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Mike Oldfield - Never Too Far

Mike Oldfield - Never Too Far Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tubular Beats
Released: 2013

Never Too Far Lyrics

Never Too Far

This is the sole new song on Tubular Beats, a remix album featuring collaborations between Mike Oldfield and Torsten Stenzel of the German Electronica duo York.

The track features Finnish singer Tarja Turunen, who is best known as the former lead vocalist of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. She stated in a press release that Oldfield is one of her idols, adding: "My work in this song was inspired by Mike's (1987 single) 'Islands' featuring another of my youth idols: Bonnie Tyler,. A way to thank them for the nice melodies I grew up with was to add a line from their hit. And I believe Mike liked the idea too. That's how 'Never Too Far' was born."

Bush - Bomb

Bush - Bomb Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sixteen Stone
Released: 1994

Bomb Lyrics

Wanted to buy you shiny red things
Thought I'd be with you until the end
How did I know that I would be there
Blow me away
See if I care
Death of a future
Goodbye to my friends
Wish I could see you all again
Family hollow
Family real
Wish you were here see how I feel
Kill a man
Kill a girl
Kill a man
Kill a girl
Jekyll in you
Brings out the wired in me
I have no defense
I'm all that you see
The night is a Bomb blast
The night is on fire
Sing with me in the gasoline cho

Writer/s: GAVIN ROSSDALE
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Bomb

This song was inspired by the frequent IRA bombings in Ireland. The lyrics are intended to tell the story of a fellow who is just out shopping and ends up killed as an innocent bystander in an IRA bombing. Centuries of feuding between the Protestants and the Catholics have caused many deaths and severe injuries, not just to the people involved in the conflicts, but to innocent bystanders as well.

The song takes a cynical view of violence, as evident in the last two lines: "Of all the bravest stands in time/You stoop so low you'll never rise."

This song was featured on the soundtrack for the 1995 movie Tank Girl. (thanks, Sarah - Yuba City, CA)

Newsted - ...As the Crow Flies

Newsted - ...As the Crow Flies Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Heavy Metal Music
Released: 2013

...As the Crow Flies Lyrics

I spin around the sun I thank you may I have another
I am an army of one honour and respect my brother
The night is young crowded hearts are nine to four
If ever daylight comes save yourself and save your soul

As the crow flies I will make my way
As the day dies I look back and say
I look back and say well spent time today
I make my own way and I am not afraid

In from the word go bang those troubled thoughts out of your head
What you live is what you know any day alive is better than dead
Lets stay out all night and watch the shadows play in the light
And just look at us now I'm not afraid of failing I'm not afraid of flight

Beautiful in life unforgettable in death
Don't stop dreaming until the last breath
Until the last breath the hunger to be
To think and feel don't stop dreaming until it becomes real

Writer/s: JASON C NEWSTED
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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...As the Crow Flies

This is the third single from Heavy Metal Music, the debut studio album from Newsted, which is led by former Metallica bass player Jason Newsted . He said: "As far as the new recordings go, it's one of my favorite moments, if not my favorite moment, on the record — the dual-lead guitar thing in the last 30 seconds of the song."

The video was filmed with director Leon Melas, who previously helmed Newsted's clips for the tracks "Soldierhead" and "King Of The Underdogs."

"As the crow flies" is an idiom for the shortest route between two points. It is actually the rook that flies straight to its destination, rather than the crow, but the two black birds are often identified with each other.

Chevelle - Wonder What's Next

Chevelle - Wonder What's Next Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wonder What's Next
Released: 2002

Wonder What's Next Lyrics

It sometimes feels like I'm burning,
I want to succeed,
Is this a good quality?

I Wonder What's Next.

Nothing.

More and more its an animal,
Waiting to be seen,
Face of someone's failures,
I seek society in need, indeed, indeed.

Indeed.

In the beginning it seems that no one thinks beyond having fun,
Which is why you write music in the first place,
Always moving, defining, and pushing forward the art that once created,
Looking to the right time to share it,
And then the headaches of criticism,
Senior advisers advising people above,
Twisting, distorting that which we love,
And never ending problems with money,
Holding you back,
Preventing progress,
I thought you only started 'cause it was fun.

We play the blaming game,
Yes I mind,
Its not your turn.

We play the blaming game,
Yes I mind,
Its not your turn.

We play the blaming game,
Yes I mind,
Its not your turn!

We play the blaming game,
Yes I mind,
Its not your turn!!

I wonder,
I wonder what's next.

Yes we play the blaming,
Yes I mind,
Its not your turn.

We play the blaming game,
Yes I mind,
Its not your turn!

We play the blaming game,
Yes I mind,
Its not your turn!

We play the blaming game!

We play the blaming game!

Writer/s: LOEFFLER, PETER / LOEFFLER, JOSEPH / LOEFFLER, SAMUEL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Wonder What's Next

This song is about the music industry. More specifically, the problems that go with it. (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA)

Nina Persson - This Is Heavy Metal

Nina Persson - This Is Heavy Metal Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Animal Heart
Released: 2014

This Is Heavy Metal Lyrics

This Is Heavy Metal

Nina Persson wrote the lyrics to this ironically titled piano ballad at the last minute on the green porch of her Animal Heart collaborator Eric D. Johnson (The Shins, Fruit Bats) in Portland, Oregon. Persson explained to Artist Direct : "I was really frustrated and stressed but decided that f--- it, I'm just gonna write down anything that matters to me right now, like a book end."

"It was the very last thing I wrote for the record," she added, "and when I was done, I was so incredibly relieved and happy and I decided to never sweat anything again."

The Beach Boys - In My Room

The Beach Boys - In My Room Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Surfer Girl
Released: 1963

In My Room Lyrics

There's a world where I can go
And tell my secrets to
In My Room
In my room

In this world I lock out
All my worries and my fears
In my room
In my room

Do my dreaming and my scheming lie awake and pray
Do my crying and my sighing laugh at yesterday

Now it's dark and I'm alone
But I won't be afraid
In my room
In my room

Writer/s: THORPE, BILLY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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In My Room

This is written from the perspective of a teenager who feels safe and comfortable in his bedroom. Brian Wilson suffered from severe agoraphobia, and refused to leave his bedroom for a significant amount of time. He wrote this song to give people and idea of how he felt.

Brian Wilson explained in 1990: "When Dennis, Carl and I lived in Hawthorne as kids, we all slept in the same room. One night I sang the song 'Ivory Tower' to them and they liked it. Then a couple of weeks later, I proceeded to teach them both how to sing the harmony parts to it. It took them a little while, but they finally learned it. We then sang this song night after night. It brought peace to us. When we recorded 'In My Room,' there was just Dennis, Carl and me on the first verse... and we sounded just like we did in our bedroom all those nights. This story has more meaning than ever since Dennis' death."

Charles Manson, who was convicted of orchestrating the murders of six people in 1969, made repeated claims that The Beach Boys stole this song from him. In Manson's view, he wrote a song called "In My Cell" which was about how he feels peace with himself in his jail cell. Manson did have a connection to The Beach Boys - he knew their drummer Dennis Wilson - and did write and record some songs. His claims have little basis in fact - something that is true of most of his proclamations.

Linda Ronstadt and Tammy Wynette both covered this song.

Bill Medley from The Righteous Brothers recorded this with Phil Everly and Brian Wilson for his album Damn Near Righteous, his first new album since the untimely 2003 death of his partner Bobby Hatfield. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Interesting food for thought: Brian Wilson just might have inadvertently inspired one of the greatest Jazz fusion bands, Blood Sweat & Tears, albeit indirectly. Al Kooper relates in Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards that he was sitting in Brian Wilson's living room while he showed off the Pet Sounds album. He was just leaving The Blues Project and wandering around California in an existential haze wondering what to do next, when while visiting with Brian Wilson, "Deep in the back of my mind was a band that could put dents in your shirt if you got within fifteen rows of the stage..." He explains his idea of having a band with a horn section in it, more than R&B bands but less than Count Basie's or Buddy Rich's. "Somewhere in the middle was a mixture of soul, jazz, and rock that was my little fantasy."

This was released as the B-side of "Be True To Your School."

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rocket
Released: 1996

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Lyrics

Jan lays down and wrestles in her sleep
Moonlight spills on comic books
And superstars in magazines
An old friend calls and tells us where to meet
Her plane takes off from Baltimore
And touches down on Bourbon Street

We sit outside and argue all night long
About a god we've never seen
But never fails to side with me
Sunday comes and all the papers say
Ma Teresa's joined the mob
And happy with her full time job

Do do do do do do

Am I alive or thoughts that drift away?
Does summer come for everyone?
Can humans do as prophets say?
And if I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
But half asleep?

Do do do do do do

A life is time, they teach us growing up
The seconds ticking killed us all
A million years before the fall
You ride the waves and don't ask where they go
You swim like lions through the crest
And bathe yourself on zebra flesh

I've been downhearted baby,
I've been downhearted baby,
Ever since the day we met

Writer/s: JANE FEATHER, LEONARD FEATHER, CHRIS O CONNOR
Publisher: KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA INC
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Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand

The hook samples the line, "I've been downhearted baby, ever since the day we met" from a live performance of B.B. King singing "How Blue Can You Get?," which can be heard on his 1971 album Live in Cook County Jail. That song was written by a British songwriter/music journalist named Leonard Feather, along with his wife Jane. They each shared composer credits on "Phone Booth" as a result of the sample.

This song was written and first recorded in 1991 by the group's lead singer, Chris O'Connor. His band The I-Rails spent the back half of the '80s playing gigs around Santa Monica, California, releasing four independent albums along the way. When they broke up in 1991, O'Connor used his friend's garage studio to record the Rocket album, which cost about $1,000 to make and was filled with songs dealing with his disaffection. Predictably, he got no takers and the album sat on the shelf.

O'Connor abandoned his music career and took a job as an air traffic controller at Los Angeles International Airport. In 1994, his passion for music returned and he sent out the remaining copies of the album he had made to various record companies. These unsolicited tapes rarely found the ears of a decision-maker, but Jonathan Daniel, an A&R man at Fiction Records, popped in the tape and gave it a listen. This song jumped out at him - "It's got tons of atmosphere" he recalled. Daniel played the tape for some other executives, and O'Connor got a deal with the Ergo division of Columbia Records, which released the album as Primitive Radio Gods - a far more exotic moniker than "Chris O'Connor."

"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth" went to #1 on the Modern Rock charts and got considerable airplay on Top 40 radio. Needing a band to tour in support of the record, O'Connor enlisted his I-Rails bandmates, guitarist Jeff Sparks and drummer Tim Lauterio, to become the Primitive Radio Gods along with lead guitarist Luke McAuliffe. Sparks quit his day job - driving a beer truck - to join the band.

The title, which does not appear in the lyric, comes from a 1978 song by Bruce Cockburn called "Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand," which is on Cockburn's album Further Adventures Of. Chris O'Connor told us: "I had already finished the song and thought, 'That's It.' I threw 'standing' in front, but at the time I would have swore I lifted it word for word."

When we asked Chris O'Connor what this song is about, he replied: "A light that never goes out."

Originally, this song was released in Europe, where it failed to chart. In America, before the album was released, the song was used in the 1996 Jim Carrey movie The Cable Guy, which made it more appealing to radio stations loath to play songs by unknown artists.

In America, the song was not released as a single, so if you wanted to own it, you had to buy either the Rocket album or The Cable Guy soundtrack. Holding back release as a single made the song ineligible for the Billboard Hot 100, but it went to #10 on their Airplay chart.

The female vocals are by Mary Kay Fishell, who was in a Los Angeles-based group called The Convertibles.

An early version of this song contained a sample from the 1965 French film Alphaville which had to be removed when the sample didn't clear.

This is one of the more unusual hit songs ever recorded, complete with church bells, distortion, soft synth, a title that never appears in the lyrics, and a very brief chorus of "Do do do do do do."

When the band toured, it was on the strength of this hit, but the other songs in their setlist were more standard guitar-based blues. This discrepancy didn't play well live, and the band couldn't expand their following. One more single was distributed to radio stations: a track called "Motherf--ker." That one went nowhere, and the band was dropped from their label. In 2000, they resurfaced with a new album called White Hot Peach.

Directed by the GobTV collective, the music video was shot in London. Chris O'Connor was still working as an air traffic controller at the time, and called in sick three times so he could do the shoot. It did very well on MTV, which helped the song's fortunes considerably.

John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow

John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Scarecrow
Released: 1985

Rain On The Scarecrow Lyrics

Scarecrow on a wooden cross blackbird in the barn
Four hundred empty acres that used to be my farm
I grew up like my daddy did my grandpa cleared this land
When I was five I walked the fence while grandpa held my hand

[Chorus]
Rain On The Scarecrow blood on the plow
This land fed a nation this land made me proud
And son I'm just sorry theres no legacy for you now
Rain on the scarecrow blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow blood on the plow

The crops we grew last summer weren't enough to pay the loans
Couldn't buy the seed to plant this spring and the farmers bank foreclosed
Called my old friend schepman up to auction off the land
He said john its just my job and I hope you understand
Hey calling it your job ol hoss sure dont make it right
But if you want me to Ill say a prayer for your soul tonight
And grandmas on the front porch swing with a
Bible in her hand Sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land
When you take away a mans dignity he cant work his fields and cows

There'll be blood on the scarecrow blood on the plow
Blood on the scarecrow blood on the plow

Well there's ninety-seven crosses planted in the courthouse yard
Ninety-seven families who lost ninety-seven farms
I think about my grandpa and my neighbors and my name and some nights
I feel like dying like that scarecrow in the rain

[Chorus]

Rain on the scarecrow blood on the plow
This land fed a nation this land made me so proud
And son I'm just sorry they're just memories for you now
Rain on the scarecrow blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow blood on the plow

Writer/s: Mellencamp, John / Green, George Michael
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Rain On The Scarecrow

This song is about the financial difficulties farmers in the Midwest US face; difficulties that can go as far as having their farms repossessed by banks. Mellencamp wrote the song with his friend George Green, who he worked with on many of this tracks, including "Hurts So Good."

"Our songs always came about the same way: talk around the kitchen table," Mellencamp told Rolling Stone. "I had just played 'Small Town' for him. He said, "I don't know why these towns are going out of business" - towns like Freetown and Dudleytown, Indiana. We couldn't figure out why they were disappearing. We did our research and wrote this song - Reagan had been using grain against the Soviet Union and all sorts of other things. Talking to people was heartbreaking. Nobody wanted to lose their farm."

Mellencamp has taken an active role in helping American farmers. Along with Neil Young and Willie Nelson, he regularly plays at the Farm-Aid concerts to help raise money.

Rosanne Cash - The Sunken Lands

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Album: The River & the Thread
Released: 2014

The Sunken Lands Lyrics

Five cans of paint in the empty fields
The dust reveals

The children cry, the work never ends
There’s not a single friend

Who will hold her hand in The Sunken Lands?

The mud and tears melt the cotton balls
It’s a heavy toll
Oh oh

His words are cruel and they sting like fire
Like the devil’s choir
Oh oh

But who will hold her hand in the sunken lands?

The river rises and she sails away
But she could never stay
Oh oh

Now her work is done in the sunken lands
There’s five empty cans

Writer/s: JOHN B LEVENTHAL, ROSANNE CASH
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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The Sunken Lands

This song provides details about Rosanne's family's life, centering on her father John's mother Carrie; the title comes from the area where her father grew up in Arkansas. Roseanne told the UK newspaper The Sun: "I began thinking about the lives of women back then like my grandmother. She picked cotton. The men picked cotton but the women picked cotton and kept charge of the kids. Her husband was not very nice."

She added: "My grandmother had a hard, hard life but she never became bitter. She was a very cheerful woman and had fortitude like I can't imagine."

Rush - Turn The Page

Rush - Turn The Page Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hold Your Fire
Released: 1987

Turn The Page Lyrics

Nothing can survive in a vacuum
No one can exists all alone
We pretend things only happen to strangers
We've all got problems of our own

It's enough to learn
To share our pleasures
We can't sooth pain with sympathy
All that we can do is be reminded
We shake our heads at the tragedy

Every day we're standing
In a time capsule
Racing down a river from the past
Every day we're standing
In a wind tunnel
Facing down the future coming fast

It's just the age
It's just a stage
We disengage
We Turn The Page

Looking at
The long-range forecast
Catching all the names in the news
Checking out
The state of the nation
Learning the environmental blues

Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split,
And pieces that don't fit
How can anybody be enlightened
Truth is after all so poorly lit

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Turn The Page

Geddy Lee (Bass Player, Nov/Dec 1988): "It's not the easiest thing (playing and singing at the same time) in the world to do. You have to put a lot of hours into practice. As a matter of fact, on this tour I had a major problem with "Turn The Page." It's a very busy bass part, and the vocal part doesn't really relate to it very much. Eventually I got it, but it took a lot of practice. You can do those things, but you have to practice them a lot. You have to split yourself, as they say. Split your hands. Split yourself in two really, and let your hands do something, and let your voice do the other."

Alex Lifeson (Guitar magazine, August 1988): "It's more the musicality of the song than the lyrical content. For the solo I think it's the mood that's created by the music. I suppose in a way that makes it attached to the lyrics. But it's more the music that provides the trigger for what the solo does. If it's a dark, melancholy sound to that particular song, then the solo will reflect that. An example is "Open Secrets." It has that lonely mood to it from a musical point of view. I think the solo in that song reflects that wailing loneliness. Something like "Turn the Page" is much more manic and crazy."

Alex: "I had a rough idea for that, the direction and the eccentricity of the sound of the solo. It wasn't until I got in the studio that it came together." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for all above)

Ruben Studdard - Meant To Be

Ruben Studdard - Meant To Be Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Unconditional Love
Released: 2014

Meant To Be Lyrics

Just take a look at how we are
What do you see?
Let's try to work it put
Talk about figure out it's there's anew you and me
When we have love for ourselves
Only think can we love someone else
If we make a values we will be all that we Meant To Be
Yeah, yeah
There was a time when I thought I had lost it all
But you still by my side, and a God can be .you start my '
When it hurt to get through my day
You will be strong and you sure me the way that we hold the key
We can be all that we meat to be
Now that my heart it's free
You know I feel your love all over me
You shine a lot though darkness
Now I can see
Now I can see
Ooh baby hope when I was on the road all alone
And when I was feeling down
You pick me on, press me off
You help me move on
Now I have love for myself so it's time to love someone else
'Cause we hold the tears more then we even
With open yes we realize
There will hold the key
Of all that we meant to be
All that we meant to be
All that we meant
We can be anything we want
If we just believe that we can be all that we meant to be

Writer/s: FOSTER, DAVID / HERMS, BERNIE N / LANDERS, JAY N / MIDNIGHT, CHARLIE N / STUDDARD, RUBEN N
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, ROUND HILL MUSIC
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Meant To Be

This is the lead single and one of two original songs from Unconditional Love. Studdard performed the song on the February 4, 2014 finale of the NBC weight loss competition show The Biggest Loser. An alumnus of that show's season, the singer lost 119 pounds during the series.

The song was co-written and produced by David Foster ("Glory Of Love," "You'll See"), who also served as the executive producer of Unconditional Love. Studdard told Billboard magazine: "David and I had talked about working together when he was at Warner Bros. And I'd accompanied him on various Foster & Friends tours. But it just never was the right time [to do an album]. Finally getting the opportunity to work with a friend and mentor—someone who helped shaped my musical tastes while cleaning house with my parents on Saturdays— has been cool. Also because David knows how to produce great vocals. He knows what to say and how to suggest what to do when you're not singing well or feeling well."

Billboard commented to Studdard that his passionate delivery on the song felt like an aural autobiography. He replied: "Being on the Biggest Loser was definitely a time and place for a lot of self-reflection. To think about your accomplishments, mistakes, all the things that have made you who you are; about being on a reality show to get your life together."

"When David and I wrote 'Meant,' I was thinking about where I'm trying to get to and that's what came out," he added. "Starting out, I was this wide-eyed, immature 23-year-old with a slight direction as to where I wanted to go. Now I'm grown up with full direction and scope as to where I want to be in the next five-10 years: musical supremacy [laughs]."

10cc - Dreadlock Holiday

10cc - Dreadlock Holiday Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Bloody Tourists
Released: 1978

Dreadlock Holiday Lyrics

I was walkin' down the street
Concentratin' on truckin' right
I heard a dark voice beside of me
And I looked round in a state of fright
I saw four faces one mad
A brother from the gutter
They looked me up and down a bit
And turned to each other

I say
I don't like cricket oh no
I love it
I don't like cricket no no
I love it
Don't you walk thru my words
You got to show some respect
Don't you walk thru my words
'Cause you ain't heard me out yet

Well he looked down at my silver chain
He said I'll give you one dollar
I said You've got to be jokin' man
It was a present from me Mother
He said I like it I want it
I'll take it off your hands
And you'll be sorry you crossed me
You'd better understand that you're alone
A long way from home

And I say
I don't like reggae no no
I love it
I don't like reggae oh no
I love it
Don't you cramp me style
Don't you queer me pitch
Don't you walk thru my words
'Cause you ain't heard me out yet

I hurried back to the swimming pool
Sinkin' pina colada
I heard a dark voice beside me say
Would you like something harder
She said I've got it you want it
My harvest is the best
And if you try it you'll like it
And wallow in a Dreadlock Holiday

And I say
Don't like Jamaica oh no
I love her
Don't like Jamaica oh no
I love her oh yea
Don't you walk through her words
You got to show some respect
Don't you walk thru her words
'Cause you ain't heard her out yet

I don't like cricket oh no
I love it (Dreadlock holiday)
I don't like reggae oh no
I love it (Dreadlock holiday)
I don't like Jamaica oh no
I love her (Dreadlock holiday)

Writer/s: GOULDMAN, GRAHAM / STEWART, ERIC
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SCHUBERT MUSIC PUBLISHING INC.
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Dreadlock Holiday

The song is about a white man who gets lost in Jamaica and gets ripped off every step he makes (by a whore, by a gang who steal his medal, etc.). They were inspired by real events that happened to 10cc's Eric Stewart and Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues when they went on holiday together in Barbados. Stewart recalled in the book 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner & Spencer Leigh, "Justin and I were on a para-sailing raft in the middle of the ocean and I was strapped into this parachute gear. I was towed behind a speedboat at high speed. I took off and waved goodbye to Justin. He was then left on the raft with three black guys, one Jamaican and two from Barbados. The Jamaican guy said to Justin, 'I like your silver chain, man, I'll give you a dollar for it.' Justin replied, 'come on, it's worth a lot more than that and it's a present from my mother.' And this guy said, 'If this was Jamaica, I would cut your hand off for that.' I came back and asked Justin if he wanted to have a go. He said, 'No, let's get off this raft as quick as we can, I have had some problems.' When we got back to England, I relayed the story to Graham (Gouldman) and we wrote a song around it." (thanks, Thibaut - Brussels, Belgium)

The lyrics came from several other sources. The expression, "Don't you walk through my words" came from a report about a radio DJ in Newcastle who was challenged when he walked through a group of black guys talking together. The line, "I don't like cricket, I love it" came from a conversation Gouldman had with a completely different Jamaican guy in a hotel in Jamaica. They ended up talking about sport and when Gouldman asked his new West Indian friend if he liked cricket he replied "I don't like cricket," before pausing. He then said. "I don't like cricket, I love it."