the past, as well as Nirvana, The Pixies, Bush, and Nine Inch Nails.

Nicki Minaj - The Night Is Still Young

Nicki Minaj - The Night Is Still Young Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Pinkprint
Released: 2014

The Night Is Still Young Lyrics

Yo, ayo tonight is the night that I'ma get twisted
Myx Moscato and vodka, I'ma mix it
Roll that spaceship, we about to get lifted
Lift and the President gift is for the gifted
This what you came, this what you came for
You get what you buy, this what you paid for
So make sure the stars is what you aim for
Make mistakes though

I never worry, life is a journey
I just wanna enjoy the ride
What is the hurry? It's pretty early
It's ok, we'll take our time

The Night Is Still Young
The night is still young
The night is still young
And so are we

The night is still young
The night is still young
The night is still young
And so are we

Ayo, drinks on you or the drinks is on me
We ain't going nowhere like tanks on E
We still getting money, which bank is it gonna be?
If he sexy, he planking on me
So when them big boys want all of that
Tell the bartender, say my order back
It's bottle service, he ordered that
Might let him take it home and slaughter that
He got friends for all of my friends
They ain't leaving 'till we say when
And we gon' hangover the next day
But we will remember this day
So drop the pop and get low
Or we can drop the top and just cruise
We fresh to death, down to the shoes
My only motto in life is don't lose

I never worry, life is a journey
I just wanna enjoy the ride
What is the hurry? It's pretty early
It's ok, we'll take our time

The night is still young
The night is still young
The night is still young
And so are we

The night is still young
The night is still young
The night is still young
And so are we

We're just getting started, yeah, yeah
We're just getting started, yeah, yeah
Can't you see the night's still early
And we gon' get wild and crazy

We're just getting started, yeah, yeah
We're just getting started, yeah, yeah
Can't you see the night's still early
And we gon' get wild and crazy

The night is still young
The night is still young
The night is still young
And so are we

The night is still young
The night is still young
The night is still young
And so are we

Writer/s: JOEL, BILLY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The Night Is Still Young Song Chart

This dance-pop track is a collaboration with Dr. Luke, one of five songs that the American hitmaker contributed towards The Pinkprint.

When Minaj was asked to describe the song in one word during a Twitter Q&A, she actually replied with four - "makes me come alive."

Minaj told Complex that The Pinkprint was inspired after Jay Z's 2001 album The Blueprint, but just the name. "People keep asking me about Jay's The Blueprint and they think I'm doing something like that," said Young Money's First Lady. "I made reference to the 'The Blueprint' because Jay is the biggest rapper of our time. The name of the album was inspired by Jay, but not the body of work."

The song's music video shows Nicki Minaj enjoying the night and showcasing some choreographed dancing under a gigantic glowing moon. The clip shares certain similarities with Minaj's "Super Bass" - in both instances she's showcasing pink wigs, neon costumes and tight dance moves.

The Rolling Stones - Almost Hear You Sigh

The Rolling Stones - Almost Hear You Sigh Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Steel Wheels
Released: 1989

Almost Hear You Sigh Lyrics

I can Almost Hear You Sigh
I can almost hear you cry
On every crowded street
All the places we would meet

What will I do without ya
They say that life goes on
I'm feeling sorry for myself
I can't believe you're gone

And you acted much too calm
You turned on all the charm
You had a cold look in your eyes

I can feel your tongue on mine
Silky smooth like wine
I'm living with these memories
That's all that's left of you and me

I can almost hear you sigh
Almost hear you cry
When you made sweet love to me
And you turned on all the charm
Acted much too calm
You had a cold look in your eyes

Did it mean nothing
Was it all in vain
Was I just your fool
Or was the pleasure pain

Have you set me free
Or will I wake up
In the morning
And find out it's been a bad dream

Come on, I beg you
I want to be your main man

I can almost hear you sigh
Almost hear you cry
When you make sweet love to me
Almost see your smile
It stretched half a mile
You had a stone cold look in your eyes

Writer/s: KEITH RICHARDS, STEPHEN K JORDAN, MICHAEL PHILLIP JAGGER
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Almost Hear You Sigh Song Chart

Keith Richards wrote this with drummer Steve Jordan for his solo album Talk Is Cheap. He decided to record it with The Stones after Mick Jagger changed some of the lyrics when he and Richards met in Barbados to write for Steel Wheels in 1989.

Jagger's brother, Chris, helped with the lyrics, which are about a difficult breakup. He is credited as "Literary Editor."

Papa Roach - Broken As Me

Papa Roach - Broken As Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: F.E.A.R.
Released: 2014

Broken As Me Lyrics

You're Just as Broken As Me

Shut your mouth
'Cause I can see through the lies
We're only getting sicker
From the secrets we hide
Disaster is, a master is
We lie here burning in bed
But something tells me
I cannot kill someone new yet
I will knock you out, burn you today

I will forgive, forgive
'Cause I know that it will set me free
But all that's left is the emptiness inside of me
(my heart)
You murder my heart
Broke my just and watch me fade away
Now I see, now I see
That you're just as broken as me

You're just as broken as me

You always play the victim
And you just can't decide
If the vicious way we loved each other
Fucked up our lives
Well we're standing in the aftermath of emptiness is what's left
And if you really love me, will you love me to death

[?]

I will forgive, forgive
'Cause I know that it will set me free
But all that's left is the emptiness inside of me
You murder my heart
Broke my just and watch me fade away
Now I see, now I see
That you just as broken as me

Just as broken as
Just as broken as
Just as broken as
You're just as broken as me

[?]

I will forgive, forgive
'Cause I know that it will set me free
But all that's left is the emptiness inside of me
You murder my heart
Broke my just and watch me fade away
Now I see, now I see
That you just as broken as me

You're just as broken as me
You're just as broken as me
You're just as broken as me

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

Broken As Me Song Chart

Singer Jacoby Shaddix explained the song's meaning to Loudwire : "That's about forgiveness," he said, "when you don't want to forgive but you know it's the best thing to do."

The all-out rocker was the first track that Papa Roach recorded for their F.E.A.R. album. Shaddix described the song in a live Google+ Hangout session as, "just an exciting, rip-roaring rock, hard rock, heavy metal progressive, nutty assault of musical creativity."

Shaddix expanded on the song's message to Artist Direct : "If I walk around this world with all of these resentments, grudges, and this hatred, there's no freedom," he explained. "I'm in a prison of judgment. I've found that people who have wronged me, whether it be family members, people in this business, or past friends, I have to understand they're human and nobody's perfect. Maybe they have some demons they're dealing with or the same f--king problems I've got? It comes from that broken relationship. You're trying to mend it with some forgiveness."

The Rolling Stones - Rock And A Hard Place

The Rolling Stones - Rock And A Hard Place Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Steel Wheels
Released: 1989

Rock And A Hard Place Lyrics

The fields of Eden
Are full of trash
And if we beg and we borrow and steal
We'll never get it back
People are hungry
They crowd around
And the city gets bigger as the country comes begging to town

Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a Rock And A Hard Place

This talk of freedom
And human rights
Man's bullying and private wars and chucking all the dust into our eyes
And peasant people
Poorer than dirt
Who are caught in the crossfire with nothing to lose but their shirts, yeah

Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
You'd better stop, put on a kind face
Between a rock and a hard place

We're in the same boat
On the same sea
And we're sailing south
On the same breeze
Building dream churches
With silver spires
And our rogue children
Are playing loaded dice

Between a rock and a hard place
You'd better stop, yeah

Give me the truth now
Don't want no shame
I'd be hung drawn and quartered for a sheep just as well as a lamb

Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
A rock and a hard place
You'd better stop put on a kind face
Can't you see what you've done to me

Writer/s: LEE STOLLER, JIMMIE YOUNG
Publisher: CRISTY LANE MUSIC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Rock And A Hard Place Song Chart

This song was originally titled "Steel Wheels." They ended up using that as the name of the album, as it conveyed moving forward. The Stones launched their first tour in 8 years after releasing the album, and this was the second single, after "Mixed Emotions."

The title reflected the state of The Stones at the time. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had released solo albums and were feuding, but they put aside their differences to record Steel Wheels.

This was one of bass player Bill Wyman's last recordings as a member of The Stones. He left the band in 1992.

Ryan Adams - It's in My Head

Ryan Adams - It's in My Head Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Shadow
Released: 2015

It's in My Head Lyrics

You sleep at night in the deep
Eyes girdle and the fire cannot raise
In the dark, in the dark
In the dark when it's calm
Everybody's gettin' come along
In the day, you slip away

It's in My Head
It's in my head
It's in my head
To stay, to stay

We feed at night in the
I struggle to fight in the window pane
Evelyn was afraid, afraid of me
My face breaks flies and it shatters in the womb
In the day

It's in my head
It's in my head
It's in my head
To stay, to stay

It's in my head
It's in my head
It's in my head
To stay, to stay

Writer/s: RYAN ADAMS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

It's in My Head Song Chart

The B-side to "No Shadow,"' like the A-side this is a collaboration between Ryan Adams and Johnny Depp. Adams recalled: "The B side is from the first night we met where all we did was play and didn't say a word. This was the third thing we ever played together and there was no discussion. True rock and roll moments, as they should be, unfussy and delivered with all the heart and soul we had that night."

Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Released: 1968

I Heard It Through the Grapevine Lyrics

I bet you're wonderin' how I knew
'Bout your plans to make me blue
With some other guy you knew before
Between the two of us guys
You know I loved you more
It took me by surprise I must say
When I found out yesterday
Don't you know that I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine
Oh I'm just about to lose my mind

Honey, honey yeah.
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine baby

I know a man ain't supposed to cry
But these tears I can't hold inside
Losin' you would end my life you see
'Cause you mean that much to me
You could have told me yourself
That you loved some one else
Instead I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh, I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind

Honey, honey yeah
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine, baby

People say believe half of what you see
Son and none of what you hear
But I can't help but be confused
If it's true please tell me dear
Do you plan to let me go
For the other guy you loved before?

Don't you know I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine, baby yeah
I heard it through the grapevine
I'm just about to love my mind
Honey, honey, yeah
I heard it through the grapevine,
Not much longer would you be mine, baby yeah

Writer/s: WHITFIELD, NORMAN / STRONG, BARRETT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

I Heard It Through the Grapevine Song Chart

It seems like everyone in Motown heard about this song "through the grapevine" before it was finally recorded. The classic about a man who finds out his woman is cheating on him was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong. Strong came up with the idea and asked Motown writers Holland-Dozier-Holland to work on it with him. They refused to credit another writer, so Strong took it to Whitfield, who helped put it together. The song eventually became a Motown classic, but it had a rough start, as executives at the company thought it was too bluesy and lacked hit potential. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles were the first to record the song, but their version wasn't released until years later on an album called Special Occasion. The Isley Brothers then took a crack at it, but their version wasn't released. Whitfield and Strong then had Marvin Gaye record the song but still no luck: Motown head Berry Gordy chose Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Your Unchanging Love" over "Grapevine" as his next single. Finally, a new Motown act Gladys Knight and the Pips recorded the song as a gospel rocker. Their version was a hit, entering the Top 40 in November 1967 and going to #2 in America. Marvin Gaye's version was included on his 1968 album In The Groove (later re-titled I Heard It Through The Grapevine). After E. Rodney Jones, the Chicago disc jockey at WVON, started playing it on the air, Berry Gordy reconsidered and released Gaye's version as a single, which became even more popular and known as the definitive version of the song. Gaye's "Grapevine" pounded the charts about a year after Knight's, going to #1 in America on December 14, 1968.

With this heartbreaking tune about a man who finds out secondhand that his girl is cheating on him, Marvin Gaye wrung out the emotion in the song thanks to Norman Whitfield, who produced the track and gave him very specific instructions. Whitfield had Gaye sing slightly higher than his normal range, which created the strained vocal, and he made him do it over and over until he got it right. Gaye explained to NME: "I simply took direction, as I felt the direction he was expounding was a proper one. Had I done it myself I would not have sung it at all like that, but y'see there are many benefits in just singing other people's material and taking directions. The job of interpreting is quite an important one, because when people are not able to express what is in their souls if there is an artist who can... then I think that is very valuable."

Barrett Strong got the idea for the song when he was living in Chicago and heard lots of people using the phrase "I heard it through the grapevine." Said Strong, "Nobody wrote a song about it, so I sat at a piano and came up with the bass line." He took the song to Whitfield, who helped complete it. It was the first collaboration for the writers.

Along with "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone," Barrett Strong considers this the best song he wrote with Norman Whitfield. Other hits they wrote together include "Ain't Too Proud To Beg," "Just My Imagination," and "Money (That's What I Want)."

This is the longest running Motown #1 hit in the US, where it topped the Hot 100 chart for 7 weeks. It was a sensation in the UK as well, where it was #1 for 3 weeks.

This was Gaye's first #1 hit, and it made him a star. He already had 23 Top 40 hits by the time "Grapevine" was released, and was doing a lot of duets with Tammi Terrell, which were especially popular on the R&B charts. His next #1 came in 1973 with "Let's Get It On," and he had one more with "Got To Give It Up."

Creedence Clearwater Revival released an 11-minute version in 1970 for their Cosmo's Factory album; it was one of the few songs CCR recorded that they didn't write. Quite a contrast to many of the band's compact hits, it allowed them to spread out and jam. According to their drummer Doug Clifford, he was given free reign to create his drum parts off of John Fogerty's guitar. At times in the song, Fogerty would set up a rhythmic lead that Clifford would follow and at other points in the song, Fogerty follows a rhythm Clifford set up. In December, 1975, CCR's label Fantasy Records re-released the song as a single, which made it to #43 in the US. This release came in the middle of some heated legal battles between the band and the label, which resulted in John Fogerty taking a 10-year break from making music.

In 1987, this got new life when it was used in commercials for California Raisins, with claymation raisins performing the song. In addition to boosting raisin sales, the California Raisins became an '80s fad and were the most popular Halloween costume that year. Buddy Miles – known as the founding member of The Electric Flag and as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys – was the group's lead singer.

This is the only song that was a #1 R&B hit for three different artists. In addition to the Gladys Knight and the Pips and Marvin Gaye versions, Roger Troutman (recording as "Roger") took it to the top of the R&B charts with his 1981 version. Long before the Auto-Tune craze, Troutman used a Vocoder to create a kind of electro funk and had a hit with "More Bounce To The Ounce," recorded by his band Zapp. Troutman saw that three different artists had already hit with this song and needed something with recognizable lyrics to make it easy to understand through his Vocoder.

This song was prominently featured in the opening of the 1983 film The Big Chill as a group of friends learn the news about another friend's suicide. The soundtrack also boasts other Motown hits such as Gaye's "What's Going On"; The Temptations' "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud to Beg"; The Miracles' "I Second That Emotion" and "The Tracks Of My Tears"; The Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song"; The Marvelettes' "Too Many Fish in the Sea" and Martha and The Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street" (which was co-written by Gaye).

The original version of this song was presented for consideration at one of the famous Friday morning meetings help at the Motown offices where Berry Gordy would decide which songs to release as singles. Gordy usually went by staff vote, but even though "Grapevine" had the votes, he went instead with a song written by Holland-Dozier-Holland called "Your Unchanging Love." "I personally liked 'Grapevine' better," Gordy said in his autobiography. "But I felt the other record was more in the romantic vein of what Marvin needed."