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Data Romance - The Deep

Data Romance - The Deep Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Data Romance
Released: 2011

The Deep Lyrics

The Deep

Director Alistair Legrand was excited to finally put an old idea to use when he teamed up with Data Romance for this music video. He remembers: "The idea for this video came to me when I was listening to this song I really liked a lot. I couldn't stop visualizing these robotic forms engaged in this street-style battle dancing…I kept thinking it would be perfect for a song that wasn't hip hop."

Legrand stumbled upon "jookin," a Memphis dance style that combined his robotic visions with ballet-like grace, and its master performer Lil' Buck. Along with co-choreographing the routines, Lil' Buck and his crew performed in the video.

Ajay Bhattacharyya told Toro Magazine why they chose Legrand to direct the video: "When we found Alistair's treatment, we gravitated toward it because it was so simple and barebones. It was dark, and didn't try to paint a plot, like putting our song to a movie or something. Guy-girl drama. (His plan) appealed to us way more, the visceral quality of it. I think there's a lot of darkness in our music that isn't evident on the surface."

This song was featured on the TV series Lost Girl in the 2011 episode "Fae Gone Wild."

Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling

Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Christmas Portrait
Released: 1970

Merry Christmas Darling Lyrics

Greeting cards have all been sent
The Christmas rush is through
But I still have one wish to make
A special one for you

Merry Christmas Darling
We're apart that's true
But I can dream and in my dreams
I'm Christmasing with you

Holidays are joyful
There's always something new
But ev'ryday's a holiday
When I'm near to you

The lights on my tree
I wish you could see
I wish it ev'ry day
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say

That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year too
I've just one wish on this Christmas eve
I wish I were with you

The logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say

That I wish you Merry Christmas
Happy New Year too
I've just one wish on this Christmas eve
I wish I were with you
I wish I were with you

Writer/s: CARPENTER, RICHARD LYNN / POOLER, FRANK
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Merry Christmas Darling

This was the Carpenters' first attempt at Christmas music. The lyric was written in 1946 by Frank Pooler, who was the choir director at California State University, Long Beach. Karen and Richard Carpenter were both part of the choir. In 1966, at Pooler's request, Richard composed the music for this ballad, which was first released in 1970. This sparked the interest and idea of a Christmas album by the Carpenters, and on October 13, 1978, Christmas Portrait was released. (thanks, TimmT - Orange, CA)

In the UK, this was re-released in 1990 as a single with "(They Long to Be) Close to You," which is when it hit #25.

Data Romance - Can't Keep Your Mind Off

Data Romance - Can't Keep Your Mind Off Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Other
Released: 2013

Can't Keep Your Mind Off Lyrics

Can't Keep Your Mind Off

Although this sounds like a happier song, there's more going on under the surface. In our interview with Data Romance, Amy Kirkpatrick talked about how it was inspired by an inner struggle: "I wrote it at a time where I was trying to be okay with everything that was going on, and I really wasn't. It's when you're telling yourself 'everything's fine, I'll do this for you, it's no big deal,' but on the inside you're contradicting what you're saying."

Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City

Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: City Nights
Released: 1978

Hot Child In The City Lyrics

Danger in the shape of something wild,
Stranger dressed in black she's a hungry child.
No-one knows who she is or what her name is.
I don't know where she came from or what her game is.

Hot Child In The City,
Hot child in the city,
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty,
Yeah,
Hot child in the city.

So young to be loose and on her own.
Young boys they all want to take her home.
When she comes downtown the boys all stop and stare.
When she comes downtown she walks like she just don't care,
Yeah.

Hot child in the city,
Hot child in the city,
Runnin' wild and lookin' pretty,
Yeah,
Hot child in the city.

Come on down to my place baby, we'll talk about love.
Come on down to my place baby, we'll make love.
Hot child in the city. Hot child in the city.
Hot child in the city runnin' wild and lookin' pretty,
Hot child in the city.

Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city
Hot child in the city.
Hot child in the city
Writer/s: MC CULLOCH, JAMES / GILDER, NICK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Hot Child In The City

This song is about child prostitution. Gilder had moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles, and was amazed at how many young girls he saw working as prostitutes on Hollywood Boulevard. (thanks, Jeanette - Hawthorne, CA)

This was Gilder's only hit. He was previously in a group called Sweeney Todd.

This took 21 weeks to get to #1 in the US, a record at the time. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

Julian Lennon - Too Late for Goodbyes

Julian Lennon - Too Late for Goodbyes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Valotte
Released: 1984

Too Late for Goodbyes Lyrics

Ever since you've been leaving me, I've been wanting to cry.
Now I know how it feels for you, I've been wanting to die.
But it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Time has gone since I've been with you, and we've been starting to die.
Now it seems you don't care for me, and I don't understand why.
But it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Ever since you've been far away, I've been wanting to fly.
Now I know what you meant to me, I'm the one who should cry.
And it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Ever since you've been leaving me, I've been wanting to cry.
Now I know how it feels for you, I've been wanting to die.
And it's much too late for good-byes, yes, it's much too late for good-byes.

Writer/s: LENNON, JULIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Too Late for Goodbyes

Released in the UK in September, 1984, this was the first single for Julian Lennon, who is John Lennon's first son. (His first American single was "Valotte.") His mother Cynthia got a divorce from John when Julian was just five years old, and for the next nine years, Julian rarely saw his dad. When he was 14, Julian reconnected with his dad and made occasional visits to his home in New York City.

Julian inherited many of his father's musical gifts, including a knack for songwriting. He wrote "Too Late for Goodbyes" on his own and released the song when he was just 21. It was a Top 10 hit in both the UK and US, and helped him earn a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, which he lost to Sade.

"I had an old reel-to-reel Fostex in my first flat or apartment in London, which was in Kensington," Julian told us . "I remember just being in my living room. It was on the top floor walk-up of six flights. I just remember sitting there with a keyboard and writing this track."

Given his personal history, this song could be interpreted as Julian Lennon's message to his dad, who left him when he was young. Julian tells us that this is not the case. "Initially it was about a girl, a relationship," he said. "Then it was a few other friends in the room and I was bouncing ideas back and forth. I just ended up with that particular phrase and title and it seemed to stick. So it made sense to me, and voilÁ ! Bob's your uncle. That's it. No hidden agendas on that one."

The album was produced by Phil Ramone, who had helmed albums by Paul Simon and Billy Joel. Ramone kept the production remarkably tasteful and mature considering he was working with a 21-year-old British kid in 1984. This is one of the more synth-heavy tracks on the album, but the keyboards were part of a mix with prominent guitar and bass.

Toots Thielemans played the harmonica part. Producer Phil Ramone used Thielemans the previous year on the Billy Joel track "Leave a Tender Moment Alone."

The video did very well on MTV, which Lennon credits for much of his success. He told us: "The early days of MTV certainly had a tremendous effect on most everybody at that point in time because that's when I felt the industry was a bit more exciting, because you really did in those days look forward to not only the latest new songs that were coming out by your favorite artists, but you wanted to see what they looked like, and sometimes that was the closest you were going to get if you couldn't go to their shows."

Sam Peckinpah, who directed the films Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and Convoy, directed the video. He also directed Lennon's next video, which was for his song "Valotte."

Moon Mullican - There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight

Moon Mullican - There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Showboy Special
Released: 1947

There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight Lyrics

There's A Chill On The Hill Tonight

This was written sometime in the 1940s by Nelson Cogane, Sam Mysels and David Robertson (who wrote numerous jazz standards, including "We three").

In 1944, Jimmie Davis and Moon Mullican recorded the song together. Davis' name appears as co-writer, too, but no one is sure if he wrote it or bought it. Davis earned himself a top 10 Country hit with the song.

The definitive version of this song was recorded by Moon Mullican on King records in 1947. Sadly, this has not become a major standard like other songs of the time like "You are my sunshine", "I'll sail my ship alone" or "Walking the floor over you." (thanks, Patrick - Waterford, Ireland, for all above)

Five Finger Death Punch - The House Of The Rising Sun

Five Finger Death Punch - The House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol 2
Released: 2013

The House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics

There is a house in Sin City
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in Sin City

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

Well, I've got one foot on the platform
The other's on the train
I'm goin' back to Sin City
To wear that ball and chain

Well, mother, tell your children
Never do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In The House Of The Rising Sun

In the house of the rising sun

Well, there is a house in Sin City
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, knows I, I'm one

Writer/s: BARONE/TRADITIONAL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, CLAUS OGERMANN, PRES. D/B/A HELIOS MUSIC CORP.
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The House Of The Rising Sun

The roots of this classic African-American folk song date back to 18th century English ballads before emigrants took it to America. The oldest known existing recording is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded the tune in 1934..

The most successful version of this folk tune was recorded by The Animals in 1964, after they originally performed it while touring England with Chuck Berry. Animals lead singer Eric Burdon, recalled to us: "It was a great song for the Chuck Berry tour because it was a way of reaching the audience without copying Chuck Berry. It was a great trick and it worked."

Released as a single, it became a #1 hit for the band in the UK, the US, Canada, Finland and Sweden.

Five Finger Death Punch covered this for their The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2 album, releasing it as the disc's second single. Guitarist Zoltan Bathory recalled how the band changed up the classic song to give it a hard-rock vibe, most notably, by switching the song's time signature from 6/8 to 4/4. "We had the idea to do this for a while," he explained. "The interesting thing about this song is that [it's] actually in a time signature of 6/8 which is a waltz… and rock music and waltz doesn't necessarily mix right."

He added: "So basically the challenge was: 'How do we make this song work? How do we take away that goofy vibe and how do we make it into a rock structure?'"

Zoltan Bathory co-directed the song's music video with Thought Pirates Films' Brian Neal. It was filmed in the Nevada desert and features a high stakes poker game with some dire results. "The song's lyrics are about gambling and drinking and we wanted to recreate those gun-swinging outlaw poker scenes familiar from classic Western movies," Bathory explained. "However, I just couldn't see us riding horses in the video so we shifted eras and went for a Mad Max-like post-apocalyptic vibe with the cars and the bikes we ride anyway."

Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio

Rage Against the Machine - Guerilla Radio Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Battle Of Los Angeles
Released: 1999

Guerilla Radio Lyrics

Guerilla Radio

This song is about the 2000 US presidential Election, and in particular the way media shaped the campaigns of the two competitors, George Bush and Al Gore.

The line "More for Gore or the son of a drug lord" refers to the discovery that, while George Bush Sr. was President, the CIA was supplying drugs to inner city areas. (thanks, rudi - melbourne, Australia, for above 2)

This song is a statement about the worthlessness of democracy in the United States. Since the people don't truly understand "choice" and are only able to grasp a small glimpse of those running to represent them in office, they are unconsciously under a one-party system. Rage are using music and sound as a weapon against such "low intensity warfare."

This was the first single from The Battle Of Los Angeles, and is the most recognizable as their sound in relation to their past releases. It's basically a manifestation of Rage's goal and purpose, acting as "guerrilla radio" to alert the masses of the change to radical ideas. (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA, for above 2)

This was used on the popular late-'90s skateboarding game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. (thanks, Chris LaBenne - Niles, OH)

Conor Oberst - Hundreds of Ways

Conor Oberst - Hundreds of Ways Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Upside Down Mountain
Released: 2014

Hundreds of Ways Lyrics

What a thing to be a witness to the sunshine
What a dream to just be walking on the ground
What a time to live among the ashen remnants of our love
It came before and I'm still looking for that now

It took centuries to build these twisted cities
It took seconds to reduce them down to dust
And all the tour guide could say was
“Take your pictures folks it's late, try your best please to remember what was done.†

Don't look so forlorn
Don't you look so scared
Don't get so upset
This world was never fair

But there are Hundreds of Ways
To get through the days
There are hundreds of ways
Now you just find one

I used to think that time was of the essence
Now I just wish I could get some sleep
All this strange parade of sounds the city makes when I lay down
Little explosions that set fire to my dreams

Sometimes I get mistaken for this actor
And I guess that I can see it from the side
Maybe no one really seems to be the person that they mean to be
I hope I am forgotten when I die

Don't contradict me
Don't make me cross the line
If you feel threatened
It's only 'cause I might

But there are hundreds of ways
To get through the days
There are hundreds of ways
To get through the day
Yes, there are hundreds of ways
So you best find one

All my hero's they're all talk
Running in circles
Some stop watch some cast
Love was the message. Full stop

We ramble on and on
We ramble on and on

I stole all the rhinestones out of Carolina
Sold them out in Bakersfield for cash
The bandshell got a band sounds like an arcade in Japan
Blew all my quarters trying to get that feeling back

Now any sucker can turn boredom into violence
A sociopath riding on a bus
His irises are black from his novelty contacts
He looks around but he can't see the rest of us

In my sunglasses don't mind the blinding light
Yeah it's getting dark bro, but I've always loved the night

But there are hundreds of ways
To get through the day
There are hundreds of ways
To get through the day
There are hundreds of ways
To get through the day
There are hundreds of ways
To get through the day
There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of ways
To get through the day
Just find one

Writer/s: Conor Mullen Oberst, Conor Oberst
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Hundreds of Ways

The first song to be released from Upside Down Mountain is a Country-flavored tune that finds Oberst singing about disappointment and needing to find a way to get through the day.

The song features backing vocals from Johanna and Klara Soderberg of the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit. The sisters provide backing vocals for Oberst throughout Upside Down Mountain. The Bright Eyes leader previously featured on the Swedish sisters' 2012 track "King Of The World."

A limited-edition seven-inch of the song was released on Record Store Day on April 19, 2014.

The song finds Oberst addressing his own legacy:

"Maybe no one really seems to be the person that they mean to be.
I hope I am forgotten when I die."

"I think a lot of times there's the sense that we have of ourselves and then there's the perception of people we interact with in the world, and those two things are not congruent," he explained to Billboard magazine. "It's a bit of a snarky line, but it's essentially saying that once I'm out of the picture I hope no one talks about me, because it won't be me they're talking about — it'll be their perception."

Adema - Giving In

Adema - Giving In Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Adema
Released: 2001

Giving In Lyrics

Will you walk me
To the edge again?
Shaking, lonely
And I am drinking again.
Woke up tonight
And no one's here with me.
I'm Giving In to you.
Take me under.
I'm giving in to you.
I'm dying tonight.
I'm giving in to you.
Watch me crumble.
I'm giving in to you.
I'm crying tonight.
I'm giving in to you.

Caught up in life
Losing all my friends.
Family has tried
To heal my addictions.
Tragic it seems
To be alone again.
I'm giving in to you.

Take me under
I'm giving in to you.
I'm dying tonight.
I'm giving in to you.
Watch me crumble.
I'm giving in to you.
I'm crying tonight.
I'm giving in to you.

Oh fuck

I look forward
To dying tonight.
Drinks still on myself.
Life's harder every day.
The stress has got to me
I'm giving in.
Giving
Giving in now.

Take me under.
(I'm killing all the faith)
I'm dying tonight.
(I'm sick of all that faith)
Watch me crumble.
(I'm killing all the faith)
I'm crying tonight.

I'm giving in to you.
Take me under.
I'm giving in to you.
I'm dying tonight.
I'm giving in to you.
Watch me crumble.
I'm giving in to you.
I'm crying tonight.
I'm giving in to you.
Take me under.
I'm giving in to you.
I'm dying tonight.
I'm giving in to you.

Writer/s: FLUCKY, TIM/DEROO, DAVE/CHAVEZ, MARK/RANSOM, MIKE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Giving In

This is about having impulses and how acting on them can get you into trouble. It's about not giving in to your personal demons. (thanks, Letty - tERRE hAUTE, IN)

Karen O - The Moon Song

Karen O - The Moon Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Her
Released: 2014

The Moon Song Lyrics

The Moon Song

Yeah Yeah Yeah's frontwoman Karen 'O' Orzolek wrote this lullaby for the 2013 feature film Her, with the movie's director (and her ex) Spike Jonze. She recalled: "'The Moon Song' was written and recorded in the most humble of circumstances; at my dining room table, a few paces away from the couch [where] I read the script for Her for the first time."

This marked Orzolek's second film collaboration with Spike Jonze, after she wrote the soundtrack for his 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. The pair also previously collaborated on a 2005 Adidas commercial, Hello Tomorrow.

Orzolek recorded a second version of the tune with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, which was included in a three-song EP of "The Moon Song." "I wrote the song as a duet," the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer told Rolling Stone. "I was really excited at the prospect of getting to record it with a male vocalist. Ezra was super cool and open, he slipped into character like a champ and damn he's got the goods.... Singing this song with Ezra felt like fulfilling a wish of my diehard romantic junior high self."

Sublime - Santeria

Sublime - Santeria Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sublime
Released: 1996

Santeria Lyrics

I don't practice Santeria I ain't got no crystal ball
I had a million dollars but I'd, I'd spend it all
I could find that Heina and that Sancho that she's found
I'd pop a cap in Sancho and I'd slap her down

All I really want to know
I already know
All I really want to say
I can't define
It's love that I need
But my soul will have to wait till I get back and find
Heina of my own
Daddy's gonna love one and all
I feel the break, feel the break, feel the break and I got to live it out, oh yeah

I swear that I, I really want to know,
I really, I really want to stay, I cant define
That love make it go, my soul will have to

What I really want to say, ah baby
What I really want to say, is I've got mine
And I'll make it, yes I'm going up
Tell Sanchito that if he knows what is good for him
He best go run and hide
Daddy's got a new .45
And I won't think twice to stick that barrel straight down Sancho's throat
Believe me when I say that I got somethin' for his punk ass

What I really want know, ah baby
What I really want to say is there's just one way back
And I'll make it, yeah, my soul will have to wait

Writer/s: NOWELL, BRADLEY JAMES / WILSON, ERIC JOHN / GAUGH IV, FLOYD I.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Santeria

This song is about a guy contemplating the use of black magic, voodoo, or "santeria" - anything he can to get back his girl. The lyric was written by lead singer Brad Nowell, who died two months before the album was released. (thanks, Drew - Sydney, Australia)

Santeria means "Way of The Saints" in Spanish, and is a religion where the focus is on worship of saints. It is practiced in Cuba, Brazil, Panama, and a few other countries. There are some followers of Santeria in California, where the band is from.

An early version of this song appears as an instrumental called "Lincoln Highway Dub" on Sublime's second album, Robbin' The Hood, released in 1994.

"I wrote the music," Sublime bass player Eric Wilson said in his Songfacts interview . "It was the music from a four-track, I wrote it in my head, and we re-tracked it and put those lyrics on it."

The music video was made about a month after Brad Nowell died. The video contains ghostly images of Brad playing his guitar along with the band, which was created by using old concert footage of him.

The clip was directed by McG, who later became a big time movie-maker (Charlie's Angels, Terminator Salvation), and stars Tom Lister, Jr., who wrestled under the name Zeus and appeared in a number of movies and TV shows as a big, scary man.

Nowell's Dalmation, Lou Dog, has a starring role in the video, but in most of the scenes a trained lookalike dog was used, since Lou didn't take direction well and at one point bit Lister.

Sublime formed in 1988 and released two albums on their own label before getting deal with MCA, which issued their self-titled album in 1996 two months after lead singer Brad Nowell died of a heroin overdose at age 28. The band was little known at the time outside of their home base of Long Beach, California, and Nowell's death got little national coverage.

His bandmates later re-formed as the Long Beach Dub Allstars, but there was no Sublime to promote the album. When MCA sent promotional copies of "What I Got" to US radio stations, it got some heat and suddenly the defunct band was on the air and in demand. "Santeria" was the next single pushed to radio, and it was well-received, garnering most of its airplay in early 1997, almost a year after the album was released. "Wrong Way" was then sent to stations, followed by "Doin' Time," keeping Sublime on the airwaves well into 1998.

None of these songs were made available for sale as singles in America, which ramped up album sales. Sublime ended up selling over 5 million copies despite the death of their frontman.