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Survivor - The Search Is Over

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Album: Vital Signs
Released: 1984

The Search Is Over Lyrics

How can I convince you what you see is real
Who am I to blame you for doubting what you feel
I was always reachin', you were just a girl I knew
I took for granted the friend I have in you

I was living for a dream,
Loving for a moment
Taking on the world,
That was just my style
Now I look into your eyes
I can see forever,
The Search Is Over
You were with me all the while

Can we last forever, will we fall apart
At times it's so confusing, these questions of the heart
You followed me through changes, and patiently you'd wait
Till I came to my senses, through some miracle of fate

I was living for a dream,
Loving for a moment
Taking on the world,
That was just my style
Now I look into your eyes
I can see forever,
The search is over
You were with me all the while

Now the miles stretch out behind me loves that I have lost

Broken hearts lie victims of the game
Then good luck it finally stuck like lightning from the blue
Every highway leading me back to you
Now at last I hold you, now all is said and done
The search has come full circle, our destinies are one
So if you ever loved me show me that you give a damn
You'll know for certain the man I really am

I was living for a dream,
Loving for a moment
Taking on the world,
That was just my style
Now I look into your eyes
I can see forever,
The search is over
You were with me all the while

Writer/s: PETERIK, JAMES M/SULLIVAN, FRANK
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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The Search Is Over

This was written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan, who were Survivor's primary songwriters. Peterik told us: "'The Search Is Over' started as a title in my notebook. A lot of times, I'll write down a phrase that just sounds like something. I may have gotten it from the news - the search is over for the missing whatever. A lot of times, you don't know what the title means until you live it or someone you know lives it. It wasn't about my life as much as a friend of mine who had a girlfriend - really a play pal throughout their growing up years - and never thought it could be anything more than that. It was looking him straight in the face that this was the girl of his destiny, and he looked everywhere to find that dream girl only to come back to the sandbox. This couple is still married and going strong. It became kind of an allegory to looking for what is obvious; having it in your hand and you being too close to even realize it."

Peterik added in our interview: "Mechanically, the whole thing kind of started in my head driving down the street. I turned on my tape recorder and I sang the whole melody top to bottom into my tape recorder. The way it modulated into the chorus was very unique. When I got to the piano a few hours later, I had to find out where it was going and what it was. I brought it to rehearsal, showed it to the guys and worked with Frank one on one on the song - he loved it. It was called The Search Is Over, but I still didn't know exactly what the hook of the song was going to be. I thought of this couple, and when we came up with the line, 'Then I touched your hand, I could hear you whisper, the search is over, love was right before my eyes,' we looked at each other's arms and we both had goose bumps. It was the magical turn of that phrase and realizing what this song was about. I think we discovered the song as we were writing it."

As a teenager, Peterik formed The Ides Of March and wrote their hit "Vehicle." While he was with Survivor, he also wrote several hit songs for .38 Special, including "Hold On Loosely" and "Caught Up In You." He left Survivor in 1996 and continues to record with The Ides Of March.

Jim Peterik told us: "I'm a sucker for a good title. To me, a good title is intriguing. It tells the story sometimes in and of itself, or at least it draws the person in enough to wonder, 'What search is it? What is he looking for?' Vehicle - boom, just a great word. I had that written in the margins of my high school notebook. I didn't know exactly what it was about, I just knew it had power to it. Other times, I'll start with a melody, then I'll search through a notebook to look for the mood of that melody: Is it dark? Is it happy? Sad? Bittersweet? I like to match up the mood of the lyric to what I'm noodling on."

Bombay Bicycle Club - Carry Me

Bombay Bicycle Club - Carry Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: So Long, See You Tomorrow
Released: 2014

Carry Me Lyrics

You try to keep the options near
I want you home, I want you here
The lasting song across the track (I won’t change, yeah)
The rest it never calls me back (I won’t change, here and now)

If anybody wants to know
Our love’s getting old
Lighting the cracks in the road

You carry, you carry, you carry, you Carry Me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me (I won’t change)
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me (I won’t change, yeah)
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me

It’s time I let my mind desire
I never meant to cause you harm
Just to try to keep the options near
I want you home, I want you here

You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me

You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me (I won’t change, yeah))
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me (I won’t change, yeah)
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me (I won’t change)
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me (I won’t change)
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me (I won’t change, yeah)
You carry, you carry, you carry, you carry me

If anybody wants to know
Our love's getting old
Lighting the cracks in the road

You carry me!

Writer/s: JACK WILLIAM THOMAS STEADMAN
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Carry Me

This was written during a stay that Bombay Bicycle Club frontman Jack Steadman made in a Dutch place called Nijkerkerveen. He told NME: "I'd only been to the big cities in the Netherlands before so I wanted to avoid that. I set up a studio and I wrote 'Carry Me' and 'It's All Right Now' there."

"I like travelling alone, I stayed with families so they'd invite me for dinner," he added. "The dad of one family was a real hi-fi enthusiast with hundreds of speakers and played me all sorts of records. I was inspired by the 70s prog – like Traffic – he played. Listening to it made me want to make everything sound perfect when I got to the studio."

Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby

Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Hey Baby
Released: 1962

Hey! Baby Lyrics

Hey, hey hey baby!
I want to know if you'll be my girl
Hey, hey hey baby!
I want to know if you'll be my girl

When I saw you walking down the street
I said that's a kind of girl I'd like to meet
She's so pretty, Lord she's fine
I'm gonna make her mine all mine

Hey, hey hey baby!
I want to know if you'll be my girl

When you turned and walked away
That's when I want to say
C'mon baby, give me a whirl
I want to know if you'll be my girl

Hey, hey hey baby!
I want to know if you'll be my girl

When you turned and walked away
That's when I want to say
C'mon baby, give me a whirl
I want to know if you'll be my girl

Hey, hey hey baby!
I want to know if you'll be my girl
Hey, hey hey hey hey, baby
C'mon, baby now

Writer/s: CHANNEL, BRUCE / COBB, MARGARET
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hey! Baby

Channel wrote this around 1959 with his friend Margaret Cobb. He had already been performing the tune for a couple of years before recording it amidst a series of demos for Fort Worth producer Major Bill Smith. First released locally on Smith's label, it was picked up for national distribution by Smash.

Delbert McClinton played the harmonica part. At one Channel's shows, he was supported by a then-unknown Liverpool group, the Beatles. John Lennon was so impressed with the harmonica intro that he asked McClinton how to play it. A year later a similar harmonica passage showed up on The Beatles "Love Me Do."

In 2001, 20-year-old Austrian producer/DJ Gerry Friedle, who performed under the name of DJ Otzi, recorded a Euro Dance version of this with added "ooh aahs." When he was a DJ he was always doing "ooh aahs" and he found the audience loved it. His version reached #1 in the UK, rising from #45 to replace Bob The Builder at the top, the highest ever leap to #1 in the UK. Otzi's initial goal in life was to be a farmer; a plan he was forced to abandon due to a fear of cows. He turned to music during chemotherapy for testicular cancer. He had 2 more UK top 10 hits, following up with his version of Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy"(#9) and the following year a #10 hit with a remixed version of this to coincide with the 2002 soccer World Cup. By this time "Hey Baby" had become a song football supporters sang at matches. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

This was the first Hot 100 #1 with an exclamation point in its title.

Bombay Bicycle Club - Eyes Off You

Bombay Bicycle Club - Eyes Off You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: So Long, See You Tomorrow
Released: 2014

Eyes Off You Lyrics

Your letters wait at home
In their bright red coats
Under a midnight stone
I hear four words you wrote:
I can't be sad, sad, sad, sad
I can't make you mine

Now you're on your own
Even they can't stand
But I said before
And you know that
I can't take my eyes, eyes, eyes
Eyes Off You

And I bathed in the light you gave
But it's dark in another way
Yes, you gave me the light today
But it's dark in another way

And I bathed in the light you gave
But it's dark in another way
Yes, you gave me the light today
But it's dark, it's dark, it's dark

I can't be sad
I can't be sad
I can't be sad
I can't be sad

I can't take my eyes, eyes, eyes
Eyes off you

Writer/s: JACK WILLIAM THOMAS STEADMAN
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Eyes Off You

This song was the result of Bombay Bicycle Club vocalist and chief songwriter Jack Steadman having his own studio for the first time. "For the first time, I had my open space in London which meant I could make music at any time of the day and night," he told The Sun. "In the past I've had parents or flatmates to consider so I couldn't make music at three in morning – a shame as I find that time very inspiring."

The Ides of March - Vehicle

The Ides of March - Vehicle Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Vehicle
Released: 1970

Vehicle Lyrics

Hey well
I'm a friendly stranger in a black sedan
Won't you hop inside my car.
I got pictures, got candy
I'm a lovable man
And I can take you to the nearest star.
I'm your Vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you want to go.
I'm your vehicle woman
But I'm not sure you know
That I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,
Great God in heaven you know I love you.
Well if you want to be a movie star
I'll get a ticket to Hollywood.
But if you want to stay just the way you are
You know I think you really should.
I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you want to go.
I'm your vehicle woman
But I'm not sure you know
That I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,
Great God in heaven you know I love you.
Hey well
I'm a friendly stranger in a black sedan
Won't you hop inside my car.
I got pictures, got candy
I'm a lovable man
And I can take you to the nearest star.
I'm your vehicle baby
I'll take you anywhere you want to go.
I'm your vehicle woman
But I'm not sure you know
That I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,
Great God in heaven you know I love you.
And I'm your vehicle babe.
You know
I love ya
I need ya
I want ya,
Got to have you child,
Great God in heaven you know I love you.

Writer/s: JAMES PETERIK
Publisher: THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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Vehicle

This was written by Jim Peterik , who was the group's guitar player and lead singer. He told us how the song came together:

"On April 9, 1968 while I was waiting to see one of my favorite groups, The Turtles, at Riverside Brookfield High School in the Chicago Suburb of Riverside, my eyes wandered to the girl standing in front of me - she was a vision in knee socks and orange culottes - long silky hair and huge blue eyes. As I was trying to screw up the courage to say hello, she turned to me and said, 'Aren't you Peterik?' Turns out she had seen the Ides Of March a month previously when we opened for the New Colony Six at Morton West High School. I said, 'Yeah,' and from there the conversation just seemed to flow. Never had I met a girl I had so much in common with. Karen and I sat together at the show, and by 'Happy Together' she had placed her leg on top of mine (a very positive sign for a first date).

After about six months of great dates, good times, meadows, making out and serenades, Karen informed me that it was over between us, that she wanted to 'See other people." I was thoroughly heartbroken. I spent the next few months writing sad songs, depressive melodies, introspective garbage, and forcing the Ides to do long Blues jams for our show encores (as the audience streamed out of the Grand Ballroom at State Pier). I was also on a mission to find another Karen. There was a girl who looked a lot like her, but when we started dating, I realized that personality was 9/10's of the law. I guess I had to somehow win her back!

One day I got a call from Karen. My heart jumped into my throat. She asked me if I could drive her to modeling school (she knew I had a pristine white '64 Valiant with mag wheel covers). Instead of playing it cool, I found myself saying, 'I'll be right over.' I figured our proximity would remind her how much she really loved me. It was great riding next to her again, though I had to make sure I controlled my hands and my heart. This pattern continued for a few weeks with Karen asking me to drive her to various appointments and functions. We even sang at a few coffee houses as a duo (we called ourselves "Genesis" predating the famous group by about three years). Though it was great to be with her, the newly platonic nature of our relationship was bummin' me out.

One day in a fit of frustration, I heard myself blurt out to her 'You know, all I am to you is your Vehicle' (The word baby was added later). Just then the light bulb popped up on top of my head and I thought about all the guys like me who don't mind being taken for a ride by a beautiful girl. I said 'See you later' and started writing the song."

The Ides Of March formed in 1965 in Berwyn, Illinois - their name came from a line in the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar. Peterik was 14 at the time. The horn section was added in 1968. They were all teenagers when this was released.

Peterik: "I've always loved one word titles because of their strong impact. Musically I was working on a very simple minor key progression E minor to B minor. Rhythmically, I was doing the kind of choppy thing I first heard on the first Blood Sweat and Tears album. (The Ides were huge BS&T fans having seen them at the Kinetic Playground with Jethro Tull a few months earlier.) By the end of the day, I had morphed my emotion into a pretty slick 2:51 song."

At first, the opening line was, "I got a set of wheels pretty baby, won't you hop inside my car?" Peterik changed it when his friend showed him a government issued anti-drug pamphlet. It explained the perils of drug use and was illustrated with a little drawing of an undesirable type cruising along the curb looking for easy targets. The caption read, "I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan, won't you hop inside my car?" The lyrics that followed, about the picture and candy, came from a warning his mother used to give him about walking home from school.

The lyrics are both a love story and a tale of an unsavory guy who's up to no good. Says Peterik, "To me, the dichotomy is kind of cool. To me, the first line is the most important of all. The original line had nothing going for it. It had no scansion, it had no rhythm to it. When I came across, 'I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan, won't you hop inside my car,' all other concerns went out the window. At age 18 when I wrote the song, I wasn't thinking about coherency of the song or if one half fit the other half. I was just glad I was writing, just glad I had a song to play live."

Peterik: "We totally devalued it as a recording song. It went over great live, and for some reason, we thought it was a great live song but would never be a hit, maybe because it was so simple. We thought so little of it, we put it fourth of four songs on the demo we sent to Warner Brothers. They get it and go, 'Forget these first three, number four is a smash.' We go, 'You've got to be kidding.' At that point, we started thinking, 'Maybe we've got a hit here.' We went to Art Roberts, who was kind of this disc jockey/guru here at WLS, probably the most powerful jock in Chicago because he had the night slot on WLS. The managers brought it to him, and he said, 'That's a smash. All you've got to do is add the answers to the 'Love You, Need You's', and you've got a #1 record.' It's funny that we never thought of adding the answers, the call and response. It seems so obvious now, but that was his idea. We went back in the studio and all the tracks were taken up, so we ended up wild tracking onto a 2-track machine. The vocals you hear on the stereo version are different than what you hear on the mono version because we did them each separately. Nowhere on the master do the background vocals exist. When the song was used in Lock Up with Sylvester Stallone in 1990, you don't hear the background vocals because it's not on the master."

Peterik: "The real pivotal moment came at the overdub session. While we were dubbing the brass section, the second engineer pressed the wrong button and erased 13 seconds of the multi-track master (our chief engineer was already on the train home-Thanks Dick!). I still remember the ashen faces in the control room and the hushed expletives being exchanged. The Ides knew something had gone very wrong. In those risky pre-Pro Tools days we had very few options. Our saving grace turned out to be 'Take One.' In about an hour the second engineer asked us to come into the control room. He had taken 13 seconds from the same section of take one and spliced it into the multitrack of take two. Multitrack editing was still in its infancy and the chance that take one's tempo, tuning, attitude and feel were even in the same zip code seemed remote. We listened closely - it was perfect! You couldn't even tell it was a different guitar with five strings. I only had to redo the vocal in that section. (You can find the splice starting at the second 'Great God in Heaven' all the way up to the first note of the guitar solo.) Had the erasure gone through the solo, we would have lost a magical performance that I'm still not sure how I played. Someone must have been moving my fingers because after that I had to learn it note for note off the record."

1970 was a great year to have a huge hit in the US because there were so many pop festivals going on. The Ides Of March played on bills with Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead that summer.

Peterik formed Survivor in 1978 and co-wrote their hits "Eye of the Tiger," "High On You" and "The Search Is Over." He sang lead with Ides Of March, but did not sing on Survivor's hits: "When I designed Survivor, it was to be the co-lead singer with Dave Bickler. In the first year of our existence, all the demos and club performances, I was doing basically duets with Dave. You can hear that kind of concept on "Love Has Got Me" on the first album, where I sing the verses and Dave takes over on the choruses. Through the years, certain members of the band didn't want that. They wanted that Journey kind of thing where there's one singer and one focus. I don't begrudge it because it worked. Whether it would have worked as well with me co-singing or taking some of the songs, we'll never know, but I was always blessed with great singers: Dave Bickler through 'Eye Of The Tiger,' Jimi Jameson after that. I couldn't have asked for better singers, so it was kind of a mixed blessing."

After this became a hit, Peterik got back together with Karen, the girl he wrote it for. They've been together ever since, and have been married for over 30 years. Peterik told us: "To this day, she doesn't like to be in audiences where I tell that story. She feels very embarrassed by it. She knows it's true, but at the same time, she doesn't want to be thought of as this opportunistic woman who just wanted her guy to drive her around and then when the song goes to #1, calls up to do it again. It happened, but that's really not her."

Bo Bice brought this song to a new generation when he performed it on Season 4 of American Idol in 2005. His rendition went over very well, and Bice ended up placing second in the competition to Carrie Underwood. Bice released his version of the song as the B-side of his single "Inside Your Heaven."

Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow

Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: So Long, See You Tomorrow
Released: 2014

So Long, See You Tomorrow Lyrics

When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come

You're packing up, packing up
I won't see you again
But you have made, you have made it up,
You're packing up, packing up
I won't see you again
But you have made, you have made it up,

When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come

When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come
When you reign it down
Lights come, when you reign it down, lights come

Keep going round and round and round

Writer/s: JACK WILLIAM THOMAS STEADMAN
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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So Long, See You Tomorrow

According to its press release, Bombay Bicycle Club's So Long, See You Tomorrow album was written by frontman Jack Steadman, "while traveling through India, Turkey, Europe and Tokyo, leaving it audibly awash with references from each of these cultures." Steadman started writing the title track during a stay in Turkey. He recalled to NME: "I was in Sapanca, about a two-hour drive east of Istanbul. Each morning I would get up and have breakfast in the cafe that was built into the mountain with a view over the valley with mosques dotted along the hill. It was beautiful, so the song starts like that – very peaceful."

The album illustration was designed by the La Boca graphic design studio. It depicts a man journeying under the guidance of the sun and the moon in their cycles and in an opposing direction to a silhouetted woman. The artwork was inspired by the work of groundbreaking 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. A pioneer in the field of stop-motion photography, Muybridge was famed for his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the film strips used in cinematography as well as work with phenakistoscopes (a form of early animation).

Guitarist Jamie MacColl told NME: "The work of 1800s photographer Muybridge has heavily influenced the artwork and videos for the album. He's best known for being a pioneer of stop-motion photography. This new album in some ways is one giant loop, the first song relates to the last and lyrically the overriding theme is of life changing, and at the same time staying the same - a feeling I think that everyone can relate to."

The title track was one of three songs on So Long, See You Tomorrow to feature vocals by Rae Morris. The Blackpool-born singer-songwriter hooked up with the Bombay guys through their frequent collaborator Liz Rose. (Morris' elder brother, a tour manager, is married to Rose).

Morris recalled to Digital Spy . "I met Lucy at Kendal Calling festival back in... I think it was 2011? Maybe it was 2012. We both played on the same stage and we kept in touch and she asked me to support her, so I supported her at the Barfly in Camden. Which was a massive opportunity for me at the time - I couldn't believe it. And then yeah, I went to see Bombay at Manchester Apollo. I had tickets and I went with my family, and I text Lucy, 'Have a great show' and she said, 'Oh, come backstage afterwards, Jack [Steadman] and the guys want to meet you.' So me and my cousin went backstage and met the guys and it was the most starstruck I've even been, probably!"

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Eye Of The Tiger
Released: 1982

Eye of the Tiger Lyrics

Risin' up,back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive

So many times, it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

It's the Eye of the Tiger, it's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he' watchin'us all with the eye of the tiger

Face to face, out in the heat
Hangin'tough, stayin'hungry
They stack the odds 'till we take to the street
For the kill with the skill to survive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the dream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all with the eye of the tiger

Risin' up, straight to the top
Had the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the dream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all with the eye of the tiger

The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger

Writer/s: SULLIVAN, FRANK / PETERIK, JIM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Eye of the Tiger

This was the theme song to Rocky III, which was the biggest movie of 1982. Tony Scotti was the president of Survivor's record label, and he played Sylvester Stallone some tracks from the previous Survivor album, Premonition. Stallone thought the sound, writing style and street appeal could fit in his new movie, so he called called Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan, who were Survivor's primary songwriters, and left messages on their answering machines. When we spoke with Peterik, he said, "Answering machines were still something of a novelty back then and to see that blinking light was a thrill. When I pressed the playback button I heard, "Hey, yo, Jim, that's a nice message you got there. This is Sylvester Stallone.' It was too thick to be really him, but it was him. That's really the way he talks."

The first two Rocky movies used a very popular orchestral theme written by Bill Conti. That song, "Gonna Fly Now," was a #1 hit in 1977. Says Peterik: "We didn't want to do anything like that. Stallone, in his first conversation to us, he made it real clear he wanted to distance himself from that first song. To him, it was great, but he wanted something to get to the youth market, the cutting edge. Looking back at age 53, it's hilarious to think I was once part of the cutting edge. We attempted to steer clear of the 'Gonna Fly Now' thing."

Jim Peterik told us regarding the origin of this song: "When we got the initial rough cut of the movie, the scene that 'Eye Of The Tiger' appears in was cut to 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen. Frankie and I are watching this, the punches are being thrown, and we're going, 'Holy crap, this is working like a charm.' We called Stallone and said, 'Why aren't you using that?' He goes, 'Well, we can't get the publishing rights to it.' Frankie and I looked at each other and went, 'Man, this is going to be tough to beat.' We had the spirit of, 'We've got to try to top this.' I started doing that now-famous dead string guitar riff and started slashing those chords to the punches we saw on the screen, and the whole song took shape in the next three days."

In the movie, Rocky Balboa is shown resting on his laurels, living the good life, doing American Express commercials and photo-ops and slacking off his training regimen. In stark contrast were scenes of the ominous Mr. T, training hard, sweating, bleeding and pouring out every last ounce of effort to become the boxing champion of the world. After the death of Rocky's trainer, played by Burgess Meredith, Rocky's friend (and former rival) Apollo Creed, played by Carl Weathers, implores Rocky to get back "The Eye Of The Tiger," meaning his edge and his hunger to be the champ.

Jim Peterik explained in our interview how Survivor wrote the song: "Frankie (Sullivan) came in with the lines, 'Back on the street, doin' time, taking chances.' I loved those lines immediately and suggested, 'Rising up, back on the street, did my time, took my chances' to make it fit with the story line and to make the rhythm of the words fit the music I was hearing in my head. That was certainly the lyrical spark that got the song started. The next two hours flew by in a flash as we jammed, cassette recorder running nonstop to catch anything good we did for future reference, and at the end of the day, the music was about 80% complete and the lyric about 30%. Over the next few days, I worked hard on the lyrics, remembering pieces of movie dialogue like, 'Went the distance,' referring to the central phrase of the first Rocky movie."

According to Billboard, this was the #1 song of 1982.

The iconic title of this song was not a sure thing. Jim Peterik told us: "At first, we wondered if calling it 'Eye Of The Tiger' was too obvious. The initial draft of the song, we started with 'It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the spirit of our rival, and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night, and it all comes down to survival.' We were going to call the song 'Survival.' In the rhyme scheme, you can tell we had set up 'rival' to rhyme with 'survival.' At the end of the day, we said, 'Are we nuts?' That hook is so strong, and 'rival' doesn't have to be a perfect rhyme with the word 'tiger.' We made the right choice and went with 'Eye Of The Tiger.'"

Peterik came up with the intro while driving his car one day. He was looking for a dramatic way to start the song, emphasizing the slashing punches being thrown in the fight sequences. It was reminiscent of an intro he and Sullivan had put together a few years earlier for the song "Youngblood" on Survivor's first album.

Sylvester Stallone loved this song. When he heard the demo, he told the group it was exactly what he was looking for, but requested a mix with louder drums and asked if they could write a new third verse instead of repeating the first as they had done. The group did what Stallone suggested - they went about modifying the first verse and remixed the song.

Suggestions from an actor are usually not what bands are looking for when creating a song, but Stallone knew what he was doing. Jim Peterik said, "Stallone has a good ear for a hook. Just listen to his dialogues - he wrote those scripts. He came up with 'Eye Of The Tiger' for that script and those hook phrases like 'I'm going to knock you into tomorrow.' All that stuff is Stallone, he's a genius with dialogue. Songs are nothing more than dialogue set to music as far as I'm concerned."

This was also used in Rocky IV, where Rocky takes on the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Once again, Stallone asked Survivor to write the theme song. They came up with "Burning Heart."

This song has become very popular among people in physical therapy, marathon runners, weightlifters, and just about anyone facing a challenge. Says Peterik: "People training for boxing matches, that's a natural, but in every sport, that song has crept into the motivational aspect of it. I never would have predicted it. It seems obvious now, but we just wrote a song for a movie. The fact that it was huge wasn't a big surprise at the time, but what surprises me is that it's still around. It's still credible, it's still not a joke, even though the Starbucks commercial kind of makes it a joke. I just know there's something in the water with that song. I remember the song came out and we were on the road with REO Speedwagon. The song was getting huge ovations and I thought, 'Oh, cool,' but it wasn't until I went to a Pizza Hut restaurant in some god-forsaken town in America. I was sitting there all alone, eating pizza when the song comes on the jukebox. This little 5-year-old girl jumps up from her seat, hits the dance floor and starts screaming, 'They're playing my song!, they're playing my song!,' and start's dancing to the song. I go, 'Now I know we have something.'"

The song has been used in numerous movies and TV shows. Early on the song was used sincerely to convey a similar sentiment to the movie - often in various wrestling events. As the years went by and the song became a pop culture touchstone, it was generally used more for parody to show a character comically striving. Family Guy, My Name Is Earl and The King of Queens all used the song in this manner, and in 2009 it was taken to a new level of absurdity in The Big Bang Theory, where it was used in a montage where scientists tried to solve a complex equation - every beat would cut to another shot of them staring at a chalkboard.

Other TV uses of the song include Supernatural (the main character sings it in a car), Modern Family, New Girl and Breaking Bad.

In 1986, this was featured in a Gary Busey movie that was called Eye Of The Tiger.

MTV was around for about a year when this was released. Over the next few years, it became standard practice for any popular song from a movie to use footage from the film in the video. These videos were great promotion for the movies, and often didn't show the performers at all (footage from Footloose, Flashdance and Top Gun showed up on MTV in videos like "Maniac" and "Danger Zone.")

Peterik told us how this video came together:
"Initially, it was going to be footage of the band performing contrasted with footage of the movie. One member of the group objected to that because he wanted to feel that the group was a group on its own and not just tied to the movie, which was pretty valid motivation. I didn't agree with it. I thought, 'Hey, let's capitalize on this movie.' The same person came up with a storyboard mimicking Stallone's rise to fortune to a young band from Chicago's rise to fortune and notoriety. That became the video of a band woodshedding in a funky warehouse, then walking down the street in a funky part of town with determination on their face and eventually hitting the big stage and performing the song. That's what came out. It was a popular video, but it was in the very early days of video. I look at it now and just cringe because it was so stiff and primitive."

The video was directed by Bill Dear, who would later direct the films Harry and the Hendersons (1987) and Angels in the Outfield (1994).

This won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group, and was also nominated for Song Of The Year (it lost to "Always On My Mind" by Willie Nelson). Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik were the only group members invited to the ceremony (because they were the song's producers), so they didn't attend. At the ceremony, The Temptations performed the song, spitting the vocals among their five members and doing boxing-inspired choreography to the song.

It was also nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category, where it lost to "Up Where We Belong." Sullivan and Peterik did attend that ceremony.

Jim Peterik left the band in 1996 and forfeited the Survivor name to Frankie Sullivan. When the CBS TV show Survivor became a huge hit, they released a soundtrack to the show using the name Survivor. Sullivan sued, claiming CBS was creating confusion by using the Survivor name on an album.

In 2004, this was used in a Starbucks commercial where Survivor follows around a young businessman named Glen and motivates him with a modified version of this song.

When he asked him why he thought this song was so successful, Jim Peterik told us: "I guess if you want to analyze it, it would be an

Broken Bells - The Changing Lights

Broken Bells - The Changing Lights Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: After The Disco
Released: 2014

The Changing Lights Lyrics

What did the storm wash away
Are you bailing out, out of the plans we've already made
It won't bother me now, and you know I'll be okay
You gotta lead your life, but you're not sure you know the way
Well you want to walk in white, you wanna sin but you're too shy
So the candle just keeps burning down on you

My cards are on the table, I'm here tonight
And I don't need anything from you
Down on the bowery, The Changing Lights
And I'll still be waiting here for you

I saw that look on your face
You don't need me now, and sometimes you wonder if it's off
Just another mistake, and why can't you just walk away
You gotta measure the cost, what do you gain, what have you lost
Lay off and wonder why, you wanna win but you won't fight
So the candle just keeps burning down on you

My cards are on the table, I'm here tonight
But I don't need anything from you
Down on the bowery, the changing lights
And I'll still be waiting here for you

My cards are on the table, I'm here tonight
But I don't need anything from you
Down on the bowery, the changing lights
And I'll still be waiting here for you

Writer/s: JAMES RUSSELL MERCER, BRIAN JOSEPH BURTON
Publisher: SWEET SCIENCE
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The Changing Lights

This nostalgic song details the difficulties of experiencing unrequited love in New York.

Filmed in a Paris piano shop, the black-and-white video catch Broken Bells in the midst of an intimate performance.

Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends

Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: American Idiot
Released: 2004

Wake Me Up When September Ends Lyrics

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake Me Up When September Ends

Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are

As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends

Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began
Wake me up when September ends

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are

As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends

Like my father's come to pass
Twenty years has gone so fast
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends
Wake me up when September ends

Writer/s: ARMSTRONG, BILLIE JOE / COOL, TRE / DIRNT, MIKE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Wake Me Up When September Ends

Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote this song about his father, who died of cancer on September 1, 1982. At his father's funeral, Billie cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to Billie's room, Billie simply said, "Wake me up when September ends," hence the title.

The line "seven years has gone so fast" is a reference to how Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt's band Sweet Children (which would morph into Green Day), was formed seven years after Armstrong's father died.

"20 years has gone so fast" represents the time from his father's death to when Billie Joe wrote the song.

This was originally slated for Green Day's 2002 compilation album Shenanigans, but Billie Joe didn't feel that he was in an emotional state to record it, so the song was held back and used on American Idiot. (thanks, Clark - Baltimore, MD)

The video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who directed Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video. Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood starred in the video, which isn't about Armstrong's father, but more a reflection on the mood in American after the September 11 attacks. In an interview with MTV, Bayer said this video was "hands down the greatest thing I've ever done." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

According to VH1's Pop-Up Video, all the explosions in the clip were real. One effects guy even had to dodge a rocket when it flew through the window where he was stationed.

Broken Bells - Medicine

Broken Bells - Medicine Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: After The Disco
Released: 2014

Medicine Lyrics

This ordinary room is turning
Into something of a prison, oh
And the only thing we know for certain
Is that don't nobody know

You think all of this is real
That's why you never try
To get it down or will it up
It's a shame

Hoo, haha, hoo, haha
Hoo, haha, hoo, haha

Not another lonely evening
When you stay you're not counting omens
When the morning isn't so disturbing actually
Just won't let it go

You think cutting gives you license (license)
To do anything at all (anything)
But you got to take your Medicine (medicine)
To allow your hands to lose that grip and let it fall

Hoo, haha, hoo, haha
Hoo, haha, hoo, haha

It's a wonder anyone can breathe you
With a smoke too thick to cough
So we fallin' as we run for cover
From the bombs we're setting off

You think cutting gives you license (license)
To do anything at all (anything)
But you got to take your medicine (medicine)
To allow your hands to lose that grip and let it fall

Hoo, haha, hoo, haha
Hoo, haha, hoo, haha (allow your hands to lose that grip and let it fall)

So we watch another good day fading
How we gonna leave the hangman hanging
Girl, one day you know it all melts in your breath

Hoo, haha, hoo, haha
Hoo, haha, hoo, haha

Hoo, haha, hoo, haha

Writer/s: JAMES RUSSELL MERCER, BRIAN JOSEPH BURTON
Publisher: SWEET SCIENCE
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Medicine

Vocalist James Mercer told NME: "The line 'Girl, one day it all melts into air,' is from a book about moderinism someone loaned to me. It's about existential crises."

Ween - Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)

Ween - Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Pure Guava
Released: 1992

Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy) Lyrics

Don't quiver little boy, your daddy's with you now
It won't be long anyhow
It's just around the corner
The destiny that I embrace with you

Don't get too close to my fantasy
Don't be afraid to clutch the hand of your creator
Stare into the lion's eyes and if you taste the candy
You'll get to the surprise

Stay calm little dreamer and drift off into dreams
The gentle kiss of night is better than it seems
It's just around the corner
Close your eyes and soon you'll be with me

Don't get too close to my fantasy
Don't be afraid to clutch the hand of your creator
Stare into the lion's eyes and if you taste the candy
You'll get to the surprise
You'll get to the surprise
You'll get to the surprise

Writer/s: AARON FREEMAN, MICHAEL MELCHIONDO
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)

With lyrics about a daddy, a little boy and a fantasy, this song is often thought to be about child molestation. The band admits that the song "has a perverted side," but claims it is really an homage to grandiloquent songs like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust."

Ween performed this in It's Pat: The Movie. The audience is swaying to the music, and Pat is naked, hanging from a scaffold during the concert. (thanks, Natasha - Chico, CA)

Broken Bells - The Remains of Rock and Roll

Broken Bells - The Remains of Rock and Roll Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: After The Disco
Released: 2014

The Remains of Rock and Roll Lyrics

It's too long to wait around for everyone to decide
I'm off to the promised land if anyone needs a ride
It's a small car but we'll fit inside if we leave our bags behind
We'll entertain ourselves just watching the world go by

Is something wrong?
You don't look like you're having fun
The road is long
Gotta let go the things you love

We prefer good love to go
And the remains of rock & roll
When the moment's right
In the middle of the night
We can almost see the way to go

So long to everyone 'cause they don't know who we are
Turn on your sorry but you have to break their hearts
Sister you're old enough to take the wheel and drive
Your hands, your heart, your eyes, you made me realize

I hear your call
All of my senses are turned on
We're on our own
Suddenly earth is far below

We good your love to go
And the remains of rock & roll
When the moment's right
In the middle of the night
We can almost see the way to go

Can't you see me floating forwards backwards
Won't you lend a hand and help me out
Here beyond the doorstep knocking knocking
Won't you lend a hand and help me out

Writer/s: JAMES RUSSELL MERCER, BRIAN JOSEPH BURTON
Publisher: SWEET SCIENCE
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The Remains of Rock and Roll

When Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton teamed up with CeeLo Green to form Gnarls Barkley, the pair came up with "Crazy" - one of the biggest hits of 2006. In 2009 he formed another duo - Broken Bells - this time with The Shins lead singer James Mercer.

Mercer explained the song's meaning to Uncut magazine: "We both have careers that happen to be poised on this downward slope where music fits into pop culture," he said. "It used to be such a big deal, but the ones that are hugely successful now are just sort of... silly. Not that we're cynical about it."