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Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day

Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Daydream
Released: 1995

One Sweet Day Lyrics

One Sweet Day

This is about death and wanting to be with a loved one after they passed. The lyric "I'll be with you that sweet day" means "when I die I will be with you then."

Mariah Carey wrote this with Boyz II Men. Carey said she wrote a song that was identical to a song Boyz II Men had written, so they combined the two. (thanks, Britney - Calabasas, CA, for all above)

This was #1 on the US Billboard charts for 16 weeks, which is longer than any other song. Boyz II Men had tremendous success on this chart, with "End Of The Road" #1 for 13 weeks in 1992 and "I'll Make Love To You" #1 for 14 weeks in 1994.

This was originally inspired by the death of David Cole, the co-writer and co-producer of C+C Music Factory. Mariah wrote this to let everyone know the pain she was feeling. (thanks, Candice - Vancouver, Canada)

Boyz II Men member Nathan Morris explained how this number came to be written in the book Chicken Soup For the Soul: The Story Behind The Song: "Everything was going great for us. As an original member of Boyz II Men, we had a very successful first CD and were touring a lot. However, a date in Chicago was the beginning of a very tough time for us.

We were very young, between 16 and 21 at the time. Kahlil Roundtree was our road manager and was like a surrogate father on the road. Our parents trusted him to handle everything, including us, which he did very well. We had some problems with the promoter on this particular date. Kahlil got into it with him about the hotel or some issue in the contract, and he brought us the information in the dressing room after the show to ask our opinion, which was odd since he always just took care of things himself and they ran smoothly.

Later that night, after the show, he and a partner went to the front desk of the hotel to settle the groups room charges before heading to bed. As they entered the elevator, three men who worked in the parking structure adjacent to the hotel entered as well. Once in the elevator, there was a shootout and he was killed. This was definitely the biggest loss in our career, if not our lives.

After he died, I began working on a song for him while we were on the road. Not too long after, we got a call from Tommy Mottola asking if we'd be interested in doing a duet with Mariah Carey. We went to the studio she was recording in at the Hit Factory in New York, to hear the song they had in mind. She played us the melody and the hook, and it was amazing. It was almost the same song I was writing. I told her that I was working on a song with a similar melody and, while the lyrics were, of course, different, the premise was the same. They complemented each other. I sang to her the melody and lyrics of what I had written, and we merged the two. We switched things around to make them work and wrote it that day. The other guys in the group filled in the holes to complete it.

We came back to the studio to record it a week or so later and we only had a few hours to do everything, since we squeezed this in between dates on tour. The photo on the album cover was shot in the elevator on the way up to the studio and the video was shot during the recording session, all in those few hours that day."

This came top of a 2011 Rolling Stone poll of the best-ever musical collaboration. Queen / David Bowie's "Under Pressure" was runner-up whilst Aerosmith / Run DMC's "Walk This Way" sauntered into third place. Despite the song's popularity it was a surprise to many that the pop/R&B songstress came out on top of the rock magazine's poll and Rolling Stone itself put the result down to Carey's fans voting en masse. They said: "The song wouldn't have won if the Mariah Carey fans hadn't stuffed the ballot boxes in this poll. Most of you reading this probably don't think it's the greatest duet of all time. You're probably enraged to see it here. We understand. Back in 1995, however, everybody loved it. Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey were both at their peak, and the song held the number one spot for a staggering 16 weeks. Some of you may feel that it hasn't aged all that well, but the voters have spoken. Who are we to say they're wrong?"

Amy LaVere - Rabbit

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Album: Runaway's Diary
Released: 2014

Rabbit Lyrics

Rabbit

Runaway's Diary is loosely conceptual, centering on Amy LaVere going AWOL at the age of 15, after her parents' divorce.

The album was partly inspired by American blues musician Seasick Steve, who toured with the singer in 2008. "I ran away from home briefly when I was a teenager," she explained to Uncut magazine. "The song 'Rabbit' is me imagining I'd stayed on the lam and hoping I would have ran into a character like Steve, because he's such a nurturing person. That got me thinking that I wanted to explore that part of my life, and it all started to piece together."

Placebo - My Sweet Prince

Placebo - My Sweet Prince Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Without You I'm Nothing
Released: 1998

My Sweet Prince Lyrics

Never thought you'd make me perspire
Never thought I'd do you the same
Never thought I'd fill with desire
Never thought I'd feel so ashamed

Me and the dragon can chase all the pain away
So before I end my day remember
My Sweet Prince you are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one

Never thought I'd have to retire
Never thought I'd have to abstain
Never thought all this could back fire
Close up the hole in my vain

Me and my valuable friend
Can fix all the pain away
So before I end my day, remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one

Never thought I'd get any higher
Never thought you'd fuck with my brain
Never thought all this could expire
Never thought you'd go break the chain

Me and you baby
Still flush all the pain away
So before I end my day, remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
My sweet prince
My sweet prince

Writer/s: MOLKO, BRIAN / OLSDAL, STEFAN / HEWITT, STEVEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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My Sweet Prince

This song is about heroin. References to the drug can be found in some of the lyrics, such as "Me and the dragon can chase all the pain away." When this was released, the members of Placebo were going through drug addiction, which they later successfully kicked. (thanks, Krie - Ft. Drum, NY)

Brantley Gilbert - I'm Gone

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Album: Just as I Am
Released: 2014

I'm Gone Lyrics

Well there's no suitcase by your front door.
There's no saying goodbye.
Ain't no motor out there running, idling in the drive.
You don't have to keep on looking
For some proof your losing me.
You don't have to keep on waiting,
Afraid I'm gonna leave.

I'm not going, I'm not going anywhere.
We both know it
Girl, I'm already there
It's been over, I don't know why
You're holding on when I'm not going
I'm not going, I'm not going, I'm Gone.

What you're hearing is an echo
What you're seeing is a ghost
I'm just dust that hasn't settled
Back down on the road
I went there long ago

I'm not going, I'm not going anywhere
We both know it, girl, I'm already there
It's been over, I don't know why
You're holding on when I'm not going
I'm not going, I'm not going
Yeah all those times you didn't listen
I'm those words you can't take back, I'm gone.

Well, I'm gone
I'm not going, I'm not going anywhere
We both know it girl, I'm already there
It's been over, I don't know why
You're holding on when
I'm not going, I'm not going,
I'm not going,
I'm gone.
I'm gone
Yeah, I'm not going girl, I'm gone

Writer/s: MARTIN, TONY / MOBLEY, WENDELL / GILBERT, BRANTLEY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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I'm Gone

Brantley Gilbert broke up with his fiancee Jana Kramer in August 2013. He channeled a lot of his feelings about his relationship with the Country music singer-actress on this track. "The song's not written to be mean whatsoever," Gilbert insisted to Seattle radio station 100.7 The Wolf. "I've always been that way where, if something doesn't work out the first time, I won't try to beat a dead horse. It is what it is."

"I think, with these songs, looking back, the good ones and the bad times, it just reiterates the fact that, we made the right decision," he added. "We went for broke, man. We went hard, we went fast. And there's all those questions that were unanswered for a long time. Do I really know what kind of love is? All of that's answered. I do. I still love that girl to death."

Gilbert wrote this with Nashville songwriter Wendell Mobley (Randy Houser's "How Country Feels").

Said Gilbert: "That one kind of had a life of its own. I sat down with Wendell Mobley for the beginning of that one, and then it kinda grew legs and took off. It turned out really good."

Leonard Cohen - Bird On The Wire

Leonard Cohen - Bird On The Wire Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Songs From A Room
Released: 1969

Bird On The Wire Lyrics

Like a Bird On The Wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby, stillborn,
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir have tried in my way to be free.

Writer/s: COHEN, LEONARD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Bird On The Wire

Speaking of this song in a 1993 interview with Song Talk, Cohen explained: "It was begun in Greece because there were no wires on the island where I was living to a certain moment. There were no telephone wires. There were no telephones. There was no electricity. So at a certain point they put in these telephone poles, and you wouldn't notice them now, but when they first went up, it was about all I did – stare out the window at these telephone wires and think how civilization had caught up with me and I wasn't going to be able to escape after all. I wasn't going to be able to live this 11th-century life that I thought I had found for myself. So that was the beginning.

Then, of course, I noticed that birds came to the wires and that was how that song began. 'Like a drunk in a midnight choir,' that's also set on the island. Where drinkers, me included, would come up the stairs. There was great tolerance among the people for that because it could be in the middle of the night. You'd see three guys with their arms around each other, stumbling up the stairs and singing these impeccable thirds. So that image came from the island: 'Like a drunk in a midnight choir.'"

Ron Cornelius ran Cohen's band for four years. Here's what he told us about this song:
"Bird On The Wire is a classic in my book. Leonard has a home on an island in Greece called Hydra, and from his living room, there's an electric wire you can see, and that's where he got the idea. He just happened to mention that one night because me and a friend that was a road manager for him all over the world, Bill Donovan, we went and stayed a couple of weeks there but Leonard just went there to open the house up and then he split for Montreal and we stayed there by ourselves, he said, 'see that wire, that's the wire right there.' When I was their there still was not a gasoline engine on the island anywhere."

In 1990, the title was used for a movie starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn - well, sort of; the song and movie were changed to "Bird On A Wire," which is how many people who cover the song do it, including The Neville Brothers, who sang the version used in the movie.

Joe Cocker, Willie Nelson, Joe Bonamassa, Tim Hardin and Johnny Cash have all recorded versions of this song.

Chromeo - Lost on the Way Home

Chromeo - Lost on the Way Home Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: White Women
Released: 2014

Lost on the Way Home Lyrics

Who's gonna to have your time, when it's down to the minute? (Baby)
Who's gonna have your time?
Who's gonna have your back, when the shove comes a pushin'? (Uh, ooh baby)
Who's gonna have your back?

I know you do
I'm pretty sure you had it since I've met you
I listen to you talk,
And it's like you forgetin' about all the bullshit that we've been through
But I've paid my dues, whatever you choose
I took the burden off of you too
I don't know why it's such a struggle to make you come around to my point of view

And I know it's gonna take time
But you know that I care
But baby I know it's gonna take time
But you know that I'm there
And when it gets down to it

I can never leave I'm too proud
I've got my mind made up, my feet on the ground
When you're up all night and you never make a sound
Where I'm not too far if you look around

Who's gonna have your right, when your left needs leanin'? (Ooh baby)
Who's gonna take your side?
Who's gonna hold you down, when your heart beat's beatin'?
Ooh baby you know

I know it's you
That's no excuse
And we can't go back, cause there's no pact and there's no truce
In other words, it's just no use
I told you first, when you know the truth
I know you're thirsty for a change,
But nothing can arrange the strangeness that we're goin' through

And I know it's gonna take time
But you know that I care
But baby I know it's gonna take time
But you know that I'm there
And when it gets down to it

I can never leave I'm too proud
I've got my mind made up, my feet on the ground
When you're up all night and you never make a sound
Where I'm not too far if you look around

And I know it's gonna take time
But you know that I care
But baby I know it's gonna take time
But you know that I'm there
And when it gets down to it

We had much of everything
Your touch was everything
Went dutch on everything
But got Lost on the Way Home

We had much of everything
Your touch was everything
Went dutch on everything
But got lost on the way home
Lost on the way home
Lost on the way home
Lost on the way home
Lost on the way home
Lost on the way home
Lost on the way home

Writer/s: SOLANGE KNOWLES, JUSTIN MELDAL-JOHNSEN, PATRICK GEMAYEL, DAVID MACKLOVITCH
Publisher: NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP
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Lost on the Way Home

This song is a duet with Beyoncé 's sister, Solange. "She's been a friend for a while," vocalist Dave Macklovitch told HMV.com . "We had her on our last album but she just sang a hook. Between then and now, Solange the solo artist really blossomed, so we wanted to have her on again, in that capacity. We wanted a full on duet with her, a co-write. So we went to her place and spent the night writing and recording together."

Sum 41 - Crazy Amanda Bunkface

Sum 41 - Crazy Amanda Bunkface Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: All Killer No Filler
Released: 2001

Crazy Amanda Bunkface Lyrics

Don't know what you really got.
It's hard to stay and not pretend.
You can't make sense in what you thought.
It seems I can't comprehend.
Well I'm happy to be, only all that you see.
And I'm not one to learn to be the same.

I don't want to hear you bitch no more.
I was better off a year before.
No matter how I try I can't ignore.
Every time I think my brain gets sore
When I'm with you.

What's so hard about good-byes?
I'm sorry I'm just not as keen
On planning out our perfect lives
When I'm only 19.
I'm happy to be only all that you see.
And I'm not one to learn to be the same.

I don't want to try and just be friends
Nothing's change my mind again
If ever there were thoughts I had they're dead.
I can't even think inside my head,
When I'm with you

I'm on my way, can't you see that's the truth.
So long, can't stay,can't you see that's the truth.
I'm on my way,can't you see that's the truth.
So long, can't stay, can't you see that's,
See that's the, see that's the

Last that I could take.
Because it's getting really hard to fake.
It's not like it's my problem that you're late.
But can't you just spare the lies I hate?
When I'm with you

Writer/s: WHIBLEY, DERYCK JASON/NORI, GREIG ANDREW
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Crazy Amanda Bunkface

Lead singer and guitarist Deryck Whibley wrote this about one of his old girlfriends.

Conor Oberst - You Are Your Mother's Child

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Album: Upside Down Mountain
Released: 2014

You Are Your Mother's Child Lyrics

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red& yellow,black & white
they're precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world

Jesus cares for all the children
All the children of the world
Black and yellow, red and white
They're all precious in His sight
Jesus cares for the children of the world

Jesus came to save the children
All the children of the world
Black and yellow, red and white
They're all precious in His sight
Jesus came to save the children of the world

Jesus came to save the children of the world

Writer/s: CONOR M OBERST
Publisher: SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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You Are Your Mother's Child

Oberst adopts on this song the perspective of a contrite father, proud of his child's accomplishments despite his own shortcomings as a dad. "I definitely struggled with whether to put that one on the record," Oberst told Billboard magazine. "It has more sentimentality to it than any of the other songs, but I've seen a lot of friends go through that stuff. [Having kids] would be a cool thing to do someday. I don't particularly feel ready for it right now, but I guess no one ever does."

The song's music video was filmed on Fire Island, which is the 32-mile-long island that stretches south of New York's Long Island. Popular with the gay community, The Village People paid tribute to the location on their 1977 song "Fire Island."

Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High

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Album: River Deep, Mountain High
Released: 1966

River Deep, Mountain High Lyrics

When I was a little girl I had a rag doll
The only doll I've ever owned
Now I love you just the way I loved that rag doll
But only now my love has grown

And it gets stronger in every way
And it gets deeper let me say
And it gets higher day by day

Do I love you my oh my
River Deep, Mountain High
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

When you were a young boy did you have a puppy
That always followed you around
Well I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy
No I'll never let you down

'Cause it goes on and on like a river flows
And it gets bigger baby and heaven knows
And it gets sweeter baby as it grows

Do I love you my oh my
River deep, mountain high
If I lost you would I cry
Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby

I love you baby like a flower loves the spring
And I love you baby like a robin loves to sing
And I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his bag
And I love you baby river deep mountain high

Writer/s: SPECTOR, PHIL/BARRY, JEFF/GREENWICH, ELLIE
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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River Deep, Mountain High

This was written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector. Greenwich and Barry were a husband and wife songwriting team who had written hits like "Hanky Panky" and "Do Wah Diddy Diddy." Spector was a legendary producer famous for his "Wall Of Sound" recording technique, which he had used with great success on other songs he worked on with Greenwich and Barry, including hits by The Ronettes and The Crystals. Greenwich, Barry and Spector each had separate ideas for songs which they combined to form this, and melody is a composite of 3 different unfinished songs.

It had been over a year since Spector had produced a hit record, and he went all out on this. When it flopped in America, he was shocked and very upset. He announced his retirement, went into seclusion and stopped working until 1970, when he returned to the studio to work on The Beatles Let It Be album and produce solo works by George Harrison and John Lennon.

This was written specifically for Tina Turner to sing. Spector was sure her powerful vocals would help make this a hit.

Although this is credited to Ike And Tina Turner, Ike had no part in the recording process. Phil Spector wanted his own people to record this, and made sure Ike was not in the studio during the sessions.

Bob Krasnow, the then president of the Blue Thumb label, for whom Ike and Tina recorded in the late 1960s, was interviewed in Rolling Stone magazine (issue 93) in 1971. He recalled how Phil Spector, who'd been won over by Ike and Tina's work as a substitute act in the rock and roll film T'N'T Show hooked up with the Turners: "Spector had just lost The Righteous Brothers, and at the same time, Ike was unhappy (having switched to Kent Records). Spector's attorney Joey Cooper called and said Phil wanted to produce Tina - and that he was willing to pay $20,000 in front to do it! So Mike Maitland [then president at Warners] gave them their release, and they signed with Philles (Phil Spector's record label.)"

Spector offered $20,000 upfront to Ike Turner in exchange for total control over the production. He happily counted the money and agreed to stay away from the sessions, even though his name still appeared on the record. When it flopped in America, though Spector was distraught, Ike wasn't, as it meant the end of their association and put him back in charge.

In Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Songs, Tina Turner is quoted as saying of the recording of this, "I must have sung that 500,000 times. I was drenched with sweat. I had to take my shirt off and stand there in my bra to sing."

Spector used over 20 top session musicians for the recording, including Hal Blaine, Leon Russell and Glen Campbell. The completed record cost around $22,000, at the time an unbelievable price tag for a single. On bass for these sessions was Carol Kaye, who told us, "It felt like another thing that was going to be a hit, but to walk in the booth and there's a ton of people in the booth and there's a ton of us out in the studio, it almost felt like a party. And you know that something that feels like a party is not going to be a hit record. It's not the feeling of sitting down and cutting a record, which is business. You've got to take care of business.

But the arrangement was nice and the feeling was good and Tina was there to sing. I'm sure that they put her voice on again after that. So I thought it was going to be another hit, but that's the feeling that was on the date to me. It didn't quite feel like a normal record date." (Here's our full interview with Carol Kaye .)

In 1995, Spector agreed to produce a version of this with Celine Dion. The sessions were a disaster, and her version from these sessions was never released.

Other versions have been recorded by The Animals, Deep Purple, and Neil Diamond. Darlene Love recorded a version in 2004 for a Tina Turner tribute album called What's Love.

The actor Dennis Hopper did the photo for the cover of the River Deep, Mountain High album. Krasnow recalled in the same Rolling Stone interview: "Dennis Hopper did the cover on that LP. He was broke on his ass in Hollywood and trying photography. He said he'd like to do the cover. He took us to this sign company, where there was this 70-foot high sign for a movie, with one of those sex stars - Boccaccio '70 or something. And he shot them in front of that big teardrop. Then the gas company had a big sign, and Hopper took them there and shot them in front of a big burner."

The Supremes and Four Tops recorded this for the 1970 album The Magnificent 7, their version charting at #14 in the US. It was produced by the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. It was the first hit that the Supremes had with the Four Tops, a pairing inspired by the Supremes success with the Temptations before Diana Ross went solo. (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA)

Dolly Parton - From Here to the Moon and Back

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Album: Blue Smoke
Released: 2014

From Here to the Moon and Back Lyrics

From Here to the Moon and Back

Dolly Parton originally recorded and performed this song with Kris Kristofferson in the 2012 movie Joyful Noise. The following year, she re-recorded the tune with Willie Nelson. This version can be found on both Nelson's 2013 album, To All the Girls.... and Parton's 2014 set Blue Smoke.

Parton first met Nelson in her early days in Nashville. She told Billboard magazine: "We came here at about the same time. He had short hair, shaved, looked just like a dork. You'd never in a million years think he would have turned out to look like he does. We both started writing for Fred Foster at Combine Music and Monument Records."

"Our careers kind of went hand in hand, from Monument to RCA, and we kept sitting around, singing each other songs that we had written over the years," Parton continued. "We did an album and TV Show called Winning Hand a few years ago where we sang some stuff together, He just stayed a good friend, and when he got ready to do his album with all the girls he loved before, he asked me if I would sing on it."

Dolly told Uncut magazine: "I love Willie. I love that old funky sound he gets on that guitar. But he's very hard to sing with because of his phrasing. It was like an exercise of some sort, like trying to catch him with all his little phrases and all. But it was a joy, and I'm glad we did it."

Don Henley - The Boys of Summer

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Album: Building The Perfect Beast
Released: 1985

The Boys of Summer Lyrics

Nobody on the road,
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I'm driving by your house
Don't know you're not home

But I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got your hair combed back
And your sunglasses on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After The Boys of Summer have gone

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy
Remember how I made you scream
I don't understand what happened to our love
But, baby, I'm gonna get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

I can see you,
Your brown skin shining in the sun
I see you walking real slow
And you're smiling at everyone
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said
Don't look back, you can never look back
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let 'em go, but

I can see you,
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got that top pulled down,
And that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong,
After the boys of summer have gone

I can see you,
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got that hair slicked back,
And those Wayfarers on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

Writer/s: HENLEY, DON/CAMPBELL, MICHAEL W.
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The Boys of Summer

This is about looking back on a past relationship and wanting your ex back - wanting to return to what you had. The first verse depicts how the writer is left behind. His ex has moved on but he hasn't and still hangs onto hope: "But babe, I'm gonna get you back, I'm gonna show you what I'm made of / those days are gone forever I should just let them go but..." At first he is hanging onto hope but then he realizes that he must let go. The "Boys of Summer" could refer to the boys his ex is now seeing, and how they are just summer flings, while he is in it for the long haul.

Don Henley told the NME that he really did see a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. Said the Eagles frontman: "I was driving down the San Diego freeway and got passed by a $21,000 Cadillac Seville, the status symbol of the Right-wing upper-middle-class American bourgeoisie – all the guys with the blue blazers with the crests and the grey pants – and there was this Grateful Dead 'Deadhead' bumper sticker on it!"

The opening lyrics ("Nobody on the roads, nobody on the beach") refer to the California coast as summer turns into fall. It becomes a much quieter place when the weather gets cold.

The title comes from a baseball book by Roger Kahn called Boys of Summer. The book is about The Brooklyn Dodgers, who broke the hearts of their fans when they moved to Los Angeles.

The music was written by Mike Campbell, who worked with Tom Petty as a guitarist and producer for many years. He has also written tracks for many songs, including "Refugee," "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," and "Don't Do Me Like That." Campbell offered this to Petty, but he turned it down and the song went to Henley, who wrote the lyrics. Campbell also played guitar on this and produced it.

Mike Campbell told us about recording this song: "I used to have a 4-track machine in my house and I had just gotten a drum machine - it's when the Roger Linn drum machine first came out. I was playing around with that and came up with a rhythm. I made the demo on my little 4-track and I showed it to Tom, but at the time, the record we were working on, Southern Accents, it didn't really sound like anything that would fit into the album. The producer we were working with at the time, Jimmy Iovine, called me up one day and said he had spoken with Don, who I'd never met, and said that he was looking for songs. He gave me his number and I called him up and played it for him and he called me the next day and said he put it on in his car and had written these words and wanted to record it. That's kind of how it started. Basically, he wanted to recreate the demo as close as we could. We ended up changing the key for the voice. We actually cut it in one key, did the whole record with overdubs and everything, and then he decided to change the key like a half step up or something, we had to do the whole record again, but it turned out pretty good."

The video for this song was the big winner at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards, just the second year the awards were held. It won for Video of the Year, Best Director, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography.

The director was Jean-Baptiste Mondino, a French graphic designer/photographer who had made a video for the song "Cargo de Nuit" by a French singer named Axel Bauer. Mondino sent that video to Jeff Ayeroff, an executive at Henley's label, Geffen Records. Ayeroff flew Mondino to California and had him meet with Henley, who was baffled by the pitch but decided to go with it and let Mondino do his thing.

Speaking about his connection to the song in the book I Want My MTV, Mondino said: "I was living in Paris, and we were into a new era, more modern. But I couldn't refuse to go to LA - it was like a dream. When I got there, I was very disappointed, because there's a big difference between what I saw when I was a kid in the beautiful old Hollywood movies, and what LA's actually about. When I listened to 'Boys Of Summer,' there was something nostalgic - he was looking back, talking about something that he's leaving behind. The '70s were dying."

Shot in black and white, (as were many of Mondino's videos), it was artistic and abstract. When Henley accepted the award for Best Video at the VMAs, he admitted to having no idea what was going on when they shot the clip, but said that Mondino and his crew made "Southern California look like the South of France." Getting Henley to show up to an awards show was no easy feat - when The Eagles won the Album of the Year Grammy for Hotel California, Henley and the rest of the band skipped the ceremony.

The Ataris did a cover of this in 2003. Mike Campbell's thoughts on their version: "I like it a lot. My son's 15, he has a punk band and he was excited about it. I thought it took some balls to try that song, it's not a song you expect a young band like that to do, but I kind of like their version of it. I listened to it closely and noticed that they had done a lot of the guitar parts and they had changed a little bit but not a whole lot. I like the way the guy sang it, they changed one lyric and I thought that was cool. I heard it on the radio three times in one day and I got kind of excited about it." (Read more in our interview with Mike Campbell.)

In The Ataris version, instead of saying "I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac" they say "I saw a BLACK FLAG sticker on a Cadillac." Black Flag is a hardcore punk band that Henry Rollins fronted. (thanks, Eric - Philia, PA)

The Ataris played their version of this at the 2003 Home Run Derby. ESPN used the song in various promos for the event. It may have been the last time one of Henley's songs was used on the network. A short time later, ESPN hired conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as a football analyst. Henley can't stand Limbaugh, and has refused to license his songs to ESPN ever since they put him on the air.

In 2010, Henley won a lawsuit against Chuck Devore, who was running for a US Senate seat in California. Devore - a Republican - used "The Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants to do is Dance" in his campaign advertising, which didn't go over well with Henley. A California judge didn't buy Devore's defense that he was making "fair use" of the songs. Devore didn't get the nomination, finishing third in the Republican primary. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

MTV exposure from this song's video raised Henley's profile but cost him a degree of anonymity. With the Eagles, he was tucked away behind a drum kit, and rarely on TV. Only one video was made for his first album - that was "Johnny Can't Read," and MTV rarely played it. Once "The Boys of Summer" got in hot rotation, Henley found himself suddenly recognizable, which often made him uncomfortable.

The Janoskians - Real Girls Eat Cake

The Janoskians - Real Girls Eat Cake Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Yet to be Titled
Released: 2014

Real Girls Eat Cake Lyrics

Real Girls Eat Cake

The Janoskians are a comedy entertainment group originally from Melbourne, Australia, who are now based in Los Angeles. They comprise twins Jai and Luke Brooks, their older brother Beau and friends, Daniel (Skip) Sahyounie and James Yammouni. Their moniker stands for Just Another Name Of Silly Kids In Another Nation.

This Ska-inflenced track is their third single following "Set This World on Fire" and "Best Friends," which both reached the Top 40 of the Australian and New Zealand singles charts. James Yammouni told MTV News: "We wanted a fun song that was jumpy but also at the same time sent a message to girls that you don't really need to worry about the size you are and all that stuff."