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Metronomy - On Dancefloors

Metronomy - On Dancefloors Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Nights Out
Released: 2008

On Dancefloors Lyrics

Hearing is getting me down
Is getting me down to the disco floor
Hearing is wearing me down
It's wearing down from my ears

All those evenings
Spent disappointed On Dancefloors
[Incomprehensible] and learn one day

I wanna get more from this
I wanna get more from this
I wanna get more from this, than you

Sometimes I'll put up with it, alright
But I can't even dance the way I might
Were it just me and you tonight?

I wanna get more from this
I wanna get more from this
I wanna get more from this
I wanna get more from this, than you

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

Metronomy frontman Joe Mount told NME that this was the first song he wrote that had "more than four or so words in it." He added: "When I wrote it I was living in a Brighton bedsit. Bedsits are great places for steering up all kinds of emotions. I think I stole the 'I want to get more from this' from Roxy Music's 'More Than This.'"

Philip Castle did the Nights Out album cover. Mount explained to NME: "He was an airbrush artist in the 70s and I wanted him to do a kind of pastoral English scene, but airbrush it. One problem was that airbrushing is much better if you use metallic colours, and I wanted to use dark green."

"But yeah," Mount added, "it's supposed to look like a dystopian future city."

Rush - Limbo

Rush - Limbo Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Test For Echo
Released: 1996

Limbo Lyrics

Limbo

In the middle of the song, when you hear, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?", it's a quote from "Monster Mash," a 1962 hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers. The sounds heard at the beginning of the song (water bubbling, chains dropping and dragging) are also taken from "Monster Mash." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Limbo was the first level of Hell in the book Dante's Inferno. (thanks, Chris - Ocean County, NJ)

Neil Peart (from Jam! Showbiz, Oct. 16, 1996): "I'd been stuck on Monster Mash and we were trying to use the Internet to get the words because I couldn't remember them. One of the guys on the production team is an Internet preacher. So I said, 'Here's your chance, go get these lyrics for me.' Well, he went onto the Internet and found the lyrics - but they were wrong! In all the jokes of that, our co-producer, Peter Collins, went out and bought the CD that had a compilation of some funny songs like that. We got to listening to it, thinking about how funny it was and decided to put some samples of it in there. That's Igor going 'Goo mash goo.' We had to get special permission and pay money and everything. You think it's so strange, when you just want to make a joke, and people want you to get permission and pay money." (thanks, Matthew Daubert - Mequon, WI)

Metronomy - Some Written

Metronomy - Some Written Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The English Riviera
Released: 2011

Some Written Lyrics

I tried to catch you up but I'm too late
So as I finish up your lemonade
I'll send a message, Some Written, one sung
You left a number that's eight numbers long

I though I did enough but that's my mistake
It's time to liven up your lemonade
I'll send a message, some written, one sung
You left a number that's eight numbers long

There's no getting over so I'm done
I'll forget the number and I'm gone
There's no getting over so I'm done
I'll forget the number and I'm gone

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

Metronomy frontman Joe Mount recalled to NME: "I remember sitting down and playing the end section of this song over and over again. At that point I had no idea how it would actually become a track, I just enjoyed playing the part. I have about six or so versions of how it could have panned out, as it is, it's my most Billy Joel moment."

Rush - Chain Lightning

Rush - Chain Lightning Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Presto
Released: 1989

Chain Lightning Lyrics

Energy is contagious
Enthusiasm spreads
Tides respond to lunar gravitation
Everything turns in synchronous relation

Laughter is infectious
Excitement goes to my head
Winds are stirred by planets in rotation
Sparks ignite and spread new information

Respond, vibrate, feed back, resonate

Sun dogs fire on the horizon
Meteor rain stars across the night
This moment may be brief
But it can be so bright

Hope is epidemic
Optimism spreads
Bitterness breeds irritation
Ignorance breeds imitation

Sun dogs fire on the horizon
Meteor rain stars across the night
This moment may be brief
But it can be so bright

Reflected in another source of light
When the moment dies
The spark still flies
Reflected in another pair of eyes

Dreams are sometimes catching
Desire goes to my head
Love responds to your invitation
Love responds to imagination

Respond, vibrate, feed back, resonate

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

Neil Peart (from the Rush Profiled! CD): "I'm a weather fanatic - I really love weather, and I watch the weather and look for a good weatherman. And, one night I was watching it, and there are two incidents in that song that are Synchronicity to one weather report, where the weatherman showed a picture of sun dogs, and described them, and they are just two little points of light that appear at sunset, often in the winter when the sky is clear and crystalline, and they are like little prisms, and they sit about ten degrees north and south of the setting sun, and they are just beautiful little diamonds of light, and often times there's a circle of light - one line, that connects them. So they are a really beautiful natural phenomenon, and I love the name too. 'Sun dogs' just has a great sound to it. And in that same weather forecast, the weatherman announced a meteor shower that night, and so my daughter and I went out on the lake in the middle of the night and watched this meteor shower. So the whole idea of the song was response and how people respond to things, and it's a thing I've found a lot in traveling around the world, too. It's not enough just to travel and see things. You have to respond to them - you have to feel them, and a lot of the thrust of that song is how things are transferred, like chain lightning or enthusiasm or energy or love are things that are contagious, and if someone feels them, they are easily transferable to another person, or in the case of watching a meteor shower, it's made more special if there is someone else there. 'Reflected in another pair of eyes' is the idea that it's a wonderful thing already, just you and the meteor shower, but if there's someone else there with you to share it, then it multiplies, you know, it becomes exponentially a bigger experience, so response is a theme that recurs in several of the songs and was one of my probably dominant sub-themes in the writing." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Tegan and Sara - Everything Is Awesome

Tegan and Sara - Everything Is Awesome Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Lego Movie
Released: 2014

Everything Is Awesome Lyrics

Everything Is Awesome

This song was performed by the Canadian identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin as the theme song for The Lego Movie, whilst musical comedy trio The Lonely Island delivered the rap breakdown.

To the delight of parents accustomed to biding their time through dreadful movies their kids like, the film was very entertaining for both generations. Adults picked up on the Orwellian themes, as the evil ruler of Bricksburg (not-so-subtly named "Lord Business") keeps the citizens in line with a propaganda campaign that includes this song - the only one allowed to play. Tegan and Sara were asked to "sound as jubilant as possible" to give the song a vibe that is so euphoric it's creepy.

This was written by the soundtrack composer Shawn Patterson (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera), Canadian singer-songwriter Joshua Bartholomew, and Los Angeles Rock musician Lisa Harriton who has toured with The Smashing Pumpkins as their keyboardist and back-up vocalist. The song was produced by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh .

Tegan Quin went into the studio with Mothersbaugh to record the song's main vocals, while Sara sent in backing vocals from her apartment. The Lonely Island delivered their rapped contribution separately.

The song succeeds in both getting the listener super pumped up and spoofing it. Mothersbaugh told The Los Angeles Times: "The directors requested something like that, and I think it fits in a smart way. It's a mantra for everyone to get up and go to work and buy $30 cups of coffee. It's an irritant. But after the transformation in the movie, when the characters learn to create, it becomes something bigger. And then at the ending it becomes kind of ironic."

Tegan & Sara signed on to record the song after hearing an early version, which didn't yet have Lonely Island's contribution. "It's a crazy earworm," Sara Quin told Billboard magazine. "As someone who prides myself on being able to write things that are memorable and hooky, the second that we heard this song, I was astounded. Whether you like the song or not, whether you think it's funny or annoying, there's no denying that it's a ridiculously hooky thing. As soon as you hear it, it never leaves your brain."

The Lego Movie soundtrack also contains three non-dance interpretations of the song by other artists including one by Joshua Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton.

The music video features Lego versions of Tegan and Sara Quin as well as The Lonely Island trio of Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone.

This was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song - Tegan and Sara performed it at the ceremony along with The Lonely Island, Mark Mothersbaugh, Questlove, and a team of colorful, hyperkinetic dancers. The movie, however, was snubbed for a nomination, even in the Best Animated Feature Film category. When the nominations were announced, the film's co-director Philip Lord tweeted a photo of a yellow Oscar statuette made of Legos. When this song was performed at the ceremony, the dancers handed out these Lego Oscars to the audience. The show's host Neil Patrick Harris was seen holding one on stage.

Rush - Force Ten

Rush - Force Ten Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hold Your Fire
Released: 1987

Force Ten Lyrics

Tough times demand tough talk
Demand tough hearts demand tough songs
Demand

We can rise and fall like empires
Flow in and out like the tide
Be vain and smart, humble and dumb
We can hit and miss like pride

We can circle around like hurricanes
Dance and dream like lovers
Attack the day like birds of prey
Or scavengers under cover

Look in
To the eye of the storm
Look out
For the force without form
Look around
At the sight and the sound
Look in look out look around

We can move with savage grace
To the rhythms of the night
Cool and remote like dancing girls
In the heat of the beat and the lights

We can wear the rose of romance
An air of joie de vivre
Too-tender hearts upon our sleeves
Or skin as thick as thieves'

Rising falling at Force Ten
We twist the world and ride the wind

Look in
Look the storm in the eye
Look out
To the sea and the sky
Look around
At the sight and the sound
Look in look out look around

Writer/s: ALEX LIFESON, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, NEIL PEART, PAUL PHILIP WOODS
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Force Ten

Geddy Lee (on Rockline, 10/5/87): "It was more or less an afterthought in the writing stage. We took two months to do all of our writing and preproduction, you know, preparation for the making of the record, and we had nine songs, and we had about a day and a half left of time booked before we were supposed to leave and get ready to make the record. And our producer and all of us were pushing for ten tracks on the album, and some lyrics had been submitted to us by a friend of ours, Pye Dubois, who co-wrote 'Tom Sawyer' with us in years gone by. And Neil was able to put some of his own thoughts to one of the songs that he had and present it to us in the morning of the last day that we were there, and we loved the results, so we got together and brainstormed for about 2 or 3 hours, and we had Force Ten."

When asked what the title meant, Neil Peart said: "The Beaufort scale - look it up!"

Peart: "The song expresses ways to face barriers and urges people not to be afraid of failure - one of our basic temperamental traits."

Geddy Lee (Bass Player, 1987): "Before I had a visit from Jeff Berlin, who's a friend, on the tour I had the opportunity to watch him goofing around backstage with a bass, and was just amazed at his knowledge of bass chords. That's something I had never really exploited in my playing, so he inspired me to play around more with it. He probably doesn't know it, and would be embarrassed to hear it. I ended up using bass chords on "Force Ten" and "Turn The Page." Not so much in the sense of strumming them as using my thumb more, almost like a fingerpicking style of playing, which is something that I'm still working on. Just plucking with my thumb and going back and forth between the thumb and the first two fingers and pulling. Almost like a snapping technique. It's opened up a bit more range for me. There's more melodic possibilities and rhythmic possibilities too, which is an important role for the bass player. If you can establish not only a melody but a rhythmic feel, that's an extra tool."

The song opens with the sound of a jackhammer. The session keyboard player Andy Richards had a sample of it that the band used. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for all above)

Adrenaline Mob - Feel The Adrenaline

Adrenaline Mob - Feel The Adrenaline Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Men Of Honor
Released: 2014

Feel The Adrenaline Lyrics

Feel The Adrenaline

Guitarist Mike Orlando explained the meaning of this propulsive tune: "It's about a car, but it's also about us," he said. "Are you feeling the Adrenaline we're bringing you as a band? You can take it a few ways. There's the double entendre of a beautiful girl and the car too. It's whatever gets you revved up."

Pink Floyd - Yet Another Movie

Pink Floyd - Yet Another Movie Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Released: 1987

Yet Another Movie Lyrics

One sound, one single sound
One kiss, one single kiss
A face outside the window pane
However did it come to this?

A man who ran, a child who cried
A girl who heard, a voice that lied
The sun that burned a fiery red
The vision of an empty bed

The use of force, he was so tough
She'll soon submit, she's had enough
The march of fate, the broken will
Someone is lying very still

He has laughed and he has cried
He has fought and he has died
He's just the same as all the rest
He's not the worst, he's not the best

And still this ceaseless murmuring
The babbling that I brook
The seas of faces, eyes upraised
The empty screen, the vacant look

A man in black on a snow white horse,
A pointless life has run its course,
The red rimmed eyes, the tears still run
As he fades into the setting sun

You're going on that plane to take you where you belong.
But no, I have
You have got to listen to me.
Do you have any idea what you have to look forward to if you stay here?
Nine chances out of ten we both end up in a concentration camp and that
You're only saying these things to make me go.
I'm saying it 'cause it's true. Inside us, we both know we belong in different
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
But what about us?
But what about us?
But what about us?

Writer/s: GILMOUR, LEONARD
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Yet Another Movie

Dave Gilmour (from Only Music, December 1987): "It's a more surrealistic effort than anything I've attempted before. I don't even know what all of it means myself." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Adrenaline Mob - House of Lies

Adrenaline Mob - House of Lies Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Men Of Honor
Released: 2014

House of Lies Lyrics

House of Lies

Guitarist Mike Orlando explained this cut: "It's high energy with a cool groove and sexy bass line," he said. "It's about a strip club. You go into those places, and they're houses of lies. Make me feel good. Lie to me honey!"

Dead Kennedys - I Fought The Law

Dead Kennedys - I Fought The Law Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust, Inc.
Released: 2001

I Fought The Law Lyrics

Drinkin' beer in the hot sun
I Fought The Law and
I won
I fought the law and
I won

I needed sex and I got mine
I fought the law and
I won
I fought the law and
I won

The law don't mean shit
If you got the right friends
That's how this county's run
Twinkies are the best friend I ever had

I fought the law and
I won
I fought the law and
I won

I blew George and Harvey's brains out with my
Six gun!
I fought the law and
I won
I fought the law and
I won

Gonna write my book and make a million
I fought the law and
I won
I fought the law and
I won

I'm the new folk hero of the Ku Klux Klan
My cop friend thinks it's fun
You can get away with murder if you got a badge

I fought the law and
I won
I fought the law and
I won
I fought the law and
I won
I AM the law so I won

Writer/s: CURTIS, SONNY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I Fought The Law

The song is about the murder of San Francisco mayor George Moscone and his aide Harvey Milk ("I blew George and Harvey's brains out with my six-gun") by police officer Dan White, who later managed to get out of a double murder sentence through a rather peculiar insanity defense - he claimed he went temporarily insane after eating too many Twinkies ("Twinkies are the best friends I ever had") even though there is evidence the murders were premeditated.

This song was featured in the second season Crime Story episode "Pauli Taglia's Dream." During portions of the titular dream, John Santucci lip-synchs to the song. (thanks, James - Tracy, CA)

Austin Mahone - U

Austin Mahone - U Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: single release only
Released: 2014

U Lyrics

TUrn your radio up, turn your radio up, yea yea
Turn your radio up, turn your radio up, yea yea

Ain't no other shawty out for you baby,
Put a million on that that that that,
I took my world and gave you half of it baby,
I pray you never give it back back back back.

I love your style,
I love your smile,
I love your eyes,
They look like diamonds to me
So you could have it all,
All of it baby,
In your favorite store blowin' stacks stacks stacks.

Because I know that all my dreams
Are coming true yeah
And I know-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
I'll never feel the way I feel girl,
'Bout anyone but you, oh baby you yeah you,
You oh baby you yeah you,

See I'll go up and get a star for you baby
Pick it out and bring it back back back back
I'm glad you opened up your heart for me baby
I ain't lying that's a fact fact fact fact

I remember us sitting up late in my one bedroom apartment
Memories runnin' thru my head head head head
You the only one I want if you were to leave me
I don't know what I would do instead stead stead stead
'Cause I love ya, I love ya
Even if I'm tempted I swear
I'll never put none of them others above ya
Hoping I can get along with your big brothers
'Cause I'm in it for the long haul like truckers
Cartier love, purple label kisses, just give me a minute
And I'll be making you my Mrs.
We can look exquisite, trips to the Pacific
Look up in the sky like look Mèma I did it

Because I know that all my dreams
Are coming true yeah
And I know-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
I'll never feel the way I feel girl,
You oh baby you yeah you,
You oh baby you yeah you,
You oh baby you yeah you,
You oh baby you yeah you,

Turn your radio up, turn your radio up, yea yea
Turn your radio up, turn your radio up, yea yea
Baby throw your hands up, let's see you throw your hands up, yea yea
Let me see them hands up, let me see them hands up, yea yea
(See I love you)

Because I know that all my dreams
Are coming true yeah
And I know-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow
I'll never feel the way I feel girl, 'bout anyone but
You oh baby you yeah you,
You oh baby you yeah you,
You oh baby you yeah you,
You oh baby you yeah you
Yeah you

Writer/s: MAHONE, AUSTIN HARRIS / GREEN, BRANDON MICHAEL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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U

Austin made this song available to his fans on Valentine's Day 2014. However, it's hardly new. "'U' was actually the first song that I recorded when I moved to Miami about two years ago, so it's kind of old but I've always loved the song," he said on Live From MTV. "It's always been one of my favorites and I just thought it would be cool to release it as a Valentine's Day gift to my fans."

Halfway through the song, Austin reveals his rapping skills. "Hopefully I didn't sound too white," he joked to MTV.

Rush - Vital Signs

Rush - Vital Signs Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Moving Pictures
Released: 1981

Vital Signs Lyrics

Unstable condition
A symptom of life
In mental
And environmental
Change

Atmospheric disturbance
The feverish flux
Of human interface
And interchange

The impulse is pure
Sometimes our circuits get shorted
By external interference

Signals get crossed
And the balance distorted
By internal incoherence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a mood lifter
Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to deviate
From the norm

An ounce of perception
A pound of obscure
Process information
At half-speed

Pause
Rewind, replay
Warm memory chip
Random sample
Hold the one you need

Leave out the fiction
The fact is
This friction
Will only be worn by persistence

Leave out conditions
Courageous convictions
Will drag the dream into existence

A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a soft filter
Everybody need reverse polarity

Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to elevate
From the norm

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

Neil Peart (Guitar for the Practicing Musician, 1986): "At the end of an album it's impossible for us to judge which songs will truly be popular and which won't. We're inevitably surprised. And then there are songs like "Vital Signs" from our Moving Pictures album. At the time it was a very transitional song. Everybody had mixed feelings about it, but at the same time it expressed something essential that I wanted to say. That's a song that has a marriage of vocals and lyrics I'm very happy with. But it took our audience a long time to get it, because it was rhythmically very different for us and it demanded the audience to respond in a different rhythmic way. There was no heavy downbeat; it was al counterpoint between upbeat and downbeat, and there was some reflection of reggae influence and a reflection of the more refined areas of new wave music that we had sort of takes under our umbrella and made happen. That song took about three tours to catch on. It was kind of a baby for us. We kept playing it and wouldn't give up. We put it in our encore last tour-putting it in the most exciting part of the set possible-and just demanded that people accept it because we believed in it. I still think that song represents a culmination-the best combination of music, lyrics, rhythm. It opens up so many musical approaches, from being very simplistic and minimal to becoming very overplayed. Everything we wanted in the song is there. So that song was very special to us. But we had to wait. We had to be patient and wait for the audience to understand us." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

In the Moving Pictures tour book, Peart added: "'Vital Signs' was the ultimate result, eclectic in the extreme, it embraces a wide variety of stylistic influences, ranging from the sixties to the present. Lyrically, it derives from my response to the terminology of 'Technospeak,' the language of electronics and computers, which often seems to parallel the human machine, in the functions and interrelationships they employ. It is interesting, if irrelevant, to speculate as to whether we impose our nature on the machines that we build, or whether they are merely governed by the inscrutable laws of Nature as we. (Perhaps Murphy's Laws?) Never mind!" (thanks, Nathan - Wichititty, KS)

Vocalist Geddy Lee recalled to The Plain Dealer newspaper in a 2011 interview: "That was a hoot to write. We wrote it in about 5 minutes in the studio. We just put it together quickly and had a lot of fun doing it. It's still fun to play. It's the quirkier side of Rush's sound, and I think there's always a need for that, to give your sound diversity."