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Green Day - When I Come Around

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Album: Dookie
Released: 1994

When I Come Around Lyrics

I heard you crying loud, all the way across town
Cause you been searching for that someone
And it's me out on the prowl
As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself

Well, don't get lonely now, and dry your whining eyes
I'm just roaming for the moment
Sleazin' my back yard so don't get
So uptight you been thinking about ditching me

No time to search the world around
'Cause you know where I'll be found
When I Come Around

Well, I heard it all before, so don't knock down my door
I'm a loser and a user so I don't need no accuser
To try and slag me down because I know you're right

So go do what you like, make sure you do it wise
You may find out that your self-doubt means nothing
Was ever there
You can't go forcing something if it's just not right

No time to search the world around
'Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around

No time to search the world around
'Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around

When I come around

Writer/s: ARMSTRONG, BILLIE JOE / COOL, TRE / DIRNT, MIKE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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When I Come Around

A track from Green Day's first major label album, this is a very personal song lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote about being away from his girlfriend, Adrienne Nesser, and the frustrations they both felt when he was on the road. Billie Joe met Adrienne in 1990 when Green Day performed in Minnesota, where she lived. He was just 18, and found it difficult to maintain a long distance relationship, especially with his touring schedule. In this song, he affirms his devotion for her, assuring her that when he does get to see her (when he "comes around") he will make it up to her.

Billie Joe and Adrienne got married in July, 1994, a few months after Dookie was released and right in the midst of the band's rapid ascent to stardom (the band was touring at the time). The marriage endured, and couple had two children together.

MTV aired two different videos for this song. A concept video for the song was directed by Mark Kohr, and MTV also showed a live version from Green Day's infamous Woodstock '94 performance (lots of mud was in the air). They used this video to promote the MTV Woodstock '94 retrospective video tape.

Jason White, who sometimes played as a second guitarist for Green Day, is in this video. He's the guy kissing the girl.

When performing this song at Woodstock '94, a fan threw a clump of mud onstage and Billie Joe stuck it in his mouth. This caused the fans to keep throwing mud and started the infamous mud fight. A security guard (in a rush to get fans off of the stage) accidentally slammed bassist Mike Dirnt into an amplifier, causing him injuries to his arm and three of his teeth.

This song was not released as a single, which was a strategic move by Green Day's label (Reprise) to goose sales of the album. Airplay pushed the song to #6 in America.

Soul Coughing - Lazybones

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Album: Irresistible Bliss
Released: 1996

Lazybones Lyrics

When all the limbs are numb and clean,
And you're in transit, dream to dream,
I'll drift there to meet you, Lazybones.

When all the world has lain and sank,
And money sleeps inside the banks,
I'll drift there to meet you, layzbones.

Cameraman sways to remember how the eye dances,
Drunkenness is a hand-held
Scrambling down Delancey
I come stumbling;
Well I hear you had to take a shine
And firing at random, I hear the rays fell upon mine.

Cool you, Miss Amaze, with a handful of water
Trucks encircling, bearing down, coming louder.
If I could stay here, under your idle caress
And not exit to the world and phoniness and people.

When all the noise has left your head
Will someday you rise off the bed?
I'll be there to lift you, lazybones.

Writer/s: DEGLIANTONI, MARK/DOUGHTY, MICHAEL/GABAY, YUVAL/STEINBERG, SEBASTIAN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Lazybones

At a Mike Doughty "Question Jar" show in Nashville on November 11, 2007, the Soul Coughing frontman was asked about the meaning of "Lazybones." He replied: "It's about a guy who does heroin that falls in love with a girl who's drunk, and they don't really click because their drugs aren't really compatible."

Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter

Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Everything Must Go
Released: 1996

Kevin Carter Lyrics

Hi Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize
Tribal scars in Technicolor
Bang bang club AK 47 hour

Kevin Carter

Hi Time magazine hi Pulitzer Prize
Vulture stalked white piped lie forever
Wasted your life in black and white

Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter

Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter

The elephant is so ugly he sleeps his head
Machetes his bed Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever
Click click click click click
Click himself under

Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter

Writer/s: BRADFIELD/EDWARDS/JONES/MOORE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Kevin Carter

Kevin Carter was a South African photographer who took his own life months after winning the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for a haunting Sudan famine picture. After dropping out of school for bad grades he joined the South African Defense Force where he found upholding the apartheid regime loathsome - when he took sides with a black mess-hall waiter, some Afrikaans-speaking soldiers called he 'kaffir-boetie' (nigger lover). After a few odd jobs, Carter worked in a camera shop and fell into journalism. Carter, whilst working for the Johannesburg Star, hooked up with three friends - Ken Oosterbroek of the Star and free-lancers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva - and they began moving through Soweto and Tokoza at dawn. Capturing the chaotic hand-to-hand street fighting between Mandela's A.N.C. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party which involved AK-47s, spears and axes. The four became so well known for capturing the violence that Living, a Johannesburg magazine, dubbed them "the Bang-Bang Club."

In 1993 Carter headed north of the border with Silva to photograph the rebel movement in famine-stricken Sudan. He wandered into the open bush. He heard a soft, high-pitched whimpering and saw a tiny girl trying to make her way to the feeding center. As he crouched to photograph her, a vulture landed in view. Careful not to disturb the bird, he positioned himself for the best possible image. The picture immediately became an icon of Africa's anguish. on April 12, 1994, the New York Times phoned to tell him he had won the Pulitzer. Carter was always troubled by personal problems and two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child, in a note left on the passenger seat part of it read: "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."

Richey Edwards wrote the lyric to this song. The Manic Street Preachers guitarist vanished in February 1995, and the band continued on without him, including five songs on the Everything Must Go album (the first one released after his disappearance) that he co-wrote. The band was hoping that Edwards was in hiding, and that including some of his songs on the set would flush him out.

In writing about Kevin Carter, Edwards opened a window to his own sense of nihilism and a depression that is exasperated by success. His body was never found.

Thompson Twins - King For A Day

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Thompson Twins - King For A Day Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Here's to Future Days
Released: 1985

King For A Day Lyrics

King For A Day
I know you well
And I can tell
Something's on your mind
'cause in your dreams
The demon screams
And I know he's going to hurt you blind
(bridge)
You say you hunger for something you can't get at all
And love is not enough anymore
(chorus)
IF I WAS KING FOR JUST ONE DAY
I WOULD GIVE IT ALL AWAY
I WOULD GIVE IT ALL AWAY TO BE WITH YOU
IF I WAS KING FOR JUST ONE DAY
I HAD JUST ONE THING TO SAY
YOU KNOW THAT LOVE IS
ALL WE NEED TO GET US THROUGH
Diamond rings
And all those things
They never sparkle like your smile
And as for fame
It's just a name
That only satisfies you for a while
(REPEAT BRIDGE & CHORUS)
I've heard it said
Or maybe read
Only money makes the world go 'round
But all the gold
Won't heal your soul
If your world should tumble to the ground
(REPEAT BRIDGE)
So listen,
Love is all, love is all, love is all we need
Love is all, love is all, love is all we need yeah.
Love is all, love is all, love is all we need
Love is all, love is all, love is all we need yeah.
(REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)
If I was King
For just one day
For just one thing to say
Love...

Writer/s: KAY, JASON/SMITH, TOBY/MCKENZIE, DERRICK/KATZ, SIMON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control

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Album: The Best of Eric Carmen
Released: 1988

Make Me Lose Control Lyrics

I run a comb through my hair and step out in the street
And the city's the color of flame in the mid-summer heat, oh yeah
Jennifer's got her daddy's car, she's playing up-town on the stereo
We go cruisin' so close, the way they did long ago

My darlin'

CHORUS:
(Turn) Turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
(Keep) Keep this feelin' alive
Make Me Lose Control
Baby baby
(When) When I look in your eyes, I go crazy
Fever's high with the lights down low
(So take) Take me over the edge
Make me lose control

We put the top down and park with the moon in the sky
And the wind is so hot in our hair, like a fire in july, oh yeah
Jennifer's singin' "Stand by Me" and she knows every single word by heart
Was love always this good, or could this be just the start?

Oh darlin'

CHORUS

Keep my baby clothes on, and were movin' in time
And the heat from your touch, makes me feel like I'm losing my mind
Oh yeah
(And then they played) Back in my arms again
(We close our eyes) We start rememberin' when
(We start to kiss) And all the feelings return
And we just pray that this night never ends

Oh, my darlin'
(Turn) Turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
Keep this feelin' alive make me lose control
Baby
When I look in your eyes, I go crazy
Fever's high with the lights down low
(So take) Take me over the edge
Make me lose control

Baby baby

(Turn) Turn the radio up for that sweet sound
Hold me close never let me go
(Keep) Keep this feelin' alive make me lose control

When I look in your eyes, I go crazy
Fever's high with the lights down low
(So take) Take me over the edge make me lose control

Baby baby

CHORUS

Writer/s: PITCHFORD, DEAN / CARMEN, ERIC
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, KAREN SCHAUBEN PUBLISHING ADMINISTRATION
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Make Me Lose Control

Carmen wrote this with the lyricist Dean Pitchford . They first worked together when they wrote "Almost Paradise" for Pitchford's movie Footloose, and they remained good friends. Pitchford told us, "I always thought that Eric Carmen was a beautiful melodist. Look at 'Boats Against the Current,' look at 'All By Myself.' Gorgeous, gorgeous stuff."

Carmen: "Dean and I had written a song called 'Long Live Rock And Roll,' and it was a tribute to Rock And Roll music. The verse lyrics were the same. The lyric for the chorus was different. It was more of a nostalgic thing. Jimmy Ienner heard the song, and we talked about it, and we decided that we needed something a little more immediate. We didn't really want to be writing a nostalgia thing. So Dean and I then beat our brains out for a couple days, and I said, 'How about Make Me Lose Control?' Dean said, 'O.K.,' and then we wrote some lyrics."

Some of the songs mentioned in the lyrics: "Uptown" by The Crystals, "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King, "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes and "Back In My Arms Again" by The Supremes.

Angel Haze - Dirty Gold

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Album: Dirty Gold
Released: 2013

Dirty Gold Lyrics

Take a breath, say you love me
We both know that everything changes

Keep in mind that none of this is fiction
This is just a glimpse into the head of a menace
We were two different children
But we born of the same moon
Blowing entire opposite
We were brought up the same too
I used to hate you because they celebrate you
And you made them notice every single thing I can’t do
But really I honestly wanted to be you
And I just hope my desire to wasn’t that see through
I never took into account the things that you were hiding
I even understood your rage when I see you get violent
I guess the height of all my envy was leaving me blinded
Until you sat me down and told me how crazy your life is
You said to run and never look back
And if I did, to never lose track of all the hurdles I was jumping
That lead me to my current goal

Don’t sell your soul baby you are Dirty Gold
Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold
Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold

Took a chance, said you’d love me
We both know that everything changes

You found me when I was dying and unappreciated
You broke me down into a science that I completely hated
You told impeccable talent didn’t make me less average
But how I use it to my advantage determined my passion
It took some time to understand and manage
But then I learned this passion was the method to my madness
And I never got to thank you, at least not in the way I planned
But I had to learn before I did that, I hope you understand
It takes a lot for me to bury hatchets but consider them cremated
All the ashes burned to ashes
And I’m dusting off my vocal box and finally saying thank you
And even though you ain’t my fan, you did the shit they ain’t do
So disregard my temper and the times I fucking hate you
Because despite all my ignorance I’m really fucking grateful
Never forget the importance of the sparks you hold

Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold
Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold
Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold

Took a glance, towards the mirror
Now I know that everything changes

I used to hate me, I swore my life was too painful
Let my demons overtake me before I fight with my angels
There was constantly a struggle to see my life at an angle
That provided understanding of how much drama could change you
I used to cut myself open just to feel like I was living
But when living is just dying then there’s no longer a difference
There’s no longer existence, and there’s no longer persistence
And there’s no longer a drive there existing on only division
And I thought, if nobody ever loved me
This vacancy inside me must be really called a bloodstream
Then I looked into the world and saw a million people like me
Probably never know your stories, but you’re the reason I’m fighting
You’re the reason I’m writing; music
Could be so reviving
And if ever you tend to forget, I’m right here to remind you:
Don’t ever give into the hurt you hold

Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold
Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold
Don’t sell your soul baby you are dirty gold

Writer/s: KURSTIN, GREG / HAZE, ANGEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Dirty Gold

Haze explained to XXL magazine that the title of her debut album was inspired by her favorite band. "When I thought about it, I was like, 'Oh! Let's do this,'" she recounted. "So I texted the lead singer [of Dirty Gold], Yeah, your name is going to be the name of my album.' He's like, 'So cool!'"

San Diego, California's Dirty Gold is an experimental Afro-Beat/Surf-Pop project of brothers Lincoln, Grant and John Ballif.

Myself by Eric Carmen - All

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Album: Eric Carmen
Released: 1975

All Lyrics

Little girl don't you want to stay?
I want to be your lover man
All by myself
All by myself

I don't need no one to love you
I'm gonna love you all by myself

You'll find, little girl, you know it too,
Don't you know I'm in love with you
All by myself
All by myself.

I don't want no one to love you
I want to love you all by myself

Meet me in the parlor 'bout half past one,
We'll go on down and have some fun
All by ourselves,
All by ourselves,
We don't need nobody with us
We gonna do it all by ourselves.
Writer/s: CARMEN, ERIC / RACHMANINOFF, SERGEI
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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All

Carmen: "The song started with the solo. It started 4 bars at a time. Eventually, over a period of 2 months, that entire interlude had been written. Then my quest was to put this in the middle of an actual song. Then it was a matter of trying to figure out what kind of song and how could I do it. I was listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto (written in 1901) and I heard the melody which I used for the verse. Then I needed a chorus. I went back and listened to a song that I had written in 1973 called 'Let's Pretend' for the Raspberries. I just took those notes and took it from there. I thought, ''Let's Pretend' was a nice melody.' The song didn't go quite as far as I thought it should have. I'll go back and steal from myself for this."

Carmen used the same notes from "Let's Pretend" to open his song "The Way We Used To Be."

Carmen: "There's not nearly as much fuel in being happy as there is in being miserable. Being miserable is a great catalyst for songwriting, for me anyway. I'm constantly amazed at the amount of wonderful work that Mozart did during periods when he was fairly happy. His music during those periods reflects the happiness. On the other hand, I can't imagine that Rachmaninoff was happy when he was writing the 2nd symphony and 2nd piano concerto. I don't think the anguish and angst of those melodies comes out of being peachy keen."

When he wrote this, Carmen thought the Rachmaninoff music was in the public domain, meaning he could use it free of charge. After this song came out, he found out it wasn't and agreed to a settlement with the Rachmaninoff estate.

Carmen: "If you walked in a record store and saw 'All By Myself' on the record label, you'd know what the song was about, and it's an emotion that everyone has felt at some point in their life. Therefore, it's a song that goes immediately to your heart. The lyrics are as simple as I could possibly make them. Sometimes my melodies are so dramatic that if the lyric is that dramatic, it's overkill."

Carmen: "The edited version was still about 4:22 so I know the song probably had to be edited. The only problem was that there really was no place to edit because it changed keys 4 different times within that piano interlude. Jimmy Ienner, the producer, and I had struggled trying to figure out how we could possibly do an edit.

Celine Dion covered this in 1996. Her version hit #4 in the US and #6 in the UK.

This has been used in the movies Clueless, Dawn of the Dead (2004 version), and Shrek 2. It was also used in Bridget Jones's Diary when Bridget (Renee Zellweger) was alone and drunk on New Year's. The latter version was performed by Country artist Jamie O'Neal , who told Songfacts: "Boy, that is a real challenge to sing a song like that. It’s just one of those songs that has such a range to it that you’ve got to dig deep just to get the notes out."

The song was performed by Charice in the April 19, 2011 episode of Glee. The actress and singer has an occasional part as talented rival glee club member, Sunshine Corazon. The comment was made that it was a tad inappropriate to hear the teenager singing the song's opening lines, "When I was young/ I never needed anyone / And making love was just for fun / Those days are gone"?

Bruce Springsteen - Hunter Of Invisible Game

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Album: High Hopes
Released: 2013

Hunter Of Invisible Game Lyrics

Hunter Of Invisible Game

This acoustic waltz finds Springsteen singing about a hunter traveling though a wasteland. A song with biblical overtones, it is unclear whether the mysterious figure represents Satan or a Savior. The recording dates from 2004-2008, under the production-ship of Brendan O'Brien, but with an overdub of Tom Morello's guitar. Producer Ron Aniello told Rolling Stone that the editing Springsteen and he did on the song "was very light." He added: "With respect to Brendan, that's his production, and I didn't want to meddle too much. We touch it up and Bruce might have changed a lyric or two. I actually can't remember, but for the most part those were the Brendan O'Brien stuff."

Aniello wasn't surprised that the High Hopes album focuses on older songs. He told Rolling Stone: "For any other artist alive, that's how they make records. It's, 'Oh, I got a song. It's great.' Then it just ends up on the record. With any other artist, this would be completely acceptable. And we're not saying it's unacceptable to some fans. It's just if you read fan sites you see people saying, "Oh, it's older songs."

"But you have to understand it has its own story, in my opinion," Aniello continued. "This is the story of what he's not willing to put on albums because they don't fit. They just didn't fit the particular story he was telling for each album. The first time I heard 'Hunter of Invisible Game' I thought, 'My God, this is one of your greats.' He went, 'Yeah, it just never quite fit.' That's the story of the record. So I'm not sure how fans are going to react, but it's a great Bruce record. It's a great rock & roll record. The fact they're older songs doesn't detract from the brilliance of the record."

This was one of three songs from High Hopes (along with "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" and the title track) that were played in part on the January 12, 2014 episode of the television series, The Good Wife.

Bruce Springsteen came up with the song title many years before he recorded it, and the song subsequently evolved. "I don't remember a lot about it except I said, 'That's a nice title,'" he told Rolling Stone. "I wrote it down and it sat there. Then I did more reading of other things. And I started to get into this sort of post-apocalyptic idea. The idea of these travelers in the wasteland, and what's the guy trying to do? He's trying to hold onto their humanness, their humanity in all of this ruin. That was the idea. That's who this guy is, the guy who is hunting out remnants of what makes the spirit."

"It was one of those songs that came together a certain way and I didn't think much about it when I wrote it," Springsteen added." I put it away. Now it's probably one of my favorite things on the record."

Springsteen co-directed a 10-minute film based on the song title with his longtime video collaborator, Thom Zimny.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes

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Album: Welcome To The Pleasuredome
Released: 1984

Two Tribes Lyrics

Yeah
Ha
When Two Tribes go to war
One is all that you can score
(Score no more, score no more)
When two tribes go to war
One is all that you can score
(Workin' for the black mask)

Comrad number one
A born again poor man's son
(Poor man's son)
On the air America
I modeled shirts for Van Heusen
(Workin' for the black mask), yeah

When two tribes go to war
One is all that you can score
(Score no more, score no more)
When two tribes go to war
One is all that you can score
(Workin' for the black mask)

Switch up your shield
Switch up and feel
I'm walkin' out, lover hey
I'm givin' you back a good time
I'm shippin' out, out
I'm workin' for the black mask

One is all that you can score
When two tribes go to war
When two tribes go to war
One is all that you can score

We got two tribes
(We got to part, we got to part), yeah
Somethin' this good died

Are we living in a land
Where sex and horror are the new gods, yeah

When two tribes go to war
One point is all that you can score

Writer/s: MARK O'TOOLE, PETER GILL, WILLIAM JOHNSON
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Two Tribes

The lyrics were inspired by US president Ronald Reagan's belief that Christ would return after a nuclear war.

The song features British actor Patrick Allen reading extracts from a government civil defense leaflet. Allen is well known in Britain for his distinguished voice, which has narrated many television adverts and films for over 30 years.

This was written by the band 2 years previous to release and was featured on a BBC Radio 1 John Peel session in October 1982.

In the extended version, the announcer states, "You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times over, but the goddess of the eternal court of history will smile and tear to tatters the verdict of this court - for she acquits us." When Adolf Hitler was tried for his failed putsch in 1924, he said these words (rather a very close paraphrase of it) in his concluding speech: "Pronounce us guilty a thousand times over: the goddess of the eternal court of history will smile and tear to pieces the State Prosecutor's submission and the court's verdict for she acquits us."

Former 10cc band members Lol Creme and Kevin Godley produced a memorable video featuring a no-holds-barred, hand-to-hand fight between Reagan and then Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. Godley recalled to Q magazine: "It was a very intense shoot. We were trying to get the audience to behave in a manner that we wanted to by chanting, 'Kill! Kill! Kill!' A few of them seriously got into the spirit of it by jumping in the ring and beating each other up!"

Trevor Horn produced this track. He spent weeks juggling with the sound and remixing it to perfection.

In the UK for 2 weeks, this was #1 while Frankie Goes To Hollywood's song "Relax" was #2. They became only the third act to achieve this feat, after The Beatles and John Lennon, who like Frankie Goes To Hollywood, came from Liverpool. Madonna broke the Liverpool streak the next year.

In the UK, this sold close to 2 million copies, making it one of the biggest-selling singles of the '80s. This was partly due to Horn's tendency to put out as many as 7 different mixes of the singles.

Chic - Everybody Dance

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Album: Chic
Released: 1977

Everybody Dance Lyrics

Everybody Dance

This was the first song Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards wrote as Chic, pre-dating even their debut hit "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)." Rogers recalled to NME in 2013: "The Chic concept was a cross between a black version of Roxy Music and the anonymity of Kiss. I wrote 'Everybody Dance' one afternoon. I thought it was too jazzy but I loved it. I played it for Bernard – he loved it too but he said, 'My man, what does it do do do do mean?' I said, 'The same as la la la la.' He said, 'Well, why don't we go, "Everybody dance la la la la?'" I said, 'Because the la la la la era is over.'"

Nile Rodgers told NME that the first album he bought was Impressions by John Coltrane. He added: "I can't remember not knowing about jazz. It was almost like religion. I didn't like religion, but I loved music! But when I was able to buy my own records I bought this. The first Chic song I ever wrote, 'Everybody Dance,' is all based on McCoy Tyner's piano playing there."

This was usually played as the opening song of Chic's live sets because of its historical status and popularity.

Luther Vandross sung backing vocals for the track.

The British Pop group Steps' 2000 UK #1 hit "Stomp" borrowed the song's chord sequence and string swirls. The single's sleeve stated it was a tribute to Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.

In 1993, the UK production duo Evolution scored a UK #19 hit with a house cover of the track. The extended version was appropriately titled 'Chic Inspirational Mix.'

Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again

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Album: Touch
Released: 1983

Here Comes The Rain Again Lyrics

Here Comes The Rain Again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

So baby talk to me
Like lovers do
Walk with me
Like lovers do
Talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Raining in my head like a tragedy
Tearing me apart like a new emotion
Oh
I want to breathe in the open wind
I want to kiss like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

So baby talk to me
Like lovers do

Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
(Here is comes again, here it comes again)
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you

Writer/s: LENNOX, ANNIE / STEWART, DAVID ALLAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Here Comes The Rain Again

The Eurythmics were vocalist Annie Lennox and instrumentalist Dave Stewart. Both were members of The Tourists before forming Eurythmics in 1980. They met when Lennox was working as a waitress in Stewart's home town of Sunderland; they lived together for 4 years before forming Eurythmics and ending their romantic relationship while forging ahead as a duo. Writing and recording as ex-lovers created an interesting tension in their songs.
In our interview with Dave Stewart, he explains that creating a melancholy mood in his songs is something he excels at. Says Stewart: "'Here Comes The Rain Again' is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, because I'm playing a b-minor, but then I change it to put a b-natural in, and so it kind of feels like that minor is suspended, or major. So it's kind of a weird course. And of course that starts the whole song, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers do.' It's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that's when it's darkest unfolding and bloodred just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments."

Instead of the conventional verse-chorus-verse, this song alternates an A section ("Here comes the rain again?") and a B section ("So baby talk to me?") with very little variation between repetitions - just a short instrumental bridge in the middle of the song. This creates the feeling of monotony, as the rain keeps falling.

The Eurythmics were named after a mime performed by Emile Jacques-Dalcrose. They had 9 UK Top 10 hits and 3 in the US, including the #1 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." In 1987, Stewart married Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama. Lennox left in 1990 but the pair reunited in 1999.

In The Dave Stewart Songbook , Stewart explains that he and Lennox wrote this song when they were staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York City. Writes Stewart: "I'd been out on 46th Street and bought an early Casio keyboard, about 20 inches long with very small keys. It was an overcast day. Annie was sitting in my room, and I was playing some little riff on the keyboard sitting on the window ledge, and I was playing these little melancholy A minor-ish chords with the B note in it. I kept on playing this riff, and Annie was looking out the window at the slate grey sky above the New York skyline and just sang spontaneously, 'Here Comes The Rain Again.' And that was all we needed. you see, like with a lot of our songs, you only need to start with that one line, and that one atmosphere, that one note, or that intro melody. And the rest of it was like a puzzle where we needed to just fill in the missing pieces."

This was recorded in an old church that was converted into a studio - except the studio wasn't finished yet and they brought in the orchestra anyway. About 30 string players had to improvise by playing in corridors and even the toilet. The song was mixed blending the orchestra on top of electronic sounds created by a sequencer and drum machine.

The line, "Talk to me like lovers do" shows up in the 2007 song "Taking Chances," which Stewart wrote with Kara DioGuardi. (Read our interview with Dave Stewart.)

Diane Birch - All the Love You Got

Diane Birch - All the Love You Got Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Speak A Little Louder
Released: 2013

All the Love You Got Lyrics

I sit and wonder where you’re gone
Have you found a head to ground that stays under when you push it down?
I sit and ponder what went wrong
Was I too emotional?
Too many puzzles for your simple soul
Does she let you sleep
When she’s awake

Does she close her eyes and pay the asking price
Does she suffer with the smile
Take a penny for a song and it’s all
Part of loneliness drinks the honey of your promises
Does she know that’s All the Love You Got
That’s all the love you got
Does she know that’s all the love you got

And tell me does it feel the same
Is she close enough to hurt
When she takes it does it make it worse
Can you still kill a perfect day
With a twinkle in your eye
Do you still awake when she’s asleep

Does she close her eyes and pay the asking price
Does she suffer with the smile
Take a penny for a song and it’s all
Part of loneliness drinks the honey of your promises
Does she know that’s all the love you got
That’s all the love you got

When she let's you lead away
Does she want it when she’ll get there if you get there

Does she close her eyes and pay the asking price
Does she suffer with the smile
Take a penny for a song and it’s all
Part of loneliness drinks the honey of your promises
Does she know that’s all the love you got
That’s all the love you got
Does she know that’s all the love you got

All the love you got
Does she know that's all the love you got
That's all the love you got
Does she know that's all the love you got
That's all the love you got

Writer/s: White, Francis Anthony / Birch, Diane
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

All the Love You Got

This breakup anthem was released as the lead single from Diane Birch's second album, Speak A Little Louder. The dynamic backbeat was provided by bassist John Taylor of Duran Duran and drummer Questlove of the Roots. "I heard that demo, and it was irresistible," Taylor told The New York Times. "I just thought, 'I've got to get on this fantastic song one way or the other.'"

The entire song – including Questlove and John Taylor's contributions – was built on a demo that Birch recorded in one afternoon, nailing her vocals in a single take. Producer Eg White, who has worked with Adele and Joss Stone, improvised the guitar parts. "He was just experimenting," Birch recalled to American Songwriter magazine. "He had a half-eaten bagel hanging out of his mouth and one sock tucked into his jeans, and he was sort of laughing while he improvised this part on the fly. But his guitar wound up sounding so special. You can't replicate that. Something really does happen during the first take – that's where the magic is."