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Son House - John the Revelator

Son House - John the Revelator Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Legendary Son House: Father Of Folk Blues
Released: 1965

John the Revelator Lyrics

Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Who's that writin', John the Revelator wrote the book of the seven seals

Now God walked down in the cool of the day, and called Adam by his name
But he refused to answer, 'cause he was naked and ashamed
So, tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Who's that writin', John the Revelator wrote the book of the seven seals

Now Christ had 12 apostles, and three he laid away
He said "Watch for me one hour, while I go yonder and pray"

And tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Who's that writin', John the Revelator wrote the book of the seven seals

Mary Margaret they were there, and they heard every word he said
Said "Go tell my disciples, I said meet me in Galilee"
And tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Who's that writin', John the Revelator wrote the book of the seven seals

Who's that writin', John the Revelator
Tell me who's that writin', John the Revelator
Who's that writin', John the Revelator wrote the book of the seven seals

Writer/s: GORE, MARTIN LEE
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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John the Revelator

This traditional gospel-blues song was first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1930 during his last session for Columbia Records. The title refers to the Apostle John, who penned the Book of Revelations, the last installment of the New Testament and a glimpse into the apocalyptic days of the final judgment on mankind.

Son House recorded several a capella versions of this song in the '60s. His '65 version includes lyrics about the Fall of Man (original sin and Adam & Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden) and Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.

The White Stripes was one of many groups and performers to be inspired by this influential number. "Cannon" borrows the lyrics:

Tell me who's that writin'
John the revelator
Wrote the book on the Seven Seals

Christ went down on Easter mornin'
Mary mother went down to see
Gotta tell my disciples to meet me in Galilee

Jack White first encountered Son House's recording playing at a Radiohead concert when he was a teenager. He became intrigued by the man behind the voice. He explained in a 2009 interview: "One of the first things was just the name 'Son House'. What the hell was that name about?! I had gotten into [Delta Bluesman] Robert Johnson and it felt really, really compelling and beautiful. So I was there."

Slipknot - Everything Ends

Slipknot - Everything Ends Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Iowa
Released: 2001

Everything Ends Lyrics

You are wrong, fucked, and overrated
I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I haven't slept since I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything

Shallow skin, I can paint with pain
I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain
Everyday it's the same I love, you hate
But I guess I don't care any more
Fix my problems with the blade
While my eyes turn from blue to gray
God, the worst thing happened to me today
But I guess I don't care anymore

You are wrong, fucked, and overrated
I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I haven't slept since I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything

My flaws are the only thing left that's pure
Can't really live, can't really endure
Everything I see reminds me of her
God I wish I didn't care anymore
The more I touch, the less I feel
I'm lying to myself that it's not real
Why is everybody making such a big fucking deal?
Is never gonna cure anymore

You are wrong, fucked, and overrated
I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I haven't slept since I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything

You are wrong, fucked, and overrated
I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I haven't slept since I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything

What the hell am I doing?
Is there anyone left in my life?
What the fuck was I thinking?
Anybody want to tell me I'm fine?
Where the hell am I going?
Do I even need a reason to hide?
I am only betrayed
I am only conditioned to die

You are wrong, fucked, and overrated
I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I haven't slept since I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie, motherfucker
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything

You are wrong and overrated
I think I'm gonna be sick and it's your fault
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
I haven't slept since I woke up
And found my whole life was a lie
This is the end of everything
You are the end of everything
You are the end of everything

Writer/s: Fehn, Christopher Michael / Gray, Paul Dedrick / Jordison, Nathan Jonas / Taylor, Corey Todd / Crahan, Michael Shawn / Thomson, Mickael Gordon / Wilson, Sidney George / Root, James Donald / Jones, Craig Alan
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Everything Ends

Lead singer Corey Taylor: "It's about the last time I tried to commit suicide, and more to the point, the first day I figured out what life was all about. It's about the last day in a life I don't want to remember and about the first day in a life that I am living right now."

When asked why he wanted to kill himself, Taylor said: "Why does any 17-year-old guy want to kill themselves? A chick of course! I thought she was the be and end all of everything and when you are that age, those emotions won't let you f---ing consider reality. I was in a really, really painful place. I put 31 slashes on my arm and I took a bottle of pills and a friend found me and took me to hospital. Luckily the cuts weren't too deep but I still have the scars. They pumped my stomach, which was a completely f---ing horrific experience, one that I don't wish on anyone. They make you drink this stuff which tastes like maple syrup, which is why I can't eat pancakes for the rest of my life, that induces you to vomit uncontrollably. You then spew up everything you have eaten for the past week and then they give you this sh*t which tastes like liquid charcoal to calm your stomach down again." (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

Cast of Phantom of the Opera - Think of Me

Cast of Phantom of the Opera - Think of Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Phantom of the Opera
Released: 1986

Think of Me Lyrics

Think of Me

This song from Act I of the blockbuster Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera is performed principally by the heroine/damsel Christine Daaé. In the 2004 film version she begins singing during a rehearsal of an imaginary opera which morphs quickly into the actual performance backed by the full orchestra. Seeing her perform it, a surprised Raoul sings a verse, but as he is not on the stage and his presence is fairly fleeting, this can hardly be called a duet. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

Sarah Brightman, then Andrew Lloyd Webber's wife, originated the role of Christine Daae in the musical. For the 2004 film adaptation, Emmy Rossum played the heroine and earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a musical or comedy.

Slipknot - 515

Slipknot - 515 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Iowa
Released: 2001

515 Lyrics

Writer/s:
Publisher:
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515

515 is the area code of the capitol of Iowa, where the band is from.

The song is one minute long. The word "death" is repeated over and over.

According to lead singer Corey Taylor, "This song is basically about the psychotic rage that is hidden within all of our minds, and after being pushed to a certain limit... we will eventually snap and let it all loose." (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

Slipknot - Spit It Out

Slipknot - Spit It Out Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slipknot
Released: 1999

Spit It Out Lyrics

Since you never gave a damn in the first place
Maybe it's time you had the tables turned
'Cause in the interest of all involved I got the problem solved
And the verdict is guilty
Man nearly killed me

Steppin' where you fear to tread
Stop, drop and roll, you were dead from the git-go!!
Big mouth fucker, stupid cocksucker!
Are you scared of me now? Then you're dumber than I thought
Always is, never was
Foundation made of piss and vinegar
Step to me, I'll smear ya, think I fear ya? Bullshit!
Just another dumb punk chompin' at this tit
Is there any way to break through the noise?
Was it something that I said that got you bent?
It's gotta be that way if you want it
Sanity, literal profanity hit me!

Spit It Out
Spit it out

All you want to do is drag me down
All I want to do is stamp you out

Maybe it's the way you spread a lotta rumor fodder
Keepin' all your little spies and leavin' when you realize
Step up, fairy
I guess it's time to bury your ass with the chrome
Straight to the dome
You heard that right, bitch, I didn't stutter
If you know what's good, sit, shut up and beg, brother
Backstab, don't you know who you're dissin'?
Side swipe, we know the ass that you're kissin'!
Bigidy, bigidy bitch boy, halfwat hauser
Can't hear shit 'cause I keep gettin' louder
Step up, and you get a face full o' tactic
Lippin' off hard, goin' home in a basket
You got no pull, no power, no nuthin'
Now you start shit? Well, ain't that somethin'?
Payoffs don't protect, and you can't hide if you want
But I'll find you comin' up behind you!

Spit it out
Spit it out

All you want to do is drag me down
All I want to do is stamp you out

'Bout time I set this record straight
All the needlenose punchin' is makin' me irate
Sick o' my bitchin' fallin' on deaf ears
Where you gonna be in the next five years?
The crew and all the fools, and all the politics
Get your lips ready, gonna gag, gonna make you sick
You got dick when they passed out the good stuff
Bam
Are you sick of me? Good enough, had enough

[Repeat x7]
Fuck me! I'm all out of enemies!

Fuck me! I'm all out of enemies!

Spit it out
Spit it out

All you want to do is drag me down
All I want to do is stamp you out

Spit spit spit spit spit it out

Writer/s: Gray, Paul Dedrick / Jordison, Nathan Jonas / Taylor, Corey Todd / Thomson, Mickael Gordon / Crahan, Michael Shawn / Fehn, Christopher Michael / Jones, Craig Alan / Wilson, Sidney George
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Spit It Out

This was written in retaliation to childish mudslinging by a handful of individuals who worked at a local radio station in Des Moines, Iowa, where the band is from. These individuals worked hard to keep Slipknot off the air.

This was broadcast in fragments on Mancow's Morning Madhouse after the station threatened to pull Mancow's show from their station. It was also right after Slipknot were pulled from a slot on a live concert in Chicago hosted by Mancow; thanks to same said individuals at the aforementioned radio station.

The digi-pak of Slipknot's self-titled release includes a rough mix of this song known as the "hyper version." (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for all above)

The video is based on the movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, but using the members of Slipknot in the main roles. Kubrick touched on themes of madness and mental breakdowns in a lot of his films, as do many Slipknot songs. (thanks, James - Dartmouth, Canada)

Slipknot drummer Chris Fehn (#3) talks about shooting videos: "The video that we did for 'Spit It Out,' Ice-T showed up, so it was rad, dude. We got to meet Ice-T, and he hung out on the video shoot and everything, and took pictures with us. That's the coolest thing. Otherwise, they suck, dude. It's so boring. Like, you play the song a million times, you know, and you can barely hear it through these stupid little monitors they give you. It's just such a long, drawn-out day that it's tough. So videos blow." (Check out our interview with Chris Fehn.)

Whenever Slipknot play "Spit It Out" live, they do what's called the "zero bulls--t" at the bridge. Corey tells all the fans in the crowd to get down on their knees and jump up when he says "jump the f--k up," at which point the crowd goes crazy. The line "Jump the f--k up" replaces the line in the recording, "Good enough, had enough." (thanks, jackson - nottingham, England)

Eric Clapton - Golden Ring

Eric Clapton - Golden Ring Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Backless
Released: 1978

Golden Ring Lyrics

Golden Ring

When asked to name his favorite song out of his own catalogue during an October 1999 interview for the VH1 show, Flix, Eric Clapton chose this song. The episode was dedicated to the Rob Reiner film, The Story Of Us, for which Eric composed the soundtrack. He said he picked the song as his all-time personal favorite because it's obscure and people don't know it and it's about marriage (the theme of the movie).

Eric wrote this song during the 1978 sessions for Backless. In the tour program for his 1979 North American Tour, he had this to say about it: "The best thing that happened on Backless were the things that happened at the time. I got away with one song on there, 'Golden Ring,' which I think is the strongest song on the album, because I wrote it because I was fed up with the general sort of apathy of everyone involved, and I just thought, 'Well, I'll take a song in there and whether they like it or not, we'll do it, they'll learn it and record it, and we'll put it on the record and that's that!' And that kind of conviction carried the thing through. I spoke with Don Williams [an American Country & Western Cult Artist] just before Christmas and I told him I liked his album, and he said 'Golden Ring' was his favorite track, too, because it was the only one that came through with any kind of feeling, with strength. And if you listen to it, there's virtually nothing to it. Songs like that are caused by situations, but situations of that extremity don't happen every day, thank God." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation, for above 2)

Although they share the same title, this song should not be confused with the hit 1976 duet, "Golden Ring," by George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

Eric fell in love with Pattie Boyd while she was still married to his friend George Harrison. When the pair finally got together in the mid-'70s, things were not as rosy as he imagined they would be. The complicated Eric-Pattie (whom he nicknamed "Nell")-George triangle inspired this song. He explained in his 2007 autobiography: "[The song] was written about the situation between me, Nell, and George. It referred in part to her response to the news that George was getting married again. She took it quite hard, and I, in my arrogance, found that hard to understand. So I wrote this song about the peculiarity of our triangle, which finishes with the words

If I gave to you a golden ring,
Would I make you happy, would I make you sing?"

Slipknot - 742617000027

Slipknot - 742617000027 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slipknot
Released: 1999

742617000027 Lyrics

The whole thing, I think is sick

Writer/s: Fehn, Christopher Michael / Thomson, Mickael Gordon / Jones, Craig Alan / Crahan, Michael Shawn / Taylor, Corey Todd / Jordison, Nathan Jonas / Gray, Paul Dedrick / Wilson, Sidney George
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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742617000027

This is the intro track to Slipknot's self-titled CD. It contains some guitar scratches and weird sound samples. Some of the dialogue was taken from a Charles Manson documentary. The dialogue is: "The whole thing, I think, is sick."

742617000027 was the shipping code on their 1996 self-released album, Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat. All the band members wear that number on their jumpsuits.

When Slipknot played this in concert, it opened their set and was often accompanied by a clip which is taken from a film called Gummo. The sample can be found when the two kids are smashing and breaking car windows. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 3)

Andy Grammer - Back Home

Andy Grammer - Back Home Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Magazines or Novels
Released: 2014

Back Home Lyrics

I'm gonna need you to raise your glass
I don't care what you put in it
Here's to nights that you can't take back
We live hard but we love to laugh

And we all thought that we'd get rich fast
Hop the plane out for greener grass
Found out the green is cash
Don't compare to the friends that last

See, we won't forget where we came from
The city won't change us
We beat to the same drum
No, we won't forget where we came from
The city can't change us
We beat to the same drum, the same drum

(Hey!) lala da da da-da da-da
lala da da da-da da-da doe
(Hey!) and no matter where we go
We always find our way Back Home

(Hey!) lala da da da-da da-da
lala da da da-da da-da doe
(Hey!) and no matter where we go
We always find our way back home

So here's to the cheap sunglasses
Redbull and minivans and
People who had your back when
The world didn't understand

See, we won't forget where we came from
The city won't change us
We beat to the same drum
No, we won't forget where we came from
The city can't change us
We beat to the same drum, the same drum

(Hey!) lala da da da-da da-da
Lala da da da-da da-da doe
(Hey!) and no matter where we go
We always find our way back home

(Hey!) lala da da da-da da-da
Lala da da da-da da-da doe
(Hey!) and no matter where we go
We always find our way back home

When ties loosen
We're losin' touch
And fading away
We'll still be raising our cups
To the same damn things

Oh no, the city won't change us
Oh no, the city won't change us
Oh no, the city won't change us (can't change us)
Oh no, the city won't change us
Won't change us

(Hey!) lala da da da-da da-da
Lala da da da-da da-da doe
And no matter where we go
We always find our way back home

Lala da da da-da da-da
Lala da da da-da da-da doe
(And no matter where we go
We always find our way back home

(Hey!) lala da da da-da da-da
Lala da da da-da da-da doe
(Hey!) and no matter where we go
We always find our way back home

(Hey!)
We always find our way back home
Yeah, we always find our way back home

Writer/s: RYAN MET, ANDREW CHARLES GRAMMER
Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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Back Home

The lead single from Andy Grammer 's second studio album, this was released to iTunes on April 8, 2014. The song was inspired by the singer returning home after three years touring his eponymous debut LP. "I was running around the country and certain other countries around the world I got to go to playing the first album," he told Artist Direct . "When you're back again, you try as much as you can to keep up with everybody but I was pretty much a bad friend [Laughs]."

"So, by the time I got home and started writing for my second album, it really stuck out how important it is to have good friends to be around to be a part of your life and keep you grounded," Grammer continued. "I have some great ones back in LA. I was away from for a while, then I saw how much I needed it back home. I feel like a lot of people can relate to that. Since it's been out, people have been saying they've felt the same way."

The tune has a folk-y vibe but Grammer didn't set out to write a Mumford & Sons-type number. "It's weird because everything we wrote in this song was calling for this stuff," he told Artist Direct. "I didn't want to be the guy chasing the folk thing, but we put a banjo on it and it sounded f--king awesome. Who am I to stop the flow of a song?"

"What's interesting about the folk sound is there's so much processed music," he continued. "It's hard to not sound genuine over a banjo. The words you sing over those sounds feel honest. We're thirsty for that in music."

Grammer knew there was something special about the song straight away and spent a lot of the recording time getting it just right. He told About.com : "There was something really exciting about that one coming together. It just feels really good. It felt really nice to sort of experiment. Hey, I'd never had a banjo on a track before. That was kind of cool."

The song's music video was directed by the actor and director Justin Baldoni, who also worked with Grammer on his clip for "Miss Me" as well as Katie Armiger's visual for "Safe."

The clip finds Grammer entertaining a crowd in Sat Lake City with colored powder. "'Back Home' has that massive group vocal in the chorus," Grammer explained to Billboard magazine. "This video needed to feel enormous. The capacity crowd singing amidst a 'colorsplosion' was exactly what it called for."

John Waite - Missing You

John Waite - Missing You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: No Brakes
Released: 1984

Missing You Lyrics

Everytime I think of you, I always catch my breath
And I'm still standing here, and you're miles away
And I'm wonderin' why you left
And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight

I hear your name in certain circles, and it always makes me smile
I spend my time thinkin' about you, and it's almost driving me wild
And there's a heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight

I ain't Missing You at all since you've been gone away
I ain't missing you, no matter what I might say

There's a message in the wire, and I'm sending you this signal tonight
You don't know how desperate I've become
And it looks like I'm losing this fight
In your world I have no meaning, though I'm trying hard to understand
And it's my heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight

[Chorus]
I ain't missing you at all since you've been gone away
I ain't missing you, no matter what my friends say

And there's a message that I'm sending out, like a telegraph to your soul
And if I can't bridge this distance, stop this heartbreak overload

[Chorus]

I ain't missing you, I ain't missing you, I can lie to myself

And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight

[Chorus]

Ain't missing you, I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you, I can lie to myself
Ain't missing you, I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you, I ain't missing you
I ain't missing you, I ain't missing you, ain't missing you, oh no
No matter what my friends might say, I ain't missing you...

Writer/s: SANDFORD, CHAS / LEONARD, MARK / WAITE, JOHN CHARLES
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., CARLIN AMERICA INC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Missing You

This song came at a very emotional time for Waite, who lays down his burdens in his sentimental lyrics and passionate vocal performance. In our interview with John Waite, he explained that the song was about a phone call.

Waite got married in his native England before moving to New York, where he recorded his first solo album, Ignition, which was released in 1984. The album was a disappointment, and after some squabbles with his record company (Chrysalis), he returned to England and settled into married life. After extricating from his contract, he signed a new deal with EMI and returned to New York, leaving his wife behind while he made his second album, No Brakes.

"My wife was a long way away," Waite told us. "There were quite a few women in my life at the time, and it all came sort of floating to the top."

Waite's feelings poured out of him in the song - on one level, he missed his wife dearly, but on a more superficial plane he didn't miss her at all, which is what he sang on the refrain: "I ain't missing you at all."

The song encapsulates the disconsolation that comes with long distance love. Waite and his wife would later divorce.

The songwriters Mark Leonard and Charles Sandford wrote the music for this song. Sandford also wrote the Stevie Nicks hit "Talk To Me" and co-wrote "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" for Chicago. Leonard wrote the music for the 1986 movie Back To School, and also co-wrote "Let Me Be The One," which was recorded by Terri Nunn.

One of the more memorable parts of this song happened spontaneously. Says Waite: "I had no idea I was going to sing, 'Missing you, since you've been gone away, I ain't missing you no matter what my friends say.' I had no idea I was going to sing that, and when it came out, it floored me. I stood back from the mic, and I thought, 'F--k it. Number 1.' I just knew. I just knew in my heart that it was that good."

Tina Turner took this song to #12 in the UK when she recorded it on her 1996 album Wildest Dreams. Around the same time, the soul singer Millie Jackson also recorded the song, but Turner released her version first. Jackson told us: "I recorded 'Missing You' And I was all excited about it, it was gonna be my next single, and the guys at Muscle Shoals said, 'Boy you got the song out quick! I heard it at a truck stop.' And I'm trying to figure out how in the world did they hear my song at a truck stop when it won't be out for two weeks. And of course it was Tina Turner and we had to pull the single and come back with a different one."

John Waite was the lead singer of a group called the Babys, whose 1978 song "Every Time I Think Of You" reached #13 in the US. Waite cribbed a lyric from that song (which was written by the songwriters Jack Conrad and Ray Kennedy) to get him started on "Missing You." Compare the opening lyrics to these songs:

"Every Time I Think Of You" - "Every time I think of you, it always turns out good."
"Missing You" - "Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath."

Once he had the first line, the rest of the lyrics flowed downhill, and the rest of it was written in about 10 minutes. Waite told us: "I sang the whole first verse, bridge, and chorus without stopping. Then I had to stop, I was so overwhelmed. I stood back from the mic and I couldn't speak. Then I just rolled the tape again and got on with it."

Some of the symbolism in this song was inspired by Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" and Free's "Catch A Train." Both songs depict lonely scenarios far from a loved one.

The song was a last-minute addition to the album, but Waite had no trouble convincing his crew that it needed to be on the tracklist. "I took the tape down to the guys in the studio who were mixing, thinking the record was finished, and I knew it wasn't, since we didn't have 'Missing You,' he told us. "I played it in the control room and everybody stopped talking. It had that effect on people from the word go. It was one of those songs that defined a decade, really. It was one of the biggest. I think it's been played about 9, 10 million times on American radio - it's a huge thing."

The video was in hot rotation on MTV, which helped the song climb to #1 in the US. In the clip, Waite gives a tortured performance, but what he was feeling at the time was more anxiety than heartbreak. "You can tell how shy I was at the time," he told us. "I'm trying to sing this song and sort of look at the camera and then not look at the camera. I'm embarrassed, you know. I mean, it's okay being on stage, because you're in some sort of persona. But being filmed was a new experience for me on that level. I suppose it was kind of charming. But there was a million places I would rather be than being filmed at that point in my life."

Kort Falkenberg III, who also did Waite's video for "Change," directed the clip. It was shot in downtown Los Angeles near Pershing Square. "The biggest thing I remember about 'Missing You' is that the night before I went down to Let It Rock, which was a clothes store on Melrose Avenue," said Waite. "I bought a Johnson suit, this black two-piece suit from London that was a beautiful suit. Tiny. I was very thin at the time. And then I went and had all my hair shaved off. I thought, 'If I'm going to do this, I'm going to go in whole hog, you know. I'm just going to do it flat out European.'

I showed up with a black suit and a crew cut, and it worked. I do everything on instinct, basically, and half of the time it's a bullseye."

Waite performed this on the short-lived ABC TV series Paper Dolls in 1984.

Boots - Dreams

Boots - Dreams Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

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 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 - 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."