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The Police - Can't Stand Losing You

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Album: Outlandos d'Amour
Released: 1978

Can't Stand Losing You Lyrics

I called you so many times today
And I guess it's all true what your girlfriends say
That you don't ever want to see me again
And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten
I guess you'd call it cowardice
But I'm not prepared to go on like this

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I Can't Stand Losing You
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you
I can't stand losing you

I see you've sent my letters back
And my L.P. records and they're all scratched
I can't see the point in another day
When nobody listens to a word I say
You can call it lack of confidence
But to carry on living doesn't make no sense

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,

I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don't care, so I won't cry
And you'll be sorry when I'm dead
When all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you'd call it suicide
But I'm too full, to swallow my pride

I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing.
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing,
I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing you

Writer/s: Sumner, Gordon Matthew
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is about a teenager who commits suicide when he loses his girlfriend. It took Sting only a few minutes to write the lyrics - they are not supposed to be deep and meaningful, but more of a joke.

A track from the band's first album, this was the second single The Police released, following "Roxanne."

This was the first Police song to chart: it hit #42 in the UK when it was released in 1978. A year later, after The Police became widely known, it was re-released and went to #2.

The single came with some interesting artwork: a picture of a hooded body hanging from a rope, indicating the boy in the song who killed himself. The hooded boy is the band's drummer, Stewart Copeland. (thanks, Jeff - Kendall Park, NJ)

The BBC banned this because of its morbid content.

The single was released in a variety of different colors, which have become collector's items.

Andy Summers used a processor called an Echoplex on his guitar. The device allowed him to continuously loop his guitar licks, creating a layered sound.

At live shows, The Police would improvise the middle of this to fill time, since they didn't have a lot of songs. The improvised jam eventually turned into the song "Reggatta De Blanc," which became the title track to their next album.

Jason Aldean - Old Boots, New Dirt

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Album: Old Boots, New Dirt
Released: 2014

Old Boots, New Dirt Lyrics

A cup of coffee from a waitress I ain't ever met
She asked, "Are you just passing through?"
I smiled and said, "I don't know yet"
I walked around the town square
Down the street to where
I met the preacher and the old courthouse band
Yeah, nothing helps you start again like

Old Boots, New Dirt, no reminders
I've got a feeling this town will get me over her
You've been through what I've been through man
Nothing feels better than old boots, new dirt

There's a thousand faces, I ain't seen before
The only history that I can see is from a civil war
It's good for me to look around
And go down roads she ain't been down
No memories of our used to be's, set me free

Old boots, new dirt, no reminders
I've got a feeling this town will get me over her
You've been through what I've been through man
Nothing feels better than old boots, new dirt

Old boots, new dirt, one step closer
Yeah, I think I'm gonna like it here, yeah

You've been through what I've been through man
Nothing feels better than
Nothing else is gonna feel like old boots, new dirt
Old boots and new dirt
Ooh, old boots and new dirt

Writer/s: THRASHER, NEIL / MILLER, LEE N / SHAPIRO, TOM C. N
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This Neil Thrasher, Lee Thomas Miller and Tom Shapiro penned song is the title track of Jason Aldean's sixth album. "That title and that song, 'Old Boots, New Dirt,' is about starting with a clean slate," Aldean explained. "I'm the same dude, but we're gonna start over and hit some uncharted territory here."

Jason Aldean expanded on the track's meaning to Entertainment.ie : "The song talks about coming out the other side of a break-up and trying to get as far away from that as you can," he said. "You don't really know where you are headed, but you're going to figure it out as you go. A lot of times, that's what songwriting is about; it's about finding a new and inventive ways to say the same thing sometimes. I think this was a way to say that in a way that hasn't been said before."

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

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Album: Ten
Released: 1991

Jeremy Lyrics

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At home
Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a V

Dead lay in pools of maroon below
Daddy didn't give attention
To the fact that mommy didn't care
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Clearly I remember
Pickin' on the boy

Seemed a harmless little fuck
But we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth

And bit the recessed lady's breast
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurting

Dropped wide open
Just like the day
Like the day I heard
Daddy didn't give affection

And the boy was something mommy wouldn't wear
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today

Try to forget this,
Try to erase this,
From the blackboard.

Writer/s: AMENT, JEFFREY ALLEN / VEDDER, EDDIE JEROME
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Jason Aldean - Ain't No Easy Way

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Album: Old Boots, New Dirt
Released: 2014

Ain't No Easy Way Lyrics

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Jason Aldean explained this song's meaning: "'Ain't No Easy Way' is about that moment when, after trying desperately to save a relationship, it finally just hits you: You have to end it. The writing is clearly on the wall — you know what you have to do — but there's truly never an easy way to do it," he said. "There's a line in that song that says, 'Life is hard, but love is harder,' which pretty much sums it up."

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: To The Extreme
Released: 1990

Ice Ice Baby Lyrics

Yo, VIP, let's kick it!

Ice Ice Baby
Ice ice baby
All right stop
Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Then I flow that a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop?
Yo, I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle

Dance
Bum rush the speaker that booms
I'm killin' your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less that the best is a felony
Love it or leave it
You better gain way
You better hit bull's eye
The kid don't play
If there was a problem
Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla

Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in, the fingers are pumpin'
Quick to the point, to the point no faking
I'm cooking MC's like a pound of bacon
Burning them if they're not quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi hat with a souped up tempo
I'm on a roll and it's time to go solo
Rollin in my 5.0
With my ragtop down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby
Waving just to say hi
Did you stop?
No, I just drove by
Kept on pursuing to the next stop
I busted a left and I'm heading to the next block
That block was dead

Yo so I continued to a1a Beachfront Ave
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Rock man lovers driving Lamborghini
Jealous 'cause I'm out getting mine
Shay with a gauge and Vanilla with a nine
Ready for the chumps on the wall
The chumps are acting ill because they're so full of eight balls
Gunshots ranged out like a bell
I grabbed my nine
All I heard were shells
Fallin' on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car, slammed on the gas
Bumper to bumper the avenue's packed
I'm tryin' to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene
You know what I mean
They passed me up, confronted all the dope fiends
If there was a problem
Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla

Take heed, 'cause I'm a lyrical poet
Miami's on the scene just in case you didn't know it
My town, that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
'Cause my style's like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed
This is a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade, slice it like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast
Other DJ's say, "damn"
If my rhyme was a drug
I'd sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it's time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem
Yo, I'll solve it!
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla
Ice ice baby Vanilla

Yo man, let's get out of here
Word to your mother

Ice ice baby
Too cold
Ice ice baby
Too cold too cold
Ice ice baby
Too cold too cold
Ice ice baby
Too cold too cold

Writer/s: BROWN, FLOYD / TAYLOR, ROGER / VAN WINKLE, ROBERT / MAY, BRIAN / DEACON, JOHN / BOWIE, DAVID / MERCURY, FREDDIE / JOHNSON, MARIO
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TINTORETTO MUSIC
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Johnny Marr - 25 Hours

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Album: Playland
Released: 2014

25 Hours Lyrics

So are we erasing ourselves

I am a return
Was born unheard
But anyhow
Me was a word
A word just like now
And so I learned a need
For anyone
And so I know of
Need from anyone

A life ahead
A life of ordinary mind
I said no no
I am a child of the divine
And so I was told
There was no need for anyone
Yeah, I saw my soul
And I was seeing what it was
All lies ahead
For life of shaking off crime
All eyes ahead
And I was working my mind
And so it goes
No need for anyone
And so I forego
A need, no

Well, I am erasing myself
The love I need is out there
Worlds I'm leaving
And the door really goes somewhere
Where all I need is myself
And learn all leads to an end
Worlds, I'm leaving
And this door really goes somewhere

Sometimes you look
And you look just like you learned
And some go on
And on some kind of terms
And ever again we march on
Like everyone
And ever again
I ran from all the freaks and priests
Who were hunting me down with attitude
And the heat and the bricks
Were falling on me like doom
Till I seen just everything I had to lose
And I told myself about all I had to do

Oh I am erasing myself
The love I need is out there
Worlds I am leaving
And the door really goes somewhere
Where all I need is myself
And learn all leads to an end
Worlds, I'm leaving
And this door really go somewhere

Writer/s: JOHNNY MARR, JAMES DOVIAK
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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This autobiographical song describes how a young Johnny Marr used music at school to escape the life that was laid out in front of him. He told NME: "I was immersed in the Catholic school system and an oppressive upbringing, looking at a life of having to consort with people that I didn't want to be around. I realised you need to find some escape to break out of that, and that's when I realized art was a way of escaping, in my case the music I was making or wanted to make."

"I would've been eight or nine, and I knew I just needed to escape the life that I was in," he added. "I got a sense of what might be my destiny if I didn't do that."

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

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Album: Ten
Released: 1991

Even Flow Lyrics

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Freezin' rests his head on a pillow made of concrete again
Oh Feelin' maybe he'll see a little betters any days
Oh hand out faces that he sees come again ain't that familiar
Oh dark grin he can't help when he's happy he looks insane
Even flow

Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh he don't know
So he chases them away
Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Life again

Kneelin' looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read
Prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather or that winters on its way, yeah
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame
Even flow

Thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know
So he chases them away
Someday yet he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, carry him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo
Oh yeah yeah

Writer/s: GOSSARD, STONE C. / VEDDER, EDDIE JEROME
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Johnny Marr - Speak Out Reach Out

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Album: Playland
Released: 2014

Speak Out Reach Out Lyrics

Sophisticated minds
You are your country
Situated in a line
In my city
In a forgotten dream
I can't wake up
Thank you mama
Her Majesty
Hey, hey, hey
The dream becoming reality
All the day

So

Reach out
To somebody's God
'Cause what you take
Is what you give
Reach out
To get what you want
'Cause what it takes
Is all there is

My mind it flies
And it alights
On the panes
Every night I'm getting high
In the doorway
The situation's sublime
Lets face it
Taking from the deaf and the blind
Hey, hey, hey
At home in a hole in the ground
All the day

So

Reach out
To somebody's god
'Cause what you take
Is what you give
Speak out
Get what you want
'Cause what it takes
Is all there is

I'm strung and wound
Beyond all the harmony
And when I die I'm gonna fly
Economy
My dream's a reality always
Thank our mama Her Majesty
Hey, hey, hey
Sleep under falling leaves
All the day

So

Reach out
To someone you love
'Cause what you take
Is what you give
Reach out
To somebody you love
'Cause all you've got
Is all there is
Speak out
To someone you love
'Cause what you take
Is all there is

Writer/s: JOHNNY MARR, JAMES DOVIAK
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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Pearl Jam - Alive

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Album: Ten
Released: 1991

Alive Lyrics

Son she said
Have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy
Was nothin' but a fool

While you were sittin'
Home alone at age thirteen
Your real father was dyin'
Sorry you didn't see him
But I'm glad we talked,

Oh I, oh, I'm still Alive
Hey, hey, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive

Oh she walks slowly
Across a young man's room
She said I'm ready, for you
I can't remember anything
To this very day
'Cept the look, yeah the look
Oh, you know where

Now I can't see, I just stare
I, I, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive

I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh yeah

Is something wrong
She said
Of course there is
You're still alive
She said
Oh do I deserve to be?
And is that the question? Oh
And if so, if so
Who answers?
Who answers?

I, I, I'm still alive
Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive
I'm still alive

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Writer/s: Matkosky, Dennis Joseph / Cates, Jess Clayton / Benward, Aaron Jeoffrey
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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The music for this song was written by guitarist Stone Gossard before the band had a lead singer. It was part of a three song instrumental demo they made while looking for a vocalist and drummer. Jack Irons, a friend of Gossard's who played drums in The Red Hot Chili Peppers, was approached about joining the band, but he had another commitment. He thought Eddie Vedder might be a good fit as the singer, so he gave Eddie the demo tape. At home in San Diego, Vedder wrote lyrics and added his vocals to the song using his four-track recorder. The band liked what they heard and made him lead singer.

The instrumental demo of this song was titled "Dollar Short." Vedder's lyrics went in a direction the band didn't expect, but they loved what they heard and quickly agreed that he should be their lead singer - only one other guy had been tried. Reflecting on how everything came together so quickly, the band credit timing and fate for Vedder's arrival. Eddie says that it took him 12 hours to write and record the songs for the demo, and he could have easily blown it off.

Vedder's lyrics are about a boy who finds out his father is actually his stepfather, and that his real father is dead. Vedder later revealed that the song was "a work of fiction based on reality," and the chorus of "I'm still alive" was what he considered his curse, as he struggled to deal with the strained relationship with his stepfather and the fact that his real father was dead. In an episode of VH1's Storytellers, Vedder explained that the interpretation of the song had changed, as fans would react to the chorus by jumping around and celebrating - they heard "I'm still alive" as a positive thing, an affirmation of life. Said Vedder: "When they changed the meaning of those words, they lifted the curse."

Eddie's mother divorced his father when he was one year old, and he was raised by his stepfather without knowing it; he even met his true father without even realizing they were related. Vedder's real father, Edward Severson III, died of multiple sclerosis in 1981, before Eddie could see him again. This is the autobiographical part of the song that shows up in the opening lyrics. Eddie didn't get along with his stepfather, and took out his lyrical wrath on him in the song "Better Man." Until he dropped out of high school, Eddie was known as Eddie Mueller, but he took his mother's maiden name after finding out the truth about his real father. When Vedder became a father, he said that he would do everything he could to break the cycle of family dysfunction.

The other two songs on the demo Vedder worked on follow the story in this song. After Vedder put lyrics to them, the songs became "Once," where the boy goes nuts and starts killing people, and "Footsteps," where the boy is sentenced to death and blames his mother. Vedder called this the "Momma-Son" trilogy.

The black and white video for this song was made on the cheap - less than $20,000. It was filmed at a Pearl Jam concert at the club RKCNDY in Seattle on August 3, 1991. The band was still broke, and they thought blowing a lot of money on a video would be stupid, since burning through a lot of cash early on could get you dropped by a record label if you didn't sell. Even then, Pearl Jam had a disdain for traditional, lip-synched videos, so for this one they went against convention and used the live audio from the concert in the clip, capturing the energy of the show, which included crowd surfing, stage diving, and Vedder hanging from a lighting rig.

In the US, this was the first song Pearl Jam released as a single.

The drummer in the video is Matt Chamberlain. He took over after Pearl Jam's first album, but left soon after to join the Saturday Night Live band.

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready based his guitar solo on the one Ace Frehley played on the Kiss song "She." In an issue of Guitar Player magazine, Frehley said that his solo in "She" came from Robby Krieger's guitar work on The Doors' "Five To One." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

In 2000, the band was playing the Roskilde Festival in Denmark when 9 fans were crushed to death in the mosh pit. They were about to play this, but stopped the show when they saw people being pulled out of the crowd in real bad shape. Some of the 40,000 people in the crowd began singing "I'm still alive," unaware that the event had turned tragic. Pearl Jam left the stage and the next band, The Cure, refused to go on out of respect for the dead.

Kenny Chesney - Til It's Gone

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Album: The Big Revival
Released: 2014

Til It's Gone Lyrics

Got nowhere to go and all night to get there
But I'm going there with you
Tonight we're running on luck
If we're gonna use it all up
There's only one thing left to do

Gonna take a deep breath and hold it in
Twirl you around 'til my head spins
Kiss that lipstick and wear it thin 'Til It's Gone, 'til it's gone
Break every rule we ever learned
Kick back and watch the big wheels turn
Light up the night and let it burn 'til it's gone
'Til it's gone, 'til it's gone

You look way too good
And this feels way too right
It'd been way too long to start
And it's sure worth drinking to
So baby here's to you
I don't wanna waste a drop

Gonna take a deep breath and hold it in
Twirl you around 'til my head spins
Kiss that lipstick and wear it thin 'til it's gone, 'til it's gone
Break every rule we ever learned
Kick back and watch the big wheels turn
Light up the night and let it burn 'til it's gone
'Til it's gone, 'til it's gone

One life, one chance
One ticket to the big dance
You and me still holding on
Right down to the last song

Gonna take a deep breath and hold it in
Twirl you around 'til my head spins
Kiss that lipstick and wear it thin 'til it's gone, 'til it's gone
Break every rule we ever learned
Kick back and watch the big wheels turn
Light up the night and let it burn 'til it's gone
'Til it's gone, 'til it's gone
Yeah, 'til it's gone

You're sure worth drinking to
Baby, here's to you
I don't wanna waste a drop

I'm gonna drink it all up
'Til it's gone, 'til it's gone, it's gone

Writer/s: YEARY, JIMMY / CLAWSON, RODNEY / MURPHY, DAVID LEE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, ROUND HILL MUSIC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC, CAROL VINCENT & ASSOC LLC
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This song finds Chesney singing about a spontaneous romance fuelled by a few drinks.

Break every rule we ever learned
Kick back and watch the big wheels turn
Light up the night and let it burn
Til it's gone, til it's gone, til it's gone

The song was written by Rodney Clawson (Jason Aldean's "Burnin' It Down," Florida Georgia Line's "Dirt"), David Lee Murphy (Thompson Square's "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not," Jason Aldean's "Big Green Tractor") and Jimmy Yeary (Rascal Flatts' "Why Wait," Jake Owen's "Anywhere With You").

The song's music video finds Chesney playing the song during a surprise show for less than a thousand people at the historic Georgia Theater in Athens, Georgia. The performance came after Chesney had taken a year off of the road to work on making The Big Revival. Chesney said the tune was the perfect fit for a more intimate setting. "If you think about what the song says," he explained, "it's very much a one-on-one piece of communicating. It's about hanging on to the one who matters to you; for me, it's talking straight to those hardcore fans who've been there — and saying 'no matter where or what, I'm in this as long as you hang on.'"

Michael Jackson - Ben

Michael Jackson - Ben Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Ben
Released: 1972

Ben Lyrics

Ben, the two of us need look no more,
We both found what we were looking for.
With a friend to call my own,
I'll never be alone, and you, my friend, will see,
You've got a friend in me.
Ben, you're always running here and there,
You feel you're not wanted anywhere.
If you ever look behind and don't like what you find
There's something you should know, you've got a place to go.
I used to say I and me, now it's us, now it's we.
I used to say I and me, now it's us, now it's we.
Ben most people would turn you away;
I don't listen to a word they say.
They don't see you as I do;
I wish they would try to'
I'm sure they'd think again if they had a friend like Ben,
A friend like Ben
(Like Ben)
Like Ben

Writer/s: Scharf, Walter / Black, Don
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Don Black and Walter Scharf wrote this for the 1972 movie of the same name. It was the sequel to a movie called Willard, which was remade in 2003 starring Crispin Glover. Ben is a pet rat. In the movie, a young boy befriends the rat, but the rat turns evil and recruits other rats to attack humans. In the remake of Willard, Ben becomes an enormous super-rat.

Despite being about a rat, the lyrics are touching and sentimental, and make no reference to rodents. A lot of people were very moved by the song.

According to the book Jacksons Number Ones , this was intended for Donny Osmond, but Don Black suggested Jackson, who got the song instead.

Donny Osmond told The Huffington Post that he didn't record the song when it was offered to him as he was on tour and they had to finish the movie. He added: "Michael and I would talk about this all the time. It's funny, because we eventually ended up laughing at this one. I will never forget, we stayed up to like two in the morning, laughing about the fact that I had a hit about a puppy and he had a hit about a rat. (Laughs)"

The song's co-writer Don Black has written many movie themes, including the hits "Diamonds Are Forever" (for the James Bond movie) and "Born Free." At his 2007 induction in the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, he said of "Ben," "When it came to writing about a rat, I said, 'You can't write about a rat.' I mean, I'm not going to use words like 'cheese.' I thought the best thing to do is write about friendship."

This song is one of Michael Jackson's favorites, and it was his first #1 hit as a solo artist. Motown recorded him as a solo artist when The Jackson 5 stopped selling well.

Jackson was 14 when he recorded this. He became the youngest artist to top the US charts both as a solo artist and as a member of a group (The Jackson 5).

This was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. Jackson sang it at the ceremony in 1973.

Part of this song was used in a 1991 episode of The Simpsons, where Jackson guest stars as an overweight, white mental patient who sings it to Homer. While Michael Jackson voiced all the talking parts for the character, the singing voice was someone else, which caught the rest of the cast by surprise. Harry Shearer , who does several voices on the show, told us: "Michael did all the vocal parts when we read it again at the stage. The character in the show sang special lyrics to 'Ben,' and when it came time to sing, Michael sat back, nodded, and a guy that we'd not noticed before, a white guy sitting across from him at the table, started singing in a ridiculously accurate Michael Jackson voice. And I thought about it for a minute, and then I realized, I guess we paid enough for the talking Michael Jackson, but not enough for the singing Michael Jackson.

The guy who did the singing was Kipp Lennon, who often did singing parts for the show.

Pearl Jam has a song called "Rats," which is a reference to this. It's on their 1993 release Vs..

At Michael Jackson's 2001 tribute special, young Country singer Billy Gilman performed this with Marc Anthony.

This song was used in an episode of Queer as Folk where Michael Novotny is trying to win back lover Ben Bruckner. (thanks, Allison - Portales, NM)

After Jackson's death, his family sued the promotion company that planned his comeback tour. In testimony, his mother, Katherine, revealed that Michael did enjoy the company of certain rodents: he once smuggled a mouse into a Beverly Hills restaurant.

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The Lady A trio didn't think this sounded good at one time during its recording. They considered scrapping the song, after coming to dislike its opening guitar riff. However, once producer Nathan Chapman broke the riff into smaller segments and reversed them, creating a new hook that pushed the song forward without abandoning its organic roots, they fell back in love with it again .