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Counting Crows - Palisades Park

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Album: Somewhere Under Wonderland
Released: 2014

Palisades Park Lyrics

Somebody screaming on Jim Jeffries' dreams
Explode into a black fist
He falls to the floor
He stares up at the sky
And he may wish he knew why
But you can't go back there no more

The future sounds so crazy
We all heard that song before
Tomorrow's a name that changed from yesterday to blame
When a train just don't stop here anymore
I got starry eyed
On a coaster ride
Andy said, "Man, I need a break from the world outside"

And these days my life just careens
Through a pinball machine
I could do so much better
But I can't get off the tilt
And there's a photograph on a TV, black and white
And Andy says something to you
Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like
She says I could get myself sometimes, too

But out past the doorways
Where we are sleeping
Well, the white queen's creeping
The time cat's beeping

Now I'm not breaking
The train's just shaking
I never made it here before
And there's a wide mouth spinning the girls around
Till they can't take it any more
I used to dream in the dark, in Palisades Park
Up over the cliffs and down among the spark
It's a long life
Been a long night
But it's not what I was waiting for
Everybody's seen the horses diving down the shore
It's a miracle they don't make them anymore

So make up ladies
Wake up baby
You walked into the bar like some Saturday star
Studs straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves
And you're a downtown pride, fully amplified Clyde
Gin-tied and Asian, but well preserved
Remember Annie outside your bedroom window
Saying, "Come on, let's drive across to the Palisades"
Keep going till we hit Reno, Nevada
I don't see it all that much these days

Still there are pages in back of the action stacks
Where the white queen's creeping
The time cat's beeping

The train's not breaking
The track's just shaking
I never made it here before
And there's a sky rocket turning the world around
Still I can't take it any more
And you can carry that spark from Palisades Park
Down over the cliffs and out into the dark
It's a long life
For a long night
But it's not what I was looking for
Everybody dreams of horses flying 'round the shore
It's a bad dream we're not having anymore

Man, have you seen Andy?
Hey man, hey man
Have you seen him around?
Hey man, have you seen my Andy?
Hey man, have you seen him have you seen her have you seen him have you seen her
Have you seen Andy around?

Dressed up in a pirate vest
All leathers and feathers and pearls
Andy said, "Look at me, man, I'm cooking
These hands are gonna figure out this whole world"
He said, "Come outside
Climb out your bedroom window
Shimmy down the fire escape
And say goodbye
Come outside"
Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie
Changing all the time
My leopard spots to polka dots
Say goodbye
Come outside
Where maybe we can move to California
Just meet me at the subway
And say goodbye
Come outside
The cops all think we're crazy
If you steal, just get married
To a girl who'll never know you
And then say goodbye"

Hey man, have you seen Andy?
I lost her in the cirque
I was high as a kite
On a lovely and white
Man, you can lose anyone
Hey hey man, have you seen Andy?
I don't know where she's gone
Real love outlives teenage lust
We could get wet and it keeps us warm
Love is like angel dust
Lovely sometimes changes us

Sometimes we're not
Have you been aching with trust or just
Have you been waking yourself with lust
Have you been making us up or just
Taking us home

It's a long wait
And a long life
Cars frozen in flight
All the traffic stops to stare
At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada
Where nothing but air
And a pair of gray paper wings
Andy thinks, "I have got nothing to wear"
We got nothing to wear
We got nothing to wear
We got nothing to wear
We got nothing to wear

Writer/s: Adam Duritz
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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This epic tune clocks in at over eight minutes and was started by Adam Duritz in the early 2010s before being completed in a single sitting. He told us the story of the song in a 2013 interview: "I started writing it about two or three years ago. It was a piece of music that I was thinking about using for the play, which is why it was named 'Palisades Park' for no particular reason. Because it had to do with the play, a setting in the play. There were no words to it, but I had about five minutes of me playing and singing kind of nonsense words, going through all the different changes."

"I pulled it out and I really loved it. I finally sat down and really worked at writing the whole thing. It took me a while - it took me a week and a half, and the guys were here. I really love it. It's my best piece of music I've written - it's beautiful."

"It's really long. It's more like a 'Round Here' kind of song. It's a long song with different sections to it. It reminds me of the sort of stuff we do live, but on a record."

Somewhere Under Wonderland producer Brian Deck played the glockenspiel on the track. Deck is based at Engine Studios in Chicago and has worked with such bands as Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Fruit Bats and Gomez.

Duritz explained the song's meaning to Teamrock.com : "I was 27 the first time anyone from a record company even looked at a band I was in, and 28 when I got signed," he recalled. "The ten years before that that were really terrifying. But I was also having rich experience in my twenties, and Palisades Park celebrates that – being on the fringes, wanting to try on the wrong sex's clothing, and wanting to try PCP, which is a bad idea. But it's about that experimentation."

Papa Roach - Sid

Papa Roach - Sid Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lovehatetragedy
Released: 2002

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This song is about Sid Wilson, the DJ for the band Slipknot. The nine members of Slipknot are assigned numbers, and Sid is #0.

Papa Roach toured with Slipknot on the 2001 Ozzfest. They wrote this on a spare bus between stops on the tour.

Brendan O'Brien produced the album. He has also worked with Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, and Stone Temple Pilots.

Flyleaf - Head Underwater

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Album: Between The Stars
Released: 2014

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Between the Stars marks Flyleaf's first album to feature Kristen May on vocals, replacing the group's original singer Lacey Sturm. This song was inspired by some of the less friendly messages sent to the new frontwoman. In our interview with May , she said that writing this song helped her stand strong against the online hatred. "I knew when I joined this band that there would be a certain level of people judging me," she said. "They're used to a previous singer, and how is this going to be with this new singer? And so I knew pretty quickly that I would have to be strong in who I am and feel very confident in that and not let these words I hear carry me down."

Dave Matthews Band - One Sweet World

Dave Matthews Band - One Sweet World Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Remember Two Things
Released: 1993

One Sweet World Lyrics

Nine planets round the sun
Only one does the sun embrace
Upon this watered one
So much to we take for granted

So let us sleep outside tonight
Lay down in the mother's arms
For here we can rest safely

If green should slip to grey
Would our hearts still bloody beat
If the mountains crumble away
And the river dry
Would it stop the stepping feet

Take all that we can get
When it's done
Nobody left to bury
Nobody left to dig the holes
And here we will rest safely

One Sweet World
Around this star is spinning
One sweet world
In her breath I'm swimming
And here we will rest in peace.

Writer/s: HILL, MILDRED J. / HILL, PATTY SMITH
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song - like many other Dave Matthews Band songs - is about celebrating your life. live life happy, fun and free, but also remember you have responsibilities to be aware of. (thanks, Chenel - Salamanca, NY)

In 2002, Ben and Jerry's created a Dave Matthews Band inspired ice cream called "One Sweet Whirled" as a tribute to this song. It is a combination of coffee ice cream, caramel, and marshmallow swirls. Ben and Jerry's and Dave Matthews Band both support socially responsible causes, and some proceeds from "One Sweet Whirled" go to the organization Save Our Environment.

Jerry Garcia and Phish are the only other musicians to have flavors of Ben and Jerry's named after them - Cherry Garcia and Phish Food.

Flyleaf - Blue Roses

Flyleaf - Blue Roses Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Between The Stars
Released: 2014

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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

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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

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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.