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Boots - Dreams


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Album: WinterSpringSummerFall
Released: 2014

Dreams Lyrics


Dreams
  • Boots is songwriter and producer Jordy Asher, who first hit the limelight when he co-wrote many of Beyoncé's songs from her eponymous 2013 album including the well-known tracks "Drunk In Love" and "Partition."
  • This duet with Beyoncé starts with Boots assuring the object of his affection that he'll always be there for her. The Texan songstress joins in midway to sing of her dream of the pair taking over the world.
  • Boots told Vogue that the collaboration came about in a simple fashion. He sent the track to Bey and she returned it with vocals. "I love that the song has me and what I'm doing in my realm and her and what she's doing in hers, and it's so completely opposite but they work incredibly together," he said. "It's the greatest kind of cosign you could get, from someone who truly, truly believes in you. As gifted and as brilliant as she is, and she is, to be able to believe in me in that regard is a really special thing."
  • Boots donated the proceeds from the song to Day One, a New York City-based nonprofit organization devoted to preventing dating violence. "I feel that protecting women from these horrible and unthinkable acts should take precedence in our society," he wrote on Facebook. "I feel passionate about this because if more women knew that safe places existed from the turmoil they experience, it could possibly prevent these situations from occurring or reoccurring. Every cent made from this song will go directly to dayoneny.org."

    "It's hard to put into words how thankful I am for everything and everyone who helped get this together," Boots continued. "I've experienced a lot in my life. Good and bad. But through it all, I'm certain every one of those things had to happen to get me right where I am today. I feel very fortunate for that. Thanks for all of your love and support."

  • Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dar
    Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark


    Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Fear Of The Dark
    Released: 1992

    Fear Of The Dark Lyrics


    I am a man who walks alone
    And when I'm walking a dark road
    At night or strolling through the park

    When the light begins to change
    I sometimes feel a little strange
    A little anxious when it's dark

    Fear Of The Dark, fear of the dark
    I have constant fear that something's
    Always near
    Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
    I have a phobia that someone's
    Always there

    Have you run your fingers down
    The wall
    And have you felt your neck skin crawl
    When you're searching for the light?
    Sometimes when you're scared
    To take a look
    At the corner of the room
    You've sensed that something's
    Watching you

    Have you ever been alone at night
    Thought you heard footsteps behind
    And turned around and no one's there?
    And as you quicken up your pace
    You find it hard to look again
    Because you're sure there's
    Someone there

    Watching horror films the night before
    Debating witches and folklore's
    The unknown troubles on your mind
    Maybe your mind is playing tricks
    You sense, and suddenly eyes fix
    On dancing shadows from behind

    Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
    I have constant fear that something's
    Always near
    Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
    I have a phobia that someone's
    Always there

    When I'm walking a dark road
    I am a man who walks alone

    Writer/s: HARRIS, STEPHEN PERCY
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Fear Of The Dark
  • This song is about a paranoid man who constantly fears that there's someone or something about to spring out at him from the dark as a result of watching horror films and studying the occult. Themes like this appear on much of Maiden's cover art (see: "Sanctuary," "Women in Uniform," "Iron Maiden," "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter" etc.).
  • The album, which many consider a vast improvement over Maiden's previous album, No Prayer For the Dying, debuted on the UK charts at #1.
  • Three tracks off the album were released as singles. "Be Quick or Be Dead" charted highest, at #2.
  • Until Brave New World was released in 2000, this was the last Iron Maiden album to feature Bruce Dickinson as lead vocalist.
  • The album was Maiden's first that featured cover art not designed by Derek Riggs, but instead by Melvyn Grant. Riggs apparently designed some cover art, but it was rejected in favor of Grant's, so the D/R symbol is nowhere to be found. The cover art is rather popular and depicts a tree spirit called a driad. Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson once attempted to draw it himself.
  • Nyctophobia is the scientific term for the fear of the dark. It is very frequently seen among infants and many adults.
  • This song appears in the Iron Maiden computer game Ed Hunter. It plays during Level 4, Graveyard.
  • Some consider this a sequel to "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "Innocent Exile," which also deal with a paranoid and nervous man. In those songs, he was on the run from the law after being falsely accused of murder.
  • The 1992 "Fear of the Dark" tour included the band headlining at the Monsters of Rock festival thrown at Castle Donnington (for the second time). The concert was recorded and released as the album Iron Maiden Live at Donnington, which since has gone out of print and become very hard to find.
  • This runs 7:16.
  • Kerrang! magazine, while interviewing singer Bruce Dickinson, quoted the Iron Maiden biography Run To The Hills, in which Steve Harris professed that Bruce "made very little effort" on the Fear of the Dark Tour. Bruce's response: "I've got my version of events and he's got his. It all comes down to how you see the world. For Steve, Maiden's more important than anything. To me, there are some things that are more important than the band I'm in. I didn't know it was going to be that much of a big deal when I left, but as soon as I walked out onstage and looked at the audience I thought 'Sh**! If I run around grinning like a fool, the audience is going to think, "What a wanker! If he's so happy, why is he leaving?".' And if I wander around looking miserable as sin, they'll wonder why they paid £20 for a ticket to see this tosser. I was stuffed. Some nights the audience was hostile. It was like doing a gig at a wake! Some nights I enjoyed it, but on others I was thinking, 'I wish I wasn't here!'. The moment I left Maiden I made a deal with myself that I wouldn't do anything that I didn't believe in ever again. Steve and myself always used to clash. He wanted to fire me after the first month of the 'Number Of The Beast' tour - because I kept getting in his way onstage! I had an extra six inches added to the base of my microphone stand so I could trip the bastard up! I got fed up of him standing in front of me when I was singing. I got all these chips in my teeth where he used to elbow me. After a gig in Newcastle in '82 we were going to go outside, sleeves rolled up. But we learned to live with each other. And if Steve hadn't had that personality, Maiden would never have existed."
  • Because many fans had scorned No Prayer for the Dying and Fear of the Dark as inferior Maiden albums, Bruce Dickinson was asked in an interview: "I assume you're much happier now than in the last few albums from Iron Maiden?" His response: "Oh, I'm not going to go anywhere and start making comments on Maiden and stuff. There's too much respect between the guys in Maiden and me and me and the guys in Maiden. I don't go there." He did, however, admit that he tried to do a different sound in his solo albums and was pleased with the result. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for all above)

  • Boyce Avenue - Scar
    Boyce Avenue - Scars


    Boyce Avenue - Scars Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: No Limits
    Released: 2014

    Scars Lyrics


    Scars
  • In 2012, Boyce Avenue worked on the American version of The X Factor as vocal coaches. This song derived from their experience. Fabian Manzano of Boyce Avenue explained to Artist Direct : "We met a lot of talented young artists that came out of the show. It was cool seeing their drive and passion to make it in the music industry. We finished working on that show writing songs for some of those artists. That was a song from the batch we ended up using for ourselves because it clicked for us."

    "There was something about it," he added. "Even though we had written it for another artist, we felt like it was definitely Boyce Avenue. It fit our album."

  • 3 Doors Down - Here Without Yo
    3 Doors Down - Here Without You


    3 Doors Down - Here Without You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Away From The Sun
    Released: 2002

    Here Without You Lyrics


    A hundred days have made me older
    Since the last time that I saw your pretty face.
    A thousand lies have made me colder
    And I don't think I can look at this the same.
    All the miles that separate
    Disappear now when I'm dreamin' of your face.

    I'm Here Without You baby
    But you're still on my lonely mind.
    I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time.
    I'm here without you baby
    But you're still with me in my dreams
    And tonight girl, it's only you and me.

    The miles just keep rollin'
    As the people leave their way to say hello
    I've heard this life is overrated
    But I hope that it gets better as we go.

    I'm here without you baby
    But you're still on my lonely mind.
    I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time.
    I'm here without you baby
    But you're still with me in my dreams
    And tonight, it's only you and me.

    Everything I know, and anywhere I go,
    It gets hard but it won't take away my love.
    And when the last one falls, when its all said and done.
    It gets hard but it won't take away my love.

    I'm here without you baby
    But you're still on my lonely mind.
    I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time.
    I'm here without you baby
    But you're still with me in my dreams
    And tonight, it's only you and me.

    Writer/s: ARNOLD, BRADLEY KIRK / ROBERTS, MATTHEW DARRICK / HENDERSON, CHRISTOPHER LEE / HARRELL, ROBERT TODD
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Here Without You
  • Lead singer Brad Arnold says he wrote this song with his (now-ex) wife as inspiration. He didn't write it for her - there's a difference. He laughs when he talks about how wrong he was with his declaration of "when the last one falls, when all is said and done." But then, who can possibly predict the future?
    "The song's just about being away from someone, or missing them," he clarifies. "And it really doesn't matter if you're here without them for all day or all month. It's just kind of about the lonely and missing of somebody, but people kind of take that sort of as a little bit of a sad song. And in a way, I kind of meant it as a happy song. And the reason being because it's talking about being here without you, but she's still with me in my dreams. 'And tonight, it's only you and me,' so the song was really just about that dream. And being in a state of peace, because you've got that person there with you in your sleep. And in that way I kind of meant for it to be a little bit of a happy song." (Check out our full interview with Brad Arnold)
  • This is an important song to many military personnel who find themselves away from their loved ones with their lives in danger. 3 Doors Down bass player Todd Harrell told us that many of their songs are written in a way that is open for interpretation, and that "'Here Without You' is a song that a lot of military folks get a lot of things out of." He adds, "We're all from the Gulf Coast area and it is a military town. We all have friends and family who are in the military. We have a foundation here that the National Guard is a part of and we really want to support the men and women that give up so much to keep us free. We did tours overseas and have seen firsthand how much the men and women give up to go do what they do. Because they don't do it for the money. It's just our way of saying thank you, and our way of saying we support you and everything they do."
  • This was used by World Wrestling Entertainment for a video tribute to the late Eddie Guerrero. The video tribute was broadcast on the November 18, 2005 episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown! on the UPN Network 5 days after Guerrero passed away. (thanks, Chris - Andover, MN)

  • Damon Albarn - Hostile
    Damon Albarn - Hostiles


    Damon Albarn - Hostiles Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Everyday Robots
    Released: 2014

    Hostiles Lyrics


    When the serve is done
    And the parish shuffled some
    And the May frequencies come
    To keep you away
    When your body aches
    From the arms of dreams you keep
    And the hours passed by
    Just left on repeat

    It'll be a silent day
    I'll share with you
    Fighting off the Hostiles
    With whom we collude
    Hoping to find the key
    To this play of communications
    Between you and me

    When the LCD
    Are all the player ones you can be
    Put your foot down in the right hand lane
    If you are with me
    'Til the trains re-route
    And the rush-hour is come
    And the May frequencies
    Have sent you to sleep

    It'll be a silent day
    I'll share with you
    Fighting off the hostiles
    With whom we collude
    Hoping to find the key
    To this play of communications
    Between you and me

    Don't burn so
    Don't burn so
    Don't burn so late
    Don't burn so
    Don't burn
    Don't burn so late

    It'll be a silent day
    I'll share with you
    Fighting off the hostiles
    With whom we collude
    Hoping to find the key
    To this play of communications
    Between you and me

    Writer/s: DAMON ALBARN, RICHARD RUSSELL
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Hostiles
  • Albarn told The Sun about this paean to 21st century ill-communication: "The hostiles are those characters in computer games that you just kill," he said. "They're completely soulless things given no character other than they're hostile to you."

    "I felt the blankness of just kidding, the passive aggression that exists in computer games," Albarn continued. "It's kind of weird. However, I know I'm getting Grand Theft Auto 5!"
  • Damon Albarn told The Observer that he wrote this song after spending Christmas at his mother-in-law's house, "spending hours on the sofa playing The Dark Knight video game with my daughter, just zapping these endless characters with no real humanity."

  • Godsmack - Someone In Londo
    Godsmack - Someone In London


    Godsmack - Someone In London Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Godsmack
    Released: 1997

    Someone In London Lyrics


    Someone In London
  • An instrumental interlude that is about a minute long, it's the only music on the album that lead singer Sully Erna had no part in writing. It was written by guitarist Tony Rombola.
  • "Mind the gap" is what is repeated at the beginning. It is what the British subway engineers tell their passengers before they let them out so they don't fall into the gap in the track. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 2)

  • Damon Albarn - Parakee
    Damon Albarn - Parakeet


    Damon Albarn - Parakeet Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Everyday Robots
    Released: 2014

    Parakeet Lyrics


    Parakeet
  • Albarn wanted to write a song about how the parakeets (wild parrots) of London sound like space invaders. This is the result. He explained to The Sun: "You're unaware at first but then you look up and there's a flash of color and this alien sound."

  • Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cros
    Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross


    Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Daylight Again
    Released: 1982

    Southern Cross Lyrics


    Got out of town on a boat goin' to Southern islands
    Sailing a reach before a followin' sea
    She was makin' for the trades on the outside
    And the downhill run to Papeete

    Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas
    We got eighty feet of the waterline nicely making way
    In a noisy bar in Avalon I tried to call you
    But on a midnight watch I realized why twice you ran away

    Think about
    Think about how many times I have fallen
    Spirits are using me larger voices callin'
    What Heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten

    (Around the world) I have been around the world
    (Lookin') Lookin' for that woman girl
    (Who knows she knows) Who knows love can endure
    And you know it will

    When you see the Southern Cross for the first time
    You understand now why you came this way
    Cause the truth you might be runnin' from is so small
    But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a comin' day

    So I'm sailing for tomorrow my dreams are a dyin'
    And my love is an anchor tied to you tied with a silver chain
    I have my ship and all her flags are a' flyin'
    She is all that I have left and music is her name

    Think about
    Think about how many times I have fallen
    Spirits are using me larger voices callin'
    What Heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten

    (I've been around the world) I have been around the world
    (Lookin') Lookin' for that woman girl
    Who knows love can endure
    And you know it will, and you know it will yes

    So we cheated and we lied and we tested
    And we never failed to fail it was the easiest thing to do
    You will survive being bested
    Somebody fine will come along make me forget about loving you
    And the southern cross

    Writer/s: CURTIS, MICHAEL / CURTIS, RICHARD / STILLS, STEPHEN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Southern Cross
  • The "Southern Cross" is a constellation also known as the Crux Constellation that can be viewed from most of the Southern hemisphere. The 4 brightest stars within the constellation form a cross pattern. Sailors have relied on the "Southern Cross" to help in navigating their boats. The national flags of Australia and New Zealand have versions of the Southern Cross on them.
  • This was written by Stephen Stills with help from Richard Curtis and Michael Curtis. In the CSN Boxed Set, Stills explained: "The Curtis Brothers brought a wonderful song called 'Seven League Boots,' but it drifted around too much. I rewrote a new set of words and added a different chorus, a story about a long boat trip I took after my divorce. It's about using the power of the universe to heal your wounds. Once again, I was given somebody's gem and cut and polished it."
  • Jimmy Buffett covered this on his 1999 album Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. (thanks, Amy - Chicago, IL, for all above)
  • There is a vocal mistake in the line "But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day." One of the vocalists says "coming" on the first "promise." (thanks, Dave - Leesburg, VA)
  • Since this song is based on a song called "Seven League Boots," it bears mentioning that seven-league boots are a common magical artifact which crops up repeatedly in many European folk and fairy tales. They're a pair of boots which allow the wearer to take strides that are seven leagues (21 miles, 33.8 kilometers) long. The same concept of footwear that greatly increases one's traveling speed or stride is adapted into many role-playing and video games.
  • This same year that "Southern Cross" came out also saw David Crosby arrested on drug-related charges. He would be in and out of court on them numerous times until he finally turned himself in for an 8-month sentence.
  • The video for this song, with a ship a-sail, saw heavy rotation in the early MTV years, providing a soft rock respite from the European pop acts that dominated the network at the time.
  • The cover art for the Daylight Again album features an enigmatic domed structure on a rocky hilltop, flanked by three glowing blue flying saucers. The US was in the midst of a resurgence in UFO popularity in the late-'70s and early-'80s, bolstered by the writings of Chariots of the Gods author Erich von Daniken and renewed interest in Area 51.

  • Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Doo
    Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door


    Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid Soundtrack
    Released: 1973

    Knockin' On Heaven's Door Lyrics


    Mama, take this badge off of me
    I can't use it anymore
    It's gettin' dark, too dark to see
    I feel like I'm Knockin' On Heaven's Door

    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

    Mama, put my guns in the ground
    I can't shoot them anymore
    That long black cloud is comin' down
    I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
    Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

    Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
    Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Knockin' On Heaven's Door
  • This song is written from the perspective of a dying sheriff: "Mama, take this badge off of me/I can't use it anymore/It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see/I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door." Dylan wrote it for the 1973 western film, Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid. It plays while Sheriff Colin Baker is dying from his gunshot wounds. Dylan cameos in the movie as the character, Alias.
  • Guns N' Roses covered this on their 1991 album, Use Your Illusion II. They played it in 1992 at a tribute concert for Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, who had died of AIDS. 72,000 people attended the concert, which was held in London's Wembley Stadium. In case you're wondering, towards the end of the end of this version, the man on the telephone says, "You just better start sniffin your own rank subjugation Jack, 'cause it's just you and your tattered libido, the bank and the mortician, forever man and it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive."
  • In 1996, Bob Dylan allowed Scottish musician, Ted Christopher, to record a new verse for "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," which Christopher had written in memory of the schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre. This is one of the rare times Dylan has officially permitted someone to add to or change the lyrics to one of his songs. Christopher's version reached #1 in the UK.
  • Warren Zevon recorded this for his 2003 album The Wind. Zevon was dying of lung cancer when he recorded the track, and died shortly after the album was released.

    This song has been covered in reggae style by multiple artists including G.T. Moore & The Reggae Guitars, Arthur Louis and Eric Clapton.

    Other artists to have covered this song include Avril Lavigne, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Cold Chisel, Neil Young and Aretha Franklin.
  • The title of the song was used as the original title for the Cowboy Bebop movie. Cowboy Bebop is a popular Japanese Anime that made a big hit in America when the dubbed version (done in the late '90s) was broadcast on Cartoon Network in 2001. Bebop was known for taking influences from pop culture (example: The title of episode 6 is "Sympathy for the Devil," obviously a take off of the Rolling Stones Song). When a full length Bebop movie was made in Japan, it was titled Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door. When it was dubbed and brought to theaters in America for a short time, they changed it to Cowboy Bebop: The Movie so Dylan wouldn't take any legal action against them. (thanks, Nick - Erwin, NC)
  • In October 2007, 1,730 guitarists in Shillong, India strummed this song for 5 minutes to set a world record for the largest ever guitar ensemble.
  • This song is musically similar to Neil Young's "Helpless," which was recorded in 1969 and features on the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young album, DéjÁ  Vu.

  • Damon Albarn - Photographs (You Are Taking Now
    Damon Albarn - Photographs (You Are Taking Now)


    Damon Albarn - Photographs (You Are Taking Now) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Everyday Robots
    Released: 2014

    Photographs (You Are Taking Now) Lyrics


    When the photographs you're taking now
    Are taken down again
    When the heavy clouds that hide the sun
    Have gone
    The millions of us on the hill
    From the star to lands end
    When photographs you're taking now
    Are taken now, press send

    This is a precious opportunity
    Beware of the photographs you are taking now

    We are flying over black sands
    In a glass aeroplane
    Crashing in slow motion in another cityscape game
    Where the feeling is supernatural
    Like passing into other worlds
    We're ending this dissolution when the mother-ship it explodes

    When the photographs you're taking now
    Are taken down again
    When the heavy clouds that hide the sun
    Have gone
    The millions of us on the hill
    From the star to lands end
    When photographs you're taking now
    Are taken now, press send

    We were walking as zombies on over
    To the church of John Coltrane
    Arizona bus from sunset be freedom taking cocaine
    In the paints and chords of nature
    All is but a vanity
    And the metronome knows that defeats you is the monochrome that you seek

    When the photographs you're taking now
    Are taken down again
    When the heavy clouds that hide the sun
    Have gone
    The millions of us on the hill
    From the star to lands end
    When photographs you're taking now
    Are taken now, press send

    This is a precious opportunity
    Beware of the photographs you are taking now

    Photographs you are taking now
    Photographs you are taking now

    Writer/s: DAMON ALBARN, RICHARD RUSSELL
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Photographs (You Are Taking Now)
  • Albarn explained the story of this song to The Sun: "When we had the eclipse in 1999, I went down to Devon, like everybody else," he said. "From my house down there, you can see a long way down the coast. It was a classic British moment – a white lead sky and/be no indication of an historic event. Everyone was taking photographs of NOTHING. That became the event, this endless flashing of light all the way down the coast. In this song, that's what I got the emotional tug from."

    "The first verse is about a recurring childhood dream," Albarn continued. "I'm flying in this slowly crashing aeroplane and it would always fly over black sand beaches. In 1996 I was going through channels in some country, and saw a documentary about Iceland. There were black sand beaches and it was almost like a bell going off in my head. A couple of months later, I was in Iceland and it had a profound effect on me."

    "The second part is about a bus journey (with Blur) from Los Angeles to San Francisco to see The Church of John Coltrane, a mad place dedicated to Coltrane," he added. "We were very, very excited about it and got there zonked out on a beautiful autumn morning at about seven."
  • The song contains a sample of writer Timothy Leary talking the listener through a trip on LSD. It is taken from the audio book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

  • Van Halen - Humans Bein
    Van Halen - Humans Being


    Van Halen - Humans Being Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Best Of Van Halen, Vol. 1
    Released: 1996

    Humans Being Lyrics


    There is just enough Christ in me
    To make me feel almost guilty
    Is that why God made us breed
    To make us see we're Humans Being
    You break this, I'll break all that
    You break my balls with all your crap
    Spread your disease like lemmings breeding
    That's what makes us humans being
    Shine on, shine on
    Shine on, shine on
    Some low life flat head scum infects
    The sickness in his eyes reflects
    You wonder why your life is screaming
    Wonder why your Humans Being
    Shine on, shine on
    Shine on, shine on
    Humans
    Humans being
    We're just humans, humans being
    That's what makes us
    Humans being

    Writer/s: VAN HALEN, EDWARD/VAN HALEN, ALEX/ANTHONY, MICHAEL/HAGAR, SAMMY
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Humans Being
  • This song (a rocker) was contracted for the soundtrack for the movie Twister by Van Halen. The band was supposed to have the first half of 1996 off. In that time, Eddie was going to have hip surgery, Alex was supposed to get his neck fixed and Sammy's wife was preparing to have their first child. They were convinced by Ray Danniels that this movie was huge and the money would carry them for he remainder of 1996.
  • Hagar had written a song called "The Silent Extreme," which Alex later renamed "Humans Being." There was a lot of friction between Sammy and the band because Sammy was in Maui with his pregnant wife and the others wanted him to fly to the studio and finish the song. Eddie pleaded with Sammy and said they needed only a minute and a half of lyrics added and he suggested "Bah, bah, bah. I hate this, I hate that, you dirty rat." Sammy said "that sucked." Sammy finally said okay, and came up with this line: "There is just enough Christ in me/To make me feel almost guilty/Is that why God made us breed/To make us see we're humans being." Sammy sang the song in three parts in about an hour and a half and split. This played a key roll in the end of the relationship between Hagar and Van Halen.
  • The phrase "Shine-on Shine-on" in the lyrics is similar to "We all Shine on" from John Lennons "Instant Karma." This phrase, according to Steven King, inspired his term for "to shine" in the film The Shining. In the film Twister, The Shining is being played in the drive in when a twister hits. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for all above)

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