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Elton John - Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)

Elton John - Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Jump Up
Released: 1982

Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) Lyrics

What happened here
As the New York sunset disappeared
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It's funny how one insect can damage so much grain

And what's it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed, we're crippled and we're dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace

And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most of the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Johnny
Can't you come out to play

And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he'd have said that roots grow stronger, if only he could hear
Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name

And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most of the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Johnny
Can't you come out to play

And I've been knocking but no one answers
And I've been knocking most all the day
Oh and I've been calling, oh hey hey Johnny
Can't you come out, can you come out to play, Johnny
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Johnny
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Johnny
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Johnny
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Johnny
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Johnny
Can't you come out to play in your empty garden, Johnny

Writer/s: JOHN, ELTON / TAUPIN, BERNIE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song is a tribute to John Lennon, who was shot to death in 1980 by a deranged fan. Elton John's wordsmith Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, but Elton certainly felt a connection to the song, as he was good friends with Lennon and is the Godfather of Lennon's second son, Sean. Elton performed on several of Lennon's songs and even appeared onstage with him at his final concert in 1974.

In the John/Taupin songwriting partnership, Bernie writes the lyrics first and Elton then puts them to music. When writing for the Jump Up album, Elton had some melodies handy and asked Taupin to write words to those, which he did. Taupin has described those songs as "awful" and said, "it's a very messy album." "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)," however, was written their traditional way with the lyrics first, and Taupin has said that it's the only good song on the album.

When he performed this at a sold-out Madison Square Garden show in August 1982, Elton was joined onstage by Lennon's wife Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon.

Lecrae - Welcome To America

Lecrae - Welcome To America Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Anomaly
Released: 2014

Welcome To America Lyrics

Ladies and gentlemen
Good afternoon from the flight deck
Were cruising at 37,000 feet and we just passed over the coast
We will be beginning our descent in about a 30 minutes
Like to take this opportunity to welcome you to America
Ta na na na muchawa
Ta na na na muchawa
Ta na na na muchawa ta na na na na

Uh†¨ I was made in America land of the free, home of the brave
Right up under your nose you might see a sex slave being traded
And will do anything for the money
Boy, a momma might sell her babies
Sell porn sell pills anything to pay the bills
Anything to bring that pay
Gotta scratch that itch gotta scratch them ticks
Ain’t rich but I might be
And I'mma shoot these flicks I'mma turn these tricks anything for a slight fee
Yea made in America
Momma told me that I belong here
Had to earn our stripes had to learn all rights had to fight for a home here
But I wouldn't know a thing about that
All I know is drugs and rap
I probably could have been some kinda doctor
Instead of holding guns and crack
I was born in the mainland
Great-grandpa from a strange land
He was stripped away and given bricks to lay
I guess you could say he a slave hand
But I was made in America
So I don’t know a thing about that
All I know is uncle Sam look-in for me working on his corner so I know I gotta pay tax
Gettin' paid in America
I was raised in America
And this is all I ever known
If I’m wrong then you better come save me America

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa
Ta na na na muchawa muchawa
Ta na na na muchawa muchawa
Ta na na na muchawa muchawa
Welcome To America
Welcome to America
Welcome to America
Welcome to America
Welcome to America

Man I’d die for America
I serve my time for America
Got shot shot back with the war
Got back and ain’t nobody give a jack in America
I could lost my life boy I lost my wife
I can’t even get right in my home land
Pulling sweats hold ticks paranoia
Looking out for a threat in own land
I was trained in America
How they get up in the planes in America
People running into buildings
Taking out them buildings
People getting killed in America
And I’m still in America
Though America ain’t feeling me
I went to war for this country
Turn around came home and you rid of me
When y’all free here saying you don’t wanna be here
Well you probably couldn't breathe here if I didn’t load a couple magazines here
Y’all just complain in America
I’m jumping out of military planes for America
Aye I was made in America
That's why I’m out here saving America
I got a brother in the cemetery now
Cause he wanted y’all safe
And everybody want the freedom but nobody want to hear about-face
We bled for America
To keep y’all fed in America
But whats the point of talking a lot of y’all don’t really even care America

Ta na na na muchawa muchawa ta na na na
Ta na na na muchawa muchawa ta na na na
Welcome to America
Welcome to America
Welcome to America
Welcome to America
Welcome to America
Ta na na na muchawa
Ta na na na muchawa
Ta na na na muchawa ta na na na na

Uh, I wish I lived in America
Wanna raise my kids in America
Heard everybody rich all I gotta do is run jump kick
I'm a hit in your area
So please pick me America
I know you probably never loved me
You never hear about me on the news
And you’ve probably never been to my country
I hear you selling education and got clothes that you throw away
Got plenty food in your nation
I can tell cause a lot of y’all are over weight
I already work for y’all
I’m at a sweatshops making these shirts for y’all
Naw I ain’t gettin money
Go to bed hungry but I make some exports for y’all
Y’all don’t know a thing about that
You was made in America
I’m trying to find me a ticket
Where the sky is the limit catch a plane to America
It should be plain to America
Y’all blessed people got it made
Heard y’all don’t play no more
Y’all ain’t saved no more
Y’all looking for another way
Well I hope it ain’t true
But I’m packing my suit
Farewell to my mother land
Sayin bye to my loved ones
Fate hear I come I’m gone to another land
I done made it to America
I’m amazed at America
But I couldn’t get approval to stay so they sent me away from America

Writer/s: GRIFFIN, LARRY DARNELL / RHODES, J. / MOORE, LE CRAE DEVAUGHN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Lecrae uses three different characters on this cut to remind us that everyone has a different story to tell. "'Welcome to America' is a special song because I think everyone has a unique perspective on America," he explained to MTV News. "I wrote the song from three different perspectives, so there's three different people who have different perspectives of what America is."

"You've got a guy who's from one community, another guy from a completely different community and then you've got a person who's not from America and [it's] their perspective on what America is," he continued. "Everyone sees it differently, through different lenses, and it makes us stake a step back and look at ourselves."

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Billy Joel - Uptown Girl Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: An Innocent Man
Released: 1983

Uptown Girl Lyrics

Uptown Girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
I bet her momma never told her why

I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am

And when she knows what
She wants from her time
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind

She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love with an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high class toys
And all her presents from her uptown boys
She's got a choice

Uptown girl
You know I can't afford to buy her pearls
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been
And then I'll win

And when she's walking
She's looking so fine
And when she's talking
She'll say that she's mine

She'll say I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love
With an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am

Uptown girl
She's my uptown girl
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl
My uptown girl
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl
My uptown girl
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl
My uptown girl
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl

Writer/s: JOEL, BILLY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Billy Joel married the supermodel Christie Brinkley less than two years after this song was released, but he wasn't even dating her when he started writing the song - he was actually dating another supermodel: Elle McPherson. Asked about his relationship with Elle on The Howard Stern Show in 2010, Joel explained: "We dated on and off. We weren't like engaged or anything. We just kind of dated. She was 19."

Joel went on to explain that he and Elle parted ways when she went off to Europe, which is around the time he started dating Brinkley. He reworked the lyrics, and by the time he finished the song, it was about Brinkley.

On Australian TV in 2006, Joel said: "The song was originally called 'Uptown Girls' not 'Uptown Girl.' I know its associated with Christie but when I started to write that song I had recently divorced prior to meeting her, all the sudden I'm a rock star and divorced. All these women were going to go out with me."

As he explained to Howard Stern, Billy Joel was on vacation in the Caribbean when he was playing the piano, looked up, and saw Elle McPherson, Christie Brinkley and Whitney Houston (who was more a model than a musician at that point) standing over his piano in wonderment watching him play. Joel thanked his creator for his good fortune, and began dating Elle. His first attempt at the song had the lyrics, "Uptown girls, I've been around the world." The music was more of a classical piece when it started.

Joel is from Long Island, New York, and always considered himself a working-class, regular guy. This song reflects his surprise at his ability to attract such beautiful, glamorous women. In a 1987 interview with Q magazine, Joel said: "The fact that I can attract such a beautiful woman as Christie should give hope to every ugly guy in the world!"

The whole album, especially this song, was a musical tribute to '60s pop music. Specifically, this one is done in the style of The Four Seasons, with Joel trying to sound like Frankie Valli . He had their song "Rag Doll" in mind both musically and lyrically; on that track Valli sings about a poor girl that he loves anyway. In fact, he loves her "just the way she is."

Christie Brinkley was in the video, playing the Uptown Girl. Joel portrayed a mechanic working on her car. The clip was directed by Jay Dubin, who also helmed Joel's videos for "Tell Her About It" and "The Longest Time."

Brinkley and Joel remained married for nine years. She drew the cover art for his 1993 album River of Dreams. They eventually separated due to Joel's busy schedule.

This was Joel's only #1 single in the UK. It's also one of his best-selling in the US.

In an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer decides to hang out with the band of hippies his mother was once part of in the 1960s, Homer breaks into singing a fragment of this song at one point. (thanks, Vincent - Fayetteville, AR)

In 2001 the Irish boy band Westlife covered "Uptown Girl," topping the UK charts for a week. It was recorded as the official song for the 2001 BBC Comic Relief charity appeal. Screenwriter Richard Curtis, one of the founders of the Comic Relief campaign, knew supermodel Claudia Schiffer's agent and obtained her cooperation to be the Uptown Girl in the video, which mimicked Billy Joel's original that featured his model wife Christie Brinkley. In addition to Schiffer and Westife themselves, the video also featured the actors Tim McInnery, James Wilby, Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Bathurst and Crispin Bonham Carter as a chorus of city workers.

The owner of the Rolls Royce in this video tried to pull a fast one on Jay Dubin's team. The director said in our interview : "The guy who owned the car was a little crazy. His radiator went out. His radiator had a leak in it and he was trying to shake us down. He said he needed a new radiator, and a Rolls Royce radiator was $2,000. So I remember my guy, Bruce, that handled that went up to him and said, 'Hey, no problem at all. I'll give you $2,000, but before I give you money, you've got to take the old radiator out of the car and give it to me.' And he goes, 'What do you mean?' Bruce said, 'I'm buying a $2,000 radiator for you, I'm taking the old one.' And suddenly the problem with the car went away."

This song is a topic of discussion in the 2015 movie Trainwreck, where Bill Hader plays a surgeon who is dating Amy Schumer's character. When Hader operates, he listens to this song; the two have this exchange:

Schumer: Why Billy Joel? Why "Uptown Girl"?

Hader: I love that song.

Schumer: That's probably the worst Billy Joel song. I'm pretty sure even
Billy Joel hates that song.

Hader: He shouldn't, it's great.

Later in the film, Hader is stitching up Schumer's equally churlish father, played by Colin Quinn, who wonders why he is humming this song. They share Billy Joel stories:

Quinn: That's the only thing that'll save you. I like Billy Joel. I saw him at Nassau Coliseum. Nylon Curtain tour.

Hader: That's awesome. I saw him with Elton John at Shea Stadium. It was great.

Quinn: Of course you did. Nothing better than down to earth blue collar Billy Joel with Elton John, the Queen of England.

At the end of the film, after a dance number that brings Hader and Schumer back together, another Billy Joel song plays: "A Matter Of Trust."

Lee Brice - Sirens

Lee Brice - Sirens Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: I Don't Dance
Released: 2014

Sirens Lyrics

I just remember her tan legs standin' on the side of the road,
Honda with the hood up covered in smoke,
Thumb in the air with somewhere to go in a hurry.

She didn't say a thing, she just jumped inside,
Stuck a gun to my chest and told me to drive.
I was scared but she was beautiful, like a movie.

She kept lookin' back like somethin' was comin',
Said we ain't slowin' down, ain't stoppin' for nothin',
My truck was shaking, my blood was pumpin',
But she was laughin'.

I 'bout hit the brakes when we came around the corner,
A mile of blue lights, guns aimed and pointed.
Whatever she had is what they wanted,
And it's all a little fuzzy after that.

All I remember is Sirens,
Blue lights flashin' and drivin',
Dirt lane passin' and flyin',
Tearin' through the red lights,
Blowin' through the stop signs.
All I remember is sirens,
Ringin' from the gun shots firin',
One curve away from dyin',
And all I remember is...
Sirens.

The man on the radio reported the chase,
And all about the beauty,
How she cleaned out the bank.
She was armed and dangerous,
She almost got away but they found her.
She was cussin' at choppers,
They were swirlin' around,
Reloadin' her revolver every couple-a-rounds.
Shot off a couple shots,
But they wouldn't back down.

All I remember is sirens,
Blue lights flashin' and drivin',
Dirt lane passin' and flyin',
Tearin' through the red lights,
Blowin' through the stop signs.
All I remember is sirens,
Ringin' from the gun shots firin',
One curve away from dyin',
Baby all I remember is...
Sirens.

We were all outta road and I knew she could tell,
'Cause she leaned across my lap and buckled my belt,
And kissed me on the cheek and said,
"Thanks for the help, and hold on boy."
Well she yanked the wheel and I held my breath,
We flipped so many times we shoulda been dead.
And that's all I got,
And I just woke up here and I said

All I remember is sirens,
Blue lights flashin' and drivin',
Dirt lane passin' and flyin',
Tearin' through the red lights,
Blowin' through the stop signs.
All I remember is sirens,
Blue lights flashin' and smilin',
One curve away from dyin',
All I remember is...
Sirens.
Sirens.
And her blue eyes flashin'.
And those long legs standin' on the side of the road,
Her Honda with the hood up covered in smoke,
Thumb in the air, somewhere to go in a hurry.

Writer/s: BRICE, LEE / HATCH, ROB / MILLER, LANCE / STONE, JON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., MIKE CURB MUSIC
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Lee Brice produced the I Don't Dance album himself. The South Carolina singer contributed some banjo licks to this searing tune and it was the first time he'd ever played the instrument.

"One thing I tried to do on this record is a lot of classic sounds, like on Bruno Mars' record, but with a lot of hip sounds that he just created in his mind, or whatever it may have been," he told Rolling Stone. "I love putting classic steel guitar with a classic banjo - all those sounds meshed with new sounds I created in my head."

Jefferson Starship - Miracles

Jefferson Starship - Miracles Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Red Octopus
Released: 1975

Miracles Lyrics

If only you believe like I believe, baby, like I believe,
We'd get by.
If only you believe in Miracles, so would I.
If only you believe in miracles, so would I.

I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby.

So we're making love, you feel the power and I feel the power.
And there's really nothing we can('t) do
(You know we could, you know we could)
If we wanted to
(You know we could, you know we could)
We could exist on the stars, it was so easy.

(Oh Baby)
All we got to do is get a little faith in you.

Woah, I've been so many places I've seen some things (yes I have)

I know that love is the answer (yes it is)

Keeps holding this world together (oh yeah)

Ain't nothing better? Ain't nothing better?(Nothing's better!)

And all the answers to our prayers,
Hell, it's the same everywhere. (just the same now)

Nothing ever breaks up the heart(love's a game now)
only your tears give you away (Ain't it a shame now).

When you're right where I found you(oh baby)
with my arms around you. (oh baby)

Baby, baby.
Love is a magic word if you ever find inner life

But from that very first look in your eyes
I see you and I have but one
heart.

Only our bodies were apart (it's making me crazy)
That was so easy, so easy.

I had a taste of the real world (Just a drop of it)
When I went down on you, girl, oh.

I can hear windmills and rainbows whenever you talkin' to me

(Never say never)

I feel like swirling and dancing whenever you walk in with me

You ripple like the river when I touch you (let me touch you)
Then I pluck your body like a string (show you what I mean)
Then I start dancing inside you (oh baby, a love song)

Oh baby in a love song, aw baby
Oh yeah, yeah, alright
Baby we're sure doin' it tonight

Every time you come by let me try (come on by)
Pretty please, with sugar on it, that's how I like it, ugh.

I can't even believe it with you

It's like having every dream I ever wanted
(Dream of a lifetime) come true.

I picked up your vibes, you know (I'm having a fine time)
It opened my mind but I'm still dreaming.

Yeah (sarcastic Grace mini-orgasm)
And you're right where I found you, with my arms around you! (oh baby).

Writer/s: MARTY BALIN
Publisher: THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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Jefferson Airplane founder/vocalist Marty Balin wrote this song. He quit the group in 1971, only to rejoin in 1975, before this album was made.

The album version is nearly seven minutes long, but was edited down for radio airplay by their producer Larry Cox, who made sure the radio edit got right to the chorus. Some of the suggestive lyrics were also removed, an action uncharacteristic of Jefferson Airplane. Cox, who had worked with Buddy Holly and Brian Wilson, told Melody Maker in 1976: "I cut the chorus in half and dealt with three verses of lyric which I wanted to preserve. Every verse was extremely important. I applaud the group for making the concession and allowing me to edit the tune down for radio play."

Red Octopus was the only #1 album Jefferson Airplane/Starship ever had, largely thanks to this ballad. The album sold more than four million copies.

A hit song can be an albatross for a band if it takes them in a direction they'd rather not go, and the very Middle-of-the-Road sound of "Miracles" didn't sit well with Grace Slick, who told BAM magazine in 1980: "All of that 'baby come back to me' stuff was us trying to copy 'Miracles.' We'd never been a real hot singles band. So, when 'Miracles' hit, it was all of a sudden 'better stick with that s--t.' But I felt odd doing it, felt like I was wearing a costume, a monkey suit or something."

Lee Brice - Whiskey Used to Burn

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Album: I Don't Dance
Released: 2014

Whiskey Used to Burn Lyrics

Looked in the mirror today
Found my first line on my face
You know you really don't know how to take
Watching your whiskers turnin' gray
So I closed my eyes
And thought about my life.

When the Whiskey Used to Burn
Oh when the Whiskey used to burn

High School and pick up trucks
Sneaking out with summer love
Yeah you know all those nights you just couldn't get enough
Coming home at 3am
From places we'd never been
Yeah we were all just kids back then
We didn't know first times
It happened just one time

When the Whiskey used to burn
When the Whiskey used to burn
Back when I could still feel my broken heart
Sometimes I wish I could go back to the start
When the Whiskey used to burn

There ain't much I'd change
Sometimes those days

When the Whiskey
Used to burn
When the Whiskey
Used to burn
Back when I could still feel my broken heart
Sometimes I wish I could go back
To the start
Yeah

Writer/s: LANCE MILLER, ROB HATCH, LEE BRICE
Publisher: MIKE CURB MUSIC
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Brice recorded some of this nostalgic ballad digitally. The South Carolina singer explained in a Walmart Soundcheck video that he and songwriters Rob Hatch and Lance Miller penned the song sitting around a picnic table during Jerrod Niemann's album release party. Needing to save their rough cut, they saved it onto Brice's phone. "And during this work tape, there's kids running around and there's screen doors squeaking open,"he said. "We had no idea until we listened back to it. This work tape, it was magic. There's this life in it!"

Once Brice started laying down the song with his band in the studio, he realized it was lacking something. "I missed those kids talking in the background and I missed those doors squeaking and the wind blowing," he said. "So what you're hearing on the record, the first half of it is the work tape, and then it morphs into the studio version."

Jefferson Airplane - Triad

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Album: Crown of Creation
Released: 1968

Triad Lyrics

You want to know how it will be
Me and him OR you and me
You both stand there your long hair flowing
Your eyes alive your mind still growing

Saying to me--"What can we do now that we both love you",
I love you too-- I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three
You are afraid--embarrassed too

No one has ever said such a thing to you
Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulder
Face like ice--a little bit colder
Saying to you--"you can not do that, it breaks

All the rules you learned in school"
I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three
We love each other--it's plain to see

There's just one answer comes to me
--Sister--lovers--water brothers
And in time--maybe others
So you see--what we can do--is to try something new--

If you're crazy too--
I don't really see
Why can't we go on as three.

Writer/s: CROSBY, DAVID
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This is about a ménage Á  trois, otherwise known as a three-way (we heard). Byrds guitarist/vocalist David Crosby wrote the song, but when The Byrds rejected it, he gave it to Jefferson Airplane. Crosby states in interviews that this is not merely "about" three-way relationships, but that the song "happened, several times." Crosby was involved for some time in the late 1990s-early 2000s with both Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Julie Cypher, and was the biological father of their two children.

David Crosby performed a solo acoustic version of this song in 1970-71 tours with Stills, Nash and Young. It appears on the double live album Four Way Street. (thanks, Ekristheh - Halath, for above 2)

In the UK, this was released as the B-side to "If You Feel Like China Breaking." It wasn't released as a single in the US.

This was just one of many envelope-pushing songs recorded by Jefferson Airplane. "White Rabbit" details drug use and "Volunteers" featured one of the first recorded utterings of the F-word.

Crown of Creation went to #6 in the US despite not having any major singles.

Crosby would later make a guest appearance on Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner's 1970 album Blows Against the Empire.

The Byrds did perform the song live during a September 1967 engagement at the Whisky a Go Go. They also recorded it, and their version can be heard on the 1987 Never Before compilation album.

Crosby admitted to Mojo magazine February 2014 that he did participate in a ménage Á  trois, "a number of times." He added: "It's not actually something that you can do in real life and sustain. Somebody always feels that they're the low man on the totem pole. It can be the guy feeling that the girls are ganging up on him or one of the girls. But it was a good song."

Leonard Cohen - Almost Like The Blues

Leonard Cohen - Almost Like The Blues Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Popular Problems
Released: 2014

Almost Like The Blues Lyrics

I saw some people starving
There was murder, there was rape
Their villages were burning
They were trying to escape
I couldn't meet their glances
I was staring at my shoes
It was acid, it was tragic
It was Almost Like The Blues
It was almost like the blues

I have to die a little
Between each murderous thought
And when I'm finished thinking
I have to die a lot
There's torture and there's killing
And there's all my bad reviews
The war, the children missing
Lord, it's almost like the blues
It's almost like a blues

So I let my heart get frozen
To keep away the rot
My father says I'm chosen
My mother says I'm not
I listened to their story
Of the Gypsies and the Jews
It was good, it wasn't boring
It was almost like the blues
It was almost like the blues

There is no God in Heaven
And there is no Hell below
So says the great professor
Of all there is to know
But I've had the invitation
That a sinner can't refuse
And it's almost like salvation
It's almost like the blues
It's almost like a blues
Almost like a blues

Writer/s: COHEN, LEONARD / LEONARD, PATRICK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The lead single from Popular Problems finds Cohen reacting to political disasters, death, destruction and bad reviews by noting that they are "almost like the blues."

Popular Problems was produced by and co-written with Patrick Leonard, who is best known for his work with Madonna from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. "It was a very agreeable collaboration because of an absence of ego and an abundance of musical ideas on Patrick's part," Cohen explained during an interview with Bob Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum, after an album playback.

"I would have a rhythm in mind and a position" on tempo and accompaniment," Cohen added. "I had the function of the veto. Most of the musical ideas were Patrick's, with a bit of modifications. Whether there were horns or violin, all of those things were decided mutually."

Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)

Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (and Let Me Love Again) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Release Me
Released: 1967

Release Me (and Let Me Love Again) Lyrics

Please release me, let me go,
For I don't love you anymore.
To live a lie would be a sin.
Release me and let me love again.

I have found a new love, dear.
And I will always want her near.
Her lips are warm where yours are cold.
Release me, darling, let me go.

Writer/s: STING/MILLER, DOMINIC JAMES
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, WILLIAM A.MC CALL JR.GERALDINE E.SILVA TRUSTEE JAMES B.MCCAL
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A Country classic recorded by well over 100 artists, "Release Me (and Let Me Love Again)" dates back to the late '40s, and has a convoluted history. It was written by Eddie Miller and two of his bandmembers: guitarists Bobby Gene Yount and Dub Williams. Miller fronted an act called Eddie Miller and his Oklahomans, which recorded the first version of this song in either 1949 or 1950.

The song is about a guy who wants to get out of his current relationship so he can pursue another. According to Yount, the song came about when they got to talking about divorce, and Miller wondered if there was some kind of release form one of the spouses could sign. They worked on the song before a gig and came up with the basic version in about an hour.

The original version got little attention, but it was noticed by the Country singer Jimmy Heap, who recorded it in 1953. Ray Price and Kitty Wells also recorded the song, and it soon became a standard, with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, Chet Atkins, Roger Miller and Elvis Presley among the many acts to record it.

This was the first single recorded under the name Engelbert Humperdinck, and it became the biggest hit of his career. He had previously recorded as Gerry Dorsey. Humperdinck's 1967 version is the most successful cover of the song.

Long before it became trendy for Pop stars to get their own perfumes, Humperdinck attached his name to a fragrance for women called "Release Me," which was sold through the Home Shopping Channel in 1994.

This single sold 1,365,000 copies in the UK, and it prevented the Beatles' "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever" from getting to #1 and making it 18 consecutive #1s for the fab four. It was #1 in 9 countries and the biggest hit in the UK in 1967.

This song holds the record for the longest stay in the UK charts for consecutive weeks at 56 weeks. It is one of only two records (Acker Bilk's "Stranger On The Shore" is the other) to have spent more than a year on the singles chart in an unbroken run. The song didn't become popular for 3 months until Engelbert Humperdinck was a last minute replacement for Dickie Valentine, who had become ill, on the popular television variety show Sunday Night At The London Palladium, where he sung this song and watched it race up the charts.

According to 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, the idea for the song came to Country music songwriter Eddie Miller in a bar in San Francisco. He overheard a husband and wife talking about their marital troubles. The wife said, "If you'd release me, we wouldn't have any problems and everything would be all right."

This was Esther Phillips' (formerly known as "Little Esther") comeback song after she was rediscovered by Kenny Rogers at a Houston club. Her 1962 version topped the R&B charts and landed at #8 on the Pop charts. Her version was re-released in 1967 after Humperdinck scored with the song, this time going to #93 in the US.

The songwriting credits on this one are tough to decipher. The only name to consistently appear is Eddie Miller, and while Bobby Gene Yount and Dub Williams (listed as his real name, William Pebworth) appear on early versions, they apparently sold their rights to the song to Bill McCall, who owned the label that Eddie Miller and his Oklahomans recorded for: 4 Star Records. McCall used the pen name W.S. Stevenson, so many later pressings credit the song to Miller/Stevenson.

The Madden Brothers - UR

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Album: Greetings From California
Released: 2014

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Joel Madden penned this love song for his wife Nicole Richie and family. "I wrote it as a personal song," he told Billboard magazine. "I said, 'I want to write a song about Nicole and the kids. Me being away.'"

Sammy Hagar - High Hopes

Sammy Hagar - High Hopes Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Unboxed
Released: 1994

High Hopes Lyrics

Another dream, goes up in smoke
Huh!

And so fire me up, another toke
Yeah, I'm commin' on
I've got master plans, by the dozens
A-flashin' through my brain, when I get buzzin'

Whoa!
Suddenly, they're gone
All that inspiration, runnin' through your head
Instant stimulation
Oh, your runnin' on

You got...
High Hopes
And they're up in smoke

Up all night, tweakin' every detail
The way I've got it, this could never fail
Hey! This could be the big one
High hopes
Come and go, so high
But commin' down, fade away and die
High hopes
I got them, more than a dream
They all get wasted
Yeah!

Ohhh, the inspiration, runnin' through your head
Instant stimulation
Your runnin' on
Oh!
You got...high hopes
Your livin' on
High hopes
High hopes
Oh yeah...
But they're wasted

All that talk, is gettin' nuthin' done
Ain't it hard to move, when your body's numb
Put it off, another day

High hopes
Come and goin' so high
And commin' down, fade away and die
High hopes
They're nuthin' more than a dream
They all get wasted

Ohhh, the inspiration, runnin' through your head
Instant stimulation
They're givin' you
Oh!...you got
Welllll Oh,
High hopes

Your livin' on
High hopes
You got
High hopes

High hopes
AAAAAAH! Yeah
High hopes
Keep livin' on
High hopes
High hopes

Writer/s: HAGAR, SAMMY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The cover of the album shows Hagar in a boxing ring. His father was a professional boxer, and Sammy was headed down that road until moving to Southern California at age 19. From then on, he played in numerous bar bands.

Hagar claims this is based on people who create wonderful plans and aspirations while under the influence of drugs, but then fail to follow through when they come down. He also says it's based on personal experience.

This is the leadoff song on the album.

While recording this, Hagar was still the lead singer of Van Halen. Guitarist Eddie Van Halen got a production credit.

Montgomery Gentry - Headlights

Montgomery Gentry - Headlights Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Folks Like Us
Released: 2014

Headlights Lyrics

Everybody knows when the summer gets hotter
Everybody goin' on down by the water, chillin'
Nothin' gets rocking 'til the clock says midnight
Catch a buzz on a honeysuckle moonlight

Shotguns, girlfriends, coolers full of cold cans

Follow those Headlights
Down a broken fence line
Take it to the riverside
Point 'em through the red dust
Keep it in the tire ruts
If you wanna find us
Wanna go all night, hell yeah that's right
Follow those headlights

Got a girl in a tee and cut-offs shakin'
Around here we call that summertime naked
Yeah, shake it
Got bottoms up boys, hats on backwards
Hittin' it hard, says to park them tractors

Got Hank up on 10, if you can't hear him
If you can't hear him

Follow those headlights
Down a broken fence line
Take it to the riverside
Point 'em through the red dust
Keep it in the tire ruts
If you wanna find us
Wanna go all night, hell yeah that's right
Follow those headlights

Follow those headlights, yeah

Follow those headlights
Down a broken fence line
Take it to the riverside
Point 'em through the red dust
Keep 'em in the tire ruts
If you wanna find us
Wanna go all night, hell yeah that's right
Follow those headlights
Follow those headlights, yeah

Writer/s: MARTIN, TONY / DIPIERO, BOB / MOBLEY, WENDELL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This rock-country cut was written by Bob DiPiero (Montgomery Gentry's "If You Ever Stop Loving Me"), Wendell Mobley (Randy Houser's "How Country Feels") and Tony Martin (Keith Urban's "You Look Good In My Shirt"). "A feel-good song with a really great beat," Troy Gentry commented to USA Today. "And it's got that Montgomery Gentry message of having a good time, laying back and looking for the weekend."

This song, along with the rest of the album, was produced by Michael Knox, who also has worked with Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett and Trace Adkins. "He's great at finding songs for us," Gentry said. "He gets us, knows what we singing about, knows our sound. He's able to go out and find those kinds of songs."

Eddie Montgomery is the lead voice on the verses whilst Troy Gentry takes the lead on the chorus. Gentry admitted to Billboard magazine it's a familiar formula. "It has always worked for us, and it's a case of, 'If it's not broke, don't fix it.' It's just that unique style," he said. "When you hear them performed, you know it's a Montgomery Gentry song."

"That's been a staple of what we've been about and what's worked for us. We're fortunate that Eddie and I are both able to take lead on these songs. We're kind of like ying and yang," Gentry added with a smile.