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Devo - Jocko Homo

Devo - Jocko Homo Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Released: 1978

Jocko Homo Lyrics

They tell us that
We lost our tails
Evolving up
From little snails
I say it's all
Just wind in sails

Are we not men
We are Devo
Are we not men
D-E-V-O
Are we not pins
We are Devo

Monkey men all
In business suits
Teacher and critics
All dance the ?

Are we not men
We are Devo
Are we not men
D-E-V-O
Are we not pins
We are Devo

D-E-VO
(I must repeat)
D-E-VO
(I must repeat)
D-E-VO
(I must repeat)
D-E-VO

Okay lets go

Writer/s: MOTHERSBAUGH, MARK ALLEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Jocko Homo

In our interview with Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale of Devo , Mothersbaugh told us: "'Jocko Homo' was one of the first songs I wrote for the band. The whole song was meant to be a theme song for the theory of de-evolution and for Devo, what we were about. It was meant to lay out the story right there. It was a collection of discussions we had where we sat around in Kent after students had been shot, and decided that what we were seeing happening on the planet, when we looked at the news and read the paper, was not evolution but was more appropriately described as de-evolution."

Jocko Homo means "Monkey Man." Mothersbaugh was a student at Kent State University when a friend gave him a pamphlet called "Jocko Homo, Heaven Bound King of the Apes." It was a religious pamphlet debunking evolution, explaining how absurd the idea was that a man would descend from a monkey. The pamphlet was printed in the '30s by a religious zealot from Rogers, Ohio. One of the pictures showed a devil pointing up a staircase that said "2 million years along the stairway to heaven." The devil had 'De-Evolution' written on his chest and was laughing and pointing up the stairs. The stairs had names like slavery, world war, drunkenness, adultery - it kept going with horrible attributes of man.

When we spoke with Devo co-founder Jerry Casale, he said: "That was kind of our position statement. It was our mission statement saying, 'Hey look, humans are making up stories about why we're here and how we got here and who we are and what our importance is and it's all basically rubbish, it's absurd. You don't know what's going on, and that's OK. In fact, if you admit you don't know what's going on and you admit there are alternative explanations for things, then you're already better off, and there's a lot of things you won't do because you'd quit believing in ridiculous things that drive you to actions that cause more pain and suffering in the world.' It was kind of a Dada, self-effacing kind of statement, like, 'Look, we're all pinheads here on this planet together.'"

Mothersbaugh told us: "The chorus that keeps repeating the 'Are we not men' is directly from the very first Island Of Lost Souls (1932). There were two remakes that were both tepid and not nearly as compelling as the original. The original had a mad scientist on a deserted Pacific Island where he operated on animals - beasts from the jungle, in a room called the House Of Pain. He operates on these beasts to try to raise them up on the evolutionary chart. It's a very painful operation and when he does this, you can hear them screaming in the middle of the night in the House Of Pain.

His biggest success was a female named Lota who used to be a panther, but these animals keep devolving backwards. Lota gets cat claws, and she knows she's devolving. He has to do a painful operation to bring her back again, but in the meantime you see all these characters that are like sub-human, half-animal, half-man creatures that stumble around the jungle. Some of them could hold menial jobs at the House Of Pain. At one point, they were walking in a line around a fire in the woods at night while the doctor's working in the House Of Pain, and they were casting shadows on the side of the House Of Pain, and I saw these shadows of these sub-human creatures just slouching past the wall, and I was like, 'Holy crap, I know all those people, they live here in Akron with me.' That's where the inspiration came from.

The mad scientist would crack a whip standing on a rock and all the animals would come to attention, and he'd go, 'What is the law?' Usually it meant one of them had broken the law, like bad dogs that aren't house trained yet. They would all go in kind of a humble fashion, 'Not to spill blood.' Then he would go 'Are we not men?' and he'd crack the whip again and then he goes, 'What is the law?' and they'd have another law they'd have to repeat like 'Not to eat flesh' or 'Not to walk on all fours.' Then he'd crack the whip again and go 'Are we not men?' So that's where the line came from. There were like, watered down, wussy versions of it in the later Islands Of Dr. Moreau stuff, but that was a really intense movie. If you were sitting in a living room in Akron, Ohio in 1972 with some quack religious pamphlet sitting on your lap, the next thing was easy."

Casale said in our interview: "We moved the debate sideways - you believe what you want, but we like this guy that said we're all descendants of cannibalistic apes that ate the brains of other apes and went crazy and lost their tails. That explained what we were looking at in the world better than Darwinism or Creationism."

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! was Devo's first album. It was produced by Brian Eno, who was in the band Roxy Music and also produced Talking Heads. He was an innovator of electronic, synthesizer-based music.

Jerry Casale: "We were kind of poetically explaining what it meant to be Devo, and what de-evolution was. We didn't see any evidence that man was the result of some never ending linear progress and everything was getting better. When we were growing up, the magazines would show the world in 1999, and it'd be this beautiful, futuristic, domed city with everybody going around in jets and space-cars. Everybody was fed and everybody was groomed and everybody seemed to have tons of money. It's such a joke, what really happened was: the planet got more and more overrun by population, greater gaps between the rich and the poor, more new diseases, decimation of the environment. It seemed like even though people were getting more 'free' information from television and newspapers, they were actually less informed, less thoughtful, and acting dumber. So we saw de-evolution. The fact that a bad actor could be elected president was more proof to us. Things have just gone downhill from there. We didn't really want it to all be true, instead it looks like de-evolution was clearly real. In retrospect, compared to what's going on today, Reagan looks like a serious guy."

With the exception of "Whip It," Devo didn't have any big hits, but their music was very influential and continues to be in demand for movies and commercials. Mothersbaugh runs a production company called Mutato Muzika, and has worked on the music for many movies, including Happy Gilmore, Rugrats, and Rushmore. Casale directed all of Devo's videos, and continues to work on music videos and commercials. He has directed music videos by The Cars, The Foo Fighters, Soundgarden and Rush.

Asking Alexandria - Final Episode (Let's Change the Channel)

Asking Alexandria - Final Episode (Let's Change the Channel) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Stand Up and Scream
Released: 2007

Final Episode (Let's Change the Channel) Lyrics

Final Episode (Let's Change the Channel)

The first single from Asking Alexandria's debut album, the LP title was chosen from a lyric within the chorus, which reads "Just stand up and scream, the tainted clock is counting down."

Danny Worsnop told Kerrang! magazine the story of this song: "'Final Episode' was me and Ben (Bruce, guitar) when we started writing together and we were jamming. We had the lyrics, but I was actually the guitarist at this point. So we had these lyrics and I went into the vocal booth to just do a rough take of them, so we could send it to singers, to try out for the band."

"I went in, and when I walked out, they instantly fired me on guitar and told me I was a singer," he continued." "I think it took literally about 30 or 40 minutes. It was pretty much just jammed out there and then, and it hasn't changed since that very incarnation of it."

Worsnop explained the song's meaning to Kerrang!: "For me, this song is just about bulls--t people. People who are not good to deal with and who you just want to get the hell away from. Which somehow we still haven't managed to do!"

Chris de Burgh - Lady In Red

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Chris de Burgh - Lady In Red Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Into The Light
Released: 1986

Lady In Red Lyrics

Lady In Red

De Burgh started writing this song about his wife Diane, after an argument, but he was having a hard time finishing it. Part of the problem was that he needed a title: he didn't want to use "The Way You Look Tonight," because there there was already a song with that name. As de Burgh tells it, five months later he saw Diane, wearing red, across a crowded nightclub, which gave him the idea for the title. On the British TV series This Is Your Life, de Burgh said that the song was inspired by the memory of when he first saw Diane, and how men so often cannot even remember what their wives were wearing when they first met. On his website, he said the song was not specifically about Diane, but about appreciating the most important people in our lives, who we often take for granted; how we often fail to notice what attracted us to another person in the first place. In this account, he was already married to Diane but didn't realize it was her when he spotted her across the room.

Some interesting stuff about Chris de Burgh: he was born in Buenos Aires but moved with his family to Ireland when his diplomat father retired. He and Diane had two sons and a daughter named Rosanna Davison (Chris uses his mother's maiden name for showbiz - his real name is Chris Davison) who was chosen Miss Ireland, 2003 and went on to win the Miss World pageant. De Burgh has talked about his "healing hands," and how he can sometime cure maladies by laying his hands on people as a form of alternative therapy.

"Lady In Red" was a huge worldwide hit, going to #1 in 25 different countries. In the UK, it became a huge part of the cultural landscape, with listeners divided over whether it was the sweetest love song ever written or a pile of treacly musical mush. De Burgh was never able to duplicate the success of this song, but he developed a loyal following in Europe, where there was modest but lasting demand for his music. In America, his only other trip to the Top-40 was with his 1982 song "Don't Pay The Ferryman."

Some of the movies this song appeared in are American Psycho, Dodgeball, Baby Mama and Working Girl.

The real life love story of this song took a hit in the mid-'90s when de Burgh revealed that he had an affair with the 19 year old nanny he employed while his wife was recovering from a horseback riding accident. After some public contrition, with de Burgh saying "I don't want to gamble with my marriage and my family," he and Diane remained together.

Black Veil Brides - In The End

Black Veil Brides - In The End Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones
Released: 2013

In The End Lyrics

In The End

This song was written after the death of Andy Biersak's grandfather. He explained to Kerrang! magazine: "I was very close to him. Every day after school, I would go to his house and talk. (During the funeral) people were talking about my grandfather go into Heaven, and how wonderful person he was. I started to think about what heaven is."

Despite coming from a religious family, Biersak is an atheist. He told Kerrang!: "I hope I'm wrong, and I hope he is in the clouds, but on a personal level, I was thinking of the importance this person had to all these people at the church. If nothing else, Heaven is a legacy that you leave with the people around you. If there was a place that is Heaven, that's wonderful. But people telling the story of your life after you've lived it, those are the people who create that afterlife you have and continue this legacy."

"This song is about, when you die, who is left to remember the moments you had, and what have you done that would make you someone of substance? Have you done what you wanted to do with your life?"

This was one of the two theme songs for WWE's 2012 Hell In a Cell Pay-Per-View event.

The song was included as a bonus track on the compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 45.

This won Best New Song at Revolver magazine's 2013 Golden Gods Awards.

The music video features Black Veil Brides playing in different places that were used in their movie, Legion of the Black. (The film tells the visual story of the concept presented in the Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones album). Andy Biersack recalled to Kerrang!: "In The End was meant to be a trailer for the Legion of Black movie, in a way. It was done in a really interesting 'Greatest Hits' of the movie way. So, all my favorite locations and parts went into it, like the CC (Christian Coma, drums) smash, the battle, and the more fun moments in the movie."

Black Veil Brides - In The End

Black Veil Brides - In The End Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones
Released: 2013

In The End Lyrics

In The End, as we fade into the night (Whoa!)
Who will tell the story of your life?
In the end, as my soul's laid to rest
What is left of my body?
Or am I just a shell?
I have fought
And with flesh and blood, I commanded an army
Through it all
I have given my heart for a moment of glory

In the end, as you fade into the night (Whoa!)
Who will tell the story of your life? (Whoa!)
And who will remember your last goodbye? (Whoa!)
'Cause it's the end and I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid to die

I'm not afraid!
I'm not afraid to die!

Born a saint
Though, with every sin I still wanna be holy
I will live, again
Who we are isn't how we live
We are more than our bodies
If I fall, I will rise back up and relive my glory

In the end, as we fade into the night (Whoa!)
Who will tell the story of your life? (Whoa!)
And who will remember your last goodbye? (Whoa!)
'Cause it's the end and I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid to die

In the end, as you fade into the night (Whoa!)
Who will tell the story of your life? (Whoa!)
And who will remember your last goodbye? (Whoa!)
'Cause it's the end, and I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid to die

Who will remember this last goodbye? (Whoa!)
'Cause it's the end, and I'm not afraid
I'm not afraid to die

I'm not afraid!
I'm not afraid to die!
Not afraid!
I'm not afraid to die!

Writer/s: ANDY BIERSACK, ASHLEY PURDY, JAKE PITTS, JEREMY FERGUSON, JOHN FELDMAN, MARTIN JOHNSON
Publisher: WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC, RED BULL MEDIA HOUSE NA, INC.
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In The End

This song was written after the death of Andy Biersak's grandfather. He explained to Kerrang! magazine: "I was very close to him. Every day after school, I would go to his house and talk. (During the funeral) people were talking about my grandfather go into Heaven, and how wonderful person he was. I started to think about what heaven is."

Despite coming from a religious family, Biersak is an atheist. He told Kerrang!: "I hope I'm wrong, and I hope he is in the clouds, but on a personal level, I was thinking of the importance this person had to all these people at the church. If nothing else, Heaven is a legacy that you leave with the people around you. If there was a place that is Heaven, that's wonderful. But people telling the story of your life after you've lived it, those are the people who create that afterlife you have and continue this legacy."

"This song is about, when you die, who is left to remember the moments you had, and what have you done that would make you someone of substance? Have you done what you wanted to do with your life?"

This was one of the two theme songs for WWE's 2012 Hell In a Cell Pay-Per-View event.

The song was included as a bonus track on the compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 45.

This won Best New Song at Revolver magazine's 2013 Golden Gods Awards.

The music video features Black Veil Brides playing in different places that were used in their movie, Legion of the Black. (The film tells the visual story of the concept presented in the Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones album). Andy Biersack recalled to Kerrang!: "In The End was meant to be a trailer for the Legion of Black movie, in a way. It was done in a really interesting 'Greatest Hits' of the movie way. So, all my favorite locations and parts went into it, like the CC (Christian Coma, drums) smash, the battle, and the more fun moments in the movie."

Bob Seger - The Fire Inside

Bob Seger - The Fire Inside Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Fire Inside
Released: 1991

The Fire Inside Lyrics

The Fire Inside

The Fire Inside reflects the search of a lost companion and the internal struggles the singer must deal with. It's about someone who goes out on the town looking for someone from the past that he loved dearly. He's in a state of rage because only he understands how much he needs this person. On his way through town he notices the phony lovers and lines, the weak, and the "dilettantes." During this visit in town, he notices how weak people really are - "Safe in the knowledge that they tried." All the people in the clubs and the discotheques are secretly looking to fall in love but they can't find it. He is the only one who realizes this and is quite critical of them. The trip sequence ends with the line, "On to the street, on to the next, Safe in the knowledge that they tried. Faking the smile, hiding the pain, never satisfied. The fire inside."

The last three stanzas are reflection of Seger's personal situation. He screams out that "Dreams die hard and we watch them erode but we cannot be denied the fire inside." In other words, although this is terrible fact of life, you always have the memories and the unexplained feelings that are kept raging inside, the fire inside. (thanks, James Lo Cascio - Mahwah, NJ, for above 2)

Seger doesn't have a set way of writing songs, and he writes on both guitar and piano. Very often, his rockers are written on guitar, but this one was written on piano. Perhaps it's a fire thing - he also wrote "The Fire Down Below" on piano.

Seger spent a lot of time refining the lyrics to this song. He explained to Music Connection in 1994: "I thought the second verse about the club scenes was a killer, and the last verse worked, but I started to realize that the original first verse of that song was not nearly as strong as the others. So I wracked my brain for a long time on that song. It's like you'll work and work and work, and then three weeks later, the answer will just pop into your head.

It's funny, I've learned to sometimes let my subconscious do the work. I mean you can beat your head against the wall and just come up with nothing. I've found that that's a good way to do it. You just have to be patient. You have to learn to put it aside and work on something else when you hit a brick wall."

Breathe Carolina - Savages

Breathe Carolina - Savages Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Savages
Released: 2014

Savages Lyrics

Break out again
You start to feel
It's all pretend
This time it's real

Body starts to give in
Try to keep your eyes open
This is where you breath in
Right now you one of us!

Wolves in our own skin (what!), we're Savages!
We act so primitive (what!), we're savages!
Do the rain dance, like you're on fire
Like you're on fire!
We're savages (what!)

What!

Shape shift begin
You've lost the fear
You've found a friend
You're safe in here

Body starts to give in
Try to keep your eyes open
This is where you breathe in
Right now you one of us!

Wolves in our own skin (what!), we're savages!
We act so primitive (what!), we're savages!
Do the rain dance, like you're on fire
Like you're on fire!
We're savages (what!)

What!

This is happening, we are savages!
This is happening, we are savages!

Wolves in our own skin (what!), we're savages!
We act so primitive (what!), we're savages!
Do the rain dance, like you're on fire
Like you're on fire!
We're savages (what!)

This is happening (what!)
We are savages! (we're savages, what!)
This is happening (what!)
We are savages! (we're savages, what!)

Writer/s: SCHMITT, DAVID / EVEN, KYLE / KIRKPATRICK, IAN / COOPERMAN, TOM / ARMENTA, ERIC / BONET, LUIS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Savages

This is the title track of Breathe Carolina's fourth album. David Schmitt of the duo explained to Alter The Press the concept of the record: "Savages isn't a bad thing, it's just about how you live your life and chasing your dreams," he said. "I want people to get out of this record that they feel like they are a part of the band when they are done listening to it."

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet

Alannah Myles - Black Velvet Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Alannah Myles
Released: 1989

Black Velvet Lyrics

Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell
Jimmy Rodgers on the Victrola up high
Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky
The boy could sing, knew how to move ev'rything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for
Black Velvet and that little boy smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring her to your knees
Black velvet if you please
Up in Memphis the music's like a heat wave
White Lightnin' bound to drive you wild
Mama's baby's in the heart of ev'ry school girl
Love Me Tender leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle
The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for
Black velvet and that little boy smile
Black velvet and that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring her to your knees
Black velvet if you please
Ev'ry word of ev'ry song that he sang was for you
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon
What could you do?
Black velvet and that little boy smile
Black velvet in that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring her to your knees
Black velvet if you please
Black velvet and that little boy smile
Black velvet in that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring her to your knees
Black velvet if you please
If you please
If you please
If you please

Writer/s: TYSON, DAVID / WARD, CHRISTOPHER N
Publisher: OLE MM
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Black Velvet

This song is about Elvis Presley. Here's some lyric analysis:

"Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high" - Jimmy Rogers, an early Blues singer, influencing Elvis (the baby) at an early age. The Victrola is the record player, played loudly.
"Mama's dancin' with baby on her shoulder" - Gladys Presley dancing with the infant Elvis.

"Black velvet and that little boy's smile" - You can buy a black velvet Elvis painting at any respectable yard sale. Early female fans were drawn to his "Little boy smile."

"Black velvet with that slow southern style" - Elvis delivered some of his songs with slow, undulating hips. Check out "Steamroller Blues" live.

"Up in Memphis the music's like a heatwave" - Sun Studios. The epicenter of early rock music and where Elvis recorded.
"White lightning, bound to drive you wild" - rock music and booze.

"Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl" - A reference to the baby in the early part of the song, being loved by all the young girls.

"Love Me Tender leaves 'em cryin' in the aisle" - Love Me Tender was a huge hit for Elvis in 1956.

"The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true" - Elvis' legendary hips swivel, the Pelvis.

"Every word of every song that he sang was for you. In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon, what could you do?" - Elvis died suddenly in 1977.

This was a Canadian production: the song was written by the Canadian musicians David Tyson and Christopher Ward, and Myles is from Toronto. Ward and Myles were a couple and also worked together - she sang on his 1981 solo album Time Stands Still. Teaming up with Tyson, Ward put together a demo tape for Myles which got her a deal with Atlantic Records.

Produced by Tyson and Ward, Alannah Myles was her first album, and it was a huge hit in Canada, becoming the top-selling debut album in Canadian history. "Black Velvet" was the first US single, and it was a massive hit, rising to #1 in March 1990, where it stayed for two weeks. The US follow-up single was another song written by Tyson and Ward, "Love Is." That song went to #36 and was her last chart entry in America. She did have several more hits in Canada.

Christopher Ward got the idea for this song when he was a VJ for the Canadian music channel MuchMusic. He was sent to Memphis to cover the 10th anniversary of Elvis' death (August 16, 1987), which exposed him to many fervent Elvis fans. Inspired by their passion for the rocker, he took notes while he was working on the special (which was called Mecca in Memphis), writing lyrics based on what Elvis meant to his fans and what it must have been like for him growing up in the South.

Myles won a Grammy award for Best Female Rock Performance for this song, along with several Juno Awards. Additionally, this won a Diamond award for sales in excess of 1,000,000 in Canada, the only time an artist has won this for her debut record. ASCAP awarded the song a 'Millionaire Award' in 2005 for over 4 million radio plays in the USA.

According to the song's writer Christopher Ward, a key line in this song is "A new religion that will bring you to your knees." He says he got the idea for that line after realizing that Elvis' affect on fans was similar to what churchgoers would feel after being exhorted by Fundamentalist preachers.

The country singer Robin Lee, also signed to Atlantic Records, recorded a popular cover of this song on her 1990 album, which was also called Black Velvet.

Another popular cover of the song was by Crystal Bowersox, who performed the song when she was a contestant on season 9 of American Idol, where she finished second. Released as a single, her version bubbled under at #124 on the Hot 100.

In a CBC Newsworld interview, Myles revealed that she was cheated by her record company, which kept her from cashing in on this song. Myles said she received her first-ever royalty check for the song on April 1, 2008.

She signed that record deal when she was young and naive; the singer ended up paying $7 million on expenditures for her first three albums, all deducted out of her take. Myles said that when she should have been dining out on the success of this song and her other recordings, instead she had been living in poverty, at times struggling to pay her rent.

Bruce Springsteen - Hurry Up Sundown

Bruce Springsteen - Hurry Up Sundown Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: American Beauty
Released: 2014

Hurry Up Sundown Lyrics

Hurry Up Sundown

Springsteen is looking forward on this song to "the end of another working day" and the chance to "pack your blues away." The uptempo rocker is one of four unreleased cuts from the High Hopes sessions included on American Beauty, a limited edition 12-inch vinyl EP that was released exclusively for Record Store Day on April 19, 2014.

Springsteen played every instrument on the song with the exception of the drums which were handled by session player Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, Devo, and Nine Inch Nails).

U2 - New York

U2 - New York Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind
Released: 2000

New York Lyrics

In New York freedom looks like
Too many choices
In New York I found a friend
To drown out the other voices

Voices on a cell phone
Voices from home
Voices of the hard sell
Voices down a stairwell
In New York
Just got a place in New York

In New York summers get hot
Well into the hundreds
You can't walk around the block
Without a change of clothing

Hot as a hair dryer in your face
Hot as a handbag and a can of mace
New York
I just got a place in New York

New York New York

In New York you can forget
Forget how to sit still
Tell yourself you will stay in
But it's down to Alphaville

New York
New York, New York

New York, New York
New York

The Irish been coming here for years
Feel like they own the place
They got the airport, city hall
Asphalt, asphalt
They even got the police

Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew
Happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you

New York
New York, New York
New York
New York, New York

New York
New York

In New York I lost it all
To you and your vices
Still I'm staying on to figure out
Midlife crisis

I hit an iceberg in my life
You know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance, lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat

You got to put the women and children first
But you've got an unquenchable thirst for New York

New York
New York
New York, New York

In the stillness of the evening
When the sun has had its day
I heard your voice whispering
Come away now

New, New York
New
New York
Oh
New York

Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, PAUL HEWSON, LARRY MULLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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New York

This song is about how the city of New York is filled with confusion, doubt, sin, and many different ethnic groups. Despite all this, the people there wouldn't live anywhere else: "I thought I heard you whispering 'come away child'. New York, New York." (thanks, Bill - Johnstown, PA)

The Dandy Warhols - Don't Shoot She Cried

The Dandy Warhols - Don't Shoot She Cried Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: This Machine
Released: 2012

Don't Shoot She Cried Lyrics

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Don't Shoot She Cried

Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance

Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Swiss Army Romance
Released: 2000

The Swiss Army Romance Lyrics

Sleep with all the lights on
You're not so happy
You're not secure

And you're dying to look cute
In your blue jeans
But you're plastic just like everyone
You're just like everyone

And that face you paint is pressed
Impressing most of us as permanent
But I'd like to see you undone

College night will draw the crowds
Dorms unload and you're heading out
Here is your moment to shine
Making up a history
It's nothing from the life you lead
But man, will they buy all your lines

Sleep with all the sheets off
Bearing your mattress
Bearing your soul

And you're dying to look smooth
With your tattoos
But you're searching just like everyone
You could be anyone

And those friends you have are the best
Impressing most of us as permanent
But I'd like to see you undone

Youth's the most unfaithful mistress
Still we forge ahead to miss her
Rushing our moment to shine
Making up a history
It's nothing from the life you lead
But man, will they buy all your lines

We're not twenty-one
But the sooner we are
The sooner the fun will begin

So get out your fake eyelashes
And fake I.D.s
And real disasters ensue

It's cool to take these chances
It's cool to fake romances
And grow up fast

And grow up fast
And grow up fast

Writer/s: CARRABBA, CHRISTOPHER ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Swiss Army Romance

The title track to the first Dashboard Confessional album, this song is about teenage girls trying to grow up fast. They wear makeup and tight jeans and use fake IDs when really they're very unsure of themselves and putting on an act. Chris Carrabba wrote the song because he felt like girls were missing the best years of their lives because they wanted to act older than they were. (thanks, Kerry - New York, NY)

In live versions of this song, Carrabba sometimes changes the lyric to the first person: "I'm dying to look cool with my tattoos, but I'm searching just like everyone, I swear I could be anyone."

Carrabba would sometimes dedicate this song to the fans who came out to see his shows before he was popular.