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Mariah Carey - Thirsty

Mariah Carey - Thirsty Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

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

Thirsty Lyrics

Thirsty

This bouncy track finds Carey telling off her lover for being thirsty for celebrity instead of giving her affection. The song was co-written by singer and produced by Chauncey Hollis aka Hit-Boy, who also who has also worked on tracks by the likes of Eminem, Jennifer Lopez, Lil Wayne and Rihanna.

The single version of the song features a guest verse by Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan ("Type Of Way").

Lifehouse - Anchor

Lifehouse - Anchor Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Stanley Climbfall
Released: 2002

Anchor Lyrics

I stand with a blank expression now
And I can't believe myself
Would someone tell me how
Did I get here

I am walking
Changing slowly
I am chasing
Climbing closer

I know that I'll never be alone
You will never let me go
You are my Anchor
Hold my hand while I'm sinking in the sand
No one else could understand
You are my anchor

It seems that I lost track of time
And I can't believe my mind
Would you save me if
I reached out to you

I am waiting
Watching, standing
I am reaching
Climbing closer

I know that I'll never be alone
You will never let me go
You are my anchor
Hold my hand while I'm sinking in the sand
No one else could understand
You are my anchor

Anchor yeah

Can you hear me, hear me
Can you hear me

Writer/s: JASON WADE, CARL WILLARD BROEMEL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Anchor

Lead singer Jason Wade: "I didn't realize it while I was writing this, but someone pointed out that the stanza "Hold my hand/ While I'm sinking in the sand/ No one else would understand/ You are my anchor" can be taken two ways: You can love someone, but they can bring you down, too." (thanks, Patti - Mahopac, NY)

Michael Jackson - Do You Know Where Your Children Are

Michael Jackson - Do You Know Where Your Children Are Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Xscape
Released: 2014

Do You Know Where Your Children Are Lyrics

Father comes home from work, and he's scared to death
Mother cries for the kid, and the note she read
Father runs to the table, he says "What's going on?"
Mother cries desperately, "Our little baby's gone!"

Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

She wrote that she is tired of step daddy using her
Saying that he'll buy her things, while sexually abusing her
Just think that she's all alone somewhere out on the street
How will this girl survive?
She ain't got nothing to eat!

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Save me (from this living hell)
Save me (cause I don't wanna know)
Save me

Now she's on the move, she's off to Hollywood
She says she wanna be a star, she heard the money's good
She gets off from the train station, the man is waiting there
"I'll show you where the money is, girl just let down your hair"
He's taking her on the streets, of Sunset Boulevard
She's selling her body hard, girl that will take you far
The police come 'round the corner, somebody there they told
He's arresting this little girl, that's only twelve years old!

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Do you know where your children are?
Because it's now twelve o'clock
If they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

Writer/s: JACKSON, MICHAEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Do You Know Where Your Children Are

First recorded by Michael Jackson during the Bad sessions and further developed during the early Dangerous sessions, the song tells the tale of a runaway girl fleeing sexual abuse by her stepfather. The title derives from a popular public service announcement that ran on American television from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Michael Jackson is the sole credited songwriter. He explained the background to the song in a note discovered by the late singer's estate:

"(It) is about kids being raised in a broken family where the father comes home drunk and the mother is out prostituting and the kids run away from home and they become victims of rape, prostitution and the hunter becomes the hunted. So they are out on the street. Do you know where your children are? It's twelve o'clock. They are somewhere out on the street. Just imagine how scared they are. It's about the runaway problem we have in America."

The song was leaked in 2012 before being reworked by Timbaland and Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon for Jackson's 2014 posthumous album Xscape. The two producers added hypnotic synths to accentuate the song's driving riff.

Michael Jackson was both a victim of abuse, and accused of it. If the song was a response to the allegations, it wouldn't be Jackson's first. For instance, "Stranger In Moscow" was written by the singer at the height of media coverage surrounding the claims in 1993 and "Scream" was inspired in part by the frustrations he felt dealing with the fallout from his trial.

Lifehouse - Spin

Lifehouse - Spin Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Stanley Climbfall
Released: 2002

Spin Lyrics

I'd rather chase your shadow all my life
Than be afraid of my own
I'd rather be with you

I'd rather not know
Where I'll be than be alone and convinced that I know
And the world keeps Spinning 'round

My world's upside down and I wouldn't change a thing
I've got nothing else to lose
I lost it all when I found you and I wouldn't change thing

No you and I wouldn't change a thing
Everything I know has let me down
So I will just let go

Let you turn me inside out
Cause I know I'm not sure
About anything but you wouldn't have it any other way

And the world keeps spinning 'round
My world's upside down and I wouldn't change a thing
I've got nothing else to lose

I lost it all when I found you and I wouldn't change thing
No you and I wouldn't change a thing
Spinning, turning, watching, burning

All my life has found its meaning
Walking, crawling, climbing, falling
All my life has found its meaning

You and I wouldn't change a thing
No you and I wouldn't change a thing
And the world keeps spinning 'round

My world's upside down and I wouldn't change a thing
I've got nothing else to lose
I lost it all when I found you and I wouldn't change thing

No you and I wouldn't change a thing
No you and I wouldn't change a thing

Writer/s: Aniello, Ron John / Wade, Jason
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Spin

Lead singer Jason Wade: "The lyrics and chorus for this were actually written when I was 16. I first played it for [producer] Ron [Aniello] while he was cooking a steak, and he said he didn't like it. I tried to write a bridge and just couldn't, but I kept working on it. When I finally brought the song back to him, he loved it. I was going through some negative things back then, but I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'd met Ron, I was making music and I was starting to figure out where I was going. I started getting excited because I realized I didn't have to regret everything that happened to me in the past. I could tell good things were starting to happen." (thanks, Patti - Mahopac, NY)

Robin Beck - Till the Last Teardrop Falls

Robin Beck - Till the Last Teardrop Falls Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Livin' On A Dream
Released: 2007

Till the Last Teardrop Falls Lyrics

Till the Last Teardrop Falls

This song finds Robin Beck collaborating with James Christian, who fronts the Los Angeles rock band House of Lords. Beck said in a track-by-track commentary: "This is a passionate ballad and duet with James Christian... Just as beautiful and heart as can be. In this song he got the girl and she loves the boy till the end." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

The Byrds - Eight Miles High

The Byrds - Eight Miles High Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Fifth Dimension
Released: 1966

Eight Miles High Lyrics

Eight Miles High and when you touch down
You'll find that it's stranger than known
Signs in the street that say where you're going
Are somewhere just being their own

Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town known for its sound
In places small faces unbound

Round the squares huddled in storms
Some laughing some just shapeless forms
Sidewalk scenes and black limousines
Some living some standing alone

Writer/s: GENE CLARK, DAVID CROSBY, ROGER MC GUINN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, HORI PRO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Eight Miles High

Many people believe this song is about drugs, but the band claimed it was inspired by a flight where singer Gene Clark asked guitarist Roger McGuinn how high they were in the sky. McGuinn told him six miles, but for the song they changed it to eight.

This story was likely a smokescreen to keep the song in the good graces of sensitive listeners. The band had been doing a lot of drugs at the time, including LSD, which is the likely inspiration. If the band owned up to the drug references, they knew it would get banned by some radio stations, and that's exactly what happened when a radio industry publication reported that the song was about drugs and that stations should be careful about playing it. As soon as one station dropped it, others followed and it quickly sank off the charts.

In his book Echoes , Gene Clark said that he wrote the song on his own with David Crosby coming up with one key line ("Rain gray town, known for its sound"), and Roger McGuinn arranging the song with help from Crosby.

In the Forgotten Hits newsletter, McGuinn replied: "Not true! The whole theme was my idea... Gene would never have written a song about flying. I came up with the line, 'Six miles high and when you touch down.' We later changed that to Eight because of the Beatles song 'Eight Days a Week.' I came up with several other lines as well. And what would the song be without the Rickenbacker 12-string breaks?"

This song is often cited in discussions of "Acid Rock," a term that got bandied about in 1966 with the release of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde album. The genre covers a kind of psychedelic music that became popular at the time, and also the look and lifestyle that went with it. "Acid Rock" was hailed as a pathway to higher consciousness and derided as senseless drug music. At the end of the '60s, the term petered out, as rock critics moved on to other topics for their think pieces.

The band recorded this on their own, but Columbia Records made them re-record it before they would put it on the album, partly because they had contracts with unions. The Byrds liked the first version better.

Don McLean referred to this in his song "American Pie," which chronicles the change in musical style from the '50s to the '60s. The line is "Eight miles high and falling fast- landed foul out on the grass." McLean could be sardonically implying that the song is about drugs, since "foul grass" was slang for marijuana. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)

Husker Du recorded a noise-pop version in 1985. (thanks, Paul - Glasgow, Scotland)

Tori Amos - Wild Way

Tori Amos - Wild Way Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Unrepentant Geraldines
Released: 2014

Wild Way Lyrics

I hate you
I hate you, I do
I hate that
You're the one who can
Make me feel gorgeous
With just just a flick of your finger
It is that easy

Yes there was a time
You didn't always get your way
Back there where my heart
Was not so easy to invade
When my battlements were strong
Before the Pilgrims came
Don't forget you were the one
Who loved my Wild Way

I hate you
I hate you I do
I hate that
I turn into a kind
Some kind of monster
With just just a flick of your finger
It is that easy

Of course there was a time
You didn't always get your way
Back there where my heart
Was not so easy to invade
When my battlements were strong
Before the pilgrims came
Don't forget you were the one
Who loved my wild way

I hate you
I hate you I do
I hate that
You're the one who can
Make me feel gorgeous
With just just a flick of your finger
It is that easy
To hate you
To hate you

Writer/s: MYRA ELLEN TORI AMOS
Publisher: SWORD AND STONE PUBLISHING CO.
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Wild Way

This song finds Tori Amos drawing parallels between gender relations and the treatment of Native Americans. "I've always been aware of my part Cherokee ancestry," she told Uncut magazine, "the idea that I'm both conquered and conqueror. 'Wild Way' explores how violent, manipulative men will fetish women as they use them, just as pilgrims fetished Indians while they were committing genocide. And society hasn't really confronted either."

Lifehouse - Cling And Clatter

Lifehouse - Cling And Clatter Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Name Face
Released: 2000

Cling And Clatter Lyrics

Too many voices, It won't take long
Which one's right, which one's wrong
Yours is most likely to be misunderstood
Screaming in tongues

On the top of my lungs
'Til I find you, 'til you found me
Somehow I always knew that you would
And I am contemplating matters

All this Cling And Clatter
In my head, and what you said
Is ringing, ringing faster
And it's all good if you would

Stop the world from making sense
And if I could just realize
It doesn't really matter
It doesn't really matter

It doesn't really matter
If I could touch
The sound of silence now
You know I would if I knew how

To make these intentions
Come around
I'm hearing without listening
And believing every word

You are not saying
Speaking without a sound
Trapped inside
Of these four walls

Walking brainless muppet dolls
Mushroom face
Beneath the tangles
Bleeding silhouette inside

Dancing like an angel would

Writer/s: Aniello, Ron John / Wade, Jason
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Cling And Clatter

Lifehouse lead singer Jason Wade: "That's about trying to make your way through the cling and clatter - all the noise and emotional distractions - to get to what you really need. It's about sorting through the conflicting voices inside and outside your head." (thanks, Patti - Mahopac, NY)

Capital Cities - Tell Me How To Live

Capital Cities - Tell Me How To Live Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: In a Tidal Wave Of Mystery
Released: 2013

Tell Me How To Live Lyrics

The grass is greener
The grass is greener

Been a good man
Been a good man all my life
Can’t stand the feeling, I’ve been so hypnotized

Been a good man
Been a good man all my life
Can’t stand the feeling, I’ve been so hypnotized

Ain’t nobody gonna Tell Me How To Live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live

Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live

The grass is greener, greener on my side
You know you love the feeling
I’ve come to hypnotize

The grass is greener, greener on my side
You know you love the feeling
I’ve come to hypnotize

Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live

Been a good man
Been a good man
I’ve come to
I’ve come to hypnotize

Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live
Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live

Writer/s: SIMONIAN, SEBU / MERCHANT, RYAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Tell Me How To Live

Sebu Simonian of Capital Cities singles this out as one of his favorites from the duo's debut album. In our 2014 interview , he told us about the song:

"That one incorporates the oud, which is an ancient Armenian stringed instrument; kind of like an ancient guitar. It has a little bit of a guitar vibe, with this strong Hip-Hop feeling to it.

I think we were able to do something clever with that: it's got electronic sounds mixed with the very ancient Armenian stringed instrument. I think it's special and new, so I like that track a lot."

Lifehouse - Only One

Lifehouse - Only One Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Name Face
Released: 2000

Only One Lyrics

She's got a pretty smile it covers up the poison
That she hides she walks around in circles in my head
Waiting for the chance to break me chance to take me down
Well I see the burden you gave me
It's too much to carry it's too much to bury inside
I guess you're the Only One
Nobody changes I guess you're the only one
That's still doing everything else ...
You're still the only one yeah you're still the only one
Wisdom shallow oh so peeling
Now I'm up to my ankles and I'm drowning
Away in a sea sarcastic faces familiar places
Everything that's quite the same it's all confusing ...
Amusing literally tainted a picture you've painted to me
I guess you're the only one
Nobody changes I guess you're the one
That's still doing when everything else goes down
You're still the only one
We never change faces
I guess you're the only one that's still doing
Everything else goes down
Just cause the sounds in your head
Doesn't mean it has to be in mine
Don't believe what you said still can't get it out of my mind
I've tried to find myself in approval
I've already been there already done that
It got me no where it brought me nothing
But a good place to hide in no one to confide in
Now I guess you're the only one
Nobody changes I guess you're the only one
That will never change faces
I guess you're the only one

Writer/s: JASON WADE
Publisher: RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Only One

Lead singer Jason Wade: "I wrote "Only One" right after someone in my life did something I felt was totally wrong. It was a really tough time for me. I have these trails in my life, like my dad leaving and my not being with him anymore, and then this man, who I really looked up to, failing. "Only One" is about how sometimes people are just not there for you and you have to look somewhere else for guidance." (thanks, Patti - Mahopac, NY)

Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day

Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Predator
Released: 1993

It Was a Good Day Lyrics

Break me, shit, yo

Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd
No barking from the dogs, no smog
And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog
I got my grub on, but didn't pig out
Finally got a call from a girl want to dig out
Hooked it up on later as I hit the do'
Thinking will i live another twenty fo'
I gotta go cause I got me a drop top
And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop
Had to stop at a red light
Looking in my mirror not a jacker in sight
And everything is alright
I got a beep from Kim and she can fuck all night
Called up the homies and I'm askin' y'all
Which park, are y'all playin' basketball?
Get me on the court and I'm trouble
Last week fucked around and got a triple double
Freaking brothers every way like M.J.
I can't believe, today was a good day

Drove to the pad and hit the showers
Didn't even get no static from the cowards
Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me
Saw the police and they rolled right past me
No flexin', didn't even look in a niggas direction as I ran the intersection
Went to $hort Dog's house, they was watchin' Yo! MTV Raps
What's the haps on the craps
Shake 'em up, shake 'em up, shake 'em up, shake 'em
Roll 'em in a circle of niggaz and watch me break 'em
With the seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven
Seven even back do' little Joe
I picked up the cash flow
Then we played bones, and I'm yellin' domino
Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A.
Today was a good day

Left my niggas house paid
Picked up a girl been tryin' to fuck since the twelfth grade
It's ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic
The Lakers beat the Supersonics
I felt on the big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny
And my dick runs deep so deep so deep put her ass to sleep
Woke her up around one
she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun
Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting
Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
I was glad everything had worked out
Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out
Today was like one of those fly dreams
Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
No helicopter looking for a murder
Two in the morning got the fat burger
Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
And it read Ice Cube's a pimp (yeah)
Drunk as hell but no throwing up
Half way home and my pager still blowing up
Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I got to say It Was a Good Day

Hey wait, wait a minute fool stop the shit
What the fuck am I thinking about?

Writer/s: ISLEY, MARVIN / GOODMAN, ALBERT / JACKSON, O'SHEA / RAY, HARRY MILTON / ROBINSON, SYLVIA / ISLEY, O'KELLY / JASPER, CHRISTOPHER / ISLEY, ERNIE / ISLEY, RUDOLPH / ISLEY, RONALD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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It Was a Good Day

The song was meant to be a contrast to the other songs on Ice Cube's album, The Predator, which was recorded in the wake of the LA Riots of 1992. According to Cube, "The inspiration was my life at the time... I was at the top of the rap game. It was the summer of '92 and I was in a hotel room, really in a state of euphoria. I had all the money I had dreamed of. I was in a good frame of mind. And I remember thinking, 'Okay, there's been the riots, people know I will deal with that. That's a given. But I rap all this gangsta stuff – what about all the good days I had?"

The song's music video is the first half of a two-part series. It is the prelude to the video for "Check Yo Self," which depicts Ice Cube being arrested in front of his home and being sent to prison.

The song is exactly 4:20 in length, an allusion to the song's depiction of hedonistic activity (specifically, marijuana use). (thanks, Fujiko - Lexington, KY for above 3)

The slinky groove on this song is sampled from an Isley Brothers tune called "Footsteps in the Dark."

Ice Cube ends this song on a negative note, ordering his DJ to stop the record and declaring, "Stop this s--t! What the f--k I'm thinking about." Turns out the good day may have been imaginary.

This was Ice Cube's most popular song, getting lots of spins on Urban radio stations and some play on Top 40 stations with bold program directors. Of course, the version used on the radio was heavily edited, but there was little mistaking what he meant by "my Jimmy runs deep."

It was Ice Cube's highest Hot 100 chart placing, and an especially lucrative one since he wrote the song entirely by himself (credited to his real name: O'Shea Jackson). Many of his other chart entries are collaborations, including his recording with the female rapper Yo-Yo on "You Can't Play With My Yo-Yo" (#36, 1991) and "Check Yo Self," which he recorded with Das EFX (#20, 1993).

Lifehouse - Somebody Else's Song

Lifehouse - Somebody Else's Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Name Face
Released: 2000

Somebody Else's Song Lyrics

Can't change this feeling I'm way out of touch
Can't change this meaning it means too much
Never been this lonely never felt so good
Can't be the only one misunderstood I remind myself of somebody else
Feeling like I'm chasing like I'm facing myself alone
I've got somebody else's thoughts in my head I want some of my own
I want some of my own I want some of my own

Can you see me up here would you bring me back down
Cause I've been living to see my fears as they fall to the ground
I remind myself of somebody else
Feeling like I'm chasing like I'm facing myself alone
I've got somebody else's thoughts in my head I want some of my own
I want some of my own I want some of my own am I hiding behind my doubts
Are they hiding behind me closer to finding out it doesn't mean anything
I remind myself of somebody else now

Writer/s: Aniello, Ron John / Wade, Jason
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Somebody Else's Song

Lead singer Jason Wade said that "When I was writing "Somebody Else's Song" I had this picture of some kid with all these expectations on him, about what he's supposed to become in the world and what he's supposed to do. That's where I got that lyric "I've got somebody else's thoughts in my head / I want some of my own." It's about figuring things out for yourself. There was this whole period where I was searching and trying to think for myself. I was, like, I don't want to believe in something just because my parents believe in it. Or, I don't want to go to college just because they told me to go to college. I think people go through that kind of stuff their whole lives." (thanks, Patti - Mahopac, NY)