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Bruce Springsteen - Wild Billy's Circus Story

Bruce Springsteen - Wild Billy's Circus Story Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Released: 1973

Wild Billy's Circus Story Lyrics

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This was inspired by the Clyde Beatty/Cole Brothers circus that visited Springsteen's hometown of Freehold, New Jersey every summer.

Springsteen was intrigued by the constant travel of the circus, a lifestyle similar to his as a touring musician.

The elephant trumpet was simulated by a tuba played by Garry Tallent.

The last line is "All aboard, Nebraska's our next stop." Springsteen released his album Nebraska in 1982.

Pink Floyd - Autumn'68

Pink Floyd - Autumn'68 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Endless River
Released: 2014

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This song features late Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright playing the pipe organ of the Royal Albert Hall back in 1968. The tape was made as the band prepared for an appearance at the London venue. Guitarist David Gilmour explained: "On the afternoon before we did it, during the set-up, Rick asked could he have a go on this great big pipe organ that was built in."

"So we set him up, set up a couple of mics up and recorded him playing, just jamming away on his own."

Bruce Springsteen - The E Street Shuffle

Bruce Springsteen - The E Street Shuffle Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Released: 1973

The E Street Shuffle Lyrics

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The name "E Street" was taken from the name of a road in Belmar, New Jersey, where piano player David Sancious' mother lived. The band needed a name, and one day when they were driving there, Springsteen saw the sign for E Street and thought it should be the name of the band, so his backing group became the E Street Band. Sancious left the band after this album to form a jazz group with E Street drummer Earnest "Boom" Carter.

The music was based on "The Monkey Time," a 1963 hit for Chicago soul singer Major Lance.

This was the first track on Springsteen's second album, The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, which made full use of The E Street Band for the first time. Members of the band played on his first album, but it was mostly Bruce and his guitar.

The characters in the lyrics were based on people Springsteen knew when he was growing up in New Jersey.

Springsteen: "I wanted to invent a dance with no exact steps. It was just the dance you did every day and every night to get by."

Bette Midler covered this.

Rumer - Baby Come Back To Bed

Rumer - Baby Come Back To Bed Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Into Colour
Released: 2014

Baby Come Back To Bed Lyrics

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This song was inspired by Rumer's romantic relationship with half Iranian, half American composer Rob Shirakbari, who is also her music director, producer and songwriting collaborator. She explained the sultry tune is a "woman-in-her-thirties relationship song, where you can't just walk out if you have a bad argument. It's written from the perspective of a confident man."

Bruce Springsteen - Spirit In The Night

Bruce Springsteen - Spirit In The Night Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Released: 1973

Spirit In The Night Lyrics

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Greasy Lake is a lake near Howel NJ. It gets its name from the idea that homeless people living around the lake used it for bathing, washing dishes, etc. The homeless people were known as "Gypsy Angels" or the "Spirits In The Night." (thanks, kevin - elizabeth, NJ)

Part of Springsteen's first album, it was a #40 US hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band when they covered it in 1977. They also covered "Blinded By The Light" and "For You" from Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

Springsteen wrote this after Columbia Records rejected his first attempt at an album, telling him to make some songs that could be played on the radio. He came up with this and "Blinded By The Light."

This was Springsteen's second single. It was released only in the US and did not chart.

The lyrics refer to "Route 88," a road that runs through Ocean County, New Jersey. Springsteen would later sing about "Highway 9" in "Born To Run."

Along with "Blinded By The Light," this was one of 2 songs on Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. featuring Clarence Clemons on saxophone. Springsteen's band didn't have a name when this was recorded. By his next album, they were The E Street Band - named after the street where they used to rehearse.

This has been a popular live song throughout Springsteen's career. He still occasionally plays it live.

The version on Live 1975-1985 was recorded at The Roxy in 1978.

Smashing Pumpkins - Being Beige

Smashing Pumpkins - Being Beige Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Monuments To An Elegy
Released: 2014

Being Beige Lyrics

I don't love you for what it's worth
So if you're leaving can you hurt
Cherry blossom, this is goodbye
Come here lately and you fly

When they say what it's worth
The world tells you first
Then you know where to hurt
The world's on fire, so
The world's on fire, so have you heard

Lover let me please
Fall on down your knees
Lover let me please, be the one
Know the prayers to make
Flowers made to fade
And when this world to wait
It'll wait for us

The world's on fire, so
The world's on fire, so have you heard

Yes I loved you as a matter of fact
You first are wrapped up, and that's that

Lover let me please
Fall on down your knees
You once made me smile
When you strayed

The world's on fire, so
The world's on fire, so have you heard
The world's on fire
The world's on fire, have you heard

Lover have you breathed
To make for your relief (To make for your belief)
So I'm no longer here by your side
What's to hide

The world's on fire
The world's on fire (Until I'm ready on Monday)
The world's on fire (Until I'm ready on Tuesday)
The world's on fire (Until I'm ready on Wednesday)
The world's on fire (Until I'm ready on Thursday)
The world's on fire (Until I'm ready on Friday)
The world's on fire (Until I'm ready on Saturday)
The world's on fire (Until I'm ready on Sunday)

Writer/s: WILLIAM CORGAN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This song finds Billy Corgan taking on the culture of social media. He explained to NME: "In essence, being in this culture is about being transparent - if you don't have the flashy pic on your social media and you don't have some cool thing that you're doing every moment of every day, you must be missing out on the party or the selfie at Glastonbury or duh-duh-duh."

Bruce Springsteen - Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?

Bruce Springsteen - Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street? Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Released: 1973

Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street? Lyrics

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This is based on people and places Springsteen met in his early years as a songwriter. His father was a bus driver for a time, which helped inspire the song. (thanks, Dirk - Southwest of Freehold, NJ)

The barrage of images in the lyrics helped earn Springsteen the tag "The New Dylan," which he would intentionally get away from by writing less introspective, harder rocking songs on his next album, The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle.

Springsteen wrote the lyrics first and filled in the music later. The only time he wrote this way was on his first album.

Joan Fontaine pops up in the lyrics for no apparent reason. She was an actress who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rebecca.

Stalley - Navajo Rugs

Stalley - Navajo Rugs Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Ohio
Released: 2014

Navajo Rugs Lyrics

Most slippers dreaming through this peace pipe
Praying in the dark hoping that I see light
Trynna stay sharp with a dark vision
Gotta couple heathens with me trynna bombard the system
My man just went to jail and brought a gun charge with him
On top of that other felonies
I told him hold his head I'll make sure he lives through these melodies
I hate to see him trapped, wish these raps could just set him free
Whoever thought selling heart would get you seventeen, that's seventeen
I mean yesterday was everything if there's no hope for tomorrow
And money ain't everything, I can go broke tomorrow
Sometimes I find happiness in a broke down cigar
In an isolated room on this Navajo wall
Mind drifting, smoke disappearing through the wall
I hear the loud voices, that's my homies calling
Open up the windows, let the angels fall in

As I bob and weave between stars
Learn and dream between Mars
When words are weaved, pictures are painted
Like Navajo Rugs or woven blankets
As I bob and weave between stars
Learn and dream between Mars
When words are weaved, pictures are painted
Like Navajo Rugs or woven blankets

Got so much on my mind, all these thoughts weaving in and out created design
So intricate like hand spun rugs
They say they talking outside
But I hear no love
I feel the shots in my back
But there's no slugs
I brush the dirt off my shoulders
Wipe away all the mug that's been slung
They say the sword ain't as mighty as the tongue
The horns get the attention
But the war starts with the drum
808s and low ends beating on my chest like King Kong
Gorilla warfare, the force here
You could feel it in the song
All the warrior in this gone
I sip Indian style wrapped' in blankets
Smokin' on the bong, trynna find my inner peace
Jugglin' stone, never take it for granted, what the struggle is for
Cuz through that dark hole life is beautiful, like emeralds and gold
There's diamonds in the dirt, you just gotta dig through some coal

As I bob and weave between stars
Learn and dream between Mars
When words are weaved, pictures are painted
Like Navajo Rugs or woven blankets
As I bob and weave between stars
Learn and dream between Mars
When words are weaved, pictures are painted
Like Navajo Rugs or woven blankets

I woke up among the confused, but yawning
The bloodstream came to collect dues this morning
For all the signs we drop, the parachute supplies
Are limited, coated in images
Yet the code of the streets leaves our thoughts with no access
The revenue of colour, all reduced to a blackness
But aside the thought, I can find the calm
That's why we close our eyes to concentrate
The cons debate, against the pros talking first degree
Murder on the clock, they got time to kill
I'm intricate to be up in it
So I defend every minute, cons hoping for dimes to deal
Perimeters occupied by a few chosen
To take heed to the fact a few in here are posin'
On the laws of lies, attracted to the warm like wool
But don't let it get pulled over your eyes
Oh, lord

As I bob and weave between stars
Learn and dream between Mars
When words are weaved, pictures are painted
Like Navajo Rugs or woven blankets
As I bob and weave between stars
Learn and dream between Mars
When words are weaved, pictures are painted
Like Navajo Rugs or woven blankets

Writer/s: MYRICKS, KYLE / JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MERCER, KELVIN / UNKNOWN COMPOSER, AUTHOR
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Stalley ends his Ohio album with this collaboration with De La Soul. "I actually had the privilege of doing a show with them over in the Czech Republic. We did a festival together," the Ohio rapper recalled to Billboard magazine. "When I got off stage, Posdnuos stopped me and he was like, 'Keep on carrying the tradition.'"

"After that, we bumped into each other again at SXSW. That was around the time I was working on my album," Stalley continued. "I ran into them backstage -- they were actually about to go on with Gorillaz at the Fader Fort. We were talking and I was like, 'Man, I'm working on the album right now.' He was like, 'Send me something if you want us to get on something.' 'Navajo Rugs' was the perfect record for them to jump on."

"That to me is like a classic hip-hop record," he concluded. "You don't hear much of that these days in 2014. I just really wanted one of those posse cut type of tracks where everybody's just displaying their lyricism."

The Light by Bruce Springsteen - Blinded

The Light by Bruce Springsteen - Blinded Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Released: 1973

Blinded Lyrics

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Springsteen talked about this song in detail on an episode of VH1 Storytellers. A lot of the references are personal, to include people he knew or had met on the Boardwalks, or had grown up around, or were just direct personal references to himself:

"Madman drummers bummers" - Vinnie "Mad dog" Lopez, the first drummer in the E Street Band.

"Indians in the summer" - Bruce's little league baseball team as a kid.

"In the dumps with the mumps" - being sick with the mumps.

"Boulder on my shoulder" - a "chip" on his shoulder.

"Some all hot, half-shot, heading for a hot spot, snapping fingers clapping his hands" - Being a "know it all kid growing up, who doesn't really know anything."

"Silicone Sister" - Bruce mentions that this is arguably the first mention of breast implants in popular music - a dancer at one of the local strip joints in Asbury Park.

He wrote this song in his bedroom, primarily using a rhyming dictionary. Or as Bruce put it, "the rhyming dictionary was on fire." (thanks, John - Columbus, OH)

This was Springsteen's first single. It was released only in the US, where it flopped. It was, however, a #1 hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band in February 1977, becoming the only #1 Hot 100 hit Springsteen ever wrote. The Manfred Mann version was much more elaborately produced, and Springsteen hated it at first. It ended up earning him a very nice payout.

Manfred Mann's version replaces the line "Cut loose like a deuce" with "Revved up like a deuce." In their version, "Deuce" was commonly misheard as "Douche." Springsteen's original line makes a lot more sense - a deuce is a 1932 Ford hotrod. On his Storytellers special, Springsteen said (in a jesting manner): "I have a feeling that is why the song skyrocketed to #1."

Springsteen wrote this after Columbia Records rejected his first attempt at an album, telling him to make some songs that could be played on the radio. He came up with this and "Spirit In The Night."

After eight years playing in bars where audiences usually didn't listen to or couldn't hear the words, Springsteen used his first album to unload a ton of lyrics. All these lyrics helped earn Springsteen the tag "The New Dylan." Singer-songwriters like James Taylor and Kris Kristofferson also shared the comparison, and Bruce went out of his way to shed the tag by making his next album a true rock record.

This was the first song on Springsteen's first album. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. featured a postcard on the cover that fans would look for any time they were near the town.

Along with "Spirit In The Night," this was one of two songs on the album featuring Clarence Clemons on saxophone. The E Street Band became a much bigger part of Springsteen's songs on his next album.

Springsteen wrote the lyrics first and filled in the music later. The only time he wrote this way was on his first album.

The working title was "Madman's Bummers," taken from words in the first line.

This was one of the songs that prompted Columbia Records to market the album by claiming "This man puts more thoughts, more ideas and images into one song than most people put into an album."

Manfred Mann's cover is so far the only Bruce Springsteen song to top the American charts. Near misses for Bruce have been "Dancing In The Dark (#2 in 1984) and The Pointer Sisters version of "Fire" (#2 in 1979).

Usher - Clueless

Usher - Clueless Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Single Release Only
Released: 2014

Clueless Lyrics

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This song was exclusively made available for download starting November 11, 2014 with specially-marked Honey Nut Cheerios packages purchased at Walmart stores across the US. The promotion followed a promo clip released three months earlier that featured Usher's "She Came to Give It to You." That visual showed the singer dancing and sharing nutrition tips with the cereal's mascot, Buzz The Bee.

Just in case Honey Nut Cheerios isn't your breakfast of choice, the smooth tune was made available online on November 16, 2014.

The Police - Peanuts

The Police - Peanuts Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Outlandos d'Amour
Released: 1978

Peanuts Lyrics

It's all a game
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero

Don't want to hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't want to read about the love you're making
Don't want to hear about the lives you're faking
Don't want to read about the muck they're raking

You sang your song
For much too long
There's something wrong
Your brain is gone

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero

Don't want to hear about the drugs you're taking
Don't want to read about the love you're making
Don't want to hear about the lives you're faking
Don't want to read about the muck they're raking

It's all a game
You're not the same
Your famous name
The price of fame

Oh no, try to liberate me
I said oh no, stay and irritate me
I said oh no, try to elevate me
I said oh no, just a fallen hero
Oh you're just a fallen hero

Don't want to hear about the drugs you're taking yeah
Don't want to read about the love you're making
Don't want to hear about the lives you're faking
Don't want to read about the muck they're raking

Don't want to find about the drugs you're taking
Don't want to read about the love you're making
Don't want to hear about the lives you're faking
Don't want to read about the muck they're raking

Don't want to find out what you've been taking
Don't want to read about the love you're making
Don't want to hear about the lives you're faking
Don't want to read about the muck they're raking

Don't want to find out what you've been taking
Don't want to read about the love you're making
Don't want to hear about the lives you're faking
Don't want to read about the muck

Peanuts, peanuts
Peanuts

Oh no no
Oh no no
Oh no no
Oh no no
Oh no no oh

Writer/s: Sumner, Gordon Matthew / Copeland, Stewart
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This was written by Sting and Police drummer Stewart Copeland. Sting remembers writing it in his car on the way home from a late-night recording session in Leatherhead, Surrey, England. He recalled in Lyrics By Sting: "I was thinking about a former musical hero who had dwindled to a mere celebrity, and I was more than willing to pass judgment on his extracurricular activities in the tabloids, never thinking for a moment that I would suffer the same distorted perceptions at their hands a few years later."

The singer became so wary of the media that he wouldn't even attend his parents' funerals, fearing the press would create a spectacle.

Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen - Theme From Mission: Impossible

Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen - Theme From Mission: Impossible Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mission: Impossible Soundtrack
Released: 1996

Theme From Mission: Impossible Lyrics

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This is a reworked version of the Mission: Impossible television theme song, which was originally composed by Lalo Schifrin and was known as the "Burning Fuse." What became the theme was written for a chase scene, but Mission: Impossible creator Bruce Geller liked it better than what Schifrin wrote for the main theme and used it instead. The theme was recorded for the 1996 movie staring Tom Cruise.

Clayton and Mullen are the bass player and drummer, respectively, of U2. It was offered to U2 as a group, but Bono and The Edge did not have time to do it.

The success of this song prompted producers to have Limp Bizkit rework the theme for the movie's sequel in 2000.