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Maroon 5 - Maps

Maroon 5 - Maps Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: V
Released: 2014

Maps Lyrics

I miss the taste of a sweeter life
I miss the conversation
I’m searching for a song tonight
I’m changing all of the stations
I like to think that we had it all
We drew a map to a better place
But on that road I took a fall
Oh baby why did you run away?

I was there for you
In your darkest times
I was there for you
In your darkest nights

But I wonder where were you
When I was at my worst
Down on my knees
And you said you had my back
So I wonder where were you
All the roads you took came back to me
So I’m following the map that leads to you
The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
Following, following, following to you
The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
Following, following, following

I hear your voice in my sleep at night
Hard to resist temptation
'Cause all these strangers come over me
Now I can’t get over you
No I just can’t get over you

I was there for you
In your darkest times
I was there for you
In your darkest nights

But I wonder where were you
When I was at my worst
Down on my knees
And you said you had my back
So I wonder where were you
All the roads you took came back to me
So I’m following the map that leads to you
The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
Following, following, following to you
The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh oh

Oh I was there for you
Oh in your darkest times
Oh I was there for you
Oh in your darkest nights

Oh I was there for you
Oh in you darkest times
Oh I was there for you
Oh in your darkest nights

But I wonder where were you
When I was at my worst
Down on my knees
And you said you had my back
So I wonder where were you
All the roads you took came back to me
So I’m following the map that leads to you
The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
Following, following, following to you
The map that leads to you
Ain't nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
Following, following, following

Writer/s: Zancanella, Noel Patrick / Levine, Adam Noah / Malik, Ammar / Tedder, Ryan Benjamin / Levin, Benjamin
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Maps

The first single to be released from Maroon 5's V album was written by the band's frontman Adam Levine with Overexposed executive producer Max Martin and his frequent collaborator Shellback. The track was produced by Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco and Noel Zancanella.

The song finds Levine singing about retaining hope for a relationship despite his girl abandoning him when he was going through a tough time.

But I wonder where were you
When I was at my worst
Down on my knees
And you said you had my back
So I wonder where were you
All the roads you took came back to me
So I’m following the map that leads to you
The map that leads to you

Levine told Ryan Seacrest the song is about not giving up on a relationship after its been derailed and getting it back on track. "People go through a lot of things and get stepped on and step on others and we all make mistakes," he explained. "It's kind of more about not giving up on something, even though maybe you should."

The song's music video was directed by Peter Berg, who is best known for helming the films Friday Night Lights and Hancock as well as his acting role on the TV series Chicago Hope. He also previously directed Maroon 5's visual for "One More Night."

The clip follows a backwards narrative format, as it recounts the death of Adam Levine's girlfriend after getting hit by a car in Los Angeles. The storyline is inspired by the 2000 film Memento.

The song was brought in by Tedder and Blanco. Guitarist James Valentine told Billboard magazine it was, "just sort of workshopped" into its eventual form. "It really has those elements of The Police that have always been a huge, huge influence on us," he said. "We're usually trying to do stuff that sounds contemporary but is still classic. I mean, everybody says that. That's what they're always going for. I think that song sort of achieves that, at least in my mind."

This was used in a commercial for the video game Just Dance 2015, which features the music of Maroon 5.

Tool - H

Tool - H Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Aenima
Released: 1996

H Lyrics

WHat's coming through is alive.
What's holding up is a mirror.
But what's singing songs is a snake
Looking to turn this piss to wine.
They're both totally void of hate,
But killing me just the same.
The snake behind me hisses
What my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me
Open up my heart again.
And I feel this coming over like a storm again.
Considerately.
Venomous voice, tempts me,
Drains me, bleeds me,
Leaves me cracked and empty.
Drags me down like some sweet gravity.
The snake behind me hisses
What my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me
Open up my heart again.
And I feel this coming over like a storm again.
I am too connected to you to
Slip away, to fade away.
Days away I still feel you
Touching me, changing me,
And considerately killing me.
Without the skin,
Beneath the storm,
Under these tears
The walls came down.
And the snake is drowned and
As I look in his eyes,
My fear begins to fade
Recalling all of those times.
I could have cried then.
I should have cried then.
And as the walls come down and
As I look in your eyes
My fear begins to fade
Recalling all of the times
I have died
And will die.
It's all right.
I don't mind.
I am too connected to you to
Slip away, to fade away.
Days away I still feel you
Touching me, changing me,
And considerately killing me.

Writer/s: MAYNARD KEENAN, DANIEL CAREY, PAUL D'AMOUR, ADAM JONES
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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H

While many people believe this is about God, it has nothing to do with religion. Lead singer Maynard James Keenan is speaking about his experiences of being abused and how it affects him and his family.

This could have been titled "H" because Maynard's son Devo has the middle name of H (not an initial - that's the whole middle name). He talks of how his son and his wife have no hate but he wants to lash out at them because he has been abused. He speaks of how he refuses to give into these temptations. One of the deepest songs ever written. (thanks, Keith - Phoenix, AZ, for above 2)

It's possible the H stands for Herbert. Maynard James Keenan's birth name is Maynard Herbert Keenan, and it could be about his troubled childhood. (thanks, nero - richmond, MO)

The working title for this song was "Half Empty," which the "H" could stand for. It may represent the "half-empty is interchangeable with half-full" notion.

In 1996, when Tool was performing this live, Maynard touched on the idea of having an angel sitting on one shoulder and a devil sitting on the other. In at least one interpretation, the song is about being very close to someone who is tearing you apart, someone you can't bring yourself to leave, but someone who will destroy you because you can't leave them. It is the price you pay for being close to them; they aren't doing it on purpose: "considerately killing me." (thanks, Tara - San Diego, CA, for above 2)

Naughty Boy - Think About It

Naughty Boy - Think About It Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Hotel Cabana
Released: 2013

Think About It Lyrics

Yeah
You know it's Naughty Boy and young Khalifa man
Hotel Cabana, Taylor Gang.

Got me up all night
Just to start a fight
You don't wanna Think About It
You drink about it
You smoke about it
Don't talk about it
Every nights the same
Who's the one to blame?
You don't wanna think about it
You drink about it
You smoke about it
Don't talk about it
Don't make it easy for yourself

13's on my Impala, raw cone filled with chronic smoke
Homie, I got game like the Shuttlesworth fam
Milk these lames for what they worth
HUF socks, ashes on my shirt, three wheel motion all you motherfuckers
The Porsche in the garage then got a life for my dogs
I had nothing at all but now I take trips to Vegas
Rolling up, playing songs on my oldies playlist
Diamonds on my fist, Rollie on my wrist, my life's the shit

Got me up all night
Just to start a fight
You don't wanna think about it
You drink about it
You smoke about it
Don't talk about it
Every nights the same
Who's the one to blame?
You don't wanna think about it
You drink about it
You smoke about it
Don't talk about it
Don't make it easy for yourself

Standing over the terrace, made so much last year
These lil' niggas should be embarrassed
Claim we the same, but the difference is apparent
Copy my style so much they got me like 'where the fuck is their parents?'
Smoking so much that the public think it's scary
But I don't give a fuck, I'm rolling another one up
And giving middle fingers to you little fucks
Who get online and say I suck, long time you rolling papers and wearing chucks
And I ain't even had my best year, ten cars, 20 million, fuck I'mma do next year?

Got me up all night
Just to start a fight
You don't wanna think about it
You drink about it
You smoke about it
Don't talk about it
Every nights the same
Who's the one to blame?
You don't wanna think about it
You drink about it
You smoke about it
Don't talk about it
Don't make it easy for yourself

Writer/s: MARTIN, ANDREA / OMER, MUSTAFA / KHAN, SHAHID / MURRAY, JAMES / AMIN, SHERAZ / JUBY, LUKE / THOMAS, CAMERON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Think About It

This song featuring American rapper Wiz Khalifa and British singer Ella Eyre received its first play on BBC Radio 1Xtra's Mista Jam radio show on 14 August 2013. Released as the fourth single from Hotel Cabana, it peaked at #78 on the UK singles chart.

Asked by The Source magazine how he connected with Wiz Khalifa for the song, Naughty Boy replied: "I met him through my manager, Tim Blacksmith. Stargate did the 'Black and Yellow' track and they had a good relationship with him. And I had one song on the album, the one that he's on, that I needed an international feature. And it had to be a rapper so Wiz is just perfect for not just the song, but what the album represents."

"And in that song he plays the role of someone who's enjoying being famous and enjoying being at this hotel and doesn't really give a s--t about that girl who keeps on phoning and he did a really great job," he added.

Dead Can Dance - The Trial

Dead Can Dance - The Trial Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Dead Can Dance
Released: 1984

The Trial Lyrics

All my senses rebel
Under the scrutiny of their persistent gaze.
It took a lifetime to get here,
A journey I'll never make again.

For those who have accepted the burden of shame.
For the innocent only guilt will remain
And our lives will be forced to accommodate
The perpetrators of our own bastard race.

All my senses rebel
Under the scrutiny of their persistent gaze.
It took a lifetime to get here,
A journey I'll never make again.

I stand accused of a thousand and one crimes.
A witness to events that led up to this present time.
These traditions, which bind our hands and keep us tied,
Will never survive the greater test of time.

Deliver me from these feverish eyes
That threaten to unbalance my state of mind.
For I must confess only to the smallest of crimes.
A sense of guilt.

Writer/s: GERRARD, LISA GERMAINE / PERRY, BRENDAN MICHAEL / RODGER, SCOTT / ULRICH, PETER LAWRENCE / FERGUSON, GUS / PINKER, JAMES E.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Trial

This is about what happens to you after you die - aka, being judged. If you were evil, you'll get something bad and vice versa. (thanks, Maria - Toronto, Canada)

OK Go - The Writing's on the Wall

OK Go - The Writing's on the Wall Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Hungry Ghosts
Released: 2014

The Writing's on the Wall Lyrics

Listen I know it's been hard
You know it's no different for me
We're less than a zero-sum game now
And baby, we both know that's not how it's supposed to be

The Writing's on the Wall
It seems like forever
Since we had a good day
The writing's on the wall

But I, just want to get you high tonight
I, just want to see some pleasure in your eyes
Some pleasure in your eyes

And I go too high, and you go too cold
Then we both fall apart
Then you bring your mind, to rest against mine
But the mind has no say on affairs of the heart

The writing's on the wall
It seems like forever
Since we had a good day
The writing's on the wall

But I, just want to get you high tonight
I, just want to see some pleasure in your eyes
Some pleasure in your eyes

Then you bring your mind, to rest against mine
But the mind has no say on affairs of the heart

The writing's on the wall
It seems like forever
Since we had a good day
The writing's on the wall

But I, just want to get you high tonight
I, just want to see some pleasure in your eyes
Some pleasure in your eyes

I, just want to get you high
Just want to get you high
Just want to get you high
Even if it's the last thing we do together
Even if it's the last thing we do together

Writer/s: DAMIAN KULASH, TIMOTHY NORDWIND
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Writing's on the Wall

This song is about a troubled relationship in which the two parties see things in different ways. The writing is indeed on the wall for the pair.

"The writing on the wall" is an expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune. It originates from the Old Testament Book of Daniel Chapter 5, where during a banquet hosted by King Belshazzar, a mysterious hand appeared and wrote on the palace wall the words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin". Daniel interpreted this message as the imminent end for the Babylonian kingdom. Belshazzar was slain that night and the Persians sacked the capital city.

The song's music video features the band romping through a series of optical illusions. Everything you see is actually a trick of the eye. The set took nearly three weeks to construct in a cavernous Brooklyn lot and the single long shot over 50 attempts to get right. The connection with the song becomes clear during the bridge, when a camera decrypts a message that reads, "I think I understand you, but I don't."

"It was important to me that we didn't add a layer of meaning that's not already there," explained frontman and co-director Damian Kulash to Rolling Stone. "We wanted to be able to have messages in there, but I didn't want them going throughout the entire song in way that would make you feel like you were reading the whole time."

The video was inspired by an advertisement that OK Go frontman Damian Kulash saw for BBC4. Bassist Tim Nordwind explained to The California Aggie: "The ad [was a film of a] bunch of objects, but you couldn't tell what the the objects were supposed to be. When the camera changed to a certain perspective [the objects] came together and turned into a shape – like a circle or a square – and he was really excited about that. As we got to talking about it, we thought if we did this on a massive level it would make a really good, fun video. That's how 'The Writing's on the Wall" came together."

Damian Kulash told Purevolume the story of the song: "Our bassist Tim wrote the initial demo for this song, and in his temp lyrics (we'll usually put scraps of phrases or gibberish in the earliest versions of our songs and then fill the ideas in more when the song has taken more shape), he'd used the phrase 'the writing's on the wall.'"

"The line seemed to capture the melancholic air of the song, so I tried to write from Tim's perspective about a difficult break up he'd just been through, letting it revolve around that moment when you feel the end coming," he continued.

"What's crazy is that less than a month after the song was done, my wife left me, pretty much out of the blue," Kulash concluded. "So apparently I was writing about my own life, not Tim's, and I didn't even know it."

The song was released as the lead single from Hungry Ghosts. Kulash explained the meaning of the album title to HMV.com . "The reason we named it Hungry Ghosts is it comes from a Buddhist term," he said. "Hungry Ghosts are beings that live inside us and have an insatiable craving for both peace and desire. It's trying to sum up that notion that something is right at your fingertips, but you can't quite get it."

Korn - Daddy

Korn - Daddy Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Korn
Released: 1994

Daddy Lyrics

Mother please forgive me
I just had to get out all my pain and suffering
Now that I am done, remember I will always love you
I'm your son

Little child, looking so pretty
Come out and play, I'll be your Daddy
Innocent child, looking so sweet
A rape in my eyes and on your flesh I'll eat

You've raped!
I feel dirty
It hurt!
As a child
Tied down!
That's a good boy
And fucked!
Your own child
I scream!
No one hears me
It hurt!
I'm not a liar
My God!
Saw you watching
Mommy why?!
Your own child

It's alright

I didn't touch you there
Mama said she didn't care
I didn't touch you there
That's why mama stopped and stared

I fucking hate you! Motherfucker!
Motherfucker! I fucking hate you! Fuck you!
You son of a bitch, you fucking ruined my life!
I wanted to die!
I'm sick of it, mother fucker, oh oh
Why'd you fuck'n do it to me?
I hate you!
I fuck'n hate you!
I hate you!
Why?!
I hate you!

Writer/s: Davis, Aldrin / Lilly Jr, Harold Spencer
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Daddy

Lead singer Jonathan Davis wrote this about a neighbor who used to abuse him. He had this to say about the song: "People think 'Daddy' was written because my dad f--ked me up the ass, but that's not what the song is about. It wasn't about my dad or mom. When I was a kid I was being abused by someone else and I went to my parents and told them about it. They thought I was lying and joking around, so they never did any s--t about it. They don't believe it was happening to their son. I don't like to talk about it." (Thanks, Ana - Wilkes Barre, PA)

When Korn performed their 1994 self-titled debut album from start to finish at Las Vegas's Brooklyn Bowl on March 13, 2015, it included a rare performance of this song. Having played this once, Davis had said it was too emotional for him to perform live again.

Speaking to Rolling Stone in advance of the 2015 performance, Davis called the song "just so old news to me." He added: "It's not going to affect me like it did back then. There was abuse there, I dealt with it, and the person who abused me is dead now. Karma took them [laughs]. And, y'know, I've buried that. I'm just going to play the song for the people that need it, you know what I mean?"

Scott Stapp - Proof of Life

Scott Stapp - Proof of Life Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Proof of Life
Released: 2013

Proof of Life Lyrics

Do you suffer in silence?
Do you live your life in your dreams?
Do you walk in defiance?
To escape from reality
Are you caught in the headlights standing still?
Don’t you wish you could run away?
Have you lost your desire waiting for
Someone to save you?
But no one came.

What’s your Proof of Life?
You can’t deny the truth that hits you right between the eyes.
So just name your price.
I’ll give anything to justify the reason I’m alive
What’s your proof of life?
What’s your proof of life?

Are you playing the victim
When you know that you volunteered?
No excuse for your sickness,
It’s your choices that got you here.
Are you caught in the headlights standing still?
Don’t you wish you could run away?
Have you lost your desire waiting for,
Someone to save you?
But no one came.

What’s your proof of life?
You can’t deny the truth that hits you right between the eyes,
So just name your price.
I’ll give anything to justify the reason I’m alive
What’s your proof of life?
What’s your proof of life?

Someone to save you?
But no one came

What’s your proof of life?
You can’t deny the truth that hits you right between the eyes,
So just name your price.
I’ll give anything to justify the reason I’m alive.
What’s your proof of life?
What’s your proof of life?

You’re the proof of life

Writer/s: CONNOLLY, TYLER / STAPP, SCOTT / XENIDIS, PHIL T
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Proof of Life

The title track of Scott Stapp 's second solo album, the former Creed frontman penned the song with Tyler Connolly from Theory of a Deadman. Stapp recalled the story of the tune to Artist Direct : "We got together. We were sitting around. I came in, and I had an idea. I had the music already in my mind for that song. I was playing it on guitar. I looked up at the guys and said, 'Do you have any ideas?' Tyler said, 'I've got three words, Proof of Life.' I instantly was like, 'Oh yeah!' I ran to the microphone after we laid down a sketch of the music and began to freestyle with that thought process in mind. The song was born then."

"At the end of the album, when all of the songs were done, it was the perfect fit to summarize what this body of work meant," Stapp continued. "It was exactly what I was trying to do subconsciously but hadn't really quantified it yet. It's great how that came about."

blink-182 - Stay Together for the Kids

blink-182 - Stay Together for the Kids Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Released: 2001

Stay Together for the Kids Lyrics

It's hard to wake up
When the shades have been pulled shut
This house is haunted
It's so pathetic
It makes no sense at all
I'm ripe with things to say
The words rot and fall away
What stupid poem could fix this home
I'd read it every day

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you're dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right

Their anger hurts my ears
Been running strong for seven years
Rather than fix the problems
They never solve them
It makes no sense at all
I see them everyday
We get along, so why can't they?
If this is what he wants
And this is what she wants
Then why is there so much pain?

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you're dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right

So here's your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you're dead and gone
Will you remember this night
Twenty years now lost
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right
It's not right

Writer/s: BARKER, TRAVIS / DELONGE, TOM / HOPPUS, MARK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Stay Together for the Kids

Tom DeLonge wrote this about his parents' divorce. He was 16, and his parents had just told him they were going to get a divorce. He left the house to sit in his car and write this song.

Mark Hoppus of blink-182 also had parents that divorced. (thanks, Nataliapalooza - Brampton, Canada, for above 2)

This is one of the songs on the album that indicates the start of a slow maturing process for the boys in blink-182. Here, they began tackling issues with more seriousness than in their previous efforts. They still retained their sense of humor, though, as indicated by the title of the album (say it quickly).

Aretha Franklin and George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)

Aretha Franklin and George Michael - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Aretha
Released: 1987

I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) Lyrics

I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)

When John Landis was asked how he got Aretha Franklin to appear in his 1980 film The Blues Brothers, he replied: "I asked her." The point being that the Queen of Soul had fallen out of favor and was looking for work (many other music legends - Ray Charles, Tina Turner and Roy Orbison among them - were also at career nadirs). Her fortunes were revived by her 1985 album Who's Zoomin' Who, which contained two US Top 10 hits: the title track and "Freeway of Love." It took this duet with George Michael, however, to return her to the top of the chart, where she had not been for 20 years (with "Respect").

Michael was coming off a string of hits with his group Wham!, but had not yet released his first solo album, Faith, which came out later in 1987.

This was was written by Simon Climie and Dennis Morgan. The pair met in 1983 after Morgan attended an Everly Brothers concert. It was the third song they wrote together. Morgan explained in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits: "That was one of those songs that came out of mid air – a gift from above, if you will."

The song was not originally written as a duet. Climie and Morgan pitched the song to Tina Turner as well to Aretha Franklin and Arista Records head Clive Davis. It was Davis' idea to get Franklin and George Michael to record the song as a duet.

Narada Michael Walden, who worked with Aretha on her Who's Zoomin' Who album, produced this track. He also produced the song this displaced at the top spot of the Hot 100: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship.
This made him the eighth producer in the Rock Era to score back-to-back #1 hits.

George Michael usually did his own production work. Before recording this song, he had only been produced by someone else on one occasion: the "Do They Know It's Christmas?" single by Band Aid.

Michael was so used to self-producing that he had a difficult time knowing when to stop singing. Narada Michael Walden explained: "He looked at me with those innocent virgin eyes, like he'd never been told, 'you oughta stop, kid.'"

Michael wrote about his experience recording this song in his book, Bare, saying that he and Franklin recorded the song together but did their ad-libs separately. He also went on to praise Walden for being "brilliant" at getting a good atmosphere in the studio.

Michael admitted to being nervous, but he knew there was no point in trying to copy Franklin's style. "Nobody can emulate Aretha Franklin," he said. "It's stupid to try. I just tried to stay in character, keep it simple - it was very understated in comparison to what she did."

In 1987, Franklin and Michael won the Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal Grammy for this song.

The Offspring - Gone Away

The Offspring - Gone Away Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Ixnay on the Hombre
Released: 1997

Gone Away Lyrics

Maybe in another life
I could find you there
Pulled away before your time
I can't deal it's so unfair

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
The world has grown cold
Now that you've Gone Away

Leaving flowers on your grave
Show that I still care
But black roses and Hail Mary's
Can't bring back what's taken from me
I reach to the sky
And call out your name
And if I could trade
I would

And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold
Now that you've gone away

Writer/s: BRYAN HOLLAND
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Gone Away

This song is about lead singer Dexter Holland's girlfriend dying in a car accident and his emotional response to it. (thanks, Paul - Westlake, OH)

A much more mature and serious song than what The Offspring were known for.

This got more airplay than any other song on the album. Still, the record sold poorly compared to its predecessor, Smash, which was released in 1994.

Cockney Rejects - Fighting In The Street

Cockney Rejects - Fighting In The Street Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Released: 1980

Fighting In The Street Lyrics

Fighting In The Street

In his autobiography Cockney Reject, lead vocalist Jeff Turner said of this uptempo track it "was about our way of life and the only bit of politics on the album - or anti-politics if you like."

Like all Cockney Rejects songs it is short and to the point; running to 2 minutes 37 seconds, the group composition is the fourth track on their debut album. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

Counting Crows - A Long December

Counting Crows - A Long December Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Recovering The Satellites
Released: 1996

A Long December Lyrics

A Long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin'
Now the days go by so fast

And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven I wish you would

The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl

And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California I think you should

Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

And it's one more day up in the canyon
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean I guess I should

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Writer/s: ADAM DURITZ, BEN MIZE, DANIEL VICKREY, MATTHEW MALLEY, CHARLES GILLINGHAM, DAVID BRYSON
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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A Long December

During the taping of a VH1 Storytellers performance, lead singer Adam Duritz talked about the song:
"In the middle of December of '95 my friend Jennifer got run over by a car, just creamed; and I spent that whole month, while we were just beginning the record and most of January and February in the hospital. Each morning and early afternoon then I'd go to the studio, the house where we were recording, and we'd play all afternoon and all night. It was a very weird time because there is a lot of stress, not that it's a big deal being a second album, but any album. They're just not that easy to make. It's a very stressful process, especially when you're first starting out. I spent a lot of time in the hospital which is pretty weird. But one day I just left the studio about 2 in the morning, and I went to my friend Samantha and Tracy's house which is Hillside Manor, that's what we call it anyway, it's just a little house and I sat there talking with them. I woke them up, got them out of bed and made them talk to me for a couple hours, then I went home to my house. I wrote this song between about 4 and 6 and then went to the hospital the next day, and came to the house and I played it for the guys before dinner and taught it to them after dinner. We played it about 6 or 7 times. It was take number 6. We just stopped, that was it. We recorded the song, it was done. We all went into the kitchen and had a cold beer, I grabbed Brad our engineer and ran back out about 5 minutes later, had him play the tape three times, just recorded all the harmonies, and we've never touched it since, that was it. It's a completely live song except for the harmonies. It's a song about looking back on your life and seeing changes happening, and for once for me, looking forward and thinking, ya know, things are gonna change for the better - 'maybe this year will be better than the last' - and so, like a lot of songs on the end of an album it's not about everything turning out great, but it at least it is about hope... and the possibilities..." (thanks, Scott - Memphis, TN)

Duritz was dating the actress Courteney Cox when he wrote this song - the line "the way that light attaches to a girl" is about her. Cox also appeared in the video (not her first - she was in Bruce Springsteen's video for "Dancing In The Dark").

Duritz, who also dated Cox' Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston, wrote the song "Monkey" about Courteney.