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Jennifer Lopez - Emotions

Jennifer Lopez - Emotions Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: A.K.A.
Released: 2014

Emotions Lyrics

Someone took my Emotions,
Don't forgive me, I didn't ask
Someone took my emotions,
I feel good, 'cause I don't feel bad

You say that you gon' take my heart babe
But I don't believe in fairytale
It's the same old thing, not a damn thing changed
You're playing games, playing games
Now I'm taking names, taking names now
And I don't play no more, baby, this is game over

Broke your heart so you could feel it
Think we're gonna think we're really through
Me and you
Tears fall down, feels like it's raining
Somewhere walkin' feel the pain in you
Only you (someone took)

Someone took my emotions,
Don't forgive me, I didn't ask
Someone took my emotions,
I feel good, 'cause I don't feel bad

I've tried to give you all my time babe
But they never meant a thing to you
So don't you call my name, all my info changed
It's such a shame, what a shame
Now I'm breaking chains, breaking chains oh
And I don't play no more, baby this is game over

Broke your heart so you could feel it
Think we're gonna think we're really through
Me and you (this is)
Tears fall down, feels like it's raining
Somewhere walkin' feel the pain in you
Only you (someone took)

Someone took my emotions,
Don't forgive me, I didn't ask
Someone took my emotions,
I feel good, 'cause I don't feel bad

All I ever wanted was your time
Right now I
Don't even have the patience
I'm tired of waiting for you
I just wanna let go
You tryin' to change me mind
But the answer's still no
Who are you
You don't mean nothing
You ain't worth nothing
When I tell you something
You don't learn from it
I got my bags at the door, Passport to go
When I leave, you gon' come running
You did it yeah
I got no feelings left
I'm so numb, you're so dumb
It's over, it's over

Someone took my emotions
Someone took my emotions

Everything, everything I do
Ah
Everything, everything I do

Writer/s: KREVIAZUK, CHANTAL / LOPEZ, JENNIFER / JOSEPH, SHAMA / BROWN, CHRIS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Emotions

This piano-driven ballad finds a vulnerable Lopez singing of her anguish over trickling keys:

Someone took my emotions…
I tried to give you all my love but that never meant a thing to you

The song was co-written by Chris Brown. "Chris fu--ed with it after [hearing] the hook," Lopez said during A.K.A's listening party.

This is one of several songs on A.K.A. that are personal to Lopez. "I have a song called 'First Love,' I have a song called 'Emotions,' I have song called 'Let It Be Me' — all very personal," she told Pop Crush . "They're very personal songs in different things about my life and how I feel about love or different moments."

"You know, everything's a moment or an emotion that you have, a day you feel a certain way, and you kind of put that into a song or you relate to it in a way that you know people are gonna understand — like, 'Yeah, I've felt that way,'" Lopez added. "It feels like it's something that I would say. I think this album, of any album, is really owning all of who I am musically and emotionally."

Tool - Sober

Tool - Sober Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Undertow
Released: 1993

Sober Lyrics

There's a shadow just behind me,
Shrouding every step I take,
Making every promise empty,
Pointing every finger at me.
Waiting like a stalking butler
Who upon the finger rests.
Murder now the path called "must we"
Just before the son has come.
Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past and done?
Why can't we not be Sober?
I just want to start this over.
Why can't we drink forever.
I just want to start things over.
I am just a worthless liar.
I am just an imbecile.
I will only complicate you.
Trust in me and fall as well.
I will find a center in you.
I will chew it up and leave,
I will work to elevate you
Just enough to bring you down.
Trust me.
Mother Mary won't you whisper
Something but what's past and done.
Trust me.
I want what I want.

Writer/s: D. CAREY, P. D'AMOUR, A. JONES, J. KEENAN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Sober

This was written about a guy the band knows who can only do great, inspired, stuff when he's high. The words "Jesus won't you F--king whistle, something but the past and gone" is actually referring to how this guy kept talking about the same old stuff over and over again, as in, "Christ almighty, can't we talk about something new???"
Tool guitarist Adam Jones explained in an interview wtih Guitar School: "The song and video are based on a guy we know who is at his artistic best when he's loaded. A lot of people give him s--t for that. I don't tell people to do or not do drugs. You can do what you want, but you have to take responsibility for what happens. If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault." (thanks, Richard - Hamilton, New Zealand and Jorge - Pittsburgh, PA)

For radio play, the line, "Jesus, won't f--king whistle" was changed to, "Jesus, won't you try and whistle." (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

On August 18, 2006, Kirk Hammett from Metallica played this with Tool at a show in Hawaii. Hammett said it was "One of the most profound jamming experiences I have ever encountered."

Kenny Chesney - American Kids

Kenny Chesney - American Kids Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Big Revival
Released: 2014

American Kids Lyrics

Doublewide Quick Stop midnight T-top
Jack in her Cherry Coke town
Momma and Daddy put their roots right here
'Cause this is where the car broke down
Yellow dog school bus kickin’ up red dust
Pickin’ us up by a barbed wire fence
Mtv on the RCA, no A/C in the vents

We were Jesus save me, blue jean baby
Born in the USA
Trailer park truck stop, faded little map dots
New York to LA
We were teenage dreamin’, front seat leanin’
Baby, come give me a kiss
Put me on the cover of the Rolling Stone
Uptown down home American Kids
Growin’ up in little pink houses
Makin’ out on living room couches
Blowin’ that smoke on a Saturday night
A little messed up, but we’re all alright

Baptist church parkin’ lot, tryin’ not to get caught
Take her home and give her your jacket
Makin’ it to second base, but sayin’ you went all the way
Monday afternoon at practice
Sisters got a boyfriend Daddy doesn’t like
Now he’s sittin’ out back, 3030 in his lap
In the blue bug zapper light

We were Jesus save me, blue jean baby
Born in the USA
Trailer park truck stop, faded little map dots
New York to LA
We were teenage dreamin’, front seat leanin’
Baby, come give me a kiss
Put me on the cover of the Rolling Stone
Uptown down home American kids
Growin’ up in little pink houses
Makin’ out on living room couches
Blowin’ that smoke on a Saturday night
A little messed up, but we’re all alright

We were Jesus save me, blue jean baby
Born in the USA
Trailer park truck stop, faded little map dots
New York to LA
We were teenage dreamin’, front seat leanin’
Baby, come give me a kiss
Put me on the cover of the Rolling Stone
Uptown down home American kids
Growin’ up in little pink houses
Makin’ out on living room couches
Blowin’ that smoke on a Saturday night
A little messed up, but we’re all alright

Writer/s: LAIRD, LUKE ROBERT / MCANALLY, SHANE L. / CLAWSON, RODNEY DALE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, ROUND HILL MUSIC
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American Kids

This Rodney Clawson, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally penned tune celebrates the spirit of America's young people. Chesney first came across the song on a writing trip with McAnally, who wrote his previous hits "Somewhere With You" and "Come Over." "When I heard it, I knew I was gonna cut it," Chesney said. "It was unlike anything I'd ever heard - and I listen to a lot of songs. The rhythms, the images, the way the melody moved… It just grabs you and holds on, but even more importantly, it feels really good."

Clawson, Laird and McAnally wrote this song in a non-linear fashion, each adding words and phrases as they formed the song's lyric. McAnally says that in the end, the successive images give you the feeling that you're watching a slide show.

The song contains the line, "A little messed up, but we're alright." Chesney reflected: "Hey, life is hard. People work long hours, have all kinds of stuff going on in their personal lives. But if there's one thing I've seen over the last 10 years, looking out at the faces in the crowd: you can't keep my fans down. These are people who no matter what are in love with life, and they're gonna find the good times no matter what."

"It's not a perfect world," he added. "We are all a little screwed up, but we're all okay. I love the idea of the screw up as part of it, because honestly it makes the parts that're great, that much better. You appreciate those things that much more."

The song celebrates the spirit of youth across America. "There is so much more to being alive than partying, tailgates and bonfires," said Chesney. "It's every single detail of being young, growing up, remembering when, laughing about how, but especially knowing you can still do all those things! American kids are so much more complicated, more fun, more real — and if there's anything about this song, beyond the rhythms, the hooks and the playing, that I love, it's the fact that it captures all the little things that life really is made of."

Chesney worked with director Shaun Silva on the song's music video, which shows the country star out in the Southern California desert with a group of young people and a colorful psychedelic school bus. "The spirit of this thing - the song, the bus, the idea of the kids riding around, having fun, playing music and just celebrating life - makes you want to get involved," Chesney told Entertainment News. "Fun is where and how you make it. Out in the sun with a bunch of friends - and the people who work on my videos have been making them with me for more than a decade - even buckets of paint and a bus that needs to be covered can give you a reason to have fun."

Kenny Chesney was the first choice for this song, but the writers never heard back from him so Little Big Town started working on it. Shane McAnally later joined Chesney in St. John, where the pair wrote "Wild Child." When they were flying back home, Chesney said he was worried that he didn't have a first single for his The Big Revival album. He opened his laptop and started going through some old emails when he noticed the demo of "American Kids" that McAnally had sent him months earlier. Chesney admitted that he never listened to the song, but when he put on his headphones and gave it a spin, he was hooked and knew right away that it would be the single. McAnally says that Little Big Town was very gracious about it when he asked them to give the song up.

Lady Antebellum passed on the song before Chesney recorded it. "It just didn't fit," said Charles Kelley of the trio to The Tennessean. "'American Kids' is a song about growing up in the '70s. It makes more sense with Kenny Chesney."

John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses," Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A." and Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" are all referenced in the song (the latter with the lyric "blue jean baby").

Matthew Good - Anti-Pop

Matthew Good - Anti-Pop Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Audio Of Being
Released: 2002

Anti-Pop Lyrics

Do do do
Do do do
Do do do
Do do do

Let's get the party started
All born to stay up late
No one gets out of this one
No one gets out of this

Got a life from life on TV
Two eyes that stay in my skull
Long enough to start believe
If you give it up they'll love you for it
Give them blood and they'll love you for it

You're not my girl
You're just tired

You're not my girl
You're just tired

You're not my girl
You're just tired

Do do do
Do do do
Do do do
Do do do

Let's get the party started
All born to stay up late
No one gets out of this one
No one gets out of this

You're not my girl
You're just tired

You're not my girl
You're just tired

You're not my girl
You're just tired
You're just tired

Give it up and they'll love you for it
Give them blood and they'll love you for it

You're not my girl
You're just tired

You're not my girl
You're just tired

You're not my girl
You're just tired
You're just tired

Do do do
Do do do
Do do do
Do do do

Writer/s: GOOD, MATTHEW
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Anti-Pop

This song is about Sugar Jones, a Canadian Pop band formed on a TV show that dissolved after two singles.

Mary J. Blige - See That Boy Again

Mary J. Blige - See That Boy Again Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Think Like a Man Too
Released: 2014

See That Boy Again Lyrics

I remember standing there grooving
Nodding my head just moving
My girlfriend dragged me to this place
Staring at the crowd like we do
I saw this guy through the people
And that’s when I saw your face
But you came over to me
As sweet as can be
And grabbed my left hand
Started stepping
What else did I need to know
I said yes if you wanted to go
'Cause you are heaven
But you left me here

So I gotta See That Boy Again
'Cause I wanna feel that joy again
I remember leaning on his shoulder
Something and Cola
What he ordered
That’s why I, I am on this floor again
I wanna see that boy again

Listen to me

My girlfriend says introduce her
But I ain’t gonna lie, I wanna lose her
You’re so nice you want to pay
Ooh you have a way with females
I didn’t get your number or email
What the hell was in my brain
'Cause I know that you believe
But I couldn’t let you see that I was stressing
I lost breath and
Then you grabbed your Mercedes keys
But you paused before you leave
And I just stood there
Like I didn’t have a care

So I gotta see that boy again
'Cause I gotta feel that joy again
I remember leaning on his shoulder
Something and Cola
What he ordered
That’s why I, I am on this floor again
I wanna see that boy again

Listen to me

It’s like the part in a movie
That get away
Oh no, not the person you want
The person you want is losing
So you pray
But the circumstances, changes course
Which is entirely up to the boss
But remember
Just because it’s written don’t mean you can’t play
Your hand to change your fate

So I wanna see that boy again
'Cause I wanna feel that joy again
I remember leaning on his shoulder
Something and Cola
What he ordered
And so I, I’m on this floor
I’m on this floor looking for you
Where did you go
Where did you go
I’m on this floor
I don’t wanna leave without you baby
Where is my baby

Writer/s: WILLIAMS, PHARRELL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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See That Boy Again

This soulful ballad finds Blige regretting a missed opportunity to hook up with a guy who captured her heart. She recorded the orchestral song for the Think Like a Man Too movie soundtrack.

The song features a contribution from Pharrell Williams. The "Happy" star previously worked with Blige when he produced her No More Drama track "Steal Away."

Matthew Good - Deep Six

Matthew Good - Deep Six Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Underdogs
Released: 1998

Deep Six Lyrics

Deep Six come to bed,
Good night and take care
Who knows maybe our luck will change
Poly-urethane
People live in the rain
Who knows maybe our luck will change

[Chorus]
And I don't know, I don't know
I don't know where you think you are,
I don't know pretend you know
I don't know where you think you are
And I don't know, I don't know
I don't know where you think you are

Big crash, funny car
It's where you been, where you are
Think fast and kill what you cannot change
Still though this is fun
Find a box when I'm done
Who knows maybe my luck will change

[Chorus]

Deep Six come to bed,
It's midnight everywhere
Who knows, who knows
Poly-urethane,
People live in the rain
Who knows maybe our luck will change
Maybe our luck will change

[Chorus]

Writer/s: Good, Matthew / Genn, Dave
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Deep Six

This is Good's rebuttal to Oasis singer Noel Gallagher's comment that rock and roll is only about "partying and getting drunk."

Ne-Yo - Money Can't Buy

Ne-Yo - Money Can't Buy Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Non Fiction
Released: 2014

Money Can't Buy Lyrics

You lookin' better than a Scarface starter kit
All hundreds, small faces nothin’ counterfeit
You want this ghetto D? Or that over the counter shit?
Catch you slippin’ in the kitchen, on the counter shit (damn)
Oh shit (sup), I guess I’ll pause for these bitches
Guess I’ll ball for these niggas, swear this my last three swishers
On my grown man shit I’m ‘bout to kill this bitches

Baby you know I got some money
Girl, the dough ain't a problem for me
But when I look in your eyes
Baby you got everything money just can’t buy
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)

Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Got a diamond on my lap and my sunroof off
Her mind strong but her body so soft
Tattoo on her hip read “Only for a Boss†
She ain’t impressed with the way I ball
She said “You seen one ghost, you seen ‘em all†
Even though that thing cold
She said “A Rolls Royce or a Civic, Daddy I’mma roll with you†
She ride for me, die for me, love me, that’s how she do
I pulled up close and I tell her what’s true

Baby you know I got some money
Girl, the dough ain't a problem for me
But when I look in your eyes
Baby you got everything money just can’t buy
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)

Shawty where you at? Meet me at the mall
Told her “Let me buy you something†, she replied “Naw†
She said her love won’t be bought
I don’t need to spend some no money, spend some time that’s all
I told her “Daddy don’t mind spending†
I want to see you shine like the diamonds in my pendant
She told me she don’t care for the flash
Want affection not cash, girl I ain’t even mad at you
She ride for me, die for me, love me, that’s how she do
I pulled up close and I tell her what’s true

Baby you know I got some money
Girl, the dough ain't a problem for me
But when I look in your eyes
Baby you got everything money just can’t buy
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)

What’s happening with it baby? Hope you don’t think that I’m crazy
Say me and you, get us some practice makin' a baby
I will take some out the stash and buy you that new Mercedes
Then be all up in that ass in the back of that new Mercedes
You call for the protectin', yeah, send me your issues
They ain’t ‘bout to be playing with her, me and these pistols
See that thirty-six for D’Usse, I’m the provider
Come scoop me in that 458, you be the rider
(Yeah) Oh well, that’s that, back to the party
Bet you niggas anything I’m leaving here with shawty
Got a feeling that she fuckin’ with me for me
She got me feeling like I got a million on me

Baby you know I got some money
Girl, the dough ain't a problem for me
But when I look in your eyes
Baby you got everything money just can’t buy
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)
(All the things money can’t buy)

Writer/s: SMITH, SHAFFER / HESTER, ANTHONY / DE VAUGHN, WILLIAM E. / JENKINS, JAY W. / HUMPHREY, MONTAY DESMOND
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Money Can't Buy

The lead single from Ne-Yo's Non Fiction album finds the singer returning to his R&B roots. Ne-Yo said that the sound of the record was, "99.999998 percent R&B." He added: "I can't completely abandon that fanbase, because, as I said, they kept the lights on for a very long time."

This song, like the rest of the LP is based on an actual experience. Ne-Yo said. "The album is composed of songs based on true stories from my fans, family and my life."

This features a couple of rapped verses by Jeezy. Previous collaborations between the pair include "Leave You Alone," the fifth single from the then Young Jeezy's album, Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition.

Matthew Good - Everything Is Automatic

Matthew Good - Everything Is Automatic Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Underdogs
Released: 1998

Everything Is Automatic Lyrics

Miss my head, miss my heart, miss my lungs
Be what you want to be
Watch what you want to see
Killed for fun
Down a hole, up a rope
Down some pills, up some hope
This karma machine only takes quarters
New age soldier, new age soldier

Everybody's all right
Everything Is Automatic
And everybody's all right
Everything is skin deep

Everybody's all right
And everything is automatic
Everybody's all right
And everything is skin deep, me

Say hey, say hey, say how ya doing
Say hey, say hey, say how ya doing

I miss my lazy boy
I miss my tv
I miss myself
Do you miss your lazy boy
Do you miss your tv
Do you miss yourself

Everybody's all right
Everything is automatic
Everybody's all right
Everything is skin deep

Everybody's all right
Everything is automatic
Everybody's' all right
Everything is skin deep, me

It's always what i wanted
It's always what i wanted
It's always what i

Killed for fun
It's fucking funny don't you think
One day you'll decompose
And you wake up and those
Those birds are singing
Those birds are singing

It's always what i wanted
It's always what i wanted
It's always what i
It's always what i

Everything is skin deep

Writer/s: Faithfull, Marianne / Mavety, Joe / York, Stephen / Reynolds, Barry / Stannard, Terence
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Everything Is Automatic

According to Good, this is about "the plasticity of things."

The lyric, "Those birds are singing..." is most likely a reference to a line towards the end of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

PSY - Hangover

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PSY - Hangover Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: single release only
Released: 2014

Hangover Lyrics

Hangover

This raucous party anthem features Snoop Dogg. PSY told Billboard magazine that he immediately thought of the Californian rapper when the track's title popped into his head. "One day I wrote a hip-hop track and I thought about one catchy word," he said. "I was hungover and I thought about hangover, so I just recorded it right away. As soon as I got that hook part I thought about Snoop Dogg, because we all know he's hanging over every day."

Pasy added that securing Snoop's services proved simple. "I called him and said 'I'm PSY, do you know me?' and he was like 'What?'" he recalled. "I said 'can you feature on my song' and he's asking the title and I say 'Hangover.' And he said, 'Oh, I'm doing it.' So, that's how we met."

Fans got their first taste of the viral song on June 8, 2014 on a special prime time airing of Jimmy Kimmel Live! following the NBA Finals. The five-minute music video debuted immediately on YouTube following the song's preview.

The video features PSY and Snoop Dogg getting their drink on in various Korean locations. The visual was shot in January 2014 during Snoop Dogg's visit to South Korea, but it appears the Korean star waited for the summer hangover season to begin before releasing it. "Snoop and I both had only 18 hours," PSY told MTV News. "Snoop's calculation was 8 hours of shooting and 10 hours of partying. That's what he thought, and honestly, that's how I convinced him to bring him to Korea."

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Pearl Jam - Rival

Pearl Jam - Rival Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Binaural
Released: 2000

Rival Lyrics

Rival

This song was written about the tragedy at Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado. On April 20, 1999, 2 students shot up the school, killing 12 kids and a teacher before killing themselves. (thanks, Zipper - Phoenix, AZ)

On the lyric sheet that comes with the album, there is a note in Eddie Vedder's handwriting that says, "Growing up gay in Littleton."

This isn't the first Pearl Jam song about a high school shooting. Their 1992 song "Jeremy" is about a boy who shot himself in front of his English class.

Tiesto - Wasted

Tiesto - Wasted Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: A Town Called Paradise
Released: 2014

Wasted Lyrics

I like us better when we're Wasted
It makes it easier to fake it
The only time we really talk
Is when our clothes are coming off
I like us better when we're wasted
It makes it easier to say it
Lay all your laundry on the bed
And then I'll lay in it instead
I like us better when we're wasted
Oh oh oh oh

You are a glass half empty
Sipping my ocean dry
Emotionally spent me
Til none of our planets could align
But I could stand you one more night

I like us better when we're wasted
It makes it easier to say it
Lay all your laundry on the bed
And then I'll lay in it instead
I like us better when we're wasted
Oh oh oh oh

You are a catch 22
Either way I miss out
All of the grief I'd give you
Is energy I can live without
But I could stand you one more night

I like us better when we're wasted
It makes it easier to say it
Lay all your laundry on the bed
And then I'll lay in it instead
I like us better when we're wasted
Oh oh oh oh

I like us better when we're wasted
It makes it easier to say it
Lay all your laundry on the bed
And then I'll lay in it instead
I like us better when we're wasted
Oh oh oh oh

Writer/s: HUGHES, LEWIS / AUDINO, NICHOLAS / BAIR, MATTHEW / VERWEST, TIJS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Wasted

The second single from Tiesto's A Town Called Paradise album features vocals from Matthew Koma. The New York-bred singer and songwriter is best known for co-writing Zedd's hit tune "Clarity" and providing vocals on Hardwell's club tune "Dare You."

Matthew Koma also co-wrote the song with Tiësto & Australian production and songwriting duo Twice as Nice. Koma and Twice as Nice had previously worked together on the New York singer-songwriter's second single "One Night."

The song wasn't what Tiesto originally expected. "I wanted to make an indie rock/EDM song, and the song became 'Wasted,'" he explained to MTV News. "It's different from anything I've done before, I was really surprised about how it came out."

Pearl Jam - Daughter

Pearl Jam - Daughter Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Vs.
Released: 1993

Daughter Lyrics

You guys ready,
Alone, listless, breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl, violins, center of her own attention
Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down, it's in her head
Painted room, can't deny there's something wrong

Don't call me Daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me

She holds the hand that holds her down
She will, rise above,
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me

Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me

The shades go down
The shades go down
The shades go, go, go

Writer/s: ABBRUZZESE, DAVE / MCCREADY, MICHAEL DAVID / AMENT, JEFFREY ALLEN / GOSSARD, STONE C / VEDDER, EDDIE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Daughter

This was written from the perspective of a girl with a learning disability called dyslexia and her mother who doesn't understand the condition. Eddie Vedder explained in Pearl Jam - The Illustrated Story:
The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehavior, as just outright rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the s--t beaten outta them. The song ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down so that the neighbors can't see what happens next. What hurts about s--t like that is that it ends up defining people's lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. Good, creative people are just f--king destroyed." (thanks, Snorkyller - Quebec City, QC)

The album was originally titled "Five Against One." The band changed their mind and decided to call it "Pearl Jam," then decided on "Vs." Some copies were already printed as "Pearl Jam" before they renamed it.

Bass player Jeff Ament took the photo that appears on the album cover. It shows a sheep gnawing through a wire fence, and represented trying to get out from a cage.

During the short instrumental break, Pearl Jam often extends the song by adding a short song or poem in live shows. (thanks, Elliot - St. Louis, MO)