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Rage Against the Machine - Take The Power Back

Rage Against the Machine - Take The Power Back Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rage Against The Machine
Released: 1992

Take The Power Back Lyrics

In the right light, study becomes insight
But the system that dissed us
Teaches us to read and right
So called facts are fraud
They want us to allege and pledge
And bow down to their God
Lost the culture, the culture lost
Spun our minds and through time
Ignorance has taken over
Yo, we gotta Take The Power Back!
Bam! Here's the plan
Motherfuck Uncle Sam
Step back, I know who I am
Raise up your ear, I'll drop the style and clear
It's the beats and the lyrics they fear
The rage is relentless
We need a movement with a quickness
You are the witness of change
And to counteract
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

The present curriculum
I put my fist in 'em
Eurocentric every last one of 'em
See right through the red, white and blue disguise
With lecture I puncture the structure of lies
Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?
Yeah, we need to check the interior
Of the system that cares about only one culture
And that is why
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

Hey yo check, we're gonna have to break it, break it,
break it down
Aw shit!
Ugh!
And like this Ugh!
Come on, yeah! Bring it back the other way!

The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouncing off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school
Europe ain't my rope to swing on
Can't learn a thing from it
Yet we hang from it
Gotta get it, gotta get it together then
Like the motherfuckin' weathermen
To expose and close the doors on those who try
To strangle and mangle the truth
'Cause the circle of hatred continues unless we react
We gotta take the power back

Yeah, we gotta take the power back
Come on, come on!
We gotta take the power back

No more lies
Ugh!
Yeah!

Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!
Take it back y'all
Take it back, a-take it back
A-take it back y'all, come on!

Ugh!
Yeah!

Writer/s: DE LA ROCHA/COMMERFORD/MORELLO/WILK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Take The Power Back

This is about forced ideals in the US - how the American government wants their citizens to conform to the "ideal" American dream. If you don't agree with their opinions, you could be considered a terrorist. (thanks, liam - frederick, MD)

At some live shows, lead singer Zack De La Rocha would intro this by saying, "The classroom is the last place to find the truth." (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA)

This song makes a reference to the Weathermen, a radical militant organization active during the 1970s, whose stated goal was the violent overthrow of the United States government. (thanks, Bob - Tokyo, Japan)

De La Soul - Potholes in My Lawn

De La Soul - Potholes in My Lawn Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
Released: 1988

Potholes in My Lawn Lyrics

(Yo, something's wrong here, no, not again!)
(Get the daisies for the)

Potholes in My Lawn

Everybody's sayin'
What to do when suckin' lunatics start diggin' and chewin'
They don't know that the Soul don't go for that
Potholes in my lawn
And that goes for my rhyme sheet
Which I concentrated so hard on, see
I don't ask for maximum security
But my dwellin' is swellin'
It nipped my bud when I happened to fall
Into a spot
Where no ink or an ink-blot
Was on a scroll
I just wrote me a new 'mot'
But now it's gone
There's no
Suckers knew that I hate
To recognise that every time I'm writin'
It's gone

(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-a)
(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-ee-hee-hee-hee)

Potholes in my lawn

I've found that it's not wise
To leave my garden untended
Cause eyes have now pardoned all laws of privacy
Even paws are after my writer
See, I've found that everyone's sayin'
What to do when suckers are preyin'
On my well-guarded spreadsheets
Oh why, hell does it send up fleets
Of evil-doers through the big hole
To get to evil-doers who dig holes
Which leaves my lawn with lawn-chew
I think I'd better plant traces to give clues
Or better yet call 911
And when they get here I inform them I'm the Plug One
Open a chair and let them realize the reason
For concern of the Soul
Cause we've come down with a case of potholes

(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-a)
(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-ee-hee-hee-hee)

Potholes in my lawn

(Who stole, who stole, who stole the cookie
From the cookie jar?)

Now you got the message
What to do when you die
The death that I predict in 'Plug Tunin'
It's a shame that you deny to claim
That you stole my words of fame
That I wrote in my rhyme sheet
Which I concentrated so hard on, see
I don't ask for a barbed wire fence, B
But my dwellin' is swellin'
It nipped my bud when I happened to fall
Into a spot
Where no ink or an ink-blot
Was on a scroll
I just wrote me a new 'mot'
But now it's gone there's no
Suckers knew that I hate
To recoginse that every time I'm writin'
It's gone

Potholes in my lawn

(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-a)
(Yodel-a-hee, Yodel-oh-hee, Yodel-ee-hee-hee-hee)

Writer/s: JOLICOEUR, DAVID / MASON, VINCENT / MERCER, KELVIN / HUSTON, PAUL / ALLEN, THOMAS / BROWN, HAROLD / DICKERSON, MORRIS / GOLDSTEIN, GERALD / JORDAN, LEROY / LEVITIN, LEE / MILLER, CHARLES / SCOTT, HOWARD
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Potholes in My Lawn

The second single released by De La Soul, "Potholes in My Lawn" was their first song to chart, reaching #22 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles.

The song is about other rappers thieving De La Soul's rhymes. Trugoy told Rolling Stone: "'Potholes in my Lawn' was like another way to say beat-biter or sucker MC, like songs from Run-DMC, songs from MC Lyte. The lawn was our rhymes and the potholes were the pieces missing."

This samples Eric Burdon & War's 1976 song "Magic Mountain" as well as the yodeling and Jew's Harp on Parliament's 1970 track "Little Ole Country Boy."

This became the first ever hip-hop song played on Mars when NASA's Opportunity Rover broadcast it in 2004.

The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe

The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Surfer Girl
Released: 1963

Little Deuce Coupe Lyrics

Little Deuce Coupe
You don't know what I got
Little deuce Coupe
You don't know what I got

Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down
But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me he don't even try
Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)

Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill
But she'll walk a Thunderbird like (she's) it's standin' still
She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored.
She'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)

She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar
And if that ain't enough to make you flip your lid
There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy

And comin' off the line when the light turns green
Well she blows 'em outta the water like you never seen
I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer
When I get rubber in all four gears

She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got

Writer/s: CHRISTIAN, ROGER VAL / WILSON, BRIAN DOUGLAS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Little Deuce Coupe

This is one of the street drag-racing tales that were popular in mid 1960s in Southern California. The lyrics make more sense if you're into cars. The mechanical parts mentioned are all actual automotive parts or technology, including the "flat head mill" (engine) and the "lake pipes" (which are long chromed exhaust pipes that run along the rocker panel). One artistic stretch is the vision of an old Ford Model A reaching 140 mph - the shape has too much air drag to reach that speed, unless you tow it behind a DC-10 jet. (thanks, Chris - Thornhurst, PA)

A deuce is a car produced by Ford in 1932 (the "2" in 1932 is the "deuce"). Most of them had big V8 engines and were popular for drag racing. They weren't just coupes - they also came as roadsters and sedans. Here's a visual and more info on the Little Deuce Coupe .

This was the first song Brian Wilson wrote with Roger Christian, who was a California DJ with an affinity for cars. Wilson was a wizard in the studio and very good with composition, but when it came to writing lyrics that would appeal to the youth of America, he needed some help. Roger Christian, and also Wilson's early writing partner Gary Usher, gave him an insight into the California culture of surfing and cars that helped make the songs authentic. Roger Christian went on to write more car-inspired Beach Boys songs, including "Car Crazy Cutie" and "Cherry, Cherry Coupe," and he also helped write "Dead Man's Curve" for Jan & Dean.

Mike Love sang lead on this track.

The line at the end of the song, "There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy," means that the singer won a race with his Little Deuce Coupe, earning him his opponent's car. The "pink slip" is the vehicle's registration, so "racing for pink slips" means the winner gets the other car.

Session drummer Hal Blaine played on this. He played on many hit songs, including The Beach Boys' "Fun Fun Fun" and "Surfin' Safari." It was one of the first songs that Brian Wilson used session musicians on, replacing his brother Dennis on drums. (thanks, Neil - raleigh, NC)

Foster the People - Best Friend

Foster the People - Best Friend Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Supermodel
Released: 2014

Best Friend Lyrics

(When your Best Friends are strung out)
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start

Feeling, sleeping, in the field again,
Oh, I can feel, I can feel
I can feel, it's beginning to end

Yeah, premonition smiling in the dark
Oh, I can see, I can see
I can see the story starting to arc

Ohhh ohhhh ohhhh ohhhhh

It's comes up
I've been a spoken word
I've been a river bed
I've been a rabid voice
And let it flow up from within

Sometimes it feels like I only dream in black and white

Ahhh, ahhhh, ahhhhhh, ahhhhh
And colors so

(When your best friends are strung out)
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, you say it's what you need
And hide your eyes when you're close to me
(When you feel up in the clouds)
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start

Waits, and fed us, slipping into dreams
Oh, I can feel, I can feel
I can feel the celestial beings

Oh welted pleasures leaving with the breath
I can see, I can see
I can see the beauty in the mask

Ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhh

It draws up
I've been a river bed
I tried to salt the wound
I've carried more than I can
I feel I've got a lot to prove
Sometimes I feel like I only dream in black and white

Ohhh, ohhh, ohhhh, ohhh
But colors so

(When your best friends are strung out)
You'll do everything you can
'Cause you're never gonna let it get em down
(When you find it all around)
Yeah, you say it's what you need
You hide your eyes when you're close to me
(When you feel up in the clouds)
You ought to know
That I'm here no matter where you want to go
(In your head hanging upside-down)
Well, it comes in waves, but it's hardest from the start

I'm here, no matter where you are
So let it in with, open arms, no matter where you are
Sometimes, you'll have to wait,
And it passes by like a satellite or star
No matter where you are

(When your best friends are strung out)
You know when
Ooh-hoooo-hooooo
(When you feel up in the clouds)
Oh, yeah, you know when
Ooh-hoooo-ooh hooooo

(When your best friends are strung out)
Oh, yeah, you know when
You ought to know
That I'm here no matter where you want to go
(In your head, hanging upside-down)
Yeah, you know when
That's how you know
When your best friends are strung out

Writer/s: Foster, Radney M. / Musgraves, Kacey Lee / Clementi, Jay
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Best Friend

This funked-up pop jam finds Mark Foster singing: "When your best friend's all strung out, you do everything you can 'cause you're never gonna let it get him down." The Foster the People frontman told Q magazine that the line is not about drugs, but about his difficulty coming up with the lyric. "It's like your creative spirit, your best friend that you rely on is out of action," he said.

Mark Foster told Jam! Music the story of the song: "That lyric and that vocal melody came to me before any of the music or anything else, which usually doesn't happen that way," he said. "And I wrote the song around that."

"And so that first verse (starts singing), 'When your best friend's all strung out,' I heard that in my head like a children's choir singing that lyric with that melody," he continued. "I think, in some ways, writing like a pop song to tackle subject matter that's hard to talk about is defiant in nature, that it's actually a rebellion against the subject matter. To be able to smile in the face of adversity."

The video tells a horror story of a pill-popping cannibal model. The clip reflects the senselessness of those who try to escape life through drugs and delusion. "It's a commentary on the modeling industry and the fashion industry and the pressures women feel and girls feel every day," said Mark Foster to MTV News. "It's a playful take on that; it's not too heavy handed."

Jennifer Holliday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

Jennifer Holliday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dreamgirls (Original Cast) Soundtrack
Released: 1982

And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going Lyrics

And I am tellin' you I'm not goin'
You're best man I've ever known
There's no way I can ever go
No, no, there's no way
No, no, no, no, way

I'm not livin' without you
I'm not livin' without you
I don't wanna be free
I'm stayin', I'm stayin'
And you, and you
You're gonna love me

And I am tellin' you, I'm not goin'
Even though the rough times are showin'
There's just no way
There's no way

We're part of the same place
We're part of the same time, yeah
We both share the same blood
We both have the same mind

And time and time
We have so much to share
No, no, no, no, no, no
I'm not wakin' up tomorrow mornin'
And findin' that there's nobody there

Darlin' there's no way
No, no, no, no, way
I'm livin' without you
I'm not livin' without you
You see there's just no way
There's no way

Tear down the mountains
Yell, scream and shout
You can say what you want
I'm not walkin' out'

Stop all the rivers
Push, strike and kill
I'm not gonna leave you
There's no way I will

And I am tellin' you, I'm not goin'
You're the best man I'll ever know
There's no way I can ever, ever go
No, no, no, no, way
No, no, no, no, way

I'm livin' without you
I'm not livin' without you
Not livin' without you
I don't wanna be free
I'm stayin', I'm stayin'
And you, and you, and you
You're gonna love me
You're gonna love me, yes, ah

Ooh, ooh, love me
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh love me
Love me, love me, love me
Love me, you're gonna love me

Writer/s: KRIEGER, HENRY D. / EYEN, TOM
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

This was from the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which is loosely based on the history of the Supremes. Holliday appeared in the musical playing Effie White. In 1982, she won a Tony for her performance, and the song won a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. That same year, the soundtrack won a Grammy for Best Cast Show Album.

Holliday's performance of this song stopped the show and became her signature song. It was then released as a single, became a #1 R&B hit, and led to a career in pop music. (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for above 2)

Jennifer Hudson played Effie White in the movie adaptation of the show, winning the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2006 Oscars. Her version of this torch song was released as a single reaching #60 in the US. It also appears on her 2008 self-titled debut album.

Frankie Miller - Darlin'

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Album: Once in a Blue Moon
Released: 1978

Darlin' Lyrics

Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime
Darlin' you're so far behind me
Tomorrow's gonna find me
Further down the line

Takin' me some paper
Pencil in my hand
I'm gonna write
Darlin' you know I feel the cold nights
Thinking of the old nights
Spent along with you

Darlin' the tear is in my eye now
Knowing I can try now
To make it back to you

Darlin'
Love you more than ever
Wish we were together
Darlin' of mine

Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime
Darlin' you're so far behind me
Tomorrow's gonna find me
Further down the line

Oh my darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime

Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime

Darlin'
I'm feeling pretty lonesome
I'd call you on the phone some
But I don't have a dime

Writer/s: BILLY MCISSAC
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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Darlin'

Oscar Stewart Blandamer's music career started as a sax player with such bands as Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, Johnny Wakelin & the Kinshasa Band, and the Q Tips. He went onto forge a successful songwriting career penning such tunes as "I'll Mend Your Broken Heart" for Phil Everly and Cliff Richard and "Tomb of Memories" for Paul Young. This tune was Blandameyer's most successful song.

Despite writing "Darlin" in 1970, it wasn't until 1977 that the song was recorded by the British Country band Poacher, who had won the British TV talent show New Faces. It was expected that it would be a big hit for them, but despite a great deal of airplay it flopped in the UK though it did make #86 on the US Country charts.

A year later, producer Dave Mackay gave the song to Frankie Miller, who recorded a a rock and blues version giving him his first and and only UK Top 10 hit. It also topped the singles chart in Norway and fell just short of the US Hot 100.

Miller only recorded this because of pressure from his record label to do more commercial material. He'd been given an ultimatum by his label, record a hit single or be dropped. "They were always trying to shape Frankie in some way," his partner Annette told Mojo magazine, "So when they got him to cover Darlin' it saddened him. He didn't really rate it as a song and it wasn't at all representative."

According to Ray Minhinnett, the guitarist on Miller's 1977 album Full House, when the singer finally met Blandamer in a club after recording the song, he swore at the songwriter, took a bottle of ketchup and covered him in it.

There have been many other recorded versions of the song, including two successful ones by by David Rogers and Tom Jones, both of which reached the Top 20 of the Billboard country chart. Bonnie Raitt also sang it in the John Travolta film Urban Cowboy.

Maureen McGovern - We May Never Love Like This Again

Maureen McGovern - We May Never Love Like This Again Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Academy Award Performance
Released: 1975

We May Never Love Like This Again Lyrics

We May Never Love Like This Again
Don't stop the flow
We can't let go

We may never love like this again
And touch the sky
Now we may try

So while we here
Let's give up all
We listed the dreams inside us
And set them free

Oh, while we here
Let's live a mark
There's a candle in the dark
It's here to guide us

We may never love like this again
But through the days
Beyond the highs
I'll see you
Reaching out to hold me
I don't know just
Where or when
Still I'm sure

We'll love again, we'll love again
We'll love again (we may never love like this again)

We'll love again (we may never love like this again)
We'll love again (we may never love like this again)

We'll love again (we may never love like this again)

Writer/s: HIRSCHHORN, JOEL / KASHA, AL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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We May Never Love Like This Again

This was the theme from the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. McGovern made a short appearance in the film.

Although this song was not much of a hit as a pop single, it won an Oscar for Best Original Song. One year after McGovern recorded it, it was included on her third album, Academy Award Performance.

Along with "The Morning After" (her biggest hit) and the Oscar-nominated song "Wherever Love Takes Me" (from the 1974 disaster film "Gold"), this song led the media to called McGovern "the Disaster Theme Queen." (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for all above)

Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else

Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Somewhere Else
Released: 2014

Somewhere Else Lyrics

Somewhere Else

The title track of Lydia Loveless' third album was written while she was at SXSW. The singer recalled to American Songwriter magazine: "It sort of came to me when I was half asleep and I knew I wanted to call the album that, but I knew the song had to be really good. When we finally got into the studio with it I was amazed with how we handled it–I think it sounds really dreamy, especially the harmonies. I'm very proud of it."

The song describes a constant wanderlust: "I just have a lot of discontent and restlessness," Loveless told Radio.com . "So it's mostly about that."

Jean Knight - You Think You're Hot Stuff

Jean Knight - You Think You're Hot Stuff Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mr. Big Stuff
Released: 1971

You Think You're Hot Stuff Lyrics

You Think You're Hot Stuff

This can be considered a sequel to Knight's biggest hit, "Mr. Big Stuff." They both have similar subject matter and were both written by the same songwriters - Joe Broussard, Ralph Williams, and Carrol Washington.

Along with five other songs, this was recorded and released after Knight's biggest hit "Mr. Big Stuff" and her album of the same name. When the album was reissued on CD in 1991, the six songs which did not appear on it were included as bonus tracks.

This was Jean Knight's second single for the Stax label. Before recording for Stax, she released a couple of singles that were popular locally but not nationally. (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for above 2)

Paolo Nutini - Scream (Funk My Life Up)

Paolo Nutini - Scream (Funk My Life Up) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Caustic Love
Released: 2014

Scream (Funk My Life Up) Lyrics

How was I to know you'd just come along?
And funk my life up
Lips like debbie's, sing sex like strawberry songs
Just funk my life up
Never heard her coming, thought it was just another woman
With a shotgun in her hand
Funk my life up

She's the bass, she's the beat, she's the rhythm, she's the band
Just funk my life up
And that girl, so fine
Makes you wanna scream hallelujah

Sly hands, spinning wax lights, oh God
Beats are dripping on me like spider milk
And I never heard the warning when I woke up in the morning
With my sunshine on a drip

She's my rock, she's my but, she's the dealer trip
And that girl, so fine
Makes you wanna scream hallelujah

How could I refuse? I'm not fit to chose
Just funk my life up
Said the only way I win is the way I lose
Just funk my life up
And I never got the script, I unzipped
Got a little bit wet up there in my brain
She's your church, she's your sin, she's a comic, she's a
And that girl, so fine
You wanna scream

She gets me sinning, she's like a trick on me
Hell, I don't even know her name but yet she sticks to me
And in the climax she would scream with me
Yeah, she sticks to me
She gets me funny, she doesn't want none of my money
So I pour it over her like gasoline
Light a match and then I'm back in my teens
Me and super girl smoking my green
Me and super girl smoking my green

Oh, Lord, reload, ice bags, scream
Sweet thing, nose ring, jet pack, sing
That girl so fine, makes you wanna scream hallelujah
Hallelujah
Yeah, that girl, so fine you wanna scream

Writer/s: NUTINI, PAOLO GIOVANNI
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Scream (Funk My Life Up)

The song's joyous Nez-directed music video sees Nutini traipsing around Los Angeles as he encounters an array of '70s-themed dancers, beautiful cheerleaders and other unique Hollywood characters on the way. "What a pleasure it was to make … all of those interesting, beautiful people, giving us an insight into how they do what they do and being kind enough to do it on camera," said Nutini. "[I] loved every second of it. Shine on, you crazy diamonds."

Caustic Love was Nutini's third album, and his first with no producer conflict. Nutini clashed with Guy Chambers on his first album, and with Ethan Johns on his second. He told Swide about his positive experience working with producer Dani Castelar on Caustic Love. "He facilitated my ideas, he made them happen beyond my skills," Nutini said. "I kept the record company at bay, I made sure that nobody but me influenced the sessions. He took care of the rest: he found a lot of talented musicians and instruments, he provided a great studio."

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Yes Album
Released: 1971

Yours Is No Disgrace Lyrics

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, Yours Is No Disgrace.

Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are,
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are,
Lost in summer, morning, winter, travel very far,
Lost in musing circumstances, that's just where you are.

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.

Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth,
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear.

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.

Writer/s: ANDERSON, JON/SQUIRE, CHRIS/HOWE, STEVE JAMES/BRUFORD, WILLIAM SCOTT/KAYE, TONY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Yours Is No Disgrace

The lyric in this song, "Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human race," helps explain the story behind it. Caesar's Palace is a casino in Las Vegas, and an interesting reference for a British band to make. When we asked Yes frontman/lyricist Jon Anderson about it, he explained: "I'd just been to Vegas and it was amazing how crazy the place was and how silly we are. Silly human race. It was something to do with how crazy we can be as a human race to be out there flittering money around and gambling, trying to earn that big payout, when actually that's not what life is truly about. Our life is truly about finding our divine connection with God, if you like. You know, that's why we live.

And whenever I sing that song, it always comes back to me that I'm singing about that kind of Caesar's Palace, morning glory, sweet human race - it's on a sailing ship to nowhere, planet earth. The planet earth is not going anywhere. It's going around the sun, of course, but we're on this sailing ship to nowhere, leaving anyplace. It's like Earth Mother. So don't worry about stuff, it's not our fault if things go wrong." (Here's our full Jon Anderson interview .)

The Vietnam War was an influence on this song. Governments fight wars, not men and women - therefore yours is no disgrace. The message is that war has no winners and no real meaning - as Jon Anderson has explained, the young people going off to fight the war had no say in the matter, and the war itself was certainly not their fault.

"Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth, Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear" - killing is brutal and cruel, but the disgrace falls not on the soldiers, but on those who orchestrated the war.

Steve Howe devised a completely new opening to this song specifically for the Yessongs live album, a decision that was made at the last minute. (thanks, Adrian - Brookings, SD)

The entire band is credited with writing this song. Steve Howe has said that his guitar part is one of his favorite contributions to Yes. With modern equipment, they were able to do overdubs, which was new to Howe. "It was a 'studioized' solo because it was made up in different sections," he said. "I became three guitarists."

Young Money - We Alright

Young Money - We Alright Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Young Money: Rise of an Empire
Released: 2014

We Alright Lyrics

I couldn't have done it better
I couldn't have done this shit any other way
I made it now when they tried to convince me to make it another day
Glad I can see another day
I do this shit for my squad, my home team
My family, fuck what another say

I'm here now, it's all clear now
Somebody pour up
I'm eating good y'all can't see my competition til I throw up
I'm tore up but I keep shit 100
That's from the toes up
Last night it felt like I ran through four clubs
Stood on the couch and everyone of em' screaming out
"Hoes down and bros up"
It's different when we show up, kicking doors up
I'm a young Stunna, young Wayne, I'm Young Money
I'm growned up like I'm new here but I'm nuclear
That's a bomb threat mothafucker, watch how blow up

I'm good, I'm reminded I'm good
From time to time I'm fine
I be spending time with the Greatest Of All Time all the time
And ever since I'm living life every night like it's '99
I'm way ahead of my time I think I was only 8 at that time
I rep them five letters forever
Will someone just tell the bartender to mix my drink
While I mix my thoughts of business in pleasure, I'm clever
Long money all around me
I just hope I live long enough, long enough to measure
We should take pictures sippin' Cristal in COOGI sweaters
And I'm still getting better nigga, what's better?
They said I never do it now I'm looking around like, nigga what's never?
And now they run from us when they see us, boy that money's pressure
Plots on the wall of every building that I walk into
Phone taps 'cause they curious, careful what you talk into
Living the star life you'll never know you'll run into
Like baby I can change your life
Just leave everything that you been through and rise

Long as my niggas right then We Alright
Long as the women right then we alright
Long as the drinks on ice then we alright
Long as these private flights then we alright
Long as we living right then we alright
Long as it's high life then we alright
'Cause I love it more than anything (anything)
Boy it's money over everything, we've been alright

Yea, it's money over everything
We motivated, flying over everything
We make something out of nuttin, what up 5?
Bag full of every president that ever died
Yea, spraying everything that's in the way
We eating over here extended clips, 50 plates
It's a lifestyle, stunna life, everyday
A million ones we can throw this shit a million ways
Youngin, if you alright then we alright
Night life GTV popping every night
Fly rich in a different city bright lights
With my niggas, rich gang and living high life
Yea, guns in the basement, millions in the wall, GTV cases
If it's fuck em' then it's fuck em' all
Audemars and cigars and them new toys

Long as my niggas right then we alright
Long as the women right then we alright
Long as the drinks on ice then we alright
Long as these private flights then we alright
Long as we living right then we alright
Long as it's high life then we alright
'Cause I love it more than anything
Boy it's money over everything, we been alright

Do this shit for riz-zeal
Young Money, Rich Gang, ya heard me, with big ears
You just a crocodile, I drink a full cup of his tears
Can’t recognize you nigga, like Santa cut off his beard
And Tunechi, he gon’ be alright as long as he got his pills
I’m higher than my bitch bill, stop cryin bout' em', bitch chill
And I'm working on that Carter 5, I got this bitch in fifth gear
I can't stand these niggas, I'ma lie down or sit still
Get tied down with that fucking steel, at your eyebrow or your fucking grill
Catch you while you layed up, straight up, bunny ears
I shoot your fucking fade up, badges don't touch me
If that pussy smell like cat fish salmon trout or guppies
I ain't trippin on no ho, treat that ho like a servant
I know that ho better know, how to deep throat like a serpent
But lose lips shink ships, but I just let these hoes Worship
She think I'm a window of opportunity, close curtains, Tunechi

If my niggas right then we alright
If the women right then we alright (we alright)
Them drinks on ice then we alright (we alright)
If it's private flights then we alright (alright alright)
Long as we living right then we alright (alright alright)
Long as it's high life then we alright (alright alright)
'Cause I love it more than anything
Boy it's money over everything, we been alright

Yeah long as my niggas right then we alright (we alright)
Long as the women right then we alright (you alright)
Long as the drinks on ice then we alright (we alright)
Long as these private flights then we alright (alright alright)
Long as we living right then we alright (alright alright)
Long as it's high life then we alright (fuckin' right)
'Cause I love it more than anything
Boy it's money over everything, we been alright

Writer/s: CARTER, DWAYNE / GUMBLEY, SAM ANDREW / WILLIAMS, BRYAN / RODRIGUEZ, EUFRADIS / WILLIAMS, RONALD
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

We Alright

This song finds New Young money signee, Euro, hooking up with the label's founder Lil Wayne and Cash Money head honcho Birdman. It is one of three Young Money: Rise of an Empire tracks the Rhode Island rapper features on, the others being "Induction Speech" and "Bang."

Speaking to Artist Direct about his contribution to the track Euro said: "I put a lot into that verse. I'm letting people know I'm new, and I'm trying to gain respect. That's the mode I was in. I didn't want to waste time talking about anything crazy. If I would've dreamed about this moment, it would've only fallen short."