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Klaxons - Out Of The Dark

Klaxons - Out Of The Dark Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Love Frequency
Released: 2014

Out Of The Dark Lyrics

Out Of The Dark

Co-vocalist Jamie Reynolds told NME: "It's about breaking up with my girlfriend and the council turning the street lights off in my home town."

The Supremes - Baby Love

The Supremes - Baby Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Where Did Our Love Go
Released: 1964

Baby Love Lyrics

Baby Love, my baby love, I need you oh how I need you
But all you do is treat me bad
Break my heart and leave me sad
Tell me what did I do wrong to make you stay away so long
'Cause baby love, my baby love, been missing ya, miss kissing ya
Instead of breaking up
Let's start some kissing and making up
Don't throw our love away
In my arms why don't you stay?

Need ya, need ya, baby love, my baby love

Baby love, my baby love, why must we separate my love?
All of my whole life through
I never love no one but you
Why you do me like you do, I guess it's me
Ooh, need to hold you once again my love, feel your warm embrace my love
Don't throw our love away, please don't do me this way
Not happy like I used to be, loneliness has got the best of me my love

My baby love, I need ya oh how I need ya
Why you do me like you do
After I've been true to you
So deep in love with you
Baby, baby ooh
'Til it hurt me, 'til it hurt me
Ooh baby love
Don't throw our love away
Don't throw our love away

Writer/s: HOLLAND, EDWARD JR. / DOZIER, LAMONT / HOLLAND, BRIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Baby Love

The Motown songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote this innocent song about teenage love. They wrote 14 US Top-10 hits for The Supremes.
Explaining how the trio wrote to NME in 1984, Lamont Dozier said: "I would collaborate with Eddie on lyrics and with Brian on melodies. Then Brian and I would go into the studio and produce the actual record although Eddie should have been put down as one of the producers because he helped teach the artists the tune when the lyric was finished."

A musician named Lorenzo Pack filed a lawsuit against Motown in 1966, claiming the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team based "Baby Love" on his 1962 song "I'm Afraid." Pack had little evidence to support his assertion, and Motown won the lawsuit. The testimony, however, revealed some insights on this song, as Brian Holland told the court: "When we write a song, we try to express real feelings about a real situation. In writing the song for The Supremes it was obvious that we were writing for pretty young girls, of whom one is the so-called lead singer. Therefore, in writing 'Baby Love,' we pictured a simple story about a girl whose boyfriend has left her and who loves him very dearly and who would like the boy to come back. The music fits this simple story."

This was The Supremes' first and only song to reach #1 in the UK. The Supremes were the first girl-group to have a #1 hit in Britain. It turned out to be The Supremes' only UK #1, though they had many more in the US.

In August of 1974, this song was reissued in Britain, where it reached UK #12. (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for above 2)

According to Rolling Stone magazine, when this song was finished, Berry Gordy thought it wasn't catchy enough and sent the group back into the studio, which is when they came up with the "Oooooh" at the beginning.

This song, "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Come See About Me" were written by Holland-Dozier-Holland in one session and were all recorded within two weeks. Berry Gordy required the songwriters to punch a clock when they came in and left for work at Motown, which is something he learned working for Ford. The H-D-H team was especially proficient, often completing 2 or 3 songs a day.

This song received a Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording in 1965; it lost to Nancy Wilson's "How Glad I Am."

This was the second US #1 hit for The Supremes, following "Where Did Our Love Go." They were the first Motown act with two #1 hits. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This was featured in the 1997 film Jackie Brown.

Klaxons - Rhythm Of Life

Klaxons - Rhythm Of Life Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Love Frequency
Released: 2014

Rhythm Of Life Lyrics

Rhythm Of Life

This semi-religious track is one of a number of songs on Love Frequency on which the band wished to "bring love back into the equation." Said Co-vocalist Jamie Reynolds: "This record is very much about the present, an emotionally honest album about technological and personal progression."

Kelly Rowland - Stole

Kelly Rowland - Stole Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Simply Deep
Released: 2002

Stole Lyrics

He was always such a nice boy
The quiet one with good intentions
He was down with his brother, respectful
to his mother
A good boy
But good don't get attention

One kid with the promise
The brightest kid in school, he's not a fool
Reading books 'bout science and smart stuff
It's not enough, no
'Cause smart don't make you cool

Well he's not invisible anymore
With his father's nine and a broken fuse
Since he walked through that classroom door
He's all over prime time news

Mary's got the same size hands as
Marilyn Monroe
She put her fingers in the imprints
At Mann's Chinese Theatre Show
She could've been a movie star
Never got the chance to go that far
Her life was Stole Oh Oh, now we'll never know

They're crying to the camera
Said he never fitted in, he wasn't welcome
He'd show up to the parties we was hanging in
Some guys were putting him down, bullin' him 'round

Now I wish I would have talked to him
Gave him the time of day, not turn away

If I would've then it wouldn't maybe go this far
He'd might'a stayed at home playing
angry chords on his guitar

He's not invisible anymore
With his baggy pants and his legs in chains
Since he walked through that classroom door
Everybody knows his name

Mary's got the same size hands as
Marilyn Monroe
She put her fingers in the imprints
At Mann's Chinese Theatre Show
She could've been a movie star
Never got the chance to go that far
Her life was stole Oh Oh, now we'll never know

Greg was always getting net from 20 feet away
He had a tryout with the sixahs couldn't
wait for Saturday
Now we're never gonna see him slam
Flyin' as high as Kobe can
His life was stole Oh! Oh! Now we'll never know

Ya their lives were stole
Now we'll never know
We were here, all together yesterday
Writer/s: Kipner, Stephen Alan / Hosein, Sean / Deviller, Dane Anthony
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Stole

This is about acts of violence that happen to young people and how they could have grown up to be something great. They never will because the chance was taken away from them. (thanks, Megan - Tracy, CA)

The characters mentioned in this song are:
Mary:
She is pretty, talented and popular, but she gives guys the wrong impression and gets pregnant, possibly with the white guy's baby and it ruins her chances for fame.

White boy:
Possibly badly bullied for being a geek. Though he has a lot of knowledge, no one sees that as a good thing. His father is abusing his mother, and one day he cannot take it any more and kills himself.

Greg:
Great at basketball, he could be very famous. He has a lot of talent but someone was jealous of him and took his life.

This song gives out a powerful message about how people with a lot of talent really aren't appreciated and eventually will have their lives stolen forever. (thanks, lot - birmingam, England)

Klaxons - The Dreamers

Klaxons - The Dreamers Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Love Frequency
Released: 2014

The Dreamers Lyrics

The Dreamers

Jamie Reynolds told NME the story of this song: "I was midway through an Adam Ant documentary (The Blueback Hassar detailing Ant's comeback, which was produced by Reynolds), and I might have stolen a drumbeat."

"There is a hidden psychedelic aspect," he added. "It's our Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. "

Live - Lakini's Juice

Live - Lakini's Juice Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Secret Samadhi
Released: 1997

Lakini's Juice Lyrics

it was an evening I shared with the sun
to find out where we belong
from the earliest days
we were dancing in the shadows
more wine
'cause I got to have it
more skin
'cause I got to eat it
inside the outside
by the river
used to be so calm
used to be so sane
I rushed the lady's room
took the water from the toilet
washed her feet and blessed her name
more peace
is such a dirty habit
slow down, we're too afraid
Let me ride
Let me ride
Burn my eyes
Let me ride

Writer/s: KOWALCZYK, EDWARD JOEL / TAYLOR, CHAD DAVID / DAHLHEIMER, PATRICK / GRACEY, CHAD ALAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Lakini's Juice

This is about the darker side of love - obsession. The lyrics have a very dark undertone to them, and they seem to speak of how, as humans, we have certain wants and needs that, sometimes in order to fulfill, we will go directly against what we have been taught. That's why in the video, there is a person shaping a piece of wet chalk type stuff. The chalk represents lard, which represents our human urges. It's like when you know what you're doing is wrong, but the urge is so great that you do it anyway. If this song is autobiographical, he's most likely talking about some sexual experience that he feels guilty about.

Lakini is the Hindu goddess of destruction. This relates to the video's odd depiction of lard... a symbol of overindulgence. (thanks, Live Freak - Beirut, Lebanon, for above 2)

Lucy Hale - From the Backseat

Lucy Hale - From the Backseat Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Road Between
Released: 2014

From the Backseat Lyrics

We were burning in a '94 Corolla
Three hours deep into South Dakota
I was working on a lukewarm Coca Cola
In the dog days of July

And my dad was a Superman stick shift driver
Stay at home Louis Lane beside him
Kissing to the rhythm of the billboard signs
As they went blurring by
Even when he would stop to pull over
He never took his hand off of her shoulder

You can see for miles
You can reach the dials
Sit back and smile from the front seat
You can chase the sun
You can feel the hum of the axles
Underneath your feet
When you're sitting shotgun
You seem pretty and free
But you learn to love From the Backseat

So blink one day and I'm rolling along
With a part time job and blue pom-poms
Like every day's a knock off Mellowcamp song
With his hand right on my knee

And we made the age old prom-night promise
Put the corsage right where I want it
We found a road with nobody on it
And we didn't stop to think
And I didn't care when he killed the motor
Shut off the lights and we climbed over

You can see for miles
You can reach the dials
Sit back and smile from the front seat
You can chase the sun
You can feel the hum of the axles
Underneath your feet
When you're sitting shotgun
You seem pretty and free
But you learn to love from the backseat

Up here I see it clear
Through the rear-view
It's good to take the backseat
When you get to

You can see for miles
You can reach the dials
Sit back and smile from the front seat
You can chase the sun
You can feel the hum of the axles
Underneath your feet
When you're sitting shotgun
You seem pretty and free
But you learn to love

You can see for miles
You can reach the dials
Sit back and smile from the front seat
You can chase the sun
You can feel the hum of the axles
Underneath your feet
When you're sitting shotgun
You seem pretty and free
But you learn to love from the backseat

We were burning in a '94 Corolla
Three hours deep into South Dakota
I was working on a lukewarm Coca Cola

Writer/s: GALYON, NICHOLLE ANNE / DALY, MIKE / ROBBINS, JIMMY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, Walt Disney Music Company
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From the Backseat

This Mike Daly, Jimmy Robbins and Nicolle Clawson penned nostalgic number takes a trip back to simpler times. Lucy Hale told Billboard magazine: "The reason I love country music is the stories and how nostalgic a song can feel. 'From the Back Seat' is a perfect example. When you hear that song, you see the music video played out - it's so visual."

"There's a few details that are off," she added. "My parents were divorced when I was really young, but when I heard this song, it was kind of like my mom's upbringing. She was a cheerleader, she fell in love with her high school sweetheart, her parents went on road trips. It's pretty much my mom's story."

Bobby Darin - Dream Lover

Bobby Darin - Dream Lover Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Darin at the Copa
Released: 1959

Dream Lover Lyrics

Every night I hope and pray
A Dream Lover will come my way
A girl to hold in my arms
And know the magic of her charms
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Dream lover, where are you
With a love, oh, so true
And the hand that I can hold
To feel you near as I grow old
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah, yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Someday, I don't know how
I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me

Dream lover, until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do
Till all my lover's dreams come true
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah, yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Dream lover, until then
I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do
Till all my lover's dreams come true
'Cause I want (yeah-yeah, yeah)
A girl (yeah-yeah, yeah)
To call (yeah-yeah, yeah)
My own (yeah-yeah)
I want a dream lover
So I don't have to dream alone

Please don't make me dream alone
I beg you don't make me dream alone
No, I don't wanna dream alone

Writer/s: BOBBY DARIN
Publisher: CARLIN AMERICA INC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Dream Lover

Darin wrote this song, which is about a guy who wishes and prays for the girl of his dreams to come to him so that he doesn't have to dream any more - or as he puts it in his grammatically incorrect but lyrically - no more. Darin wasn't so sure of the song when he demoed it for his bosses at Atlantic Records, but it became a huge hit and earned him more creative control as a songwriter and artist - his next single was the unlikely "Mack The Knife," which stayed at #1 in the US for 9 weeks. In the '90s, Darin was inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Hall of Fame.

"Dream Lover" appealed to adults who appreciated the conservative lyrics and Darin's wholesome image - he came off as a guy you wouldn't mind dating your daughter at a time when Elvis was singing "A Big Hunk O' Love." Most songs that pulled this off were written by New York songwriters and crafted for mass appeal, but Darin managed to compose his own song securing his teen idol image. He was 22 when the song was released.

Neil Sedaka played piano on this track, and also the B-side of the single, which was a song called "Bullmoose." Sedaka had a song on the charts called "The Diary," but was not yet widely known as a solo artist. Along with his songwriting partner Howard Greenfield, he had written "Keep a Walkin'," which Darin recorded in 1958. Darin was comfortable with Sedaka's style, and gave him the leeway to play what he thought was right for the track.

Musically, this song was built on a Latin dance rhythm. Darin said of writing it: "I had just discovered the C-Am-F-G7 progression on the piano. I stretched them out and I like the space I felt in there, and the words just flowed."

Rick Nelson released an intimate, countrified version of this song shortly after performing it when he was the musical guest and host of a 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live. The single was re-released in 1986 a few months after Nelson died in a plane crash.

Darin found his dream lover a year after this song was released when he married the actress Sandra Dee, a union that would last until 1967.

Other artists to record this song include Don McLean, Dion, Johnny Nash and Tony Orlando. Mariah Carey had a #1 hit with a different song with the same title, although hers was rendered "Dreamlover."

Darin performed this on his first Ed Sullivan Show appearance on May 31, 1959. He made five more appearances on the show.

Rich Podolsky's book Don Kirshner: The Man with the Golden Ear tells the story of how Darin introduced this song to Don Kirshner and Al Nevins, producers of the then-newly-formed Aldon Music. Kirshner and Darin were lifelong friends, having teamed up in their teen years before either one of them got their first break, having been best man at each other's weddings, and after Darin's tragically early death, Kirshner named his daughter Daryn after him. So when Darin made it big before Kirshner got established, he promised that he wouldn't leave Kirshner behind.

So a few weeks after Darin's new contract at Atlantic Records forced him to let Kirshner go as his manager, he dropped by Aldon Music to give them a preview of "Dream Lover," along with "Queen of the Hop." Kirshner relates that Darin sang it "as if he were performing it at the Copacabana nightclub." Afterwards he couldn't wait to tell Al Nevins about it.

This song made one more trip to the Hot 100 when the girl group The Paris Sisters ("I Love How You Love Me") took it to #91 in 1964.

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.