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Metallica - To Live Is To Die

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Album: ...And Justice For All
Released: 1988

To Live Is To Die Lyrics

To Live Is To Die

This song is a tribute to Metallica's bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a tour bus crash. It is instrumental except the spoken word piece near the end - this was a poem that Cliff wrote before he died (thanks, Toke - Stoke, England)

The line, "These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives" comes from the book Lord Foul's Bane, Book One of the series "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever" by Stephen R. Donaldson. In the book, the main character decides to write a poem to amuse himself. The full poem is as follows:
These are the pale deaths
which men miscall their lives:
for all the scents of green things growing,
each breath is but an exhalation of the grave.
Bodies jerk like puppet corpses,
and hell walks laughing.
(thanks, Evan - Columbus, GA)

Metallica singer James Hetfield explained to Mojo magazine December 2008 that this song is an "homage to Cliff without going over the top." He added: "It's about realizing how grateful we were to have that time with him."

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett on the first part of the "To Live Is To Die" solo (Guitar Player, April 1989): "That's a very straight blues box. It was the very last solo I did on the album. It was recorded at 5:00 in the morning, just a few hours before we had to leave for the Monsters Of Rock tour. I just played off the top of my head. On the other solos I carefully figured out the most appropriate scales for the chord changes." (thanks, Olli - Finland)

Banks - Before I Ever Met You

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Album: Fall Over
Released: 2013

Before I Ever Met You Lyrics

Before I Ever Met You

Jillian Banks is a Los Angeles songwriter who turned to music at the age of 15 to combat a bout of depression. Expressing her fear and loneliness through music helped her cope. This was her the lead single from her debut EP Fall Over, which was released on March 1, 2013. The song later found its way on to Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show and the exposure triggered a breakthrough year for the singer. "'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit and it's pretty graphic about a relationship," Banks told Digital Spy . "For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back and people responded to it."

The Sun asked Jillian Banks why she just uses her surname when performing? "Because I like the name Banks," she replied. "It's strong, feminine, masculine, big, small, brave and scared."

Grateful Dead - Truckin'

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Album: American Beauty
Released: 1970

Truckin' Lyrics

Truckin' got my chips cashed in
Keep truckin', like the do-dah man
Together, more or less in line, just keep truckin' on

Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings

Dallas, got a soft machine Houston, too close to New Orleans
New York's got the ways and means and just won't let you be

Most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love
Most of the time they're sittin' and cryin' at home
One of these days they know they better get goin'
Out of the door and down on the streets all alone

Truckin', like the do-dah man. Once told me you've got to play your hand
Sometimes your cards ain't worth a dime, if you don't lay'em down

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been

What in the world ever became of sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same
Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine,
All a friend can say is ain't it a shame?

Truckin', up to Buffalo. Been thinkin', you got to mellow slow
Takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep truckin' on

Sittin' and starin' out of the hotel window
Got a tip they're gonna kick the door in again
I'd like to get some sleep before I travel
But if you got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in

Busted, down on Bourbon Street, set up, like a bowlin' pin
Knocked down, it get's to wearin' thin. They just won't let you be

You're sick of hangin' around and you'd like to travel
Get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down
I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin'
Get out of the door and light out and look all around

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been

Truckin', I'm a goin' home. Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones, and get back truckin' on

Writer/s: GARCIA, JEROME J. / WEIR, ROBERT HALL / LESH, PHILIP / HUNTER, ROBERT C.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Truckin'

The '60s was a time for traveling and discovering your place in the world. Sometimes what you found was an empty existence that just keeps repeating itself day to day. Having to deal with everyday life when you were always waiting for some kind of revelation to expand your consciousness was often depressing. The Grateful Dead sang of acceptance of banality and the drive to continue their search for epiphany.

One verse in particular: "What in the world ever became of sweet Jane, she lost her sparkle. Well you know she isn't the same. Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine? All a friend can say is ain't it a shame." seems to refer to the endless desperation that overtakes some people. They turn to drugs to provide meaning in their lives. This of course fails and spirals their lives into deeper depression. Drugs are for enhancing a good time spent with good friends. They cannot provide answers to the meaning of life. The previous verse speaks to commonplace usage and the consequences of accepting illegal activities as a normal part of your life. You often get "busted" by the police. (thanks, James - Rochester, NY)

Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir are the credited writers on this track along with their lyricist Robert Hunter.

The line, "Busted, down on Bourbon Street" refers to an incident on January 31, 1970 when members of the band were arrested in a drug bust that netted 19 people in New Orleans. The group was in town to play two shows at a club called the Warehouse, and the raid happened the morning after their first show at the French Quarter hotel where they were staying. Lesh, Weir and drummer Bill Kreutzmann were all arrested along with crew members and fans of the band who had joined them at the hotel.

The story made the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune the next day, and drew national attention, with Rolling Stone running an article on the incident. Owsley Stanley, a Dead associate known for his pioneering work with LSD, was also arrested and labeled the "King of Acid" in the Times-Picayune piece. According to the Rolling Stone article, the band paid for bail and legal fees for all 19 arrested.

Christina Perri - Trust

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Album: Head or Heart
Released: 2014

Trust Lyrics

Like the winds, blowing
Changes, fast and growing
I knew better then
I knew better then

Words that hurt the ones you lovin'
Hatred for who you're becomin'
I knew better then yes
I knew better then

To Trust myself
To trust someone else
To trust the lies that slip from my mouth
Trust the heart I'm so quick to sell

Yes I knew better then
I knew better then
To trust love again

Memories who won't stop stinging
Promises I could't believe in
I knew better then
I knew better then

To trust myself
To trust someone else
To trust the doubt in the back of my mind
Trust the trail of pain left behind
Yes, I knew better then
I knew better then to trust love again

And I'm so quick to lose
What was never mine to keep
And I cannot stand (oh) what's broken under me
I don't know how to forgive
Myself for everything that I missed
Learn trust

Like the winds, blowing
Changes, fast and growing
I knew better then
I knew better then

Writer/s: CHRISTINA PERRI
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Trust

The opening track of Christina Perri's Hand or Heart album was also the first song she wrote for the project. "I sat at the piano and wrote this song called 'Trust,' she told Radio.com . "As soon as I did I had a eureka moment, and I immediately knew what I wanted to say."

The album title was inspired by various failed relationships, where Perri had switched between trusting her head and her heart, and she couldn't figure out which was the right way to go. "I was trying to find the right thing and make the right choices, and because none of the relationships worked out I felt as though I just didn't trust me," she told Radio.com. "So I wrote a song about it. In that moment when I wrote the song, I named the album Head or Heart."

"I knew that 'Trust' would be the first song on the album and set up the album," she added, "and I knew that the theme of the album would be split into two - into head songs and into heart songs."

Kiss - Deuce

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Album: Kiss
Released: 1974

Deuce Lyrics

Get up
And get your grandma outta here
Pick up
Old Jim is workin' hard this year
And baby
Do the things he says to do

Baby, if you're feeling good
And baby if you're feeling nice
You know your man is workin' hard
He's worth a Deuce

Honey
Don't put your man behind his years
And baby
Stop cryin' all your tears
Baby
Do the things he says to do
Do it

Baby, if you're feeling good
And baby if you're feeling nice
You know your man is workin' hard
He's worth a deuce

And baby, if you're feeling good
Yes baby if you're feeling nice
You know your man is workin' hard
Yeah

Writer/s: SIMMONS, GENE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Deuce

Gene Simmons: "'Deuce' was written in my head on a bus. I heard the lick, the riff, the melody, the whole thing. 'Deuce' was written on a bass. It was a very linear song. As soon as the riff came, the first verse came, then I wrote the bridge, and then I wrote the chorus. We arranged it right on the spot and knew that it would be a staple for years. In fact, when we first went on tour with our first record, it was the opening song of the show and we would come back for encores and not have any songs left and do 'Deuce' again. Then if we got a second encore we would do 'Deuce' again. Lyrically, I had no idea what I was talking about. Sometimes stuff means a lot, sometimes it means nothing."

Paul Stanley: "The beginning of the song was me ripping off the Raspberries. The beginning of 'Deuce,' the thing that starts it off, is me, bastardizing 'Go All The Way.'"

Ace Frehley: "It's my favorite KISS song. When I auditioned for KISS, they said, "We're going to play you a song for you to listen to, and then try playing along. The song was 'Deuce,' and they played it as a three-piece and the song was in the key of 'A.' I thought, 'That's easy enough,' so I got up and wailed for four minutes playing lead work over it." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada, for all above)

Emmylou Harris - Bang The Drum Slowly

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Album: Red Dirt Girl
Released: 2000

Bang The Drum Slowly Lyrics

I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a scar

Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
How did it feel

Bang The Drum Slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost

I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the moon you hung

I meant to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

Writer/s: Clark, Guy / Harris, Emmylou
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bang The Drum Slowly

Guy Clark helped Emmylou Harris write this elegy for her father, who died in 1993. She told American Songwriter magazine: "You would think something like that is so important that you should write about it. I had a great level of difficulty dealing with something so close to home. It took me a while to get some distance … My dad, he worked on cars… there were so many things I could have learned from him but I was too busy being an artist. Sometimes, [with writing] you just forget: you think it has to come from above when it actually just comes from your heart."

"Guy Clark said we should write the song, because he knew my dad," Emmylou added. "When my parents would come to visit, I would always have Guy and Susanna over. Guy really appreciated that my father flew Corsair jets, and also how grounded he was, with the way he could make coffee and such. You know how Guy is, he can see people in a frame. And I felt that he could pull that out of me."

"So we worked on that song one day and then we would phone each other," she continued. "He once said, 'Is your father buried in Arlington?' I said 'no' and then he said, 'That's such a great word.' So that is one thing in the song that is in a sense not true."

Jimmy Buffett - Twelve Volt Man

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Album: One Particular Harbour
Released: 1983

Twelve Volt Man Lyrics

Twelve Volt Man

Mike Nesmith, who was a member of The Monkee's, once told Buffett about a man he ran into down in Baja who is the unknown inspiration for this song. During the Baja race, Mike broke down in the middle of nowhere and went to a small village to wait for his repair team. He ran into an American - a fisherman who lived in a small hut with what he called "the essentials." He had a collection of Buffett's albums, packaged margarita mix from America, an old Waring blender, and a tape recorder hooked up to a peculiar power system made out of a Honda generator and a Sears Die Hard battery. It seems he would fish all week, and on Friday night, he and his friends would hook up the blender and tape player and make margaritas while they sang along to Buffett's songs. This ceremony would last until the gas for the generator dried up. Buffett got the inspiration to write this while he was in Isla Mujeres, a small island near Cancun, where life had escaped most of the twentieth century. The tough part was rhyming "Die Hard," but, with a few inspiring margaritas, the word came. This is one of his favorite songs. (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

The Futureheads - Burnt

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Album: News and Tributes
Released: 2006

Burnt Lyrics

When he called her name, they could go anywhere
(Then he went somewhere alone)
Then he changed his voice, to a more serious tone
(She's alone, he's alone)
So she goes somewhere else, as well, and she gets herself involved, with someone else
(Can you tell where this is going?)

Wanna help them out? Then hear them out

[Chorus:]
Got Burnt, third degrees
Never learnt my lesson
But forgive me please
Nothing lasts forever and nothing is free
Please remember to let me down gently

There are people
Climbing over walls
(Just to see how she is feeling)

And they know
They know it's worth the sweat
(When they see what she is doing)

If you hear her shout, then please look up

[Chorus x3]

Writer/s: CRAIG, DAVID / HYDE, BARRY / HYDE, DAVID / MILLARD, ROSS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Burnt

Frontman Barry Hyde explained the song's meaning to Uncut magazine: "It's basically about relationships - how we constantly prove that we have no control over love or passion, and we never, ever learn from our mistakes. We'll gladly plummet straight back into a relationship, or make promises to people we can't keep. It's constant, and constantly repeated - the thrill of the chase, the possibility that this person might be the one. I wouldn't say it was cynical. Its probably representative of my relationships in general!" (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

Chicago - A Song For Richard And His Friends

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Album: Chicago At Carnegie Hall
Released: 1972

A Song For Richard And His Friends Lyrics

If you will think now, then you will see
How you can change things
People are waiting, turning away
Tired of killing

Hey now
Will you go away
We're so tired
Of things that you say

Even though you never said word that would help anyone but yourself
Tomorrow is such a bad dream
Oh, bad dream
If you stay now

It will only get worse
Let us pray now
'Cause the truth really hurts
Have to be a man so today with your brothers and sisters lay dying

Tomorrow is such a bad dream
Yeah, such a bad dream
Listen
Please be gone

Go away and leave us alone
Bring police
Go away and leave us in peace
Yeah

Please be gone
Go away and leave us alone
Bring police
Go away and leave us in peace

Will you go now
Will you take all your friends
Woah now, If you'd stood like a man
Even though I know that you cannot be blamed all alone for all the sadness you've caused

Tomorrow is such a bad dream
Yeah, such a bad dream
Oh yeah, such a bad dream
Dig it

If you will think now you will then you will see
How we can change things
People are waiting, turning away
Tired of killing

Writer/s: LAMM, ROBERT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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A Song For Richard And His Friends

This did not receive much radio airplay, but is a notorious example of Chicago's political persuasions in the early years of the band. It is a nose-thumbing directed at President Richard Nixon. Nixon was at the apex of his political powers then. Watergate was just around the corner and the notorious burglary that led to his ruin occurred just weeks after the album was released. (thanks, Charles - Charlotte, NC)

Robert Lamm, who is one of the founding members of the band, wrote this song.

This was the only new song included on the Chicago At Carnegie Hall album, a 4-disc set comprised of songs recorded during a week of concerts at the venue in April 1971.

Glenn Kotche - Monkey Chant

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Album: Mobile
Released: 2006

Monkey Chant Lyrics

Monkey Chant

This is a track from Mobile, Chicago-based percussionist Glenn Kotche's third solo album. He is best known for his involvement in Wilco.

Kotche told Uncut magazine the story of this song: "Monkey Chant was based on a portion of the Ramayana - the epic Hindu story and was inspired by some of the original, field recordings of the vocal chant from the last century."

"I assigned different sounds to the characters from the story. I had this prepared snare drum that I'd developed years ago and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to utilise it. It has various springs, cables and sticks going through the actual snare drum head with contact mikes on the drums so the small, really unusual sounds get amplified and interact with the rest of the kick."

Kotche told Uncut about the Mobile album. "Basically when I make a solo record I have certain rhythmic ideas that I want explored. It doesn't start out as, 'Oh, Ill make a solo record,' it starts out with nagging questions."

"I was touring so much with Wilco, writing in hotel rooms and on tour buses, looking at certain things that I'm not able to explore on a drum set alone. Its kind of an extension of my drumming and this particular record had three or four concepts that I was really interested in. Its kind of stylistically all over the place but there are rhythmic concepts grounded underneath the surface for me, all played on various percussion instruments." (thanks for above, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit poem, which tells the story of Prince Rama, who was exiled from his kingdom of Ayodha. The epic was originally written by the poet (rishi) Valmiki of Ancient India and contains 24,000 verses in seven books. It is considered to be one of the two most important ancient epics of India, the other being the Mahabharata.

Kate Campbell - Walk Among Stones

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Album: Monuments
Released: 2003

Walk Among Stones Lyrics

Walk Among Stones

This is perhaps one of Kate's most complicated songs, and she says herself it is really lots of random thoughts:
"Stars fell on Alabama" - Could be literal - could refer to the many Southern stars.
"Near the rocky shoals" - Refers to Muscle Shoals recording studio where she and many others have recorded.
"In a casket factory" - The studio was originally a casket factory.
"Where they found Soul" - Soul music is synonymous with Muscle Shoals.
"See that skinny boy there drinkin' him a coke, didn't we just see him on the Sullivan Show" - Elvis before he was famous - Ed Sullivan - Kate is a self proclaimed Elvis fan.
"We walk among the stones" - We walk among the memories and in the footsteps of those who have gone before us. Also we walk among the stones of life.
"Some say it was the cotton and workin' side by side" - Kate grew up during the time of Civil rights movement in the South and was heavily influenced by what she saw. The Cotton, and the slaves owned to pick it were both a cause of Civil war and civil rights; segregation.
"Now we're left to wonder what happened to the sound" - The end of the great rock and roll music, and Muscle Shoals sound.
"Was it 2 Kings dying" - Knowing Kate's background, it seems obvious that the two Kings are Martin Luther King, who fought for civil rights and was assassinated (there are many actual and possible references to Luther in her music) and the other is Elvis. "Who nailed the coffin down" - Who saw an end to the music as it was known, when Elvis died, and also an end to what King had been fighting for - would it have all been resolved had he not died?

Kaiser Chiefs - Cannons

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Album: Education, Education, Education & War
Released: 2014

Cannons Lyrics

Look alive, break aside, draw a line in the sand
Here's the band: treat us like we're extras, we're not epic
Treat us like we're not on our boots
You leave us on the stretches where the credits roll

The king will simply build institutes
We are a part team military muscles
Tell ourselves we're the part of a soul
Smashing regimes between (???) challenging
Education, education and war

We're gonna need a lot more Cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas
We're gonna need a lot more cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas

I know, I know, if you wanna know,
If you wanna see your face again
I know we feel the same way

And making all the difficult decisions, to follow
Petitions on children first
How about a person of position, you say
You will be happy if you expect the worst
Armor, paper strolls and a Bible,
So going out across apartment stores
You will be issued with a rifle on arrival, champs
Education, education and war

We're gonna need a lot more cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas
We're gonna need a lot more cannons
If we gonna be out by Christmas

I know, I know, if you wanna know,
If you wanna see your face again
I know we feel the same way

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Show us the way to go
And let heaven help us
Show us the way to go
Save our souls
Show us the way back home
Save our souls
Show us the way to go

Writer/s: BAINES, NICHOLAS / RIX, JAMES / WHITE, ANDREW ROBERT / WILSON, CHARLES RICHARD / SMITH, FRASER LANCE THORNYCROFT
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Cannons

This climatic song finishes with a bitter two-minute apocalyptic poem, which is read by actor Bill Nighy. The verse references the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over a soundtrack of battlefield noises and brouhaha from the Houses of Parliament. Speaking to The Independent, Kaisers frontman Ricky Wilson said: "When I was writing the lyrics for the record, the whole World War One centenary thing was flying around. So if you're writing honestly, it's going to leak in there."

"I wrote the poem as an exercise originally," he continued. "The original story was an imaginary assault by a superpower – not necessarily the USA, trying to take over Hell."

"They are invading Hell, wiping out Hell. Then going "now what do we do, where do we go next?"'

British actor Bill Nighy is best known in the music world for his song "Christmas is All Around" in the British romantic comedy movie Love Actually, which was a clear parody of Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around."

The album title is referenced in this song. The first part is a reference to Tony Blair's election pledge that "education, education, education" was the cornerstone of Britain's future. The "& War" passes judgment on the rest of his legacy in the light of the military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It was Bill Nighy who came up with the album title. Ricky Wilson told Q magazine: "I was thinking of calling it Education & War, but Bill loved the full title. Everyone in Britain knows what it refers to."