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Device - You Think You Know

Device - You Think You Know Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Device
Released: 2013

You Think You Know Lyrics

Come on!

Don't hang me, on another problem
I really don't give a fuck if you believe me
I can see that you were not the one to confide in
I cannot abide by you anymore
Can you shut, down the funky vibe and (get)
The fuck up, yeah, better believe me.
You aren't heard anymore
You weren't able to silence, resorted to violence
I've seen it before
Now get your ass out the door
Won't take shit anymore

You Think You Know, but you're horribly blind
You think you know how this story's defined
You think you know that your heart has gone cold inside
Fine

Get off me, you don't know where I've been
I'm all fucked up, better believe me
I didn't care anymore, I opened up the device and
I gave into vice with you, little whore
God damn this, no one could believe that
I am this monster you believe in
There's nothing left anymore
You were the one who decided, our souls were divided
I've heard it before, won't take shit anymore

You think you know, but you're horribly blind
You think you know how this story's defined
You think you know that your heart has gone cold inside
Fine
You think you know, but it's all in your mind
You think you know just whose fate has been signed
You think you know just whose heart has gone cold this time
Mine

Well you can blame yourself
And you just might be right
For there is nothing left
Do you think its time to say goodbye?

You think you know, but you're horribly blind
You think you know how this story's defined
You think you know that your heart has gone cold inside
Fine
You think you know, but it's all in your mind
You think you know just whose fate has been signed
You think you know just whose heart has gone cold this time
Mine

Writer/s: DAVID DRAIMAN, GENO LENARDO
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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You Think You Know

Device is a group that David Draiman put together after Disturbed announced their hiatus. The second single from the Industrial Metal band's eponymous debut album serves as a two-sided statement. Draiman explained in a video interview: "One, it's giving people a heads-up as to what their impressions might have been of what this body of work or this project would be, and kind of giving them an awareness that it is something entirely unique and different in its own right. But from a pure lyrical inspiration it came from a hundred relationships that I've been in in the past, situations where your significant other or your partner in the relationship has their own unique perception of reality."

Blaine Larsen - How Do You Get That Lonely

Blaine Larsen - How Do You Get That Lonely Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Off To Join The World
Released: 2005

How Do You Get That Lonely Lyrics

It was just another story written on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score
It said he was only eighteen, a boy about my age
They found him face down on his bedroom floor
There'll be services on Friday at the Lawrence Funeral Home
Then out on Mooresville highway, they'll lay him 'neath a stone...
How Do You Get That Lonely, how do you hurt that bad
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty, you want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely... and nobody know
Did his girlfriend break up with him, did he buy or steal that gun?
Did he lose a fight with drugs or alcohol?
Did his Mom and Daddy forget to say I love you son?
Did no one see the writing on the wall?
I'm not blamin' anybody, we all do the best we can
I know hindsight's 20/20, but I still don't understand...
How do you get that lonely, how do you hurt that bad
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty, you want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely... and nobody know
It was just another story printed on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score...

Writer/s: RORY LEE FEEK, BLAINE LARSEN, KELLEY LOVELACE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., OLE MM, Universal Music Publishing Group, OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT LP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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How Do You Get That Lonely

This song was written by Rory Lee Feek and Jamie Teachener after Rory got a call from his daughter's school. They told Rory his daughter wanted to come home because her friend's boyfriend killed himself, and they found the body that morning.

A few years after this song was released, Rory started recording with his wife as Joey + Rory. They recorded "Album Number Two," which Rory wrote for Larsen, but was rejected. Another one Rory wrote that Larsen turned down was "A Little More Country Than That," which Easton Corbin recorded in 2009.

George Strait - I Just Want to Dance With You

George Strait - I Just Want to Dance With You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: One Step at a Time
Released: 1998

I Just Want to Dance With You Lyrics

I don't want to be the kind to hesitate
Be too shy, wait to late
I don't care what they say other lovers do
I Just Want to Dance With You

I got a feeling that you have a heart like mine
So, let it show, let it shine
If we have a chance to make one heart of two
I just want to dance with you

[Chorus]
I want to dance with you
Twirl you all around the floor
That's what they intended dancing for
I just want to dance with you
I want to dance with you
Hold you in my arms once more
That's what they invented dancing for
I just want to dance with you

I caught you looking at me when I looked at you
Yes, I did; ain't that true?
You won't get embarrassed by the things I do
I just want to dance with you

Oh, the boys are playing softly, and the girls are too
So am I, and so are you
If this was a movie, we'd be right on cue
I just want to dance with you

[Chorus]

I want to dance with you
Twirl you all around the floor
That's what they invented dancing for
I just want to dance with you

I want to dance with you
Hold you in my arms once more
That's what they intended dancing for
I just want to dance with you

I just want to dance with you

I just wan to dance with you

I just want to dance with you

Writer/s: JOHN PRINE, ROGER FREDERICK COOK
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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I Just Want to Dance With You

This John Prine and Roger Cook penned cut was originally recorded by Prine for his 1986 album German Afternoons. Strait covered the tune in April 1998 for the lead-off single to his album, One Step at a Time. The song became his 34th country #1.

Asked by Billboard magazine why he recorded the song, Strait replied: "I felt it had such a great laid-back melody and groove, if you will, and I also loved the lyrics. Especially the line 'That's what they intended dancing for.' I think I changed it to 'That's what they invented dancing for,' but ended up saying both in the song. It's little things like that-little things that are so simple, but yet so clever-that really make a song."

This was also a hit for Daniel O'Donnell in 1992, reaching #20 in the UK single charts.

Queen - You Take My Breath Away

Queen - You Take My Breath Away Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: A Day At The Races
Released: 1976

You Take My Breath Away Lyrics

Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh take it take it all away
Ooh ooh ooh ooh - ooh take my breath away - ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh You Take My Breath Away

Look into my eyes and you'll see
I'm the only one
You've captured my love
Stolen my heart
Changed my life
Every time you make a move
You destroy my mind
And the way you touch
I lose control and shiver deep inside
You take my breath away

You can reduce me to tears
With a single sigh
(Please don't cry anymore)
Every breath that you take
Any sound that you make
Is a whisper in my ear
I could give up all my life for just one kiss
I would surely die
If you dismiss me from your love
You take my breath away

So please don't go
Don't leave me here all by myself
I get ever so lonely from time to time
I will find you
Anywhere you go, I'll be right behind you
Right until the ends of the Earth
I'll get no sleep till I find you to tell you
That you just take my breath away

I will find you
Anywhere you go
Right until the ends of the Earth
I'll get no sleep till I find you to
Tell you when I've found you -
I love you

Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath, take my breath
Take my breath away.

Writer/s: FREDDIE MERCURY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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You Take My Breath Away

This song was written by Freddie Mercury and is based on the Japanese pentatonic scale. According to Brian May, Japan was a big influence on Queen, as we can hear through songs like "Teo Torriatte" from the same album.

This song is probably about Freddie Mercury's female lover Mary Austin, whom he lived with for 6 years and remained friends with until his death. Austin and Mercury split up in 1980 when Mercury decided he preferred male partners. Upon his death in 1991, Mercury left Austin his house in London.

Freddie Mercury in an interview on Capital Radio: "This one I did myself, I multi tracked myself. So the others weren't used on this for the voices. I played piano and basically, I don't know how we managed to stay this simple you know, with all our over dubs and things. People seem to think that we're over complexed, and it's not true. It depends on the individual track really, if it needs it - we do it. So this is pretty sparse actually by Queen and our standards."

Kate Nash - Fri-End

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Album: Girl Talk
Released: 2013

Fri-End Lyrics

You didn’t treat like a friend yea
You didn’t treat me like a Fri-End
I’ve been sent here onto something, something made for you
Well you ain’t give me the best

You didn’t treat like a friend yea
You didn’t treat me like a fri-end
I’ve been sent here onto something, something made for you
Well you ain’t give me the best

I never noticed
Boy, What you said?
You said some real mean things to me
And I couldn’t be myself

I never noticed
The way you dressed
The way you dressed was more important to you
Than it was to begin my friend

You didn’t treat like a friend yea
You didn’t treat me like a fri-end
I’ve been sent here onto something, something made for you
Well you ain’t give me the best

You didn’t treat like a friend yea
You didn’t treat me like a fri-end
I’ve been sent here onto something, something made for you
Well you ain’t give me the best

I never noticed
Boy, What you said?
You said some real mean things to me
And I couldn’t be myself

I never noticed
The way you dressed
The way you dressed was more important to you
Than it was to begin my friend

You didn’t treat like a friend yea
You didn’t treat me like a fri-end
I’ve been sent here onto something, something made for you
Well you ain’t give me the best

You didn’t treat like a friend yea
You didn’t treat me like a fri-end
I’ve been sent here onto something, something made for you
Well you ain’t give me the best

I even said that you’re cool
(You were cool)
I even said that you’re cool
(You were cool)
I even said that you’re cool
(You were cool)
I even said that you’re cool
(You were cool)

You were cool oh oh oh
You were cool oh oh oh
You were cool oh oh oh
You were cool oh oh oh
You were cool, You were cool
You were cool, You were cool

You didn’t treat like a friend
I am giving you my best
You didn’t treat like a friend yea
I am giving you my best

Tell me to tell you that hmm the way you do
I never told you to find my real love yea
I never told you there’s some way to say

Oh oh oh oh

Cool
You were cool
Cool
You were cool

Writer/s: KATE MARIE NASH
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Fri-End

The first song penned by Nash for her Girl Talk album finds her ruminating on the pitfalls of friendships that are ridden with jealousies and desires. "It's about rubbish friends," she said, "when someone cares more about material things than they do about you."

The sixties-inspired video finds Kate Nash donning numerous wardrobe, hair and makeup changes. The assortment of different looks Kate sports symbolizes how she couldn't be herself, when the friend targeted in the song was unkind to her.

The Jam - The Dreams Of Children

The Jam - The Dreams Of Children Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Snap!
Released: 1980

The Dreams Of Children Lyrics

I sat alone with The Dreams Of Children
Weeping willows and tall dark building,
I've caught a fashion from the dreams of children
But woke up sweating from this modern nightmare, and
I was alone, no one was there
I was alone, no one was there
I caught a glimpse from the dreams of children
I got a feeling of optimism
But woke up to a grey and lonely picture
The streets below left me feeling dirty, and
I was alone, no one was there
I was alone, no one was there
Something's gonna crack on your dreams tonight...
You will crack on your dreams tonight
I fell in love with the dreams of children
I saw a vision of all the happy days
I've caught a fashion from the dreams of children
But woke up sweating from this modern nightmare, and
I was alone, no one was there
I was alone, no one was there
Something's gonna crack on your dreams tonight...
You will crack on your dreams tonight
You will choke on your dreams tonight

Writer/s: PAUL JOHN WELLER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Dreams Of Children

The title was inspired by English writer Clive Barker's horror story The Forbidden, where The Candyman kills to preserve his reputation, so he can haunt "The Dreams Of Children." The book was adapted into a movie in 1992.

This song has a psychadelic Beatles-like interesting backwards intro. Prior to writing the song Paul Weller had been listening to his favourite album, The Beatles Revolver. Weller recalls in the book 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "After we'd finished recording the album Setting Sons, I asked the engineer if he could record the album backwards and put it on cassette. When I listened to it there was one piece of vocal that I really liked and wrote "The Dreams Of Children" around it."

This was released as a double A-side single along with "Going Underground." So many people pre-ordered the single that it entered the UK charts at #1. The previous time this had occurred was Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" in 1974.

Pop Evil - Deal With The Devil

Pop Evil - Deal With The Devil Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Onyx
Released: 2013

Deal With The Devil Lyrics

I can't get away with murder
I am bound to take it further

I took the pills, I've been consumed
I drank the water, I had to choose
I'm still here with a fire burning, burning inside
If you want to burn, light it up, light up, let it rise

When you're high who ya flying for
When you ride who ya riding for
When you toast who ya drinking for
When you play, gotta Deal With The Devil

Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil

I have found comfort in someone
Now I'm bound, empty and hollow

I took the pills, I've been consumed
I drank the water, I had to choose
I'm still here with a fire burning, burning inside
If you want to burn, light it up, light up, let it rise

When you're high who ya flying for
When you ride who ya riding for
When you toast who ya drinking for
When you play, gotta deal with the devil

Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil

Let it rise

When you're high who ya flying for
When you ride who ya riding for
When you toast who ya drinking for
When you play, gotta deal with the devil

Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil
Gotta deal with the devil

Writer/s: DAVE BASSETT, LEIGH KAKATY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Deal With The Devil

This was released as the second single from Pop Evil's third album, Onyx. It acted as the follow-up to their first #1 on the active rock radio chart, "Trenches."

Drummer Chachi Riot said about the song: "Life can be wonderful, but life can also be extremely merciless. How do we deal with these hard times? Who do we have to deal with? Our decisions have consequences."

The song's music video is part two of a three part video trilogy that revolves around addiction and abuse. It goes in reverse order, with "Trenches" being the final installment and the opening part featuring the song "Behind Closed Doors."

Directed by Johan Carlén, the trilogy follows a woman going through a transformation. In the "Deal With The Devil" clip, she shoots up heroin and is confronted by demons.

Throwdown - Hate For The Weak

Throwdown - Hate For The Weak Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Haymaker
Released: 2003

Hate For The Weak Lyrics

Hate For The Weak

This song talks about people who walk around with an attitude, but when you ask them to back up that "Hard" attitude they just back down. They can talk the talk, but they cant walk the walk!

Ray Foxx - Boom Boom (Heartbeat)

Ray Foxx - Boom Boom (Heartbeat) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Single Release Only
Released: 2013

Boom Boom (Heartbeat) Lyrics

Another night another day
I'm moving love in every beat that's played
Suddenly I'm out of place
Distracted by an unfamiliar face
You say come on over
Let me take control
Of you and of what we do
Confused I make every word you say
Confused you got a ride inside my head

I've been poisoned by your eyes tonight
My pulse on overload I've gotta try
I can speak or think I want you as mine
You made my heart beat in and out of time

Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom

Surrounding our hand on my face
I like your subtle touch and your slow pace
Sound of you with sound of me
This perfect loss is happening naturally

You say let me hold you
Let me take control
Of you and of what we do
I can feel your energy inside of me
Electricity explodes from out bodies

I've been poisoned by your eyes tonight
My pulse on overload I've gotta try
I can speak or think I want you as mine
You made my heart beat in and out of time

Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom

I've been poisoned by your eyes tonight
My pulse on overload I've gotta try
I can speak or think I want you as mine
You made my heart beat in and out of time
You made my heart beat in and out of time
You made my heart beat in and out of time
I've been poisoned by your eyes tonight
My pulse on overload I've gotta try
I can speak or think I want you as mine
You made my heart beat in and out of time

Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom
Boom boom boom boom

You made my heart beat
You made my heart beat
You made my heart beat
You made my heart beat in and out of time
Boom boom boom boom

Writer/s: Rachel K Collier, Ray Foxx
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Boom Boom (Heartbeat)

Ray Foxx is a London-based DJ and producer who had a minor hit in with "La Musica (the Trumpeter)," which peaked at #65 in the UK singles chart in 2011. This song finds him linking up with vocalist Rachel K Collier. The Welsh singer was first noticed when her debut solo single, a cover of Jimmy Cliff's "Hard Road to Travel," peaked at #79 on the UK Singles Chart and was used by QualitySolicitors for their 'For Whatever Life Brings' television advert.

The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart

The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Monkey Business
Released: 2005

Don't Phunk With My Heart Lyrics

No, no, no, no, Don't Phunk With My Heart
(Yeah)
No, no, no, no, don't phunk with my heart

I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)
I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)

Girl, you know you got me, got me
With your pistol shot me, shot me
And I'm here helplessly
In love and nothing can stop me
You can't stop me 'cause once I start it
Can't return me once you bought it
I'm coming baby, don't got it (don't make me wait)
So let's be about it

No, no, no, no
Don't phunk with my heart

Baby, have some trustin', trustin'
When I come in lustin', lustin'
Cause I bring you that comfort
I ain't only here cause I want ya body
I want your mind too
Interestin's what I find you
And I'm interested in the long haul
Come on girl (yee-haw)

(Come on)

I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)
I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)

No, no, no, no
Don't phunk with my heart

Girl, you had me, once you kissed me
My love for you is not iffy
I always want you with me
I'll play Bobby and you'll play Whitney
If you smoke, I'll smoke too
That's how much I'm in love with you
Crazy is what crazy do
Crazy in love, I'm a crazy fool

No, no, no, no
Don't phunk with my heart

Why are you so insecure
When you got passion and love her
You always claimin' I'm a cheater
Think I'd up and go leave ya
For another señorita
You forgot that I need ya
You must've caught amnesia
That's why you don't believe

(Uh, yeah, check it out)

Don't you worry about a thing, baby
Cause you know you got me by a string, baby
Don't you worry about a thing, baby
Cause you know you got me by a string, baby

Baby girl, you make me feel
You know you make me feel so real
I love you more than sex appeal
(Cause you're)

That-tha, that tha, that-tha, that girl
That-tha, that tha, that-tha, that girl
That-tha, that tha, that-tha, that girl
That-tha, that tha, that-tha, that girl
That-tha, that tha, that-tha, that girl
That-tha, that tha, that-tha, that girl

No, no, no, no
Don't phunk with my heart
No, no, no, no
Don't phunk with my heart

I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)
I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)
I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)
I wonder if I take you home
Would you still be in love, baby (in love, baby)

Don't you worry about a thing, baby
Cause you know you got me by a string, baby
Don't you worry about a thing, baby
Cause you know you got me by a string, baby

Writer/s: WILL ADAMS, GEORGE JR PAJON, STACY FERGUSON, PRINTZ BOARD, PAUL GEORGE, LUCIEN GEORGE, BRIAN GEORGE, CURTIS BEDEAU, GERARD CHARLES, HUGH CLARKE, KALYANJI ANANDJI, CLEVELAND BELL, VICTOR MAY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, THE ROYALTY NETWORK INC., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, MUSICWORKS INTERNATIONAL
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Don't Phunk With My Heart

The "That-that-that-that girl" part is sampled from the 1988 song "Sally (That Girl)" by Gucci Crew II. The "I wonder if I take you home" part comes from the 1985 song "I Wonder If I Take You Home," which was the first hit for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.

Lyrically, this song mimics the theme of "I Wonder If I Take You Home," which finds a girl (in this case, Fergie), trying to decide if the guy she likes will respect her and stay with her if she sleeps with him.

The beginning sample of the music was copied from a song used in a 1978 Bollywood (the Indian version of Hollywood) movie called Don.

Some radio stations play an edited version: "Don't Mess With My Heart."

This won the 2005 Grammy for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group; it was the Black Eyed Peas' second Grammy.

John Waite - Change

John Waite - Change Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Ignition
Released: 1982

Change Lyrics

People talking
And they're saying that you're leaving
So unhappy
With the way that you've been living

Oh oh oh
We always wish for money
We always wish for fame
We think we have the answers

Some things ain't ever gonna Change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

Look in the mirror
And you see how you've been taken
You won't surrender
But now your heart is breakin'

Oh oh oh
We always wish for money
We always wish for fame
We think we have the answers

Some things ain't ever gonna change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

Do you remember
When you got your lucky break
You're looking back now
And it seems like a mistake

Oh oh oh
We always wish for money
We always wish for fame
We think we have the answers

Some things ain't ever gonna change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

It's only change (change)
It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will never change

It doesn't matter who you are
It's all the same (change)
What's in your heart will stay the same
It doesn't matter who you are

It's all the same (what¹s in your heart)
It's only
It's only
It's only change

Never (it doesn't matter)
You ain't gonna
You ain't gonna change (what's in your heart)
You ain't gonna change

Doesn't matter who you are

Writer/s: ANTHONY LOVATO
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Change

This song was originally recorded by the band Spider, which featured future David Letterman Show band member Anton Fig on drums and Holly Knight on keyboards. The song was written by Knight, who went on to co-write many hits, including "The Best," (Tina Turner) "Rag Doll" (Aerosmith) and "Obsession" (Animotion).

The song first appeared on Spider's second (and last) album, Between The Lines, which was released in 1981 on Mike Chapman's Dreamland Records. Knight told us the story behind "Change": "I was thinking how important it was to keep things real when success starting happening for us. I had seen several musicians let the fame and success go to their head and I thought that all those things shouldn't really change a person because what's inside of you should remain the same. I think I've lived my life by that notion."

This song was pitched to John Waite, who released it as the first single from his 1982 debut solo album, Ignition. Waite recorded the song because he liked the message, it fit his sound, and he thought it had lots of hit potential. Waite was going through a huge transformation at the time: his band The Babys had broken up and he had gotten married. Work on his solo album took him to New York City, where he was away from his wife and his home as he navigated the record industry as a solo act. It was rough waters, as the album - and this single - underperformed (Ignition peaked at #68 in the US and didn't chart at all in the UK). Waite blamed his record company, Chrysalis, for failing to promote the song, and extricated himself from his contract to sign with EMI for his next album. He was vindicated when that next album, No Brakes, produced the hit "Missing You," while "Change" became a fan favorite and found a home on many radio stations' playlists.

This didn't chart when Waite first released the song, but when it was used in the movie Vision Quest, it was re-released and made #54 in America. The soundtrack also featured the #1 Madonna hit "Crazy For You."

The Spider album where this song first appeared contains another song that would also become a hit for another artist: "Better Be Good To Me," which was later a hit for Tina Turner. Holly Knight also wrote that one, this time with help from Spider's producer Mike Chapman.

John Waite changed a few of the verse lyrics from the original version of the song and slowed down the tempo a bit. Holly Knight, who wrote the song, told us: "I have to say that I much prefer John's version. It's much more guitar driven and I love his vocals."

Neil Giraldo, who is Pat Benatar's guitarist, husband and producer, produced this track. Little did he know that the woman who wrote it would provide his wife's most popular song: the next year, Benatar recorded "Love Is A Battlefield," which was also written by Holly Knight.

There's another Knight hit-recipient on "Change" as well: Patty Smyth did the the backup vocals on the track. With her band Scandal, Smyth had a hit with Knight's song "The Warrior" in 1984. Says Knight: "That's six degrees of separation working it's magic right there."

Waite made a video for this song, which was directed by Kort Falkenberg III, who also did Billy Idol's "Hot In the City" clip and Waite's "Missing You." MTV had been on the air for less than a year when the video showed up in their offices. They were craving videos from American Rock musicians, as that's how they envisioned their format, but these were very hard to come by at the time. Waite is British, but he sounds American and the video was very USA - it was shot in Los Angeles with a California model/actress as the female lead. In our interview with John Waite , he said: "'Change' was a brilliant video. Way ahead of its time. We were getting like 10 spins a day on MTV because nobody was making videos. And we'd gone in and made a work of art, really."

The video follows a woman whose star has fallen and is trapped in a cycle of bad decisions. Lines of cocaine (actually powered sugar) appear on a mirror over the lyrics, "Look in the mirror and see how you've been taken." MTV had a problem with this, but the clip's director Kort Falkenberg III called them to explain that the video is actually anti-drug, as Waite is seen knocking over the cocaine-laden mirror and the woman meets her demise in the end when she jumps off the building.

The woman in the video is Tina Gullickson, who joined Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band as a backup singer in 1995.

Slayer - Death's Head

Slayer - Death's Head Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Diabolus In Musica
Released: 1998

Death's Head Lyrics

Death's pointed at your head
Your mind on the trigger pull it
Bludgeon bodies give up their muted horror story
Scene of your rage
Death is not strange
Blood on the walls
You stand alone satisfied

I'll wake the silence in you
I'll shoot the violence through you

Terrified by the thought that you are all alone
Paralyzed by the fact that you are not alone
You're losing your mind, I'm losing control
You're losing your mind, as I bury your world

I'll wake the silence in you
I'll shoot the violence through you

I can't remember yet someone always seems to die
You are the reason why I became the chosen one
I've got the right
God makes no sense
I've got the right
I feel my back against the wall

Death's pointed at your head
Your mind on the trigger pull it
Bludgeon bodies give up their muted horror story

Scene of my rage
Scene of my rage
Death is your name
You're facing your grave

I taste your tears caress your face
I watch you lie insane
Dying for love
Praying to die

I want what's inside you
Dressed in your blood
You wear it well
Dying because I care

Your eyes are wide but you can't see
Rotting my lust away
I'll shoot the violence through you
And wake the part that's dead
I hate the silence in you
I want what's in your head

Writer/s: JEFFERY JOHN HANNEMAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Death's Head

This song is about the thoughts going through someone's head before they are about to kill someone or commit suicide.