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Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Graceland
Released: 1986

You Can Call Me Al Lyrics

A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don't find this stuff amusing anymore

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You Can Call Me Al

A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where's my wife and family
What if I die here
Who'll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

A man walks down the street
It's a street in a strange world
Maybe it's the Third World
Maybe it's his first time around
He doesn't speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

Writer/s: SIMON, PAUL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Simon started recorded this song in South Africa, where he worked with local musicians and experimented with their sounds. He recorded with many different musicians while he was there, and he loved the work of the guys from a local group called Stimela, whose guitarist Ray Phiri came up with the riff for this song during one of their jam sessions. These recordings were edited together in New York by Simon's producer Roy Halee - a monumental task in the age of analog recording, since in South Africa, they rolled a lot of tape that Halee had to sort out with a series of splices.

The lyrics contain some intricate wordplay that Simon wrote very carefully around the track, and the character in the song symbolic of his South Africa experience. At the time, South Africa was divided by Apartheid, a policy that separated blacks and whites, and a cultural boycott was in place (check out the Songfacts on "Sun City"). Simon defied this boycott and went anyway, taking a lot of heat for his actions - even though his intentions were good, many black leaders in South Africa felt that any violation of the boycott hindered their cause. Because of the boycott, music from the area was secluded, and when Simon released Graceland, he brought the music of the country to the world. In the documentary Under African Skies, Simon explained: "'You Can Call Me Al' is really the story of somebody like me, who goes to Africa with no idea and ends up having an extraordinary spiritual experience."

This song is about a self-obsessed person becoming aware of his surroundings. In a 1990 interview with SongTalk magazine, Simon explained: "'You Can Call Me Al' starts off very easily with sort of a joke: 'Why am I soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?' Very easy words. Then it has a chorus that you can't understand. What is he talking about, you can call me Betty, and Betty, you can call me Al? You don't know what I'm talking about. But I don't think it's bothersome. You don't know what I'm talking about but neither do I. At that point.
The second verse is really a recapitulation: A man walks down the street, he says... another thing.
And by the time you get to the third verse, and people have been into the song long enough, now you can start to throw abstract images. Because there's been a structure, and those abstract images, they will come down and fall into one of the slots that the mind has already made up about the structure of the song.
So now you have this guy who's no longer thinking about the mundane thoughts, about whether he's getting too fat, whether he needs a photo opportunity, or whether he's afraid of the dogs in the moonlight and the graveyard."

So where did "Al" and "Betty" in this song come from? That stems from a 1970 party that Simon hosted with his wife, Peggy Harper. Simon's friend, the composer Stanley Silverman, brought along another composer named Pierre Boulez, and when he made his exit, Boulez called Simon "Al" and his wife "Betty." Boulez was French, and he wasn't being rude - it was just his interpretation of what he heard - Paul=Al Peggy=Betty.

Silverman's son is Ben Silverman, a television mogul who was executive producer of the American version of The Office. In 2011, Ben commissioned a work composed by his dad called "Les Folies d'Al," which includes variations of "You Can Call Me Al" and is a send-up of the incident.

This was the first single off Graceland, which won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 1988. It was Simon's first hit since 1980, when "Late In The Evening" went to #6 in the US.

The best we can tell, this is by far the biggest hit containing a penny whistle solo. It was played by Jy Morr (Morris) Goldberg, a white South African who was living in New York.

Simon arranged for some of the musicians who played on this song, including guitarist Ray Phiri, bass player Bakithi Kumalo and drummer Isaac Mtshali, to came to America, where they worked on some other tracks for the album and backed Simon when he appeared on Saturday Night Live, where he performed this song on May 10, 1986, a few months before the album was released. These musicians later accompanied Simon on his worldwide tour for Graceland.

The video featured Chevy Chase lip-synching the vocals while Simon pretended to play various instruments. Most videos at the time were "Performance Videos," meaning the bands would pretend to be playing the song. This video did a great job mocking them. The clip was also notable for its simplicity - it was shot in a small, unadorned room using a single camera.

When they recorded the tracks for this song in South Africa, Simon and his producers were sure they had a hit with this song. Even though the Graceland album did very well, this song was a slow starter. The single did well in the UK, where it made #4 in September 1986, but in America, it stalled at #44 in October. After the album and video gained momentum, the song was reissued with more promotion in March 1987, and this time it went to #23 in the US. It was Simon's last Top 40 hit in America.

Al Gore used this while he was running for Vice President in 1992. Simon has played at various Democratic fund raisers.

This echoes a line from the folk song, "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime," about a guy who has fallen on hard times:
Say, don't you remember?
They called me Al
It was Al all the time.

Say, don't you remember?
I'm your pal.
Brother, can you spare a dime? (thanks, Andy - Los Angeles, CA)

The University of Florida band plays the tune to "You Can Call Me Al" at every basketball game and has done so for a number of years. It serves at an unofficial theme for the basketball team. The student section at the O'Connell Center (where the basketball team plays) is called the Rowdy Reptiles and while the song plays students sing along with "Da da da da, da da da da..." waving their hands with the music. (thanks to Gator fan and alumnus Sarah Burchfield)

A Day to Remember - I'm Already Gone

A Day to Remember - I'm Already Gone Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Common Courtesy
Released: 2013

I'm Already Gone Lyrics

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This acoustic lament was written by vocalist Jeremy McKinnon on the tour bus during the band's 2009 tour with Bring Me the Horizon in the UK. It was demoed acoustically a couple of years later before being included on the Common Courtesy album.

The music video was shot in London. "The song was actually written in the UK, so it just seemed fitting to do a video that was based there for it," vocalist McKinnon told MTV News. "It was just cool to see the city like that. It was different for us, and that's why I liked it. It turned a rainy day into an experience I'll never forget."

The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie

The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Everly Brothers - They're Off And Running!
Released: 1957

Wake Up Little Susie Lyrics

Wake up, little Susie, wake up
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
We've both been sound asleep, wake up, little Susie, and weep
The movie's over, it's four o'clock, and we're in trouble deep
Wake Up Little Susie
Wake up little Susie, well

Whatta we gonna tell your mama
Whatta we gonna tell your pa
Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say â??ooh-la-laâ??
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie, well

I told your mama that you'd be in by ten
Well Susie baby looks like we goofed again
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie, we gotta go home

Wake up, little Susie, wake up
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
The movie wasn't so hot, it didn't have much of a plot
We fell asleep, our goose is cooked, our reputation is shot
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie, well

Whatta we gonna tell your mama
Whatta we gonna tell your pa
Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say â??ooh-la-laâ??
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie
Wake up little Susie

Writer/s: B BRYANT, F BRYANT
Publisher: HOUSE OF BRYANT PUBLICATIONS
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This was written by the husband and wife team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, who wrote most of The Everly Brothers songs in the '50s. Their songs were also recorded by Bob Dylan, Elvis, and Buddy Holly.

This is about a young couple who fall asleep at the drive-in, realize they are out past curfew, and make up a story to tell Susie's parents.

Some Boston radio stations banned this because of the lyrics, which imply that the young couple spent the night together. At the time, staying out late with a girl was a little controversial.

For The Everly Brothers, this was the first of 4 US #1 hits. It also went to #1 on the Country & Western charts.

At an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show while campaigning for President in year 2000, George W. Bush was asked by Oprah what his favorite song was. He said: "Wake Up Little Susie - by Buddy Holly."

Simon and Garfunkel played this at their 1981 concert in Central Park. The live recording was released as a single the next year and hit #27 in the US.

Chet Atkins played guitar on this. Atkins, who died of cancer in 2001, was a Nashville musician who created a distinctive sound using a 3-fingered picking technique.

Azealia Banks - BBD

Azealia Banks - BBD Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Broke With Expensive Taste
Released: 2012

BBD Lyrics

Uh
Let me get that
Let me get that ooh
I get it when I get that ooh
I spend it when I whip that

Flossin' on them haters
It’s that boss the bitch, that caker
Tricks that’s born to tip that shaker
He's forfeiting all that paper
Niggas coughing off that 8th of
I wanna hit them vapors
It’s that sporty bitch that game 'em
They calling me Super Sega hit that!

I’m just really out here livin'
Something like the new edition
They say I’m poison what’s the difference?
BBD Michael Bivins

All my bad bitches do it, bad bitches do it

I’m just stuntin' in stilettos
Holla playa hello
All them dusty bitches jello
I'm rising, I split that ghetto
It’s that time, look at that bezel
Dining with that cello
Freaky-fine, a China fellow
He's pumpin' banana yellow, get that

Let me get that
Let me get that ooh
When I spit that, I'ma spit that ooh
When i hit that, lemme hit that ooh
I get it when I get that ooh
I spend it when they get that ooh

I spend it when I get that ooh
Fine, feminine I whip that woop
Dram-Drama? Niggas get that deuce
Ram-bam-a-lamma flip that loot
Gam champ her jiggy jam on loop
Damn fam, what ya man gon' do?
I get it when whip that woop
I spend it when they spend that loot
Wilding wit my bitches
I be styling with my bitches
Pretty eyes and long extensions they smiling in all them pictures
I be rising with my bitches
Riding with my bitches
We the finest of them bitches
We diamonds, it's diamond district!
Get that ice nigga, ice nigga
Bitch wanna freeze like white winter
She needs the g's, that price went up
She need to see that bright shimmer
He wanna get that nice
Wanna fit that slice, want to see that spice simmer
She want it with that white nigga
Peachy-pinky-piped nigga
Be's what it be's, little breeze by the sea az, been about that life nigga
Tits out with your wife, nigga
I'm bringing out the dyke in her
XOXO fine scissor sister, 69 whip that
I get it when I get that
I spend it when I whip that

Let me get that
Let me get that ooh
When I spit that, I'm a spit that ooh
When I hit that, let me hit that ooh
I get it when I get that ooh
I spend it when I spend that ooh

I’m just really out here living
Something like a New Edition
They say I’m poison, what’s the difference?
BBD, Michael Bivins

All my bad bitches do it, bad bitches do it

Writer/s: BANKS, AZEALIA / JAMES, KEVIN / GUERRERO, JOSE / HARRIS, JONATHAN / DIAMENT, SAMI / PACHERI-BARBIER, GUILLAUME
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, INGROOVES MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Originally released on New Year's Eve in 2012, this was later included on Banks' Broke With Expensive Taste album. The rapper described the cut at the time as "Trap, but it's Rave. it's Banjee, But still a lil classy."

The song title stands for "Bad Bitches Do It."

Fans of early '90s new jack swing will associate the BBD initialism with the New Edition offshoot group Bell Biv DeVoe, comprised of Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe. They had a hit (#26 US) in 1990 with "B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?"

The song was co-produced by Sup Doodle and New York beatmaker Apple Juice Kid, who is a multiple beat battle champion. His previous credits include Wale's "My Sweetie (Spray It)" and MC Lyte's "Rockin with the Best."

U2 - Elevation

U2 - Elevation Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

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

Elevation Lyrics

High, higher than the sun
You shoot me from a gun
I need you to elevate me here,
At the corner of your lips
As the orbit of your hips
Eclipse, you elevate my soul

I've lost all self-control
Been living like a mole
Now going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, Elevation

A star lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you could educate my mind
Explain all these controls
I can't sing but I've got soul
The goal is elevation

A mole, living in a hole
Digging up my soul, now
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation

Love, lift me up out of these blues
Won't you tell me something true
I believe in you

A mole, living in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation
Elevation

Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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A live performance was taped for British TV show Top Of The Pops on the rooftop of a hotel in Ireland that Bono and The Edge own. They also taped a performance of "Beautiful Day" for the show.

This was one of the first major-label releases made available for preview on the web before the song was released.

Their 2001 tour was "The Elevation Tour," and this was the first song in the set. U2 messed with convention by starting the show with the house lights still on. As the recorded intro music to this song played, the band would take the stage and start the show under the house lights. Somewhere in the middle of the song, the house lights would cut and the stage lights would come on. U2 tried this on the first show of the tour, and the response was so strong that they did it for the remainder of the tour. (thanks, Dave - Philly, PA)

A remixed version was included on the soundtrack to the 2001 movie Tomb Raider, starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. A video for this was made featuring a "good" U2 doing battle with an "evil" U2, who kidnaps The Edge. Croft rescues him, and the U2s face off in a street jam. It was directed by Joseph Kahn, who also helmed the band's "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" video.

Bono's laptop computer containing lyrics to the songs on the album was stolen in 1999. It was recovered by an Irish man who bought the stolen computer, and discovered the lyrics. He turned it in for a reward.

The Elevation Tour was the most profitable tour in the US in 2001. It grossed $143 million in 113 dates.

Won the 2001 Grammy for Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocal. U2 won 4 awards that night, including Best Rock Album.

Cheryl Cole - All In One Night

Cheryl Cole - All In One Night Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Only Human
Released: 2014

All In One Night Lyrics

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This song is about Cheryl's belief in love at first sight. The former Girls Aloud singer contributed a large amount to the writing of the Only Human album, co-penning eight tracks in total, including the #1 singles, "Crazy Stupid Love" and "I Don't Care."

EMF - Unbelievable

EMF - Unbelievable Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Schubert Dip
Released: 1990

Unbelievable Lyrics

You burden me with your questions
You'd have me tell no lies
You're always asking what it's all about
Now listen to my replies
You say to me I don't talk enough
But when I do I'm a fool
These times I've spent, I've realized
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you

The things, you say
Your purple prose just gives you away
The things, you say
You're Unbelievable
You burden me with your problems
By telling me more than mine
I'm always so concerned
With the way you say,
You've always go to stop
To think of us being one
Is more than I ever know
But this time, I realize
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you

Seemingly lastless, don't mean
You can ask us
Pushing down the relative
Bringing out your higher self
Think of the fine times, pushing
Down the better few, instead of
Bringing out the clues, to what the
World and everything anger to, brace
Yourself with the grace of ease,
I know this world ain't what it seems.
What the fuck was that,
It's unbelievable

Writer/s: WALLACE, CHRISTOPHER/MARTIN, CHRISTOPHER E/KELLY, ROBERT S
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is about a girl who is "unbelievable" in the sense that she is very demanding and offers nothing in return - the singer feels he can do nothing right when he's around her.

This used a sample of raunchy comedian Andrew "Dice" Clay saying "Oh," followed on the album version by "What the f--k was that!"

EMF was led by their guitarist Ian Dench, who is also their primary songwriter, although the entire band was credited on this track. Dench was in a band called Apple Mosaic, who had a contract with Virgin Records but little impact. He formed EMF with some spirited young musicians from around England, and their first album, Schubert Dip, placed four songs in the UK Top 40, with "Unbelievable" peaking at #3 in November, 1990. Six months later, the song broke out in America, where its quirky charm was embraced by Pop radio and dance clubs looking for a new sound. Their US success was short lived, as they did little promotion in the country (their mainman Dench didn't even join them for their tour of the States in the summer of 1991), and after the #18 charting song "Lies," they weren't heard from Stateside again. The band members who did come to America apparently had a pretty good time; their keyboard player Derry Brownson and bass player Zac Foley were just 20 years old, and their hedonism on tour was a common topic in interviews. The band's follow-up album Stigma was a more somber affair, but did produce two more UK Top 40 hits. The band charted nine times in the UK Top 40 by 1995.

On their only American tour, EMF played this multiple times at every show. It was the only song most of the audience had heard of.

Tom Jones played this at some of his live shows, to the delight of the band. Jones performed the song with EMF on a British TV show where he told them about how he sang it in Vegas. According to the band, Jones got them really drunk that night.

This was used on the soundtrack to the movie Coyote Ugly.

The CD single for this contains a song with no title, it only says "EMF live at the Bilson," and contained the lyric: "Ectasy Motherf--ker From us to you." This adds fuel to the rumor their name means Ecstasy Mother F--ker. (thanks, chet - saratoga springs, NY)

Damien Rice - The Greatest Bastard

Damien Rice - The Greatest Bastard Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Released: 2014

The Greatest Bastard Lyrics

I made you laugh, I made you cry
I made you open up your eyes
Didn't I?

I helped you open out your wings,
your legs, and many other things
Didn't I?

Am I The Greatest Bastard that you know?
The only one who let you go?
The one you hurt so much you cannot bear?

Well we were good, when we were good
When we were not misunderstood

You helped me love, you helped me live
You helped me learn how to forgive
Didn't you?

I wish that I could say the same
But when you left, you left the blame
Didn't you?

Am I the greatest bastard that you met?
The only one you can't forget?
Am I the one your truth's been waiting for?

Or am I just dreaming once again?
Some dreams are better when they end

Some make it, mistake it
Some force and some will fake it
I never meant to let you down
Some fret it, forget it
Some ruin and some regret it
I never meant to let you down

We learn to wag and tuck our tails
We learn to win and then to fail
Didn't we?

We learn that lovers love to sing
And that losers love to cling
Didn't we?

Am I the greatest bastard that you know?
When will we learn to let this go?
We fought so much, we've broken all the charm

But letting go is not the same
As pushing someone else away

So please don't let on
You don't know me
Please don't let on
I'm not here
Please don't let on
You don't love me
'Cause I know you do
I know

That some make it, mistake it
Some force and some will fake it
I never meant to let you down
Some fret it, forget it
Some ruin and some regret it
I never meant to let you down
I never meant to let you
I never meant to let you down
I never meant

Writer/s: RICE, DAMIEN GEORGE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The Guardian commented to Rice that the lyrics for this My Favourite Faded Fantasy song are so raw and self-baiting, they make uncomfortable listening. "I find it joyous, really joyous, actually," he replied referring to the album. "Because I've done a lot of work on each of the individual situations, and the songs are almost like constant reminders for me to keep elevating myself out of the hole I might have dug in a particular situation."

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Released: 1974

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Lyrics

And The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.

Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.
The Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their fun.
Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show,
It's the same old ending-time to go.
Get out!
It seems they cannot leave their dream.
There's something moving in the sidewalk steam,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.

Nightime's flyers feel their pains.
Drugstore takes down the chains.
Metal motion comes in bursts,
But the gas station can quench that thirst.
Suspension cracked on unmade road
The trucker's eyes read 'Overload'
And out on the subway,
Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid
Exits into daylight, spraygun hid,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.

The lamb seems right out of place,
Yet the Broadway street scene finds a focus in its face.
Somehow it's lying there,
Brings a stillness to the air.
Though man-made light, at night is very bright,
There's no whitewash victim,
As the neons dim, to the coat of white.
Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid,
Wipes his gun-he's forgotten what he did,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.

Suzanne tired her work all done,
Thinks money-honey-be on-neon.
Cabman's velvet glove sounds the horn
And the sawdust king spits out his scorn.
Wonder women draw your blind!
Don't look at me! I'm not your kind.
I'm Rael!
Something inside me has just begun,
Lord knows what I have done,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
On Broadway-
They say the lights are always bright on Broadway.
They say there's always magic in the air.

Writer/s: RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL/GABRIEL, PETER/COLLINS, PHIL
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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This tells the story of Rael, a poor Puerto Rican boy from The Bronx. As "The Lamb," Rael goes on an adventure in New York City. Peter Gabriel explained to The Daily Telegraph September 30, 2014 that the album, "was intended to be an intense story of a young rebellious Puerto Rican in New York who would face challenges with family, authority, sex, love and self-sacrifice to learn a little more about himself. I wanted to mix his dreams with his reality, in a kind of urban rebel Pilgrim's Progress."

The full story is in the liner notes of the album.

This was the basis for an elaborate stage production Genesis performed at concerts. It was on this tour that Peter Gabriel decided to leave the band.

There are references to classic songs throughout the album, and this track recalls "On Broadway," which was a hit for The Drifters in 1963.

On their 1974 tour, Genesis played the album from start to finish. Gabriel wore several costumes throughout the show, including a grotesque mask during "The Colony Of Slippermen."

This was the first song and title track to the double album which was the last Peter Gabriel contribution to Genesis.

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was a song-cycle whose hero Rael shared a name with "Rael (1 and 2)," a track on The Who's 1967 album, The Who Sell Out. Mojo April 2010 asked Peter Gabriel if it was a conscious tribute to The Who's Pete Townshend. He replied: "It was a subconscious tribute because I certainly wasn't aware of it at the time. I spent a long time thinking of that name, like Ra the Sun God. But I was a big Who fan, so it may have got in there. Obviously Townshend created much of the musical environment and delivered the angst with an intelligence and passion and extraordinary musicality. But to this day, as a drummer, I think Keith Moon was the unacknowledged genius. He was like Jimi Hendrix: when he was on - and he wasn't always - it flowed out of him in a free way that was inspiring, driving, magnificent."

Peter Gabriel's insistence on writing the story and all the lyrics himself for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway created friction amongst his bandmates. Tony Banks recalled in Uncut magazine October 2008: "Having done 'Supper's Ready' (the 23-minute song on Foxtrot)) we decided we wanted to go for a concept album, and make a double album. We agreed the concept, which Peter came up with. Then he said that he really wanted to write all the lyrics, which was difficult for us because we'd always split all the lyrics among us all." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

Echosmith - Tell Her You Love Her

Echosmith - Tell Her You Love Her Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Talking Dreams
Released: 2014

Tell Her You Love Her Lyrics

Tell her a story
Tell her the honest truth
You treat her better
Make sure to see it through

Don't be just everything she wants
Be everything she needs
When she says she loves you
Tell Her You Love Her too

Oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh

Give her a reason
Reason to love all you do

She'll tell you secrets
You'll tell her secrets too
She'll tell you all her hopes and dreams
You'll tell them too

When she says she loves you
Tell her you love her too
Tell her you love her too

But don't you run away run away
When you get tired
'Cause this will slip away slip away
And start a fire
That can never be put out
Oh hurry time is running out
But don't you run away run away
Before you say
You love her

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh

When she says she needs you
Tell her you need her too
You tell her clearly
Speak what your heart wants you to
Tell her she's lovely
Always tell her the truth

When she says she loves you
Tell her you love her too
But don't you run away run away
When you get tired
'Cause this will slip away slip away
And start a fire
That can never be put out
Oh hurry time is running out
But don't you run away run away
Before you say
You love her

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh
Oh oh, oh oh oh oh, oh oh

Writer/s: JEFFERY DAVID SIEROTA, SYDNEY SIEROTA, JAMIE SIEROTA, GRAHAM SIEROTA, NOAH SIEROTA
Publisher: REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Tell Her You Love Her Song Chart

Vocalist Sydney Sierota told Artist Direct she enjoys seeing how fans respond to this song when the band play it at gigs. "There are people who will put their arm around their friend, or sometimes people will start making out. I always think that's funny. It's great to see how people respond to that song," she said.

"At the beginning, I always say it means a lot to me, and I want them to really relate to it as well. It's cool to see how people take that," Sydney continued. "A song can mean something to an artist, and it can also mean another thing to a fan. It can mean something completely different to another fan standing next to them. It's great to see what people do during that song, it warms my heart."

Bruce Springsteen - Youngstown

Bruce Springsteen - Youngstown Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Ghost Of Tom Joad
Released: 1995

Youngstown Lyrics

Youngstown Song Chart

This is about an unemployed steelworker in Youngstown, Ohio. Most people think that Bruce is singing this song to a woman named Jenny ("my sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down" etc.), but "Jenny" is the nickname given to the Blast Furnace at Youngstown steelworks - The Jeanette Blast Furnace (named after the daughter of W.A. Thomas, who was the President of Brier Hill Steel). It's common practice at steelworks to have nicknames for blast furnaces - for example, at Scunthorpe steelworks in the UK the four furnaces are known as Bess, Victoria, Anne and Mary (after 4 Queens of England/Britain). The fact that Bruce's character is singing to the furnace, rather than a person, changes the song considerably. (thanks, Alex - Newport, Scotland)

Springsteen wrote this as part of a series of songs on The Ghost Of Tom Joad where one character develops into another.

This revisits a common Springsteen theme: the division between the wealthy and the working class.

Springsteen performed this on the 1999 E-Street Band reunion tour.

Foo Fighters - In The Clear

Foo Fighters - In The Clear Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sonic Highways
Released: 2014

In The Clear Lyrics

There are days I might not make it
There are days I might start brakin’
When the rain starts coming down as heavy as the air
You can find me dancing with the spear
It’s in the square god damn I swear

There are times I feel like givin' in
There are times I begin to begin again
Look outside the world keeps spinning like a paddle wheel
Rolling for the broken hearted waiting on the heel

You know I'm not In The Clear
You are not in the clear
Don’t you go count me out now dear

You know I'm not in the clear
You are not in the clear
Don’t you go count me out now dear

In the clear

There are places I don't remember
There are faces I don't remember
How could I forget you painted stars into the sky
Coming like a reaper marching in the second life

You know I'm not in the clear
You are not in the clear
Don’t you go count me out now dear

You know I'm not in the clear
You are not in the clear
Don’t you go count me out now dear

In the clear

And if I should drown
May this be the sound
To wash me out!

You know I'm not in the clear
You are not in the clear
Don’t you go count me out now dear

You know I'm not in the clear
You are not in the clear
Don’t you go count me out now dear

In the clear

Writer/s: NATE MENDEL, DAVE GROHL, OLIVER HAWKINS, PAT SMEAR, CHRIS SHIFLETT
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Foo Fighters recorded each track for Sonic Highways in a different US city. This tune was recorded in New Orleans' Preservation Hall, the Big Easy's home of jazz.

The Pulse of Radio asked Foo bassist Nate Mendel which of the city's that the band visited was his favorite. "It's New Orleans, 'cause it's such a unique town and we — we just had fun there really, is what it came down to," he replied. "It wasn't a studio, we were in the Preservation Hall, which seems like it's a movie set — it doesn't even seem like a real building. And yeah, we just did things that like are so far out of our normal orbit of experience as a band."

This song features Preservation Hall Jazz Band who opened the Foo Fighters' surprise show at New Orleans' Preservation Hall in May 2014.