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Foo Fighters - What Did I Do?/God As My Witness

Foo Fighters - What Did I Do?/God As My Witness Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sonic Highways
Released: 2014

What Did I Do?/God As My Witness Lyrics

There you go again
Putting words into my mouth
This one's for you to know
And for me to find out

All that trouble, and you on about
How you gonna know, til you hear it out loud
Stop, ask myself what did I do?
What did I do to deserve you?
Come on, tell me now what did I do?
What did I do to deserve you?

I heard every word comin' from the 13th floor
Your song came along
And I heard the voices telling me to save yourself
I'll behave yourself

I stop, ask myself what did I do?
What can I do to preserve you?
Come on, tell me now, what can I do?
What can I do to conserve you?

Your name, year of fame
I could see the writing on the wall
Come on, flip a coin, bet it's going to tell you
To save yourself, I'll behave yourself

Your man, channelin', knowin' by the X on his hand
You raise, runaways singin' at the gate
To save yourself, I'll behave yourself

So here I go again
Putting words into your mouth
This one's for me to know
And for you to find out

All that trouble and I'm on about
How you gonna know, til you hear it out loud
All of your heroes, where are they now?

I'm lost, deliver me
I crossed the river finally
God as my witness
Yeah it's gonna heal my soul tonight
God as my witness
Yeah it's gonna heal my soul tonight
God as my witness
Yeah it's gonna heal my soul tonight

God as my witness
Yeah you gonna heal my soul tonight
God as my witness
Yeah you gonna heal my soul tonight

Writer/s: DAVE GROHL, PAT SMEAR, OLIVER HAWKINS, NATE MENDEL, CHRIS SHIFLETT
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This is from Sonic Highways, for which the Foo Fighters recorded each track in a different US city. Dave Grohl approached his songwriting differently to previous records, interviewing musicians from each place and using their quotes in the the tunes, completing the lyrics just before recording his vocals. Drummer Taylor Hawkins stated that it gave the Foo Fighters frontman a new focus. He explained: "Dave said he was going to take sentences from the interviews and write a song. I was like, 'That seems really difficult,' but it's given him a whole new way of writing lyrics."

This two-part song was recorded at KLRU-TV Studio 6A in Austin, Texas and features blues rocker Gary Clark, Jr on lead guitar.

Bruce Springsteen - Sherry Darling

Bruce Springsteen - Sherry Darling Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The River
Released: 1980

Sherry Darling Lyrics

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Springsteen recorded this for Darkness On The Edge Of Town, but he left it off because he thought it was too upbeat for the album. It was included on The River to incorporate an element of fun to balance off the ballads.

This is one of several Springsteen songs featuring the first name of a girl who is not a specific real person. Besides Sherry, Springsteen has also sung about Mary, Terry, Wendy, Sandy and Rosie.

Springsteen performed this on his 1980 tour.

Other songs about girls named Sherry include "Sherry" by the 4 Seasons and "Oh Sherrie" by Steve Perry. The Four Seasons were a big influence on Springsteen, as they were a New Jersey group who sang about the problems of the working class, which were very often problems with women.

Future Islands - Back in the Tall Grass

Future Islands - Back in the Tall Grass Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Singles
Released: 2014

Back in the Tall Grass Lyrics

Home isn't open
It's like, when you get here
The tracks by the creek bed
The minnow's the body
Crawdads with their heads down low
Back in the Tall Grass
Stinging my cattails oh!
Looking for brother
It feels like winter
But it's the heart of the summer
We can't go swimming
As long as we slumber
-
Cuz we're a long way from home
A long way from home
How did we get here?
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One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone
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And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially, when I'm a long way from home
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A long way from home
-
How did we get here?
Back to the body
Words jump like salmon

One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone

(Chorus)

In that backwater
Running through the woods
In that red water
In the mirror
Thinking of you

Spend all day just thinking of you
In the mirror thinking of you
Spend my days just thinking of you

(Chorus)

Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home...

Writer/s: William Cashion, Samuel Thompson Herring, John Gerrit Welmers
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The song finds frontman Samuel T Herring recalling walks home from school. "It's reminiscing on the times I'd lose my brother on the way, and then feeling that same emotion upon losing touch with someone later in life," he explained to Uncut. "And about how those early feelings of childhood may seen foreign to us as adults. Alive with curiosity and possibility, and at the same time experiencing fear in the face of loss and unknowing."

Bruce Springsteen - Roulette

Bruce Springsteen - Roulette Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tracks
Released: 1988

Roulette Lyrics

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This song is about the meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979. At the time, there was a great deal of debate over the use of nuclear energy, as it presented safety and environmental concerns.

This was the first song recorded during sessions for The River, but Springsteen decided not to use it on the album. Even though it was recorded in 1979, it was not released until 1988 as the B-side of "One Step Up." It resurfaced on the 1998 album Tracks, a collection of Springsteen outtakes.

Charli XCX - Kingdom

Charli XCX - Kingdom Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
Released: 2014

Kingdom Lyrics

It's all black
Your Kingdom's turned me blank
I'm paper and I'm snow
I'm lost but I can't slow
I'm lost but not alone

It's so light, the dark it burns my eyes
My bones, they used to glow
But now I'm throwing stones
I'm losing where to go

Shadows on my back are moving slow
They twist behind like white leaves in the wind
And as I ride, these horses will say fly
Falling hard, falling high, through your arms
Shadows in my head don't need no light
They stay through the night

Without you, my lips are turning blue
The water pulls me down
And drowns under your sound
This silence booms so loud

I'm locked up, your kingdom's like a drug
The chains are made of glass
I'm breaking through your blood
I'm never strong enough

Shadows on my back are moving slow
They twist behind like white leaves in the wind
And as I ride, these horses will say fly
Falling hard, falling high, through your arms
Shadows in my head don't need no light
They stay through the night

To every rose a bloody thorn
It lift you up and lets you fall
To rivers flowing yond the factory halls
Your kingdom's come, it's waiting still
The space between you'll never fill
I tried but I could not change your mind

I dance around, and I lost you now
I breathed you out, I kept you out
But if I could, I'd turn back around

Writer/s: AITCHISON, CHARLOTTE / HARDY, HOLLY / RECHTSHAID, ARIEL / BATMANGLIJ, ROSTAM / LE BON, SIMON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This song was originally something Charli was working on with Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend. The two started writing it after seeing Miley Cyrus play the Staples Center and then getting drunk. "We went back to his house and I sat on top of [Batmanglij's] piano, and we wrote 'Kingdom,'" Charli told Pitchfork . "We sung it into his phone. I remember thinking in the morning, 'Ugh, this is going to be the worst thing ever,' but it was really good."

The tune remained as a drunken voice note on their phones until Hunger Games Mockinjay soundtrack curator Lorde called Charli up and asked her to lend a song to the movie. The English songstress figured out "Kingdom" would fit well.

Lorde asked asking Charli if she wanted to "put a legend on the song as well." Among her suggestions were Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon, who ended up supplying a brief vocal at the end of the track. "[Le Bon] cut his vocal in New York with Rostam, so we were never in the studio together," Charli told Radio.com . "But we had an email chain going, which was awesome. He sounds incredible, it's really cool to work with someone who's such a legend."

Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night

Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Released: 1978

Prove It All Night Lyrics

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The first single off Darkness On The Edge Of Town. The album was released after a legal battle with his first manager, Mike Appel, kept Springsteen from recording for almost 3 years.

Springsteen has said the message he was trying to convey in this song is: "Success requires sacrifice." It is one of the songs on Darkness On The Edge Of Town that implies you have to work for the hopes and dreams spelled out in the songs on Born To Run.

This plays well at large live shows due to its powerful opening guitar riff and explosive sax solo.

Took 49 takes to record.

In 1978, Springsteen set out with some friends to graffiti one of his own billboards. They wanted to give Bruce a mustache, but ended up spray painting "Prove It All Night" over his face.

Lorde - Ladder Song

Lorde - Ladder Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Released: 2014

Ladder Song Lyrics

No one knows where the ladder goes
You're gonna lose what you love the most
You're not alone in anything
You're not unique in dying
I feel a strange every now and then
Fall asleep reading science fiction
I wanna fly in your silver ship, but
My momma hang and my sister, sit
Its on now, the days are long now
The ups and the sun down
In the twisting morn
If I gotta go first
I'll do it on my terms
I'm tired of traitors
Always changing sides
They were friends of mine

Don't hang around as the promise breaks
Or you'll be there when I'm the next one's made
Kiss the feet of a sarlatan
Some imagine freedom
All the rest is predictable
Trying your hardest to melt the snow
Tie the knots to concentrate
Keep on pulling that rope will break

We'll welcome the new age
Covered in war paint
Lights from the jungle till dusk sky
See now the stars burst
Looks just like a blood orange
Don't it just make you wanna cry
Precious friend of mine

Will I know when it's finally time
This whole life of hallucination
You're not alone in anything
You're not alone in trying to be

Writer/s: CONOR OBERST
Publisher: SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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This song was originally recorded by Bright Eyes for their 2011 album The People's Key. It was covered three years later by Lorde for the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 movie. The New Zealand teenager's voice is almost unrecognizably high and fragile on her version of the ballad. "I went into the studio with all intention of singing it low and it just," she told Billboard magazine... I've never sung like that."

Lorde explained why she covered the song during a Twitter Q&A: "To me it felt like the perspective of a divine being (or even a modern-day reader) looking down at the events in Panem," she said. "'No-one knows where the ladder goes' felt like a really sad pretty sentiment after so much bloodshed, for the greater good."

Bruce Springsteen - Factory

Bruce Springsteen - Factory Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Released: 1978

Factory Lyrics

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This song was influenced by Springsteen's working class father. Bruce did not get along with his dad growing up, but came to appreciate the work he did to raise his family. Bruce never had a job besides making and playing music.

Springsteen earned a reputation for relating to the common man, and this song is a great example why. Explaining how he came to write songs dealing with his father, like this one and "Adam Raised A Cain," Springsteen told Rolling Stone: "When I went to work, I really went to work in my dad's clothes, and it became a way, I suppose, that I honored him and my parents' lives, and a part of my own young life. And then it just became who I was."

Lucinda Williams covered this for her 2016 Ghosts of Highway 20 album. The country rocker's version is dedicated to her father-in-law, who worked in a factory for more than 30 years. Williams' husband and manager, Tom Overby, produced Highway 20 and is a huge fan of Springsteen's song.

Jo Dee Messina - He's Messed Up

Jo Dee Messina - He's Messed Up Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Me
Released: 2014

He's Messed Up Lyrics

I, I can see, that you got your sights on him I'd like to say
Well I, well I've been there done that
You're a game he'll play, yeah
Well I know what he has you don't want none of that, nooo

Put your dreams away, he's never gonna change
Go on and walk away, 'cause He's Messed Up.
You're gonna figure out he'll only bring you down
Go on and walk away, 'cause he's messed up.
I wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole (no!)
Now that I know all the things I know
He's never gonna change. Go on and walk away.
(Yeah, yeah) Yeah, 'cause he's messed up

Look in his eyes
You get caught in all the bullshit and the lies
Can be cruel, 'cause he doesn't play by anybody's rules.
Yeah, well he'll take, never give, 'cause it's all about him

Ooh!

Put your dreams away, he's never gonna change
Go on and walk away, 'cause he's messed up.
You're gonna figure out he'll only bring you down
Go on and walk away, 'cause he's messed up.
I wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole (no!)
Now that I know all the things I know
He's never gonna change. Go on and walk away.
(Yeah, yeah) Yeah, 'cause he's messed up

He won't care 'bout anybody else
No he only sees himself

So put your dreams away, he's never gonna change
Go on and walk away, 'cause he's messed up.
You're gonna figure out he'll only bring you down
Yeah, 'cause he's messed up.
I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole (no!)
Now that I know all the things I know
He's never gonna change. Go on and walk away.
(Yeah, yeah) Yeah, 'cause he's messed up

Writer/s: BONAGURA, ALYSSA BAILLIE / MESSINA, JO DEE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Jo Dee Messina originally penned this tune with Pink in mind. "I wanted to co-write it with her while she was in town, but it ended up that she had a crazy schedule," she said … so I was like, 'I'm going to finish this song anyway.'"

The song was inspired by a real person. "Maybe this is too much behind the song, but it's about a guy in the industry who's, like, Joe Cool," she divulged. "He just thinks he's, like, the Cat's Meow, and I had seen him backstage, and all these little girls are hanging on him."

"He's not an artist. He's not a singer. But he's just some guy that thinks he's, like, the coolest thing, and he plays that off, and girls buy into it," Messina added. "I remember seeing him backstage, with girls all around him, and I'm like, 'Dude.'"

"I was like, 'Oh, young girl. Walk away,'" she continued. "He is messed up, you know? This guy is never going to change. He's a dog. He always will be a dog. And so, that's where literally the idea came up."

Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street

Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Released: 1978

Racing In The Street Lyrics

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Springsteen wrote this about a small-time drag racer who dreams of a better life somewhere else. Like Steve Earle's "Someday," it describes that very American desire of the young man to leave his town and see what is out in the big world - to avoid that soul killing life they see around them. (thanks, Dan - Saint Paul, MN)

This is one of many early Springsteen songs featuring cars - in this case a Chevy. Some others were "Thunder Road," "Backstreets," and "Pink Cadillac."

Bruce explained to Rolling Stone in 2010: "When you pick a song title like 'Racing In The Street,' that's a hard song to write. But that was sort of the local culture of Asbury in the '70s, which was still deeply enmeshed in car culture. If you went to the Stone Pony, it was a constant circle of souped-up muscle cars on Saturday and Sunday. Once again, I sort of stood outside of it, I was hitchhiking, I didn't have a car! But I wanted one real bad."

Springsteen wrote in his book Songs : "I wanted my street racers to carry the years between the car songs of the '60s and 1978 America."

This song is filled with technical details about remodeling cars. Although he did love cars, Springsteen had to ask for advice and was careful to be correct in his language. However, after the song was released, a mechanic friend exclaimed that you couldn't put fuelie heads on a '69 Chevy and proceeded to prove his point. (thanks, Jesse - Roanoke, VA)

The last line in the song is a takeoff on Martha And The Vandella's "Dancing in the Street." Springsteen sings: "Summer's here and the time is right for racing in the street."

This was included on Springsteen's box set Live 1975-1985.

Emmylou Harris and Queen's Roger Taylor have both covered this song. Harris cites Springsteen as inspiration for her songwriting and influence on her 1985 album The Ballad of Sally Rose. Springsteen's 1982 Nebraska album, in particular, was a big influence. "I was so inspired by the bravery of that record and the emotion of that record that I said, 'I've really got to just do this project,'" Harris said in our 2014 interview .

On April 17, 2008, E Street Band keyboard player Danny Federici died of melanoma at the age of 58. This song is an example of his organ work that helped frame Springsteen's sound. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Kiesza - No Enemiesz

Kiesza - No Enemiesz Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sound of a Woman
Released: 2014

No Enemiesz Lyrics

Don't stop me just give me more
You're what I want for sure
Don't stop I just want you more
Babe you are my only cure
Don't stop until I make you mine
You can take all my time
Don't stop I feel so alive
Baby you blow my mind

Why stop when there's so much more
Baby just show me how to
Look I'll give you so much more
All that you have is lining
Look never felt this before
Baby I thought you want it
Everybody knows, body-knows, body-knows

If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
We'd have no enemies, we'd have no enemies
If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
We'd have no enemies, we'd have no enemies
Ah-ooh, ah-ooh, ah-ooh

Lights up, let me take you down
That's what I want right now
Free-styling make me go wild
Baby just turn me around
All that I can say for you
Show me what you can do
Don't stop me I can't refuse
Take me the whole way through

Why stop when there's so much more
Baby just show me how to
Look I'll give you so much more
All that you have is lining
Look never felt this before
Baby I thought you want it
Everybody knows, body-knows, body-knows

If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
We'd have no enemies, we'd have no enemies
If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
If we could all fall in love together
We'd have no enemies, we'd have no enemies
Ah-ooh, ah-ooh, ah-ooh

Writer/s: ELLESTAD, KIESA / AFUNI, RAMI
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Kiesza wrote this Eurodance deep house tune with her producer Rami Samir Afuni. The Canadian songstress debuted the song live during her gig at XOYO in London on June 4, 2014 when she performed the song in a dance routine with muscular male dancers reminiscent of Madonna's "Vogue."

The song's music video was directed by Syndrome, who also shot the clip for Kesha's similarly named "TiK ToK." It finds Kiesza shedding clothes and dancing in a loft. As she disrobes, her discarded apparel transforms into backing dancers.

Bruce Springsteen - Adam Raised a Cain

Bruce Springsteen - Adam Raised a Cain Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Released: 1978

Adam Raised a Cain Lyrics

In the summer that I was baptized
My father held me to his side
As they put me to the water
He said how on that day I cried
We were prisoners of love, a love in chains
He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain
With the same hot blood burning in our veins
Adam raised a Cain

All of the old faces
Ask you why you're back
They fit you with position
And the keys to your daddy's Cadillac
In the darkness of your room
Your mother calls you by your true name
You remember the faces, the places, the names
You know it's never over it's relentless as the rain
Adam raised a Cain

In the Bible Cain slew Abel
And East of Eden he was cast
You're born into this life paying
For the sins of somebody else's past
Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain
Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame
You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames
Adam raised a Cain

Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream
Adam raised a Cain

Writer/s: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Publisher: DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS
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The lyrics use biblical images to explain the relationship between a father and son. Cain was Adam and Eve's rebellious son who couldn't measure up to the goodness of his brother Abel. In the book of Genesis, Cain becomes jealous when God prefers Abel's offering to his own. He lures him out into a field and murders him, but he can't hide the act from God, who puts a mark of damnation on his forehead and sentences him to life as a restless wanderer. He can't even hope to be killed, for whoever sees the mark will know they "will suffer vengeance seven times over" if they were to kill him.

Springsteen's song examines Adam's role in raising a son that went down such a crooked path.

Springsteen calls this song "emotionally autobiographical." The bitter, but loving relationship between the father and son is similar to Springsteen's with his dad. Said Springsteen: "Our actual relationship was probably more complicated than how I presented it. Those songs were ways that I spoke to my father at the time, because he didn't speak and we didn't talk very much."

This was used in the movie Baby It's You, directed by John Sayles, who would direct Springsteen's videos for "I'm On Fire" and "Born In The U.S.A."

In the 2010 documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, sound mixer Chuck Plotkin described Springsteen's instructions for how the jarring assault of this song should sound next to the more melodic tunes on Darkness. Springsteen told Plotkin to think of a movie showing two lovers having a picnic, when the scene suddenly cuts to a dead body. This song, the singer explained, is that body.