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Sub Focus - Turn It Around

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Album: Torus
Released: 2013

Turn It Around Lyrics

I don't know what they're telling you
But I know we can Turn It Around
I know I've hurt you, and I've not been true
But I know I can turn it around

A song of desperation, but I'm not letting go
I'll be with you in the hour, I'll be with you
They said we were too young, to keep our love so strong
You said you want devotion, look no further

I don't know what they're telling you
But I know we can turn it around
I know I've hurt you, and I've not been true
But I know I can turn it around

A song of desperation, but I'm not letting go
I'll be with you in the hour, I'll be with you
They said we were too young, to keep our love so strong
You said you want devotion, look no further

Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so
Keep our love so

It's inside
It's all around you
I'm going to put these arms
All around you

Writer/s: DOUWMA, NICOLAAS DOUWE / OKEREKE, KELE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Turn It Around

Sub Focus (aka Nick Douwma) enlisted the vocal help of Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke for this song. "I wanted to do a track that felt like indie electronica," he told MusicRadar.com . "I'm a big fan of people like Friendly Fires and Passion Pit, so I wanted to incorporate that feel."

"The lead patch is one that you hear quite a bit this days," Douwma added, "it's a retro-sounding synth that's just really simple, quick pitch modulation on a saw wave."

"Kele's vocal was a big part of this song coming together.," he concluded. "It's been a big ambition of mine to work with him for a long time. He's got an amazing, emotive voice that works really well in dance music."

Queen - Don't Try So Hard

Queen - Don't Try So Hard Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Innuendo
Released: 1991

Don't Try So Hard Lyrics

If you're searching out for something
Don't Try So Hard
I you're feeling kind of nothing
Don't try so hard
When your problems seem like mountains
Feel the need to find some answers
You can leave it for another day
Don't try so hard

But if you fall and take a tumble
It won't be far
If you fail you mustn't grumble
Thank your lucky stars
Just savor every mouthful
And treasure every moment
When the storms are raging round you
Stay right where you are
Oh don't try so hard
Oh don't take it all to heart
It's only fools they make these rules
Don't try so hard

One day you'll be a Sergeant Major
Oh you'll be so proud
Screaming out your bloody orders
Hey but not too loud
Polish all your shiny buttons
Dressed as lamb instead of mutton
But you never had to try
To stand out from the crowd

Oh what a beautiful world
Is this the life for me
Oh what a beautiful world
It's the simple life for me

Oh don't try so hard
Oh don't take it all to heart
It's only fools they make these rules
Don't try so hard
Don't try so hard
Don't try so hard

Writer/s: Deacon, John / May, Brian Harold / Mercury, Freddie / Taylor, Roger
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Don't Try So Hard

Freddie Mercury wrote this, but it was credited to the band due to an agreement they had some years before.

The atmospheric noises in the intro are the preset sound of the Korg M1 keyboard each time it is turned on. The notes that the Korg M1 plays are: E A D G B E, which are the notes on any 6 string guitar in Italian tuning. The notes are played one octave higher.

Sam Phillips - Baby, I Can't Please You

Sam Phillips - Baby, I Can't Please You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Martinis and Bikinis
Released: 1994

Baby, I Can't Please You Lyrics

Baby I can't please you I can't please you

Every time you start to criticize
I can see the misery in your eyes
You say I make your pain
You're trying to turn the blame all around you

You take the words I say and make them mean
Everything they don't baby you're obscene
You don't listen you don't hear
You're blinded by the fear that surrounds you

I know you say love when you mean control
You buy the truth and your heart is cold
So you live in shadows

You try to tell the world how it should spin
But you live in terror with the hollow men
Who stun you with their lies
With fever in their eyes as they drown you

Writer/s: SAM PHILLIPS
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Baby, I Can't Please You

The meaning behind this song has caused a bit of confusion over the years. With its politically charged video that alternates the breakdown of a right wing spy with flashes of Rush Limbaugh's face on a TV screen, most fans assume the song was aimed at the conservative radio host. The lyrics even seem to accuse Limbaugh and his contemporaries of a fear-mongering agenda: "You try to tell the world how it should spin, But you live in terror with the hollow men, Who stun you with their lies, With fever in their eyes as they drown you."

But, according to Phillips, the possibility of a political interpretation is just that - a possibility. She said in our interview: "It's not specifically about Rush Limbaugh, but it might be about what's wrong with Rush Limbaugh. But that might also be what's wrong with somebody else who's liberal. I try to make them a little bit more human than specific in that sense, so that 'Baby I Can't Please You' is a broader concept. It could be in a love relationship. It could be in a political relationship. Hopefully there are many levels you can take any of my songs on. That is always my aim."

The music video for this song ends with a quote by Christian author C.S. Lewis: "People in fear are always attempting to gain power... People in love are always willing to give up power."

This song was used in the 1999 TV movie It Came From the Sky (starring Christopher Lloyd, John Ritter and Jo Beth Williams) and also appeared on the Melrose Place: The Music soundtrack in 1994.

Queen - Headlong

Queen - Headlong Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Innuendo
Released: 1991

Headlong Lyrics

And you're rushing Headlong you've got a new goal
And you're rushing headlong out of control
And you think you're so strong
But there ain't no stopping and there's nothin'
You can do about it
There's nothin' you can do
No there's nothin' you can do about it
No there's nothin' you can, nothin' you can
Nothin' you can do about it

And you're rushing headlong you've got a new goal
And you're rushing headlong out of control
And you think you're so strong
But there ain't no stopping no there's nothin'
You can do about it
Yeah

Hey, he used to be a man with a stick in his hand
Hoop diddy diddy - hoop diddy do
She used to be a woman with a hot dog stand
Hoop diddy diddy - hoop diddy do
Now you've got soup in the laundry bag
Now you've got strings, you're gonna lose your rag
You're gettin' in a fight
Then it ain't so groovy when you're screaming in the night
Let me out of this cheap 'B' movie
Headlong down the highway and you're rushing
Headlong out of control
And you think you're so strong
But there ain't no stopping and you can't stop rockin'
And there's nothin' you can, nothin' you can
Nothin' you can do about it

When a red hot man meets a white hot lady
Hoop diddy diddy - hoop diddy do (ho)
Soon the fire starts a raging gets 'em more than half crazy
Hoop diddy diddy - hoop diddy do
Oh, now they start freaking everyway you turn
You can't start walking 'cos your feet got burned
It ain't no time to figure wrong from right
Cause reasons out the window
Better hold on tight - you're rushing headlong
Headlong out of control, yeah
You think you're so strong
There ain't no stopping and there's nothin' you, nothin' you
Nothin' you can do about it at all
Yeah yeah alright go
And you're rushing headlong down the highway
And you're rushing headlong out of control
And you think you're so strong
But there ain't no stopping
There's nothin', nothin', nothin' you can do about it, yeah
Oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh
Ha ha
Headlong
Headlong
Rushing rushing, rushing rushing
Yeah yeah yeah
Rushing rushing, rushing rushing
Headlong
Yeahaw
Headlong

Gnoldaeh gnoldaeh gnoldaeh gnoldaeh
Writer/s: TAYLOR, ROGER / DEACON, JOHN / MAY, BRIAN / MERCURY, FREDDIE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Headlong

Guitarist Brian May wrote this for his solo album but when he listened to Freddie Mercury singing it, he decided to give it away to the band. Then the 4 of them re-wrote it together.

This song is about rushing into things without proper preparation. Rushing into something headlong is like jumping into something head first without thinking about consequences.

Sam Phillips - Pretty Time Bomb

Sam Phillips - Pretty Time Bomb Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Press Any Button
Released: 2013

Pretty Time Bomb Lyrics

Pretty Time Bomb

Sam Phillips was "taking a swing at celebrity culture" with this song, trying to get people to connect with something other than their television sets. She explained in an interview with Patheos.com:

"I think one of the things that I've felt strongly about is not to preach, but to inspire and offer an alternative instead—to say: 'There's something else. Look over here, you might find something else.' Because our culture is so success- and money-oriented, and the music business is, too. I think we all know this in a sense, but we're still on the hamster wheel even though money doesn't guarantee abundance or happiness or joy.

I think art reminds us of this. Being inspired by and lost in a song, painting, poem, story, or performance can be one of the richest experiences in life. It's such a release from all the push for us to buy things and to be what we're not."

The Push Any Button album, inspired by the '50s and '60s era of Pop music, was nearly named after this song until the tragic Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013 prompted Phillips to change her mind. She told Examiner.com about the inspiration behind the current album title: "I was trying to connect it to the 20th Century - when you think about it, there aren't many mechanical buttons to 'push' anymore, as we're living in the electronic age. I feel like these songs were pulled from the jukebox in my mind."

Queen - Innuendo

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Album: Innuendo
Released: 1991

Innuendo Lyrics

One two three four

Ooh ooh

While the sun hangs in the sky and the desert has sand
While the waves crash in the sea and meet the land
While there's a wind and the stars and the rainbow
Till the mountains crumble into the plain

Oh yes, we'll keep on trying
Tread that fine line
Oh, we'll keep on trying
Yeah
Just passing our time

Ooh ooh

While we live according to race, colour or creed
While we rule by blind madness and pure greed
Our lives dictated by tradition, superstition, false religion
Through the eons and on and on

Oh, yes, we'll keep on trying, yeah
We'll tread that fine line
Oh oh we'll keep on trying
Till the end of time
Till the end of time

Through the sorrow all through our splendor
Don't take offence at my Innuendo

Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh
Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh

You can be anything you want to be
Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be
Be free with your tempo, be free, be free
Surrender your ego - be free, be free to yourself

Ooh ooh, yeah

If there's a God or any kind of justice under the sky
If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die
Ha, if there's an answer to the questions we feel bound to ask
Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask
Oh yes, we'll keep on trying
Hey, tread that fine line
(Yeah) yeah
We'll keep on smiling, yeah
(Yeah) (yeah) (yeah)
And whatever will be - will be
We'll just keep on trying
We'll just keep on trying
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
Till the end of time
Writer/s: TAYLOR, ROGER / DEACON, JOHN / MAY, BRIAN / MERCURY, FREDDIE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Innuendo

Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor wrote the lyrics to this song as a tribute to Led Zeppelin. When Robert Plant joined the three surviving members of Queen at Freddie Mercury's memorial concert at Wembley Stadium, they played a full version of this song, which included parts of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and "Thank You."

The music was started off by Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon jamming in the studio in Montreux. From then on Freddie Mercury composed the song and added the long interlude. The melody is Mercury's as well. Lyrics were started off by Mercury but completed by drummer Roger Taylor.

The orchestra in the middle part was completely done with synthesizers; by Freddie Mercury and the producer David Richards.

Yes guitarist Steve Howe played the Spanish guitar solo in the middle because, admittedly, Brian May couldn't do it. Steve dropped by in the studio to say hi to producer David Richards, then Freddie invited him to join them on the track.

This was Queen's third #1 in the UK after "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Under Pressure."

Chris Daughtry performed this song on the fifth season of American Idol. Simon Cowell called his performance "indulgent" and asked why he didn't sing one of the great Queen songs instead.

Sam Phillips - Lying

Sam Phillips - Lying Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cruel Inventions
Released: 1991

Lying Lyrics

If I said I believe my eyes
And science can move my soul
If I said I'm not afraid to die
And I don't need you

I'd be Lying

If I said the way he looks at me
Doesn't make me want to undress
If I said I could leave you now
And go where I could forget

I'd be lying

I've been lying all my life with silence
And I need to find the words to tell you

If I said I don't want what I don't have
And all the answers are enough
If I said I believe in myself
And that's enough

I'd be lying

Writer/s: SAM PHILLIPS
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Lying

In this song, Sam Phillips tries to tell her lover how she feels in a roundabout way: "If I said I could leave you now and go where I could forget, I'd be lying." In our interview with Phillips , she talked about the nuts and bolts of the song: "There were some philosophies going around and some self help that I didn't agree with, so I put that in a song. It was a hodgepodge of that, but more of what the Tin Pan Alley writers call the classic laundry list song: you put a lot of different things in a list. That was an unusual way to say it: 'I'd be lying if I said this, this, this, this, this, and this.' So I guess that would be the craft part of it, the 'behind the machine' part of it."

Tin Pan Alley refers to the influential music publishers and songwriters based in large cities - usually New York - in the mid-19th to 20th centuries.

Elvis Costello was a guest performer - as guitarist - on the Cruel Inventions album.

Phillips re-recorded this song for her digitally released Long Play series. She told the Pop Matters website: "I was never really happy with my performance of it on Cruel Inventions, I thought my vocal was too strident. I wanted a softer approach, vocally, so I thought a stripped down version would be interesting, and I was really happy with how it turned out."

Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister

Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Game
Released: 1980

Sail Away Sweet Sister Lyrics

Hey little babe you're changing
Babe are you feeling sore?
It ain't no use in pretending
You don't wanna play no more

It's plain that you ain't no baby
What would your mother say?
You're all dressed up like a lady
How come you behave this way?

Sail Away Sweet Sister
Sail across the sea
Maybe you'll find somebody
To love you half as much as me
My heart is always with you
No matter what you do
Sail away sweet sister
I'll always be in love with you

Forgive me for what I told you
My heart makes a fool of me
You know that I'll never hold you
I know that you gotta be free

Sail away sweet sister
Sail across the sea
Maybe you'll find somebody
To love you half as much as me
Take it the way you want it
But when they let you down my friend
Sail away sweet sister
Back to my arms again

Hot child don't you know you're young
You got your whole life ahead of you?
And you can throw it away too soon
Way too soon

Sail away sweet sister
Sail across the sea
Maybe you'll find somebody's
Gonna love you half as much as me
My heart is always with you
No matter what you do
Sail away sweet sister
I'll always be in love with you

Writer/s: MAY, BRIAN HAROLD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Sail Away Sweet Sister

Queen guitarist Brian May wrote this, and though he usually played piano on his own songs, this time he asked Freddie Mercury do record it because of his perfect timing and rhythm sense. Mercury sings the middle eight of the song as well, while Brian sings the verses and choruses.

Sam Phillips - Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us

Sam Phillips - Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Don't Do Anything
Released: 2008

Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us Lyrics

Strange things are happening everyday
I hear the music up above my head
Oh the side of my heart has left me again
I hear music up above

Secrets are written in the sky
It looks like I've lost the love I've never found
Tho the sound of hope has left me again
I hear music up above

Standing in the my broken heart all night long
Dark and silky like a friend where love wore off
Looking for the land that's hidden in the cross
Find it's lost

I know, I love you too much
I'll go on alone, to get through

I hear Rosetta singing in the night
Echoes of light that shine like stars after they're gone
And tonight, she's my guide as I go on alone
With the music above

Writer/s: SAM PHILLIPS
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the inspiration for this song, was an influential guitarist and singer of the '30s and '40s who turned the Gospel genre on its head with her infusion of Blues and Jazz with traditional spiritual music. Some of her notable hits were "This Train," "Down By the Riverside" and "Strange Things Happening Every Day." The latter influenced the lyrics of Sam Phillips' song, as she explained in her Songfacts interview:

"'Up above my head, I hear music in the air, there's strange things happening every day.' I was using her to talk about the things that we can't see that happen all around us - the inspiration, the good things that happen to us all the time, and where do those things come from? I think through music and art is how we get to ecstatic experiences. There are other ways, too, but I think for us the familiar ways are through music and art."

Although Phillips penned the song, it was recorded by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for their Raising Sand album in 2007, a year before Phillips' own version was released (the Plant/Krauss collaboration also won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year). As Phillips tells it, she had a conversation with Plant where he told her that Sister Rosetta Tharpe once asked him - in his pre-Zeppelin days - to join her on tour.

Queen - Coming Soon

Queen - Coming Soon Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Game
Released: 1980

Coming Soon Lyrics

Ooh
Oh Oh Oh
I get some headaches when I hit the heights
Like in the morning after crazy nights
Like some mother in law in her nylon tights
They're always
They're always
They're always
They're always
Coming Soon
Coming soon on the outside of the tracks
You take 'em
The same old babies with the same old toys
The neighbors screaming when the noise annoys
Somebody naggin' you when you're out with the boys
They're always
They're always
They're always
They're always
Coming soon
Coming soon on the outside of the track

They're always
They're always
They're always
They're always
Coming soon
Coming soon on the outside of the track
Coming soon
Coming soon on the outside of the track
Yeah yeah yeah

Writer/s: TAYLOR, ROGER MEDDOWS /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Coming Soon

Written by Queen drummer Roger Taylor, this was the first song they recorded using synthesizers (June 1979). The keyboard in question belonged to Roger and was an Oberheim OBX.

Amos Lee - Johnson Blvd

Amos Lee - Johnson Blvd Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song
Released: 2013

Johnson Blvd Lyrics

Johnson Blvd

This is the opening track of Amos Lee's Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song album. The folksy singer-songwriter approached the record differently to his previous releases, working with Jay Joyce (Eric Church, Little Big Town, Cage the Elephant), and his road band at the producer's Nashville studio. "We started with "Johnson Blvd.' It was the first song we cut," Lee told The Boot . "It was a tune that I felt was real necessary for the album, 'cause I like the way it's written, I like the way we approach it as a band."

The song is a prime example of Joyce's influence on Mountains Of Sorrow. "It came out beautiful. I mean, I'm really happy with it," said Lee. "It's one of the better teamwork effort things between me, the band and Jay, because everybody played their parts really beautifully, and then he went in afterwards, he and Jason went in and really sculpted things and made movements out of the parts that weren't as poignant."

Lee told Billboard magazine that he thought back to his youth and a bygone era when he penned the song. "As someone who gets a chance to travel all the time, you get to see stuff and how quickly things evolve," he said. "As a writer, I like to take on other people's minds for a while. I was thinking about how my dad used to work around Brownsville, Texas, and I started to think about what progress is and how people define progress today."

"The beginning of the song outlines the moment that where someone who has always felt comfortable in their skin realizes things are about to change forever, and the bulldozers are on the way," continued Lee. "Somehow, it's always been that way. It's never been any different. It's just a plight of humanity. It's hard to hold fast to the things you love, because tomorrow comes anyway."

Queen - Dragon Attack

Queen - Dragon Attack Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Game
Released: 1980

Dragon Attack Lyrics

Ooh yeah, ha, yeah
Take me to the room where the red's all red
Take me out of my head -'s what I said
Yeah, ow
Hey, take me to the room where the green's all green
And from what I've seen it's hot, it's mean
Eh

Gonna use my stack
It's gotta be Mack
Gonna get me on the track
Got a dragon on my back

Take me to the room where the beat's all round
Gonna eat that sound yeah yeah yeah yeah
Take me to the room where the black's all white
And the white's all black, take me back to the shack shack

She don't take no prisoners
She gonna give me the business
Got a dragon on my back
Hey it's a Dragon Attack

Get down, I said so, wooh
Hey hey, alright, yeah, oh yeah eah eah eah

Low down - she don't take no prisoners
Go down - she gonna give me the business
No time - yeah chained to the rack
Show time - got a dragon on my back
Show down - go find another customer
Slow down - I gotta make my way
From me yeah oh
Oh wrong way yeah
Oh wrong way
Hey
Alright
Oh look out

Writer/s: MAY, BRIAN HAROLD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Dragon Attack

Most of the track evolved from a jam session the band had at the studio while they were bladdered. That's how the basic loop of bass and drums came out. Brian May then added lyrics and melody, the latter being surprisingly similar to "We Will Rock You" (compare "Buddy you're a boy make a big noise playing in the street" with "Take me to the room where the red's all red take me").

It came as quite the musical surprise in the running order on the album - both that the rock-orientated May wrote it (as opposed to the more funk/disco leaning Deacon and Mercury) and after the very traditionally Queen "Play The Game." However, it does work on easing the listener in to "Another One Bites The Dust".

"Dragon Attack" is one of several songs on The Game which best demonstrates Queen's experimentation with more minimal recording techniques during this period. They had a new producer, Mack, and were working in high-tech studios in Munich, away from their regular producer Roy Thomas Barker (with whom they had developed their hugely complex sound) for the first time.

Brian May spoke about this new approach: "Yeah, that was when we started trying to get outside what was normal for us. We turned our whole studio technique around in a sense, because Mack had come from a different background from us. We thought there was only one way of doing things, like doing a backing tracks: We would just do it until we got it right. If there were some bits where it speeded up or slowed down, then we would do it again until it was right. We had done some of our old backing tracks so many times, they were too stiff. Mack's first contribution was to say, 'Well you don't have to do that. I can drop the whole thing in. If it breaks down after half a minute, then we can edit in and carry on if you just play along with the tempo.' We laughed and said 'Don't be silly. You can't do that.' But in fact, you can. What you gain is the freshness, because often a lot of the backing tracks is first time though. It really helped a lot. There was less guitar on that album, but that's really not going to be the same forever; that was just an experiment."