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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Brain Salad Surgery
Released: 1973

Karn Evil 9 Lyrics

Karn Evil 9

This is ELP's most popular song from their most popular album. The song is most commonly interpreted as ELP's take on a shortened history of the world into a futuristic tale. The First Impression begins on the "Cold and misty morning" of the Earth's birth, through the ice age ("Where the seeds have withered, silent faces in the cold"), and to man's growing lust for money ("Now their faces captured in the lenses of the jackals for gold"), which leads to various wars. Afterwards, the world is described as a carnival, wherein various elements of humanity are reduced to circus sideshows ("A bomb inside a car," "Pull Jesus from a hat"), representing the human race's growing selfishness and indifference toward others. Even human misery is described as a "specialty" in the "show."

The second part of the First Impression focuses on the growing artificialization of the world, describing something as natural as "A real blade of grass" as some bizarre circus attraction. Despite the fact that the world is becoming more and more consumed by artificiality and given control to computers (see Third Impression), the human race insists that it is still in control, as it created all that the "Carnival" encompasses ("We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown were exclusively our own.").

The Second Impression is an instrumental piece (mostly a piano solo), symbolizing the blissful ignorance of humanity towards the impending danger of the conquest of the computers, which culminates in the Third Impression. At this point, the "machines" have concluded their superiority to humanity and begin to take on mankind's necessity to prove their own superiority. The computers are represented by heavily distorted vocals, while the voice of the all-representative "Man" is clean and without effect. The computers finally wage a violent conquest of the Earth. Mankind is shocked that its own creation is fighting back against him ("Walls that no man thought would fall") and is unprepared for the conflict. Finally the machines determine that they are sentient beings and the new "Humans," or rather the new dominant species ("Load your program. I am yourself."), pushing humanity to the subservient status that they had once occupied. After their victory ("Rejoice! Glory is ours!"), they make sure not to wipe out the human race, but preserve it to demean humanity and gloat about their superiority.

The last stanza of the suite epitomizes the conquest and the arrogance of both the old and new masters of the earth, wherein man struggles to maintain his presence as the dominant species on Earth and the computers assert that they have surpassed their creators: "I am all there is." "Negative! Primitive! Limited! I let you live!" "But I gave you life!" "What else could you do?" "To do what is right." "I'm perfect! Are you?" (thanks, Mike - Long Island, NY)

"Roll up... see the show!" represents the carnival barker. "Roll Up" is a British term inviting people to come check something out - Paul McCartney said it at the beginning of The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour."

When asked in 2009 if he knew how prophetic the lyrics, to this song would be, Greg Lake replied: "Yes we did. The reason for this was that Pete [Sinfield] and I had both written Schizoid Man some years before and could already see the writing on the wall."

Why #9? When we spoke with Greg Lake, we surmised it may have had something to do with John Lennon, who was a big influence on Lake and an affinity for the digit. Greg's response: "I have no f--king clue what number 9's got to do with anything, to be honest with you."

With that theory debunked, we can look to Keith Emerson, who says that he had an idea for lyrics about a planet called Ganton 9. Lyricist Pete Sinfield shot down the planet idea, but perhaps kept the number.

"Karn Evil" is a series of songs on the Brain Salad Surgery album which were conceived as one piece. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 1" runs 8:37 and closes the first side of the album. The second side begins with "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2," which is by far the most famous part of the movement. Running 4:45, it's the section that begins, "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends." This is what radio stations typically play, as it works as a self contained song and is a practical length for airplay.

"Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression" follows, running 7:07, and "Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" closes out the original album at 9:07.

No part of "Karn Evil" was ever released as a single, but it helped the album reach #2 in the UK and #11 in the US.

The title is a play on the word "Carnival." Pete Sinfield, who wrote some lyrics for the band, came up with the phrase after hearing some music Keith Emerson wrote for the piece - he thought it sounded like something you would hear at a carnival. Sinfield says that the work of the musician Tom Lehrer and the author Kurt Vonnegut were an influence on the words he wrote.

The "Karn Evil" suite was written with live performance in mind, and it served ELP well as a concert favorite. The band's previous album was Trilogy, which contained songs that required sound effects and other assistance to play live. In our interview with Greg Lake , he explained: "We decided that the next album we made, we would make sure that we could perform it live. And so, I know it sounds horribly extravagant, but this is what we did: We bought a cinema in London and we set up on the stage, and we wrote the album, performing it on the stage in the theatre. So as we created the album, we made sure that we could perform it live.

So it came about, this line, 'Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.' It was a kind of live idea behind it."

Wild Beasts - A Simple Beautiful Truth

Wild Beasts - A Simple Beautiful Truth Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Present Tense
Released: 2014

A Simple Beautiful Truth Lyrics

A Simple Beautiful Truth

This was inspired by an early 1990s dance-pop classic. "In a way I was wanting to write my own version of Haddaway's 'What Is Love,' which to me holds a lot of importance," vocalist Hayden Thorpe explained to DIY magazine. "On a nostalgic level that was the kind of soundscape that as a child I came into. You grow up hearing music in passing and all of a sudden it's incredibly moving. That's a song I've always held dear."

Bassist Tom Fleming commented to NME: "It feels like a proper pop song, and we wouldn't have been brave enough to do that before."

The surrealistic video was directed by the Danish photographer Klaus Thymann. It finds the Wild Beasts dancing around a number of locations whilst clad in some shiny suits. The band explained it was The Talking Heads who inspired them to embrace their inner Fred Astaire. "We were inspired enough by the absurdist approach taken by Talking Heads to don electric suits and dance in the ether on the top of a Beacons mountain," they said. "We wanted to capture the weightlessness of a song like 'A Simple Beautiful Truth', to attempt something so ridiculous as to be sublime."

"The experience was strangely liberating," the band added, "and we asked ourselves why we hadn't done this before."

Hayden Thorpe said he was trying to capture a rare moment of clarity with this song. He explained to NME: "[It's] that kind of lucid vision when ... everything seems simple and you see the kind of small beauty in everything. And you spend so much time taking for granted so much and kind of ignoring what is the beauty of the small things, and it's a song that tries to stretch out that very brief little window." This clear-eyed flash of epiphany usually only comes to him when he's "slightly hungover."

Thorpe learned an important lesson during the eight to nine months it took to complete this song: what seems easy, never is. He explained to NME: "Any brilliant pop song should be kinda weightless - it should kind of defy gravity, and it should seem effortless. And what became apparent was to achieve that kind of song, for it to feel effortless, actually required a huge amount of work."

Hayden Thorpe told NME the story behind the video. "I've never felt our past videos have captured who we are," he said. "They presented as arty and stern-faced, and every time we watched them we thought, 'Oh, lads, lighten up a bit!' We wanted an element of absurdity."

"We were making fantastic songs and we wanted our outfits to reflect that, but it became four guys looking like Power Rangers on a Welsh hillside instead," Thorpe continued. "Our dance moves are crude and our outfits looked like our mums made them. I did practise that dance in my bedroom and felt like a teenage boy again. It was great."

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Sage

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Sage Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Pictures At An Exhibition
Released: 1971

The Sage Lyrics

The Sage

This is a fantasy song written by Greg Lake for their tribute to composer Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Greg Lake says that it denotes castles and journeys and imagination. (thanks, Linda - NYC, NY)

Wild Beasts - Palace

Wild Beasts - Palace Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Present Tense
Released: 2014

Palace Lyrics

Palace

Wild Beasts close their Present Tense album with this ballad that uses the metaphor of buildings for love as Hayden Thorpe sings of finding beauty in perfection. "'Palace' is about acceptance," he explained to DIY magazine. "The closing line is perfect in that it admits that striving for perfection is the wrong cause. If you go for this, you miss all the beauty of the awkward, the ugly and the accidental."

"There's an acceptance of the chaos; living with it and accepting it," Thorpe continued. "Early on, we always wanted 'Palace' to be the closing track." It has this air of cautious optimism. The line 'this is a palace and that was a squat' came from the realisation that I was one of many people that thinks achieving something automatically makes you a happier, better person. There's a mid twenties realisation that all of this is nonsense and counts for nothing. It's crushing. I had a realisation that I had everything I wanted, but I was living in a basement flat in Hackney; essentially a wreck. And I was paying a decent amount of rent for that. But there was an acceptance that I wouldn't change that for the world. I've lived in far prettier flats and they felt like squats. And this basement flat felt like a palace at that point."

Bassist Tom Fleming commented to NME: "It's a straightforward song and I like having a really big, bright song at the end."

Feeder - Come Back Around

Feeder - Come Back Around Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Comfort In Sound
Released: 2002

Come Back Around Lyrics

Turning in to something
Drifting off to always
Got to pull myself back in

Holding back the questions
Bruised with all rejections
Got to pull myself back in

We've suffered the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To Come Back Around

Come back around

I miss you around

Reaching out for someone
Burning out for solo
Got to pull myself back in

There's no new religion
And there's no real solution
Got to pull myself back in

We've suffered the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To come back around

We've suffered the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To come back around

Come back around

Come back around

Feel you're going under
So keep on treading water
Got to pull myself back in

Feel no obligation
No more indecision
Got to pull myself back in

We've suffered the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To come back

We've suffered the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
I know that you may take a while
To come back around

Writer/s: NICHOLAS, GRANT
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Come Back Around

Before Feeder recorded this album, drummer Jon Lee killed himself. In the video, which shows the band performing, they hired about 50 girls all playing drums. (thanks, Gilliann - Dublin, Ireland)

Portage and Main - Never Had the Time

Portage and Main - Never Had the Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Never Had the Time
Released: 2013

Never Had the Time Lyrics

Never Had the Time

While coming up with the title for the Never Had the Time album, the band was sure of one thing: they couldn't name the album after its lead single... and that's exactly what they did. Singer/songwriter John Sponarski explained in our interview : "It was a bit of an interesting choice for us, I think, because I'm not sure 'Never Had the Time' is the catchiest song on the record or even what a traditional single should be. But for us it kind of embodied what we were going after for this record. It best represented what we were trying to do musically. The phrase really embodied what was going on with all of us up to the record release because we were just spread so thin trying to work enough to make enough money to be able to press this thing and do this whole thing independently."

Hanson - This Time Around

Hanson - This Time Around Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: This Time Around
Released: 2000

This Time Around Lyrics

It's getting colder in this ditch where I lie
I'm feeling older and I'm wondering why
I heard they told her it was tell and live or die
I didn't know her, but I know why she lied
I didn't know her, but I know why she died

[Chorus]
You can't say I didn't give it
I won't wait another minute
We're on our way This Time Around
You can't say I didn't give it
I won't wait another minute
We're on our way this time around

And we won't go down

I heard them say that dreams should stay in your head
Well, I feel ashamed of the things that I've said
Put on these chains and you can live a free life
Well, I'd rather bleed just to know why I die

[Chorus]

And we won't go down
And we won't go down
And we won't go down
And we won't go down
All I know is that fear has got to go
This time around

I've started feeling like I don't want to fight
Give in to the given and put out the light
Cannons a-blazin' shower these moonlit skies
Then I remember and I know why he died
Do you know why I die?

[Chorus: x2]

And we won't go down
And we won't go down
And we won't go down

Writer/s: HANSON, ZACHARY WALKER/HANSON, ISAAC/HANSON, TAYLOR
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, THOMAS A. BINGHAM DBA TONEY MONEYE MUSIC
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This Time Around

Zac Hanson told us: "It's about fighting back, 'You can't say I didn't give it, I won't wait another minute, on our way this time around.' The story line in the song, we almost pictured it as someone in the middle of a conflict, maybe a war, and the honor of giving one's self out to say, 'I'm going to go for it all no matter what the consequences are because of what really matters. I'm not going to live a free life with chains on, I'm not going to give away my friends.' It's about that ultimate sticking it to the man."

This was Hanson's second studio album released on a major label. It came out three years after Middle Of Nowhere, which contained the massive hit "MMMBop."

Zac: "If anything, it's a statement to every artist and every musician out there just to say, 'Go for it, mean something and do something great.' Whatever that entails, that's what you should focus on." (Check out our interview with Zac Hanson.)

Portage and Main - As a Child

Portage and Main - As a Child Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Never Had the Time
Released: 2013

As a Child Lyrics

As a Child

This song is a coming-of-age tale about the loss of childhood innocence. John Sponarski , who shares duties as songwriter, lead singer and guitarist with Harold Donnelly, told us: "'As a Child' is a song about youth lost and the struggles with growing up and becoming an adult and losing that freedom you want to hang on to, at least that feeling that the possibilities are endless and that you could do anything. It's kind of coming to grips with reality."

Sponarski and Donnelly performed a stripped-down version of this song outside of the University of Toronto campus for a live video with Adrian Vieni of Wood & Wires Productions.

Hanson - Underneath

Hanson - Underneath Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Underneath
Released: 2004

Underneath Lyrics

Waking up this morning
Thinking this can't be real
They say there is nothing love can't heal
Why don't you come on down
So you can feel what I feel?

Sitting all alone in this place
Even though we're here face to face
There is nothing gone
But there's something wrong

Can't you see
That I'm stuck here Underneath
And you make it hard to breathe?
Take a look around and tell me what you see
You'll find me underneath

I know what to say
But don't know where to begin
I fear I'm losing you beneath my skin
Is there resolution for this pain that I'm in?

Sitting all alone in this place
Even though we're here face to face
There is nothing gone
But there's something wrong

Can't you see
That I'm stuck here underneath
And you make it hard to breathe?
Take a look around and tell me what you see
You'll find me underneath
'Cause you'll find me, whoa, underneath

If only you could feel what I dream
Maybe you could hear what I mean
There is nothing gone

But there's something missing
Can't you see
That I'm stuck here underneath
And you make it hard to breathe?
Take a look around and tell me what you see

You'll find me underneath
You'll find me underneath
Underneath, underneath

Writer/s: Sweet, Matthew / Hanson, Isaac / Hanson, Zachary Walker / Hanson, Taylor
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Underneath

The band wrote this with Matthew Sweet, a critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter who had a Modern Rock hit in 1991 with "Girlfriend." They met through a mutual friend when Hanson was working on the album, so they got together and wrote this in about 4 hours. Zac Hanson, the band's drummer, told us: "Songs can take sometimes years, songs can come together in a couple of moments. The fluidity of how that song came together with Matthew and how natural it felt to write it with him was pretty cool."

Zac Hanson: "Matthew came in with a chord pattern and then everybody sort of built off of that, focusing on an idea or a word or a melody part and then you sort of build out from there. It is an intense song, it's a song that I think everyone can relate to - 'Sitting all alone in this place, even though we're here face to face,' just talking about that ultimate disconnect, where you're right here, but you're not right here, and I think everyone's felt that in some form or another or will feel that in their life. It was just a meaningful song, and really a pillar for the whole album. After that song was written, just the way that song was, the way we recorded it and the sounds we used, it was a cornerstone for the whole record. That was part of the reason we called the album Underneath, in addition to the blatant meaning of a step deeper into who we are." (Check out our interview with Zac Hanson.)

Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots

Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Roots
Released: 1996

Roots Bloody Roots Lyrics

Roots Bloody Roots [Repeat: x3]
Roots Bloody

I believe in our fate
We don't need to fake
It's all we want to be
Watch me Freak!

I say
We're growing every day
Getting stronger in every way
I'll take you to a place
Where we shall find our

Roots Bloody Roots [Repeat: x4]

Rain bring me the strength
Is breeding me this way
To get to another day
And all I want to see
Set Us free

Why can't you see
Can't you feel
This is real

I pray we don't need to change
Our ways to be saved
That all we want to be
Watch us Freak!

Writer/s: CAVALERA, MASSIMILIANO A. / KISSER, ANDREAS RUDOLF / CAVALERA, IGOR / PINTO, PAULO XISTO JR.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Roots Bloody Roots

Sepultura's most popular song, their lead singer Max Cavalara told us, "It's about believe in yourself, about be proud of your heritage, proud of where you come from. Really powerful but simple lyrics. So it's really about just be down with your own roots and believe in your roots." (Here's our full Max Cavalara interview .)

The riff on this song is the guitar version of a mantra, which is something repeated over and over to instill it into your consciousness. Mantras need to be simple and concise, so that's how Max Cavalara wrote the riff. "'Roots' is full of these really minimalistic ideas that were really simple and powerful. Sometimes it's the harder songs to write which are the easiest. The simplest songs are harder to write than complicated songs."

Max adds that the song is in B tuning, and can be played on one string.

The title and chorus of this song are an homage to the Black Sabbath song "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath." Max Cavalara is a huge Sabbath fan, and cites Tony Iommi as his favorite riff-maker.

System of a Down - Chic 'N' Stu

System of a Down - Chic 'N' Stu Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Steal This Album!
Released: 2002

Chic 'N' Stu Lyrics

This ballgames in the refrigerator
The door closed
The lights are out
And the butters getting hard

What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie
Every minute, every second
Buy buy buy buy buy
What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie
Every minute, every second
Buy buy buy buy buy

Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives
Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives

Need therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes
Need therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes

What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie
Every minute, every second
Buy buy buy buy buy BUY
What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie
Every minute, every second
Buy buy buy buy buy

Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives
Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives

Need therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes

Well advertising got you on the run
Need therapy, therapy, advertising causes
Well advertising got you on the run
Need therapy, therapy, advertising causes
Well advertising got you on the run
Advertising got you on the run
Advertising got you on the run
Advertising got you on the run
Advertising got you on the run
Advertising got you on the run
Advertising got you on the run

What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie
Every minute, every second
Buy buy buy buy buy
What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie
Every minute, every second
Buy buy buy buy buy

Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives
Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives

Need therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need
Therapy, therapy
Advertising causes need

Writer/s: MALAKIAN, DARON / TANKIAN, SERJ / ODAJIAN, SHAVO / DOLMAYAN, JOHN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Chic 'N' Stu

This song is about how advertising creates an artificial need for a product, in this case it is pizza. (thanks, JD - Whitebread, TX)

This song deals with compulsions and addictions using pizza as a metaphor. The lyrics, "What a splendid pie, pizza-pizza pie, every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy" relates to how if you crave something you will buy it like there's no tomorrow. (thanks, Melanie - Scarboro, MD)

The title refers to Los Angeles Lakers broadcasters Chick Hearn and Stu Lantz. The first verse includes a line Hearn used about the game being "In the refrigerator." This was when The Lakers had the game in control. (thanks, James - Covina, CA)

The original title was "Therapy" and it was among the songs that were leaked over the Internet. The band re-recorded the song under a different name, like the rest of the songs on Steal This Album! (thanks, Jim - Oxnard, CA)

When Daron and Serj are listing the pizza toppings, it is a common misconception that they are saying, "pepperoni, angry peppers...". They are simply saying, "pepperoni, and green peppers...". (thanks, Dax - San Diego, CA)

Asking Alexandria - The Road

Asking Alexandria - The Road Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: From Death to Destiny
Released: 2013

The Road Lyrics

The Road

Guitarist Ben Bruce told Artist Direct the story of this song. "It actually started off with the drum beat in the beginning," he said. "I had that drum beat in my head. I programmed it into my computer, and I just kept jamming it. I was like, 'This is such a cool drum beat. I want to write something to it.' That's actually how it started. We went from there."

"If you listen to the demos of the song, it changed dramatically from where it started to how it ended up on the record," Bruce continued. "Parts were taken out. Originally, it was a lot heavier. It didn't start with the clean verse it ended up with. It took a turn in the right direction, and it's become one of my favorites for sure."