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AC/DC - Thunderstruck

AC/DC - Thunderstruck Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Razor's Edge
Released: 1990

Thunderstruck Lyrics

Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder
I was caught
In the middle of a railroad track
I looked round
And I knew there was no turning back
My mind raced
And I thought what could I do
And I knew
There was no help, no help from you
Sound of the drums
Beating in my heart
The thunder of guns
Tore me apart
You've been
Thunderstruck

Rode down the highway
Broke the limit, we hit the town
Went through to Texas, yeah Texas, and we had some fun
We met some girls
Some dancers who gave a good time
Broke all the rules
Played all the fools
Yeah yeah they, they, they blew our minds
And I was shaking at the knees
Could I come again please
Yeah them ladies were too kind
You've been
Thunderstruck

I was shaking at the knees
Could I come again please

Thunderstruck, Thunderstruck, Thunderstruck, Thunderstruck
It's alright, we're doin' fine
It's alright, we're doin' fine, fine, fine
Thunderstruck, yeah, yeah, yeah
Thunderstruck, Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck, baby, baby
Thunderstruck, you've been Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck, Thunderstruck
You've been Thunderstruck

Writer/s: MALCOLM MITCHELL YOUNG, ANGUS MCKINNON YOUNG
Publisher: J. ALBERT & SON(INTERNATIONAL) PTY. LTD.
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Thunderstruck

AC/DC's Young brothers - guitarists Angus and Malcolm - wrote this song. They would often tell a story about how the song came about when Angus was flying in a plane that was struck by lightning and nearly crashed, but in the 2003 re-release of The Razor's Edge, Angus explained in the liner notes: "It started off from a little trick that I had on guitar. I played it to Mal and he said, 'Oh I've got a good rhythm idea that will sit well in the back.' We built the song up from that. We fiddled about with it for a few months before everything fell into place.

Lyrically, it was really just a case of finding a good title, something along the lines of 'Powerage' or 'Highway To Hell.' We came up with this thunder thing and it seemed to have a good ring to it. AC/DC = Power. That's the basic idea."

In 2004, an Australian movie called Thunderstruck was released. It's a comedy about five guys who go to an AC/DC show in 1991 and agree to bury the first one who dies next to Bon Scott. (thanks, Mike - Oliver, Canada)

In Australia, this was used in commercials for the Holden Commodore SS Ute. The commercials were about an Australian Built Ute making a storm in the outback. (thanks, Ben G - Sydney, Australia)

According to The Story of AC/DC: Let There Be Rock, Angus Young created the distinctive opening guitar part by playing with all the strings taped up, except the B. It was a studio trick he learned from his older brother George Young, who produced some of AC/DC's albums and was in a band called The Easybeats.

AC/DC shook Iran all night long when a computer virus infected nuclear establishments there in July 2012. One of the effects of the worm was that the machines were forced to play this track at full volume during the small hours.

David Mallet, who directed the video for "You Shook Me All Night Long," returned to work with the band on this clip. Mallet wanted to create the "ultimate performance video," showcasing AC/DC's live energy. It was shot at Brixton Academy in London with some innovative camera work. Mallet had Angus do his duckwalk over plexiglass to get footage from underneath, and small cameras were placed on the guitar and on one of the drumsticks.

The Croatian cello duo 2Cellos released an instrumental version of the song in February 2014. The pair are best known for their cover of "Smooth Criminal," which was performed on the Michael Jackson-themed episode of Glee.

The song was featured in the film Varsity Blues during one of the games when the team is hungover from the night before. AC/DC charged a massive $500,000 for its use, the biggest deal that music supervisor Thomas Golubic (Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead) has ever brokered. "I remember being absolutely horrified when I heard that number," Golubic recalled to Variety. "And we spent a lot of time coming up with what we thought were great alternates, but there was going to be no budget on that, and they had money so they paid for it."

Architects - Naysayer

Architects - Naysayer Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lost Forever // Lost Together
Released: 2014

Naysayer Lyrics

Naysayer

This was released as the lead single from Lost Forever // Lost Together, the sixth album released by Architects. Drummer Dan Searle told HMV.com : "The drums are a total nightmare. I was hoping it was going to be an album track we'd never play live and it'd be track nine or 10. But then Sam put his vocals on it, did an amazing job, now it's lead single and we're going to be playing it for the next five years. Brilliant."

Guitarist Tom Seale commented: "Bit of a barnstormer this one, we were really excited when we wrote the chorus, because it sounded a bit Nu Metal. It was an important one to get right because it kind of defines the way the album sounds a bit, we wanted to build it around that sound."

Vocalist Sam Carter told Kerrang! the song is a statement to the band's critics. "When we had all gone vegan and delved into the world of politics, we had a lot of backlash," he explained. "We had people tweeting us saying they were never going to support us again and this song was our response. It was us saying, 'F--k you, we're not singing about these things to make friends, this means something to us."

Carter recalled the filming of the song's music clip: "We shot the video in an old aircraft hanger near London, and it was f--king freezing. We shot all day, and then the last few takes we did it with this pink talcum powder on us. They would literally chuck it at us while we were performing, and you're thinking, 'P--s off! It's in my face! It was going in my mouth and up my nose!"

Rush - Stick It Out

Rush - Stick It Out Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Counterparts
Released: 1993

Stick It Out Lyrics

Trust to your instincts
If it's safely restrained
Lightning reactions
Must be carefully trained

Heat of the moment
Curse of the young
Spit out your anger
Don't swallow your tongue

Stick It Out

Don't swallow the poison
Spit it out
Don't swallow your pride
Stick it out
Don't swallow your anger
Spit it out
Don't swallow the lies

Natural reflex
Pendulum swing
You might be too dizzy
To do the right thing

Trial under fire
Ultimate proof
Moment of crisis
Don't swallow the truth

Stick it out

Each time we bathe our reactions
In artificial light
Each time we alter the focus
To make the wrong moves seem right

You get so used to deception
You make yourself a nervous wreck
You get so used to surrender
Running back to cover your neck

Stick it out

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Stick It Out

Neil Peart (from the Counterparts World Radio Premiere): "It's just a play on the words, really. 'Stick It Out' meaning both a kind of arrogant display, 'stick it out', but also the endurance thing; if you have a difficult thing to endure, stick it out and you get to the end. It was the pun on both of those, really, so again the duality in the song is a bit leaning both ways. The sense of forbearance, of holding back, and also the idea of fortitude: stick it out, you know, survive. But that was more of a piece of fun, that song I would say, both lyrically and musically it verges on parody, and that was one I think we just had fun with, and lyrically I certainly did, too. 'Stick it out' and 'spit it out' and all that was just a bit of word play."

Peart (from Modern Drummer magazine, February 1994): "How could I approach that song properly and yet give it a touch of elegance that I would want a riff-rock song to have? I don't want it to be the same type of thing you'd hear on rock radio. So I started bringing in Latin and fusion influences. There's a verse where I went for a Weather Report-type effect. I used some tricky turn-arounds in the ride cymbal pattern, where it goes from downbeat to upbeat accents--anything I could think of to make it my own. That song verges on parody for us, so we had to walk a careful line. We responded to the power of the riff, yet still found some ways to twist it to make it something more." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

This song holds the dubious distinction of being the only Rush music video lampooned on the popular mid-'90s cartoon Beavis And Butthead. (thanks, Matt - Pittsburgh, PA)

Architects - The Devil Is Near

Architects - The Devil Is Near Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lost Forever // Lost Together
Released: 2014

The Devil Is Near Lyrics

Hey, hey
They live this day and night.
This is sacrifice, no fucking compromise.
Hey, hey
They have the heart to resist.
While the hunters hunt, they will persist.

This is where tragedy is bought and sold.
It seems their pain is worth it's weight in gold.
You know they're here when the water is red.
Our fading life support is hanging by a thread.

A message etched on broken ships.

Hey, hey
They live this day and night.
This is sacrifice, no fucking compromise.
Hey, hey
They have the heart to resist.
While the hunters hunt, they will persist.

And you can hear them cry, they're calling out,
To their mother lost, she's bleeding out.
She's bleeding out.

Their innocence is heaven sent.
Their malevolence, it will not relent.
A graveyard sits upon the shore.
They won't swim together anymore.

The tide will rush with waves of fear.
Selling souls, The Devil Is Near.
The tide will rush in waves of fear.
Selling souls, the devil is near.
The devil is near.

"If we're gonna survive on this planet, we have to
Respect the rights of all those species to survive.
'Cause we need them more than they need us."

A message etched on broken ships.
We'll be here til corruption quits.
There is a voice, though they cannot speak.
Not yet ready to admit defeat.

You can hear them cry, they're calling out,
To their mother lost, she's bleeding out.
You can hear them cry, they're calling out,
To their mother lost, she's bleeding out.

Their tragedy is bought and sold.
It seems their pain is worth it's weight in gold.

Writer/s: TOM SEARLE, SAM CARTER, ALEX DEAN, DAN SEARLE
Publisher: MOTHERSHIP MUSIC PUBLISHING
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The Devil Is Near

This high-energy cut is about Sea Shepherd, an American nonprofit marine conservation organization that the Architects are really passionate about. Vocalist Sam Carter explained to HMV.com : "Sea Shepherd basically do the best they can to protect the oceans, they try to protect all marine life, they're amazing, passionate people who put their lives on the line."

The song samples Canadian environmental activist Paul Watson, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The band found the clip online.

Rush - Color Of Right

Rush - Color Of Right Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Test For Echo
Released: 1997

Color Of Right Lyrics

I don't have an explanation
For another lonely night
I just feel this sense of mission
And the sense of what is right

Take it easy on my now
I'd be there if I could
I'm so full of what is right
I can't see what is good

It's a hopeless situation
Lie awake for half the night
You're not sure what's going on here
But you're sure it isn't right

Make it easy on yourself
There's nothing more you can do
You're so full of what is right
You can't see what is true

A quality of justice
A quantity of light
A particle of mercy
Makes the Color Of Right

Gravity and distance
Change the passage of light
Gravity and distance
Change the color of right

Writer/s: LEE GEDDY, LIFESON ALEX, PEART NEIL
Publisher: OLE TOREADOR
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Color Of Right

Regarding the last two lines:
Gravity and distance change the passage of light
Gravity and distance change the color of right
Neil Peart: "The lyrics that surround it are rather unremarkable, and the context of the song seems to cast these lines in the sense of "don't be self-righteous" - something rather uninteresting. But I have used the above metaphor, changed it around, suited it to my needs. I am interested in the double sense of gravity and distance. Physical vs. metaphysical. I take the second meaning of the quotation as another way of saying there is a great difference between theory and practice. When things are serious, when we see them up close, they look different." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Architects - Red Hypergiant

Architects - Red Hypergiant Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lost Forever // Lost Together
Released: 2014

Red Hypergiant Lyrics

Red Hypergiant

This instrumental threads a sample of a voiceover from a Carl Sagan film through an oceanic wall of sound. Guitarist Tom Searle commented to HMV.com : "It's an odd one, we don't have many instrumentals. It was originally half a song, but it was too weird for us. It's named after the biggest known star in the universe, we saw a picture of it once and it kind of reminded us of the scale of everything."

Diana Ross - Upside Down

Diana Ross - Upside Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: diana
Released: 1980

Upside Down Lyrics

I said Upside Down
You're turning me
You're giving love instinctively
Around and round you're turning me

Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round

Instinctively you give to me
The love that i need
I cherish the moments with you
Respectfully i see to thee
I'm aware that you're cheating
When no one makes me feel like you do

Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round

I know you got charm and appeal
You always play the field
I'm crazy you are mine
As long as the sun continues to shine
There's a place in my heart for you
That's the bottomline

Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round

Instinctively you give to me
The love that i need
I cherish the moments with you
Respectfully i see to thee
I'm aware that you're cheating
But no one makes me feel like you do

Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round

Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round
Upside down
Boy, you turn me
Inside out
And round and round

Upside down you're turning me
You're giving love instinctively
Around and round you're turning me
I see to thee respectfully

Upside down you're turning me
You're giving love instinctively
Around and round you're turning me
I see to thee respectfully

I said a upside down you're turning me
You're giving love instinctively
Around and round you're turning me

Writer/s: RODGERS, NILE / EDWARDS, BERNARD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Upside Down

Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers wrote and produced this. They are the duo behind the success of the Disco group Chic in the late '70s.

This was Diana Ross' biggest hit as a solo artist. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)

Architects - Colony Collapse

Architects - Colony Collapse Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lost Forever // Lost Together
Released: 2014

Colony Collapse Lyrics

Dear, oh dear, what a sorry state we're in.
We brought the battle, we saw the signs,
We've found ourselves two steps behind.

I'm counting days like they're running out.
There's ghosts in the water, so pray for drought.
(pray for drought)

This time there's nowhere to hide.
We're facing the firing squad side by side.
1986. This is full relapse.
Our latest apocalypse.
This is Colony Collapse.

Give us the rope and we'll tie our own noose.
We truly believed all we touched turned to gold.
We were warned but we wouldn't be told.

I'm counting days like they're running out.
There's ghosts in the water, so pray for drought.

This time there's nowhere to hide.
We're facing the firing squad side by side.
They said the ocean's on fire.
Say it isn't true.
Say it isn't true.
The truth never hurt so much.
Can we start anew? Can we start anew?

1986. This is full relapse.
Our latest apocalypse. This is colony collapse.
Colony collapse.

Dear, oh dear, what a sorry state we're in.
Dear, oh dear, what a sorry state we're in.

They said the ocean's on fire.
Say it isn't true.
Say it isn't true.
The truth never hurt so much.
Can we start anew? Can we start anew?

This time there's nowhere to hide.
We're facing the firing squad side by side.
They said the ocean's on fire.
Say it isn't true.
Say it isn't true.
The truth never hurt so much.
Can we start anew? Can we start anew?

1986. This is full relapse.
Our latest apocalypse.
This is colony collapse.

Writer/s: SAM CARTER, TOM SEARLE, DAN SEARLE, ALEX DEAN
Publisher: MOTHERSHIP MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Colony Collapse

This song is about The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, which caused a series of ongoing equipment failures, reactor meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials following the TŠhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Guitarist Tom Searle told HMV.com : "Two reactors have gone down, there's one remaining, if that goes then it'll be complete disaster for Japan. It's a tragedy that doesn't seem to have made it anywhere near the media."

Vocalist Sam Carter commented: "We worked on it for a long time, we knew we had to get it really right or not do it at all. We worked particularly hard on this one."

The Supremes - Back in My Arms Again

The Supremes - Back in My Arms Again Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: More Hits by The Supremes
Released: 1965

Back in My Arms Again Lyrics

(Oooooh!)

All day long, I hear my telephone ring
Friends calling giving their advice
From the boy I love, I should break away
'Cause heartaches, he'll bring one day

I lost him once through friends' advice
But it's not gonna happen twice
'Cause all advice ever gotten me
Was really long and sleepless nights
(Oooooh!)

But now, he's Back in My Arms Again
Right by my side
I got him back in my arms again
So satisfied
(Oooooh!)

It's easy for friends to say let him go
But I'm the one who needs him so
It's his love that makes me strong
Without him, I can't go on

This time, I'll live my life at ease
Being happy loving whom I please
And each time we make romance,
I'll be thankful for a second chance
(Oooooh!)

'Cause he's back in my arms again
Right by my side
I got him back in my arms again
So satisfied
(Oooooh!)

How can Mary tell me what to do
When she lost her love so true?
And Flo, she don't know
'Cause the boy she loves is a Romeo

I listened once to my friends' advice
But it's not gonna happen twice
'Cause all advice ever gotten me
Was really long and sleepless nights
(Oooooh!)

I got him back in my arms again
Right by my side
I got him back in my arms again
So satisfied
(Oooooh!)

I'm satisfied
So satisfied, I'm satisfied
I'm satisfied, so satisfied

Writer/s: HOLLAND, EDWARD JR. / DOZIER, LAMONT / HOLLAND, BRIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Back in My Arms Again

The backup singers, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard, are mentioned in the third verse. Many people called Ballard "Flo."

This was The Supremes' fifth consecutive #1 hit in the US. The first 4 were "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby Love," "Come See About Me" and "Stop! In The Name Of Love." To this day, they hold the record for being the only girl group to have the most consecutive #1 hits in America.

The working title for this song was "Back in His Arms Again." (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for above 3)

Architects - Youth Is Wasted On The Young

Architects - Youth Is Wasted On The Young Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lost Forever // Lost Together
Released: 2014

Youth Is Wasted On The Young Lyrics

The past is dead.
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace.
The past is dead.
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace.

If we stop the clock, will I reappear?
Pulled from the drift, there goes another year.
The stars align, the planets shift.
All the infinite moments that we've missed.

There's parts of me that are lost forever.
At least we're all lost together.
We all remember youth like it's dead and gone.
Like our favorite line from a forgotten song.

I'll show you my hurt and I'll show you my heart.
A life lost in the dark.

The past is dead.
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace.
The past is dead.
I walk the funeral march and I will make my peace.

When I reach the end, will I beg for more?
Will I look back, or step through the door?
I stand beneath a monolith.
Do you ever feel like you won't be missed?

There's parts of me that are lost forever.
At least we're all lost together.
I heard that this was only a ride.
So there's no worth in waiting for death to arrive.

All we are, is just a name, it's all we are.
Our skin, it shows, these crippled bones.
Youth sinks alone.

All we are, is just a name, it's who we are.
Our skin, it shows, these crippled bones.
Youth sinks alone.

I'll show you my hurt and I'll show you my heart.
A life lost in the dark.

There's parts of me that are lost forever.
At least we're all lost together.

There's parts of me that are lost forever.

Writer/s: DAN SEARLE, ALEX DEAN, TOM SEARLE, SAM CARTER
Publisher: MOTHERSHIP MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Youth Is Wasted On The Young

Guitarist Tom Searle told HMV.com : "It's about that scary feeling when you know you're not a kid anymore, facing the future, compromising on what you love, social pressure."

His brother, drummer Dan Searle, added: "Me and Tom started this band when we were 16 and we still get asked 'When are you going to get a real job?' It's about dealing with that all the time."

The Lost Forever // Lost Together album title is borrowed from one of this track's lyrics. Tom Searle: "It's where the inspiration for the album title comes from, everyone goes through this, fearing growing old, but at least we're going through it all together."

Murray MacLeod from the Xcerts added additional vocals to this track.

Metallica - Shoot Me Again

Metallica - Shoot Me Again Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: St. Anger
Released: 2003

Shoot Me Again Lyrics

I won't go away
Right here I'll stay

Stand silent in flames
Stand tall 'till it fades

Shoot Me Again
I ain't dead yet (x4)

Shoot me again
Shoot me again
Shoot me!
Shoot me again
Shoot me again
C'mon! (x2)

All the shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you

All the shots...
All the shots...

All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you

I won't go away
With a bullet in my back!
Right here I'll stay
With a bullet in my back!

Shoot me...
Take a shot
Shoot me...
Take a shot
Shoot me...
Take a shot
Shoot me...
Take a shot

I'll stand on my own
With a bullet in my back!
I'm stranded and sold
With a bullet in my back!

Shoot me again
I ain't dead yet (x4)

Shoot me again
Shoot me again
C'mon!
Shoot me again
Shoot me again
C'mon! (x2)

All the shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you

All the shots...
All the shots...

All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you

I bite my tongue
Trying not to shoot back
No compromise
My heart won't pump the other way

Wake the sleeping giant
Wake the beast
Wake the sleeping dog
No, let him sleep

I bite my tongue
Trying not to shoot back...

All the shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you

All the shots...
All the shots...

All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you

Writer/s: ROCK, ROBERT JENS/HETFIELD, JAMES/ULRICH, LARS
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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Shoot Me Again

This was inspired by their dispute with Napster. It's saying that no matter what shots are thrown at them, they wont fall down dead. (thanks, Joseph - LA, CA)

De La Soul - Plug Tunin'

De La Soul - Plug Tunin' Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
Released: 1988

Plug Tunin' Lyrics

And now for my next number
I'd like to return to the classics
Perhaps the most famous classic
In all the world of music

The first time around you didn't quite
Understand our new style of speak
(Don't worry, we can fix that right now)
So, why don't you all just grab your bags?
(Come on aboard, hoist the anchor and we'll be off)

Plug one, plug two, plug one, plug two
Plug one, plug two, plug one

Answering any other service
Prerogative praised, positively I'm acquitted
Enemies publicly shame my utility
After the battle they admit that I'm with it

Simply soothe, will move vinyl like glue
Transistors are never more shown with like
When vocal flow brings it all down in ruin
Due to a clue of a naughty noise called, 'Plug Tunin''

Flock to the preacher called Pos
Let him be the stir to the style of your stew
Sit while the kid of the plug form aroma
Then grab a daisy to sip your favorite brew

Lettin' this soul fire be your first prior
But don't let the kick drum stub your big toe
See that the three will be your thread
But like my man Chuck D said, ?What a brother know?

Dance while I play and the cue cards sway
From my flower girls China and Jette
The button is pressed in '89 we'll start the panic
From De La Soul and a prince from stet

Negative noise will be all divided
Dangerous to dance, Posdnuos will croon
Ducks and kizids will all be rid
When paying position to the naughty noise called, 'Plug tunin''

Plug one, plug two, plug one, plug two
Plug one, plug two, plug one, plug two

Freeze, 'cause these are the brothers
Brothers of the soul who present a new flick
Every last viewer is tuned to the method
Known to be a method, no magicians, not a trick

Bitten by the spoken who been titled plug two
Swallowed by the loonies who are jealous with the showbiz
Dove'll teach the truth, Posdnuos will preach the youth
To the fact that this will bring an end to the negative

Flow to the sway 'cause I say, ?Fa So La Ti?
At the top we will dwell
Difference is fame and we rise then we build
Where we are set we get fat and we swell

Motions of the soul is a positive stride
One step forward is the space we consume
Vivid as the moon, you have yet to assume
How the soul found the motto of a naughty noise called, 'Plug tunin''

Vocal is local so believe that
This chant shan't rely on the strong lap
Trying and live so you best realize
That the gift that I present, I say gift wrap

Style of the tune is personal
And defining what's the rhyme is worst of all
Stop, sit and study 'cause the meaning isn't muddy
Just preach and do the gear as the first of all

Watch while the pitcher is pitching
'Cause this is the pitch of the year
Sing a simple song but keep the swing strong
Though you heard dove crying 'I ain't fair'

Those who think De La's on the flip tip
Try to flip this and you're doomed
Watch for the be be, 'cause if you try to grieve me
You'll be hung by the wire of the plug tune

I can't twist your arm and make you stay with me
(Are you ready for this?)

Writer/s: JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MERCER, KELVIN / MASON, VINCENT / HOUSTON, PAUL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Plug Tunin'

De La Soul's debut single alluded to group members Kelvin "Posdnous" Mercer and David "Trugoy the Dove" Jolicoeur's alternative monikers: Plug One and Plug Two, respectively. The nicknames referred to the microphones each member rhymed into ( Posdnous was one, Trugoy was two). Trugoy explained to Rolling Stone: "That was an important record, because I think that sorta signed how we were gonna approach writing rhymes, in terms of style. We were always impressed by KRS-One and how he always had a style, so instead of saying 'Mic check one, two' we would say 'Plug one, plug two.' It was a routine."

"A lot of people listen to that song and say, 'What the hell are you guys talking about? I don't understand a word,' but if you listen to it, you can get it," Trugoy continued. "What's really cool about that record is the style, the pattern and the cadence of the rhymes."

Both the original 12" version and an updated mix, titled, "Plug Tunin' (Last Chance to Comprehend)" was included on 3 Feet High and Rising. The remix has different lyrics and the drums are featured more prominently.

The song is sampled on the Gravediggaz' 1994 track "Defective Trip.", which like "Plug Tunin'" was also produced by Prince Paul.