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Michelle Branch - Sweet Misery

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Album: The Spirit Room
Released: 2001

Sweet Misery Lyrics

I was lost
And you were found
You seemed to stand on solid ground

I was weak
And you were strong
And me and my guitar,
we strummed along, oh

[Chorus]
Sweet Misery you cause me
That's what you called me
Sweet misery you cause me

I was blind
But oh, how you could see
You saw the beauty in everything, everything and me

I would cry
And you would smile
You'd stay with me a little while

[Chorus]

And in my heart I see, oh
What you're doing to me
And in my heart I see, oh
Just how you wanted it to be
Sweet misery

Oh, whoa

[Chorus]

And in my heart I see, oh
What you're doing to me
And in my heart I see, oh
Just how you wanted it to be
Sweet misery

I was weak
And you were strong
And me and my guitar,
we strummed along

Writer/s: CIRCONE, BRADLEY JOSEPH/SILK, RICK/MAYO, BRETT ERIC
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Branch wrote this while sitting in her Algebra class. Other great songs inspired by math classes include "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down.

Appeared on Branch's 2000 independent album Broken Bracelet, which is only available through her website. On Broken Bracelet, there are two versions of this song. The version that closes the album is acoustic and was discarded for her major label debut.

Bush - The Only Way Out

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Album: Man On The Run
Released: 2014

The Only Way Out Lyrics

Follow me down to the water
Through the tripwires in your head
Through the seven layers
Of your holy bed

Where there is no warm guard
By the cities of systems
I wanna be your savior
I wanna be your seasons

The Only Way Out is through
Lost my mind over you
The only way out is through
Lost my mind over you

Follow me down to the freeway
Where the beat goes on
And a heatwave lost the night

Say what you will but we pray
To the gods of our own demise
All the time

The only way out is through
Lost my mind over you
The only way out is through
Lost my mind over you

Lets build a bonfire tonight
We'll stay warm in the night time
Warm in the night time

Follow me down to the water
Through the tripwires in your head
Through the seven layers
Of your holy bed

Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh

The only way out is through
Lost my mind over you
The only way out is through
Lost my mind over you
The only way out
The only way out
The only way out is through
Lost my mind over you

Writer/s: Gavin Rossdale
Publisher: BMG PLATINUM SONGS
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The first single from Man On The Run, this song received its world premiere on the September 9, 2014 episode of The Kevin & Bean Show. Gavin Rossdale told the two radio presenters: "It comes from the record Man On The Run, 'Man On The Run' being this concept, a cross section of all of our lives. Trying to fit everything in. Trying to be successful. Trying to be the best we can and the challenges that go with that, for guys and girls, and the only way out is through being the uplifting concepts of the way I try and do it."

Rossdale explained to The Pulse of Radio about the approach he took to the song's subject matter. "It's obviously an old tenet, you know, the only way out is through, and I just think that for everybody that's a comforting thought," he said. "It's an uplifting song about a difficult subject, and although I've always really liked to write about dark things, I've always liked to have an escape hatch, a trap door, the way out, so it was fun to do a song that is really quite uplifting."

Little Feat - Easy To Slip

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Album: Sailin' Shoes
Released: 1972

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This was written by guitarist/singer Lowell George and his frequent collaborator Martin Kibbee. Kibbee had the original idea, then played it for George, who added the guitar part.

This is probably the song that convinced Warner Bros. not to drop the band because it showed their commercial potential. Ironically, neither the song nor the album charted.

Kibbee and George started their own publishing company around this time called Naked Snake Music because they had lost the rights to their earlier songs.

Kibbee was often credited, including on this song, as Fred Martin. This meant that the writing credit would go to "George/Martin." George Martin was the producer for The Beatles and this was their way to pay tribute to him.

The inability of this song to chart led to the personnel changes that added guitarist Paul Barrere and expanded the lineup from four people to six.

Glen Campbell - I'm Not Gonna Miss You

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Album: Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
Released: 2014

I'm Not Gonna Miss You Lyrics

I'm still here, but yet I'm gone
I don't play guitar or sing my songs
They never defined who I am
The man that loves you 'til the end

You're the last person I will love
You're the last face I will recall
And best of all, I'm Not Gonna Miss You
Not gonna miss you

I'm never gonna hold you like I did
Or say I love you to the kids
You're never gonna see it in my eyes
It's not gonna hurt me when you cry

I'm never gonna know what you go through
All the things I say or do
All the hurt and all the pain
One thing selfishly remains

I'm not gonna miss you
I'm not gonna miss you

Writer/s: RAYMOND, JULIAN / CAMPBELL, GLEN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC
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Glen Campbell revealed in 2011 that he was battling Alzheimer's. By 2014 the disease had progressed to the point where he was in a care facility and unable to pursue his music career. This tune written by Campbell with Julian Raymond is the last one that he ever recorded. He laid it down at Sunset Sound Factory and East West Recording Studio in Los Angeles for the EP soundtrack of the documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me. The song makes reference to his struggles with Alzheimer's disease, and is a message to his wife and children.

To compose this song, Julian Raymond kept a journal of things Campbell said to him, which formed the basis for the lyric. Campbell had input on the words and melody, but Raymond guided him through the process. The song ended up capturing Campbell's fleeting thoughts as his memory had failed.

The song was recorded in 2013 after Campbell had completed his final tour.

Campbell addresses his wife, Kim Woollen, in this song when he sings:

You're the last person I will love
You're the last face I will recall
And best of all
I'm not gonna miss you

"It's heartbreaking to hear," Woollen told the Arizona Republic in 2015. On the other side, he's saying, 'Don't worry about me. I'm gonna be OK. You're the one who's gonna have a hard time.' And it's true because he doesn't know the pain we're going through. It is heartbreaking every single day. Sometimes, I'm really depressed."

The song reached the Top 50 of the Country chart. It was Campbell's first entry on the tally since "Somebody Like That," which peaked at #66 in 1993.

This won for Best Country Song at the Grammy Awards in 2015.

This got an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Tim McGraw performed it at the ceremony. Introducing the performance, Gwyneth Paltrow said of Campbell, "Faced with the prospect of fading memories, he decided to record one last song to tell his wife and children how much he loved them before it was too late."

The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You

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Album: LP
Released: 1995

I'll Be There For You Lyrics

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This was the theme song of the TV show Friends, which went on the air in 1994 and quickly became a ratings powerhouse. The theme was written by the songwriters Allee Willis and Michael Skloff. Says Willis: "I had seen the pilot, and that one line ('I'll Be There For You') had been given to me by Michael Skloff, who had started on the music, and it was just supposed to be about the loyalty of friends. That no matter how screwed up your life was, I'll be there for you."

It is fairly rare for a TV show theme song to become a hit. The themes usually sound great for the 30 seconds they are on the air, but make terrible full length songs. This was an exception, as the popularity of the show exposed the theme to a mass audience that loved the incredibly catchy tune, and soon there was demand for a full-length version of the theme. Says Willis: "It was never, ever to this day released as a single. It was just DJs who made a cassette of the song and just started playing it. And it became the #1 airplay record of the year, but the Rembrandts never wanted it out as a single because they didn't write the song. So they kind of bit off their nose to spite their face. At that point, the only way they could get the Rembrandts to do the record was if they got songwriting credit. So the song needed a bridge, and it needed a second verse lyric, and they wrote that. They don't have credit on the theme, but they have it on the record."

This song's success did a great deal to help promote the show, as the constant radio play provided great, free advertising for the series. You would think that TV producers would follow this formula and put more effort into their theme songs, but just the opposite happened: TV theme songs began disappearing as producers demanded more time for show content and didn't want to pay to create original songs. This was the last TV theme that was made into a hit song - at least in America. In the UK, "Boss Of Me" and "Can We Fix It?" made the charts.

Allee Willis was exploring social networks and innovative uses for the Internet in the early '90s, and became frustrated when the music industry refused to change, clinging to the same methods they've always used despite the emerging technology. She partnered with Mark Cuban and Prudence Fenton, but record companies wouldn't bite on their ideas. Says Willis: "I realized I had to get out of my publishing deal, because it wasn't even fair to who I was co-writing with at that point - I wouldn't even hang around for the demo. I was so uninterested in that form of music. I was signed to Warner/Chappell at that time, who incidentally were the company that listened the least, because they had me right under their nose. And every time I thought I had written the number of songs for my quota, they kept saying, 'Well, you may have only written the song with two people, but there are nine people's names on the label.' Because that would happen a lot when you wrote with groups. So I owed a seventh of a song. And they said, 'There's this TV show, it's on the air in 3 weeks, they just decided they want a theme song, if you write this theme song we will let you out of the deal.' Kevin Bright, who was one of the producers of Friends had been a mentor of mine when I started directing in the early '90s, which I didn't do a lot of. But he was the one who kind of shepherded my career. He said to them, 'We need someone who's very kooky, but commercial.' And as soon as someone said the word 'kooky' I would get the gig. So I co-wrote that song, I wrote it very, very fast, most of the music was there but it was only a 60-second piece at that point. I got out of the deal, and the song exploded."

The audience for Friends was very white, which reflected the actors and the themes of the show. Odd then, that the woman who co-wrote the theme also wrote hits for Earth, Wind & Fire and worked on the musical adaptation of The Color Purple. Allee Willis explains: "It was the last thing I ever thought would be a hit, the whitest song I ever wrote. I'm very, very grateful for it, and when they were promoting The Color Purple, all of these newspaper reviews, I mean, here I've written for Earth, Wind & Fire, I've written with James Brown. And the only song they would ever mention that I wrote is this Friends theme. Could any song prepare you less to write The Color Purple? But I actually loved it, because it's that incongruity that I cherish the most in what I do." (Read more in the Allee Willis interview, and at her website: alleewillis.com .)

The Rembrandts are guitar players Danny Wilde and Phil Solem. They had some success since their first album was released in 1990, but they are best known for this song, which isn't typical of their work. They recorded the song because they were the only group signed to Warner Brothers who was available, and since Warner Brothers owned Friends, they made sure the theme was written by their publishing company (Warner/Chappell) and recorded by one of their artists.

This was a last minute addition to the album. It was not released as a single until long after radio stations started playing it constantly. It boosted album sales considerably, as fans had to buy the whole album to get the song.

This was included on the album Friends: Music From The TV Series. There is a short version that runs 53 seconds along with the full-length version, which is 3:08.

A dance remake by Thor-El Harrison was released on another Friends soundtrack called Friends Again, which came out in 1999.

Random trivia about this song:

In the line, "You're love life's D.O.A.," D.O.A. stands for "Dead On Arrival."

The clapping part after the first line is just four claps.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Friends premiere, a temporary coffee shop was erected in New York modeled after Central Perk, the shop where much of the show was set. For the opening on September 16, 2014, Danny Wilde and Phil Solem of The Rembrandts got back together to perform this song, joined by James Michael Tyler, who played the shop's owner Gunther on the show.

Jhené Aiko - The Pressure

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Album: Souled Out
Released: 2014

The Pressure Lyrics

I care about you baby, baby
More than you'll ever know
More than you'll ever know
Please do not drive me crazy, crazy
Unless you're gonna go
With me

No pressure
No pressure, I know you're real
The Pressure
The pressure will make you feel

Up till the sun rises
There's no compromising
I know, I know, I know
You are such a liar
I never denied you
I was for sure
But it's really out of my control
The way you feel is not my problem
I don't wanna see you go
But I don't have time to solve this
And you don't have the right
After all you put me through
I'm starting to realize

Pressure
The pressure I know you feel
Pressure
The pressure just keep it real

Major weed smoke in the air
Pass it like you just don't care
Have you seen my fucks to give?
I have none, I cannot live with

The pressure
The pressure you know I feel
The pressure
The pressure to keep it real

Pay attention to the signs
Stay and listen, you will find
Everything, ain't rocket science
Every gem is not a diamond

But the pressure
The pressure will make you feel

The pressure
The pressure, the pressure
The pressure
The pressure will make you feel

Writer/s: WARFIELD, BRIAN / ROBINSON, MAC / CHILOMBO, JHENE AIKO
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song about relationship problems was inspired by the pressure Aiko felt to complete her debut album.

The song's music video was directed by Aiko's pal, actor and rapper Childish Gambino. The pair have collaborated a few times in the past on tracks like "Bed Peace" and "Pink Toes."

The video reflects some of the pressures the singer faces in the public eye, as well as a single mom (there is a cameo from her real daughter, Namiko tugging on her hair while she tries to write a song). "I knew that I wanted it to be simplistic, and I knew that I wanted it to be different; that's all I knew," Aiko told MTV News. "For the most part, I gave him (Gambino) creative control."

They Might Be Giants - Boss Of Me

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Album: Malcolm In The Middle Soundtrack
Released: 2000

Boss Of Me Lyrics

Yes, no, maybe, I don't know
Can you repeat the question?

You're not the Boss Of Me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

Life is unfair so I just stare
At the stain on the wall where
The TV'd been but ever since
We've moved in, it's been empty

Why I, why I'm in this room
There is no point explaining

You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

Life is a test but I confess
I like this mess I've made so far
Grade on a curve and you'll observe
I'm right below the horizon

Yes, no, maybe, I don't know
Can you repeat the question?

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
And you're not so big

Life is unfair

Writer/s: JOHN FLANSBURGH, JOHN LINNELL
Publisher: FOX MUSIC, INC.
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John Flansburgh's estranged brother, who was born Earl Flansburgh but later became known as Paxus Calta, has stated that several of TMBG's older songs are about him, which John denies. However, John did admit that this song is, in fact, about his brother. (thanks, Beau - Phoenix, AZ)

This is the theme song to the TV show Malcolm In The Middle, and was recorded specifically for the show. A full-length version that runs about 3 minutes is on the soundtrack to the TV show.

Malcolm In The Middle uses other They Might Be Giants songs in the show from time to time. A running joke on the show was that Malcolm's dad likes terrible music from the '70s.

This won the 2001 Grammy for Best Song Written For a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media.

Mary J. Blige - Right Now

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Album: The London Sessions
Released: 2014

Right Now Lyrics

You take from me
So why you holding back? Boy, why you holding back?
So vacantly
But you won't get away with that, no you won't get away with that

They don't see what you do to me
From the outside
This can't be what it used to be
From the outside

I'm telling you Right Now, I'm telling you right now
No, I won't play this game with you
I'm taking it back now, I'm turning it right round
My love won't be the same for you no more
My love won't be the same for you no more
No, I won't play this game

Don't wait for me
When you know you did me wrong, I've been holding on too long
Eventually
I'll make the call

They don't see what you do to me
From the outside
This can't be what it used to be
From the outside

I'm telling you right now, I'm telling you right now
No, I won't play this game with you
I'm taking it back now, I'm turning it right round
My love won't be the same for you no more
My love won't be the same for you no more

No, I won't play this game

(No, never gonna give you the time)
(No, never gonna give you the time)
(No, never gonna give you the time)
(No, never gonna give you the time)

No, never gonna give you the time
No, never gonna give you the time
No, never gonna give you the time
No, never gonna give you the time

Oh right now (No, never gonna give you the time)
(No, never gonna give you the time) Played too many games

(No, never gonna give you the time)
No, never gonna
Telling you right now, I'm telling you right now
No, I won't play this game with you
I'm taking it back now, I'm turning it right round
My love won't be the same for you no more
My love won't be the same for you no more
No, I won't play this game

Writer/s: ROTTEVEEL, NICK / SMITH, SHAFFER / GUETTA, DAVID / ERIKSEN, MIKKEL / HERMANSEN, TOR / FENTY, ROBYN / TUINFORT, GIORGIO / NASH, TERIUS / DEAN, ESTER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song was written by Blige with Disclosure brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence, Sam Smith and songwriter Jimmy Napes, who previously co-penned both Disclosure and Smith's debut albums. Howard Lawrence explained to The Observer: "The track 'Right Now' started with some chords I made on Jimmy Napes' piano. We took that and gave it a Disclosure-y feel with some drums that Guy made. Mary leaves the instrumental side to us and gets much more involved when it comes to writing vocals."

The song was released as the first single from The London Sessions album, for which Blige recruited a number of new British producers including Disclosure. She explained: "The sound in London at the moment is house music. That is what the majority of people are producing their songs like. But the ones that get truly successful are the ones using proper songwriting. Rudimental for example – they write proper songs and then produce them like dance music. And that is exactly what we're trying to do, along with a few other people."

"But that applies to any genre, not just dance music," Blige continued. "You could take the songs off Sam Smith's album, produce them in a completely different way and they would still be a huge success – you could produce them like acid jazz and I still feel like they'd get somewhere."

Blige previously worked with Disclosure on a remix of their song "F For You" and Sam Smith on an updated version of his hit single "Stay With Me."

The black-and-white, documentary-style video shows everything from Mary J. writing lyrics to the singer meeting the Disclosure brothers and laying down her vocals in the London studio.

John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good

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Album: American Fool
Released: 1982

Hurts So Good Lyrics

When I was a young boy,
Said put away those young boy ways
Now that I'm getting' older, so much older
I long for those young boy days
With a girl like you
With a girl like you
Lord knows there are things we can do, baby
Just me and you
Come on and make it a

Hurt so good
Come on baby make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don't feel like it should
You make it, hurt so good

You don't have to be so exciting
Just trying to give myself a little bit of fun, yeah
You always look so inviting
You ain't as green as you are young
Hey baby it's you
Come on girl now it's you
Sink your teeth right through my bones, baby
Let's see what we can do
Come on and make it a

Hurt so good
Come on baby make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don't feel like it should
You make it hurt so good

I ain't talking no big deals
I ain't made no plans myself
I ain't talking no high heels
Maybe we could walk around, all day long,
Walk around, all day long

Hurt so good
Come on baby make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don't feel like it should
You make it hurt so good
Hurt so good, come baby now
Come on baby make it hurt so good
Sometimes love don't feel like it should
You make it hurt so good

Hey, hey

Writer/s: MELLENCAMP, JOHN / GREEN, GEORGE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Mellencamp claims he wrote this song as "a goof." In a 1982 interview with The L.A. Herald Examiner, he explained: "My friend George said, why didn't I write a song with the title 'Hurt So Good'? We thought of it as like a Shel Silverstein thing. I wrote it in three minutes, scrawled the first line in soap on the glass door in the shower. It was really just a joke. I think all good things probably started as jokes. Wasn't God having a laugh when he made this whole place?"

Mellencamp's friend was George Green, who received a composer credit on this song and went on to co-write many of Mellencamp's hits, including "Human Wheels," "Crumblin' Down" and "Rain On The Scarecrow."

When this was released, Mellencamp was still known as Johnny Cougar, the name his manager gave him. American Fool was the last album he released without the Mellencamp.

Mellencamp once owned a tattoo parlor. This led to many family members getting tattoos they wouldn't have otherwise asked for, like the "Hurts So Good" tattoo on his aunt.

Mellencamp won his first Grammy with this song: Best Male Rock Vocal Performance of 1982. In his acceptance speech he said, "I don't know what to say, I'm just an idiot."

This is a popular song among masochists. It is not truly about S&M, but probably as close as any popular song has gotten.

Mellencamp was in danger of being dropped by his record label if this album didn't sell, so he did his best to write some hit songs for it. The label, Mercury Records, didn't think it would sell but were proven very wrong.

Back when he was a rapper known as Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg wanted to turn this into a rap song, but Mellencamp would not allow it.

Oasis - Hey Now

Oasis - Hey Now Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Released: 1995

Hey Now Lyrics

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Noel Gallagher explained the song's meaning to Select magazine: "This is about looking back and going, 'Well, we've got where we wanted to be, but it's been f---in hard work.' There was a lot of trauma along the way, tools, in America, getting shot of the drummer (Tony McCarroll), and all the rest of it."

"So, it's not been as big a laugh as we thought it would be. This song is basically saying, 'There's no time for running away now.'"

Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart

Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: World Clique
Released: 1990

Groove Is in the Heart Lyrics

Writer/s:
Publisher:
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This was the only hit for the group, who were composed of DJ Dimitry, DJ Towa Towa, and a vocalist named Lady Miss Kier. Kier and Dimitry were married.

Before they recorded this, DJ Dimitry wrote to Bootsy Collins and sent him a tape. Collins, a funk pioneer who recorded with George Clinton, liked it and flew in to play bass. He appeared in the video.

Collins recruited fellow funk-masters Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley to play on this. Parker played sax and Wesley trombone.

The rap in the middle is Q-Tip, who was a member of A Tribe Called Quest at the time. He has been a guest rapper for many artists, including De La Soul, Mariah Carey, and The Beastie Boys.

The whistles were sampled from Vernon Burch's song "Get Up." (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)

Deee-Lite had an image to match their funky sound. They wore exaggerated '70s clothes with loud colors, feather boas, and high platform shoes.

The group got their name from a Cole Porter song called "It's De-Lovely," which is about falling madly in love. They mention that song in the line, "Just de-lovely and delicious."

This was a hit in New York clubs before it went mainstream. Like Madonna's "Vogue," which came out the same year, it was very popular in gay clubs.

Dee-Lite had a minor follow up hit called "Power Of Love," but their next two albums tanked and they broke up around 1996.

This was used on the soundtrack to the 2000 movie Charlie's Angels. It was also used in commercials for Dasani water that started airing during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps

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Album: Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Released: 1973

Gimme Three Steps Lyrics

I was cutting a rug
Down at place called The Jug
With a girl named Linda Lou
When in walked a man
With a gun in his hand
And he was looking for you know who
He said, "Hey there, fellow
With the hair colored yellow
Whatcha tryin' to prove?
'Cause that's my woman there
And I'm a man who cares
And this might be all for you
I said, excuse me

I was scared and fearing for my life
I was shaking like a leaf on a tree
'Cause he was lean, mean
Big and bad, Lord
Pointin' that gun at me
"Oh, wait a minute, mister
I didn't even kiss her
Don't want no trouble with you
And I know you don't owe me
But I wish you'd let me
Ask one favor from you"

"Oh, won't you
Gimme Three Steps, gimme three steps, mister
Gimme three steps towards the door?
Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister
And you'll never see me no more"

For, sure

Well the crowd cleared away
And I began to pray
And the water fell on the floor
And I'm telling you, son
Well, it ain't no fun
Staring straight down a forty-four
Well, he turned and screamed at Linda Lou
And that's the break I was looking for
And you could hear me screaming a mile away
As I was headed out toward your door

"Oh, won't you
Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister
Gimme three steps towards the door?
Gimme three steps, gimme three steps, mister
And you'll never see me no more"

Show me the back door

Writer/s: VAN ZANT, RONNIE / COLLINS, ALLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song is based on a true story. As Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington tells it, lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, who was about 18 at the time, used a fake ID to get in a bar while his younger band mates Rossington and Allen Collins waited for him in a truck. Van Zant danced with a girl named Linda, whose boyfriend, who was not too happy about it, came up to Ronnie and reached for something in his boot. Figuring he was going for a gun, Van Zant told him: "If you're going to shoot me it's going to be in the ass or the elbows... just gimme a few steps and I'll be gone." He ran to the truck, and he, Rossington, and Collins wrote this song that night.

According to the Freebird Foundation, which is run by Van Zant's widow Judy Van Zant Jenness, the events of the song took place at a bar called The Little Brown Jug, which was located on Edison Avenue in Jacksonville, Florida, where the band is from. Thus the lyrics, "I was cuttin' the rug, down a a place called The Jug," which is where Ronnie ran into an angry local man with a gun.

The pace of the chorus is fast, to signify Van Zant running away from the guy he thought was going to shoot him.

This made the cut for Skynyrd's first album. Their producer, Al Kooper , had them play all their original songs, and out of the 14 they had, picked 9 to record for the album.

This was one of the few songs Skynyrd released as a single. It was their first major-label release, and it didn't chart.

The band's name was a mocking tribute to Leonard Skinner, a physical-education teacher at Robert E. Lee High School, who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair. Despite their high school acrimony, the band developed a friendlier relationship with Skinner in later years, and invited him to introduce them at a concert in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum.
Interviewed by the Florida Times Union in January 2009, Skinner said he was just following the rules about hair length. It bothered him that the legend had grown that he was particularly tough on the band members. In fact, he didn't even remember them when they were in high school. He said, "It was against the school rules. I don't particularly like long hair on men, but again, it wasn't my rule."

Though he hasn't been shy of the attention he received because of his name, Skinner never really warmed up to the group's music. "No," he said when asked if he liked their tunes. "I don't. I don't like rock 'n' roll music."

On September 20, 2010, Skinner died at a nursing home in Jacksonville, at age 77 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years.