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Amy Lee - Push The Button

Amy Lee - Push The Button Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: War Story
Released: 2014

Push The Button Lyrics

Push The Button

Amy Lee wrote this song for the Mark Jackson directed indie film War Story – she also penned the movie's score along with friend and composer Dave Eggar.

Reckon this sounds different to both Amy Lee's solo work and her material with Evanescence? That's not surprising as the recording process was a departure from her past tunes. "For a long time, the director, Mark, just couldn't find the right song placement for this one scene that he wanted something really different sounding. So I was like 'You know what? I can do this myself,'" she explained to MTV News. "It's very different for me, it's electronic; I did it all myself, which was crazy, because I'm used to engineering and writing and mixing demos in my house, but being responsible for that being the end product was a new challenge for me. It was like 'This is it, I'm mixing this.'"

Herb Alpert - Rise

Herb Alpert - Rise Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Rise
Released: 1979

Rise Lyrics

Rise

Herb's nephew, Randy Badazz Alpert, wrote this with Andy Armer. When the 3M Company lent a 32-track digital recorder to A&M Records (then co-owned by Alpert), they had some time to experiment. Says Randy: "It was Herb's idea to record The Lonely Bull and several other of his old hit records in a dance format, and though I did not particularly like the idea I did go ahead and work up some new dance arrangements for those old songs. I had played Rise and several other new songs for Herb several weeks before the recording session and he loved 2 out of the 3 songs. We had always intended to record Rise during the session. That song was never an after thought. We did try recording the Lonely Bull and one other song before we switched to Rise. The room seemed to light up when we started to record that tune. It was a magical moment for both Herb and me."

On the Armer/Badazz audition tape, this was a stomper, going 128 beats per minute. Alpert slowed it to about 100 BPM so "People could dance and hug each other at the end of the night."

After this was released, it got an unexpected boost when it was used in a critical scene in the TV series General Hospital - the rape of Laura by Luke (Anthony Geary, who plays Luke, suggested the song to the series' music director). The song was repeated several times a week for a short period afterward, until the storyline changed to make Luke and Laura a romantic couple.

It wouldn't be the last time General Hospital bumped a song up the charts: In 1983, "Think Of Laura" by Christopher Cross was used as Luke and Laura's love theme, and exposure on the show pushed it to #9 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

This was Alpert's second #1 (after "This Guy's in Love With You"), making him to only solo performer to be credited with a #1 vocal and a #1 instrumental single. This is the instrumental.

This became a hit in the UK - ironically at 135 BPM - as British club DJs did not realize that American 12-inch singles are played at 33 revolutions per minute, not 45 (the European standard).

All of the music for Notorious B.I.G.'s hit "Hypnotize" was sampled from this. "Hypnotize" was a Billboard #1 Pop, R&B, and Rap song and was Top 10 in most countries throughout the world in 1997. So the "Rise" music was actually a #1 record twice in a span of 28 years.

To follow this up, "Rotation" was released in January 1980 and was a minor Top 40 hit in America. There was another single called "Street Life" which was released in late spring of 1980. "Beyond" was released at the end of summer 1980. (Thanks to Randy Badazz Alpert for telling us about this song)

This song won a Grammy in 1980 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. It was the third time that Alpert won a Grammy. His last 2 songs that won Grammys were "A Taste of Honey" (1965) and "What Now My Love?" (1966). (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA)

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Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary

Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Are You Experienced?
Released: 1967

The Wind Cries Mary Lyrics

The Wind Cries Mary

Jimi wrote this in 1967 for Are You Experienced?; it was inspired by his girlfriend at the time, Kathy Mary Etchingham. He'd gotten into an argument with her about her cooking. She got very angry and started throwing pots and pans and finally stormed out to stay at a friend's home for a day or so. When she came back, Jimi had written "The Wind Cries Mary" for her.

Kathy Mary recalled, "We'd had a row over food. Jimi didn't like lumpy mashed potato. There were thrown plates and I ran off. When I came back the next day, he'd written that song about me. It's incredibly flattering." (Source Q magazine February 2013)

Jimi wrote the song quietly in his apartment and didn't show it to anybody. After recording "Fire" (which was about his sexual relationship with Kathy), he had 20 minutes to spare in the recording studio, so he showed it to the band. They managed to record it in the 20 minute period they had. The band later recorded several more takes of the song, but they all seemed very sterile and they decided to go with the original recording.

This was the third single from Are You Experienced?. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for above 2)

A lot of people assumed this was about marijuana, which is also known as "Mary Jane."

This song begins with a distinctive and recognizable introduction, in which three chromatically ascending 'five' chords are played in second inversion. A 'five' chord consists of two notes (first or "root," and fifth) instead of three (root, third and fifth). The missing middle note gives the chord a more 'open' or 'bare' sound. A second inversion "flips" the notes in the chord, so that the fifth, not the root, is the lowest sounding note. This makes it more difficult for the listener to immediately identify what key the song is being played in. In addition, a syncopated rhythm makes it difficult for the listener to identify the "down beats" of the song. This combination of musical elements creates a unique and disorienting experience when the song is heard for the first time.

Jamie Cullum covered this song, replacing the guitar part with a jazzy piano. Other artists to record the song include John Mayer, Popa Chubby and Robyn Hitchcock. (thanks, Tonyz - Mandelieu)

According to the book Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy , Hendrix wrote this as a very long song, but broke it down to fit the short-song convention and make it radio friendly. Hendrix was concerned that listeners wouldn't understand the song in its shortened form.

David Gray - Last Summer

David Gray - Last Summer Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Mutineers
Released: 2014

Last Summer Lyrics

Baby, make like we did Last Summer
Oh now baby, make like we did last year
Dived, plunged into your eyes
Living every hour like a century
There will I always be

Want it, not till it’s good and ready
Good and ready to break like a diamond wave
Diamond wave now, to take me and drag me under
So far under, that I can’t hardly breathe

Dived, plunged into your eyes
Living every hour like a century
There will I always be

Writer/s: DAVID GRAY
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Last Summer

David Gray joined forces with producer/songwriter/remixer Andy Barlow for his Mutineers album. This was the first song they completed together. Gray recalled to Artist Direct : "That really came out very beautifully from a small inconsequential song I had that I didn't even think of being on the main record. We had this track, and it really expanded. I wanted to see where Andy was taking it. It was somewhere I hadn't been before. That was very exciting."

Andy Barlow has also worked with Elbow and Damien Rice but is best known as one one half of the 1990s British Electronica band Lamb.

Avril Lavigne - Losing Grip

Avril Lavigne - Losing Grip Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Let Go
Released: 2002

Losing Grip Lyrics

Are you aware of what you make me feel, baby
Right now I feel invisible to you, like I'm not real
Didn't you feel me lock my arms around you
Why'd you turn away
Here's what I have to say

I was left to cry there, waitin' outside there
Grinnin' with a lost stare
That's when I decided

Why should I care
Cause you weren't there when I was scared
I was so alone
You, you need to listen
I'm startin' to trip, I'm losin' my grip
And I'm in this thing alone

Am I just some chick you placed beside you,
To take somebody's place
When you turn around can you recognize, my face
You used to love me, you used to hug me
But that wasn't the case,
Everything wasn't okay

Cryin' out loud
I'm cryin' out, loud
Cryin' out loud
I'm cryin' out, loud

Open your, eyes
Open up, wide
Why should I care
Cause you weren't there when I was scared,
I was so alone

Why should I care
'Cuz you weren't there when I was scared,
I was so alone

Why should I care
If you don't care, then I don't care,
We're not goin' anywhere!

Why should I care
'Cuz you weren't there when I was scared,
I was so alone

Why should I care
If you don't care, then I don't care,
We're not goin' anywhere!

Writer/s: Magness, Clif / Lavigne, Avril
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Losing Grip

This was written specifically about an ex-boyfriend who didn't provide the emotional support she needed. Says Lavigne: "It doesn't matter now, and plus I got a good song out of it."

Lavigne says she likes performing this while she's mad - "And I'm always mad at boys."

Lavigne has said that this is her favorite song on the album.

5 Seconds of Summer - Everything I Didn't Say

5 Seconds of Summer - Everything I Didn't Say Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 5 Seconds Of Summer
Released: 2014

Everything I Didn't Say Lyrics

This is Everything I Didn't Say

Wait, don't tell me
Heaven is a place on earth
I wish I could rewind all the times that I didn't
Show you what you're really worth (What you're really worth)

The way that you held me
I wish that I'd put you first
I was wrong I admit, numb from your kiss
While you were slipping through my fingertips

Taking every breath away
With all of the mistakes I've made
From all the letters that I've saved
This is everything I didn't say
I wish I could've made you stay
And I'm the only one to blame
I know that it's a little too late
This is everything I didn't say

This is everything I didn't say

Wake me up now
And tell me this is all a bad dream
All the songs that I wrote
All the wrongs that I hoped would erase from your memory (erase from your memory)
Holding onto a broken and empty heart
Flowers I should've bought, all the hours I lost
Wish I could bring it back to the start

Taking every breath away
With all of the mistakes I've made
From all the letters that I've saved
This is everything I didn't say
I wish I could've made you stay
And I'm the only one to blame
I know that it's a little too late
This is everything I didn't say

I hope you know
For you I'd sacrifice
To make this right

Some day I'm sure
We'll pass each other by
Until that time

Taking every breath away
With all of the mistakes I've made
From all the letters that I've saved
This is everything I didn't say
I wish I could've made you stay
And I'm the only one to blame
I know that it's a little too late
This is everything I didn't say

This is everything I didn't say

Writer/s: HOOD, CALUM / IRWIN, ASHTON / FELDMANN, JOHN WILLIAM / FURLONG, NICHOLAS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING, RED BULL MEDIA HOUSE NA, INC.
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Everything I Didn't Say

This ballad finds Luke singing about lost love and bad choices with the help of his bandmates. He expresses regret about the mistakes he made that forced his girl to walk away:

Taking every breath away with all of the mistakes I made
From all the letters that I saved
This is everything I didn't say
I wish I could've made you stay
And I'm the only one to blame
I know that it's a little too late

5SOS's Calum and Ashton wrote the song with producer John Feldmann, who numbers All Time Low among his credits and songwriter supremo RAS, whose resume also includes being a co-writer of the Big Time Rush and Jordin Sparks' duet "Count On You."

This song recalls the aftermath of a breakup where you realize the other person put a lot more effort into the relationship than you did. Calum Hood explained: "It's about after a relationship has ended, and you wish you had been a better person."

This song is a favorite of lead singer Michael Clifford. "Out of all the songs we have, this is the one I wish I had written," he said.

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
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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.