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Lucy Hale - Red Dress

Lucy Hale - Red Dress Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Road Between
Released: 2014

Red Dress Lyrics

Red Dress

This romantic Country duet features Joe Nichols. "I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan," Hale told Radio.com . "I love his tone, he's got such a fantastic voice, and he's a wonderful human being."

Hale said that when they were looking for a duet partner for the song she optimistically asked for Nichols but "never in a million years" thought the country star would be interested. "But he was," she added. "He really loved the song, and he liked my voice. And it all happened within a week. We made a phone call, he said yes, we recorded it, and it was on the album. So it's really cool to say Joe Nichols is on my first album. It's pretty crazy."

Janis Ian - Society's Child

Janis Ian - Society's Child Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Janis Ian
Released: 1966

Society's Child Lyrics

Society's Child

Janis was 13 when she began working on this, 14 when she finished. She started it while waiting outside the office of her guidance counselor, who was kind enough to call Janis in for consults every time she had a science class. After that, she wrote most of it on the school bus.

This song is about an interracial romance. Janis was living in an all-black neighborhood in East Orange, New Jersey, where she was one of five white kids in the school. She told us: "I saw it from both ends. I was seeing it from the end of all the civil rights stuff on the television and radio, of white parents being incensed when their daughters would date black men, and I saw it around me when black parents were worried about their sons or daughters dating white girls or boys. I don't think I knew where I was going when I started it, but when I hit the second line, 'face is clean and shining black as night,' it was obvious where the song was going."

Janis: "I don't think I made a conscious decision to have the girl cop out in the end, it just seemed like that would be the logical thing at my age, because how can you buck school and society and your parents, and make yourself an outcast forever."

Janis didn't write this about a particular person: "My parents were the complete opposite of the parents in the song. They wouldn't have cared if I married a Martian, as long as I was happy... I felt bad for my Dad because everyone assumed he was a racist."

This was about the 10th song Janis wrote. Her first was a song called "Hair Of Spun Gold," which was published in Broadside when she turned 13. Broadside was an underground magazine that published folk songs by artists like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger before they hit the mainstream. They invited her to sing it at one of their periodic shows they put on in Greenwich Village, where it got a huge reaction. Broadside kept asking Janis back, and "Society's Child" became one of the songs that became part of these performances.

Shadow Morton is a songwriter and producer who worked with The Shangri-Las before discovering Janis. This is how she describes their first meeting: "The way we got it cut was I was hanging around with the Reverend Gary Davis trying to learn guitar from him. His wife took a liking to me and told the owner of The Gaslight Cafe, Clarence Hood, that she needed me to open for the Reverend Gary. I did and this guy came running back stage and said 'kid, I'm going to make you a star,' which was such a cliché because I was into being a folk singer, I didn't need to be a star. Plus, at 14, you don't need to earn a living. I met him after school the next day and he took me up to Shadow Morton's office. Shadow was in one of his periodic funks, thinking he was going to leave the music business. He was sitting there with his cowboy boots on the desk, sunglasses and hat pulled over his head reading the New York Times, and he said 'yeah, go ahead.' So I sang him some songs, and realized he wasn't listening. Apparently, although I don't remember it, I pulled out a cigarette lighter and lit his newspaper on fire and left. A few minutes later he realized his newspaper was burning, put it out in the trash can, and thought 'what am I walking away from here.' He caught up with me in the elevator, pulled me back and actually listened. For some reason he decided this was the one we would cut, and a week later we were in the studio cutting it."

Janis: "I was pleased with the chorus because I had just learned to play an F-sharp minor chord. I had no idea it was unusual to have the chorus slowed down, but it became a real problem when we went to cut it."

At the time, many folk musicians looked down on pop radio, but Janis thought it was cool because they were playing Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone," even though many of her fellow musicians thought he sold out.

Janis recorded this with six studio musicians. At a time when 3-4 songs were often cut in a three-hour session, they worked for two-and-a-half hours on this song without making much progress. The breakthrough came when the upright bass player, a jazz musician named George Duvivier, had everyone stop and really listen to the lyrics and get an idea what the song was about. They nailed it on the next take.

At the time, many studio musicians were just trying to crank out hit records, and rarely thought much about the lyrics and what the song was about. Having a jazz player in the session made a huge difference because he was willing to work with the vocalist.

Shadow Morton took this to 22 record companies before Verve/Folkways, a spin-off of MGM Records, took it as a tax loss. They signed artists like Janis, Richie Havens, and Laura Nyro expecting them to lose money. They did believe in the song and pushed hard to promote it. The song got some great reviews and isolated airplay in places like Flint, Michigan and parts of New York City. It gained some momentum as part of the protest movement, and also benefited from the rise of FM radio, which was willing to take a chance on songs like this.

Janis: "Lyrics in pop music were not a big issue until Dylan, and he was thought of as kind of a fluke."

The big break for this song came when Leonard Bernstein's producer saw Janis perform it at The Gaslight, and got her on his upcoming television special. The show had a huge audience - it was on Sunday night at 8, in a time when most people got only 3 or 4 stations and there was very little music on TV. Bernstein loved it and criticized radio stations for not playing it. The next day Janis' record company started promoting it in trade magazines and many radio stations picked it up. It was never a #1 hit because radio stations in many areas took a while before they added it, but this slow progression kept the song popular for a long time.

For most of the '90s, Janis dropped this from her set list because no one wanted to hear it, but then a lot of people who grew up listening to it started coming to her shows and asking for it. Many of these people were Vietnam veterans who heard the song because it was widely played on Radio Free Europe and on US military bases.

The original title was "Baby, I've Been Thinking." It was Shadow Morton's idea to change the title. (Check out the full Janis Ian interview.)

This was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 2001.

In 2008, Janis Ian released her autobiography, which she titled Society's Child. She told About.com: "I just took the first three months of 2007 and went through all my old journals, went through a lot of old letters I had friends send back to me, a bunch of old press clippings. I kind of made a map of my life. I attached a time to when the songs were written, when the records were made, when songs were hits. And then once I decided to do a prologue and open it with the 'Society's Child' chapter, it all pretty much fell into place." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

According to the 2010 United States Census, Janis Ian's home city of East Orange has a population of just 64,270, yet it has spawned a host of other successful artists including Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Gordon MacRae, Young & Company, Naughty By Nature as well as Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens, the writers of Madonna's first hit, "Holiday."

Lucy Hale - Just Another Song

Lucy Hale - Just Another Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Road Between
Released: 2014

Just Another Song Lyrics

It's a good day, good cup of coffee to drink
It's a good day, no dishes piled up in the sink
I'm a long way from the place I used to be
It's a good day

Oh, teardrops have gone
Oh, then I hear that song

It takes me to me and you
Black and white movie I made you watch, then we kissed
Oh, I knew I was falling for you and oh, when it's on the radio
That's when it hits me, you're gone
Maybe to you, it's probably Just Another Song

But to me, it's a bullet out of a gun
Yeah, to me, it's a knife and a damn rusty one
It's the floodgate of memories I don't wanna feel
Oh, it's all just a little too real

Oh, just when the teardrops have gone
Oh, why do I hear that heartbreaking, take-me-back song?

It takes me to me and you
'45 spinning, I made you dance, then we kissed
Oh, I knew I was falling for you and oh, when it's on the radio
That's when it hits me, you're gone
Maybe to you, it's probably just another song
Maybe to you, it's probably just another song
Maybe to you

It takes me to me and you,
Under the street light, you said goodbye, then we kissed
Oh, I knew I was falling into pieces, oh, when it's on the radio
That's when it hits me, you're gone
Maybe to you, it's probably just another song
Maybe to you, it's probably just another song
Maybe to you, it's just a good day

Writer/s: CATT GRAVITT, MICHAEL DALY, KAREN LUCY HALE
Publisher: RAZOR & TIE DIRECT LLC, Walt Disney Music Company
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Just Another Song

Lucy Hale's debut Road Between album finds her wrestling through getting over someone. She co-wrote the song with Whiskeytown's Mike Daly and Nashville songwriter Catt Gravitt .

This is one of five songs on Road Between that Mike Daly co-wrote. Asked by Billboard magazine how their relationship developed, Lucy Hale replied: "I met Mike a couple years prior because I dated a guy who was working with him. We had all these crazy connections. I love Whiskeytown. I was actually supposed to record a never-released Whiskeytown song for the album, but maybe we'll save that for the next album. He knows me and knows my voice like the back of his hand."

Primus - Lacquer Head

Primus - Lacquer Head Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Antipop
Released: 1999

Lacquer Head Lyrics

Sometimes bored and sometimes lonely
Pimple faced and rather homely
He wasn't much for socializin'
The TV kept a mesmerizin'

In one ear and out the other
Picked up a trick from his older brother
Got him a can of sniffin' sauce
Pinned his mind up on a cross

Lacquer Head knows but one desire
Lacquer head sets his skull on fire
Lacquer head knows no in betweens
Huffin' on bags of gasoline

Sniffin' paint since the seventh grade
She was high on gin and Gatorade
On turpentine she lost her luck
Fell in front of a speeding pick-up truck

He was a boy of soft demeanor
And he loved his carburetor cleaner
The vapor made a sweet aroma
He sniffed himself into a coma

Lacquer head feeds his one desire
Lacquer head sets his brain on fire
Lacquer head knows no in betweens
Huffin' on bags of gasoline

Keep on sniffin' till yer brain goes pop

Writer/s: CLAYPOOL, LES / LALONDE, REID L. III / MANTIA, BRYAN KEI
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Lacquer Head

This was produced by Fred Durst, lead singer of Limp Bizkit. Primus had a bunch of guest musicians play on or produce tracks on the album. James Hetfield, Stewart Copeland, Tom Waits and Tom Morello were some of the other musicians who contributed.

The claymation music video was banned by MTV because it depicted, among other things, a boy sniffing gasoline and glue.

A "lacquer head" is someone who gets high from sniffing paint, glue or other toxic substances (lacquer, which is a wood finish, will also do the trick). The song paints a bleak picture for young people addicted to inhalants, as Les Claypool sings about a girl who gets hit by a truck after sniffing turpentine and a kid who goes into a coma after huffing carburetor cleaner.

Matisyahu - Vow of Silence

Matisyahu - Vow of Silence Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Akeda
Released: 2014

Vow of Silence Lyrics

Vow of Silence

Asked during a Reddit AMA what song of his means the most to him, Matisyahu replied: "I get very emotional with 'Vow of Silence' which I wrote for my son Shalom."

The Tragically Hip - Butts Wigglin'

The Tragically Hip - Butts Wigglin' Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Brain Candy
Released: 1996

Butts Wigglin' Lyrics

The sweet sound of patent approval comin' down in a not quite fog
The sweet sound of patent approval comin' down in
Powdery sparks the sweet sound of patent approval
Comin' down with holiday concern the sweet sound of patent approval
Comin' down in a world of hurt

In my opinion the drug is ready

The warm hand of abject approval comin' down with its' ropey veins
The warm hand of abject approval comin' down to the
Fingerbowl

In my opinion the drug is ready

The cold eye of constant approval comin' down to freeze the blood
The cold eye of constant approval comin' down to look real
Close

In my opinion the drug is ready

Writer/s: DOWNIE/SINCLAIR/FAY/BAKER/LANGLOIS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing
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Butts Wigglin'

This was written for the soundtrack to the movie Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. The central lyric "In my opinion the drug is ready" is lifted from it.

Miranda Lambert - Girls

Miranda Lambert - Girls Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Platinum
Released: 2014

Girls Lyrics

Imagine a fighter with a centerfold face
Comes from a long line of blue collars and lace
With a grip like reins to a steed
And kisses for days
And imagine a winner holding pink champagne
Who still loves her daddy but changes her name
An overachiever, even she don't believe her own fame

You can't change her mind
(Even if you wanted to)
You can always try
(She'll see through to you, she'll see through you)
If you think you're the only one she'll want in this world
Then you don't know nothin' 'bout Girls

Imagine your best friend and your worst enemy
Begs you to stay and then wishes you'd leave
Like Marilyn Monroe she can be who you want her to be

You can't change her mind
(Even if you wanted to)
You can always try
(She'll through to you, she'll see through you)
If you think you're the only one she'll want in this world
Then you don't know nothin' 'bout girls

Go on, go on
Give her everything and more
Love her all you want
She was never yours

You can't change her mind
You can always try
If you think you're the only one
She'll want in this world
Then you don't know nothin' about girls
If you think you're the only one
She'll want in this world
Then you don't know nothing
No nothing
'Bout girls

Writer/s: Hemby, Natalie / Galyon, Nicolle / Robbins, Jimmy
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Girls

Lambert was immediately attracted to this Nicolle Galyon, Natalie Hemby and Jimmy Robbins penned song. She told Billboard magazine: "I get pitched 100 'Gunpowder & Lead' and I'm like, 'give me something I can't write, I can write those all day long.' I like to hear things where I go, 'damn, I wish I'd written that.'"

"Natalie [Galyon] is a freak of nature, she's such a great writer," Lambert added "I heard ["Girls"] and it was like, 'oh my gosh, it's so true.' Girls, we're so complicated, can't live with us, can't live without us. I feel like that song says that so well, it's so beautiful. Every girl I play it for is like, 'that's me!' and that's what you want, it's so relatable and powerful. Even guys, 'oh yeah, that's my girl, that's my wife, that's my mom, that's my daughter.' I love songs that make you feel something and this one definitely does."

The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings

The Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Fully Completely
Released: 1993

Wheat Kings Lyrics

Sundown in the Paris of the prairies Wheat Kings have all their treasures buried
And all you hear are the rusty breezes pushing
Around the weather vane Jesus

In his Zippo lighter, he sees the killer's face maybe
It's someone standing in a killer's place twenty years for nothing, well that's
Nothing new, besides, no one's interested in something you didn't do
Wheat kings and pretty things, let's just see what the morning brings

There's a dreamy dream where the high school is dead and stark it's a museum
And we're all locked up in it after dark where the walls
Are lined all yellow, grey and sinister hung
With pictures of our parents' prime ministers wheat kings and pretty things
Wait and see what tomorrow brings

Late breaking story on the CBC, a nation whispers,
"We always knew that he'd go free" they add, "you can't be fond of living in
The past, 'cause if you are then there's no way that you're gonna last"
Wheat kings and pretty things
Let's just see what tomorrow bring
Wheat kings and pretty things
Oh, that's what tomorrow brings

Writer/s: BAKER, ROBERT / DOWNIE, GORDON / FAY, JOHNNY / LANGLOIS, PAUL / SINCLAIR, GORDON
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
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Wheat Kings

This song is about David Milgaard, a Canadian man who served over 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Miranda Lambert - Gravity Is a Bitch

Miranda Lambert - Gravity Is a Bitch Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Platinum
Released: 2014

Gravity Is a Bitch Lyrics

It's been your 20s feeling that you're walking on the ceiling
And you party like you're eight feet tall
You say work is for the birds
Chasing dreams and mini skirts
From here everything seem small

Then 30's come around and you finally feel the ground
Look around and maybe start planning
For what the future holds
And though you're far from old, your moisturizer's been less time tanning

You're hanging over, but you're hanging in
You're starting to look like all of your friends
Conversations turnin' from rock n' roll
To kids and politics and how much money you owe

Got bags under your eyes, bigger hips and bigger thighs
You got places that you can't even itch
You can nip it, tuck it, squeeze it
But you're never gonna beat it
'Cause gravity's a bitch

Forty's kinda boring
And you spend your time ignoring the things you don't see so clear
Your reflection in the glass is gonna knock you on you ass
You wonder how the hell it get down here

You're happy in your fifties
Though things are kinda shifty
At sixty you find peace of mind
Go to bed at eight o'clock and comb your hair if you still got it
'Cause you're almost at the finish line

You're hanging over, but you're hanging in
You're starting to look like all of your friends
Conversations turnin' from rock n' roll
To kids and politics and how much money you owe

Got bags under your eyes, bigger hips and bigger thighs
You got places that you can't even itch
You can nip it, tuck it, squeeze it
But you're never gonna beat it
'Cause gravity's a bitch

Yeah gravity's a bitch
I'm here to tell ya
Gravity Is a Bitch

Writer/s: LAMBERT, MIRANDA / WRAY, SCOTTY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Gravity Is a Bitch

This bluesy, boozy barroom romp finds Lambert addressing the difficulties of getting older and her struggles with weight. The Nashville star told US Weekly that she thinks expressing herself authentically through music is imperative to her listeners. "My fans expect me to lay it all out!" Lambert said. "I've always been happy with myself. But when I hit 30, I thought, It's not going to get easier. So I chose to get ahead of it. There's still nothing I love more than a bag of Cheetos, though!"

Lambert told Billboard magazine the story of the song: "I wrote this with my guitar player Scotty Wray, he's been with me since I was 17, he's in his 50s," she explained. "We came to me at a festival and said, 'hey, I got a title: Gravity's A Bitch.' I said, 'yes it is. Let's write it.' So we got in the bus and literally wrote it in like 30 minutes, it kind of wrote itself."

"He has these amazing melodies, he plays guitar so well, and I said, 'I know what it's like after 30, you tell me the rest, what do I have to look forward to?' We just started writing little things about every age," Lambert continued. "It was fun, it's one of those things you have to face, everybody knows it's gonna happen. That's why there's Botox and Spanx, I guess."

Mötley Crüe - The Wild Side

Mötley Crüe - The Wild Side Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Girls, Girls, Girls
Released: 1987

The Wild Side Lyrics

The Wild Side

The band wrote this as tribute to their lives in Los Angeles, and the hardships of the rock world that they experienced on the Sunset Strip. It was also was a rally song to those who lived life on the "Wild Side." (thanks, Josh - Sunbury, PA)

In his book The Heroin Diaries , Nikki Sixx explained how the song came to be: He was casually seeing a catholic school girl and one day asked her to recite the lord's prayer. He thought it sounded cool, so he messed with it, and out came "Wild Side." (thanks, Rhino Sixx - huddersfirld, England)

Miranda Lambert - Two Rings Shy

Miranda Lambert - Two Rings Shy Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Platinum
Released: 2014

Two Rings Shy Lyrics

I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown
Ain't gonna paint this pretty face, like you paint the town
I ain't wastin' good mascara, just to watch it runnin' down
I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown

I could spend an hour on my makeup and my hair
Shoes to tall, dress to small, and lacy underwear
Go down to the bar, and buy myself a drink
Dangle there all perfect, like a puppet on a string

I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown
Ain't gonna paint this pretty face, like you paint the town
I ain't wastin' good mascara, just to watch it runnin' down
I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown

You got girls that sing and dance, I hear ones an acrobat,
You got 'em swinging from the chandelier, well honey I don't swing like that
The main attraction's leaving, let the side show pay the rent
Take this diamond back and you'll be Two Rings Shy of the big top tent

I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown
Ain't gonna paint this pretty face, like you paint the town
I ain't wastin' good mascara, just to watch it runnin' down
I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown

I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown
Tiptoe 'cross the tight-rope, till you turn me upside down
Cut the cable, pull the net, just to let me hit the ground
I ain't gonna get dressed up, just to be your clown

Writer/s: LAMBERT, MIRANDA / CLARK, BRANDY / LITTLE, HEATHER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Two Rings Shy

Lambert wrote this with Brandy Clark, who penned "Mama's Broken Heart," and Heather Little, with whom she collaborated with on "Gunpowder & Lead."

"It actually has a really good point to it," Lambert told Billboard magazine. "The lyrics matter. There's a lot of smart lyrics in there, because I wrote it with two really smart girls. The point of this song is very direct: don't fool with me."

Lambert gave specific instructions to producer Frank Liddell regarding this track. "When we wrote this song," she told Billboard, "I told Frank I wanted it to sound like the circus, like literally we need to go to a circus somewhere and just record sounds."

Bush - Letting The Cables Sleep

Bush - Letting The Cables Sleep Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Science of Things
Released: 1999

Letting The Cables Sleep Lyrics

You in the dark
You in the pain
You on the run
Living a hell

Living your ghost
Living your end
Never seem to get in the place that I belong
Don't want to lose the time
Lose the time to come

Whatever you say it's alright
Whatever you do it's all good
Whatever you say it's alright
Silence is not the way
We need to talk about it
If heaven is on the way
If heaven is on the way

You in the sea
On a decline
Breaking the waves
Watching the lights go down
Letting The Cables Sleep

Whatever you say it's alright
Whatever you do it's all good
Whatever you say it's alright
Silence is not the way
We need to talk about it

If heaven is on the way
We'll wrap the world around it
If heaven is on the way
If heaven is on the way

I'm a stranger in this town
I'm a stranger in this town

If heaven is on the way
If heaven is on the way
I'm a stranger in this town
I'm a stranger in this town

Writer/s: ROSSDALE, GAVIN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Letting The Cables Sleep

This about a close friend of lead singer Gavin Rossdale who had the HIV illness, but didn't tell anyone for 6 months because was ashamed. When Gavin found out, he felt real bad that his friend didn't feel comfortable talking about it, and wrote this about breaking the silence. (thanks, davey - leeds, England)

The "cables" refer to power cables. "Letting the cables sleep" means turning off the electricity and taking a rest.

In the video, if you look close enough, Gavin Rossdale is wearing a ring on his left hand. I took it as him being married and visiting a girl he used to (and supposedly now doesn't) have feelings for. They end up having sex, and realize they still want to be together, but are too afraid to tell each other. The girl just leaves before she says something she will regret. Overall, it's a retrospective view of a relationship. (thanks, Live Freak - Beirut, Lebanon)

If you analyze the video, you see that when they touch there is color. As their hands touch, his world is tinted with her color. And when he smears paint on the walls, the colors are similar to the colors she wears, displaying a sense of longing. "Whatever you say is alright..." but she can't speak, adding some depth to the lyrics, and as she leaves she is signing to him that she's sorry. On the street you see that the bassist for Bush is playing on a corner, which is peculiar because a bass isn't really a solo instrument. The effects of color and their integration with the lyrics gives a great deal of meaning. (thanks, Carlos - NYC, NY)