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Lethal Bizzle - Rari Workou
Lethal Bizzle - Rari Workout


Lethal Bizzle - Rari Workout Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Yet to be Titled
Released: 2014

Rari Workout Lyrics


You might see man driving Italian whip
Blacked out windows, going to the gym
Two-two dumbbells, yeah, I'm going in
Doing it for Keyshia, doing it for Kim
Do it for the Speedos, do it for the beach
Do it for the stamina, do it for the sheets
Do it for the bicep, do it for the chest
Do it for the summer time, ready for the vest
Pump, pump, pump, pump
Up and down, spin that booty round and round
Your dench instructor is in town
I don't wanna see no clowning around
I don't wanna see no monkeying around
I don't wanna see no hand-moving out of time
Like you don't know this sound

Ladies and gentleman
Can I have you addenchion please?
This is your dench instructor
It's time for the.

Rari work out, Rari work out
Rari work out, Rari work out
Do it left, do it right
Do it day, do it night
Don't wait for the gym, do it on site
But make sure that you pump, pump, pump

Rari work out, Rari work out
Rari work out, Rari work out
Do it left, do it right
Do it day, do it night
Don't wait for the gym, do it on site
But make sure that you pump, pump, pump

Boy Better know!
I'm bless up, drop to the floor do a hundred pressups
I'll do it 50/50 like Will
Then kick back, have a drink and rest up
Once you get fit you have to maintain
You can't work this hard then mess up
Man's backing jollof and plantain
You man are eating rice and ketchup
Dead, safe, screw up your face
Work up a sweat fam, pick up the pace
Bruv, you're not serious
You go to the gym, tweet pictures and then buss case
You do it for the Vine, you do it for the 'Gram
I do it for my health, I do it for my fam
I do it in case anybody try run up to man
They'll get well, well, well, blam!
Boy better know!
Blam!

Rari work out, Rari work out
Rari work out, Rari work out
Do it left, do it right
Do it day, do it night
Don't wait for the gym, do it on site
But make sure that you pump, pump, pump

Rari work out, Rari work out
Rari work out, Rari work out
Do it left, do it right
Do it day, do it night
Don't wait for the gym, do it on site
But make sure that you pump, pump, pump

Tempz
Work out in a Rari
Man better know I work out in a car
See a peng ting in the passenger seat
Another girl in, she's three in a ménage
Me and my gyal on the way to the gym
But we pree'd it, nah, work out in the car
See us here, we ain’t got an excuse
Rari work out on the ferry to France
Work out, burn out, don't jam work
Bicep curling, tricep work
If you hear the Rari work out at the gym
You wanna see the gyal dem squat and twerk
You can see that I'm dench and trim
But I squat four plates, box man in the chin
Don't wanna see my cuz Dizzee Rascal
Roundhouse man, muay thai in the gym
Tempz, 100 KG on the bench
Dench, everyone knows that I'm dench
Tempz, personal trainer, Italian whip
Got myself an Italian chick
Rari, we're on Italian bits
Might just pree an Italian dish
Lethal, how we gonna summarise this?
Rari work out, get into this!

Rari work out, Rari work out
Rari work out, Rari work out
Do it left, do it right
Do it day, do it night
Don't wait for the gym, do it on site
But make sure that you pump, pump, pump

Rari work out, Rari work out
Rari work out, Rari work out
Do it left, do it right
Do it day, do it night
Don't wait for the gym, do it on site
But make sure that you pump, pump, pump

Writer/s: Maxwell Ansah
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Rari Workout Song Chart
  • This energetic gym anthem is based on a snapchat message filmed by Lethal Bizzle in his Ferrari, in which he is seen fist-pumping in his car. The Grime artist overlaid the video with the words "Rari work out." He explained to The Sun: "I got on Snapchat, pumping my arm, pretending I was still in the gym and it caught on."
  • The song features guest verses from former member of the grime group Meridian Crew JME and East London Grime MC Tempa T.

  • David Rose & His Orchestra - The Strippe
    David Rose & His Orchestra - The Stripper


    David Rose & His Orchestra - The Stripper Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Very Best of David Rose
    Released: 1962

    The Stripper Lyrics


    The Stripper Song Chart
  • This is an instrumental song that is usually associated with a strip tease.
  • This was used for the TV program Burlesque. It accompanied a scene featuring a woman stripping off screen while two men argued on screen. This gave it a reputation as a song to take your clothes off to.
  • Rose wrote this in the last 10 minutes of a recording session in 1958. He didn't have a name for it, and referred to it as "a funny piece of music with no title." Later that year, Rose was asked to re-record the song "Ebb Tide" to help promote the movie "Sweet Bird of Youth" (with Paul Newman and Geraldine Page), which he quickly did, but the movie studio needed a B-side for the single, so this song, which was an unnamed, unreleased cut, was pulled from the vaults, given a name ("The Stripper") and placed on the B-side of the "Ebb Tide" single.
  • Los Angeles DJ Robert Q. Lewis popularized this by playing it on the air for 45 minutes straight and playing it whenever a listener requested ANY song.
  • When Rose performed in the Royal Albert Hall years later, he had no intention of including this in his repertoire, but he played it anyway after someone in the audience yelled out a request for it. Rose apologized to Albert Hall management afterwards.
  • Rose did the score to over 1000 television programs, most notably the series The Red Skelton Show, Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to Heaven. He died in 1990 at the age of 80. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 5)

  • Maroon 5 - My Heart Is Ope
    Maroon 5 - My Heart Is Open


    Maroon 5 - My Heart Is Open Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: V
    Released: 2014

    My Heart Is Open Lyrics


    I know you're scared, I can feel it
    It's in the air, I know you feel that too
    But take a chance on me
    You won't regret it, no

    One more "No" and I'll believe you
    I'll walk away and I will leave you be
    And that's the last time you'll say no, say no to me

    It won't take me long to find another lover, but I want you
    I can't spend another minute getting over loving you

    If you don't ever say yeah
    Let me hear you say yeah
    Wanna hear you say yeah yeah yeah
    Till My Heart Is Open
    Now you're gonna say yeah
    Let me hear you say yeah
    Wanna hear you say yeah yeah yeah
    Wanna hear you say
    Wanna hear you say
    Wanna hear you say
    Yes yes yes yes yes yes
    Yes yes yes yes yes

    It's just a moment go and seize it
    Don't be afraid to give your heart to me
    And if you do, I know that I won't let you down, no
    Yeah, so hand it over, trust me with your love
    I'll do anything you want me to
    'Cause I can't breathe until I can see your face

    Oh and I don't need time to find another lover, but I want you
    I can't spend another minute getting over loving you

    If you don't ever say yeah
    Let me hear you say yeah
    Wanna hear you say yeah yeah yeah
    Till my heart is open
    Now you're gonna say yeah
    Let me hear you say yeah
    Wanna hear you say yeah yeah yeah
    Wanna hear you say
    Wanna hear you say
    Wanna hear you say
    Yes yes yes yes yes yes

    Writer/s: FURLER, SIA / JERKINS, RODNEY / LINDAL, ANDRE / BLANCO, BENNY / LEVINE, ADAM
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    My Heart Is Open Song Chart
  • Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine wrote this with Australian singer-songwriter Sia (David Guetta's "Titanium," Rihanna's, "Diamonds"). Guitarist James Valentine told Billboard magazine: "Living here in Los Angeles we've known Sia for a long time, back from when she was just an artist, before her second act as, like, the most brilliant pop songwriter of all time, so it was really cool just to work with her."
  • This features No Doubt's Gwen Stefani. The Californian band were an influence on the Maroon 5 band members in their early days when they were performing as Kara's Flowers playing grungy garage music. "It's cool for all of us to have her on the record," said Valentine. "And Adam won't shut up about how cool she is as a person. A lot of times when you meet your idols it's a letdown, but it's the opposite case with Gwen, apparently."

    Adam Levine and Gwen Stefani also have another connection - both are coaches on season 7 of The Voice.
  • Stefani and Levine sang this on the Grammy Awards in 2015.

  • The Jackson 5 - AB
    The Jackson 5 - ABC


    The Jackson 5 - ABC Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: ABC
    Released: 1970

    ABC Lyrics


    A buh-buh buh buh-buh

    A buh-buh buh buh-buh

    You went to school to learn, girl
    Things you never, never knew before

    Like I before E except after C

    And why two plus two makes four
    Now now now, I'm gonna teach you
    Teach you, teach you

    All about love, dear
    All about love

    Sit yourself down, take a seat
    All you gotta do is repeat after me.

    ABC
    Easy as
    One, two, three
    Or simple as
    Do re mi
    ABC, one, two, three, baby, you and me girl!
    ABC
    Easy as
    One, two, three
    Or simple as
    Do re mi
    ABC, one, two, three, baby, you and me!

    Come on, let me love you just a little bit!
    Come on, let me love you just a little bit!
    I'm a going to teach how to sing it out!
    Michael: Come on, come on, come on
    Let me show you what it's all about!

    Reading, writing and arithmetic
    Are the branches of the learning tree

    But without the roots of love every day, girl

    Your education ain't complete
    T-T-T-Teacher's gonna show you

    Show you, show you

    How to get an A!

    Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!

    Spell "me" "you"
    Add the two!
    Listen to me baby, that's all you gotta do!

    Oh, ABC
    As easy as
    One, two, three
    Or simple as
    Do re mi
    ABC, one, two, three, baby, you and me girl!
    ABC
    It's easy,
    It's like counting up to three (One, two, three)
    Sing a simple melody (Do re mi, ABC)
    That's how easy love can be!

    Sit down, girl!
    I think I love you!
    No!
    Get up, girl!
    Show me what you can do!

    Shake it, shake it, baby, come on now!
    Shake it, shake it, baby, ooh ooh!
    Shake it shake it, baby, huh!
    One, two, three, baby, ooh ooh!
    ABC, baby, nah nah!
    Do re mi, baby, huh!
    That's how easy love can be.

    ABC, it's easy
    It's like counting up to three (One, two, three)
    Sing a simple melody (Do re mi, ABC)
    That's how easy love can be!
    (I'm not gonna teach you how to sing it out)
    Come on come on come on let me show you what it's all about
    ABC, it's easy
    It's like counting up to three (One, two, three)
    Sing a simple melody (Do re mi, ABC)
    That's how easy love can be!
    (I'm not gonna teach you how to sing it out)
    Sing it out, sing it, sing it, sing it
    Oh baby, ABC, it's easy
    It's like counting up to three (One, two, three)
    Sing a simple melody (Do re mi, ABC)
    That's how easy love can be!

    Writer/s: PERREN, FREDDIE / MIZELL, ALPHONSO / RICHARDS, DEKE / GORDY JR, BERRY
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    ABC Song Chart
  • This song was written and produced by a group of Motown songwriters known as "The Corporation." They were: Freddie Perren, Fonce Mizell, Deke Richards, and Berry Gordy, Jr. Freddie Perren was a former school teacher, which probably influenced the school metaphors in the lyrics.
  • This became the Jackson 5's second #1 hit by knocking out the Beatles' "Let It Be."
  • According to co-writer Freddie Perren, the music of this is the chorus of their previous hit, "I Want You Back."
  • After the Jacksons were signed to Motown, they moved to Hollywood for a year of rehearsals. Some lived with Berry Gordy, some with Diana Ross. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 3)
  • In 1991, rap group Naughty by Nature had a hit song called "O.P.P." that sampled this.
  • This appears in the Eddie Murphy film Daddy Daycare. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)
  • During the song's break where all instruments drop out except drums, the ascending yell that is heard is sampled from the legendary New Orleans Funk band The Meters song "Cissy Strut." (thanks, Ele - Takoma Park, MD)
  • This song was used in a large dance sequence in the Kevin Smith film Clerks II. A major plot point happens near the end of it. (thanks, Tim - Jacksonville, FL)

  • The New Pornographers - You Tell Me Wher
    The New Pornographers - You Tell Me Where


    The New Pornographers - You Tell Me Where Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Brill Bruisers
    Released: 2014

    You Tell Me Where Lyrics


    Take a breather
    They came for Caesar
    But I don't think he's here

    Disiderata
    Is that your name now
    Glad you came out

    You've proved your poison
    Is more than noise and
    The joy's addictive
    Although restrictive
    Fair baby beware or not are we square

    Old friends from last call
    Searching a glass for
    Some famous last words
    Let from the master

    With all your shit talking
    And all your blue stocking
    And hit the spell check
    You want some hell check?
    Direct your own pace
    You need your own place

    So You Tell Me Where
    To be I'll be there
    A little seasick
    But feel you've fallen
    And now it's crawling
    Me I'm hauling

    Old friends from last call
    Searching a glass for
    Some famous last words
    Let from the master

    You see my range, you could change me
    If you wanted to
    Just rearrange a few pieces and run
    If there's no way but the high road to save me
    If that's not easy so leave me alone

    Think I could change to become what you want me
    To think we could finally be done

    So you tell me where to be, I'll be there

    Writer/s: CARL ALLAN NEWMAN
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    You Tell Me Where Song Chart
  • This song was inspired by an a capella version of Neil Young's "After The Goldrush," by the English group Prelude, which was a hit in the early 1970s. The New Pornagraphers' A.C. Newman told Spin magazine: "It's got this thick wall of harmonies, which I kept coming back to when we were doing the song."

    Once ["You Tell Me Where"] gets to the halfway point, the vocals just go crazy," he added: "It's me and Kathryn [Calder] and Neko [Case] and Kelly Hogan, and it becomes this wall. I thought, 'I want it to sound like this crazy '70s choir.'"
  • Another inspiration for the song was Scott Miller, the late mainman of 1980s power pop band Game Theory, who passed away in 2013. "His sense of melody and songwriting had a big influence on me," Newman told Spin. "People have said that they think I'm influenced by Big Star, but really I'm more influenced by Game Theory, who were influenced by Big Star. I got it in my head that I would try to write something that musically was a tip of the hat to Game Theory, and that was 'You Tell Me Where.'"

    "It started out like, 'I'm gonna write something like Game Theory,'" he added. "Then it gets to the point where I'm saying, 'Now I want this to sound like an a cappella group from the '70s.' You don't finish songs like this, but it's a good way to start songs."

  • Barenaked Ladies - One Wee
    Barenaked Ladies - One Week


    Barenaked Ladies - One Week Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Stunt
    Released: 1998

    One Week Lyrics


    It's been One Week since you looked at me
    Cocked your head to the side
    and said I'm angry
    Five days since you laughed at me saying
    Get that together come back and see me
    Three days since the living room,
    I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you
    Yesterday you'd forgiven me
    But it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry

    Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
    As I make you stop, think
    You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
    I summon fish to the dish,
    Although I like the Chalet Swiss
    I like the sushi
    Cause it's never touched a frying pan

    Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes
    Big like Leann Rimes
    Because I'm all about value
    Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits
    You try to match wits
    You try to hold me but I bust through

    Gonna make a break and take a fake
    I'd like a stinkin, achin shake
    I like vanilla, It's the finest of the flavors
    Gotta see the show,
    Cause then you'll know
    The Vertigo is gonna grow
    Cause it's so dangerous,
    You'll have to sign a waiver

    How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
    Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad
    I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
    Can't understand what I mean?
    Well, you soon will
    I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
    I have a history of taking off my shirt

    It's been one week since you looked at me
    Threw your arms in the air and said you're crazy
    Five days since you tackled me
    I've still got the rug burns on both my knees
    It's been three days since the afternoon
    You realized it's not my fault not a moment too soon
    Yesterday you'd forgiven me
    And now I sit back and wait till you say you're sorry

    Chickity China the Chinese chicken
    You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
    Watchin X-Files with no lights on,
    We're dans la maison
    I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
    Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic
    Like Sting I'm Tantric
    Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy

    Like Kurosawa I make mad films
    Okay I don't make films
    But if I did they'd have a samurai
    Gonna get a set of better clubs
    Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs
    Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back swing
    Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
    Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
    That make me think the wrong thing

    How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
    Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad
    I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
    Can't understand what I mean?
    You soon will
    I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
    I have a history of losing my shirt

    It's been one week since you looked at me
    Dropped your arms to your sides and said I'm sorry
    Five days since I laughed at you and said
    You just did just what I thought you were gonna do
    Three days since the living room
    We realized we're both to blame, but what could we do?
    Yesterday you just smiled at me
    Cause it'll still be two days till we say we're sorry

    It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
    It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
    Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie

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

    One Week Song Chart
  • The band has said that this is about a big fight in a relationship. The lyrics are essentially meaningless, but entertaining. (thanks, Kelly - Portland, OR)
  • Fittingly, this spent one week at #1 in the US.
  • This was the first big hit for Barenaked Ladies. They have been around since 1988 and developed a large cult following, especially in their native Canada and among college students. This brought them mainstream success, which they took advantage of by playing every US radio station concert they could find.
  • The reason why many of the lyrics are just a hotchpotch of cultural references is that the song was written as a freestyle. Singer-guitarist Ed Robertson explained to Billboard magazine: "I wrote the chorus structure of the song, but I couldn't figure out the verses at all. I got together with [singer] Steve [Page] a bunch of times and said 'I have this idea for a song, and I couldn't figure out where to go with it.' And finally Steve said to me at some point, 'Just freestyle it! Just do what you do onstage every night. It's gonna be great.'"

    "There were some extra verses and stuff," he added. "I just culled it down to what I thought were my favorite lines. But it was written as a freestyle."
  • The last words of the song are "Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie." This refers to an annual soccer tournament held for charity at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough, Ontario. Steven Page and Ed Robertson have said that these are are the hardest words to say in the song.

    The Robbie (officially The Robbie International Soccer Tournament), began in 1967 when some area soccer fans started a boys' tournament to raise money for 3-year-old Robbie Wimbs, who had Cystic Fibrosis. The tournament grew, and later became a benefit for Muscular Dystrophy research as well.
  • Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of this called "Jerry Springer" on his 1999 album Running With Scissors. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)
  • The lyrics in the liner notes contain some extra lines (with Star Wars references), but these lyrics are not in any performed version of the song. Ed Robertson decided to include them with the album notes even though they were left off the song. (thanks, Kelly - Portland, OR)
  • Mitsubishi used this in a 2002 commercial.

  • Nothing More - Pyr
    Nothing More - Pyre


    Nothing More - Pyre Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Nothing More
    Released: 2014

    Pyre Lyrics


    When you opened your eyes on the world for the first time as a child;
    How brilliant the colors were;
    What a jewel the sun was; what marvel the stars;
    How incredibly alive the trees were
    And to love again and again,
    And have people to whom we are deeply attached go to sleep and never wake up
    And the laughter echoes only in one's mind... but then the echo goes
    The memory, the traces are all gone

    All your efforts, all your achievements,
    All your attainments turning into dust, nothingness
    What is the feeling? what happens to you?

    The idea of God as the potter, the architect of the universe,
    It makes you feel that life is, after all, important,
    That there is someone who cares.
    It has meaning, it has sense, and you are valuable in the eyes of the father
    But after a while it got embarrassing, the superstition, the myth,
    The absolutely unfounded idea why does anybody believe that?

    So you become an atheist, and then you feel terrible
    After that because you got rid of God
    But that means you got rid of yourself, you're just nothing but a machine
    And your idea that you're a machine is just a machine too (a machine in the system)

    So if you think that that's the way things are, you feel hostile to the world.
    You feel that the world is a neurological trap into which you somehow got caught trapped You run from the maternity ward to the crematorium and that's it that's it
    So if you're a smart kid you commit suicide

    Now I want to propose another idea all together
    The real you, is not a puppet which life pushes around.
    The real you, the real deep down you, is the whole universe.
    You cannot confine yourself to what happens inside the skin.
    Your skin doesn't separate you from the world, it's a bridge.
    But just as a magnet polarizes its-self in north and south but its all one magnet,
    So experience polarizes itself as "Self" and "Other", but it's all one.

    What you call the "External world" is as much you as your own body
    Most people think that when they open they're eyes
    And look around that what they are seeing is outside
    It seems, doesn't it, that you are behind your eyes
    We haven't realized that life and death, black and white,
    Good and evil, being and non-being, come from the same center

    When you look for your own particularized center of being
    Which is separate from everything else, you won't be able to find it
    The only way you'll know it isn't there is if you look hard enough,
    To find out that it isn't there
    It isn't there at all, there isn't a separate you
    There are, in physical reality, no such things as separate events

    People can't be talked out of illusions
    If a person believes that the earth is flat,
    You can't talk him out of that, he knows that it's flat
    He'll go down to the window and see that its obvious, it looks flat
    So the only way to convince him that it isn't is to say,
    "Well let's go and find the edge".

    Writer/s: HAWKINS JONATHAN TAYLOR, VOLLELUNGA MARK ANTHONY, OLIVER DANIEL
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Pyre Song Chart
  • This is one of a trilogy of songs on Nothing More along with "Jenny" and "God Went North" inspired in part by singer Jonny Hawkins' thought process as he observed his mother dying and his sister struggling with addiction to hard drugs. He explained to Artist Direct : "It was happening at the same time my mom was passing away from cancer and hanging for dear life to help my sister through the process. Simultaneously, I was going through my own calibration of my world view and what I thought about life. I was about 20- or 21-years-old when a lot of this was going down. I was starting to think on my own and ask a lot of questions. I was going back to a blank slate in my head of what I believed because I was born into what my parents believed like anyone else is. I wanted to see what I thought as a new adult myself. I was restructuring my beliefs."

    "At the same time, my mom was going the other direction. I was getting less religious, and she was getting more religious as she was getting closer towards death," Hawkins continued. "It was a weird separation process."

    "'Pyre' was something I felt solace in," he added. "Alan Watts was someone who basically said a lot of things that I was thinking, but I couldn't quite put them into words yet on my own. He put it so eloquently into words that I wanted to take some of his lectures I had been listening to and create a narrative that reflected some of my own thoughts going through that time of my life."

  • Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skun
    Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk


    Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Album III
    Released: 1973

    Dead Skunk Lyrics


    Dead Skunk Song Chart
  • This song was inspired by a flattened little stinker on a suburban New York road. When it was released, there were a number of alternative interpretations of the meaning of this song's lyrics ranging from man's destruction of nature to an allegory about president Nixon. When asked about these differing readings by the London Times July 26, 2008, Wainwright replied with open palms: "Well, OK. But for me, it was just about a dead skunk lying there in the highway."
  • Loudon Wainwright III is one of the most proficient and accomplished singer-songwriters of his time, but his best-known song - and only chart entry - is this novelty hit. Exposure from the song led to his first acting role: a stint as the guitar-playing Captain Spaulding on the M.A.S.H. TV series. Wainwright did a lot more acting later in his career, appearing on the shows Ally McBeal and Undeclared, and in the movies Big Fish and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
  • Wainwright confessed it only took about 12 minutes to pen "Dead Skunk," which became his most well-known song. The singer's brief sniff of fame left him with a foul odor. "Yeah, and it was revolting in some ways, horrible and I hated it, because it was grotesque," said Wainwright to the A.V. Club ."It can be grotesque at that level where you are riding around in cars and there are 14-year-old kids pressing their faces up against the window. For no reason other than your song is on the radio. It made me very uncomfortable, particularly at that time. I imagine that now I would see it with a little more humor and detachment, but when I was 25 and it happened to me, it kind of blew me away."

    His new fans expected him to produce more of the same, but the singer wasn't complaining (too much) about his new persona. He explained, "I became the 'funny-animal-guy songwriter.' [Laughs.] Which got to be a drag after a while. But I certainly made a lot of money that year."
  • Wainwright would often have the crowd sing the chorus with him when he performed this song. When he played outside of America where folks were less familiar with skunks, we would have to give an explanation like "it's an animal that emits a terrible odor when struck by an automobile or attacked by a dog."
  • Loudon's son Rufus was born the year this song was released, and when Rufus was little, he would sometimes join his dad on stage to sing along with this song. Rufus became a very popular songwriter in his own right, but had a tense relationship with his dad, who didn't get to spend much time with his son because of his touring schedule. In 2012, Loudon recorded a duet that he sang with Rufus called "The Days That We Die," where they both sing, "You'll never change, neither will I."

  • Royal Blood - Figure It Ou
    Royal Blood - Figure It Out


    Royal Blood - Figure It Out Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Royal Blood
    Released: 2014

    Figure It Out Lyrics


    Nothing here to see
    Just a kid like me
    Trying to cuss and see
    Trying to Figure It Out

    Nothing better to do
    When I'm stuck on you
    And still I'm here
    Trying to figure it out

    Getting hard to sleep
    But it is in my dreams
    But it's killing me
    To try and figure it out

    Nothing better to do
    When I'm stuck on you
    And still I'm here
    Trying to figure it out

    I'll let it go 'cause I won't see you later
    And I'm not allowed to talk it out
    I said I'll come, I'll promise I won't show
    But I see you trying to figure it out
    I promise you, I'll take a bet on you
    But you didn't know I planned it out
    I said I'll go, yeah, I won't see you later
    And I'm not allowed to figure it out

    Nothing here to see
    Just a kid like me
    Trying to cuss and see
    Trying to figure it out

    Nothing better to do
    When I'm stuck on you
    And still I'm here
    Trying to figure it out

    I'll let it go 'cause I won't see you later
    And I'm not allowed to talk it out
    I said I'll come, I'll promise I won't show
    But I see you trying to figure it out
    I promise you, I'll take a bet on you
    But you didn't know I planned it out
    I said I'll go, yeah, I won't see you later
    And I'm not allowed to figure it out

    Writer/s: KERR, MICHAEL / THATCHER, BEN
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Figure It Out Song Chart
  • Royal Blood vocalist and guitarist Mike Kerr admitted to Drowned in Sound that he thought this "was quite a silly song," when he first wrote this with drummer Ben Thatcher. "I laughed a lot when we were playing it," he added. "There's something quite stupid about it."

    "The ending just seemed like the funniest, stupidest thing ever, it breaking down to a one-string solo and the 'Billie Jean' groove," Kerr continued. "Like: 'Are we really going to get away with this?'"
  • Royal Blood debuted at #1 on the UK albums chart with 66,000 units sold in its first week. It was the highest sales total for a rock debut since Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds set in 2011.

  • Steve Winwood - While You See a Chanc
    Steve Winwood - While You See a Chance


    Steve Winwood - While You See a Chance Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Arc Of A Diver
    Released: 1980

    While You See a Chance Lyrics


    Stand up in a clear blue morning
    Until you see
    What can be
    Alone in a cold day dawning,
    Are you still free?
    Can you be?

    When some cold tomorrow finds you,
    When some sad old dream reminds you
    How the endless road unwinds you ?

    While You See a Chance take it,
    Find romance fake it
    Because it's all on you

    Don't you know by now no one gives you anything
    Don't you wonder how you keep on moving
    One more day your way
    When there's no one left to leave you,
    Even you don't quite believe you
    That's when nothing can deceive you

    Stand up in a clear blue morning
    Until you see
    What can be
    Alone in a cold day dawning,
    Are you still free?
    Can you be?

    And that old gray wind is blowing
    And there's nothing left worth knowing
    And it's time you should be going

    Writer/s: WINWOOD, STEVE/JENNINGS, WILL
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    While You See a Chance Song Chart
  • Winwood did very well in the '60s and '70s with his bands The Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic, but he was struggling to find success as a solo artist. He teamed up with lyricist Will Jennings, who had written songs for Barry Manilow, B.B. King, Joe Cocker and The Crusaders, and the pair wrote most of the songs for Arc Of A Diver. Jennings told us:
    "'While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you'" - the lyric of the song is about realizing that you are all alone in this life and you have to do with it what you can - it was written around 1980 in a certain part of my life when I realized it was all on me to do, the lyric inspired by Steve's transcendent track."
  • Jennings is renowned for his ability to write meaningful lyrics for talented musicians. He and Winwood spent a lot of time together, not just working, but hanging out and getting to know each other. Says Jennings, "It's like writing... if you're writing a play, you're writing for a particular persona, a particular character, and you try to feel as deeply inside them as you can - where are they coming from and what they've been through. It's the same with Steve, 'While You See A Chance,' because he was coming out of a whole period with Spencer Davis and Traffic, and then where else do you go? I was up there at his place in rural England, and I was in his life so to speak, and trying to see through his eyes as well as mine. And that's what all those things were about, all the songs we wrote."
  • Jennings explains the line, "While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it":
    "Well the next line explains it: 'Because it's all on you.' There's an old English expression called "Fake it till you make it." If you don't have romance in your life, meaning in the broader sense, really, something to make life interesting, just imagine it until it's there." (Check out our interview with Will Jennings.)
  • This became Winwood's first Top 40 hit as a solo artist. In 1986 he hit #1 in the US with "Higher Love," which also had lyrics written by Jennings.
  • During production, Winwood accidentally erased the drum track from part of the song as he prepared to record a vocal. After months of trying to patch up the damage, he left the drums off the erased part and restructured the song.
  • Winwood played all the instruments on the album.

  • Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleto
    Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton


    Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Royal Blood
    Released: 2014

    Ten Tonne Skeleton Lyrics


    She took my heart, left me for dead
    And drank my blood, told me she said
    Our secrets worth its weight in gold
    That fire we had, those two we cold

    Cut loose like an animal
    Fired out like a cannon ball
    But I waited too long
    Yeah, I waited too long
    Got me high from a holy vein
    Crashed down in a hurricane
    Love has been here and gone
    Love has been here and gone

    Where did you go?
    Where did you run?
    I can't erase what you've done
    Let's burn the past, forget the truth
    I'm still more than him, I'm still loving you

    Cut loose like an animal
    Fired out like a cannon ball
    But I waited too long
    Yeah, I waited too long
    Got me high from a holy vein
    Crashed down in a hurricane
    Love has been here and gone
    Love has been here and gone

    Cut loose like an animal
    Fired out like a cannon ball
    But I waited too long
    Yeah, I waited too long
    Got me high from a holy vein
    Crashed down in a hurricane
    Love has been here and gone
    Love has been here and gone

    But I waited too long
    For you only
    Love has been here and gone
    To die slowly
    Going under again
    So don't follow me

    Writer/s: KERR, MICHAEL JAMES / THATCHER, BEN / MURRAY, DAVID JOHN
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Ten Tonne Skeleton Song Chart
  • This was the hardest track on the Royal Blood album to record. Vocalist and guitarist Mike Kerr told HMV.com : "We re-wrote it and re-recorded it three times, it's the only track on the album that was difficult to get right. There are so many versions of it, but it didn't click until the last time."
  • Mike Kerr came up with the chorus/guitar part when drummer Ben Thatcher popped out of the studio to go to the toilet. He told Drowned in Sound : "While he was gone, I worked out a really funny solo for the song and then that turned into the whole chorus part."
  • Mike Kerr had the words for this quite a while before the pair came up with the the music. He told Artist Direct : "Before it was even a song, I wrote all of the lyrics down. It was quite fortunate I was able to make a song out of that. It's less cryptic of a tune. It's really about being too late for something."

  • Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Righ
    Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right


    Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
    Released: 1963

    Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Lyrics


    Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
    Ifin' you don't know by now
    An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
    It'll never do some how
    When your rooster crows at the break a dawn
    Look out your window and I'll be gone
    You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
    Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

    And it ain't no use in a-turnin' on your light, babe
    The light I never knowed
    An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
    I'm on the dark side of the road
    But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
    To try and make me change my mind and stay
    We never did too much talkin' anyway
    But don't think twice, it's all right

    No it ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
    Like you never done before
    And it ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
    I can't hear ya any more
    I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' wallkin' way down the road
    I once loved a woman, a child I am told
    I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
    But don't think twice, it's all right

    So long honey babe
    Where I'm bound, I can't tell
    Goodbye is too good a word, babe
    So I just say fare thee well
    I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
    You could have done better but I don't mind
    You just kinda wasted my precious time
    But don't think twice, it's all right

    Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
    Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Song Chart
  • Dylan said of this track: "A lot of people make it sort of a love song - slow and easygoing. But it isn't a love song. It's a statement that maybe you can say something to make yourself feel better. It's as if you were talking to yourself." (thanks, Will - Annapolis, MD)
  • Dylan wrote this after his girlfriend Suze Rotolo went off to Italy to study at the University of Perugia and left him in New York. Dylan re-imagined their separation here as him leaving her. Rotolo can be seen walking with Dylan on the cover of the The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album. An artist and civil rights activist, Rotolo died on February 24, 2011 at age 67.
  • Peter, Paul and Mary recorded this in 1963 shortly after Dylan.
  • In 1965, The Four Seasons released this as a single at a time when lead singer Frankie Valli had a major solo hit ("Can't Take My Eyes Off of You") and the group was at its peak of popularity (about the time that "Let's Hang On" hit the Top 10). This was released as a joke and to see if the group could have a hit without the Four Seasons name on it, so they released this under the name "Wonder Who." Despite an unknown band name, it was still a hit, going to #12 in the US. Two "Wonder Who" singles were released by Philips Records (1966's "On the Good Ship Lollipop"/"You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You" and 1967's "Lonesome Road"), but this was the Wonder Who's only chart record. After it was released, Vee Jay Records repackaged two previously released Four Seasons songs, "My Sugar" and "Peanuts," and released them as a Wonder Who? single, which sank without a trace. The picture sleeve of "Don't Think Twice" had a connect-the-dots pattern hinting at "We are your favorites." The sleeve for "On the Good Ship Lollipop" had jumbled cut-up Four Seasons pictures. Popular lore has Frankie Valli's lead vocal giving the joke away, but it wasn't the case - it was the backing vocals.
  • Regarding the lyrics, "When your rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window, and I'll be gone," Rotolo explained in her memoir that they used to live near a poultry supplier in their Greenwich Village apartment. They would sometimes stay up all night and hear the roosters crowing at the break of dawn.
  • Kesha performed a version for the 2011 charity album, Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International. She said of the emotional recording session: "I was weeping, you can hear it. We just used that recording. We didn't record it into a professional microphone, nothing. I tried to sing it a few times but that magic was really in this first, genuine, distraught, emotional take that you guys are going to hear on the record."
  • This was covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard on their 2015 Django & Jimmie album. Haggard told Uncut: "We wanted to do a Dylan song and that was something we both knew."

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