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Ray LaMontagne - Trouble

Ray LaMontagne - Trouble Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Trouble
Released: 2004

Trouble Lyrics

Trouble
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble been doggin' my soul since the day I was born
Worry
Worry, worry, worry, worry
Worry just will not seem to leave my mind alone
We'll I've been
Saved by a woman
I've been
Saved by a woman
I've been
Saved by a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now

Trouble
Oh, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Feels like every time I get back on my feet
She come around and knock me down again
Worry
Oh, worry, worry, worry, worry
Sometimes I swear it feels like this worry is my only friend
We'll I've been saved
By a woman
I've been saved
By a woman
I've been saved
By a woman
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now
She won't let me go
She won't let me go now

Oh, ah
Oh
She good to me now
She gave me love and affection
She good tell me now
She gave me love and affection
I Said I love her
Yes I love her
I said I love her
I said I love
She good to me now
She's good to me
She's good to me

Writer/s: SINCLAIR, TEDDY NATALIA NOEMI / BHASKER, JEFFREY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Trouble

The title track of Ray LaMontagne's debut album, this was originally released as a single in February 2005 but failed to chart on that occasion. Re-released during the following year's summer, it peaked at #25 on the UK Singles Chart.

LaMontagne said during a Reddit AMA that the song was a writing exercise. He explained: "The inspiration for 'Trouble' was really more an exercise in the writing process. I was trying to emulate early sixties soul songs that were very simple in structure, simple and direct in the lyric, but somehow they're really effective. Even though if you take them apart, there's not a lot of parts, there's something so effective. They seem to last forever. I was trying to write one of those kind of songs."

The song soundtracked a Travelers Insurance campaign, which showed a dog concerned over the security of his bone.

This featured in the second season of the American television show Rescue Me, along with the Trouble tracks "Burn" and "All the Wild Horses." The song has also featured in episodes of Torchwood, The Office and the finale of the first season of True Blood.

Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand

Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cracked Rear View
Released: 1995

Hold My Hand Lyrics

With a little love and some tenderness
We'll walk upon the water
We'll rise above the mess

With a little peace and some harmony
We'll take the world together
We'll take them by the hand

'Cause I've got a hand for you, oh
'Cause I wanna run with you

Yesterday, I saw you standing there
Your head was down, your eyes were red
No comb had touched your hair

I said, get up, and let me see you smile
We'll take a walk together
Walk the road awhile, 'cause

'Cause I've got a hand for you
I've got a hand for you
'Cause I wanna run with you
Won't you let me run with you, yeah

(Hold My Hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to a place
Where you can be
(Hold my hand)
Anything you wanna be because
I wanna love you the best that
The best that I can

See I was wasted, and I was wasting time
'Til I thought about your problems
I thought about your crimes

Then I stood up, and then I screamed aloud
I don't wanna be part of your problems
Don't wanna be part of your crowd, no

'Cause I've got a hand for you
I've got a hand for you
'Cause I wanna run with you
Won't you let me run with you

(Hold my hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to the promised land
(Hold my hand)
Maybe we can't change the world but
I wanna love you the best that
The best that I can, yeah

Let me walk, oh won't you let me, let me
(Hold my hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to a place where you can be
(Hold my hand)
Anything you wanna be because

I oh no, no, no, no, no
(Hold my hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to the promised land
(Hold my hand)
Maybe we can't change the world but
I wanna love you the best that
The best that I can
Oh, best that I can

Writer/s: SONEFELD, JIM / FELBER, DEAN / BRYAN, MARK / RUCKER, DARIUS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hold My Hand

The band performed this in their early years when they played a lot of colleges in the South Carolina area, and a shorter version of the song was released on cassette they put together in 1993 called Kootchypop, which they sold at shows. This version had very little background vocals and few instruments. When Atlantic Records signed the band, they had them re-record the song and released it as their first single.

David Crosby, famous for his work with Crosby, Stills, and Nash, sang backup on this and some other songs on the album. Crosby is known for his ability to harmonize.

This song got a lot of airplay and helped make the Cracked Rear View album (named for a line in the John Hiatt song "Learning How To Love You") the bestseller of 1995 in the US. The single was released shortly before the album came out, and it was a slow build: The group made appearances on The Tonight Show and The Late Show With David Letterman in 1994, but their first US tour was as the openers for Big Head Todd & the Monsters.

It was in February 1995 when "Hold My Hand" reached its peak chart position, as Hootie & the Blowfish filled a niche of mellow pop that wasn't being served by the grunge and gangsta rap that was prevalent at the time.

Frontman Darius Rucker told The Boot that this was the first Hootie song he heard being played on the radio. He recalled: "The first time I heard a Hootie song, Dean Felber - our bass player for Hootie - and I were driving in his car and 'Hold My Hand' came on the radio - first time we had heard it on the radio. We were in Columbia, S.C. It came on the radio, and we were listening to it and about halfway through the song, he reached over and he turned it [up], and we just started giggling.

That was in early 1994. My heart raced. For me, it was a moment where I thought, 'Wow! This is radio... not just some college radio, we're on pop radio!' We had been playing for nine years! It thought this might really be starting to happen. I thought we might be played on the radio. I didn't think we'd get played on the radio like we eventually did. That was a great day! You never forget the first time you hear your first song on the radio - that's hard to forget."

The group did a special version of this song for the kid's TV show Sesame Street about how children should hold a grownup's hand when they cross the street. (thanks, Lisa - Bowling Green, KY)

Hootie & the Blowfish suffered a bit of a backlash from overexposure, but they were really cool in 1995. Even MTV thought so, and gave them Best New Artist Video for "Hold My Hand" at their Video Music Awards that year. Still questioning the cool? They also performed the song with Al Green in December, 1995 at the Billboard Music Awards, where Cracked Rear View was named Album of the Year.

Ray LaMontagne - Ojai

Ray LaMontagne - Ojai Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Supernova
Released: 2014

Ojai Lyrics

I've been a saviour,
A sideman, a stranger stung
By anger
Burned by law
Feel so scattered
Like nothing really matters anymore,
Put that sign out
On my front door

Hitchin' a ride down the PCH
I got some things I need to say
Callin' out a friend of mine

And I don't know where the years had gone,
Just know I'm worse for hangin' on
Maybe it'd be best if I just let things lie
Guess I'm never gonna get back to Ojai

I knew a good man
He was a break in clouds,
Hangin'
So low down
It's got me to thinking
It's not like he gave in, he just
Never got that
Second win

Hitchin a ride down the PCH
I got some things I need to say
Callin' out a friend of mine

I don't know where the years have gone,
Just know I'm worse for hangin' on
Maybe it'd be best if I just let things lie
Guess I'm never gonna get back to Ojai

Ojai
Ojai

I've been a saviour,
A sideman, a stranger son
Hedge your wager,
'Cause life ain't fair
I been shaken,
Sorely mistaken, this path
I've taken
It's goin' nowhere

Hitchin a ride down the PCH
I got some things I need to say
Callin' out a friend of mine

I don't know where the years have gone,
Just know I'm worse for hangin' on
Maybe it'd be best if I just let things lie

Guess I'm never gonna get back to Ojai
Guess I'm never gonna get back to Ojai

Writer/s: RAYCHARLES JACK LAMONTAGNE
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Ojai

This song finds LaMontagne singing of a desire to get away from the city life as he sings of hitching a ride to the small Southern Californian town of Ojai. Like most of his tunes, it appears to be a work of fiction. "I still don't know what that song is about - some old hippie who made it to California and lost touch with old friends, or gets slighted or something," he told Billboard magazine. "I don't know. It's all a mystery to me. I'm still decoding these songs and figuring out where they came from."

Elton John - Rocket Man

Elton John - Rocket Man Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Honky Chateau
Released: 1972

Rocket Man Lyrics

She packed my bags last night, pre-flight
Zero hour, nine AM
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
Till touch down brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no, I'm a Rocket Man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact, it's cold as Hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time

Writer/s: JOHN, ELTON / TAUPIN, BERNARD J.P.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Rocket Man

Space exploration was big in 1972; the song came out around the time of the Apollo 16 mission, which sent men to the moon for the fifth time.

The inspiration for Bernie Taupin's lyrics, however, was the short story The Rocket Man, written by Ray Bradbury. The sci-fi author's tale is told from the perspective of a child, whose astronaut father has mixed feelings at leaving his family in order to do his job. It was published as part of the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951.

Bradbury's story was the basis for another song called "Rocket Man," which was released by the folk group Pearls Before Swine (fronted by Tom Rapp) in 1970. Taupin says that this gave him the idea for his own "Rocket Man" ("It's common knowledge that songwriters are great thieves, and this is a perfect example," he says). In the Pearls Before Swine song, a child can no longer look at the stars after his astronaut father perishes in space.

This was produced by Gus Dudgeon, who worked with David Bowie on his 1969 song "Space Oddity." Both songs have similar subject matter, and lots of people accused Elton of ripping off Bowie, something both Elton and Bernie Taupin deny.

The opening lyrics came to Bernie Taupin while he was driving near his parents' house in Lincolnshire, England. Taupin has said that he has to write his ideas down as soon as they show up in his head, or they could disappear, so he drove though some back roads as fast as he could to get to the house where he could write down his thought: "She packed my bags last night, pre-flight. Zero hour, 9 a.m., and I'm gonna be high as a kite by then."

From there he came up with the song about a man who is sent to live in space as part of a scientific experiment.

The song can be interpreted as a symbol of how rock stars are isolated from their friends, family and from the real world by those with power in the music industry. Some lyric analysis as part of the rock star isolation theory:

"I'm burning out his fuse up here alone" - Rocketing through space on stage.

"Higher than a kite" - Feeling outside the box called normal.

"Mars" - "The place he is when he's high; don't need to be raising children when you're an addict. It's a "cold" place, being an addict and larger than life when you want to be "Normal" and a "Rocketman" at the same time.

The most commonly misheard lyric in this song is "Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone." This was the centerpiece of a 2011 commercial for the Volkswagen Passat, where folks came up with all kinds of interpretations of the last few words: telephone, cheap cologne, motor home, provolone. A couple in a Passat can correctly interpret the words thanks to the car's premium sound system, and all is well. This wasn't the first time the song was used in a commercial; it was also featured in ads for AT&T.

Elton John named his record company Rocket Records after this song. He started the company in 1973; it was the label that released Neil Sedaka's comeback songs.

There was another song called "Rocket Man" that Bernie and Elton knew about when they wrote this. It was released by a group called Pearls Before Swine and came out in 1970.

When Elton played the Soviet Union in 1979, this was listed on the program as "Cosmonaut."

This was Elton's biggest hit to that point, outcharting his first Top-10 entry, "Your Song." It had a huge impact on his psyche, as it gave him the confidence to know that he could sustain his career in music.

Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens' nickname was "The Rocket," which led to lots of highlight videos of him pitching in slow motion with this song playing in the background. He earned the nickname because of his outstanding fastball, but later came under scrutiny when the league learned that his rocket fuel may have been steroids. Clemens denied the allegations and was never convicted of steroid use.

Kate Bush covered this in 1991 for an Elton John tribute album called Two Rooms (a reference to John and Taupin writing separately). Her version hit #12 in the UK.

William Shatner performed a spoken-word version of this song at the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards, for which he was the host. Bernie Taupin did the introduction. (thanks, John - Lancaster, CA)

At a show in Anaheim, California on August 22, 1998, Jim Carrey joined Elton for a duet of this song. Carey gave a real performance before sitting at the piano and bashing his head into the keys. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

On an episode of the television show Family Guy, Stewie does a spoken version of this song. (thanks, Jesse - Chicago, IL)

St. Vincent - Cruel

St. Vincent - Cruel Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Strange Mercy
Released: 2011

Cruel Lyrics

Bodies, can't you see what everybody wants from you?

Forgive the kids, for they don't know how to live
Run the alleys casually Cruel
Cruel, cruel

Bodies, can't you see what everybody wants from you?
For you could want that, too
They could take or leave you
So they took you, and they left you
How could they be casually cruel?
Cruel, cruel, oh
Cruel, cruel, oh

Bodies, can't you see what everybody wants from you?
If you could want that, too, then you'll be happy

You were the one waving flares in the air so they could see you
And they were a zephyr, blowing past ya,
Blowing fastly so they can see ya
Cruel, cruel, oh
Cruel, cruel, oh

Cruel, cruel, oh
Cruel, cruel, oh

Writer/s: ANNE ERIN CLARK
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Cruel

The song's music video was filmed around San Francisco and on Mare Island. It was the third consecutive clip directed by the Terri Timely directing team for St. Vincent. Speaking with NME in 2014, she recalled Cassidy, the sweet, mordant little girl featured in the clip. "She was so smart and so bizarre, she was so really special kid. I liked her a whole lot. I hope she's doing well."

St. Vincent added to The Huffington Post : "She was cracking me up between takes, wheeling herself around in the prop wheelchair and showing me how to use her Playstation handheld to take pictures of people and then comically distort their faces. Very intelligent, very special child."

The father/bereaved husband in the video was played by Bjørn Johnson, who opened Bjørn Johnson Acting Studio in Los Angeles in 2001. He has appeared in such hit TV shows as Dexter, Madmen, ER, Sopranos, Nip/Tuck, Law and Order and Criminal Minds. St. Vincent recalled to The Huffington Post that he, "instructed me on how to make the abduction scene more believable by not anticipating that he was about to throw a sack over my head."

"Luckily, it didn't take much method acting to honestly react to," she continued, "well, having a sack thrown violently over my head and my body thrown into the trunk of a car."

Dashboard Confessional - Shirts And Gloves

Dashboard Confessional - Shirts And Gloves Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Swiss Army Romance
Released: 2000

Shirts And Gloves Lyrics

When I'm back from the road then you're out on it
And I'm tired of the distance and I believe it's overrated

And this phone tag game is endless
The novelty is wearing
I'm hoping time will pass without any assistance or convincing

Road rules apply
There's so much action
You're getting busy

I'll call your cellular phone to tell you TV night was lonely without you
And so am I, so am I

It seems our day keeps falling on a leap year
So many high points on this last leg
I can't wait to recount them
It seems like nothing's happened until I've shared them with you

The note that you had called says you're half a day away
And you're heading home just in time for me, for me to leave

Road rules apply
There's so much action
I'm getting busy

So make sure that I'm up to date on TV night
I hate to miss out
I think I miss you most on Wednesdays and Saturdays

It seems our day keeps falling on a leap year

Writer/s: CARRABBA, CHRISTOPHER ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Shirts And Gloves

Chris Carrabba wrote this about life on the road and how he missed the show Dawson's Creek. Chris used to watch the show with his girlfriend, and when he went on tour they didn't get to watch it together anymore. (thanks, Anthony - Valley Stream, NY)

At some concerts, Carrabba would play some of the Dawson's Creek theme song (Paula Cole's "I Don't Wanna Wait") at the end of this.

Usher - Good Kisser

Usher - Good Kisser Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Yet to be Titled
Released: 2014

Good Kisser Lyrics

Make every minute worth it, baby
This for Usher, baby (watch this)

I done been around the world, I done kissed a lot of girls
So I'm guessin' that it's true
Make me holla and I bet a million dollars
Don't nobody kiss it like you
Don't nobody kiss it like you, don't nobody kiss it like you, ba-baby
Don't nobody kiss it like you, don't nobody kiss it like you

It's 5 in the mornin'
Kush is rollin' while she's makin' steak and eggs
At 5 in the mornin'
We can only be about to do one thing (what?)

See, I told her
The devil is a lie
Them other girls can't compete with mine
You do it so good, you fuck my mind
You pull it out, then you open wide
You make me wanna tap out and retire
Your pretty lips leave me so inspired

I think that she's a winner
She could be a keeper

'Cause she's such a Good Kisser
Got lipstick on my leg
Oh baby
She's such a good kisser
I'ma rain on this parade
Oh baby

I done been around the world, I done kissed a lot of girls
So I'm guessin' that it's true
Make me holla and I bet a million dollars
Don't nobody kiss it like you
Don't nobody kiss it like you, don't nobody kiss it like you, ba-baby
Don't nobody kiss it like you, don't nobody kiss it like you

This girl, she's my hero
Get dinero, euros, pesos, francs and yen
(I ain't wanna check off either)
I'm starin' at your barrel
Pull the trigger, chitty, chitty, bang, babe

See, I told her
The devil is a lie
Them other girls can't compete with mine
You do it so good, you fuck my mind
You pull it out, then you open wide
You make me wanna tap out and retire
Your pretty lips leave me so inspired

I think I got a winner
Could be a keeper

'Cause she's such a good kisser
Got lipstick on my leg
Oh baby
She's such a good kisser
I'ma rain on this parade
Oh baby

Listen, the only thing I know
You give it to me, baby, with good flow
Don't ever run it back, come on, keep goin'
Just give it to me, give it up to me, give it up to me
I can't keep my control
Every time that I see you hit that floor
Just keep on givin' it to me, I want mine
Just come on baby, just give it to me, give it up to me

Kiss it good, kiss it right
Keep it up, we be kissin' all night
Kiss it good, kiss it right
Keep it up, we be kissin' all night
Kiss it good, kiss it right
Keep it up, we be kissin' all night
Kiss it good, kiss it right
Keep it up, we be kissin' all night

She's such a good kisser
Got lipstick on my leg
Oh baby
She's such a good kisser
I'ma rain on this parade
Oh baby

I done been around the world, I done kissed a lot of girls
So I'm guessin' that it's true
Make me holla and I bet a million dollars
Don't nobody kiss it like you
Don't nobody kiss it like you, don't nobody kiss it like you, ba-baby
Don't nobody kiss it like you, don't nobody kiss it like you

Writer/s: WANSEL, ANDREW / SNEED, TERRY / FELDER, WARREN / COLSON, RONALD TYLER / ROBERTS, JAMEEL / BARRY, JEFF / BLOOM, ROBERT / RAYMOND, USHER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Good Kisser

The first single from Usher's eighth album finds the R&B singer giving praise to a lady who is a great kisser. Her smooching skills are not restricted to Usher's mouth as testified by the lipstick on his leg.

Cause she's such a good kisser
Got lipstick on my leg
Oh baby
She's such a good kisser
I'ma rain on this parade
Oh baby

"Women can enjoy it because it's fun," Usher told Billboard magazine collage of the song's come-ons and pick-up lines. "And it's easier for a guy because it's something they can just talk and say."

The sultry make out ode was written by Usher. It was produced by:

Los Angeles-based Turkish-American record producer "Oak" Felder and his partner, Andrew "Pop" Wansel, who have produced several of Nicki Minaj's singles including "Your Love" and "Right By My Side." They also helmed Big Sean's sex ode "Marvin & Chardonnay."

Ronald "Flip" Colson, whose other credits include Rihanna's "Numb."

Jameel "JProof" Roberts, who also contributed to the writing of Nicki Minaj's "Right By My Side."

Newcomer Terry "Tru" Sneed, for whom this is his first major credit.

The song features a throwback sparse bass guitar and drums. "Real music is taking a stand," Usher said. "Artists are going after real instrumentation as opposed to electronic, synthesized music."

It was Pop Wansel who originally came up with the song. He recalled to Vibe magazine: "A lot of times when I wake up singing something random, it turns into a song. So I woke up one morning just signing 'Don't nobody kiss it like you baby,' and I was just singing it all day long."

"And then Flip, who also co-produced on the record came by my house and heard me," he continued. "Then, he started humming it, and I was like looking for this imaginary song on the internet because I really thought it was somebody else's [laughs]. And, that same day I went to sleep with my iTunes on and I woke up to that Foster Sylvers sample playing on my computer."

"Later that night, I went to the studio and just put it all down, then forgot about it," Wansel added. "About six months later, we were going through old ideas on my computer and that one came up and I was like 'Oh s--t, this is crazy.'"

Once Usher got hold of the song, he made some lyrical changes, including altering the word "suck" to "kiss" in order to make it more radio-friendly. Wansel told Vibe: "At first, we were thinking Usher had to be the one to make this song about... oral pleasure."

"That was in play, believe that, that was in play," he added. "But he actually came in and scaled it back some. Not much, you still have that risqué factor. He didn't want to change that at all but he changed a couple of words that I had wrote. Let's just say he made it less X-rated [laughs]."

This contains a percussive sample taken from Foster Sylvers' 1974 cover of Bobby Bloom's song "Montego Bay."

Rammstein - Laichzeit

Rammstein - Laichzeit Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Herzeleid
Released: 1996

Laichzeit Lyrics

Er liebt die Mutter
Und von der Seite
Den Fisch gibt er ihr selbst
Dieser häutet sich vor leerem Hoden
Die alte Haut fällt auf den Boden

Er liebt die Schwester
Und von hinten
Der Fisch frißt sich zum Mund
Die Kiemen blutig noch vom saugen
An den roten großen Augen

Laichzeit
Es ist Laichzeit

Er liebt den Hund
Oh Gott von oben
Der Fisch jetzt mit der Zunge küßt
Speit tote Milch dir ins Gesicht
Ihn anzufassen wagst do nicht

Laichzeit
Überall Fischmilch
Es ist Laichzeit

Die Mutter hat das Meer geholt
Laichzeit
Die Schwestern haben keine Zeit
Laichzeit
Der Hund steht winkend am Gestade
Laichzeit
Der Fisch braucht seine Einsamkeit
Laichzeit

Writer/s: Riedel, Oliver / Lorenz, Doktor Christian / Schneider, Christoph Doom / Kruspe, Richard Z. / Landers, Paul / Lindemann, Till
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Laichzeit

This, like most Rammstein songs, is about sex. The protagonist, "Der Fisch," is supposed to represent man's inner desire to reproduce through... sex. We all have this longing, no matter how much we try to hide it by acting "civilized." At the end of the song all the people "Der Fisch" screwed around with don't want him anymore, which shows that it was all senseless and without deep purpose. The point is that deep down we are all animals in a way, and sex isn't something necessarily "noble" at all. (thanks, Roc - Houston, TX)

Carrie Underwood - Keep Us Safe

Carrie Underwood - Keep Us Safe Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Single Release Only
Released: 2014

Keep Us Safe Lyrics

Keep Us Safe

Carrie Underwood debuted this song at the ACM Presents: An All-Star Salute to the Troops event, which was held on April 7 2014 and broadcast by CBS on May 20, 2014.

God keep us safe tonight
Keep our eyes toward the skies
Send down an army of angels
To make us brave
And keep us strong and unafraid
God keep us safe

Underwood penned the tune especially for the Las Vegas event along with Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey and Shane McAnally. She said the song, which showcases her strong spiritual faith, was applicable to the troops, their families and, "even just someone going through something big."

Proceeds from the song went to the ACM Lifting Lives Foundation.

Underwood told The Hollywood Reporter the story of the song. "I wanted to write a song for this event," she said. "I kept it to myself because you never know how things are going to turn out. If I told everybody I wanted to write a song and I had writer's block, that would be terrible."

"I had a writing date with some amazing songwriter friends of mine," Underwood continued. "I tossed out the idea that we should try and chase something for a few minutes and see if it snowballs and becomes something we love. We played around on guitar. I started mumbling gibberish and humming tunes. None of it made sense. If someone walked in and saw what we were doing it would have looked ridiculous. We started humming and the words popped out and the song really wrote itself. You just have to be able to make sense of it all and put it in some kind of order."

Pearl Jam - Given To Fly

Pearl Jam - Given To Fly Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Yield
Released: 1998

Given To Fly Lyrics

He could've tuned in tuned in
But he tuned out
A bad time nothing could save him
Alone in a corridor waiting locked out
He got up outta there ran for hundreds of miles
He made it to the ocean had a smoke in a tree
The wind rose up set him down on his knee

A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw
Delivered him wings "Hey look at me now"
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor
Oh power oh

He's flying
Whole
High wide, oh

He floated back down 'cause he wanted to share
His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere
But first he was stripped and then he was stabbed
By faceless men, well, fuckers
He still stands

And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
The love he receives is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
A human being that was Given To Fly

High flying
Oh, oh
High flying
Oh, oh
He's flying
Oh, oh

Writer/s: GOSSARD, STONE C. / AMENT, JEFFREY ALLEN / VEDDER, EDDIE JEROME / MCCREADY, MIKE / ABBRUZZESE, DAVID
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Given To Fly

This borrows its structure from Led Zeppelins "Going To California." During a Hurricane Katrina Benefit concert, Pearl Jam played some songs together with Robert Plant, and while playing this one they segued over to Plant's "Going to California."

Some people believe the song to be about Jesus Christ. Eddie Vedder was quoted as saying, "It's a children's story." (thanks, Brian - Paoli, IN, for above 2)

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready wrote the music and Eddie Vedder wrote the lyrics.

Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars

Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Ghost Stories
Released: 2014

A Sky Full Of Stars Lyrics

'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're A Sky Full Of Stars
I'm gonna give you my heart
'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
'Cause you light up the path

I don't care, go on and tear me apart
I don't care if you do, ooh
'Cause in a sky, 'cause in a sky full of stars
I think I saw you

'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars
I wanna die in your arms
'Cause you get lighter the more it gets dark
I'm gonna give you my heart

I don't care, go on and tear me apart
I don't care if you do, ooh
'Cause in a sky, 'cause in a sky full of stars
I think I see you
I think I see you

'Cause you're a sky, you're a sky full of stars
Such a heavenly view
You're such a heavenly view

Writer/s: MARTIN, CHRIS / BUCKLAND, JONATHAN / CHAMPION, WILLIAM / BERGLING, TIM / BERRYMAN, GUY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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A Sky Full Of Stars

This song was recorded during the sessions for Ghost Stories with Avicii. The Swedish EDM artist was invited by Chris Martin to play the piano and his imprint can be heard on the song's majestic piano lines. Speaking with BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, Martin, who usually tinkles the ivories on Coldplay's recordings admitted he felt like he was cheating on the band when he asked the Swede to play the piano instead of him.

Chris Martin said on Fuse: "What that song represents on Ghost Stories is the release after you've climbed the mountain - after you've done anything challenging. That's why that song is so unashamedly happy and danceable: because that's what it needed to be. I love singing it. I know we didn't break the mold, but it's just so fun to play."

A house-influenced piano-centric song with pounding bass drum, this is the closest Coldplay have come to recording a dance track.

Avicii also produced the track along with the band and Ghost Stories producers Paul Epworth, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson.

The song received its TV première on the April 29, 2014 episode of BBC 2's Later... with Jools Holland and four days later the band performed it on Saturday Night Live.

Martin told the hosts on The Kevin & Bean Show that after coming up with the idea for this song, he did something different. "What happens with our songs generally is that they get sent from the universe, however they come," he said. "I don't know where they come from, in the middle of the night they come through and I take it to the rest of the band and it gets layered up, like a car being built or something."

But this time around, he took the song straight to Avicii and had it produced by the Swedish EDM mastermind.

This was the last song Coldplay added to Ghost Stories and the band appreciated the "fresh injection" by Avicii. "The rest of the band was very gracious, as usual," Martin told Kevin and Bean. "So they said, 'We trust you and let's keep rolling.'"

Filmed by movie director Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, The Shock Doctrine), the song's music video shows Chris Martin walking through King Street in Newtown, Sydney kitted out like a one-man band, before being joined by the rest of Coldplay. 250 fans were also invited to march from Newtown's Courthouse Hotel.

Speaking during a Beat x Beat webcast, Chris Martin explained how the song was created. "It needs to be about unconditional love," he said. "There will be a point where you'll be like, 'OK, I got that out of my system. Now let's go dancing.'"

Martin added that he was listening to Katy Perry's music when he was writing Ghost Stories. He borrowed the way the Californian songstress' tunes have a repetitive chord pattern with a sing-along melody over the top for this track.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Californication
Released: 1999

Otherside Lyrics

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever

I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up and brought up the past
Once you've gone you can never go back
I've got to take it on the other side

Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I've got to take it on the other side
Take it on
Take it on

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever

Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray's full and I'm spillin' my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I've got to take it on the other side

Scarlet starlet and she's in my bed
A candidate for a soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread I've got to take it on the other side
Take it on the other side
Take it on
Take it on

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever

Turn me on take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the other side
I yell and tell it that
It's not a friend
I tear it down I tear it down
And then it's born again

How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever

How long I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat
It's all I ever

Writer/s: Kiedis, Anthony / Smith, Chad / Balzary, Michael 'Flea' / Frusciante, John
Publisher: MoeBeToBlame
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Otherside

In the book Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis explains that this song is about his drug addiction. The "slide" is how far he will get back into his drug addiction, since he would stop doing drugs for a time, then get right back into it. "I don't believe it's bad" is a refrence to how he doesn't regret doing drugs.