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Bryan Ferry - Soldier of Fortune

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Album: Avonmore
Released: 2014

Soldier of Fortune Lyrics

I’m a Soldier of Fortune
An ambassador of pain
I had the world on a string
Then I threw it all away

I’m a prince of illusions
All spinning around in my brain
There’s a mockingbird calling
And this is what he’s saying

Girl stop rockin’
You’re driving me insane
I’m going out of my mind
And I won’t be back again

I was driving down the street
And I saw you in the rain
Now it’s breaking my heart
And I want you back again

I was stirred and shaken
Had a miracle in mind
In the heat of the night
I left it all behind

Girl stop rockin’
You’re driving me insane
I’m going out of my mind
And I won’t be back again

I’m a soldier of fortune
An ambassador of pain
I had the world on a string
And I threw it all away

Girl stop rockin’
You’re driving me insane
I’m going out of my mind
And I won’t be back again

Girl stop rockin’
You’re driving me insane
I’m going out of my mind
And I won’t be back again

Girl stop rockin’
You’re driving me insane
I’m going out of my mind
And I won’t be back again

I won't be back again

Writer/s: BRYAN FERRY, JOHNNY MARR
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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Bryan Ferry collaborated with Johnny Marr on this contemplative tune. He told All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton about working with the former Smiths guitarist. "Johnny is a very good spirit. I mean, he's, he's got a true rock and roll spirit. He lives the music and he's fantastic," he said.

"[This song has] a very sort of tender sort of bit of guitar, really," Ferry added, "which started with this riff that Johnny was playing in the studio. And we built it up from that."

Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender

Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Born In The U.S.A.
Released: 1984

No Surrender Lyrics

Well, we bursted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down

[Chorus:]
Well, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, No Surrender
Like soldiers in the winter's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Well, now young faces grow sad and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
Now I'm ready to grow young again
And hear your sister's voice calling us home
Across the open yards
Well maybe we'll cut someplace of own
With these drums and these guitars

'Cause we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in the stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
There's a war outside still raging
You say it ain't ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath
Peaceful skies in my lover's bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams in my head

Once we made a promise we swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender
Blood brothers in a stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender

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Ohhhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh

Writer/s: CLIFF, JIMMY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Springsteen wrote this about the inspirational power of rock music. It came to represent his friendship with members of his band.

This was the last song chosen for the album. E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt had to convince Springsteen to put it on. Van Zandt had left the band, but remained close to Springsteen and would eventually play with him again.

The original title was "Brothers Under The Bridges."

Part of the chorus provided the title for Jean-Claude Van Damme's first movie, No Retreat, No Surrender.

Springsteen often performed a slower version of this at concerts. The version on the box set Live 1975-1985 is a slower, solo performance.

Taylor Swift scrawled a lyric from this song on her arm for a live show. She wrote: "We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school."

David Bowie - Tis A Pity She Was A Whore

David Bowie - Tis A Pity She Was A Whore Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
Released: 2014

Tis A Pity She Was A Whore Lyrics

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The B-Side of the 2014 single, "Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)," this song gets its title from a 17th century English play called 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

A tragedy written by John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore was first performed around 1630. Ford's failure to condemn his protagonist's incestuous passion for his sister made the play one of the most controversial works in English literature.

Bowie said the song was inspired by the destruction of World War I. "If Vorticists wrote rock music it might have sounded like this," he said, referring to the short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry that emerged just before the war began.

Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train

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Album: Born In The U.S.A.
Released: 1984

Downbound Train Lyrics

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Springsteen originally recorded this as an acoustic demo in 1982 along with the first version of "Born In The U.S.A." and most of the songs that would make up Nebraska.

This was one of about 70 songs Springsteen had to choose from for Born In The U.S.A.

This was the only song not on Nebraska covered on Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska. It was performed by Raul Malo of The Mavericks.

Mac Powell - 90 to Nothing

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Album: Southpaw
Released: 2014

90 to Nothing Lyrics

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This is a song from Mac Powell's sophomore country solo album, Southpaw. The Alabama native is best known for fronting Christian rockers Third Day and was asked by Taste of Country if the writing process is different for his Nashville records in terms of the kind of subject matter he can consider. "Absolutely," Powell replied. "Doing Christian music, it's such a serious subject, and so there's so many songs that are serious. And it's hopeful, and it's encouraging, but what's so much fun about country music is being free to write these stories, to be just kind of able to make up stories."

Powell added that this song is, "just basically a girl broke my heart, and she's coming back to town so I'm leaving kind of story."

"Well, that's not really something that's true in my life, but I get to kind of play this character, It's like writing for a movie or TV show," he continued. "I get to play this character and totally make up this story, and that's fun. And it's not that it's not done in Christian music, but it's not done as much. In country music, that's kind of what it is."

The song is a collaboration with country music singer Travis Tritt, whom Powell first met many years previously. "People have told me that we have similar voices and I sound a little bit like him, when I know that actually he's a much better singer than I am," he explained laughing. "He's amazing."

Powell told Taste of Country how he penned the song with Tritt. "We met for dinner. We live about 20 minutes apart — I tell people there's something in the water, that's why we sound alike — but we hit it off, and it was great for me to ask some questions, bounce some ideas off of him and hear some stories from him about his past and his history in country music. So we kept saying, 'Hey, we've got to write some time,' and finally when it was time for me to go into the studio, I just texted him — I think it was only a day or two before — and I said, 'Hey, I know you're super busy, but I'm gonna be in the studio if you want to drop by and say hey, or play or sing on the record, or write some music. We're gonna be here.'"

"So he actually came over two days in a row, and we sat down and developed a couple of ideas that I had, and they ended up making the record," Powell continued. "And he actually ended up playing on the record, so it was a blast. Just to even hear him singing in the studio was amazing."

Bruce Springsteen - Darlington County

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Album: Born In The U.S.A.
Released: 1984

Darlington County Lyrics

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This was first recorded in May 1982, but was not released until Born In The U.S.A. was finished in 1984. Springsteen had written about 70 songs for the album, and this was one of the few that made it.

This is one of Springsteen's story songs, complete with interesting working-class characters and a road trip. It tells the story of two guys who head out of New York City looking for work in Darlington County, South Carolina. They don't find work but they do find trouble, as one of them ends up getting arrested.

Springsteen originally wrote this for his 1978 album Darkness On The Edge Of Town, but it didn't make the cut.

McBusted - What Happened To Your Band

McBusted - What Happened To Your Band Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: McBusted
Released: 2014

What Happened To Your Band Lyrics

Tonight, I feel like I just wanna let it go
And hang with a crowd that I don't even know
So I don't lose my mind
Back home, the words that I hear are so predictable
They fuck with my mind, make me miserable
They gotta know first hand
They wanna understand
What Happened To Your Band?
What are your future plans?
I'm like your biggest fan
Where'd you go, I've been lost without you, baby
Time moves slow, I ain't seen you on the TV lately
I walk through the neighbourhood where I used to live
And the only thing that people ask me is
What happened to your band?
What happened to your band?
What happened to your band?
What are your future plans?
I'm like your biggest fan
Where'd you go, I've been lost without you, baby
Time moves slow, I ain't seen you on the TV lately
Where'd you go (go go go)?
Time moves slow (slow slow slow)
Where'd you go, I've been lost without you, baby
Time moves slow, I ain't seen you on the TV lately
Where'd you go, I've been lost without you, baby
Time moves slow, I ain't seen you on the TV lately
What happened to your band?

Writer/s: BOURNE, JAMES / FIELDS, JOHN / HENRIKSEN, TOMMY / RAPHAEL, MICHAEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Walt Disney Music Company
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James Bourne wrote this following Busted's split in 2005. It finds him reflecting on his time between demise of his first band and the creation of McBusted. "It's what everyone asks you when they see you," Bourne told Digital Spy . "When I used to do my shopping, the lady at the till would be like, 'What happened to your band?' Everyone asked that question."

Harry Judd added: "That's what I love about the song. It was one of the first songs we heard and knew James had. It's quite magic because it's what Matt and James went through after Busted. I love it for that, because it's like, 'F--k it - this is what happened: Hyde Park and a tour.'"

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.

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Album: Born In The U.S.A.
Released: 1984

Born In The U.S.A. Lyrics

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Springsteen wrote this about the problems Vietnam veterans encountered when they returned to America. Vietnam was the first war the US didn't win, and while veterans of other wars received a hero's welcome, those who fought in Vietnam were mostly ignored when they returned to the states.

The original title was "Vietnam." The director Paul Schrader sent Springsteen a script for a movie called Born In The U.S.A., about a rock band struggling with life and religion. This gave Bruce the idea for the new title. Unfortunately for Schrader, when he was finally ready to make the movie in 1985, the title "Born In The U.S.A." was too associated with the song. Springsteen helped him out however, providing the song "Light Of Day," which became the new title for Schrader's movie and the feature song in the film.

This is one of the most misinterpreted songs ever. Most people thought it was a patriotic song about American pride, when it actually cast a shameful eye on how America treated its Vietnam veterans. Springsteen considers it one of his best songs, but it bothers him that it is so widely misinterpreted. With the rollicking rhythm, enthusiastic chorus, and patriotic album cover, it is easy to think this has more to do with American pride than Vietnam shame.

This is the first song and title track to one of the most popular albums ever - Born In The U.S.A. sold over 18 million copies. The single was released in England as a double A-side with "I'm On Fire."
It was the first song Springsteen wrote for the album. He first recorded it on January 3, 1982 on the tape that became his album Nebraska later that year.

While campaigning in New Jersey in 1984, Ronald Reagan said in his speech: "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. It rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen. And helping you make those dreams come true is what this job of mine is all about."

Springsteen talked about this in a 2005 interview with National Public Radio. Said Bruce: "This was when the Republicans first mastered the art of co-opting anything and everything that seemed fundamentally American, and if you were on the other side, you were somehow unpatriotic. I make American music, and I write about the place I live and who I am in my lifetime. Those are the things I'm going to struggle for and fight for."
Speaking of how the song was misinterpreted, he added: "In my songs, the spiritual part, the hope part is in the choruses. The blues, and your daily realities are in the details of the verses. The spiritual comes out in the choruses, which I got from Gospel music and the church."

Chrysler offered Springsteen $12 million to use this in an ad campaign with Bruce. Springsteen turned them down so they used "The Pride Is Back" by Kenny Rogers instead. Springsteen has never let his music be used to sell products.

This song inspired the famous Annie Leibowitz photo of Springsteen's butt against the backdrop of an American flag. Bruce had to be convinced to use it as the album's cover. Some people thought it depicted Springsteen urinating on the flag.
Looking back on the cover in a 1996 interview with NME, Springsteen said: "I was probably working out my own insecurities, y'know? That particular image is probably the only time I look back over pictures of the band and it feels like a caricature to me."

According to Max Weinberg, Bruce attempted to do the song in a rockabilly trio style, with a country beat.

The drum solo towards the end of the song was completely improvised. Drummer Max Weinberg said that the band was recording in an oval-shaped studio, with the musicians separated into different parts. Springsteen, at the front, suddenly turned towards Weinberg (at the back) after singing and waved his hands in the air frantically to signal drumming. Weinberg then nailed it.

Eight minutes were cut from the song, which Max Weinberg said went on into a psychedelic jam. (thanks, Marshall - Sacramento, CA, for above 3)

Bruce performed solo, acoustic versions on his tours in 1996 and 1999. He wanted to make sure the audience understood the song.

Springsteen allowed notorious rap group The 2 Live Crew to sample this for their song "Banned In The U.S.A." in 1990, after the group was arrested for performing songs with obscene lyrics. Bruce felt they had a constitutional right to say whatever they wanted in their songs.

This was recorded live in the studio in three takes.

Richard "Cheech" Marin parodied this in the song "Born In East L.A.," which came from his 1987 movie of the same name. Sample lyrics:
"Next thing I know, I'm in a foreign land
People talkin' so fast, I couldn't understand." (thanks, Margaret - Buellton, CA)

Born In The U.S.A. was the first CD manufactured in the United States for commercial release. It was pressed when CBS Records opened its CD manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1984. Discs previously had been imported from Japan.

The children's TV show Sesame Street reworked this as "Barn In The U.S.A.," credited to Bruce Stringbean and the S. Street Band. Check out the album cover in Song Images. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)

Springsteen's fist-pumping recitations of this lament for the plight of the Vietnam War veterans during his 1984-85 Born In The USA tour contributed to its mis-reading as a patriotic song by US right-wingers. Critic Greil Marcus wrote: "Clearly the key to the enormous explosion of Bruce's popularity is the misunderstanding… He is a tribute to the fact that people hear what they want to hear."

The video was directed by John Sayles, who wrote the screenplay for the 1978 movie Piranha and later directed the films Lone Star, Honeydripper and Eight Men Out . Most of the video is footage of Springsteen performing the song in concert - he wore the same outfit for a few consecutive shows so Sayles could get the shots (Springsteen didn't want to lip-synch). Other footage came from a Vietnamese neighborhood in Los Angeles and Springsteen's old stomping ground, Asbury Park, New Jersey. The video stuck to the true meaning of the song, with shots of factory workers, regular folks walking the streets, soldiers training for combat, and a line of guys waiting for payday loans. Sayles said in the book I Want My MTV: "It was right around the time that Ronald Reagan had co-opted 'Born In The U.S.A.' and Reagan, his policies were everything that the song was complaining about. I think some of the energy of the performance came from Bruce deciding, 'I'm going to claim this song back from Reagan.'"

This was not the first hit song to tell a story about a Vietnam veteran's return to America. In 1982, The Charlie Daniels Band took "Still in Saigon" to #22 in America. That song was written by Dan Daley, who felt that only two artists were right for it. "Since it was such a political song, the strategy was there were only two artists that it would make sense to give it to," Daley told us . "One was Bruce Springsteen and the other was Charlie Daniels. Because both had made public statements in support of Vietnam veterans."

One Direction - 18

One Direction - 18 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Four
Released: 2014

18 Lyrics

I got a heart and I got a soul
Believe me I will use them both
We made a start
Be it a false one, I know
Baby, I don’t want to feel alone

So kiss me where I lay down
My hands press to your cheeks
A long way from the playground

I have loved you since we were 18
Long before we both thought the same thing
To be loved, to be in love
All I can do is say that these arms were made for holding you
I wanna love like you made me feel
When we were 18

We took a chance
God knows we tried
Yet all along, I knew we’d be fine

So pour me a drink oh love,
Let’s split the night wide open and we’ll see everything
We can live in love in slow motion, motion, motion

So kiss me where I lay down
My hands press to your cheeks
A long way from the playground

I have loved you since we were 18
Long before we both thought the same thing
To be loved and to be in love
And all I can do is say that these arms are made for holding you, ooh
And I wanna love like you made me feel
When we were 18

When we were 18
Oh lord, when we were 18

Kiss me where I lay down
My hands press to your cheeks
A long way from the playground

I have loved you since we were 18
Long before we both thought the same thing

To be loved and to be in love
And all I can do is say that these arms were made for holding you
And I want a love like you made me feel
When we were 18
I want a love like you made me feel
When we were 18
I want a love like you made me feel

When we were 18

Writer/s: SHEERAN, ED / FRANK, OLIVER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was written by Ed Sheeran, who previously penned One Direction's Take Me Home tracks "Little Things" and "Over Again," as well as "Moments" from the deluxe version of their debut album.

Ed explained to Nova's Kent 'Smallzy' Small that he initially declined Simon Cowell's request for him to pen a song for 4. "I wasn't gonna do it... basically, my record label got very annoyed that my first #1 was a song that I gave to someone else," he said, "and they were kind of like "don't do it."'

However, while in Copenhagen, inspiration struck and Ed, "went into the rest room, where it's big and reverberative" and penned the tune. He said that his record label didn't mind as, "it's one of these songs that I wouldn't have used for myself, it's written specifically for them."

Simon Cowell explained to Capital Radio how the collaboration came about. "The funny story was that Ed came down to see me at Got Talent, as he was performing. He came up to the dressing room and I went, 'Where's the One Direction song?' And he said, 'I didn't know you wanted a song from me', and I went, 'Yeah'."

"And then literally a week later he comes round to my house with his manager one night, turned up around 11 o'clock and said, 'Do you like this song?' and he played me '18' and it took me about a millionth of a second to say yes."

Bruce Springsteen - My Father's House

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Album: Nebraska
Released: 1982

My Father's House Lyrics

Last night I dreamed that I was a child
Out where the pines grow wild and tall
I was trying to make it home through the forest
Before the darkness falls

I heard the wind rustling through the trees
And ghostly voices rose from the fields
I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path
With the devil snappin' at my heels

I broke through the trees, and there in the night
My Father's House stood shining hard and bright
The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms
But I ran till I fell, shaking in his arms

I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts
I got dressed, and to that house I did ride
From out on the road, I could see its windows shining in light

I walked up the steps and stood on the porch
A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door
I told her my story, and who I'd come for
She said "I'm sorry, son, but no one by that name lives here anymore"

My father's house shines hard and bright
It stands like a beacon calling me in the night
Calling and calling, so cold and alone
Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned

Writer/s: GIBB, BARRY / GIBB, ROBIN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This was the last song Springsteen finished for Nebraska, an album that became solo Springsteen when he felt adding the band detracted from the feel of the songs.

Springsteen wrote this based on childhood memories of his family, and his distant relationship with his father. Other songs where Springsteen alludes to his father include "Factory," "Independence Day," and "Adam Raised A Cain."

Frank Sinatra - The Best Is Yet To Come

Frank Sinatra - The Best Is Yet To Come Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: It Might As Well Be Swing
Released: 1964

The Best Is Yet To Come Lyrics

Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum
You came along and everything's startin' to hum
Still, it's a real good bet, The Best Is Yet To Come
Best is yet to come and babe, won't that be fine?
You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine
Wait till the warm-up's underway
Wait till our lips have met
And wait till you see that sunshine day
You ain't seen nothin' yet
The best is yet to come and babe, won't it be fine?
Best is yet to come, come the day you're mine
Come the day you're mine
I'm gonna teach you to fly
We've only tasted the wine
We're gonna drain the cup dry
Wait till your charms are right for these arms to surround
You think you've flown before, but baby, you ain't left the ground
Wait till you're locked in my embrace
Wait till I draw you near
Wait till you see that sunshine place
Ain't nothin' like it here
The best is yet to come and babe, won't it be fine?
The best is yet to come, come the day you're mine
Come the day you're mine
And you're gonna be mine

Writer/s: LEIGH, CAROLYN / COLEMAN, CY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Though popularized by Frank Sinatra in 1964, this Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh-penned song was written for Tony Bennett, who introduced it on his 1962 album, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Sinatra's version was a collaboration with Count Basie's Orchestra and was arranged by Quincy Jones.

This was the last song Frank Sinatra would perform in public. That performance took place on February 25, 1995, the last day of the Frank Sinatra Desert Classic Golf Tournament. Three years later, he would die of a heart attack, and the phrase "The Best Is Yet To Come" would be etched into his gravestone.

Michael Buble covered this for his 2007 album, Call Me Irresponsible.

James Darren, who recorded this for his 1999 album, This One's From the Heart, sang it with Avery Brooks that same year on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the episode "Badda-Bing Badda Bang."

Tony Bennett's version was the wake-up song for the Apollo 10 crew on May 22, 1969.

Bruce Springsteen - Used Cars

Bruce Springsteen - Used Cars Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Nebraska
Released: 1982

Used Cars Lyrics

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Springsteen: "The exciting story of my own personal life."

Springsteen wrote this from the viewpoint of him as a child. He would often introduce this by sharing various childhood memories.

Recorded as a demo by Springsteen on a 4-track tape recorder in his house. After trying it with the band, he decided this and the other songs that would make up Nebraska sounded best as he originally recorded them.

Ani DiFranco covered this in 2000 on Badlands, a tribute album of songs from the album Nebraska.