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Vangelis - Chariots of Fire - Titles

Vangelis - Chariots of Fire - Titles Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Chariots of Fire Soundtrack
Released: 1982

Chariots of Fire - Titles Lyrics

Chariots of Fire - Titles Song Chart

This is a piano piece written and performed by Greek composer Evangelos Papathanassiou. "Vangelis" was a lot easier to pronounce.

Prior to his work on "Chariots of Fire," Vangelis was best-known for his work with Aphrodite's Child (a band that also featured the "singing sofa" Demis Roussos) and the duo Jon and Vangelis ("Jon" was Jon Anderson of Yes). (thanks, Geoff - Morecambe, England)

On the original release, the name of the song was "Titles." Two months later, the name was changed to "Chariots of Fire - Titles" (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL)

This was written for the 1981 movie about two runners in the 1924 Olympics. It was used in a classic scene where they are running in slow motion. The scene has been spoofed many times, usually with this music used to complete the joke.

Not long after the soundtrack's release, Vangelis admitted his total inability to read or write music. He wrote this one literally playing by ear. (thanks, S.D. - Denver, CO)

Jason Derulo - Bubblegum

Jason Derulo - Bubblegum Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Talk Dirty
Released: 2014

Bubblegum Lyrics

Got me 'bout to break my neck
Tell me how you pop like that
You do it like it ain't no sweat
I never seen a bubble so fat
You do it all day in the mirror
You practice all day in the mirror
Left cheek, right cheek, all year
I'm calling you out, and I hope you hear it

Shawty right there got a ghetto booty
Shawty right there got a ghetto booty
Drop a dollar on the floor
Hope she give it to you
A ghetto booty
A ghetto booty
She got that trunk but she don't look back
She put it in reverse and I can't be mad
I can't be mad at that baby fat
That's a ghetto booty, a ghetto booty

She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That Bubblegum
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum
If she keep blinding, might explode
Never seen a girl like you before
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum

Oh yeah

You do it like a professional
But you point your own schedule
Look you're so pretty in pain
Acting like a shit don't stain
You do it all day in the mirror
You practice all day in the mirror
Left cheek, right cheek, all year
I'm calling you out, and I hope you hear it

Shawty right there got a ghetto booty
Shawty right there got a ghetto booty
Drop a dollar on the floor
Hope she give it to you
A ghetto booty
A ghetto booty
She got that trunk but she don't look back
She put it in reverse and I can't be mad
I can't be mad at that baby fat
That's a ghetto booty, a ghetto booty

She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum
If she keep blinding, might explode
Never seen a girl like you before
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum

Blow it like a bubble
Bazooka, baby
Clouds on the couch
You my Hookah, baby
She got that senile
Make a grown man crazy
Got that senile
Make a grown man crazy
Shawty in the gym, ass-mazin
I pull up I get her, as(s) easy
It's too late to go back
She look back, I'm teasin
I'm kodak, my rolex, a moment,the history
Pussy bumb, tick-tock
Lip lock, thing pop, I'm done
T-raw, heart numb
No love, heart spun
Baby give me some yum yum
Big wheelie, surfboard
Wheelie on the jock, do your thang girl
And I need me a ride or Die and you'se a freak
I got seven different girls everyday of the week but

Shawty right there got a ghetto booty
Shawty right there got a ghetto booty
Drop a dollar on the floor
Hope she give it to you
A ghetto booty
A ghetto booty
She got that trunk but she don't look back
She put it in reverse and I can't be mad
I can't be mad at that baby fat
That's a ghetto booty, a ghetto booty

She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum
If she keep blinding, might explode
Never seen a girl like you before
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum

She just wanna pop
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum

If she keep blinding, might explode
Never seen a girl like you before
She just wanna pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop
That bubblegum

Oh yeah

Writer/s: STEVENSON, MICHAEL / WASHINGTON, JAMES / DESROULEAUX, JASON / ISAAC, BREYAN / MOSLEY, TIM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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This uptempo Jim Beanz and Timbaland produced tune finds DeRulo paying tribute to a girl with a large posterior.

Got me bout to break my neck, tell me how you pop like that
You do it like it ain't no sweat, I've never seen a bubble so fat
You do it all day in the mirror, you practice all day in the mirror

The booty enthusiast paid tribute to a stripper's butt on his previous single "Wiggle."

Young Money rapper Tyga drops a freaky verse in which he declares the way the girl drops her ass "make a grown man crazy."

Bubblegum was a genre of popular music popular in the late sixties and early seventies designed to appeal to children and young teenagers, who blew bubblegum. The Archies had the most successful bubblegum song in 1969 with "Sugar, Sugar." DeRulo's PG-13 ode to a girl with a "ghetto booty" is a million miles from those innocent pop tunes.

The Kingsmen - Jolly Green Giant

The Kingsmen - Jolly Green Giant Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Kingsmen, Vol. 3
Released: 1965

Jolly Green Giant Lyrics

In duh valley of duh jolly (Ho - ho - ho)

Heard about the Jolly Green Giant (potatoes)
He's so big and mean (artichoke hearts)
He stands there laughin' with his hands on his hips
And then he hits you with a can of beans

He lives down there in his valley (Brussels sprouts)
The cat stands tall and green (spinach)
Well, he ain't no prize, and there's no women his size
And that's why the cat's so mean
One day he left His valley pad
I mean to say this cat was mad
Now listen 'round He wasn't gone long
And then he ran into an Amazon
Well, this changed his whole complexion (broccoli)
He had never seen such a beautiful sight (corn)
Well, he looked at her
And she looked at him
And she almost passed out from fright
He looked at her thought, "what a dilly"
He touched her once She slapped him silly
This was something He had never sensed
He looked at her As she commenced
Now listen, pal This ain't no fluke
I can't see goin' with a big green kook"

You've heard about the Jolly Green Giant (eggplant)
Don't let his troubles cross your mind (celery stalks)
He couldn't get Sally, so went back to his valley
The cat was color-blind

Writer/s: EASTON/HARRIS/TERRY JR
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, CARLIN AMERICA INC, CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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This song is based on a jingle used in Green Giant vegetable commercials. It starts with "In the valley of the Jolly... (ho, ho, ho)..." See a photo and learn more in Song Images .

Libby Foods, owners of Green Giant, wasn't too sure what to make of the song. The West Coast office sent the group boxes of vegetables to give away at concerts, the East Coast office sued the Kingsmen for "defamation."

This has different lyrics, but uses the same melody as The Olympics' 1960 song, "Big Boy Pete," which was a favorite of the Kingsmen. They often performed it in concert.

The group claimed to have recorded over 800 songs, including both "Big Boy Pete" and "Jolly Green Giant." The latter song was recorded as a joke, the group never expected it to be released. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 4)

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
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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 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 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
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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 - 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 - 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
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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 Skunk

Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Album III
Released: 1973

Dead Skunk Lyrics

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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 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.
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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.