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The White Stripes - Catch Hell Blues

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Album: Icky Thump
Released: 2007

Catch Hell Blues Lyrics

Catch Hell Blues

Jack White (from Uncut magazine June 2007): "I harken back to the days when bands didn't have any overdubs. There are songs on here which are one take, which are just me and Meg playing live, like 'Catch Hell Blues.' We're proud of that, because we know the conditions it was made under. If people say I love your song, and I think I spent $600,000 dollars and recorded it on computer and it took six months. I mean, what's the big deal? Anybody can do that! But if they love the song, and you look back and think all you had was a book of matches and a screwdriver, then you can be proud." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

Frank Sinatra - All Or Nothing At All

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Album: All Or Nothing At All
Released: 1939

All Or Nothing At All Lyrics

All Or Nothing At All
Half a love, never appealed to me
If your heart, never could yield to me
Then I'd rather have nothing at all

All or nothing at all
If it's love, there is no in between
Why begin then cry, for something that might have been
No I'd rather have nothing at all

Oh please don't bring your lips so close to my cheek
Don't smile or I'll be lost beyond recall
The kiss in your eyes and the touch of your hand makes me weak
And my heart may go dizzy and fall

And if I fell under the spell of your call
I would be, caught in the undertow
And so you see, I've got to say no, no
All or nothing at all

All or nothing at all

Writer/s: ARTHUR ALTMAN, JACK LAWRENCE
Publisher: CARLIN AMERICA INC
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All Or Nothing At All

A songwriter named Arthur Altman wrote the music for this in 1939. The song needed lyrics, so music publishing mogul Lou Levy asked his friend Jack Lawrence to help out. Lawrence had written many popular songs, including "Foolin' Myself" for Billie Holiday, "What Will I Tell My Heart?" for Bing Crosby, and "If I Didn't Care" for The Ink Spots. He agreed and added lyrics to the song. Altman made a few changes to the melody to accommodate the lyrics.

After this was written, Lou Levy found three prominent orchestras to record it. One of the orchestras was led by Freddy Martin, another by Jimmy Dorsey (with vocals by Bob Eberly), and the third by Harry James. James had recently discovered a 24-year-old vocalist from Hoboken, New Jersey, named Frank Sinatra, who sang this in his version. Despite strong renditions from big-name orchestras, all three singles disappeared without a hint of public interest. Even though this was a flop, Sinatra's career took off. He joined Tommy Dorsey, the most successful bandleader of the early '40s, and became the featured vocalist on 39 Top-20 singles. He was a heartthrob sensation, headliner and show business icon. He was the most talked-about performer in the music industry and signed a deal with Columbia Records, one of the biggest labels in the business.

In 1943, in order to obtain both more pay and benefits for its members, the American Federation Of Musicians instituted a "Record Ban" that prohibited professional musicians from all recording activities. At first, the record companies weren't worried. They thought the public wouldn't know, or (especially in current wartime conditions) care whether skilled musicians were performing on the records they purchased. The market was soon flooded with unaccompanied singing groups, amateur accordion players, kazoo bands, bagpipe recitals and harmonica combos. As is the case whenever the public is underestimated, the market was soon drowning in unsold recordings. At Columbia Records, panic prevailed. They had the hottest new singer in show business on their roster and could not record him. Lou Levy came up with the solution for both this particular problem and for the music business in general - since the musician's union was restricting only current recording, they could reissue previous failed recordings by current stars. They found Sinatra's 1939 recording of this song and changed the label credit from "The Harry James Orchestra with vocal by Frank Sinatra" to "Frank Sinatra" with "accompanied by Harry James Orchestra" in small print. This time, the song was a huge hit. It stayed near the top of the charts for half a year and was followed by another 116 Top 40 songs by Sinatra over the next four decades.

In a 1944 interview, Sinatra said: "That was the song, a few days after Harry James and myself recorded it, that gave us our walking papers out of the old Victor Hugo Cafe (a major entertainment venue of the 1930s) on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. The manager came up and waved his hands for us to stop. He said Harry's trumpet playing was too loud for the joint and my singing was just plain lousy and fired Harry, me and the entire band on the spot. He said the two of us couldn't draw flies as an attraction, and I guess he was right - the room was as empty as a barn. It's a funny thing about that song. The recording we made of it five years ago is now one of the top spots among the best sellers. But it's the same old recording. It's also the song I auditioned with for Tommy Dorsey, who signed me on the strength of it. And now it's my first big record."

In 1954, and obscure singer named Joe Foley hit #28 with his version.

In 2000, Jack Lawrence accepted an invitation by the Sheet Music Magazine bimonthly to write an article on song verses. He realized that this and some of his other enduring songs didn't have verses, so he wrote new lyrics to correct the oversight.

This remains one of the most recorded American song standards. It has been recorded by vocalists Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Perry Como, as well as Jazz musicians like John Coltrane, George Shearing, Count Basie and Chet Baker. Other artists to record it include Barry Manilow, Diana Krall, Little Jimmy Scott, Al Jarreau and Little Anthony And The Imperials. (Thanks to Carlin America publishing. For more, check out www.carlinamerica.com )

Charles Pignone, Vice President of Frank Sinatra Enterprises, told us that Sinatra often called this song his first hit and would return to it again and again, reworking it as a ballad and as an uptempo number with a Nelson Riddle arrangement for Strangers in the Night. "That was a song that he continued to sing up until he retired in 1995," Pignone recalled. "And that song came in and out of his concert repertoire through the years, and he always spoke of it very fondly."

YG - Thank God (Interlude)

YG - Thank God (Interlude) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: My Krazy Life
Released: 2014

Thank God (Interlude) Lyrics

All my life, wanted to love you, wanna make you proud
To never leave you or how they fly
Gave up my loyalty and paid the price
Got me asking why these people wrong you, but you done them right
They giving up and all you do is fight
You sacrificing, you would even die
And I thank God for never leaving me alone even when I'm on my own
Won't break up, stand up strong
And I thank God for showing the road to go
When I'm weak and feeling low, built up, but never show

Sorry, Ms.Jackson, I hate to call in this fashion
I understand it's late and you work harder than average
Plus I'm knowing that you and your son have been clashing
But Kenny called and told me to tell you what happened
He hit a lick with his homies, his homies switched it on him
They spent the money, he got greedy and put the pistol on him
Shots fired from both sides, but nobody died
I thank God he survived and got out alive
But this gon' hurt you to hear
Kenny went to jail, might be facing some years
Police say it's evidence he broke into someone's residence
The neighbors say they witnessed it and plus they found fingerprints
They say the bail like 50 thou
But it's gon' be like 5 thousand to get him out
Man, I told him not to fuck with them niggas
I'm sorry, I don't mean to curse, but I just never trust 'em at all
And he up in the pound, my dawg
And his girl ain't accepting his call
Can't let him fight the charge in his cell, he didn't bail on me
I got 2, we just need the other 3, fight the case on his feet

Writer/s: JACKSON, KEENON DAQUAN RAY / MCFARLANE, DIJON ISAIAH
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Thank God (Interlude)

My Krazy Life tells the story of the hardships YG faced growing up in Compton, his gang affiliations and the time he spent locked up in jail. This song finds his mother being informed on the phone of her son's arrest. This track features Big TC and the rapper's Pu$haz Ink labelmate RJ, however YG himself never appears. "I couldn't call her, she didn't want to hear nothing I had to say," YG explained during a RapFix Live interview of his omission from the track. "So I had the homey do a verse talking to my mama, let her know what's going on. That's RJ, that's why I wasn't on the song."

Big TC is the younger brother of rapper/singer Ty Dolla $ign. He recorded his take while locked in prison on a murder charge. "The person you hear on the song first is Big TC, he's in the penitentiary facing life. So him and his homeys be recording songs on their phones and uploading it to YouTube," YG explained.

"We was on YouTube one day and DJ Mustard was playing it for me and I was like, 'That's hard, make a beat to that.' So we got it off of YouTube, turned it to an MP3 file, he pulled it up and made a beat to it."

The Hooters - And We Danced

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Album: Nervous Night
Released: 1985

And We Danced Lyrics

She was a be-bop baby on a hard day's night.
She was hangin' on Johnny , he was holdin' on tight
I could feel her coming from a mile away.
There was no use talking, there was nothing to say
When the band began to play and play.

[Chorus]
And We Danced like a wave on the ocean, romanced
We were liars in love and we danced
Swept away for a moment by chance
And we danced and danced danced.

I met my be-bop baby at the Union Hall
She cold dance all night and shake the paint off the walls.
But when I saw her smile across a crowded room
Well I knew we'd have to leave the party soon
As the band began to play out of tune.

And we danced like a wave on the ocean, romanced
We were liars in love and we danced
Swept away for a moment by chance
And we danced and danced danced.

The endless beat she's walking my way
Hear the music fade when she says
Are we getting too close, do we dare to get closer
The room is spinning as she whispers my name

And we danced like wave on the ocean, romanced
We were liars in love and we danced
Swept away for a moment by chance
And we danced, danced, danced.

Writer/s: HYMAN, ROB / BAZILIAN, ERIC M
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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And We Danced

Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman are the founding members of The Hooters. They played most of the instruments on Cyndi Lauper's 1983 debut album She's So Unusual, and Hyman co-wrote "Time After Time." The same year, The Hooters released their first album on an independent label and grew their following in the Philadelphia area. When Lauper's album became a huge hit, it got the attention of Columbia Records, who signed the band.

Rob Hyman told us: "Eric and I would take road trips to do writing. We would get away and especially since the band was playing so much, we would just kind of hole ourselves up. In this instance, we went into the Poconos outside the Philadelphia region and we rented a couple little cabins, brought some recording gear, set up a 4-track studio and threw around a lot of ideas. As is often the case for me, I think we did 10 or 12 tracks, and the last thing we did, probably on our last day, was write the chorus to 'And We Danced.' It had a slightly different feel, but materially it was there. That was the strongest bit we brought back from that writing trip. We had that flash - this is something really great, we'll finish it another day. Had we just stayed with it that moment more, maybe we would have done it, but it ended up taking a lot more time. We threw around a lot of verses and rhythmic ideas. It was a different feel, and then it got into more of a rock and roll feel."

The Hooters played this at Live Aid in 1985. They were the first band to perform on the Philadelphia stage, going on after an introduction ceremony that included Joan Baez singing "Amazing Grace." Eric Bazilian told us how they got there: "That was a stroke of genius on the part of our manager, Steve Mountain. He managed to finagle that with Bill Graham and Larry Magid to get us on that stage. Our first record was just coming out, and it was the perfect time. That was our moment in destiny."

The distinctive sound that leads off the song and plays throughout is a Melodica, a combination keyboard/harmonica instrument they played. The band called it a "Hooter," which is where they got their name.

Regarding the images he came up with in the lyrics, Hyman told us: "The Bop Baby on a hard day's night, the union hall - we just felt it was kind of a basic, workingman's rock and roll record. In a sense, a bit of territory that maybe Springsteen or somebody would cover, a little of that nostalgia, a little of the no-frills kind of straight ahead lyrics. I think the ornamentation and the embellishments that the band did with the melodica and the mandolins and the sounds that we were dabbling in put a different flavor to it. But at its heart, it's a simple rock and roll song that evokes some of those same feelings that Chuck Berry or The Beatles had. I think those images were just straight-ahead pictures for us."

In addition to their work with The Hooters, Hyman and Bazilian have written and produced songs for many artists, including Joan Osborne, Ricky Martin, Dar Williams and Jon Bon Jovi. Bazilian wrote Osborne's hit "One Of Us." (Thanks to Rob and Eric for speaking with us. To learn more, check out their websites at www.robhyman.com and www.ericbazilian.com.)

Christina Perri - Burning Gold

Christina Perri - Burning Gold Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Head or Heart
Released: 2014

Burning Gold Lyrics

Looking for an exit in this world of fear
I can see the path that leads away
Mama never left, and daddy needs me here
I wish the wind would carry a change
Looking through the window to a world of dreams
I can see my future slip away
Honey you won't get there if you don't believe
I wish the wind would carry a change

I've had enough
I'm standing up
I need, I need a change
I've had enough
Of chasing luck
I need, I need a change

I'm setting fire to the life that I know (I know)
Let's start a fire everywhere that we go (we go)
We starting fires,
We starting fires till our lives are Burning Gold
Till our lives are burning gold

Looking for my ticket to a higher place
I can see my chance begin to fade
One step forward and two back again
I wish the wind would carry a change

I've had enough
I'm standing up
I need, I need a change
I've had enough
Of chasing luck
I need, I need a change

I'm setting fire to the life that I know (I know)
Let's start a fire everywhere that we go (we go)
We starting fires,
We starting fires till our lives are burning gold
Till our lives are burning gold

Looking back I see I had the flame in me
I'm the wind that's carrying a change

I've had enough
Of chasing luck
I need, I need a change

I'm setting fire to the life that I know (I know)
Let's start a fire everywhere that we go (we go)
We starting fires,
We starting fires till our lives are burning gold

I'm setting fire to the life that I know (I know)
Let's start a fire everywhere that we go (we go)
We starting fires,
We starting fires till our lives are burning gold
Till our lives are burning gold

Writer/s: HULL, THOMAS EDWARD PERCY / PERRI, CHRISTINA
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Burning Gold

Perri declares, "I'm setting fire to the life that I know," on this defiant track. She wrote the song in England with the singer-songwriter Kid Harpoon, whose other credits include Florence + the Machine's "Shake It Out," Calvin Harris' "Sweet Nothing" and Foxes' "Let Go For Tonight."

The songwriting session with Kid Harpoon almost didn't happen as Perri was burnt out toward the end of her UK trip and didn't want to be dealing with another potential single. "I hit this gnarly point where I stopped having good experiences," she told Billboard magazine. "As a writer, I know you have to write sh---y songs to write good songs too."

"But the night before my last day, it was 4 AM and I was in a place where I just didn't like music anymore, and I didn't want to go," Perri continued. "My manager said, 'Can you, for me, go up in your pajamas and at least show up?' So I go and I sit down and I said, 'If I hear the word 'single' one more time, I'm going to throw up.'"

After taking the tired songstress for pizza, Harpoon convinced her to return to his studio, and the song was birthed in just twenty minutes. Perri said: "We stayed up all night that night finishing it, and I remember thinking 'this is it!' It was a whole new sound for me, which I'm really excited to grow into."

A major theme running throughout the Head or Heart album is change. This song is about Perri's decision to move from her home in Philadelphia to Los Angeles to follow in the footsteps of her older musician brother Nick Perri, the former lead guitarist of Shinedown. "I don't know where you get that type of courage. It's something that has to happen inside of you. I was 20-years-old and it was the week before my 21st birthday and my brother said, 'Move to California,' and I said, 'OK,'" she recalled to Radio.com . "A lot of times our dreams aren't where we grew up. We have to go find them… I would not stop until my life was burning gold, which I think it is now."

Incubus - Pardon Me

Incubus - Pardon Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Make Yourself
Released: 2002

Pardon Me Lyrics

A decade ago
I never thought I would be
At twenty-three
On the verge of spontaneous combustion
Wo-is-me

But I guess that it comes with the territory
An ominous landscape of never ending calamity
I need you to hear
I need you to see that I have had all that I can take
And exploding seems like a definite possibility to me

So Pardon Me while I burst into flames
Pardon me while I burst into flames
I've had enough of the world and it's people's mindless games
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame
Pardon me, pardon me, I'll never be the same

Not two days ago
I was having a look in a book
And I saw a picture of a guy fried up above his knee
I said, 'I can relate?'
Cause lately I've been thinking of combustication
As a welcomed vacation
From the burdens of the planet earth

Like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3-D
And thinking so much differently

So pardon me while I burst into flames
I've had enough of the world and it's people's mindless games
So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flame
Pardon me, pardon me, I'll never be the same

Like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3-D
And thinking so much differently

Writer/s: PASILLAS II, JOSE / KATUNICH, ALEX / EINZIGER, MICHAEL / KILMORE, CHRISTOPHER / BOYD, BRANDON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Pardon Me

Lead singer Brandon Boyd: "I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact - then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so I wrote a song about it." (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA)

The singles from Make Yourself were released in the order of "Pardon Me," then "Stellar," then "Drive," but ironically on the charts, "Pardon Me" peaked at #3, "Stellar" peaked at #2, and "Drive" peaked at #1.

During an episode of Mad TV, Incubus played this as the show was wrapping up. Each member wore Mullets; Jose put pillows in his shirt to make him look fat, Brandon pulled off part of his pants, and Kilmore had a really long Goatee. (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA, for all above)

The Hold Steady - On With The Business

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Album: Teeth Dreams
Released: 2014

On With The Business Lyrics

On With The Business

This blast of electric guitar and vocal delay finds Craig Finn evaluating people that are big on "beautiful kitchens" and "plastic and magic." He told The Sun newspaper that this song defined the direction of Teeth Dreams. "It took me a long time to get the words to 'On With the Business,' but once I got them. I thought we might have a thesis statement for the record," he said.

"It's a song about the evil that people do to reach other in order to acquire more consumer goods," Finn continued. "There's one line. I got from an interview with the writer David Foster Wallace. He speaks of 'that American sadness,' which is the realization that no amount of stuff from the outside – alcohol, consumer stuff – can fill the void we all feel on the inside."

A key influence on Teeth Dreams was David Foster Wallace's dystopian American satire Infinite Jest. Finn read the novel twice during the recording of the album. "It's a brilliant book, and a very anxious one, but you read it and believe that Wallace had it all figured out," he told The Independent. "But then he went and killed himself, and I find that very hard to reconcile."

Incubus - Wish You Were Here

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Album: Morning View
Released: 2001

Wish You Were Here Lyrics

I dig my toes into the sand
The Ocean looks like a thousand diamonds
Strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind
Pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy happy)

I Wish You Were Here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here

I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy happy)

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Wish you were here

The worlds a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air saying)

I wish you were here
I wish you were.

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Wish you were here.

Writer/s: PASILLAS II, JOSE / KATUNICH, ALEX / EINZIGER, MICHAEL / KILMORE, CHRISTOPHER / BOYD, BRANDON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Wish You Were Here

Lead singer Brandon Boyd: "A simple and straightforward ditty about the beauty of a moment in paradise. And the desire to share that moment with someone of like mind."

Before Morning View was recorded, Incubus took weeks to set up their equipment, pictures, and stuff. Chris Kilmore had plastic turntables that he put all over the house and Mike Einziger played a record called Tahitian Island Music pretty much non-stop. (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA, for above 2)

Jerrod Niemann - I Can't Give in Anymore

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Album: High Noon
Released: 2014

I Can't Give in Anymore Lyrics

I Can't Give in Anymore

This Richie Brown and Brad Passons written dark ballad finds Niemann singing from the perspective of a guy who is fed up with fighting solo for a relationship. The singer told Taste of Country that he he cut the song for people who are in a dying relationship and need something to tell them they're not alone. "I've been there before. Like, we're the same people, doing the same things," Niemann said. "What has changed here? You either fix it or move on. It seems like everybody goes through that."

Incubus - New Skin

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Album: S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Released: 1997

New Skin Lyrics

At first I see an open wound
infected and disastrous
It breathes chaotic catastrophe
it cries to be renewed
Its tears are the color of anger,
they dry to form a scab
To the touch, its stiff and resilient,
underneath, the New Skin breathes
As outwardly cliche as it may seem,
yes, something under the surface says,
"C'est la vie"
It is a circle, there is a plan
dead skin will atrophy itself to start again
Look closely at the open wound
see past what covers the surface
Underneath chaotic catastrophe,
creation takes stage.
Its all been saved
with exception for the right parts
When will we be new skin?
Its all been seen with exception for what could be
When will we be new skin?
Fallacious cognitions
spewed from televisions
do mold our decisions.
So stop and take a look,
and you'll see what I see now
Writer/s: BOYD, BRANDON CHARLES/EINZIGER, MICHAEL AARON / KATUNICH, ALEX/KOPPEL, GAVIN/PASILLAS, JOSE ANTHONY II
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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New Skin

Lead singer Brandon Boyd: "I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos." (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA)

Jimi Goodwin - Hope

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Album: Odludek
Released: 2014

Hope Lyrics

Hope

Jimi Goodwin co-wrote the lyrics for this campfire folk tune with his friend, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey. Goodwin explained to Under The Radar magazine: "He was demoing some ideas in Real World Studios in Bath, England, and because I was in that part of the world recording as well we finally made good on our long-standing promise to collaborate. I had the backing track, the chorus refrain, and the first verse of 'Hope,' and together we just brainstormed."

"I nipped to the shop to buy some writing supplies - coffee and cigarettes, essential - and when I got back, Guy had written the second verse," Goodwin continued. "Sweet! A slice of dreamlike folk. A gaggle of good friends are on backing vocals."

Dave Matthews Band - #41

Dave Matthews Band - #41 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Crash
Released: 1996

#41 Lyrics

#41

Dave wrote this when he was starting to become famous. Along with his fame came other people's greed. Many people were grabbing for as much money as they could get, and forgot about the real meaning of the music. The song shows how Dave was saddened by it. Key lines include, "All at once the ghosts come back" and "Remember when I used to play for all of the loneliness that nobody notices now". (thanks, Tommy - Southboro, MA)

This song got its title because it was the 41st song they wrote. (thanks, David - Charlottesville, VA)