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The Supremes - No Matter What Sign You Are

The Supremes - No Matter What Sign You Are Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Let the Sunshine In
Released: 1969

No Matter What Sign You Are Lyrics

Capricorn, Scorpio, Taurus
Gemini, Virgo, Cancer
Pieces, Leo, Libra
Aries, Aquarius, Sagittarius

The moon shines bright above
And the charts declare it's not my night for love
Ah the beat of my heart
I feel a good vibration
Saying you and me baby
Would make a good combination
There's no need for looking to the stars
Can't you see the stars shine in my eyes
I love you boy,
I really love you boy

No Matter What Sign You Are
You're gonna be mine you are
Can't let astrology chart our destiny
No matter what sign you are
You're gonna be mine you are

The beat of the heart my love
Is stronger than the charts my love
Your water sign just lit my fire
You fill me with such desire
I love you boy,
I really love you boy

No matter what sign you are
You're gonna be mine you are
Can't let astrology chart our destiny
Oh no matter what sign you are
You're gonna be mine you are
Need you beside me love
Only you guide me love

Capricorn, Scorpio, Taurus
Gemini, Virgo, Cancer
Pieces, Leo, Libra
Aries, Aquarius, Sagittarius

I don't care about your rising sign
All I know is when your lips touch mine
You move me boy, you really move me boy
No matter what sign you are
You're gonna be mine you are
Hold me tight, ah hold me
Hold me, hold me, hold me

Writer/s: Gordy Jr, Berry / Cosby, Henry
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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No Matter What Sign You Are

Along with many other songs of the late '60s, this song was inspired by the huge interest in horoscopes and Zodiac signs.

The song is officially credited to "Diana Ross and the Supremes."

For their 1990 album Poison, the hip-hop group Bell Biv DeVoe sampled the intro of this on their song "Ain't Nut'in' Changed."

The working titles for this song were "Don't Destroy Me" and "The Paper Said Rain." (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for all above)

Lit - My Own Worst Enemy

Lit - My Own Worst Enemy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: A Place in the Sun
Released: 1999

My Own Worst Enemy Lyrics

Can we forget about the things I said When I was drunk
Didn't mean to call you that
I can't remember what was said and what you threw at me
Please tell me

Please tell me why
The car is in the front yard and I'm
Sleeping with my clothes on
Came in through the window last night
And you're gone gone
It's no surprise to me I am My Own Worst Enemy
Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me
A smoke alarm is going off and there's a cigarette
Still burning

Please tell me why
The car is in the front yard and I'm
Sleeping with my clothes on
Came in through the window last night
And you're gone gone
It's no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy
Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me
Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk
I didn't mean to call you that

And you're gone gone

Writer/s: POPOFF, ALAN / BALDES, KEVIN / POPOFF, JEREMY / SHELLENBERGER, ALLEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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My Own Worst Enemy

This was the biggest hit for the Orange County, California Alternative Rock band Lit. It was written by the Popoff brothers - singer A. Jay and guitarist Jeremy - and held the #1 position on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for 12 weeks. The track received a Billboard Music Award as the biggest Modern Rock song of 1999.

The song's narrator is recounting his regrets at getting wasted and making a complete idiot of himself.

The song featured in the TV show Parks and Recreation where some of the characters are seen playing the tune on Rock Band 2.

Suzanne Vega - Luka

Suzanne Vega - Luka Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Solitude Standing
Released: 1987

Luka Lyrics

[Chorus:]
My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you've seen me before
If you hear something late at night
Some kind of trouble, some kind of fight
Just don't ask me what it was [Repeat x 3]

I think it's because I'm clumsy
I try not to talk too loud
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
I try not to act too proud
They only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore [Repeat x 3]

Yes I think I'm okay
I walked into the door again
Well, if you ask that's what I'll say
And it's not your business anyway
I guess I'd like to be alone
With nothing broken, nothing thrown
Just don't ask me how I am [Repeat x 3]

[Chorus]

I think it's because I'm clumsy
I try not to talk too loud
Maybe it's because I'm crazy
I try not to act too proud
They only hit until you cry
And after that you don't ask why
You just don't argue anymore [Repeat x 3]

Writer/s: VEGA, SUZANNE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Luka

This song is about child abuse. It tells the story of a frightened boy who is forbidden to talk about what he's going through.

On a 1987 Swedish television special, Vega said: "A few years ago, I used to see this group of children playing in from of my building, and there was one of them, whose name was Luka, who seemed a little bit distinctive from the other children. I always remembered his name, and I always remembered his face, and I didn't know much about him, but he just seemed set apart from these other children that I would see playing. And his character is what I based the song Luka on. In the song, the boy Luka is an abused child - In real life I don't think he was. I think he was just different."

Speaking with SongTalk magazine, Vega explained that she started with the title for this song. Describing how she wrote it, she said: "It takes months of kind of fingering it in my mind, while I'm walking around or doing something else, it's just like a problem that my mind goes back to. It wiggles. It's like you're trying to get the right angle, and once the angle comes, I can write the song in two hours. Like 'Luka' took two hours. It took months of thinking about it and lining up the shot, in a sense. Like if you're playing pool and you want to clear the table, you line it all up, and then you just hit it and everything clears. It's very satisfying, but it takes months of preparation.

I wasn't sure what the character would say. I knew what the character's problem was, but I didn't know how to get the listener involved. I wanted it to be from the point of view of a person who is abused. Now the problem that that person has is that they can't say it. So how do you get the problem out if you can't say it? How do you involve the listener? Well, you introduce yourself: 'My name is Luka.' And 'I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you,' and so therefore you're engaging the listener. 'I think you've seen me before,' so you start to listen. You're drawing the listener into this world with very simple, basic information. And it then proceeds to state the problem without ever saying what the problem is. That was my problem as a songwriter: How do I give this information without ever giving it?

It's easy to point a finger. It's easy to say, 'Child abuse must stop' and everybody knows this."

Vega wrote this song about three years before it was released on her second album. It was written before her debut album, but Vega said it "needed some time for it to settle into the bag of songs."

There is a great deal of lyrical dissonance in this song, as the stark story of child abuse contrasts with the catchy melody. Vega explained to SongTalk: "Because I was aiming at such a complex subject, I was aiming for the simplest line to get there. Simple melodies, happy chords. I felt I had to make it accessible because it was such a dark subject. So I went all out. But I also tried to write in the language of a child. So that's probably why it worked, because it is so accessible."

The video was directed by Michael Patterson and his wife Candace Reckinger, and it used an experimental animation technique that they popularized in the video for a-ha's "Take On Me."

Metronomy - The Most Immaculate Haircut

Metronomy - The Most Immaculate Haircut Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Love Letters
Released: 2014

The Most Immaculate Haircut Lyrics

He's got The Most Immaculate Haircut
But with the right dye and shampoo, maybe I could too

And he's got the most desirable friendship group
But boy when you got that hairdo, they're not gonna call you

Now we got to get together and make some amends
I see the girls falling for you, oh she must adore you woah
Woah
Woah
Woah

I get this feeling in my bones
Sometimes it's like my legs might fall away
A shooting pain runs down my left hand side and I
I think of you

Oh hush now
Don't have a baby
Look at what you gave me
We can always grow, you know
Oh hush now
Don't have a baby
Look at what you gave me
We can always grow together

I get this feeling in my bones
Sometimes it's like my legs might fall away
A shooting pain runs down my left hand side and I
I think of you

Oh hush now
Don't have a baby
Look at what you gave me
We can always grow, you know
Oh hush now
Don't have a baby
Look at what you gave me
We can always grow, you know
Oh hush now
Oh hush now
Oh hush now
Oh hush now

Writer/s: MOUNT, JOSEPH PATRICK
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Most Immaculate Haircut

This song was inspired by the New Zealand psychedelic pop musician Connan Mockasin and his pristine blonde hair. "I was born to be the drummer – then it doesn't matter what you look like," frontman Joe Mount told NME about his own thatch of untameable curls. "If only I could pull that kind of thing off, but I can't. When people have amazing haircuts and become iconic because of their hair, that defined look will see them through for their entire career."

Mount originally planned this to be a duet with Connan Mockasin about his hair, but the New Zealab#nder was on the wrong side of the world at the time, so the duet never happened. This left a gap in the song, which Mount filled with some pool-side noises. He explained to NME: "The splashing sound you hear is actually a very elegant dive by my girlfriend on the first family holiday we had after my son was born."

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Year Of The Cat
Released: 1976

Year of the Cat Lyrics

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the Year of the Cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

While she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

Year of the cat

Writer/s: WOOD, PETER / STEWART, AL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., CARLIN AMERICA INC
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Year of the Cat

Stewart is Scottish born, and has been recording since 1967. His songs have lots of very catchy tunes, many historical and political themes, and lots of clever lyrics that seem to paint pictures in your mind. He was once described as the chief scribe of English music. (thanks, steve - worcester, England)

Many of the lyrics were inspired by the 1942 Humphrey Bogart movie Casablanca.

The title comes from Vietnamese astrology. The Year of the Cat is also called the Year of the Rabbit... It comes every 12 Years and it is supposed to be a stress free year. The Last Year of the Cat was 1999. It was also the Year of the Cat in 1975, the year before this came out. But, there is no guarantee that the Year of the Cat that Stewart sang about was 1975, since it could have been 1963, 1951,1939, 1927 and so forth. We'll look forward to the next one in 2011. (thanks, Brian - Grand Forks, ND)

Alan Parsons produced the album. Parsons was a prominent recording engineer long before going on to his own solo success. He had previously worked on the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon.

This started off as a completely different song. Al Stewart originally wrote the lyrics after seeing the British comedian Tony Hancock in Bournemouth, England in 1966. Hancock was very depressed, and the show was a disaster, with the comedian going to the front of the stage and addressing the audience directly and pouring out his soul. In Al Stewart: The True Life Adventures of a Folk Rock Troubadour , Stewart is quoted: "He came on stage and he said 'I don't want to be here. I'm just totally pissed off with my life. I'm a complete loser, this is stupid. I don't know why I don't just end it all right here.' And they all laughed, because is was the character he played... this sort of down-and-out character. And I looked at him and I thought, Oh my god, He means it. This is for real." Hancock killed himself in 1968 with a drug overdose. Stewart's song was originally titled "Foot Of The Stage," with the chorus, "Your tears fall down like rain at the foot of the stage.
Many of Stewart's songs have alternate lyrics, and he wasn't happy with the Hancock-inspired words, as he didn't want to take advantage of the man's tragedy and besides, no one in America knew who Hancock was. Al re-wrote the lyrics as "Year Of The Cat," which he delivered to Parsons. (thanks, mike - Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Metronomy - Reservoir

Metronomy - Reservoir Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Love Letters
Released: 2014

Reservoir Lyrics

I heard you made the hull of a boat downtown
I heard you got a job at the builders yard
But we should never say that we drifted far
Yeah we should never say that we drifted far

And I could never take good care of you
Because we had so much to lose
But we should never say that we drifted far
Yeah we should take a trip to the Reservoir
Yeah we should take a trip to the reservoir

Heartbeats drifting together
Heartbeats aaaaah
Walk in the wood
Wet under foot
Up to no good
Ah-ah-ah-ah

I heard you cast off and she sailed real fine
I heard you met her bow with a bottle of wine
Well you should let me know when you're home and dry
Well you should let me know when you're home and dry

I heard you took an old school friend with you
The one you always said you would
Well we can never say that we drifted far

Yeah we should take a trip to the reservoir
Yeah we should take a trip to the reservoir

Heartbeats drifting together
Heartbeats aaaaah
Walk in the wood
Wet under foot
Up to no good
Ah-ah-ah-ah

Writer/s: MOUNT, JOSEPH PATRICK
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Reservoir

The song uses maritime imagery to represent the friends that drift away when you become a parent. Joe Mount told NME: "It's about a place near where I grew up. Throughout my life, it was somewhere where I would go to do different things. And it's also about friendships that change as you grow up."

The song's music video sees an animated version of Metronomy going on a curious journey that takes in on the way classic moments from some of their previous clips.

The video was directed by Daniel Brereton and his team of animators. Brereton previously worked with the band on their "Hypnose" and "Heartbreaker" clips and has also directed several visuals for Kate Nash including the ones for "Do Wah Doo" and "Kiss That Grrrl."

Jimi Hendrix - Fire

Jimi Hendrix - Fire Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Are You Experienced?
Released: 1967

Fire Lyrics

[DJ]
"The Jimi Hendrix experience sounding off again now,
With one of Jimi's own called 'Fire'"

You don't care for me
I don't care about that
Gotta new fool
I like it like that

[Chorus]
I have only one burnin' desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand baby
Let me stand next to your fire
Oh, let me stand
Let me stand next to your fire
You got to let me stand
Let me stand next to your fire

Oh shucks
Yeah

You say your mom ain't home, you can't let me in
Well, I had to before I don't need you again

[Chorus]

Ah yeah move over rover
And let Jimi take over
Yeah you know what I'm talking 'bout

That's what I'm talking about
You try to gimmie your money
You better save it babe
Save it for your rainy day

I have only one a burnin' desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Yeah let me stand
Let me stand next to your fire
Oh, let me stand
Let me stand next to your fire
You know what I'm talken about

Writer/s: BECK, WILLIE / WILLIAMS, JAMES L. / JONES, MARSHALL / BONNER, LEROY / PIERCE, MARVIN / MIDDLEBROOKS, RALPH / SATCHELL, CLARENCE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Fire

The main lyrics in this song ("Let me stand next to your fire") came from a time when the band had just finished a gig in the cold around Christmas, 1966. They went to bass player Noel Redding's mother's house in Folkestone, England, and when they got there, Jimi asked Redding's mother Margaret if he could "Stand next to her fire" to warm up. The family dog, a German Shepherd, lay by the fire, which inspired the line, "Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over."

This lyrical lightening bolt was a breakthrough for Hendrix, who had just started writing songs at the request of his manager Chas Chandler. Writing riffs was easy for him, and it turned out he had a talent for crafting lyrics as well, as he was able to turn a simple line into a fiery tale of lustful passion. (This story is verified in Mat Snow's Mojo story on Hendrix that ran in the October, 2006 issue.)

Hendrix is legendary for theatrics like setting his guitar on fire and playing it with his teeth (not at the same time). This was the song he was (appropriately) playing when he set it on fire for the first time. It happened at a concert in London in March 1967, two months before the Are You Experienced? album was released. Hendrix was low on the bill (below Engelbert Humperdinck), and looking to garner some media attention. When he ignited his guitar, he created a buzz that grew to a roar as his career took off.

Hendrix set fire to his guitar once again at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. At that show, he didn't do the bit during "Fire," he did it after playing "Wild Thing."

The Red Hot Chili Peppers often covered this song in their early years. They decided to play it again at Woodstock '99 in Rome, New York and were accused of deliberately encouraging the rioters. While they played it, the crowd tore the place up and set fires (yes, Rome was burning). (thanks, Tom - Trowbridge, England)

Gary Moore covered this on his 1999 release A Different Beat. (thanks, Mike - Victoria, B.C., Canada)

In the movie Wayne's World, Wayne falls in love with the bassist from an all-girl band (Tia Carrere) after seeing them cover this song at Gasworks. (thanks, Jamin King - Puyallup, WA)

Rick Ross - Rich Is Gangsta

Rick Ross - Rich Is Gangsta Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mastermind
Released: 2014

Rich Is Gangsta Lyrics

I just upped my stock, fuck them cops
If you love hip-hop bust them shots
Your man is priceless, if your man is loyal
Better give that man a raise your end up paying for it
If you cut it, call it Jam Master Jay
No Adidas but I rock a brick a day
Talk about the jewels outta reach
Please, so I came back with a bigger piece
Nigga please, so I came back with a bigger piece
You still smokin' weed on your car chase
I'm pullin' off the car lot screamin' God's grace
Before the crib you gotta clear the guard's gate
Elevators like Frank's on Scarface
New Presidential had that
Like a G, I gave the Cartier to Wale
Then I gave Meek Mill a Range Rover
Told Warner Brothers that the game's over

For me moving forward from here on I need 50
I ain't talking 50 cent neither, haha

I came back a rich nigga
Young mogul, Bo Jackson, I'm a switch hitter
They want me face down on the pavement
Gang members claiming I need to make a payment
It's hard for a young black executive
Can't you see we're all fucking relatives
Relatively easy we can go to war
Fuck it, we can go to war
Chasing me a hundred million, inshallah
Fresh up out the Feds, welcome home Jabar
I watch him pray five times a day
Same one that use
AK's in his heyday
Benz coupe, wood frames, low fade
Got the cubans, got the boats, got the ZOES
Worth much more than gold
So what's your goals? All my shit went gold
I remember smoking mid grade
Till I went and got my shit straight
I'm spittin' like it's a fucking mixtape
Till they seen a ghost with
Sitting in the trap blowing thick smoke
Traffic in my
Feds tore apart the squad
That's why I had to play the part
That wasn't me, that was a job
It gets deeper, that was just a start
Screaming in my sleep, I know Lord hear me
Death to you fuckboys, on my 4th Bentley

Gangsta, Rich Is Gangsta
This is gangsta
Yeah, rich is gangsta
You know where we came from
Look where we at

Writer/s: MAURICE JORDAN, BYRON KEITH FOREST II, WILLIAM LEONARD ROBERTS, HAMISH STUART, ALAN EDWARD GORRIE
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Rich Is Gangsta

The song title is a quote that Ross used in his explanation of why he canceled the 2012 Maybach Music Group tour. He said:

"And to me, Rich Is Gangsta. Loyal is gangsta. You understand?
Family is gangsta. If that's not gangsta, I don't wanna be gangsta.
I'm a BOSS."

The song was produced by Black Metaphor, who also made The Game's Jesus Piece cut "Ali Bombaye," a track Ross was featured on.

The song finds Ross rapping about his controversial stint as a prison guard and his motivation of becoming one.

"Feds tore apart the squad, nigga
That's why I had to play the part, nigga
That wasn't me, it was a job, nigga
It gets deeper, that was just a start, nigga."

"That particular line most definitely referred to me being a C.O.," Ross explained to RapFix Live host Sway Calloway. "And that being a job and just understanding the grind and the hustle and anything else I may have done. It's just a job, it's a hustle."

Ross told us that his pal, Jabbar, got hit with a 25-year prison sentence on his God Forgives, I Don't track "Pirates." Two years later, Rozay is celebrating his friend's release on this song when he shouts out, "Fresh up out the Fed system, welcome home Jabbar."

Black Metaphor's beat utilizes a sample from Scottish R&B act Average White Band's 1976 tune, "Soul Searching."

Radiohead - 2+2=5

Radiohead - 2+2=5 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hail To The Thief
Released: 2003

2+2=5 Lyrics

Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights
I'll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes a five

I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April showers
And two and two always makes a five

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now

Because you're not there
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention

Yeah I feel it, I needed attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention

Yeah I need it, I needed attention
I needed attention
I needed attention
I needed attention

Yeah I love it, the attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Soon oh

I try to sing along
But the music's all wrong
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not

I'll swallow up flies?
Back and hide
But I'm not

Oh hail to the thief
Oh hail to the thief
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not

Don't question my authority or put me in the box
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not

Oh go up to the king, and the sky is falling in
But it's not
But it's not
Maybe not
Maybe not

Writer/s: YORKE, THOMAS EDWARD/SELWAY, PHILIP JAMES/O'BRIEN, EDWARD JOHN/GREENWOOD, JONATHAN RICHARD GUY/GREENWOOD, COLIN CHARLES
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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2+2=5

This is about things not necessarily being as they seem: January having April showers, two and two making a five, the term "hail to the thief" instead of "hail to the chief."

The first sound of the song is Jonny Greenwood plugging in his guitar. It was the very first sound that was recorded when Radiohead went into the studio to record Hail To The Thief.

The name of the album comes from this song. It is a reference to George Bush "stealing" the 2000 US Election.

The intro to this song is in 7/4 time.

There was two versions of this single: one came with "Remyxamatosis" (a remix of Myxamatosis, unsurprisingly) and a demo of "There, There." The second came with "Skttrbrain (Four Tet Remix)" (a remix of Scatterbrain), and "I Will (Los Angeles Version)." Radiohead took to releasing singles on 2 CDs - an EP (Extended Play) disc and a full-length album.

Each track on Hail To The Thief has an alternate name. The alternate name of this is "The Lukewarm." (thanks, rudi - melbourne, Australia, for all above)

Almost exactly at 2:25 (2 + 2 = 5), the beat of the song changes into the one the song finishes on. (thanks, Josh - Fountain, NC)

In an interview with New York magazine, guitarist Ed O'Brien talked about the unusual time signature used in this song: "One of the things that marks our band - that Thom and Jonny used to drive home all the time - is sounding different. You can do it through stuff like using unusual intervals on harmonies [in songs like "2 + 2 = 5"]. The trouble with a lot of Rock music is that people are still doing their Beatles and their Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young harmonies. You can't just keep making replications of those things."

According to Q magazine April 2008, this song signposted the album's lyrical themes, a vision of an Orwellian, post 9-11 world where nothing adds up. The vision was inspired by Thom Yorke's compulsive tracking of BBC Radio 4 news bulletins. It was there the singer first heard the phrase "Hail To The Thief," which was originally used to describe 19th century US president, John Quincy Adams.

At the beginning of the song you can faintly hear Jonny Greenwood say "We're on" to which his brother Colin Replies, "That's a nice way to start, Jonny." (thanks, alexander - whitby, United Kingdom)

The title of the song 2+2=5 is a reference to George Orwell's novel, "1984." In the book, Big Brother was teaching individuals to reject what they once knew to be true. Where 2+2=4, he was teaching them that 2+2=5. This theme correlates to the theme of the song. (thanks, Chris - Phoenix, AZ)

The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows

The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Poppy Seeds
Released: 1971

Where Evil Grows Lyrics

I like the way you smile at me
I felt the heat that enveloped me
And what I saw I liked to see
I never knew where evil grew

I should have steered away from you
My friend told me to keep clear of you
But something drew me near to you
I never knew where evil grew

Evil grows in the dark
Where the sun it never shines
Evil grows in cracks and holes
And lives in people's minds

Evil grew, it's part of you
And now it seems to be
That every time I look at you
Evil grows in me

If I could build a wall around you
I could control the thing that you do
But I couldn't kill the will within you
And it never shows
The place Where Evil Grows

Evil grows in the dark
Where the sun it never shines
Evil grows in cracks and holes
And lives in people's minds

Evil grew, it's part of you
And now it seems to be
That every time I look at you
Evil grows in me

Writer/s: TERRY JACKS
Publisher: CARLIN AMERICA INC
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Where Evil Grows

The Poppy Family was the married couple Susan and Terry Jacks. Terry wrote and produced their songs, while Susan handled vocals, although they both sang lead on this one. In their native Canada, this made it to #6, and it also charted on the American Hot 100 at #45.

Terry started writing the song in the mid-'60s, but didn't finish it until he came up with the chorus, which was prompted by his environmental activism. The song is specifically about the pulp mills in Canada that Terry accused of pumping pollutants deep into the Pacific Ocean along the British Columbia coast.

When Terry scored a huge hit with "Seasons in the Sun" a few years later, he eschewed protest songs in favor of direct action. "This destruction bothered me," Terry told us . "Through songs, I didn't think I could do it as well, so I found the only way to get action is through the media, drawing embarrassment to the government, because the government needs the people to vote."

Tool - Parabola

Tool - Parabola Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lateralus
Released: 2001

Parabola Lyrics

We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment,
We are choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside
This holy reality, this holy experience.
Choosing to be here in

This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion.

Alive, I

In this holy reality, in this holy experience. Choosing to be here in

This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal
All this pain is an illusion.

Twirling round with this familiar parable.
Spinning, weaving round each new experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion.

Writer/s: M.J. KEENAN, A. JONES, D. CAREY, J. CHANCELLOR
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Parabola

Because of the mathematical nature of a lot of the songs on Lateralus, they are speaking of the number Phi, which is considered The "divine proportion" -1.618. This proportion is found all over nature: In bee hives, snail shells... even the human body. Phi was derived from the Fibonacci sequence - a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms = the next term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the property of approaching 1.618.
A few examples:
In a honey bee community the female bees always outnumber the male bees. No matter what, in any beehive in the world if you divide the number of female bees by the male bees you always get 1.618... Phi.
Sea shells... the ratio of each spiral's diameter to the next = Phi.
Pine cone petals, leaf arrangement on plant stalks, insect segmentation... the human body.
Da Vinci was known for his love of the divine proportion - "The Vitruvian Man" was one of many. It has been proven that the human body itself is made of building blocks whose proportional ratios = Phi. If you take and measure the distance from the tip of your head to the floor, then divide that by the distance from your belly button to floor, you get Phi. Shoulder to finger tip then elbow to finger tip... Phi.
It is found in architectural dimensions of the Greek Parthenon, the pyramids of Egypt. Mozart's sonatas, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, etc, etc, etc.
This is one of the main reasons Pagans worship mother earth - this proportion was used in everything at the beginning of time. One of the perfect examples of Phi is the 5 pointed star, pentagram - or pentacle. This symbol is thought to be magical and divine by many cultures, the ratios of line segments in a pentacle = PHI. (thanks, Tara - San Diego, CA)

Trip-Hop artist Tricky is the main subject of the video. (thanks, James - Dartmouth, Canada)

Sara Evans - If I Run

Sara Evans - If I Run Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Slow Me Down
Released: 2014

If I Run Lyrics

You know they say that your first heartbreak
Can forever change the way you see love
But ask anyone who's had it broken more than once
They'll say it's twice as hard to get your heart to trust

So baby, can you tell me this
Can I count on all your promises
Are you gonna be the one that sticks

If I Run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
If I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run

I don't wanna make you feel bad
Or make you pay for the past
I'm so sorry that sometimes
I get twisted up

I'm not saying that I doubt the way you feel
I'm not saying what you're saying isn't real
I just really wanna know the deal

If I run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
If I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run

And if I'm broken
Feeling hopeless
I gotta know it
Really know it
Yeah, oh

If I run
Baby, will you chase me
Be the one who wants to save me
Never walk away no matter what
Oh, if I was lost
Would you come and find me
When I forget would you remind me
Who I am will always be enough
If I run
If I run
Baby, if I run
If I run

Writer/s: EVANS, SARA / ROCHELLE, KARYN / STEVENS, SHANE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, MAJOR BOB MUSIC, INC.
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If I Run

Evans wrote this ballad with Karyn Rochelle and Shane Stevens. Of the three Slow Me Down cuts penned by the singer, this is the most personal. "It's about this girl saying, 'I totally love you and I want this relationship, but I'm scared. I'm just letting you know that I have not been loved well in my life," she explained to Taste of Country . "So if I run, or if I get scared, will you chase me? Will you be the one that wants to save me?'"

"When we were writing … we were just talking about that fact that (when) little girls lose that relationship with their dad and they don't have a strong relationship with their dad throughout their teenage years and throughout their whole life, then they have this skewed sense of what love is," she continued. "And so they don't recognize love in the way that most girls do who have a strong father force in their life."

"Girls want to be pursued," Evans added. "So this song, is about being pursued and, you know, wanting that man to chase her and pursue her and let her know 'I would never let you walk away.'"

Sara Evans' husband, radio show host Jay Barker, calls this the "prodigal son song."