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*NSYNC - God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You

*NSYNC - God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: N' Sync
Released: 1998

God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You Lyrics

God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You

This is about a girl who changed a guy's life drastically in a good way: How can it be that right here with me there's an angel, it's a miracle." He cannot believe he is with such an amazing person. He is convinced that when God was creating her, He spent more time on her than anyone else. (thanks, Lisa - Palatine, IL)

De La Soul - Change in Speak

De La Soul - Change in Speak Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 3 Feet High and Rising
Released: 1989

Change in Speak Lyrics

Once again it's time to buy more soul
A flavor you will savor in your soul
Wax is distributed and then sold
So watch it turn, bring your next of kin soul
P.A. Mase has rocked it on the console
Scream real hard until you blow your tonsils
Bang-oh-bang until you burn your shoe soles
Cause you are now dancing to the new soul

Live is the motion of the soul step
Set the exposure to my one step
This scene'll last to the next step
All those in favor take a big step
True to the Soul, we'll never back step
In sense to that, we don't half step
Just as a reminder from the last step
Negative ones are lost in footsteps

Levels we've set will never go down
Competitions commence the step down
Those involved with peace who know the Soul's down
Can see that the Soul has got a new sound
Dance until you find yourself a new part
If you don't then I'll give you the True part
When received you'll see the real small part
Of the new way is no part at all

Pos and Dove is rarely caught not dressed in peace
Movements always walking round now stressing peace
When this biter should know true in peace
Instead they cause violence and shoot out beef
Still we are professing to be on a roll
Public cause this party going on the road
And if you crave sex, drugs and rock'n'roll
Sent by the Quest, Jungle and De La Soul

Give 'em a taste, Mase

Writer/s: SCIPIO, STEVE / PATTERSON, PATRICK / HUSTON, / JOLICOEUR, / MASON, / MERCER,
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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Change in Speak

This song blended the horns from the Mad Lads "No Strings Attached" and the syncopated drums from Cymande's "Bra." De La Soul's Posdnous recalled to Rolling Stone: "There was a record I found that had a whole bunch of great songs from the Mad Lads on it. Then we just decided to put the 'Bra' song from Cymade on it, we just started mashing things. We all worked together really well as a foursome, just trying to add different things."

Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia

Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Released: 1970

Cecilia Lyrics

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home
Come on home

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Up in my bedroom (making love)
I got up to wash my face
When I come back to bed someone's taken my place

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart
You're shaking my confidence daily
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees
I'm begging you please to come home
Come on home

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba

Jubilation
She loves me again
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing

Jubilation
She loves me again
I fall on the floor and I'm laughing

Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Writer/s: SIMON, PAUL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Cecilia

This song is about a guy who had a girlfriend, but then she broke up with him. Like it says in one of the verses, "I got up to wash my face, when I come back to bed someone's taken my place." But later on they get back together - "Jubilation, she loves me again." No too much should be read into the lyrics of this song. As Paul Simon explained in an interview with Rolling Stone: "Every day I'd come back from the studio, working on whatever we were working on, and I'd play this pounding thing. So then I said, 'Let's make a record out of that.' So we copied it over and extended it double the amount, so now we have three minutes of track, and the track is great. So now I pick up the guitar and I start to go, 'Well, this will be like the guitar part' - dung chicka dung chicka dung, and lyrics were virtually the first lines I said: 'You're breakin' my heart, I'm down on my knees.' They're not lines at all, but it was right for that song, and I like that. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, but it works." (thanks, Lisa - Palatine, IL)

In the Catholic church, Cecilia is the patron saint of musicians. In this context, the song can be interpreted as the singer asking for musical guidance, possibly to help writing a song. Paul Simon says he can't remember the specific inspiration when he was writing the song, but he knew Cecilia is the goddess of music. (thanks, Peter - L.A., CA)

According to the liner notes to Paul Simon's Anthology album, the strange sounding rhythm to this particular track was Paul and Art slapping their thighs, while Paul's brother Eddie thumped a piano bench and a friend named Stewie Scharff strummed a guitar with its strings slackened to the point of atonality. This all happened at a house Paul and Art were living in on Blue Jay Way in the summer of 1969, not long after the Charles Manson murders took place at the nearby home of the actress Sharon Tate. After they started the pounding and came up with the rhythm, they got out their Sony reel-to-reel tape recorder and made the recording. There was a 1:15 section that Simon thought was great, so they looped it in the studio, which wasn't easy in 1969 - you had to actually cut out the tape and put it on the recorder in a loop. Their producer Roy Halee added some reverb, and they had their basic backing track from this home recording. (thanks, Nick - Auckland, New Zealand)

Worked into the mix is the sound of drumsticks falling on the parquet floor of the Columbia Records studio in Los Angeles. Simon also played a bit of xylophone that was heavily processed and added to the track. They had a lot of fun recording it and were enjoying various experiments in sound.

In 1996 Suggs, the lead singer for Madness, teamed up with vocal duo Louchie Lou and Michie One to record a cover that peaked at #4 in the UK. This is the only time the song reached the Top 75 in Britain as surprisingly Simon & Garfunkel's original 1970 single failed to chart there.

The Swedish Pop group Ace Of Base recorded a song called "Cecilia" on their 1998 album Flowers that was based on the character in this song.

Drive-By Truckers - Pauline Hawkins

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Album: English Oceans
Released: 2014

Pauline Hawkins Lyrics

Don't call me your baby
I won't answer
Love is like cancer
And I am immune

To all that you're bringing
The tune that you're singing
A sign of a locked room
I saw the locked room

It's such an illusion
Before the collision
I made a decision

Don't tell me your secrets
I'd rather not listen
I know what I'm missing
It's always too soon
It's always too soon to be cold for comfort
To belong to someone inside a locked room

But that always happens when nobody's looking (nobody's looking)

I really don't care what's inside you
I wont stand beside you or answer your calls

I don't want to fight now
I'm only here right now
This moment is all
This moment is all

Don't call me your baby
I'm nobody's baby
I won't let you cage me
Or lock me away

I'm not yours to keep
Don't want you to save me
You're just a vacation
A wonder way station
To keep me awake, until I'm ready to sleep
To keep me awake, until I'm ready to sleep
To keep me awake, until I'm ready to sleep

Writer/s: PATTERSON HOOD
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Pauline Hawkins

This English Oceans track finds Patterson Hood singing of a woman resisting the bonds of genuine connection. Hood wrote this song after reading Richmond Fontaine frontman and author Willy Vlautin's 2014 novel of three intersecting lives, The Free. He penned it about one of its main characters, Pauline Hawkins, an emotionally removed nurse.

Hood said: "I got an advance copy of Willy's latest book, The Free. I've been a fan of his writing for a while. I read it in about three days. I finished it on Saturday, I wrote the song on Sunday, and then we cut it on Thursday and mastered the record on the following Monday. It sure makes it a better record."

The Supremes - Forever Came Today

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Album: Reflections
Released: 1967

Forever Came Today Lyrics

There you were
Standing there
As your eyes reached out to me
Something warm in your eyes
Touched my heart right then and there
All the love I never knew
I found in you

Suddenly
My world stood still
My life was then fulfilled
As you gently touched my hand
I knew that we had laying a plan
For everlasting love
That I been forever dreaming of

At last, oo
At last
My Forever Came Today (my forever came today)
When you walked into my life (when you walked into my life)
And made my lonely life
A paradise (a paradise)
It came today
Forever came today

As we were standing there
You didn't speak a single word
But your eyes
Your eyes said you wanted me
Your touch said you needed me
And my heart said tenderly

Darling, oo
My darling
Make me yours
Let your kiss touch my face
And tell me love has led me
To this place to your warm embrace
And our happiness

Thanks to you my search has ended
And I want the world to see
How gently love has shined on me
With everlasting love
That I been forever dreaming of

At last, oo
At last
My forever came today (my forever came today)
When you walked into my life (when you walked into my life)
And made my lonely life
A paradise (a paradise)
It came today
Forever came today

At last, oo
At last
My forever came today (my forever came today)
When you walked into my life (when you walked into my life)
And made my lonely life
A paradise (a paradise)
Oh it came today
Forever came today

At last
At last
My forever came today (my forever came today)
When you walked into my life

Writer/s: HOLLAND, EDWARD JR. / DOZIER, LAMONT / HOLLAND, BRIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Forever Came Today

This was the Supremes' last hit written by the songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Shortly thereafter, they left Motown to start their own record labels - Hot Wax and Invictus. In an ironic twist, Supreme Scherrie Payne's sister, Freda, signed with Invictus in 1969. (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for above 2)

This was credited to Diana Ross and the Supremes.

Drive-By Truckers - The Part of Him

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Album: English Oceans
Released: 2014

The Part of Him Lyrics

He was elected, wingnut raised and corn fed
Teabags dragging on the chamber floor
He did what he had to do to get southern boys to vote for you
To grease the wheels to get you in the door
But he must of said some things
That made them think that he was strange
And made them wonder if he was one of them
They had to call him in but he wouldn’t make amends
So they had to reel the poor boy in

He was an absolute piece of shit to tell the truth
But he never told the truth to me
He never told the truth to you don’t think he ever set out to
He was indifferent to honesty
His positions were pre-ordained to help conceal his vast disdain
For anything that lessened his appeal
His integrity was phoning in, totally Nixonian
Honing in the art of making deals

He was a piece of work, more or less a total jerk
His own mama called him an SOB
He never worked an honest day, just kissed up to a better way
To sell the cow you could get for free
When he got out of line, they snatched him up from behind
And put him in a box with fancy trim
Rolled him out for all to see his rendezvous with destiny
Now someone else will play The Part of Him

Someone else will play the part of him
Someone else will play the part of him
Someone else will play the part of him
Someone else will play the part of him

Writer/s: Patterson Hood
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The Part of Him

This Patterson Hood penned song is a scathing takedown of the procession of scandals that plague the political world year after year. "It's about political assholery - there's someone new playing that role every few months," he said. "As soon as we get rid of one of them, someone comes up and starts playing that part again."

Beck - Devil's Haircut

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Album: Odelay
Released: 1996

Devil's Haircut Lyrics

Somethin's wrong cause my mind is fading,
And everywhere I look there's a dead end waiting,
Temperature's dropping at the rotten oasis
Stealing kisses from the leprous faces
Heads are hanging from the garbageman trees
Mouthwash, jukebox, gasoline,
Pistols are pointing at a poor man's pockets
Smiling eyes with 'em out of the sockets

Got a Devil's Haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Love machines on the sympathy crutches
Discount orgies on the dropout buses
Hitchin' a ride with the bleedin' noses
Comin' to town with the briefcase blues

Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Somethin' wrong cause my mind is fading
Ghetto blastin' disintegrating
Rock 'n' roll, know what I'm saying?
Everywhere I look there's a devil in waiting

Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Writer/s: HANSEN, BECK / COULTER, PHILIP MICHAEL / SCOTT, TOMMY / KING, JOHN ROBERT / SIMPSON, MICHAEL S. / BROWN, JAMES
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, CARLIN AMERICA INC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Devil's Haircut

Beck sings some unique and bizarre lyrics - a bevy of grotesque, Beat poetic images like "discount orgies," "bleeding noses," "garbage man trees," and "stealing kisses from the leprous faces" are relatively off-putting. Beck uses them to evoke a feeling, a sense of disorientation, "A devil's haircut in my mind," the Blues.

In true blues fashion, the song is open to many interpretations. How do you define "The Blues?" Its definition seems to vary for listeners and artists. Beck noticed this "vague" quality himself. When asked, he's offered up numerous possible interpretations (from the silly, to the obscure, to the possible). Beck even made fun of it during his appearance on the TV show Futurama, with the line, "What was that song about?"

At the core, the song is about a feeling, and how the listener relates to it is pretty wide open. It's a song each listener can step into, and live in, and feel in their own way. There do seem to be a number of references to travel or touring, and it has been reported that the song was written just after Beck finished the difficult Lollapalooza tour, which had given him a few months break during the recording of Odelay. "Coming to town with the briefcase blues" and "rock and roll, know what I'm saying?" give the song a bit of a rock star, autobiographical touch.

One intriguing comment from Beck was that the song was a rewriting of the famous "Stagolee" blues myth: "I don't know if I ever HAD any youthful purity, but I can understand that you might be tempted to make commercial s--t and compromise to do it. I try not to compromise on anything. I think we associate becoming an adult with compromise. Maybe that's what the devil is. In 'Devils Haircut' that was the scenario. I imagined Stagger Lee... I thought, what if this guy showed up now in 1996. The song had this '60s grooviness, and I thought of using him as a Rumplestiltskin figure, this Lazarus figure to comment on where we've ended up as people. What would he make of materialism and greed and ideals of beauty and perfection? His reaction would be, 'Whoa, this is disturbing s--t.'"

Beck explained the song further as being "A really simplistic metaphor for the evil of vanity." But of course right after he said that in the same interview, he said the song wasn't planned out at all: "I thought 'Devils Haircut' was a really bad lyric. If I can't finish a song, I'll just put in something temporary. That's what 'Loser' was. Then the temporary one always becomes the best one, because it wasn't all thought out." So go figure. (thanks, James - San Antonio, TX, for all above)

The main riff for this song is from "I Can Only Give You Everything" by Them, a Belfast R&B band led by a young Van Morrison in 1965. Julian Cope also used the riff for his song "Reynard The Fox" in 1984. "I Can Only Give You Everything" was covered by a number of garage bands- it was MC5's first single and The Troggs recorded a version which was featured on one of their EPs. (thanks, Sandy - London, England)

In the cartoon series Futurama, Bender and Beck are talking about this song, and Beck eventually questions what he was talking about when he wrote it. (thanks, Jason - Oceanside, NY)

Beck recorded part of Odelay before going on the 1995 Lollapalooza tour, and the rest, including this track, after returning. He told Rolling Stone magazine (February 21, 2008): "Everything we did before was very complex - we would spend weeks on each track. When I came back, we did a bunch of songs really quick in two weeks. We did 'Devil's Haircut' and 'New Pollution' back to back in two days.'

Mark Romanek directed the video, which was inspired by the films The 400 Blows and Midnight Cowboy. The 400 Blows is a French film from 1959 directed by François Truffaut. It used a technique where the scene freezes and the camera zooms in, which Romanek emulated in "Devil's Haircut."

The scenes where Beck is walking the streets with a cowboy hat and a radio are based on Jon Voight's character in Midnight Cowboy (1969). Romanek says that in recreating the famous "I'm walkin' here" scene from the film, Beck really was hit by the car and hurt his leg.

Mike Simpson, half of the Dust Brothers production duo who produced the Odelay album, explained that the sampled guitar riff is technically not a sample. He told Music Radar : "It's Beck playing. Basically we'd sit and listen to records and Beck would go, 'Oh I really love the guitar sound on that song,' and he'd start playing it.

Beck had this broken 20W amp and we plugged it in and moved the mic around, and ran it through one of our little distortion pedals until we got the sound we were looking for. Then we'd record him playing. We had a pretty primitive recording setup back then."

Drive-By Truckers - Grand Canyon

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Album: English Oceans
Released: 2014

Grand Canyon Lyrics

We went to Grand Canyon
And we stood at the expanse
And we watched the rocks change colors
And we watched the shadows dance
And we probably didn’t say anything
As the sunset turned to night
We let the spirits do the talking
With cascades of faded light

And we drove across the desert
Saw the mountain range at dawn
Heard the thunder rumbles echo
Against the rocks that Gods were made from
And we drove across the wastelands
Until we finally reached the sea
And I wonder how a life so sturdy
Just one day cease to be

I’m never one to wonder
That the things beyond control
I stare off in the darkness
I'ma feel the highway roll
I feel the highway roll

And we roll on in the darkness
To some city far away
Lug our sorrows, pains and angers
And we turn them into play
There’s no time to dwell upon it
It’s this life that we chose
That made it all worth living
Through the horrors that life throws

If the recently departed make the sunsets
To say farewell to the ones they leave behind
There were technicolor hues to see our sadness through
As the sun over Athens said goodbye
Said goodbye

Said goodbye

There’s a white owl out my window
Soft-lit in fading light
He’ll go soaring through the clouds
And go hunting through the night
And in my dreams I’ll still can see him
Flying through a western sky
And I’ll think about Grand Canyon
And I’ll lift my glass and smile
I’ll lift my glass and smile

And I'll smile

Writer/s: PATTERSON HOOD
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Grand Canyon

Drive-By Truckers close their English Oceans album with this emotional elegy for Craig Lieske, a longtime member of the band's touring family. (He was credited as "assistant" on Go-Go Boots). Lieske died suddenly of a heart attack in January 2013 following the first night of the band's three-night homecoming stand in Athens. "I probably wrote it in 15 minutes," Patterson Hood said. "It wasn't any kind of a conscious thing. It's the most important song of mine on the record. I wrote new songs to go with it. It recalibrated something. It became a totally different record for me than the record I thought we were going to make."

Drive-By Truckers had to go on tour two days after Lieske's death with his empty bunk on the bus. Hood told Uncut magazine: "It was brutal and I wrote 'Grand Canyon' for him."

Better Than Ezra - Good

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Album: Deluxe
Released: 1995

Good Lyrics

Looking around the house
Hidden behind the window and the door
Searching for signs of life
But there's nobody home

Well, maybe I'm just too sure
Or maybe I'm just too frightened by the sound of it
Pieces of note fall down, but the letter said

[Chorus:]
Aha, it was Good
Living with you, aha, it was good
Ah-ah-ah-ah-aha it was good
Living with you, aha, it was good
Ah-ah-ah, good good good

Sitting around the house
Watching the sun trace the shadow on the floor
Searching for signs of life
But there's nobody home
Well, maybe I'll call or I'll write you a letter
Now maybe we'll see on the fourth of July
But I'm not too sure, and I'm not too proud
Well I'm not sure, and I'm not too proud to say

[Chorus: x2]

Yeah, you were so good
Yeah, you were so good
Yeah, that's right

Writer/s: MANN, BARRY/WEIL, CYNTHIA/LEIBER, JERRY/STOLLER, MIKE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Good

In this song, the signer comes home to find a "Dear John" letter that says "It was good living with you." He finds himself in an empty house, wondering what to do next as he watches the sun trace shadows on the floor.

Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin wrote the song. In our interview with Griffin , he said: "Lyrically, that was a song where I wasn't drawing from personal experience. I've told people for years that I was, but I was happily living with my first girlfriend - well, we were dating, anyways.

I wanted to talk about the positive things that come from the end of a relationship. There's always the hurt feelings and everyone's guarded and it can be traumatic, but when the dust settles, it was about looking at the good things - no pun intended - that you got from that relationship. How did you grow? What did you learn emotionally? And to experience some stuff. And in this case it was just kind of reflecting on how this person changed.

I think I may have been projecting, because I ended up breaking up with this girl shortly after. But this girl I was dating at the time kind of pushed me out of my southern mindset and my tendency to take a known path as opposed to setting out on an unknown path, but something that would be ultimately more satisfying and rewarding."

There are shades of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in this track, but Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin says he wrote the song in 1990 before Nirvana released that song. He does cop to being influenced by the Pixies, which helps explain the similarity, as Nirvana also drew from the Pixies sound.

This was Better Than Ezra's first single. The band had been playing it for years when they got their record deal with Elektra Records, which issued it as a single in 1995 along with a new version of their album Deluxe, which the group first released on their own label in 1993. The song made a splash on rock, pop, and alternative radio stations, mostly east of the Mississippi. The song had just a modest placing on the Hot 100 (#30), but topped the Alternative Songs chart, which was then known as the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.

The band followed with several minor hits, including "Desperately Wanting" and "Rosealia." They never filled arenas, but they built a loyal fan base and enjoyed decades of success, playing smaller venues and releasing a steady stream of material. Griffin became a top songwriter for other acts, co-writing hits for Howie Day ("Collide"), Sugarland ("Stuck Like Glue") and James Blunt ("I'll Be Your Man").

Elbow - Charge

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Album: The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Released: 2014

Charge Lyrics

I am electric with a bottle in me
Got a bottle in me
And glory be, these fuckers are ignoring me
I'm from another century

I am a preacher when I've got it on me
And I've got it on me
And glory be these fuckers are ignoring me
We never learn from history

Hey, I am the boy who loved her so in every song
And I design that little mystery on your tongue
I've broken jaws protecting laws to keep you free
I've made your day so take a seat by me

I am an old tree, gonna' talk my jaw free
Someone come and get me
Another night beside myself would finish me
Give us G&T and sympathy

I am the die hard with an empty dance card propping up a young bar
I'm pouring oil in double time upon the troubled rising tide inside of me
Upon my history

Hey, I am the boy who loved her so in every song
And I design that little mystery on your tongue
I've broken jaws protecting laws to keep you free
I've made your day so take a seat by me

Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey

Hey, I am the boy who loved her so in every song
And I design that little mystery on your tongue
I've broken jaws protecting laws to keep you free
I've made your day so take a seat by me

Writer/s: GARVEY, GUY EDWARD JOHN / POTTER, CRAIG LEE / POTTER, MARK / TURNER, PETER JAMES / JUPP, RICHARD BARRY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Charge

This Take Off and Landing of Everything track finds Elbow frontman Guy Garvey picturing himself in a couple of decade's time as an old rocker. Tainted by anger and sorrow, he is sitting in a bar, invisible to the attentions of the younger drinkers around him. Garvey told Mojo magazine: "It's an old man sitting in a young person's bar, saying, 'don't look at me as old'... there's some of me in there. My dad was as passionate about Manchester as I am, but in welcoming people rather than repelling people at the bar."

"Something I'm experiencing the fringes of," he added, with a chuckle. "I don't like the way we treat our old people in Britain. It's so f---ing short sighted. Like we're not all gonna end up that old."

"If the album has a theme, it's that the band are all approaching 40, and thinking about the part of life that's gone, and what's coming for the next 40, yet you're encouraged to live in the moment," Garvey concluded. "It's all these things at once."

Garvey sings on this song as being "from another century." He told Mojo: "The character from this song is definitely me but a bit older. In that song. The character is initially quite aggressive towards young people – which is not me – but I can understand where that comes from, because you get so frustrated when your mortality starts tapping."

Rush - Everyday Glory

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Album: Counterparts
Released: 1993

Everyday Glory Lyrics

In the house where nobody laughs
And nobody sleeps
In the house where love lies dying
And the shadows creep
A little girl hides, shaking,
With her hands on her ears
Pushing back the tears, 'til the pain disappears

Mama says some ugly words
Daddy pounds the wall
They can fight about their little girl later
Right now they don't care at all
No matter what they say...
No matter what they say...

Everyday people
Everyday shame
Everyday promise
Shot down in flames

Everyday sunrise
Another everyday story
Rise from the ashes
A blaze of Everyday Glory

In the city where nobody smiles
And nobody dreams
In the city where desperation
Drives the bored to extremes

Just one spark of decency
Against a starless night
One glow of hope and dignity
A child can follow the light
No matter what they say
No matter what they say...

If the future's looking dark
We're the ones who have to shine
If there's no one in control
We're the ones who draw the line
Though we live in trying times
We're the ones who have to try
Though we know that time has wings
We're the ones who have to fly

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Everyday Glory

The lyrics, "Rise from the ashes and blaze" refer to the mythological death and rebirth of the Phoenix.

Geddy Lee (from the Bass Player Online archives): "This song ended up being an analog-tape mix. For the last few years I've mixed only to digital, because I figured it was just a better tape recorder. But certain songs have a heavier midrange content, and on playback the analog recorder softens the midrange a bit, giving it a more likeable sound. It's not as efficient-sounding in terms of the top and bottom end, but it's just nicer to listen to." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

Elbow - My Sad Captains

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Album: The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Released: 2014

My Sad Captains Lyrics

I'm running out of miracles
Oh my soul
And the streets are lined with one-man shows
Oh my soul
Corner boys were moved along
Oh my soul
We're plummeting like crippled crows
Oh my soul

Oh, long before
You and I were born
Others beat these benches with their empty cups
To the night and its stars
To be here, and now, and who we are

Another sunrise with My Sad Captains
With who I choose to lose my mind
And if it's all we only pass this way but once
What a perfect waste of time

The BMX apothecary
Oh my soul
The architect of infamy
Oh my soul
For each and every train we miss
Oh my soul
A bitter little Eucharist
Oh my soul

Oh, long before
You and I were born
Others beat these benches with their empty cups
To the night and its stars
To be here, and now, and who we are

Another sunrise with my sad captains
With who I choose to lose my mind
And if it's all we only come this way but once
What a perfect waste of time

Another sunrise with my sad captains
With who I choose to lose my mind
And if it's all we only pass this way but once
What a perfect waste of time

Another sunrise with my sad captains
With who I choose to lose my mind
And if it's all we only pass this way but once
What a perfect waste of time

What a perfect waste of time

Writer/s: GARVEY, GUY EDWARD JOHN / POTTER, CRAIG LEE / POTTER, MARK / TURNER, PETER JAMES / JUPP, RICHARD BARRY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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My Sad Captains

The theme of aging is detailed in this song. Guy Garvey explained to NME: "It mourns the fact you can't see all your friends every night like you can when you're young."

The lyric: "Another sunrise with my sad captains, with you I choose to lose my mind" comes from a line in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. It's adapted from when Mark Antony speaks about his drinking partners: "Come, let's have one other gaudy night; call to me all my sad captains; fill our bowls; once more, let's mock the midnight bell."

Garvey told Uncut magazine: "There's a line in it - 'we only come this way but once' - which is actually a bastardisation of William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania). He was talking about realising you only have one life, realising your own mortality."

The song finds Garvey recounting how drinking sessions change as the drinkers become older. "My Sad Captains is mourning the end of the 15-strong three-day bender in favour of one or two people's company and getting proper into your cups," he explained to The Observer. "Maybe having your mind changed by something somebody says. That's my favourite kind of socialising now. But I still think wistfully about those crazy, hedonistic 15 years that I had."

Garvey had the opening lines to this song, "I'm running out of miracles," but it was his former girlfriend, novelist and journalist Emma Jane Unsworth, who gave him the chorus.