Songs Lyrics and YT- Youtube Music Videos

R.E.M. - All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)

R.E.M. - All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Reveal
Released: 2001

All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) Lyrics

All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) Song Chart

Reno is a city in Nevada known as a cut-rate Las Vegas. You don't really become a star in Reno unless you have very low expectations.

The video was shot at Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School in Brooklyn, New York. Some of the students were used as actors, and the band's manager, Bertis Downs, made a cameo appearance as the school's announcer.

The documentary filmmaker Michael Moore directed the video. Some of his movies include Roger And Me and Bowling For Columbine.

This was originally called "Jimmy Webb on Mars." Peter Buck wrote in the liner notes for In Time: "From the six-string bass intro, to the semi-rococo chord changes and through the bridge to the outro, this was musically a kind of sick tribute to a songwriter who we all admire." Webb wrote the Glen Campbell hits "Wichita Lineman" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," among others.

Lower Than Atlantis - Emily

Lower Than Atlantis - Emily Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lower Than Atlantis
Released: 2014

Emily Lyrics

Emily Song Chart

Atlantis frontman Mike Duce (from Q magazine): "'Emily' was originally written as a joke about my dog Rosie, but I was stretching a two-syllable name over a three-syllable melody, so I later swapped it out for 'Emily.'"

Shocking Blue - Venus

Shocking Blue - Venus Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Best Of The Shocking Blue
Released: 1969

Venus Lyrics

Venus Song Chart

The group's guitarist Robbie Van Leeuwen wrote this song. The group is from The Netherlands, which led to an interesting translation problem when Shocking Blue lead singer Mariska Veres sang the English lyrics. Van Leeuwen wrote the first line down incorrectly: what was supposed to be "A goddess on the mountain top" he wrote as "A goddness on the mountain top," and that's exactly how Veres sang it. Most listeners didn't notice, and the many cover versions corrected the error, but the result was a #1 hit with a misspoken first line thanks to a typo.

The female vocal trio Bananarama recorded this in 1986. It was one of the first songs they started performing when they formed the band in 1979, but they wanted to record original songs first so they would be taken seriously.

Their version was produced by the team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, who worked on hits by Rick Astley ("Never Gonna Give You Up"), Dead or Alive ("You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)") and Kylie Minogue ("I Should Be So Lucky").

The distinctive guitar riff was taken from The Who's "Pinball Wizard."

This was produced by Jerry Ross, who also produced another Dutch group, Tee Set, who performed "Ma Belle Amie". Ross also produced an album of orchestral arrangements of his (primarily) Dutch stable of hits, under the name Jerry Ross Symposium. (thanks, Jeff - Scottsdale, AZ)

In the US, both this and the Bananarama cover version reached #1, making it one of the few songs to do so. Strangely, in the UK both Shocking Blue and Bananarama reached #8 with "Venus" and both spent 13 weeks on the chart with the song. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)

On an episode of the MTV cartoon Beavis And Butthead, Butthead makes up his own lyrics to this but gets frustrated when he can't think of anything that rhymes with "Venus."

In Shocking Blue's home country, this never made it to #1. After its success in the States, the song was re-released, but climbed no further that #3 on the Dutch pop chart.

In 1959, Frankie Avalon had a US #1 hit with the same title. There were two other instances of different songs with identical titles reaching #1 on the Billboard charts. "My Love" was #1 for Petula Clark in 1966 and another "My Love" turned the trick for McCartney & Wings in 1973. Then "Best Of My Love" topped the charts for the Eagles in 1973 and a different song of the same title was #1 for The Emotions in 1977. (thanks, Rick - Calgary, Canada)

Lucinda Williams - Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing)

Lucinda Williams - Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
Released: 2014

Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) Lyrics

Temporary Nature (Of Any Precious Thing) Song Chart

Lucinda Williams' father, lauded Arkansas poet Miller Williams, has acted as her writing mentor ever since she began penning songs. The title of this ballad, which deals with the prospect of losing him, was inspired by something he once said on the phone to her.

Kiss - Lick It Up

Kiss - Lick It Up Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lick It Up
Released: 1983

Lick It Up Lyrics

Don't want to wait 'til you know me better
Let's just be glad for the time together
Life's such a treat and it's time you taste it
There ain't a reason on earth to waste it
It ain't a crime to be good to yourself

Lick It Up, lick it up, ooh yeah it's only right now
Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah
Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah, come on, come on
Lick it up, lick it up,ooh uh

Don't need to wait for an invitation
You gotta live like you're on vacation
There's something sweet you can't buy with money lick it up, lick it up
It's all you need, so believe me honey
It ain't a crime to be good to yourself

Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah it's only right now
Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah
Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah, come on, come on
Lick it up, lick it up,ooh uh

Come on it's only right now (it's only right now)
Ooh yeah (ooh yeah) ooh yeah (ooh yeah), yeah yeah

Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah it's only right now
Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah
Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah, come on, come on
Lick it up, lick it up, yeah ooh uh

Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah
Lick it up, lick it up, ooh yeah, come on, come on
Lick it up, lick it up

Writer/s: CUSANO, VINCENT JOHN / STANLEY, PAUL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Lick It Up Song Chart

This album was the first time Kiss appeared without makeup.

Vinnie Vincent replaced Ace Frehley on guitar for this album. Vincent, who left the band in 1984, later sued KISS, claiming he was not paid for royalties and received only $2000 a week in salary. He lost the case.

Macy Gray - First Time (Revised)

Macy Gray - First Time (Revised) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Way
Released: 2014

First Time (Revised) Lyrics

First Time (Revised) Song Chart

This song was produced by Booker T Jones, whose lengthy resumé includes helming Bill Withers debut album Just As I Am. "One of my favorite songs is 'Ain't No Sunshine' by Bill Withers," Gray told Billboard magazine. "I'm trying to make a ballad kind of like 'Ain't No Sunshine' and then I just said, 'F--- it, why don't we just call the guy who [produced] it' - not really believing he would say yes."

Stone Temple Pilots - Wonderful

Stone Temple Pilots - Wonderful Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shangri-La Dee Da
Released: 2001

Wonderful Lyrics

If I were to die this mornin'
Would you tell me things that you wouldn't have?
Would you be my navigator?
Would you take me to a place we could hide?

As I'm fallin' out
I wonder what I lost
Must be movin' on
Know I'll be waitin' here alone

I want to ask you to forgive me
I haven't been the best with all that I had
Wish I'd only laid beside you
I think I spread myself a little too thin

As I'm fadin' out
I don't feel anything at all
Think I'm movin' on
Know you'll be safe but not alone

You're the everything
That led me to believe,
"Hold on, hold on"
You're the wonder in everything
That's Wonderful

Writer/s: WEILAND, SCOTT RICHARD/DE LEO, ROBERT EMILE/DE LEO, DEAN
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Wonderful Song Chart

This was written by Scott Weiland and STP bass player Robert DeLeo while the band was on tour. Weiland considered it a love song for his wife at the time, Mary, dealing with the possibility of loss.

"'Wonderful' has me dreaming about my death," he wrote in his memoir. "In the next world, I envision Mary as my guide."

Mary Forsberg was Weiland's second wife. They were married from 2000-2007.

According to Weiland, this was his favorite Stone Temple Pilots ballad.

A live version featuring guest vocals by Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington is on the album Family Values 2001. STP was a big influence on Bennington, and he got to know the band when both groups played the Family Values Tour. In 2013, Bennington took over as the group's lead singer.

Marianne Faithfull - Late Victorian Holocaust

Marianne Faithfull - Late Victorian Holocaust Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Give My Love to London
Released: 2014

Late Victorian Holocaust Lyrics

Late Victorian Holocaust Song Chart

This haunting ballad was written by Nick Cave for Marianne Faithfull. The pair also co-wrote the Give My Love to London track "Deep Water." Faithfull previously included three of Cave's tunes on her 2005 album Before the Poison.

The song is a slice of junkie mythology, which finds the songstess imagining herself as a ghost wafting along the Golborne road in Notting Hill, London. Faithfull told Mojo magazine. "I have been up the Golbourne road to score. but I didn't realise until I went back there with Rob (Ellis, producer) to the fish and chip shop. It's a fascinating song because its very English. you know the English way, we were never waiting for the man. We were running desperately after the man."

Stone Temple Pilots - Days of the Week

Stone Temple Pilots - Days of the Week Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shangri-La Dee Da
Released: 2001

Days of the Week Lyrics

Monday, back from the dead
I'm letting it go, back for another one

Tuesday, shoot me in the head
I'm takin' it back , takin' it back
I'll take it back

Wednesday, she's lookin' for a friend
She'll get what she wants
Can't seem to get enough

Thursday, it's more than I can stand
I'm holdin' her down, holdin' her down
She's down again

I gotta find a way to find her
Where could she be?
Four Days of the Week
She thinks I'm the enemy

One day, left me for dead
Woke up on the floor, time for another one
Two days, she's leavin' me again
Can't take it no more
Out through the open door
Three days, she's found herself a friend
She got what she wants
Still never get enough
Four days she's back with me again
She's pullin' me down, pullin' me down
I'm down again

Monday's gone
Tuesday's fadin'
Wednesday's gone
Thursday's all but wasted now

Writer/s: WEILAND, SCOTT RICHARD/DE LEO, ROBERT EMILE/DE LEO, DEAN
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Days of the Week Song Chart

Lead singer Scott Weiland wrote this about how he felt when he got out of prison; he spent five months in jail in 1999 for violating his probation from a heroin conviction. Every day he was faced with new challenges and new insecurities.

This was released as the first single from the fifth Stone Temple Pilots album, Shangri-La Dee Da. The band wanted the harder-edged "Coma" to be the first single, but their record company insisted on "Days of the Week," deeming it more commercial.

Weiland: "A rock 'n' roll feel of Zeppelin during the Presence period, but melodically and lyrically where I was coming from was Elvis Costello or Joe Jackson ."

In the video, the band is portrayed as door-to-door salesmen who escape their monotonous lives by turning into astronauts and blasting into space. Weiland was a door-to-door salesman when he was 19.

In the video, Scott Weiland is floating in space through the airlock. This is a reference to Stanley Kubrick's epic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey when David Bowman, the main character in the film, is denied access to the ship by HAL 9000 (the ship's main computer). (thanks, James - Dartmouth, Canada)

Martina McBride - God's Will

Martina McBride - God's Will Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Martina
Released: 2003

God's Will Lyrics

I met God's Will on a Halloween night
He was dressed as a bag of leaves
It hid the braces on his legs at first

His smile was as bright as the August sun
When he looked at me
As he struggled down the driveway
It almost made me hurt

Will don't walk too good
Will don't talk too good
He won't do the things that the other kids do, in our neighborhood

I've been searchin', wonderin', thinkin'
Lost and lookin' all my life
I've been wounded, jaded, loved and hated
I've wrestled wrong and right
He was a boy without a father
And his mother's miracle
I've been readin', writin', prayin', fightin'
I guess I would be still
Yeah, that was until
I knew God's Will

Will's mom had to work two jobs
We'd watch him when she had to work late
And we'd all laugh like I hadn't laughed since I don't know when

Hey Jude was his favorite song
At dinner he'd ask to pray
And then he'd pray for everybody in the world but him

I've been searchin', wonderin', thinkin'
Lost and lookin' all my life
I've been wounded, jaded, loved and hated
Wrestled wrong and right
He was a boy without a father
And his mother's miracle
I've been readin', writin', prayin', fightin'
I guess I would be still
Yeah, that was until
I knew God's Will

Before they moved to California
His mother said, they didn't think he'd live
And she said each day that I have him
Well it's just another gift
And I never got to tell her
That the boy showed me the truth
In crayon red, on notebook paper
He'd written me and God love you

I've been searchin', prayin', wounded, jaded
I guess I would be still
Yeah that was until
I met God's Will on a Halloween night
He was dressed as a bag of leaves

Writer/s: DOUGLAS, TOM / DEAN, BARRY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

God's Will Song Chart

Nashville songwriter Barry Dean penned this song with Tom Douglas about his daughter, who was born with special needs, and the challenges involved in dealing with her disability. He told Billboard magazine: "It's actually torn out of my journal, and Tom Douglas helped to shape all of that."

Dean had only just signed his first writers' deal when the song was cut by Martina McBride and its success helped him rethink how he should approach his writing. "This was one of the first songs that cemented for me the idea that I was going to have to be a hard writer," he said. "If it was funny, I was going to do what I thought was funny, and if it was serious, I would be serious. I would write more from the heart than the head."

Black Sabbath - N.I.B.

Black Sabbath - N.I.B. Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Black Sabbath
Released: 1970

N.I.B. Lyrics

Oh yeah!

Some people say my love cannot be true
Please believe me, my love, and I'll show you
I will give you those things you thought unreal
The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal

Oh yeah!

Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time

Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel

Oh yeah!

Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand

Oh yeah!

Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time

Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel

Oh yeah!

Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand

Writer/s: F. IOMMI, W. WARD, T. BUTLER, J. OSBOURNE
Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

N.I.B. Song Chart

In this song, Satan falls in love with a human woman and tries to seduce her. He turns out to be very charming and the early lyrics are quite poetic. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)

The title refers to drummer Bill Ward's beard. The band called him "Nibby" because they thought it looked like the nib on the end of a pen (Ozzy came up with the nickname when he on acid and thought Geezer Butler was turning into a fountain pen). Says Butler: Originally it was Nib, which was Bill's beard. When I wrote N.I.B., I couldn't think of a title for the song, so I just called it Nib, after Bill's beard. To make it more intriguing I put punctuation marks in there to make it N.I.B. By the time it got to America, they translated it to Nativity In Black. (thanks, Greg - Triad, NC)

Many fans thought the title stood for "Nativity In Black" or "Name In Blood."

The bass intro is called "Bassically." It is listed as a separate song on US versions of the album.

"Nativity In Black" is the name of two Black Sabbath tribute albums released in 1994 and 2000. Groups contributing to the albums include Megadeth, Godsmack, Biohazzard, and Faith No More.

The first Nativity In Black album, released in 1994, contains a cover of this by Ugly Kid Joe. The second, from 2000, contains a version from Primus with Ozzy Osbourne.

In November of 1969, Black Sabbath appeared on John Peel's Top Gear radio show, where they played this song along with "Black Sabbath," "Behind the Wall of Sleep," and "Sleeping Village." It was some great early exposure for the band.

Melissa Etheridge - A Little Bit of Me

Melissa Etheridge - A Little Bit of Me Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: This Is M.E
Released: 2014

A Little Bit of Me Lyrics

If you believed, if you tried
It could be enough to know you were alive
If you knew the truth it couldn’t be denied
It would change the world enough that you might find

That the world goes round and around and around
And everybody walks on common ground
We gotta pull together if we’re gonna pull through
There’s A Little Bit of Me in a little bit of you
The world goes round and around and round
Everybody feels a little upside down
No need to be afraid of anybody you see
There’s a little bit of you in a little bit of me
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah in a little bit of me
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah..... Nah nah

Is it on the skin is it in the love
The things about each other that we’re so scared of
You can shake your head you can change your mind
Either way you wake up inside yourself to find

That the world goes round and around and around
And everybody walks on common ground
We gotta pull together if we’re gonna pull through
There’s a little bit of me in a little bit of you
The world goes round and around and round
Everybody feels a little upside down
No need to be afraid of anybody you see
There’s a little bit of you in a little bit of me
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah in a little bit of me
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah..... Nah nah

Oh.... lean to your left or lean to your right
The corner of the room and every soul here tonight
Have a little bit of faith everyone will see
That all the good books in the world agree
There’s a little bit of you in a little bit of me

And the world goes round and around and around
And everybody walks on common ground
No need to be afraid of anybody you see
There’s a little bit of you oh in a little bit of me
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
In a little bit of me
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
In just a little bit of me
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Oh there’s a little bit of you in a little bit of me, in a little bit of me
Come on we’re gonna walk on common ground
Just a little bit of me

Writer/s: LEVINE, JON / SEIBERT, CHRISTIAN / BETTIS, JERROD / ETHERIDGE, MELISSA
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

A Little Bit of Me Song Chart

This song is a collaboration with Jerrod Bettis, a writer who has previously worked with Adele and Gavin DeGraw. Etheridge wrote it in the course of a plane ride to New York, working from a beat and a melody Bettis had come up with.