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LL Cool J - Candy

LL Cool J - Candy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Phenomenon
Released: 1997

Candy Lyrics

When you was seventeen and I was nineteen
We feel deep in love growing up in Queens
We didn't know a thing about love
We was innocent sneakin' on the doorstep to hug
Held you tightly and promised you the world
You gave me hickeys and said you was my girl
When I think about it now makes me smile
Cause I ain't felt these butterflies in a while

Funny how you grow up and innocence fades
We used to live for love but now we're afraid (Of what?)
Of the darkness and bitter memories
Lovers who crushed us through infidelity
I promised you I'd love you to the end
Always and forever since way back when
You're like Candy the world's sweetest friend
You taste better now than you did back then

[Chorus]
You will always be my candy
One day we will start a family
You will always be my candy girl
(You'll be my candy girl forever)
You will always be my candy
Want your love girl, understand me
You will always be my candy girl

While you sucked caramel apple lollipops
Rain sleet or snow I'm troopin' up the murdock
We used to walk down the block hold hands
I would get you after school 'cause I was your man
And any guys that want to socialize
Just know that I'm a flip on any cat that tries
My peeps used to say I was whipped
All your girls said since you got with him you flipped
But uh they couldn't feel the feelings we felt
Mirrors on the ceiling we melt
I would look up at ya I remember
The afternoon you surrendered
We made love the temperature was high as could be
You said "Todd promise you ain't lyin' to me"
And as we went our separate ways you turned back
Smiled, I remember all that

[Chorus]

(Take it to the bridge)
Candy girl
You are my world
Look so sweet
You're a special treat
Candy girl
All I want to say
I need your love
Each and every day

When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall
And in the back of my mind I hear my memories call
Of days when love was true I slept and held you
Taste the brown sugar, let your climax melt you
Candy you're occupying all of my thoughts
Turned my soul upside down with lessons you taught
I can feel you even when you're far away you're right here wit' me
Sweet love strictly
And I'm a bend over backwards to keep you on my side
Take you for a mental and emotional ride
Make love to your soul, your heart, and your mind
In your hour of need girl, I'll be there every time
And as long as you support my dreams
Stayin' right beside me as a part of my team
I'll take you where the average man can only dream of
Cause in a world so sour I got the sweetest love

[Chorus]

Candy girl
You are my world
Look so sweet
You're a special treat
(You'll be my candy girl forever)
Candy girl
All I want to say
(Word is bond sweetheart)
I need your love
(I swear I'm down for whatever)
Candy girl
(sometimes you gotta go back home)
Look so sweet
(I love you)
Candy girl

Writer/s: ELLIOTT, MELISSA A/GORDON, MARC JOSEPH/SMITH, ANTHONY
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, MASS CONFUSION
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Candy

This song is a tribute to LL Cool J's wife, and discusses the relationship between the two.

This is a slight re-working of the early eighties song "Candy Girl" by New Edition. The lyrics to the song's chorus and bridge are the same, and are performed by Ralph Tresvant and Ricky Bell, who were members of New Edition. (thanks, Brian - Edmonton, Canada, for above 2)

Clean Bandit - Cologne

Clean Bandit - Cologne Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: New Eyes
Released: 2014

Cologne Lyrics

Hm, yeah
Uh

When I walk into the club and my feet start to rub
Everybody thinks I'm weird but the truth is I'm not
When I'm in the studio and the 8-0-8 pops
Everybody thinks I'm weird but the truth is I'm not

Gonna let the music take control of me and let the bass rush through me
8-0-8 Pace to make, I love the state I'm in, it's ming-blowing
All the feelings that I'm feeling, loving everyone it's amazing
I want to stop until I drop I know I'm on top and now it's time to bop

(Let me see you get low)

Ah whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd
Whatever happens stays between you and I
Whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd
Whatever happens stays between you and I

Your Cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane

It's amazing when we party all night for the cause
When I watch you get down I forget all your flaws
If you fly into my life it's so nice, it's full-on
But the music takes us deep 'til the breaking of dawn

Whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd
Whatever happens stays between you and I
Whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd
Whatever happens stays between you and I

Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane

Whatever happened
Whatever happened you and I
Whatever happened
Whatever happened you and I

Whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd
Whatever happens stays between you and I
Whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd
Whatever happens stays between you and I

Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane (Whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd)
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane (Whatever happens stays between you and I)
Your cologne and the bass is making my heart beat insane (Whatever happens tonight stays in the crowd)
Whatever happens stays between you and I

Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, let me get
Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, let me get
Get-get-get low
Get-get-get low for me
Get-get-get low
Get-get-get low for me

Writer/s: MARSHALL, NICOLE / PATTERSON, JACK / EMENIKE, UZOECHI / CHATTO, GRACE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Cologne

This song features the voices of Javeon and Nikki Cislyn. Clean Bandit met the latter vocalist through the group's studio space which is part of a council project in London where they take on trainees in music production from the local area. Cellist Grace Chatto told HMV.com : "Some of the trainees we had turned out to be incredible singers, Nikki Cislyn came to us that way, she's on three songs on the album and she's now writing for other people."

Clean Bandit wrote this with Nikki Cislyn and Nigerian-descended production whiz Uzoechi Emenike (a.k.a. MNEK), who scored his first UK #1 hit in April 2013 as a co-writer on Duke Dumont and AME's club anthem "Need U (100%)." The song deals with the theme of being in a club.

LL Cool J - 4-3-2-1

LL Cool J - 4-3-2-1 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Phenomenon
Released: 1997

4-3-2-1 Lyrics

4-3-2-1

This launched one of the most famous rivalries in rap history. During the recording of the song, Canibus used the lyric "Yo L, is that mic on your arm? Let me borrow that," referencing the tattoo of a microphone on LL Cool J's arm. This comment offended LL Cool J, who had the line from Canibus removed from the song, but used his verse on the song to launch an angry assault at Canibus, opening with the line "When young sons fantasize of borrowing flows, tell little shorty with the big mouth the bank is closed". Canibus retaliated by recording "Second Round Knock Out." LL Cool J followed that up with his own retaliation on "The Ripper Strikes Back," which also took shots at Canibus' mentor at the time, Wyclef Jean. Wyclef responded with "What's Clef Got To Do With It," to which LL Cool J retaliated with "Rasta Imposta." Of all these songs, only "Second Round Knock Out" by Canibus was commercially released, while the rest made their way through the hip-hop underground.

LL Cool J made several references to this rivalry on his 2000 album G.O.A.T., which was released nearly three years after the original incident took place. (thanks, Brian - Edmonton, Canada, for above 2)

Featured on this track are: Canibus, DMX, Method Man and Redman.

Clean Bandit - Up Again

Clean Bandit - Up Again Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: New Eyes
Released: 2014

Up Again Lyrics

I've given Up Again, maybe I'm just tired
Of thinking that there's one way, only one way out
I was hoping by now, that maybe I'd have found
Answers to the questions that are keeping me down

Even though I'm not over it yet
I can put forever in the plans that you have
Stupid and low with the odds that you bet
I can put forever in the plans that you have

Take my life and start it somewhere else
I breathe in the change
The only way is up again
Everybody knows that I
Won't make the same mistakes
The only way is up again

I wanna take it back, everything we had
The curse of love has had me and it turned my heart bad
With a will there's a way, definite, you say
I'm looking out to the water, I'm singing my heart out

Even though I'm not really over it yet
I can see forever in the plans that you had
Stupid low with odds that had you bet
I can see forever in the plans that you had

I've given up again, maybe I'm just tired
Of thinking that there was one way, only one way out
I was hoping by now, that maybe I'd have found
Answers to the questions that are keeping me down

Take my life and start it somewhere else
I breathe in the change
The only way is up again
Everybody knows that I
Won't make the same mistakes
The only way is up again

It's time to take it back, everything we had
The curse of love is healthy if it gives your heart back
With a will there's a way, to definite, you say
I'm running out to the water, I'm singing my heart out

Take my life and start it somewhere else
I breathe in the change
The only way is up again
Everybody knows that I
Won't make the same mistakes
The only way is up again

I've given up again, maybe I'm just tired
Of thinking that there's one way, only one way out
I was hoping by now, that maybe I'd have found
Answers to the questions that are keeping me down

(I'm singing my heart out)
The only way is up again
(I'm singing my heart out)

Writer/s: PATTERSON, JACK / CHATTO, GRACE / MORRIS, RAE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Up Again

The song features guest vocalist Rae Morris, who also filled in for three tracks on Bombay Bicycle Club's 2014 album, So Long, See You Tomorrow, while the band's regular collaborator, Lucy Rose, was on tour. She told Digital Spy about the collaboration. "I met Clean Bandit through my label. We're both on Atlantic. We'd met a couple of times and Jack [Patterson], he sent me just an instrumental track of 'Up Again' and it was actually called 'Hardcore Desk' or something, it has like a really weird name."

"I was in my shed in Blackpool, that's where I was writing songs, and yeah I wrote the melody and lyrics for that."

LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mama Said Knock You Out
Released: 1990

Mama Said Knock You Out Lyrics

Don't call it a comeback
I've been here for years
I'm rocking my peers
Puttin' suckers in fear
Makin' the tears rain down like a monsoon
Listen to the bass go boom
Explosions, overpowerin'
Over the competition I'm towerin'
Wrecking shop when I write these lyrics
That'll make you call the cops
Don't you dare stare, you better move
Don't ever compare
Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced
Competition's payin' the price

I'm gonna knock you out
Mama Said Knock You Out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out

Don't you call this a regular jam
I'm gonna rock this land
I'm gonna take this itty-bitty world by storm
And I'm just gettin' warm
Just like Muhammed Ali
They called him Cassius
Watch me bash this beat like a skull
That you know I've beef with
Why do you riff with me
The maniac psycho
And when I pull out my jammy get ready
Cause I might go Blaw!
How you like me now?
The ripper will not allow
You to get with Mr. Swift or Rift,
Listen to my gears shift
I'm blasting, I'm blasting
Kinda like shaft, so you can say I'm shafting
Oh, English filled my mind, and I came up with a funky rhyme

I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out

Shadow boxing when I heard you on the radio, UH
I just don't know
What made you forget that I was raw
But now I gotta new tour
I'm going insane
Startin' the hurricane
Releasin' pain
Lettin' you know
You can't gain or maintain
Unless you say my name
Rippin'
Killin'
Diggin' and drillin' a hole
Pass the Old Gold

I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out

Shotgun blasts are heard
When I rip and kill at will
The man of the hour, tower of power
I'll devour
I'm gonna tie you up and let you understand
That I'm not your average man
When I gotta jammy in my hand
Damn!
Oh!
Listen to the way I slay
Your crew
Damage
Damage
Destruction, terror, and mayhem
Pass me a sissy so sucker I'll slay him
Farmers (what)
Farmers (what)
I'm ready (we're ready)
I think I'm gonna bomb a town
Get down
Don't you never, ever
Pull my lever
Cause I explode
And my nine is easy to load
I gotta thank God
'Cause he gave me the strength to rock Hard

I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out
I'm gonna knock you out
Mama said knock you out

Writer/s: STEWART, SYLVESTER / SMITH, JAMES TODD / MCCANTS, JAMES / MCCANTS, LEROY / WILLIAMS, MARLON / MORRISON, WALTER / JACOBS, GREGORY / CLINTON, GEORGE S. / COLLINS, WILLIAM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., A SIDE MUSIC LLC
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Mama Said Knock You Out

LL Cool J has said that the title of this song came to him during an instance in which he was having trouble getting direction with his writing. When his grandmother heard about this, she gave him the simple advice to "knock them out," hence the song title. (thanks, Brian - Edmonton, Canada)

LL Cool J wrote this song about staying on top of the rap game. It was one of the first rap hits to use lots of artillery imagery, with bombs, shotguns and a 9mm pistol showing up in the rather bellicose lyric.

LL's lyrics are purely metaphorical, but around this time real violence within the hip-hop community was becoming a major problem. With the rise of "gangsta" rap, similar lyrics were often far more literal, depicting real-life events and credible threats.

This won the Grammy award for Best Rap Solo Performance.

LL Cool J performed this on the MTV acoustic showcase Unplugged when he became the first rapper to appear on the show.

Clean Bandit - New Eyes

Clean Bandit - New Eyes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: New Eyes
Released: 2014

New Eyes Lyrics

In the quiet of my room
I gather up my thoughts and questions
Could I ever be like you?
Could I ever be a person, so real and so true?
It seems implausible
I look at my reflection
If only I could say
The things I never mention
The things you never knew

And I'd like to thank you for the human I've become
I'm sorry if I've let you down
I'm trying, I'm learning as I stumble along
To see this new world without your eyes

Once upon a time there was a girl who so much loved the world
She gave her only begotten sunshine
And dried her stained eyes on a neck tie
Took the best lies made 'em truths
And spit sad soliloquies in the booth
'Cause people think they know but they barely knew
The reality of what the other-siders do
But I've been there, I've learned that
Seen a whole bunch of world and done came back
Got a reckoning for wrecking in my knapsack
'Bout to journey on foot through the outback
GRRRL PRTY is the label on my snapback
Doin' worldwide shows in a black hat
'Bout to tell your ass a story so take that
Free prophecies from a black cat

Seen his demise with a pair of brand New Eyes
It was sickening, guy
Never wanted to be stickin' it to thickening thighs
But now he deeper than the secrets that he keep with a lie
"Mm, tastes good!" baby say with a cry
Now wait
Thinkin' about it too much, too much
Deepen the profit sooner, sooner
He never wanted to be a loser
But the bruises of losing is oozing through his fingers
The tips that like to brush at my hips
Is now at the hilt of a sword, Lord
On the battlefield, torn, sworn
To never think about another lover
Hopin' he had time to recover but nothing's ever easy
Beware the sting of queen bee (Grr!)

And I'd like to thank you for the human I've become
I'm sorry if I've let you down
I'm trying, I'm learning as I stumble along
To see this new world without your eyes

So many things in he I would like to be
Wiser, more light on my feet
I could look up in the mirror and change me
Or right over my shoulder and save me
Thinkin' about back, back when, when I ain't have nothing
Not a thing or a ring to my name
Now my feet in the game, knee deep, don't speak
Feelin' like Gwen Stefani in this thing
But I can't complain 'cause we asked for this
Feelin' like a workaholic or a masochist
Don't call like I should like it's sacrilege
To make a dollar in a dream into packed venues
Take a second, put your shield down
Laying down my sword, getting off the battlefield now
Makin' bigger moves, bigger pictures in my view now
Get up out of my way I've got ammo for days, pow!

I can feel the weight of wars you've lost
They're victories in my eyes
Every swing you take brings me closer and closer
Open the gates and I'm poised to charge
You told me we'd never get this far
Now we at the final round
There's no way we'll escape battle scars
Battle scars

And I'd like to thank you for the human I've become
I'm sorry if I've let you down
I'm trying, I'm learning as I stumble along
To see this new world without your eyes

Writer/s: PATTERSON, JACK / CHATTO, GRACE / JEFFERSON, MELISSA
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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New Eyes

The title track of Clean Bandit's debut album was written in a place in France called Nouailles. Cellist Grace Chatto recalled: "No one was quite sure how to pronounce it and our manager nicknamed it as 'New Eyes', which stuck... It's the most personal song on the album, so we gave the album the same title."

The song features the voices of Clean Bandit bass guitarist and keyboardist Jack Patterson as well as US rapper Lizzo.

Pink Floyd - The Post War Dream

Pink Floyd - The Post War Dream Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Final Cut
Released: 1983

The Post War Dream Lyrics

Tell me true tell me why was Jesus crucified
Is it for this that daddy died?
Was it for you? was it me?
Did I watch too much t.v.?
Is that a hint of accusation in your eyes?
If it wasn't for the nips
Being so good at building ships
The yards would still be open on the clyde
And it can't be much fun for them
Beneath the rising sun
With all their kids committing suicide
What have we done maggie what have we done
What have we done to England
Should we shout should we scream
"What happened to The Post War Dream?"
Oh Maggie Maggie what have we done?

Writer/s: WATERS, ROGER
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The Post War Dream

The album was dedicated to Roger Waters' father, Eric Fletcher Waters, who died in WW2 at the battle of the Anzio bridge. (thanks, Lee - Durham, NC)

Anzio was a beach on the coast of Italy stormed mainly by the British (thus the lyric "The Anzio beachhead was held at the price of a few hundred ornery lives."). "Maggie" is Margaret Thatcher, who was the prime minister when the song was written (Winston Churchill was PM of England in WW2). "Tell me true, tell me why was Jesus crucified" was just Waters searching for some justification for his father being taken from him (also see "Was it you? Was it me? Did I watch too much TV?"). (thanks, Dan - Fort Collins, CO)

Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright was not on this album. He was kicked out of the band by Waters right before the release of The Wall. Many people say The Final Cut is a Roger Waters solo album. The lyrics in this album are depressing and serious, which shows you how angry Waters was at the time. (thanks, Lee - Durham, NC)

Clean Bandit - UK Shanty

Clean Bandit - UK Shanty Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mozart's House
Released: 2013

UK Shanty Lyrics

January always brings a fear of creatures
Strong-holdings and salt in places yet to heal
Crying at the site of strings
She was there when they came for you
A great man and the child in you
Enough when I take you far from here
Enough to cut a morning view

Strange how a sound could change your feelings
Staring wide and dirty breathing
I remember how a calling came in
Scared of deceiving and all I could hear was "Run!"

The fire, the fire

January always brings a fear of creatures
Strong-holdings and salt in places yet to heal
Crying at the site of strings
She was there when they came for you
A great man and the child in you
Enough when I take you far from here
Enough to cut a morning view

Writer/s: Patterson, Jack Robert / Shaddad, Eliza
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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UK Shanty

The song's music video was filmed along the Cornish coastline and stars the band's Cambridge contemporary Lily Cole as a mermaid. Asked by Rookie Creative how they got the model to be in the clip, violinist Neil Amin-Smith replied: "Lily's a friend of friend, and when Jack (Patterson, keyboards) decided he wanted a beautiful mermaid character asking her was a no-brainer! She was incredibly professional and generous with her time, especially as we were asking her to get in a murky pool outside in early January."

Clean Bandit almost accidentally electrocuted Lily Cole during the filming of the video. "In hindsight, maybe we should have had a couple of safety officers on board," Patterson told Billboard magazine with a smile. "But we take our videos very seriously. We are completely willing to die for them."

3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone

3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Away From The Sun
Released: 2002

When I'm Gone Lyrics

There's another world inside of me that you may never see.
There's secrets in this life that I can't hide.
Somewhere in this darkness there's a light that I can't find.
Maybe it's too far away
Or maybe I'm just blind
Maybe I'm just blind

So hold me when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong,
Hold me when I'm scared, and love me When I'm Gone.
Everything I am, and everything in me I'll also be the one you wanted me to be.
I'll never let you down, even if I could I'd give up everything if only for your good.
So hold me when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong.
You can hold me when I'm scared, you won't always be there, so love me when I'm gone.
Love me when I'm gone.

When your education x-ray cannot see under my skin.
I won't tell you a damn thing that I could not tell my friends.
Roaming through this darkness, I'm alive, but I'm alone.
Part of me is fighting this, but part of me is gone.

So hold me when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong,
Hold me when I'm scared, and love me when I'm gone.
Everything I am, and everything in me I'll also be the one you wanted me to be.
I'll never let you down, even if I could I'd give up everything if only for your good.
So hold me when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong.
You can hold me when I'm scared, you won't always be there, so love me when I'm gone.
Maybe I'm just blind.

So hold me when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong,
Hold me when I'm scared, and love me when I'm gone.
Everything I am, and everything in me I'll also be the one you wanted me to be.
I'll never let you down, even if I could I'd give up everything if only for your good.
So hold me when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong.
You can hold me when I'm scared, you won't always be there, so love me when I'm gone.
Love me when I'm gone.

Writer/s: ARNOLD, BRADLEY KIRK / ROBERTS, MATTHEW DARRICK / HARRELL, ROBERT TODD / HENDERSON, CHRISTOPHER LEE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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When I'm Gone

"When I'm Gone" does not necessarily mean "when I'm gone in a permanent sense." When Brad Arnold wrote this song, the subject he had in mind was unconditional love, for when you're removed from your loved one by miles, or time, or other obstacles. "It's asking a question, just please love me when I'm gone," says the lead singer. "And not just like when I'm dead and gone, but when I'm gonna come back. And that's kind of one thing it's about. But at the same time it's kind of about unconditional love. It's a lot of different statements it's asking of the person in that song. And it's like just the fulfillment of those different needs for every situation that it mentions. So I guess that song is just about needing someone really to be there for you unconditionally, and when you're gone."

An "education x-ray," explains Brad, would refer to a psychologist or therapist who doesn't actually take an x-ray of you with a machine, but rather forms a sort of mental x-ray of you by way of their educational training, and the time spent talking with you to make a diagnosis. In Brad's words: "It's when a kid's mom or dad is quick to take them to a psychologist or something, and it's like talking about their education x-ray trying to look into you. It's like, 'I'm not gonna tell you a damn thing that I couldn't tell my friends.'" (Check out our full interview with Brad Arnold)

Although the lyrics don't have anything to do with the army or war, the music video was dedicated to all the men and women serving in the United States military.

This song gained popularity around the time the US was preparing to invade Iraq. For many people in the military, it said a lot about how they were feeling being away from their families and loved ones, and reminded them that everyone back home was still thinking of them. (thanks, Chris - New Orleans, LA)

50 Cent - Animal Ambition

50 Cent - Animal Ambition Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Animal Ambition
Released: 2014

Animal Ambition Lyrics

I got that animal (Animal Ambition)
I got that animal (animal ambition)
I got that animal (animal ambition)
I got that animal (animal ambition)

While we were loving the fit
She just want some bread
I ain't talking to tits
And I just want some head
She from a Pirus sip
Where all them niggas wear red
I ain't flying no flags but I'm a gangster bitch
I say say no to drugs then I do that shit
Got a blue fleet of whips
I'm so hood nigga rich
You don't like the way I do it nigga eat your dick
I just call 'em when I want em don't need your bitch
Should see my blood on these diamonds everything proper
Your shit look grown and your shit look copper
It's turning homie that's why your turning on me
Admit it I made it, I can't be faded
I roll it up in public I'm a cancer man
Smoke it out in the open like I'm in Amsterdam
I do a hundred miles an hour switching lens in my lane
See my name around the globe niggas know who I am

I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)

You say you hustle like a hustle I be moving shit
Had a couch and a U-Haul filled up with bricks
Got them straps and long clips filled up with led
So when we count on the paper it better come back correct
We out in New Orleans baby niggas hungry for brick
I do that knife for stuntin' then get shot in the head
Every hood I go through they fuck with me you dig?
Got the eye of the tiger I'm on that animal shit
I got the heart of a lion and the looks of an elephant
Damn scared of rats, but I'm ready for anything
It's the unit my nigga, take a look at my face
See if you test me they'll arrest me I'll be catching a case
New York is a concrete jungle, where niggas got to get paid
Get in the way of that paper and niggas got to get sprayed
Look at me wrong and your dead
You would be very afraid
I don't know how to behave
I'm tamed fresh out the cage (urrhh)

I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)
(Urrhh) I got that animal (animal ambition)

Writer/s: Thornton, Steve McKinley / Jackson, Curtis James
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Animal Ambition

Asked by Digital Spy about the meaning behind the title Animal Ambition, 50 replied: "It is an untamed desire to win. I get high off these situations; I get high off being right. When you walk into the studio I'm not the guy listening to the snare by itself clap, clap, clap, clap, pop, bing, pop. I need to hear something that has the right pattern in it. I'll write the melodies and the words to it and know it's a hit."

"Knowing it's a hit is more valuable than you making it. It's about hearing a hit record, timing the hit record, getting the right producers in who have a higher possibility of walking out of that room with a hit," he continued. "Dre and Timbaland are those guys for me. It's their particular sound; Dre's is harder, his production is harder and my style of writing kind of matches it."

50 Cent raps here that he's frightened of rats:

Damn scared of rats, but I'm ready for anything

The rapper explained to The Guardian that he's not talking about the pesky long-tailed rodents. "No, I'm scared of what people may say to the police for no reason," he said. "I'm the guy from the neighborhood who's becoming a symbol of hope. They look at me and go, 'It is possible to make it.' I took all the dysfunctional behavior, everything damaging or that wasn't good in my life, and I turned it into the most beautiful nightmare you can actually create. That's my life."

Janis Ian - At Seventeen

Janis Ian - At Seventeen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Between The Lines
Released: 1975

At Seventeen Lyrics

I learned the truth At Seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say - come dance with me
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn't all it seems at seventeen

A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said - pity please the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve
The rich relationed hometown queen
Marries into what she needs
With a guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly

So remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debentures of quality and dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen

To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
When dreams were all they gave for free
To ugly duckling girls like me

We all play the game, and when we dare
We cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
That call and say - come on, dance with me
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen

Writer/s: Ian, Janis
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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At Seventeen

In our interview with Janis Ian, she explained that this song is about feeling alienated while growing up. It was more about Janis' life between the ages of 12-14, but "17" fit better into the lyrics.

Janis was 15 when she had her first hit song, "Society's Child," and had been on the road for two years by the time she was 17. Although her childhood was not typical, she knew what it felt like to feel out of place at a young age.

Speaking about crafting this story, Janis explained in our interview: "I never went to a prom, but I did go to my 6th grade dance. That's the trick, it's just like acting. How many people are playing Hamlet whose father is a king? You take your own experience, find something similar in it and draw on that. Even though I didn't go to the prom, I knew what it was like not to get asked to the dance."

This song came at an opportune time for Ian. She told us: "I had to move back into my mom's house because I was broke and I couldn't make any money on the road. I was sitting at the kitchen table with a guitar one day, and I was reading a New York Times article about a debutante, and the opening line was 'I learned the truth at 18.' I was playing that little samba figure, and that line struck me for some reason. The whole article was about how she learned being a debutante didn't mean that much. I changed it to 17 because 18 didn't scan."

Janis wrote the first verse quickly, finding it flowed in a logical pattern: "I leaned the truth at 17," what did you learn... "that love what meant for beauty queens," and who else... "and high school girls with clear skinned smiles," what do we not like about that... "who married young and then retired." The chorus was a lot harder to write. Janis explains that at some point you don't have a lot of control over a song. You can control the craft, but not the inspiration.

Janis told us: "I wrote the first verse and chorus and it was so brutally honest. It's hard to imagine now but people weren't writing that type of song then. I was coming out of listening to people like Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, who did write those kind of songs, but pop music and folk music really didn't. I remember thinking I couldn't blow this because it really was going to be a good song. I put it away for three weeks and it took about three months to write the whole thing. I couldn't figure out the ending, I couldn't figure out what to do with her, then I thought I would recap it, bring myself into it and bring it into the past."

When she went to record this, Janis knew it was going to be a hit and wanted to make sure it came out right. She kicked the lead guitarist out of the session because he wasn't trying very hard to capture the feel of the song, replacing him with a young kid who was "so scared you could smell his sweat across the room." This made the other musicians in the room pay attention, and helped capture the feeling of confusion and adolescence Janis was going for.

Janis Ian: "To me it's never been a depressing song. It says 'ugly duckling girls like me,' and to me the ugly duckling always turns into a swan. It offers hope that there is a world out there of people who understand."

Getting this on the radio was no easy task. Not only was it packed with lyrics, but at 3:56, it was about a minute longer than most songs radio stations were playing. Janis and her management decided to market it to women, and because radio stations were dominated by men, they had to get creative. They sent copies of the song to the program director's wives, then put Janis on every daytime TV show they could. It was six months of exhausting, grassroots promotion, which paid off when they got a spot on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. This pushed the song over the top and it became a hit.

This was nominated for five Grammy Awards, the most any female artist had ever been nominated for at the time. It won for Best Female Pop Vocal.

Ian performed this song on the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. (thanks, Michael - Mountain View, CA)

Hamilton Leithauser - The Silent Orchestra

Hamilton Leithauser - The Silent Orchestra Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Black Hours
Released: 2014

The Silent Orchestra Lyrics

The Silent Orchestra

Speaking with Radio.com , Leithauser admitted that he is "obsessive" and often wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about how he can make a song better. "Sometimes I can't stop thinking about songs, and it will make me feel crazy," he said.

This song is a case in point as Leithauser spent nearly a year working on the tune, trying to get it just right. "I couldn't sleep, but I couldn't finish it. It made me crazy," he said. "Usually 99 percent of the time with songs like that, you lose the fight [and] it never comes out, but not this time."