who wrote the song i will always live you
The Man Who Sold the World


commented: "I guess I wrote it because there was a part of myself that I was looking for. Maybe now that I feel more comfortable with the way that I live my life and my mental state (laughs) and my spiritual state whatever, maybe I feel there's some kind of unity now. That song for me always exemplified kind of how you feel when you're young, when you know that there's a piece of yourself that you haven't really put together yet. You have this great searching
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I Will Always Love You


from "American Idol" is that most people don't know that Dolly Parton wrote [the track]". During an interview on The Bobby Bones Show, Dolly Parton revealed that she wrote her signature song "Jolene" on the same day that she wrote "I Will Always Love You." Several times (long before Whitney Houston recorded the song), Dolly Parton suggested to singer Patti Labelle that she record "I Will Always Love You" because she felt Patti could have sung it so well. However,
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She's Always Right


you are. Men stay the same and I always smile when I sing that song. I'm a much happier person in my marriage than I was five or six years ago because I figured that out." Walker told the "Lodi News-Sentinel", "I'm a romantic, so I like love songs. I guess there are a lot of people out there that are in love or want to be in love." Richie McDonald who co-wrote "She's Always Right" previously toured with
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In the House of Stone and Light (album)


, there is as there always is trouble in the world, and I really wrote it as a wish song." Also stated in the EPK by Page, about the song "I Was Made For You": "I did a song called 'I Was Made For You' and that song has a distinct kind of Gaelic feel to it." For the song "Light In Your Heart", Page states: "There's a song called 'A Light In Your Heart' which I wrote with Bernie
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What You Want (Evanescence song)


that the song's lyric "Remember who you really are" was "exactly everything you could assume it means". Another inspiration for the song came from Lee's life, "That song is me talking to myself about not being afraid and coming back to this thing and living the life I was born to live. Sometimes, it takes a lot to do this. And I do love it very much, but there is always that fear of putting yourself under the microscope." Speaking about the sound, Lee
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Love On Top


I see / Come on baby it's you / You're the one that gives your all / You're the one I can always call / When I need you make everything stop / Finally you put my love on top." The chorus carries the final two minutes of the song through four key changes, proceeding to D major, then to D major, E major and finally to E major. This was highlighted by Henderson who wrote that "the spirit carries both her and the song into a Stevie Wonder-
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Lisa Stansfield


/Hip-Hop Songs. In 1992, Stansfield toured Europe, Asia and the United States, and released "Live at Wembley" home video. In late 1992, she co-wrote and recorded "Someday (I'm Coming Back)" for the successful "". The song was released as a single in Europe in December 1992, after "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston, and reached top ten in the UK. She also wrote a song for Dionne Warwick Friends Can Be Lovers which
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Twisted (Stevie Nicks song)


was about people who had extreme jobs... like chasing tornadoes, or being in a rock band. Anyway... I really handcrafted this song for the movie. Unfortunately, if you saw the movie, you missed the song... and you certainly missed my message. So I decided to give you the original demo, recorded March 10, 1996 on a 4-track Tascam by my assistant extraordinaire, Karen Johnston. I was living in a beach house overlooking Sunset Boulevard and the Pacific Coast Highway, and beyond that, always... the
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I Will Always Love You


songs, published in May 2002. In January 2013, Whitney's version of "I Will Always Love You" has sold over 20 million worldwide, making it the best-selling song by a female artist of all time as well as one of the best-selling songs of all time. In February 2014, the song was placed at number six on "Billboard" list of the Top 50 'Love' Songs of All Time. A live performance was included on the 1999 release "Divas Live '99"
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Armageddon (Guy Sebastian album)


this world we live in". "Big Bad World" was written for his son Hudson who was born in March 2012. He said, "It's about that promise we all make to our kids, but realise we don't have as much control as we think. We want to protect them from the big bad world, but the promise matters the most." "Used to You" is a song Sebastian wrote for his wife Jules. He said, "I always say to her, 'I
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The Bodyguard (soundtrack)


and live performances of the songs from subsequent tours. The album's release coincided with a tribute to Houston and the music of "The Bodyguard" at the American Music Awards on Nov. 19 on ABC as performed by Christina Aguilera. Ahead of the performance, Aguilera wrote on Instagram, “I am excited, honored and humbled to perform a tribute to one of my idols.” All songs performed by Whitney Houston, except where noted. Notes "I Will Always Love You" "I Have Nothing" "I'm
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I Miss You (Beyoncé song)


time to grow attached to them. Andrew Unterberger of PopCrush praised the way Beyoncé delivers the line "Why is that?", writing that it is "a nice little nod to the confusion of heartbreak, and a rare, welcome glimpse of vulnerability for an artist who too often seems to have all of the answers." Referring to "I Miss You", Alexis Petridis of "The Guardian" wrote that "the [19]80s influence is not always a bad thing." He considered the song to be "
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Heavy Heart (song)


here.' I wrote that song for Charlie Rich who passed away around that time, unfortunately." "What I Don't Know 'bout You (live)" was taken from the Triple J Live at the Wireless performance that features on the #4 Record bonus disc 'Radio Sette'. "Midnight to Six Man" is a cover of The Pretty Things song. "She's So Fine" is an Easybeats cover. As one of You Am I's most popular songs Heavy Heart has been covered several times
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)


eventually surpassed by her version of "I Will Always Love You", five years later in 1992. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, who wrote Houston's 1985 song "How Will I Know, which became successful, and as a result, they were asked to come up with another song for Houston's then-new album. Originally the song that gave Merrill and Rubicam their British top ten success as Boy Meets Girl, "Waiting For a Star to Fall"
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I Need You (Paris Hilton song)


. The track opens with Hilton saying: "Babe I love you so much so I wrote you this song. I need you." She sings about love, saying she will "never lose sight of the reasons that I love you", and the safety felt in a relationship: "You make me want to be the woman I've always wanted to be." The chorus is: "Every hour of the day (every hour of the day), every day of the week (every day of
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I Always Get Lucky with You


of his self-damage, but everything I said to him was out of love," Haggard wrote in an article for "Rolling Stone" after his friend died. "Imagine you're George Jones, and every night you're expected to sing as good as you did on a song like 'She Thinks I Still Care.' He was a shy country boy from East Texas walking around with that on his shoulders. He knew people expected him to be the greatest country singer that ever lived. He was the
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I'm Always Here


"Skin" (this is not the Joe Henry who wrote Madonna's "Don't Tell Me"). The music is credited to Cory Lerios and John D'Andrea. With the line, "I won't let you out of my sight," this is an appropriate song for a TV series about lifeguards. The song itself is more likely a commitment to a girl, telling her that he will always be there for her. An instrumental version of was used as the ending theme of seasons 6 to 9 and
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Jesus Was a Capricorn


the singer telling Graeme Thomson of "Uncut" in 2016, "I wrote 'Jesus Was A Capricorn (Owed To John Prine)' because I was so influenced by John. When I heard his songs I felt like his writing had kicked me into doing it. You take things from all over the place, though you don’t always admit it! I was really influenced by Roger Miller, Shel Silverstein and Mickey Newbury. Everybody you admire influences you somehow in your art." Another song from the album with
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After the Dance (song)


"get together" after the two shared a dance. Throughout the entire "I Want You" album, which was dedicated to Marvin's live-in lover Janis Hunter (who wrote a 2015 memoir entitled "After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye"), the narrator — Gaye — brings up the dance concept in songs such as "Since I Had You". The song also served in a funky instrumental, which included a synthesizer solo performed by Marvin, who also played piano on the song and
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Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story


"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" is the finale song of Act 2 of the musical "Hamilton", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote both the music and lyrics to the song. After the death of Alexander Hamilton, the already deceased George Washington comes forward and repeats a line from his earlier song, "History Has Its Eyes on You": "Let me tell you what I wish I'd known/When
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I Will Always Love You


. Country music singer-songwriter Dolly Parton wrote the song in 1973 for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, from whom she was separating professionally after a seven-year partnership. She recorded it in RCA's Studio B in Nashville on June 12, 1973. "I Will Always Love You" was issued on March 18, 1974, as the second single from Parton's thirteenth solo studio album, "Jolene" (1974). In 1982, Parton re-recorded the song, when it was
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Invincible (Adelitas Way song)


and number six on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. According to Rick Dejesus, the song is about overcoming challenges: "When we wrote it, it was more for the state that everyone was in, everything, the country. People were saying that we were in a recession and I had the feeling like, man, you know what, we're the United States, man, you know. We've always been the strongest, we've always been the most powerful, we've always been the smartest and
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Rescue of Bat 21 Bravo


He wrote, "They deserve all the accolades that we, the living, can bestow upon them. Again, I thank them, I honor them, and I will always hold great faith in my heart with them." Clark was present. He told the families of the downed fliers that "Each of you played a distinct role and forming the character of these men who so willingly paid a very dear price to help me get out of the jungles of Vietnam. You have my deepest sympathy—you and these
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire


daughter go, but she was wed to one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the land. Her father, who had always shown affection to his children, wrote to her, "My Dearest Georgiana, I did not know till lately how much I loved you; I miss you more every day and every hour." Mother and daughter continued to correspond throughout their lives and many of their letters survive. From the beginning of the marriage, the Duke of Devonshire proved to be an emotionally reserved man who
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The Eton Rifles


, the Clash, the Sex Pistols were producing some amazing music and everyone liked the song because of the title. But of course I understood what it was about. It was taking the mick out of people running around the cadet force. And he was poking a stick at us. But it was a great song with brilliant lyrics. I've always thought that if you can only like music if you agree with the political views of the person who wrote it, well, it'd be rather limiting." The
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I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song


"Time in a Bottle") in late 1973, "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" was chosen as the second single released from his final studio album. Croce wrote the song in early 1973 when he arrived home and got into a disagreement with his wife, Ingrid. Instead of arguing with her, she has stated that Croce "went downstairs, and he started to play like he always did when he wrote ... the next morning, he came up early in the morning and sang
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I Believe in You and Me


song on the "National Lottery" show, broadcast live on the BBC in the United Kingdom on March 15, 1997. The song was performed optionally on her 1998 European Tour. For her My Love Is Your Love World Tour in 1999, it was performed as the first song for 'Movie Medley'. The performance of the song in Sopot, Poland was broadcast live on Polish TV channel, TVP1, on August 22, 1999. Houston performed the song along with "I Will Always Love You" as a
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Den ständiga resan


"You really learn to live this life – a very strange life – because you're almost always travelling and there's always people around you, wherever you are, so you rarely have peace and quiet to be yourself. ... I sat and wrote ["Den ständiga resan"] while I was having lunch, because there was a certain quiet then. It was such an intrusive routine." The record contains some of the most oppressive lyrical content Fredriksson has written. She described the title track as "pure and
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No Letting Go (song)


States. The song was one of the many hits from the jumpy handclap riddim known as the Diwali Riddim, that was also produced by Marsden. According to Wayne Wonder, the song is about a girl that he once knew but he doesn't mention her name. He said in an interview with MTV in 2003 "I just wrote this song [about a girl] without calling her name in the song because she always said to me, 'You are always [calling] these other girls' names.' I
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Everybody Needs Somebody to Love


took a piece of your songs—a piece of the publishing—but in the end, you didn't have any pieces left. Even now, I'm still struggling to get the publishing, the royalties, and that'll never happen." Jerry Wexler maintained in 2002: "I know Solomon is upset about that, and I wrote him a long letter explaining how we wrote the song together and that he has always gotten his share of the royalties. I know that because I get royalty checks for the song
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I Will Always Love You


at Houston's funeral as her casket was brought out of the church. Parton complimented Hudson on her performance, saying,I was brought to tears again last night, as I'm sure many were, when Jennifer Hudson sang "I Will Always Love You" on the Grammys in memory of Whitney. Like everybody else, I am still in shock. But I know that Whitney will live forever in all the great music that she left behind. I will always have a very special piece of her in the song we
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Souvenir (song)


having re-recorded it previously. Keyboard player Paul Humphreys provided lead vocals and had co-written the song with Martin Cooper who had played live with OMD and was becoming part of the group. Frontman and co-founder Andy McCluskey was not a fan of the track. He has said: "I think you can always make a better case for a song you've written on your own...But everyone seems to think I hated 'Souvenir' just because it was Paul's song – not so. I genuinely
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The Divine Conspiracy


: "You can believe whatever you want to if it gives you strength, but you should not oblige others to believe the same thing and all the suicides commands, the honor killings, all that stuff, it gives me goose bumps even right now." Later on, she exemplifies with the songs "Living a Lie" and "Death of a Dream": "I wrote about a Christian couple who were pregnant, who had a baby which died at birth. That's "Living a Lie". "
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Cry Little Sister


any footage from the film. After hearing the track, director Joel Schumacher commented: "You nailed my theme song to "The Lost Boys"! I can't believe you wrote this without seeing a frame of film!". McMahon additionally explained: "I always say that if I'd have seen the film first, I would probably not have written 'Cry Little Sister'. I didn't want the song to be specific to the vampire. I wanted it to be about the longing for family from a
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Control (Traci Lords song)


of her lover as she sings "Let me kiss it and make it better/After tonight you will forget her". However, Lords later stated she initially wrote it about a drug addiction: "You will forget her" was always about "Forget your heroin." It was never about a person. When I wrote it, it didn't even cross my mind. But then, yeah, sure, later, I thought, "Let me kiss it - and I went, "Oh, **
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Steve Buscemi


I don't think of myself as having a career. I think of having jobs. When I work, I want to have good jobs. I want to do interesting films. I also want to make a living. You don't always work on the things that you can put your heart into, so it's good to work on things that you can get into one hundred percent. In 2002 Buscemi contributed to Lou Reed's concept album "The Raven" with the song "Broadway Song", and poems
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Pancho and Lefty


interview, Van Zandt recalled, "We got stopped by these two policeman and...they said 'What do you do for a living?', and I said, 'Well, I'm a songwriter', and they both kind of looked around like 'pitiful, pitiful', and so on to that I added, 'I wrote that song "Pancho and Lefty". You ever heard that song "Pancho and Lefty"? I wrote that', and they looked back around and they looked at
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Al Stewart


can live by. But it's not my quote. So if I say it I always credit it to Napoleon. There is another way of saying any of the things you want to say, rather than rehashing someone else's words. I think of songs as cinema, really. It's aural cinema. I want to show you a movie when I'm playing a song. That's essentially what I'm doing. And, of course, the songs are geographical too. One of the ways I get inspired
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Express Yourself (Madonna song)


by your inability to say what you feel or go after what you want. No matter how in control you think you are about sexuality in a relationship there is always the power struggle... always a certain amount of compromise. Of being beholden, if you love them. You do it because you choose to. No one put the chain around this neck but me. I wrote 'Express Yourself' to tell women around the world that pick and choose the best for yourself, before that chain around your neck, kills
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For a Boy


"For a Boy" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist RaeLynn. It was released to radio on March 23, 2015. RaeLynn wrote the song with Laura Veltz. RaeLynn told "Entertainment Tonight" that "I wrote it about this dinner date I went on, and this guy was super transparent with me and kinda wore his heart on his sleeve…You know, guys always wanna be macho and that kinda thing, so I had this idea of 'for a boy, this
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All My Loving


venue he then wrote the music on a piano backstage. He also said "It was the first song [where] I'd ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some kind of accompaniment. I've hardly ever done it since either." The lyrics follow the "letter song" model as used on "P.S. I Love You", the B-side of their first single. McCartney originally envisioned it as a country & western song, and George Harrison added a Nashville
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Diamonds in the Rough (album)


difference of who was playing. On tape or when we did it live. And I realized a large part of what he was doing was making it sound like I was playing the good part. And that’s basically the kind of guy he was." Prine admitted to "Bluerailroad" that he borrowed the melody for "The Late John Garfield Blues" from the Jimmie Rodgers song "Treasures Untold", stating "It's a really pretty ballad that he wrote. I learned that song early on and I always
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Al Hoffman


newspapers and magazines wrote about the craze. "Time" magazine titled one article "Our Mairzy Dotage". "The New York Times" simply wrote the headline, "That Song". Hoffman's songs were recorded by singers such as Frank Sinatra ("Close To You", "I'm Gonna Live Until I Die"), Billy Eckstine ("I Apologize") Perry Como ("Papa Loves Mambo", "Hot Diggity"), Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong ("Who Walks In
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Gypsy (Lady Gaga song)


for guests at a listening party for "Artpop" in Berlin's Berghain nightclub. She said of the song: "I wrote this song as I was travelling around the world... They say 'a Gypsy doesn't have a home.' But I do have a home. I have a home with you always." Seated atop a piano wearing a bra and short blond hair, Gaga performed an acoustic version of the song, singing with a heavy German accent while sporting a moustache. Brenna Ehlrich of MTV noted
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You Can't Always Get What You Want


Always Get What You Want' and 'Dear Doctor' – junk songs... I know they used me as a muse for those tough drug songs. I knew I was being used but it was for a worthy cause." The song was originally released on the B-side of "Honky Tonk Women" in July 1969. Although it did not chart at the time, London Records re-serviced the single in 1973 and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" reached number 42 on the "Billboard
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Absolutely Sweet Marie


": "When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty"; without attribution, Lethem imagines that Dylan "heard it…, cleaned it up a little, and inserted it into" this song. In 1940s, in notes on his lyrics page for the song "Pretty Boy Floyd," Woody Guthrie wrote: "I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law." Dylan, who has acknowledged being heavily influenced by Guthrie,
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I Love You Always Forever


mention of anyone with that name in the song. The chorus, “I love you always forever, near and far closer together”, is a quote taken directly from the book. "I Love You Always Forever" is written in the key of C major in common time with a tempo of 104 beats per minute. Lewis' vocals span from F to G in the song. "I Love You Always Forever" was extremely popular with the public. Andrea Ganis, executive VP of Lewis' record label,
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Torchy the Battery Boy


to bad boy Bogie) sailed the oceans in a pirate ship made of fruit. His comical song sung by Kenneth Connor was: "I'm Pongo the Pirate and I live in a grapefruit sloop and with my spy glass I spy and I peer and I snoop. I'm Pongo the Pirate, I love to pinch and spank. If I should catch you, I'll make you walk the plank. Pongo bad, Pongo bold. Pongo always looks for gold. Pongo bad, Pongo bold. Pongo always looks
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I Will Always Love You


sound like just another anthem of survival." Amy Linden of "Entertainment Weekly" wrote Houston's version "is artistically satisfying and uncharacteristically hip for the MOR songbird." Stewart Mason of AllMusic found Houston's cover "repulsively overwrought... so boomingly bombastic and glutinous with self-approbation that the tenderness of Dolly Parton's song is lost in the mire". "I Will Always Love You" won the 1994 Grammy Award for Record of the Year, and Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, her third award
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Worlds Apart (Betty Who EP)


Dancing" (2014). In an interview with Wonderland Magazine, Who explained the title: ""Worlds Apart" is actually a lyric from the song "Heartbreak Dream"[:] 'In the bridge when you hold me, it feels like you don’t know me, we are worlds apart.' I always like highlighting lyrics in all my songs. It feels like there is at least one lyric that always sneaks by you that you may not pay attention to had it not been highlighted to you initially
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Babul (Hindi word)


पल नई बहार मिले | Take your father's blessing! May you find a happy world. I raised you tenderly with love, like a flower, I used to swing you in my own arms like a swing. O delicate branch of my garden, may you always find spring. It is said that the singer Mohammad Rafi sang this song just before his own daughter's marriage. Shakeel Badayuni wrote this song for the 1957 classic "Mother India": "Pee ke ghar aaj pyaari dulhaniya chali" पी के घर
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I Love You Always Forever


US, and it was certified Platinum in Australia. In 2016, a cover version of the song by Australian pop singer Betty Who peaked at number six on the ARIA Singles Chart and topped the US "Billboard" Dance Club Songs chart. Inspired by H. E. Bates' novel "Love for Lydia", "I Love You Always Forever" is a pop song in which the singer declares her endless love for her significant other. The song was originally titled "Lydia", but was later changed because there was no
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The Colour and the Shape


in Arms" as "A typical love song. It's almost like a Knack song, just a simple pop song." Also in the song, Dave changed the last line which is meant to sing "always coming back I cannot forget you girl" to "always coming back I cannot forget you "Gil"" in reference to their producer Gil Norton. "My Hero" criticizes idolatry and instead extolls friends who are ordinary heroes, which has been considered a statement on fame and partially inspired by
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Carousel (Blink-182 song)


our first songs, if not our first? How do you feel not a part of it? I always feel I wish I wrote better lyrics, yet at the time it was so different for pop-punk. It was, like, so fast." The song is composed in the key of D major and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 148 beats per minute. DeLonge's vocal range spans from A to G. The song "begins with a mid-paced riff and some
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I Will Always Love You


soundtrack to "The Bodyguard", her film debut. The song has a saxophone solo by Kirk Whalum. She was originally to record Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" as the lead single from "The Bodyguard". However, when it was discovered the song was to be used for "Fried Green Tomatoes", Houston requested a different song. It was her co-star Kevin Costner who suggested "I Will Always Love You", playing her Linda Ronstadt's 1975 version from her album "
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Not Over You


I got behind the song, and I know a lot of people have been there too, it's just real. You don't always have to be romantic - sometimes it's important to just be real." Scott Schelter from "Pop Crush" realized that "The song finds DeGraw in a seriously depressed place. He sings about listening to the radio while staring at a picture of his ex and wishing they could still be together." It features a jangly piano and artificial drum beat. Scott Schelter wrote a
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Dancing Crazy


time. [One of my] favorite parts of the song is when is when I say 'I know whatever happens, you will be right by my side'. It's just like, you know you'll always have your friends there." Commonsensemedia wrote, "Dancing Crazy, ... has one thing on its mind: cutting loose on the dance floor until the wee hours of the morning. Written by Avril Lavigne, the song describes staying out all night, spending most of it dancing (with a little
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Now That You Got It


some more songs!' And I'm like, 'OK!' I went down there and wrote four songs and played three of them tonight. They're really fresh". In September 2006, during the Fashion Week, MTV News interviewed Swizz Beatz and he said to be working with Stefani as well, claiming: "She's always taking it to the next level. I love her background for music. She likes a lot of Caribbean sounds with hard beats". They worked on "Now That You Got
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Korn III: Remember Who You Are


. In April 2010 Davis revealed that topics for songs were "about me living my life for others when I shouldn't, people-pleasing all of the time, stress, guilt and all kinds of emotions we live with everyday that destroy us and tear us down. I write about all of the fake people around us and how I always try to fix other people's problems. I write what I feel, and it comes out naturally. I've got a lot of shit built up inside me; that does
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Til I Hear It from You


In the case of the Gin Blossoms [cover], it just so happens that Marshall [Crenshaw] co-wrote the song. I think the song stands on its own, and I love their version of it." It was Gerry Beckley who suggested "Til I Hear It from You" for the "Back Pages" project to his group co-member Dewey Bunnell, who had been unfamiliar with the song. "Til I Hear It from You" is one of three songs from "Back Pages"
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Chloë Sevigny


said in 2015: "I called my great aunt who lives in Florida over Christmas. I hadn't seen her in a while and she said, 'Oh, I never get to see you [in person] but I always see you in the back of US Weekly. They're always making fun of you,' and I was like, 'You know me, I dress crazy.' It makes me feel bad." Throughout her career, she has modelled for several high-profile designers, including
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Alessandro Del Piero


to be retired, this way, every child can dream of day of wearing it." On 30 June, Del Piero wrote an open letter to the Juventus fans thanking them for almost two decades of support, stating, "Above all what remains is the fans, you who are Juventus. That jersey that I loved and will always love, that I desired and respected ... From tomorrow I will no longer be a Juventus player, but I will always be one of you. Now a new adventure begins and I
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93 Million Miles


, the song talks about "no matter where you are in the planet, you can call it home." It received positive reviews, with critics calling it a touching and enjoyable song. The song was one of four songs on "Love is a Four Letter Word" that Mraz wrote with Michael Natter, a guitarist in his 60s who lives up in the mountains of San Diego, and has been playing the same guitar since 1967. Mraz told Artist Direct: "I met him at coffee shop gigs, open
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Mary Chapin Carpenter


... I think I'll keep her." Carpenter said, "That line has always stuck with me. It's just such a joke." The single received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. In the wake of "Come On Come On"'s success, Carpenter wrote songs for a variety of artists, including Joan Baez, who recorded "Stones in the Road" for her 1992 album "Play Me Backwards" after hearing Carpenter sing it live. She also wrote Tony Rice's song "John
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Sincerity Is Scary


band's lead singer stated that he wrote the song because of the difficulty one faces when being sincere. He elaborated that "you have to be really human and you have to be really soppy and bit of a sigh [...] And it’s easier to be ironic in the face of those situations [...] And then, I suppose I just noticed myself doing that, because I think I’ve always been kind of a positive person, and I kind of wanted to denounce, a little bit, and be
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Countdown (Beyoncé song)


"no less sexy for being unblinkingly true to life", and Jocelyn Vena of MTV News wrote that the song is "all about the rapture of true love". Kicking off with a reggae-ish beat, horns and drums, Knowles starts to chant the introductory lines, which also serves as the pre-chorus lines, "Oh, killing me softly and I'm still falling / Still the one I need, I will always be with you / Oh, you got me all gone, don't ever
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I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)


"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" is a song written and originally recorded by Hank Williams on MGM Records. It hit number two on the "Billboard" country singles chart in 1951. In his autobiography, George Jones printed the first six lines of the song and stated, "Its lyrics couldn't be more simple - or profound." According to Colin Escott's 2004 book "Hank Williams: The Biography", fiddler Jerry Rivers always claimed that Hank wrote the
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Father (Ms. Dynamite song)


Eyon, as young children - a painful time which is the poignant subject of her single Father... The double A-side with Judgement Day contains the hard-hitting lines: "I spent 23 years trying to be the f***ing man you should be/Taking care of your responsibility/Wanted clothes on our back and shoes on our feet/No help, but you always had your bag of weed." Ms. Dynamite expressed, "I wrote that song a year ago, and it surprised me, the anger in
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Play It Loud


Things to Come", "Know Who You Are" and "Sweet Box". All three performances have never surfaced since broadcasting. "Dapple Rose" features lyrics from Powell on an elderly horse. Recalling the inspiration behind the song, Powell recalled in 2009: "I've always had a fondness for horses and where I lived with my parents there were some fields over the back and there were always gypsies camping there. They used to have these horses and donkeys and they always looked dead to me. They were
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South of Heaven


of War" isn't King's favorite song either, which he attests "everybody always wants to hear" performed live. He confessed; "I like the ending, you know, I like the big heavy part and I always say, 'Let's put the heavy ending at the end of "Chemical Warfare" and just do the last half.' But I could never make that fly." Slayer has toyed with the idea of creating a live set mixed with selections from the album and 1990's "
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I Want to Drag You Around


, who produced the rest of the album, and Blondie's co-founder Chris Stein, although it was initially announced erroneously as being produced by Steve Lillywhite. Lyrically the song describes a man in a relationship who isn't always there, and the singer (Debbie Harry) wants to keep in control of him: “"I wanna drag you around"”. Popmatters.com reviewed the song in May 2014: ""World music is a fitting descriptor for much of the album. “I Want to Drag You Around
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Speed Langworthy


of Sigma Chi" for Sigma Chi. Langworthy found success with his 1925 hit, "Christofo Columbo (Thought the world was roundo)". The song was recorded by the Max Terr Orchestra by Pathé. "Dot's vot Looie uses" is a song written by Langworthy in 1925. The song pokes fun at the rise in Americans who still moonshine in defiance of Prohibition. Langworthy and Jean Anthony Greif wrote "I Can't Live Without Just You" in 1926. Langworthy wrote "By the side of the Omelette
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Alone in the Universe


I wanted a rocker for the album. You always need a rocker – at least I do. I was in the mood to do almost a Mersey Beat number and to me there’s something about "Ain’t It a Drag" that sounds a bit like Mersey Beat. All these years later, that whole Mersey Beat thing still works!". "I'm Leaving You" was a song Lynne wrote in tribute of his close friend and fellow Wilbury, Roy Orbison. He said: "I tried to write
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I Want You Back (Bananarama song)


"I Want You Back" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It is included on their fourth studio album "Wow!" and was released as its fourth and final single. The track was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio. The song originally had a different chorus and was titled "Reason for Living". Bananarama disliked this chorus and co-wrote the revised lyrics for "I Want You Back". Both versions were originally recorded with Siobhan
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In Case You Didn't Know (song)


Young co-wrote the song at the retreat with Tyler Reeve, Kyle Schlienger, and Trent Tomlinson. According to Young, the inspiration for the song came from a story told by Peters about his wife Brandy: "[Peters] said when he was a kid, his mom would not be the type to say "I love you" but he seemed to always know it in some way. Peters married his wife in March 1998 and he wanted to show his love for her by co writing this song."
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Wish You Were Here (Avril Lavigne song)


pop rock, and so now finally with this one, 'Wish You Were Here', being released, it feels right." The song comes from a place deep inside and is very much about someone in Lavigne's life. "I love this song. I like this song because I wrote it about missing somebody and that's something that we all go through at some point in our lives," she explained. "It's just about looking back and remembering all those good times you shared with somebody,
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Malcolm Eden


on last. Some of the songs I wrote on my own, like ‘Frans Hals’", also saying, "almost all of the McCarthy songs are sung by a 'character', like a character in a play. I often don’t agree with the sentiments expressed in the song, quite the reverse". He later formed the short-lived Herzfeld, who released an EP and a 10-inch album on the Duophonic label. In 2005, he contributed vocals to two tracks, "Where You Are"
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I Give You My Heart (Hillsong song)


"I Give You My Heart" (sometimes called "Lord, I Give You My Heart" or "This is My Desire") is a 1995 song by Reuben Morgan, who wrote both the music and the lyrics. The lyrics are about giving God the entirety of oneself. The song is widely used in congregational singing, particularly within evangelicalism. "I Give You My Heart" is a devotional song and is part of the contemporary worship music genre. The song is also a slow soft rock ballad. Among
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Who You Are (Jessie J album)


him. "He died the next day so I said to my mum 'but God didn't save him'. I was so angry and it really confused me. I always wanted to write a song about the experience, but I knew I had to be of an age where it wasn't tacky or depressing and had a lightness to it." She prefers the song with just an acoustic guitar; stripped down and bare. The album's title track, "Who You Are", was released to the
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Where I Find You


share a word of encouragement with them. This is always fun and adventurous and so life-giving to you and the person receiving ministry. The Lord just wants to work through us and use us to minister." Allmusic's Matt Collar said "Where I Find You, features more of the inspirational artist's melodic Christian pop." In addition, Collar wrote that "this is bright, positive-minded, and uplifting modern CCM." Collar cited the songs of "Steady My Heart", "We Are
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Miley Stewart


that the song didn't represent who she is or how she feels. Later in a concert, she performs it live revealing the entire song with its new lyrics. Then, in the episode "He Could Be the One" Miley wrote a song called "I'm Just Having Fun". While practicing with her band, Miley decided the song needed lyrical innovation and revamping. Then, when she was mad at her father; Miley altered the lyrics to a "I don't care what you say, I do
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Who You Say I Am (song)


Worship released the live version of "Who You Say I Am" as one of two tracks available during the digital pre-order period for "There Is More" (2018), the live album which was slated for an April release. On 6 April 2018, a live acoustic version of the song was released as a bonus track on the digital edition of "There Is More". Following the album's release, Hillsong Worship then released "Spotify Singles" which has two songs, including "Who You Say
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Hot Coko


one". Coko dedicated the song to her then three-year-old son Lil Tracy. Produced by Jerkins, the instrumentation consists of "interlocking jerky drum loops and squelching basslines" and a "stuttering production". Noisey's David Lehmann wrote it was similar to Jenkins' other late 1990s songs. Recording the song with "multi-layered vocals", Coko sings the lyrics: "Sunshine, sunshine / You brighten up my days / I love you always". "Vibe"'s Larry Flick likened the
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Pray (Sam Smith song)


embarrassed that I had known so little about the world and other people's lives. I went back to that great Nina Simone quote, that it is important to speak about the times you live in. I hadn't done that; I'd just written a bunch of songs about love. So I wanted to write about how I'm now starting to open my eyes, at 25, to what is going on in the rest of the world, and that it's not always pretty." Daniel Kreps of "
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I Told You So (Randy Travis song)


"I Told You So" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Randy Travis from his 1987 album, "Always & Forever". It reached number one on the U.S. "Billboard" and Canadian "RPM" country singles charts in June 1988. Travis had first recorded it on his 1983 album "Live at the Nashville Palace" under his stage name "Randy Ray". It became a local hit and one of his most requested songs at the club. In 2007, the song was covered
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Guy Sebastian


with me being true to who I want to be and what I enjoy singing." Sebastian began writing songs before entering "Australian Idol". "All I Need Is You", the second single from his debut album "Just as I Am" was written when he was a teenager, and fine-tuned during his time on "Idol". He also wrote gospel songs for his church during his teenage years. One of them, "Adore", was included in their 2004 album "Paradise Live:
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Live 2002 (Lara Fabian album)


on "Je t'aime" which is unexpectedly sung in a large part by the audience, leaving a tearful Fabian caught by surprise. The duet of "Tu es mon autre" was performed especially for the recording by the two composers of the song, Fabian and her longtime collaborator, Rick Allison. Both say to one another before the performance ""[...] a song that I wrote for you, and that you wrote for me [...]"". Live also included two versions of the single "Immortelle
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I Always Get Lucky with You


It's a great song. Merle Haggard wrote a good one there." Jones, who was about to hit rock bottom after spending most of the previous decade in a booze and drug-crazed wasteland, delivered a sterling performance, which became the last chart topper of his career, ironically bumping off "Pancho and Lefty," Haggard's hit duet with Willie Nelson. Haggard would record the song again in 2006 as part of the second Jones/Haggard release "Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again". A
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Catch My Breath


who co-produced the songs "You Love Me" and "If I Can't Have You" on "The Smoakstack Sessions" with Halbert in 2011. Clarkson remarked of writing the song, "we wrote it specifically for the fact of "10 years, wow." I feel like I'm finally starting to be happy and settled and figuring out stuff. That's why I wrote it." The song premiered on "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" on October 10, 2012 as the lead single from
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Rough Harvest


the acoustic arrangements on "Rough Harvest" in a September 30, 1999 article. "Actually, every song I ever wrote I wrote on acoustic guitar first. That's pretty much how the songs sound before I put electricity to them. When I start arranging, it's a big step when you have to add a band to the song." On his cover of "Under the Boardwalk," which was originally the B-side of his 1986 hit "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." and was performed live on
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Turn the Night Up


can go all night / I just wanna touch you / girl just let me touch you / I know it’s been on your mind". Lyrically, the song came from a phrase he always says to his longtime girlfriend Anna Kournikova. Speaking to Ryan Seacrest, Enrique said, "You know how it started? I always walk around my house and I'm always joking around and there’s a phrase in the song that says ‘Gimme some of that.’ And I’m always saying that, saying ‘Gimme
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Live Until I Die


Billboard" wrote "Walker follows his No. 1 debut single, "What's It To You," with an uptempo testimony to the virtues of always staying the same. Kevin John Coyne of "Country Universe" listed "Live Until I Die" as the 127th best country single of the 1990s and wrote, "This is one of the few instances when the theme of celebrating a carefree life is set to a pretty melody and restrained production." The music video, directed by Marc Ball, features Walker singing
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Not Meant to Be


DioGuardi wrote the song together at DioGuardi's house. Amazing. I went over to her place, drank some wine and we wrote 'Not Meant To Be' in 5 minutes. Our writing styles fit together so perfectly it was almost like it was 'meant to be. The best part about my job is that you never know who you are going to meet, and who's going to inspire you. Although I'd never worked with Tyler, when he started singing the song, I knew we were onto something
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Some Nights (song)


'm always thinking about, 'Who am I and why did I do something like that?' And I think then it harkens back to my family, and I have such a strong tie to them and it's always therapeutic to sing about them." Ruess came up with the song and album title while on tour in Scotland; he wrote the song based on the title. Lyrically, the song is about "just being someone different on any given night." There has been some confusion with the fans as
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Who You Are (Jessie J album)


US iTunes Store on 22 February 2011. It is the song from the album of which she is proudest. It's the song that draws the most messages from fans, on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. "The other day I had a girl message me saying 'I was ready to take my life and then I heard "Who You Are"'. That pressure is beautiful but scary at the same time. I want to be a positive role model for young people. I always say that I'm half
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Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter


had been performing live in support slots for Ant's tours. "The first one that Adam and I wrote was about an ex of mine – guess who! Which is not on the ("Poussez Posse") album, which is called "Gun in Your Pocket". Adam actually wrote that before he met me at the Zodiac Mindwarp gig in April (sic) 2010. That night, he told me 'I have a song about you and your granddad,' and I was 'Oh my God!
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Just to Satisfy You (album)


repertoire, it was not released as a single in 1969. In the authorized documentary "Renegade Outlaw Legend", Jennings recalls, "We wrote 'Just to Satisfy You,' and I almost didn't even try to record that, 'cause I didn't think it was any good at all. But that song has really lived down through the ages, you might say." The song has been covered by Glen Campbell and Jennings and Willie Nelson would score a hit with the song as a duet in 1982.
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Dolce Vita (song)


and the melodies of Giombini and I said to him: "I will bring you one of my English songs". That night I composed a new song and three days later I presented it to Giombini who loved the song. We worked on my song two times and one day Giombini told me: "I wrote a song for you but it is not a rock song". When I heard the song I really made a big jump because it was very nice. There have been least 49 separate releases, in
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I'm Sorry for You, My Friend


"I'm Sorry for You, My Friend" is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams. It was released as the flipside to his single "Honky Tonk Blues" in 1952 on MGM Records. According to country music historian Colin Escott, Hank Williams' friend and rival Lefty Frizzell always claimed that Hank wrote "I'm Sorry for You, My Friend" about him, quoting the Texan as saying, "All Hank thought about was writing. He recorded a number he wrote because I was having trouble with
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You (The Who song)


I said 'I think that's a definite Who song. You can't do that.' I made him sit on it for a year until we actually started recording. I'm so pleased I did it is definitely one of those exciting songs." "You" was never performed live by The Who, but it was played by John Entwistle's solo bands. Authors Alan Parker and Steve Grantley said that the song was "possibly the worst lyrics John ever penned." They also said that the lyrics "
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