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David Guetta - Ba
David Guetta - Bad


David Guetta - Bad Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lovers On The Sun
Released: 2014

Bad Lyrics


I say why does it feel so good?
So good to be Bad
Getting what I want, boy
Why does that make you so mad?

You see, why does it feel so good?
So good to be bad
'Cause if it's trouble that you're looking for
Oh baby, here I am (I am)

Oh baby, here I am

I said why does it feel so good?
So good to be bad (Bad)

I say why does it feel so good?
So good to be bad
Getting what I want, boy
Why does that make you so mad?

You see, why does it feel so good?
So good to be bad
'Cause if it's trouble that you're looking for
Oh baby, here I am (I am)

Oh baby, here I am

I say why does it feel so good?
So good to be bad

Writer/s: GUETTA, DAVID / TURPIN, NICK / KARAGIORGOS, VASSY / JANSSEN, WOUTER / TUINFORT, GIORGIO / REUTER, MANUEL / SHEPARD, NED / JANSSEN, SJOERD / SARRAF, OSSAMA
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • This song is a collaboration between David Guetta and Showtek. The latter is a Dutch production duo comprising brothers Wouter and Sjoerd Janssen, who are best known for their 2013 hit single "Booyah."
  • The song features vocals from Australian singer-songwriter Vassy. Darwin native Vasiliki "Vassy" Karagiorgos' parents are both Greek immigrants. She was discovered in 2003 after winning Australian radio station Triple J's Unearthed talent contest. Vassy was the first Australian solo artist to reach the #1 spot on the US dance charts when her single "We Are Young" reached the top of Hot Dance Club Songs.
  • This was released on March 17, 2014 as a single. It reached the Top 10 in many charts throughout the world, peaking at #1 in Finland and Norway.
  • Showtek explained how the collaboration came about in a November 2014 interview with Billboard magazine. "Last year, David invited us to support him at Pacha Ibiza, and after a few times, he invited us to his home studio to listen to music," they said. "He was the first artist we ever showed Booyah' to, and he was crazy about it."

    "He said we needed to work on a track together," they continued. "He was working on his album when we met him, so he had so many songs and so many ideas. He said, 'Let's do something together and see where it ends up.' So we did 'Bad' together, which is one of the songs on his album."

  • Soundgarden - Like Suicid
    Soundgarden - Like Suicide


    Soundgarden - Like Suicide Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Superunknown
    Released: 1994

    Like Suicide Lyrics


    Heard it from another room
    Eyes were making up just to fall asleep
    Love's Like Suicide
    Dazed out in a garden bed
    With a broken neck lays my broken gift
    Just like suicide

    And my last ditch
    Was my last brick
    Lent to finish her
    Finish her

    Bit down on the bullet now
    I had a taste so sour
    I had to think of something sweet
    Love's like suicide
    Safe outside my gilded cage
    With an ounce of pain
    I wield a ton of rage
    Just like suicide

    With eyes of blood
    And bitter blue
    How I feel for you
    I feel for you

    She lived like a murder
    How she'd fly so sweetly
    She lived like a murder
    But she died
    Just like suicide

    Writer/s: CHRIS CORNELL
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Chris Cornell was writing the music for this song in his basement when he heard a thump on his front door. When he opened the door, he saw a robin writhing around on the ground, it had obviously flown into the window and broken its neck: "Dazed out in a garden bed with a broken neck lays my broken gift." So he grabbed a brick and smashed the bird with to put it out of its misery: "And my last ditch was my last brick lent to finish her." Then he went back downstairs and wrote the lyrics. (thanks, Kurt - Downers Grove, IL)
  • Despite the title, this song has nothing to do with suicide. The album was released about a month before Kurt Cobain took his own life, leading many listeners to analyze his lyrics for premonitions. Chris Cornell was sometimes asked about this, and he made it clear that looking for suicidal thoughts in song lyrics was hopeless.
  • An all-acoustic version of this song can be found on Alive In The Superunknown. (thanks, Adrian - Brookings, SD)
  • This is the last song on the US version of the album. On other versions, the last song is "She Likes Surprises."

  • Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin
    Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin'


    Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin' Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Eddie Kendricks
    Released: 1973

    Keep On Truckin' Lyrics


    Ooh...
    Ooh...
    Ooh...

    Keep On Truckin', baby
    I got to keep on truckin'
    Got to get to your good lovin'
    Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...

    Shame
    A double shame on me, yeah
    Love
    Love, I let it control me, yeah

    From just one kiss I am inspired
    To lovers in time there's a fire

    And I'll keep on truckin', baby
    I got to keep on truckin'
    I got to get to your good lovin'
    Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...

    Baby, its bad
    It's so hard to bear
    Yes, babe
    You're hard to bear

    I've got a fever rising with desire
    It's my love jones and I feel like I'm on fire

    And I'll keep on keep on truckin', baby
    I got to keep on truckin'
    Got to get to your good lovin'
    Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...

    Feelin' good
    No, you can't stop the feelin'
    No, you can't stop the feelin'
    No, not now

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

    Keep on truckin' on
    Keep on truckin' on
    Keep on truckin'

    Keep on truckin' on
    Keep on truckin'

    Yes, I've got a fever rising with desire
    It's my love jones and I feel like I'm on fire

    And I'll keep on keep on truckin', baby

    I'm the red ball express of lovin'
    Diesel-powered straight to you, I'm truckin'
    In old Temptation's rain, I'm duckin'
    For your love through sleet and snow, I'm truckin', ooh

    I'm the red ball express of lovin'
    Diesel-powered straight to you, I'm truckin'
    In old Temptation's rain, I'm duckin'
    For your love through sleet and snow, I'm truckin'

    Ain't nothin' holdin' me back nothin'
    I'll keep right on, right on truckin'
    Ain't nothin' holdin' me back nothin'
    I'll keep right on, right on truckin'

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, truckin'
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, truckin'

    Writer/s: Wilson, Frank Edward / Caston, Leonard / Poree, Anita
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Keep On Truckin' Song Chart
  • The phrase "keep on truckin'" is a phrase of encouragement meaning to continue stay focused regardless of circumstances or setbacks. The term originates from a song first recorded by Blind Boy Fuller in the 1930s, "Truckin' My Blues Away."

    Truckin' on down the line
    Hey hey hey
    I say keep on truckin'
    Truckin' my blues away


    The phrase was popularised by the US underground cartoonist Robert Crumb in a one-page comic published in the first issue of Zap Comix in 1968.
  • This song was Eddie Kendricks' first major hit as a solo artist, coming two years after his departure from The Temptations. He believed it was the title that ensured it was a success. "The old people used to truck when they were dancing. And I knew the trucking industry would embrace the record," Kendricks told Fred Bronson.
  • The song's grooves were clearly aimed at the dance floor and it was arguably the first-recorded and released disco hit record. Other possible candidates for the first disco hit include "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia), " George McRae's "Rock Your Baby," The Hues Corporation's "Rock The Boat" and Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe."

  • M.A.C.C. - Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun
    M.A.C.C. - Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun)


    M.A.C.C. - Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Stone Free
    Released: 1993

    Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun) Lyrics


    Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun) Song Chart
  • M.A.C.C. is made up of Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Jeff Ament and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron. The name of the band is the initials of all their last names.
  • This is a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song. That song was part of an album Hendrix was working on at the time of his death.
  • It is the only release by M.A.C.C. and it appears on a tribute to Hendrix that also featured artists like Eric Clapton and the Spin Doctors.
  • The members of this band had collaborated on Temple of the Dog earlier in the decade.

  • Erika Jayne - PAINKILL
    Erika Jayne - PAINKILLR


    Erika Jayne - PAINKILLR Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Glitz, Glamour, and Fun
    Released: 2014

    PAINKILLR Lyrics


    PAINKILLR Song Chart
  • Erika Jayne's first single from her second album, Glitz, Glamour, and Fun, is the fruit of some difficulties the dance music performer encountered in her songwriting. "I wrote this record because I was going through a painful time creatively and I totally wanted to numb the pain," she told Billboard magazine. "It came from a darker place in my personality."
  • After landing six #1 slots on Dance Club Songs with singles released from her debut album, Jayne was grateful to achieve a seventh #1 on the dance chart with this song. She said: "It's incredible to come off of a nearly two-year hiatus, trying other things that I ultimately didn't enjoy, then return to my roots, my core, my authentic self … and hit #1!"

  • USA for Africa - We Are The Worl
    USA for Africa - We Are The World


    USA for Africa - We Are The World Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: released as a single
    Released: 1985

    We Are The World Lyrics


    There comes a time
    When we heed a certain call
    When the world must come together as one
    There are people dying
    And it's time to lend a hand to life
    The greatest gift of all

    We can't go on pretending day by day
    That someone, somehow can soon make a change
    We're all a part of God's great big family
    And the truth, you know,love is all we need

    We Are The World
    We are the children
    We are the ones who make a brighter day
    So let's start giving
    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    Send them your heart
    So they'll know that someone cares
    And their lives will be stronger and free
    As God has shown us by turning stones to bread
    And so we all must lend a helping hand

    We are the world
    We are the children
    We are the ones who make a brighter day
    So let's start giving
    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
    But if you just believe there's no way we can fall
    Well, well, well, well let us realize oh!
    That a change can only come
    When we stand together as one

    We are the world
    We are the children
    We are the ones who make a brighter day
    So let's start giving
    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    We are the world
    We are the children
    We are the ones who make a brighter day
    So let's start giving
    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    We are the world
    (Are the world)
    We are the children
    (Are the children)
    We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so lets start giving
    (So let's start giving)

    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    Oh let me hear you!

    We are the world
    (Are the world)
    We are the children
    (Are the children)
    We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so lets start giving
    (So let's start giving)

    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    We are the world
    (Are the world)
    We are the children
    (Are the children)
    We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so lets start giving
    (So let's start giving)

    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    We are the world
    (Are the world)
    We are the children
    (Are the children)
    We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so lets start giving
    (So let's start giving)

    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    We are the world
    (Are the world)
    We are the children
    (Are the children)
    We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so lets start giving
    (So let's start giving)

    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    We are the world
    (Are the world)
    We are the children
    (Are the children)
    We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so lets start giving
    (So let's start giving)

    There is a choice we're making
    Were saving our own lives
    It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

    Writer/s: JACKSON, MICHAEL / RICHIE, LIONEL
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    We Are The World Song Chart
  • This was a benefit single for victims of famine in Africa. It raised over $60 Million, which was distributed to Ethiopia, Sudan, and other impoverished countries.
  • Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote this song, and Quincy Jones produced it. This talented trio was perfect for the job: Quincy Jones was the hottest producer around, and his Rolodex (what would now be a contact list) was filled with the biggest names in music; Richie had written songs that went to #1 on the Hot 100 each of the previous seven years ("We Are The World" made it eight); Michael Jackson had the biggest album of 1984 with Thriller (produced by Jones) and was the biggest star in the world.
  • The USA For Africa project began as an idea calypso singer Harry Belafonte had for a benefit concert featuring black musicians. In late December 1984, looking for artists to participate, Belafonte called Ken Kragen, who managed an impressive roster of talent, including Lionel Richie. Kragen convinced Belafonte that they could raise more money and make a bigger impact with an original song; Belafonte agreed and Richie came on board to help.

    Kragen asked Quincy Jones to produce, and Jones enlisted Michael Jackson. Richie got Stevie Wonder involved, and from there, word got out and many members of the music industry signed on to help. The project from conception to recording took about a month.
  • This all-star charity single was inspired by Band Aid, the British group Bob Geldof put together the year before to record "Do They Know It's Christmas?." Band Aid, which included Bono, Phil Collins, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and Sting, served as a template, showing how a disparate group of famous artists could come together in one day to record a song.
  • This was recorded at A&M Studios in Los Angeles on January 28, 1985, the night of the American Music Awards. Since the artists were all in town for the awards, it was much easier to get them together to record the single.
  • The stars who sang solos were, in order, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Billy Joel, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Al Jarreau, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, Daryl Hall, Michael Jackson (again), Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, and Kim Carnes. Bob Dylan and Ray Charles were also featured on the song and given close-ups in the video.

    Harry Belafonte, who had the original idea for the project, was in the chorus but didn't get a solo, joining Bette Midler, Smokey Robinson, The Pointer Sisters, LaToya Jackson, Bob Geldof, Sheila E., and Waylon Jennings as backing singers.
  • Prince was asked to join the project, be he declined on the grounds that he does not record with other acts. Instead, he donated an exclusive track called "4 The Tears In Your Eyes" to the follow-up benefit album, which was also called We Are The World.
  • The 7-inch single (the radio version) runs 6:22; a 12-inch single running 7:19 was also released. Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had to make the song this long to accommodate as many vocalists as they could - it was balance between getting as many star solos in and keeping it short enough for airplay.
  • Quincy Jones was responsible for managing the egos of all the stars. It went very smoothly considering some very famous people did not get to sing a line. Most of the singers knew Jones personally and respected his wishes that they check their egos at the door.
  • Before the session began, Jones decided where everyone would stand. He put tape on the floor with each singer's name on it.
  • Richie came up with the "We are the world, we are the children" line, and Jackson wrote most of the other lyrics, which are about how helping those in need benefits the giver ("We're saving our own lives"). This kind of compassionate songwriting would show up in Jackson's later work on tracks like "You Are Not Alone" and "Heal The World."

    The song has just two verses and follows a basic structure of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus, but in the "Hey Jude" model, that last chorus goes on for a while, with Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen the featured voices.

    There are seven vocalists on the first verse, but just three on the second; most of the solos come during lines of the chorus. Musically, the song isn't all that interesting, but that helps draw attention to the singers, and the barrage of distinct voices carries it home.
  • This won Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
  • The single exceeded expectations in terms of sales. Released on March 7, 1985, 800,000 copies were originally shipped, and they sold out the first weekend. Thanks to the wide array of star power, radio stations across a variety of formats put the song in rotation, and MTV gave the video plenty of airplay. The single went to #1 in the US on April 13, where it stayed for four weeks. In the UK, it hit the top spot on April 20 and stayed for two weeks. The song was also a #1 R&B hit, topping that chart on May 4 and staying for two weeks.
  • The recording session for the vocals (Quincy Jones recorded the instrumental tracks beforehand) took about 12 hours, which is very efficient considering the scope of the project. Since the recording took place after the American Music Awards, it served as a de facto after party, with the artists mingling and in some cases exchanging autographs. By 8 a.m. the next morning, all of the performers had left except for Lionel Richie, who was still there with Jones.
  • This project was very much an American effort, which makes sense considering it was recorded the night of the American Music Awards. The moniker "USA for Africa" made it clear that it was America's answer to Band Aid, and it showed that famine in Africa was an international concern. The only vocalist to participate who wasn't American was Bob Geldof, who that summer organized Live Aid with stages in London and Philadelphia.
  • Billy Joel (from Rolling Stone magazine, December 15, 2005): "Most of us who were there didn't like the song, but nobody would say so. I think Cyndi Lauper leaned over to me and said, 'It sounds like a Pepsi commercial.' And I didn't disagree."
  • As envisioned by Harry Belafonte, USA for Africa was going to be an effort by African-Americans to help Africans in need, and the first group of artists who signed on were black. When Bruce Springsteen came on board, it gave the project greater cultural and musical diversity, as more rock artists joined in.

    According to Ken Kragen, Springsteen helped quell tensions in the studio, as the rockers weren't happy with the song and concerned about their credibility. Springsteen refused to take sides, and led by example with his wholehearted participation.
  • In his verse, Willie Nelson misquotes the Bible when he sings, "As God has shown us by turning stones to bread." Matthew 4 tells us that the devil tried to get Jesus to turn some stones into bread, but the Son of God refused, saying, "Man does not live on bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God."
  • Huey Lewis was supposed to be just part of the chorus, but he got his line because Prince didn't show up. Describing his good fortune to be part of the project, Lewis said, "I was a lucky son of a bitch to be there. Thank God I had a lot of hit records, because I wouldn't have been there any other way."

    Lewis spent most of the session next to Michael Jackson, whose line came before Huey's. Lewis recalls that Quincy Jones called Jackson "Smelly" because he was always so clean.
  • To create the instrumental tracks, Quincy Jones used many of the same musicians he employed on Thriller, including Greg Phillinganes (keyboards), John Robinson (drums), Michael Boddicker (synthesizers), Paulinho da Costa (percussion), Louis Johnson (bass), Steve Porcaro (synthesizers) and David Paich (synthesizers). Michael Omartian was also a key contributor, credited on keyboards and
  • Exodus - Blood In, Blood Ou
    Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out


    Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Blood In, Blood Out
    Released: 2014

    Blood In, Blood Out Lyrics


    We're throwing down the gauntlet
    Chomping at the bit about to lay down the law
    Show you all the way
    Bare witness to genesis
    Of the violence the way it was back in the day.
    We've been here from the start with a one track mind,
    We kept the hate alive.
    Always had the power, now is zero hour,
    Tonight we're gonna fight like it's 1985.

    Blood In, Blood Out,
    All I'm telling you is do anything you wanna do
    Blood in, blood out,
    This is a ****ing dynasty of trash notoriety.
    Dive in or bow out,
    If you have the pedigree, welcome to the family.
    All in or all out,
    Half way, no way. Give it all you've got!
    We wrote the book, so you better know the plot
    New breed, old creed
    Let's see what you brought.
    This shit has turned into a rout
    Blood in, blood out.

    Stand tall, show you've got no backbone.
    Welcome all who never took more than gave
    Punish all deceptions, no exceptions
    Fortune always favors the brave
    Bring your anger,
    Bring the mayhem,
    Anything you do is allowed.
    You're the kings of pit insanity
    Tonight we're gonna rage and make Paul Baloff proud.

    Blood in, blood out,
    All I'm telling you is do anything you wanna do
    Blood in, blood out,
    This is a ****ing dynasty of trash notoriety.
    Dive in or bow out,
    If you have the pedigree, welcome to the family.
    All in or all out,
    Half way, no way. Give it all you've got!
    We wrote the book, so you better know the plot
    New breed, old creed
    Let's see what you brought.
    This shit has turned into a rout
    Blood in, blood out.

    We're bringing down the thunder
    Bottling the light, battering the way
    Burning down the place
    Our one stance, zero tolerance
    Time to cut to the chase
    We expect nothing less than a full scale riot
    Give everything that you've got
    Put an end to the peace and quiet
    Let's start the pit that time forgot.

    Blood in, blood out,
    All I'm telling you is do anything you wanna do
    Blood in, blood out,
    This is a ****ing dynasty of trash notoriety.
    Dive in or bow out,
    If you have the pedigree, welcome to the family.
    All in or all out,
    Half way, no way. Give it all you've got!
    We wrote the book, so you better know the plot
    New breed, old creed
    Let's see what you brought.
    This shit has turned into a rout
    Blood in, blood out.

    Writer/s: HOLT, GARY
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Blood In, Blood Out Song Chart
  • Many fans have queried if the title track of Blood In, Blood Out refers to the firing of vocalist Rob Dukes during the recording of the album and his replacement by previous frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza .

    However, guitarist Gary Holt told Billboard magazine the song has nothing to do with Dukes leaving the band. "A lot of people asked if [the song] had anything to do with Rob being replaced in the band, but as convenient as that sounds, the title, the lyrics, they were all there when Rob was recording it," said Holt with a laugh. "I hate to disappoint them on that one. It wasn't autobiographical."
  • The disc's title was inspired by Holt's television viewing. "When I was working on the record, I was sitting around watching TV series like Gangland and all these locked-up prison reality shows," said Holt. "And I thought, 'Yeah, that's like Exodus.' It's a brotherhood. You bleed to get in, you bleed to get out."
  • The song's music video was directed by Shan Dan Horan, who is Vice President of Operations at Artery Recordings. The clip features hundreds of dedicated Bay Area Exodus fans moshing and brawling to the tune. "Directing this music video has been a pleasure. Having the task to find hundreds of metal heads to fill up a dark room with very limited time seemed like a tough task," said Horan. "What I found however, was an overwhelming response from some of the most positive and energetic fans I've ever met. I feel honored to have played a small role in that."

    "Old metalheads, young ones, to even a guy that showed up in his wheelchair," he added. "The fact of the matter is everyone was accepted and everyone picked up their brethren when they would fall in the pit. To me that's what 'Blood In, Blood Out' is about. While we all come from different backgrounds – once a metal head, always a metal head. That's something that stays in your blood."

  • Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Her
    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here


    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Wish You Were Here
    Released: 1975

    Wish You Were Here Lyrics


    So, so you think you can tell
    Heaven from Hell,
    Blue sky's from pain.
    Can you tell a green field
    From a cold steel rail?
    A smile from a veil?
    Do you think you can tell?

    And did they get you to trade
    Your heroes for ghosts?
    Hot ashes for trees?
    Hot air for a cool breeze?
    Cold comfort for change?
    And did you exchange
    A walk on part in the war
    For a lead role in a cage?

    How I wish, how I Wish You Were Here.
    We're just two lost souls
    Swimming in a fish bowl,
    Year after year,
    Running over the same old ground.
    And how we found
    The same old fears.
    Wish you were here.

    Writer/s: WATERS, ROGER/GILMOUR, DAVID JON
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., IMAGEM U.S. LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Wish You Were Here Song Chart
  • This song is about the detached feeling most people go through life with. It is a commentary on how people cope with the world by withdrawing physically, mentally, or emotionally. In the commentary of The Wall, Roger Waters states that the inspiration was Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett and his ordeal with schizophrenia. (thanks, Roxanne - Denver, Colorado)
  • Roger Waters has said this song was based on a poem he wrote about Syd Barrett's fall from reality. It was said that Syd's friends would lace his coffee with LSD, which eventually lead to his mental breakdown. (thanks, Matt - Ruston, LA)
  • This was a rare case of the Pink Floyd primary songwriters Roger Waters and David Gilmour mutually collaborating on a song - they rarely wrote together. Gilmour had the opening riff written and was playing it in the studio at a fast pace when Roger Waters heard it and asked him to play it slower. The song built from there, with the pair writing the music for the chorus and verses together, and Waters adding the lyrics.
  • The song reflected the feeling of the band while they were recording the album. Waters felt they were not putting a full effort into the recording sessions.
  • When this song starts, it sounds like it is coming from an AM radio somewhere in the distance. It represents the distance between the listener and the music.
  • At the end, when the wind is blowing, you can hear the sound of a violin that was played by Stephane Grappelli, a Jazz musician who was recording in nearby studios. Pink Floyd asked him to guest on this when they found out he was there.
  • The theme of the album is absence. They chose this as the title track because it summed up the message. The man who did their cover art, Storm Thorgerson, was the first to suggest this as the album title.
  • The album contains images relating to the theme of detachment. The most prominent image shows 2 businessmen shaking hands, with one of them on fire. This represents an insincere business deal, with one of the men about to get burned. In all of the images, there is something missing, like the diver who does not make a splash.
  • Like many Pink Floyd albums, this does not translate nearly as well to CD. A lot of work went into choosing which songs were on the front and back sides of the album, which is eliminated on the CD, and there is also a lot less room for the artwork, which goes along with the music.
  • When Pink Floyd was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, they played this at the induction ceremony. Nick Mason accepted the award but didn't join the performance, while Roger Waters and Syd Barrett didn't attend. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • In the 26th second of the song you can hear a small cough. This was to create the effect of a man listening to the radio and playing along with his guitar. In the 31st second you can hear a sniff. Rumors say that it symbolizes Gilmour quitting smoking, but it could just be the radio and the man. (thanks, Long - Houston, TX)
  • This is one of the few songs Roger Waters continued to play at his shows after leaving Pink Floyd that David Gilmour helped him write.
  • Fred Durst and Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit and Johnny Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls performed this at the 2001 "Tribute To Heroes" telethon to benefit victims of the terrorist attacks on America. Durst, Rzeznik, and Borland appealed to a younger audience, but this song was familiar to the older viewers as well. Almost 60 million people watched the telethon.
  • Wyclef Jean does a Soul-Reggae version on his 2 Side II a Book album. He pays credit to Pink Floyd in additional lyrics at the end of the track. (thanks, Shades - London, England)
  • The song was performed at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Nick Mason played drums and he was assisted by singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, Richard Jones of The Feeling and Mike Rutherford of Genesis. Their version entered the UK singles chart at #34 the following week. The Pink Floyd original simultaneously landed at #68, marking the first time it had entered the UK top 75.

  • Jessie J - Burnin' U
    Jessie J - Burnin' Up


    Jessie J - Burnin' Up Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Sweet Talker
    Released: 2014

    Burnin' Up Lyrics


    Walking through the fire, please don't let me go
    Take me to the river, I need you to know

    I'm Burnin' Up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out
    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out

    Hot in the kitchen like a thousand degrees
    That's how I'm feeling when you're next to me
    I got a fever, tell me, what did you do?
    Temperature rising when I look at you, look at you

    Subliminal, sex
    Drippin' in, sweat
    I'm losing my, breath
    Look what I've, found
    It's about to go, down
    I want it right, now

    Walking through the fire, please don't let me go
    Take me to the river, I need you to know

    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out
    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out

    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out
    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out

    I got the matches, you got the gasoline
    Light up the floor like it's Billie Jean
    The way we're movin' by the end of the song
    They're gonna have to pull the fire, fire alarm

    Subliminal, sex
    Drippin' in, sweat
    I'm losing my, breath
    Look what I've, found
    It's about to go, down
    I want it right, now

    Walking through the fire, please don't let me go
    Take me to the river, I need you to know

    2 Chainz!
    Everything hot like it's fresh off the grill
    Million dollar grill look fresh on the hill
    Plus I'm 6'5", she need to step in some heels
    Before you step up in here you need to step up your gear
    Wish a Lamborghini had four doors
    From the corner store to the corridor
    Me and my homie on the damn floor
    White girl in the middle, looking like an Oreo
    (I'm burnin' up)
    Roof on fire, we can burn up
    Turn up for what nigga turn up
    Mother fucker must ain't learned
    Back in the day used to down with a burn coat
    (I'm burnin' up)
    Light got the Lord on the top floor
    In a Ford, wearin' Tom Ford
    Walk in the club and her ass start clappin'
    Tell shawty I want a encore

    Come put me out
    Come and put me out
    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out

    Come put me out
    Come and put me out
    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out

    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out
    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out

    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out
    I'm burnin' up
    Come put me out
    Come and put me out

    Writer/s: LEWIS, GAMAL / ANGELIDES, CHLOE / CORNISH, JESSICA / FREDERIC, ERIC / SCHULLER, ANDREAS / EPPS, TAUHEED / KASHER HINDLIN, JACOB / GORANSSON, RICKARD
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Burnin' Up Song Chart
  • This tribal-influenced dance track finds Jessie losing control due to the heat of her lover:

    Walkin' through the fire
    Please don't let me go
    Take me to the river
    I need you to know I'm burnin' up!


    Jessie first teased the song in an acoustic set at Grammys HQ on August 28, 2014.
  • Guest rapper 2 Chainz's verse adds more fuel to the flames as he continues the song's fire as a metaphor for lust theme. The Southern US rapper scored an international hit in 2013 with his Wiz Khalifa collaboration from the Fast & Furious 6 soundtrack,"We Own It (Fast & Furious)."
  • The song was produced by Swedish hitmaker Max Martin, who also helmed Jessie's "Bang Bang" single, Norwegian producer Andreas Schuller, whose working name is Axident and Oakland hip hop artist Ricky Reed who records under the pseudonym of Wallpaper. The latter pair's previously collaborations include Far East Movement's UK hit "Turn Up The Love."

  • Mariah Carey - Her
    Mariah Carey - Hero


    Mariah Carey - Hero Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Music Box
    Released: 1993

    Hero Lyrics


    There's a Hero
    If you look inside your heart
    You don't have to be afraid
    Of what you are
    There's an answer
    If you reach into your soul
    And the sorrow that you know
    Will melt away

    [Chorus]
    And then a hero comes along
    With the strength to carry on
    And you cast your fears aside
    And you know you can survive
    So when you feel like hope is gone
    Look inside you and be strong
    And you'll finally see the truth
    That a hero lies in you

    It's a long, road
    When you face the world alone
    No one reaches out a hand
    For you to hold
    You can find love
    If you search within yourself
    And the emptiness you felt
    Will disappear

    [Chorus]

    Lord knows
    Dreams are hard to follow
    But don't let anyone
    Tear them away
    Hold on
    There will be tomorrow
    In time you'll find the way

    And then a hero comes along
    With the strength to carry on
    And you cast your fears aside
    And you know you can survive
    So when you feel like hope is gone
    Look inside you and be strong
    And you'll finally see the truth
    That a hero lies in you
    That a hero lies in you
    That a hero lies in you

    Writer/s: AFANASIEFF, WALTER/CAREY, MARIAH
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Hero Song Chart
  • Carey claims this was intended for the 1992 Dustin Hoffman movie, also called Hero. The producers of the movie used Luther Vandross' "Heart Of A Hero" instead. Walter Afanasieff explained in Fred Bronson's Book of Billboard #1s that the original intention was that Gloria Estefan would be asked to sing the title theme. He was recording the Music Box album with Carey at the time, and during a break he, "was sitting at the piano and told Mariah about this movie. Within two hours, we had this incredible seed for this song, 'Hero.'" Afanasieff added: "It was never meant for Mariah to sing. In her mind, we were writing a song for Gloria Estefan for this movie. And we went into an area that Mariah didn't really go into - in her words, it was a little bit too schmaltzy or too pop ballady or too old-fashioned as far as melody and lyrics."

    When it was nearly finished, they played the song to the president and COO of Sony Music Entertainment and Carey's fiancé Tommy Mottola, (later her husband), explaining that it was a song for the film Hero. Afanasieff recalled that Mottola responded, "Are you kidding me? You can't give this song to this movie. This is too good. Mariah, you have to take this song. You have to do it."
  • A limo driver named Chris Selletti sued Carey, claiming he wrote the lyrics and has them in an envelope he mailed to himself in 1990. His suit was dismissed in court, but Selletti claimed he would open the envelope on live TV to prove his case.
  • Carey sang this with opera singer Luciano Pavarotti at the 1999 benefit concert, "Pavarotti and Friends For Guatemala and Kosovo."
  • Carey recorded a live version for the album Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute
  • This was produced and arranged by Walter Afanasieff, who also wrote the music. Carey wrote the lyrics.
  • This was released shortly after Carey married Sony Music President Tommy Mottola. They divorced four years later.
  • Carey didn't like this song at first, feeling it was too sappy. After receiving letters from fans claiming it touched their lives, she came to realize that it was a very powerful song and appreciate it for the feelings it brings out in people.
  • On December 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson started shooing people on a Long Island Railroad train, killing six and injuring 19. Carey, who grew up in Long Island and rode that train often, dedicated this song to the victims.
  • Carey performed this on the 2001 "Tribute To Heroes" telethon for the victims of the terrorist attacks in the US. It was Carey's first public appearance since her nervous breakdown a month earlier.
  • Included on the 2001 benefit album God Bless America, which helped the Twin Towers Fund.
  • This was covered by the 12 finalists of the fifth series of the United Kingdom music talent show The X-Factor for a charity single. Each contestant took it in turns to section of the track. All proceeds went to the British Legion charity Help for Heroes. The song leapt to the top of the UK chart and 313,244 copies were sold in its first week of release, more than the remainder of the top 10 combined.
  • In 2015, this was used in a commercial for the video game Game of War: Fire Age. In the spot, a battle rages and a knight pulls out his smartphone to summon help, which arrives in the form of reinforcements accompanied by this song. A dragon enters, and is shot from they sky by... Mariah Carey, who puts down her crossbow and delivers the line, "Time to be heroes, guys."

  • Kendrick Lamar -
    Kendrick Lamar - I


    Kendrick Lamar - I Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: To Pimp A Butterfly
    Released: 2014

    I Lyrics


    I done been through a whole lot
    Trials and tribulations, but I know God
    Satan wanna put me in a bow-tie
    Praying that the holy water don't go dry, yeah yeah
    As I look around me
    So many motherfuckers wanna down me
    But ain't no nigga never drown me
    In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me

    And I love myself
    (The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
    I love myself
    (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
    I love myself
    (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
    I love myself
    (One day at the time, sun gone shine)

    Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy)
    What you gone do? (What you gone do?)
    Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)
    Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)
    Peace to fashion police I wear my heart
    On my sleeve let the runway start
    You know the miserable do love company
    Fuck do you want from me and my scars?
    Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
    How many times our potential was anonymous?
    How many times the city making me promises?
    So I promise this

    And I love myself
    (The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
    I love myself
    (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
    I love myself
    (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
    I love myself
    (One day at the time, sun gone shine)

    They wanna say there's a war outside and a bomb in the street
    And a gun in the hood and a mob of police
    And a rock on the corner and a line full of fiends
    And a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme, yup
    These days of frustration keep y'all on tucking rotation
    I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum bases
    Dreams of realities peace
    Blow steam in the face of the beast
    The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now
    The strong in me, I still smile

    I love myself
    (The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
    I love myself
    (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
    I love myself
    (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
    I love myself
    (One day at the time, sun gone shine)

    Walk my barefeet (Walk my barefeet)
    Down, down valley peak (Down, down valley peak)
    I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)
    I keep my heart undone (My heart undone)

    And I love myself
    (The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
    I love myself
    (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)
    I love myself
    (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
    I love myself
    (One day at the time, sun gone shine)

    I went to war last night
    With an automatic weapon, don’t nobody call a medic
    I'mma do it 'til I get it right
    I went to war last night
    I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
    Duckin' every other blessin', l can never see the message
    I can never take the lead, I can never bob and weave
    For my nigga that be letting ‘em alienate me
    And the sound is moving in a meteor speed
    From a 100 to a billion lay my body in the street
    Keep my money in the ceiling let my mama know I'm free
    Give my story to the children and the lesson they can read
    And the glory to the feeling of all of y'all scenes
    Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!"

    I lost my head, I must've misread what the good book said
    Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside
    Give myself again 'til the well runs dry

    Writer/s: ISLEY, O'KELLY / JASPER, CHRISTOPHER / ISLEY, ERNIE / ISLEY, RUDOLPH / ISLEY, RONALD / ISLEY, MARVIN / LAMAR, KENDRICK / SMITH III, COLUMBUS
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    I Song Chart
  • The first single from Kendrick Lamar's third studio album finds him rapping about the need for self-assurance to get by in this world. While premiering the song on LA's Power 106, Lamar explained the confidence boosting anthem was inspired by what he's experienced on the streets of Compton. "It's about self love [which] comes from within," he said. "A lot of cats that go to jail, be in these homes, or in foster homes they grew up in from these hoods, they never had that love within themselves. They thinking they get it from their parents or their mothers or big homies or grandmas, but it starts with themselves and that's why we carry ourselves the way we do."
  • The track kicks off with a pastor preaching about Kendrick:

    We got a young brother who believes in all of us
    Brother Kendrick Lamar
    He's not a rapper
    He's a writer
    He's a lover
    If you read in between the lines
    We'll learn to love one another


    The preacher sets the tone for the religious theme of the first verse.
  • The funk-infused track was produced by Los Angeles musician Rahki, who previously provided the beat for the good kid, m.A.A.d city bonus track "Black Boy Fly."
  • Rahki's production incorporates a sample from Isley Brothers' 1973 hit "That Lady." Lamar told Flaunt magazine in 2013 that he hadn't been "listening to rap for the last six months. I bought the whole Isley Brothers collection."
  • Speaking to Zane Lowe on BBC Radio One, Lamar revealed that he turned up at Ronald Isley's house to personally ask permission to sample his song. "I actually had to go to St. Louis and get the blessings from Ronald Isley," he said. "That was a trip. We got in the studio and just vibed and talked about how things were back then and how they are now, and you can actually hear him on the record with a few ad libs that he actually did. We got it on camera and things like that, it's a beautiful thing."
  • The single's striking cover art shows a Crip and a Blood making "heart" signs with their hands. Speaking with Carson Daly on the Los Angeles radio station KAMP, Lamar explained the message behind the image: "Where I'm from, there's a lot of gang culture and things like that," he said, "so instead of throwing on up gang signs, which we used to, I put a Blood and I put a Crip together and we're throwing up hearts."
  • Lamar performed the song live for the first time when he made a surprise appearance during the We Day Toronto event at the Air Canada Centre on October 2, 2014.
  • This was only the fifth song with a title containing just one character to reach the Hot 100. So what were the previous four? They were:

    1993 "7" by Prince and the New Power Generation

    2005 "O" by Omarion

    2009 "3" by Britney Spears

    2014 "X" by Chris Brown.
  • The jubilant video, directed by Alexandre Moors and the Little Homies, finds Lamar rapping, dancing and spreading the love through the Los Angeles streets. Look out for Ronald Isley's cameo as the rapper's driver.
  • The feel-good song actually came from a time when Lamar was feeling low. "The record feels great; it feels good," the rapper said during an interview with 93.7 The Beat in Houston. "But it comes from a place of depression. It comes from a place of insecurity. Not only for [other people], but for myself. It's a lot of things that I deal with personally. That you deal with, that everyone in this room deals with."

    "So, it touches on so many different things, as far as equality within us as human beings, and accepting one another," K-Dot continued. "People that wanna commit suicide; people that just don't respect themselves or like the way they look, feel, talk, dress, and not accept who they are. We all put on this world to be kings, and walk in his image, and that's how it starts - that song."
  • Lamar rapped this song on the November 15, 2014 episode of Saturday Night Live. K Dot adopted a wild hair style during his performance with parts of his dreads combed out and he also wore some creepy black contacts, which made his eyes look dilated. This was in homage to Method Man whose Tical album was celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
  • Kendrick Lamar told Billboard magazine the song's "I love myself" chorus was a self-conscious effort to make himself happier. "That's a psychological trick I wanted to play on myself," he explained. "Now that I put this song in the atmosphere, what's going to happen? I have to perform it every night for the next three years when we go on tour. Every time I'm in a weird mood or something goes on at home that I can't handle, I've got to perform it anyway."
  • This won the 2014 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance.
  • Kendrick Lamar attempts to reclaim the N-word as a source of black pride by exploring its (allegedly African) roots on the song's extended version.

    Well, this is my explanation straight from Ethiopia
    N-E-G-U-S definition: royalty; King royalty – wait listen
    N-E-G-U-S description: Black emperor, King, ruler, now let me finish
    The history books overlook the word and hide it
    America tried to make it to a house divided
    The homies don't recognise we been using it wrong
    So I'ma break it down and put my game in a song
    N-E-G-U-S, say it with me
    Or say no more
    Black stars can come and get me.


    Speaking to NME in a 2015 interview, Lamar admitted that he doesn't feel ready to omit the N-word from his lyrics. "The closest I can do to stopping is putting the root word, negus, on my album," he said. "But I don't know if I'm there mentally to stop saying the N-word yet. I dunno, maybe one day. That's 27 years of reversing that word, I probably been saying that since I was one-year-old."

  • The Clash - Police and Thieve
    The Clash - Police and Thieves


    The Clash - Police and Thieves Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: The Clash
    Released: 1977

    Police and Thieves Lyrics


    We're going through a tight wind

    Police and Thieves in the streets, oh yeah
    Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
    Police and thieves in the street, oh yeah
    Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition

    From genesis to revelation
    The next generation will be, hear me
    From genesis to revelation
    The next generation will be, hear me
    And all the crowd comes in, day by day
    No one stops it in any way
    All the peacemaker, turn war officer
    Hear what I say, he-e-ey

    Police and thieves in the streets, oh yeah
    Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
    Police and thieves in the street, oh yeah
    Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition

    From genesis to revelation
    The next generation will be, hear me
    Throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up
    Oh yeah
    Throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up
    Oh yeah

    And all the crowd come in, day by day
    No one stop it in anyway
    All the peacemaker, turn war officer
    Hear what I say, he-e-ey

    Police, police, police and thieves, oh yeah
    Police, police, police and thieves, oh yeah
    From genesis-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is, oh yeah
    Police, police, police, police and thieves, oh yeah

    And I'm scaring, I'm fighting the nation, oh yeah
    Shooting, shooting their guns and, guns and ammunition, oh yeah
    Oh yeah, police, police, police and thieves, oh yeah
    I'm scaring, oh yeah
    I'm scaring the nation, police, police, police, police, oh yeah

    Here come, here come, here come
    The station is bombed, oh yeah
    Get out, get out, get out you people
    If you don't want to get blown up, oh yeah
    The police, the police and the thieves, oh yeah
    You got an extra grand
    But you got trapped in the middle of police, police, police
    Police, police, police, police
    Police, police, police, police
    Police, police, police, police
    Police, police, police, police

    Writer/s: MURVIN, JUNIOR / PERRY, LEE
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Police and Thieves Song Chart
  • This was written by the reggae artist Junior Murvin, who recorded it in his falsetto style in 1976. The Clash, who were huge reggae fans, covered the song. It's the first example of The Clash incorporating reggae into their repertoire, something that can be heard in original songs like "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" and "Guns of Brixton." At the time, reggae was the music of Britain's oppressed Jamaican population.
  • The album was The Clash's first, and it was released only in the UK. As the band gained popularity in the US, there became a huge demand for it there, and about 100,000 copies were sold in the States as an import. A greatly altered version was finally released in the US in 1979.

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