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Metallica - The God That Failed

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Album: Metallica
Released: 1991

The God That Failed Lyrics

The God That Failed

This song is about how people seem to rely too much on religion to help with their problems. When James Hetfield's mother had cancer, she didn't take medication because she believed faith would heal her. Some time later, she died. (thanks, Joseph - LA, CA)

Producer Bob Rock told Musicradar.com : "The God That Failed is deep. It's not just a cheap shot at religion; it's him tackling the subject in a very complex manner. Emotionally, it's as real as 'Nothing Else Matters.'"

The Black Album was the first Metallica record produced by Rock, which meant he had to change some of the band's working practices, including that of guitarist Kirk Hammett on this song. He recalled to Musicradar.com: "Working with Kirk on this song was interesting – and this goes for the whole record, too: I was told that he'd come in the last few weeks of making a record to do his guitar solos. I told everybody right off, 'Well, that's not how we're going to do things. He's going to play live, like everybody else.'

At first, Kirk was very uncomfortable with this approach, but he was game and played what he thought were guide solos. In many cases, including this one, his first ideas were the ones that we'd go back to and use when doing overdubs. He learned how to be spontaneous."

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - U Get Me High

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - U Get Me High Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Hypnotic Eye
Released: 2014

U Get Me High Lyrics

U Get Me High

Heartbreakers guitarist and Hypnotic Eye co-producer Mike Campbell told Uncut magazine about the song's Byrds-style jangle: "That was a leftover from the Wildflowers era that Tom found a demo for and brought in. It dates back quite a way, so maybe that's why it got some of that jangle in it," he said. "I thought it sounded more like AC/DC! But yeah, Tom and I play guitar a certain way and from 'American Girl' onward, we found a harmonic, drone-y sound, sometimes with open strings – I guess you'd call it a jangle."

"We love Roger McGuinn, among many other guitar players," Campbell added, "so I love that sound, and it's tended to creep in throughout our career."

The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels

The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shake Your Money Maker
Released: 1990

She Talks To Angels Lyrics

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She Talks To Angels

During VH1's The Black Crowes Storytellers, filmed at The Bottom Line in New York City on August 27, 1996, lead singer Chris Robinson explained that this song is not about "one" person, but rather a "hot dog" (as he put it) of people that they knew from the Atlanta club scene in their early days. "Not all the best parts" explained Chris, "or the best parts for you." Chris says that there was always a girl in the club scene back then with really dark makeup (like Siouxsie And The Banshees), and after thinking about her one day, he scribbled the lyric "she paints her eyes as black as night." He then went on to write an entire biography (completely made up, by the way) about her in the form of the song that then became "She Talks to Angels." (thanks, Jacob - Dallas, TX)

In our interview with Chris Robinson , who wrote this song with his bandmate/brother Rich, he said: "'She Talks to Angels' is a funny song in that so many people resonate with it. The dark details like drugs and things like that would be a part of growing up and being in this world, but when I wrote that song I had no idea - I hadn't done any of those things. I hadn't lived that - everything was in my imagination."

The Christian band Third Day has a song about the Black Crowes that references this song and others. It's called "Black Bird" and imitates their style. The song says that Third Day really likes The Black Crowes music but that they essentially need Jesus in their lives. There is a lyric in "Black Bird" that says "You say to talk to angels, well I say it's such a lie." (thanks, Bob - Omaha, NE)

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Playing Dumb

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Playing Dumb Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Hypnotic Eye
Released: 2014

Playing Dumb Lyrics

Playing Dumb

Tom Petty takes aim here at the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic church and the controversial financial settlements they eventually made. "If I was in a club, and I found out that there had been generations of people abusing children, and then that club was covering that up, I would quit the club," he told Billboard magazine. "And I wouldn't give them any more money."

"I just felt that I was being asked to play dumb," Petty added, describing how the song emerged. "That, 'OK, well, they paid some money, so it's all over.' I don't trust that."

In case you're wondering about Petty's own religious background, he was raised as an unconvinced Southern Baptist.

The song was included as a bonus track on the vinyl release of Hypnotic Eye.

Other songs that reference child abuse within the Catholic church include:

"Devil In A Midnight Mass" by Billy Talent.

"Religion" by Public Image Ltd.

"Take Off Your Shoes" by Sinead O'Connor.

"Dear Father" by Black Sabbath.

Sublime - Scarlet Begonias

Sublime - Scarlet Begonias Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 40 Oz. To Freedom
Released: 1992

Scarlet Begonias Lyrics

As I was walkin' down rub-a-dub square
Not a chill to the window but a little to the air
From another direction she was calling my eye
It could be an illusion but I might as well try
Might as well try

She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes
And I knew without asking she was into the blues
She wore Scarlet Begonias tucked into her curls
I knew right away she was not like other girls, like other girls

Well I ain't never been right as I ain't never been wrong
As everything works out the way it does in this song
Cause once in a while you get shown in the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right

It was the summer of love and I thank the stars above
Because the women took a lovin' over me
And just to gain her trust, I bought a microbus
Because I sold off all my personal property

A tie-tie-dyed dress, she was a psychedelic mess
We toured to the north, south, east and west
We sold some mushroom tea,
We sold some ecstasy,
We sold nitrous, opium, acid, heroin and PCP
And now I hear the police coming after me
Yes now I hear the police coming after me
The one scarlet with the flowers in her hair,
She's got the police coming after me

Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves
All scarlet begonias and a touch of the blues
And there ain't nothin' wrong with the love that's in her eyes
I had to learn the hard way just to let her pass by, let her pass by.
Oh just let her pass by

Writer/s: GARCIA, JERRY / HUNTER, ROBERT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Scarlet Begonias

This is a cover a Grateful Dead song. It is from their 1974 album, Mars Hotel.

The lyrics make reference to several drugs including acid, heroin, PCP, nitrous, ecstasy, mushroom tea, and opium. Both Sublime and the Grateful Dead were closely associated with drugs.

Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell died in May 1996 from a heroin overdose.

The backbeat in this song was taken from "Funky Drummer" by James Brown. An enormous number of songs have used that sample.

Train - Angel in Blue Jeans

Train - Angel in Blue Jeans Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Bulletproof Picasso
Released: 2014

Angel in Blue Jeans Lyrics

And though I never got her name
Or time to find out anything
I loved her just the same
And though I rode a different road
And sang a different song
I’ll love her till my last breaths gone
Like a river made of silver
Everyone came running to the scene
I was shot down in cold blood
By an Angel in Blue Jeans

Late that night she got away
I chased her to the turnpike
Then lost her where the music never plays
And though I rolled upon the stones and fell into the water
I’ll love her till my judgment day
Like a sunrise made of white lies
Everything was nothing as it seems
I was shot down in cold blood
By an angel in blue jeans

I hear voices calling all around
I keep falling down
I think my heart could pound right out of me
I see a million different ways
To never leave this maze alive

I woke up in somebody’s arms
Strange and so familiar
Where nothing could go wrong
Barely alive or nearly dead
Somehow awake in my own bed
And there you are
Like a highway headed my way
Life is but a dream
I was shot down by your love
My angel in blue jeans, oh

Writer/s: MONAHAN, PAT / BJORKLUND, AMUND / LIND, ESPEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Angel in Blue Jeans

The first single from Train's Bulletproof Picasso album finds Pat Monahan singing of falling in love at first sight with an "angel in blue jeans." Monahan penned the song with the New York-based Norwegian songwriting and music production team consisting of Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund. The same trio also wrote Train's hit tunes "Hey Soul Sister" and "Drive By."

The song's Western-themed video features seasoned character actor Danny Trejo (Spy Kids, Machete) going against type by playing the good guy. (Monahan is the villain). New Girl's' Hannah Simone co-stars as the "angel in blue jeans." Monahan told Entertainment Tonight he thrived playing the baddie. "I think my face is really good at being a bad guy and it's great 'cause Danny, who usually is a bad guy, ends up being the hero, which is super cool," the vocalist said.

Trejo had to listen to the track around 50 times so he could lip syncs the words properly for the video. "I drove everybody crazy with it, but thank God everybody likes the song. Now everybody's singing it," he joked to ET. "This song is gonna be a hit, I'm telling you. Everybody's heard it. Low riders are all bumping it pretty loud!"

Monahan explained the song's meaning to Radio.com : "The song is literally about dreaming about trying to find that woman that did a magical thing to you and then you wake up from the dream at the end and you're laying next to her," he said. "And then you can relax."

Sublime - KRS-One

Sublime - KRS-One Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 40 Oz. To Freedom
Released: 1992

KRS-One Lyrics

In school they never taught bout hamburgers or steak,
Elijah Muhammed or the welfare state.
But I know.
And I know because of KRS-One.
Yeah and I know, and I know because of KRS-ONE.

Because he's droppin' science,
Droppin' history with a whole leap of style and intelligence
Yes, I know.
I know because of KRS-ONE yeah,
And I know, I know because of KRS-ONE.

Because we don't want to pay money to hear the same old sounds.
Watch him he'll take hip-hop to a higher ground.
And I know (How do I know?)
And I know because of KRS-ONE.
Yeah, and I know, and I know because of KRS-ONE.

And I know
And I know because of KRS-ONE.
And I know and I know

Writer/s: MARTIN, CHRISTOPHER E/PARKER, LAWRENCE KRSONE /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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KRS-One

KRS-One is a rapper who was one of the first to infuse social commentary in his songs. He has been cited by Sublime as a major influence on both their ethos and sound: They would take many different genres and mix them together, something KRS-One was known for as well.

This samples two songs from KRS-One's group Boogie Down Productions: "You Must Learn" (which samples "Super Sporm" by Captain Sky) and "The Style You Haven't Done Yet." It also samples "Tough" by Kurtis Blow.

The Weeknd - King of the Fall

The Weeknd - King of the Fall Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: not on an album
Released: 2014

King of the Fall Lyrics

King of the Fall

Titled after Abel "The Weeeknd" Tesfaye's King of the Fall tour, this five-minute effort finds the crooner n a typically debauched mode, as he boasts about snatching girls from right under their boyfriends' noses:

Bring your girl to my show, give her floor seats
Then she go downtown like she owe me

Men might now be thinking twice about bringing their girl to a Weeknd gig.

Sublime - April 29, 1992 (Miami)

Sublime - April 29, 1992 (Miami) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Sublime
Released: 1996

April 29, 1992 (Miami) Lyrics

(I don't know if you can, but can you get an order for Ons, that's O-N-S,
Junior Market, the address is 1934 East Anaheim, all the windows are
Busted out,... if he wants to)

April 26th, 1992
There was a riot on the streets
Tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV
While I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was my liquor store
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashin', time to retire
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
Next stop we hit, it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make the window drop
Finally we got our own P.A.
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?

(Call fire... respond Mobil station. Alamidos in Anaheim, it's uhh flaming up good)

When we returned to the pad to unload everything
It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings
So once again we filled the van until it was full
Since that day my livin' room's been much more comfortable
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here
It's getting harder, and harder, and harder each and every year
Some kids went in a store with their mother
I saw her when she came out she was gettin' some Pampers
They said it was for the black man
They said it was for the mexican
But not for the white man
But if you look at the streets, it wasn't about Rodney King
It's this fucked-up situation and these fucked-up police
It's about comin' up and stayin' on top
And screamin' 1-8-7 on a mother fuckin' cop
It's ain't in the paper, it's on the wall
National guard
Smoke from all around

(Units be advised of an attempt 211 to arrest now at 938 Temple, 9-3-8
Temple, many subjects with bats trying to get inside the CB's House, they're trying to kill him)

Cuz' as long as I'm alive, I'ma live illegal

Let it burn
Wanna let it burn, wanna let it burn
Wanna wanna let it burn
(I feel insane)
Riots on the streets of Miami
Whoa, riots on the streets of Chicago
On the streets of Long Beach
In San Francisco
Riots on the streets of Kansas City
Tuskaloosa, Alabama
Cleveland, Ohio
Fountain Valley, Paramount, Vista Buelle
Eugene, Oregon
Eureka, California
Hesperia
Santa Barbara
Winnemucca, Nevada
Phoenix, Arizona
San Diego
Lakeland, Florida
Fuckin' 29 Palms

(Need a unit to, structure fire and numerous subjects looting)
(10-15 to get rid of this looter)

Writer/s: NOWELL, BRADLEY JAMES / PARKER, LAWRENCE KRSONE / GOODMAN, MARSHALL RAYMOND / HAPPOLDT, MIKE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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April 29, 1992 (Miami)

This is about the riots that ensued after the Rodney King trial in Los Angeles, California. King was a black motorist who was beaten by four white police officers after they pulled him over. The incident was videotaped by someone who lived nearby and became a huge news story, dealing with issues of police brutality and race. The case went to trial in suburban Los Angeles, where the all-white jury acquitted the officers. Just hours after the verdict on April 29, 1992, riots broke out in the black sections of the city, prompting King's famous remark: "Can't we all just get along?"

In the lyrics, lead singer Brad Nowell says, "April 26, 1992" when referring to the date of the riots. This was a mistake - the date in the title is correct. (thanks, Curtis - Ottawa, Canada)

This contains samples of actual LAPD radio communications.

Miami is the first city mentioned in a long list of American cities where riots occurred. In the Doors song "Peace Frog," Jim Morrison did something similar when he named cities where the band ran into trouble with the law, including Miami.

This features samples from "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh featuring MC Ricky D, "Original Gangster of Hip-Hop" by Just Ice, and "Shook One (Part 1)" by Mobb Deep.

Wilkinson - Half Light

Wilkinson - Half Light Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lazers Not Included
Released: 2013

Half Light Lyrics

This is our time
They go fearless shine
As the dawn brings
The world wakes
Catch you in my eye
Nothing can touch
Where we've been tonight
As the sun moves to cross you
Standing in our Half Light
(In the half light)
We go home
What we feel tonight (What we feel tonight)

(We go home)
What we feel tonight
In the half light
(We go home)
What we feel tonight

This is our time
They go fearless shine
As the dawn brings
The world wakes
Catch you in my eye
Nothing can touch
Where we've been tonight
As the sun moves to cross you
Standing in our half light

In the half light
(We go home)
What we feel tonight

In the half light
(We go home)
What we feel tonight (What we feel tonight)
(We go home)
(What we feel tonight)

This is our time
They go fearless shine
As the dawn brings
The world wakes
Catch you in my eye
Nothing can touch
Where we've been tonight
As the sun moves to cross you
Standing in our half light
In the half light
(We go home)
What we feel tonight
In the half light
(We go home)
What we feel tonight

Writer/s: ELLIS, BRAD / WILKINSON, MARK / HAVELOCK, TOM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Half Light

The sixth single from Wilkinson's debut studio album Lazers Not Included, the song peaked at #25 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the Drum and Bass producer 's second Top 40 single after "Afterglow."

The song features vocals by Tom Cane. The British singer-songwriter previously reached the UK Top 40 as a guest vocalist on Drumsound & Bassline Smith's #34 charting single "Through the Night" in mid-2012. Cane also has a number of notable songwriting credits, including co-penning the title track for Cheryl Cole's third studio album A Million Lights, as well as Matrix and Futurebound's UK Top 10 hit "Control."

The song's music video was shot in various locations in Belfast, including the Good Shepherd Church on the Ormeau Road. A scene showing a partially clothed couple kissing on the church altar had to be removed after priests complained. The diocese stated it had not granted permission for a scene of that nature to be filmed there.

Sublime - Saw Red

Sublime - Saw Red Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Robbin' The Hood
Released: 1994

Saw Red Lyrics

Girls don't go crazy

Woman, hold your man tight

Every day I love him just a little bit more,
A little bit more, a little bit more
Everyday I love him just a little bit more
And he loves me the same

Every day I love her just a little bit more,
A little bit more, little bit more
Everyday I love her just a little bit more
And she loves me the same

Baby if you want to get on

Oh baby if you want to get off

It makes no sense at all

I Saw Red

I saw red, I saw red, one more sacred lover that

I shot dead

Everyday I wake up just a little bit more
Feelin' like a dog out on the yard
Because that's just how we are

Everyday I wonder if it's over
When I wake up realizin' that we hate
And brake down the war

You say it's black, but I can't believe you

And if you say it's white,
You say I'm tryin' to deceive you

And I'm aware of the high and the low,
And I'd be waiting for you in the middle but I just lack control

Baby if you want to get low

Oh baby if you want to get high

It makes no sense at all

I saw red

I saw red, I saw red, one more sacred lover that

I shot dead

Girls, don't go crazy,
Girls, don't go crazy,
Oh girls, don't go crazy when the men use you, oh

Oh, woman hold your man tight
If it makes you feel right, it's your own life

Writer/s: NOWELL, BRADLEY JAMES / LEVY, BARRINGTON AINSWORTH
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Saw Red

No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani sang on this, making it into a duet running 1:57; she used to go out with Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell. On the Sublime: Stories, Tales, Lies & Exaggerations DVD, Stefani explained that Nowell wrote this in the studio and did his vocal in one take. (thanks, Vanessa - Covina, CA)

This was recorded before either Sublime or No Doubt were famous. Both groups rose to fame in the mid-'90s on the Southern California punk scene that also featured Green Day and the Offspring and was fathered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

This is based on a popular Jamaican song called "She's Mine" by the dancehall singer Barrington Levy. Sublime recorded it as a tribute to Levy, changing the lyrics but keeping the music pretty much intact. After Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell died, their bass player and drummer formed the Long Beach Dub All-Stars, and recorded a version of this song with Levy. (thanks, Mitch - Colton, CA)

Robbin' The Hood was Sublime's second album, released on their independent label, Skunk Records. This song was a hit with college radio, but Sublime didn't break through to the mainstream until their next (self-titled) album, which was released in 1996 after they signed with MCA Records.

An acoustic version appears on Bradley Nowell & Friends, released in 1998. It's just Brad and a guitar.

In October of 2008 this song was covered by Rome Ramirez for YouTube's "Rawsession," featuring Sublime bassist Eric Wilson. (thanks, Logan - Ottawa, KS)

Paul St. John - Flying Saucers Have Landed

Paul St. John - Flying Saucers Have Landed Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: single release only
Released: 1972

Flying Saucers Have Landed Lyrics

Flying Saucers Have Landed

Written by Abbey Road session man Laurie Marshall, recorded under the pseudonym of Paul St. John and released on the Pye label, this strangely appealing piece of nonsense takes its title from the 1953 book by self-styled contactee (and con man) George Adamski. It was though clearly influenced by the works of Erich Von Däniken, as was the monster Chris de Burgh track "A Spaceman Came Traveling" of three years later. Sadly, it did not enjoy the same commercial success. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)