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The Devil Wears Prada - 8:18

The Devil Wears Prada - 8:18 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 8:18
Released: 2013

8:18 Lyrics

Streets dawn with empty light.
Bullets clutter the sidewalk.
The gun trembles in a young man's hand.
The mother visits a grave site.

They ask why we suffer.
Oh God please answer.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
We all remain scared.

I try to remember
You and me together.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
We all remain scared.

It's so abrupt,
The life designed for us.
Reach out, end fear.
Reach out, end fear.

They ask why we suffer.
Oh God please answer.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
We remain scared.

The city mourns another loss.
But we'll pray forever.
Rivers run, mountains peak.
I know You're there.

Writer/s: Andy Trick, Chris Rubey, Daniel Williams, James Baney, Jeremy DePoyster, Mike Hranica, Ziggy Jerome
Publisher: SONGS OF SMP
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8:18

This is the title track of The Devil Wears Prada's fifth album, 8:18. The overriding theme on the record is misery, exploring that mental and emotional state through its various guises. Guitarist Chris Rubey confessed: "If I listen to the title track and I'm in the right mood, I will tear up because of the lyrics and vibe of the song."

Travis - Writing To Reach You

Travis - Writing To Reach You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Man Who
Released: 1999

Writing To Reach You Lyrics

Every day I wake up and it's Sunday
What evers in my eye won't go away
The radio is playing all the usual
And what's a wonder wall anyway?

Because my inside is outside
My right side's on the left side
Cause I'm Writing To Reach You now but,
I might never reach you
I only want to teach you, about you,
But that's not you

It's good to know that you are home for Christmas
It's good to know that you are doing well
It's good to know that you're no longer hurting
It's good to know I'm feeling not so well

Because my inside in outside
My right side's on the left side
Cause I'm writing to reach you now but
I might never reach you
I only want to teach you,
About you, but that's not you
To know it's true, but that won't do

Maybe then tomorrow will be Monday
And whatever's in my eye should go away
Still the radio keeps playing all the usual
And what's a wonder wall anyway?

Because my inside in outside
My right side's on the left side
Cause I'm writing to reach you
I might never reach you
I only want to teach you,
About you, but that's not you
And you know it's true, but that won't do
And you know it's you, I'm talking to

Writer/s: HEALY, FRANCIS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Writing To Reach You

According to Q Magazine's 1001 Greatest Songs, Fran Healy of Travis says he basically borrowed this from Wonderwall by Oasis: "I just changed the rhythm and melody. You can sing Waiting To Reach You over Wonderwall, and vice versa." As an acknowledgment, the song contains the lyric "what's a Wonderwall anyway?"

Drake - Connect

Drake - Connect Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Nothing Was the Same
Released: 2013

Connect Lyrics

Yeah, isn't it amazing how you talk all this shit and we still lack communication
How beautiful our kids will be, girl, I don't need convincing
How every conversation starts with "this time will be different" oh
Oh the idea's fun
Oh the idea's fun
Oh the idea is so fun every time
At least we try for home run every time

Swangin', eyes closed just swangin'
Same city, same friends if you're looking for me
Same city, same friends if you're looking
I'll be here just swangin'
Don't talk to me like I'm famous
And don't assume 'cause I don't expect assumptions babe
I'm just tryna Connect with somethin' babe, yeah swangin' eh

She just wanna run around the city and make memories that she can barely remember
And I'd allow her, talk about pussy power
Yea she just wanna run over my feelings
Like she drinkin' and drivin' in an 18 wheeler and I'd allow her,
Talk about pussy power
She used to say "You can be whoever you want, even yourself"
Yeah, I show up knowin' exactly who I was and never leave as myself
But when it falls apart, I'm always still down
To pick a million tiny little pieces off the ground
'Cause you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

Swangin', eyes closed just swangin'
Same city, same friends if you're looking for me
Same city, same friends if you're looking
I'll be here just swangin' eh
Don't talk to me like I'm famous eh
And don't assume cause I don't expect assumptions babe
I'm just tryna connect with somethin' babe I'll be here just swangin'

I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is
She call and tell me be here before the sun up I be dressed before we hung up
I take Eglinton to 401 east and
Exit at Markham road in the east end
Where all the pretty girls are sleeping
My license been expired I renew it after the weekend
Fuck I know I said that shit the last 7 weekends
Girl I guess procrastination is my weakness
I hate stoppin' for gas this late 'cause this nigga's creepin' and I like how we're creepin'
Summer is comin' know you could feel it
20 on pump whatever I ain't got enough to fill it
Won't knock on your door
My uncle say, "You drive my whip like it's yours"
I got the pedal to the floor
I'm on my motherfuckin' way swangin'

Don't fall asleep on me, hang in there
I'll be there just swangin'
I'll be there just swangin'
I treat you good girl like you're famous
I know I'm late it's always the same shit
But don't fall asleep on me, hang in there
I'm on the road right now swangin, girl

Writer/s: GRAHAM, AUBREY / PALMAN, ANTHONY / SAMIR, KENZA / SHEBIB, NOAH / BIRCHARD, ROSS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Connect

This emotional song finds Drake describing an on-off poisonous relationship with a girl. Despite the fact that she is constantly running around the city partying and communication is a problem, he keeps finding ways to justify staying with her. "That one hits you in the heart," Drake told Rolling Stone. "It's painful and beautiful at the same time."

Drake used to drive around in his uncle's drop top Lexus before he was signed. He refers to this in the lyric, "My uncle say, 'You drive my whip like it's yours.'" The Toronto rapper also discussed this memory on "Started from the Bottom" when he rapped: "And my uncle calling me like 'Where ya at? I gave you the keys told ya bring it right back."

Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke supplied the beat. He also helped create the soundscapes on a couple of Kanye West's Yeezus tracks, "I Am a God" and "Blood On The Leaves." In addition, Mohawke released a self-titled EP as one half of the duo TNGHT with Canadian producer Lunice. The pair lent one of its beats to Lil Wayne for the I Am Not a Human Being Part II track, "Lay It Down."

The Toronto poet Kenza Samir helped Drake write this song. She recalled: "When I texted him, 'Isn't it amazing, how you talk all that s--- and still we lack communication,' he was like, 'Are you talking to me about me right now or is that for the song?'"

Speaking to Vibe Magazine, Drake was asked how he came up with such lines as: "Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around." He replied: "I just have a folder of lines. It's usually from conversations. I'll open up and see the last thing that I wrote down. [Scrolls phone] Like this'll probably never get used: 'I'm not gullible, I just trust you.' Someone must have said that to me. I kinda just write down these lines."

"Who helped me write on 'Connect' is this girl Kenza," Drake added. "She's a great girl and a phenomenal poetry writer. We just sit together and come up with the best way to say things. Actually, me and her did [the lyric] 'love people and use things and not the other way around.' It's cool to get another creative mind in there, just someone who's thinking solely about the words and not the melodies and placement. It's nice to read her poetry sometimes, I'll take from that."

Blackstreet - No Diggity

Blackstreet - No Diggity Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Another Level
Released: 1996

No Diggity Lyrics

You know what
I like the playettes
No Diggity, no doubt
Play on playette, play on playette
Yo Dre, drop the verse

It's going down, fade to Blackstreet
The homies got RB, collab' creations
Bump like acne, no doubt
I put it down, never slouch
As long as my credit can vouch
A dog couldn't catch me ass out
Tell me who can stop when Dre makin' moves
Attracting honeys like a magnet
Giving 'em eargasms with my mellow accent
Still moving this flavor
With the homies Blackstreet and Teddy
The original rump shakers

Shorty get down, good Lord
Baby got 'em up open all over town
Strictly biz, she don't play around
Cover much ground, got game by the pound
Getting paid is her forte
Each and every day, true player way
I can't get her out of my mind
I think about the girl all the time
East side to the west side
Pushin' phat rides, it's no surprise
She got tricks in the stash
Stacking up the cash
Fast when it comes to the gas
By no means average
She's on when she's got to have it
Baby, you're a perfect ten, I wanna get in
Can I get down, so I can win

[Chorus: x4]
I like the way you work it
No diggity, I got to bag it up, bag it up

She's got class and style
Street knowledge by the pound
Baby never act wild, very low key on the profile
Catchin' feelings is a no
Let me tell you how it goes
Curve's the words, spins the verbs
Lovers it curves so freak what you heard
Rollin' with the phatness
You don't even know what the half is
You gotta pay to play
Just for shorty, bang-bang, to look your way
I like the way you work it
Trumped tight all day, every day
You're blowing my mind, maybe in time
Baby, I can get you in my ride

[Chorus: x4]

Cause that's my peeps and we row G
Flyin' first class from New York City to Blackstreet
What you know about me, not a motherfuckin' thing
Cartier wooded frames sported by my shortie
As for me, icy gleaming pinky diamond ring
We be's the baddest clique up on the scene
Ain't you getting bored with these fake ass broads
I shows and proves, no doubt, I be taking you, so
Please excuse, if I come across rude
That's just me and that's how the playettes got to be
Stay kickin' game with a capital G
Axe the peoples on my block, I'm as real as can be
Word is bond, faking jacks never been my flavor
So, Teddy, pass the word to your nigga Chauncey
I be sitting in car, let's say around 3:30
Queen Pen and Blackstreet, it's no diggity

[Chorus: x4]

Writer/s: RILEY, TEDDY / WITHERS, WILLIAM / VICK III, RICHARD / HANNIBAL, CHAUNCEY / WALTERS, LYNISE / STEWART, WILLIAM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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No Diggity

The title is an expression that can have many uses, but generally means "absolutely" or "for sure." In R&B fashion, the lyrics are a suggestive prelude to sex.

The acoustic guitar riff was taken from the Bill Withers song "Grandma's Hands."

The raps on this song, in order of appearance, were performed by Dr. Dre, Teddy Riley and Queen Pen. Riley is a very successful producer, and has developed many innovative sounds used by R&B groups in the '80s and '90s.

This won the 1997 Grammy for Best R & B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

"None of the guys liked 'No Diggity,'" Teddy Riley told Soul Culture. "None of them. They would even say it. That's why I'm singing the first verse. You know how they say they pushed the little one out there to see if it tastes good and see if he would get egged? Well they pushed me out there - and it became a hit. And now they wish they were singing the first verse, so that they can have the notoriety like me. So they trust what I'm saying."

Hype Williams directed the music video, which features Blackstreet rapping in front of a beach house and dancers performing on rain-slicked streets. Williams masterminded the video for another of the era's earworms: Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It."

Dream Theater - False Awakening Suite

Dream Theater - False Awakening Suite Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dream Theater
Released: 2013

False Awakening Suite Lyrics

False Awakening Suite

Dream Theater open their eponymous twelfth album with this three part instrumental, which comprises:

I. Sleep Paralysis.
II. Night Terrors
III. Lucid Dream

It was the first vocal-less track the band had recorded since "Stream of Consciousness" from their 2003 LP, Train of Thought.

Guitarist John Petrucci explained to Ultimate-Guitar.com that the band were trying to set a mood with an instrumental track. "It's kinda like the idea was when we play live and before we hit the stage, we like to have some sort of like you said dramatic piece of music and something cinematic to bring us onstage," he said. "We've used the music from Psycho before and Hans Zimmer. The last tour was a piece from the movie Inception and just stuff that really sets the mood and you know the band's coming onstage. It was kinda like, 'Well, let's write our own. We can do this. How hard could it be?' So we wrote our own cinematic opening and the cool thing is it has real strings on it and it has that cinematic vibe but it's in the style of metal and it's kind of a progressive version of it. It's our spin on that type of opening."

The strings were arranged by Petrucci and keyboardist Jordan Rudess. They were played by a string ensemble, who were conducted by a young protégé of Rudess, Eren Basbug.

Missy Elliott - Lose Control

Missy Elliott - Lose Control Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Cookbook
Released: 2005

Lose Control Lyrics

Music make you Lose Control
Music make you lose control

Lets go
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Here we go now
Here we go now
Here we go now
Here we go now
Watch out now
(music make you lose control)
Misdemeanors in the house
Ciara's in the house
Misdemeanors in the house
Fat man scoop man scoop man scoop

I've got a cute face
Chubby waist
Thick legs n shape
Rump shaking both ways
Make you do a double take
Plan rocker show stopper
Flo fropper head knocker
Beat staller tail dropper
Do ma thing motherfuckers
Ma Rolls Royce Lamborghini
Blue madina always beaming
Rag top chrome pipes
Blue lights outta sight
No me sow it n
Set it n sow it n
Make that money tho it n
Booty bouncing goin' hit

Everybody here
Get it outta control
Get yo backs off tha wall
'cause misdemeanor said so
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody

Everybody

Well ma name iz ciara
4 all you fly fellaz
No 1 can do it betta

She'll sing on acapella

Boy the music
Makes me lose control

We goin' make you lose control
And let it go four you kno
You goin' hit the flo

I rok to the beat till I'm tired (tired)
Walk n the club it?s fiya(fiya)
Get it krunk and wired
Wave ya hands scream louda
If you smoke den fire it up
Bring da roof down
Den holla
If you tipsy stand up
Dj turn it louda
Take somebody by da waist den uh
Now tho it in dey face like uh
Hypnotic robotic
This here will rok yo bodies
Take somebody by da waist den uh
Now tho it in dey face like uh
Systematica static
This hit be automatic

Work wait
Work work work wait
Work work work wait
Work work work wait
Do it right

Hit the floor hit the floor
Hit the floor hit the floor
Hit the floor hit the floor
Hit the floor

Everybody here
Get it outta control
Get yo backs off tha wall
'Cause misdemeanor said so
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody

Everybody

Lets go

Everybody here
Get it outta control

Get yo backs off the wall)
(Missy Elliot)
'Cause misdemeanor said

So
Everybody
Everybody
Everybody

Everybody
Get loose

Put yo back on tha wall
Put yo back on tha wall
Putyo back on tha wall
Put yo back on tha wall

Misdemeanors in da house
Ciaras in da house
Misdemeanors in tha house
(music make you lose control)
We on fire
We on fire
We on fire
We on fire
Now tho it girl
Tho it girl
Tho it girl
Tho it girl
Yeah
Now move yo arm to the left girl
Now move yo arm to the left girl
Now move yo arm to the right girl
Now move yo arm to the right girl
Lets go now lets go now lets go now
Woo lets go
Should I bring it back right now
Now bring it back now
Woo oh
I see you see
Now I'ma I'am do it like see did
Now shake it gurl
Cum on and just shake it girl
Cum on and just shake it girl
Cum on and just shake it girl
Cum on and let it pop right girl
Cum on and let it pop right girl
Cum on and let it pop right girl
Now back it up girl
Back it up girl
Back it up girl
Back it up girl
Wo woo woo
Go go
Bring it to the front girl go go
Bring it to the front girl go go
Bring it to the front girl go go
Bring it to the front girl lets go lets go lets go
Woo!

Writer/s: Elliott, Melissa A / Atkins, Juan / Freeman, Isaac Iii / Hudson, Curtis / Davis, Richard
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, SHAPIRO BERNSTEIN & CO. INC., MASS CONFUSION, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Lose Control

This song, from Missy Elliott's sixth album The Cookbook, is mainly about dancing to the music. Guest performer Ciara told MTV News: "It's about music, how music makes you feel and makes you lose control."

Ciara and Fatman Scoop are featured as guest performers on this track. Elliott also worked with Ciara on "1, 2 Step" for her debut album Goodies. That song earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration but lost to "Numb/Encore" by Jay-Z and Linkin Park.

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee stars in the second part of the music video when Fatman Scoop is repeating verses. This section is not part of the album version of the song. The video won a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, beating Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc.," Jamiroquai's "Feels Just Like it Should," Martina McBride's "God's Will" and Sarah McLachlan's "World on Fire."

Elliott closed her performance at the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show with a bit of this song. The star of the show, Katy Perry, left the stage at this point so she could be strapped into her shooting star contraption and fly around the stadium for her final number.

Dream Theater - Enigma Machine

Dream Theater - Enigma Machine Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dream Theater
Released: 2013

Enigma Machine Lyrics

Enigma Machine

The second instrumental on Dream Theater following "False Awakening Suite," they were the first vocal-less tracks the band had recorded since "Stream of Consciousness" on their 2003 album, Train of Thought.

Guitarist John Petrucci told Ultimate-Guitar.com that it was inconceivable that the band couldn't have made the album without his JP13 guitar. He explained: "In a rock band or a metal band whatever, the guitar sounds kind of dictates the way the album is gonna sound. Because it's a featured instrument and it takes up so much and it will sort of shape the direction and overall sound of the song. If it's really heavy, percussive and aggressive, that's the way the song is gonna sound. It's a very powerful instrument because it dictates the landscape you're setting up. So that guitar and especially the 7-string version of it. I used on a lot of songs on the album. You can hear it on the instrumental 'Enigma Machine' and when that 7-string comes in it's just so heavy and huge. That couldn't have been done with another instrument - it had to sound like that."

Keyboardist Jordan Rudess' main riff came to him in his sleep the night before the band wrote the song. He recalled to MusicRadar.com : "I was running everything in my mind, 'it's gotta be catchy, it's gotta be progressive, there should be a theme,' all of that, and there it was! It reminded me of the riff to a TV show, but it was also Dream Theater-like. I went to the studio and said to John Petrucci, 'I got something, but I don't know it you're going to like it.' I was having a moment of self-doubt. But he really liked it. He added to it, and we went back and forth, and it was extended, and that was that."

An Enigma Machine was an electro-mechanical rotor cipher device used by Nazi Germany for enciphering and deciphering secret messages before and during World War II. In 1939, the British secret service set up the Ultra project at Bletchley Park, for the purpose of intercepting the German Enigma signals. The intelligence gleaned from this source was a substantial aid to the Allied war effort.

The Afghan Whigs - Milez Iz Ded

The Afghan Whigs - Milez Iz Ded Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Turn On The Water
Released: 1992

Milez Iz Ded Lyrics

Milez Iz Ded

This song and its remix, "Rebirth Of The Cool," were written the day Whigs lead singer Greg Dulli learned Miles Davis had died. The lyrics deal with the major issues of Davis' life, especially his alcoholism.

Dream Theater - Behind The Veil

Dream Theater - Behind The Veil Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dream Theater
Released: 2013

Behind The Veil Lyrics

What would possess you to justify
Such dark and twisted ways?
What kind of monster would come to feast
When the devil shows his face?
What does it take for life to change
And a mind to lose control?
Cruelly left you to suffer the blame
After all the lies you told

I am finding courage in my darkest hour
I am bent, not broken
Calling out

Someone save me, look Behind The Veil
Please don't walk away
Someone save me, bring me home tonight
I can't face another day

Can you see the stranger
Hiding in plain sight?
Feeding on the chaos
When the lightning strikes
There's no redemption
There's no being saved
There's no salvation
For a soul depraved

You are finding promise in your finest hour
You are bent, not broken
Calling out

Writer/s: PETRUCCI, JOHN / MYUNG, JOHN / LABRIE, KEVIN JAMES / MANGINI, MICHAEL / RUDESS, JORDAN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Behind The Veil

Keyboardist Jordan Rudess told the story of the song's creation to MusicRadar.com : "The intro was a lot of fun because I got to do my thing," he said. "It started out kind of orchestral, but then we thought that maybe we should go in another direction. People left it up to me somewhat, everybody was pretty busy with some other things, so I started working on a cinematic idea but one that wasn't orchestral; it would be more otherworldly."

"It wasn't going to use violins or trumpets or French horns," Rudess continued. "But it was going to use these other beautiful sounds. I called upon the Alchemy program because it has this Dream Voices collection of sounds. I had such a good time in the studio with Rich, just finding all of these sounds and saying, 'Oh, that's a great one. Let's record that.' And each sound would start to change the music and dictate where things were going. This song allowed me to use the Roli Seaboard, too, so I was able to call up some otherworldly sounds and instruments, as well."

"This song is another good example of what happens very naturally with us." concluded Rudess. "Dream Theater is something of a musical melting pot, so it makes sense and feels right for us to have a lot of different styles happening on top of each other. That feels more right than having something that is just one thing, one approach, throughout."

50 Cent -Candy Shop

50 Cent - Candy Shop Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Massacre
Released: 2005

Candy Shop Lyrics

Yeah! Uh huh! So seductive!

[Chorus]
I'll take you to the Candy Shop
I'll let you lick my lollipop
Go ahead girl and don't you stop
Keep going till you hit the spot, whoa!
(I'll take you to the candy shop)
(Boy one taste of what I got)
(I'll have you spending all you got)
(Keep going till you hit the spot, whoa!)

You can have it your way, how do you want it?
You goin' back that thing up or should I push up on it
Temperature rising, okay, let's go to the next level
Dance floor, jam packed, hot as a tea kettle
I'll break it down for ya now, baby it's simple
If you be a nympho, I'll be a nympho
In the hotel or in the back of the rental
On the beach or in the park, it's whatever you into
Got the Magic Stick, I'm the love doctor
Have your friends teasing you bout how sprung I got you
want to show me you can work it baby, no problem
Get on top, then get to bouncing round like a low rider
I'm a seasoned vet when it come to this shit
After you work up a sweat you can play wit the stick
I'm trying to explain baby the best way I can
I'll melt in your mouth girl not in your hand

[Chorus]

Girl what we do (what we do)
And where we do (and where we do)
The things we do (things we do)
Are just between me and you (oh yeah)

Give it to me baby, nice and slow
Climb on top, ride like you in a rodeo
You ain't never heard it sound like this before
Cause I ain't never put it down like this
Soon as I come through the door, she get to pulling on my zipper
It's like it's a race, who could get undressed quicker
Isn't it ironic how erotic it is to watch her in thongs
Having me thinking about that ass after I'm gone
I touch the right spot at the right time
Lights on or lights off, she like it from behind
So seductive, you should see the way she wind
Her hips in slow mo on the floor when we grind
As long as she ain't stopping homie, I ain't stopping
Dripping wet wit sweat man it's on and popping
On my champagne campaign, bottle after bottle it's on
Now we goin' sip to every bubble now every bottle is gone

[Chorus: x2]

Writer/s: Jackson, Curtis James / Storch, Scott Spencer
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Candy Shop

The lyrics are about oral sex ("Lick the lollipop"). The sexual imagery is pretty blatant, and many radio stations played a heavily edited version.

The intro samples "Love Break" by The Salsoul Orchestra. Rap pioneers Eric B. and Rakim's sampled the song on "Paid In Full."

In the US, this was #1 for nine weeks.

The first ever candy was made in Ancient Egypt where honey was mixed with various fruits, herbs, nuts, and spices. The resulting candy was then used as an offering to the Egyptian gods. (from the book Food for Thought: Extraordinary Little Chronicles of the World by Ed Pearce)

The line "I melt in your mouth girl, not in your hand" is another metaphor for oral sex. It is a reference to advertising slogan for M&M chocolate candy.

Dream Theater -Illumination Theory

Dream Theater - Illumination Theory Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dream Theater
Released: 2013

Illumination Theory Lyrics

[Instrumental]

[II. Live, Die, Kill]

Consider this question
Look deep inside
Deliver a true confession
What are you willing to live for?

Consider this question
Open your eyes
Examine your own reflection
What are you willing to die for?

When your backs’ against the wall
And the times uncertain
Consider this question
No standing by
When flesh and blood are threatened
What are you willing to kill for?

We seek to understand
We cry with hand in hand

The bridges we build to connect
The distance that makes us forget
Hate dividing us, love reminding us
Of our shared humanity

Hope can be a shadow fleeting
I would rather die believing
Capture it all in a final act of faith

We seek to understand
We cry with hand in hand

A story that needs to be told
An answer that begs to found
The beauty we wish to behold
Is never too far away

[III. The Embracing Circle]

[Instrumental]

[IV. The Pursuit Of Truth]

Mothers for their children
Husbands for their wives
Martyrs for the kingdom
Fighting for your life
A soldier for his country
A junkie for the high
Teachers for their students
Vengeance for a crime
Rebels for their freedom
A tyrant for the prize
Cowards for salvation
Money, love, and faith

Noble embrace
Lay down our lives for the cause
Death over shame
Grace before glory

[V. Surrender, Trust & Passion]

To really feel the joy in life
You must suffer through the pain
When you surrender to the light
You can face the darkest days

If you open up your eyes
And you put your trust in love
On those cold and endless nights
You will never be alone

Passion glows within your heart
Like a furnace burning bright
Until you struggle through the dark
You’ll never know that you're alive

Writer/s: MICHAEL MANGINI, KEVIN JAMES LABRIE, JOHN PETRUCCI, JOHN MYUNG, JORDAN RUDESS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Illumination Theory

Dream Theater close their eponymous twelfth album with this epic five part suite, which comprises:
I. Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire
II. Live, Die, Kill
III. The Embracing Circle
IV. The Pursuit of Truth.
V. Surrender, Trust & Passion

Guitarist John Petrucci told Ultimate-Guitar.com how he wrote such a multi-part song with multiple movements. "The first thing you start with is that you know you're gonna do that kind of piece," he said. "You go in knowing, 'OK, this is gonna be an epic piece. It's gonna be 20 minutes long.' You know you have room for parts to develop and grow. Once you do that you can get a good idea of the type of shape of it that you want."

He added: "For example in this case, I knew I wanted us to do an atmospheric breakdown in the center with almost like a ballet-sounding string thing just to be totally, totally different in the middle. If you kinda know that thing you have a little bit of a blueprint."

Petrucci told Ultimate Guitar that he already had the main theme for "Illumination Theory" before he started working on it in earnest. "It was, 'OK, this is going to be the theme. This is happening at the start,'" he said. "Similarly with the ending progression that's repeating, that's something we had worked on at a soundcheck in Asia at one point. As soon as we did that, I'm like, 'This will be used for the ending of a song somewhere on our next album.' So you have an idea and you have these little pins like on a map. It's a matter of shaping what happens in-between those moments."

The song's vibey outro was something that keyboardist Jordan Rudess created at home. He told MusicRadar.com : "I was playing it, these three chords, and I loved it. I didn't know what the guys would think, but I played it for them, and John Petrucci was like, 'That's really cool.' So we decided that it would be a neat surprise at the end. It's piano, guitar and Seaboard. It relaxes things after this enormous trip you've been on. So if you're still listening, if you hang in there, that's how we tag it out."

Rudess told Loud Online about this song's classical music influence. "Well," he said, "I come from a Julliard classical music background, I like pieces where motifs and ideas get developed and changed and can be allowed to breathe and that track's certainly not any sort of standard pop song format in any way, shape or form. I just love the fact that we're just really going for it and there's all these kind of progressive parts where there's interesting counterpoints and harmonic changes going on, and I'm also very fond of the fact that in the middle section of 'Illumination Theory,' there's that whole section that really is very ambient and very electronic-soundscapey which leads into a string ensemble part which was actually done with the help my young protégé Eren BaŠŸbuÄŸ, a young Turkish arranger/conductor who took what I had composed on my keyboard and fleshed it out for a string orchestra. And then the string orchestra came into the studio and he came in and conducted them."

"That piece just has so much to it," he continued. "I love when we get deep and it all gets a bit wild, and I also love that in the midst of all that madness, we really let that middle section to really breathe and slow down and be melodic like a movie score."

PJ Harvey -Memphis

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Album: Good Fortune
Released: 2001

Memphis Lyrics

You breathing into my mouth
I'll take it
I'll take it for you

You want to sing
Then sing it for me
You got something
Left to say

Untie me
We're taking away
Unlikely
Out of time

When you still got
So much to say
I'll write it
A song for you

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling

Oh what a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing

You said
There's a special place
And it's scaring
The shit out of me

In Memphis
On Valentine's day
You wrote it
In a letter to me

Well I wish I had given you more time
To say thank you
My beautiful friend

But sometimes you gotta send it away
To bring it
To bring it back again

But oh what a way to go
So peaceful
He's smiling

Oh what a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing

You'll always
Have open eyes
You'll always
Have a special place

In Memphis
On Valentine's day
Die suddenly
At a wonderful age
We're ready
We're ready to go
When you still got so much to say

Somehow I know
You drank and stole
Receiving just everything

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling

Oh what a way to go
I know that you're smiling

Oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
I'm singing

Oh
What a way to go
I know that
You're smiling
You're peaceful
You're smiling
You're peaceful
You're smiling

I know that
You're smiling
You're peaceful
You're smiling

Writer/s: Harvey, Polly Jean
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Memphis

This song is a tribute to the late Jeff Buckley, who died in 1998.