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The New Pornographers - You Tell Me Where

The New Pornographers - You Tell Me Where Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Brill Bruisers
Released: 2014

You Tell Me Where Lyrics

Take a breather
They came for Caesar
But I don't think he's here

Disiderata
Is that your name now
Glad you came out

You've proved your poison
Is more than noise and
The joy's addictive
Although restrictive
Fair baby beware or not are we square

Old friends from last call
Searching a glass for
Some famous last words
Let from the master

With all your shit talking
And all your blue stocking
And hit the spell check
You want some hell check?
Direct your own pace
You need your own place

So You Tell Me Where
To be I'll be there
A little seasick
But feel you've fallen
And now it's crawling
Me I'm hauling

Old friends from last call
Searching a glass for
Some famous last words
Let from the master

You see my range, you could change me
If you wanted to
Just rearrange a few pieces and run
If there's no way but the high road to save me
If that's not easy so leave me alone

Think I could change to become what you want me
To think we could finally be done

So you tell me where to be, I'll be there

Writer/s: CARL ALLAN NEWMAN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This song was inspired by an a capella version of Neil Young's "After The Goldrush," by the English group Prelude, which was a hit in the early 1970s. The New Pornagraphers' A.C. Newman told Spin magazine: "It's got this thick wall of harmonies, which I kept coming back to when we were doing the song."

Once ["You Tell Me Where"] gets to the halfway point, the vocals just go crazy," he added: "It's me and Kathryn [Calder] and Neko [Case] and Kelly Hogan, and it becomes this wall. I thought, 'I want it to sound like this crazy '70s choir.'"

Another inspiration for the song was Scott Miller, the late mainman of 1980s power pop band Game Theory, who passed away in 2013. "His sense of melody and songwriting had a big influence on me," Newman told Spin. "People have said that they think I'm influenced by Big Star, but really I'm more influenced by Game Theory, who were influenced by Big Star. I got it in my head that I would try to write something that musically was a tip of the hat to Game Theory, and that was 'You Tell Me Where.'"

"It started out like, 'I'm gonna write something like Game Theory,'" he added. "Then it gets to the point where I'm saying, 'Now I want this to sound like an a cappella group from the '70s.' You don't finish songs like this, but it's a good way to start songs."

Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Barenaked Ladies - One Week Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Stunt
Released: 1998

One Week Lyrics

It's been One Week since you looked at me
Cocked your head to the side
and said I'm angry
Five days since you laughed at me saying
Get that together come back and see me
Three days since the living room,
I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you
Yesterday you'd forgiven me
But it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry

Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish,
Although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi
Cause it's never touched a frying pan

Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes
Big like Leann Rimes
Because I'm all about value
Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits
You try to match wits
You try to hold me but I bust through

Gonna make a break and take a fake
I'd like a stinkin, achin shake
I like vanilla, It's the finest of the flavors
Gotta see the show,
Cause then you'll know
The Vertigo is gonna grow
Cause it's so dangerous,
You'll have to sign a waiver

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean?
Well, you soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of taking off my shirt

It's been one week since you looked at me
Threw your arms in the air and said you're crazy
Five days since you tackled me
I've still got the rug burns on both my knees
It's been three days since the afternoon
You realized it's not my fault not a moment too soon
Yesterday you'd forgiven me
And now I sit back and wait till you say you're sorry

Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin X-Files with no lights on,
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic
Like Sting I'm Tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy

Like Kurosawa I make mad films
Okay I don't make films
But if I did they'd have a samurai
Gonna get a set of better clubs
Gonna find the kind with tiny nubs
Just so my irons aren't always flying off the back swing
Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong thing

How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad
Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad
I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral
Can't understand what I mean?
You soon will
I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve
I have a history of losing my shirt

It's been one week since you looked at me
Dropped your arms to your sides and said I'm sorry
Five days since I laughed at you and said
You just did just what I thought you were gonna do
Three days since the living room
We realized we're both to blame, but what could we do?
Yesterday you just smiled at me
Cause it'll still be two days till we say we're sorry

It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
It'll still be two days till we say we're sorry
Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie

Writer/s: ROBERTSON, ED
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The band has said that this is about a big fight in a relationship. The lyrics are essentially meaningless, but entertaining. (thanks, Kelly - Portland, OR)

Fittingly, this spent one week at #1 in the US.

This was the first big hit for Barenaked Ladies. They have been around since 1988 and developed a large cult following, especially in their native Canada and among college students. This brought them mainstream success, which they took advantage of by playing every US radio station concert they could find.

The reason why many of the lyrics are just a hotchpotch of cultural references is that the song was written as a freestyle. Singer-guitarist Ed Robertson explained to Billboard magazine: "I wrote the chorus structure of the song, but I couldn't figure out the verses at all. I got together with [singer] Steve [Page] a bunch of times and said 'I have this idea for a song, and I couldn't figure out where to go with it.' And finally Steve said to me at some point, 'Just freestyle it! Just do what you do onstage every night. It's gonna be great.'"

"There were some extra verses and stuff," he added. "I just culled it down to what I thought were my favorite lines. But it was written as a freestyle."

The last words of the song are "Birchmount Stadium, home of the Robbie." This refers to an annual soccer tournament held for charity at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough, Ontario. Steven Page and Ed Robertson have said that these are are the hardest words to say in the song.

The Robbie (officially The Robbie International Soccer Tournament), began in 1967 when some area soccer fans started a boys' tournament to raise money for 3-year-old Robbie Wimbs, who had Cystic Fibrosis. The tournament grew, and later became a benefit for Muscular Dystrophy research as well.

Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of this called "Jerry Springer" on his 1999 album Running With Scissors. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

The lyrics in the liner notes contain some extra lines (with Star Wars references), but these lyrics are not in any performed version of the song. Ed Robertson decided to include them with the album notes even though they were left off the song. (thanks, Kelly - Portland, OR)

Mitsubishi used this in a 2002 commercial.

Nothing More - Pyre

Nothing More - Pyre Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Nothing More
Released: 2014

Pyre Lyrics

When you opened your eyes on the world for the first time as a child;
How brilliant the colors were;
What a jewel the sun was; what marvel the stars;
How incredibly alive the trees were
And to love again and again,
And have people to whom we are deeply attached go to sleep and never wake up
And the laughter echoes only in one's mind... but then the echo goes
The memory, the traces are all gone

All your efforts, all your achievements,
All your attainments turning into dust, nothingness
What is the feeling? what happens to you?

The idea of God as the potter, the architect of the universe,
It makes you feel that life is, after all, important,
That there is someone who cares.
It has meaning, it has sense, and you are valuable in the eyes of the father
But after a while it got embarrassing, the superstition, the myth,
The absolutely unfounded idea why does anybody believe that?

So you become an atheist, and then you feel terrible
After that because you got rid of God
But that means you got rid of yourself, you're just nothing but a machine
And your idea that you're a machine is just a machine too (a machine in the system)

So if you think that that's the way things are, you feel hostile to the world.
You feel that the world is a neurological trap into which you somehow got caught trapped You run from the maternity ward to the crematorium and that's it that's it
So if you're a smart kid you commit suicide

Now I want to propose another idea all together
The real you, is not a puppet which life pushes around.
The real you, the real deep down you, is the whole universe.
You cannot confine yourself to what happens inside the skin.
Your skin doesn't separate you from the world, it's a bridge.
But just as a magnet polarizes its-self in north and south but its all one magnet,
So experience polarizes itself as "Self" and "Other", but it's all one.

What you call the "External world" is as much you as your own body
Most people think that when they open they're eyes
And look around that what they are seeing is outside
It seems, doesn't it, that you are behind your eyes
We haven't realized that life and death, black and white,
Good and evil, being and non-being, come from the same center

When you look for your own particularized center of being
Which is separate from everything else, you won't be able to find it
The only way you'll know it isn't there is if you look hard enough,
To find out that it isn't there
It isn't there at all, there isn't a separate you
There are, in physical reality, no such things as separate events

People can't be talked out of illusions
If a person believes that the earth is flat,
You can't talk him out of that, he knows that it's flat
He'll go down to the window and see that its obvious, it looks flat
So the only way to convince him that it isn't is to say,
"Well let's go and find the edge".

Writer/s: HAWKINS JONATHAN TAYLOR, VOLLELUNGA MARK ANTHONY, OLIVER DANIEL
Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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This is one of a trilogy of songs on Nothing More along with "Jenny" and "God Went North" inspired in part by singer Jonny Hawkins' thought process as he observed his mother dying and his sister struggling with addiction to hard drugs. He explained to Artist Direct : "It was happening at the same time my mom was passing away from cancer and hanging for dear life to help my sister through the process. Simultaneously, I was going through my own calibration of my world view and what I thought about life. I was about 20- or 21-years-old when a lot of this was going down. I was starting to think on my own and ask a lot of questions. I was going back to a blank slate in my head of what I believed because I was born into what my parents believed like anyone else is. I wanted to see what I thought as a new adult myself. I was restructuring my beliefs."

"At the same time, my mom was going the other direction. I was getting less religious, and she was getting more religious as she was getting closer towards death," Hawkins continued. "It was a weird separation process."

"'Pyre' was something I felt solace in," he added. "Alan Watts was someone who basically said a lot of things that I was thinking, but I couldn't quite put them into words yet on my own. He put it so eloquently into words that I wanted to take some of his lectures I had been listening to and create a narrative that reflected some of my own thoughts going through that time of my life."

Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk

Loudon Wainwright III - Dead Skunk Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Album III
Released: 1973

Dead Skunk Lyrics

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This song was inspired by a flattened little stinker on a suburban New York road. When it was released, there were a number of alternative interpretations of the meaning of this song's lyrics ranging from man's destruction of nature to an allegory about president Nixon. When asked about these differing readings by the London Times July 26, 2008, Wainwright replied with open palms: "Well, OK. But for me, it was just about a dead skunk lying there in the highway."

Loudon Wainwright III is one of the most proficient and accomplished singer-songwriters of his time, but his best-known song - and only chart entry - is this novelty hit. Exposure from the song led to his first acting role: a stint as the guitar-playing Captain Spaulding on the M.A.S.H. TV series. Wainwright did a lot more acting later in his career, appearing on the shows Ally McBeal and Undeclared, and in the movies Big Fish and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Wainwright confessed it only took about 12 minutes to pen "Dead Skunk," which became his most well-known song. The singer's brief sniff of fame left him with a foul odor. "Yeah, and it was revolting in some ways, horrible and I hated it, because it was grotesque," said Wainwright to the A.V. Club ."It can be grotesque at that level where you are riding around in cars and there are 14-year-old kids pressing their faces up against the window. For no reason other than your song is on the radio. It made me very uncomfortable, particularly at that time. I imagine that now I would see it with a little more humor and detachment, but when I was 25 and it happened to me, it kind of blew me away."

His new fans expected him to produce more of the same, but the singer wasn't complaining (too much) about his new persona. He explained, "I became the 'funny-animal-guy songwriter.' [Laughs.] Which got to be a drag after a while. But I certainly made a lot of money that year."

Wainwright would often have the crowd sing the chorus with him when he performed this song. When he played outside of America where folks were less familiar with skunks, we would have to give an explanation like "it's an animal that emits a terrible odor when struck by an automobile or attacked by a dog."

Loudon's son Rufus was born the year this song was released, and when Rufus was little, he would sometimes join his dad on stage to sing along with this song. Rufus became a very popular songwriter in his own right, but had a tense relationship with his dad, who didn't get to spend much time with his son because of his touring schedule. In 2012, Loudon recorded a duet that he sang with Rufus called "The Days That We Die," where they both sing, "You'll never change, neither will I."

Royal Blood - Figure It Out

Royal Blood - Figure It Out Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Royal Blood
Released: 2014

Figure It Out Lyrics

Nothing here to see
Just a kid like me
Trying to cuss and see
Trying to Figure It Out

Nothing better to do
When I'm stuck on you
And still I'm here
Trying to figure it out

Getting hard to sleep
But it is in my dreams
But it's killing me
To try and figure it out

Nothing better to do
When I'm stuck on you
And still I'm here
Trying to figure it out

I'll let it go 'cause I won't see you later
And I'm not allowed to talk it out
I said I'll come, I'll promise I won't show
But I see you trying to figure it out
I promise you, I'll take a bet on you
But you didn't know I planned it out
I said I'll go, yeah, I won't see you later
And I'm not allowed to figure it out

Nothing here to see
Just a kid like me
Trying to cuss and see
Trying to figure it out

Nothing better to do
When I'm stuck on you
And still I'm here
Trying to figure it out

I'll let it go 'cause I won't see you later
And I'm not allowed to talk it out
I said I'll come, I'll promise I won't show
But I see you trying to figure it out
I promise you, I'll take a bet on you
But you didn't know I planned it out
I said I'll go, yeah, I won't see you later
And I'm not allowed to figure it out

Writer/s: KERR, MICHAEL / THATCHER, BEN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Royal Blood vocalist and guitarist Mike Kerr admitted to Drowned in Sound that he thought this "was quite a silly song," when he first wrote this with drummer Ben Thatcher. "I laughed a lot when we were playing it," he added. "There's something quite stupid about it."

"The ending just seemed like the funniest, stupidest thing ever, it breaking down to a one-string solo and the 'Billie Jean' groove," Kerr continued. "Like: 'Are we really going to get away with this?'"

Royal Blood debuted at #1 on the UK albums chart with 66,000 units sold in its first week. It was the highest sales total for a rock debut since Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds set in 2011.

Steve Winwood - While You See a Chance

Steve Winwood - While You See a Chance Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Arc Of A Diver
Released: 1980

While You See a Chance Lyrics

Stand up in a clear blue morning
Until you see
What can be
Alone in a cold day dawning,
Are you still free?
Can you be?

When some cold tomorrow finds you,
When some sad old dream reminds you
How the endless road unwinds you ?

While You See a Chance take it,
Find romance fake it
Because it's all on you

Don't you know by now no one gives you anything
Don't you wonder how you keep on moving
One more day your way
When there's no one left to leave you,
Even you don't quite believe you
That's when nothing can deceive you

Stand up in a clear blue morning
Until you see
What can be
Alone in a cold day dawning,
Are you still free?
Can you be?

And that old gray wind is blowing
And there's nothing left worth knowing
And it's time you should be going

Writer/s: WINWOOD, STEVE/JENNINGS, WILL
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Winwood did very well in the '60s and '70s with his bands The Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic, but he was struggling to find success as a solo artist. He teamed up with lyricist Will Jennings, who had written songs for Barry Manilow, B.B. King, Joe Cocker and The Crusaders, and the pair wrote most of the songs for Arc Of A Diver. Jennings told us:
"'While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you'" - the lyric of the song is about realizing that you are all alone in this life and you have to do with it what you can - it was written around 1980 in a certain part of my life when I realized it was all on me to do, the lyric inspired by Steve's transcendent track."

Jennings is renowned for his ability to write meaningful lyrics for talented musicians. He and Winwood spent a lot of time together, not just working, but hanging out and getting to know each other. Says Jennings, "It's like writing... if you're writing a play, you're writing for a particular persona, a particular character, and you try to feel as deeply inside them as you can - where are they coming from and what they've been through. It's the same with Steve, 'While You See A Chance,' because he was coming out of a whole period with Spencer Davis and Traffic, and then where else do you go? I was up there at his place in rural England, and I was in his life so to speak, and trying to see through his eyes as well as mine. And that's what all those things were about, all the songs we wrote."

Jennings explains the line, "While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it":
"Well the next line explains it: 'Because it's all on you.' There's an old English expression called "Fake it till you make it." If you don't have romance in your life, meaning in the broader sense, really, something to make life interesting, just imagine it until it's there." (Check out our interview with Will Jennings.)

This became Winwood's first Top 40 hit as a solo artist. In 1986 he hit #1 in the US with "Higher Love," which also had lyrics written by Jennings.

During production, Winwood accidentally erased the drum track from part of the song as he prepared to record a vocal. After months of trying to patch up the damage, he left the drums off the erased part and restructured the song.

Winwood played all the instruments on the album.

Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton

Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Royal Blood
Released: 2014

Ten Tonne Skeleton Lyrics

She took my heart, left me for dead
And drank my blood, told me she said
Our secrets worth its weight in gold
That fire we had, those two we cold

Cut loose like an animal
Fired out like a cannon ball
But I waited too long
Yeah, I waited too long
Got me high from a holy vein
Crashed down in a hurricane
Love has been here and gone
Love has been here and gone

Where did you go?
Where did you run?
I can't erase what you've done
Let's burn the past, forget the truth
I'm still more than him, I'm still loving you

Cut loose like an animal
Fired out like a cannon ball
But I waited too long
Yeah, I waited too long
Got me high from a holy vein
Crashed down in a hurricane
Love has been here and gone
Love has been here and gone

Cut loose like an animal
Fired out like a cannon ball
But I waited too long
Yeah, I waited too long
Got me high from a holy vein
Crashed down in a hurricane
Love has been here and gone
Love has been here and gone

But I waited too long
For you only
Love has been here and gone
To die slowly
Going under again
So don't follow me

Writer/s: KERR, MICHAEL JAMES / THATCHER, BEN / MURRAY, DAVID JOHN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This was the hardest track on the Royal Blood album to record. Vocalist and guitarist Mike Kerr told HMV.com : "We re-wrote it and re-recorded it three times, it's the only track on the album that was difficult to get right. There are so many versions of it, but it didn't click until the last time."

Mike Kerr came up with the chorus/guitar part when drummer Ben Thatcher popped out of the studio to go to the toilet. He told Drowned in Sound : "While he was gone, I worked out a really funny solo for the song and then that turned into the whole chorus part."

Mike Kerr had the words for this quite a while before the pair came up with the the music. He told Artist Direct : "Before it was even a song, I wrote all of the lyrics down. It was quite fortunate I was able to make a song out of that. It's less cryptic of a tune. It's really about being too late for something."

Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Released: 1963

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Lyrics

Well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
Ifin' you don't know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It'll never do some how
When your rooster crows at the break a dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

And it ain't no use in a-turnin' on your light, babe
The light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right

No it ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never done before
And it ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear ya any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' wallkin' way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long honey babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye is too good a word, babe
So I just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Dylan said of this track: "A lot of people make it sort of a love song - slow and easygoing. But it isn't a love song. It's a statement that maybe you can say something to make yourself feel better. It's as if you were talking to yourself." (thanks, Will - Annapolis, MD)

Dylan wrote this after his girlfriend Suze Rotolo went off to Italy to study at the University of Perugia and left him in New York. Dylan re-imagined their separation here as him leaving her. Rotolo can be seen walking with Dylan on the cover of the The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album. An artist and civil rights activist, Rotolo died on February 24, 2011 at age 67.

Peter, Paul and Mary recorded this in 1963 shortly after Dylan.

In 1965, The Four Seasons released this as a single at a time when lead singer Frankie Valli had a major solo hit ("Can't Take My Eyes Off of You") and the group was at its peak of popularity (about the time that "Let's Hang On" hit the Top 10). This was released as a joke and to see if the group could have a hit without the Four Seasons name on it, so they released this under the name "Wonder Who." Despite an unknown band name, it was still a hit, going to #12 in the US. Two "Wonder Who" singles were released by Philips Records (1966's "On the Good Ship Lollipop"/"You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You" and 1967's "Lonesome Road"), but this was the Wonder Who's only chart record. After it was released, Vee Jay Records repackaged two previously released Four Seasons songs, "My Sugar" and "Peanuts," and released them as a Wonder Who? single, which sank without a trace. The picture sleeve of "Don't Think Twice" had a connect-the-dots pattern hinting at "We are your favorites." The sleeve for "On the Good Ship Lollipop" had jumbled cut-up Four Seasons pictures. Popular lore has Frankie Valli's lead vocal giving the joke away, but it wasn't the case - it was the backing vocals.

Regarding the lyrics, "When your rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window, and I'll be gone," Rotolo explained in her memoir that they used to live near a poultry supplier in their Greenwich Village apartment. They would sometimes stay up all night and hear the roosters crowing at the break of dawn.

Kesha performed a version for the 2011 charity album, Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International. She said of the emotional recording session: "I was weeping, you can hear it. We just used that recording. We didn't record it into a professional microphone, nothing. I tried to sing it a few times but that magic was really in this first, genuine, distraught, emotional take that you guys are going to hear on the record."

This was covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard on their 2015 Django & Jimmie album. Haggard told Uncut: "We wanted to do a Dylan song and that was something we both knew."

Sinéad O'Connor - The Voice of My Doctor

Sinéad O'Connor - The Voice of My Doctor Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss
Released: 2014

The Voice of My Doctor Lyrics

When I opened my eyes in your bedroom
Saw a painting of a bald lady
When I opened my eyes in your bedroom
Saw a woman looked just like me
Kissing gently as only she would
A man made of stone who's crying blood

A giant man of stone is crying
A gentle lady rests her face
Her cheek against his, oh so softly
She's just a figure full of grace

The Voice of My Doctor
Keeps interrupting my view
It says "Oh you've gone and let another
Fool make a fool out of you"

Oh and I did, I did, oh yes I did
'Cause you never said you have a girl you love
Oh, you tricked me into thinking that you loved me
You tricked me into making love

Well I wrote I love you on her shoulder
When I left you last night
I wrote I love you on her shoulder
When I left you last night
Yeah another stupid woman left a little message
Left a little message for your wife.

The voice of my doctor
Keeps interrupting my view
It says "Oh you've gone and let another
Fool make a fool out of you"

Oh and I did, I did, oh yes I did
'Cause you never said you have a girl you love
Oh, you tricked me into thinking that you loved me
You tricked me into making love

Writer/s: SINEAD MARIE BERNARDE O'CONNOR
Publisher: NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP
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The songs on I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss are sung from the viewpoint of different characters. O'Connor told Uncut magazine about this track. "The song was inspired by a painting I came across, which had this giant stone head of a man and this tiny little Buddhist priestess leaning against him snuggling, and he had a big old tear running down his face," she explained. "I don't know whether it was the woman in a painting suddenly became the character or not, but the moment I saw it, I had the character."

Bobby Darin - Splish Splash

Bobby Darin - Splish Splash Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Bobby Darin Story
Released: 1958

Splish Splash Lyrics

Splish, splash, I was takin' a bath
Long about a Saturday night, yeah
A rub dub, just relaxin' in the tub
Thinkin' everythin' was alright

Well, I stepped out the tub
I put my feet on the floor
I wrapped the towel around me and I
Opened the door

And then a-splish, splash
I jumped back in the bath
Well, how was I to know
There was a party goin' on?

There was a-splishin' and a-splashin'
Reelin' with the feelin'
Movin' and a-groovin'
Rockin' and a-rollin', yeah, yeah

Bing, bang, I saw the whole gang
Dancin' on my living room rug, yeah
Flip, flop, they was doin' the bop
All the teens had the dancin' but

There was lollipop with a Peggy Sue
Good golly, Miss Molly was-a even there, too
A- well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath
I went and put my dancin' shoes on, yeah

I was a-rollin' and a-strollin'
Reelin' with the feelin'
Movin' and a-groovin'
Splishin' and a-splashin', yeah

Yes, I was a-splishin' and a-splashin'
I was a-rollin' and a-strollin'
Yeah, I was a-movin' and a-groovin'
We was a-reelin' with the feelin'
We was a-rollin' and a-strollin'
Movin' with the groovin'
Splish, splash, yeah

Splishin' and a-splashin'
One time I was splishin' and a-splashin'
Ooh, I was movin' and a-groovin'
Yeah, I was splishin' and a-splashin'

Writer/s: Darin, Bobby / Murray, Jean
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, CARLIN AMERICA INC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This song was written quickly, but it wasn't written by Darin alone. Peter Altschuler at the Murray the K archives explains:
"The title was suggested by Murray 'the K' Kaufman's mother, Jean, but she also penned the music; Bobby and Murray wrote the lyrics. Murray was a very influential DJ in New York, and had been championing Bobby for awhile, but Darin's recordings weren't going anywhere. The two, however, had become good friends and, one weekend, played together in a softball game in Central Park. Afterward, they walked to Murray's apartment just south of the park and recovered by soaking their feet in basins of Epsom salts.

"As she did every day, Murray's mother Jean called to check on her only son, and Murray told her about the game (a celebrity event to promote some good cause or other) and about "the agony of de feet." As soon as the call ended, the phone rang again, and Jean, who'd been a piano player in vaudeville, announced she had an idea for a song - 'Splish, splash, take a bath.' With that as a starting point, Murray and Bobby worked on the lyrics, Jean collaborated on the tune, and they marched the song over to Atlantic Records, which was Darin's label. At Atlantic, according to Jerry Wexler when I spoke with him in the mid '80s, he thought that the song had a chance, but Ahmet Ertegun was dead set against it. Jerry, of course, prevailed, and the tune became Darin's first of many hits.

"Whether Wexler's story is accurate (Ertegun claimed in a PBS documentary about Darin that he was the song's defender) is moot. Yet the notion that 'Splish Splash' leapt fully formed from Darin's mind like Athena from the head of Zeus is just as mythological."

Murray also co-wrote and performed "It's What's Happenin', Baby" (backed with "Sins of A Family" by P.F. Sloan ), a song that was done primarily to promote Murray's signature phrase and his connection to the CBS television special of the same name that he hosted and co-produced in 1965 for the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity. Beyond that, his contribution to the world of Pop music was 2 novelty tunes from the early '50s: "Out Of The Bushes" (co-written by guitar great Billy Mure who also composed Murray's "Swingin' Soiree" theme, which was performed by the Delicates who, later, became the Angels) and "The Crazy Otto Rag" - on which he was the singer, plus "The Lone Twister" which he did as a contest promo for WINS radio, his home from 1958-1965.

In their continuing quest to encourage kids to take baths, Sesame Street has used this on a few of their albums. It is a very popular song for kids, especially when performed by Elmo.

This was released on Atlantic Records at a time when they were struggling to pay their artists. According to Jerry Wexler, who ran the company with Ahmet Ertegun, they had stopped paying themselves and needed money to resign The Clovers when this song and "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters broke through and got the company out of trouble. Atlantic went on to sign Led Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones and many other legendary artists.

The "Movin' and a groovin'" lyric was lifted from a 1958 Duane Eddy song called "Moovin' 'N' Groovin'." Eddy claimed that Darin asked permission to use it, which he happily granted. "That's just music, sharing little bits of melody and all," said Eddy.

This was Bobby Darin's first hit. He had signed with Atlantic Records after an unsuccessful stint at Decca. After three unsuccessful session at Atlantic with Herb Abramson producing, Ahmet Ertegun, who was head of the label, decided to produce Darin himself. "Splish Splash" was recorded on April 10, 1958 along with "Judy Don't Be Moody" and "Queen of the Hop." The recording took place at Atlantic's studios in New York with their renowned engineer Tom Dowd at the controls. Darin soon became a star, but left Atlantic for Capitol Records in 1962.

Sugarland - Something More

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Album: Twice the Speed of Life
Released: 2004

Something More Lyrics

Monday, hard to wake up
Fill my coffee cup, I'm out the door
Yeah the freeway, standing still today
Is gonna make me late, and that's for sure
I'm running out of gas and out of time
Never gonna make it there by nine

There's gotta be Something More
Gotta be more than this
I need a little less hard time
I need a little more bliss
I'm gonna take my chances
Taking a chance I might
Find what I'm looking for
There's gotta be something more

Five years and there's no doubt
That I'm burnt out, I've had enough
So now boss man, here's my two weeks
I'll make it short and sweet, so listen up
I could work my life away, but why?
I got things to do before I die

There's gotta be something more
Gotta be more than this
I need a little less hard time
I need a little more bliss
I'm gonna take my chances
Taking a chance I might
Find what I'm looking for
There's gotta be something more

Some believe in destiny, and some believe in fate
I believe that happiness is something we create
You best believe that I'm not gonna wait
'Cause there's gotta be something more

I get home 7:30, the house is dirty, but it can wait
Yeah, cause right now I need some downtime
To drink some red wine and celebrate
Armageddon could be knocking at my door
But I ain't gonna answer that's for sure
There's gotta be something more!

Writer/s: KRISTIAN BUSH, JENNIFER NETTLES, KRISTEN HALL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, GREATER GOOD SONGS
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This was the second single released by Sugarland. Many of their tunes, including this one, told one continuous story about a girl. Kristian Bush , who co-wrote most of Sugarland's songs. explained during an interview with Broadway's Electric Barnyard: "'Baby Girl,' that was our first single, and she makes it. And then the second song, ['Something More'], she's a little bit older, and she's in her apartment, and she's thinking, this is great, but there's got to be something more than where she is. And so, I've tried to keep stringing it along."

"She didn't even have sex until 'Want To.' And then it took a while," he continued. "You can't start early. You wait until you're an adult. And then, later on, 'All I Want to Do,' she really falls in love."

"And then it goes on all the way to 'Stuck Like Glue,' when you're in a relationship, and you feel like maybe there are days where it probably isn't going to work," Bush added, "except you realize that you love them so much, it sticks you together."

R.E.M. - Me In Honey

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Album: Out Of Time
Released: 1991

Me In Honey Lyrics

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Michael Stipe wrote the lyrics to this song in response to "Eat For Two" by 10,000 Maniacs - both songs are about pregnancy. In the late '80s, R.E.M. toured with 10,000 Maniacs, and both groups were very popular on the college rock scene. Stipe and Maniacs lead singer Natalie Merchant shared many of the same qualities, including shyness, awkward dance moves and a quirky charisma, and they became friends, then lovers, then friends again. Stipe credits Merchant with helping to inspire his songwriting, saying, "The work she was doing was real and important - all about the human condition."

Stipe says that he considers this an "answer song" to "Eat for Two." He explained in the book It Crawled From The South by Marcus Gray: "It's a male perspective on pregnancy, which I don't think has been dealt with. There's a real push-me-pull-me issue, saying, 'I had nothing to do with it,' yet on the other hand saying, 'Wait, I have feelings about this.'"

Kate Pierson contributes the female vocals to this song. In the album booklet it is acknowledged as a duet, instead of Kate being a background singer. She also sang on the Out Of Time track "Shiny Happy People." (thanks, Connor - Carlsbad, CA)