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Liam Lynch - United States Of Whatever

Liam Lynch - United States Of Whatever Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: X-List
Released: 2002

United States Of Whatever Lyrics

Whatever

I went down to the beach and saw Kiki, she was all like 'ewhhhh' and I'm like whatever!
Then this chick comes up to me and she's all like 'Hey, aren't you that dude' and I'm like yeah, whatever!
So later, I'm, I'm at the pool hall and this girl comes up and she's all like 'uhh' and I'm like yeah, whatever!
Cause this is my United States Of Whatever
And this is my United States of Whatever
And this is my United States of Whatever
And then it's three a.m. I'm on the corner wearing my leather and this dude comes up to me and says 'Hey punk' I'm like, yeah, whatever!
Then, I'm throwing dice in the alley and officer Leroy comes up and he's like ' hey I thought I told you...' and I'm like, yeah, whatever!
Then, up comes Zaphron and I'm like 'Yo, Zaphron, what's up?' and he's like 'nothin' and I'm like 'that's cool'
Cause this is my United States of Whatever
And this is my United States of Whatever
And this is my United States of Whatever

Writer/s: LYNCH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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United States Of Whatever

At 1:25, this is the shortest ever single to reach the top ten of the UK singles chart.

In the mid-'90s, Lynch and his childhood friend Matt Crocco sent a few tapes to MTV Europe of the sock-puppet skits they had created. MTV started showing them as "idents" - short buffer clips played in between videos. A year later, these "idents" turned into half-hour shows. MTV in America started airing Sifl And Olly in July 1998, and the show lasted two seasons. One of Sifl And Olly's most popular songs, "United States of Whatever," started reappearing on the request charts on Los Angeles radio station KROQ after a fan leaked the tune from a UK import.

Lynch was one of 40 musicians chosen from around the world to study at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. This school, founded and financially supported by Paul McCartney, gave Lynch the opportunity of a lifetime. He was part of the school's first graduating class, but also one in five students handpicked by McCartney himself to study guitar on a one-on-one basis. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for all above)

Amy Grant - Deep As It Is Wide

Amy Grant - Deep As It Is Wide Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: How Mercy Looks From Here
Released: 2013

Deep As It Is Wide Lyrics

There's a place at the edge of the sky
Where there's a love Deep As It Is Wide
The weak are strong, the hungry are all fed
And there's a breeze from the angels flying overhead
Oh yeah

And there's a path, a glorious light
That guides you up the mountainside
And at the top, if you could you'd cry
'Cause you see pure love for the very first time, mmm

Deep as it is wide

Every breath taking me closer
Every step leading to paradise
They say the faithful get to go there
I believe there's a love
Deep as it is wide

And I hear, when you get to the river
You look back for the very last time
And when you cross, you get washed off forever
Hurry up boy, eternity's on the other side, ohh

Deep as it is wide, yeah

Every breath taking me closer
Every step leading to paradise
They say the faithful get to go there
I believe there's a love
Deep as it is wide

Every nation, color and creed
Like grace pouring out, far as the eye can see
Singing praises up to a King
'Cause He died, for a crown
Deep as it is wide, yeah, yeah, yeah

Every breath taking me closer
Every step leading to paradise
They say the faithful get to go there and
I believe there's a love
I believe in a love, oh yeah
I believe there's a love
Deep as it is wide, oh yeah, oh

There's a place at the edge of the sky
Where there's a love, deep as it is wide

Writer/s: ERIC PASLAY
Publisher: SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Deep As It Is Wide

How Mercy Looks From Here was entirely written by Amy Grant with the exception of this song, which was penned by Eric Paslay ("Friday Night"). The songwriter also supplied additional vocals for the track, together with Grant's friend Sheryl Crow. Paslay told Radio.com that he had been keeping the song for his own eponymous debut album until Grant persuaded him otherwise. "'Deep As It Is Wide' was one of the songs that I kept very close to my chest," he said. "A lot of people in town wanted to record it, but I was like, 'I've got to be a part of this.' I had written it by myself, and Amy Grant came to me and said, 'My album is coming out and I'd love to cut "Deep As It Is Wide." How about if I and you and Sheryl Crow sing it together?' There's no way I'm going to turn that down. My life has been filled with their music for a long time."

Paslay explained the meaning of this potent anthem: "It's about the hope that there is something bigger and better than us," he said. "There's light at the end of the tunnel and there's something out there."

"When I finished this song I wanted to make sure there wasn't a disconnect between each verse, so I went down the street to play it for a friend," Paslay continued. "The way I was sitting, I couldn't see her while I was playing. When I was finished singing, I turned around and she was crying, so I figured I was done."

The Darkness - Growing On Me

The Darkness - Growing On Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Permission To Land
Released: 2003

Growing On Me Lyrics

I can't get rid of you
I don't know what to do
I don't even know who is growing on who
'cause everywhere I go you're there
Can't get you out of my hair
Can't pretend that I don't care, it's not fair

I'm being punished for all my offenses
I want to touch you but I'm afraid of the consequences
I want to banish you from whence you came
But you're part of me now
And I've only got myself to blame

You're really Growing On Me
(or am I growing on you)
You're really growing on me
(or am I growing on you)
Any fool can see

Sleeping in an empty bed
Can't get you off my head
I won't have a life until you're dead
Yes you heard what I said

I want to shake you off but you just won't go
And you're all over me but I don't want anyone to know
That you're attached to me, that's how you've grown
Won't you leave me, leave me, leave me alone

You're really growing on me
(or am I growing on you)
You're really growing on me
(or am I growing on you)
Any fool can see

You're really growing on me
(or am I growing on you)
You're really growing on me
(or am I growing on you)

Writer/s: HAWKINS, DANIEL FRANCIS / POULLAIN-PATTERSON, FRANCIS GILLES / GRAHAM, EDWIN JAMES / HAWKINS, JUSTIN DAVID
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Growing On Me

Contrary to popular belief, and although filled with sexual innuendo, this song is in no way about pubic lice or any sexually transmitted disease. During an interview with the music television station VH1, Justin Hawkins stated: "People have said it's about pubic lice, but that's obviously wrong because pubic lice don't grow on you, do they?" When questioned as to its true meaning Justin said: "A sweet lady woman that you will never fully fathom or understand, but you love her so much that after a while it doesn't matter." (thanks, James - St Albans, England)

Andy Mineo - Death of Me

Andy Mineo - Death of Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Never Land
Released: 2014

Death of Me Lyrics

Death of Me

Mineo told The Boombox he believes this cut will especially resonate with listeners as he shows my vulnerability. "It's me just relating the struggles and failures," he said. "People just relate to struggles and failures because we all face them. People are way more likely to identify with my failures than my successes."

.38 Special - Rockin' Into the Night

.38 Special - Rockin' Into the Night Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rockin' Into the Night
Released: 1980

Rockin' Into the Night Lyrics

Ooh Rockin'
Oh Yeah

Cruisin' down the motorway,
Got my girl by my side.
We're both a little anxious,
Ooh we got love on our mind.
Waitin', anticipatin'
For the fireworks in the night.
Well I swear we were doin' eighty
When we saw those motel lights.

And we were Rockin' Into the Night,
Rockin' into the night,
Ooh hoo rockin,
Rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night,
Yeah, out on the back street,
Taking love where I can,
I found a sweet madonna
Ooh with a bible in her hand.
She's waiting,
Anticipating well,
For someone to save her soul;
Well I ain't no new messiah,
But I'm close enough for rock and roll.

And we were rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night,
Oo hoo rockin',
Rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night.
And I'm slowin' down
And she's pullin' in

Waitin' anticipatin'
For the fireworks in the night.
Well I swear we were doin' eighty
When we saw those motel lights.
We were rockin',
Rockin,
Into the night,
Ooh yeah
Rockin' into the night,
Rockin' into the night,
Hoo rockin'!

Writer/s: SMITH, ROBERT / SULLIVAN, FRANK / PETERIK, JIM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Rockin' Into the Night

Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan wrote this for their band Survivor, which had recently formed and signed a deal with the Scotti Brothers label, a subsidiary of Atlantic. Their A&R man was John Kalodner, who was also in charge of .38 Special.

Survivor recorded the song as part of their first album, which was released in 1979, but the band's producer, Ron Nevison, decided it wasn't right for the record since it was more bluesy and southern than the rest of the songs. Nevison had given Kalodner a rough mix of the song, and when it was deemed unsuitable for the album, he gave the song to .38 Special, who recorded it using the rough mix as a template and made it a last-minute addition to their third album.

Jim Peterik told us, "We were sitting there thinking, 'It would have been nice if it was us,' But I didn't personally begrudge .38 Special because the money was landing in my pocket."

Peterik's bandmate/co-writer Frankie Sullivan felt differently, believing the .38 Special's gain was Survivor's loss.

John Kalodner is known for having a great ear and launched the careers of many famous bands, including Aerosmith and Genesis. About a year after this became a hit, he had Jim Peterik write songs with .38 Special, which resulted in hit songs like "Hold On Loosely" and "Caught Up In You." Peterik was still a member of Survivor, and moonlighting as a songwriter for another band did not always go over well.

When .38 Special recorded the song, they made a few changes to the lyrics. The chorus line was written as "And we went rocking into the night," but became "And we were rocking into the night."

Also, the line, "And it's more than that, yeah, it's more than that" was originally "And in the morning light we'll be rolling."

Before .38 Special recorded this, it was a staple of Survivor's live shows, and often their encore. After it became a hit for .38 Special, Survivor stopped playing it since it was now associated with another band.

This was the first hit for .38 Special. Their accessible southern rock sound quickly caught on with a variety of radio formats and with MTV, and the band charted 13 more Hot 100 hits in the '80s.

The Survivor version of this song wasn't released until 2004 when it was included in the retrospective compilation Ultimate Survivor.

Bill Callahan - Small Plane

Bill Callahan - Small Plane Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dream River
Released: 2013

Small Plane Lyrics

Small Plane

This Bill Callahan song about love being his co-pilot and shared domestic life was inspired by his move to Texas and engagement to photographer and documentary maker Hanly Banks. "I kind of changed my life completely," he told Q magazine. "I just made these changes at once. I moved to a city where I had only spent a few days before, and I bought a house with a yard and a driveway. So making that change just took a lot out of me. Even learning to take care of your own house maintenance and stuff, and making music stopped for a long time."

The title of the album reflects Callahan's change of lifestyle. "It's something I've only realised maybe a year or two ago and," he told Q magazine. "How much you're in control of your life and the way you see things. I think there's dream rivers flowing by us all the time and you can choose to make that your life and your path. I guess now my attitude is I just try to love everybody. It's really the simplest way to say it."

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

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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

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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

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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!"