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Flyleaf - Blue Roses

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Album: Between The Stars
Released: 2014

Blue Roses Lyrics

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Kristen May sings here about about the pain of losing someone. "We can become so wrapped up in our experience with that person that it's almost impossible to move on," she explained to Artist Direct . "We become trapped, holding on to what has already died. This song is about trying to find the strength to move past the pain and start anew."

Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together

Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Volunteers
Released: 1970

We Can Be Together Lyrics

We Can Be Together
Ah you and me
We should be together

We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal
We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
But we should be together
Come on all you people standing around
Our life's too fine to let it die and
We can be together

All your private property is
Target for your enemy
And your enemy is
We
We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves

Up against the wall
Up against the wall fred (motherfucker)
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls

Come on now together
Get it on together
Everybody together
We should be together
We should be together my friends
We can be together
We will be

We must begin here and now
A new continent of earth and fire
Come on now gettin higher and higher
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Tear down the walls
Won't you try

Writer/s: Kantner, Paul
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This was the first track on the album, and released as the B-side for their more well-known "Volunteers." It didn't chart.

Due to Jefferson Airplane's experience and popularity among the American youth, they were granted complete artistic control for the Volunteers album. They exercised it here with a chorus of "Up against the wall, motherf--kers" that became a rallying cry for the counterculture.

One of the first recorded uses of the word "f--k."

On a previous album, After Bathing at Baxter's, they battled with their record company, RCA, over the use of the word "s--t." It was deleted from the lyric sheet.

The (uncensored) performance of this song for The Dick Cavett Show episode broadcast on August 19, 1969 marked the first time that the "f-word" was ever said/sung on television. Apparently, Cavett was asked to make a pre-show disclaimer statement before the broadcast. (thanks, Tony - Westbury, NY)

In Flames - Paralyzed

In Flames - Paralyzed Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Siren Charms
Released: 2014

Paralyzed Lyrics

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Guitarist Björn Gelotte told Ultimate Guitar the story of this song: "It was actually one of the songs when we first wrote it and recorded it that we thought, 'Well this is probably gonna be the first single,'" he said. "Because it sounded like that when we had the right tempo and the chorus was a big one and the keys were in there so we knew we were gonna play this live."

"But it ended up we had so many songs we wanted to have as singles," he continued, "and in the end we just said, 'It doesn't really matter. Have the people that need to promote this decide what they think would be best.' This is how it ended up and everybody was super happy with either one."

Carole King - You've Got a Friend

Carole King - You've Got a Friend Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Tapestry
Released: 1971

You've Got a Friend Lyrics

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This song is about being there for others and being a friend for someone in need. Along with Tapestry tracks like "So Far Away" and "Home Again," it is a reflection on how friends can be just as important as family. King said the song "was as close to pure inspiration as I've ever experienced. The song wrote itself. It was written by something outside of myself, through me."

Carole King's good friend James Taylor played acoustic guitar on five songs from the album, including this one. Taylor recorded his own version of the song on his album Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon, which he was recording nearby while King was working on Tapestry; Danny Kortchmar , who was in King's band The City and was good friends with Taylor, played congas on both versions and added acoustic guitar to Taylor's redition.

Taylor's version came out as a single in April of 1971, and became a huge hit, going all the way to #1 in the US by July and hitting #4 in the UK. When Tapestry was first released, Taylor was a much bigger star than King, and in the spring of 1971, they toured together with King opening for Taylor.

The song was never a hit for King, since she didn't release it as a single (James Taylor got there first), but the album was a smash, spending 15 weeks at #1 in the US and 302 weeks (that's six years) on the charts, making it the longest-charting album by any female solo artist. To this day, many singer-songwriters cite the album as an influence. What's even more impressive is that the album was made in about two weeks for around $15,000, with producer Lou Adler keeping the production to a minimum to get a clean, warm sound.

The Tapestry album was produced by Lou Adler, who owned King's label Ode Records. In a recorded conversation with Adler in 1972, King explained: "I didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. But when James heard it he really liked it and wanted to record it. At that point when I actually saw James hear it, I watched James hear the song, and his reaction to it. It then became special to me because of him, you know, and the relationship to him. And it is very meaningful in that way but at the time that I wrote it. Again, I almost didn't write it. When I write my own lyrics I'm conscious of trying to polish it off but all the inspiration is really inspiration, really comes from somewhere else. That was because his album Sweet Baby James was recorded the month before Tapestry was recorded I think. Or even possibly simultaneously. Parts of it were simultaneous. And it was like Sweet Baby James flowed over to Tapestry and it was like one continuos album in my head. We were all just sitting around playing together and some of them were his songs and some of them were mine."

Taylor's version won a Grammy for Song of the Year, an award that went to King as the songwriter. This made King the first woman to hit the Grammy "Grand Slam": Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), Album of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal (Tapestry), and Song of the Year ("You've Got A Friend"). Taylor's version also won Best Male Pop Vocal.

King, who had a case of stage freight and did what she could to avoid the media, didn't go to the ceremony. Her producer Lou Adler accepted the awards for her and had to call her to tell her she won.

Roberta Flack and Donnie Hathaway recorded the song as a duet and released it around the same time as Taylor. Their version hit #29 in the US, and started a successful partnership between Flack and Hathaway, who teamed up for an album of duets in 1972 that included the hit "Where Is The Love?" Other artists to cover the song include Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Anne Murray, Tom Jones, and Al Green.

Ready for some musical analysis of this song? Jeremy Gilien, who has a Master's degree in Music Composition from California State University, Los Angeles, and was Josh Groban's music teacher in high school, explains: "Carole King on Tapestry utilized harmonies popularized by Holland-Dozier-Holland in the Motown sound, especially major sevenths to sweeten, and minor sevenths to warm the sound. She employed extended dominant harmonies, such as chords of the 9th, 11th, and 13th, in lieu of traditional 7th chords at half cadence points preceding choruses. A feature which is a fairly frequent characteristic of her formal songwriting structure is to begin a song in a minor key and then find her way into a sunnier, major region before returning again to minor. This method can be heard in such songs as 'It's Too Late', 'I Feel the Earth Move', 'You've Got a Friend', and 'Beautiful'. The absence of an orchestra or large string section, and inclusion of finely crafted instrumental solo breaks, lend a sparse intimacy and a solidarity with the band-oriented rock music that Lou Adler produced. The quality of her voice did not compare with that of a first rank R&B or blues singer, but she used her understanding and placement of idiomatic vocal ornamentation to supply the 'soul' that her natural limitations had not equipped her with. Her sound was sensitive, unique, endearing, and certainly a far cry from what we would think of as a typical 'songwriters' voice." (Quotes and research come from Harvey Kubernik's piece on Rock's Backpages .)

In 2005, the British pop band McFly released this as the flip side of their #1 UK single "All About You." Proceeds from the single went to charity through Comic Relief.

Journey - Lights

Progressive House, Ambient Pop,
Journey - Lights Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Infinity
Released: 1978

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Kem - Downtown

Kem - Downtown Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Promise To Love
Released: 2014

Downtown Lyrics

Tell me what you want girl
I can take you anywhere
Would you wanna go in this world?
You’re fine
Girl you have to have an open mind
Now I wait for you to get home
We can break it whenever you want You never got to think it
Know it
With beautiful people going Downtown
Everybody wanna meet you baby downtown
They don’t even really know if they want it
Down town
Everybody wanna greet you baby
Downtown
Yeah,yeah
Baby what it makes you feel good?
Do I rock your world
When I tell you momma
That you’re my favourite girl
Let em take away your emotions
Don’t give up Never get down
If you get lost in the sound
Baby you aren’t getting away from here
Take you to anogther atmosphere
Baby kick just like your birthday
Get all wrapped up And your pretty little dress
Let’s go celebrate
Why you got have a reason?
If you see them lights Bangin’ this groove through the night, girl
You better don’t tell somebody
That we’re going to the after-party
Downtown I’m takin’ my baby downtown
We hit it like downtown
I’m takin’ my baby downtown
We’re goin’ downtown
Drinkin’ my cup Pound in the cloud
Which way is up?
We headin’ downtown
Wear dress with a purse
Baby girl you got that good stuff
That I’ve been and want to get next to
You,you,you got an attitude
Love everybody
And everyone
You might be that very one
Put wings of an angel
On the same we do the tango
Spin away
So we can go everywhere any day Just name it, picture and frame it
Lifestyle of the rich and the famous
Downtown
I’m takin’ my baby downtown
We hit it like downtown
I’m takin’ my baby downtown
We’re goin’ downtown
Chemistry
It’s doin’ its thing
You know what I’m sayin'?
Downtown Downtown
Everybody wanna meet you baby downtown
Downtown
They don’t even really know if they want it
Downtown Everybody wanna greet you baby
Downtown Downtown
Everybody wanna meet you baby downtown
Downtown
They don’t even really know if they want it
Downtown
Everybody wanna greet you baby
Downtown

Writer/s: BROADUS, CALVIN / OWENS, KEM L.
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Kem recruited Snoop Dogg to spit some verses on this track after he saw the rapper and 2 Chainz singing his hit "I Can't Stop Loving You" on Snoop's Double G News Network. "I was going to do the rap on it," Kem told Billboard magazine. "But after I saw that segment, I thought, why not get Snoop? He's clever and I'm a fan of his 'Sensual Seduction.' I felt there was something there that would allow him to help me make 'Downtown' special."

Five for Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy)

Five for Fighting - Superman (It's Not Easy) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: America Town
Released: 2000

Superman (It's Not Easy) Lyrics

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane
I'm more than some pretty face beside a train
And it's not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see

It may sound absurd, but don't be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed, but won't you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me

Up, up and away, away from me
It's all right, you can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy, or anything

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
Inside of me
Inside me
Yeah, inside me
Inside of me

I'm only a man
In a funny red sheet
I'm only a man
Looking for a dream

I'm only a man
In a funny red sheet
And it's not easy

Its not easy to be me

Writer/s: ONDRASIK, JOHN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song about trying to fit in was written from Superman's point of view. The superhero is portrayed as misunderstood and not as powerful as people see him: "I'm only a man in a funny red sheet." Superman may be invincible, but he has feelings too, and while he's off saving the world he sometimes wonders if anyone thinks about what he is going through.

The song reflects what John Ondrasik (who is Five For Fighting) felt at the time - he released his first album, Message for Albert, in 1997 and it went nowhere. Explaining what led him to write the song, which appeared on his next album, Ondrasik told us it was "frustration about the inability to be heard."

He later explained: "I've learned 10 years later that it's pretty damn easy to be me. I could never write that song now." (Here's our full John Ondrasik interview .)

This became very popular after the September 11 attacks. The reflective tone fit very well with the mood of the United States, and many radio stations put it in heavy rotation. Ondrasik heard from emergency workers and others who found it a source of comfort after the attacks.

Ondrasik performed this song on October 20, 2001 at the "Concert For New York," a tribute to the police, firefighters, and rescue workers involved in the World Trade Center Attacks. It was a very touching moment, and he called this performance "the most important thing I'll ever do musically." Ondrasik stood next to James Taylor and Pete Townshend at the end of the show when they all sang "Let It Be."

The video was done in one shot using a motion control technique where a robotic camera is used to create smooth movements, stopping at key points along the way. It was shot in front of green screens so the backgrounds could be composited in later.

The clip starts with a shot of John Ondrasik's pregnant wife, who is holding their young child. At the end of the video, they show up again on a bed, and we see Ondrasik join them.

Ramaa Mosley , who directed the video, told us: "When I wrote the idea for the video I knew that John was married and his next baby was on the way. I knew that while on the road he really missed his family, so I came up with the idea of the video ending with him reunited with them. It just felt like 'Superman' was a metaphor for John going out into the world to accomplish big things but always carrying his family in his heart."

The band name comes from a hockey term. If you get a penalty for fighting, you serve five minutes in the penalty box. The band is actually just Ondrasik.

Superman does not appear in the lyrics and the character was not used in any promotional materials for it. Since Superman is owned by DC Comics, Ondrasik had to be careful not to violate the copyright. Chuck Berry found this out when he had to turn over royalties for "Run Rudolph Run" to the owners of the Rudolph character, as his song told a detailed story about the reindeer.

Kenny Chesney - The Big Revival

Kenny Chesney - The Big Revival Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Big Revival
Released: 2014

The Big Revival Lyrics

Getting ready for The Big Revival
Getting ready for the big revival

Getting ready for the big revival
Everybody get in the van
There's a little church on eagle mountain
It's called the blood of the blessed land
If your faith ain't strong enough child
You might wind up dead
Praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead

Now Reverend Jones he struts some dances
While the guitar plays amazing grace
He testifies in tongues of fire
With tears of joy running down his face
He ain't sure, and we ain't sure
Exactly what he said
But praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead

You won't find many hypocrites
That will take the chance on getting bit
But a true believer can survive
Rattlesnakes and cyanide

Now I'll bring you home that deadly viper
Keep the holy spirit in your mind
You might lose your concentration
That serpent's surely bound to strike
Either way you won't forget
The first time that you said
Praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead
Praise the Lord and pass me a copperhead

Writer/s: Linde, Dennis
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The first cut on Kenny Chesney's The Big Revival album is also the title track. The song depicts an old-time church service, complete with speaking in tongues and snake handling. "The philosophy behind putting 'The Big Revival' first was to set a tone," Chesney told Radio.com . "There's things about religion that I don't necessarily agree with or understand, but I'm a big believer in spirituality — I've seen songs change people, and that's spiritual."

"But 'The Big Revival' is really about picking yourself up off the bottom, reclaiming your soul, restarting," he continued. "That was everything I wanted to say to my audience - and you have to think about that, you have to think 'Okay, we took a year off, now what am I going to say to these people, who have been there for me for a long time?' And the idea of 'The Big Revival' was it."

The song was written by songwriter Dennis Linde, who is best known for penning the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love" and Dixie Chicks' 1999 murder ballad "Goodbye Earl." It was previously recorded by John Anderson in 2001 and Montgomery Gentry in 2008.

Tommy Tutone - Jenny (867-5309)

Tommy Tutone - Jenny (867-5309) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Tommy Tutone 2
Released: 1982

Jenny (867-5309) Lyrics

Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold onto
I know you think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall

Jenny, I got your number,
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
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Jenny, Jenny, you're the girl for me.
You don't know me but you make me so happy.
I tried to call you before but I lost my nerve.
I tried my imagination, but I was disturbed.

Jenny, I got your number,
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
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I got it, I got it, I got it!
I got your number on the wall!
I got it, I got it, I got it!
For a good time, for a good time call....

Jenny, don't change your number.
I need to make you mine.
Jenny. I'll call your number,
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Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to? (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
For the price of a dime I can always turn to you.
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Writer/s: CALL, ALEXANDER HUGHES / KELLER, JAMES IRWIN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song is about a guy who gets Jenny's number off the bathroom wall. He can't work up the courage to call her, but thinks he can have her if he ever does. Songwriter Alex Call came up with it while sitting under a plum tree. He told us: "Despite all the mythology to the contrary, I actually just came up with the 'Jenny,' and the telephone number and the music and all that just sitting in my backyard. There was no Jenny. I don't know where the number came from, I was just trying to write a 4-chord rock song and it just kind of came out. This was back in 1981 when I wrote it, and I had at the time a little squirrel-powered 4-track in this industrial yard in California, and I went up there and made a tape of it. I had the guitar lick, I had the name and number, but I didn't know what the song was about. This buddy of mine, Jim Keller, who's the co-writer, was the lead guitar player in Tommy Tutone. He stopped by that afternoon and he said, 'Al, it's a girl's number on a bathroom wall,' and we had a good laugh. I said, 'That's exactly right, that's exactly what it is.' I had the thing recorded. I had the name and number, and they were in the same spots, 'Jenny... 867-5309.' I had all that going, but I had a blind spot in the creative process, I didn't realize it would be a girl's number on a bathroom wall. When Jim showed up, we wrote the verses in 15 or 20 minutes, they were just obvious. It was just a fun thing, we never thought it would get cut. In fact, even after Tommy Tutone made the record and '867-5309' got on the air, it really didn't have a lot of promotion to begin with, but it was one of those songs that got a lot of requests and stayed on the charts. It was on the charts for 40 weeks."

Tommy Tutone is the name of the band, not the lead singer. The group, led by Tommy Heath and Jim Keller, originally called itself Tommy and the Two-Tones. They had a minor hit two years earlier with "Angel Say No," which went to #38 in the US.

When a phone number is needed for a movie or TV show, they usually use a fake one starting with 555, which doesn't exist in the real world. The group didn't want to use a fake number for this because it wouldn't sound right. It made the song a lot more intriguing, but made life very difficult for people who had that number. Many of them had to change it because they were flooded with prank calls, usually kids asking for "Jenny."

The next time a real phone number was broadcast so prominently was the 2003 movie Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey as a regular guy who took the powers of God. When God wanted to contact Carrey, he would page him, and the number that displayed was a real phone number. For the DVD, it was changed to a generic 555 number.

For years, Tommy Tutone has used a story that there was a Jenny and she ran a recording studio. They have also said it was inspired by a real girl who band member Tommy Heath met in a nightclub and 867-5309 was the phone number of her parents. None of this is true, but it got them a lot more media attention, since it made a better story.

This song had a profound effect on anyone who happened to have that phone number, as well as many girls named Jenny. Says Call: "I think a high school in Peduca or Louisville, or somewhere in Kentucky had the number, and they got 50,000 calls in a week - 'Is Jenny there?' A guy came up to me at one of my gigs - his family is from Florida and they had the number. They loved it, and as they've all grown up - it's a big extended family, they all have on their cell phones 5309, no matter what the prefix is, so all you need to know is what cousin Bob's prefix is. A lot of women have told me they use the name and number as a brush off, which I think is really great. A guy wakes up with a hangover, he's been obnoxious to some girl in a bar last night, he opens up a folded piece of paper and it's 'Jenny - 867-5309.' A lot of people who had it were really pissed off about it. I've met a few Jennys who've said, "Oh, you're the guy who ruined my high school years." Most Jennys are happy to have the song."

Before he wrote this, Call was lead singer in a San Francisco band called Clover. Huey Lewis was the harmonica player, and John McFee, who later joined The Doobie Brothers, was the guitar player. They released 4 albums, the last 2 produced Mutt Lange, who went on to produce Shania Twain, AC/DC, Foreigner and Def Leppard. Nick Lowe was one of their mentors, and brought Clover to England, where they played on Elvis Costello's first album, My Aim Is True. The band broke up in 1978.

Alex Call continues to write songs and perform in the Nashville area. Other songs he's written include "Little Too Late" for Pat Benatar and "Perfect World" for Huey Lewis & the News. He later recorded an album under his own name and released a single, "Just Another Saturday Night," complete with an MTV music video. The single flopped in part because the subject matter - drive-by shootings - was a bit dark for the tastes of some radio programers.

In 1999, Brown University put in a campus exchange of "867." The number 867-5309 went to two freshman girls who got about five prank calls a day.

In 2004, after laws passed allowing people to keep their phone numbers when they changed carriers, a man in New York tried to sell the number 212-867-5309 on eBay. He got a lot of media attention and bidding got up to $80,000 before Ebay canceled the auction, since phone numbers are not technically owned by their users. Many businesses were interested in the number because it is so recognizable and easy to remember.

From Alex Call's tell-all biography : "I was looking to f--kin' rock out. I wanted to find something direct, something like the Stones or the Kinks. There was an old Stones song called "Empty Heart" that had a cool four-chord progression. "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks was another old fave, a timeless rocker akin to the archetypal rock-n-roll instrumentals that I dug when I was a kid. I wasn't looking to copy those songs, but I wanted something that had that primordial rock vibe."

Tommy Tutone originally told Alex that they'd only cut the song if he signed over all of his publishing royalties for the song to them. Alex refused.

This famous phone number has been referenced in several video game Easter eggs, including Duke Nukem, Everquest, and Deus Ex.

Alex Call released a live version on his 2004 CD Incredibly Thick Songs With Complicated Chord Progressions, Vague Lyrics, And Melodies Only I Can Sing.

Everclear covered this song at some of their shows. When they performed it, lead singer Art Alexakis would pick out girls from the audience and ask them to come up on stage and dance. (thanks, Jen - Cleveland, OH)

8675309 is a prime number. The chances of choosing a random 7-digit (telephone) number and finding that it is prime is about 13 out of 200 (about 6.5%).

The Goo Goo Dolls often performed a cover of this at their concerts. Everclear also covered the song at some of their shows. When they performed it, lead singer Art Alexakis would pick out girls from the audience and ask them to come up on stage and dance. Cover versions have been recorded by Linkin Park, Motley Crue, and Green Day. Country star Keith Urban has also played this song at his live shows.

Long before he was a governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger used the song on his Workout with Arnold video.

Many women have used the fictional Jenny's telephone digits to brush off unwanted male attention. More than one guy has gotten a girl's digits, only to discover they are 867-5309.

During the the men's restroom scene in the 1982 "Coach Returns to Action" episode of Cheers, graffiti can be seen on the wall near the door. It says "For a good time call Diane Chambers" and offers the 867-5309 Tommy Tutone phone number.

Lecrae - Anomaly

Lecrae - Anomaly Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Anomaly
Released: 2014

Anomaly Lyrics

I never fit in I was a outcast
In grade school out blasting my Outkast
And I'll pass on running to catch a route pass
Gimme a pen and a pad I'm tryna outlast
All of my idols
American and the foreign-ers
Before the foreign cars & the boring bars
Money money money sex drugs and the coroners
All this killin' but where the bodies at
All this money where the Bugattis at
But dig a lil deeper
And you'll find another insecure man sittin' in a 2 seater
The same little boy that got beat up
Plenty pains in his past you could bring up
Nobody ever told him he could be more than he is
But inside he's a leader
I didn't know who was inside me either
Striving to be a captain
Hopin' I could date a cheerleader
Tryna get me a throne of my own so I could put my feet up
Thank God my kingdom was overthrown by the soul redeemer

Yeah
Anomaly
Deviation from the common rule
Something or
Somebody that’s abnormal
That doesn’t fit in
I say that’s exactly what we are
We are the odd
The outcasts
The peculiar
The strangers
And they say
We don’t fit in
But I say we are exactly
Who God created us to be
Anomalies
The system didn't plan for this

Writer/s: MOORE, MARK DENNIS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., A SIDE MUSIC LLC
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According to the Songfacts dictionary, an anomaly is a "deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule." The concept of Lecrae 's Anomaly album describes how the Christian artist is a product of Hip-Hop, but by staying true to himself and following his own way, he deviates from the norm. He told MTV News "The title of the album has been a running thought in my head for a long time because I've always been a trans-cultural person."

"My friends are from all from different walks of life, I can exist in conservative circles and liberal circles, I walk in the hip-hop, pop and Christian worlds — I can still be me and be embraced in all of those worlds and that makes me an Anomaly."

Anomaly debuted at #1 on the US albums chart, with 88,587 copies sold in its first week. It was Lecrae's first set to reach the peak position and also the first chart-topper for Lecrae's label, Reach Records.

Anomaly also made history by becoming the first long player to debut at the top of the main albums chart and the Gospel Albums chart in the same week.

The song and album title came to Lecrae when when he was wrestling with what it means to be an outsider. He explained to Artist Direct : "It's almost like this intentionality in being an outsider. It's not like you're an outcast and you go, 'Oh well.' It's like, 'Listen, man. I'm actually going to embrace being an outcast and deviate from what's normal on purpose.'"

"An outcast feels more like people pushed you out," Lecrae added. "It does happen, but Anomaly is more like, 'Whether they push me out or not, I'm going to be me. I'm going to be different. That's the way it's going to be.'"

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
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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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.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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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."