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The Black Keys - Fever

The Black Keys - Fever Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Turn Blue
Released: 2014

Fever Lyrics

Fever where'd you run to
Fever where'd you run to
Acting out of certainty
A fever let me live a dream
Fever, how much slept on
No one misbehave too
Fever let me sun screw
Wouldn't leave you if I could
Fever

Fever 'cause I’m breaking
Fever got me aching
Fever how will you explain
Break it down again
Fever got me guilty
Just go ahead and kill me
Fever how will you explain
Break it down again

Fever can you hear me
Fever can you hear me
You shook me like I never been
Now show me how to love again

It used to be a blessing
But fever got me stressing
Realizing I am the played
But fever let me play the game

Fever 'cause I’m breaking
Fever got me aching
Fever how will you explain
Break it down again
Fever got me guilty
Just go ahead and kill me
Fever why won't you explain
Break it down again

Loud if the cold get loud in your eyes
Because oh so rising rise
You know not to leave her
Loud if the cold get loud in your eyes
Because oh so rising rise
You know not leave her
Fever

Writer/s: PATRICK CARNEY, BRIAN BURTON, DANIEL AUERBACH
Publisher: SWEET SCIENCE
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Fever

After the Black Keys had finished touring El Camino in January 2013, the pair headed to the Key Club studio in Benton Harbor to record an album's worth of songs on Sly Stone's old console. "We left the building once in two weeks," guitarist Dan Auerbach recalled to NME. "It felt like we were on a ship in the ocean."

The band felt that they'd unnecessarily rushed the process and only retained two cuts from the sessions for their Turn Blue album - this song and "Gotta Get Away."

This was released as the first single from Turn Blue. The Black Keys gave the song's first UK airing on XFM's Evening Show with Georgie Rogers. "Ultimately I think it's something different than anything we've done before," drummer Patrick Carney told Georgie. "It's a pretty diverse album and a little bit more psychedelic than the last record."

"It always feels strange releasing a single because you have to separate the song from the whole album and you kind of listen to a song out of context for a few weeks," he added. "That's the part I have always had trouble wrapping my head around because for Dan and I, our albums are meant to be listened to as albums. I'm excited for people to hear the song. I'm more excited for people to hear the whole album."

The song's music video features Dan Auerbach as a televangelist, whilst Patrick Carney nods along approvingly on the side. The clip was directed by photographer Theo Wenner, who is the son of Rolling Stone co-founder and publisher Jann Wenner.

Auerbach urges his followers to call his donation hotline number - 1 (646) 397-6172 , which flashes at the bottom of the screen. Try dialing it for a largely indecipherable pre-recorded message, which turns out to be Patrick Carney, posing as New Age act Quartzazium, prank-calling the Black Keys' own label, Nonesuch.

The Black Keys felt freed of the need to write hit singles for Turn Blue, but this still became radio hit. Auerbach told the BBC: "We made five albums without once ever thinking about a single and then we wrote 'Tighten Up' and it got played on radio and changed our career. So from then we started looking at it as a challenge."

"So when we were writing 'Fever,' we wanted it to be catchy," he continued. "We weren't thinking 'this is a radio hit' but it was like 'the melody is catchy, let's do things that would make it even catchier.'"

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Jammin' Me

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Jammin' Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)
Released: 1987

Jammin' Me Lyrics

You got me in a corner
You got me against the wall
I got nowhere to go
I got nowhere to fall

Take back your insurance
Baby nothin's guaranteed
Take back your acid rain
Baby let your T.V. bleed

You're Jammin' Me, you're jammin' me,
Quit jammin' me
Baby you can keep me painted in a corner
You can look away, but it's not over

Take back your angry slander
Take back your pension plan
Take back your ups and downs of your life
In raisin-land

Take back Vanessa Redgrave
Take back Joe Piscopo
Take back Eddie Murphy
Give 'em all some place to go

You're jammin' me, you're jammin' me
Quit jammin' me
Baby you can keep me painted in a corner
You can walk away but it's not over

Take back your Iranian torture
And the apple in young Steve's eye
Yeah take back your losing streak
Check your front wheel drive

Take back Pasadena
Take back El Salvador
Take back that country club
They're tr yin' to build outside my door

Writer/s: PETTY, TOM / DYLAN, BOB / CAMPBELL, MICHAEL W.
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Jammin' Me

Mike Campbell, guitarist for The Heartbreakers, wrote the music for this and gave Petty the demo. Tom held it for a while and didn't do anything with it until one day when he was working with Bob Dylan. They came up with some lyrics by picking words out of a newspaper and off the television. Tom pulled out Mike's demo, and they inserted those words over the track.

Many of Petty's songs start as demos written by Campbell. Mike also wrote the tracks for Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" and "The Heart Of The Matter," and helped Petty produce this album. (Check out our interview with Mike Campbell.)

In 1986, the band toured with Bob Dylan in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, which led to Dylan's contribution on this song. In 1988, Petty and Dylan played together in The Traveling Wilburys, a band whose other members were Jeff Lynne, George Harrison and Roy Orbison.

In the lyrics, Petty mentions various places and events that were in the news and getting constant media exposure. Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy also show up.

DJ Khaled - They Don't Love You No More

DJ Khaled - They Don't Love You No More Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: I've Changed a Lot
Released: 2014

They Don't Love You No More Lyrics

Ever since a nigga hit the top
Pussy niggas wanna see me in a box
They Don't Love You No More
They don't love you no more

Shit ain't been the same since I came through in that hot shit
They gon' talk about you 'til you ain't got shit
Still gon' talk about you when you got shit
All eyes on Meek, I'm on my Pac shit
Y'all rap niggas on some pop shit
I've been ducking paparazzi with a pop bitch
Glock .30 in the cockpit
Sipping dirty, conversating with the pilot
Nigga, you ain't seen it, I've been fucking up arenas
I'm with double M, the genius, we the motherfucking meanest
And the cleanest in a long time
You pussy niggas hating on me picked the wrong time
Long line for a limp mink draggin', new bandwagon
Blood dripping on me looking like a nigga stabbed him
I be on the money, baking soda in the cabinet
Pyrex, trying to whip a Rollie, making magic
Laughing at you fuck niggas getting madder
If I feel threatened, I'mma go and get a ladder
And climb up your chest, nigga, motherfuck your vest, nigga
Motherfuck your couch, I'm with Khaled, the best, nigga

Ever since a nigga hit the top, uh
Pussy niggas wanna see me in a box, oh
They don't love you no more (they don't love you no more)
They don't love you no more, yeah
Troops gotta cock, coupe's gotta drop
Shit starting to change so you starting to change, ah
They don't love you no more
They don't love you no more
Should be your favorite, now you're just hatin'
Shit starting to change, you want me to change, nah
They don't love you no more (they don't love you no more)
They don't love you no more, nah

Bullet in the head, they wanna see my shirt red
Live by the code, it's the only way to play it
Benz or the Rolls, Mulsanne overrated
Half these niggas told, cut a deal, they'd take it
Promise to never fold and the bonds still sacred
Had to shake a couple niggas, everybody won't make it
God is the greatest as I'm praying in the latest
X600 as I swerve, Little Haiti
Ou paka bat m'wen, sak pase!
I'm busting out the sunroof, nigga, andalé!
My money always coming, no, I'm never on pause
I'll bring you straight to your door if you a motherfucking boss

Ever since a nigga hit the top, uh
Pussy niggas wanna see me in a box, oh
They don't love you no more (they don't love you no more)
They don't love you no more, yeah
Troops gotta cock, coupe's gotta drop
Shit starting to change so you starting to change, ah
They don't love you no more
They don't love you no more
Should be your favorite, now you're just hatin'
Shit starting to change, you want me to change, nah
They don't love you no more (they don't love you no more)
They don't love you no more, nah

Hold up, you ain't got love for me, my nigga?
Ever meet another nigga like me, my nigga?
Are you sure? A nigga flip this shit like Jarl Borg
A nigga did this shit, this hardcore
If you say it, guess it's true though, kudos, I mean, but who knows?
Salute to all the real niggas out there finding the loopholes
Fuck all these fuck niggas, hate when niggas come up, igh!
Hopped off the plane, hit the helicopter (igh!)
Tell these crabs in the barrel we eating hella lobster (igh!)
Got hella options, like a college team
Hit these bootleg niggas with the heisman
Fuck the NCAA nigga, let a young nigga get paid, nigga
Niggas talking down on the crown
Watch them niggas you 'round got you wound
Haters wanna ball, let me tighten up my draw string
Wrong sport, boy, you know you're as soft as the Lacrosse team

Ever since a nigga hit the top, uh
Pussy niggas wanna see me in a box, oh
They don't love you no more (they don't love you no more)
They don't love you no more, yeah
Troops gotta cock, coupe's gotta drop
Shit starting to change so you starting to change, ah
They don't love you no more
They don't love you no more
Should be your favorite, now you're just hatin'
Shit starting to change, you want me to change, nah
They don't love you no more (they don't love you no more)
They don't love you no more, nah

You don't love me no more?!
All the shit I done for you, you don't love me no more?

Writer/s: KHALED, KHALED / CARTER, SHAWN / WILLIAMS, ROBERT / KHARBOUCH, KARIM / ROBERTS, WILLIAM
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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They Don't Love You No More

DJ Khaled enlisted the help of Jay Z as well as frequent collaborators Rick Ross, Meek Mill and French Montana for the lead single of his eighth studio album, I've Changed a Lot. "Every summer's mine," the Miami-based mogul said when he spoke to MTV News on April 28, 2014 to announce the song. "I'm the king of the anthems. It's been seven summers. Well now, it's gonna be eight summers. Summer's mine man."

Khaled is referring to previous posse cuts like 2007's "I'm So Hood" featuring T-Pain, Trick Daddy, Rick Ross and Plies, 2011†²s "I'm On One" with Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, and 2013†²s "No New Friends" featuring Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne.

Sounds like Jay-z is taking a jab at Drake on his verse when he spits:

"Haters wanna ball, let me tighten up my draw string
Wrong sport, boy, you know you're as soft as a Lacrosse team."

Lacrosse is a sport that's popular in Canada and this appears to be a response to Drake's shot at the happily married Hova on his sports-metaphored freestyle "Draft Day" where he rapped:

"I'm focused on makin' records and gettin' bigger
Just hits, no misses
That's for the married folks."

The fact that the song was produced by Mike Zombie, who is part of Drake's rapper's OVO Sound crew and helmed the Toronto MC's "Started from the Bottom" hit tune, adds further weight to Jay's jab.

The single's cover art features Khaled clenching a gold chain between his gold grill-covered teeth. The artwork on Mississippi rapper Kolley's debut Mixtape, RNS, features a similar close-up of the rapper's face biting a gold chain, matching his gold grill. He accused the Miami producer of stealing the idea from his mixtape cover.

The Gil Green-directed video was filmed in several locations in Miami and features DJ Khaled, Meek Mill, French Montana and Rick Ross. Jay-Z does not physically appear in the clip, but Timbaland, Ace Hood and Internet star Lil Terio all make cameo appearances.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Here Comes My Girl

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Here Comes My Girl Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Damn The Torpedoes
Released: 1979

Here Comes My Girl Lyrics

You know sometimes, I don't know why
But this old town just seems so hopeless
I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times
Were just a little bit more in focus

But when she puts her arms around me
I can somehow rise above it
Yeah, man when I got that little girl standin' right by my side
You know, I can tell the whole wide world to shove it, hey

Here Comes My Girl
Here comes my girl
Yeah, and she looks so right, she is all I need tonight

Every now and then I down to the end of the day
And I have to stop and ask myself why I've done it
It just seems so useless to have to work so hard
And nothin' ever really seems to come from it

But then she looks me in the eye and says
We're gonna last forever
And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it
No, 'cause it just feels so good and so free and so right
I know we ain't never goin' to change our minds about it hey

Here comes my girl
Here comes my girl
Yeah, and she looks so right, she is all I need tonight (watch her walk)

Every time it seems like there ain't nothin' left no more
I find myself having to reach out and grab hold of something
Yeah, I just catch myself wondering, waiting, worrying
About some silly little things that don't add up to nothin'

But then she looks me in the eye and says
We're gonna last forever
And man, you know I can't begin to doubt it
No, 'cause it just feels so good and so free and so right
I know we ain't never gonna' to change our minds about it, hey

Here comes my girl
Here comes my girl
Yeah, and she looks so right, she is all I need tonight

Writer/s: PETTY, TOM / CAMPBELL, MICHAEL W.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Here Comes My Girl

This was written the same week as "Refugee." Both songs started as demos written by Heartbreakers guitar player Mike Campbell on a 4-track recorder in his house.

In our interview with Mike Campbell, he explained: "'Here Comes My Girl' was interesting because we had the chorus and Tom wasn't sure how to do the verse, he kept trying to sing it different ways and he finally came across sort of half-talking it, and that's when the song seemed to come to life."

This was the first album the band released on a major label. Their first two albums came out on a small label called Shelter Records, which was acquired by MCA. After some legal maneuvering where Petty filed for bankruptcy and the label sued the band, MCA set up a label called Backstreet Records, which was dedicated to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This didn't end the tension between Petty and MCA. Petty held back the tapes for their next album, Hard Promises, when MCA tried to raise the price from $8.98 to $9.98. Petty won that battle and the album came out at the lower price.

Indiana - Solo Dancing

Indiana - Solo Dancing Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Romeo
Released: 2014

Solo Dancing Lyrics

I go dancing by myself
I go dancing with no one else
Solo Dancing push me as I go
I go dancing it’s so intense
I will dance till the bitter end
No point in asking
‘Cause I always dance alone!
Hypnotized by a lot emotion
Music stop and the spell is broken
I go dancing by myself

I go dancing with no one else
Solo dancing push me as I go, go
I go dancin’ it’s so intense
I will dance till the bitter end
No point in asking
‘Cause I always dance alone!
Don’t hold back
My dance devotion
It’s the path that I have chosen
Hypnotized by a lot emotion

Music stop and the spell is broken
(Broken broken broken)
You, how I move, how I move, how I move
Uuuuu uuuh don't hold back
My dance devotion
How I move, how I move, how I move
I go dancing by myself
I go dancing no one else
Solo dancing push me as I go, go

I go dancin’ it’s so intense
I will dance till the bitter end
No point in asking
‘Cause I always dance alone!
Don’t hold back
My dance devotion
It’s the path that I have chosen
Hypnotized by a lot emotion
Music stop and the spell is broken!

Writer/s: HENSON, LAUREN / BECK, JOHN ROBERT / CHRISANTHOU, STEVE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Solo Dancing

Nottingham-born singer-songwriter Indiana first got into music when her sister moved house but couldn't find room for her piano in her new place. Indiana offered to store it in her dining room and started playing around on the keys. She picked it up quite quickly and by 2010 was writing songs. By the end of the following year Indiana started concentrating on making a career as a recording artist and on February 17, 2013 she released her debut single "Bound."

The Nottingham native scored her first UK chart hit with this euphemistically-titled song in which she describes her penchant for dancing "to the bitter end" by herself.

The song's single release also contains three remixes by Chris Lake, Joe Goddard and KAOS.

Ostensibly a song about joyously dancing on your own, both Indiana's detached vocal delivery and the minimal, icy instrumentation make the listener question their assumptions about its meaning. "I write these songs that can appear to be love songs, and seem all nice and sweet," she told Billboard magazine. "But then you peel away that first layer and chip away at that exterior, and they're all dark and a little bit twisted, and a bit sinister … I'm quite an odd person anyway, but I think if I didn't write these songs, I'd probably be doing horrible stuff. I write these songs to save other people from things I might do."

Indiana wrote the song with John Beck and Steve Chrisanthou. She told Billboard that inspired by the synth-noir sound of Cliff Martinez's 2011 Drive soundtrack, the intention was to create "something more uptempo" than the tracks she'd previously released on YouTube, such as like "Bound," "Smoking Gun" and "Animal." "I've put out things prior to 'Solo Dancing' that I wrote after 'Solo Dancing,' so there has been a progression in songwriting, but I think 'Solo Dancing' was always going to be one of the strongest things I've written," she admitted. "In my head, it's still unfinished, because it was something that I couldn't quite draw a line underneath. I kept going back to it production-wise. The label loved it so much that they said, 'We need to take this now, you've got to stop.'"

John Beck and Steve Chrisanthou previous credits together include co-writing Corinne Bailey Rae's breakthrough hit tune "Put Your Records On" and Eliza Doolittle's single "Mr. Medicine."

Marilyn Manson - Lunchbox

Marilyn Manson - Lunchbox Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Portrait Of An American Family
Released: 1994

Lunchbox Lyrics

Next motherfucker's gonna get my metal

On we plow
The big bully try to stick his finger in my chest
Try to tell me tell me he's the best
But I don't really give a good goddamn cause
I got my Lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well
I want to grow up
I want to be a big rock and roll star
I want to grow up
I want to be
So no one fucks with me, yeah
I got the pencils in my pocket, try to put me down
Want to go out, gotta get out to the playground
Want to throw down at the playground
I want to go out
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker gonna get my metal
Next motherfucker
Pow Pow Pow, Pow Pow Pow, Pow Pow Pow, Pow Pow Pow

Writer/s: CRANE, KER, FINESILVER, BROWN, MANSON, BERKOWITZ, GEIN
Publisher: GOWMONK, INC.
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Lunchbox

This is about a young boy who is bullied at school and immerses himself in rock music to drown the pain. It is somewhat autobiographical. The album was exploring the fears of the average middle-class, Christian, conservative, white trash family, and one of them is that their child will become a "Punk Rocker."

The single was released on January 24, 1995 - the band's second single that year, the first being "Sweet Dreams." It featured the album version of the song, as well as four remixes - "Next Motherf***er," "Brown Bag," "Metal" and "Highschool Dropouts" - and a cover of Gary Numan's "Down in the Park." Most of the remixes just changed the intros or sound bytes, and "Highschool Dropouts" was simply the radio edit which muted out the obscenities.

Manson wrote about lunchboxes in this song because in Florida, where he was living at the time, the schools had banned metal lunchboxes because the children were hitting each other in the head with them. Manson used to have a metal KISS lunchbox which he used to defend himself at school. (thanks, Phil - Rockville, MD)

The music video, which dramatized the song, featured the band singing near a roller rink. It was included on "Dead to the World".

There is a 1993 CD which features demos of the band performing this and several other songs while they were still called "The Spooky Kids." It is called "Demos In Lunchbox."

Kasabian - Eez-eh

Kasabian - Eez-eh Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 48:13
Released: 2014

Eez-eh Lyrics

I ain't easy
And I make you mad
Least I ain't sleazy
I'm just trying to put the world to right
If you want to, I'll take you out
And I got the feeling that I'm gonna keep you up all
Gonna keep you up all
Gonna keep you up all night

Tired of taking orders
Coping with disorders
The wrong men have the power
It's turning my milk sour
We're tired of taking orders
Coping with disorders
The wrong men have the power
It's turning my milk sour
Turning my milk sour
Turning my milk sour

I ain't easy
And I make you mad
Least I ain't sleazy
I'm just trying to put the world to rights
And if you want to, I'll take you out
'Cause I got the feeling that I'm gonna keep you up all night

I ain't easy
But I ain't that bad
No rhyme or reason, I'm just trying to set the world alight
You got problems, well so have I
And I got the feeling that I'm gonna keep you up all
Gonna keep you up all
Gonna keep you up all night

There's cobras in the mosh pit
Finally we lost it
Everyday is brutal
Now we're being watched by Google
Gotta keep it simple
Sending out a signal
Every once I'm brutal
Now we're being watched by Google
Being watched by Google
Being watched by Google

I ain't easy
And I make you mad
Least I ain't sleazy
I'm just trying to put the world to rights
And if you want to, I'll take you out
'Cause I got the feeling that I'm gonna keep you up all night

I ain't easy
But I ain't that bad
No rhyme or reason, I'm just trying to set the world alight
You got problems, well so have I
And I got the feeling that I'm gonna keep you up all
Gonna keep you up all
Gonna keep you up all night

Writer/s: PIZZORNO, SERGIO
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Eez-eh

Kasabian songwriter and guitarist Serge Pizzorno explained to NME that this song is based on the late-night conversations that singer Tom Meighan and him have while on tour. He said: "It's more a conversation that me and Tom might have at five or six in the morning. Ridiculous rants when you think you're making the most amazing points, and the next morning you're like… what?"

"I was gonna call it 'Horsemeat' but I thought it was a bit ridiculous. But it's just a bit of a spit, really. There have been so many nights in hotel rooms when me and Tom will stay up all night talking and it's about that."

The song was named for the dialect of the band's home city, Leicester. Pizzorno wrote it after reading in the local paper that the Leicester accent was dying out.

Meighan said to NME of the heavy Electro banger's chorus: "It's a comic. Is cartoonish. It's punk. We've never done anything like it. It's trashy. It's dirty. It's Leicester."

The video was directed by fashion designer Aitor Throup and filmed in Black Island Studios, West London on April 16, 2014. Swedish actress Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus) cameos as a drummer. Vocalist Tom Meighan told Q magazine: "It's a tongue-in-cheek video. We always want that gang mentality. There's a feel-good factor about it." (thanks to The Kasabian Wiki .)

Underworld - Born Slippy

Underworld - Born Slippy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Born Slippy
Released: 1995

Born Slippy Lyrics

Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a-lipstick boy
She was a-beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your inner space boy
You had hands girls boy
And steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you boy
And you just groan boy
She said come over come over
She smiled at you boy

Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
She was a-lipstick boy
She was a-beautiful boy
And tears boy
And all in your inner space boy
You had hands girls boy
And steel boy
You had chemicals boy
I've grown so close to you boy
And you just groan boy
She said come over come over
She smiled at you boy

Let your feelings slip boy
But never your mask boy
Random blond boy
High density random
Blond boy
Blond country
Blond high density
You are my drug boy
You're real boy
Dog dirty dumb cracking boy
You're getting wet boy
Big big time boy
Acid bears boy
Babes and babes
And babes and babes
And babes
And remembering nothing boy
Do you like my tin horn boy
It gets wet like at Angel
Derailed

You got a velvet mouth
You're so succulent and beautiful
Shimmering and dirty
Wonderful and hot time
On your telephone line
And God and everything
On your telephone
And in walks an angel

Look at me mum
Squatting pissed in the tube hole
At Tottenham Court Road
I just come out of the Ship
Talking to the most blond
I ever met
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Shouting lager lager lager
Shouting mega mega
White thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
So many things to see and do
In the tube hole
The blond going back
To Romford
Mega mega mega going back
To Romford
Hi mum are you having fun
On your way
To a new age tension headache

Writer/s: KARL HYDE, RICHARD SMITH, DARREN PAUL EMERSON
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, MUSIC SALES CORPORATION
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Born Slippy

Writer Karl Hyde was inspired to write the "lager, lager" lyrics after finding himself paralytic at chucking out time at a Soho pub and struggling to catch the last train home to Romford.

The song was named after a greyhound named "Born Slippy." The band saw the dog running at Romford race track.

In the Guardian newspaper February 24, 2006, Karl Hyde said: "We used to go out drinking in Soho and I ended up in the Ship on Wardour Street. All the lyrics were written on that night. A drunk sees the world in fragments and I wanted to recreate that. I was inspired by Lou Reed's New York album and Sam Shepard's Motel Chronicles. I was into flash photography as well, so I was walking around Soho with a notebook and camera, just observing things. In those days I'd open the book whenever a musical idea inspired me. Rick [Smith] came up with a rhythm and I started singing over it. The vocals were done in one take. When I lost my place, I'd repeat the same line; that's why it goes, 'lager, lager, lager, lager.' The first time we played it live, people raised their lager cans and I was horrified because I was still deep into alcoholism. It was never meant to be a drinking anthem; it was a cry for help. Now I don't mind. Why Born Slippy? It was a greyhound we won money on." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for all above)

The song was featured in 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting, where it could be heard in the final scene. The movie stoked immense public interest in the previously little known track, helping the single peak at #2 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1996. Karl Hyde told Q magazine how the song filtered from club to chart. Said the singer: "The record comes out and it's the biggest selling 12" we've ever had. Then we get the call that some geezer called Danny Boyle wants to put the track in the film version of Trainspotting. Myself and Rick weren't part of a druggy culture, we didn't see the association with our music. So we said no to the request as we didn't like the analogy that we thought was being made. That's the last time we've ever said no Danny Boyle!" He added: "Danny convinced us to go to the edit suite and we realised it was the opposite of glorification. It perfectly put the song back into context. The first time we played it live my heart sank cos loads of people were holding cans of lager aloft. The song was a cry for help. The film redressed the balance, gave the song resonance."

Karl Hyde told Uncut, "'Born Slippy' is a map of a journey that starts at the Ship on Wardour Street, goes to Tottenham Court Road tune and gets the late-night train back to Romford."

The 1975 - Robbers

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Album: The 1975
Released: 2013

Robbers Lyrics

She had a face straight outta magazine
God only knows but you'll never leave her
Her balaclava is starting to chafe
When she gets his gun he's begging, "Babe stay, stay, stay, stay, stay"

I'll give him one more time
We'll give you one more fight
Said one more lie
Will I know you

Now if you never shoot, you'll never know
And if you never eat, you'll never grow
You've got a pretty kinda dirty face
When she's leaving your home she's begging you, "Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay."

I'll give you one more time
We'll give you one more fight
Just said one more line
There'll be a riot, 'cause I know you

Well, now that you've got your gun
It's much harder now the police have come
Now shoot him if it's what you're worth
But if you just take off your mask
To find out that everything's gone wrong, wrong, wrong.

Now everybody's dead
And they're driving past my old school
And he's got his gun, he's got his suit on
She says, "Babe, you look so cold, you look so cold, you look so cold
You look so cold, you look so cold, you look so cold"

Writer/s: Daniel, George Bedford / Healy, Matthew Timothy / MacDonald, Ross Stewart / Hann, Adam Brian Thomas
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Robbers

This song is about two lovers who aren't good for each other. She's having second thoughts but they keep putting off the inevitable end of the relationship. In doing so they are robbing each other of happiness.

The video finds frontman Matthew Healy and his girl rob a shop at gunpoint to fund their alcohol and drug addiction. The clip was inspired by one of the singer's favorite movie characters. "I got really obsessed with the idea behind Patricia Arquette's character in True Romance when I was about 18," he said. "That craving for the bad boy in that film, it's so sexualized," he added. "It was something I was obsessed with."

"'Robbers' is about a heist that goes wrong," Healy added. "I suppose you can read it as a metaphor, and a girl who's obsessed with her professional killer boyfriend. It's a romantic ideal."

Marilyn Manson - The Family Trip

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Album: Portrait Of An American Family
Released: 1994

The Family Trip Lyrics

The Family Trip

This was the first track off Manson's first album.

The song consists of Manson reciting the poem Willy Wonka softly sang in the 1971 musical comedy Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory - "There's no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going..." The first part of the poem is found in Ronald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the end of it (which describes death, Hell, and fear in general) was added for the film. Manson sometimes recites the poem at the beginning of his concerts.

The song's official title is "Prelude (The Family Trip)." It is filled with werewolf-esque growling and a screaming voice in the background. It leads directly into the second track, "Cake and Sodomy," where the growling die down.

Portrait of an American Family was a concept album about the fears of a middle-class white trash Christian family manifesting themselves. "Cake and Sodomy" is about conservative homophobia, "Lunchbox" is about a child deciding to become a rock star when he grows up, "Get Your Gunn" is about teenaged self-abuse, etc. Hence, this was an appropriate way to start it off.

Prior to Portrait Of An American Family's release in 1994, Manson had already sampled most of this spoken-word prelude on a demo from his Spooky Kids era called Choklit Factory. (thanks, Matt - Scone, Australia)

When Manson remixed his song "Cake and Sodomy" for his second album, Smells Like Children, it was called "Everlasting C--ksucker," a reference to the Everlasting Gobstopper, which was a candy in the film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. The album also included a slow cover of "Cake and Sodomy" by Tony F. Wiggins called "White Trash," which was simply him singing it slowly while strumming his guitar.

Manson was considered for the role of Willy Wonka in a remake of the classic children's film that originally starred Gene Wilder. Johnny Depp got the job; however, Depp has stated that he based his performance on Manson, much like he based his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl on Keith Richards. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for all above)

Richard Chamberlain - Holly Golightly

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Album: Breakfast At Tiffany's
Released: 1966

Holly Golightly Lyrics

Holly Golightly

"Holly Golightly" is the opening song from the 1966 flop musical Holly Golightly. Written by Bob Merrill, it is a passable number that was sung originally by Richard Chamberlain as Jeff. Although the show didn't make it to Broadway, it was revived for the London stage with a limited season in September 2013 where it was known by the more familiar name Breakfast At Tiffany's. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

Men at Work - Overkill

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Men at Work - Overkill Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Cargo
Released: 1983

Overkill Lyrics

Overkill

This was the first single from Men at Work's second album. Their first album, Business As Usual, was a huge hit and helped earn them a Grammy for Best New Artist. The band quickly went from a local Australian group to a worldwide success. Lead singer Colin Hay wrote this song and told us: "It was a song about what was happening at the time, the experience we were going through of stepping into the unknown. It's about having a fear about that, but also knowing that what was going to happen was inevitable. Leaving behind where you are and stepping into something which is out of your control to some degree. That's what it felt like at the time."

When we spoke with Colin Hay, he explained that this song could relate to a relationship with a person or a relationship with a place. He was living in St. Kilda, which is part of Melbourne, and felt he was going to leave there soon. Says Colin, "It's about leaving somewhere and leaving your comfort zone. You spend a lot of years trying to get something - fame or recognition or getting to a certain point, and then when you actually achieve it, there's always a certain amount of fear that comes with that, a sense of loss of control, because all of the sudden you're not in control of a situation any more, there's other people involved, it gets bigger and bigger with much more stress."

Colin: "That was the first song I wrote where I thought I might make a living as a songwriter. I was very happy with that song."

Colin recorded an acoustic version for his 2003 album Man At Work, a collection of new songs combined with stripped-down versions of Men at Work's hits. (Thanks to Colin for telling us about his songs. Check out his website at www.colinhay.com)

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