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Lauryn Hill - Consumerism

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Album: Yet to be Titled
Released: 2013

Consumerism Lyrics

Consumerism

On May 6, 2013 Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison for failure to pay taxes. This song was written before Hill's incarceration, mixed during her confinement and made available as a single to mark her release. It finds the former Fugees singer rapping about society's crazy ways.

Hill explained the song is the first part of a larger project titled Letters From Exile, which she has been working on after signing a deal with Sony Music. "'Consumerism' is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in," she said. "We did our best to eek out a mix via verbal and emailed direction, thanks to the crew of surrogate ears on the other side. Letters From Exile is material written from a certain space, in a certain place. I felt the need to discuss the underlying socio-political, cultural paradigm as I saw it. I haven't been able to watch the news too much recently, so I'm not hip on everything going on. But inspiration of this sort is a kind of news in and of itself, and often times contains an urgency that precedes what happens. I couldn't imagine it not being relevant. Messages like these I imagine find their audience, or their audience finds them, like water seeking its level."

Cold - Go Away

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Album: Cold
Released: 1998

Go Away Lyrics

Go Away

This song is Scooter Ward and the band to telling all the record executives to "Go Away!" and not tell them how to write their songs and how to live their lives.

This was the first song Cold released.

Sam Smith - Nirvana

Sam Smith - Nirvana Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Nirvana
Released: 2013

Nirvana Lyrics

Oh, baby
Oh, baby
Oh, we both know the truth
If it were the real me and you
This wouldn't be the right thing to do

Now the room is all hazy
We're too lost in the fumes
I feel like it's just me & you
Yeah, we got nothing to lose

It's too late to run away from it all
It's too late to get away from it all
I'm done with running so I give it to you

This moment has caused a reaction
Resulting in a reattachment
Will you take me to Nirvana?
I don't think this will last
'Cause you're here in my arms

Oh, baby
Oh, baby
Oh, we both feel the same
I'm not gonna give you my name
And I don't think you want that to change

We're in this together
We don't know who we are
Even if it's moving too fast
Maybe we should take it too far

It's too late to run away from it all
It's too late to get away from it all
I'm done with running so I give it to you

This moment has caused a reaction
Resulting in a reattachment
Will you take me to Nirvana?
I don't think this will last
'Cause you're here in my arms

Will you take me to Nirvana?
I don't think this will last
'Cause you're here in my arms

Writer/s: CHEGWIN, HUGO / CRAZE, HARRY / SMITH, SAM / PAUL, ANUP / NAPIER, JAMES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Nirvana

This is the title track of Sam Smith's debut EP. He explained the song's meaning to Interview Magazine: "There were four of us in the room and we all wrote it about things individually. It's about doing something at night time, one night, and not worrying commitment or worrying about anything else in life. It's about something—a person, a thing—taking over you and taking you to somewhere just for a little bit."

A Perfect Circle - Thinking Of You

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Album: Mer de Noms
Released: 2000

Thinking Of You Lyrics

Lying all alone and restless
unable to lose this image
sleepless, unable to focus on
anything but your surrender

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that
Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound that I know so well
Spent and sighing with a look in your eye
Spent and sighing with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation sweet surrender
sweet, sweet surrender
Surrender...

Tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tugging a beat to the sight of you lying
So delighted with a new understanding
Something about a little evil that makes that
Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound that I know so well
Spent and sighing with a look in your eye
Spent and sighing with a look on your face like

Sweet revelation sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation sweet

Thinking Of You, thinking
Thinking of you, Thinking of you, Thinking of you, thinking...

Sweet revelation sweet surrendering
Sweet revelation
Writer/s: KEENAN, MAYNARD JAMES/HOWERDEL, BILLY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Thinking Of You

This song is about the first time you learn to "Self Satisfy." At some concerts, toward the end of the song Maynard Keenan will "jerk" his water bottle around until the climax of the song when he sprays water everywhere.

Keenan had a similar song while in Tool: "Part Of Me," on Opiate.

Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals

Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Bitter Rivals
Released: 2013

Bitter Rivals Lyrics

Hi!

It was the best of times
It was the worst of times
I had to kill the new sheriff in town
She was gonna try to keep me
You go-go down
You go-go down
In a dream you will never be down
Some how
Some how
Another way to make the picture clearer
Point a gun
At the mirror
Heart's so dark, make dirt look clean
So clean
So clean
Don't kick
Don't scream
But at the end
I can only be
No rhyme
No reason
Be not afraid
Be not afraid
Be not

You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival
You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival
You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival
You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival

It was the best of times
It was the worst of times
I had to kill the new sheriff in town
She was gonna try to keep me
You go-go down
You go-go down
In a dream you will never be down
Some how
Some how
Lay a hand on me
Lay a hand on you
Lay a hand on me
Lay a hand
Heart's so dark, make dirt look clean
So clean
So clean
Convicts
Convicts
East to West
The answer is yes
No rhyme
No reason
Be not afraid
Be not afraid
Be not

You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival
You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival
You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival
You are my bitter rival
But I need you for survival

Writer/s: DEREK MILLER, SYDNEY ALEXIS KRAUSS
Publisher: SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Bitter Rivals

Guitarist Derek Miller told NME about this song with the subject matter of moving on. "It's celebrating coming out of a situation that I didn't think I would be ever able to come out of," he explained. "I had been in the darkest, nastiest situation. I came to terms with my father's death finally, that didn't happen until February (2013). My mom has been in remission for two years now so she's in a great place. I'm in the best place of my life. I'm not going to boo-hoo about it now, but that shattered me for years. When you're in it, you just can't see out of it. But when I cam out of it, I was like 'Oh my god.'"

Vocalist Alexis Krauss told NME about the recording of this dog-barking, finger-snapping two chord noise-pop banger: "I had my dog in the studio, and they were setting up to do guitars, and I was like "OK this will be a good time. I'll take my dog out to go pee and I'll be back up by the time they start tracking' and this was literally five minutes, and in one take, it was just like the scrappiest, gnarliest sound. You know? There was no tweaking, there was no fu--ing around with it. We knew it was good and we just left it."

The song's music video ends with the message "Be good to each other." Krauss explained to Stereogum : "We thought it would be great to end something that had an aggressive or violent imagery with something kind of humorous and sweet. You know, I was a teacher before I was in Sleigh Bells so being positive and having that kind of energy has always been a part of Sleigh Bells. We're also constantly using the phrase, 'Work hard. Be nice.' It was the phrase I constantly used as my mantra for my kids when I was teaching."

Q magazine asked Derek Miller the meaning of the lyrics "You are my bitter rival, but I need you for survival." He replied: "I'd rather leave that lyric open. It could be anything, it could be a war with yourself, an enemy, a girlfriend or boyfriend – it's about being forced to step your game up. That's definitely a big theme. I've got a lot of demons, and making records is one way to deal with them."

Better Than Ezra - Cry In The Sun

Better Than Ezra - Cry In The Sun Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Deluxe
Released: 1995

Cry In The Sun Lyrics

You clean out your room, and under your bed
Lay a picture long forgotten

With a hand to your head, you sigh out loud
As the memory rushes over - and buries you
Summer rain-storm, but the shed was dry
With a girl from Carolina

And you held her so tight
For the warmth that the rain denied
As the time has slowed to a flash
So alive, listen to them when they say
Cry In The Sun

When the devil beats his wife
If you cry, cry, cry in the sun
Hope I never see the price of my freedom...yeah

We danced and sang out
And traced the moon
As it crawled across the night sky
And covered in dew, a lovers' pact
'Well here's to now and don't look back'

And oh, how I've tried
To heed the words written here
Cry in the sun
Where the devil beats his wife
If you cry, cry, cry in the sun
Hope I never see the price of my freedom..ooh yeah

For everyone, yeah
If there's a person, place, or time
That brings you back and makes you feel alive
Before your reason clouds your eyes
Well you could rule the world if you wanted to...yeah

Well I hear you're livin' far away
And that life's treated you well
You know that we were young and this picture's old

But I still can hear you say
Through the pounding of the rain
And oh, if you try
Tell me, can you hear them say
Cry in the sun

When the devil beats his wife
If you cry, cry, cry in the sun
Hope I never see the price of my freedom
Hope I never see the price of my freedom
Oh yeah

Writer/s: GRIFFIN, KEVIN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Cry In The Sun

The lyric, "When the Devil beats his wife" is a reference to an old southern term. "The Devil beating his wife" occurs when it's raining but the sun is out.

Soulfly - Master of Savagery

Soulfly - Master of Savagery Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Savages
Released: 2013

Master of Savagery Lyrics

Disciple gods of cyanide
Bewailing my final demise
Forever engraved within
Enslaved by my apathy

Master of Savagery
Master...savage

Master of savagery
Master...savage

Dethroned the master, cut his head
The veil of trust is shattered
Forcing social regression
The swallow's ostentation

Master of savagery
Master...savage

Master of savagery
Master...savage

New age dogma darkened forms
In this hell beneath, I rot

Master of savagery
Master...savage

Master of savagery
Master...savage

Certain is suffering
Morbid premonition
Obliterate ourselves
Toxic death corrosion

Writer/s: MASSIMILIANO ANTONIO CAVALERA
Publisher: FINTAGE PUB & COLLECTION B.V.
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Master of Savagery

Soulfly lead singer Max Cavalera has written thousands of guitar riffs, but he says this is one of his favorites. "I really like the groove of the song," he told us . "It's very similar to older Soulfly stuff, like Prophecy, Dark Ages, Soulfly I. It's a really catchy, heavy groove."

This is a track from Savages, the ninth studio album by the Brazilian Metal group. The record was the first to feature drummer Zyon Cavalera, frontman Max's son, in a full-time capacity after the departure of David Kinkade in 2012. Said Max: "I worked for the first time on a full album with my son, Zyon. Before recording the album I first worked closely at home with him in preproduction, and it was great to spend weeks on the songs with Zyon, shaping the sound of the record. Zyon did a great job and he hits really hard just like his uncle Igor."

"It was amazing recording with my son," he added. A whole record! A dream come true for a father whose life is dedicated to metal. 'Savages' is a celebration of all that."

About three minutes into this song, it breaks down to just the bass, then gets - as Max Cavalera says - "super heavy." Max had to refuse/resist the temptation to add vocals. "I was tempted to sing on top of it," he said in our interview. "I even tried once. Then I was like, 'No, let's leave it open, just let the music take control and be just this cool, heavy part on the song.'"

The cover artwork for Savages was created by renowned artist Paul Stottler, who is best known for his work on Sacred Reich's legendary Surf Nicaragua cover.

Max Cavalera explained to Metal Exiles the journey he wanted to take his listeners on the album. "The idea of Savages was that with all of our progress and technology we are all still killing each other, decapitating, blowing up marathons, doing all of these savage acts so at heart we are all still Savages," he said. "A lot of the lyrics are based around that theme even though this is not a concept record. It is almost like there is something wrong with us, like we are born with Savagery in us and we cannot get rid of it."

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rated R
Released: 2000

Feel Good Hit Of The Summer Lyrics

Nicotine, valium, vicadin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol
Cocaine

Writer/s: HOMME, JOSH/OLIVERI, NICK
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

The lyrics are a list of drugs: Nicotine, valium, vicodinmarijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol. Before they get to cocaine, they do utter the word "no."

Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford was recording in a studio nearby, and the band asked him to sing backup on this, which he did. When they showed Halford the lyrics, he said, "A Rock And Roll cocktail, I know this one."

Although this contains no foul language, some radio stations refused to play it and Wal-Mart banned it for a while. They eventually agreed to stock the album without a warning label, since it was already called "Rated R."

In 2007, QOTSA was forcefully removed from a rehab center in California for playing this song. They were going to play a light-hearted show for the patients there, but Josh Homme and his twisted sense of humor decided to open their set with this song, and they were immediately unplugged.

Josh Homme told NME July 24, "All of our records have some loose theme that's put a rope around all the songs and drawn them in tight… Rated R is about paranoia and about paranoia that someone's putting you in a box forever and trying to escape getting out of their box.
'You're free to do what you want as long as you do it in here' - and that is the frustration that your voice means nothing."

Josh Homme recalled to Mojo magazine September 2010: "Nick (Oliveri) and I had gone out to Joshua Tree just before New Years, 2000, and stayed at a place called 29 Palms Inn. Out of that came Feel Good Hit Of The Summer and Quick And To The Pointless. Feel Good Hit was such a great way to start that record. It said, 'Look out, here we come.'"

Homme discussed the experimental elements of Rated R with Mojo:"I used to make mix tapes for my girlfriends and friends - Can next to Bjork and Slayer and Hasil Adkins - and I wanted my own record to be like the mix tapes I was making. On Rated R I wanted to play a love song and a paranoid song and an art song and a heavy song - all on one record. There's this unseeable force wants you to conform, and I was fighting that. We'd try anything we thought was 'wrong'. We'd experiment on anything. On ourselves too. We got ourselves in an otherworldly state."

Both Kerrang and NME made Rated R #1 in their Top Albums of 2000 list. The record also came #2 in Mojo's list.

Sub Focus - Torus

Sub Focus - Torus Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Torus
Released: 2013

Torus Lyrics

Torus

This is the title track of Sub Focus (aka Nick Douwma)'s second album. It's the only song on the set that he penned on his own. He explained to MusicRadar.com : "This began as an intro for the new live show I launched in 2012. I wanted a brand new track to start the show off, and thankfully it worked well and I've used it as an intro ever since."

"The beginning of the song samples the Halt tape," Douma continued, "which is a famous audio recording of a UFO sighting. It's an incredible recording, and the guy has got a real sense of wonder in his voice. I remember years ago, I think it was Photek who used it in a tune - I was inspired to use it as if someone had spotted the Torus disc. It just fit the track name and the concept so well."

The word Torus is used in geometry to describe a ring shaped surface formed by the revolution of a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle.

Slipknot - Vermilion

Slipknot - Vermilion Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Released: 2004

Vermilion Lyrics

She seems dressed in all the rings
Of past fatalaties
So fragile yet so devious
She continues to see it
Climatic hands that press
Her temples and my chest
Enter the night that she came home
Forever

Oh (she's the only one that makes me sad)

She is everything and more
The solemn hypnotic
My dahlia, bathed in possession
She is home to me

I get neverous, perversed when I see her it's worse
But the stress is astounding
It's now or never she's coming home
Forever

Oh (she's the only one that makes me sad)

Hard to say what caught my attention
Vixen crazy, aphid attraction
Carve my name in my face, to recognize
Such a pheromone cult to terrorize

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

(Yeah!)

I'm a slave, and I am a master
No restraints and, unchecked collectors
I exist through my need, to self-oblige
She is something in me, that I despise

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me
I won't let this build up inside of me

She isn't real
I can't make her real
She isn't real
I can't make her real

She isn't real, I can't make her real
She isn't real, I can't make her real

Writer/s: Gray, Paul Dedrick / Root, James Donald / Thomson, Mickael Gordon / Crahan, Michael Shawn / Fehn, Christopher Michael / Wilson, Sidney George / Jordison, Nathan Jonas / Taylor, Corey Todd / Jones, Craig Alan
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Vermilion

Corey (#8) says this song, along with part 2, is about a stalker who's going after a woman. The story is told through his eyes.

Sub Focus - Falling Down

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Album: Torus
Released: 2011

Falling Down Lyrics

Falling Down again
I'll pick you up
Falling down again
I'll pick you up
Falling down again
I'll pick you up
Falling down, down

Falling down

Falling down

Falling down again
I'll pick you up
Falling down again
I'll pick you up
Falling down again
I'll pick you up
Falling down, down

Falling down

Falling down

Writer/s: BRYANT, MACKENZIE / DOUWMA, NICK / HAVELOCK, TOM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Falling Down

This was released as the first single from British electronic musician Sub Focus' second studio album Torus. It was made available on December 14, 2011, as a free digital download through RAM Records and Mercury Records. The track was re-released half a year later as an EP alongside remixes from Nick Thayer, xKore and Sub Focus himself.

The song features soulful vocals from Boston-born and London-raised singer-songwriter Kenzie May.

Sub Focus told the story of the song to MusicRadar.com : "This tune began with the synth chords in the breakdown. This was originally something that I wrote for the track that I did with Chase & Status on their last album called 'Flashing Lights.' I really loved the part, but we decided that it didn't fit, so it was left over. This tune stemmed from there."

Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right

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Album: Moonlight Feels Right
Released: 1976

Moonlight Feels Right Lyrics

The wind blew some luck in my direction
I caught it in my hands today
I finally made a tricky French connection
You winked and gave me your o.k.
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain't nothing like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way

Moonlight Feels Right
Moonlight feels right

We'll lay back and observe the constellations
And watch the moon smilin' bright
I'll play the radio on southern stations
Cause southern belles are hell at night
You say you came to Baltimore from Ole Miss
Class of seven four gold ring
The eastern moon looks ready for a wet kiss
To make the tide rise again

We'll see the sun come up on Sunday morning
And watch it fade the moon away
I guess you know I'm giving you a warning
Cause me and moon are itching to play
I'll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain't nothin' like the sky to dose a potion
The moon'll send you on your way

Writer/s: BLACKMAN, MICHAEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Moonlight Feels Right

This was written by Starbuck keyboardist/vocalist/producer Bruce Blackman. The group formed in Atlanta in 1974, around the talents of Blackman and marimba player Bo Wagner.

This was featured in the Farrelly Brothers 2003 comedy movie Stuck On You, starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear.

When this song was on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 radio show, it was promoted as the first Rock song ever to feature a marimba.