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Scorpions - Still Loving You

Scorpions - Still Loving You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Love At First Sting
Released: 1984

Still Loving You Lyrics

Time, it needs time
To win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, only love
Can bring back your love someday
I will be there, I will be there

I'll fight, babe, I'll fight
To win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, only love
Can break down the wall someday
I will be there, I will be there

If we'd go again
All the way from the start
I would try to change
The things that killed our love
Your pride has built a wall, so strong
That I can't get through
Is there really no chance
To start once again
I'm loving you

Try, baby try
To trust in my love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, our love
Just shouldn't be thrown away
I will be there, I will be there

If we'd go again
All the way from the start
I would try to change
The things that killed our love
Your pride has built a wall, so strong
That I can't get through
Is there really no chance
To start once again

If we'd go again
All the way from the start
I would try to change
The things that killed our love
Yes, I've hurt your pride, and I know
What you've been through
You should give me a chance
This can't be the end
I'm Still Loving You
I'm still loving you, I need your love
I'm still loving you

Writer/s: ROLIE, GREGG/PESSIS, ANDRE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Still Loving You

This is a very emotional song of love and pain and wishing for another chance. In our interview with Scorpions guitarist Rudolf Schenker , he explained: "I came up with the composition's melody and everything. It took about six years of trying to get the song somehow on the album. Matthias Jabs came in with the guitar part, and the feeling was immediately right, so Klaus (Meine) noticed it was right. Therefore, he wanted to write something very special. He told me about how one day he went out into the fields in the snow, and it was then that he came up with the lyrics. He came back home and threw them down, and here we are. It's a story about a love affair where they recognized it may be over, but let's try again. It's the old story; always the old story. I mean, what can we use? We can't reinvent the wheel. What we always do, is say something which has already been said many times, in our own way."

This was written in crescendo: a calm acoustic start followed by power chords as Klaus Meine sings in a voice full of pain.

This song hit the charts all over the world, but it was especially popular in France, where it went to #1. In fact, it was so popular that it may have increased the population of the country. Rudolf Schenker told us: "'Still Loving You,' the song of love, created a baby boom in France. But we didn't believe it, either, you know? We were on a TV show in France between recordings, and the host, a very famous guy that interviews us each year, goes, 'Hey, guys, you know that you are responsible for the baby boom in '85.' We were laughing like crazy! And yes, it's been measured by the government. It's unbelievable, I tell you."

Lionel Bart - Oh For A Cup Of Tea

Lionel Bart - Oh For A Cup Of Tea Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: not on an album
Released: 1954

Oh For A Cup Of Tea Lyrics

Oh For A Cup Of Tea

According to the London Daily Mail of January 11, 2012, this was the first Lionel Bart song ever published, and earned him the princely sum of 25 guineas. It was recorded for The Billy Cotton Band Show, a radio program broadcast on the BBC. Bart, who was born Lionel Begleiter, was a composer of songs and musicals. His most famous work is the 1959 production Oliver!. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

Bart wrote this song for an amateur theater company he worked with called the Unity Theatre. The song is a stab at American culture that had encroached into England, specifically the new coffee bars that were popping up around London.

Rush - Ceiling Unlimited

Rush - Ceiling Unlimited Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Vapor Trails
Released: 2002

Ceiling Unlimited Lyrics

It's not the heat
It's the inhumanity
Plugged into the sweat of a summer street
Machine gun images pass
Like malice through the looking glass

The slackjaw gaze
Of true profanity
Feels more like surrender than defeat
If culture is the curse of the thinking class
If culture is the curse of the thinking class

Ceiling Unlimited
World so wide
Turn and turn again

Feeling unlimited
Still unsatisfied
Changes never end

The vacant laugh
Of true insanity
Dressed up in the mask of Tragedy
Programmed for the guts and glands
Of idle minds and idle hands

I rest my case -
Or at least my vanity
Dressed up in the mask of Comedy
If laughter is a straw for a drowning man
If laughter is a straw for a drowning man

Ceiling unlimited
Windows open wide
Look and look again

Feeling unlimited
Eyes on the prize
Changes never end

Winding like an ancient river
The time is now again

Hope is like an endless river
The time is now again

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, ALEX LIFESON, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB
Publisher: OLE TOREADOR
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Ceiling Unlimited

The title is a condition of weather. It is the height ascribed to the lowest layer of clouds or obscuring phenomena when it is reported as broken, overcast, or obscuration and not classified as "thin" or "partial." The ceiling is termed unlimited when these conditions are not satisfied.

Neil Peart: (Cycle World magazine/Feb. 2003): "Not surprisingly, the TV in the bus was tuned to the Weather Channel. Looking at the forecast, I noted that it read 'Ceiling Unlimited.'" (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

Queen & Paul Rodgers - Cosmos Rockin'

Queen & Paul Rodgers - Cosmos Rockin' Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Cosmos Rocks
Released: 2008

Cosmos Rockin' Lyrics

Cosmos Rockin'

This is a powerful, old-fashioned rocker written by Queen drummer Roger Taylor. It follows the traditional chord progression format of 1950s and '60s Rock 'n' Roll songs.

Due to it's simple, high-energy sound, the song became a live favorite on the Cosmos Rocks tour, where it was used to start the encore. This can be seen in the Live in Ukraine DVD and other live recordings from around this time.

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tiffany
Released: 1987

I Think We're Alone Now Lyrics

Children behave, that's what they say when we're together
And watch how you play
They don't understand
And so we're

Running just as fast as we can, holding on to one another hands
Trying to get away into the night and then you put your arms around me
And we tumble to the ground and then you say

I Think We're Alone Now,
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now,
The beating of our hearts is the only sound

Look at the way we gotta hide what we're doin'
'Cause what would they say
If they ever knew
And so we're

Running just as fast as we can, holding on to one another hands
Trying to get away into the night and then you put your arms around me
And we tumble to the ground and then you say

I think we're alone now,
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now,
The beating of our hearts is the only sound

I think we're alone now,
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now,
The beating of our hearts is the only sound

Running just as fast as we can, holding on to one another hands
Trying to get away into the night and then you put your arms around me
And we tumble to the ground and then you say

I think we're alone now,
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now,
The beating of our hearts is the only sound

I think we're alone now,
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now,
The beating of our hearts is the only sound

I think we're alone now,
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now,
The beating of our hearts is the only sound

I think we're alone now,
There doesn't seem to be anyone around
I think we're alone now,
The beating of our hearts is the only sound

Writer/s: CORDELL, RITCHIE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I Think We're Alone Now

This was originally recorded by Tommy James & the Shondells in 1967. It was written by Ritchie Cordell, a producer at Roulette Records who wrote many of their hits. Their version hit #4 in the US.

Tiffany (last name: Darwisch) was just 15 years old when this song was released in the summer of 1987. She was 16 when the album went to #1 in January 1988, making her the youngest female singer to top the US albums chart, and also the first singer born in the '70s to hit the top spot.

Tiffany was just 13 years old when she started recording with producer George Tobin, who met her a year earlier and was impressed with her talent. Tobin, who owned his own studio in Los Angeles, had produced Kim Carnes ("More Love") and Smokey Robinson ("Being With You"). He couldn't find an appropriate manager for Tiffany, so he handled the business side of her affairs after signing her to a production deal.

Finding good, original songs is hard for an unknown singer, since the top songwriters want to place their cuts with established acts. So Tobin looked for cover songs for Tiffany, and came up with "I Think We're Alone Now," which she wasn't thrilled with but recorded anyway. Tobin then shopped her to record companies, and after being turned down by Clive Davis and about a dozen others, found a taker in Steve Moir at MCA Records. Unfortunately, Moir left MCA soon after, and the company gave Tiffany little support. It became clear that she wasn't going to succeed through traditional means, so Tobin went to the MCA "special projects" division and hatched an idea: the mall tour.

Starting in Paramus, New Jersey, the then 16-year-old Tiffany toured shopping malls, singing for free to whoever would listen. It was a novel approach, and it worked very well, especially when media outlets covered the story of this teenager who sang for shoppers. The mall crowd (young girls) was a great fit for Tiffany, who a way to reach this audience long before there was Twitter.

The song that replaced this at #1 in the US was Billy Idol's version of "Mony Mony," which was also a cover of a Tommy James & the Shondells song.

This was used in the movie Jawbreaker, starring Rose McGowan. (thanks, Katie - Goulburn, Australia)

Tiffany recalled to Billboard magazine in a 2011 interview: "When I heard that my hit song had went #1, I was washing dishes. I was doing my chores because I was a teenager, of course. My manager called me and said 'Congratulations, you have the number one single in the country.' I said, 'You know what? I have to get off the phone because I have to finish my chores otherwise I'm going to be busted and I won't be able to do anything.' And, he's like, 'You don't get it'... but I had to finish those chores."

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Jazz (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold)

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Jazz (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Gorilla
Released: 1967

Jazz (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold) Lyrics

Jazz (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold)

This Gorilla cut found the Bonzos savagely parodying their early "trad" jazz roots. Founder member Neil Innes recalled the story of the song to Uncut magazine: "It was decided to do this as a dada track, one take, and whatever happened that was it. Viv (Stanshall) picked up the trumpet, which he'd never played before. Rodney (Slater) took up the trombone, which he'd never played before. Roger (Ruskin Spear) moved over to clarinet. And we steamed into this 32 bar sequence, as you hear it on the record. It makes me laugh every time I hear it."

Dave Matthews Band - Crush

Dave Matthews Band - Crush Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Released: 1998

Crush Lyrics

Crazy how it feels tonight
Crazy how you make it all alright love
You Crush me with the things you do
I do for you anything too
Sitting, smoking, feeling high
In this moment it feels so right

Lovely lady
I am at your feet
God I want you so badly
I wonder this
Could tomorrow be
So wondrous as you there sleeping
Let's go drive 'til morning comes

Watch the sunrise
To fill our souls up
Drink some wine 'til we get drunk
It's crazy I'm thinking
Just knowing that the world is round

Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
Is this real or am I dreaming

Lovely lady
Let me drink you please
I won't spill a drop, I promise you
Lying under this spell you cast on me

Each moment
The more I love you
Crush me
Come on
It's crazy I'm thinking

Just knowing that the world is round
Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
Is it real or am I dreaming
Lovely lady I will treat you sweetly

Adore you
I mean
You crush me
It's times like these
When my faith I feel
And I know
How I love you
Come on
Lady

It's crazy I'm thinking
Just as long as you're around
And here I'll be dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
To each other we'll be facing
By love we'll beat back the pain

We've found
You know
I mean to tell you all the things I've been thinking deep inside
My friend
With each moment the more I love you
Crush me
Come on
Lady

So much you have given love
That I would give you back
Again and again
Meaning I'll hold you
And please
Let me always

Writer/s: SCHMOLL, STEVE / HAAS, MEGHAN / LYNCH, SUZANNE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Crush

A song about spending all the hours of the night with a woman, never wanting it to end, and the feelings that come when you fall in love. Feeling like dancing, feeling like telling her everything that's on your mind, feeling like you don't know if your right side up or upside down, feeling like driving till morning comes. It doesn't have to be a woman, it can be about love for anyone. (thanks, Channing - Minneapolis, MN)

This was edited down to about 4 minutes for airplay - it's over 8 minutes on the album. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

Ed Sheeran - Sing

Ed Sheeran - Sing Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: x
Released: 2014

Sing Lyrics

It’s late in the evening
Glass on the side now
I’ve been sat with you
For most of the night
Ignoring everybody here
We wish they would disappear
So maybe we could get down now
I don’t wanna know
If you’re getting ahead of the program
I want you to be mine, lady
To hold your body close
Take another step into the no-man’s land
For the longest time lady

I need you darling
Come on set the tone
If you feel you’re falling
Won’t you let me know, oh
Oh ooh
If you love me come on get involved
Feel it rushing through you from your head to toe, oh
Oh ooh

Sing, oh oh
Oh oh
Louder, oh oh
Sing, oh oh

This love is a blaze
I saw flames from the side of the stage
And the fire brigade comes in a couple of days
Until then we got nothing to say and nothing to know
But something to drink and maybe something to smoke
Let it go until I wrote a change singing we found love in a local raid, no
I don’t really know what I’m supposed to say
But I can just figure it out and hope and pray
I told them my name and said it’s nice to meet ya
Then she handed me of a bottle of water filled with tequila
I already know she’s a keeper
Just from this one small act of kindness, I’m in deep
If anybody finds out I’m meant to drive home
But I’m drunk and gonna live it now no?
We just sit on the couch one thing led to another now she’s kissing my mouth

I need you darling
Come on set the tone
If you feel you’re falling
Won’t you let me know, oh
Oh
If you love me come on get involved
Feel it rushing through you from your head to toe, oh
Oh

Sing, oh oh
Oh oh
Louder, oh oh
Sing, oh oh

Can you feel it?
All the guys in here don’t really wanna dance
Can you feel it?
All that I can hear is music from the back
Can you feel it?
Found you hiding here so hoped you'd take my hand, darling
Before the beats kicks in again
Can you feel it, oh
Can you feel it, oh no no no?

(Sing) I need you darling
Come on set the tone
If you feel you’re falling
Won’t you let me know (louder), oh
Oh
(Sing) If you love me come on get involved
Feel it rushing through you from your head to toe (louder), oh
Oh
Sing

Writer/s: SHEERAN, ED / WILLIAMS, PHARRELL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Sing

The first single from Ed Sheeran's x album, this was premiered on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1 on April 7, 2014. "The reason I chose this song to be the first single is, I think if I put out an acoustic ballad first, everyone would be like 'ehh, it's alright,'" Sheeran told Lowe. "But with this, you get people who are either going to love it or going to hate it, but at least they're going to be talking about it."

This features Pharrell Williams, who also co-produced the song with Sheeran. It was the first time the English singer-songwriter had worked with a pre-existing track. However, it almost didn't happen. Williams recalled to Billboard magazine that when he played Sheeran a demo, "He was like, 'Nah, I love it, but it's not for me.' And I said, 'Just give me a shot. Pick up your guitar and strum along with it for a little bit, and see what happens.'"

"So after figuring out the chords that I had laid down," he continued, "in between jokes and people coming in with coffee, he kept playing it, and he looked up at me, like, 'S--t, is this really happening?' as I'm looking at him with an 'I told you so' smile."

The song owes a lot to Justin Timberlake. "It was pretty close to a direct inspiration," Sheeran told Billboard. "I love Justified and FutureSex/LoveSounds, so I took inspiration from those."

The unconventional x album title is actually pronounced 'multiply.'

The song charts the beginning of a tequila-laced liason with a girl that Sheeran met in Las Vegas in the summer of 2013. The experience eventually proved to be traumatic. He explained to Q magazine. "A totally f--ked up situation, which definitely left me tainted."

Commenting on his rapping and falsetto singing on the track, Sheeran told Ryan Seacrest: "I feel like I was veering off in one direction with that song. [It was] a very R&B led song and I wanted to pull it back and make it English so that's why I put the rap in it."

The song's music video was shot on location in LA and directed by Emil Nava, who worked on several clips from Sheeran's + album, including "You Need Me," "Lego House" and "Give Me Love."

The clip finds a Muppet look-a-like of Ed engaging in a debauched night out. The puppet stumbles into the human Ed and Pharrell Williams at the shoot for "Sing," and kidnaps the duo. Sheeran explained to MTV News: "The concept is The Muppets going out on a night out with a bunch of Korean business men who sing karaoke and then kidnapping me and Pharrell and taking us to that karaoke bar. Oh, and there's also a bunch of strippers in it. It's really weird, really weird, I don't know what I was on."

Speaking during an interview with Mix 104.1/Boston Sheeran revealed the puppet originally got into even more R-rated situations. "Unless you're into heavy, heavy drugs and strippers, you don't want to hang out with him," he said of his muppet double. "We cut that out of the video."

"The director went off on one [cut] and the original video is just [the puppet] in a strip club doing coke off strippers," Sheeran continued. And we're looking at the director being like, 'You know this is meant for TV, right?' You don't really want to hang out with him."

Sheeran told Live From MTV that a night of debauchery with PSY was the inspiration for the clip. "Basically the "Sing" video is based on a night out I had with him, and loads of his Korean mates," he said. "I went out on this night out with Psy and everyone was wearing a Psy mask in a Korean restaurant and they were all Korean and all wearing a Psy mask and I didn't know which one was Psy, I had no clue."

"I eventually found out who Psy was and he's just a monster when it comes to…," Sheeran added. "There's this Korean drink called Soju and so anyway I had this night out and that's what inspired the 'Sing' video with all the dancing and karaoke and stuff."

This was Sheeran's first ever UK #1 single as a performer. (He penned One Direction's 2012 chart-topper "Little Things").

"Don't" was set to be the the lead single from Sheeran's x album until Pharrell Williams requested that "Sing" should the first song released from the project, Sheeran quipped during the MTV documentary series Nine Days and Nights, "I swear Pharrell's got a foresight! … That hat or something!"

Sheeran recalled the story of the song during a Spotify track-by-track: "'Sing' was from my first session with him, and when you work with Pharrell, he tends to push you: he wants you to do the best thing possible. So you don't necessarily go for the first thing he plays you."

"It must have been on the seventeenth thing that he played me, and I had just dismissed everything," he continued. "I just didn't really get it. I don't really get jazz chords and Pharrell's very jazzy! He played me the beat, and I instantly dismissed it, it's not for me. OK, fair enough, move on, but I had a guitar in my hand, and I started playing that riff and he just looked at me and said, 'Do you know what you're doing, man?' I was like, 'No!', and then he puts back on the song and I said, 'Oh, OK, but I still don't want to do it', but just said, 'Man, just try it, it's not going to kill you to try it!'' So he went off ' he has three different studios in his building and has three different sessions going on at any one time - and I wrote the top line. He came back in, we pieced it all together."

"I wrote probably seven different verses and three different choruses and then we just picked the best ones and stuck them together," Sheeran concluded.

The second week of the release of x coincided with the incorporation of audio streams into the singles chart. Enough fans chose to stream the individual tracks that the 12 songs from the standard edition of the record occupied positions 4, 17, 25, 38, 45, 46, 49, 57, 59, 60, 62 and 82 on the tally. This meant that Sheeran become the first ever artist to see every one of the tracks from an album reach the Top 100 single chart concurrently. A couple of bonus tracks from the deluxe edition of x also reached the Top 100 the same week, meaning Sheeran had 14 songs in total on the chart.

X was the fifth single-character title to top Billboard's album chart. The previous four were:

1981 4 by Foreigner
2000 1 by The Beatles
2005 O by Omarion
2011 4 by Beyoncé

X was the top selling album of 2014 in the UK with 1,689,124 copies, the largest total for a LP since Adele's 21 in 2011.

Rancid - Fall Back Down

Rancid - Fall Back Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Indestructible
Released: 2003

Fall Back Down Lyrics

Fall Back Down

Like many of the songs on Rancid's album Indestructible, "Fall Back Down" was partially inspired by lead singer Tim Armstrong's breakup with ex-wife Brody Dalle of The Distillers. The song touches on themes of resilience and brotherhood, which help us through the hard times.

The success of this track helped make Indestructible Rancid's most commercially successful record since 1995's …And Out Come The Wolves. The commercial success, combined with appearances by Pop stars Kelly Osbourne and Benji Madden from Good Charlotte in the video, led some Rancid fans to believe the band had finally "sold out."

In 2004, "Fall Back Down" appeared in two video games: Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and NASCAR Thunder 2004.

The Canadian Pop sensation Lights covered this song for her 2010 Acoustic EP.

Future - I Won

Future - I Won Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Honest
Released: 2014

I Won Lyrics

Trophy

I just wanna take you out and show you off
You already know that you the perfect one
Girl when I'm with you, feel like a champion
Ever since I got with you I feel like I done won me a trophy
A trophy
I Won me a trophy (I won, I won, I won)
A trophy

I just wanna take you out and show you off
You already know that you the perfect one
Girl when I'm with you, feel like a champion
Ever since I got with you I feel like I done won me a trophy
A trophy
I won me a trophy
A trophy

I won me a trophy
Trophy
I won me a trophy
A trophy (ay)

Get to fuckin' on the dresser just to make that pussy wetter
Gotta put you in that vintage then you rockin' Perry Ellis
Then I leave with you
Only cause I believe in you
We get to bangin' on the walls just to piss the neighbors off
You and them twelve foot ceilings
I just painted through halls so I can be with you
I wanna live my dream with you
You say that money don't matter it's times and the memories
Now that ass gettin' fatter and I know it's because of me
I know it's because of me
I know it's because of me
Got you in custody
Whoever knockin at the door, they gotta wait til we finished
I know I started at the bottom but that not ain't where endin'

I just wanna take you out and show you off
You already know that you the perfect one
Girl when I'm with you, feel like a champion
Ever since I got with you I feel like I done won me a trophy
Trophy
I won me a trophy (I won, I won, I won)
A trophy

I won me a trophy
Trophy
I won me a trophy
A trophy (you the, you the, you the)

You the number one trophy wife
So it's only right to live the trophy life
You grew up on J. Lo, Timberlands by Manolo now
Till one day I put an angel in your ultrasound
I wanna dip that ass in gold
I wanna dip that ass in gold
I made it over NBA, NFL players
So every time I score it's like the Super Bowl
Baby, we should hit the south of France
So you could run around without them pants
I put that glacier on your little hand
Now that's the only thing without a tan
My trophy on that Bound bike, I gave you only pipe
If people don't hate then it won't be right
You could look at Kylie, Kendall, Kourtney and Khloe
All your Mama ever made was trophies, right?

I just wanna take you out and show you off
You already know that you the perfect one
Girl when I'm with you, feel like a champion
Ever since I got with you I feel like I done won me a trophy
Trophy
I won me a trophy
A trophy

I won me a trophy
Trophy
I won me a trophy (I won, I won, I won)
A trophy

Writer/s: WEST, KANYE / WILBURN, NAYVADIUS / WAYNE, LELAND
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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I Won

Originally titled "Trophy Wife," this track finds Future and Kanye West comparing their relationships with their respective lady loves (Ciara and Kim Kardishan) to the feeling of winning a trophy. "I know I haven't always done things the right way," Future told Billboard magazine. "I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist. I wanted to touch on subject matter that doesn't always get touched on."

Future told The Associated Press that he wanted Kanye West to guest on his Honest album, so he sent him over a few tracks. "He picked this 'I Won' track," the Atlanta producer-rapper said. "He did the verse in one day and sent it back. That's rare when you get a Kanye verse back in one day, so you know it's one of them records when he does the verse and sends it back in 24 hours. That's the icing on the cake with the album."

The beat was supplied by Metro Boomin, who also produced 2013's "Karate Chop" as well as Honest's title track. "We had a session with me, Future and [production duo] Rock City," Metro Boomin told MTV News of the song's origin. "I loaded [the beat] up, and it was a certain part that we liked more, so we really just took the beat in a new direction. I started making the beat over a little bit while they were recording the song."

"At the end of the night, we had a rough; we had a hook, the first verse, and some ad-libs," Metro continued. "Future told me to take it home and build a whole track out. So I went and built the track with the vocals, finished the beat, and placed everything and sent it back to him."

"I got a call one day that they had sent it to Kanye," he added. A day later Yeezy was on the record.

The song's black-and-white video was directed by frequent West collaborator Hype Williams, (he filmed the rapper's "Gold Digger" "Homecoming" and "All of the Lights" clips). The visual flits between shots of the rappers performing on a deserted beach and close-ups of bikini-clad women posing on the sand. "We made [them] look like the old Hype Williams' video girls," Future told MTV News. "You know when video girls were stars back then. Video vixens, you really got them from the Hype Williams videos."

Future released a controversial browser-based video game to go with the song. The game features the rappers throwing gold and jewelry at the bikini-clad women walking across the beach in their view, with the objective being to collect as many "trophy wives" as possible. Upon its release, the game drew a great deal of criticism for its sexism.

Future previously released the game Move That Dope in conjunction with his song of the same name with Pharrell.

Joe Walsh - A Life Of Illusion

Joe Walsh - A Life Of Illusion Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: There Goes The Neighborhood
Released: 1981

A Life Of Illusion Lyrics

A Life Of Illusion

In the Joe Walsh anthology book Look What I Did!, he writes: "I wrote this with Kenny Passarrelli but we didn't record it until a year later. This was from an old Barnstorm track. I couldn't find the master tapes of the song, so (producer) Bill Szymczyk took a 2 track mix of the original basic track, we cleaned it up and overdubbed over that. Kenny played the mariachi trumpets on it... in a drunken stupor." (thanks, John - Altus, OK)

This was featured in the opening credits of the 2005 movie The 40 Year Old Virgin. It was very appropriate. (thanks, Sal - Boston, MA)

Genesis - The Fountain Of Salmacis

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Album: Nursery Cryme
Released: 1971

The Fountain Of Salmacis Lyrics

From a dense forest of tall dark pinewood, Mount Ida rises like an island.
Within a hidden cave, nymphs had kept a child;
Hermaphroditus, son of gods, so afraid of their love.

As the dawn creeps up the sky
The hunter caught sight of a doe.
In desire for conquest,
He found himself within a glade he'd not beheld before.

Hermaphroditus:
"Where are you, my father?
Give wisdom to your son"
Narrator:
Now lost, the boy was guided by the sun"
"Then he could go no farther

And as his strength began to fail
He saw a shimmering lake.
A shadow in the dark green depths
Disturbed the strange tranquility.

Salmacis:
"The waters are disturbed
Some creature has been stirred"
Narrator:
"The waters are disturbed
Naiad queen Salmacis has been stirred"

As he rushed to quench his thirst,
A fountain spring appeared before him
And as his heated breath brushed through the cool mist,
A liquid voice called, "Son of gods, drink from my spring".

The water tasted strangely sweet.
Behind him the voice called again.
He turned and saw her, in a cloak of mist alone
And as he gazed, her eyes were filled with the darkness of the lake.

Salmacis:
"We shall be one
We shall be joined as one"
Narrator:
"She wanted them as one
Yet he had no desire to be one"

Hermaphroditus:
"Away from me cold-blooded woman
Your thirst is not mine"

Salmacis:
"Nothing will cause us to part
Hear me, O Gods"

Unearthly calm descended from the sky
And then their flesh and bones were strangely merged
Forever to be joined as one.

The creature crawled into the lake.
A fading voice was heard:
"And I beg, yes I beg that all who touch this spring
May share my fate"

Salmacis:
"We are the one
We are the one"
Narrator:
"The two are now made one
Demi-god and nymph are now made one"

Both had given everything they had.
A lover's dream had been fulfilled at last,
Forever still beneath the lake.

Writer/s: GABRIEL, PETER / BANKS, ANTHONY / HACKETT, STEVEN / RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, CARLIN AMERICA INC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Fountain Of Salmacis

Steve Hackett explained how this song came about: "We were rehearsing one night about six months after I joined. Tony (Banks) started playing something on his own, which he said was part of a previous number that they'd done. He incorporated the mellotron into the song and I started putting a harp-like effect on to it, which was a very subtle way of playing guitar, but it gave it spark. The whole thing developed into The Fountain Of Salmacis."'

"The guitar solo at the end was, I think, a breakthrough at the time," he continued. "Previously we'd had both chords that sounded very orchestral, which I loved; but suddenly there was a solo over the top of that."

The Mellotron Mark II played by Banks on this song had been purchased by the band from King Crimson.

Salmacis fountain is located near the ancient Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, and it is now a tourist attraction located in present-day Bodrum, Turkey. Although excellent to drink, in classical times, it was thought to have the effect of making men effeminate and soft.

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, a naiad nymph called Salmacis fell in love with Hermaphroditus, the son of Hermes and Aphrodite. When he bathed in her fountain, she embraced him and prayed to the gods to be united with him forever. The gods heard her prayer and merged their bodies together, transforming Hermaphroditus into an androgynous being. Hermaphroditus then cursed the Salmacis fountain, so that any man who drank or bathed in its water would also become androgynous.