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Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away

Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: You Could Have It So Much Better
Released: 2005

Walk Away Lyrics

Innocence for pride, crush the end within my stride
Said I'm strong now I know that I'm a leader
I love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
Mascara bleeds a blackened tear
Oh, and I am cold, yes I'm cold, but not as cold as you are
I love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
I love the sound of you walking away, walking away, hey, hey

Why don't you Walk Away? Why don't you walk away?
Why don't you walk away? No buildings will fall down
Why don't you walk away? No quake will split the ground
Why don't you walk away? The sun won't swallow the sky
Why don't you walk away? Statues will not cry
Why don't you walk away? Why don't you walk away?
Why don't you walk away?
Why don't you walk away?

I cannot turn to see those eyes, as apologies may rise
I must be strong and stay an unbeliever
And love the sound of you walking away, you walking away
Mascara bleeds into my eye
Oh, and I'm not cold, I am old, at least as old as you are

And as you walk away, oh as you walk away
And as you walk away, my headstone crumbles down
As you walk away, the Hollywood winds will howl
As you walk away, the Kremlins falling
Oh, as you walk away, Radio 4 is static
As you walk away, oh, as you walk away
Oh, as you walk away, oh, as you walk away, hey

The stab of stilettos
On a silent night
Stalin smiles and Hitler laughs
Churchill claps Mao Tse-Tung on the back

Writer/s: OLIVER GEOFFREY LINDOP GREEN, MATTHEW CAHILL, JOE BRIAN CONABOY, JOEY COTTLE, JAY SCOTT, J J THOMPSON, JOSHUA SYRUS ZARE
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Walk Away

The band's vocalist Alex Kapranos told Sunday Times Culture magazine: "I don't see the point of going, 'I'm really, really in love.' There's nothing more boring than that." More interesting he said, are "The subtleties, the unexpected twists that emotions can bring when characters collide. Walk Away is an example of that. You're trying to impose almost a hard, cold face on extreme emotions, and finding yourself undermined by your own passion."

Franz Ferdinand used Kraftwerk's UK #1 single "The Model" as the basis for this song. Alex Kapranos is one of the German band's most vocal supporters. He once said: "Forget about Dylan, Bowie, the Beatles, The Stones and Elvis. The men who made modern pop music sound the way it does today are called Kraftwerk."

Arctic Monkeys - Stop the World I Wanna Get Off With You

Arctic Monkeys - Stop the World I Wanna Get Off With You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
Released: 2013

Stop the World I Wanna Get Off With You Lyrics

Open Sesame. (We've places to go)
We've people to see. (Let's put 'em on hold)
There's all sorts of shapes, that I bet you can make
When you want to escape say the word

Well I know that getting you alone isn't easy to do
With the exception of you I dislike everyone in the room
And I don't wanna lie, but I don't wanna tell you the truth
Get the sense that you're on the move
And you'll probably be leaving soon, so I'm telling you

Stop the world 'cause I wanna, get off, with you
Stop the world 'cause I wanna, get off, with you.

Eyes the colour of, (Water left in mud)
Icing sugar dust. (Crazy green flashes)
It's a funny thing, that I cannot explain
Don't you know the train keeps a-rolling?

Stop the world cause I wanna, get off, with you
Stop the world cause I wanna, get off, with you.

Well I know that getting you alone isn't easy to do
And I don't wanna lie, and I don't wanna tell you the truth
And I know we got places to go, we got people to see
Think we both oughta put 'em on hold and I know you agree

Stop the world 'cause I wanna, get off, with you
Stop the world 'cause I wanna, get off, with you.

Writer/s: ALEX TURNER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Stop the World I Wanna Get Off With You

The Arctic Monkey's single "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?"concerns drunken booty calls. However, its even more wordily-titled B-side takes a much more romantic tack as Alex Turner sings about a man who wants to drop everything else in his life to go somewhere alone with his lover. The song was released onto Arctic Monkeys official YouTube channel on August 30, 2013.

Marillion - Gazpacho

Marillion - Gazpacho Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Afraid Of Sunlight
Released: 1995

Gazpacho Lyrics

Saw you walking on your velvet lawn
Is it lonely on the moon?
You took a dive and swallowed all you could
Did you drink too much too soon?
Nothing left for you to fight about
And no one wants to see you try
The nearest neighbours are a mile away
Does the ocean hear you cry?

Punching at the sky
They say the King is losin´ his grip again
They said you´re bullet proof, they said you feel no pain
It seems the hero is misunderstood again

Is it love or is it surgery
Makes her seem so ill at ease
As she´s begging you to please calm down
In her silk Armani on her knees

Did you carry out those threats I heard
Or were you only playing macho?
And the stains on her Versace scarf
Were they really just Gazpacho?

They say the King is watching his back again
They say the King is losing his grip again
Raging like a bull to an empty ring
D´you think they will forgive a hero anything?

Now the ring is just a band of gold
And your wife needs police protection
While you´re sparring with the journalists
You´re trying to win back her affection
Is this what it means to be a man
Boxing up all your emotion
So now she´s gone and you´re alone at last
You can tell it to the ocean

They say the King is losing his grip again
They say the King is countin´ his numbered days
You never lost a fight in your whole life
You never had no trouble sleepin´ through the night
The bottle and the doctor get you through the day
The boys who run the house´ll make it all okay
You think they will forgive a hero anything
Maybe Hollywood
But maybe then again

Now the ring is just a band of gold
Drive the road

Writer/s: STEVEN THOMAS ROTHERY, MARK KELLY, PETER TREWAVAS, IAN MOSELY, JOHN HELMER, STEVE HOGARTH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Gazpacho

Gazpacho is a kind of tomato soup. In this song, Steve Hogarth sings:

Did you carry out those threats I heard
Or were you only playing macho?
And the stains on her Versace scarf
Were they really just Gazpacho?

This is a vague reference to the O.J. Simpson trial, which was the big news story around the time the song was written. In the trail, the American football star was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and a waiter named Ronald Goldman. Despite blood evidence pointing to Simpson, he was found not guilty in a trial that garnered massive news coverage.

Gazpacho never factored into the case, but it's a great word to sing, letting Hogarth flex his vocals a bit.

Steve Hogarth wrote the lyrics with John Helmer, an author he often collaborated with. In addition to the Simpson case, the movie Raging Bull, starring Robert de Niro as a tormented boxer, was an inspiration. The line, "Now the ring is just a band of gold" is something Helmer came up with, referring to how life in a boxing ring gave way to marriage.

Musically, Hogarth says the band was "trying to capture the spirit of early Yes" on this track. The bass is out front in the mix, which suited Marillion bass player Pete Trewavas just fine. "This is the perfect song for a bass player to show off in," he wrote in press materials. "It has the pounding verses and lovely high runs in the choruses. I remember us writing this and getting the verses together. I instantly started playing the heavy Rickenbacker type bass line for the verse and wonder if I would get away with it."

The bit at the beginning which sounds like John Lennon was taken from a film called John Lennon: A Journey In The Life, where the actor Bernard Hill speaks his words. The passage used comes from Lennon's 1980 Playboy interview, where he said, "I would find myself seeing hallucinatory images of my face changing and becoming cosmic and complete."

Arctic Monkeys - I Want It All

Arctic Monkeys - I Want It All Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: AM
Released: 2013

I Want It All Lyrics

Blind faith
Heartache
Mind games
Mistakes
My sweet fireball
My sweet rigmarole
I Want It All
I want it all

Old dogs
New tricks
Can you feel it?
Space age country girl
Stone cold miracle
I want it all
I want it all

And then suddenly it hit me it's a year ago
Since I drank miniature whiskey and we shared your coke
Ain't it just like you to kiss me and then hit the road
Leave me listening to the stones
2000 light years from home

Shoo-wop, shoo-wop
Shoo-wop, shoo-wop
Shoo-wop, shoo-wop

Shoo-wop, shoo-wop
Shoo-wop, shoo-wop
Shoo-wop, shoo-wop

Shoo-wop, shoo-wop
Shoo-wop, shoo-wop
Shoo-wop, shoo-wop

I want it all
I want it all
I want it all
I want it all

Writer/s: ALEX TURNER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I Want It All

The Arctic Monkeys have a formula for creating their tunes, which includes making the sound and then penning the lyrics afterwards. Vocalist Alex Turner told NME about the creation of this song: "It was quite early on, that one," he said. "We were messing around with this four-track cassette recorder, and he (Jamie Cook) was playing this riff, so we recorded five minutes of that and I wrote melodies and lyrics over the top. That became a formula, almost - we recorded instrumentals on this four-track and then I'd sit with my headphones on and write."

The song was debuted by the band on the UK XFM radio station on September 2, 2013.

This borrows backing vocals from Marvin Gaye's "'Sexual Healing."

The White Stripes - Take, Take, Take

The White Stripes - Take, Take, Take Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Get Behind Me Satan
Released: 2005

Take, Take, Take Lyrics

Take, Take, Take

Along with "White Moon," this is one of two songs on Get Behind Me Satan where Jack White envisions meeting Rita Hayworth for the first time. Hayworth was a glamorous actress who died in 1987; White was intrigued with her at the time and had pictures of her all over his Detroit home where the Get Behind Me Satan album was recorded. White is probably making a statement on idolatry and the trappings of fame.

Jack White told Guitar World (February 2006) about the title of the album: "The album title is consciously ambiguous. It can either mean 'Get out of my way, Satan!', or 'Get behind me, Satan and help me out!" Rock and blues are both so powerful, and there is always something both good and evil lurking in that power. Both have been called 'the devil's music.' Take for example, 'If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day' by Robert Johnson. I don't think he's fooling around. When you write songs, you become a conduit for all kinds of energy. I may think the inspiration is coming out of me, but I'm not so sure sometimes. It makes me question what power is driving certain things. It's hard to talk about because you can sound a little ridiculous."

Arctic Monkeys - Fireside

Arctic Monkeys - Fireside Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: AM
Released: 2013

Fireside Lyrics

I can't explain but I want to try
There's this image of you and I
And it goes dancing by in the morning and in the night time

There's all these secrets that I can't keep
Like in my heart there's that hotel suite and you lived there so long,
It's kinda strange now you're gone

I'm not sure if I should show you what I've found
Has it gone for good?
Or is it coming back around?
Isn't it hard to make up your mind?
When you're losing and your fuse is Fireside

There's all those places we used to go
And I suspect you already know
But that place on memory lane you liked still looks the same
But something about it's changed

I'm not sure if I should show you what I've found
Has it gone for good?
Or is it coming back around?
Isn't it hard to make up your mind?
When you're losing and your fuse is fireside

And I thought I was yours forever
Maybe I was mistaken but I just cannot manage to make it through the day
Without thinking of you lately

I'm not sure if I should show you what I've found
Has it gone for good?
Or is it coming back around?
Isn't it hard to make up your mind?
When you're losing and your fuse is fireside

Writer/s: ALEX TURNER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Fireside

This was the one AM track that wasn't recorded in California. Alex Turner was asked by Q magazine if the LP will serve as the group's "big LA record." He replied: "It's funny you should ask, because our label boss heard the song 'Fireside' and told me it's the most Californian song I'd written."

"And of course, that was the one I'd written in London. What I realize now is that, whatever we try, it always sounds like the Arctic Monkeys."

Former Coral member Bill Ryder-Jones contributed additional guitar to this tune. Alex Turner said to Q magazine of the guitarist. "He got us out of a corner there with 'Fireside.' I kept spoiling it with my sheddery and he came in with his guitar. He's a melancholy solo specialist!"

Q magazine told Alex Turner that the song sounds quite romantic. Turner replied: "'Fireside' is the same song as 'Do I Wanna Know?' in terms of what it's saying,. They've both got a sort of 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' quality. It's just how you tell 'em."

Daft Punk - Around The World

Daft Punk - Around The World Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Homework
Released: 1996

Around The World Lyrics

(Around The World, around the world)

Writer/s: THOMAS BANGALTER, CHRISTO GUY MANUEL DE HOMEM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Around The World

The entirety of the lyrics are the phrase "Around the world" repeated 144 times.

Michel Gondry directed the video. He has quite an imagination, and for this song, he had different characters representing different sounds in the song all moving around a circle.

Among the characters are four disco girls moving up and down a set of stairs, symbolizing the ascending/descending bass guitar. Gondry recalled to NME: "Chic always makes me dance. When I did the video for 'Around The World' I built the stairs for the dancers because every time I hear the bassline from 'Good Times' I picture a little guy going up and down the stairs."

Daft Punk are the French duo of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter. They recorded a track with the English band Stereolab called "Cindy So Loud," which was described as "Daft Punk" (meaning they didn't like it) by the British music magazine Melody Maker. This provided the name for the band. Their first album, which includes this track, was called "Homework" because they recorded it in Bangalter's home studio.

Arctic Monkeys - Knee Socks

Arctic Monkeys - Knee Socks Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: AM
Released: 2013

Knee Socks Lyrics

You got the lights on in the afternoon
And the nights are drawn out long
And you're kissing to cut through the gloom
With a cough drop coloured tongue
And you were sitting in the corner with the coats all piled high
And I thought you might be mine
In a small world on an exceptionally rainy Tuesday night
In the right place and time

When the zeros line up on the 24 hour clock
When you know who's calling even though the number is blocked
When you walked around your house wearing my sky blue Lacoste
And your Knee Socks

Well you cured my January blues
Yeah you made it all alright
I got a feeling I might have lit the very fuse
That you were trying not to light
You were a stranger in my phonebook I was acting like I knew
'Cause I had nothing to lose
When the winter's in full swing and your dreams just aren't coming true
Ain't it funny what you'll do

When the zeros line up on the 24 hour clock
When you know who's calling even though the number is blocked
When you walked around your house wearing my sky blue Lacoste
And your knee socks

The late afternoon
The ghost in your room that you always thought didn't approve of you knocking boots
Never stopped you letting me get hold of the sweet spot by the scruff of your
Knee socks

You and me could have been a team
Each had a half of a king and queen seat
Like the beginning of mean streets
You could be my baby

You and me could have been a team
Each had a half of a king and queen seat
Like the beginning of mean streets
You could be my baby

You and me could have been a team
Each had a half of a king and queen seat
Like the beginning of mean streets
You could be my baby

You and me could have been a team
Each had a half of a king and queen seat
Like the beginning of mean streets
You could be my baby

When the zeros line up on the 24 hour clock
When you know who's calling even though the number is blocked
When you walked around your house wearing my sky blue Lacoste
And your knee socks

When the zeros line up on the 24 hour clock
When you know who's calling even though the number is blocked
When you walked around your house wearing my sky blue Lacoste
And your knee socks

Knee socks
Knee socks

Writer/s: ALEX TURNER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Knee Socks

Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme sings on both this tune and another AM track, "One For The Road." Homme produced half of Arctic Monkeys' 2009 album Humbug, and vocalist Alex Turner lent backing vocals to QOTSA's ...Like Clockwork track "If I Had A Tail." Turner told BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe that Homme's appearance on the album was both casual and potentially unusual. "The Josh thing was very much a case of one of us returning a back scratch to the other," he said. "He came down and sort of got us out of a little rut. It's just fun, it's friends, extended family now - [they] came round, had a fun night. His contribution to our record is really exciting, it's probably my favorite. The 30 seconds that he's in there is just, I dunno, it's like something that I've never heard before."

Turner told NME about Homme's contribution to this song: "I think he sounds a bit like Bowie. It's my favourite bit of the record, that breakdown; that 30 seconds where it all goes weird," he said. "What's most interesting about it is how accidental it was - I'd sung on the new Queens record a few weeks previous, and we were kind of in a rut a little bit, in this dark rooms. So Josh came down, Nick (O'Malley, bass) made cocktails and we just hung out for the night. We got him to sing on 'One For The Road' and then we were playing him 'Knee Socks,' because we'd just been working on it. We were thinking about putting someone on that section, possibly to do the bit that the three of us were originally doing, which is this really fast R&B bit. But then he heard it and then he said, 'I've got this really great idea for a counter-melody background thing,' and he went and did that and it suddenly became this whole other thing that you never excited it to be. I think it kind of makes the tune. Suddenly, we were out of the rut and re-energised - Josh saved the day!"

Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving

Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Travelling Without Moving
Released: 1996

Travelling Without Moving Lyrics

Get down, right on
Get down

I know all we're doing is traveling without moving hey hey
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving
Can't stop, no
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving hey hey
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving

Speed freak
Faster than a speedin' bullet,
Slow down, if I don't
If I don't I might just lose it
Looked up
You've got me honey
Locked up under heavy brakin' yeah yeah
You know I've got to hang on
Drive too fast I might be last oh yeah

I know all we're doing is traveling without moving
Oh yeah
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving
Whoa yeah
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving
Oh yeah
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving
Whoa yeah

I know all we're doing is traveling without moving
Oh yeah
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving
I know all we're doing is traveling without moving

Writer/s: WALLIS BUCHANAN, SIMON KATZ, JASON KAY, DERRICK MCKENZIE, TOBY SMITH, STUART ZENDER
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Travelling Without Moving

Written by lead singer Jay Kay, this song starts with him accelerating up until fifth gear in a 1994 Lamborghini Diablo SE30.

Jay Kay was branded a hypocrite by some critics for using the Ferrari-inspired logo that adorned the Travelling Without Moving album cover (with the group's Buffalo Man mascot standing in for the familiar black horse), undermining the environmentally conscious Emergency on Planet Earth album.

But the frontman is unapologetic about his addiction to sports cars. "People say, 'Jay you've got fourteen cars, how unenviromentally friendly.' But you can't drive them all at once. Even if I'm driving one, there's thirteen that somebody else can't because they're mine," he reasoned in a 2001 Esquire interview. At the time, his collection included numerous Ferraris, an Aston Martin DB5, two Mercedes 4×4s, a 1960s Mercedes convertible and an Audi RS4.

If your spell-checker flagged the song and album title, you're probably American; most English-speaking countries spell "Traveling" with two Ls ("Travelling").

Example - All the Wrong Places

Example - All the Wrong Places Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Live Life Living
Released: 2013

All the Wrong Places Lyrics

I don't know where we are
But can you bring me to here again?
I don't know why we've come
But something in me will never fear again
Toe to toe
We all stand tall
Row by row
All eyes glow
Like a rabbit in the headlights
Get your head right
Start a new life shiver in the moonlight
You must embrace it cause' if not you waste it
You're looking for love in All the Wrong Places
All the wrong places

Hold out your hand for more
What do you stand for?
I know, I know, I know the wrong places
Hold out your hand for more
What do you stand for?
I know, I know, I know

Toe to toe
We all stand tall
Row by row
All eyes glow
Like a rabbit in the headlights
Get your head right
Start a new life shiver in the moonlight
You must embrace it cause' if not you waste it
You're looking for love in the wrong places

I don't know why we've come
But something in me will never fear again
Like a rabbit in the headlights
Get your head right
Start a new life shiver in the moonlight
You must embrace it cause' if not you waste it
You're looking for love in the wrong places

All eyes glow
Like a rabbit in the headlights
Get your head right
Start a new life shiver in the moonlight
You must embrace it cause' if not you waste it
You're looking for love in the wrong places
All the wrong places

Hold out your hand for more
What do you stand for?
I know, I know, I know the wrong places
Hold out your hand for more
What do you stand for?
I know, I know, I know

Writer/s: ALFIE BAMFORD, ELLIOT JOHN GLEAVE, STEPHEN BENEDICT HILL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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All the Wrong Places

This is the first single by the British singer, songwriter and producer Example, off his fifth studio album. It was the first track Example released after leaving Ministry of Sound and signing to Epic Records, an imprint label of Sony Music Entertainment UK.

Example penned the song with the Hard Dance English producer Technikal, who has also created Electro and Psychedelic trance-tinged material. Technikal was voted second-best producer of the year at the 2006 Hard Dance Awards.

Remixes of "All The Wrong Places" come courtesy of Jack Beats, Calyx and TeeBee, Starkillers and Quintino.

Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said

Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Plans
Released: 2005

What Sarah Said Lyrics

And it came to me then
That every plan
Is a tiny prayer to father time

As I stared at my shoes
In the ICU
That reeked of piss and 409

And I rationed my breaths
As I said to myself
That I'd already taken too much today

As each descending peak
On the LCD
Took you a little farther away from me
Away from me

Amongst the vending machines
And year old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye

It sung like a violent wind
That our memories depend
On a faulty camera in our minds

And I knew that you were truth
I would rather loose
Than to have never lain beside at all

And I looked around
At all the eyes on the ground
As the TV entertained itself

Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous paces bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round
And everyone lifts their head
But I'm thinking of What Sarah Said

That love is watching someone die

So who's gonna watch you die

Writer/s: BENJAMIN GIBBARD, NICHOLAS HARMER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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What Sarah Said

Sarah is an acquaintance of lead singer Ben Gibbard. The narrator is the one that is dying. His wife is standing with him waiting for his inevitable death and he is saying that he knew death would come for one of them at some point. She shows her love by standing with him, and he asks her, "who's gonna watch you die?" because he will already be gone.

This song very nearly didn't make the album. Ben Gibbard said on his record label's website: "It stewed for a year and a half."

Gibbard (from his record label's website): "The song was inspired by a friend. She was walking with her husband one day and just burst into hysterical tears because she realized that one day one of the two of them would have to watch the other die."

In an article in Paste magazine, Gibbard wrote: "I feel that songwriters are held to a different standard than almost any other type of writer - some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like 'What Sarah Said': I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die. I've been in hospital waiting rooms before, waiting for a doctor's appointment, and I got a sense of the general vibe of the room - not a joyous place - and I decided to set a song there."

Jay-Z - F.U.T.W.

Jay-Z - F.U.T.W. Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Magna Carta Holy Grail
Released: 2013

F.U.T.W. Lyrics

Just let me be great, let me be great
I feel like mothafuckin' Cassius Clay right now, Genius!
Don't be good my nigga, be great
After that government cheese, we eating steak
After the projects, now we on estates
I'm from the bottom, I know you can relate

Fuck up the world
Let's fuck up this world
Fuck up the world
Me and destiny got a date

Martin had a dream, Hov got a team
My chain already heavy, don't let me get a ring
Parades down Flatbush, Confetti on my fur
Turn right in Red Hook, niggas heavy on the curb
See most my niggas died early twenties or late teens
I'm just trying to come from under the thumb of this regime
1% of a billion more than niggas ever seen
Still they wanna act like it's an everyday thing, clean

Fuck up this world
Fuck up this world
Fuck up this world
Fuck up the uh

High Yellow sky dweller and the rose gold
Legend of the summer in the Rose Bowl
Came through Pasadena in the low low
Just to show respect to the cholos
Feelin' like a stranger in my own land
Got me feeling like Brody in Homeland
I just want a shot to show my genius
Standing on the top hold my penis
America tried to emasculate the greats
Murder Malcolm, gave Cassius the shakes
Wait, tell them rumble young man rumble
Try to dim your lights tell you be humble
You know I'm gon shine like a trillion watts
You know a nigga trill as Michael Jackson socks
Sendin' light out to Compton and the hundred blocks
Lil bastard boy, basking on top

Fuck up this world
Let's fuck up this world
Let's fuck up the world
Let's fuck up this world
Fuck up the uh

Sipping D'USSE boy this ain't your daddy yak
He in a Cadillac; me? I'm in the Maybach
This ain't grey sweat suits and white tube socks
This is black leather pants and a pair of Stance
Socks is my synopsis is clear
Got stripclubs feeling like Oxford, I swear
Teacher teacher, I'm trying to unteach ya
All the shit they taught y'all, they got you all in the bleachers
When you front row at the Knicks game, those the Spike Lees
You front row everywhere, you in the H.O.V.'s
Jordan 1's and dungarees
And that's just the half of my warpath
Make a million another million let my niggas make a million
'til we all check a billion, shit it's just the way I'm feeling
We have yet to see a ceiling, we just top what we top
Cause the bars don't struggle and the struggle don't stop

Let's fuck up this world
Let's fuck up this world
Let's fuck up the world
Let's fuck up the world
Let's fuck up the world
Fuck up this world

Writer/s: Sean Corey Carter
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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F.U.T.W.

The song title stands for 'F--k Up This World.' It finds Jay spitting about rising from nothing referencing along the way such African-American icons as Martin Luther King, Spike Lee and Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali 's "slave name").

Jay namechecks Damian Lewis' character Brody from the US drama Homeland when he raps: "Feel like a stranger in my own land. Got me feeling like Brody on Homeland..." Speaking to Esquire, Lewis said about Hova's reference: "It's one of the coolest things that's ever happened to me. My natural habitat is quite a long way from, you know, a gangster rapper. So the fact I've somehow straddled popular culture to find myself name checked... From the RSC... To the Jay Z."