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Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy

Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Rhinestone Cowboy
Released: 1975

Rhinestone Cowboy Lyrics

I've been walkin' these streets so long
Singin' the same old song
I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
Where hustle's the name of the game
And nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
There's been a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me

Like a Rhinestone Cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
And offers comin' over the phone

Well, I really don't mind the rain
And a smile can hide all the pain
But you're down when you're ridin' the train that's takin' the long way
And I dream of the things I'll do
With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe
There'll be a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me

Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
Rhinestone cowboy
Gettin' cards and letters from people I don't even know
And offers comin' over the phone

Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo

Like a rhinestone cowboy
Gettin' card and letters from people I don't even know

Writer/s: MATTHEWS, JOHN / SAMPSON, DARREN / WEISS, LARRY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Rhinestone Cowboy

This was written and originally recorded by Larry Weiss, a Brooklyn songwriter whose credits include "Bend Me, Shape Me" by The American Breed, "Help Me Girl" by The Animals and The Outsiders (both with Scott English). Campbell was on tour in Australia when he first heard the song. He bought a cassette copy and listened to it over an over. When he returned to America, he told Al Khoury, an A&R man, at his record label, that he found a perfect song to record. Khoury replied that he also had a great song for Campbell - it was "Rhinestone Cowboy." Campbell took this bit of serendipity as a sign that he was destined to record it. The tune ended up becoming Campbell's signature song and a centerpiece of his live shows.

Campbell could relate to the lyric about a country singer who has seen it all. In the '50s, he spent several years playing honkey tonks in Albuquerque, and after moving to Los Angeles in 1960, he worked as a demo singer, a staff writer and a session musician before hitting it big in the late '60s after he turned 30.

Rhinestones are fake jewels that are popular on country-style clothing. They show up nicely on stage, so they are a popular fashion choice for some flamboyant country singers. One such singer was David Allan Coe, who called himself the "Rhinestone Cowboy" and released an album in 1974 called The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy. As Coe tells it, Mel Tillis gave him some Rhinestone suits, which he would wear backstage at the Grand Ol' Opry. When he went into the audience, the glistening suits made people think he was a star, even though he was a nobody at the time. Asked for autographs, he signed them, "The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy."

Coe says that Larry Weiss offered him this song, but he didn't feel comfortable singing about himself so he turned it down.

Campbell wanted to accentuate the vocals on his version, since he loved the lyric. To do so, he overdubbed a harmony vocal that plays throughout the song.

This song originated when Weiss overheard the phrase, "Rhinestone Cowboy" in a conversation. He told American Songwriter magazine September/October 1984: "I heard the phrase and thought, 'Boy, I like that title'. I put my own meaning to it and wrote the song. I'll always be a kid at heart, and 'Rhinestone Cowboy' was sort of a summation of all my childhood cowboy movie heroes - particularly Hopalong Cassidy."

The song is about a Country singer struggling to make it big, and it reflected Weiss striving to make it in his songwriting career. He revealed in the same interview: "The idea for the song was also a crying out of myself. It was the spirit of a bunch of us on Broadway where I started out - Neil Diamond, Tony Orlando - we all had dreams of making it."

A note on Neil Diamond and his famous shiny suits: he is more comfortable in Blue Jeans, but goes with the gaudy stagewear so the audience can see him more clearly.

For Campbell, this was a very important song, and one he would call "maybe the best song I've ever sung." It came at a time when his career had gone flat: his popular TV show had been canceled, acting gigs dried up, and he hadn't had a hit since 1971. The story of the faded star who perseveres in the song held a lot of meaning for Campbell.

This sold over 4 million units and hit #1 on the Hot 100, Country, and Adult Contemporary charts in the summer of 1975, becoming the first song since "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean to reach the apex of all three charts. "Rhinestone Cowboy" gained three Grammy nominations and was the Country Music Association's Song of the Year for 1976. In 1977, the song earned Weiss the Nashville Songwriters' Association International's Songwriter of the Year award.

Although it wasn't used in the film, this was the inspiration for the 1984 movie Rhinestone, starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone.

Campbell performed the song on a telethon, which kick-started interest to the point of the RKO radio chain playing Campbell's version on the air before the single was pressed.

In later years, Campbell sang the line, "I've been walkin' these streets so long, singin' the same old song" to "I've been walkin' these streets so long, singin' those good old songs," since he wanted to show appreciation for the songs that served him so well.

Campbell performed this song on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where he was a regular guest and occasional guest host. Carson would later poke fun at the song's ubiquitous popularity, threatening to sing it on the air. He eventually did... while wearing an outlandish cowboy outfit.

Campbell performed this song at the Grammy Awards in 2012, where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award. Campbell had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, but with the help of his wife, Kim, he decided to keep performing, which doctors said helped slow the progress of the disease. The Beach Boys, who Campbell performed with in the '60s, also played that night.

Jason Mraz - Hello, You Beautiful Thing

Jason Mraz - Hello, You Beautiful Thing Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Yes!
Released: 2014

Hello, You Beautiful Thing Lyrics

Fall out of bed and catch a fading star
Fancy I woke up before my alarm
Rub my mind through my eyes
It's the best I can do
Before it's automatic, habit of returning to you
Though I smile when it happens, almost as if it was magic
It means there's a God somewhere and he's laughing
And I shuffle my slipper less toes to the kitchen
Still low to the ground, but high on living

And I know, I know, it's going to be a good day
Hello, Hello, You Beautiful Thing

Waking up, I stretch my body and acknowledge the makes
It must be something I did yesterday
Pour a cup of liquid gold, because my enginge's still cold
But in a minute everything's gonna change

'Cause I know, I know, it's going to be a good day
Hello, hello, you beautiful thing

Hello, hello, you beautiful thing

This is what I've been waiting for (this is what I've been waiting for)
This is what I've been waiting for (this is what I've been waiting for)

Looking out from a cul de sac watching the bend of the Earth
Take the black of the night from the dirt
I can see from the depths of my readjusting eyes
A reflection of yes' in that ever changing sky
But why do bad dreams linger long after I awake?
I don't need no scenes of voilence or pain replayed
And I feel quite foolish sometimes when I pray
But my thoughts are all I got so I try to make them brave

And I know, I know, it's going to be a good day
Hello, hello, you beautiful thing
Hello, hello, you beautiful thing

Oh this is what I've been waiting for (this is what I've been waiting for)
Oh this is what I've been waiting for (this is what I've been waiting for)
Oh this is what I've been waiting for (this is what I've been waiting for)
Oh this is what I've been waiting for (Hello)

And I know, I know, it's going to be a good day
Hello, hello, you beautiful thing

Writer/s: BECKY GEBHARDT, JASON THOMAS MRAZ, CHASKA POTTER, MONA TAVALOKI
Publisher: Goo Eyed Music
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Hello, You Beautiful Thing

This happy-go-lucky track features call-and-response harmonies by Raining Jane. The all-female folk group acted as Mraz's backing group throughout the Yes! disc. "Sonically, my backing band on this album are four incredible women," he told Radio.com of working with Raining Jane. "Their approach to music and their voices definitely bring a tenderness and sentiment to this record that some of my records don't have."

Aretha Franklin - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman

Aretha Franklin - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Aretha: Lady Soul
Released: 1967

You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman Lyrics

Looking out on the morning rain
I used to feel so uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Lord, it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind
But your the key to my peace of mind

'Cause you make me feel,
You make me feel,
You make me feel like
A natural woman

When my soul was in the lost and found
You came along to claim it
I didn't know just what was wrong with me
Till your kiss helped me name it
Now I'm no longer doubtful, of what I'm living for
And if I make you happy I don't need to do more

'Cause you make me feel,
You make me feel,
You make me feel like
A natural woman

Oh, baby, what you've done to me
You make me feel so good inside
And I just want to be, close to you
You make me feel so alive

You make me feel,
You make me feel,
You make me feel like
A natural woman

You make me feel
You make me feel
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman

You make me feel
You make me feel

Writer/s: KING, CAROLE / WEXLER, JERRY / GOFFIN, GERRY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman

This was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. They were a married couple who worked out of the famous Brill building in New York City, where many hits from the '60 were written and recorded. Ode Records owner Lou Adler, who worked closely with King and Goffin, said: "Gerry Goffin is one of the best lyricists in the last 50 years. He's a storyteller, and his lyrics are emotional. 'Natural Woman,' 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.' These are perfect examples of situations, very romantic, almost a moral statement. Coming out of the 1950s, with the type of bubble gum music, and then in 1961, Gerry is writing about a girl who just might let a guy sleep with her and she wants to know, 'is it just tonight or will you still love me tomorrow?' Goffin could write a female lyric. If he could write the words to 'Natural Woman,' that's a woman speaking. Gerry put those words into Carole's mouth. He was a chemist before he was a full time lyricist. He's very intelligent and obviously emotional."

Regarding the origins of the song, Adler added: "Last year (2007) I spoke to Jerry Wexler at his home in Florida, and he told me the story that Gerry was coming out of a building in New York, (Goffin now remembers it as an Oyster House), and Jerry Wexler is passing in a car, and yells out, 'Why don't you write a song called 'Natural Woman'?' They felt the title was so distinct and so important to the song that they gave him a piece of it. So, when I spoke to Jerry recently to call him on his 90th birthday, he said, 'Isn't it amazing what those kids gave me? The checks keep coming in and I'm really happy about it.' Knowing how much he added to the song, not really as a third writer but the title and the inspiration of what was to be, a great song."

The recording features the vocal talents of three Franklin sisters - Erma and Carolyn are singing in the background. Erma had a record deal in the '60s, but didn't have much success. Her biggest hit was the 1967 song "Piece Of My Heart."

Carole King recorded her own version of this song on her 1971 Tapestry album.

Jazmine Sullivan - Dumb

Jazmine Sullivan - Dumb Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Reality Show
Released: 2014

Dumb Lyrics

Yo

You ain't, you ain't right
You ain't, you ain't right

Yo, I know you know you ain't right
Please stop, I know where you was last night
And if you gon' lie, then at least be good
I heard you was in your old hood

I thought we were past these games
No more games, I believe
So now what I hate the most, is you think you're so smart
You think you're foolin' me

Oh, you must be
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
Oh baby, you so
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
No, no, no

Don't I deserve it all?
You know I take care of you
Whatever you need I'll do
Ungrateful, look how you repay me
Unfaithful, look how you be playin'
With my heart (Oh)
You have no regard
I swear
If you keep on doin' me wrong
You'll look up and I'll be gone

I thought we were past these games
No more games, I believe
So now what I hate the most, is you think you're so smart
You think you're foolin' me

Oh, you must be
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
Oh baby, you so
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
No, no, no

I say, you know I know I ain't right
But I know you know I ain't wife
No other chick but you shawty
I ain't trippin' off you shawty
Heard I'm in my old hood
But I ain't trip when you party
Love hurts and I feel your pain
Through all the fame, I still remained
The same nigga, I did
Then I came home and I still explained
All this shit you heard about
You gon' let these hoes come steal your lane
Or you gon let it just die on me
Hold it down and come ride for me whoa!

Now if my tears don't mean nothing
Don't insult me with lies
And if you won't never change
Please stop wasting my time
Cause if you wanna go out and be single
Go 'head, I told you I won't beg
Cause I know you gon' miss me
So if you leave, baby you must be

You must be
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
Oh baby, you so
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
No, no, no

You must be
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
Oh baby, you so
Dumb, dumb, dumb
I ain't
Dumb, dumb
No, no, no

Writer/s: REMI, SALAAM / SULLIVAN, JAZMINE / WILLIAMS, ROBERT / WEIR, DWANE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Dumb

Jazmine Sullivan sings here over Key Wane's chaotic beat of a lying cheater who doesn't respect her love and devotion to him. Meek Mill jumps in with a verse in which he plays her cheating boyfriend attempting to defend himself. "I just wanted to write something that was kinda like an anthem," Sullivan said.

The lighthearted video was directed by Isaac Rents and features several puppets caught cheating who are exposed on Dumb TV. "One thing I wanted to really capture in this was my humor," Sullivan said. "I'm very silly and just a lot of fun."

We also see Sullivan's boyfriend, played by New Girl's Lamorne Morris, two-timing the singer with a curvaceous puppet.

This was released as the first single from Sullivan's third album, Reality Show. Reality television is "all you see" now, the songstress explained to Billboard magazine regarding the record's title. "That's where society is at."

Though Sullivan leads Reality Show with a track about a cheating lover, the album contains more than "angry songs."

"I don't think I'm going to have many 'I'm angry; My guy did me wrong' type of songs, because I've grown and experienced other things in the relationship," said the songstress when the single was released. "But I can't shake them angry songs. [Laughs] I think the angry songs got chosen as singles, so those who didn't listen to the albums associate me with those angry songs."

Ours - I'm a Monster

Ours - I'm a Monster Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Distorted Lullabies
Released: 2001

I'm a Monster Lyrics

Am I a bad guy?
Am I a bad soul?
My eyes roll backward
My head fell forward
We want the vampires
They want the daylight
Undecided if we will feel it

All the lies and fantasies I picked to deny what is right
As the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
To the legs of a butterfly.
We live to see our children die,
Turn to the bright to describe what we never will find,
I'm a Monster singing through the side of a left eye

And I will pay for, and I will pay for,
I couldn't have her,I couldn't save her,
If I could grab on, I'd pull the

All the lies and fantasies I picked to deny what is right
As the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
To the legs of a butterfly, of a butterfly
We live to see our children die,
Turn to the light to describe what we never will find,
I'm a vampire clinging to the sounds for a fast high.

All the lies and fantasies I picked to describe what is right
As the lawyers lie down to the sound of a broken man clinging
To the legs of a butterfly.
I live to see our children die,
Turn to the bright to describe what we never will find,
I'm a monster singing through the sigh of a left high.

Writer/s: GNECCO
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I'm a Monster

This is about a lonely man. Says frontman Jimmy Gnecco: "The song is about being bullied. It's about someone who didn't fit in and felt bad about it all their life, and when they finally stood up for themselves, they felt worse." (thanks, Mandy - St. Louis, Missouri)

The group recorded this on a 4 track tape deck in Gnecco's bedroom in New Jersey, with help from producer Mark Endert.

Gnecco's son can be heard playing near the end of the track, but you have to listen closely.

Lecrae - Nuthin'

Lecrae - Nuthin' Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Anomaly
Released: 2014

Nuthin' Lyrics

Gawvi, get 'em!

Here we go again in circles
I think I heard it all
We been here before
But we need something more
Something more
Something more
What you say?
I can't hear 'cause you ain't talking 'bout Nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
What you talking 'bout?
They be talking 'bout the same old thing
I'm a have to call a foul in the game
What you talking 'bout?
A little money now you all OG
Talking 'bout it's all eyes on me
They ain't talking 'bout nuthin'

Let me guess, you counting money to the ceiling?
Difference 'tween us like at least a couple million
It's foreign cars, pretty girls everywhere you go
Yeah, I heard it thirty times on the radio
Louis Vuitton ain't gon' pay you for that bragging
And Donatella prolly never heard your album
Yeah they probably 'bout to label me a hater
But I know these people greater than the songs they created
It's little homies in the hood regurgitating
And everybody watching, thinking that you made it
The truth is for a few designer labels and a little bit of paper
Now you twelve years slaving
Hey, but you ain't Lupita so why you beat up and pushing people
To lean on the devil copping a seizure
It sound like you put your feet up
You still a slave and money can't buy you freedom, partna'

Here we go again in circles
I think I heard it all
We been here before
But we need something more
Something more
Something more
What you say?
I can't hear 'cause you ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
What you talking 'bout?
They be talking 'bout the same old thing
I'ma have to call a foul in the game
What you talking 'bout?
A little money now you all OG
Talking 'bout it's all eyes on me
They ain't talking 'bout nuthin'

Tell me why the song's on in my car (hear the radio)
Why the song on in my gym (what they saying now)
And the song's stuck in my head (I can't take no more)
I still don't know what y'all saying
Lemme lemme lemme do this
I'm a be a straight shooter
If we was made in his image, why we so Judas?
Talking bread like we at the last supper
Throwing money at these women make it rain in the summer
I ain't advertising brands on the radio
They expensive and I know they ain't gon' pay me for
Telling kids to go in debt, for the 'vette that they'll prolly never get
But I talk about it every song
And every song talking 'bout they selling work on every corner
Don't talk about the laws, taking kids away from mommas
Don't talk about your homie in the trauma 'cause he shot up
Or what about your young boy messing up the product?
They don't talk about the bond money that they ain't have
And everybody snitch on everybody in the jam
They don't talk about the pain, they don't talk about the struggle
How they turn to the Lord when they ran into trouble
I'ma talk about it
I don't care if the world try to swallow me
I turn my back to 'em, tell 'em all follow me
I know you gon' label me a hater
But inside you are greater than the songs you creating, man

Here we go again in circles
I think I heard it all
We been here before
But we need something more
Something more
Something more
What you say?
I can't hear 'cause you ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (ain't talking 'bout nuthin')
What you talking 'bout?
They be talking 'bout the same old thing
I'ma have to call a foul in the game
What you talking 'bout?
A little money now you all OG
Talking 'bout it's all eyes on me
They ain't talking 'bout nuthin'

Writer/s: Moore, Le Crae Devaughn / Mineo, Andrew Aaron / Azucena, Gabriel Alberto / Marshall, Michael / McDowell, Dimitri
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Nuthin'

Lecrae is rapping here about people thinking more about what they're saying and promoting. "Humanity is responsible for civilizations, computers, pyramids! We've been created with more potential than what we are talking about in our music," he explained to The Michigan News. "Our aspirations are falling short. Who brags on being a playground all-star? We haven't even explored our NBA potential."

Lecrae raps in his second verse about issues that he feels other rappers should be talking about:

And every song talking 'bout they selling work on every corner
Don't talk about the laws, taking kids away from mommas
Don't talk about your homie in the trauma 'cause he shot up

The last line may be a personal reference to Lecrae's cousin who got shot after leaving a party. The rapper referenced the incident on his Church Clothes 2 track, "My Whole Life Changed." ("My cousin walked out a party, bow, got shot
Pow, pow, pow.")

The song's producer Gawvi was inspired to create an up to date version of the 1995 hip-hop single "I Got 5 On It" by the West Coast duo Luniz. Lecrae recalled on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "Gawvi called me into the studio and said, 'I've got this crazy song,' He's always got a set-up for every song. He can't just play it for you. He's gotta tell you this long story about how he was inspired."

Lecrae loved the beat and started working on lyrics for it that night.

This plays during the trailer for the Disney Channel's original movie Bad Hair Day.

Sublime - Pool Shark

Sublime - Pool Shark Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Robbin' The Hood
Released: 1994

Pool Shark Lyrics

They say in this song Brad predicts his own death from Heroin

Lying in my plastic bed,
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom

Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool

Now I've got the needle
And I can't bleed, but I can't breathe.
Take it away and I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war

Lying in my plastic bed
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom

Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool

Now I've got the needle
And I can't shake
But I can't breathe

Take it away and but I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war

Writer/s: ELAM, KEITH/SUBLIME /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Pool Shark

This is widely known as singer Bradley Nowell's "suicide note." It talks of his struggle with heroin, and how "One day (he's) gonna lose the war." Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996. (thanks, Jules - W Bloomfield, MI)

While this song does make specific references to heroin ("Now I've got the needle, and I can shake"), Nowell wrote it about a specific girl. In our interview with Sublime bass player Eric Wilson , he explained that the "Pool Shark" was his girlfriend at the time. "She was really good at pool - it turns out she was hanging out with some guys and she got good at pool," he said. "They broke up shortly after that, but that's what he wrote that about."

Magic! - Don't Kill the Magic

Magic! - Don't Kill the Magic Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Don't Kill the Magic
Released: 2014

Don't Kill the Magic Lyrics

If you want space (you could have it)
If you want change (you could have it)
Sleep on your bed (you could have it)
Bullet to my head (you could have it)

If you want love! (you could have it)
The way that you love (you could have it)
If you want time (you could have it)
I’ll tell you no lie (you could have it)

Just don’t kill, don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
Just don’t kill, don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
I’m not ready to give up just yet
We could stay until we both forget
So baby, don’t kill, (don’t kill) don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
Ooh

If you want space (you could have it)
If you want change (I’ll make it drastic)
Sleep on your bed (I’ll be your mattress)
Bullet to my head (you could blast it)

Oh if you want love! (I’ll be tragic)
The way that you love (I can match it)
If you want time (I’ll be elastic)
Tell you no lie (You can have it)
No lieee

Just don’t kill, don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
Just don’t kill, don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
I’m not ready to give up just yet
We could stay until we both forget
So baby, don’t kill, (don’t kill) don’t kill the magic (ohhh)

Take my arms, take my legs, take my vision
Take my tongue, take my lungs, if you need it
Hold my knees, hold my knees, hold my knees, I beg
Hey ey ey ey ey

You know I said I’m trying fix this baby
Let me be in my heart God’s pleasure
I will do, I will do anything instead

Just don’t kill, don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
Just don’t kill, don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
I’m not ready to give up just yet
We could stay until we both forget
So baby, don’t kill, (don’t kill) don’t kill the magic (ohhh)
You could have it, you could have it
You could have it, you could have it
You could have it, you could have it

Writer/s: ATWEH, NASRI / PELLIZZER, MARK / TANASIJCZUK, ALEXANDER / MESSINGER, ADAM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Don't Kill the Magic

Magic! took their name from this song, which also acts as the title track of their debut album. Frontman Nasri Atweh explained to Spin magazine: "It was one of the first songs we wrote, in the first two weeks of songwriting when we first came together. And it felt kind of magical, the connection between us. That is the connection of music for us, it's magical."

The exclamation point in the band's name came from Nasri's producer and sonwriting partner, Adam Messinger. The frontman told Spin: "He was like, 'You guys should do something else to the word 'Magic' and he sarcastically drew an exclamation. We were like, 'Eh, looks good to us.' We just rolled with it."

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Summertime Dream
Released: 1976

Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Lyrics

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'gitche gumee'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
T'was the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezin' rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'
Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya
At seven pm a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it's been good t'know ya
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searches all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

Lake Huron rolls, superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call 'gitche gumee'
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early

Writer/s: LIGHTFOOT, GORDON
Publisher: Moose Music Ltd./Early Morning Music Ltd.
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Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

This is a factual retelling of a shipwreck on Lake Superior in November, 1975 that claimed the lives of 29 crew members. On November 10, 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald broke in half and sunk in Lake Superior. The storm she was caught in reported winds from 35 to 52 knots, and waves anywhere from 10 to 35 feet high.

She was loaded with 26,116 tons of taconite pellets at the Burlington Northern Railroad, Dock #1. Her destination was Zug Island on the Detroit River. There were 29 crew members who perished in the sinking.

In the US, this was held out of the #1 spot by Rod Stewart's "Tonight's The Night."

This was nominated for the Song of the Year Grammy, but it was beaten by Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs." (thanks, Frank - Pembroke Pines, FL, for above 3)

Paul Gross hoped to use this tune for his episode of the TV show Due South, "Mountie on the Bounty." He discreetly tried to secure the rights to use the song, but out of respect for the families who wished not to be reminded of the tragedy he didn't pursue the option aggressively. He instead wrote the similarly themed song "32 down On The Robert MacKenzie." (thanks, Billy - Plymouth, NH)

Ohio-based Great Lakes Brewery produces a beer called Edmund Fitzgerald Porter. (thanks, Douglas - Waterloo, England)

In 1970, baseball commissioner Bud Selig's co-founding partner in the Brewers was fellow Milwaukee businessman Edmund B. Fitzgerald, a patron of Milwaukee arts and civic projects, and the son of a family that owned Great Lakes shipyards. In 1958, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald was named for Edmund B.'s father. Fitzgerald later became a professor at Vanderbilt University.

An initial investigation suggested that the crew was partly to blame for the disaster by not securing the ship's hatches. Lightfoot's song reflected the original findings in the verse, "…at 7 p.m. a main hatchway gave in." However, in 2010 a Canadian documentary claimed to have proven the crew of the ship was not responsible for the tragedy. It concluded that there is little evidence that failure to secure the ship's hatches caused the sinking.
Lightfoot said he intended to change it to reflect the new findings. "I'm sincerely grateful to yap films and their program The Dive Detectives for putting together compelling evidence that the tragedy was not a result of crew error," he said in a release. "This finally vindicates, and honours, not only all of the crew who lost their lives, but also the family members who survived them."

Lightfoot recalled the story of the song during a Reddit AMA: "The Edmund Fitzgerald really seemed to go unnoticed at that time, anything I'd seen in the newspapers or magazines were very short, brief articles, and I felt I would like to expand upon the story of the sinking of the ship itself," he said. "And it was quite an undertaking to do that, I went and bought all of the old newspapers, got everything in chronological order, and went ahead and did it because I already had a melody in my mind and it was from an old Irish dirge that I heard when I was about three and a half years old."

"I think it was one of the first pieces of music that registered to me as being a piece of music," he continued. "That's where the melody comes from, from an old Irish folk song."

Lightfoot wrote the lyrics after coming up with the melody and chords. He recalled: "When the story came on television, that the Edmund had foundered in Lake Superior three hours earlier, it was right on the CBC here in Canada, I came into the kitchen for a cup of coffee and saw the news and I said 'That's my story to go with the melody and the chords.'"

In a 2015 interview with NPR's Scott Simon, Gordon Lightfoot explained that the article he read in Newsweek about the tragedy was, "Short shrift for such a monumental event." Lightfoot says the song came about when he discovered the newspaper writers kept misspelling the name of the ship, rendering it as "Edmond Fitzgerald" rather than "Edmund Fitzgerald." Though he didn't say whether or not the misspelling was deliberate, he was quoted as telling Scott, "That's it! If they're gonna spell the name wrong, I've got to get to the bottom of this!" (thanks, Annabelle - Eugene, OR)

This is referenced in the Seinfeld episode "Andrea Doria," when Elaine mistakenly believes Gordon Lightfoot was the name of the ship and Edmund Fitzgerald was the name of the singer. Jerry quips: "Yeah, and it was rammed by the Cat Stevens."

Marsha Ambrosius - Love

Marsha Ambrosius - Love Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Friends & Lovers
Released: 2014

Love Lyrics

Ooh, Love
Well alright, well alright, well alright
Yeah

I wake up every morning
I grab a cup of coffee and I
I read the morning paper
There's nothing 'bout you being on my mind
I could be going crazy
'Cause nothing that I do will subside
What I feel, what I feel inside
I'm missing you baby

I hop up in the shower
The water running with my falling tears
Every second every hour
It's only been a week but it feels like years
I know I might be crazy
Because I'm getting weak so weak for you my dear
Boy I need you here

When love knocks at your door
Don't turn it away
Just let it inside
Invite it to stay
Just let it be
Don't you be afraid
If this is how you feel
This must be love
This must be love

I say hello to my neighbour across the hall
Hoping I don't have to feel so alone at all
I put a smile where I'm frowning now
I shouldn't let it bring me down
I think of the moments that I tried
To walk away and leave your side
I'm waiting on you again
Love I need you here
I'm missing you baby

When love knocks at your door
Don't turn it away
Just let it inside
Invite it to stay
Just let it be
Don't you be afraid
If this is how you feel

And I tried and I tried and I tried to deny the emotions
But you know that it's love when you can't get enough
And it's all you've been dreaming of
(Still dream about loving you)
Well alright well alright well alright

When love knocks at your door
Don't turn it away
Just let it inside
Invite it to stay
Just let it be
Don't you be afraid
If this is how you feel
This must be love (must be love)

When love knocks at your door
Don't turn it away
Just let it inside
Invite it to stay
Just let it be
Don't you be afraid
If this is how you feel
This must be love (must be love)
This must be love (must be love)
This must be love (must be love)
This must be love (must be love)
Well alright, well alright, well alright

Writer/s: Scott, Jamie / Ambrosius, Marsha
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Love

Hopeful yet tinged with sadness, this song finds Ambrosius encouraging the listener not to be afraid when love comes knocking on the door. "There's so many ways to spin what love is for you," she said. "It can be the most joyful and terrifying time to love at the level that you feel you deserve."

"With this song it was literally that morning, standing on the balcony, cup of coffee overlooking wherever in the world …I read the morning paper but there's nothing in there about the love I have for someone," Ambrosius added. "Yet this is the biggest news I have in my life…no one is reading about little old me. But for me, it was an affirmation and reminder of what to do when that is exactly what it is."

Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Stay Hungry
Released: 1984

We're Not Gonna Take It Lyrics

Oh We're Not Gonna Take It
No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh we're not gonna take it anymore

We've got the right to choose it
There ain't no way we'll lost it
This is our life, this is our song

We'll fight the powers that be just
Don't pick our destiny 'cause
You don't know us, you don't belong

Oh we're not gonna take it
No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh we're not gonna take it anymore

Oh you're so condescending
Your gall is never ending
We don't want nothin', not a thing from you

Your life is trite and jaded
Boring and confiscated
If that's your best, your best won't do

Oh Oh

We're right (yeah)
We're free (yeah)
We'll fight (yeah)
You'll see (yeah)

Oh we're not gonna take it
No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh we're not gonna take it anymore

Oh we're not gonna take it
No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh we're not gonna take it anymore

No way

Oh Oh

We're right (yeah)
We're free (yeah)
We'll fight (yeah)
You'll see (yeah)

Oh we're not gonna take it
No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh we're not gonna take it anymore

Oh we're not gonna take it
No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh we're not gonna take it anymore

Just you try and make us
We're not gonna take it
Come on!

No, we ain't gonna take it
You're all worthless and weak
We're not gonna take it anymore

Now drop and give me twenty
We're not gonna take it
Oh crinch pin

No, we ain't gonna take it
Oh you and your uniform
We're not gonna take it anymore

Writer/s: ROBINSON, JERRY / SNIDER, DANIEL DEE / NEVINS, JASON
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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We're Not Gonna Take It

This is the mighty anthem for anyone lashing out at an authority figure and ready to put up a fight. The song is short on specifics, so it can apply to just about any situation where "we" are battling "the powers that be." This all-purpose approach was intentional and gave the song a timeless quality. In our interview with Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider , he explained: "With 'We're Not Gonna Take It,' whether I was singing about my parents, my teachers, my bosses, my peers, people around me, I felt it was important not to define it by actually naming names and singing, 'Dad, you're so trite and jaded, I hate my teachers, too.' And thus, the song has had a life in sporting events, at political rallies, at protests, pretty much anybody who's not taking something from somebody else, they're going to break into 'We're Not Gonna Take It' all over the world."

Twisted Sister wrote this song to the basic tune of "O Come All Ye Faithful." On their 2006 album A Twisted Christmas, they did a version of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" with using the traditional lyrics but set to the music of "We're Not Gonna Take It."

Dee Snider started writing this song in 1980, two years before Twisted Sister released their first album, Under the Blade. He had the hook, but couldn't come up with a verse melody. After Def Leppard released their Pyromania album in 1983, Snider came up with a plan. "In studying some of Mutt Lange's work with Def Leppard, I saw that a number of their songs were using variations on the chorus as a verse," he told us. "That gave me the information I needed to come up with the rest of 'We're Not Gonna Take It.'"

The song was finished in time for Twisted Sister's third album, Stay Hungry, which was their breakthrough, taking them out of the clubs and into arenas. "We're Not Gonna Take It," released as the first single, led the charge thanks to the innovative video with cartoonish violence featuring a young kid that turns into Snider, telling his father he's "Not gonna take it!"

With frequent airplay on the emerging MTV, Twisted Sister was exposed to a large and more youthful audience, and soon they were all over the media. What many didn't realize was that band had been around for over a decade by this time, and had already built a loyal following in the New York area. On the Stay Hungry tour, Snider would often commend the fans that were there when you couldn't catch them on MTV.

The video features Mark Metcalf, who played Neidermeyer in the 1978 movie Animal House. Before the song starts, Metcalf comes into the kid's room and berates him, ending his tirade by asking the now-famous phrase, "what are you want do with your life"? (answer: "I wanna rock!").

The dialogue was written by the video's director Marty Callner, who had directed several HBO specials but never a music video. He said in the book I Want My MTV: "Atlantic Records had signed a Long Island band they didn't know what to do with, Twisted Sister. They had a song, 'We're Not Gonna Take It,' and because of my comedy and music background, they seemed like the perfect hybrid for me."

Mark Metcalf ended by starring in the next Twisted Sister video as well: "I Wanna Rock." He was living in Pittsburgh and only took the gig because he got a free flight to LA where he had a girlfriend. Snider, a huge Animal House fan, picked him up at the airport and they instantly bonded.

In this song, not only are we not gonna take it, but we're going to turn the tables and let our oppressor know that his life is not only "trite and jaded" but also "boring and confiscated." Going on the attack was a Twisted Sister specialty: At their concerts, Dee Snider would go on tirades about various people and institutions, and would sometimes berate audience members who were killing the vibe.

Eddie Ojeda and Jay Jay French shared guitar duties with Twisted Sister. Ojeda played the solo on this one.

Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan used the song during the 2012 Republican Party's presidential campaign, causing Dee Snider to air his disapproval. "I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my band Twisted Sister's song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' in any capacity," said the Twisted Sister frontman in a statement. "There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with except the use of the [workout program] P90X."

Snider, however, had no problem with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump using the the tune as the "exit song" during the politician's 2015 campaign stops. "Donald Trump is a good friend and a great guy, and I support him turning the political system on its head," he told TMZ.com . "The song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' is a song about rebellion, and there's nothing more rebellious than what Donald Trump is doing right now. Although [Democratic presidential candidate] Bernie Sanders can use it as well; he's turning things upside down too."

Marsha Ambrosius - Spend All My Time

Marsha Ambrosius - Spend All My Time Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Friends & Lovers
Released: 2014

Spend All My Time Lyrics

I'm a material girl, living this material life (life, life)
I been around this whole world (whole world girl)
All alone, a couple times
It can get kinda lonely, baby (baby)
I'm too busy to notice sometimes (oh oh sometimes)
I been without you, my love, love
Without you by my side

All the happiness this money can't buy
Oh, I wanna Spend All My Time with you (spend all my time)
All the lovin' I've been missin' in my life
Oh, I wanna spend all my time with you, babe

(Oh oh oh I) I feel this void in my heart
Broken in pieces my heart
Far too many times I've been hurt
Give it up on what I deserve
What I deserve is real love
All that I haven't deserved
No, I give everything to this love
Now, because I spend too much

All the happiness this money can't buy
Oh, I wanna spend all my time with you (spend all my time)
All the lovin' I've been missin' in my life
Oh, I wanna spend all my time with you, babe

Spending all of my time on other wrong things (on other wrong things)
Means nothing without you baby (nothing without you baby)
I guess I was wrong, baby
Longing for you now
Baby, I can end the finer things, all the diamond rings
But they ain't worth what is you and I

All the happiness this money can't buy
Oh, I wanna spend all my time with you
All the lovin' I've been missin' in my life
Oh, I wanna spend all my time with you, babe

All the happiness this money can't buy
Oh, I wanna spend all my time with you (spend all my time)
All the lovin' I've been missin' in my life
Oh, I wanna spend all my time with you, babe (wanna spend all my time with you)

Oh, I
Oh oh oh (spend all my time)
Spend all my time with you, babe (spend all my time)
Spend all my time with you, babe
Spend all my time with you, babe
(Spend all my time with you)
Babe with you

Writer/s: CLIFTON, ANDREW / HUDSON, ERIC / AMBROSIUS, MARSHA
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Spend All My Time

This duet with Charlie Wilson finds Ambrosius addressing what it feels like to bid farewell to fallen loved ones. "This is about me missing my grandmother and my aunt to the point where it hindered how I carried on my day," she said. "I lost my grandmother in 2003. I lost my Aunt way too suddenly to cancer and to watch her deteriorate before my eyes made me look at what is important."

"Music became my importance," Ambrosius continued." I felt guilty for that and I know that's what they would have wanted for me. I had no choice, but to keep living. I'm out here trying to get this money so we can get to Disney World. Everyone is rooting for me and wishing me well and there's me not being able to be by their side. All the happiness this money can't buy, I wanna spend all my time with you."