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Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)

Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Any Day Now
Released: 1962

Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) Lyrics

Any day now I will hear you say "Goodbye, my love, way
Begging you to stay
Any day now when the clock strikes, Go"

Writer/s: BOB HILLIARD, BURT F BACHARACH
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, BOURNE CO.
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Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)

Burt Bacharach wrote this with Bob Hilliard. Bacharach cut the backing track a year before presenting it to Jackson, but the composer didn't want Wand Records boss Florence Greenberg to release a version by Tommy Hunt.

This was a #12 hit for Ronnie Milsap in 1982. It was also covered by Percy Sledge. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 2)

Burt Bacharach (from Record Collector magazine): "I wrote that song with Bob Hilliard, a wonderful lyric writer, not that we wrote that much together but it was in the Brill Building days. I thought it was a pretty good song, a good R&B song. We'd been doing that song in my show with John Pagano, up-tempo, it's pretty funky and it's good."

Sia - Straight for the Knife

Sia - Straight for the Knife Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 1000 Forms of Fear
Released: 2014

Straight for the Knife Lyrics

Put on my best dress, I wanted to impress
I put a little make-up on
Put a bow in my hair, wore pretty underwear
Hoping you might take it off
Don't know your etiquette
But I'm strapped to my chair
And it ain't 'cause you're pretty
You were charming, until
You saw your chance to kill
Your chance to make history

You went Straight for the Knife
And I prepared to die
Your blade it shines
Looked me straight in the eye
You turned the gas on high
Held the flame alight
You wonder why
I'm scared of fire
You wonder why you make girls cry

My mascara a mess, harsh words for your princess
Boy, you and your promises
If your goal was to love, you scored an epic miss
Now you'll just have memories

You went straight for the knife
And I prepared to die
Your blade it shines
Looked me straight in the eye
You turned the gas on high
Held the flame alight
You wonder why
I'm scared of fire
You wonder why you make girls cry

Boy, you draw me back in
I'm hungry for your bad loving
But will someone find me swinging from the rafters
From hanging on your every word

You went straight for the knife
And I prepared to die
Your blade it shines
Looked me straight in the eye
You turned the gas on high
Held the flame alight
You wonder why
I'm scared of fire
You wonder why you make girls cry

You wonder why you make girls cry

Writer/s: PARKER, JUSTIN / FURLER, SIA
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Straight for the Knife

Sia penned this love-gone-bad song with Justin Parker, who composed much of the music on Lana Del Rey's debut Born to Die album. The English producer also co wrote "Stay" with Mikky Ekko, which became an international hit single for Rihanna.

Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Life And Times
Released: 1973

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Lyrics

Well the South side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Leroy Brown

Now Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Lover"
All the men just call him "Sir"

And it's Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Now Leroy he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
And he like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom Continental
He got an Eldorado too
He got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe

And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Now Friday 'bout a week ago
Leroy shootin' dice
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named Doris
And oo that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And Leroy Brown learned a lesson
'Bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man

And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Well the two men took to fighting
And when they pulled them off the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone

And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Writer/s: Croce, James
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

Jim Croce joined the US National Guard in 1966, hoping it would keep him from getting sent to Vietnam. He married Ingrid that year, and hoped to continue his education and launch his music career. Unfortunately, Jim was sent for training less then two weeks after their wedding. As Ingrid told us, Jim had no interest in being a soldier and had the distinction of having to repeat basic training. Ingrid explains how Jim got the idea for this song: "Leroy Brown is a guy that he actually met. When he was in the service - The National Guard - this guy had gone AWOL. He was a guy that Jim kind of related to, he liked to sing with him. This guy had gone AWOL but he came back to get his paycheck, and he got caught. Jim just thought he was such a funny guy that he thought he'd include his name in the song, and it just worked. There really was a Leroy Brown, and sometimes having a name helps you to build a song around it."

Ingrid runs Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar in San Diego, where she keeps Jim's legacy alive and hears from many patrons who were touched by Jim's songs. Says Ingrid: "I have a lot of staff members that come up to me and say, 'You know what, there's a guy named Leroy Brown, he kind of looks like the part, and he's sitting at our bar right now.' I say, 'Well, I'll be glad to come over and say hi.' There's so many Leroy Browns who have come up to me and said, 'I'm sure I'm the one he was talking about.'"

When Jim Croce would introduce this song, he said there were two people he encountered in the military who inspired this song: a sergeant at Fort Jackson and a private at Fort Dix. The actual Leroy was the sergeant, but it was the private who went AWOL and returned for his paycheck.

The piano riff at the beginning was based on Bobby Darin's "Queen of the Hop."

This was Jim Croce's first #1 hit ("Time in a Bottle" was the other). It topped the charts 10 weeks before he died in a plane crash.

This is sung by a parrot in the movie Home Alone 3. Shelly Smith covered it for that film's soundtrack. (thanks, Greg - Calgary, Canada)

In 2008, producer Warren Zide (American Pie) bought the movie rights to this song. Ingrid Croce said: "We've always wanted to do a movie with one of Jim's character songs - we just want him and his memory and his music to live on. Most importantly, it sounds as if it's going to be a lot of fun. And Jim liked to have fun." (Read more in Ingrid Croce's Songfacts interview)

This wasn't the first hit from the '70s to feature a "Leroy." In Todd Rundgren's song "We Gotta Get You A Woman," the lovelorn character is named Leroy. In real life, he was Paul, but Rundgren couldn't find a good rhyme for that name.

Sia - Cellophane

Sia - Cellophane Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 1000 Forms of Fear
Released: 2014

Cellophane Lyrics

Look at me, I'm such a basket case
Delivered to you wrapped in Cellophane
Waiting on your doorstep every day
Delivery, a basket filled with pain

Patience is your virtue, saint o' mine
I'd have fallen through the cracks without your love tonight
I'm your groundhog and I'm skating on thin ice
But you see me at your feet and carry me inside

Can't you see I'm wrapped in cellophane
Watch the blood pump through my veins
Electricity floods my brain
Can't hide the pain, can't hide the pain
When you're wrapped in cellophane

Look at me, I'm such a basket case
While I fall apart you'll hide all my pills again
And all the things I need to hear you say
You'll watch as all my thoughts get right back on the train

Can't you see I'm wrapped in cellophane
Watch the blood pump through my veins
Electricity floods my brain
Can't hide the pain, can't hide the pain
When you're wrapped in cellophane

Can't you see I'm wrapped in cellophane
Watch the blood pump through my veins
Electricity floods my brain
Can't hide the pain, can't hide the pain
When you're wrapped in cellophane

Writer/s: FURLER, SIA / KURSTIN, GREGORY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Cellophane

Addicted to painkillers and alcohol and suffering from panic attacks because of the incessant cycle of having to promote her music, a depressed Sia Furler contemplated suicide, but was stopped by a friend. Sia began a twelve-step program and focused on writing songs for other artists. After success penning hit tunes for the likes of David Guetta ("Titanium") and Rihanna, ("Diamonds"), Sia signed a contract with RCA to record an album, which stipulated she doesn't have to tour or do press appearances to promote it. This song finds Sia referencing her inability to deal with the pressures of the music industry by calling herself a basket case and comparing herself to a basket wrapped in cellophane.

Cellophane is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged and then shaped into thin, flat, transparent sheets. Sia is saying that she's unable to hide herself away from her difficulties, while wrapped in something so crystal clear.

Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive

Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Quatro
Released: 1974

Devil Gate Drive Lyrics

Hey, you all want to go down to Devil Gate Drive?
Well, come on!

Welcome to 'The Dive'!

Well, at the age of five they can do their jive
Down in Devil Gate Drive
And at the age of six they're gonna get their kicks
Down in Devil Gate Drive
Well your mama don't know where your sister done go
She gone down to the Drive. She's the start of the show
And let her move on up. Let her come let her go.
She can jive
Down in Devil Gate Drive

[Chorus:]
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate Drive
So come alive. Come alive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive
Down in Devil Gate...down in Devil Gate
Down in Devil Gate Drive

When they reach their teens, that's when they all get mean
Down in Devil Gate Drive
When I was sweet sisteen I was the jukebox queen
Down in Devil Gate Drive
I lead the angel pack on the road to sin
Knock down the gates!
Let me in. Let me in
Don't mess me 'round, cause you know where I've been
To 'The Dive' down in Devil Gate Drive

[Chorus]

Well your mama don't know where your sister done go
She goes down to the Drive. She's the start of the show
Let her move on up. Let her come let her go.
She can jive
Down in Devil Gate Drive

[Chorus]

[Spoken:]
Come on, boys. Let's do it one more time for Suzi!
Are you ready, now?

Come alive. Come alive Yeah!

Writer/s: CHAPMAN, MICHAEL DONALD / CHINN, NICHOLAS BARRY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Devil Gate Drive

Suzi Quatro is an American singer who had a series of hits in the UK in the '70s. She played Leather Tuscaderro on the TV show Happy Days . Her sister was a member of the all female band Fanny.

This was written and produced by the team of Nicky Chin and Mike Chapman, who also wrote and produced for Sweet.

Tommy James covered this on his mid-'70s Fantasy album In Touch. Tommy even put it on the "B" side of his single of "I Love You, Love Me" (Fantasy #761). (thanks, Rick - Lafayette, NJ, for all above)

This is included on the soundtrack of the 2011 Australian comedy A Few Best Men. Like the rest of the soundtrack, this version is sung by Olivia Newton-John, who also appears in the film.

Sunny Sweeney - My Bed

Sunny Sweeney - My Bed Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Provoked
Released: 2014

My Bed Lyrics

My Bed

This song written in 2008 by Sunny Sweeney with Pistol Annies Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe finds the singer admitting to the role she played in the ending of her first marriage. "There were obvious issues and stuff and it just didn't work," she recalled to Rolling Stone. "I was the one who didn't want to stay married anymore. Even being the one that wanted the divorce, I was still so torn up over it. I still did my shows and I still wrote a bunch of songs during that time, but it was the most emotionally draining thing I've ever been through."

Admitting that as she heard the footsteps of her former husband coming up to the bedroom, she would close her eyes pretending to be asleep, Sweeney said, "You just know when you're done. It's just sad and it's tough and you can't make that a good situation. You can't be like, 'Oh, it was great while it lasted.' Because when it ends it sucks. There's no way around it."

The song is a duet with Nashville-based singer-songwriter Will Hoge, who is best known for recording the original version of Eli Young Band's hit single, "Even If It Breaks Your Heart." Sweeney was originally going to record this solo. "My manager said, 'What would you think about doing that song as a duet?" she said. "I asked who he was thinking, and he said 'Will Hoge would be really cool,' and I just stopped him in his tracks and said, 'If you can make that happen, I'm in.' I think he is so amazing. I love his singing and I love his writing."

"I ran to the studio a couple of days later and listened to him sing on it," Sweeney added, "and it completed the song for me."

It was Sweeney's producer Luke Wooten who suggested having an accordion on the track. Sweeney recalled to The Boot : "At first he said, 'I don't know, you think?' And I said, 'I don't know, just as a padding it might be cool and kinda sound creepy and sad.' Then we put it on there, and now it's, to me, the most significant part of that track. I love the accordion on there."

The music video, which was directed by Michael Poncé, finds Sweeney and Hoge playing a couple whose marriage is failing. "Sunny has one of the finest voices around. I love her songs and how they always seem to paint a picture," Hoge said. "The video perfectly captures the true sadness of a relationship falling apart right before your eyes. She's also someone I consider a close friend, so the opportunity to get to work with her on this track was an absolute no-brainer for me."

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Metallica - Master Of Puppets Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Master Of Puppets
Released: 1986

Master Of Puppets Lyrics

Master Of Puppets

The "Master" of puppets is a reference to drugs. Throughout the song the "Master" controls you and your life. This is evident in lyrics like, "chop your breakfast on a mirror," "The Master Of Puppets is pulling your strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreams." Drugs is the Master while the drug user is the puppet. (thanks, Tore - W. Germany)

Metallica recorded this with the San Francisco Symphony in 1999. That version is on their album, S&M.

James Hetfield plays the first solo during the slow instrumental part, Kirk Hammet plays the final, fast heavy solo. While playing the solo, Kirk pulled the top string off of the fretboard of the guitar (usually done by accident when someone bends the high string down instead of up) to make the really high siren-like sound. Everyone loved the way it sounded on the track so they kept it that way.

There are two ways the song is played live. There is one where they just play the song how it is normally played in it's entirety, and another where they play the first two verses, and when it's time for the instrumental part they play another song (like "Nothing Else Matters" or "Sanitarium") and when that song is done they continue the final verse of "Master Of Puppets."

This was written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Cliff Burton.

At the end of the song, you can hear backwards recordings of the band's guitars while the bandmember's echoed laughter is played. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 4)

In an MTV Icon special, James Hetfield said that it wasn't until after this song was written that he realized it related to his alcoholism. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

James Hetfield in Thrasher magazine: "'Master of Puppets' deals pretty much with drugs. How things get switched around, instead of you controlling what you're taking and doing it's drugs controlling you. Like, I went to a party here in San Francisco, there were all these freaks shooting up and geezin' and this other girl was real sick."

When Metallica played two shows in China in 2013, the Chinese government told them not to play this song - perhaps not wanting to harbor unrest with lyrics about being controlled by a greater entity. The band complied, although Kirk Hammett made sure to play the riff during their sets.

Toby Keith - Whiskey Girl

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Toby Keith - Whiskey Girl Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shock'n Y'all
Released: 2003

Whiskey Girl Lyrics

Whiskey Girl

This ode to a girlfriend Keith describes as his "little whiskey girl" was penned by Toby with his frequent collaborator, Scotty Emerick. "She's just the epitome of a redneck girl who ain't into wine and beer or tequila," Emerick told Country Weekly of the inspiration for the song. "It's not strong enough for her. She didn't do anything but sip on whiskey … We wanted to make her sound like a really good-looking gal who's also kind of rough — but not some slobbering binge drinker!"

The third and final single from Toby Keith's Shock N Y'all album, the song was was released on March 22, 2004. It reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart on in July 10, 2004, staying there for one week.

Collective Soul - She Said

Collective Soul - She Said Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Dosage
Released: 1999

She Said Lyrics

She Said that time is unfair
To a woman her age
Now that wisdom has come
Everything else fades
She said she realizes
She's seen her better days
She said she can't look back
To her days of youth
What she thought were lies
She later found was truth
She said her daddy had dreams
But he drank them away
And her mother's to blame
For the way she is today
Life's river shall rise
She said
And only the strong shall survive
She said
But I'm feeling quite weak
She said
Will you comfort and forgive me
She said
She said she's still searching
For salvation's light
She said she wishes all day
And she prays all night
She said she won't speak of love
Because love she's never known
She said it's moments like these
She hates to be alone
Forgive me
She said
Forgive me
She said

Writer/s: ROLAND, ED
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, KAREN SCHAUBEN PUBLISHING ADMINISTRATION
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She Said

Lead singer Ed Roland based the lyrics on a conversation he had with his mother. The song deals with his grandfather's alcoholism. (thanks, Steven - Paragould, AR)

This song was used in the movie Scream 2. It appears twice in the movie. The video features the band wearing the infamous Ghostface mask from the movies. (thanks, Aaron - Chicago, IL)

A more mainstream Pop version appears as a hidden song at the end of their album Dosage. After listening to the song "Crown," keep playing the CD. "She Said" will start playing exactly one minute later. (thanks, justin - troy, MO)

The Yardbirds - Drinking Muddy Water

The Yardbirds - Drinking Muddy Water Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Little Games
Released: 1967

Drinking Muddy Water Lyrics

Well I've been running and a-hiding,
Trying to lose my mind.
Well I've been running and a-hiding,
Trying to lose my mind.

Ever since you told me,
That you weren't my kind.

Drinking Muddy Water,
I don't know how long for.
I been drinking muddy water,
I don't know how long for.

Since I been running, babe,
I been treating you like a dog.

Writer/s: Dreja, Chris / Mccarty, Jim / Page, Jimmy / Relf, Keith
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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Drinking Muddy Water

This song is an update of the 1950 Muddy Waters blues classic "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and nominally a tribute to the bluesman. As well as the four Yardbirds members, the track also featured The Rolling Stones' Ian 'Stu' Stewart on piano.

This was a track on Little Games. The album was produced by successful singles producer Mickie Most, who was brought in by The Yardbirds' record company to coax out more commercial product. Although Page had worked earlier for Most as a session guitarist, he was unhappy with him taking on the production duties as the producer was basically interested in singles and didn't believe it was worth spending much time on album tracks. Page recalled to Mojo magazine July 2014. "You'd finish recording the track and Mickie would just go 'Next!'"

"I remember that happening during 'Drinking Muddy Water,'" Page continued. "Stu looked at me and he said 'I can't believe this! I've never worked like this in my life! And I said to him, 'And you're not going to start now! We're going to hear a playback. And we did, but everything was based around the idea of getting things done quickly."

Creed - Higher

Creed - Higher Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Human Clay
Released: 1999

Higher Lyrics

When dreaming I'm guided to another world
Time and time again
At sunrise I fight to stay asleep
'Cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place
'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape
From the life I live when I'm awake
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?

Can you take me Higher?
To the place where blind men see
Can you take me higher?
To the place with golden streets

Although I would like our world to change
It helps me to appreciate
Those nights and those dreams
But, my friend, I'd sacrifice all those nights
If I could make the Earth and my dreams the same
The only difference is
To let love replace all our hate
So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?

Can you take me higher?
To the place where blind men see
Can you take me higher?
To the place with golden streets

So let's go there
Let's make our escape
Come on, let's go there
Let's ask can we stay?

Up high I feel like I'm alive for the very first time
Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine

Set up high I'm strong enough to take these dreams
And make them mine

Can you take me higher?
To the place where blind men see
Can you take me higher?
To the place with golden streets

Can you take me higher?
To the place where blind men see
Can you take me higher?
To the place with golden streets

Writer/s: MARK TREMONTI, SCOTT STAPP
Publisher: RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Higher

In our 2013 interview with Creed lead singer Scott Stapp , he explained how this song came together and what it means to him:

"I kind of say in the lyrics how it kind of came about.

I open it up:
'When dreaming, I'm guided to another world, time and time again.'

So I was basically commenting on my dream and writing my thoughts about what I was dreaming about. And it was on various levels. It was a literal dream, but it was also on my dreams as a human being at that stage in my life and where I was in my life at that time. I wanted the world, so to speak. I wanted to achieve every dream that I ever had. And also I had that idealistic view of wanting to create heaven on Earth. At the time I penned that song, my view of what heaven on Earth meant was very narrow, very naïve, and very wrapped up in ego and self-fulfillment. I didn't really expound on that, but I can comment on that now. And it's also, 'Be careful what you wish for, because your prayers might get answered.'"

A frequently misinterpreted song, in the September 2000 edition of Spin magazine, Scott Stapp explained that this is is not about Christ's ascension to heaven or taking a big bong hit, but is about the power of lucid-dreaming. "You're physically asleep, but you're awake in your mind," he explained.

He read a book about Hindu monks who have perfected the technique and thought it might help him squelch a recurring nightmare: He's running down a highway, closely pursued by a man with a gun. He turns left and hides behind a pillar beneath an overpass but gets shot anyway. Stapp says that once he learned how to lucid-dream, he was able to alter the nightmare so that he turned right and escaped. After he wrote "Higher" about the experience, he never had the nightmare again.

Like all of Creed's songs, the music to this track was written by the group's guitarist, Mark Tremonti . When Creed split up in 2004, the band members minus Stapp (Tremonti, bass player Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips), formed Alter Bridge.

Creed made a big impact with their 1997 debut album My Own Prison, which they initially released on an independent label before getting a major label deal with Wind-Up Records. Songs from the album, including "What's This Life For" and "Torn," got significant airplay on the rock radio (especially rock of the "modern" or "active" variety), and "What's This Life For" rose to #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

"Higher" was the first single from their next album, Human Clay, and it did indeed take them higher - again to #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, but this time for 17 weeks. It also made #7 on the Hot 100, marking a crossover for Creed to pop radio. The downside: the last single from My Own Prison, "One," was still getting airplay only a few months before "Higher" was issued. This deluge of Creed eventually wore out listeners, and the band suffered a backlash.

The video was directed by Ramaa Mosley, who also did the "What's This Life For" clip. In the video, Creed gets "higher" by taking the stage. Of note is the 360-degree shot of Scott Stapp at the end, which was a relatively new technique at the time, requiring an array of cameras and sophisticated software to interpolate the still images into what appears to be a continuous shot.

In our interview with Ramaa Mosley , she said that making the video was "a creative struggle." Said Mosley: "The band had only a short time before they had to go on tour in Japan and their schedule dictated that we had to shoot in Orlando, Florida. I wanted to be in Los Angeles where I had my team but it wasn't possible. So I flew out to location with my team and we started putting together this massive video. We had over 300 extras but really needed three times that amount.

I came up with the idea after listening to the song with the record label. They brought me into the room and played it for me. The first idea I had was this epic performance that later we question ever happened. I only pitched that idea."

Al Green - L-O-V-E (Love)

Al Green - L-O-V-E (Love) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Al Green Is Love
Released: 1975

L-O-V-E (Love) Lyrics

I started to write this song about you
And then I decided that I would write it all about love
And it appeared to me
That you wasn't happy
And that's for sure, positively
That's what the world is made of
So give me more L-O-V-E, love
Love is a walk down Main street (oh love)
Love is an apple that is so sweet (love)
Love is something that can't be beat (love)

L-O-V-E is strange to me, Oh
I can't explain this feeling
Can't you see that salvation is freeing
It's all in the heavens, can't you see
You can always depend on me
To give you love

Love is a flower in my soul (oh love)
Love is a story that just can't be told (love)
Can't you feel it burning more and more (love)
Stop and look at the big wheel roll
I can't explain this feeling
Can't you see that salvation is freeing
I would give my life for the glory
Just to be able to tell the story
About love
I didn't mean to make you mad
A sweet story, I thought I had
But maybe time will bring us together
And I can be such a happy fella
About love
Love is something that is so divine (oh love)
Love is a feeling that's a friend of mine (love)
It can't be measured by no sign (love)
In your heart or even in your mind
About love, Love is as bright as the morning sun

Writer/s: DAY, GREGORY MICHAEL / FAIRBROTHER, JACK ALAN / THOMAS, JAMES WILLIAM / WHITE, ANDREW EDWIN / OLIVER, ASHLEY IAN / FELDMANN, JOHN WILLIAM
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Crazy Crow Music / Siquomb Music Publishing, Walt Disney Music Company
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L-O-V-E (Love)

Written by Al Green, producer Willie Mitchell and guitarist Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, this song was Green's fifth #1 hit on the US R&B chart.

Green's former songwriting collaborator and drummer Al Jackson Jr., the founding member of the instrumental Soul group Booker T. and the MG's, was mysteriously murdered in 1975 by alleged intruders (none of his belongings were missing and his estranged wife, who shot him earlier in the year, knew the trigger man).

Producer Willie Mitchell remembers how the song came together: "Me and Al had written the song and Teenie came by. He said, 'Man I like this song,' so I said, 'Well take it home and write me... eight bars [for the middle],' so when he brought it back, we inserted that into 'L-O-V-E' and that was it."