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Graham Nash - Chicago (We Can Change The World)

Graham Nash - Chicago (We Can Change The World) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Songs For Beginners
Released: 1971

Chicago (We Can Change The World) Lyrics

Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing
In a land that's known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Chicago
For the help we can bring
We can change the world

Re-arrange the world
It's dying, to get better
Politicians sit yourself down,
There's nothing for you here
Won't you please come to Chicago
For a ride

Don't ask Jack to help you
Cause he'll turn the other ear
Won't you please come to Chicago
Or else join the other side

We can change the world,
Re-arrange the world
It's dying, if you believe in justice
It's dying, and if you believe in freedom
It's dying, let a man live it's own life
It's dying, rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
Somehow people must be free

I hope the day comes soon
Won't you please come to Chicago
Show your face
From the bottom to the ocean
To the mountains of the moon
Won't you please come to Chicago
No one else can take your place

We can change the world,
Re-arrange the world
It's dying, if you believe in justice
It's dying, and if you believe in freedom
It's dying, let a man live it's own life
It's dying, rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
We can change the world

Writer/s: GRAHAM NASH
Publisher: SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Chicago (We Can Change The World)

This song was written in reference to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. The times were very violent, and riots were threatened at the Convention. The mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, basically told the police to use all necessary force to keep order. They did, with a vengeance. Civil rights and the Vietnam War were major issues, and there were many protesters at the convention. There were lots of arrests, with the police basically beating into submission anyone who had the nerve to speak out. (thanks, Andrea - Denton, TX)

Some of the lyrics refer to the "Chicago 7" trial, where protesters at the convention were charged with intent to incite a riot. The first line of the song refers to Bobby Seale, the only black plaintiff and the eighth member, who was actually gagged and bound to a chair in the courtroom. He was later removed from the trial, leaving 7. The 3 most famous names from this trial are Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. (thanks, rosebud - oregon city, OR)

Speaking to UK newspaper The Guardian in a 2015 interview, Graham Nash said that this song contains the only ever line that he wishes he'd never written. Nash said: "We were pretty blitzed. The line, 'Regulations – who needs them?' We need regulations. You're not allowed to drive through a red light. There are certain societal rules that we have to live by. So I sing it differently now. I say: 'Some of those regulations – who needs them?'"

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Long Time, Wrong Time

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Long Time, Wrong Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Give the People What They Want
Released: 2014

Long Time, Wrong Time Lyrics

Long Time, Wrong Time

This was penned by The Dap Kings baritone saxophone player, Cheme Gastelum. Sharon Jones commented to Relix magazine: "The groove reminds me almost of a cha-cha-cha. It's such a bad groove. Just hearing the music at the beginning of the song, the groove, the rhythm—I like it."

Phish - Harry Hood

Phish - Harry Hood Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Live One
Released: 1995

Harry Hood Lyrics

Harry Hood

Harry Hood is from the Hood Dairy Company, a New England milk company based in Boston. The members of Phish lived next to a Hood milk plant. "You can feel good about Hood" was the company's slogan.

The line "Harry, where do you go when the lights go out?" was Brian Long's contribution. Others have said the line refers the lights at the plant going out at some point each night.

The thank you to Mr. Miner was possibly from the person who lived in the house before the band. Phone calls and letters would come for him and one caught the band's eye, a letter began with "Thank you Mr. Miner."

The audience often had glowstick wars when Phish played this in concert. (thanks, kyler - berwyn, PA, for all above)

Wild Beasts - Wanderlust

Wild Beasts - Wanderlust Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Present Tense
Released: 2014

Wanderlust Lyrics

Wanderlust

This sprawling tune lined with creeping synths was premiered on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show on January 7, 2014. Bassist Tom Fleming told NME: "We wanted people to think, 'S--- have I put the right record on?' It's a big sounding song about protecting what you've got and grabbing things by the balls."

The lyric, "In your mother tongue, what's the verb 'to suck'?" is a shot at British bands who are captivated with copying their American counterparts rather than pursuing their own ideas.

The band were horrified that the line was interpreted by some as an attack on Domino labelmates Arctic Monkeys. "I had to phone up the label to apologise and explain that I was not slagging off the flagship band," singer Hayden Thorpe told The Guardian. "Also, they're on the radio singing about settees in a Yorkshire accent; that's the home team!"

Vocalist Hayden Thorpe explained the song's meaning to DIY magazine: "It's a song about us as a band," he said. "It's a statement about our ideals, who we are as people and as a gang. It's almost a re-imagining of the initial things that threw us together when we were teenagers. We had these grievances, feelings of a power struggle, things we wanted to stomp all over."

The song is a mission statement for the band. "From the Stone Age to now, we judge our whole past by the culture people have left behind," Thorpe told NME. "'Wanderlust' is almost a kind of war cry, asking, is this the best we've got – kids singing in accents that aren't their own, singing about lives that aren't theirs, and reaping huge rewards from it?"

"So little is done with so much privilege – music is really a class thing, because if where I'm glad government that is making people pay £9000 a year for university, then it's only the rich kids who will get to arts and music school," continued Thorpe. "We're talking about such a small group of people who are gonna create work that is supposed to define all tell us what our lives are. It's a very scary prospect."

Fleming explained the meaning of the Present Tense album title to HMV.com . "This record is about playing with now, people's inability to live in the present and not either dwell on the past or obsess about the future," he said. "This record is about memory and trying not to long for things that either didn't happen or will never happen."

Deftones - Headup

Deftones - Headup Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Around The Fur
Released: 1997

Headup Lyrics

Got back out back off the forefront
I never said or got to say bye to my boy
But it's often I try I think about how I'd be screaming
And the times would be bumping

All our minds would be flowing
Taking care of shit like hey 'holmes'
What you needing sometimes life will be coming off whack
And will open your eyes

As I proceed to get loose
I feel you next to me fiending
Getting spacey with the common
Love of music think of this as the

Sun and the mind as a tool but we
Could bounce back from this one
With attitude will and some spirit
With attitude will and your spirit
We'll shove it aside

Soulfly
Fly high
So fly
Fly free

Shut your shit please say what you will
I can't think side step around
I'm bound to the freestyle
Push It down to the ground

With a nova dash
But they watch you
Now climb up superslide
Our spirit so low it's coming over you

Soulfly
Fly High
So fly
Fly free

You walk into this world

Walk into this world with your head up high

Headup

Writer/s: MORENO, CHINO CAMILO / CHENG, CHI / CARPENTER, STEPHEN / CUNNINGHAM, ABE / CAVALERA, MAX
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Headup

This is a tribute to Dana Wells, the stepson of Max Cavalera (formerly of Sepultura), who was killed by a hit and run driver. Dana was a friend of Deftones lead singer Chino Moreno. Parts of Dana's diary was used in the lyrics: "Walk into this world with your head up high!"

Max Cavalera helped write this, and named his band "Soulfly" after a line in this song.

Cavalera: "The song we did together was very special. They'd lost a friend too. When me and Chino recorded the vocals we were both on the floor and emotions were going everywhere. It was almost as if we had Dana in the studio sitting between the two of us. We were raging so hard, and I remember looking up and seeing Chino had smashed his nose and there was blood all over his face. He had this expression on his face which said, 'How much more energy can you put into a song!' It was unbelievable! When I put that song on I get goosebumps." (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA, for above 3)

Clean Bandit - Mozart's House

Clean Bandit - Mozart's House Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: New Eyes
Released: 2013

Mozart's House Lyrics

So you think electronic music is boring?
You think it's stupid?
You think it's repetitive?
Well, it is repetitive!

I don't know, skip a beat!
I don't know, skip a beat!
I don't know, skip a beat! (We use special tricks with the computer)
I don't know, skip a beat!

I don't know, skip a beat
Why must I say it when I hate to speak
I said, I don't know, skip a beat
'Cause my wife to dance got to their feet
I said I don't know, skip a beat
Wanna be a social but I hate to creep
I said, I don't know, skip a beat
Scared of heights but I got to leap
I said I don't know, skip a beat
'Cause I'm leaping for the stars
No clothes, I'm far from far
If I won't try, I won't go
I'll never leave, I won't go
Can't believe it, I won't go!
No, not far!

Move your left, move your right
I kept it in my head and I kept trying to fight
I said, mhm move your left, move your right
Come a little closer if you like the limelight!
I said mhm move your left, move your right!
I want to surround and keep your here in my sight
I said move your left, move your right
Getting abuse 'cause everyone's taking all their time
They chase and flex the beat, it's on my mind
Moves like that aren't cool, or even crime
Now they one-handed, won't land it
Won't stand it, Clean Bandit

Here's a touch, ?
Relax the tempo, sips some movato
And if I get too animato
Tan my face with that ?
Aliente, mezzoforte, allegro or andante
I can make this voice
Staccato ?
I don't know, skip a beat, we're rushing now, we feel the heat
The doors are open, but the ?
Is this the place, is the final round!
Cruising at the speed ?
Watching the beat, we'll get to Vienna
Without a doubt the strings are fine, the bass is out
Give us a beat, you wrote the ?

Couple of skip beats, a couple of movements out
Now we made it to Mozart's House!
Couple of skip beats, a couple of movements out
Couple of skip beats, a couple of movements out
Couple of skip beats, a couple of movements out
This is Mozart's House!

So you think electronic music is boring?
You think it's stupid?
You think it's repetitive?
Well, it's repetitive!

Writer/s: PATTERSON, JACK / CHATTO, GRACE / KIWANUKA, SSEGAWA-SSEKINTU
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Mozart's House

The middle part of this song samples Mozart's "The String Quartet No. 21 in D Major," which is nicknamed "The Violet." The quartet was written for and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II, who was an amateur cellist. Mozart and his friend Karl Lichnowsky met the king in Potsdam in April 1789 and played before the king the following month in Berlin.

The vocalist is Ssegawa-Ssekintu "Love Ssega" Kiwanuka. Born to Ugandan parents, and schooled in Croydon, the sometime Clean Bandit frontman received a Full Blue in Boxing, the highest sporting honour at Cambridge University where the group met. Love Ssega's CV also includes being made the youngest-ever nominee at the global Institution of Chemical Engineers Awards.

The oldest song on New Eyes, this was written by Clean Bandit in Moscow in 2008. They recalled to HMV.com : "It was when we were playing a lot of classical music in our string quartet but also living above a kiosk that pumped out Russian house music 24/7."

Clean Bandit's Jack Patterson told The Sun about the music clip: "Love Ssega came to visit us on holiday and we made the video there as a kind of drunken experiment with some Russian cinematographer babes."

Clean Bandit's Grace Chatto once taught cello at a London music school. Unfortunately she lost her position after the school authorities got wind of the video for this song, in which we briefly see Chatto covering her bare chest with a violin.

This was the first time that Clean Bandit mixed Classical and Dance sounds. "Before that, the tracks were more Hip-Hop based with Hip-Hop instrumentals," violinist Neil Amin-Smith told Radio.com . "'Mozart's House' was the first foray into dance music that's now what we do."

Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen

Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Bella Donna
Released: 1981

Edge Of Seventeen Lyrics

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Ooh ooh ooh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh

And the days go by
Like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own
I begin again
Said to my friend, baby
Nothin' else mattered

He was no more than a baby then
Well he seemed broken hearted
Something within him
But the moment that I first laid
Eyes on him all alone
On the Edge Of Seventeen

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh

I went today maybe I will go again
Tomorrow
And the music there it was hauntingly
Familiar
When I see you doing
What I try to do for me
With the words from a poet
And the voice from a choir
And a melody nothing else mattered

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh

The clouds never expect it
When it rains
But the sea changes colors
But the sea
Does not change
And so with the slow graceful flow
Of age
I went forth with an age old
Desire to please
On the edge of seventeen

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh

Well then suddenly
There was no one left standing
In the hall yeah yeah
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all
I went searchin' for an answer,
Up the stairs and down the hall
Not to find an answer
Just to hear the call
Of a nightbird singing
Come away come away

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh

Well I hear you in the morning
And I hear you
At nightfall
Sometime to be near you
Is to be unable to hear you
My love
I'm a few years older than you

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like she's singing
Oh baby oh said oh

Writer/s: NICKS, STEVIE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Edge Of Seventeen

Nicks wrote this song about the death of her uncle and the death of John Lennon. The line about the "Words from a poet and a voice from a choir" refers to Lennon.

Speaking about the song in commentary for her Live In Concert video recorded on her Bella Donna tour, she explained: "I was in Australia when John Lennon was shot. Everybody was devastated. I didn't know John Lennon, but I knew Jimmy Iovine, who worked with John quite a bit in the '70s, and heard all the loving stories that Jimmy told about him. When I came back to Phoenix I started to write this song.

Right when I got to Phoenix, my uncle Bill got cancer, got very sick very fast, and died in a couple of weeks. My cousin John Nicks and I were in the room when he died. There was just John and I there. That was part of the song when I went running down the hallways looking for somebody - I thought where's my mom? Where's his wife and the rest of the family? At that point I went back to the piano and finished the song."

Speaking further in her video commentary, Nicks spoke about the "white-winged dove" and what this song means to her: "It became a song about violent death, which was very scary to me because at that point no one in my family had died. To me, the white-winged dove was for John Lennon the dove of peace, and for my uncle it was the white-winged dove who lives in the saguaro cactus - that's how I found out about the white-winged dove, and it does make a sound like whooo, whooo, whooo. I read that somewhere in Phoenix and thought I would use that in this song. The dove became exciting and sad and tragic and incredibly dramatic. Every time I sing this song I have that ability to go back to that two-month period where it all came down. I've never changed it, and I can't imagine ending my show with any other song. It's such a strong, private moment that I share in this song."

Stevie came up with the title when she was recording "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Tom Petty. When she asked Tom Petty's wife Jane when they met, Jane said, "At the age of seventeen," but she had a very strong southern accent and Stevie thought she said "the edge of seventeen," which makes a great song title. Telling the story in a 1981 interview with Los Angeles disc jockey Robert W. Morgan, Nicks said she told Jane: "It's got to be 'edge.' 'The Edge of Seventeen' is perfect. I'm going to write a song."

Bella Donna was Stevie's first solo album. This was the third single; the first two were duets: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Tom Petty and "Leather And Lace" with Don Henley. The album proved that Nicks had enormous appeal outside of Fleetwood Mac, and this song in particular gave her tremendous confidence, as it's a very personal track that resonated with listeners and went over very well live.

When Nicks toured for Bella Donna, it was just a 12-date trek, as she had to return to Fleetwood Mac to start work on the Mirage album. The tour imbued her with the strength she needed to carry on in the group, where there was lots of lingering tension, notably between her and Lindsey Buckingham.

When Nicks played this as the last song at the last stop on her Bella Donna tour at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California, she walked across that stage and collected various gifts audience members brought for her as she finished the song. This became a tradition, with Nicks ending up with a mountain of flowers and stuffed animals at the end of her solo shows which she always donates to local children's hospitals. Performing with Fleetwood Mac, she can't do this as there are five stars in the band.

Nicks always ends her concerts with this song, sticking with the same arrangement. "It's such a strong, private moment that I share with people in this song."

Nicks' performance from her Live In Concert video, which aired on HBO, serves as the music video for this song. It was directed by Marty Callner, who also did the clips for "I Can't Wait" and "Rooms On Fire."

This song is featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar Games and distributed by Take-Two Interactive for multiple video game consoles. The game features fictional in-game radio stations that can be heard when the player gets in a car; this song is featured on the "Liberty Rock Radio 97.8" station along with other rock songs such as "1979" by the Smashing Pumpkins and "The Seeker" by The Who. (thanks, Rob - Saratoga Springs, NY)

Destiny's Child sampled the famous guitar riff on this track for their song "Bootylicious." Some of Stevie's fans were horrified, but she loved it, and even appeared in the video. Stevie met the group when she was on the The Rosie O'Donnell Show promoting her Trouble In Shangri-La album, and Destiny's Child was in the same building rehearsing for Saturday Night Live.

This featured prominently throughout American Horror Story: Coven (2013) as the Stevie Nicks-obsessed, hippie witch Misty Day, played by Lily Rabe, used it as her anthem. Nicks would guest star towards the end of the season.

Ty Dolla $ign - Paranoid

Ty Dolla $ign - Paranoid Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Beach House EP
Released: 2013

Paranoid Lyrics

I see two of my bitches in the club
And I know they know about each other
I think these bitches tryna set me up
Maybe I’m just Paranoid

I got a bad light skin from the valley
She be in the club with no panties
Little bitch, she used to be my favorite
But now we don’t speak the same language
I love my bitch, I could bang it
From my dark skin, least know how to take it
I got em both the same damn red bottoms
And bought 'em both the same damn fragrance
Both bitches drive Range Rovers
None of my bitches can stay over
Both of my bitches look good as fuck
Your bitch look like booga wolf

I see two of my bitches in the club
And I know they know about each other
I think these bitches tryna set me up
Maybe I’m just paranoid

Yeah, I’m paranoid, I’m trippin'
I’ve been smoking, I’ve been sippin'
I’m fuckin' around with two bitches
But I never made them hoes my miss's

Women talk, women talk
She run her mouth so much she can’t hear her own thoughts
Told my old ho, she my new bitch
Told my new bitch, she my old ho
Well she used to be your ho
Dead, hold up, flat-line
I fuck a bitch to sleep, nap time
I put my name on it and that’s mine
Pussy so wet she thought it got baptized
Ask me where I’m at, that’s a set-up
You ain’t talkin' bout nothing, bitch shut up
If you got a side chick, nigga what up
Both my girls in the club bout to nut up
Stalking on my network
Got her looking so hard that her neck hurt
And I ain’t tripping, I got room for 'em both
This is HAM Squad, I just doubled up my net worth

I see two of my bitches in the club
And I know they know about each other
I think these bitches tryna set me up
Maybe I’m just paranoid

Yeah, I’m paranoid, I’m trippin'
I’ve been smoking, I’ve been sippin'
I’m fuckin' around with two bitches
But I never made them hoes my miss's

Yeah, I’m paranoid, I’m trippin'
I’ve been smoking, I’ve been sippin'
I’m fuckin' around with two bitches
But I never made them hoes my miss's

I see two of my bitches in the club
And I know they know about each other
I think these bitches tryna set me up
Maybe I’m just paranoid

Writer/s: GRIFFIN JR, TYRONE WILLIAM / MONTGOMERY III, CLARENCE / MCFARLANE, DIJON / SIMMONS, BOBBY RAY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Paranoid

Tyrone Griffin is a Los Angeles singer, rapper and producer who is better known by his stage name Ty Dolla $ign. His initial claim to fame was through the success of YG's hit, "Toot it and Boot it," which he sung on, wrote and produced. This is a track from Ty Dolla $ign's debut retail project, Beach House EP.

The beat was supplied by DJ Mustard. The Californian producer is best known for his work on such hits as Tyga's "Rack City," 2 Chainz's "I'm Different" and Kid Ink's "Show Me."

The song was originally recorded by Ty Dolla $ign with longtime rapper buddy Joe Moses, and included on DJ Mustard's Ketchup mixtape. It was then included again on Ty Dolla $ign's July 2013 mixtape, Beach House 2. When the song was officially released and pushed as the Beach House EP's lead single later in the year, Moses' verse was replaced by Ty Dolla $ign's Atlantic Records label-mate B.o.B.

The official remix features new guest appearances by Trey Songz, French Montana and DJ Mustard. It was also included on the Beach House EP.

Ty Dolla $ign performed the song for the first time on national television during the December 17, 2013 episode of DJ Skee's Skee Live. He was accompanied by Joe Moses rather than B.O.B.

Ty told Artist Direct a theme runs through the Beach House EP. "It's definitely a whole story, and it does match up too," he said. "It's crazy how that works because I'm doing different songs randomly every day. The fact that you can put them together and they sound like a story is incredible. It's just amazing how God works, bro. I'm not even really trying. It just happens."

Asked by Artist Direct why he titled his mixtapes Beach House, Ty replied: "First off, my first mixtape was called Hou$e on the Hill, and that's because I lived in this house on the hill in Baldwin Hills. My roommate and I were moving, and we were looking for places in Malibu and along the beach. I called it 'Beach House' because that's where I was about to move. I ended up staying in Hollywood because it was closer to everything I was doing right now and the beach fu--ing takes so long to get to. It wouldn't have worked out for right now. Beach House is the goal. That's why I called my tapes Beach House."

The song finds Ty singing about being at a club when two different girls he's seeing both show up. He is aware that they know about each other and he questions whether the reason they are both there at the same time is to set him up." "Maybe I'm just paranoid," Ty muses.

"That one really happened," Ty told Spin magazine. "Like, the night before, I was at this club called Supper Club, and I came with this one chick. A couple other chicks started coming up to my table, and I saw them with these other chicks. So I was just wondering if they're trying to like" - (pause) - "you know what I mean? That s--t just came out the next morning on the beat."

The Cranberries - Linger

The Cranberries - Linger Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everybody Else Is Doing It, Why Can't We?
Released: 1993

Linger Lyrics

If you, if you could return
Don't let it burn
Don't let it fade
I'm sure I'm not being rude
But it's just your attitude
It's tearing me apart
It's ruining every day
For me
I swore I would be true
And fellow, so did you
So why were you holding her hand?
Is that the way we stand?
Were you lying all the time?
Was it just a game to you?
But I'm in so deep
You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger
Do you have to let it Linger?
Do you have to, do you have to, do have to let it linger?

Oh, I thought the world of you
I thought nothing could go wrong
But I was wrong, I was wrong
If you, if you could get by
Trying not to lie
Things wouldn't be so confused
And I wouldn't feel so used
But you always really knew
I just want to be with you
And I'm in so deep
You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger
Do have to let it linger?
Do you have to, do you have to, do have to let it linger?

And I'm in so deep
You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger
Do have to let it linger?
Do you have to, do you have to, do have to let it linger?

You know I'm such a fool for you
You've got me wrapped around your finger
Do have to let it linger?
Do you have to, do you have to, do have to let it linger?

Writer/s: HOGAN, NOEL ANTHONY / O'RIORDAN, DOLORES MARY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Linger

Cranberries guitarist Noel Hogan wrote the music for this song before Dolores O'Riordan joined the band. Originally, it had lyrics written by the group's first singer Niall Quinn. When O'Riordan auditioned for the band, she had some ideas for the song, and after she was hired, she wrote her own set up lyrics, turning it into a song of regret and based on a soldier she once fell in love with. The emotional, girlie sound was a huge departure for the band, but wildly successful: the song got lots of airplay from radio stations looking for an alternative to rap or grunge, and MTV put the video in heavy rotation. The Cranberries became one of the best-selling bands of the mid-'90s.

The Cranberries are an Irish band, but this song didn't get much attention in their home country. Their first single was "Dreams," released in the UK as the lead single from the album in 1992. It didn't chart, and "Linger" was released as the follow-up, cracking the UK charts at #74 for a week in February 1993. In June, the band began touring in America as the opening act for The The and the song began a slow climb as group gained recognition. It wasn't until February 12, 1994 that "Linger" reached its peak position of #8 on the US charts. A week later, the reissued single topped out at #14 in the UK.

Dolores O'Riordan performed this song in the 2006 Adam Sandler movie Click. In the film, Sandler's character has a remote control that can take him back in time. When his wife reminisces about their first kiss, she asks if he remembers the song that was playing. Sandler uses the remote, goes back to the memory, and discovers that "Linger" was playing.

The movie appearance was a big deal for O'Riordan, who had a bit of a breakdown in the late '90s and a lot of time in the ensuing years raising three children and recovering emotionally from the travails of stardom - she was just 18 when she joined the band and ill-equipped for the sudden celebrity. She was considering a return to music when Sandler approached her about being in the movie. She released her first solo album in 2007.

The video for this song is a tribute to Jean-Luc Goddard's film Alphaville. In one of the rooms of the hotel, a silent film is being shown which features 1950s stripper Blaze Starr. (thanks, Ekristheh - Halath)

Madball - Revolt

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Album: Infiltrate the System
Released: 2007

Revolt Lyrics

Revolt

This antiauthority anthem came out of a bit of improvisation. Madball's guitarist Mitts told us: "We were in the room together and we were kind of stumped - we were just looking for inspiration. My singer (Freddy Cricien) looked over at our drummer (Ben Dussault), and was like, 'Yo, kick a beat. Play a beat right now. Just play any beat that comes to your head.' He started playing a rhythm, and then we started punching out a riff over it.

But it started from the drums out, and that was definitely a unique approach. We never did that before. The song came out cool."

Roy Orbison - Crying

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Album: Crying
Released: 1961

Crying Lyrics

I was all right for a while, I could smile for a while
But I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight
As you stopped to say "Hello"
Aw you wished me well, you couldn't tell

That I'd been Crying over you, crying over you
Then you said "so long". left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying, crying crying
It's hard to understand but the touch of your hand
Can start me crying

I thought that I was over you but it's true, so true
I love you even more than I did before but darling what can I do
For you don't love me and I'll always be

Crying over you, crying over you
Yes, now you're gone and from this moment on
I'll be crying, crying, crying, crying
Yeah crying, crying, over you

Writer/s: MELSON, JOE / ORBISON, ROY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Barbara Orbison Music Company, Orbi-Lee Music, R-Key Darkus, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Crying

Orbison claimed to have written this as the result of an encounter he had with an old flame with whom he was still in love. He refused to say how much she meant to him, and when he ran into her again it was too late.

Orbison started writing this song for a country singer named Don Gibson; the working title was "Once Again." Orbison's songwriting partner, Joe Melson, then came up with the lyrics, "Once again I'm crying, once again I'm crying," which became the basis for the song, so Orbison changed the title. Orbison claimed the stunning climax at the end of the song was not contrived, but just happened in the course of the song. He told the NME in 1980: "Immediately I thought of a past experience and just retold that, was the way that came about. It was the retelling of a thing with a girlfriend that I had had. I couldn't tell you right now what notes I hit at the end of the song, or anything."

At the time, rock artists didn't typically write songs about crying over a girl. Orbison wanted to show that crying was not weakness, but sensitivity. Other voices would have a hard time pulling this off, but Orbison could emote very naturally when he sang, which he did on many of his hits.

In 1987, shortly after he signed with Virgin Records, Orbison recorded a duet of this song with kd lang which was released as a single and later used as the B-side to his 1989 release "She's A Mystery To Me." This duet won the 1988 Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration, and was re-released in the UK in 1992, where it hit #13. Lang said that when they met to do the recording, it was obvious that their voices had a "tonal connection."

This recording was made for the 1987 Jon Cryer movie Hiding Out, and produced by Pete Anderson, who was Dwight Yoakam's producer. In our interview with Pete Anderson , he said: "The editor cut it for the movie, and he slowed it down for this scene where they were roller skating. So my daunting task was to recut 'Crying' as a duet with kd lang, Roy Orbison, and slow it down a little bit. It was great - it's Roy and kd, so you can't go wrong no matter what you do.

I more-or-less witnessed it because they were so terrific. The biggest plus out of it was just getting to know Roy a little bit and spending a little time with Roy, who was a very, very special person."

Roy Orbison explained in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh how he came to write this song: "I was dating a girl and we broke up. I went to the barber shop to get a haircut and I looked across the street and there was this girl that I had split up with. I wanted to go over and say, 'Let's forget about what happened and carry on'. But I was stubborn. So I got in the car and drove down the street about two blocks and said to myself, 'Boy, you really made a mistake. You didn't play that right at all.' It certainly brought tears to my eyes and that's how I came up with 'Crying'."

In 1978 Don McLean recorded a cover version of this for his Chain Lightning album. It was originally released as a single in Europe successfully, and by 1980 it had become a #1 hit in the UK and #5 in the US. Jay & the Americans also had a hit with the song, taking it to #25 in the US in 1966.

Orbison broke convention by following up a hit ballad with another ballad: his previous release was "Running Scared," and while conventional wisdom was to never release two ballads back to back, it worked out just fine for Orbison as "Crying" was also a hit.

Mother Love Bone - Gentle Groove

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Album: Mother Love Bone
Released: 1992

Gentle Groove Lyrics

Like my world I'm on fire
'Cause I'm full of desire
No more preachin' on your part
No more love on my pillow
Come dance with me in my room
You can hold me hands
I shall be your boyfriend
And you can call me names
And nobodies gonna change the way I feel, for my love
Nobodies gonna slow my Gentle Groove
'Til kingdom come thy work is done on earth as it is in Dallas
Come play with me in room
You can hold me hands
I will be your boyfriend
And you can call me names
And nobody gonna take the power away, from my love
And nobodies gonna slow my gentle groove
And nobodies gonna take my love away
And nobodies gonna slow my gentle groove
'Til kingdom come thy work is done on earth as it is in Dallas

Writer/s: WOOD, ANDREW / GOSSARD, STONE C. / AMENT, JEFFREY ALLEN / GILMORE, GREG A. / FAIRWEATHER, BRUCE IAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Gentle Groove

Mother Love Bone was comprised of future Pearl Jam members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, along with Bruce Fairweather, Greg Gilmore, and their frontman, Andrew Wood. The Mother Love Bone album wasn't released until 1992, two years after Wood died from a heroin overdose and the year after Pearl Jam released their debut album.

A band composition with lyrics by Wood, the song finds him expressing his intractable love as he shuts out the outside world.

Stone Gossard of Mother Love Bone later formed a band called Brad with lead singer Shawn Smith, who learned a lot by watching Andrew Wood at work. In our interview with Smith , he talked about how this song came together: "I had a 4-track and a little reverb unit. Andy lived across the street from me, and sometimes he would call me over to bring over my 4-track, because he had a song or something. So I recorded him doing the first version of 'Gentle Groove.' That was cool. And then I got to see a soundcheck a little while later, the full version with the band, with Love Bone. And it was just mind blowing. To see something go from a little acoustic song on my 4-track and then transferred into a band with two Marshall stacks, it was just a huge songwriting moment, where it's like, 'Oh, that's what happens.' You can have the little, teeny thing, and then you can put it in a band and make magic just explode."