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Jamie Lynn Spears - Shotgun Wedding

Jamie Lynn Spears - Shotgun Wedding Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Journey
Released: 2014

Shotgun Wedding Lyrics

Shotgun Wedding

Jamie Lynn Spears came to prominence as a teenager when she portrayed the titular character Zoey Brooks in the Nickelodeon television series Zoey 101. However, in 2007, the sixteen-year-old generated controversy after announcing her pregnancy, before giving birth to daughter Maddie Aldridge the following year. This uptempo rocker finds Jamie Lynn recounting finding out about her pregnancy in a gas-station bathroom and her ensuing quick engagement to then-boyfriend, Casey Aldridge. (They never actually got married).

Spears wrote the track with Chris Tompkins (Florida Georgia Line, Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood) in 2008 or 2009. She cites it as one first songs she ever wrote and represents the beginning stage of her music career. Spears told Billboard magazine: "When I moved to Nashville, and was in a writing room with different writers, 'Shotgun Wedding' was one of the first songs we came up with. Chris says 'If that's what happened, you can sing it.' That made me feel so great – to be myself and who I am.' It makes me proud."

Slipknot - Wait and Bleed

Slipknot - Wait and Bleed Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slipknot
Released: 1999

Wait and Bleed Lyrics

I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wonder out where you can't see
Inside my shell, I Wait and Bleed

I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wonder out where you can't see
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed

Goodbye!

I wipe it off on tile, the light is brighter this time
Everything is 3D blasphemy
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
This is not the way I pictured me
I can't control my shakes
How the hell did I get here?
Something about this, so very wrong
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this
Is it a dream or a memory?

I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wonder over where you can't see
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed

Get outta my head 'cause I don't need this
Why I didn't I see this?
I'm a victim, Manchurian candidate
I have sinned by just
Makin' my mind up and takin' your breath away

I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wander over where you can't see
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed

I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wonder out where you can't see
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed

Goodbye!

You haven't learned a thing
I haven't changed a thing
My flesh was in my bones
The pain was always free

You haven't learned a thing
I haven't changed a thing
My flesh was in my bones
The pain was always free

I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wonder out where you can't see
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed

I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wonder out where you can't see
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed

And it waits for you!

Writer/s: Crahan, Michael Shawn / Gray, Paul Dedrick / Jordison, Nathan Jonas / Taylor, Corey Todd / Wilson, Sidney George / Fehn, Christopher Michael / Jones, Craig Alan / Thomson, Mickael Gordon
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Wait and Bleed

This is about a man who keeps having repetitive black and white dreams about laying in a bathtub full of his own blood with his wrists slit. One day he wakes up and sees that his dream has become a reality, but he doesn't want to believe it and he tries to fall back asleep again.

On the Digipack of their self-titled release, there is a remix of the song mixed by Terry Date. This is the version usually played by radio stations. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 2)

Slipknot drummer Chris Fehn (#3) told us about this track: "It was just a basic song. We didn't know it was going to be that popular. The funny thing is the record label, especially new guys at the record label, were coming around when we started getting big, and they're like, 'Oh, the next record you can write like three Wait And Bleeds.' And we're just like, You are an idiot. Therefore, we don't do that. But obviously the band, believe it or not, we have so much control over what we do that we don't write anything for money, we don't write anything for popularity, we have to like it first. And it's just a song that we liked, and it just so happened that it got on the radio and got the attention that we didn't expect." (Check out our interview with Chris Fehn.)

In the lyrics when Corey says, "I am a victim, a Manchurian Candidate!," he is referring to a movie from 1962 about communist mind control. (thanks, Stu - Dayton, OH)

The picture on the album cover was taken in Shawn Crahan's parents' garage. (thanks, Sean - York, SC)

Thomas Mignone directed the video. His other credits include "Death Blooms" and "Dig" for Mudvayne and "Dress Like a Target" for Superjoint Ritual.

Mariah Carey - Money

Mariah Carey - Money Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse
Released: 2014

Money Lyrics

I can’t leave it like that
M-C
F-A-B (nice)
H-B, Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie
'Cause I come home to you

Come on Mariah and let’s get higher
Come on Mariah and let’s get higher
Hit Boy on the beat, oh yeah that’s timeless
Oh you know that’s timeless

Baby 'cause your love is good
That’s why I be on it
Zoning, calling, phoning for you babe
And I dream
the impossible dream
When you and I alone, ooh

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Shorty like to vacay, do it with the hood here
Shorty like a bad boy, ask em what’s good with her
Shorty like a good shoe, shorty like a nice bag
Shorty be expensive, it shows like a price tag
Shorty swole back there, I’ma need to ice that
Shorty got the cake though, you niggas never slice that
Shorty like them Roleys, shorty know what time it is
Met a few gayzees, I showed her what a diamond is

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Baby 'cause your love is good
That’s why I be on it
Zoning, calling, phoning for you babe
And I dream
the impossible dream
When you and I alone, oh

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money over here, we ain’t even gotta say it
Just know I’m getting money every time they play it
I ain’t got no beef but when I do I’m gon’ filet it
And it costs to be the boss so I go ahead and pay it
'Cause that’s just who I am
Eating like it’s thanksgiving, not just for the fam
Picture me rolling 2 Pac and for the gram
With my Roley in the sky, do it big baby baby

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

They don’t mean nothing
They don’t mean nothing
They don’t mean nothing, oh

They don’t mean nothing (come on Mariah and let’s get higher)
They don’t mean nothing (come on Mariah and let’s get higher=
They don’t mean nothing (Hit Boy on the beat, oh yeah that’s timeless)
Baby, ay

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than (money over here, we don't even gotta say it)
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other (money over here, we don't even gotta say it)
Don’t mean nothing other than (at the end of the day)
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, M-C
Money, F-A-B
Money

Writer/s: ROGER WATERS
Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
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Money

Over a thumping Hit-Boy beat, this song finds Mariah singing about how money isn't that important to her. "He is a favorite of mine," Carey told MTV News of Hit-Boy (Kanye West and Jay Z's "Niggas in Paris"). "We really got it together and had philosophical conversations about music in general."

Mariah is joined by rapper Fabolous on this anti-materialistic R&B jam.

Blondie - Dreaming

Blondie - Dreaming Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Eat To The Beat
Released: 1979

Dreaming Lyrics

When I met you in the restaurant you could tell I was no debutante.
You asked me what's my pleasure, "A movie or a measure"?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreamin'
Dreamin' is free.
Dreamin', Dreaming is free.

I don't want to live on charity.
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living verite.
People stop and stare at me, we just walk on by
We just keep on dreamin'.

Beat feet, walking a two-mile.
Meet me, meet me at the turnstile.
I never met him, I'll never forget him.
Dream dream, even for a little while.
Dream dream, filling up an idle hour.
Fade away, radiate.

I sit by and watch the river flow.
I sit by and watch the traffic go.
Imagine something of your very own, something you can have and hold.
I'd build a road in gold just to have some dreamin'.
Dreamin' is free.
Dreamin', dreamin' is free.

Dreamin', dreamin' is free.
Dreamin', dreamin' is free.

Writer/s: DEBORAH HARRY, CHRIS STEIN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Dreaming

Blondie guitarist Chris Stein wrote the music for this song and came up with the line "dreaming is free." Lead singer Debbie Harry would often write lyrics after hearing the tracks for the songs, and that's what she did here.

The song starts out with a coherent story - Harry getting propositioned in a restaurant - but it quickly veers off in many directions, simulating a dream where one idea jumps to the next with no real rhyme or reason. It works well with the theme and with the track, including the bridge where Harry repeats the first word of each line:

Feet feet, walking a two mile
Meet meet, meet me at the turnstile

A similar structure can be heard in the 1982 Kim Wilde song "Kids In America."

Chris Stein said this song was "pretty much a cop" of "Dancing Queen" by ABBA.

Perhaps is was just a convenient word to rhyme with "pleasure," but when Harry sings "A movie or a measure," the word "measure" could be interpreted a few different ways. It might mean a plan of action, as in taking some kind of trip, or possibly a measure in the musical sense, meaning the rhythm.

The Schoolyard by Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down

The Schoolyard by Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Paul Simon
Released: 1972

Me And Julio Down Lyrics

When the mama pajama rolled out a bed
She ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout

And he started the investigation
It's against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
It was against the law

The mama look down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
The papa said, "Oy, if I get that boy,
I'm gonna stick him the house of detention"
Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie the queen of Corona
See you, me and Julio
Down by the school yard
Me And Julio Down by the school yard

In a couple of days they come and
Take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek

Yeah I'm on my way now
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way now, I'm taking my time
But I don't know where
Goodbye to Rosie the queen of Corona
See you, me and Julio
Down by the school yard
See you me and Julio
Down by the school yard
See you me and Julio
Down by the school yard

Writer/s: SIMON, PAUL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Me And Julio Down

When asked what "Mama Pajama" saw that made her so distraught in this song, Paul Simon has said that he's not exactly sure, but he assumed it was something sexual. Simon made up a crazy little story for the song, and named the main character Julio because it sounded like a typical New York neighborhood kid (Simon grew up in Queens). What Paul didn't realize until years later was the impact the song had on Spanish-speaking listeners who were thrilled to hear a song coming out of America with a Latin name in the title.

The title is not proper grammar. "Julio and I down by the schoolyard" would be correct, but wouldn't capture the youthful innocence that made the song so popular.

Paul Simon was Simon's first solo album after he broke up with Art Garfunkel.

Simon made a video for this song in 1988 that showed him playing basketball with some school kids on a playground. The video had a rap intro by Biz Markie and Big Daddy Kane, and a cameo by baseball legend Mickey Mantle, who lip-synchs the chorus. At the end of the video, NFL Hall-of-Famer John Madden is shown giving tips to the young players. (thanks, Alex - small town, IL)

The BBC refused to play this song because of the reference to Newsweek, which is an American magazine. The BBC had a strict policy against product mentions in the songs they played.

Simon played this song on a Season 8 Sesame Street appearance where he sings it on a stoop as a small group of children watch. One of the kids interjects her own lyrics from time to time, clearly having fun with it. Simon was one of the first big-name musical acts to appear on the show, which was filmed in his New York City stomping grounds. Once a generation of musicians who grew up watching Sesame Street came of age, the show had no trouble getting famous acts to appear.

Pixies - Silver Snail

Pixies - Silver Snail Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Indie Cindy
Released: 2014

Silver Snail Lyrics

On my way back to one
Half asleep with a loaded gun
In a room with a light bulb sun
Ain't no place far too high

Add an orgy of rooms and vibes
And the sea of the suicides
Follow me, see my silver trails
Blessed me, when is a snail a tail
I am the Silver Snail

On my way back to one
On my way back to seventh sun
Then I count to a million
He will awake from his dream
Find his way in these honey beans
Find a way to the queen of queens

Silver spoons for my silver snails
Like harpoons for the killer wales
I am the silver snail
On my way back to one
Half asleep with a loaded gun
In a room with a light bulb sun
On my way back to one
Half asleep with a loaded gun
In a room with a light bulb sun

Writer/s: THOMPSON, CHARLES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Silver Snail

Pixies' Black Francis said about the Mount Emult directed video for the track. "We've always liked the idea of working with young, up-and-coming, independent film makers, as we think that their energy and vision would probably best compliment what we've tried to do with our music."

"Consequently, we've really had very little creative input in this new 'Silver Snail' video or any of the others that have been made for the Indie Cindy project," he added. "I think the only direction we've given any of those who have made a music video for us this time was just to be as creative and innovative as they want - no barriers. And looking back at the series of videos we have for this project, they've all done just that."

Asked by Q magazine about the inspiration for this song, Black Francis replied: "Snails of course, and the reproductive technique they've developed over time. That was a big inspiration. It's a very psychedelic thing. They're asexual and they shoot these little harpoons at each other through the air (makes gunshot noises) at each other. So there's a lot of references to how they procreate."

"But sex is considered a creative energy, so the next layer of the song is self-referential to the band. It's about the band and it's about snails pretty much."

While we are on the subject of snails, here are some fun facts:

A snail can sleep for three years.

Garden Snails can have up to 25,000 thousand teeth, which are mounted on their tongue (radula). They are classed as Gastropods meaning, "walking stomach."

Giving Prozac to a snail renders it unable to stick to surfaces.

The slipper-shelled snail starts life as a male and gradually turns female as it grows up.

The French eat 25,000 tons of snails a year, equivalent to 700 million individual snails. Roman - or Burgundy- snails are among the most popular.

UB40 - Red Red Wine

UB40 - Red Red Wine Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Labour Of Love
Released: 1983

Red Red Wine Lyrics

Red, red wine, goes to my head,
Makes me forget that I
Still need you so

Red, red wine, it's up to you
All I can do, I've done
But memories won't go
No, memories won't go

I'd have thought that with time
Thoughts of you would leave my head
I was wrong, now I find
Just one thing makes me forget

Red, red wine, stay close to me
Don't let me be alone
It's tearing apart
My blue, blue heart

I'd have thought that with time
Thoughts of you would leave my head
I was wrong, now I find
Just one thing makes me forget

Red, red wine, stay close to me
Don't let me be alone
It's tearing apart
My blue, blue heart

Writer/s: DIAMOND, NEIL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Red Red Wine

This was written and first recorded by Neil Diamond. His original version first appeared on his 1967 album Just For You (Bang 217) and was produced by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich (a.k.a. The Raindrops of "The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget" fame). Neil's version of the song (Bang single 556) peaked at #62 over a three-week run in April 1968.

In the UK, two versions of the song charted in 1969: a soul cover by Jimmy James & The Vagabonds hit #36 (it also made #127 in the US), and a Reggae rendition by Tony Tribe hit #46. UB40, whose members grew up listening to these versions, took it to #1 UK with their 1983 cover.

The lyrics sing the praises of wine, and its ability to make you forget your problems. Diamond wrote another song about red wine in 1970 with Cracklin' Rosie.

UB40 recorded this as a cover of the Tony Tribe 1969 reggae version, which reached #46 in the UK charts. The band did not realize until after it topped the charts that Neil Diamond wrote it and originally recorded it. Lead singer Ali Campbell recalls in the book 1000 UK #1 Hits: "The funny thing about the song is we only knew it as a Reggae song. We had no idea that Neil Diamond wrote it." Terence "Astro" Wilson, confirmed: "Even when we saw the writing credit which said N. Diamond, we thought it was a Jamaican artist called Negus Diamond or something."

This was re-issued in the States after DJ Guy Zapoleon at KZZP-FM in Phoenix, Arizona included the song on his "Would've Been, Should've Been" feature. There was such a positive response that he urged the record company to re-issue the single. Within a few weeks the song had climbed to the top of the charts.

UB40's original recording reached #34 in the US in March 1984 when it was released on A&M 2600. This version clocked in at 3:00. In 1988, it was reissued as a longer version (5:16) with a rap by Terence "Astro" Wilson, and finally hit #1.

The 1969 Tony Tribe version caught on in England with a hooligan crowd known as "bovver boys." These guys typically sported shaved heads, heavy boots, and cropped pants held up by suspenders (or as they're called in England, "braces").

Tribe performed the song in September, 1969 at a reggae festival held in London at Empire Pool; other acts on the bill included Desmond Dekker, Johnny Nash and Max Romeo. To show his support for the bovver boys who bought his record, Tribe wore suspenders for his performance. His cover of the song would later find its way onto various "skinhead reggae" playlists.

The album Labour Of Love is a collection of covers comprised of reggae songs the band grew up listening to; other tracks include "Many Rivers To Cross" by Jimmy Cliff and "Cherry Oh Baby" by Eric Donaldson. It was UB40's fourth album, and the group was eager to expose their expanding fanbase to the reggae classics they loved. "Before we come along, people just looked on reggae as Rastaman, and half the white English people don't want to know," the group's rapper Astro Wilson told NME. "To some degree that alienated people from getting into reggae. When we came out - just the fact that half the band are white when reggae was supposed to be for Rastas only - they started to realize that reggae is just music and it's there for whoever wants to listen to it, and whoever wants to play it."

This song didn't take off America when it was first released in 1983, but another reggae tune did: "Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant, which hit #2. UB40 bass player Earl Falconer recalls being mistaken for Grant when the band toured in America around this time.

In the music video, lead singer Ali Campbell is actually drinking beer, and not red wine. The video was filmed in a local Birmingham, England pub where you wouldn't want to be caught drinking wine.

To avoid hiring extras, the band invited guys from a nearby factory to join them at the pub, graciously paying the bar bill in exchange for their services. It was shot in the morning, and by noon, most of these hired hands were blotto. According to various accounts, when they staggered back to work, they were fired on the spot, although later given their jobs back.

The black-and-white clip was directed by Bernard Rose, who worked on many of UB40's videos and also directed the original, bacchanalian "Relax" clip for Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

In America, a slower, string-laden version of the song made #70 Vic Dana (Liberty 56163) in 1970.

UB40's next #1 UK hit came in 1985 with another reggae-tinged cover of a song by an American artist: "I Got You Babe." They recorded the song with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, who brought them on tour early in their career. This cover also made #28 in America.

Sam Smith - Good Thing

Sam Smith - Good Thing Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: In the Lonely Hour
Released: 2014

Good Thing Lyrics

I had a dream I was mugged outside your house
I had a dream in a panic you came running out
For a moment you were sure I'd die on you
For a moment I believed you loved me too
But life is never like this, and you're never strong

Too much of a Good Thing won't be good for long
Although you made my heart sing, to stay with you would be wrong
Too much of a good thing won't be good anymore
Watch where I tread before I fall

We'd talk maybe 20 times a day
And still I never say what I want to say
I thought I wouldn't need to
I guess I read you wrong

Too much of a good thing won't be good for long
Although you made my heart sing, to stay with you would be wrong
Too much of a good thing won't be good anymore
Watch where I tread before I fall

You refuse to see this, don't see it anymore
I have made the decision not to answer your calls
Cause I put everything out there and I got nothing at all

Too much of a good thing isn't good and you know
I watch where I walk before I fall
Before I fall

Writer/s: SMITH, SAM / WHITE, EG
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Good Thing

Sam Smith wrote this song with Eg White (Adele, Will Young). He told 4Music : "This track is me at my most vulnerable. I had no energy when writing this and this is the demo. It's me at my rawest."

The song is a track from Smith's debut LP In The Lonely Hour. He told The Sun: "This album is about me falling in love with someone who didn't want me back, which has happened many times."

This was one of two tracks on In the Lonely Hour that Sam Smith penned with Eg White ("I've Told You Now" was the other one). He recalled to Digital Spy : "With all the songs we did together, we wrote in a very odd way. We didn't actually start making music at the beginning of the session, we would sit and he would just ask me about what I was going through."

"With this song, I showed him my text messages. I was showing him some things I had been saying between me and another guy, and he was writing down everything I was saying. He started playing some music and the song was then basically already written. 'Good Thing', for me, is the darkest song on the record. If you actually listen to my vocal, I'm not even trying to sing or sound pretty because I was so upset and sad. I kind of loved that and I feel like it really came across in the song."

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Boots
Released: 1966

These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Lyrics

You keep saying you got something for me
Something you call love but confess
You've been a'messin' where you shouldn't 've been a'messin'
And now someone else is getting all your best

These boots are made for walking,
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

You keep lyin' when you oughta be truthin'
You keep losing when you oughta not bet
You keep samin' when you oughta be a'changin'
Now what's right is right but you ain't been right yet

These boots are made for walking,
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

You keep playing where you shouldn't be playing
And you keep thinking that you'll never get burnt (HAH)
I just found me a brand new box of matches (YEAH)
And what he knows you ain't had time to learn
These boots are made for walking,
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

Are you ready, boots? Start walkin'

Writer/s: HAZLEWOOD, LEE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

Nancy is Frank Sinatra's daughter. She is best known for this song, but is far from a one-hit-wonder: she charted 10 times on the US Top-40 from 1966-1968, with six solo hits, three duets with Lee Hazlewood and one with her dad - the #1 "Somethin' Stupid." She also appeared in several movies, including Speedway with Elvis Presley.

Nancy was on the same record label as her famous father, but they were going to drop her because her first few singles flopped. Things changed when they teamed her with producer Lee Hazlewood, who wrote this for her and had her lower her delivery. The first attempt was "So Long Babe," which was a minor hit and the second was "These Boots are Made For Walkin'." Nancy regretted the song, saying in 1971, "The image created by 'Boots' isn't the real me. 'Boots' was hard and I'm as soft as they come."

But then Lee had written the song for himself: "It was a party song I had written 2 or 3 years before that. It was a joke to begin with. I had written a beautiful song for her, 'The City Never Sleeps At Night,' and she wondered if it would sell. I replied, 'Three times more than 'So Long Babe,' and that did 60,000. We're building up your career.' I changed my mind and put it on the back of 'Boots' and that sold 6 million."

Lee Hazlewood said of this song: "When 'Boots' was #1 in half the countries in the world, Nancy came over to my house, and she was crying. She said, 'They didn't pick up on my option at Reprise and they said I owed them $12,000.' I said, 'You're kidding, we've got the biggest record in the world.' I rang my lawyer in New York and I rang Nancy the next day and said, 'How would you like $1 million? I've got 3 labels that are offering that for you right now and I can get something pretty good for myself as well.' She talked to her father and he said she could write her own contract with Reprise - after all she was selling more records than him at the time." (Quotes from 1000 UK #1 Hits .)

Nancy Sinatra recalled in the documentary The Wrecking Crew that Lee Hazlewood was going to record the song himself, but she talked him out of it. Said Sinatra, "When a guy sings it, the song sounds harsh and abusive, but it's perfect for a little girl."

Hazlewood had a long and distinctive career as a songwriter, producer and performer. He did a series of duets with Nancy Sinatra in the mid-'60s where he often had her play up the sexuality of the songs. Hazlewood also worked with Duane Eddy, and enjoyed a resurgence in the '90s when a younger generation discovered his earlier solo efforts.

Hazlewood often drew inspiration for his songs from regular people. In a Blender magazine interview, he said he was in a Texas bar when some patrons started razzing an older guy about his younger girlfriend and how she controlled him. The man responded by putting his feet on a barstool and saying, "I know what you think - that she might be the boss. But I am the boss of my house, and these boots will walk all over her the day that I'm not."

Talk about a "walking" bass line - to accompany the image of boots walking all over a man, Chuck Berghofer was brought in to play the string bass (Carol Kaye played the electric). Hazelwood had him play short sliding notes to get the sound.

This was covered by country singer Billy Ray Cyrus on the same album as "Achy Breaky Heart" entitled Some Gave All. Other artist to cover the song include LaToya Jackson and Crispin Hellion Glover. (thanks, Doogen - Evansville, IN)

In the 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket, this was used in a scene where a prostitute solicits business in Vietnam. Another popular movie appearance of the song was in the 1994 film Prêt-Á -Porter. This version was sung by Sam Phillips, who was always a big fan of the song. She told us that she would like to someday do a drastically different take on the song, as she feels the definitive version - Sinatra's - has already been done.

Megadeth did a cover of this for Killing is my Business... and Business is Good. The original edition included the uncensored version, but subsequent pressings include a censored, heavily bleeped version, due to songwriter Lee Hazlewood's refusal to grant the group the rights to re-release the version with its altered lyrics intact. (thanks, Kyle - Montreal, Canada)

Jessica Simpson and Willie Nelson did a duet on this song for the soundtrack of the 2005 movie The Dukes Of Hazzard. Their version was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis with some additional lyrics written by Simpson. Nelson played Uncle Jessie in the movie and Simpson played Daisy Duke. In the video, a brawl breaks out at The Boar's Nest but it turns into a hoedown when a bunch of girls come in wearing daisy duke shorts. Their version was used in a TV ad campaign for Pizza Hut starring Simpson. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

The Fixx recorded this for the 2002 album When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear . Cevin Soling, who was the album's executive producer, explains how this came together: "The way I first became aware of that song was through a very, very strange cover that I don't think has ever been released, of that song. I used to listen to the Dr. Demento Show, and there was this band, Barnes And Barnes, who were known for having done the song 'Fish Heads.' They did this cover of 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin',' only they called it 'These Newts Are Made For Crawling.' I was pretty little, but that was essentially how I got to learn the song. And yeah, it was a great track, and the strange parody cover was sort of responsible for that.

(The Fixx) took a long time on that track, because they were kind of going back and forth, because they really were kind of perfectionist about things, and they weren't just going to do something if they didn't think they could do it well. They made, I think, 3 attempts at it before they finally were happy. But they took it all very seriously." (Check out our interview with Cevin Soling.)

In 1996, Nancy Sinatra gave the famous white go-go boots she wore to promote this song to the Hard Rock Cafe in Beverly Hills. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Stan Cornyn, music executive and celebrated writer of liner notes, waxed poetic about Nancy Sinatra in the notes for this song:

"'How should I sing this?'
'Like a 16-year-old girl who's been dating a 40-year-old man, but it's all over now.'
She looks good, dresses good, lives good, eats, drinks, loves, breathes, dances, sings, cries good. Five-foot-three and tiger eyes. A mouth made for lollipops or kisses, stingers or melting smiles. Ninety-five pounds of affection. She's been there already. Barely in her twenties, she looks younger. That look, like Lolita Humbert, like Daisy Clover. The power to exalt, or to destroy, wanting only the former, but unafraid to invoke the latter if the time comes. The eyes that see through, know more, look longer. Unafraid to pull on the boots again, toss off a burnt out thing with a casual 'So long, babe,' and get.

A young, fragile, living thing, on its own in a wondrous-wicked-woundup-wasted-wild-worried-wisedup-warmbodied world. On her own. Earning her daily crepes and Cokes by singing the facts of love. Her voice tells as much as her songs. No faked up grandeur, her voice is like it is: a little tired, little put down, a lot loving.
No one is born sophisticated. It's a place you have to crawl to, crawling out of hayseed country, over miles of unsanded pavement, past Trouble, past corners and forks with no auto club signs to point you, till you get there and you wake up wiser.

She's arrived. She sings you about the long crawl. And makes you have to listen."

Eileen Goldsen recorded versions in French, Italian, and German in 1966. The German version ("Die Stiefel sind zum wandern") was prominently featured in the 2013 Orphan Black episode "Instinct."

Sam Smith - Like I Can

Sam Smith - Like I Can Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: In the Lonely Hour
Released: 2014

Like I Can Lyrics

He could be a sinner, or a gentleman
He could be your preacher, when your soul is down
He could be your lawyer on a witness stand but
He'll never love you Like I Can, can

He could be a stranger, he gave a certain glance
He could be a trophy, of a one night stand
He could have your humor, but I don't understand cause
He'll never love you like I can, can, can

Why are you looking down all the wrong roads
When mine is the heart and the soul of the song
There may be lovers who hold out their hands but
He'll never love you like I can, can, can

A chance encounter of circumstance
Baby he's a mantra, keeps your mind entranced
He could be the silence in this mayhem, but then again
He'll never love you like I can, can, can

Why are you looking down all the wrong roads
When mine is the heart and the soul of the song
There may be lovers who hold out their hands but
He'll never love you like I can, can, can

We both have demons, that we can't stand
I love your demons, like devils can
If you're still seeking an honest man
And stop deceiving Lord please

Why are you looking down all the wrong roads
When mine is the heart and the soul of the song
There may be lovers who hold out their hands but
He'll never love you like I can, can, can

Writer/s: SMITH, SAM / PRIME, MATT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Like I Can

This song was inspired by Oleta Adams' "Get Here." Smith told 4Music : "I used that same format with the list of ways that he will never love you like I can."

Many of the songs on In The Lonely Hour were penned by Smith about his unrequited love for another man. He told The Sun: "I was the only one in the relationship. We never even kissed, nothing ever happened. He highlighted something about myself - that I was really lonely. I'd never been in a relationship before and that was starting to affect me."

The black-and-white music video, directed by Sophie Muller (Gwen Stefani, Beyonce, Ellie Goulding), shows Smith with a bunch of guys at a bachelor party.

Matthew Good - Haven't Slept In Years

Matthew Good - Haven't Slept In Years Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts
Released: 1995

Haven't Slept In Years Lyrics

Make me your animal
Make me your freak
And I will pack them in
It's understandable
After all you're only human
All this time it's been killing me
All this time it's been caving in my head
Killing me
Alive, alive, alive
You're dead

Haven't Slept In Years
Haven't talked to anybody else
Haven't slept in years
Haven't talked to anybody else

Make me your cannibal
Make me your product
And I will make you rich
It's still fashionable, isn't it?
All this time it's been killing you
All this time it's been caving in your head
Killing you
Alive, alive, alive
You're dead

Haven't slept in years
Haven't talked to anybody else
Haven't slept in years
Haven't talked to anybody else

Writer/s: Good, Matthew
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Haven't Slept In Years

This song is about Joseph Merrick, also known as The Elephant Man, whose head was literally caving in from deformities, and was unable to sleep lying down because it could fatally injure him.

Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts was Good's first CD. He parted with a lot of his own money to make it. Fortunately for him, the album did well and made his investment worthwhile. (thanks, Jeffrey - Victoria, Canada)

Sam Smith - Make It to Me

Sam Smith - Make It to Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: In the Lonely Hour
Released: 2014

Make It to Me Lyrics

My mind runs away to you
With the thought I hope you'll see
Can't see where it's wandered to
But I know where it wants to be

I'm waiting patiently though time is moving slow
I have one vacancy and I wanted you to know that

You're the one designed for me
A distant stranger that I will complete
I know you're out there we're meant to be
So keep your head up and Make It to Me
And make it to me

So sick of this lonely air
It seems such a waste of breath
So much that I need to say
So much to get off my chest

I'm waiting patiently though time is moving slow
I have one vacancy and I wanted you to know that

You're the one designed for me
A distant stranger that I will complete
I know you're out there we're meant to be
So keep your head up and make it to me
Make it to me

Writer/s: SMITH, SAM / NAPIER, JAMES / LAWRENCE, HOWARD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Make It to Me

This is the closing track from the deluxe version of In the Lonely Hour. Smith explained to Radio.com that the album tackles his lack of a love life. "I've never been in a relationship before," he revealed. "When I was writing this album, I really delved into that fact. I delved into [how] I fell in love with someone who didn't love me back, last year. I really went inside myself and I wanted to write an album for lonely people, because I don't think there's been enough music out there that talks about unrequited love."

Smith told 4Music regarding this song: "I wanted to finish this album with a hopefully message. This is my grand mating call haha."