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George Harrison - Any Road

George Harrison - Any Road Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Brainwashed
Released: 2002

Any Road Lyrics

Any Road

This was Harrison's last album recorded before his death in 2001. He could not finish recording before he died, so the album was completed by his son Dhani.

This is about having ambition in life; if you don't take action, nothing will succeed.

This song was released as a single with "Marwa Blues" as the B-side.

George's son Dhani said that while he and his father were in Hawaii, they walked by a beach and saw a sign that read, "If the wind blows, you can always adjust your sails, but, if you don't know where you're going, then any road will take you there." The sign was the inspiration for the song.

The Czars - Cold

The Czars - Cold Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The La Brea Tar Pits of Routine
Released: 1997

Cold Lyrics

Cold

Frontman John Grant told Uncut magazine January 2014: "'Cold' is definitely a step up in my songwriting, and that's because I wrote it about Jeff (Linsenmaier, drums). I was mad at him. So it was the first time I connected with raw emotion and wrote down how I felt. That's what works the best: unadulterated feeling and passion. Cold was probably the first glimpse."

Grant explained to Uncut why he was angry with his drummer: "I always had the best relationships with my guitarists," he said. "I didn't fill my drama was particularly good. I felt he was holding back because he was angry with me for not letting him have the amount of control that he wanted."

Czars founder member Jeff Linsenmaier remained with The Czars until after the release of Goodbye in 2004, when five of the six members of the band over the span of nine months, leaving John Grant as the sole remaining member. Linsenmaier has since worked with The Fray acting as the drum technician on their 2009 self-titled album.

Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning

Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Clouds
Released: 1969

Chelsea Morning Lyrics

Woke up, it was a Chelsea Morning, and the first thing that I heard
Was a song outside my window, and the traffic wrote the words
It came a-reeling up like Christmas bells and rapping up like pipes and drums

Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll wear it 'till the night comes

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw
Was the sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall
Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you, crimson crystal beads to beckon

Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
There's a sun show every second

Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today
And the streets are paved with passersby
And pigeons fly
And papers lie
Waiting to blow away

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew
There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too
And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses
Oh, won't you stay
We'll put on the day
And we'll talk in present tenses

When the curtain closes and the rainbow runs away
I will bring you incense owls by night
By candlelight
By jewel-light
If only you will stay
Pretty baby, won't you
Wake up, it's a Chelsea morning

Writer/s: MITCHELL, JONI
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Chelsea Morning

Chelsea is a famous area in London, but it is also an area in New York City, which is what Mitchell references in this song. She moved to Chelsea in 1967 after splitting up with her husband, Chuck Mitchell, who she lived with in Detroit.

In a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mitchell explained: "I wrote that in Philadelphia after some girls who worked in this club where I was playing found all this colored slag glass in an alley. We collected a lot of it and built these glass mobiles with copper wire and coat hangers. I took mine back to New York and put them in my window on West 16th Street in the Chelsea District. The sun would hit the mobile and send these moving colors all around the room. As a young girl, I found that to be a thing of beauty. There's even a reference to the mobile in the song. It was a very young and lovely time... before I had a record deal. I think it's a very sweet song, but I don't think of it as part of my best work. To me, most of those early songs seem like the work of an ingenue."

Bill and Hillary Clinton named their daughter Chelsea after this song.

The folk singer Judy Collins, who gave Joni Mitchell a huge career boost when she recorded her song "Both Sides Now," also covered this song; her version hit #78 US in 1969. Collins performed it, along with her version of "Amazing Grace," at Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993.

Collins version was released as a single in 1969 and didn't appear on an album until a live rendition was included on her 1971 set Living. She recorded a new version for her 1997 compilation Forever: An Anthology; the original single finally appeared on The Very Best of Judy Collins in 2001.

The Czars - Los

The Czars - Los Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Goodbye
Released: 2004

Los Lyrics

Los

Czars vocalist John Grant told Uncut magazine January 2014: "'Los' is called 'Los' because I was ashamed of the sentiment of the song and worried I was going to be called a whiny bitch for writing about my feelings. 'Los' stands for 'Lake of Syrup.'"

Simply Red - Holding Back The Years

Simply Red - Holding Back The Years Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Picture Book
Released: 1985

Holding Back The Years Lyrics

Holding Back The Years,
Thinking of the fear I've had for so long.
When somebody hears,
Listen to the fear that's gone.
Strangled by the wishes of pater,
Hoping for the arm of mater,
Get to me sooner or later,

Nothing ever could, yeah.
I'll keep holding on,
I'll keep holding on,
I'll keep holding on,
I'll keep holding on.

Chance for me to escape from all I know.
Holding back the tears.
There's nothing here has grown.
I've wasted all my tears,
Wasted all those years.
Nothing had the chance to be good,

Nothing ever could, yeah.
I'll keep holding on,

I'll keep holding on,
I'll keep holding on,
I'll keep holding on
So tight.

Writer/s: HUCKNALL, MICHAEL JAMES/MOSS, NEIL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Holding Back The Years

Simply Red is singer Mick Hucknall ("Red" was his nickname because of his red hair). He originally recorded this in 1979 with his band The Frantic Elevators.

Hucknall wrote this in his bedroom at his father's house. He was still a teenager.

Simply Red went on to record 10 UK Top 10 hits, including "Fairground" a 1995 #1. In the US, their cover of Harold Melvyn's "If You Don't Know Me by Now" became their second American chart topper and the best selling British single in the US in 1989.

Eric Church - Give Me Back My Hometown

Eric Church - Give Me Back My Hometown Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Outsiders
Released: 2014

Give Me Back My Hometown Lyrics

Damn, I used to love this view
Sit here and drink a few
Main street and the high school lit up on Friday night
Down there it's another touchdown
Man, this year's team is stout
I can hear them goin' crazy
And up here so am I
Thinkin' about you sittin' there sayin' I hate this, I hate it
If you couldn't stand livin' here why'd you take it, take it

Give Me Back My Hometown
'Cause this is my hometown

All the colors of my youth
The red, the green, the hope, the truth
Are beatin' me black and blue 'cause you're in every scene
My friends try to cheer me up get together at the Pizza Hut
I didn't have the heart to tell them that was our place
These sleepy streetlights on every sidewalk side street
Shed a light on everything that used to be

Give me back my hometown
'Cause this is my hometown

Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah
Ah ooh, yeah, yeah
You can have my grandma's locket
The knife out of my grandpa's pocket
Yeah my state champion jacket I don't care you can have it
Every made memory every picture, every broken dream
Yeah everything, everything, everything

Give me back my hometown
'Cause this is my hometown

Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah
Ah ooh, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah
Ah ooh, yeah, yeah
Ah ooh
Ah ooh
Ah ooh
Ah ooh
Ah ooh

Writer/s: CHURCH, ERIC / LAIRD, LUKE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Give Me Back My Hometown

This wistful, nostalgic ballad finds Church revisiting his hometown as he tries to get over his ex. He sings at the track's opening:

Damn, I used to love this view
Sit here and drink a few
Main Street in high school
Up on Friday night

The rootsy tune was penned by Church with Luke Laird. It was the second song to be released from The Outsiders album following the title track.

Church and longtime collaborator Jay Joyce worked together on The Outsiders, which was recorded at an old church in East Nashville that the producer had bought and converted into a studio. The singer told Billboard magazine: "Jay had to become an ordained minister to purchase the church, and anybody who knows him knows that that's its own joke - it tells itself."

The video was directed by veternan filmmaker Peter Zavadil, who's worked with Church on a number of his other clips for such songs as "Creepin" and "Springsteen." The visual served as the first chapter of an overarching narrative featuring characters that make appearances throughout the remainder of The Outsiders album.

Luke Laird told Roughstock that he and Church wrote the song in March 2013. "He went up to his cabin in North Carolina, which he did before the last record, too," explained the songwriter. "He stays out there for probably a month or two and just writes songs. He has different writers come out there and write with him. I went up there and we wrote five songs in two or three days. That was one of them. He had that idea, and he already knew that he wanted to write a song called 'Give Me Back My Hometown.' I just thought it was a great idea, so we went from there."

"He is literally one of the best writers I've ever written with," continued Laird. "If he weren't an artist, he would probably be in town just writing songs for other people. He always has really good ideas. Obviously for him as an artist, he knows exactly what he wants to say. As a writer going into that situation, that's always a good feeling, knowing that it's not all going to fall on your shoulders. I always go in there with some ideas, but he's going to have all of his ideas, too. It's always fun working with him."

Church said this is one of the loneliest songs he's ever recorded. "Something that anybody knows more than anybody else is their hometown. That's where they're most comfortable, that's their comfort," he explained. "The loneliest thing about this song to me is here's a guy who's left in that place that should be the most comforting place to him, and it's actually the place that haunts him because the girl left him and there's memories of her everywhere."

The song interests Church as a songwriter because of the opposition the main character feels: he's supposed to feel safe in his hometown, but his former lover left her mark all over it and he can't erase those memories from his mind. "It's about a guy that's still in his hometown. He's in the most familiar place, the place he knows better than anything, but because his female lover left him there, all those places that he knows so well, become so haunting and foreign to him," Church explained.

"To be at the place that you grow up at that is your home, and the person that left you there took that from you, there's nothing lonelier than that," he added. "So, I love that dichotomy of 'Give Me Back My Hometown,' when the person's in it, they're standing in it, and that appealed to me as a songwriter."

Church performed this song at the Grammy Awards in 2015 with footage of military actions and riots showed in the background. The song was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song, but lost to "Something in the Water" by Carrie Underwood and "I'm Not Gonna Miss You
" by Glen Campbell, respectively. His album The Outsiders was nominated for Best Country Album, but lost to Miranda Lambert's Platinum.

Pete Seeger - Guantanamera

Pete Seeger - Guantanamera Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The World Of Pete Seeger
Released: 1962

Guantanamera Lyrics

The words mean, I am a truthful man
From the land of the palm trees
And before dying, I want to share the poems of my soul
My poems are soft green,
My poems are also flaming crimson
My poems are like a wounded fawn
Seeking refuge in the forest
The last verse says "con los pobres de la tierra"
With the poor people of this earth
I want to share my fate
The streams of the mountain
Pleases me more than the sea

Writer/s: JOSE MARTI, PETE SEEGER, JULIAN ORBON, J. FERNANDEZ DIAZ
Publisher: THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY, SOCIEDAD GENERAL DE AUTORES DE ESPANA S G A E
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Guantanamera

"Guantanamera" is Spanish for "Guantanamo," a city on the southeast tip of Cuba where the notorious Guantánamo Bay military base/detention camp is located. The United States has leased the area under a treaty signed in 1903, but the song has nothing to do with it.

The refrain "guajira Guantanamera" means "peasant girl from Guantanamo." A Cuban bandleader named Joseito Fernandez had a radio show in the 1930s called "La Guántanamera," and he regularly performed the song, changing the verse lyrics every time to be about whatever he felt like talking about - only the "guajira Guantanamera" part remained constant.

Later, a Cuban musician named Julián Orbón (1925-1991) put lyrics to the song based on a poem written by the Cuban writer Jose Marti (1853-1895). The poem is about a girl from Guantanamo and was written from the point of view of a Cuban revolutionary.

Orbón was a professor at the Manhattan School of Music, where Hector Angulo, a student from Santa Clara, Cuba, was attending on scholarship. Angulo learned the song from Orbón, and In July 1962, Angulo played it for Pete Seeger when both were attending the Folk Festival of the Catskills in upstate New York (the festival was part of a camp where Angulo was working as a counselor for the summer). Seger loved it and began performing the song. In October that year, the Cuban Missile Crisis riveted the nation as the Soviet Union threatened to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba. With this backdrop, the song became a peace anthem of sorts, not because it had anything to do with peace, but because it was a Cuban song with a catchy chorus that some Americans actually knew.

The song grew in popularity, and cover versions started to appear in America. It became a hit in 1966 when a Los Angeles folk trio called The Sandpipers recorded a version that hit #7 in the UK and #9 in the US.

The song is made of two parts which do not have any relation whatsoever:

Part 1 - In the 19th century, an anonymous popular song circulates with the words "guarija guantanamera," which means peasant-woman from Guantanamo. It was collected and arranged in 1932 by Joseito Fernandez, who made it the hallmark of his orchestra and popularized it as a dance called "Guajira-son," which he used in place of "Bolero" in closing every ball. "La Guajira" is therefore the name of a dance too.

Part 2 - It's not before 1958 that Julian Orbon combined this popular refrain with some quatrains taken at random from the immense poem Versos Sencillos (simple verses) by Jose Marti. It commences with, "Yo soy un ombre sincero," but you have to wait for hundreds of verses before finding: "Con los pobres de la tierra." At last words well in line with the acclaimed Seeger -Guthrie protest song style. Marti never mentioned any Guajira from Guantanamo in those verses. As in many popular songs, you can't find any logical link between the verses and the refrain.

Many versions of this song have sprung up over the years. Celia Cruz did a salsa rendition in 1966; José Feliciano covered it in 1969, and Joan Baez did her version in 1974.

The only version to chart in America besides The Sandpipers' was by Wyclef Jean with the Refugee Allstars. This one made #62 in 1997. The song has also been recorded by Pitbull and Sage The Gemini.

In the '90s, but song became a popular chant among English soccer fans, often used in tribute to a star player with the lyrics suitably altered. It was most often sung in honor of Alan Shearer, sung as, "One Alan Shearer... There's only one Alan Shearer."

In Sweden, they're serious about recycling, and in 2003 the government launched the "Pantamera" campaign to encourage the practice, with a song set to the tune of "Guantanamera."

"Panta Mera" means "recycle more" in Swedish; public service announcements often played on TV encouraging citizens to return used bottles and reduce waste. Many variations of the song have been used (here's one ), which has made the tune very popular in the country.

Jennifer Nettles - This One's for You

Jennifer Nettles - This One's for You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: That Girl
Released: 2014

This One's for You Lyrics

Early morning, you're still sleeping.
The silence is singing and it's got me to thinking of
So many love songs,
So many love songs, but This One's for You.

Won't be the last one,
Sure ain't the first to fall for someone and try to put in words.
There are so many love songs, so many love songs,
But this one's for you.

Oh, and I'm not one to carry on and on.
And I may not be the poetic type, no.
I'm not always the most refined, oh but even so,
I just want you to know this is the way I show you how I feel.

You are the rhythm, you are the rhyme.
You are the music and melody and you're the reason behind why there's
So many love songs,
So many love songs, but this one's for you.

Oh, and I'm not one to carry on and on.
And I may not be the poetic type, no.
I'm not always the most refined.
Oh but even so,
I just want you to know this is the way I show you how I feel.

They've all been written, thousands unknown.
But when you hear this one playing,
You can say it's your own.
There's so many love songs, so many love songs.
There are so many love songs, so many love songs.
There are so many love songs, but this one's for you.

Writer/s: BAREILLES, SARA / NETTLES, JENNIFER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This One's for You

Jennifer Nettles told Billboard magazine that the sound of this That Girl cut about sensual yearning was very unique to her. "The way that I approached this whole project was with a spirit of openness," Nettles noted. "I did a lot of sitting at the piano, and seeing what would come. From a chord perspective, that song was so different for me than anything I had written before."

Nettles received some help from "Brave" singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles with completing the song. "I had gotten to a point where I was stuck on the chorus, and Sara was coming into town," she explained. "She came over to helped me finish it. It brings to mind Carole King a little bit."

Jet - Look What You've Done

Jet - Look What You've Done Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Get Born
Released: 2003

Look What You've Done Lyrics

Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you.
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to prove.

[Chorus]
Oh, Look What You've Done
You've made a fool of everyone.
Oh, well, it seems like such fun
Until you lose what you had won.

Give me back my point of view
'Cause I just can't think for you.
I can hardly hear you say
What should I do?
Well, you choose

[Chorus]

Oh,look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you.
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to do.

[Chorus]

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone.

Writer/s: WILSON, FRANK EDWARD/MCFADDEN, TERRI/FOOTMAN, JOHN L
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Look What You've Done

This is about the father of band members Chris and Nic Cester, and how he cheated on their mom when they were younger. They always looked up to him as a hero, and he let them down by cheating on their mom.

Jon Pardi - Write You a Song

Jon Pardi - Write You a Song Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Write You a Song
Released: 2014

Write You a Song Lyrics

Write You a Song

This is the title track of Jon Pardi's debut album, which was the product of moving from his hometown in California to Nashville in 2008 to pursue his dreams of music. "That was a big move," he said. "It's not just moving six hours. It was 3500 miles of driving. It was three days. So, [being] the new guy in town, [and I'm] trying to find a place to live, trying to find cool people to hang out with, and then you got to try to find a gig, and you got to write songs, and you got to find co-writers."

The songs on the album were inspired by Pardi's life since moving to Nashville. "This album, it does represent the past four years we've been touring around playing everywhere - Mexican restaurants, stadiums, honkytonks, bars, car lots, conference rooms," he said. "I've been singing these for a long time, and I'm excited to get it out there. It does represent some relationship stuff, some going through just regular life in general, meeting ladies on the road, saying goodbye to the ladies on the road, and it's got a lot of everything in there from the past four years."

Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald - On My Own

Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald - On My Own Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Winner in You
Released: 1986

On My Own Lyrics

On My Own

This was written by Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach, who were married at the time. They promised the song to Patti LaBelle, but LaBelle's producer Richard Perry was less than impressed, and agreed to let Sager and Bacharach produce it instead. They cut their own backing track, which Patti LaBelle recorded on her own (pun unintended) but it wasn't until Michael McDonald was persuaded to contribute that the song came together.

The duo recorded their parts separately. Patti LaBelle filmed the video in New York and recorded her part in Philadelphia. Michael McDonald did both in LA.

Patti LaBelle was formerly in the R&B vocal group Labelle who scored an American #1 in 1975 with "Lady Marmalade." McDonald was part of the successful '70s west coast rock group The Doobie Brothers, whose biggest hit was the #1 smash "What A Fool Believes."

Labelle told NME in 1986: "The success of 'On My Own' came as a shock. I don't record for commercial value. With 'On My Own' I went into the Studio thinking, I'm gonna record something I love. Usually if I love it, it bubbles under. And I was surprised it made a hit."

1986 was a big year for Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach. They had another #1 hit earlier in the year with "That's What Friends Are For."

Oscar Isaac - Hang Me, Oh Hang Me

Oscar Isaac - Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Inside Llewyn Davis
Released: 2013

Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Lyrics

Hang me, oh hand me
I'll be dead and gone
Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
I'll be dead and gone
Wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave so long, poor boy
I been all around this world

I been all 'round cape Gigardeau
Parts of Arkansas
All around cape Giradeau
Parts of Arkansas
Got so god damn hungry
I could hide behind a straw, poor boy
I been all around this world

Went up on a mountain
There i made my stand
Went up on a mountain
There i made my stand
Rifle on my shoulder
And a dagger in my hand, poor boy
I been all around this world

So hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh hang me
And i'll be dead and gone
I wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave so long, poor boy
I been all around this world

Put the rope around my neck
And hung me up so high
Put the rope around my neck
Hung me up so high
Last words i heard 'em say
Won't be long now for you die, poor boy
I been all around this world

So hang me, oh hang men
I'll be dead and gone
Hang me, oh hang me
I'll be dead and gone
I wouldn't mind the hanging
But the layin' in a grave, poor boy
I been all around this world

Writer/s: OSCAR ISAAC, T BONE BURNETT
Publisher: BUG MUSIC
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Hang Me, Oh Hang Me

The actor Oscar Isaac had never ventured into folk music prior to taking the role of the titular star of Inside Llewyn Davis, who knocks around Greenwich Village's folk music scene in the early 1960s. Directors, the Coen Brothers, sent Dave Van Ronk's version of this traditional folk tune to the actors auditioning to play Davis, whose musical style is based on the folk legend. Isaac recalled to Billboard magazine: "In the initial audition, everyone had to play 'Hang Me' and they sent Dave Van Ronk's version. Since that was the only thing I had to go on, I listened to everything he had ever recorded and tried to play those songs. I really fell in love with his style of playing and the songs he would sing. He would find old songs and rearrange them."

Llewyn Davis performs this song in the Gaslight Cafe during the movie. The Gaslight Cafe was an American coffee house located in Greenwich Village. It opened in 1958 and was a well known venue for folk music and other musical acts, until it closed in 1971. New Jersey rock band The Gaslight Anthem took their name came from the venue as frontman Brian Fallon learnt it was one of the first places that Bob Dylan had played and he liked the imagery the word brought about.