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Smashing Pumpkins - Soma

Smashing Pumpkins - Soma Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Siamese Dream
Released: 1993

Soma Lyrics

Nothing left to say
And all I've left to do
Is run away
From you
And she led me on, down
With secrets I can't keep

Close your eyes and sleep
Don't wait up for me
Hush now don't you speak
To me

Wrapped my hurt in you
And took my shelter in that pain
The opiate of blame
Is your broken heart, your heart

So now I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray my tears
To anyone caught in our ruse of fools

One last kiss from me...yeah
One last kiss good night

Didn't want to lose you once again
Didn't want to be your friend
Fulfilled a promise made of tin
And crawled back to you

I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray myself
To anyone, lost, anyone but you

So let the sadness come again
On that you can depend on me, yeah
Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah
When god sleeps in bliss

And I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
And I'll betray myself
To anyone

Writer/s: Corgan, William Patrick / Iha, James Yoshinobu
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Soma

Soma means "body" in Greek. It was the name of a drug in the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World.

A true breakup song, lead singer Billy Corgan had just split with his girlfriend Christine Fabian when he wrote it (they later married and then got divorced). This song describes how Corgan was feeling after the breakup.

Mike Mills of R.E.M. played piano on this song.

Pantera - 25 Years

Pantera - 25 Years Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Far Beyond Driven
Released: 1994

25 Years Lyrics

I vent my frustration at you old man
After years your ears will hear
You screamed you tried
It's words of a weakling
And promises made by a liar
(drunken liar)
Now you pick up that splintered chair
That was aiming for your head
A head that should have been long ago
Kicked in by me...Alone
(I won't lose a second of sleep for this)
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me

No
Ever again
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me

Orphaned to the dope and drinks
I learned my lesson well somehow from you
No tears. Can't clutch my regrets
But these years of detachment
Have left me with demons now surfacing
(I'm becoming more than you'll be)
You never knew the answers to
Any of my questions, did you?
You made up all the answers to
My unimportant existence
(You don't have to dump me off, not again)
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me

Fuck no, never again
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me

Fuck no, never again
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me

I vow, lest I die tomorrow
You'll never be the father I am
The bastard father to the thousands
Of the ugly, criticized, unwanted.
The ones with fathers just like you
We're fucking you back
Fucking you back
I'm shoving my life right down your throat.
Can I
Find the guts? Can I feel the heart?
Look at the ground as you choke me up,
Does it taste like tequila?
Or failure?
We're fucking you back

Writer/s: ABBOTT, VINCENT PAUL/ABBOTT, DARRELL LANCE/BROWN, REX ROBERT/ANSELMO, PHILIP HANSEN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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25 Years

This song about Phillip Anselmo 's early life was the first track written for Far Beyond Driven. The vocalist told Artist Direct about the background to the song. "That began with my infatuation with The Melvins and their interpretation of The Melvins—playing things drone-y, slower, and unpredictably. That song itself is so different for us in a way because of its elongated intro and almost a perfect Pantera piece. The verses are so signature f--king Pantera it's ridiculous."

Toadies - Tyler

Toadies - Tyler Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rubberneck
Released: 1994

Tyler Lyrics

And she runs through her days with a smile on her face
And she runs, and she waits, and I wait

We can drive to anyplace,
day or night, across the state
And in the morning, into Mexico, we will wake up

I find a window in the kitchen, and I let myself in
Rummage through the refrigerator, find myself a beer
I can't believe I'm really here,
and she's lying in that bed
I can almost feel her touch, and her anxious breath!

I stumble in the hallway, against the bedroom door
I hear her call out to me, I hear the fear in her voice
She pulls the covers tighter, I press against the door

I will be with her tonight!

Writer/s: LEWIS, TODD
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Tyler

Written by Toadies lead singer/guitarist Todd Lewis, this song is about a stalker in the town of Tyler, Texas, or at least the folklore about it. Tyler is outside of Dallas, near where the band is from. According to Lewis, his family would sit around and tell greatly exaggerated stories about local lore, and the Tyler stalker made a particularly intriguing tale. The story was that even though citizens had their guns ready for this guy, the stalker would go out of his way to make sure he was seen, even tapping on windows to get noticed. The song is written from the perspective of this peeping tom.

This song was released as a single, and while it did get a lot of airplay on Modern Rock radio stations, it didn't do nearly as well as their song "Possum Kingdom." Both songs were similar in their creepy subject matter and videos, which contained scenes that would fit nicely on CSI. Neither song mentioned the title in the lyrics, which was not a good marketing strategy in the '90s when there was no easy way to find out the name of a song you were hearing on the radio. Toadies may have followed up their Rubberneck album with a hit, but they never had the chance - their next album was rejected by their record company and the band broke up.

Pete Townshend - It Must Be Done

Pete Townshend - It Must Be Done Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Not Released on an Album
Released: 2014

It Must Be Done Lyrics

It Must Be Done

Townshend wrote this song for the TV drama series The Americans with the show's composer Nathan Barr. The pair spent a couple of months exchanging musical ideas before the tune emerged. Townshend told Billboard magazine about their collaboration. "What I was struck by was that Nate composes on the cello, an instrument my partner and orchestrator Rachel (Fuller) uses, so I have listened to a lot of cello music and I have really fallen in love with it," he said.

"We exchanged ideas (between England and Los Angeles) and I was immediately struck by this very evocative piece he had written, very plaintive. I added some guitar, then came up with some lyrics."

Townshend and Barr wrote the song for a scene involving a car being shadowed, but after the episode was edited it was felt it did not fit the scene so was switched to a different one. Asked by Billboard what elements of the show did he want to incorporate into the song, Townshed replied: "I wanted to keep it very simple. Here's this couple whose whole life is about duty, duty without honor, duty without explanation. There are no accolades. They're not living a lie but doing things they find hard to do. Everybody has a part of their life that's difficult to explain. For me it's why the f--k am I in the Who?"

This was the first time Townshend had written a song specially for television. However, his tunes have been used on the medium before, most notably as the themes for CSI ("Who Are You?"), CSI: NY ("Baba O'Riley") and CSI: Miami ("Won't Get Fooled Again").

Kelis - Milkshake

Kelis - Milkshake Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tasty
Released: 2003

Milkshake Lyrics

My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard,
And there like,
Its better than yours,
Damn right its better than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge

I know you want it,
The thing that makes me,
What the guys go crazy for.
They lose their minds,
The way I wind,
I think its time

La la-la la la,
Warm it up.
Lala-lalala,
The boys are waiting

My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard,
And there like,
Its better than yours,
Damn right its better than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge

I can see you're on it,
You want me to teach the
Techniques that freaks these boys,
It can't be bought,
Just know, thieves get caught,
Watch if your smart,

La la-la la la,
Warm it up,
La la-la la la,
The boys are waiting,

My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard,
And there like,
Its better than yours,
Damn right its better than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge

Once you get involved,
Everyone will look this way-so,
You must maintain your charm,
Same time maintain your halo,
Just get the perfect blend,
Plus what you have within,
Then next his eyes are squint,
Then he's picked up your scent,

Lala-lalala,
Warm it up,
Lala-lalala,
The boys are waiting,

My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard,
And there like,
Its better than yours,
Damn right its better than yours,
I can teach you,
But I have to charge.

Writer/s:
Publisher: UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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Milkshake

A "Milkshake" is a girl's sensual energy - what makes her stand out from the other girls. Taken more literally, it is about a girl who dances seductively and attracts the attention of boys in the club. Her "milkshake" is the way she shakes her boobs (the source of mother's milk). It can also be taken to mean oral sex. Bringing the "boys to the yard" could be about attracting boys like a dog in heat.

Kelis (last name: Rogers) was 24 when she recorded this, but it was still a comeback. After graduation from La Guardia High School, which was inspiration for the movie Fame, she signed a record deal and released her first album in 1999. The album was produced by The Neptunes - Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams - who went on produce hits for acts singers like Nelly, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. Despite a hit single called "Caught Out There," Kelis was dropped from her label and waited years before Arista Records signed her and released Tasty. Williams and Hugo wrote this song.

In the December 12, 2004 Observer Music Magazine, Kelis said that Milkshake "means whatever people want it to; it was just a word we came up with on a whim, but then the song took on a life of its own."

Kelis performed this on Saturday Night Live February 14, 2004. Later that year, the song was featured in the movie Mean Girls, which was written by SNL star Tina Fey. According to Fey, the scene was written as the character Regina George's little sister giving a lap dance to a teddy bear, but the director insisted they change it. Instead, they had the girl dance to "Milkshake."

This was used in the movies Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) and Norbit (2007). It was also featured on the TV shows The Simpsons, Nip/Tuck, and Ugly Betty.

In 2014, Kelis dropped the bombshell that she doesn't drink milkshakes. She said she has positive feelings about the song, however, telling Spin: "It played a huge part in where music went. I'm aware of that, I don't regret it or resent it at all."

The video was directed by Jake Nava, who did many of Beyoncé'a clips, including "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and "Crazy In Love."

"Milkshake" was shot in a Brooklyn diner called Relish, with the signage changed to make it "Tasty's Yard." Kelis gave some hints to the song's true meaning with lots of provocative poses and dance moves in the video.

The Neptunes' production was inspired by Brazilian women. When Pharrell Williams of the duo was in Brazil, he found himself surrounded by beautiful girls and a type of music that he compared to as "booty shakin' music in Portuguese." Inspired, he created a dance all night feeling for this song.

Ronnie Dunn - You Should See You Now

Ronnie Dunn - You Should See You Now Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Peace, Love, and Country Music
Released: 2014

You Should See You Now Lyrics

You Should See You Now

This Peace, Love, and Country Music track is a particular favorite of Dunn's. "That vocal - going down in the studio – sometimes they just click and lock," he told Billboard magazine. "Sometimes, you have to work a little bit to catch it, but that one felt really good."

"I like the unique twist that he puts on the hook. 'You look better than you did with me,"' Dunn added. "He's looking back in a reflective sense."

Rush - A Passage To Bangkok

Rush - A Passage To Bangkok Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 2112
Released: 1976

A Passage To Bangkok Lyrics

Our first stop is in BogotÁ
To check Columbian fields
The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield
Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco, and the East
Fly by morning light

We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil
Pulling into Kathmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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A Passage To Bangkok

This song is about the travails of using marijuana and opium, which is grown in Bangkok).

In the book Contents Under Pressure: 30 years of Rush by Martin Popoff, Alex Lifeson admits to smoking hashish (a high-grade form of marijuana) after some dental work in the early seventies. In the book Traveling Music: The Soundtrack To My Life And Times by Neil Peart, he admits to using recreational drugs including marijuana and LSD as a youth. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

Tim McGraw - Meanwhile Back At Mama's

Tim McGraw - Meanwhile Back At Mama's Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sundown Heaven Town
Released: 2014

Meanwhile Back At Mama's Lyrics

Running round in this new truck
Bank let's me borrow from month to month
Running out of credit and find a little cash on the radio

Standing still they're blowing past
Numbers on cars going Nascar fast
What I wouldn't give for a slow down, don't you know
'Cause where I come from, only the horses run
When the day is done, we take it easy

Meanwhile Back At Mama's
The porch lights on, come on in if you wanna
Suppers on the stove, and beer's in the fridge
Red sun sinking out low on the ridge
Games on the tube and daddy smoked cigarettes
Whiskey keeps his whistle wet
Funny the things you thought you'd never miss
In a world gone crazy as this

Well I found a girl and we don't fit in here
Talk about how hard it is to breathe here
Even with the windows down, can't catch a southern breeze here
One of these days gonna pack it up and leave here

'Cause meanwhile back at Mama's
The porch lights on, come on in if you wanna
Suppers on the stove, and beer's in the fridge
Red sun sinking out low on the ridge
Games on the tube and daddy smoked cigarettes
Whiskey keeps his whistle wet
Funny the things you thought you'd never miss
In a world gone crazy as this

Oh I miss yeah a little dirt on the road
I miss corn growing in a row
I miss being somebody everybody knows there
Everybody knows everybody
I miss those small town roots
Walking around in muddy boots
The sound of rain on an old tin roof
It's time we head on back

'Cause meanwhile back at Mama's
The for sale signs going up and I'm gonna
Dump this truck and the little I've got
On a loan to own and a 3 acre lot
Put supper on the stove and beer in the fridge
Going for broke, yeah we're gonna be rich
Watch the sun settin' on the ridge
Baby tell me whatcha think about this,

Me and you back at Mama's
Yeah, me and you back at Mama's

Writer/s: STEELE, JEFFREY / DOUGLAS, TOM / JOHNSTON, JAREN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Meanwhile Back At Mama's

This traditional-flavored duet by Tim McGraw and his wife Faith Hill was debuted during the ACM Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday April 6, 2014. The two have performed together before, taking home four ACM awards for 1997's "It's Your Love." Other hook-ups between the couple include McGraw's "I Need You" plus Hill's "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me, " "Let's Make Love" and "Like We Never Loved at All."

The song was co-written by Tom Douglas, Jaren Johnston, and Jeffrey Steele. Other collaborations between the trio include Keith Urban's "Raise 'Em Up." "We wrote over at Steeley's place, and if I remember correctly. Tom came in with that title," Johnston recalled to Roughstock . "It was a different play on it, and I can't remember exactly how it was, but once we started working on it, it evolved into 'Meanwhile Back at Mama's.'"

"The most exciting part for me was that thing at the end," Johnson continued with a smile. "We had pretty much written the whole thing. We all knew it had to be some sort of twist on it, just because it was too good of a song to just end it normally. I sputtered out me and you back at mama's. We all kind of looked at each other and got quiet, and we were like oh my gosh, that is genius! Then we wrote that whole last chorus."

The song's music video mixes clips from McGraw and Hill's performance at the ACM Awards with footage of the couple in a relaxed setting on their family farm just outside of Nashville.

Speaking with Taste of Country Nights host Sam Alex, McGraw said the song instantly drew him in. "Singers come and go, careers come and go, but the songs last forever," he said. "You really have to focus on the songs, and when I heard this song instantly I loved it."

"I mean within the four measures, I knew I was going to record this song," McGraw continued. "The second time I heard it, I played it for Faith and she instantly loved it too, and I asked her if she'd sing it with me, and she said she would."

"The cadence of the songs, the cadence of the lyrics … I knew I had a good idea where it was going to head when I heard it," the country star added. "I knew it was gonna be real nostalgic and it was gonna be like a warm blanket and I knew I wanted to record it."

Tim McGraw had a less-than-ideal childhood, growing up believing his stepfather, Horace Smith, was his father until discovering at the age of 11 that his biological father was in fact baseball player Tug McGraw. Asked by Taste of Country how someone with such a background could relate to a story that relies on the familiar comforts of home, McGraw replied: "Either you have a memory or a connection to that bucolic, sort of idealized childhood, or home that you grew up in or you wanna have it."

This won Song of the Year Award at the 2015 Taste of Country Awards. It was McGraw's second straight win at the ceremony as "Highway Don't Care" was victorious in 2014.

The song wasn't written as a duet. "We just wrote a folky thing," Jaren Johnston, recalled to Radio.com of the tune. "[Big Machine Label Group President] Scott Borchetta said, 'You know it's going to be a duet, right?'" And I was like, 'Who are they going to get?' I had no idea. He's like, 'Faith's going to sing on it.' I was like, 'Score! Touchdown!'"

McGraw knew right away that it was the perfect song to record with his wife. "I got home, I walked into the house, and I said, 'Faith, you've got to hear this song,'" the singer said. "So I played her the song, and when it got to the end and it said, 'Me and you back at Mama's,' a flood of tears just came down from her eyes."

"I said, 'Not only am I going to cut, but you're going to sing it with me,'"McGraw added. "And that's how it was born, right there."

Cold - Suffocate

Cold - Suffocate Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Year Of The Spider
Released: 2003

Suffocate Lyrics

I could take every fucking word she says
Throw it in her face
But would she even care
I still remember when she looked at me
That frown upon her face
Trying to be sincere
I gathered all those little things she said
Kept them close to me
Trying to make this real
This cloud will alway hover over me
I'm leaving you today
'Cause now I see

Suffocate, you suffocate
That you lie (I don't lie)
That your fake (I'm not a freak)
Suffocate, you suffocate
You always take (I don't take)
What you can (what I can)

I could take every fucking game you play
Blow it all away
But would you even care
I could take all those lies you said to me
Never go away
Never disappear
This cloud will always hover over me
I'm leaving you today
'Cause now I see

Suffocate, you suffocate
That you lie (I don't lie)
That your fake (I'm not a freak)
Suffocate, you suffocate
You always take (I don't take)
What you can (what I can)

Suffocate, you suffocate
That you lie (I don't lie)
That your fake (I'm not a freak)
Suffocate, you suffocate
You always take (I don't take)
What you can (what I can)

Now I'm far away from you (You're always far away)
I'll never bring back yesterday (bring back yesterday)
You're such a fake it's true
I can't believe the words you say
I'm far away from you
I'll never bring back yesterday

Suffocate, you suffocate
That you lie (I don't lie)
That your fake (I'm not a freak)
Suffocate, you suffocate
You always take (I don't take)
What you can (what I can)

I always take
What I can

Writer/s: WARD, RONALD, JR./BALSAMO, TERRY/HAYES, KELLY/MARSHALL, JEREMY D./MC CANDLESS, SAMUEL ALAN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Suffocate

This song is about a relationship that seemed real but was actually fake. A girl breaks up with a guy, leaving his heart broken. The guy get confused, the girl gets greedy, and the guy realizes he can never take her back.

Lionel Bart - Happy Endings (Give Yourself A Pinch)

Lionel Bart - Happy Endings (Give Yourself A Pinch) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: released as a single
Released: 1989

Happy Endings (Give Yourself A Pinch) Lyrics

Happy Endings (Give Yourself A Pinch)

Lionel Bart wrote this song for a commercial advertising the Abbey National Building Society as part of their "Abbey Endings" (a play on "Happy Endings") campaign. Bart appeared in the spot, playing piano and singing along with a group of children. The commercial was so popular that the song was released as a single, becoming Bart's last popular song released during his lifetime. Copyright EMI Records Ltd and running to a mere 2 minutes 35 seconds, it was unusually recorded by the composer himself, with his very young co-performers.

Bart was a revered British composer whose plays included La Strada and Oliver!. Known also for his eccentricities and lavish parties, he died of liver cancer in 1999 at age 68. In 2013, his unfinished musical Quasimodo was completed and performed in London 14 years after his death.

As for the Abbey National Building Society, it was taken over by Santander in 2010, renamed and forgotten. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

Disturbed - Believe

Disturbed - Believe Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Believe
Released: 2002

Believe Lyrics

Believe, when you lie
You will never need to recognize yourself
To deceive
To remove all chance of doubt and be received
With your lie
The deception is complete when you concede
And decide
To reject your lives, sacrificed to me

Penance can't absolve your sin
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin

Believe, when you lie
You will never need to recognize the source
Of deceit
To renew your faith in God
You must believe, in your lie
The redemption is complete when you conceive
And decline
To release your lives
Sacrificed to me

Penance can't absolve your sin All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin

Reap your life, like you want to
recognize, all you've come to

Reap your life
Veiled in shadow
Recognize
Faces of the crucified
I can hear their screams tonight
Ever haunting me

Burn your lie into me

Penance can't absolve your sin
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin

Writer/s: DRAIMAN, DAVID / DONEGAN, DAN / KMAK, STEVE / WENGREN, MIKE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Believe

Like a lot of Disturbed's songs, this is very religious. It's about how you need to have faith or "believe" in the lord in order to get to heaven:
"To renew your faith in God you must believe," "To remove all chance of doubt and be received"

If you don't and you try to cover it up, down you go:
"In your lie the redemption is complete when you conceive and decline to release your lives sacrificed to me." (thanks, Casey Faris - JC, OR)

August Alsina - Testify

August Alsina - Testify Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Testimony
Released: 2014

Testify Lyrics

I remember wakin' up, being broke
But still it wasn't breakin' us
I remember why I broke the rules,
Cuz I ain't really have nobody to look up to
I remember cuttin' class, bein' bad,
Cuz I ain't have what them other kids had
I remember wishin' that I knew my dad,
Then I remember wishin' I could get him back
For every single night that he told me he was comin' and he didn't,
For every single dollar that my mama 'nem was missin'
For every thing I wanted and was told I couldn't get it,
And that I had to face it that my daddy was addicted (damn)
That's right it wasn't easy growin' up,
Mama was exposin' us to life as she knew it
So we all went through it,
I remember bein' down and out, sleepin', on my homie's couch
In & outta trouble ever since my mama put me out

Damn it's getting real, damn it's getting real
Didn't graduate, I'm thinking damn I gotta deal
So I hit da block, selling rocks just to eat a meal
So I grabbed da Glock, kept it cocked
Peace is being still

In da back of da tracks, my nigga's stayed wit da packs
And if a nigga was schemin', my brotha stayed with tha gat
Yea, yea we stayed in da trap, yea everyday in da trap
These ho's was chasin' da cheese, so we would stay wit da rat's
And we was ridin' down, dippin' low, I stayed in da back
In the X5 stuntin', we ain't know how to act
Spendin' money like it's nothin', cuz we gone get it back
17 never thought that I'd be gettin' dem racks,
Had a dream but I said I wasn't fuckin' wit that
Mel told me I would make it, I ain't fuckin' wit that
But he told me that it wouldn't hurt to give it a try
Hardest thing out in New Orleans never see 25

Right then I woke up, broke out, told my nigga's had to roll out,
Moved to the A and got motivated, that inspiration don't run out
Heard my brother got gunned down and it hurt me to my heart,
So I kept grindin', I kept pushin', he told me to go far
So I can't stop at no crib, can't stop at no car,
Gotta keep going like there ain't no tomorrow
So I'm goin' hard everyday, 'til I got nothin' to say, nothin' can stand in my way,
I gotta stay, to show my nigga's a different way

Imma tell da truth and da whole truth,
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside,
So I gotta Testify
For you and I, I testify

Imma tell da truth and da whole truth,
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside,
So I gotta testify
For you and I, I testify

Imma tell da truth and da whole truth,
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside,
So I gotta testify
For you and I, I testify

Imma tell da truth and da whole truth,
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside,
So I gotta testify
For you and I, I testify

I testify, I testify

Writer/s: JEANTY, RALPH / MCMILLION, SEAN / ALSINA, AUGUST / IRVING, SAMUEL EUGENE III / REESE, ROBERT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Testify

August Alsina opens his debut album with its (nearly) title track: "As an artist, I struggle with how much of myself to give to the people. How much I want my personal business to be judged," he said about the project. "Nothing is held back on Testimony. When people hear my story, and see that I came from nothing, they'll see that it's possible for them too."