iTunes Pick of the Day

Song: Misunderstood

Artist: Bon Jovi

Should I? Could I?
Have said the wrong things right a thousand times
If I could just rewind, I see it in my mind
If I could turn back time, you’d still be mine
You cried, I died
I should have shut my mouth, things headed south
As the words slipped off my tongue, they sounded dumb
If this old heart could talk, it’d say you’re the one
I’m wasting time when I think about it
[Chorus:]
I should have drove all night, I would have run all the lights
I was misunderstood
I stumbled like my words, Did the best I could
Damn, misunderstood
Could I? Should I?
Apologize for sleeping on the couch that night
Staying out too late with all my friends
You found me passed out in the yard again
You cried, I tried
To stretch the truth, but didn’t lie
It’s not so bad when you think about it
[Chorus:]
I should have drove all night, I would have run all the lights
I was misunderstood
I stumbled like my words, did the best I could
Damn, misunderstood
Intentions good
[Guitar Solo]
It’s you and I, just think about it…
[Chorus:]
I should have drove all night
I would have run all the lights
I was misunderstood
I stumbled like my words, did the best I could
I ‘m hanging outside your door
I’ve been here before
Misunderstood
I stumbled like my words, did the best I could
Damn, misunderstood
Intentions good.

iTunes Pick of the Day

Song: Changes

Artist: Will Young

This was written by Young, together with his frequent collaborator Eg White. Among White’s other songwriting credits are Will Young’s Ivor Novello Award winning “Leave Right Now” and James Morrison’s UK Top 10 hit, “You Give Me Something.”
Will Young said on his record label’s website: “Eg really brings the best out of me. Writing with him is like having a very frank conversation, straight to the heart. This is one of my most personal songs. I was in a bit of a rut and I didn’t even know it. Writing about the changes I needed to make actually helped me get out a situation where I felt trapped by my own actions. That really is songwriting as therapy!” (Songfacts.com)

Lyrics:

Gotta shake myself up here

I should run away, run away, run away

People say dont even go near

I can see the danger, Im aware, I see the danger

If I go back once again its like I learned nothing

Standing at the front of a queue 

Heading for trouble

Hope it changes

Hope my life changes

Gets alright somehow

Oh Im waiting for tomorrow

I hope it changes

Cant you stay the same 

Been out of luck for so long

And I dont get much so theres nothing much to lose

Its like a record going round

Yes its going round, going round, going round

I know I should wanna take it off

But I find it hard, why do I find it hard?

I used to have a vision

I was sitting somewhere up there

Looking down on myself

Doing right for once in my life

It changes

Hope my life changes

Gets alright somehow

Oh Im waiting for tomorrow

I hope it changes

Cant you stay the same

Been out of luck for so long

And I dont get much

So theres nothing much to lose

I just need a break

A little one

To get me up to watch the sun

And hey its peaceful here

Hope it changes

Hope my life changes

Gets alright somehow

Oh Im waiting for tomorrow

Hope it changes

Cant you stay the same (cant you stay the same)

Been out of luck for so long (cant you stay the same)

Dont get much so theres nothing much to lose

Changes

Oh Im waiting for tomorrow

Hope it changes

Cant you stay the same 

Been out of luck for so long

iTunes Pick of the Day

Song: I Wanna Be Sedated

Artist: Ramones

Joey Ramone came up with the idea for this song after he burned himself with hot water and had to be treated at a hospital. Ramone would inhale steam from a kettle before concerts to help clear his nasal passages.
The chorus, where Ramone sings about “Nothing to do” and “Nowhere to go,” was inspired by their 1977-78 tour when they ended up in London around Christmas. It was their first time in the city, but it was pretty much shut down. Joey and Dee Dee stayed in their hotel and watched movies.
For Johnny Ramones guitar solo, he plays the same note 65 times in a row. Very Punk. (Songfacts.com)

Lyrics:

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated

Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated

Just get me to the airport put me on a plane

Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane

I can’t control my fingers I can’t control my brain

Oh no no no no no

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go….

Just put me in a wheelchair, get me on a plane

Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane

I can’t control my fingers I can’t control my brain

Oh no no no no no

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated

Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-o I wanna be sedated

Just put me in a wheelchair get me to the show

Hurry hurry hurry before I go loco

I can’t control my fingers I can’t control my toes

Oh no no no no no

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go…

Just put me in a wheelchair…

Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated

Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated

Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated

Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated 

iTunes Pick of the Day

Song: Cherry Pie

Artist: Warrant


The lyrics and video are quite comical because they are so obviously about sex. Warrant got away with it because the sexual imagery had double meanings - there was no way to prove that they weren’t singing about an actual pie.
The woman in the video was briefly married to lead singer Jani Lane. Her name is Bobbie Brown, and she became one of the most famous video vixens of all time. She went on to a few acting roles, including movies The Last Action Hero and Kounterfeit and TV shows News Radio and Married With Children.

The song was written and recorded in a matter of days in a bid to satisfy their label bosses after the band had wrapped up and turned in their album. Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon told Rock AAA: “That record was done and the president of Columbia Records thought we need one more song, an upbeat anthem kinda like ‘We Will Rock You’ chanting kind of song. A couple of days later ‘Cherry Pie’ was written, we set everything up, recorded it and there wasn’t a lot of thought put into it. It was a last minute thing so for it to turn into of the biggest things we ever did was crazy – maybe we should have done them all like that.

In my opinion a hit is something that is contrived when a label shoves a song down your throat and has radio playing it. It is really just people hearing it over and over. Yes, it has to be a good song but if you hear something enough and people tell you enough times something is a hit – then it will be a hit.

This song was used in the soundtrack of Guitar Hero II. (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

Dirty, rotten, filthy, stinkin…

She’s my cherry pie

Cool drink of water such a sweet surprise

Tastes so good makes a grown man cry

Sweet Cherry Pie

Swingin’ on the front porch 

Swingin’ on the lawn 

Swingin’ where we want 

‘Cause there ain’t nobody home 

Swingin’ to the left 

And swingin’ to the right 

If I think about baseball

I’ll swing all night yea 

Swingin’ in the living room 

Swingin’ in the kitchen 

Most folks don’t ‘cause 

They’re too busy bitchin’ 

Swingin’ in there ‘cause 

She wanted me to feed her 

So I mixed up the batter 

And she licked the beater 

I scream you scream 

We all scream for her 

Don’t even try ‘cause 

You can’t ignore her 

She’s my cherry pie 

Cool drink of water

Such a sweet surprise 

Tastes so good 

Make a grown man cry 

Sweet cherry pie oh yea 

She’s my cherry pie 

Put a smile on your face 

Ten miles wide 

Looks so good 

Bring a tear to your eye 

Sweet cherry pie 

Swingin’ to the drums 

Swingin’ to guitar 

Swingin’ to the bass 

In the back of my car 

Ain’t got money

Ain’t got no gas 

But we’ll get where 

We’re goin’ if we 

Swing real fast 

I scream you scream 

We all scream for her 

Don’t even try ‘cause 

You can’t ignore her 

She’s my cherry pie 

Cool drink of water 

Such a sweet surprise 

Tastes so good 

Make a grown man cry 

Sweet cherry pie oh yea 

She’s my cherry pie 

Put a smile on your face 

Ten miles wide 

Looks so good 

Bring a tear to your eye 

Sweet cherry pie, yeah, pie

Swing it! All night long, 

Swing it! 

Swingin the bathroom 

Swingin’ on the floor 

Swingin’ so hard 

We forgot to lock the door 

In walks her daddy 

Standin’ six foot four 

He said you ain’t gonna swing

With my daughter no more 

She’s my cherry pie 

Cool drink of water

Such a sweet surprise 

Tastes so good 

Make a grown man cry 

Sweet cherry pie oh yea 

She’s my cherry pie 

Put a smile on your face 

Ten miles wide 

Looks so good 

Bring a tear to your eye 

Sweet cherry pie 

Sweet cherry pie

Swing it!

iTunes Pick of the Day

Song: You’re Beautiful

Artist: James Blunt


Blunt said on VH1’s The Vspot that he wrote this song about seeing his ex-girlfriend with a new man who he didn’t know about on a train in the London underground. He says that they shared a lifetime in the brief eye contact. The words came to him all at once.

In a February edition of Radio Times, James Blunt responded to a question about the girl he sings about: “The girl in question is my ex-girlfriend and she’s with her new man. I’ve always said that I haven’t seen her since and then the press tried to find her. I’m not bothered enough to start acknowledging or denying whether they found her.” 

In the video, Blunt jumps into the sea without a shirt. This can be seen as a suicide, as it goes with the last lines of the song, “But it’s time to face the truth. I will never be with you.”

In the radio edit, the line “I was f—king high” is replaced with “I was flying high.” 

Blunt’s birth name is James Blount, he changed it because he didn’t want to spell it out for people all the time. 

The Daily Record March 22, 2008 asked Blunt if he was bored with this monster hit. The singer-songwriter replied: “If I had the radio on all the time and they kept playing that song then yes, I’d probably turn it off. But do I still like the song? Absolutely. It’s a really personal song about a moment which meant a great deal to me. And I’m sure plenty of guys have seen their ex-girlfriend with a new man at some stage. It bites into you and I captured that in a really honest song. I love that song for capturing that moment. I’m saddened by what it reminds me of, and I appreciate what it did which is advertise an album I’d made.”

British Songwriter and producer Sasha Skarbek had been helping James Blunt develop his song craft for a while when the pair sat a piano one day in LA. During that session they developed this tune from a basic sketch into a complete song in just three hours. “It’s strange that the songs you become known for tend to be the ones that come so quickly that you almost question it,” Skarbek reflected to Q magazine June 2012.(Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

My life is brilliant.

My life is brilliant.

My love is pure.

I saw an angel.

Of that I’m sure.

She smiled at me on the subway.

She was with another man.

But I won’t lose no sleep on that,

‘Cause I’ve got a plan.

You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.

You’re beautiful, it’s true.

I saw your face in a crowded place,

And I don’t know what to do,

‘Cause I’ll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,

As I walked on by,

She could see from my face that I was,

Fucking high,

And I don’t think that I’ll see her again,

But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.

You’re beautiful, it’s true.

I saw your face in a crowded place,

And I don’t know what to do,

‘Cause I’ll never be with you.

You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful.

You’re beautiful, it’s true.

There must be an angel with a smile on her face,

When she thought up that I should be with you.

But it’s time to face the truth,

I will never be with you.

iTunes Pick of the Day

Song: I Drive Myself Crazy

Artist: ‘N Sync


Lying in your arms

So close together

Didn’t know just what I had

Now I toss and turn

‘Cause I’m without you

Now I’m missing you so bad

Where was my head?

Where was my heart?

Now I cry alone in the dark

I lie awake, I drive myself crazy

Drive myself crazy thinking of you

Made a mistake when I let you go baby

I drive myself crazy wanting you the way that I do

I was such a fool

I couldn’t see it

Just how good you were to me

You confessed your love, undying devotion

I confessed my need to be free

And now I’m left with all this pain

I’ve only got myself to blame

I lie awake, I drive myself crazy

Drive myself crazy thinking of you

Made a mistake when I let you go baby

I drive myself crazy wanting you the way that I do

Why didn’t I know it?

Why couldn’t I show it?

When I had the chance

Oh, I had the chance

I drive myself crazy wanting you the way that I do

I drive myself,

drive myself crazy wanting you the way that I…

the way that I…

I drive myself crazy

wanting you the way that I do

I do

that I…, that I…, that I…, that I…, that I…

I drive myself crazy

I drive myself crazy

I drive myself crazy wanting you the way that I do

iTunes Pick of the Day

Song: Call Me

Artist: Blondie


This song is about a prostitute. It was featured in the film American Gigolo in a scene where the lead character is “working.”
European Disco producer Giorgio Moroder wrote this with Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry, who thus became the first woman in British chart history to write three #1 hits. However she hadn’t been Moroder’s first choice. The Italian disco king had originally wanted Stevie Nicks to provide vocals on the track but the Fleetwood Mac vocalist declined the offer. (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

Colour me your colour, baby 

Colour me your car 

Colour me your colour, darling 

I know who you are 

Come up off your colour chart 

I know where you’re coming from 

Call me on the line 

Call me call me any anytime 

Call me my love you can call me any day or night 

Call me 

Cover me with kisses, baby 

Cover me with love 

Roll me in designer sheets 

I’ll never get enough 

Emotions come I don’t know why 

Cover up love’s alibi 

Call me on the line 

Call me call me any anytime 

Call me oh my love 

When you’re ready we can share the wine 

Call me 

Ooh, he speaks the languages of love 

Ooh, amore, chiamami chiamami. 

Oo, appelle-moi mon cherie, appelle-moi 

Anytime anyplace anywhere anyway 

Anytime anyplace anywhere any day, anyway 

Call me my life 

Call me call me any anytime 

Call me for a ride 

Call me call me for some overtime 

Take me out and show me off 

Put me on the scene 

Dress Me in the fashions of the nineteen nighties 

You’re the man no in between 

I know what you words can mean 

Call me call me any anytime 

Call me for a ride 

Call me call me for some overtime 

Call me in my life 

Call me call me in a sweet design 

Call me call me for your lover’s lover’s alibi 

Call me on the line 

Call me call me any anytime 

Call me 

Oh, call me, ooh ooh ah. 

Call me my love. 

Call me, call me any anytime. 

365 Day Song Challenge

Day 346 - The song you think you have played over and over and over the most in your life

Tears in Heaven - Eric Claptonp


Can it be played… in the guitar? =D


Clapton wrote this about his 4-year-old son Conor, who died when he fell out of a 53rd floor window in the apartment where his mother was staying in New York City. Clapton had one other child at the time: His daughter Ruth was born in 1987, the year after Conor was born.
Clapton wrote this with Will Jennings, who has written many famous songs from movies, including “Up Where We Belong” from An Officer And A Gentleman and “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic. Jennings wrote the lyrics to many of Steve Winwood’s hits and has also written with B.B. King, Roy Orbison, The Crusaders, Peter Wolf and many others. He told us:
“Eric and I were engaged to write a song for a movie called Rush. We wrote a song called ‘Help Me Up’ for the end of the movie… then Eric saw another place in the movie for a song and he said to me, ‘I want to write a song about my boy.’ Eric had the first verse of the song written, which, to me, is all the song, but he wanted me to write the rest of the verse lines and the release (‘Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees…’), even though I told him that it was so personal he should write everything himself. He told me that he had admired the work I did with Steve Winwood and finally there was nothing else but do to as he requested, despite the sensitivity of the subject. This is a song so personal and so sad that it is unique in my experience of writing songs.”
Clapton knew of Jennings from his work with Steve Winwood. Says Jennings: “Eric and Steve go back, they made that one record together years ago (with Blind Faith), and Eric followed all our writing from Arc Of A Diver, because he always kept up with Steve. We wrote an album called Talking Back To The Night that Steve and I did, and then the third album we wrote was the Back In The High Life album. So Eric knew about that, and he knew about the Crusaders things and the B.B. King things. He had said he always wanted to get together and write, so he called me for the film. Russ Titelman, who had produced the Back In The High Life album, was involved in the film, and that was the other connection.”
Jennings revised the lyrics as Clapton and his band worked on it in the studio. They had no idea it would be a huge hit. Says Jennings, “It was furthest through from my mind, really. I was so involved in the sensitivity of the subject, and I didn’t even think about that. I’m passionate about all the songs I write, but it was just in another place entirely, another category.”
Conor’s mother is actress Lory Del Santo. She and Clapton began dating while he was going through a divorce with his wife Pattie.
After Conor’s death, Clapton appeared in Public Service Announcements urging parents to put up gates to keep their children away from danger.
This won Grammys in 1993 for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal. Clapton was nominated for 9 Grammys that year and won 6.
Clapton played an acoustic version on his 1992 MTV Unplugged special. The performance was made into a very successful album, featuring acoustic versions of “Layla” and “Before You Accuse Me.” The acoustic version was used a the B-side of the acoustic “Layla” single in 1992.
Clapton’s 1986 album August is named for the month Conor was born.
In March 2004, Eric stopped playing this and “My Father’s Eyes” in concert. While touring Japan in November and December 2003, he discovered he could no longer perform them. Said Clapton: “I didn’t feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs. I really have to connect with he feelings that were there when I wrote them. They’re kind of gone and I really don’t want them to come back, particularly. My life is different now. They probably just need a rest and maybe I’ll introduce them for a much more detached point of view.”  (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
‘Cause I know I don’t belong
Here in heaven.

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven?

I’ll find my way
Through night and day,
‘Cause I know I just can’t stay
Here in heaven.

Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart,
Have you begging please, begging please.

Beyond the door,
There’s peace I’m sure,
And I know there’ll be no more
Tears in heaven.

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
‘Cause I know I don’t belong
Here in heaven.

365 Day Song Challenge

Day 344 - A song you like from a band that begins with the letter W

Say It Ain’t So - Weezer


his song is about lead singer Rivers Cuomo’s alcoholic step-dad, and how every time he drank, it pushed Rivers further away form him. Cuomo didn’t drink until he was 21.
Cuomo’s father began drinking when he was leaving Cuomo’s mother. At 16, Cuomo discovered beer in his refrigerator and realized his stepfather was leaving his mother.
The video was shot at the garage in the Los Angeles where Cuomo and Weezer bass player Matt Sharp lived. 
This song was used in the soundtrack of Rock Band. (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

Oh yeah.

All right.

Somebody’s Heine’ is crowdin’ my icebox 

Somebody’s cold one is givin’ me chills 

Guess I’ll just close my eyes

Oh yeah

Alright

Feels good

Inside

Flip on the tele’ 

Wrestle with Jimmy 

Something is bubbling 

Behind my back 

The bottle is ready to blow

Say it ain’t so 

Your drug is a heartbreaker 

Say it ain’t so 

My love is a lifetaker

I can’t confront you 

I never could do 

That which might hurt you 

So try and be cool 

When I say 

This way is a waterslide away from me that takes you further every day (hey)

So be cool

Say it ain’t so 

Your drug is a heartbreaker 

Say it ain’t so 

My love is a lifetaker

Dear Daddy, 

I write you in spite of years of silence. 

You’ve cleaned up, found Jesus,

things are good or so I hear. 

This bottle of Steven’s 

awakens ancient feelings. 

Like father, stepfather, the son is drowning in the flood

Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

Say it ain’t so 

Your drug is a heartbreaker 

Say it ain’t so 

My love is a lifetaker

365 Day Song Challenge

Day 343 - A song you like that begins with the letter W

What a Girl Wants - Christina Aguilera


Shelly Peiken and Guy Roche wrote this song, and Roche also produced it. The song finds Aguilera singing the praises of a guy who knows how to treat a lady and stand by her. (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

I wanna thank you for giving me time to breathe 

Like a rock you waited so patiently 

While I got it together 

While I figured it out 

I only looked but I never touched 

‘Cause in my heart was a picture of us 

Holdin’ hands, makin’ plans and it’s lucky for me you understand 

What a girl wants 

What a girl needs 

Whatever makes me happy sets you free 

And I’m thanking you for knowing exactly 

What a girl wants 

What a girl needs 

Whatever keeps me in your arms 

And I’m thanking you for being there for me 

Yeah Yeah 

A weaker man might have walked away 

But you had faith 

Strong enough to move over and give me space 

While I got it together 

While I figured it out 

They say if you love something let it go 

If it comes back it’s yours 

That’s how you know 

It’s for keeps, yeah, it’s for sure 

And you’re ready and willin’ 

To give me more than 

What a girl wants 

What a girl needs 

Whatever makes me happy sets you free 

And I’m thanking you for giving it to me 

What a girl wants 

What a girl needs 

Whatever keeps me in your arms 

And I’m thanking you for being there for me 

Yeah Yeah 

A girl needs somebody sensitive but tough 

Somebody there when the goin’ gets rough 

Every night he’ll be giving his love 

To just one girl 

Somebody cool but real tender too 

Somebody, baby, just like you 

Can keep me hangin’ around 

With the one who always knew 

What a girl wants 

What a girl needs 

Whatever makes me happy sets you free 

And I’m thanking you for knowing exactly 

What a girl wants 

What a girl needs 

Whatever keeps me in your arms 

And I’m thanking you for being there for me 

Yeah Yeah