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Cockney Rejects - Old Boy At The Pictures

Cockney Rejects - Old Boy At The Pictures Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: not on an album
Released: 1980

Old Boy At The Pictures Lyrics

Old Boy At The Pictures

In his autobiography Cockney Reject, lead vocalist Jeff Turner said this early effort was inspired by a cinema trip to see the 1971 film Up Pompeii.

"There was an old fella at the front eating toffees who kept laughing really loud so everyone was gobbing over his back. When he left, there were loads of greenies hanging off the back of his coat," said Turner.

He calls the song "Absolute crap." Unfortunately, or perhaps otherwise, it never found its way onto disk. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

Tool - Mantra

Tool - Mantra Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lateralus
Released: 2001

Mantra Lyrics

Mantra

The sound for this unusual short instrumental was created by Tool lead singer Maynard James Keenan's Cat. The sound is actually Maynard's cat being squeezed and the resulting sound slowed down to create the low pitched noise. (thanks, Craig - Blairgowrie, Scotland)

The Mantra is the subtle hum of the soul and spirit it brings all communication of the body to one. (thanks, Dan - Stourbridge, England)

"Mantra" is about 1:10 long, and maybe 25 seconds are featured in the "Schism" video.

Steve Vai - Liberty

Steve Vai - Liberty Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Passion and Warfare
Released: 1990

Liberty Lyrics

Liberty

Not to be confused with any vocal tracks of the same name, this short Steve Vai guitar instrumental was first performed before a live audience at the 1991 Guitar Legends series of concerts that was held from October 15-19 at Seville, Spain. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From The Block

Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From The Block Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: This Is Me... Then
Released: 2002

Jenny From The Block Lyrics

Children grow and women producing
Men go working
Some go stealing
Everyone's got to make a living

L O X
J. Lo
We off the block this year
Went from a little to a lot this year
Everybody mad at the rocks that I wear
I know where I'm goin' and I know where I'm from
You hear LOX in your ear
Yea, we're at the airport out decline from the block
Where everybody air-forced-out
With a new white Tee, you fresh
Nothin' phony with us, make the money, get the mansion, bring the homies with us

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny From The Block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)

From In Living Color and movie scripts
To On the 6 to J. Lo to this headline clips
I stayed grounded as the amounts roll in
I'm real, I thought I told you
I really been on Oprah
That's just me
Nothin phony, don't hate on me
What you get is what you see

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)

I'm down to earth like this
Rockin this business
I've grown up so much
I'm in control and loving it
Rumors got me laughing, kid
Love my life and my public
Put God first
Then can't forget to stay real
To me it's like breathing

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)

It take hard work to cash checks
So don't be fooled by the rocks that I got, now assets
You get back what you put out
Even if you take the good route
Can't count the hood out
After a while, you know who to blink with
Just keep it real with the ones came in with
Best thing to do is stay low, LOX and J.Lo
Act like they don't, but they know

Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)
Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got
I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
No matter where I go, I know where I came from (from the Bronx!)

Writer/s: BARNES, SAMUEL / OLIVIER, JEAN / LOPEZ, JENNIFER / OLIVER, TROY / DEYO, ANDRE / OLIVIERE, MICHAEL / STYLES, DAVID / PHILLIPS, JASON / PARKER, LAWRENCE / ARBEX MIRO, JOSE FERNANDO / STERLING, SCOTT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, SOCIEDAD GENERAL DE AUTORES DE ESPANA S G A E
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Jenny From The Block

This is about how Jennifer grew up in the Bronx and wants people to know she is still real and despite her fame is still the same person she always was. Lopez is so fixated with her hometown in this song that she references the Bronx 28 times.

Shortly after this was released, Fox News did a story about the tensions between Lopez and her old neighbors in the Bronx. The anchor, Shepard Smith, read the following on air: "J.Lo's new song 'Jenny From the Block' is all about Lopez's roots, about how she's still a neighborhood gal at heart, but folks from that street in New York, the Bronx section, sound more likely to give her a curb job than a blow job!" Smith was supposed to say "Block Party," and tried to make the correction, but it was too late. Smith apologized and said, "I have no idea how that happened, but it won't happen again." Our guess is that someone got into the computer system and changed the script. Many news anchors simply read what is in front of them on the TelePromptTer.

Lopez starred in the movie Maid In Manhattan when this song was popular. In the movie, Lopez played a maid who falls in love with a wealthy man who does not know she is poor. The sentiment of the movie is similar to this song, as Lopez stays true to her old friends despite a change in social status.

In addition to her movie, Lopez also released her own line of perfume around the time this was released. It was called "Glow by J.Lo."

This features guest vocals by rappers Jadakiss and Styles. Styles began serving an 8 month jail sentence for assault shortly after shooting the video.

Eleven people, including Lopez, are credited for writing this song. Among the writers are 3 of her longtime producers as well as Jadakiss and Styles.

This got a lot of publicity as part of the media fascination with J.Lo. She was on countless magazine covers and constantly in the news because of her impending marriage to Ben Affleck, who appears in the video. Lopez and Affleck never made it to the altar - the couple split up in 2004.

Hatriot - From My Cold Dead Hands

Hatriot - From My Cold Dead Hands Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Dawn of the New Centurion
Released: 2014

From My Cold Dead Hands Lyrics

From My Cold Dead Hands

Hatriot is a family affair: the group is fronted by Exodus leader Steve "Zetro" Souza, and rounded out by his sons Nick and Cody along with Kosta Varvatakis and J.C Cole.

In our interview with Zetro , he said this song is "my take on how our freedom is always being challenged, especially by our own people."

The title is based on a saying popular among gun enthusiasts: "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands."

Zetro Souza does not own guns and has never even fired one, but he's sympathetic to the cause because he believes that regulating firearms will infringe on the freedoms granted to American citizens. Like many in the Metal community, he has little tolerance for government regulation, as he has vivid memories of the PMRC intervention in the '80s that resulted in stickers being put on albums that were deemed offensive.

Bobby Darin - Eighteen Yellow Roses

Bobby Darin - Eighteen Yellow Roses Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Greatest Hits
Released: 1963

Eighteen Yellow Roses Lyrics

Eighteen Yellow Roses came today
Eighteen yellow roses in a pretty bouquet
When the boy came to the door
I didn't know what to say
But eighteen yellow roses came today
I opened up the card to see what it said
I couldn't believe my eyes when I had read
Though you belong to another I love you anyway
Yes, eighteen yellow roses came today

I never doubted your love for a minute
I always thought that you would be true
But now this box and the flowers in it
I guess there's nothin' left for me to do
But ask to meet the boy that's done this thing
And find out if he's got plans to buy you a ring
'Cause eighteen yellow roses will wilt and die one day
But a father's love will never fade away
Will never fade away

Writer/s: BOBBY DARIN
Publisher: TRIO MUSIC COMPANY, INC. , ALLEY MUSIC CORP.
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Eighteen Yellow Roses

Darin wrote this song for the mother of actress Sandra Dee. Darin met Dee in 1960 when they were shooting a movie together in Portofino, Italy, called Come September. Darin was smitten, and decided it was best to get in her mother's good graces. Every day of the 4 week shoot, he sent Dee's mother 18 yellow roses - this was portrayed in the movie Beyond The Sea with Darin saying, "You always make sure the mama dog likes you before you go near her puppy." Darin and Sandra Dee eloped later that year, and were married until 1967. (thanks, Vinnie - Secaucus, NJ)

Musicians on this track included Glen Campbell and Tommy Tedesco on guitar, and Hal Blaine on drums. They were part of the elite group of Los Angeles session musicians who played on songs by Neil Diamond, John Denver, The Beach Boys, and many others.

The Antlers - Parade

The Antlers - Parade Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Familiars
Released: 2014

Parade Lyrics

Right when the blizzard ends, they throw a fucking huge Parade
A great excuse for celebration of the mess they've made
But then when the streets get flooded, we know what proximity’s worth
‘cause we're already here, in the same place when our phones don't work

So then we lie down in our field and just do nothing at all
And i’m getting ready for when everything is wonderful
For just a couple pairs of broken bones with broken feathers in blood
In a meadow, uncut and understood

We can be an island apart from a ceaseless war on our heart
Harbored in a fortress insurmountable
Taller than affliction, safe wherever we are
Erasing horror and disgust
Rewinding the sorrow and the rust
Before our suffering’s suffering, hadn’t we suffered enough?

On the morning that we're both 19 and newly on our own
And all we know is “each other† and invisible homes
We find two empty seats in the back of a car in an empty parking lot
Where all our bridges are abandoned and the cops have forgot

And I can feel the difference when the day begins
Like all I know is, "this year will be the year we win."
We smoke the paper from the banner from our past parades
And start again, before the memory of the mess we've made

Writer/s: MICHAEL LERNER, PETER SILBERMAN, DARBY CICCI
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Parade

The genesis of this song about finding happiness by connecting with people or nature was a moment of euphoria that Antlers vocalist Peter Silberman experienced while alone at his parents' house in late December 2012. "There was a crazy snow storm and it was beautiful and very quiet and peaceful and I just remember walking around outside, coming up with the idea of the lyrics," the frontman told Radio.com .

The song proved to be the spark for the Antlers' Familiars album. "I was writing about a kind of euphoria that I had experienced at times in my life and any time I had it I would try to write something," said Silberman. "It had been awhile since I actually experienced that though, it's kind of like an old feeling and a new feeling at once," he said. "This kind of exuberance was sort of like a rebirth, like a waking up from something. It got me really excited to work on new music."

Chaka Khan - I Feel For You

Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: I Feel For You
Released: 1984

I Feel For You Lyrics

Baby, baby, when I look at you
I get a warm feeling inside
There's something about the things you do
That keeps me satisfied

I wouldn't lie to you, baby
It's mainly a physical thing
This feeling that I got for you, baby
It makes me want to sing

I Feel For You
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think I love you

Baby, baby, when I lay wit' you
There's no place I'd rather be
I can't believe, can't believe it's true
The things that you do to me

I wouldn't lie to you, baby
I'm physically attracted to you
This feeling that I got for you, baby (Ooh baby)
There's nothing that I wouldn't do (For you girl)

I feel for you
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think I love you

Play

I think it's love
I feel for you
I think it's love
I feel for you
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think it's love

Play

I feel for you
I think I love you
I feel for you
I think I love you

Writer/s: NELSON, PRINCE ROGERS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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I Feel For You

Prince wrote this song and released it on his second album, Prince, in 1979. Chaka Khan's version uses more instrumentation and an array of production elements that aren't present in Prince's more stripped-down original. The song is sung in the first person, so the lyrics about being in lust with someone are gender neutral and translated well to a female singer.

The distinctive rap made the song stand out - it certainly grabbed your attention when it came on the radio with the stuttering staccato.

Melle Mel, who was a rapper with Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, did the rap. The previous year, he rapped on the hit "White Lines."

Late in the '80s, it was very common for raps to show up in pop songs, but in 1984 rap was still very much a novelty to most listeners. The genius of this song was how it integrated Melle Mel's part without scaring off the pop audience. To do this, producer Arif Mardin specified that the rap have a theme of "Love," with no hip-hop clichés like money and cars. It was also kept short: eight lines with Mel rhyming about Chaka and how much he digs her. The stutter at the very beginning also helped, making the section more comical and less aggressive. Mardin came up with the stutter by accident. He explained to NPR: "As we were mounting the recording onto the main master, my hand slipped on the repeat machine. So it happened to be, 'Chaka-Chaka-Chaka-Chaka-Chaka-Chaka Khan,' and we said, 'Let's keep that. That's very interesting.'"

Stevie Wonder played the harmonica on this track. He recorded it the same day he attended Marvin Gaye's funeral. Wonder wrote the first hit for Chaka's band Rufus: "Tell Me Something Good."

Chaka had no idea this song was going to contain a rap. The day after she recorded the vocals, her producer Arif Mardin surprised her by playing it for her with Melle Mel's rap. Chaka hated it and couldn't stand hearing her name repeated over and over in the song, but Mardin convinced her it would make the song a hit. The downside is that Chaka was confronted by people rapping her name in imitation of the song, which drove her nuts.

Chaka has a sister named Taka Boom, and Arif Mardin loved the idea of using the names of the sisters as a percussion element in a song. When it came time to order up the rap, he had his arranger Reggie Griffin track down Melle Mel and have him do the rap using the words "Chaka Khan" like a drum beat. Mel did his rap at Sugarhill Studios, and when Mardin first attached it to the song, he put it in the middle, which is where groups like New Edition would place their raps. He eventually decided to move the rap to the beginning and let it bookend the song, with Mel appearing at the beginning and end.

I Feel For You was Chaka's third album as a solo artist, but she released six albums in the '70s with the band Rufus and was well established as an R&B star. Her outsized talent rarely translated to pop success, but Chaka had little interest in pop music, preferring soul or jazz music that she felt was much more challenging. "I Feel For You" served her well financially and allowed her to take on other projects, but it doesn't represent her body of work. "I can sing that kind of stuff in my sleep," she said of the song.

Chaka's label, Warner Bros. Records, was pressuring her for a hit, since her previous solo albums did not sell well. She and her producer, Arif Mardin, decided to appease the label and give them their hit; they were afraid that if they did not deliver, the label would make Chaka record with another producer. Mardin had produced Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield, so he could coax a hit out of a diva when he set his mind to it. He worked with Chaka to give the song a very contemporary arrangement, which meant a lot of synth and a faster tempo than she was used to. The strategy worked and the record company had their hit.

According to Arif Mardin, he selected this song after a representative at Prince's publishing company sent it to him on cassette. Chaka says she was a big Prince fan and had been thinking about recording it for a while, and when they were ordered to make a hit, she remembered it.

The arrangement of this song varied over the years when Chaka performed it in concert. Early on, she would leave out the rap completely, but she eventually warmed up to the intro, which would either be performed by a band member or played back from a recording.

Chaka is a prolific songwriter, but like this song, many of her hits were written by others. She explained in I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft , "I have to feel like I wrote the song before I sing it. It has to already feel like it's mine way before I record it. Also, I've been careful to sing songs written by artists whom I have a deep respect and deep admiration for, so that when I come to their songs it falls together in the most natural way."

Chaka wasn't the first to cover this song: The Pointer Sisters recorded it on their 1982 album So Excited!. When Prince wrote the song, he offered it to Patrice Rushen, who turned it down. He had previously offered Rushen "I Wanna Be Your Lover," but she passed on that one too.

Melle Mel's line in the rap, "Let me take you in my arms, let me fill you with my charms" was based on a lyric from the 1968 Delfonics song "La-La Means I Love You," which goes, "Let me take you in my arms and fill you with my charms."

Melle Mel reprised his rap from this song in the Furious Five track "Step Off," which was released later in 1984.

Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream

Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: x
Released: 2014

Bloodstream Lyrics

I’ve been spinning out for time
Couple women by my side
I got sinnin' on my mind
Sipping on red wine
I’ve been sitting here for ages
Ripping out pages
How'd I get so faded
How'd I get so faded
Oh
No no don’t leave me lonely now
If you love me how
You never loved me
Ooh
Color crimson in my eyes
Wanted to could free my mind
This is how it ends
I feel the chemicals burn in my Bloodstream

Fading out again
I feel the chemicals burn in my bloodstream
So tell me when it kicks in
Well tell when it kicks in

I’ve been looking for a love
Thought I’d find it really boring
God make me another one
I’ll be feeling this tomorrow
Lord forgive me for the things I’ve done
I was never meant to hurt no one
And I saw scars upon her broken hearted dove
Oh
No no don’t leave me lonely now
If you love me how
You never loved me
Ooh
Color crimson in my eyes
Wanted to could free my mind
This is how it ends
I feel the chemicals burn in my bloodstream

Fading out again
I feel the chemicals burn in my bloodstream
So tell me when it kicks in

Well tell me when it kicks in
Well tell me when it kicks in

All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line
All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line
All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line
All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line
All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line
All the voices in my mind
Calling out across the line

Tell me when it kicks in
And I saw scars upon her
Tell me when it kicks in
Broken hearted
Tell me when it kicks in
And I saw scars upon her
Tell me when it kicks in
Broken hearted
Tell me when it kicks in
And I saw scars upon her
Tell me when it kicks in
Broken heart
Tell me when it kicks in
And I saw scars upon her
Tell me when it kicks in
Broken heart
So tell me when it kicks in
And I saw scars upon her
Tell me when it kicks in
Broken heart
Tell me when it kicks in
And I saw scars upon her
Tell me when it kicks in
Broken hearted

Writer/s: SHEERAN, ED / IZADKHAH, AMIR / DRYDEN, KESI / AGGETT, PIERS / LIGHTBODY, GARY / MCDAID, JOHNNY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Bloodstream

The guitar-driven song finds Sheeran singing about a drug experience. It was one of three tracks on x that the English singer worked on with American producer Rick Rubin (the others were "Don't" and "Tenerife Sea.")

Sheeran explained during the Live From MTV Presents the Ed Sheeran After Show how Rick Rubin helped him focus on the album process. "I think before then the album was good, but it was very much, 'Here's a Pharrell song and it really sounds like a Pharrell song,' and 'Here's an Ed song and it really sounds like an Ed song,' and 'Here's a West Coast hip-hop song that sounds like Benny Blanco' - it was all different songs," he explained. "And I think what the session with Rick did [was] it got me focused on an album process rather than just songs and it tied everything together."

Sheeran explained during a Spotify track-by-track that the song was written after an experience taking ecstasy in Ibiza, and it's basically about all the feelings that he got from that time. "It was weird," he said, "because I haven't taken it since, it was literally just a one-time thing."

"It was a wedding, and I was having a mojito, and my mate was like, 'Do you want to try it, it tastes really bad if you put it in your mouth but I'll just put it in your drink and it'll be fine'. It was MDMA and I fell in love with a beanbag," Sheeran added. "I literally got home and bought six beanbags! During it all I felt a lot of things: I felt anxiety, I felt love, I felt warm, I felt a bit weird. And afterwards, you spend all day just thinking about what you've been through. So, I've only done it once and I've told my mum and dad about it."

Sheeran wrote this with Johnny McDaid and Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol. The singer-songwriter supported Snow Patrol on the North American leg of the band's Fallen Empires Tour in 2012 and he later dropped a Snow Patrol reference in his Fault In Our Stars soundtrack song, "All of the Stars." ("They're playing 'Chasing Cars' and I thought of us.")

The other songwriters were Rudimental. Sheeran performed the song with Rudimental during the English band's set at Glastonbury Festival on June 27, 2014.

Sheeran re-worked the song for its single release so that it features Rudimental. The accompanying video was directed by Emil Nava and features Ray Liotta. The Goodfellas actor portrays an aging, formerly famous heavy metal frontman in the fictitious group Black Glove, whose rock star lifestyle is finally taking its toll. Nava also did Sheeran's videos for "You Need Me" and "Give Me Love."

The alternative Rudimental version also appears on the British drum 'n' bass group's album, We the Generation. During an interview with The Sun, Rudimental's DJ Locksmith disclosed regarding the collaboration: "We were working in LA and he rocked up to our studio with The Game and Ellie Goulding."

"We made four tracks and revisited one this year (Bloodstream) to give it a Rudimental spin. We've known Ed for years. I remember when we first saw him getting noticed by everyone, he gave us one of his tracks to remix and he said it was one of the best remixes he'd ever had."

Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Leftoverture
Released: 1976

Carry On Wayward Son Lyrics

Carry on my wayward son,
For there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond the illusion
I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreamin', I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son,
For there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune, but I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son,
For there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you

Carry on my wayward son,
For there'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Writer/s: LIVGREN, KERRY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Carry On Wayward Son

This was written by Kansas guitarist Kerry Livgren . According to Livgren, the song was not written to express anything specifically religious, though it certainly expresses spiritual searching and other ideas.

Livgren became an evangelical Christian in 1980, and has said that his songwriting to that point was all about "searching." Regarding this song, he explained: "I felt a profound urge to 'Carry On' and continue the search. I saw myself as the 'Wayward Son,' alienated from the ultimate reality, and yet striving to know it or him. The positive note at the end ('Surely heaven waits for you') seemed strange and premature, but I felt impelled to include it in the lyrics. It proved to be prophetic."

This song can be seen as the continuation of the last song of Kansas' previous album Masque. As stated in the last verse of "The Pinnacle":
"I stood where no man goes/Above the din I rose
Life is amusing though we are losing
Drowned in tears of awe..."

By definition in the Cambridge dictionary, "Din" is a loud unpleasant confused noise which lasts for a long time. The first line of "Carry On Wayward Son" is: "Once I rose above the noise and confusion." (thanks, Rich - Trenton, NJ)

This was the group's first major hit, and like their next one, "Dust In The Wind," it was a last minute addition to the album. Kerry Livgren wrote the song just two days before they started recording Leftoverture. At that point, the band was polishing the songs they had, not bringing in new ones. "I've got one more song that you might want to hear," he told the band, and when he played "Carry On," they knew it was a hit and made it the lead track on the album.

The a cappella vocals in the beginning of this song gave it a very distinctive intro. This worked well on rock radio stations where disc jockeys rarely talked over the music.

This song has appeared in several movies, including Heroes (1977), Happy Gilmore (1996) and Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004).

The Oak Ridge Boys recorded this for the album When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear . Cevin Soling, who put the compilation together, said: "The Oak Ridge Boys, I wanted them to do Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer,' and I had this wonderful arrangement worked out... this very 'Elvira' Country version of the Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer,' with all the doo-wops and poppa oom maus and everything. I could not wait to get them in the studio to work on that. I had alternate lyrics, you know, but they were still uncomfortable with doing that. So that kind of went back and forth and somehow "Wayward Son" got thrown out there. I don't remember exactly who picked that one, but generally I'd give the artist a few choices and they sort of pick among them." (Check out our interview with Cevin Soling.)

This song is featured in the South Park episode "Guitar Queer-O." In the episode, Stan and Kyle become obsessed with the video game Guitar Hero and often play to "Carry On Wayward Son." The song is played throughout the episode. (thanks, Matthew - Hawthorne, NJ)

The album Leftoverture not only propelled Kansas to international stardom, it also saved the band for the time being. Kansas' previous record, Masque, was a commercial failure, and the progressive style of the band and their songs hindered their ability to get serious radio play. While he personally enjoyed the band, producer Don Kirshner gave Kansas one last chance: produce a hit record, or be dropped by the label. Overwhelmed and distressed with the predicament, the band returned to their hometown of Topeka, Kansas, to relax and begin writing for the next album.

Lead singer and keyboard player, Steve Walsh, began suffering from writer's block which hindered his songwriting contributions, and so it was left up to lead guitar player and lyricist, Kerry Livgren, to generate song ideas and lyrics. Sitting at his parent's home, in front of the family organ, Livgren composed the music for what would become "Carry On Wayward Son." In late 2011, Livgren stated in a short interview at his home that the lyrics were partially about himself and the struggles and pressures he was facing at the time when the band's career was on the line. The piano interlude and accompanying verse express how happy the band's success had made him, as well as how sad and fearful he was that it might possibly be over ("I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high"). However, the chorus expresses hope that everything will work out and that he must simply keep going. ("Carry on, my wayward son. There'll be peace when you are done").

In reality, the song was almost not included on the album, and thus contributes to the album's title of Leftoverture. The album title comes from the idea that many of the songs are leftover songs from the band's past. For instance, the string part at the end of the second track, "The Wall", was an old song idea that was added on to the end of the song for the record. The album, while met with mixed reviews by critics, was commercially successful, going platinum five times. "Carry On" became the bands' first Top 40 hit (peaking at #11), and is often regarded as one of the greatest rock songs of all time. It gave Kansas the staying power it needed to keep producing records with Kirshner, and earned Kerry Livgren the reputation as one of the most respected musicians and lyricists in rock and roll. (thanks, Alex - Topeka, KS)

Ed Sheeran - Nina

Ed Sheeran - Nina Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: x
Released: 2014

Nina Lyrics

I met you when I was a teen
But then you were one as well
And I could play the guitar
Just like ringing the bells
Sometimes I wonder
And any other summer could you have been my part time lover
To me listening to Stevie Wonder
Under the covers where we used to lay
And read stacks while the speakers play
I’ll be on tour almost every day
When I was home up in my flat is where we used to stay
Just watching the DVD, smoking illegal weed
Getting high, two cars, we needed to breathe
We used each other’s edge just for the people to see
And stay up all night like when we needed to sleep
We go anywhere, our minds would take us
And also you are beautiful without your make-up
And you don’t even need to worry about your weight 'cause
We can all be loved the way that God made us
And time’s the only reason that we could break up
'Cause you would always tell me I'mma wait too much
Distance is relative to the time that it takes to get on a plane
Or make a mistake, say it again

Oh Nina
You should go Nina
'Cause I ain’t never coming home
In a road, won’t you leave me now
And I’ve been living on the road Nina
And then again you should know Nina
'Cause that’s you and me
Both in a road, won’t you leave me now
Now

And every weekend in the winter
You’d be wearing my hood
With jewels, strings pulled tight
To keep your face in the cold
Taking day trips to the local
Where we D on the road
'Cause every day when I was a baby
Don’t you speak on the phone
Watching Blue Planet
Creating new habits
And if we were two rabbits
And then you'd vanish
Back to burrow all of the ‘queltics’ are disappearing
You call me selfish, I don’t understand
But I can’t help it
I put my trouble for everything
Except my family and friends
But you’ll be in between forever
So I guess we’ll have to take a step back
Overlook the situation
'Cause mixing business and feelings will only lead to complications
And I’m not saying we should be taking a break
Just re-evaluating quick before we make a mistake and it’s too late
So we can either deal with the pain
Or wait to get on the plane
But in the day we’ll have to say it again

Oh Nina
You should go Nina
'Cause I ain’t never coming home
In a road, won’t you leave me now
And I’ve been living on the road Nina
And then again you should know Nina
'Cause that’s you and me
Both in a road, won’t you leave me now
Now

Love will come and love will go
But you can make it on your own
Sing that song, go, oh won’t you leave me now
People grow, and fall apart
But you can mend your broken heart
Take it back, oh won’t you leave me now

Oh Nina (Love will come and love will go)
You should go Nina (But you can make it on your own)
'Cause I ain’t never coming home (Sing that song, go)
In a road, won’t you leave me now
And I’ve been living on the road Nina (People grow, and fall apart)
And then again you should know Nina (But you can mend your broken heart)
'Cause that’s you and me (Take it back)
Both in a road, won’t you leave me now
Now

Oh Nina (Love will come and love will go)
You should go Nina (But you can make it on your own)
'Cause I ain’t never coming home (Sing that song, go)
In a road, won’t you leave me now
And I’ve been living on the road Nina (People grow, and fall apart)
And then again you should know Nina (But you can mend your broken heart)
'Cause that’s you and me (Take it back)
Both in a road, won’t you leave me now
Now

Writer/s: SHEERAN, ED / SCOTT, JERMAINE / MCDAID, JOHNNY / ANDJA-DIUMI LOHATA, ISRA / HIPPOLYTE, JAY LEE ROBERT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Nina

Sheeran wrote this with Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid. The pair first got together in 2013 in Nashville to work on tracks for Sheeran's x album. "The first song we wrote together was 'Nina,' a love song about heartbreak, both self-inflicted and otherwise, where he basically calls someone up and advises her not to be with him," McDaid told Billboard magazine. "That sort of self-deprecating diary is pretty honest. Most people are fearful of being naked in front of the world, and afraid to expose their weaknesses. Ed isn't."

The pair became close friends and moved to Los Angeles together to continue working on x. Sheeran introduced McDaid to Courteney Cox, who became the Snow Patrol member's girlfriend.

Sheeran penned this about Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt, who toured with him and also had a small cameo role in his "Drunk" video. The pair were also romantically involved for around a year. Sheeran explained during a Spotify track by track: "When you're a musician and you date someone, there's always an in-between. Like, you put your family and your friends first, always, and then your career second. But when you date someone, they kind of fall in between the family and friends and career, and you don't really know whether they're more important than the career or whether they're more important than family - so this is a song about that."

"You just need to find someone that's OK with it, and I think by the time you have kids, that's when your family comes first, and that's where the woman comes, because she's your family now," he added. "I think kids change everything, but up until then it's different. My family understand I had to go away for 12 months last year, but until you find a partner who'd happy with that, you shouldn't even bother. Well, you shouldn't bother committing."

The song is based on a sample of the piano from Wretch 32's "Welcome To My World," which is a track from the British rapper's third mixtape, Retrospective.

Bob Dylan - Shelter From the Storm

Bob Dylan - Shelter From the Storm Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Blood on the Tracks
Released: 1975

Shelter From the Storm Lyrics

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you Shelter From the Storm"

And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured
I'll always do my best for her, on that I give my word
In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved
Everything up to that point had been left unresolved
Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail
Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Now there's a wall between us, somethin' there's been lost
I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed
Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount
But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts
And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mournin' dove
And old men with broken teeth stranded without love
Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line
Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born
"Come in," she said
"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Shelter From the Storm

This song expresses the sadness of not knowing what you have until it's gone: "Now there's a wall between us, something there's been lost/I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed/Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn/'Come in,' she said, 'I'll give you shelter from the storm.'" It's likely that Dylan wrote this about his soon to be ex-wife, Sara Dylan. (thanks, adam - evanston, IL)

Dylan wrote this with only three chords and a simple melody. It started out as a song called "Up To Me," which Roger McGuinn recorded in 1976.

Dylan got the title from a line in Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Who'll Stop The Rain?": "I went down Virginia, seekin' shelter from the storm..." (thanks, Greg - Calgary, United States)

This appears on the Jerry McGuire Soundtrack.

Dylan wrote the material for Blood on the Tracks while he was dealing with his impending divorce from Sara Dylan.