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Santana - Toussaint L'Overture

Santana - Toussaint L'Overture Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Santana III
Released: 1971

Toussaint L'Overture Lyrics

Los cueros me llaman
Los cueros me llaman

El timbal
El timbal

Vamos morena a bailar mi montuno
Vamos morena a bailar mi montuno

Writer/s: SANTANA, CARLOS / ROLIE, GREGG / AREAS, JOSE / CARABELLO, MICHAEL JOHN / SHRIEVE, MICHAEL / BROWN, MICHAEL RANDALL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Toussaint L'Overture

Toussaint L'Overture was a former Haitian slave who helped his country get its independence from France in 1804.

The song's title is not in the lyrics, which are all in Spanish.

The last line, which is hard to make out, is "Vamos morena, a bailar mi montuno" (Come dance my montuno). A "montuno" is a type of Afro-Cuban music that piles on different tunes and it gradually builds up towards the end.

Future Journey guitarist Neal Schon played on this song. He turned down an offer to join Derek and the Dominos, and he was only 15 at the time. Schon and Santana had a type of competition during the recording of the song, with both guitarists having their solos erased each time they recorded a take.

Santana III is the last album featuring the original Woodstock-era Santana lineup and the first that included Neal Schon, who later formed Journey. Schon was just 17 when he joined Santana.

Bryan Adams - Native Son

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Album: Into The Fire
Released: 1987

Native Son Lyrics

Native Son

This was an attempt by Bryan Adams and his frequent collaborator Jim Vallance to make a statement about the treatment of native Indians by the early white settlers. It was inspired by Chief Joseph, chief of the Nez Perce ("nose pierced") tribe from the 1800s.

Adams had the song name for a couple of years, but had trouble finding a lyrical theme to go with the title. It was Vallance's friend Duris Maxwell (who is of Native American heritage), who suggested Chief Joseph. Vallance recalled on his website : "I went to the Vancouver library and read everything I could find on Joseph, which turned out to be a truly fascinating story. I wrote a page of notes at the library, most of it direct quotes from Joseph's speeches. With a little modification those notes became the basis for the song."

The Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop

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Album: Alley Oop
Released: 1960

Alley Oop Lyrics

(Oop-oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

There's a man in the funny papers we all know
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He lives way back a long time ago
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He don't eat nothin' but a bear cat stew
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Well, this cat's name is Alley-Oop
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

He got a chauffeur that's a genuine dinosaur
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
And he can knuckle your head before you count to four
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

He got a big ugly club and a head full of hair
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like great big lions and grizzly bears
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop) He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop) Wearin' clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop) He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look at that cave man go!) (Scream!)

He rides through the jungle, tearin' limbs off of trees
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Knockin' great big monsters dead on their knees
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
The cats don't bug him 'cause they know better
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
'Cause he's a mean motor scooter and a bad go-getter
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop) He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop) Wears clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop) He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look at that cave man go!) (Scream!)

There he goes
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Look at that cave man go
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He sure is hip, ain't he?
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like what's happening
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
He's too much
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride, daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Hi-yo, dinosaur
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride, daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Get 'em, man
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like hips ville
(Alley-Oop, oop, oop, oop-oop)

Writer/s: DALLAS FRAZIER
Publisher: KARIN MUSIC, Reservoir One Music, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Alley Oop

Alley Oop was a popular newspaper comic strip about a caveman. This is a novelty song based on the character.

This was written by the Country songwriter Dallas Frazier, who recorded the song in 1966 and released it on his album Elvira (Columbia 2552). In 1967 Englebert Humperdinck recorded Frazier's "There Goes My Everything," which hit #2 in the UK and #20 in the US.

Lead singer Gary Paxton recorded this as a solo artist, since he was still under contract to Brent Records, where he recorded as Flip of "Skip And Flip." He made up the name Hollywood Argyles - the recording studio was on Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Street. When this became a hit, Paxton put together a Hollywood Argyles group, made up of Bobby Rey, Ted Marsh, Gary Webb, Deary Weaver and Ted Winters. This ended up being their only hit.

Producer Kim Fowley and drummer Sandy Nelson bashed empty bottles and wastepaper baskets during the session. Alcohol was a factor.

The Cure - Let's Go To Bed

The Cure - Let's Go To Bed Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Japanese Whispers
Released: 1982

Let's Go To Bed Lyrics

Let me take your hand
I'm shaking like milk
Turning
Turning blue
All over the windows and the floors
Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us
Together again
But it's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You think you're tired now
But wait until three
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember from December
All of this then back again
Another girl
Another name
Stay alive but stay the same
It's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You can't even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain
Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Let's Go To Bed

Writer/s: SMITH, ROBERT JAMES / TOLHURST, LAURENCE ANDREW
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Let's Go To Bed

Speaking to the Rock 'n' Roll Alternative Show in 1983, frontman Robert Smith said that he didn't want this sarcastic reflection on sexual imagery in pop music ever to be released. "It wasn't as dumb as I wanted it to be," he explained. "It was really me reacting against The Cure's image, the states we've gone through. So I wanted to do something that was really, really dumb and pop. The words mean nothing. Once I recorded it I thought maybe this isn't quite right. And it was taken over and taken to its logical conclusion and released... Looking back maybe it wasn't such a bad thing. But at the time I was really, really angry 'cause I didn't want it released."

The song was a moderate hit, doing especially well in Australia, where it reached #15.

This was both the first and last song played on WFNX. The Boston Alternative Rock radio station played the tune when they signed on in 1983, and as the final song broadcast on their last day on the air: July 20, 2012.

The Who - I'm Free

The Who - I'm Free Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tommy
Released: 1969

I'm Free Lyrics

[Tommy:]
I'm Free- I'm free,
And freedom tastes of reality,
I'm free-I'm free,
AN' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

If I told you what it takes
to reach the highest high,
You'd laugh and say 'nothing's that simple'
But you've been told many times before
Messiahs pointed to the door
And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

I'm free-I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality
I'm free-I'm free
And I'm waiting for you to follow me.

[Chorus:]
How can we follow?
How can we follow?

Writer/s:
Publisher: ABKCO MUSIC INC, FABULOUS MUSIC LTD, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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I'm Free

This was part of The Who's Rock Opera Tommy. Tommy is free because his mother smashed the mirror that he was kind of trapped in. He always gazed at his reflection and this was the only thing he could really see. Now Tommy wants his disciples to follow him ("How can we follow?") and says he's their Messiah.

Pete Townshend wrote Tommy, but their manager, Kit Lambert, deserves some of the credit for the idea. Lambert's father was a conductor and fairly well known in the world of Classical Music. Kit helped come up with the idea of a Rock Opera, which incorporated many elements of a Classical piece.

James Brown - America Is My Home, Pt. 1

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Album: The Millennium Collection: The Best of James Brown
Released: 1968

America Is My Home, Pt. 1 Lyrics

Talking 'bout me leaving America
You gotta be crazy, man, I like
All the nice thing, Jack
Colonial suits and things, look at here

Now I am sorry for the man
Who don't love this land
Now black and white, they may fight
But when up the enemy come
We'll get together and run about all side

I love it

The sun don't come out in rainy weather
But when you ball it down they are still together
Now let's not overlook the fact that we are, we are still in reach
You got to chance to make it and you got a freedom of speech

Say what you wanna, tell 'em how you feel
There may be a lot of places, a lot of places that you like to go
But believe me if you get an education you can blow
You can all it blow, dig this

Now you tell me if I'm wrong
America is still the best country
And that's without a doubt
America is still the best country
Without a doubt

And if anybody says it ain't, you can try to put him out
They ain't going nowhere, you got a good fight
When I tell you one time that I was a shoeshine boy
Every word I said, I meant

But name me any other country
You can start out as a shoeshine boy
And shake hand with the president
It ain't gonna help you gotta had that royal blood to make it
And I ain't got nothing royal but me
So I can take the chances, I'm gonna stay home

And look at here I got a brand new jet
When I need to move
I saw a brother made it
Now it ain't that a rule

So look at here
Brothers and sisters and friends, dig this
So quit your dreaming all night
Stop beatin' yourself and get up and fight

Don't give up, you might give up, but just don't give out
I know if you give out don't give up
There's no quick going, I mean like keep it moving you know
Cause if you stop like a ball quit rolling

Now we got two of the [Incomprehensible] from Florida to Rome
Which we know there's one thing we'll never forget
America's still our home, hit it bad
God bless America, I'm talking about me too
You know I'm American myself, I like that kind of thing, look at here

Writer/s: BROWN, JAMES/MOORE, HAYWARD EPPS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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America Is My Home, Pt. 1

In 1968, several of James Brown's actions threatened his reputation as a spokesman for the black power movement. He riled the pacifists after performing for the US army in Vietnam and lending his political support to Vice President Hubert Humphrey against the popular anti-Vietnam War candidate Robert Kennedy.

Brown also recorded this spoken-word track, which extolled the virtues of his homeland. The Godfather Of Soul responded to the criticism by recording "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud," which was a fierce attack on racist America and the need for black empowerment and pride.

Three Dog Night - Black and White

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Album: Seven Separate Fools
Released: 1972

Black and White Lyrics

The ink is black
The page is white
Together we learn to read and write
The child is black
The child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight
The beautiful sight

And now a child can understand
That this is the law of all the land
All the land

The world is black
The world is white
It turns by day and then by night
The child is black
The child is white
Together they grow to see the light
To see the light

And now at last we plainly see
We'll have a dance of liberty
The world is black
The world is white
It turns by day and then by night
The child is black
The child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight
The beautiful sight

The world is black
The world is white
It turns by day and the by night
The child id black
The child is white
Together they grow to see the light
To see the light

Writer/s: MITCHELL, RICHARD
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Black and White

An influential American folk singer named Earl Robinson wrote this in 1954 with lyricist David Arkin (who is the father of actor Alan Arkin). The song is about racism, and was inspired by a US Supreme Court ruling that segregation in public schools is illegal. The original folk song (but not Three Dog Night's version) includes the line, "Their robes were black, their heads were white" which refers to the judges.

The Jamaican reggae group Greyhound recorded this in 1971; their version made #6 in the UK. Greyhound went on to have two more hits: a cover of Henry Mancini's "Moon River" and another message song called "I Am What I Am," which was a plea for recognition in a white-dominated society.

When Three Dog Night recorded this, it came at a time when civil rights was a big issue in America. The message of racial equality was emphasized by their use of a children's choir in the repeated chorus during the closing moments of the song.

Other artists to record this include Gregory Isaacs, Freddie McGregor and Inner Circle.

Three Dog Night had three lead vocalists: Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron and Cory Wells. Hutton sang lead on this track.

Parmalee - Move

Parmalee - Move Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Feels Like Carolina
Released: 2013

Move Lyrics

Oh, start it up.

Hey, like to ride around and listen to that steel guitar sound, on whiskey bent and hell-bound with a little nice set brunette from FLA.
Wheels turning winding down in the pines, KC lights lighting up tonight.
Iced down and the cold cool beer calling my name.

Hey, like my pontoons.
Cuttin that liquid glass so smooth.
On the lake forty HP every noon,
girls standing on the bow-wow,
keep it tween the banks. Making my way, not a cloud in sky,
inline flow shades on my eyes.
Aw hell, got the JBS so loud you can't think.

Yeah, kick back, oh,
one hand on the wheel.
Give it a little bit of juice.
Life going by so slow and easy.
Don't that just make you want to Move?

Aw, turtle wax on, wax off.
Good year serving in the armor-all.
Tin so dark ticks off the lawn.
Got the chrome slicker than a nickle,
now we're ready to roll.
Moon quick stop top off the tank.
Baby wants a little something cold to drink.
Now we slip down the strip like we're on Friday night patrol.

Yeah, kick back, one hand on the wheel.
Give it a little bit of juice.
Life going by so slow and easy.
Don't that just make you want to move?
Yeah, don't that make you want to move?

Weekend, speeding in the thirty-five.
Rolling round town, got nothing but time.
Baby kissing on me, running off the road.
Trying to keep it cool, rolling with the flow.

Kick back, oh, one hand on the wheel.
Give it a little bit of juice.
Life going by so slow and easy.
Don't that just make you want to kick back, oh, one hand on the wheel.
Give it a little bit of juice.
Life going by so slow and easy.
Don't that just make you want to move?

Writer/s: KINNEY, BRANDON / ALBRITTON, ARLIS / DANIEL, BEN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Move

This Arlis Albriton, Brandon Kinney and Ben Daniel penned song mixes Country and Rock with a catchy melody. Vocalist Matt Thomas told Taste of Country : "That actually was a song that was pitched to us right after we signed the deal and I listened to it a couple of times and Bennie from the label really liked it. And after listening to it, and really after we learned it, that's when I really fell in love with it and the guitar lick. That actually is like exactly Parmalee music."

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do

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Album: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Released: 1988

The Evil That Men Do Lyrics

Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade
Slept in the dust with his daughter,
Her eyes red with the slaughter of innocence
But I will pray for her, I will call her name out loud
I would bleed for her, if I could only see her now
Living on a razor's edge, balancing on a ledge
Living on a razor's edge, balancing on a ledge
Balancing on a ledge, living on a razor's edge
Balancing on a ledge, you know, you know

The Evil That Men Do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on

Circle of fire my baptism of joy at an end it seems
The seventh lamb slain, the book of life opens before me
And I will pray for you, someday I may return
Don't you cry for me, beyond is where I learn

Living on a razor's edge, balancing on a ledge
Living on a razor's edge, you know, you know

The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on

Living on a razor's edge, balancing on a ledge
Living on a razor's edge, you know

The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on, yeah
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil that men do lives on and on
The evil, the evil that men do
The evil, the evil, the evil that men do

Writer/s: SMITH, ADRIAN FREDERICK / DICKINSON, BRUCE / HARRIS, STEPHEN PERCY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Evil That Men Do

This song is based on a quote from William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar: "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones." Bruce Dickinson says this sometimes before performing the song live, but with the quote slightly reversed.

Peter Wolf - I Need You Tonight

Peter Wolf - I Need You Tonight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lights Out
Released: 1984

I Need You Tonight Lyrics

When the music stops,
I walk you to your door
And we say goodnight,
Like a thousand times before

This is the night (night),
I just can't walk away, oh
This is the night,
I need you even more

Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
I can't wait til' tomorrow oh
I Need You Tonight

I drive away, but you're still on my mind
It's gettin' so hard leavin' you behind
This is the night I just want you to know, oh
This is the night I just can't let you go

Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
I can't wait til' tomorrow oh
I need you tonight

Yeah!

Oh!

Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
Why should we wait 'til tomorrow? oh, oh
I can't wait til' tomorrow oh
I need you tonight

And I need you tonight
'Cause I need you tonight

Writer/s: WOLF, PETER / BLISS, PETER S.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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I Need You Tonight

After serving as frontman for the J. Geils Band from their formation in 1967, Peter Wolf left the band in 1983, launching a solo career with his 1984 album Lights Out. Following, the title track, it was Wolf's second single.

The song is about a man carrying on an affair with a woman he can only see occasionally but can no longer wait for. Thanks to the clips for the J. Geils Band songs Centerfold and Freeze-Frame, Wolf was a familiar face on MTV, and his video for "I Need You Tonight" got significant airplay. In the clip, Wolf plays a man smitten with a married woman whose husband is a wealthy and dangerous gangster.

Wolf wrote this song with Paul Bliss, whose other credits include "Heart Attack" for Olivia Newton-John and "Emotion" for Barbra Streisand.

Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow

Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Album Of The Year
Released: 1997

Last Cup Of Sorrow Lyrics

Last Cup Of Sorrow

The overall theme is to let go of conflicts or problems of the past and just "Get on your way." It could also imply that hanging on to your past sorrows like divorce, breakups, materialism, and unrealized goals can eventually leave you in a crippled state of confusion later in life; hence the verse, "Everything you know and never knew... will run through your fingers just like sand." Finishing your "last" cup of sorrow is a way of moving into the future and leaving your problems where they should be - in the past.

The video, in many ways, is very different from the song's contents. Directed by Joseph Kahn, it features lead singer Mike Patton dressed as a private investigator who's hired to shadow a beautiful blonde played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. The video is based on the Alfred Hitchcock movie Vertigo, and features a scene in which Leigh's character has the bejesus scared out of her upon seeing the band's drummer coming into the bell tower of a cathedral. In the movie, the original character sees the silhouette of a nun in the bell tower, mistakenly taking it for a ghost or apparition, and jumps to her death.

Tears for Fears - The Hurting

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Album: The Hurting
Released: 1983

The Hurting Lyrics

Is it an horrific dream
Am I sinking fast
Could a person be so mean
As to laugh and laugh
On my own
Could you ease my load
Could you see my Pain
Could you please explain
The Hurting

Could you understand a child
When he cries in Pain
Could you give him all he needs
Or do you feel the same
All along
You've been told you're wrong
When you felt it right
And you're left to fight
The hurting

Get in line with the things you know
Feel the Pain
Feel the sorrow
Touch the hurt and don't let go
Get in line with the things you know
Learn to cry
Like a baby
Then the hurting won't come back

Writer/s: ROLAND ORZABAL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Hurting

This is the title track of The Hurting, a concept album about the writings of psychologist Arthur Janov, the evangelist of suppressed childhood trauma and developer of primal scream therapy. Roland Orzabel explained to Mojo magazine December 2013 why he and his Tears for Fears partner Curt Smith connected with Janov: "Curt and I were council house kids," he said. "Not easy upbringings. There was illness with Curt's father. Illness, and mental illness with mine, and domestic violence between him and my mother. Both middle children of three boys. We identified with Janov's beliefs, that the child is the victim, in a sense, and all the traumas of your childhood, even pre-natal, form your personality and are the cause of neurosis and depression in later life."

Primal scream therapy was a type of physiotherapy in which patients, often in groups, were encouraged to scream and behave violently to relive birth and the sufferings of infancy. The treatment was named by Janov in his 1970 book Primal Scream. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were among the well-known experimenters and several of the songs the former Beatle wrote in the early 1970s were inspired by his experience of the therapy, including "Mother" and "Working Class Hero."