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Pulp - The Trees

Pulp - The Trees Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: We Love Life
Released: 2001

The Trees Lyrics

I took an air-rifle, shot a magpie to the ground & it died without a sound.
Your skin so pale against the fallen Autumn leaves &
No-one saw us but the trees.

Yeah, the trees, those useless trees produce the air that I am breathing.
Yeah, the trees, those useless trees; they never said that you were leaving.

I carved your name with a heart just up above - now swollen,
Distorted, unrecognisable; like our love.
The smell of leaf mould & the sweetness of decay
Are the incense at the funeral procession here, today.
In the trees, those useless trees, etc.

You try to shape the world to what you want the world to be.
Carving your name a thousand times won't bring you back to me.
Oh no, no I might as well go & tell it to the trees.
Go & tell it to the trees, yeah.

Writer/s: MYERS, STANLEY/SHAPER, HAL/COCKER, JARVIS/MACKEY, STEVE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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"The Trees" is the other half of the double A-side released in October 2001 as a lead-up to the release of Pulp's then-latest album We Love Life - the other side was the track "Sunrise." The single as a whole charted at #23 in the UK.

Jarvis Cocker talks frankly about the song's genesis, noting that it was all spawned from a sample of the song "Tell Her You Love Her" by Stanley Myers and Hal Shaper. Said Cocker: "I'd had (that song) for about four or five years and wanted to write a song around it. I'd had loads of goes. We were getting to the end of the sessions, so we had one more go and we nailed it."

The initial lines of the lyrics explain how the narrator "took an air-rifle, shot a magpie to the ground and it died without a sound." Cocker was keen to explain that this was hardly an autobiographical reference: "I'd like to point out that I've never shot an animal with an air rifle! There was an air pistol at my granny's when I was growing up and I was allowed to play with it without any pellets in it. As soon as I got to an age where I might have wanted to go out and shoot creatures, it was hidden. So I've never shot even a magpie... even though they are one of my least favorite because they bully other birds and they spoil their nests and stuff like that. They're a bit of a pest actually."

The lyrics paint an evocative picture of lust and a dark surrounding of forests and woodland - this was specifically in order to paint a picture of the mysterious world between the trees where any number of things could end up happening. Cocker explains: "The idea of the lyrics in that song is just... the idea of the trees being there and all the kind of human dramas that could happen in a forest: people meeting for an illicit affair or whatever, like that. But the trees are impassive to that. And the way that people will carve their name on the bark of a tree, thinking that's some kind of mark of permanence in a relationship, but then you go back a year or two later and try and read it, it'll be all like [twisted], because the tree doesn't grow in a linear way."

U2 - A Day Without Me

U2 - A Day Without Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Boy
Released: 1980

A Day Without Me Lyrics

Starting a landslide in my ego
Look from the outside
To the world I left behind

I'm dreaming
You're awake
If I were sleeping
What's at stake
A day without me

Whatever the feelings
I keep feeling
What are the feelings
You left behind

Today's a day without me

I started a landslide in my ego
Look from the outside
To the world I left behind

In the world I left behind
Wipe their eyes, and then let go
To the world I left behind
Shed a tear, and then let go

Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Suicide and mental illness are the main themes of this song. Bono wrote the lyrics after hearing news that Ian Curtis had killed himself - the Joy Division lead singer died on May 17, 1980 at age 24. Bono also had a good friend who was institutionalized; he is the subject of the Boy track "The Electric Co.."

Island records had Steve Lillywhite produce this on a trial basis. If it worked out, which it did, Lillywhite would produce their first album. That began a successful collaboration, with Lillywhite working on U2's first 2 albums.

This was released as a single two months before appearing on Boy. It's one of U2's earliest songs.

The Edge ran his guitar through a cheap echo unit he bought.

Pulp - A Little Soul

Pulp - A Little Soul Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: This Is Hardcore
Released: 1998

A Little Soul Lyrics

Hey, man
How come you treat your woman so bad?
That's not the way you do it
No, no, no, you shouldn't do it like that
I could show you how to do it right
I used to practice every night on my wife, now she's gone
Yeah, she's gone
You see, her mother and me
We never got along that well, you see

I'd love to help you
But everybody's telling me you look like me
But please don't turn out like me, you look like me
But you're not like me I know
I had one, two, three,
Four shots of happiness, I look like a big man
But I've only got a little soul
I only got a little soul

Yeah, I wish I could be an example
Wish I could say I stood up for you
And fought for what was right
But I never did
I just wore my trenchcoat and stayed out every single night
You think I'm joking?
Try me
Try me
Yeah come on, try me tonight
I did what was wrong though I knew what was right
I've got no wisdom that I want to pass on
Just don't hang round here, no, I'm telling you son
You don't want to know me
Oh, that's just what everybody's telling me

And everybody's telling me you look like me
But please don't turn into me
You look like me
But you're not like me I hope
I have run away form the one thing that I ever made, now
Only wish that I could show you
Wish I could show a little soul
Wish I could show a little soul

Writer/s: COCKER, JARVIS BRANSON / BANKS, NICK / DOYLE, CANDIDA / MACKEY, STEPHEN PATRICK / WEBBER, MARK ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song had a strange release and shelf life, with the B-sides on the single release (which charted at #22 in the UK upon release in June 1998) seeming to have much more longevity and use than the original song. "Like A Friend" was used on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Great Expectations, with several music videos produced to promote it, as well as in the TV shows The Venture Bros and Daria. "Cocaine Socialism" surfaced as a full release on the 2006 re-issue of the This Is Hardcore album, as a "fully recorded version" - strangely it features almost identical music to album track "Glory Days," yet completely different lyrics.

Two versions of "A Little Soul" exist - the 'regular' version, sometimes known as 'Album Version,' and the 'Alternative Version,' which is a remix from Johnny Dollar of Massive Attack fame.

It's no secret that This Is Hardcore was not the exciting album that needed to follow 1995's smash hit Different Class, but despite the downbeat disillusioned feel of the album, some tracks like "A Little Soul" were singled out for praise - Select's review of the single concluded: "Though maybe not the invincible pop blast that Pulp might need to turn around the relative commercial failure of the This Is Hardcore album, 'A Little Soul' is plainly one of the less distressed songs on that album - a gorgeous mid-paced, Memphis-tinged imagined appeal to Jarv from his errant daddy. Other treats in the two-CD sales pitch include remixes by Kid Loco and former Massive Attack associate Johnny Dollar. Not to mention the new songs 'Like A Friend' (from the Great Expectations soundtrack) and 'Cocaine Socialism.' Could the latter possibly be about El Noeleo?"

U2 - Boy Girl

U2 - Boy Girl Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: U23
Released: 1979

Boy Girl Lyrics

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One of U2's first songs, they played this at many of their early shows. The song was included on U2's first release, U23, a single available only in Ireland in 1979 which also contained "Out Of Control" and "Stories For Boys." Now a collector's item, only 1000 copies were pressed. Unlike "Out Of Control" and "Stories For Boys," this song did not make it onto their first album, Boy.

The lyrics deal with bisexuality. It helped U2 gain a large gay following.

Pulp - Help The Aged

Pulp - Help The Aged Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: This Is Hardcore
Released: 1997

Help The Aged Lyrics

Help the aged,
One time they were just like you
Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue
Help the aged
Don't just put them in a home
Can't have much fun when they're all on their own
Give a hand, if you can
Try and help them to unwind
Give them hope and give them comfort
'Cause they're running out of time

In the meantime we try
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
No big deal, so give us all a feel
Funny how it all falls away
When did you first realize?
It's time you took an older lover, baby
Teach you stuff, although he's looking rough
Funny how it all falls away

Help the aged
'Cause one day you'll be older too
You might need someone who can pull you through
And if you look very hard
Behind those lines upon their face
You may see where you are headed
And it's such a lonely place, oh

In the meantime we try
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
No big deal so give us all a feel
Funny how it all falls away
When did you first realize?
It's time you took an older lover baby
Teach you stuff although he's looking rough
Funny how it all falls away

You can dye your hair but it's the one thing you can't change
Can't run away from yourself, yourself, yours-s-s-s-self

In the meantime we try
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
No big deal, so give us all a feel
Funny how it all falls away.
When did you first realize?
It's time you took an older lover, baby
Teach you stuff, although he's looking rough
Funny how it all falls away
Oh, it's funny how it all falls away
Funny how it all falls away
Oh, it's funny how it all, how it all falls away
So help the aged

Writer/s: COCKER, JARVIS BRANSON / BANKS, NICK / DOYLE, CANDIDA / MACKEY, STEPHEN PATRICK / WEBBER, MARK ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song was chosen as the lead single from 1998 album This Is Hardcore, and signposted the new direction the band took - one full of cynicism and loathing for the fame that had accompanied their breakthrough 1995 record Different Class.

It's one that surprised many who were expecting more upbeat tunes like "Common People," but one that Jarvis Cocker was keen to go in. Observer music critic Sean O'Hagan noted in a 2002 interview with Cocker that This Is Hardcore "cost Pulp a sizeable proportion of their post-Common People fan base," but Cocker in the same interview notes: "I weren't surprised in the slightest. Songs about panic attacks, pornography, fear of death and getting old are never gonna be top of the hit parade, are they? I wrote about my own life. Before that, it was me pottering about, picking up bits of information from wherever. Then it became very interior. Introspective. I don't think introspection is ever that healthy. In my experience, the more angst-ridden I've been, the worse the music is.'

Despite the dark tone of the song, "Help The Aged" still charted at #8 in the UK singles chart, making it the band's fifth consecutive Top 10 single.

In Seven Years of Plenty, Ben Thompson notes the dark themes of aging and death referenced in "Help The Aged": "Jarvis Cocker croons caringly, over a sparse piano accompaniment, 'One day they were just like you: drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue.' But this jaunty one-two is just softening us up for the death blow: 'If you look very hard behind the lines upon their face, you may see where you are heading and it's such a lonely place.'"

In an interview with Uncut in 1998, Cocker noted the problems faced with making a similarly dark video, particularly with reference to Stannah stairlifts: '"We had loads of trouble with that video because we weren't allowed to mention death; we'd got the Stannah stairlift people involved, and they didn't want their product associated with taking people off to heaven. So we had to pretend that they were going to this other planet, but they were actually passing over to the other side. I'm sure Stannah stairlifts don't actually kill people. They move too slow to run people over."

The B-side contains the track "Tommorow Never Lies," and yes, the reference to the similarly named James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies is entirely deliberate, for this song was originally set to be used as the theme tune to that film before being passed over in favor of Sheryl Crow's track.

Originally Pulp's track was also called "Tomorrow Never Dies" but was renamed to a working title for the film, with the very original version as submitted to the Bond producers (and named "Tomorrow Never Dies") surfacing on the bonus disc of the This Is Hardcore 2006 reissue.

U2 - Out Of Control

U2 - Out Of Control Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Boy
Released: 1980

Out Of Control Lyrics

Monday morning
Eighteen years of dawning
I say how long
You say how long

It was one dull morning
Woke the world with bawling
I was so sad (so sad)
It was so bad

I was of a feeling it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control

Boys and girls
Go to the school and girls
They make children
Not like this one

I was of a feeling it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control

I was of a feeling it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control

(Out of control)

(Out of control)

I fought fate
There's blood on the garden gate
The man said childhood
It's in his childhood

One day I'll die
The choice will not be mine
Will it be too late
You can't fight it

I was of a feeling it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control

Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bono (Hot Press, October 1979): "Out Of Control is about waking up on your eighteenth birthday and realizing that you're 18 years old and that the 2 most important decisions in your life have nothing to do with you - being born and dying." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This was included on U2's first release, U23, a single available only in Ireland in 1979 which also contained "Stories For Boys" and "Boy Girl." Only 1000 copies were pressed, making it a rare collector's item today.

This was chosen as the A-side of the single when an Irish disk-jockey asked listeners to choose among the 3 songs on U23.

Along with "Stories For Boys," this was one of 2 songs to make it on Boy from U23, which was only released in Ireland. The version on Boy was reworked by producer Steve Lillywhite.

Beyoncé - 7/11

Beyoncé - 7/11 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Beyoncé Platinum Edition
Released: 2014

7/11 Lyrics

Shoulders sideways, smack it, smack it in the air
Legs movin' side to side, smack it in the air
Legs movin' side to side, smack you in the air
Shoulders sideways, smack it, smack it in the air
Smack it, smack it in the air
Legs movin' side to side, smack it, smack it in the air
Smack it, smack it in the air

Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air
Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air
Clap, clap, clap like you don't care
Smack that, clap, clap, clap like you don't care
(I know you care)

Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap it
Foot up, my foot up
Hold up now my foot up
(I'm spinnin') I'm spinnin' my foot up
Foot up yeah my foot up
(I'm spinnin') I'm spinnin' my foot up
Put my foot down yeah my hands up
My hands up, my hands up
(Flexin') Flexin' while my hands up
My hands up, my hands up
I stand up with my hands up
Then I put up, my hands up
I put up, my hands up
I put up, my hands up
Then I'm spinnin' all my hands up
(Spinnin') Spinnin' while my hands up
(Spinnin') Spinnin' while my hands up
(Spinnin') Spinnin' while my hands up
Then I'm tippin' all my hands up
Spinnin', I'm spinnin', I'm spinnin' while my hands up
(Spinnin') I'm Spinnin', I'm spinnin', I'm spinnin' while my hands up
(Drank)

Oh let go like alcohol, oh let go like alcohol
Oh let go like alcohol
Don't you drop that alcohol
Never drop that alcohol, never drop that alcohol
I know you thinkin' bout alcohol
I know I'm thinkin' bout that alcohol

Man it feel like rollin' dice, man it feel like rollin' dice
Seven eleven, seven eleven, seven twice, man seven twice
Man it feel like rollin' dice, man this feel like rollin' dice
Man it feel like rollin' dice
Seven twice, seven twice
Girl I'm tryna kick it with you
Girl I'm tryna kick it with you
Man I'm tryna kick it with you
My feet up, I kick it with you
Man I swear I kick it with you
Girl I wanna kick it with you
Man I know I kick it with you
Yeah I spin' around and I kick it with you

Shoulders sideways, smack it, smack it in the air
Legs movin' side to side, smack it in the air
Legs movin' side to side, smack you in the air
Shoulders move side to side smack it in the air
Smack it in the air, smack it, smack it the in the air
Smack it in the air, smack it, smack it in the air

Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air
Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air
Clap, clap, clap like you don't care
Smack that, clap, clap, clap like you don't care
(I know you care)

Wave your hands side to side
Wave your hands side to side
Wave your hands side to side
Wave your hands side to side
Ooh we be be freaky deaky
Then you see she pink bikini
Rock out that booty out that dashiki
Never T.D. edges teeny
Sweatin' on my blow out
Sweatin' on my dress
This trick about to go off
Mad 'cause I'm so fresh
Fresher than you
I'm fresher than you
Fresher than you

Writer/s: Bruesch, Adrian / Fisher, Noel C / Knowles, Beyonce Gisselle
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This hip-hop club banger features Auto-Tuned rap-singing vocals by Beyoncé over Bobby Johnson and Detail's warped uptempo beat. It finds Mrs. Carter detailing her dance moves:

Wave your hands side to side, put it in the air
Clap, clap, clap like you don't care
Smack that, clap, clap, clap, like you don't care
(I know you care)

Beyoncé is encouraging girls to dance how they want with abandon.

Chicago rapper ACE B8gie recorded a track over the same beat before this song existed. His cut "Bird's Eye View" from The B8gie Foo' Blues EP, was also produced by Bobby Johnson.

The song's music video was shot in the style of a homemade visual with Beyoncé dancing and joking around in front of the camera. Did you spot the singer's daughter Blue Ivy Carter making a cameo appearance at 0:58 chilling on the bed?

U2 - An Cat Dubh

U2 - An Cat Dubh Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Boy
Released: 1980

An Cat Dubh Lyrics

Say goodnight
She waits for me to
Put out the light
Lay there still
She waits to break my will

Yes, if I know the truth about you

And in the daylight
A blackbird makes a violent sight
And when she is done
She sleeps beside the wild

Yes, If I know the truth about you

Writer/s: HEWSON, PAUL DAVID / EVANS, DAVE / CLAYTON, ADAM / MULLEN, LARRY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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"An Cat Dubh" is Gaelic for "The Black Cat." English is the common language in Ireland, but schoolchildren are also required to learn Gaelic. Bono failed it in high school.

Bono: "It's definitely about sex."

This is segued together with "Into The Heart" on Boy. They were always played together when performed live.

This is about a woman Bono had an affair with after a falling-out with his girlfriend, Ali. He married Ali in 1982.

Charli XCX - Breaking Up

Charli XCX - Breaking Up Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sucker
Released: 2014

Breaking Up Lyrics

You said you loved me (I say what)
You said you loved me (Okay let's rock)
You said you loved me (I say what)
You said you loved me (Okay let's rock)

You had an ugly tattoo, and fucking cheap perfume
You couldn't dance, barely moved, didn't know what to do
You had a friend in a band, but they're not that cool
You said you loved me (Okay let's rock)

Everything was wrong with you
So Breaking Up was easy to do
Hate your friends and your family too
So breaking up was easy to do
Breaking up! (Breaking up)
Breaking up! (Breaking up)

You said you loved me (I say what)
You said you loved me (Okay let's rock)
You said you loved me (I say what)
You said you loved me (Okay let's rock)

You tried to pull us apart and make a brand new start
You tryin'a drive me force me, didn't get very much
You said forever but baby I'm not so sure
You said you loved me (Okay, let's rock)

Everything was wrong with you
So breaking up was easy to do
Hated your friends and your family too
So breaking up was easy to do

Everything was wrong with you
So breaking up was easy to do
Hated your friends and your family too
So breaking up was easy to do

Breaking up!
Breaking up!
Breaking up!
Breaking up! (Oh)
Breaking up!

Writer/s: PARMENIUS, JONNALI / AITCHISON, CHARLOTTE / BERGER, PATRIK / KRUNEGARD, MARKUS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This slice of brat-pop finds Charli bashing her former lover. "That song is really brutal - every time I sing it I feel bad for everyone of my ex-boyfriends," she told NME.

"I feel like I'm making all the guys I ever dated cry," Charli added. "Which I kind of like."

Charli XCX said on Live From MTV that this jam was inspired by the Violent Femmes 1994 track "Breakin' Up."

U2 - I Will Follow

U2 - I Will Follow Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Boy
Released: 1980

I Will Follow Lyrics

I will follow

I was on the outside when you said
You said you needed me
I was looking at myself
I was blind, I could not see

A boy tries hard to be a man
His mother takes him by his hand
If he stops to think he starts to cry
Oh why

If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away, I will follow

If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away, I will follow, I will follow

I was on the inside
When they pulled the four walls down
I was looking through the window
I was lost, I am found

Walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away, I will follow
If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away, I will follow
I will follow

Your eyes make a circle
I see you when I go in there
Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes

If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away, I will follow

If you walk away, walk away
I walk away, walk away, I will follow

I will follow
I will follow
I will follow
I will follow
I will follow

Writer/s: B. HEWSON, L. MULLEN, A. CLAYTON, D. EVANS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bono's lyric was inspired by his mother, who died in 1974 when he was 14. Bono calls it "a song about unconditional love."

The love he refers to is between a mother and a child, how no matter what the child does, the mother will still love him. There is a biblical component to the song as well, as it's an analog to the love of God as expressed in Romans 8:39: "In neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God."

This was the first song on the first U2 album. It was released as a single at the same time as the album Boy.

This song is an example of what would become The Edge's distinctive guitar style. He felt he could play only a few notes, but make it work by finding the right ones.

The spiritual themes in the lyrics were typical of early U2. Bono, The Edge, and Larry Mullen were members of a devout Christian group.

For sound effects, bottles were thrown on the floor and bicycle wheels were spun and hit with bottles and knives. (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA)

A glockenspiel, which is a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone, was used.

A concert favorite, this appears on their live album Under A Blood Red Sky.

Collective Soul played this at Woodstock '99. Other groups who played it from time to time include Third Eye Blind and Hootie & the Blowfish. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

The Replacements recorded an answer song to this called "Kids Don't Follow" on their album Stink.

What happened to the boy on the album cover? His name is Peter Rowen and he is the younger brother of Bono's friend, Guggi, a one-time member of the goth/post-punk band The Virgin Prunes. Peter also appeared on several other of U2's release covers and is now a renowned Irish photographer.

David Guetta - Listen

David Guetta - Listen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Listen
Released: 2014

Listen Lyrics

Let's hit the road and away we go
Take a new direction to a different coast
Maybe we should try and put it on the line
You've gotta trust me now, turn up the radio
Tune out the world and roll with the melody
Baby, Listen close and open up your mind

Imagine if anywhere
More than miles, I'll take you there
Knew one day, from the start
We'd be as one, now here we are

All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen

Listen, all we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen

Soundtrack in the wind, like passing violins
I can be your rhythm in the silence
And every time we sing, it echoes in the sky
Let me close your eyes, help you fantasize
Make a kiss our playlist the entire night
Listen to the words as I let 'em fly, oh

Imagine if anywhere
More than miles, I'll take you there
Knew one day, from the start
We'd be as one, now here we are

All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen

Listen, all we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen

Listen, all we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen
All we gotta do is listen

Writer/s: RIESTERER, FREDERIC / GUETTA, DAVID / STEPHENS, JOHN / TUINFORT, GIORGIO / EVIGAN, JASON / BISNOW, AUSTIN / RAYNE, SARAH / BANUELOS, JOAQUIN HOWARD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., SHAPIRO BERNSTEIN & CO. INC., SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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This cut follows Guetta's often-used formula of starting slowly and quietly before developing into a booming synth and bass-filled chorus. ("Titanium" is a good example).

The song features guest vocals by John Legend.

The song is the title track of David Guetta's sixth studio album. "I worked with piano, violins, guitars and blended them with electronic elements," said the French EDM star. "It's also my most personal album lyrically, which is why I called it Listen. Dance too, but really it's from the heart."

Everclear - Father of Mine

Everclear - Father of Mine Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: So Much for the Afterglow
Released: 1997

Father of Mine Lyrics

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
You know I just closed my eyes
My whole world disappeared
Father of mine
Take me back to the day
When I was still your golden boy
Back before you went away

I remember the blue skies
Walking the block
I loved it when you held me high
I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movie
You would take me to the beach
You would take me to a place inside
That is so hard to reach

Father of mine
Tell me where did you go
You had the world inside your hand
But you did not seem to know
Father of mine
Tell me what do you see
When you look back at your wasted life
And you don't see me

I was ten years old
Doing all that I could
It wasn't easy for me
To be a scared white boy
In a black neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
With a five dollar bill
I never understood you then
And I guess I never will

Daddy gave me a name
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad gave me a name

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
I just closed my eyes
And the world disappeared
Father of mine
Tell me how do you sleep
With the children you abandoned
And the wife I saw you beat

I will never be safe
I will never be sane
I will always be weird inside
I will always be lame
Now I'm a grown man
With a child of my own
And I swear I'm not going to let her know
All the pain I have known

Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad gave me a name
Then he walked away

Writer/s: ALEXAKIS, ART / MONTOYA, CRAIG / EKLUND, GREG
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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A scathing attack on deadbeat dads. It was based on lead singer Art Alexakis' father. He says it is one of the very few songs he has written that is autobiographical.

In 2003, Alexakis told us: "My feelings for my father haven't necessarily changed, but my feelings about myself after writing that song have been much better. It was kind of a catharsis to put those feelings into words, it's a way for me to get things out of my system. The song 'Wonderful' is very much like that too."

Art doesn't speak with his father and can't be sure if he's heard this or not, but he knows that his stepsisters, who were raised by his dad, weren't happy about this song. (Check out our interview with Art Alexakis.)

As it states in the song, Alexakis really did get Christmas cards from his father containing $5.

Alexakis testified before congress on March 16, 2000 to endorse a child support bill.

This was remixed and included on Hope In Hockeytown, an album celebrating the Detroit Red Wings back-to-back Stanley Cup Victories.