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The Jam - David Watts

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Album: All Mod Cons
Released: 1978

David Watts Lyrics

Am a dull and simple lad
Cannot tell water from champagne
And I have never met the Queen
And I wish I could have all he has got
I wish I could be like David Watts
And when I lie on my pillow at night
I dream I could fight like David Watts
And lead the school team to victory
Take my exams and pass the lot

He is the head boy at the school
He is the captain of the team
His is so gay and fancy free
And I wish I could have all the money he's got
I wish I could be like David Watts

And all the girls in the neighborhood
Try to go out with David Watts
The try their best but can't succeed
For he is of pure and noble creed

Writer/s: DAVIES, RAYMOND DOUGLAS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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David Watts

Ray Davies wrote this. The original version can be found on The Kinks' 1967 album Something Else. It wasn't released as a single.

The Jam's version was released as a double sided single along with "A Bomb In Wardour Street." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)

The song bemoans the fact that most of us will never attain the glory or stature we want. "David Watts" is the person we all want to be, but will never become. (thanks, scott - cape cod, MA)

Jam Bassist Bruce Foxton rather than Paul Weller sang lead on this as it wasn't in the right key for the Jam frontman.

Weller told Mojo magazine June 2008 that it was his idea to cover this. He explained: "The first time I went to America (October 1977), you could buy all these old Kinks records that you couldn't get here at the time. As a kid I'd only heard the singles. So it was our choice to record the track, with 'A' Bomb on the B-side. We wanted Billy Hunt as the single, but the record company turned it down. But David Watts worked for us- it put us back on the map."

The Firm - Midnight Moonlight

The Firm - Midnight Moonlight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Firm
Released: 1985

Midnight Moonlight Lyrics

She flies through the night on silver wings
With a smile, no obligation
She says, "Walk with me, I'll take you down
Through the storm to your destination"

She says, "Hold me now, I'll take you there
To the dawning of a new creation"

Midnight Moonlight lady
Bird on the wing, she is flying to greet me
Bird on the wing, she is flying to me

The night is waiting
She must know how I feel
In the neon darkness
She is all that is real

I know it must be a dream
Will she be gone tomorrow
But tonight the world is still
And I can feel no sorrow
But tonight the world is still
And I can feel no sorrow

Midnight moonlight lady
Bird on the wing, she is flying to greet me
Bird on the wing, she is flying to me

She says, "Take me from this wilderness
I want to be where I won't be lonely
Take me from this wilderness
I want to be where I can see
Take me from this wilderness
I want to be where I can be free, yeah"

See the shadows dancing
'Cross the moonlight in her eyes
See a vision forming
And it comes as no surprise
Could it be a warning
That love grows before it dies

See the shadows dancing
'Cross the moonlight in her eyes
See a vision forming
And it comes as no surprise
Could it be a warning
That love hurts before it satisfies

She keeps her secrets with her eyes
Like the moon behind a silver cloud
She holds my memory with her smile
Am I dreaming now, spinning 'round
Let her take it all away

Every time I turn around
I know she is there
Every time I turn around
She's everywhere

Midnight moonlight lady
Midnight moonlight lady

Come on, shine your light on me, baby
I want to learn the secrets of the night
Let the moonlight smile on me, baby
Show me the secrets of the night
Midnight moonlight lady

Bird on the wing, she is flying to me

Writer/s: PAGE, JAMES PATRICK (JIMMY) / RODGERS, PAUL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Midnight Moonlight

The Firm were a supergroup comprising vocalist Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company), guitarist Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), drummer Chris Slade (Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann's Earth Band), and bassist Tony Franklin (later of Whitesnake and Quiet Riot). The band started when Rodgers and Page casually started recording together. This was the first song they wrote as a pair.

Rodgers told the story of the song to Uncut magazine: "One day he (Page) bought round a cassette and said, 'Would you like to write some lyrics to this?' It was 19 minutes long, it was absolutely fantastic! I said, 'I don't know that I can, can we shorten it?' So we got it down to nine minutes, and he was happy with the results. I said to him, 'It's funny, the chorus seems to have an extra bar in it.' And he goes, 'Well, it does. It's in 9/4.' That's the kind of thing he threw in with Led Zeppelin."

Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life

Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everything Must Go
Released: 1996

A Design For Life Lyrics

Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now for a shallow piece of dignity

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my dirty face to wear the scars
To show from where I came

We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A Design For Life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my pretty face to wear the scars
To show from where I came

We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life

We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for...

Writer/s: BRADFIELD, JAMES / JONES, NICHOLAS / MOORE, SEAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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A Design For Life

The lyrics are a critique of working class culture. The band's bass player/lyricist Nicky Wire explained the song's meaning in an interview with Q magazine April 2011: "It was originally a two-page poem. One side was called A Pure Motive and the other A Design For Life. The song was inspired by what I perceived as the middle classes trying to hijack working-class culture. That was typified by Blur's 'Girls and Boys,' the greyhound image on their Parklife cover. It was me saying, 'This is the truth. GET IT.'"

The line, "Libraries gave us power" came from the wall of Newport Library in Wales.

In 1995, Manic guitarist Richey Edwards disappeared. He may have committed suicide, but his body was never recovered and some people claim they have seen him since. The band carried on without him - this was the first song bass player Nicky Wire wrote after Richey disappeared.

Vocalist James Dean Bradfield recalled writing the song's instrumentation to Q magazine: "I remember being given the lyrics by Nick (Wire). We had come to a total standstill since Richey (Edwards) had disappeared. There was a long period of shock where we couldn't do a thing, I just really needed something to occupy me. Deep down, I wanted to know what it was like to write a song as a three-piece. That was the most daunting task facing as at that point - how would it work? I remember being incredibly nervous when the first proper set of Nick's lyrics arrived five months after Richey disappeared. I didn't actually start writing anything for a few days after they came, which is strange for me as I usually start pretty much the second I've torn open the envelope."

He continued: "I remember atomising the lyrics. It felt like there was a thread running through of anger and what I thought at the time was sarcasm. I think it was one of the quickest tunes I've ever written - it came fully formed in just 10 minutes. Up to that point, we were genuinely in limbo. By the time I called Nick, I was pretty sure I was onto something brilliant."

Wire added: "James called me up saying, It's Ennio Morricone, R.E.M. and Phil Spector."

This song is sometimes interpreted as a lament, but Nicky Wire considers it an empowering song. "It's almost heroic, in the sense that whatever is thrown at the working classes by the upper classes, we will always come through," he told Dazed & Confused. "That's what the lyric is about: we always come back with something better."

James Dean Bradfield revealed to the NME that the band nearly split after Richey Edwards disappeared in 1995, adding that the remaining Manics technically weren't together for six months that year. Explaining how they came back together, he recalled: "I was living in London and [Nicky] sent me some lyrics in the post. Two [sets] arrived; one was called 'Pure Motive' and one was called 'A Design For Life.' They both had a hint of violence and reaffirmation about them, what working class attitudes should have. And then I atomized the two sets of lyrics and wrote some music to it, which came really easily. I rang him up and said, 'I found the song that will give us reason to exist as a band!'"

Free - Mr. Big

Free - Mr. Big Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Fire And Water
Released: 1970

Mr. Big Lyrics

I work hard everyday
Come rain or shine
And I don't need nobody
To tell me 'bout a girl of mine
She's got so much love
And she saves it all for me
I would not be lying
That's the way it's got to be

So Mr. Big
You'd better watch out
When only you hang around me
Oh for you now
I will dig
A great big hole in the ground

I don't care who you are
So don't explain
Better get out of here
And don't you come back again
I don't want a thing from you
I don't want to give you nothing too
Get out of here
Before I lose my cool

Mr. Big
Oh watch out
And don't you hang around me
Oh for you now
I will dig
A great big hole in the ground

Oh Mr. Big

Writer/s: ANDY FRASER, PAUL RODGERS, PAUL KOSSOFF, SIMON KIRKE
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Mr. Big

Speaking with Uncut magazine, Paul Rodgers described this as "a very tough lyric," which he was amazed he got away with. He added: "I used to listen to BB King, and I think I was inspired by his approach to womanhood, if you like (laughs) – his manly stance! And that song is a lesson in simplicity. Because the simpler the song, the bigger it sounds. The notes have room to echo."

The American Rock group Mr. Big took their name from the song, which they covered in 1993 on their third album Bump Ahead.

Mariah Carey - Love Takes Time

Mariah Carey - Love Takes Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mariah Carey
Released: 1990

Love Takes Time Lyrics

I had it all
But I let it slip away
Couldn't see that I treated you wrong
Now I wander around
Feeling down and cold
Trying to believe that you're gone

Love Takes Time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't want to be here
I don't wanna be here alone

Losing my mind
From this hollow in my heart
Suddenly I'm so incomplete
Lord I'm needing you now
Tell me how to stop the rain
Tears are falling down endlessly

Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
And I don't want to be here
I don't wanna be here alone

You might say that it's over
You might say that you don't care
You might say you don't miss me
You don't need me
But I know that you do and I feel that you do inside

Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I, I was so blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't want to be there
I don't wanna be there alone

Writer/s: CAREY/MARGULIES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Love Takes Time

Mariah wrote this with songwriter Ben Marguiles. It was intended for her second album, Emotions, but her label liked it so much they stopped presses of her first album, Mariah Carey, so it could be included. There are copies of Mariah Carey floating around that don't have "Love Takes Time" on it - they are a valuable piece of pop memorabilia. (thanks, Diana - Gold Coast, Australia)

This was Mariah's second single. It followed up "Vision Of Love."

The Hold Steady - Almost Everything

The Hold Steady - Almost Everything Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Teeth Dreams
Released: 2014

Almost Everything Lyrics

Almost Everything

Craig Finn told Uncut magazine regarding this acoustic lament of life on the road: "That was originally an electric thing, but Nick, the producer, said we should do it. It hopefully has a level of self awareness. There's so much character driven stuff on the album, it was nice to have one song to say, here's where we're at."

Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbour

Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbour Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: One Particular Harbour
Released: 1983

One Particular Harbour Lyrics

One Particular Harbour

Buffett: "I had my sights set on Tahiti a long time ago and connived my way there through my good friend Tom Moffatt in Hawaii. We went there to play a show to an unknown audience, but that didn't matter. I had still made it to Tahiti. At the airport we were met by an old expatriated American named Hugh Kelly who had run away from home a long time ago. We became instant friends, and he took me to his home on Moorea in the mountains above Cook's Bay. When I looked down at the vista, the song came out as if it had been sitting inside me waiting for the moment." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

Howler - Al's Coral

Howler - Al's Coral Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: World Of Joy
Released: 2014

Al's Coral Lyrics

Al's Coral

This track opens Howler's World of Joy album and was one of the first songs they wrote for the record. Frontman Jordan Gatesmith told NME: "It's about some s---ty bar I went to in Minneapolis and wrote an anthem for."

"I 100 percent ripped off 'Jailbreak' by Thin Lizzy," he added. "I was pretty proud of myself. I hope I don't get sued."

Gatesmith told Words For Music the story of the song: "Al's Corral is a bar we visited in St. Paul's and it was a super-American dive bar," he said. "I remember just walking in there and seeing motorcycles, leather jackets – and Thin Lizzy was playing on the jukebox. There was this giant American flag with a gun next to it, and it said 'freedom is never free," which blew my mind – it was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen."

"The song sort of has a classic American vibe to it," he added. "We were inspired by Thin Lizzy playing; even if they are a UK band. But in America they've totally got that cock-rock vibe – 'The Boys Are Back In Town' sounds very American to us. We didn't quite rip it off, but we messed around with the song 'Jailbreak' and turned it into our own song – we wanted our own dive bar song."

Jimmy Buffett - The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

Jimmy Buffett - The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Coconut Telegraph
Released: 1981

The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful Lyrics

The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

Buffett: "Graffiti in the bathrooms of good bars has always been a great source of material. I think this one came from Captain Tony's or the Napoleon House in New Orleans." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

Howler - World of Joy

Howler - World of Joy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: World Of Joy
Released: 2014

World of Joy Lyrics

World of Joy

Vocalist Jordan Gatesmith came up with the idea for this Psychedelic-Noise track with guitarist Ian Nygaard. The Howler frontman told Words For Music : "We all switched instruments – I play drums on it and Ian plays sitar on it; but you can't tell its sitar because he puts it through so many noise pedals. So that's just a Noise-Rock track."

The album is titled after this song. Gatesmith explained to HMV.com : "Ian (Nygaard, guitars) lives in this part of Minneapolis where there's this dilapidated church called 'Joy World', which is really really ironic given the state it's in. We all thought it was really funny and a cool expression to name the record."

Jimmy Buffett - Knees of My Heart

Jimmy Buffett - Knees of My Heart Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Riddles In The Sand
Released: 1984

Knees of My Heart Lyrics

Knees of My Heart

Buffett: "I borrowed this line from a letter Sir Walter Raleigh wrote to the Queen Of England begging forgiveness for some piratical activity. It sounded more like the title of a Motown tune, and I couldn't pass it up. I hope Sir Walter didn't turn over in his grave." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

Howler - Indictment

Howler - Indictment Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: World Of Joy
Released: 2014

Indictment Lyrics

Indictment

Vocalist Jordan Gatesmith described this to Words For Music as, "our fake blues song." He explained: "It's got a pop feel to it, but also has this really amazing blues breakdown in it."

"That one was really funny," Gatesmith added. "We couldn't get the right take of it so what ended doing was just using a tom and a snare; we Jesus And Mary Chained it. There were so few microphones in the room and there was no separation, and at the beginning of the song we were screaming 'Yee-Haw' at each other. The take was really good, but then it proved impossible to take our screaming out of the beginning; so that's just there forever."