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Arlo Guthrie - City Of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie - City Of New Orleans Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hobo's Lullaby
Released: 1972

City Of New Orleans Lyrics

Riding on the City Of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

[Chorus]
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' cards with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Won't you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of Pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steam.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.

[Chorus]

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Writer/s: STEVE GOODMAN
Publisher: AL BUNETTA D/B/A JURISDAD MUSIC
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City Of New Orleans

Arlo Guthrie is a prolific songwriter (and the son of maybe the more prolific songwriters), but he didn't write this one. "City Of New Orleans" was composed by the Chicago singer-songwriter Steve Goodman in 1970.

Goodman wrote the lyrics on a sketch pad after his wife fell asleep on the Illinois Central train, where they were going to visit his wife's grandmother. Goodman wrote about what he saw looking out the windows of the train and playing cards in the club car. Everything in the song actually happened on the ride.

After he returned home, Goodman heard that the train was scheduled to be decommissioned due to lack of passengers. He was encouraged to use this song to save the train, so he retouched the lyrics and released it on his first album in 1971.

Steve Goodman released his version as a single in 1972, but it was Arlo Guthrie's cover that same year that popularized the song and brought attention to rail lines that were vanishing across middle America. Many people who lived in rural areas relied on them to travel.

Steve Goodman died on September 20, 1984 at the age of 36 after a long battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. That same year, Willie Nelson covered this song and made it the title track of his album. Nelson's version was a #1 Country hit and won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song, which is a songwriting category and thus an honor bestowed posthumously to Goodman.

Nelson was one of many high-profile fans of Goodman, who released 11 albums in his lifetime. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1969, Goodman underwent chemotherapy and his cancer stayed in remission for 13 years thanks to an unpleasant regimen of drugs and treatment. When his cancer returned, Goodman continued performing and stayed in high spirits. This song, written after he was diagnosed, is a great example of his positive outlook, demonstrating a mindfulness and vitality of someone who appreciates the time he has left.

Arlo is the son of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie. This was Arlo's only chart hit, although he is well known for his Thanksgiving day classic, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree."

The jubilant chorus line, "Good morning America, how are ya?" became a cultural touchstone in the United States. When ABC launched a new morning show in 1975, they named it: Good Morning America.

Here's more info on the City of New Orleans train .

Guthrie and Goodman's versions have slightly different lyrics:

Goodman: "Passing towns that have no name."
Guthrie: "Passing trains..."

Goodman: "Sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steam."
Guthrie: "... made of steel."

Goodman: "...the rhythm of the rails is all they dream"
Guthrie: "...all they feel"
(thanks, Victor - Portland, OR)

Goodman's version was recorded at Quadraphonic Sound Studios in Nashville, and produced by Kris Kristofferson and Norbert Putnam.

Goodman performed this song on the popular British variety show The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972. Dolly Parton sang it in 1976 on her show Dolly, and the song has popped up in a few movies and TV shows, including B.J. and the Bear (1979), The A-Team (1985) and Texasville (1990 - Willie Nelson version.

The Horrors - Jealous Sun

The Horrors - Jealous Sun Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Luminous
Released: 2014

Jealous Sun Lyrics

Anywhere you go and everywhere I follow
Take your love, and take your tomorrows
Because your love isn't enough

Don't let it all slide away, under Jealous Sun now
Don't let it all slide away, under jealous sun together

And this sun is high, every time i'm hidden for too long
In this world, you take what you want
'Cause in this world, you are alone

Don't let it all slide away, under jealous sun now
Don't let it all slide away, under jealous sun together
Don't let it all slide away, under jealous sun now
Don't let it all slide away, under jealous sun together

Writer/s: FARIS ADAM BADWAN, TOM FURSE COWAN, RHYS TIMOTHY WEBB, JOSHUA MARK HAYWARD, JOSEPH PATRICK SPURGEON
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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Jealous Sun

Guitarist Joshua Hayward commented to NME: "It's a guitar monster. I studied vocal patterns because I wanted it to sound like a chorus of different people, not just a Foo Fighters-esque quadrupled-tracked guitar doing one thing."

Counting Crows - Anna Begins

Counting Crows - Anna Begins Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: August And Everything After
Released: 1993

Anna Begins Lyrics

My friend assures me "it's all or nothing"
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned
My friend implores me: "For one time only make an exception"
I am not not worried
Wrap her up in a package of lies send her off to a coconut island
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned
With the status of my emotions "Oh", She says, "You're changing."

But we're always changing
It does not bother me to say this isn't love
Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love
And I guess I'm going to have to live with that
But, I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey or something in between
And I can always change my name if that's what you mean

My friend assures me "It's all or nothing"
But I am not really worried, I am not overly concerned
You try to tell yourself the things you tell yourself to make yourself forget
I am not worried
"If it's love", she said, "then were gonna have to think about the
consequences"
She can't stop shaking and I can't stop touching her and.....

This time when kindness falls like rain
It washes her away and Anna Begins to change her mind
"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days" she says
And I'm not ready for this sort of thing

But I'm not gonna break and I'm not going to worry about it anymore
I'm not gonna bend and I'm not gonna break
I'm not gonna worry about it anymore
It seems like I should say "as long as this is love..."
But it's not all that easy so maybe I should just:
Snap her up in a butter fly net and just pin her down on a photograph album
I am not worried, I've done this sort of thing before
But then I start to think about the consequences
Because I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and...

The time when kindness falls like rain
It washes me away and Anna begins to change my mind
And every time she sneezes I believe it's it's love and
Oh lord.... I'm not ready for this sort of thing

She's talking in her sleep
It's keeping me awake and Anna begins to toss and turn
And every word is nonsense but I understand and
Oh lord... I'm not ready for this sort of thing

Her kindness bangs a gong
It's moving me along and Anna begins to fade away
It's chasing me away
She disappears and
Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing
Writer/s: ADAM DURITZ, MARTIN JONES, LYDIA HOLLY, TOBY HAWKINS, MATTHEW MALLEY, STEVE BOWMAN, CHARLES GILLINGHAM, DAVID BRYSON
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Anna Begins

Lead singer Adam Duritz wrote this song about denial. It's about when you're in a relationship with someone and you keep denying it's anything but a fling, then you wise up and realize that all along while you were denying it, you were growing closer together.

There is a real Anna - she's a girl from Australia that Duritz met on vacation in Greece in 1989, and she broke his heart. Duritz was far from famous at the time - he saved up money doing landscaping work to afford the trip. At the end of the trip, he and Anna agreed that there was no way for their relationship to continue, and they went their separate ways. "The characters keep saying 'I'm not ready for this sort of thing' until at the end when they find out what they really aren't ready for is the loss, but then it's too late," Duritz explained.

Adam says that they remained friends and occasionally spoke on the phone, even after Anna got married. She is a big fan of the song. (thanks, Beth - Charleston, SC, for above 2)

Duritz says that while Anna is real, the song is really about him, and in this context she is a character.

Adam Duritz often uses real - or slightly varied - names in the songs he writes. "Proper names matter to me, and so I use them," he said in our 2013 interview . "I think that comes across to other people, even if it's not the name they're thinking of. People ask me questions like that all the time, like, 'Who's Anna?' She's Anna. You don't know her. She's in Australia. But she's every girl you ever felt that way about, too."

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.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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.