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The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man

The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Velvet Underground & Nico
Released: 1967

I'm Waiting For The Man Lyrics

I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man

Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man

Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
PR shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait
I'm waiting for my man

Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man

Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout
I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man

Writer/s: REED, LOU
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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I'm Waiting For The Man

This is another in the Velvet Underground's canon of songs about drugs. Not only does it fit nicely with "Heroin," it was also on the same album, and was also written by Lou Reed at about the same time as "Heroin," during Reed's attendance at Syracuse University in the early 1960s. It describes a trip to a Harlem brownstone near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 125th Street to buy drugs from a dealer, "the man" of the title. Once again, it neither condones nor condemns the experience, but merely describes it.

The song is about scoring 26 dollars worth of heroin in Harlem. According to Rolling Stone magazine, Reed said: "Everything about that song holds true, except the price." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

As described in The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side , songs like "I'm Waiting For The Man," "Heroin," and "Venus In Furs" were what kept The Velvet Underground out of a record contract with Atlantic Records. Atlantic executive Ahmet Ertegun wouldn't take them unless they dropped these songs, and the Velvets, typically putting ideas ahead of money, just couldn't live with that. So their first album ended up with MGM Records instead. Even after their signing with Atlantic for their fourth album, Loaded, Ahmet specifically told them to tone down controversial material.

Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, and Maureen Tucker have all recorded solo versions of the song.

This song was a big influence on David Bowie, who explained to Performing Songwriter magazine in 2003: "I actually played 'Waiting for the Man' in Britain with my band before the album was even released in America. Talk about oneupsmanship. A friend of mine came over to the states to do some work with Andy Warhol at The Factory, and as he was leaving, Andy said, 'Oh, I just made this album with some people. Maybe you can take it back to England and see if you can get any interest over there.' And it was still the vinyl test pressing. It hadn't got a company or anything at the time. I still have it. There's a white label on it, and it says 'Warhol.' He signed it. My friend gave it to me and he said, 'This is crap. You like weird stuff, so maybe you'll enjoy it.' I played it and it was like 'Ah, this is the future of music!' I was in awe. It was serious and dangerous and I loved it. And I literally went into a band rehearsal the next day, put the album down and said, 'We're going to learn this song. It is unlike anything I've ever heard.' We learned 'Waiting for the Man' right then and there, and we were playing it on stage within a week. I told Lou that, and he loved it. I must have been the first person in the world to cover a Velvet Underground song."

David Bowie covered the song in 1972, and included it on his album BBC Sessions. Lou Reed sang it in a duet with Bowie during Bowie's 50th birthday concert, known as "Live at 50." Bowie's version is on the soundtrack of the movie Almost Famous. (thanks, Br17is - pisa, Italy)

Besides David Bowie, amongst the many acts to cover "I'm Waiting For The Man," the most notable are Cheap Trick, Bauhaus, and the U.K. Subs. It shares credit with the Ramones' "53rd & 3rd" for being a famous song related to drugs (the Ramones one is about turning a trick for drug money) pinned to a specific New York intersection.

Sam Hunt - Leave the Night On

Sam Hunt - Leave the Night On Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Montevallo
Released: 2014

Leave the Night On Lyrics

They roll the sidewalks in this town
All up after the sun goes down
They say nothin' good happens here
When midnight rolls around
But layin' down would be in vain
I can't sleep with you on my brain
I ain't anywhere close to tired
Your kiss has got me wired

Girl, you got the beat right, killin' in your Levis
High on your lovin's got me buzzin' like a streetlight
It's still early out in Cali, baby, don't you wanna rally again
We'll find a road with no name, lay back in the slow lane
The sky is dropping Jupiter around us like some old train
We'll be rolling down the windows, I bet you we're catchin' our second wind
We don't have to go home, we can Leave the Night On
We can leave the night on

Now all the stars are turnin' blue
Just kissed the clock 2:22
Baby, I know what you're wishin' for
I'm wishin' for it too
Now all the lights are flashin' gold
Nobody cares how fast we go
Our soundtrack's in the stereo
This DJ's on a roll

Girl, you got the beat right, killin' in your Levis
High on your lovin's got me buzzin' like a streetlight
It's still early out in Cali, baby, don't you wanna rally again
We'll find a road with no name, lay back in the slow lane
The sky is dropping Jupiter around us like some old train
We'll be rolling down the windows, I bet you we're catchin' our second wind
We don't have to go home, we can leave the night on
We can leave the night on

The sun'll steal the magic from us soon
So let's take one more trip around the moon

Girl, you got the beat right, killin' in your Levis
High on your lovin's got me buzzin' like a streetlight
It's still early out in Cali, baby, don't you wanna rally again
We'll find a road with no name, lay back in the slow lane
The sky is dropping Jupiter all around us like some old train
We'll be rolling down the windows, I bet you we're catchin' our second wind
We dont have to go home, we can leave the night on
We can leave the night on

Writer/s: MCANALLY, SHANE L. / HUNT, SAM LAWRY / OSBORNE, JOSH
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Leave the Night On

Sam Hunt started out as a star football player at Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. After college he was briefly signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs before deciding to concentrate on a music career after co-penning Kenny Chesney's "Come Over," Billy Currington's "We Are Tonight" and Keith Urban's "Cop Car."

This song is the first single from Hunt's debut album after signing with MCA Universe in January 2014. "'Leave the Night On' is a song that sort of represents the album as a whole," he said. "I feel like it captures all of the elements in one song. As far as a song that could represent what the whole album is about, I think that's just a good choice."

The song made it into the history books by entering the Country Aircheck chart at No #36, the highest ever entry for a new artist on the tally.

The song's music video finds Hunt playing a fun-loving taxi driver. The singer also helped direct the clip alongside actor and cinematographer Brad Belander.

Montevallo is the name of a small town just south of Birmingham, Alabama. Hunt explained why he named his debut album after the little-known place. "I had never spent any time there, but went to school for several years in Birmingham and met a girl from Montevallo just as I was leaving to head to Nashville," he said. "Over the course of the next several years as I was on this journey musically, figuring out the songwriting thing and doing all the things that led up to this moment, I was writing songs that were inspired by the experiences I was living, and the girl from Montevallo had a lot to do with that and a lot of influence came from her and came from experiences in that town, came from other people in that town."

"It's just a word that when I see it or when I hear someone else say it, it has a whole new emotion attached to it, than when I first left Birmingham," Hunt added, "and that's the same emotion that I get when I read the track listing on the record."

Sam Hunt penned the tune with Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally in early 2013. "It was kind of an unassuming song," he told Billboard magazine. "I was excited because we wrote a cool song at the time and it stuck around as I continued to write more songs and started to work on an album."

"And then when I went into record the songs my producer Zach Crowell really took it to another place with the production," Hunt continued. "He spent a lot of time on it and we continued to build it as we went. The final product just turned out really cool. When we put it beside the rest of the songs for the record it just stood out as a good song that could really be a good introduction and also a good first single as far as being up tempo and covering a lot of the different elements that will be on the record in one song."

So what's happening in this song? Sam Hunt explained: "It's a song about a guy who's with a girl, and they've had a good evening and they're creeping up on the normal time to go separate ways, but neither of them want to end the night yet. So, they continue their adventure on into the late hours of the night."

This song climbed to the top of the country chart on November 15, 2014. Hunt's Montevallo album bowed at #1 on Top Country Albums the same week. In doing so, the singer became just the second solo male to reach the summit of both lists with a debut release in the SoundScan-era (since 1991). Billy Ray Cyrus previously ruled the country chart with his debut single "Achy Breaky Heart" and Top Country Albums with his rookie long player Some Gave All on June 6, 1992.

Hunt is the one who came up with the line "leave the night on without me." When he told Shane McAnally about it, McAnally replied, "I can't believe you would offer that hook to somebody else." He told Rolling Stone Country: "I was being funny but I was mad. He said, 'No, no I haven't written it; I just have an idea.' And I was like, 'Oh my God, thank you because I think that's the best lyric I've ever heard.' So we got with Josh Osborne and that was just a typical writing day. We were hashing it out and trying to find the phrasing and it went through some different phases, but that song is pretty close to the way it was written the day we wrote it."

Rammstein - Mutter

Rammstein - Mutter Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Mutter
Released: 2001

Mutter Lyrics

Die Tränen greiser Kinderschar
Ich zieh sie auf ein weißes Haar
Werf in die Luft die nasse Kette
Und wünsch mir dass ich eine Mutter hätte

Keine Sonne die mir scheint
Keine Brust hat Milch geweint
In meiner Kehle steckt ein Schlauch
Hab keinen Nabel auf dem Bauch

Mutter

Ich durfte keine Nippel lecken
Und keine Falte zum verstecken
Niemand gab mir einen Namen
Gezeugt in Hast und ohne Samen

Der Mutter die mich nie geboren
Hab ich heute Nacht geschworen

Ich werd ihr eine Krankheit schenken
Und sie danach im Fluss versenken

Mutter

In ihren Lungen wohnt ein Aal
Auf meiner Stirn ein Muttermal
Entferne es mit Messers Kuss
Auch wenn ich daran sterben muss

Mutter

In ihren Lungen wohnt ein Aal
Auf meiner Stirn ein Muttermal
Entferne es mit Messers Kuss
Auch wenn ich verbluten muss

Mutter
Oh gib mir Kraft.

Writer/s: Riedel, Oliver / Lorenz, Doktor Christian / Schneider, Christoph Doom / Kruspe, Richard Z. / Landers, Paul / Lindemann, Till
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Mutter

"Mutter" is German for "Mother." It's a dark song reminiscent of the movie The Matrix, where everybody is grown genetically, as the lyrics deal with someone who does not have a mother, and was never nurtured like a normal human. (thanks, alex - munich, Germany)

Wiz Khalifa - KK

Wiz Khalifa - KK Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Blacc Hollywood
Released: 2014

KK Lyrics

Is this the top?
I got my own weed, sucker, so I ain't gotta hit yours
I'm talking straight indo
Cali weed blowing like a Rastaman
Kush seed straight from Afghanistan
Shooting up the club like an AK, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow
Smoke a P strong every day, I'm

Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
I need it all the time, don't know what else to say
It's always on my mind, that's why every day
I'm blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK

Put it in a joint, not a blunt
Don't disrespect mine, player
This not the two, this the one
Don't even need a scale
Back in high school I used to be the weedman
Quarter ounces, half ounces, what you need, man
Eleventh grade, made my way up to a P, man
And sent it back if I ever seen a seed, man
And you don't even gotta ask
You know it by the smell
I treat every day like it's a payday
Top down, counting up the cake and

Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
I need it all the time, don't know what else to say
It's always on my mind, that's why every day
I'm blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK

I got KK in my pipe, pockets fat like Kelly Price
If you wanna take a hit you can't be afraid of heights
You gon' need some new lungs, rolling up a blunter for em
While I'm smoking out the bong getting sucked like a thumb
Boy I'm in a daze, tangerine haze
I smoke so much KK they should've called it Juicy J
Bombay and lemonade, weed get the lemon taste
Never hit the bong, let me demonstrate

Go and roll it, chief and choking, marijuana, reefer smoking
Trap the semi sum under reggie foot up in his colon
Call the doctor, call the clinic, bullshit we staying with
Your life ain't worth a motherfucking quota, what you paying with?
Khalifa kush a hundred pounds, that's a half a mil
Memphis streets so eat this like a baby, like Enfamil
Lungs full of KK, have your mind on a runway
Blow my high, motherfucker, I'm a shoot up like an AK

My white house higher than Willie Nelson, on dabs the wax is melting
These clouds are smoking, help me, I'm flying like elroy jetson
I might bring a dispensary down in Tennessee
Whole pound of grandaddy, but he ain't no kin to me
(I'm staying with the greens light color)

Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
I need it all the time, don't know what else to say
It's always on my mind, that's why every day
I'm blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK
Blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK, blowing KK

Blowing Khalifa kush
Blowing Khalifa kush
Blowing Khalifa kush
Blowing Khalifa kush

Writer/s: PATRICK HOUSTON, JORDAN HOUSTON, NIKOLAS MARZOUCA, ISAAC DE BONI, MICHAEL MULE, JAMES SCHEFFER, CAMERON THOMAZ
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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KK

The song's title is an acronym for Khalifa Kush, a strain of marijuana sold by the San Jose, California dispenser The Cookie Company. The enterprising, weed-loving Wiz allowed the company to name the reefer after him in exchange for an unlimited free supply, which sounds like a good deal for the rapper.

He brags about this arrangement on this track when he spits: "I got my own weed sucka, so I ain't gotta hit yours."

Both Juicy J and Project Pat also contributed to the tune.

Korn - Thoughtless

Korn - Thoughtless Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Untouchable
Released: 2002

Thoughtless Lyrics

Going through the pages of my fantasies
Pushing all the mercy down, down, down
I want to see you try to take a swing at me
Come on, gonna put you on the ground, ground, ground

Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it's funny?
What the fuck you think it's doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying when you're dirty in the front of me

All of my hate cannot be found
I will not be drowned by your Thoughtless scheming
So you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming

Come and fill the pages of my fantasies
I'm above you, smiling at you, drown, drown, drown
I want to kill and rape you the way you raped me
And I'll pull the trigger
And you're down, down, down

Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it's funny?
What the fuck you think it's doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying when you're dirty in the front of me

All of my hate cannot be found
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming

All my friends are gone, they died (gonna take you down)
They all screamed, and cried (gonna take you down)

I got my monkey, got my monkey back against the wall
Gonna take you down

All of my hate cannot be found
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming
All of my hate cannot be found
I will not be drowned by your thoughtless scheming
So you can try to tear me down
Beat me to the ground
I will see you screaming

Writer/s: DAVIS, JONATHAN HOWSMAN / SHAFFER, JAMES CHRISTIAN / SILVERIA, DAVID RANDALL / ARVIZU, REGINALD / WELCH, BRIAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Thoughtless

This is about the Columbine shootings in America through the eyes of the killers. they're saying that even though they get picked on by the jocks they will have the last laugh because they end up killing everyone. "So you can try to tear me down, beat me to the ground, I will see you screaming," they are saying how they just snapped and killed everyone. Lead singer Jon Davis said - "It's a song about people who are constantly ridiculed and the damage it can cause" (thanks, Reggie, Seven Kings, China)

Evanescence covered this song on their live album Anywhere But Home, which triggered a lawsuit against Wal-Mart, who sold the disc without a parental advisory sticker despite the expletives in the lyrics of this song. According to the 2004 lawsuit, Melanie Skeens of Brownsville, Maryland bought the album for their 12-year-old daughter and were shocked when they played it in their car while driving home. The suit asked for $74,500 for each person who bought the CD in a Maryland Wal-Mart. (thanks, Caitlin - Colmesneil, TX)

The guy getting bullied in the video is Aaron Paul, who plays Jesse Pinkman on the AMC television series Breaking Bad. (thanks, Matthew - Vallejo, CA)

Andy Mineo - You Can't Stop Me

Andy Mineo - You Can't Stop Me Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Never Land
Released: 2014

You Can't Stop Me Lyrics

You Can't Stop Me

Huh, can't stop won't stop, where the brakes at?
I give 'em that bee bop, like take that, take that, take that, take that
I'mma put in work, I'mma do that ASAP
Throw my faith in rap, but they say don't say that huh?
What I'mma turn down for, I feel like Shaq in nine four
Breaking glass in that backboard, or like Kobe in Toronto, huh?
Dropping 81, Yo I drop the 88, Ricky Bobby, shake and bake
Sleeping on us should have stayed awake, huh?
Everybody make mistakes like Vijay trying to say my name
It's Mineo, say it with me, Mineo, okay great
Two forks high, raise the stakes, risk it all, I take the hate
It's the winning team, get the Gatorade
My God good, but he's not safe, nah

They try to shut us down, and it ain't gon' slide
Only thing I fear is God and he on my side
That's the confidence of God, 'cause he got me
That's why I really feel like

You can't stop me
That's all you got? Come on with it
That's all you got?
You can't stop me

(You) don't got the power, (can't) shut me down
(Stop), that's not an option, I'm my biggest problem
(You) don't got the power, (can't) shut me down
(Stop), that's not an option
You can't stop me

You're my biggest opponent, you know me I know you we know it
Whenever I fail, you've always been there to simply remind me I've blown it
You don't see when I'm growing, you don't see where I'm going
You only see in the moment, you know my mistakes you never let go it
Huh, don't cease to amaze me, and it drive me crazy, huh
That you catch every detail that I miss in the songs I'm making, saying
You will never write a verse like Kendrick
Never be the rap or rock God from Hendrix
Top 10 alive you will never be mentioned
Why aim so high, won't survive the trenches
Plus, you a Christian Andy, they will never listen Andy
Plus, well your pigment Andy, huh, you don't got skill you a gimmick Andy
Well, if I listen to you, and everything you put in my ear
I'll be living like woulda, shoulda, coulda, I'll be paralyzed by fear
Huh, ain't that the truth, if I quit the only way I lose
I got two choices when I do this, make moves or make excuses
Huh, if you know who I'm talking about, then you got me
My biggest enemy is me and even I can't stop me

They try to shut us down, and it ain't gon' slide
Only thing I fear is God and he on my side
That's the confidence of God, cause he got me
That's why I really feel like

I said if I cannot stop me then you'll never stop me
Oh no, can't stop, oh no, won't stop
I said if I cannot stop me then you'll never stop me
Oh no, can't stop, oh no, won't stop
I said if I cannot stop me then you'll never stop me
Oh no, can't stop, oh no, won't stop
I said if I cannot stop me then you'll never stop me
Oh no, can't stop, oh no, won't stop

You can't stop me

Writer/s: Mineo, Andrew Aaron / Azucena, Gabriel Alberto / Medina, Alex
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., THE ADMINISTRATION MP, INC.
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You Can't Stop Me

This song finds Mineo full of self-doubt as he rhymes sarcastically:

You will never write a verse like Kendrick
Never be to rap what rock got from Hendrix
Top 10 alive, you will never be mentioned
Why aim so high?
Won't survive the trenches

Mineo goes on to surmise that his only rap competition is himself. "My biggest enemy is typically me," he told MTV News. "I'm my biggest problem, I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life."

Mineo shot one half of the song's music video in the streets of New York City and the other half on a green screen. It finds the rapper battling himself in scenes that he drew from one of his favorite childhood video games Mortal Kombat. "There's two versions of me and I'm ultimately fighting myself, in combat with myself, trying to overcome myself," he explained to MTV News.

"The whole video has this kind of funny, cheesy, animated feel to it," Mineo added. "No matter how successful you become… there's always that sense that you could be better. I think I beat myself up more than anyone else."

Paul Simon - Crazy Love, Vol. II

Paul Simon - Crazy Love, Vol. II Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Graceland
Released: 1986

Crazy Love, Vol. II Lyrics

Fat Charlie the Archangel
Sloped into the room
He said I have no opinion about this
And I have no opinion about that

Sad as a lonely little wrinkled balloon
He said well I don't claim to be happy about this, boys
And I don't seem to be happy about that

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of this crazy love

She says she knows about jokes
This time the joke is on me
Well, I have no opinion about that
And I have no opinion about me

Somebody could walk into this room
And say your life is on fire
It's all over the evening news
All about the fire in your life
On the evening news

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love

Fat Charlie the Archangel
Files for divorce
He says well this will eat up a year of my life
And then there's all that weight to be lost
She says the joke is on me
I say the joke is on her
I said I have no opinion about that
Well, we'll just have to wait and confer

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love

I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of your love
I don't want no part of this crazy love
I don't want no part of this crazy love

Writer/s: SIMON, PAUL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Crazy Love, Vol. II

Paul Simon started recording this song when he went to South Africa in 1985. He had been listening to a bootleg tape of music from the country, and wanted those sounds for his Graceland album. He recorded with dozens of musicians in his 17 days there, and he had a great experience with members of a popular South African group called Stimela - drummer Isaac Mtshali and guitarist Ray Phiri. When Simon returned to America, Mtshali and Phiri joined him for more recording sessions (this time at The Hit Factory studios) and a Saturday Night Live appearance. Bits of the South African sessions were edited together with the New York recordings to complete the track. Simon says that the song ended up sounding more like the music of Malawi and Zimbabwe, rather than South Africa.

Paul Simon isn't big on political lyrics, so despite the myriad political issues he saw in South Africa, he wrote lyrics for the Graceland tracks that told little stories (this one about a love gone bad), and more importantly, matched the music. This wasn't easy, and Simon became frustrated when he couldn't get the lyrics to fit. The breakthrough came when he listened to the tracks again. In the Under African Skies documentary, he said, "I realized that the guitar part was playing a different symmetry than I assumed, and the bass was doing something that was much more important, and I might be better off following what the bass was doing. I started thinking about the lyrics and what effect that would have on storytelling, and I began to raise the bar on my own writing."

As Simon explained in an interview with SongTalk magazine, there are two reasons for the "Vol. II" in the title. One is that Simon wanted to differentiate his "Crazy Love" from the Van Morrison song of the same name. The other is that he is talking about a love that has started and stopped more than once.

The same guy who played the pennywhistle on "You Can Call Me Al" played soprano saxophone on this song. His name is Morris Goldberg, and he's a white South African who had moved to New York.

The opening line mentions Fat Charlie the Archangel. This character came completely out of nowhere. Says Simon: "It doesn't represent anyone."

In the US, this was released as the B-side to "The Boy in the Bubble." In the UK, it was the B-side to "Graceland." Neither single charted.

Ed Sheeran - Runaway

Ed Sheeran - Runaway Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: x
Released: 2014

Runaway Lyrics

Hmhmhmhm ah ah
Hmhmhmhm ah ah
Hmhmhmhm ah ah
Hmhmhmhm ah ah

I've known it for a long time
Daddy wakes up to a drink at night
Disappearing all night
I don’t wanna know where he's been lying
I know what I wanna do
I wanna Runaway
Runaway with you
Gonna grab clothes, socks, in the morning, go

"How long you leaving?"
"Well Dad just don’t expect me back this evening.
Oh it could take a bit of time to heal this"
It’s been a long day
Almost out of the wrong way but
I love him from the skin to my bones, ah
But I don’t wanna miss home, ah
There’s nothing to save and he knows, ah
I’ll just runaway in the overnight

I’ve never seen my dad cry
Cold as stone, and the kitchen lie
I tell you it's about time
But I was raised to keep quiet
And this is what I’m gonna do
Gonna runaway, gonna make that move
Gonna grab clothes, and when it’s morning, go

"How long you leaving?"
"Well Dad just don’t expect me back this evening.
Oh it could take a bit of time to heal this"
It’s been a long day
Almost out of the wrong way but
I love him from the skin to my bones, ah
But I don’t wanna miss home, ah
There’s nothing to save and he knows, ah
I’ll just runaway in the overnight

Back pack, and a flat cap, turned to the back
'Cause I packed my clothes
My dad wasn’t in with that plan too bit tired and turns to show up
I don’t wanna live this way
Gonna take my things and go
If things change in a matter of days
Could be persuaded to hold up
And mama was the same
None of us the same
To get the good nose up
I don’t wanna runaway
And one of these days I might just show that
Put my home in a suitcase
Tie both shoelaces, and hold that
Things change, but for now I leave town with a backpack on my shoulder

I love him from the skin to my bones, ah
But I don’t wanna miss home, ah
There’s nothing to save and he knows, ah
I’ll just runaway in the overnight

Writer/s: SHEERAN, ED / WILLIAMS, PHARRELL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Runaway

This sassy Soul number is one of two tracks on x produced by Pharrell Williams (the other is the lead single "Sing.") Sheeran explained during a Spotify track-by-track how he ended up working with the hitmaking producer.

"Originally he tweeted 'This Angels To Fly song is great' a while ago," he said, "and then at the Grammys, I don't think he knew what I looked like, so I just went up to him and said, 'I'm a massive fan, I just wanted to say that's my tune!', and then we swapped numbers."

Paul Simon - Graceland

Paul Simon - Graceland Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Graceland
Released: 1986

Graceland Lyrics

The Mississippi Delta was shining
Like a National guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war
I'm going to Graceland
Graceland
In Memphis Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage
But I've reason to believe
We both will be received
In Graceland

She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed
As if I'd never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow

I'm going to Graceland
Memphis Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland

And my traveling companions
Are ghosts and empty sockets
I'm looking at ghosts and empties
But I've reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland

There is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Oh, so this is what she means
She means we're bouncing into Graceland
And I see losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow

In Graceland, in Graceland
I'm going to Graceland
For reasons I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to see
Graceland
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Or maybe there's no obligations now
Maybe I've a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland

Writer/s: SIMON, PAUL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Graceland

Graceland is the mansion in Memphis, Tennessee where Elvis Presley lived; it is where Elvis is buried, and it is now a museum and popular tourist attraction. Paul Simon started calling his song "Graceland" after he came up with the track, which reminded him of the Sun Records sound where Elvis recorded.

Simon says this song is an example of "how a collaboration works even when you're not aware of it occurring." He traveled to South Africa in February 1985 and recorded with a variety of local musicians. One of these sessions was with an accordion player named Forere Motloheloa, who played on the song "The Boy in the Bubble." These sessions produced a drum sound that Simon liked, which he described in the 2012 Graceland reissue: "The drums were kind of a traveling rhythm in country music - I'm a big Sun Records fan, and early-'50s, mid-'50s Sun Records you hear that beat a lot, like a fast, Johnny Cash type of rhythm."

Simon put together a rhythm section comprised of three African musicians: guitarist Ray Phiri, fretless bass player Baghiti Khumalo, and drummer Isaac Mtshali. Simon played the drums for Phiri, and asked him to play something over it. Phiri started to play his version of American Country on electric guitar, which were chords not frequently used in African music: minor chords. When Simon asked him why he played that, Phiri responded, "I was just imitating the way you write."

Simon asked him to overdub it with a lick, and along with Khumalo and Mtshali, they came up with the basic track. Said Simon, "The track has a beautiful emptiness to it. That's what made me think of Sun Records when it was nothing but slapback echo and the song."

With Phiri playing his approximation of Amercian country, and Baghiti playing a straight ahead African groove on bass, Simon felt there was a commonality in the music, and he wrote a lyric to express that.

At first, Simon considered the word "Graceland" a placeholder title until he could come up with something better - maybe something that had to do with Africa. After a while, he realized the title wasn't going away, and he got comfortable with it. Said Simon: "I couldn't replace it. I thought, Maybe I'm supposed to go to Graceland. Maybe I'm supposed to go on a trip and see what I'm writing about, and I did."

Simon describes that trip in the song; he drove to Graceland from Louisiana on Route 61, and the lyrics were his thoughts of the countryside: "The Mississippi Delta is shining like a national guitar." When he finally got to Graceland, he took the famous tour.

This is the title track of Simon's most successful album, selling over 15 million copies and winning a Grammy for Album of the Year. It is an album focusing mostly on African music, but it also explores other forms of non-mainstream music, like Zydeco. Simon considers this song to be less African-sounding than most of the other African-based tracks. The single also won Simon his third Record of the Year award - he previously won for "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."

Paul Simon's visit to South Africa was no easy task, as many nations were boycotting the country because of their racist apartheid policy. However, the United Nations Anti-Apartheid Committee supported his efforts since he only recorded with black South African musicians and did not collaborate with the government in any way. This didn't appease some critics, who felt that violating sanctions undermined efforts to effect change in the country, no matter his artistic intentions. Ultimately, the Graceland project helped raise awareness to the apartheid struggle and expose many South African musicians to a global audience. The sanctions were put in place mainly to prevent entertainers from performing lucrative gigs at the Sun City resort, and Simon did nothing to support the corrupt government there.

Regarding the lyrics, "There's a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline," Simon explained to SongTalk magazine: "That line came to me when I was walking past the Museum of Natural History. For no reason I can think of. It's not related to anybody. Or anything. It just struck me as funny. Although that's an image that people remember, they talk about that line. But really, what interested me was the next line, because I was using the word 'Graceland' but it wasn't in the chorus. I was bringing 'Graceland' back into a verse. Which is one of the things I learned from African music: the recapitulation of themes can come in different places."

Explaining the World Music component of this song in the album reissue, Simon explained: "The part of me that had 'Graceland' in my head I think was subconsciously reacting to what I first heard in the drums, which was some kind of Sun Records/country/blues amalgam. What Ray was doing was mixing up his aural recollections of what American country was and what kind of chord changes I played. So the whole song really is one sound evoking a response, and that eventually became a lyric that instead of being about a South African subject or a political subject, it became a traveling song. That's really the secret of World Music is that people are able to listen to each other, made associations, and play their own music that sounds like it fits into another culture."

Several months after the initial recording sessions, Nigerian pedal steel guitarist Demola Adepoju was added to the track. This added a sound familiar to both American and African music, as the pedal steel guitar is a popular instrument in West Africa.

This song has stood the test of time, but when it was released as a single, it only charted at #82 in the US and didn't crack the charts in the UK. It didn't fit neatly into any radio formats like "You Can Call Me Al," so it lacked hit potential. It did find an audience as part of the album, which went to #1 in the UK and stayed on the charts for nearly two years. In America, the album peaked at #3 but stayed on the chart for 97 weeks.

According to an article in the London Times, part of this song is an account of Paul Simon's marriage breakup with his first wife Peggy Harper. The nine-year-old "traveling companion" he refers to is their son Harper, who three years later, at the age of 12, accompanied his father on the Graceland tour. Harper Simon, born in 1972, developed into a singer-songwriter. He teamed up with his stepmother Edie Brickell for the 2008 album Heavy Circles, and a year later released his first solo album, which is called Harper Simon.

Don and Phil Everly of the Everly Brother sang backup on this track. Paul Simon and his musical partner Art Garfunkel idolized the Everlys and recorded their song "Bye Bye Love" for their Bridge Over Troubled Water album. Simon said he heard "Graceland" as "a perfect Everly Brothers song."

In a 1993 interview on Larry King Live, Simon said this was his favorite song.

The B-side of the single was "Hearts And Bones," which can be found on the album of the same name, released three years prior to Graceland.

Ed Sheeran - Shirtsleeves

Ed Sheeran - Shirtsleeves Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: x
Released: 2014

Shirtsleeves Lyrics

Shirtsleeves

This guitar-driven ballad finds Sheeran singing about offering up his shirtsleeves to wipe away his girlfriend's tears, even after she admits she's been cheating. It is one of several songs in Sheeran's oeuvre where his sings of his heart being ripped out, most notably on his UK Top 10 single "Drunk,"where he drowns his sorrows in drink.

Sheeran had the song in his back pocket for quite some time before recording it for x. He'd tweeted out the lyrics to the chorus back in August of 2011, one month before his debut album + was even released.

Rush - Red Barchetta

Rush - Red Barchetta Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Moving Pictures
Released: 1981

Red Barchetta Lyrics

My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And now on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire where my
White-haired uncle waits

Jump to the ground as the turbo slows
To cross the borderline
Run like the wind as excitement shivers
Up and down my spine
But down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me
An old machine
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new
Has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant Red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
We'll fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

Wind
In my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge

Well-oiled leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air

Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car
Shoots towards me two lanes wide
Oh, I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase

Ride like the wind
Straining the limits
Of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan

At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Red Barchetta

This is a futuristic song about a farmer who keeps a Red Barchetta in his barn even after motors are outlawed (Before the Motor Law). The kid comes, takes the car for ride and ends up being chased by Gleaming Alloy Air car (Police is assumed). He outruns and ditches the law and returns to the barn, hides the car and goes to dream with his uncle by the fireside. During the Moving Pictures Tour, Rush used a video to bring the story to life. (thanks, Mike - Sturges, PA)

The Barchetta is a classic example of a car built for speed, a hot rod, made by Ferrari. For more information on the car, including some photos of a red one, check out the Song Image .

This was the second song from Rush's best selling album to date, Moving Pictures.

This was inspired by the story A Nice Morning Drive, written by Richard S. Foster. (thanks, Jeff - Haltom City, TX, for above 3)

The harmonics in the intro were played by guitarist Alex Lifeson. (thanks, Chris - Brookfield, CT)

According to the book The Complete Ferrari by Godfrey Eaton, the name of the car is pronounced "Barketta." Geddy Lee admitted that he had incorrectly pronounced the word after an Italian friend pointed out the correct pronunciation. (thanks, Stuart - Suffolk, England)

Alex Lifeson ("In The Studio" for Moving Pictures): "That was the intention with Red Barchetta - to create a song that was very vivid, so that you had a sense, if you listen to it and listen to the lyrics, of the action. It does become a movie. I think that song really worked with that in mind; it was successful with that intention. It's something that I think we've tried to carry on-- become a little more visual with our music, since then. But that one in particular was very satisfying. It was always one of my favorites. I think it's probably my favorite from that album. I like the way the parts knit together. I like the changes. I like the melody of the song. I love the dynamics of it, the way it opens with the harmonics and creates a mood, then gets right into the driving, right up to the middle section where it's really screaming along, where you really feel like you're in the open car, and the music's very vibrant and moving. And then it ends as it began with that quiet dynamic, and lets you down lightly. So it picks you up for the whole thing and drops you off at your next spot." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

There is a 1981 movie starring Lee Majors and Burgess Meredeth called The Last Chase, which was inspired by the same story. The movie left a lot to be desired, but the final showdown scene is straight out of "Red Barchetta." (thanks, Mike - San Francisco, CA)

On the Exit Stage Left DVD, guitarist Alex Lifeson says, "Well it seems to me that a car has been one of the standard metaphors and volumes have been written about the sociological and cultural impact of the car and what it represents, but, it also has a very fundamental, sensual appeal, and it's a metaphor for sexuality and for freedom." (thanks, Jamin King - Puyallup, WA)

Example - Next Year

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Example - Next Year Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Live Life Living
Released: 2014

Next Year Lyrics

Next Year

Example wrote this when he was staying in Beverley Hills with Stuart Price, who is best known for his for his production work with such artists as New Order, Madonna and The Killers.

Example explained the song's meaning to The Daily Mirror: "The track is all about my mates, who work hard all year then look forward to this one huge weekend in Ibiza, or a weekend at V,2," he said. "When they let off steam at these big, hedonistic weekends, they forget the world, that's what this track is about."

"It's about being here same time next year," Example added. "It's like a ritual. I wanted to channel Chemical Brothers in that synth, and maybe a bit of Oasis as well. People can hear it in my voice, it goes a bit Gallagher. The album's about letting your hair down, it's about the summer, and parties, and the nineties. This song sums all that up."

The song features a breakbeat from James Brown's "Funky Drummer." Other songs that have borrowed from the perennial drum sample favorite include "Let Me Ride" by Dr. Dre, "Fools Gold" by The Stone Roses and "Jump" by Kris Kross.