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Crazy Town - Butterfly

Crazy Town - Butterfly Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Gift Of Game
Released: 1999

Butterfly Lyrics

Come my lady
Come come my lady
You're my Butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby

Such a sexy, sexy pretty little thing
Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring
And I ain't gonna lie cause your loving gets me high
So to keep you by my side there's nothing that I won't try
Butterflies in her eyes and looks to kill
Time is passing I'm asking could this be real
Cause I can't sleep I can't hold still
The only thing I really know is she got sex appeal
I can feel too much is never enough
You're always there to lift me up
When these times get rough I was lost Now I'm found
Ever since you've been around
You're the women that I want
So yo, I'm putting it down

Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy

I don't deserve you unless it's some kind of hidden message
To show me life is precious
Then I guess it's true
But to tell truth, I really never knew
Til I met you See I was lost and confused
Twisted and used up
Knew a better life existed but thought that I missed it

My lifestyle's wild I was living like a wild child
Trapped on a short leash paroled the police files
So yo. what' s happening now?
I see the sun breaking down into dark clouds
And a vision of you standing out in a crowd

Come come my lady
You're my butterfly
Sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy

Hey sugar momma, come and dance with me
The smartest thing you ever did was take a chance with me
Whatever tickles your fancy
Girl it's you like Sid and Nancy
So sexy. almost evil Talkin' about butterflies in my head
I used to think happy endings were only in the books I read but
You made me feel alive when I was almost dead

You filled that empty space with the love I used to chase
And as far as I can see it don't get better than this
So butterfly, here is a song and it's sealed with a kiss
And a thank you miss

Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me
Come and dance with me
So come and dance with me

Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy
Come come my lady
You're my butterfly, sugar baby
Come my lady you're my pretty baby
I'll make your legs shake
You make me go crazy

Come and dance with me

Writer/s: BRET MAZUR, SETH BINZER, MICHAEL PETER BALZARY, CHAD G SMITH, ANTHONY KIEDIS, JOHN FRUSCIANTE
Publisher: THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY, MoeBeToBlame
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The album had been out for a year and a half before this became a hit. It was the third single from Crazy Town. They first released harder songs "Toxic" and "Darkside," which flopped. Crazy Town toured with Buckcherry, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Methods Of Mayhem for two years before this became a hit.

Crazy Town lead singer Shifty Shellshock (Seth Binzer) wrote this song about the girl he was seeing at the time. Most of the group's songs were full of macho swagger, which made her wary of Shellshock, so he set out to write something more romantic.

The two were living together at the time, and she collected butterflies. As Shellshock tells it, he was lying on the bed, thinking about what to call his song, when he spotted a butterfly on the ceiling. That gave him the title, and he later came up with the line, "You're my butterfly, sugar baby." He brought the idea to the band, and they loved the idea; they recorded the demo that very evening.

Unfortunately, things didn't work out for Shellshock and his butterfly girl - they were together for three years before a tough breakup.

This samples "Pretty Little Ditty" from The Red Hot Chili Peppers album Mother's Milk. After writing the lyrics, Shellshock asked his producer to give it a mellow feel similar to "Under The Bridge" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

This is an uncharacteristic pop song for Crazy Town. Their music is typically more aggressive rap-rock, but this was a huge crossover hit. It was played on rock, pop, and alternative radio stations.

MTV featured this on their 2001 spring break coverage from Cancun.

The video was directed by a team that worked on the movies The Matrix and What Dreams May Come. It is based on the images from What Dreams May Come.

Many bands resent their first hit if it gets overexposed and does not really represent the sound of the band, but Shellshock still loves this. He has fond memories of how it made them very popular.

This was one of the songs targeted by the Federal Trade Commission in 2001 as inappropriate for underage listeners. The commission wanted advertising for this and many other songs to contain parental advisory warnings.

Shifty Shellshock's then-girlfriend Cynthia is in the music video.

Epic Mazur wore a DARE T-shirt in the video. The irony is apparent when you consider that Epic has been to rehab to avoid charges of cocaine possession and continued to smoke marijuana.

In 2002, this was honored by two different music publishing organizations. Crazy Town belongs to ASCAP, who gave them an award, but because this samples a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, and they are represented by rival company BMI, that organization also honored this. The awards indicate this got a lot of airplay on radio and MTV.

Nicole Scherzinger - Big Fat Lie

Nicole Scherzinger - Big Fat Lie Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Big Fat Lie
Released: 2014

Big Fat Lie Lyrics

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This song was inspired by Scherzinger's struggles with an eating disorder. "I guess it's me finally being comfortable and confident enough in my skin where I'm able to really talk about some of the things that I always concealed," she told Digital Spy .

"This is me finally being revealed. I think we all have our own big fat lies," Scherzinger continued. "The lies that we tell ourselves. You know, things aren't always what they seem. I think people will be able to relate to that. Part of where it came from is battling with an eating disorder for many years and recently, in the past few years, it's come out and people were talking to me about that."

"I realized that, even though it was a hard subject for me to talk about, when I did I was able to help other people and inspire other people battling any disorders or any diseases themselves."

Scherzinger explained why she decided to title the album after this song: "I noticed I had not really addressed that on the album and 'Big Fat Lie', I went to (producer) The Dream with that personally and I was like: 'This is a big part of who I am and what has gotten me here. And what has gotten me to this place of strength,'" she said. "I decided to title the album that because things aren't always what they seem. Facing those issues head-on is what has gotten me to my most authentic place now and a courageous place to be able to talk about it a lot and deal with it. Everybody's wanting that, everybody's wanting that peace, everyone's wanting clarity and acceptance in their life."

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Out Of Time
Released: 1991

Losing My Religion Lyrics

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The title is a Southern expression meaning "At my wit's end," as if things were going so bad you could lose your faith in God. If you were "Losing your religion" over a person, It could also mean losing faith in that person. (thanks, doug - chicago, IL)

Stipe told Rolling Stone magazine: "I wanted to write a classic obsession song. So I did." In addition to calling it a song about "obsession," Stipe has also referred to it as a song about "unrequited love" in which all actions and words of the object of your obsession are scrubbed for hidden meaning and hopeful signs. The lyrics pretty clearly support this: "I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing. I think I thought I saw you try." (thanks, Redstar - Redding, CT)

This song has its origins in guitarist Peter Buck's efforts to try learn to play the mandolin. When he played back recordings of his first attempts, he heard the riff and thought it might make a good basis for a song. Explaining how the song came together musically, Buck told Guitar School in 1991: "I started it on mandolin and came up with the riff and chorus. The verses are the kinds of things R.E.M. uses a lot, going from one minor to another, kind of like those 'Driver 8' chords. You can't really say anything bad about E minor, A minor, D, and G – I mean, they're just good chords.

We then worked it up in the studio – it was written with electric bass, drums, and mandolin. So it had a hollow feel to it. There's absolutely no midrange on it, just low end and high end, because Mike usually stayed pretty low on the bass. This was when we decided we'd get Peter (Holsapple) to record with us, and he played live acoustic guitar on this one. It was really cool: Peter and I would be in our little booth, sweating away, and Bill and Mike would be out there in the other room going at it. It just had a really magical feel.

And I'm proud to say every bit of mandolin on the record was recorded live – I did no overdubbing. If you listen closely, on one of the verses there's a place where I muffled it, and I thought, well, I can't go back and punch it up, because it's supposed to be a live track. That was the whole idea."

The band claims this is not about religion and loss of faith, although the video is full of religious imagery. Some Catholic groups protested the video.

In 2003, Stipe told Entertainment Weekly, "'Losing My Religion' was a fluke hit. It was a 5-minute song with no chorus and a mandolin as the lead instrument. So for us to hold that as the bar we have to jump over every time we write a song would be ridiculous."

This won the Grammy in 1991 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

The video was the first to show lead singer Michael Stipe dancing. The director, Tarsem Singh, hung out with the band to get ideas, and when he saw Stipe's spastic dance style, he thought it would look great in the video.

The video is based in part on Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings . The novel tells the story about an angel who falls down from heaven and how the people who make money displaying him as a "freak show." Michael Stipe is a big Marquez fan and the whole idea of obsession and unrequited love is the central theme of the author's masterpiece, Love in the Time of Cholera . The first line of the novel: "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." (thanks, Gabriela - Santiago, Chile)

This was given the working title of "Sugar Cane" when the band demoed it in July 1990 at a studio in Athens.

A common misinterpretation of this song is that it was about John Lennon's death, with the lyrics, "What if all these fantasies come flailing around" being a reference to Lennon's last album Double Fantasy.

Michael Stipe took a laid-back approach with this song: "I remember that I sang this in one go with my shirt off. I don't think any of us had any idea it would ever be ... anything," he noted in Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011. Peter Buck added that Warner Bros. didn't even want the song as a single, and everyone was surprised when it took off. "It changed our world. We went from selling a few million worldwide with Green to over 10 million. It was in that area where we had never been before which isn't bad," he said.

This was used on Beverly Hills, 90210 in the 1991 episodes "Beach Blanket Brandon" and "Down and Out of District in Beverly Hills"; on Smallville in the 2003 episode "Slumber"; on Glee in the 2010 episode "Grilled Cheesus"; and on Parks and Recreation in the 2013 episode "Filibuster."

OK Go - I Won't Let You Down

OK Go - I Won't Let You Down Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Hungry Ghosts
Released: 2014

I Won't Let You Down Lyrics

I Won't Let You Down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love
I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love

Now Nikki she's got no flag to fly
But she don't seem that much to mind
No she don't seem to mind

And you, you got your armor on
Nights out in Babylon, yeah
Nights out in Babylon

But maybe all you need is someone to trust
Maybe all you need is someone
Maybe all you need is someone to trust
Maybe all you need is someone

And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love
I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love

No I won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)

No I won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)

Emily's got no tricks to try
But she don't seem that much to mind
She don't seem to mind, not much to me

And you got what the whole world wants
So strap that armor tighter on
Double on down like it's gonna make you free

But maybe all you need is someone to trust
Maybe all you need is someone
Maybe all you need is someone to trust
Maybe all you need is someone

And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love
I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love

No I won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)

No I won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)
Won't let you down (won't let you down)

I won't let you down, baby
I won't let you down, baby

I won't let, won't let you down

I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love
I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love
I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
I won't let you down, my love

Writer/s: DAMIAN KULASH
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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OK Go frontman Damian Kulash said of this futuristic dance-floor banger to Purevolume : "'I Won't Let You Down' is the closest that spaceship OK Go has come to the planet disco. We were playing around with beats and grooves and stumbled upon one of those moments of alchemy where a ball of light just jumps out of the sound. Suddenly there was a flash of Jackson Five and Diana Ross and we knew we had something worth chasing."

The song's music video was shot in an abandoned warehouse in the Japanese city of Chiba, near Tokyo. The visual was directed by OK Go's Damian Kulash and film director Morihiro Harano. It features the band members riding motorized scooter chairs called UNI-CUBs made by Honda, which paid for the film. The clip was filmed in one single shot using an octocopter, a custom "multi-copter camera," which was developed for the project. It took approximately 55 attempts to get it right.

The video pans out over the city of Tokyo for an extra thirty seconds of silence at the end, which the director said was inspired by the Beatles' outros. "You know how, in some of their albums, a bonus track starts to play," Harano told Billboard magazine. "I wanted something that packed a bit more entertainment even after the main part was over."

R.E.M. - The One I Love

R.E.M. - The One I Love Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Document
Released: 1987

The One I Love Lyrics

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The lead vocal on the chorus contains just one word: "Fire," which Michael Stipe draws out into a long wail. In the background, you can hear bass player Mike Mills singing, "She's comin' down on her own, now."

Often misinterpreted as a love song, this is just the opposite. Michael Stipe describes this song as about using people over and over. It's deceptive because it could be a love song until the line, "A simple prop to occupy my time."

This is not based on any real person or event. The band made up the lyrics while they were on a tour.

For a while, Stipe thought this was too brutal a song to record. He told Q magazine in 1992: "It's probably better that they think it's a love song at this point. That song just came up from somewhere and I recognized it as being really violent and awful. But it wasn't directed at any one person. I would never write a song like that. Even if there was one person in the world thinking, This song is about me, I could never sing it or put it out... I didn't want to record that, I thought it was too much. Too brutal. I think there's enough of that ugliness around."

This was R.E.M.'s first hit song. They had been recording since 1981 and growing a following.

Bush played this at Woodstock '99 with a much harder sound. (thanks, James - Dartmouth, Canada)

Robert Longo directed the music video for this song, which has images of tenement buildings, dancers and lonely couples, mixed with sweeping clouds, lighting bolts and bursts of flame. The director of photography was Alton Brown, who would go on to be a Food Network star with shows like Good Eats, Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen.

Peter Buck came up with the riff on his porch. Mike Mills recalled to Uncut: "I remember Peter, showing me that riff and thinking it was pretty cool, and then the rest of the song flowed from there. We played the whole song as an instrumental until Michael (Stipe) came up with some vocals for it."

Sixx: A.M. - Miracle

Sixx: A.M. - Miracle Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Modern Vintage
Released: 2014

Miracle Lyrics

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The origins of this song lie in a conversation the band had about '70s guilty pleasures. "I remember we were outside at my house, sitting in a circle on this patio with guitars," Nikki Sixx recalled to Billboard magazine. "Conversation came up like, 'Let's make a record that everybody might laugh at. Let's talk about that.' And we all started talking about pulling from all this music that people wouldn't expect."

"Nobody wants to say they listen to the Bee Gees or ABBA," he continued. "Nobody wants to say that in a rock band, but let's face it: That is stellar songwriting. That is so defined, and we like so much music, but we were talking about the '70s in that conversation and I had been listening to a lot of the Bee Gees, and the guys started talking about stuff they liked about that genre, which was kind of a disco genre, and two songs came out. One is a bonus track called 'So Beautiful, Let It Haunt You' and one's called 'Miracle.'"

"When 'Miracle' first started you could listen to the original ideas -- just guitar, a little tiny loop, James kind of singing this melody line on the bass," Sixx added. "This does not sound like something our fans are going to understand. But we kept pushing on the idea. The core idea was how great those songs were, and we started figuring out why they were great."

Eagles - I Wish You Peace

Eagles - I Wish You Peace Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: One Of These Nights
Released: 1975

I Wish You Peace Lyrics

I Wish You Peace when the cold winds blow
Warmed by the fire's glow
I wish you comfort in the, the lonely time
And arms to hold you when you ache inside

I wish you hope when things are going bad
Kind words when times are sad
I wish you shelter from the, the raging wind
Cooling waters at the fever's end

I wish you peace when times are hard
The light to guide you through the dark
And when storms are high and your, your dreams are low

I wish you the strength to let love grow on
I wish you the strength to let love flow

I wish you peace when times are hard
A light to guide you through the dark
And when storms are high and your, you dreams are low
I wish you the strength to let let grown on
I wish you the strength to let love flow on
I wish you the strength to let love glow on
I wish you the strength to let love go

Writer/s: DAVIS, PATTI / LEADON, BERNIE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon wrote this with help from his girlfriend, Patti Davis. Davis is the youngest daughter of Ronald Reagan, who was governor of California at the time and went on to become president of the United States. She once posed for Playboy.

Slipknot - XIX

Slipknot - XIX Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: .5: The Gray Chapter
Released: 2014

XIX Lyrics

This song is not for the living
This song is for the dead

With my face against the floor
I can't see who knocked me out of the way
I don't want to get back up
But I have to, so it might as well be today
Nothing appeals to me, no one feels like me
I'm too busy being calm to disappear
I'm in no shape to be alone
Contrary to the shit that you might hear

So walk with me, walk with me
Don't let this symbolism kill your heart
Walk with me, walk with me
Just like we should have done right from the start
Walk with me, walk with me
Don't let this fucking world tear you apart

Writer/s: TAYLOR, COREY / CRAHAN, MICHAEL / ROOT, JAMES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The title of .5: The Gray Chapter and many of its songs concern Slipknot's founder bassist Paul Gray, who accidentally overdosed in 2010. This is the album's opening track, which was constructed by percussionist Shawn Crahan as an eulogy for their fallen friend. The drummer admitted to Rolling Stone that when he first heard the lyrics that frontman Corey Taylor wrote to accompany his instrumentation, they drove him to tears. "I don't usually let people see me cry," he said. "It's too hard. But when I heard what Corey Taylor sang on the song 'XIX,' I cried and cried and cried. It hurt so bad."

Corey Taylor explained the song's title to Kerrang!: "It's pronounced 'XX,' but it's supposed to represent a couple of different things," he said. "It's the 19th year of the band's existence, and it's also a metaphor for stage two, because track one on the Iowa album was '515,' and this is XIX, So in Roman numerals it's almost like a double of that. So it represents a new start, and seeing where the road leads to."

Taylor added: "Lyrically, it's really about getting back up on your feet after getting smashed in the mouth, basically. It's just kind of the start of, you know, what would become to me the second stage of the band's career."

Corey Taylor told Kerrang!: "What you hear on the record is what we did on the very first demo. It's all me, all raw, in one take, the first time we recorded it."

The voice at the beginning of this song isn't Corey Taylor, it's Shawn Crahan.

The bagpipe-like noise at the beginning of this song is actually an old synth. It's a piece of music that Shawn Crahan wrote.

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Surrealistic Pillow
Released: 1967

White Rabbit Lyrics

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call

And call Alice, when she was just small

When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low

Go ask Alice, I think she'll know

When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head

Writer/s: SLICK, GRACE WING
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This was written by Grace Slick, who based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll's book Alice In Wonderland. Like many young musicians in San Francisco, Slick did a lot of drugs, and she saw a surfeit of drug references in Carroll's book, including the pills, the smoking caterpillar, the mushroom, and lots of other images that are pretty trippy. She noticed that many children's stories involve a substance of some kind that alters reality, and felt it was time to write a song about it.

Slick got the idea for this song after taking LSD and spending hours listening to the Miles Davis album Sketches Of Spain. The Spanish beat she came up with was also influenced by Ravel's "Bolero."

Slick wrote this song and performed it when she was in a band called The Great Society with her first husband, Jerry Slick. The Great Society made inroads in the San Francisco music scene, but released just one single, "Somebody To Love" (written by their guitarist, Jerry's brother Darby Slick), before calling it quits in 1966. Grace moved on to Jefferson Airplane, and the group recorded both "White Rabbit" and "Somebody To Love" for their first album with her, Surrealistic Pillow. The songs were the breakout hits for the band, with "Somebody To Love" reaching #5 US and "White Rabbit" following at #8.

The Great Society Version of "White Rabbit" was released in 1968 on an album called Conspicuous Only In Its Absence (credited to "The Great Society With Grace Slick"), a live recording of a show at The Matrix in San Francisco. This version runs 6:07 and meanders through four minutes of Indian stylings before Slick's vocals appear. The Airplane rendition is a tight 2:29 with a far more aggressive vocal from Slick.

This is used in the stage production The Blue Man Group, and appears on their 2003 album The Complex. Music is a big part of the show, which features three blue guys engaging the audience with a combination of comedy, percussion, and sloppy stunts. They got a lot of attention when they were used in ads for Intel.

This was used as the theme song for a 1973 movie called Go Ask Alice.

Slick claimed to Q that the song was aimed not at the young but their parents. She said: "They'd read us all these stories where you'd take some kind of chemical and have a great adventure. Alice in Wonderland is blatant; she gets literally high, too big for the room, while the caterpillar sits on a psychedelic mushroom smoking opium. In the Wizard of Oz, they land in a field of opium poppies, wake up and see this Emerald City. Peter Pan? Sprinkle some white dust-cocaine-on your head and you can fly."

This was one of the defining songs of the 1967 "Summer Of Love." As young Americans protested the Vietnam War and experimented with drugs, "White Rabbit" often played in the background.

Did the band ever get sick of this song? Grace Slick answered this question in a 1976 interview with Melody Maker when she replied: "I can play around with a song on stage without ruining it. We stopped doing 'White Rabbit' for a couple of years because we were getting bored with it. I like it again and we included it last year 'cause it was the year of the rabbit."

The Airplane was frequently found giving free concerts around the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco. They shared a large house with several musicians during the psychedelic '60s, often applying for and receiving parade permits to walk the streets. Grace Slick was always a radical thinker, rejecting "daddy's money." She once appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour made up in blackface, causing a big controversy.

The line in this song, "go ask Alice," provided the title of a 1971 book published by an anonymous author. The book was a "diary" of a young girl in the 1960s who had a drug addiction and died. Her name is never given, and the diary is suspected to be fictional despite being promoted as true. The anonymous author is likely Beatrice Sparks, the book's editor.

This capped off Jefferson Airplane's set at Woodstock in 1969. They took the stage at 8 a.m. on the third day, following a performance by The Who that started at 3 a.m.

According to Grace Slick's autobiography, the album name came when bandmate Marty Balin played the finished studio tapes to Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead, whose first reaction was, "Sounds like a surrealistic pillow." Slick says that she loves the fact that the phrase Surrealistic Pillow "leaves the interpretation up to the beholder. Asleep or awake on the pillow? Dreaming? Making love? The adjective 'Surrealistic' leaves the picture wide open."

This song is heard multiple times in the movie The Game with Michael Douglas. It demonstrates the madness Douglas feels as he is being manipulated by forces he can't control. (thanks, Nathan - Brugge, Belgium)

In the film Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas, there is a scene where Dr. Gonzo is in a bathtub and this song is playing on a tape player. In an effort to end his life, Gonzo implores Raoul Duke to put the tape player in the tub "When White Rabbit peaks." Instead of doing as instructed, Duke throws a grapefruit at Gonzo and unplugs the tape player. (thanks, Justin - Durango, CO)

Grace Slick said in Q magazine that she wrote this song, "on a funny-looking upright piano with about eight keys missing." The singer added: "I took acid and listened to Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain album for 24 hours straight until it burned into my brain."

The UK version of the album didn't include this track.

Stars - Look Away

Stars - Look Away Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: No One Is Lost
Released: 2014

Look Away Lyrics

Two sides to three stories
Never whine and forget about it this time
If you want what you've already got, Look Away
Toughen up, Valentines Day wasn't meant for my kind anyway
There's no leaving a forever thing, so look away

Take me out to the lake, break it down and dive into our mistakes
Take me in to the fire, it's just us even for a little while
There's nothing to say, look away

At Seventeen your hair was gold
You bet me once we never get this old
Nobody tells you that you might one day, look away
Through the door I can see the light
I'm not surprised he's always been a good guy
It's a game that we both learned how to play, look away

Take me out to the lake, break it down and dive into our mistakes
Take me in to the fire, it's just us even for a little while
There's nothing to say, look away

Can your first still be your last?
A little bit of shame and a mountain of a past
Nobody wrote the perfect book on a life without a second look
I won't close the door with all this rain if there's nobody to blame

Take me out to the lake, break it down and dive into our mistakes
Take me in to the fire, it's just us and for a little while, there is nothing to say

Toughen up, Valentines Day wasn't meant for our kind anyway
If you want what you've already got, look away
Look away [x4]

Writer/s: McCarron, Christopher Alexander / Millan, Amy E / Campbell, Torquil John / Seligman, Christopher Allen / Cranley, Evan Whitney / McGee, Patrick
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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This dreamy duet between Stars' Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell is the Campbell's favorite song on the No One Is Lost album. "When Amy brought that tune in, I was like, 'That's why I love being in Stars.' It's a story song. You get to play a part," he explained during the record's release party. "Over the years, we've had so many opportunities to tell the story of this fictional couple that we invented together. I feel lucky when I sing that song."

Starship - We Built This City

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Album: Knee Deep In The Hoopla
Released: 1985

We Built This City Lyrics

CHORUS
We Built This City we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city we built this city on rock an' roll

Say you don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night

BRIDGE
Marconi plays the mamba listen to the radio
Don't you remember
We built this city we built this city on rock an' roll

REPEAT CHORUS
Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page

REPEAT BRIDGE
REPEAT CHORUS
It's just another Sunday in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold oh and we just lost the beat

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars
Don't tell us you need us 'cos we're just simple fools
Looking for America crawling through your schools

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday I've seen that bumper-to-bumpertraffic)

Don't you remember (remember)
(Here's your favorite radio station in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay the city that rocks the city that neversleeps)

REPEAT BRIDGE
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
(We built we built this city) built this city (we built we builtthis city)
REPEAT TO FADE
Writer/s: PAGE, MARTIN GEORGE / TAUPIN, BERNARD J.P. / LAMBERT, DENNIS / WOLF, PETER F.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song came from an assemblage of top-tier songwriting and production talent. Elton John's songwriting partner Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, which he gave to Martin Page, who put music to the words and made a demo. Page, who later had a hit with "In the House of Stone and Light," garnered attention after the Los Angeles radio station KROQ started playing "Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)" by Martin's group Q-Feel. Taupin, who needed someone other than Elton John to write music for this lyric, asked Martin to do it.

Once the demo was made, Starship's producers Dennis Lambert and Peter Wolf (not the J. Geils frontman) decided to record the song with the group on the condition that they make some changes. The most significant alterations were more repetitions of the chorus and the addition of the DJ/announcer who placed the song in San Francisco ("Looking out over that Golden Gate bridge..."), where the band formed in the '60s as Jefferson Airplane, becoming key contributors to the vibrant and eclectic music scene there. This provided a handy backstory for the band, who when asked about the song would sometimes say that it was based it on an incident in 1977 when Jefferson Airplane was not allowed to play a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (a more compelling answer than "our producers picked the song from some demos").

As part of the arrangement, Lambert and Wolf received composer credits on the song along with Taupin and Page. Even though they had to share their writers credits, both Taupin and Page have said that while the changes veered the song away from their original vision, Lambert and Wolf gave it tremendous popular appeal, and they appreciate the hit. "It will probably help send my children to college," Taupin said. Page added, "It was very wise, because I know they wanted to have a hit. Our thing is a little bit more esoteric."

By opening this song with Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas singing the chorus together, Starship's producers used those two powerful voices (check out Thomas on the song "Fooled Around And Fell In Love") to create an immediate impression. Few bands have the vocal talent to pull this off, but by getting the chorus (with the title) up front, it allowed for more repetitions, which is a key component when structuring a hit song.

The disc jockey interlude was not part of the original demo. In that spot, the song's co-writer Martin Page had put a police report broadcasting news of a riot in Los Angeles - something that came on when he turned on the radio looking for something to fill that part of the song.

The police report made the song far more ominous and stuck to the original vision as written by Bernie Taupin. Starship's producers replaced this part with a sunny announcer taking about "another gorgeous sunny Saturday" and delivering standard DJ patter ("the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps!"), changing the complexion of the song.

The DJ on the song is Les Garland, who was an executive at MTV at the time - a good guy to know if you want your video played. Garland not only put the video in hot rotation on MTV, he gave Grace Slick and Paul Kantner's daughter China Kantner a gig on the network, making her the youngest VJ they ever had. Slick and Kantner were early members of Jefferson Starship, and Slick was still with the band when they recorded this song.

This was the first single released under the name Starship. The band formed as Jefferson Airplane, releasing their first album in 1966. After going through some personnel changes in the early '70s, they began recording as Jefferson Starship. When Paul Kantner left the group in 1984, legal entanglements led to the band dropping the "Jefferson," and moving forward with Grace Slick as the only original member.

Considering the shift in band dynamics, the line in this song, "Say ya don't know me, or recognize my face" was quite appropriate.

The song changed drastically from its original demo, which Martin Page composed using Bernie Taupin's lyrics. The song was a cry of rebellion against a corporation trying to ban rock and roll in an imaginary future, but by the time Starship was done with it, it sounded more like a celebration of rock music in San Francisco, although a keen listen to the lyrics does reveal its distrust.

Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2013, Taupin said: "It was a very dark song about how club life in LA was being killed off and live acts had no place to go. It was a very specific thing. If you heard the original demo, you wouldn't even recognize the song."

When we spoke with Martin Page in 2014, he explained: "To me, 'We Built This City' is live music's been pulled away from the streets of LA. We want to get back to rock and roll and play it live. When I wrote it, it still had that feeling to me like something's wrong here. The corporations had taken away great live music. We're being stamped on, the rock was being stamped on.

The line, 'we just lost the beat' reiterated to me the wrecking ball. It's knocking down live music, it's being tramped on by corporations and commerciality.

So it's an interesting thing. The song is such a commercial song and was made that way, and takes a lot of stick. But if you look at the lyrics deeply - and one day people will take it and listen to the demo we did - it has an ominous feel about it. As Bernie says, the song was jerry-rigged to make the chorus come home, which I think was a very, very wise decision by the producers. I agree with what Peter Wolf did. He was a very good supporter of my music, and I think they really made 'We Built This City' a hit.

But if you stop and listen to the lyrics and the verses, you're not listening to 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now' by Slade. We're listening to something that is quite sophisticated and oriented towards keeping back some of the dark side of corporations. So it's very interesting that if you look deeper into that song, you'll see a that there's a darker strain going through it."

When Bernie Taupin asked Martin Page to write the music for this song, he supplied him with anther lyric as well. That one turned out to be "These Dreams," which went to Heart and also became a #1 hit. Page had more success a few years later when he co-wrote Go West's hits "King of Wishful Thinking" and "Faithful."

In 2004, Blender magazine named this the worst song of all time, saying it is "a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s," and lamenting "the sheer dumbness of the lyrics." The article got of lot of attention when it was touted in USA Today.

Much of this vitriol can be attributed to the transformation of the band, which delivered socially relevant protest songs in the '60s and was a voice of the antiwar movement. By the time they were Starship, they were motivated by mass appeal rather than political action, and this song was an expression of that change.

When this hit #1, Grace Slick was the oldest woman to sing the lead vocal (shared with Mickey Thomas) on a #1 single. The title had been previously held by Tina Turner for "What's Love Got To Do With It," and was later claimed by Cher for "Believe." (thanks, Paul - Detroit, MI)

This returned to the UK singles chart in 2014 after being used for a commercial for the 3 mobile service.

This was the first Top 10 hit Bernie Taupin wrote without Elton John. He had written with Elton before, composing the #12 "How You Gonna See Me Now" with Alice Cooper and Dick Wagner .

The album title, Knee Deep In The Hoopla, came from a line in this song.

The line "Police have got the choke hold" is a reference to a controversial issue in Los Angeles. Legal action had been taken against the Los Angeles police department, claiming that their tactic of choking suspects was dangerous and should be outlawed. Eventually, choke holds were banned by the department in most cases.

This part of the lyric goes along with the dark underpinnings of the song and its connection to Los Angeles.

The Swon Brothers - This Side of Heaven

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Album: The Swon Brothers
Released: 2014

This Side of Heaven Lyrics

Four years old, dressed up like a super hero
Always smiling, never showing he ain't well
His mom and daddy held his hand through all the chemo
And sometimes This Side of Heaven is hell

Sara Rollins, she left home right out of high school
Felt the call to serve the day those towers fell
She came back home today underneath the flag
And a twenty-one gun salute
Sometimes this side of heaven is hell

Somewhere right now a thousand tears are falling
Somewhere right now a heart's all out of break
Sometimes it feels like God don't hear us calling out for help
Sometimes this side of heaven is hell

Young couple laugh and cry and celebrate
Two little pink lines showed up clear as a bell
But their world crashed down
When the ultrasound found no heartbeat
Sometimes this side of heaven is hell

Somewhere right now a thousand tears are falling
Somewhere right now a heart's all out of break
Sometimes it feels like God don't hear us calling out for help
Sometimes this side of heaven is hell

Sometimes this side of heaven is hell

I know that on the other side there's healing
Jesus said there ain't no sorrow up there
But sometimes it takes all I've got to hold onto the promise
That only this side of heaven is hell

Somewhere right now bells and tears are falling
Somewhere right now a heart's all out of break
Sometimes it feels like God don't hear us calling out for help
Sometimes this side of heaven is hell

But only this side of heaven is hell

Writer/s: BEN MERRITT STENNIS, RYAN TODD LAFFERTY, WILLIAM BLAKE BOLLINGER
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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The Swon Brothers close their debut eponymous album with this Adam Craig, Jeff Middleton and Josh Thompson penned chill-bumper. Said Zach Swon, "It's rare that a song grabs me on first listen, but that one just stuck in my head immediately. It's such a sad song, but it's so uplifting, too. I think it's one of the most well-written songs I've ever heard."