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Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband

Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Nabuma Rubberband
Released: 2014

Nabuma Rubberband Lyrics

The last bird
Smashed into a skyscraper
Under the Hong Kong lights
It fell pale
Like a sink
Landed on the night drain
Fell a strong right
While underground
The tunnel reveal
Voiceless land
The harder to feel
For being born at the wrong place
At the wrong time
With a wrong fate

Rockets fly out
Razor
Colour
Sky now
Don’t forget icing on the sides
Because you can
Blinded by the rubberbands
Blinded by the rubberbands
Blinded by the love

Cigar smoke stretchin’ over borders
Creepin’ like a silent thief
The bird stares
Sleeping like an icon
Make it fly
Could rest in peace
Intelligent
So fly
Can’t think out loud
Cause now’s the time
Don’t lose your job
Stare in and smile
Camera left

Rockets fly out
Razor
Colour
Sky now
Don’t forget icing on the sides
Because you can
Blinded by the rubberbands
Blinded by the rubberbands
Blinded by the love
Rockets fly out
Razor
Colour
Sky now
Don’t forget icing on the sides
Because you can
Blinded by the rubberbands
Blinded by the rubberbands
Blinded by the love

Writer/s: Wirenstrand, Hakan / Bodin, Erik Oskar / Wallin, Fredrik Daniel / Nagano, Yukimi Eleanora
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Nabuma Rubberband

This is the title track of Little Dragon's fourth studio album. Vocalist Yukimi Nagono explained to The Sun why the record's name marries a common Ugandan girls' first name with an office supply item. "Nabuma is an African/Ugandian name and the name of a girl who do guys met a long time ago. She was a strong character. And I was singing the chorus to that song 'Blinded by the Rubberband.'"

"It became the working title and when we were working on our album artwork, we saw a painting by Chinese artist Li Wel, who took a picture of his daughter," she continued. "That with the name Nabuma Rubberband felt right."

Vocalist Yukimi Nagono told NME this song has, "a little bit of an end-of-the-world feeling, but it's still very sweet. I really like that feeling; it makes you want to close your eyes and groove to it but at the same time it's kind of dystopian."

Nagano explained to NME why they decided, at the drop of hat to get the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in to add some strings for the record. "We said on Tuesday, 'Let's have a string quartet,' and then on Friday they were here and we were arranging it all," she said. "It was pretty fun, having the time to be spontaneous with things."

Nagano told The Guardian about the songwriting for Nabuma Rubberband. "Certain songs you think about, you scratch your head and it takes time to finish them," she said. "With other songs, it's like, 'Pow! Pow! Pow!' There's something you need to get off your chest, and this album has a mix of those types of songs. It's more melancholic and reflective but I don't think it's depressing."

"As a band, we share values," Nagano added, "on things like the environment and Palestine – and some songs, like the title track and 'Pink Cloud,' reflect on those issues in some vague way."

Ramones - Outsider

Ramones - Outsider Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Subterranean Jungle
Released: 1983

Outsider Lyrics

I'm an Outsider, outside of everything
I'm an outsider, outside of everything
I'm an outsider, outside of everything
Everything you know
Everything you know
It disturbs me so

I'm an outsider, outside of everything
I'm an outsider, outside of everything
I'm an outsider, outside of everything
Everything you know
Everything you know
It disturbs me so

Everybody tried to push me, push me around
Everybody tried to put me, tried to put me down

All messed up, hey everyone
I've already had all my fun
More troubles are gonna come
I've already had all my fun

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Everybody tried to push me, push me around
Everybody tried to put me, tried to put me down

I'm an outsider, outside of everything
I'm an outsider, outside of everything
I'm an outsider, outside of everything
Everything you know
Everything you know
It disturbs me so

Writer/s: RAMONE, JOEY / RAMONE, JOHNNY / RAMONE, DEE DEE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Outsider

Written by bass player Dee Dee Ramone, this song is about being on the fringes of society, a place the group inhabited. In 1983, while many rock bands were adding synthesizers and updating their images for MTV, the Ramones stayed true to form on their seventh album, Subterranean Jungle. This and the other tracks on the album didn't move the needle on the charts, but critics and core fans were delighted.

Green Day recorded this in 2002 for the movie The New Guy. Their version was included on The Ramones tribute album We're A Happy Family and on their compilation Shenanigans. In the movie, it was used in a scene where fans charge a stadium dressed like characters from Braveheart. (thanks, Rachel - Waurika, OK)

Michael Jackson - A Place With No Name

Michael Jackson - A Place With No Name Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Xscape
Released: 2014

A Place With No Name Lyrics

As I drove across on the highway
My jeep began to rock
I didn't know what to do so I stopped and got out
And looked down and noticed I got a flat

So I walked out, parked the car like sideways
So I can find what I can fix
I looked around there were no cars on the highway
I felt a strange feeling like a mist

I walked down towards the end of the road
And in the fog a woman appeared
She said don't you worry my friend I'll take care
Take my hand, I'll take you there

Oh
Take me to a place without no name
Take me to a place without no name
Take me to a place without no name
Take me to a place without no name

As she took me right through the fog
I see a beautiful city appear
Where kids are playin' and people are laughin' and smiling and
Nothing to fear fear

She said this is the place where no people have pain
With love and happiness
She turned around looked down at my eyes and started cryin'
She grabbed my hand, you got a friend

Oh
Take me to a place without no name
Yeah

She started likin' me kissin' me and huggin' me
She didn't really, really want me to leave
She showed me places I've never seen things I've never done
This really looks like a lotta fun

I seen the grass and the sky and the birds
And the flowers surrounded by the trees
This place is filled with love and happiness
How in the world could I wanna leave

So then I went in my pocket took my wallet on out
With my pictures of my family and girl
This is the place that you choose to be with me
When you thought you could be in another world

Oh
Take me to a place without no name
La la la
A place without no name
La la la

A place without no name (La, la, la)

Writer/s: STRAITE, ELLIOT / JACKSON, MICHAEL / BUNNELL, DENNY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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A Place With No Name

This song was first conceived in 1998 by Elliot Straite, a New Jack Swing producer who goes by the name "Dr. Freeze." Straite knew Michael Jackson's manager at the time, John McClain, and was given an opportunity to work with the King of Pop. This was one of three songs they collaborated on. "I did all the music, and he only had to learn the lyrics," Straite said. "'A Place With No Name' is itself a kind of escape, a song where you just close your eyes to find yourself instantly transported into a wonderful world."

Three weeks after Michael Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, TMZ.com obtained a 24-second snippet of this previously unreleased song and put it onto the Internet. A full version was later reworked by the Norwegian production team Stargate, known for their hits with Ne-Yo, Rihanna and Katy Perry, for Jackson's second posthumous album Xscape.

Stargate's Mikkel Eriksen recalled to Billboard magazine that Jackson was a fan of their songs for Ne-Yo (they included his 2005 chart-topper "So Sick") and he met with them at the Midtown Manhattan Chinese restaurant Mr. K's to discuss future projects. "Just the two of us, and managers, and Blanket was there as well," he said. "Down in the basement."

The song's melody and lyrics resembles America's 1972 single "A Horse With No Name." Straite admitted the song was inspired by the seventies hit. "The lyrics of this song are very deep. I wanted to refresh it, make a version for the 2000s as well," he said. "The group America loved the idea. They found this 'update' absolutely terrific. They were really excited about this project."

This wasn't the only time a member of the Jackson family borrowed from the work of America. Janet Jackson's 2001 hit single "Someone To Call My Lover" sampled "Ventura Highway."

The song's music video was helmed by director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Blind Melon's "No Rain," Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around... Comes Around"). The clip mixes shots of a photogenic pair's dance routine and driving a Jeep through a desert with outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage Jackson originally filmed for his 1992 "In The Closet" mini-movie.

According to Jackson's official website, the clip closely adapts the song's narrative: "A man is enticed into a magical place by a mysterious woman. This Utopian world is one where no one is in fear and no people have pain."

The video premiered worldwide exclusively on the late icon's Twitter account on August 13, 2014, marking the first time the social media site has ever premiered a music clip.

Paul Carrack - Don't Shed a Tear

Paul Carrack - Don't Shed a Tear Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: One Good Reason
Released: 1987

Don't Shed a Tear Lyrics

Don't Shed a Tear

This was written by Eddie Schwartz, a guitarist, producer and songwriter who had written "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," which was a hit for Pat Benatar in 1980. Eddie was living in New York when he started writing this with another songwriter named Rob Friedman. They mapped out part of the verse and had some musical ideas, but forgot about it shortly thereafter. A little while later, Eddie joined a band with Lenny Zakatek, who was lead singer of The Alan Parsons Project. Along with Dave Tyson, they went to Toronto and worked on an album. Realizing they needed another song, Eddie played them some of this and they developed it in a jam session. Eddie came up with the guitar intro and they had a groove for it, but no lyrics except the idea for the title. As he did with "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," Eddie wrote the lyrics in the studio in about 15 minutes, which Lenny then sang. They put the song on a compilation that went out to record companies they hoped would sign the band. A few days later Tommy Mottola (an executive at Sony Records and future husband of Mariah Carey) called Eddie and told him he loved "Don't Shed a Tear" and wanted to sign the band. Soon after, Rob Friedman, who started writing this with Eddie, heard the song and was not pleased because he had been forgotten in the process. Eddie told us: "It was all inadvertent, but Rob was very upset about the whole thing. On top of that, he hated the lyrics. We got into a strange situation where Tommy Mottola was telling us it was a hit single and he wanted to sign the band, and we had the co-writer of the song telling us he hated it. Everybody calmed down, things worked themselves out and for reasons that were totally unmusical but had to do with negotiations between the manager and Tommy Mottola, we never ended up signing the deal and the band didn't stay together."

Sally Perryman, who worked for Schwartz' publishing company in England, brought this song to the attention of Paul Carrack's producer. They loved it and ended up cutting it. Rob Friedman felt much better about the song when he saw the kind of response it was getting.

This led Eddie to a gig producing The Doobie Brothers' 1989 reunion album Cycles. The Doobies loved the sound of this song and asked Eddie to work with them. (Check out our full interview with Eddie Schwartz.)

Carrack performed on several hit songs, but this was his first big single as a solo artist. In 1972, he wrote and sang on "How Long" as a member of the group Ace. He also sang "Tempted" by Squeeze and was a member of Mike + The Mechanics, where he sang on their hits "All I Need Is A Miracle" and "The Living Years." He had 2 more Top-40 hits on his own - "One Good Reason" and "I Live By The Groove," which was also written by Schwartz.

Michael Sweet - How To Live

Michael Sweet - How To Live Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: I'm Not Your Suicide
Released: 2014

How To Live Lyrics

How To Live

In 2009 Michael Sweet 's wife of more than 22 years, Kyle, passed away from ovarian cancer. In the midst of his grief and pain, Lisa Champagne-Sweet came into the Stryper frontman's life and the pair tied the knot the following year. This song finds Sweet paying tribute to his second wife. "I wrote this song for my wife Lisa, who truly did teach me how to live again," he told AntiMusic .

"I've met many people over the years but Lisa is unlike any other. She accepts everyone, without judgment and loves unconditionally. I've learned a lot from her and I wanted to write a song that would express my gratitude. I sang the song at our wedding and it will forever be her song."

The song features Sweet's Stryper band mates drummer Robert Sweet and bassist Tim Gaines.

Cold - Cure My Tragedy

Cold - Cure My Tragedy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Year Of The Spider
Released: 2003

Cure My Tragedy Lyrics

Remember all the times that we used to play
You were lost and i would save you
I don't think those feeling will ever fade
You born a part of me

Won't you Cure My Tragedy
Won't you cure my tragedy
Don't take her smile away from me
She's broken and I'm far away

Won't you cure my tragedy
Won't you cure my tragedy
Then i hope that you can hear me scream
Won't you cure my tragedy

When i sit and think of the days we shared
and the nights you covered before me
Every little thing that i ever did
You would stand by me
Everytime you would cry it would take my wind
My heart would break
If I could be strong like you were for me
You are my faith

Won't you cure my tragedy
Won't you cure my tragedy
Don't take her smile away from me
She's broken and I'm far away
If you made the world a stage for me
Then i hope that you could hear me scream
Can you hear me scream
Can you hear me scream

Won't you cure my tragedy
Won't you cure my tragedy
Don't take her smile away from me
She's broken and I'm far away
If you made the world a stage for me

I can't take this anymore
I can't take this anymore
Won't you take and give her pain to me
'Cause my whole life I've made mistakes

Writer/s: WARD, JR., RONALD / BALSAMO, TERRY / HAYES, KELLY / MARSHALL, JEREMY D. / MC CANDLESS, SAMUEL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Cure My Tragedy

Lead singer Scooter Ward wrote this for his sister, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer that spread to her brain. Scooter was very upset and ready to stop working on the album, but his sister told him to write a song about it instead. (thanks, Stephanie - Huron Twp., MI)

Rascal Flatts - Payback

Rascal Flatts - Payback Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rewind
Released: 2014

Payback Lyrics

Front of the line, straight past the bouncer
Lookin' so fine that the band announced ya
Gotcha tight jeans on and your hair done right
All your girlfriends say we throwin' down tonight
Let me guess, somebody done you wrong
And you're lookin' for a way to get your feel good on
Get some pictures on the Instagram and show him what he's missin'
Straight no chaser, girl on a mission

Mmm, baby I could be your Payback
Hey, gonna help you get your sway back
Take ya to the dance floor, I'ma lean ya way back
Yeah, I'ma lean ya way back

Gonna have a real good time
Don't worry 'bout your tab, girl, put it on mine
We can show him what he can't have
If you wanna play that game
Yeah, baby I can be your payback

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

I bet he's sittin' at home all alone in the dark
Probably textin' like mad, wants to know where you are
'Cause he didn't even know what he had 'til he lost it
Should have known runnin' around was gonna cost him
No way that girl is as pretty as you
I never even seen her but I know that it's true
If he was even half a man he wouldn't have blown it
Thinkin' 'bout it that way feels good don't it

Mmm, baby I could be your payback
Hey, gonna help you get your sway back
Take ya to the dance floor, I'ma lean ya way back
Yeah, I'ma lean ya way back

Gonna have a real good time
Don't worry 'bout your tab, girl, put it on mine
We can show him what he can't have
If you wanna play that game
Yeah, baby I can be your payback

Da da da da da da da
Let me be your payback
Da da da da da da da
Gonna help ya get your sway back
Da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da
He's gonna hate that
I can be your p-p-p-p-payback
I can be your p-p-p-p-payback
I can be your p-p-p-p-payback
I can be your p-p-p-p-payback
Woo yeah, woo, ah yeah

Writer/s: ESHUIS, AARON / HURD, RYAN / MASON, NEIL D.
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP
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Payback

This Aaron Eshuis, Neil Mason and Ryan Hurd penned lighthearted track finds Gary LeVox singing of a girl trying to make her boyfriend jealous. "It's a fun little revenge tune that's awesome and I think the girls are going to love that one," keyboardist Jay DeMarcus told Radio.com . "We didn't write the song, we found the song, or it found us. It's revenge driven in a funny way. What he's saying is basically, 'Let's dance together at this club tonight. We'll take some pictures and put them out on the Internet and he'll see it and it'll piss him off and he'll wonder.'"

White Town - Your Woman

White Town - Your Woman Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Women In Technology
Released: 1997

Your Woman Lyrics

Just tell me what you've got to say to me
I've been waiting for so long to hear the truth
It comes as no surprise at all you see
So cut the crap and tell me that we're through

Now I know your heart, I know your mind
You don't even know you're bein' unkind
So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways
Just use me up and then you walk away
Boy, you can't play me that way

Well I guess what you say is true
I could never be the right kind of girl for you

[Chorus:]
I could never be Your Woman
I could never be your woman
I could never be your woman
I could never be your woman

When I saw my best friend yesterday
She said she never liked you from the start
Well me, I wish that I could claim the same
But you always knew you held my heart

And you're such a charming, handsome man
Now I think I finally understand
Is it in your genes
I don't know
But I'll soon find out, that's for sure
Why did you play me this way

Well I guess what you say is true
I could never be the right kind of girl for you

[Chorus]

Well I guess what they say is true
I could never spend my life with a man like you

[Chorus]

Writer/s: JYOTI MISHRA P/K/A WHITE TOWN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Your Woman

White Town is Jyoti Mishra, who sings and records dance music using synthesizers and samples. This is by far his best-known song.

This samples a song from the 1930s by British singer Al Bowlly called "My Woman." Mishra heard it on the Pennies From Heaven soundtrack.

Mishra: "The lyrics are very nasty and, from a certain perspective, misogynist. I thought it might be an interesting twist to sample the spooky part and write a song around it that had different perspectives. The music was done fairly quickly - the lyrics took bloody ages!"

Mishra recorded this on an 8-track in his spare room in Derby and played it to his girlfriend, who encouraged him to do something with it. He could only afford to press 5 copies, and he sent one of them to the DJ Simon Mayo at Radio One, who started playing it. It became the most requested track of the week and as a consequence he landed a deal with EMI. It sold 165,000 copies the week it was released shooting to #1 despite his refusal to appear in a video or on British TV to promote it.

Mishra sings the song from a woman's perspective, making it a rare example of a hit record with a gender reversal. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)

Al Bowlly's vocals was first recorded in November 1932, and they finally reached the top of the chart 64 years later as part of this song. No other UK #1 single has such a time gap before reaching the summit.

Ricky Martin - Vida

Ricky Martin - Vida Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: One Love, One Rhythm
Released: 2014

Vida Lyrics

Finally the time has come
Let’s just dance in the sun
Everybody grab someone
And let rhythym make us one

It’s a celebration
Every time we get together
All people in every nation
Put your manos in the sky
Venimos a vacilar
Venimos a disfrutar
Vamos todos a gozar
Vamos todos a cantar

La Vida buena
Buena vida
Everyone across the world
Man, and woman, boy and girl
La vida buena
Buena vida
Vamos todos a bailar
Sonreír y celebrar

Negativity is gone
And I’m feeling so good
'Cause we, 'cause we found love
Like life has just begun
Enjoy the laughter and fun

It’s a celebration
Every time we get together
All people in every nation
Put your manos in the sky
Venimos a vacilar
Venimos a disfrutar
Vamos todos a gozar
Vamos todos a cantar

La vida buena
Buena vida
Everyone across the world
Man, and woman, boy and girl
La vida buena
Buena vida
Vamos todos a bailar
Sonreír y celebrar

La vida buena
Buena vida
Everyone across the world
Man, and woman, boy and girl
La vida buena
Buena vida
Vamos todos a bailar
Sonreír y celebrar

La mano pa' arriba
Todo el mundo para abajo
Da una vueltecita
Que siga este canto
Pon la mano arriba
Todo el mundo pa' abajo
Da una vueltecita
Que siga este canto

La vida buena
Buena vida
Everyone across the world
Man, and woman, boy and girl
La vida buena
Buena vida
Vamos todos a bailar
Sonreír y celebrar

La vida buena
Buena vida
Everyone across the world
Man, and woman, boy and girl
La vida buena
Buena vida
Vamos todos a bailar
Sonreír y celebrar

Writer/s: AMED, ROXANA / KING, ELIJAH / REMI, SALAAM / MARTIN, ENRIQUE / GARCIA, JAVIER / VERDE, JOSE ADOLFO
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Vida

In December 2013 FIFA and Sony Music Entertainment launched a worldwide music contest inviting submissions for an original song to be recorded by Ricky Martin for the official World Cup album. The winning entry was submitted by Elijah King, a Miami-based singer/songwriter who shares a Puerto Rican heritage with Martin.

The bilingual English and Spanish-language tune was produced and arranged by Salaam Remi (The Fugees, Amy Winehouse and Nas). It was released as the second official single from One Love, One Rhythm – The 2014 FIFA World Cup Official Album.

The song title "Vida" translates into English as "Life." The lyrics are indeed a celebration of life.

Martin previously recorded "La Copa de la Vida (The Cup of Life)", which served as the Official Song of the 1998 FIFA World Cup. It was the track that made the Puerto Rican an international star, taking off after he performed it on the 1999 Grammy Awards.

Brand New - Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis

Brand New - Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Deja Entendu
Released: 2003

Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis Lyrics

After one or two I get used to the room
We go slow when we first make our moves
By five or six I'll bring you out to the car
By number nine with my head on the bar
And it's sad but true out of cash and i-o-u's

I got desperate desires, and unadmirable plans
My tongue will taste of gin and malicious intent
Bring you back to the bar get you out of the cold
My sober straight face gets you out of your clothes.
And they're scared that we know all the crimes they'll commit
Who they'll kiss before they get home.

I will lie awaken and lie for fun
And fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say.

Barely conscious in the door where you stand.
Your eyes are fighting sleep while your mouth makes your demands
You laugh at every word trying too hard to be cute
I almost feel sorry for what I'm gonna do
And your hair smells of smoke
Who will cast the first stone?
You can sin or spend the night all alone

Brass buttons on your coat hold the cold
In the shape of a heart that they cut out of stone
And you're using all your looks that you've thrown from the start
If you let me have my way I swear I'll tear you apart.

Cause its all you can be
You're a drunk
And you're scared
Its ladies night all the girls drink for free.

I will lie awake and lie for fun
And fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say.

I will lie awake and lie for fun
And fake the way I hold you
Let you fall for every empty word I say.

Writer/s: JESSE LACEY, VINCENT ACCARDI
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis

This song is about lead singer Jesse Lacey's fear that he will one day burn out or fall from grace.

Diego Maradona is an Argentine soccer player who led his country to the World Cup in 1986, faltered due to drug use. Elvis Presley had a brilliant singing career before drugs and health problems took their toll. Both men had spectacular talents but lost it all. (thanks, Matt - Wiltshire, England, for above 2)

Robin Beck - Runaway

Robin Beck - Runaway Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Livin' On A Dream
Released: 2007

Runaway Lyrics

Runaway

Robin Beck explained the son's meaning in track-by-track comments: "This is a passionate song about looking at what's true and feeling the pain that can sometimes come to you when you face it. It kind of leaves you feeling like the world would be a better place if people could just stop and look at what is happening around them and the people that they love." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

Uriah Heep - Lady In Black

Uriah Heep - Lady In Black Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Salisbury
Released: 1971

Lady In Black Lyrics

She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morning,
Her long hair flowing in the mid-winter wind.
I know not how she found me, for in darkness I was walking,
And destruction lay around me from a fight I could not win.

She asked me name my foe then. I said the need within some men
To fight and kill their brothers without thought of men or god.
And I begged her give me horses to trample down my enemies,
So eager was my passion to devour this waste of life.

But she would not think of battle that reduces men to animals,
So easy to begin and yet impossible to end.
For she the mother of all men had counciled me so wisely that
I feared to walk alone again and asked if she would stay.

"Oh lady lend your hand," I cried, "Oh let me rest here at your side."
"Have faith and trust in me," she said and filled my heart with life.
There is no strength in numbers. I've no such misconceptions.
But when you need me be assured I won't be far away.

Thus having spoke she turned away and though I found no words to say
I stood and watched until I saw her black cloak disappear.
My labor is no easier, but now I know I'm not alone.
I find new heart each time I think upon that windy day.
And if one day she comes to you drink deeply from her words so wise.
Take courage from her as your prize and say hello for me.

Writer/s: Hensley, Ken
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Lady In Black

From the liner notes of the Salisbury LP: "Lady in Black, written early in November in Bradford, was inspired by the vision of an unknown girl"

In Cheltenham, England, about twenty People saw a mysterious "Lady In Black" in the years 1882 to 1889. In Texas a story is told, that the lady in black was the wife of a rich man from Spain that was hung one day. Since that day, her ghost visits the area near Highway 281 in Alice, Texas. Many drivers reported that they have seen a mysterious woman, a lady in black. (thanks, David - Berlin, Germany, for above 2)

According to Sweden Rock Magazine #16, the guitar parts of the song were so simple, two of the recording's four acoustic guitars were played by roadies. (thanks, Jon - Sweden)