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Enya - May It Be

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Album: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Original Soundtrack
Released: 2001

May It Be Lyrics

May It Be an evening star
Shines down upon you
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh! How far you are from home

Mornie utulie (Darkness has come)
Believe and you will find your way
Mornie alantie (Darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now

May it be the shadow's call
Will fly away
May it be your journey on
To light the day
When the night is overcome
You may rise to find the sun

Mornie utulie (Darkness has come)
Believe and you will find your way
Mornie alantie (Darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now

A promise lives within you now

Writer/s: SHORE, HOWARD / ENYA, / RYAN, NICHOLAS JOHN / RYAN, ROMA SHANE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song was featured at the end of the 2001 movie Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. Some of the verses are in the fictional language Sindarin, which author J.R.R. Tolkien invented for his Lord of the Rings series.

This was nominated for Best Song at the Oscars but lost to Randy Newman's "If I Didn't Have You" from Monster's Inc. (thanks Cindy - Houston, Texas for above 2)

Steely Dan - Deacon Blues

Steely Dan - Deacon Blues Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Aja
Released: 1977

Deacon Blues Lyrics

This is the day of the expanding man
That shape is my shade
There where I used to stand
It seems like only yesterday
I gazed through the glass
At ramblers, wild gamblers
That's all in the past

You call me a fool
You say it's a crazy scheme
This one's for real
I already bought the dream
So useless to ask me why
Throw a kiss and say goodbye
I'll make it this time
I'm ready to cross that fine line

[Chorus]
I'll learn to work the saxophone
I play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
And I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

My back to the wall
A victim of laughing chance
This is for me
The essence of true romance
Sharing the things we know and love
With those of my kind
Libations
Sensations
That stagger the mind

I crawl like a viper
Through these suburban streets
Make love to these women
Languid and bittersweet
I'll rise when the sun goes down
Cover every game in town
A world of my own
I'll make it my home sweet home

[Chorus]

This is the night of the expanding man
I take one last drag
As I approach the stand
I cried when I wrote this song
Sue me if I play too long
This brother is free
I'll be what I want to be

Writer/s: BECKER, WALTER CARL / FAGEN, DONALD JAY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Deacon Blues

This song has the curious chorus line of:

They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

At the same time, the University Of Alabama was a football powerhouse, winning the National Championship in 1973 and losing just one game in each of their next two seasons under the direction of their famous coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Alabama is known as "The Crimson Tide," a grandiose name that Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen found amusing.

The "Deacon" is often thought to be the Wake Forest University "Demon Deacons," whose football team struggled for much of the '70s, winning just 7 games from 1972-1975. According to Fagen, however, that name came from Deacon Jones, a star football player with the Rams and Chargers who got a lot of attention in the media because of his aggressive play and outsized personality. The name fit well into the song, with "Deacon" matching up sonically with "Crimson."

The song is about a guy who Becker describes as a "Triple-L loser." He told The Wall Street Journal: It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life."

Fagen added: "Many people have assumed the song is about a guy in the suburbs who ditches his life to become a musician. In truth, I'm not sure the guy actually achieves his dream. He might not even play the horn. It's the fantasy life of a suburban guy from a certain subculture. Many of our songs are journalistic. But this one was more autobiographical, about our own dreams when we were growing up in different suburban communities—me in New Jersey and Walter in Westchester County."

When asked about the line, "They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, they call me Deacon Blues," Donald Fagen told Rolling Stone magazine: "Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, 'You mean it's like, 'They call these cracker a--holes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' and I said 'Yeah!' He said, 'Cool, let's finish it.'"

The Scottish rock group Deacon Blue, who enjoyed seven Top 20 UK hits between 1988 and 1994, took their name from this song.

Regarding the opening line, "This is the day of the expanding man," Donald Fagen cites the 1953 sci-fi novel The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, as an influence. The book finds the main character "expanding" is mind and thinking of all the possibilities in his life.

When our hero is "ready to cross that fine line" in this song, that's the line between being a loser and being a winner, a line that according to Becker he has tried to cross before, but without success.

Musicians on this track are:

Lead Vocals, Synthesizer: Donald Fagen
Bass: Walter Becker
Drums: Bernard Purdie
Electric Piano (Fender Rhodes): Victor Feldman
Guitar: Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour
Tenor Saxophone: Pete Christlieb
Backing Vocals: Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews, Venetta Fields

The 12-second intro on this track is one of the most distinctive openings in rock. It was created by having guitarist Larry Carlton and piano player Victor Feldman play the same chords, which were layered together with drummer Bernard Purdie's cymbals.

When this song was near completion, Becker and Fagen decided they wanted a sax solo, and they had a very specific sound in mind: the tenor sax that played going to commercial on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. They tracked down the sax player in the Tonight Show band, Pete Christlieb, who recorded his part after a taping of the show. There are many tales of musicians being asked to do take after take during a Steely Dan session, but Christlieb was done in 30 minutes, and it was his second take they used. His part, and the rest of the horns, were arranged by Tom Scott.

Common - War

Common - War Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Nobody Smiling
Released: 2014

War Lyrics

Yeah, U.N.I.Verse
At War
U.N.I.Verse (when you and I verse)
At war motherfucker
We gonna do this Chi-town style (verse at war)
Illadelph, you know how we get down
You know the business (Illtown illanoid)
Bringin it straight to your chest (comin through with the iller category)
Yessah, hah, yeah (preacher man with the Com)
Break it down one two (we about to drop a bomb, check it)

[Chorus: x2]
When you and I verse at war (U.N.I.Verse at War)
And your verse at core, for what you thought before
Steppin up into a zone you should never explore
The next level or, level of the whole conceptor

Check it, rappers
Get on the mic talk about cars and clothes
Sounding like hoes
Ain't been exposed to the foes of most disciples
I'm from the state that is Ill, the rap son of man
Rotated down to Phil, to say what I feel
Get it off my burnt chest, my word becomes flesh
War, going on between the West and the East
Of the land, niggaz don't own a piece
Grease is the word, Murray slides some pimp oil to me
My lady friend sneaks my beer in the movie
Throw your hands in the air, if you the true and living
Beware, the new world order, the devil's new religion
Sent my homey to the number two division
Sellin bootleg movies, got my VCR on a evasive maneuver
Be that as I chooses, drinkin tropical it's just sittin
At a table with sophisticated bitches
Nah that ain't nothin I would call my mother
Nor do I call every nigga my brother
Gotta have Black Thought, it's sorta be like Malik
So don't Question a Brother, to the Roots I get deep

Yo, enter the last era
Your scholarship into the world of politics
And mascara, we operate within this artificial op-era
I bring hip-hop terror like the Fuhrer
The Ace Ventura into the horror
Laboratory laborer, venture beyond the border
I'll struc-ture a style destroy your whole aura
Plus you're a-drenalin'll rise before your eyes
And mortalize, my image hit the skies
Deceive the devil in disguise
My music I parenthesize
Represent the wise, do this be how we enterprise
Kid no compromise (yeah, yeah) I'm thinkin' fast like drama
Dyin I wear your mind away like Alzheimer
I pull a mic up out my bomber big up to Bahama
The A-O this year we leavin' 'em in trauma
Then after me, I plan to leave behind, the legacy
Or history of the family, the fifth dynasty
For humanity, to bear witness to this
Del-val-syllable stylist
You know the time kid

[Chorus x2]

Yo, the general flows, kids compose on tablet
Expose how they was average and they thoughts not rapid
Here comes the hot package, through your block like traffic
The rock was typed graphic now watch the mic blast it
Shootin' at the stars with emphatic rap static
See the mirror shatter from thoughts, I'm bustin' back at it
The Lieuten-ant, the ele-phant, sippin automatic
Mic, rippin asiatic, architects out to have it
The turn of the century, the planet's like a penitentiary
Exaggerated, niggaz is livin' highly medicated
I Used to Love but now she violated
Hip-hop holocaust and camps, old champs are concentrated
They outdated and incarcerated
Loved and appreciated hated and very debated
For every career created was eliminated
And that's the way the balance of yin and yang related

As the block is de-vine
Niggaz swing on in a safari
Wild niggaz, like I'm high on latari
Some let the block block they mind if they could see what I see
Get out the city for a sec be at the places I be
Hey, I'ma be back on the deck, opening
Business in places for you to cash your check
My, neck of the woods ain't all good ain't all bad
You can live in the burbs, and still get had
The sad part about it niggaz had houses on the lake
They tryin' to move us out, the land we ain't appreciate
For peace we skate, crackers we roll or player hate
Call each other 'cause cause of how we relate
I see way too many Cadillacs with dope man plates
Through the wind and blow-ups, is how niggaz communicate
Harmonizing through beeper and reefer
The city got my peoples in a sleeper, talk is getting cheaper

[Chorus x4]

Writer/s: LEWIS, MEL / COLLINS, TARIK L. / LYNN, LONNIE RASHID
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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War

The first song to be made available from Common's Nobody Smiling album finds the rapper reflecting on the violence in his home city of Chicago that has been making headlines for the past few years. He spits:

"Put ya flames in the air for the deceased and the
Young soldiers who never got to become older
Dogtagged in the body bag
Police kept the knot he had."

Common explains in an interview segment that plays out at the song's fade: "We came up with this concept; Nobody's Smiling was really a thought that came about because of all the violence that was going on in Chicago. It happens in Chicago, but it's happening around the world in many ways. It may not be to the numbers that's happening in Chicago, but it's happening in the inner-cities all over America. It's really a call to action."

The song was produced by Chicago beatmaker No I.D, who helmed Common's first three albums, before hooking up with the former G.O.O.D. Music member again for 2011's The Dreamer/The Believer.

Trip Lee - I'm Gone

Trip Lee - I'm Gone Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rise
Released: 2014

I'm Gone Lyrics

I'm Gone Song Chart

Trip Lee explained the story behind this song to Artist Direct : "I think everybody, no matter where they are, feels some sense of the things they do which they know are wrong but try to get away from but can't. Part of it is saying, 'Man, I want to get away from the things I know I shouldn't do.'"

"Even more specifically, I'm thinking of the enemy and evil, which tries to pull me in. I'm writing that to the devil, 'I know you want to pull me in these directions. I hear what you're saying, but I don't believe you. You're lying, and I don't need that.' We all make decisions off things we know is the truth. That's a call, which a lot of people can relate to. I don't want to be deceived by these lies anymore. I want to live the way I was made to live."

Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand

Hootie & the Blowfish - Hold My Hand Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Cracked Rear View
Released: 1995

Hold My Hand Lyrics

With a little love and some tenderness
We'll walk upon the water
We'll rise above the mess

With a little peace and some harmony
We'll take the world together
We'll take them by the hand

'Cause I've got a hand for you, oh
'Cause I wanna run with you

Yesterday, I saw you standing there
Your head was down, your eyes were red
No comb had touched your hair

I said, get up, and let me see you smile
We'll take a walk together
Walk the road awhile, 'cause

'Cause I've got a hand for you
I've got a hand for you
'Cause I wanna run with you
Won't you let me run with you, yeah

(Hold My Hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to a place
Where you can be
(Hold my hand)
Anything you wanna be because
I wanna love you the best that
The best that I can

See I was wasted, and I was wasting time
'Til I thought about your problems
I thought about your crimes

Then I stood up, and then I screamed aloud
I don't wanna be part of your problems
Don't wanna be part of your crowd, no

'Cause I've got a hand for you
I've got a hand for you
'Cause I wanna run with you
Won't you let me run with you

(Hold my hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to the promised land
(Hold my hand)
Maybe we can't change the world but
I wanna love you the best that
The best that I can, yeah

Let me walk, oh won't you let me, let me
(Hold my hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to a place where you can be
(Hold my hand)
Anything you wanna be because

I oh no, no, no, no, no
(Hold my hand)
Want you to hold my hand
(Hold my hand)
I'll take you to the promised land
(Hold my hand)
Maybe we can't change the world but
I wanna love you the best that
The best that I can
Oh, best that I can

Writer/s: SONEFELD, JIM / FELBER, DEAN / BRYAN, MARK / RUCKER, DARIUS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hold My Hand

The band performed this in their early years when they played a lot of colleges in the South Carolina area, and a shorter version of the song was released on cassette they put together in 1993 called Kootchypop, which they sold at shows. This version had very little background vocals and few instruments. When Atlantic Records signed the band, they had them re-record the song and released it as their first single.

David Crosby, famous for his work with Crosby, Stills, and Nash, sang backup on this and some other songs on the album. Crosby is known for his ability to harmonize.

This song got a lot of airplay and helped make the Cracked Rear View album (named for a line in the John Hiatt song "Learning How To Love You") the bestseller of 1995 in the US. The single was released shortly before the album came out, and it was a slow build: The group made appearances on The Tonight Show and The Late Show With David Letterman in 1994, but their first US tour was as the openers for Big Head Todd & the Monsters.

It was in February 1995 when "Hold My Hand" reached its peak chart position, as Hootie & the Blowfish filled a niche of mellow pop that wasn't being served by the grunge and gangsta rap that was prevalent at the time.

Frontman Darius Rucker told The Boot that this was the first Hootie song he heard being played on the radio. He recalled: "The first time I heard a Hootie song, Dean Felber - our bass player for Hootie - and I were driving in his car and 'Hold My Hand' came on the radio - first time we had heard it on the radio. We were in Columbia, S.C. It came on the radio, and we were listening to it and about halfway through the song, he reached over and he turned it [up], and we just started giggling.

That was in early 1994. My heart raced. For me, it was a moment where I thought, 'Wow! This is radio... not just some college radio, we're on pop radio!' We had been playing for nine years! It thought this might really be starting to happen. I thought we might be played on the radio. I didn't think we'd get played on the radio like we eventually did. That was a great day! You never forget the first time you hear your first song on the radio - that's hard to forget."

The group did a special version of this song for the kid's TV show Sesame Street about how children should hold a grownup's hand when they cross the street. (thanks, Lisa - Bowling Green, KY)

Hootie & the Blowfish suffered a bit of a backlash from overexposure, but they were really cool in 1995. Even MTV thought so, and gave them Best New Artist Video for "Hold My Hand" at their Video Music Awards that year. Still questioning the cool? They also performed the song with Al Green in December, 1995 at the Billboard Music Awards, where Cracked Rear View was named Album of the Year.

Stone Temple Pilots - Tomorrow

Stone Temple Pilots - Tomorrow Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Rise
Released: 2013

Tomorrow Lyrics

These endless days are wait for me
Tearing my heart that breaks for you
I'm coming home Tomorrow

Though you're not lying next to me
I hear your song that calls to me
I'm coming home tomorrow
Back in your arms

Tomorrow's just a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day, a lonely day away

The summer's gone and I can see
The season's end is set me free
I'm coming home tomorrow
Back in your arms

Tomorrow's just a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day,
A lonely day away

Tomorrow I'm coming home
Tomorrow I'm coming home
I'm so tired and so alone

It's like a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day,
A lonely day away

Writer/s: DeLeo, Robert Emile / DeLeo, Dean / Kretz, Eric / Bennington, Chester C
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Tomorrow

Chester Bennington explained to Artist Direct that his lyrics for this song are about that last day on tour before coming home: "For me, I'm gone for long periods of time," he said. "It could be anything from five days to five weeks. When you're on tour and you're not with your family, the first week-and-a-half flies by pretty quickly. You get that adrenaline and excitement of the tour. Then, it slows down to real time, which is still not bad. It's that last day before coming home that seems like it takes forever. It's like the lowest point for me. As I'm traveling so much, the last day is the worst and most depressing time. It just doesn't seem to go by fast enough."

"Really, what it comes down to is the love I have for my wife and children," Bennington continued. "When you're disconnected from that, you get a little bummed out. 'Tomorrow' is literally about the feelings I get on that last day before coming home."

Soul Coughing - Lazybones

Soul Coughing - Lazybones Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Irresistible Bliss
Released: 1996

Lazybones Lyrics

When all the limbs are numb and clean,
And you're in transit, dream to dream,
I'll drift there to meet you, Lazybones.

When all the world has lain and sank,
And money sleeps inside the banks,
I'll drift there to meet you, layzbones.

Cameraman sways to remember how the eye dances,
Drunkenness is a hand-held
Scrambling down Delancey
I come stumbling;
Well I hear you had to take a shine
And firing at random, I hear the rays fell upon mine.

Cool you, Miss Amaze, with a handful of water
Trucks encircling, bearing down, coming louder.
If I could stay here, under your idle caress
And not exit to the world and phoniness and people.

When all the noise has left your head
Will someday you rise off the bed?
I'll be there to lift you, lazybones.

Writer/s: DEGLIANTONI, MARK/DOUGHTY, MICHAEL/GABAY, YUVAL/STEINBERG, SEBASTIAN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Lazybones

At a Mike Doughty "Question Jar" show in Nashville on November 11, 2007, the Soul Coughing frontman was asked about the meaning of "Lazybones." He replied: "It's about a guy who does heroin that falls in love with a girl who's drunk, and they don't really click because their drugs aren't really compatible."

Klangkarussell - Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine)

Klangkarussell - Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Netzwerk
Released: 2013

Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) Lyrics

I've walked through the valleys of the wilderness in time
Only to find out
That you have love in places I can't describe, yeah
I need you
It's the sunrise

I just wanted to let you know
I love you
Don't ever let go
'Cause the sun don't shine when your love's 'round mine's
And I'll never
Be without you

Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun

Singing the sun don't shine
The sun don't shine
The sun don't shine
The sun don't shine without you
Without you

The world is bass and time, your love is mine
But the sun don't shine, the sun don't shine without you
Without you, yeah

When I saw you rise the other day
I felt our worries just seem to melt away
Into you, yeah
Into you, oh yeah

I just wanted to let you know
I love you
Don't ever let go
'Cause the sun don't shine when your love's round mine's
And I can never,
Be without you oh

Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun

Singing the sun don't shine,
The sun don't shine
The sun don't shine
The sun don't shine without you,
Without you

The world is bass and time, your love is mine
But the sun don't shine
The sun don't shine without you
Without you, yeah

Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun
Dancin' to the sun

No no no

Writer/s: Adrian David Held, Tobias Rieser, Will Heard
Publisher: BMG GOLD SONGS,
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Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine)

Klangkarussell is an Austrian Dance and Electronic duo comprising Tobias Rieser and Adrian Held. Their name translates into English as 'Sound Carousel.' This is Klangkarussell's debut single, which was originally a deep house instrumental, that bubbled away on the underground in 2012 before reaching the Top 10 in five European countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland).

A new version of the sun-kissed track was recorded for the English market the following year with husky lyrics laid over the top by British newcomer Will Heard.

Steve Earle - John Walker's Blues

Steve Earle - John Walker's Blues Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Jerusalem
Released: 2002

John Walker's Blues Lyrics

I'm just an American boy, raised on MTV
And I've seen all the kids in the soda pop ads
But none of 'em look like me.
So I started lookin' around for a light out of the dim
And the first thing I heard that made sense was the word
Of Mohammed, peace be upon him

A shadu la ilaha illa Allah
There is no God but God

If my daddy could see me now â?? chains around my feet
He don't understand that sometimes a man's
Got to fight for what he believes
And I believe God is great, all praise due to him
And if I should die, I'll rise up to the sky
Just like Jesus, peace be upon him

We came to fight the Jihad, and our hearts were pure and strong.
As death filled the air, we all offered up prayers
And prepared for our martyrdom.
But Allah had some other plan, some secret not revealed
Now they're draggin' me back with my head in a sack
To the land of the infidel.

A shadu la ilaha illa Allah
A shadu la ilaha illa Allah

Writer/s: STEVE EARLE
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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John Walker's Blues

Earle wrote this from the perspective of John Walker Lindh, an American who converted to Islam and ended up fighting for the Taliban. The song created a great deal of controversy before it was even released. Based on the lyrics, some members of the media, including the tabloid TV show Inside Edition, blasted it for sympathizing with Lindh, although that was not Earle's intention. The New York Post ran the headline: "Twisted ballad honors Tali-Rat."

Responding to the criticism in the November, 2002 edition of Harp, Earle said: "They don't want John Walker to be a human. You know why? Because they couldn't catch Osama bin Laden and we need him. We need a bogey man. You know, we're trying desperately to create one. We've been trying desperately to create one ever since the Soviet Union collapsed. It's the stupidest thing that we – and I have to include myself in it – we are ostensibly a democracy and we are a people and we are a society. But the stupidest thing we ever did was starve the Soviet Union to death because that was the bogeyman for a long, long time. We knew exactly why we were doing what we were doing, we had a straight, consistent story to tell everybody about why we were doing what we were doing. But my problem and the reason I think all these questions need to be asked... As soon as Ashcroft started suggesting that people are less than patriotic when they question anything the administration does, my alarm started going off."

Earle doesn't condone the actions of Lindh, but feels that it could have happened to just about anyone growing up in America. When this was released, Earle's son was 20-years-old, about the same age as Lindh. He says the point of the song is that this could have happened to anyone's kid, and he was trying to humanize him.

The chorus comes from a verse from the Qur'an, "I am a witness, there is no God but God."

Earle recalled to Spin magazine in a 2011 interview: "I wrote that song because no one else was f---ing going to. And I did it because my son Justin is exactly the same age as John Walker Lindh. So I saw a skinny, 20-year-old kid very similar-looking to my own, firstborn son, duct-taped to a f---ing board in Afghanistan. My first thought was, 'Oh my God, he has parents somewhere.' And I respond to some things as a man, some things as a boy, some things as an artist, and some things as a parent. And I responded as a parent. I knew there were going to be repercussions. It was funny, when the whole thing came down, somebody on Fox accused me of doing it to sell a lot of records. I was like, 'Dude, there are a lot of things you can do to sell records in this climate and that ain't one of them.'"

Al Stewart - Old Admirals

Al Stewart - Old Admirals Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Past, Present And Future
Released: 1973

Old Admirals Lyrics

I can well recall the first time I ever put to sea
It was on the old 'Calcutta' in 1853
I was just a lad of fourteen years, a midshipman to be
To make my way in sailing ships of the Royal Navy

By the time that I was twenty-one I'd sailed the world around
Weathered storms in the China seas with the hatches battened down
And made my way by starlight off the coast of Newfoundland
And dined on beer and herrings while the waves blew all around

I live in retirement now
And through my window comes the sound of seagulls
And sets my mind remembering
The evening stars like memories sail far beyond the distant trees
Way out across the open seas
I hear them sing

Oh the wooden ships they turned to iron and the iron ships to steel
And shed their sails like autumn leaves with the turning of the wheel
And I was given captain's rank and soon took under me
The proudest ship that ever sailed for queen and country

Ah, the old queen she passed away with the new born century
And I received my calling up to the admiralty
The sands ran through the hourglass each day more rapidly
As we watched the growing of the fleets of high Germany

So at last the Great War blazed
I waited with the passing days
The call to arms that never came
Writing letters

I may be old now in your eyes
But all my years have made me wise
You don't see where the danger lies
Oh call me back, call me back

But the war it ran its course, they could find no use for me
And I live in the country now, grandchildren on my knee
And sometimes think in all this world the saddest thing to be
Old Admirals who feel the wind, and never put to sea

Now just like you I've sailed my dreams like ships across the sea
And some of them they've come on rocks, and some faced mutiny
And when they're sunken one by one I'll join that company
Old admirals who feel the wind, and never put to sea

Writer/s: STEWART, ALISTAIR IAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Old Admirals

Stewart wrote this after reading a biography of Admiral Lord Fisher, who resigned as First Sea Lord in 1915 after a dispute with Winston Churchill.

Fisher (1841-1920) is regarded by some as second only to Lord Nelson in British naval history. He was born in what was then Ceylon, the son of a British Army officer, enlisted in the Royal Navy aged just thirteen and rose to the position of First Sea Lord, retiring on his 70th birthday. Fisher was recalled after Prince Louis Battenberg (another of Stewart's heroes) was forced to resign at the outbreak of war in Europe on account of his German ancestry. Both these men appear in "Manuscript," the song which can be said to have started historical folk-rock.

The album version of "Old Admirals" runs to 5 minutes 54 seconds; it is also included on the 1996 unofficial fan club release Oceans Of Delphi, in which Stewart tells his audience this was the most uncommercial song possible being about the rise of British sea power immediately prior to the First World War. Fisher, he added, was utterly devoted to the British Empire, and was cast aside and forgotten at the end of his life; the song was an extended metaphor for growing old and unwanted.
Although the first part of this statement is undoubtedly true, Fisher was anything but forgotten in old age. He resigned in May 1915 after a dispute with Churchill, but soon found another post, and on his death he was given an illustrious funeral at Westminster Abbey.
Stewart said on this live recording that "Old Admirals" was probably his personal favorite of the songs he had ever written (up until that time), but he has said the same thing about "Manuscript," the first song he wrote in this new genré, and which bears an even stronger metaphor.

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Big Sean - One Man Can Change the World

Big Sean - One Man Can Change the World Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dark Sky Paradise
Released: 2015

One Man Can Change the World Lyrics

They used to tell me
I hope you learn to make it on your own
And if you love yourself just know you'll never be alone
I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose
I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know
Hope you get the pretty girls, that's pretty and everything
Million dollar cribs havin' million dollar dreams
And when you get it all just remember one thing
Remember one thing
That one man could change the world

All I, all I wanted was a hundred million dollars and a bad chick
Imagine this so much some nights it felt like that I had it
Back on the mattress
Starin' at the ceilin' tryna to connect the dots
But its hard makin' those attachments
I'm talkin' dreamin' so hard, some nights it felt like draft day
You know? My - my step brother used to flip them bags outside the crib like it was trash day
No Kim K, but he bagged yay (Ye)
But when you're getting fast money, slow down, don't crash
With all the drive in the world, swear you still need gas
Look, think about it, close your eyes, dream about it
Tell your team about it, go make million dollar schemes about it
Success is on the way, I feel it in the distance
Used to look up at the stars and be like ain't too much that's different
I be shinin', they be shinin', get your one shot don't you miss it
What you know bout' wakin' up everyday like you on a mission?

I hope you learn to make it on your own
And if you love yourself just know you'll never be alone
I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose
I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know
Hope you get the pretty girls, that's pretty and everything
Million dollar cribs havin' million dollar dreams
And when you get it all just remember one thing
Remember one thing
That one man could change the world

My grandma told me if you write your name in stone you'll never get the white out
I grinded out that black hole then performed up at the white house
Standin' next to Jim Carrey, we traded stories then laughed
I said you not the only one I know got rich wearin' masks
Where I'm from I swear they broke, they need way more than the cast
We need more than what you have
And then we need more than that
But how am I supposed to say I'm tired
If that girl from West Virginia came up in conditions that I couldn't survive
Went to war, came back alive
On top of that became a female black captain
When being black you had to extra extra try
Way before James Brown made us proud
She bought a crib on the same street as Marvin Gaye
Right there on Outer Drive, and she taught me how to drive
And she raised the kids, then the kids' kids, and she did it right
Taught me how to love, taught me not to cry
When I die, I hope you teach me how to fly
All my life you've been that angel in disguise saying

I hope you learn to make it on your own
And if you love yourself just know you'll never be alone
I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose
I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know
Hope you get the pretty girls, that's pretty and everything
Million dollar cribs havin' million dollar dreams
And when you get it all just remember one thing
Remember one thing
That one man could change the world

Writer/s: WEST, KANYE / ANDERSON, SEAN / DEAN, MIKE / STEPHENS, JOHN / JOHNSON, AMARIE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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This soulful ballad testifies to the endless potential one person has for changing the world. Sean invites Kanye West and John Legend along for the rise, with each taking a turn at crooning the hook. "I just lost my grandma," he told MTV News. "So, right before she passed, I wrote this song. A major part of the song is about her. She never got a chance to hear it. It's just an emotional thing."

"It's just a song that comes straight 100 percent from the heart," Sean continued. "I hope people can enjoy it. And I really appreciate John Legend and Kanye West being a part of that."

Sean reflects here on the positive influences in his life, in particular his late grandmother. (She suffered a debilitating stroke and passed away in December 2014). The rapper includes a clip of a recorded phone conversation between the pair at the end of the song. "In a selfish way, it was hard to say goodbye," he told Billboard magazine, "but when I stepped back, I was happy she was free of the wheelchair and didn't have to go through that."

Big Sean's late grandmother, Mildred V. Leonard, was one of the first female black captains in World War II and a pillar in her Detroit community. Sean said: "I hope my grandma is looking down smiling on me right now. Because the struggles she went through to become a female black captain in WW2, one of the first black officers in Detroit, a teacher/counselor, an amazing mom/grandma were too great for this song not to be a single. I'm sure you can relate if you ever had somebody like that who changed your world."

Sean consciously chose not to swear on this specific track. He tweeted: "Know it's hard to imagine me not cursing on a song/single... (Cues up IDFWY, etc lol). But honestly I'm proud to have a song so heartfelt."

This won for Best Video with a Social Message at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, the first VMA for either Sean or Legend. Accepting the award, Sean dedicated it to his late grandmother, saying, "If one person has shown me that one man - meaning male or female - could change the world, it's her."

The video was directed by Andy Hines, who also did Big Sean's "Dark Sky (Skyscrapers)" clip.

Future - Rock Star

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Album: Not Released on An Album
Released: 2014

Rock Star Lyrics

Rock Star

This DJ Clue-produced track finds Future detailing his rise to fame, whilst Nicki Minaj jumps in to spit some swaggering bars about her skills and success.

The song didn't make Future's Honest album due to clearance issues over its interpolation of the classic melody from George Michael's 1984 hit "Careless Whisper," but later made its way onto the internet.

Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

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Album: Born To Run
Released: 1975

Thunder Road Lyrics

The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again, I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside, darling, you know just what I'm here for
So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're alright
Oh, and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
Waste your summer praying in vain
For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now, I ain't no hero, that's understood
All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
With a chance to make it good somehow
Hey, what else can we do now?
Except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair
Well, the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere
We got one last chance to make it real
To trade in these wings on some wheels
Climb in back, heaven's waiting on down the tracks

Oh oh, come take my hand
We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun
Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run
Oh oh oh oh, Thunder Road
Sit tight, take hold, Thunder Road

Well, I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk
And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The door's open but the ride ain't free
And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken
But tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets
They scream your name at night in the street
Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn
You hear their engines rolling on
But when you get to the porch, they're gone on the wind
So Mary, climb in
It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win

Writer/s: Bruce Springsteen
Publisher: DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS
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This was the first track on Born To Run, a crucial album for Springsteen. His first two albums sold poorly, and he was in danger of losing his record deal if he did not produce a hit. With songs like this one about escaping to the open road, he connected with an audience that proved extremely loyal.

He considered this song the "invitation" to the album, with the opening notes being the welcome. "Something is opening up," Springsteen said during his 2005 Storytellers appearance. "What I hoped it would be was the sense of a larger life, greater experience, sense of fun, the sense that your personal exploration and possibilities were all lying somewhere inside of you."

Springsteen took the title from a 1958 Robert Mitchum movie. He did not see the film, but got the idea from a poster for it in a theater lobby.

The vocal sound was inspired by Roy Orbison. Springsteen pays homage to him with the line: "The radio plays Roy Orbison singing for the lonely," a reference to Orbison's 1960 hit, "Only The Lonely."

The name of the girl mentioned at the beginning was changed several times. It had been Angelina and Chrissie before Springsteen settled on "Mary's dress waves."

The original title was "Wings For Wheels." It began as an outtake called "Glory Road."

Cars were very important growing up in New Jersey and show up in many of Springsteen songs. Bruce's first car was a '57 Chevy with orange flames painted on the hood.

This is a concert favorite that Springsteen has performed at many of his shows over the years.

At one point, Born To Run was going to be a concept album spanning the course of a day, with an acoustic version of this starting the album and the full band version closing it.

Springsteen's friend and future manager, Jon Landau, convinced him to record this at The Record Plant in New York instead of the low-budget studio he was using. Springsteen's current manager, Mike Appel, resented Landau's influence and would file a lawsuit that kept Springsteen from recording for 3 years.

Since the band didn't know the song very well, Springsteen used a version with just him at the piano to open a series of shows at The Bottom Line in New York City in 1975. Sponsored by a New York radio station, the disc jockey, Dave Herman, apologized on the air for not playing enough Springsteen the morning after the first show.

On November 3, 1980, Springsteen kicked off his tour to support the album in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For the encore, Bob Seger, who is to Michigan what Springsteen is to New Jersey, joined him onstage to perform this.

Has been performed live many different ways: with the full band, solo with guitar, solo with piano, slowed down, etc. The version on Live 1975-1985 features Springsteen singing over Roy Bittan's piano.

Bruce taped a performance of this that was played at the funeral of James Berger, a worker in the World Trade Center who helped people get out before he was killed when it collapsed. He was a big Springsteen fan and this was his favorite song. Bruce dedicated it to his sons.

This was also the first track on Springsteen's live album Hammersmith Odeon London 1975, which was recorded on November 18, 1975 during Springsteen's first concert in Europe. It was released on DVD in 2005, and on CD the following year. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Bayside - Time Has Come

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Album: Cult
Released: 2014

Time Has Come Lyrics

Time Has Come

The lead single from Cult finds Anthony Raneri challenging himself to rise to the occasion. "It's meant to be more of an uplifting thing," said the singer. "If I want to make something of myself, build a legacy, accomplish something, then I've got to just go do it. The time is now to do something if you ever plan on it."

Anthony Raneri does some ghostwriting, and he wrote this song when he was working on a session for a Pop singer, which explains the smooth edges. Raneri won't give up the ghost by saying what artist he was writing for, but he told us: "'Time Has Come' was a really interesting one because I wrote it within a session where I was trying to write a Pop song for somebody else. So it was definitely a different approach. I wrote it completely within the computer on synthesizers and stuff like that. So it was a really unique approach for me to have as far as writing a Bayside song goes.

It was almost like being able to do a cover. It's like they do those punk-goes-pop compilations, and that's fun for a punk band to take a pop song and just rock it out. So I got to do that, except it was my own song. That was a really fun one to work on." (Here's the full Anthony Raneri interview .)

Asked by HMV.com why Bayside decided to title the record Cult, Raneri replied: "The word 'Cult' is a name that's followed our band around for the last few years. The fans just started calling themselves that a while back and we wanted to pay homage of them with that. Also, a real theme for this album is legacy, in terms of my lyrics and how we feel about the band, so it's a good name to sum up the history of the band."

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Band
Released: 1969

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,

[Chorus]
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. they went
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best.

The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. they went
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,

Like my father before me, I will work the land,
Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave,
I swear by the mud below my feet,
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.

The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin', they went
Na, la, na, la, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na,

The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin', they went
Na, la, na, la, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Writer/s: ROBERTSON, ROBBIE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Robbie Robertson wrote this song, which is about the American Civil War - "Dixie" is a term indicating the old American South, which was defeated by the Union army. The song is not related to his heritage, as Robertson is half-Mohawk Indian, half-Jewish Canadian.

Robertson came up with the music for this song, and then got the idea for the lyrics when he thought about the saying "The South will rise again," which he heard the first time he visited the American South. This led him to research the Civil War. (thanks, Edna - Madrid, Spain, for above 2)

This was recorded in Sammy Davis Jr.'s house in Los Angeles. The Band rented it and converted a poolhouse into a studio to record their second album.

The vocals featured the 3-part harmonies of Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, and Rick Danko.

Joan Baez covered this in 1971. It was her biggest hit, reaching US #3 and UK #6.

Her version was recorded at Quad Studios in Nashville with producer Norman Putnam, who gathered about 20 people from around the studio to sing on the chorus. One of those voices belongs to Jimmy Buffett, who Putnam would later work with on his album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.

Baez changed some of the lyrics on her version. For example, she sings, "Virgil Cain is my name and I drove on the Danville train. 'Til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again." The original lyrics are, "Virgil Cain is THE name and I SERVED on the Danville train. 'Til STONEMAN'S cavalry came and tore up the tracks again" referring to George Stoneman, who was a general in the Union army). There are several other inconsistencies between her version and The Band's original, including changing the line, "There goes Robert E. Lee" to "There goes THE Robert E. Lee" (which is a boat). (thanks, Geoffrey - Fort Collins, CO)

This was used as the B-side to "Up On Cripple Creek."

Kill Devil Hill - Where Angels Dare to Roam

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Album: Revolution Rise
Released: 2014

Where Angels Dare to Roam Lyrics

Where Angels Dare to Roam

Bassist Rex Brown told Artist Direct the story of the song. "We needed a heavy shuffle on there," he said. "Dewey (Bragg, vocals) came up with that melody. It hit him. He came into the car and brought that back overnight. It fit perfectly. It's epic."

"There aren't many bands doing that heavy shuffle feel," Brown continued. "Growing up in Texas, that heavy shuffle boogie is where I come from. It all comes from the old blues s--t. Everything comes from fucking old Delta blues anyway. We wanted to make it heavy."

Madonna - Iconic

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Album: Rebel Heart
Released: 2015

Iconic Lyrics

Yeah

If you try to fuck it up again
Destiny will choose you in the end
If you don't make the choice
And you don't use your voice
Someone else will speak for you instead
What you want is just within your reach
But you gotta practice what you preach
If you use sweat and tears
And overcome your fears
Never let the fire inside you leave

I can, Icon, two letters apart
One step, away, of being lost in the dark
Just shine your light like a beautiful star
Show the world who you are
Who you are

Yeah
There's another part of you no one sees
There's a burning fire that's underneath
Baby don't you know you were meant to be
Born to be
Meant to be
Iconic

Tell me I'm no good and I'll be great
Say I have to fight and I can't wait
Standing in the wings
A butterfly that stings
I will rise above cause it's my fate

I can, Icon, two letters apart
One step, away, of being lost in the dark
Just shine your light like a beautiful star
Show the world who you are
Who you are

Yeah
There's another part of you no one sees
There's a burning fire that's underneath
Baby don't you know you were meant to be
Born to be
Meant to be
Iconic

Born to be a superstar
That's exactly what you are
Born to be a superstar
That's exactly what you are

Alright
Firefly chain, wanna catch you
Wanna put you in a net for their light glow
Yellow brick high way, paparazzi pile-up on the high road
They just turned the sun into an idol
They just wanna see how high the sky go
Just to find how it feel to fall bad
Madonna said I remind her of Michael
Steady blowing up my head, blowing up my head
Put it on your wall
Put me in the school book, put me in the laws
Put me in a descant in the Synagogue
Firefly gold, wanna catch ya
Wanna catch you when your lights go dim
Wanna turn you to a letter in their logo
Wanna stick you in a jar with a pen
You're a icon

I can, Icon, two letters apart
One step, away, of being lost in the dark
Just shine your light like a beautiful star
Show the world who you are
Who you are

Yeah
There's another part of you no one sees
There's a burning fire that's underneath
Baby don't you know you were meant to be
Born to be
Meant to be
Iconic, ironic

Writer/s: GAD, TOBIAS / NATCHE, DACOURY / MCDONALD, MAUREEN / BENNETT, CHANCELOR / TUCKER, MICHAEL / GRIFFIN, LARRY / MADONNA
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., CYPMP
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Mike Tyson (yes, that Mike Tyson!) introduces this song with a boastful spoken word segment. Speaking to Rolling Stone about his contribution, Tyson revealed his curious inspiration. "When I did it, I think about being some guy like [Benito] Mussolini and they're really arrogant, but you try to come from a positive perspective and be uplifting," he said. "You watch Mussolini on television — even though we don't understand what he's saying — he is so mesmerizing. I look at myself in that way."

"I know people may say, 'This guy's a fascist' and all this stuff, but man, you can take positivity from watching him," Tyson added. "No wonder why Hitler was attracted to him. This guy's a hypnotic figure. There's so much pride behind what he's saying. I'm not even Italian and I feel the pride he's projecting. He had that street swag; he was doing this stuff with his hands and moving his head before it was even hip-hop."

The song also features a guest spot from Chance the Rapper, who spits rhymes about pursuing your dreams and not being boxed in.

The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son

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Album: The White Album
Released: 1968

Mother Nature's Son Lyrics

Born a poor young country boy
Mother Nature's Son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.

Sit beside a mountain stream
See her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.

Find me in my field of grass
Mother Nature's son
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun.

Mother Nature's son.

Writer/s: LENNON, JOHN WINSTON / MCCARTNEY, PAUL JAMES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Paul McCartney wrote this in India after the Maharishi gave a speech about nature. The 4 Beatles were attending the camp to learn transcendental meditation, but were not impressed with the results. John Lennon's demo "Child of Nature," which he later re-worked into "Jealous Guy," was similarly inspired by Maharishi's lecture.

McCartney recorded this by himself after the other Beatles had left the studio.

Paul McCartney told Mojo magazine October 2008 that Nat King Cole's 1948 standard "Nature Boy" influenced this gentle pastoral, "because that's a song I love." He added: "At that time I considered myself a guy leaning towards the countryside. But I would have to tip a wink to Nature Boy. Though, when you think about it, the only thing they have in common is the word 'nature'- the rest of the link is pretty tenuous."

John Denver recorded this in 1972. He was going to name his album after this song, but changed it when he came up with the song "Rocky Mountain High."

The song's bongo-style percussion sound was achieved by miking up the drums in the Abbey Road corridor.

Coldplay - True Love

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Album: Ghost Stories
Released: 2014

True Love Lyrics

For a second, I was in control
I had it once, I lost it though
And all along the fire below would rise

And I wish you could have let me know
What's really going on below
I've lost you now, you let met go but one last time

Tell me you love me, if you don't then lie, oh lie to me

Remember once upon a time, when I was yours and you were blind
The fire would sparkle in your eyes and mine

So tell me you love me, if you don't then lie, oh lie to me
Just tell me you love, if you don't then lie, oh lie to me
If you don't then lie, oh lie to me
And call it true, call it True Love
Call it true, call it true love

Writer/s: MARTIN, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY JOHN / BERRYMAN, GUY RUPERT / BUCKLAND, JONATHAN MARK / CHAMPION, WILLIAM
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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True Love

Coldplay's Ghost Stories album was inspired by the disintegration of lead singer Chris Martin's marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow, his wife of 11 years. This song finds Martin missing the passion they had at the beginning of their relationship and questioning if she still loves him. During an interview with BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, Martin was asked directly by the DJ whether the subject of the album was the breakdown of his relationship, Martin responded, "I wouldn't use the word breakdown, this was more a realization about trying to grow up basically."

The song was produced by Timbaland, who is best known for his work for R&B and hip-hop artists. The American was one of three guest producers who worked on Ghost Stories along with Avicii and Madeon.

The Jonas Škerlund-directed feel-good video was shot in Los Angeles. The director previously worked with Coldplay on their clip for "Magic."

The visual depicts two misfits in inflatable bodysuits who both love ballet. Canadian actress Jessica Lucas (Cloverfield, Pompeii) plays an aspiring ballet dancer whose large body prevents her from realizing her dreams, whilst Chris Martin portrays a mild-mannered janitor at a theater housing the dancing.