His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

Released in 1989, The Iceberg / Freedom of Speech ... Just Watch What You Say established his popularity by matching excellent abrasive music with narrative and commentative lyrics.

Out of this collaboration came his first musical, Always You, for which he wrote the book and lyrics.

... " I Want You Right Now " sounds exactly ( down to the lyrics ) like a song called " I Want You " by the Troggs, a British group who came on with a similar sex-and-raw-sound image a couple of years ago ( remember " Wild Thing "?

But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including " I Don't Know Enough About You " and " It's a Good Day " ( 1948 ).

In the early stages of ABBA, Anderson co-wrote many of the songs ' lyrics, among them some of the band's biggest hits, such as " Ring Ring " ( 1973 ), " Waterloo " ( 1974 ), " Honey, Honey " ( 1974 ), " I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do " ( 1975 ), " Mamma Mia " ( 1975 ), " S. O. S " ( 1975 ), " Fernando " ( 1976 ), " Dancing Queen " ( 1976 ), " Knowing Me, Knowing You " ( 1977 ), and " The Name of the Game " ( 1977 ).

Jack White ( musician ), of The White Stripes, is originally from Detroit and played many times in Toledo early in his career ; the song " Expecting " contains the lyrics " You send me to Toledo ".

He often composed specifically for the style and skills of these individuals, such as " Jeep's Blues " for Johnny Hodges, " Concerto for Cootie " for Cootie Williams, which later became " Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me " with Bob Russell's lyrics, and " The Mooche " for Tricky Sam Nanton and Bubber Miley.

The album The Real Ambassadors has a vocal version of this piece, " You Swing Baby ( The Duke )", with lyrics by Iola Brubeck, Dave Brubeck's wife.

Much of the success of the album was due to the lead single, the upbeat " You Can Call Me Al ", whose lyrics describe a man experiencing an identity crisis.

Both " Roxanne " and the second single from " Outlandos d ' Amour ", " Can't Stand Losing You " were banned by the BBC, respectively for the allegedly graphic lyrics about prostitution and the cover of the single, that featured Copeland hanging himself over an ice cube slowly melted by a radiator.

" Indeed, the song " Do You Believe In Magic ," a Top Ten hit, mentioned the genre in its lyrics: " If you believe in magic, don't bother to choose / If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues / Just go and listen, it'll start with a smile / That won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try.

The subculture surfaced on Broadway as musical comedy in The Nervous Set ( 1959 ) by Neurotica editor Jay Landesman and Theodore J. Flicker with music by Tommy Wolf and lyrics by Fran Landesman ; this was the source of two jazz standards, " Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most " and " The Ballad of the Sad Young Men " ( recorded by Gil Evans, Anita O ' Day, Roberta Flack, Petula Clark, Rod McKuen, Shirley Bassey and others ).

The lyrics are generally believed to concern McCartney's relationship with Jane Asher, also considered to be the muse for future Beatles songs such as " I'm Looking Through You " and " You Won't See Me " from Rubber Soul and " For No One " from Revolver.

Shortly after he decided to leave, Lennon wrote a song called " Maharishi " which included the lyrics, " Maharishi / You little twat "; the song became " Sexy Sadie ".

Others included " Mean Mr. Mustard " and " Polythene Pam " ( both of which would be used for the medley on Abbey Road ); " Child of Nature " ( recorded with drastically different lyrics as " Jealous Guy " for Lennon's Imagine ); " Etcetera " ( a McCartney composition ); " The Long and Winding Road " ( completed in 1969 for the Let It Be LP ); " Something " ( which ended up on Abbey Road ); and " Sour Milk Sea " ( which Harrison gave to friend and Apple artist Jackie Lomax for his first LP, Is This What You Want ).

Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as " If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me " by The Bellamy Brothers, which is based on an old Groucho Marx quote, where the person being talked to is asked, by one interpretation if they would be offended, and by the other, if they would press their body against the person doing the talking.

* Best Original Song (" It Might Be You "): Dave Grusin ( music ), Alan Bergman ( lyrics ) and Marilyn Bergman ( lyrics )

Campanella was also mentioned in the lyrics of the song " Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball?

In Paste Magazine No. 22 June / July 2006-a Special Collector's Issue featuring the 100 Best Living Songwriters-Mark Heard was remembered as well under the heading Wish You Were Here: " Mark Heard's lyrics are weighted with such a wry longing that they'll forever reflect a fresh turbulence.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.

The song tells of disappointment, as the lyrics, " Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky ", show someone pining for her man to return.

In response to accusations that his band's lyrics desensitize people to violence, Alex Webster argued death metal fans enjoy the music only because they know the violence depicted in its lyrics is not real:

And those melodies are even more appreciated when you know the lyrics.

The inscription on the crypt's door quote the lyrics from one of his hits: " When the end comes, I know, they'll all say ' just a gigolo ' as life goes on without me.

Buffett played several popular songs including " Fins ", " Son of a Son of a Sailor ", " A Pirate Looks at Forty " and a modified version of " Margaritaville " where the lyrics were changed in the chorus to " now I know, it's all BP's fault.

As tensions increased, Graffin would sing alternate lyrics during concerts such as " I want to know where Brett gets his crack " or " I want to know why Gurewitz cracked ," on the song " Stranger Than Fiction ".

The lyrics are really ... they're not as dramatic as they sound, you know?

In the musical number that accompanies Firefly's first day in office, Groucho lets the audience know how things will run, singing lyrics such as " The last man nearly ruined this place, he didn't know what to do with it / If you think this country's bad off now, just wait ' til I get through with it.

* The song " Side of a Bullet " by Nickelback is a tribute to Dimebag ; it takes place in a world where the killer is still alive and has lyrics such as, " He hit the stage so full of rage and let the whole world know it / 6 feet away they heard him say / Oh God, don't let him pull it.

Stipe insisted that many of his early lyrics were " nonsense ", saying in a 1994 online chat, " You all know there aren't words, per se, to a lot of the early stuff.

Yeston noted, " I am as much a lyricist as a composer, and the musical theatre is the only genre I know in which the lyrics are as important as the music.

The terms ‘ You ’ and ‘ I ’ are used rather than ‘ God ’ and ‘ we ’, and lyrics such as, ‘ I, I ’ m desperate for You ’, and ‘ Hungry I come to You for I know You satisfy, I am empty but I know Your love does not run dry ’ both exemplify the similarity of the lyrics of some CWM to popular love songs.

McDonald let the others know that he was already working with someone who could write lyrics.

It included the lyrics " I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing " and " All I preach is extinction ".

The lyrics of later versions differ, referencing former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, with Yorke singing " Did you lie to us, Tony ?/ We thought you were different / Now, y ' know, we're not so sure " at Earl's Court in November 2003.

His lyrics includes the lines: President Bush, he said to me: ' Colin, I know you will agree.

Humming is sometimes used to keep the melody when the singer does not know the lyrics.

" In an interview, MacKaye stated that he was offended that some perceived racist overtones in the lyrics, saying, " To me, at the time and now, it seemed clear it's an anti-racist song.

Many of the songs they wrote had overtly political lyrics, Gillespie said the band wished to convey " what it's like to be in Britain in this day and age.

* The Sandman is mentioned in the lyrics of the opening theme song of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: " It's hard to stay up, it's been a long, long day, and you've got the Sandman at your door.

A brand new theme tune was created for Knightmare VR and for the very first time it had lyrics, Which consisted of the words " Knightmare, it's a Knightmare " being vocoded to the music.

The song's deliberately suggestive ( but oblique ) lyrics such as " I'm the tomcat and you're my li ' l ol ' pussy " and " Wild and warm is my pussy / My pussy is where it's at " are common for the genre, a tradition followed in R & B.

by close friends, " pro-vid-ing it's with dignity " as the lyrics of the theme song say — is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats: Fancy Pants, Spook, Benny the Ball, Brain, and Choo Choo living in Hoagie's Alley.

I write down on paper the feelings of the moment, it's not easy to explain the contents of the lyrics or give a logical sense to the words.

On reading the lyrics, which featured a misspelled word, Araya sang it as it was spelled, although it's not a real word.

Stipe explained in 1984 that when he started writing lyrics they were like " simple pictures ", but after a year he grew tired of the approach and " started experimenting with lyrics that didn't make exact linear sense, and it's just gone from there.

(" I guess I'm headed that-a-way, Just as long as it's paved, I guess you'd say I'm on my way to Burma-Shave ") Chuck Suchy's song " Burma Shave Boogie " ( from his 2008 Unraveling Heart album ) incorporates several of the Burma Shave rhymes into its lyrics.

The lyrics from several songs from her 2009 album I Feel Cream tackle the issue of age, including Trick or Treat (" you lick my crow's feet "), Show Stopper (" Never mind my age, it's like we're breaking out of a cage ") and Mommy Complex.

" Night of the Living Dead " is titled after the 1969 horror film of the same name, and the song's lyrics address the zombie plot of the film: " You think you're a zombie, you think it's a scene / from some monster magazine / Open your eyes too late / This ain't no fantasy boy ".

Then it's time for the second team to sing their part of the lyrics below ( 2 ) as they advance in line.

In a transparent spoof of Quebec pop idol Mitsou, Cathy Jones played Jansu, a shallow, self-promoting pop singer who tried to be topical with lyrics such as " it's a political world / so separate your garbage !".

According to Glenn Danzig, the lyrics to " See All You Were " are “ about a love that's over .... some of it's drawn on experience .” The song " Hint of Her Blood " is “ about a girl who can only get off when she sees blood, and I didn't say her own, either ”.

* Tom Petty's " Let Yourself Go " mentions in lyrics " I got a 442 sittin ' in the sun, Well it's been ten years since she used to run, Man she was a beauty in ' 69 ..."

* " It's got words to it ... but it's more of an instrumental-with lyrics.

Vocalist ZP Theart has no qualms about emulating heroes like Bruce Dickinson ( Iron Maiden ) and Michael Kiske ( Helloween ), but his lupine howls have a character all their own ... Valley of the Damned may not be groundbreaking or cathartic, and lyrics like " In the land of desire with your heart filled with fire you live for the right to be free / We will sail on forever more to the land of the evening star " may cross the line into heavy metal parody, but it's undeniably entertaining, expertly played, and endlessly fun.

As a more popular song, it's also known by the first line of lyrics as " So leben wir " (" That's how we live ").

MacColl's melodious singing contrasts with the harshness of MacGowan's voice, and the lyrics are sometimes bittersweet — sometimes purely bitter: " Happy Christmas your arse / I pray God it's our last ".