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 end result is a song that retains familiar phrases and lyrics, but offers something new.

MacKaye was allegedly skipping practice sessions towards the end of the band's career, and he wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Salad Days EP in the studio.

They ultimately changed the lyrics from " The ball is kicked " to " The ball is tipped ", and the song is now played at the end of the network's NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship coverage.

The passage in which Meursault accepts his impending execution was read over the end of the song " Asa Phelps Is Dead " by The Lawrence Arms ; read by guitarist Chris McCaughan, the excerpt parallels certain themes in the song's lyrics by bassist Brendan Kelly.

Together with the release of " Strange Romance " at the end of 1996, Psyche created an accessible sound to bring listeners up to date with the personal events described in Darrin's lyrics.

Not knowing the lyrics to the song, he invented a gibberish melody to fill time, expecting the cut to be thrown out in the end, but that take of the song was the one released.

( Because the film was made during World War II, the film also anachronistically added some morale-boosting lyrics at the end of the song as part of Warner Bros .' wartime propaganda ).

It has been inferred from the elegance and quiet charm of his lyrics that he only gradually acquired fame towards the end of his life.

Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics (" Go, cat, go ") and the band changed the end of the song to a " boogie vamp ". On Ozark Jubilee Presley left Sun for a larger opportunity with RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, " Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now.

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.

At the end of the second contest, the music that was chosen for González's lyrics was composed by Jaime Nunó, a Spanish-born band leader.

However an instrumental horn version is played during the early scene where Rocky gets off the airplane, and at the end of the move after Rocky defeats Tommy, the first few seconds of the original version can be heard – though it never makes it to the lyrics.

He displays ignorance over the issues that unfolded in Ireland, once chastising the Irish over the potato famine with the remark, " at the end of the day, they will pay the price for being a fussy eater ", and also completely misunderstanding the lyrics to Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2, believing the song to " really encapsulate the frustrations of a Sunday " ( both of these conversations happened in front of two Irish television producers in To Kill A Mocking Alan ).

Thanks to a combination of guest raps, re-sung or altered lyrics and alternative backing tracks, some hip-hop remixes can end up being almost entirely different songs from the originals.

Rossdale sang a song titled " Adrenaline " written by Tina, whom he thanked for submitting the lyrics for the soundtrack of the movie xXx, which is featured during the end credits.

O ' Connor recorded a vocal version of " Remembering You " for a record album but, though he performed it several times on TV appearances, the lyrics ( about the end of a romance ) were never heard in the series.

The subject of the song is argued by some ; one side says the lyrics are not a continuation of the Melissa story but a tribute by the band to their past, while the other side sees it as the end of the Melissa story.

Glenn Miller and Teagarden collaborated to provide lyrics and a verse to Spencer Williams ' Basin Street Blues, which in that amended form became one of the numbers that Teagarden played until the end of his days.

Jackie Chan is celebrated in the lyrics of " Kung Fu ", and used the song for the end credits of his movie Rumble in the Bronx.

The Inkubus Sukkubus song Woman to Hare, from the album Vampyre Erotica is based on Isobel's statement, and quotes her words at the end of the lyrics.

The lofty language and uplifting lyrics referenced Belize's former status as a slave society indebted to profits from forestry, cleverly linking it to the end of Belize's colonial period, a process that culminated on September 21, 1981.

Regular callers included a Johnny Vegas soundalike, someone reading the results of the day's games in the Premier League, someone doing an impression of Darth Vader breathing, " The Duck ", and " Quarter-to-One Mick ", a Northern accented gentleman who each week would recite the lyrics of well-known songs towards the end of each show.

The lyrics do not mention the two administrative entities or the constitutional nations that make up the state, and end with the line " We are going into the future, together!

* The song featured at the end of the Family Guy episode " Whistle While Your Wife Works ", with new lyrics performed by Stewie.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

When used in that format, the lyrics were:

When requiring fresh ideas, Anderson would travel to New York, buy songs that had been American hits, and then translated or transcribe the lyrics on the return journey ready for a recording session shortly after and then have the record on the shelves within a few days.

When he was 25, Sondheim was introduced to Bernstein, who had heard Saturday Night and quickly hired him to write the lyrics to West Side Story.

When Massive Attack were asked, in a radio interview on CFNY-FM in Toronto, about why the lyrics were the same, they jokingly said that it was because he was lazy.

When asked, Lennon gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to " The Word ".

When Elvis Presley recorded the song in 1956, he combined Haley's arrangement with Turner's original lyrics but failed to score a substantial hit.

Some of his more famous lyrics include " Blue Moon ," " Mountain Greenery ," " The Lady Is a Tramp ," " Manhattan ," " Where or When ," " Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered ," " Falling in Love with Love ," " My Funny Valentine ," " I Could Write a Book ", " This Can't Be Love ", " With a Song in My Heart ", " It Never Entered My Mind ", and " Isn't It Romantic?

When the Pawn, which was produced by Jon Brion, used more expressive lyrics, experimented more with drum loops, and incorporated both the Chamberlin and drummer Matt Chamberlain .< ref >

* Japanese children sing this melody with improvised lyrics of " Monkey ( in Japanese, saru )-Gorilla-Chimpanzee " as a joke, while among grown-ups the lyrics as a title " Kuchibue Fuite ( When We Whistle ) are well known after a 1963 NHK children's program, Minna no Uta, performed this song.

She sang " When October Goes " – lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Barry Manilow ( after Mercer's death ) – from Manilow's 1984 album 2: 00 AM Paradise Cafe, and discussed what an excellent musician Manilow was.

Merritt is gay, and his lyrics are known for bending and blurring gender lines ; examples include the song " When My Boy Walks Down the Street ", which contains the lyric " and he's going to be my wife ," and on the single " Andrew in Drag ", from the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, he sings, " A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag.

" The song's lyrics includes lines such as " You could throw a twenty in a vat of hot oil / When he jump in after it, watch him boil.

When he learned that a teacher at his old primary school was having his students analyse Beatles ' lyrics, he added a verse of nonsense words.

The latter song was a re-recording of the song " Ladykiller " from the band's previous album When in Rome Do as the Vandals with slightly altered lyrics.

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When the Marines heard the lyrics, newspaper reports say they were all in tears.

When asked if he thought the incident was a case of racial profiling, Kravitz said he wasn ’ t sure although some of the lyrics in the song suggest otherwise.

More than two dozen independent theatrical and musical productions have been based on Einstein's Dreams, including a production at Chicago's National Pastime Theater in 2000, produced and directed by Patrizia Acerra and Dawn Arnold ; a production at Paradise Theater in New York in 2001, produced and directed by Paul Stancato and Brian Rhinehart ; a production at the Culture Project Theater in New York in 2003, directed by Rebecca Holderness ; a production at the People's Branch Theater in Nashville in 2003, adapted by Brian Niece and David Alford, directed by David Alford ; a musical production at the Martin Segal Theater of CUNY in New York in 2003, produced by Brian Schwartz with music and lyrics by Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Lessner ; a production by the Underground Railway Theater in Boston in 2006 ; and a production by the University of Memphis in 2006, under the direction of Gloria Baxter ; a musical composition titled " In This World " by Paul Hoffman in 2000 and performed by the Silverwood Trio on their own CD ; and a musical composition titled " When Einstein Dreams " by Nando Michelin in 2003 and performed by the Nando Michelin Group on a Double Times Record CD.

When Kember heard Mudhoney's version of " Revolution ", with altered lyrics, he was offended and this collaborative Sub Pop release was called off however.

At the 2005 Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner ( typically a satirical event ), Layton sent up himself and his party, playing guitar and singing three songs ; " Party for Sale or Rent " ( to the tune of " King of the Road "), a re-worked version of " Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out " with different humorous lyrics, and " If I Had Another $ 4. 6 Billion ".

Hwang is also at work on three new musicals — Bruce Lee: Journey to the West, with music and lyrics by David Yazbeck, Pretty Dead Girl with music and lyrics by Anne-Marie Milazzo, and Where or When, a dance musical by Christopher Gattelli and others — as well a play on the memoirs of Chinese-British actress Tsai Chin entitled Daughter of Shanghai.