I Just Called to Say I Love You [SEP] lyrics by
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song


"Up Where We Belong" Lyrics by Will Jennings, Music by Jack Nitzsche & Buffy Sainte-Marie, performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes – An Officer and a Gentleman 1983: "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Lyrics by Irene Cara, Keith Forsey, Music by Giorgio Moroder, performed by Irene Cara – Flashdance 1984: "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Music & Lyrics by Stevie Wonder, performed by Stevie Wonder – The Woman in Red 1985: "Say You, Say Me" Music
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Strong (One Direction song)


how when you tell someone like 'I need you, I love you and I need you 'cause you make me strong,' essentially you can scare someone off. It's pressure, so people just kind of run from it. So, that's what the lyric is," recalled Bunetta, who also helped produce songs on the album. "It's saying 'I'm sorry if I say this, but fuck it. It was just sort of a thing that I think all guys feel, having to
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If I Didn't Love You (Squeeze song)


it together as a duet, an octave apart. Lyrically it has to be my proudest moment from ["Argybargy"] and it takes me back to New York when I was living there and writing lyrics. It's about the early cosy part of a relationship, which I call the nesting stage. It's a lovely place to be, somewhere where I think people only go two or three times in their life. At the same time it has that juxtaposition of emotions saying 'If I didn't love you
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Wildest Dreams (Brandy song)


way you love me". A introspective ballad, "Wildest Dreams" includes the lyrics "Never in my wildest dreams did I think someone could care 'bout me/ Not just the way you love me, but you know I'm emotional (sometimes)." During the course of the song, Norwood mentions herself several times, with lines like "It's hard to hold back tears whenever you hold me close, I think about the years and been saying this is all I want, Just wanted someone real to love
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No More 'I Love You's


your parents, usually, you hear, 'I love you, too'. And then one day you say, 'I love you', and there's silence because that person has reached the 'no more "I love you's" stage'. They cannot say 'I love you, too'. It's as simple as that. All I did lyrically, I think, was put it in Gothic terms." A music video was filmed to promote the single. In America, it
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me


Italian lyrics of the original song: according to Wickham they attempted to write their own lyric for an anti-love song to be called "I Don't Love You"; when that original idea proved unproductive it was adjusted first to "You Don't Love Me" and then "You Don't Have to Love Me" which was finalized as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" to fit the song's melody. Napier-Bell was later to give the same title to his first book,
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You Give Good Love


was concerned, and it was one of them. I don't think that the title is suggestive at all. It didn't say anything but 'you give good love,' and it didn't say anything in the song that was sexual or outrageous. I think that Miss Landers just looked at the title and didn't view the song itself." Houston, who described herself as a religious person, said that she hasn't given much thought to the controversy over questionable lyrics: "The songs that I sing
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I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry & I Love You


friendship, marriage, or even a church community. Webb stated in an interview that "if I am consciously, deliberately making a record about the church again, I thought I should start with those three statements (I was wrong, I'm sorry, and I love you.)." His intentions throughout his solo career are expressed by lyrics in the title track, "over all these years, there's just three things I've tried to say." The title expresses a need for Christians to sincerely and
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Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake song)


Timberlake's inspiration to write the song. Tanya L. Edwards of MTV News observed that Timberlake was wronged and said this is demonstrated by the lyrics: "You don't have to say whatcha did / I already know, I found out from him / Now there's just no chance." The chorus contains the lines: "Told me you loved me, why did you leave me all alone / Now you tell me you need me when you call me on the phone." "Slant Magazine"'s Sal Cinquemani
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If You Had My Love


/ And I gave you all my trust... / Would you lie to me / And call me baby?" Lopez explained in her book "True Love" (2014) that the lyrics refer to "the beginning of a new relationship and what I expect and what I want," saying that "there's a little bit of fear in there too, and a feeling of, what will you do if I give you my heart?" The verses consist of her "trying to lay down the rules"
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I Just Called to Say I Love You


"I Just Called to Say I Love You" is a ballad written, produced, and performed by Stevie Wonder. It remains Wonder's best-selling single to date, having topped a record 19 charts. The song was the lead single from the 1984 soundtrack album "The Woman in Red", along with two other songs by Wonder, and scored number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for three weeks from October 13 to October 27, 1984. It also became his tenth number-one on the
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Say Hey (I Love You)


#3 on Billboard Modern Rock Songs. Digital sales of "Say Hey (I Love You)" has topped 120,000 downloads. The video for this song was filmed at Vigário Geral favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In a January 2010 interview, Franti said he wrote the lyrics to this song in the steam of a mirror just after a shower. He joked to noted UK R&B writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning "Blues & Soul": "I was staying at (US actor) Woody Harrelson
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If I Was Your Vampire


fantasy." "If I Was Your Vampire" opens with a slow and oppressive melody which leads into choruses that saturate the listener with the juxtaposition of screaming vocals against desolate guitar. From here just when the song seems to be over, it launches into an outro of the midsection repeated. The lyrics "You press the knife against your heart. And say that 'I love you, so much you must kill me now'" is a reference to a close friend of Manson's whom Manson says, "She
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The Way You Love Me (Keri Hilson song)


would not apologize for the explicit lyrics or the provocative video: Hilson later told Jocelyn Vena of MTV News that she was indeed a little bit surprised by the reaction she was getting concerning "The Way You Love Me". She clarified that the song was not just sexual: "In that record I'm talking about one guy, I'm talking about one night and this is what I want on this one night, and I'm not afraid to say it. Not just sexual, I just mean whatever—open
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No More 'I Love You's


the pitch), Miles-Kingston and Alex Brown. As with each track on "The Lover Speaks" album, "No More 'I Love You's" is a reference to a concept in Roland Barthes' book "" ("Fragments d'un discours amoureux"). In the liner notes of the 2015 re-issue of the album, Freeman revealed of the track's lyrics: "Lyrically, when you say to someone "I love you", it could be to your kids, your lover,
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Just Say I Love Her


"Just Say I Love Her" ("Just Say I Love Him" when recorded by a female singer) is a popular song, adapted from the Neapolitan song "Dicitencello vuje". The original music was written by Neapolitan composer Rodolfo Falvo (Naples, 7 July 1873 – Naples, 4 December 1937) in 1930; arrangement in US by Jack Val and Jimmy Dale; the original Neapolitan lyrics by Enzo Fusco, and English lyrics by Martin Kalmanoff and Sam Ward. A recording by Johnny Desmond was made on January
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Jóga


and frequent collaborator of the singer. Björk explained her inability to write the song's lyrics in an interview with MuchMusic: "I tried to write that tune but, I mean, I just wanted mainly to write lyrics. It was just pathetic. I was like "her... her..." it was like "love... love..." I couldn't even put it into words. So, you know, it's -- yeah, it's probably the—I think it's the fiercest love song I have
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Lay It on Me (Kelly Rowland song)


lyrics of the song see Rowland tells her man exactly what she wants with lines such as "I wanna just kiss you now, I wanna just touch you now, I wanna just give you all my love tonight." Big Sean follows with equally sexual lines like "The king of California kings/ You gotta call me sire/ Watch me lay it down/ And I ain't even tired." "Lay It on Me" debuted on June 14, 2011, through various online media and websites. The song's producer
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Acaríciame el corazón


say it), about love, Fernández adopts the romantic aspect that has characterized his artistic career, with lyrics such as: "If I had to say it, I would like to say I love you, you are the greatest thing in my life, you are the air I breathe". "All my albums are very inclined to the romantic part, but without leaving aside the rhythmic and mischievous part that the public always likes," he added. In that sense, Fernández detailed that songs such as El
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Adult/Child


Scram"—a fanzine devoted to esoteric works—said: "There are so-called Beach Boys fans who say anybody who applaud "Love You" and this album is being ironic. I say fuck those tight-arsed naysayers! Both of those albums showcase a truly original mix of humor and sadness. The original numbers always dance just a step away from the cliche, dealing with simple lyrical themes that make you wonder why they had never been explored before." "Stylus Magazine" included the album in a list entitled "
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Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know


doos". Lyrically, "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" alludes to how Spears wants to hear her boyfriend say he needs her all the way and that he loves her. Spears considered it a "pure and delicate" song. "It's just one of those songs that pull you in. That's why I like it, and I like singing it as well", she continued. "I think they wrote it 'specially for me, because the lyrics of the song, if
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Misogyny in rap music


. Further towards the song, the lyric that stands out the most is "One, two; you're the girl that I want, three, four , five, six, seven; shit eight is the bullets if you say no after all this...I just wanna drag your lifeless body to the forest, and fornicate with it but that's because I'm in love with you, c*nt". Tyler is quite literally stating he would continue to advance onto the woman even after she says no and does not
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Primadonna (Marina and the Diamonds song)


, "global love" that! He called me a prima donna. I love it but I also kind of hate it. Like they say, "You only hate in others what you hate in yourself", so I thought I'd channel this well-known but kind of undesirable character type into a pop song. As the saying goes (that I just made up): You've either been one or dated one at least once in your life. "Primadonna" has a length of three minutes and
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Just in Love


Girl I'm just in love with you." Jonas explained the song’s origin, telling Ryan Seacrest: "This is a song I wrote when I was going through a relationship with somebody. She [was] arguing with me, and all I could do was say ‘Listen, I love you, but we don’t need to go through this’". Scott Shetler from Pop Crunch rated it 4.5 out of five stars and says that "a seductive song that impresses in just about every way. The
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Billie Holiday


to record "That Ole Devil Called Love", "Big Stuff", and "Don't Explain". She wrote "Don't Explain" after she caught her husband, Jimmy Monroe, with lipstick on his collar. Holiday did not make any more records until August 1945, when she recorded "Don't Explain" for a second time, changing the lyrics "I know you raise Cain" to "Just say you'll remain" and changing "You mixed with some dame" to "What is there
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Say My Name (Tove Styrke song)


Styrke "explores a warmer, more organic soundscape". Lyrically, "Say My Name" speaks of an instant infatuation. The chorus includes the lines "Say my name / Wear it out like a sweater that you love / 'cause I can't get enough when you / Say my name". Styrke elaborated to "Time" that the song's protagonist is "just completely comfortable with themselves". Regarding its love theme, she explained to "NME" that she had previously avoided writing about the topic as she
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I Just Call You Mine


heard it, and immediately I thought, 'What a beautiful love song.' I mean, doesn't everybody wish that somebody was going to sing this about them? And the song is a little bit different for me. It's a little bit vulnerable ... basically saying, 'I can't believe I have you, and everybody else thinks you're amazing, but you're all mine.' I love the fact that it's a little bit different. It's something that songs have said forever -- '
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Tom Kundig


levels. I think If you can’t walk into a house and smile about something, there’s something missing in that house. I want the people I build houses for to love their house to death, and hopefully to call me two or three years later and say the place is just getting better and better. It’s what I do this stuff for: to be involved with a landscape and with these personalities.” On the influence of artist Harold Balazs: “Sometimes you just luck out in life and you
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Culture Club (songbook)


Just because the "From Luxury to Heartache" lyric contained the possibility of a return trip, a journey in reverse - to hell and back, as many people love to say, and sing - a travel back to some yet unidentified person who could catch the poor sinner's fall (so the lyrics suggested, asking: 'If I cry will you catch my fall? Am I playing the loser's game?'). Whereas things were pretty clear with "Time" lyrics: 'Time won't give me
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Adult Contemporary (chart)


songs reaching the summit on both the AC and pop charts were "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper, "I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder, "Live to Tell" by Madonna, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" by Michael Jackson (his only #1 on both charts), "Seasons Change" by Exposé, "Look Away" by Chicago, "Tell Her About It" by Billy Joel, and "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx. With
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My Love (Justin Timberlake song)


repetitive chorus". In July 2006, "The Observer Music Monthly" interviewed Timberlake and stated that the track "is arguably the album's 'Cry Me a River'." In response, Timberlake said, "It is similar. You go back to Aaliyah's biggest record, 'Are You That Somebody' – it's similar to that too because it's that percussive ballad." When asked about the lyrics, "There's just one thing I need from you: say I do", being autobiographical
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Share My Love (album)


the Continental in LA, where Bette Midler had just broken. I got a call from Marc and he said: 'I need you to come and help me finish an album in Germany.' I made the decision to go with him. I sent my management a telegram from Germany saying: 'Sorry, I'm in love.' " "Share My Love" was given its first official CD release in March 2009. Side One Side Two On "Share My Love", "Why Can't You Be
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Kiss and Say Goodbye


provided the spoken introduction heard in the full-length version of the original recording. The lyrics and melody came to him late one night. As he later recalled, "Everything was there. I got up about three o'clock in the morning and jotted down the things I wanted to say. I just put the words together on my tape recorder and little piano. I've always thought that when you write slow songs, they have to have meaning. In this case, it's the love triangle situation we've all
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Used to Love You


all I want to do is just say the truth. I just want the truth to come out'." Michaels, revealed that "Gwen had written down of all of these things she was feeling at that moment. There was this one phrase that read, 'I don't know why I cry but I think it's because I remembered for the first time since I hated you that I used to love you.' I said, 'Whoa, what a crazy line that is.' She just goes
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Butterflies (Michael Jackson song)


-two beats per minute. Lyrically, "Butterflies" describes the feeling of being in love. Archin K of HumboDumbo says the song talks about "that once fell in love". The track received generally positive reviews from music critics. Ken Barnes of "USA Today" described the song as being a "hopelessly sappy ballad oozing with fuzzy sentiments. I'd say it's more like caterpillars." Frank Kogan of "The Village Voice", citing the lyrics, "I would give you anything baby, just
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P.S. I Love You (Beatles song)


for "singles" once they had been "mixed down" to the (usually monaural) master tape used to press records. This was the fate of two Beatles singles (four songs): "Love Me Do", "P.S. I Love You", "She Loves You", and "I'll Get You". On its 20th anniversary, Parlophone re-issued "P.S. I Love You" as a picture disc, and shortly afterwards as a 12-inch disc. On 11 Sep 1962 recording: Engineered
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Let Me Know (Tamar Braxton song)


afraid to talk about what's really happening in our personal relationships." Throughout the song, Braxton sings lyrics to her partner such as: "We've been through so many things / Ups and downs and in-betweens / If you need more love from me / I give you more, just let me know." She also talks about love, saying: "When it's right, you don't let go" and "You don’t give it up to nobody / When you love somebody."
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I Heart You (Toni Braxton song)


song being called ‘I Heart You’, the lyrics are actually "I love you", but the lines ‘I love you, but you love her’ and ‘Damn, I know it’s wrong / But you turn me on" suddenly suggest that this love song is also about infidelity. By the middle eight, the song breaks down with heavy dance beats as Toni croons slowly "I think I’m gonna dance / Dance all my troubles all away". Becky Bain from Idolator gave to the
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Stronger (Tank album)


You Love Me", saying: "I have a record on this album that’s extremely special. It’s called “I Hope This Makes You Love Me.” This record just speaks to the idea of how we try to barter for love. How we, in a sense, try to pay for it—like to love a person and to not get [love] in return, or the same love in return and how far we’re willing to go to have that love reciprocated the way we want
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À Tout le Monde


'll ever speak, and they'll set me free. I don't have to say I'm sorry, I don't have to say I'm going to miss you, or I'll wait for ya. You know, I'll just say I loved you all, good, bad, indifferent, I loved you all. The song's title, ""À tout le monde"", is French for ""To all the world"" or ""To everyone"". The song's
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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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Here, My Dear


lyrically, is about the break-up of his relationship. There's a track called 'Anger', which is lyrically really brilliant; and there's a track called 'Time To Get It Together' using, I think, a marimba, and it's just dreamy and lovely. He was a deep man at the time, but I think the charlie was eating him up. It's all about struggling and fighting, and you can feel it." All songs written by Marvin Gaye except where noted.
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Turning Tables


song's] heartbroken, hollowed-out lyrics." "Turning Tables" opens with a piano sequence after which Adele sings the first lines: "Close enough to start a war/All that I have is on the floor". The chorus consists of the lyrics: "So I won't let you / Close enough to hurt me / No, I won't rescue / You to just desert me / I can't give you / The heart you think you gave me / It's time to say goodbye
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Two Out of Three Ain't Bad


Can't you write something simple?" And while she was saying that the oldies station was on the radio and it was playing that old Elvis song, 'I Want You, I Need,' whatever it was. 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You', you know. I just started singing my own song but it was 'I Want You, I Need You, I Love You.' She said, "Why don't you write something simple like that, 'I
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When a Man Loves a Woman (song)


Why Did You Leave Me Baby". And I changed it from that to "When a Man Loves a Woman". I just reversed it. Quin told me that if I was to write some lyrics around that melody and the expression I'd put into "Why Did You Leave Me Baby", he believed it would've been a hit record. He was one of the top disc jockeys at that time. Sure enough, he asked me if I had any lyrics for that. He said, "That
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Oops!... I Did It Again (album)


MTV News: "When you hear the song, it's so pure and delicate. It's just one of those songs that pull you in", and added: "I think they wrote it 'specially for me, because the lyrics of the song, if you really listen … they're more of what I can relate to, 'cause they're kind of young lyrics, I think. I don't think Shania would probably sing some of the words that I'm saying." The title track and opening
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Vitalogy


second refrain, instead of the actual lyrics, the typed words give a hint about the Sisyphus myth ("Yeah, you call me Sisyphus love. Yeah, I move the rock. I just don't want to talk about moving the rock. Anything that distracts me from moving the rock"). The lyrics to "Whipping" are written on a copy of a petition to Bill Clinton against "pro-life" killings of abortion doctors. An X-ray of Vedder's teeth was pictured instead of lyrics
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Love 'Em All


n’t say". Music critics described "Love 'Em All" as a "heartbreaker anthem". The song opens with Michelle narrating: "They say I move too fast / Going man to man / Always holding a new hand.” She sings about her relationships in the chorus: 'Cause they think I love 'em / But I love 'em all / I need another one to get over the other one.” Other lyrics include: “I broke another heart today / And I didn’t care, I just
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Here I Am (Air Supply song)


the single, so as not to be confused with the group's No. 1 hit song "The One That You Love" which contains the lyrics: "Here I am, the one that you love." Released as a single in the fall of 1981, "Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You)" peaked at #5 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in November of that year, remaining in the Top 40 for 15 weeks. The song also spent three weeks
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Say You Will (Fleetwood Mac song)


’s experienced it - when you like somebody, it makes you a different person. It changes you and it changes you in a minute. But that song is not just about Lindsey. It’s about a movie I saw about Arturo Sandoval, the trumpet player. I loved this movie, and I just loved the way that through all the pain and separation, they managed to do music and stay happy and keep love alive, and dancing and rhythm and music, how healing it was. That was really my inspiration
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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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Ms. Kelly


I just went in the studio and just did me, because I think that's when you get your best product. That's when it's just natural. It just flew out of my mouth and came out in lyrics [and] I had great writers involved." While recording her vocals, Rowland was inspired by several singers, citing former bandmate Beyoncé Knowles, and singers Brandy and Whitney Houston as major inspirations, "I listened to a lot of Whitney Houston for her vocals. I love her. I love
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Stone Rollin'


closing track, "The Answer", features a wistful, jazz-funk sound, and lyrics expressing a call for collective and individual responsibility. Saadiq said, "I always have a song similar to that on my albums. I was just thinking about growing up in Oakland and all the older people and mentors who helped me out at the time. So I just wanted to throw it back and say thank you, and tell all the kids out there to listen to the people trying to guide them". "
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Hollaback Girl


'm out in the smoker shed." Stefani responded to Love's comments in the March 2005 issue of "NME": "Y'know someone one time called me a cheerleader, negatively, and I've never been a cheerleader. So I was, like, 'OK, fuck you. You want me to be a cheerleader? Well, I will be one then. And I'll rule the whole world, just you watch me.'" The song uses the lyric “Another One Bites the Dust” by
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Let There Be Love (Christina Aguilera song)


's official channel on YouTube on August 29, 2013. The clip was official released few hours after she posted a 2000-word thank you message to fans on her official website on August 28, 2013. A part of the letter reads,I may get quiet at times, but when I do have something to say, I mean every word. I decided to share my thoughts with you at length and tell you openly how I feel. Thank you for filling my soul with melody and song … lyrics and love … and
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Mr. Jones (Counting Crows song)


get second thoughts about that""; he also changed the lyrics ""when everybody loves you, sometimes that's just about as funky as you can be"" to ""when everybody loves you, sometimes that's just about as fucked up as you can be."" Some believe the song is a veiled reference to the protagonist of Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man", based on the lyric ""I wanna be Bob Dylan, Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little
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I Love You (Cole Porter song)


"I Love You" is a song written by Cole Porter in 1944 for his stage musical "Mexican Hayride". The New York Times reviewed the show saying, inter alia, "Of Mr. Porter's score, the best number bears the title almost startling in its forthrightness, "I Love You," and is the property of Mr. Evans" (Wilbur Evans). However the rather commonplace lyrics of the song and why they were perhaps sub-standard for the song-writer was due to a challenge given
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Sex, Life & Love


the back cover features the plea "Pray for peace, justice, and an end to racism in L.A., America and the world." The album features hypersexual lyrics and titles, with some being "Just for the Sex", "Can I Get Naked with You" and "I Wanna Make Love to You". It failed to chart in America, and only one single aired; "I Wanna Make Love to You". After the release, both Sturken & Rogers returned to production and songwriting work for
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Do You... (Miguel song)


of "Rolling Stone" quipped, "Just when you thought there were no new ways to say 'I love you'". In "MSN Music", Robert Christgau found the lyric "Do you like drugs?" to be one of "the two most memorable lines" on "Kaleidoscope Dream", while Kevin Ritchie of "Now" cited "Do You..." as the album's best song. Andrew Ryce from "Pitchfork Media" cited it as a "standout" on the album and commented
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Ray Parker Jr.


for two weeks on its Black Singles chart. The song was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1984 but lost to Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from "The Woman in Red". Parker's song secured him a 1984 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Other hits from this period included "I Still Can't Get Over Loving You" (Pop #12) and "Jamie" (Pop #14). Parker was one of the first
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Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart


told "The Sun": "I just love that song. I'm excited about that song as I just love the way it's pushing things forward. It's a great representation of where I am now. I can play it with tons of music behind me or I can play it with just the piano. Either way it touches, you get it. I'm so very excited by that record." In the lyrics, the narrator vows to move on from a failed relationship, but struggles to overcome
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Satellite (Lena Meyer-Landrut song)


Satellite" is a pop song written by American songwriter Julie Frost and Danish songwriter John Gordon. Frost told HitQuarters that the song is about "unconditional love". The lyrics describe the thoughts of a woman in love ("I got it bad for you"), who is frustrated at being ignored ("I went everywhere for you/ I even did my hair for you/ I bought new underwear they're blue/ And I wore it just the other day.") and compares herself to a lonely traveller ("Like
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Flashing Lights (Havana Brown song)


: "It's about sexual kryptonite and intense passion". In the chorus Brown sings, “In the flashing lights / Looking for some love tonight / You know I love the way you lie / I wanna do it and do it / and do it again.” She elaborated on the lyrics with the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), saying "Its about that sort of a relationship where you... try and break up, and you get back together cause you think it's love but really it's
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Too Good to Lose


about Rebecca's relationship with a boyfriend, and says that signs of breaking up aren't as they seem. In the song she says "Hey I lost my phone/Maybe you called and I didn't pick up/And if you wondered that's all it means". Rebecca also says she would give up all the good things in the world just to be with the boy she loves, because he is "Too Good to Lose". A music video to accompany the release of "Too Good to Lose
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Sailing Soul(s)


and he was like, ‘I love your voice, I love everything but when you come into these meetings you have to sell yourself.’ I was just speechless when he said that, and I have no filter when it comes to speaking my mind so I bit my tongue so hard. I wanted to say, ‘No! I don’t have to sell myself. I am me.’ You like me or you don’t. After that, I found out I was pregnant and I was on Twitter
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Do You... (Miguel song)


, and innocently delivers a transgressive message through the use of simile: "I'm going to do you like drugs tonight". Miguel said of the song's lyrics, "I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life. If I wanna know something I just ask. Like, 'Hey, do you like drugs?' Because I do! Sometimes! ... MDMA… on occasion." Alex Macpherson of "The Guardian" observes "faded psychedelia"
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Paris, Tokyo


what inspired me to write the song was that between 'Food And Liquor' and this album we travelled EVERYWHERE - multiple countries, multiple towns, multiple tours. So I just developed a knack and a love for touring, even if I didn't want to do it! You know, despite the lyrical wear and tear it has on your body - particularly with the different climates - just by force I had to fall in love with it! And of course another side to it all is, when you travel,
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When AIDS Was Funny


-S or whatever it is. KINSOLVING: The President doesn’t have gay plague, is that what you're saying or what? SPEAKES: No, I didn’t say that. KINSOLVING: Didn’t say that? SPEAKES: I thought I heard you on the State Department over there. Why didn’t you stay there? (Laughter.) KINSOLVING: Because I love you, Larry, that’s why. (Laughter.) SPEAKES: Oh, I see. Just don’t put it in those terms
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Just Another Way to Say I Love You


Just Another Way to Say I Love You is the self-produced fourth album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in 1975 on the 20th Century label. The album topped the R&B albums chart, White's fourth in a row to do so, and peaked at #17 on the "Billboard" 200. It also reached #12 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was a success, yielding two Billboard R&B Top Ten singles, "What Am I Gonna Do with You", which peaked at
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God Is Saying This to You...


. I would switch lines out to see where they worked. I loved that stuff in The Fall; Mark E. Smith had all these recurring characters, like the Hip Priest, in his lyrics. He would come up different narrative concepts and recurring themes. You definitely hear bootlegs of Bob Dylan or Springsteen where, you know, you hear a variation of a lyric that ended up in another song. [...] "Beach On the Moon" intentionally uses lyrics from a bunch of my songs, which is why it
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Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)


what love can do', but that his relationship with the Van Halen brothers was becoming strained and that they were very critical of the lyrical treatment, wanting something with more attitude. In addition, the story about the death of Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain, is also told in the song through the lyrics "Is it right to take the easy way" and ends with "I can't tell you what's right for you" with the bridge, repeated towards the end of the song, saying "I
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New York: A Love Story


"See, he tricked me with that! I say he tricked me because, I was in the room writing "Henny" and he called me into the other room, he was like, "Yo! Just record 'Remember the Time' over that." I’m like, "Are you serious?" He was like, "Yeah, yeah just record it." I’m thinking we are just playing around because we are in the studio, just having fun. I recorded it, he’s
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Walk Away Renée


songs the infatuated Brown wrote after meeting his newfound muse. Other songs written about her include the band's second hit "Pretty Ballerina" and "She May Call You Up Tonight". After decades of obscurity, she was identified in 2001 as a noted singer, vocal teacher, and artist on the West Coast. Brown says of his unrequited love for Renée: I was just sort of mythologically in love, if you know what I mean, without having evidence in fact or in deed ... But I was as close
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Wu-Tang Clan


who he was talking about, but it wasn't like we was trying to start a beef. It's just sometimes, when you get in the booth and you start saying what you wanna say, it just happened." God bless the dead, I love B.I.G. He's a fucking icon. Even when I seen him out in Cali, I wanted to tell son, yo, let's go ahead and make this record together because I matured through the years, and at the same time, I recognized good
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P.S. I Love You (Robin Daggers song)


the grunge-influenced song: "It's just fun to go and create something from words on a page and make a song out of it. And then choose the silly actions involved and the story lines that are happening within the song". The 2:34 grunge song was written by Thomas and Bays. Lyrically, "P.S. I Love You" describes Daggers' obsession with a former lover. The song begins with "You, you're beautiful / On your pedestal / I see you, you don't see me
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Damage (Jimmy Eat World album)


and the world around me is a lot different than when I was writing breakup songs in my 20s. I tried to reflect that in what the lyrics are." Adkins elaborated: "With "Damage" the point was love songs. But the type of love songs that interest me deal with adversity and emotional injury. If you have a happy song about how happy you are, I just want to slap you. There's no story there for me. I can't have any empathy." Adkins compared the
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Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain (film)


love in the way his wife expects him to. The director believes that the story of "Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain" is a reflection of almost all marriages and says that "most men of my generation struggle to express their feelings. It is particularly evident in middle class families. There is an immense struggle to just say I love you." The soundtrack of "Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain" consists of six songs composed by Pravin Kunwar, Oni-Adil, and Ranjan Sharma, with lyrics written by Yogesh, Pratibha
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This Is What the Truth Feels Like


collaborators knew she was in crisis because of her lyrics". When asked in a "GQ" interview: "Did you think this project was going to be a heartbreak album? It seems like a falling-in-love album. Was that a surprise?" Stefani responded: You are right. I did not think anything. I wasn't thinking. I was feeling and I was dying. And then I was just like, You can't go down like this! You have to turn this into music
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Vertical Man


I'd just sort of pick out other people's songs or songs other people had written that I thought were vaguely trying to say what I would have liked to say, on this, we're really trying to say what I want to say, thank you." In February 1997, Hudson and Grakal visited Starr in his Beverly Hills residence for a songwriting session. The result of this meeting was a song called "My Love", which was promptly renamed to "Everyday" after Starr commented that McCartney had already
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And I Love Her


minute you heard it," McCartney said. "The title comes in the second verse and it doesn't repeat. You would often go to town on the title, but this was almost an aside: 'Oh . . . and I love you.'" McCartney credits George Harrison with composing the signature guitar riff, saying it "made a stunning difference to the song". McCartney called "And I Love Her" "the first ballad I impressed myself with." Lennon called it McCartney's "first
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Did I Let You Know


in the city of Rio de Janeiro to shoot the video. Chad Smith and Josh Klinghoffer responded to the video with Smith saying "The Did I Let You Know video. Made by our Brazilian fans is very cool! I love it! Thanks so much!” while Klinghoffer responded by saying “I just wanted to say that the smiles on all of those beautiful faces and the love that is very clear throughout that video made me a very, very happy camper.” MTV Brasil aired the video on Monday March 19
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Don't You Wanna Stay


difficulties of finding and maintaining love. Cristin Maher of Taste of Country contended that the song exemplifies the desire some people have when they want to make the move from a physical relationship to an emotional relationship, which is represented by the song lyrics "Let’s take it slow, I don’t want to move too fast / I don’t wanna just make love, I wanna make love last." Gibson, one of the writers of the song, stated that the song does not contain a lot of flowery lyrics or
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Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse


, continuing to comment on this saying the "arrangements that borrow from Inner Life's disco rave-up 'I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)' and the O'Jays' Philly-soul classic 'Let Me Make Love to You'." Eric Henderson of "Slant Magazine" noted the album's lyrics to be "personal, crazy. Crazy personal," Henderson continued calling the album's lyrical content an "deliberately confusing innocence with insight, obliviousness with bliss." Carey's voice on
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If I Didn't Love You (Squeeze song)


"If I Didn't Love You" is the ninth track from Squeeze's album, Argybargy. The song, written by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, was also released as a single in the United States. Glenn Tilbrook said, "This is a really storming lyric from Chris [Difford] and was chosen as a different single in America. It was a massive radio hit there, particularly on the East Coast, whereas it was just an album track in Britain. The lyric caught a lot of people's imaginations
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What I Don't Know 'bout You


"What I Don't Know 'bout You" is the first single from the album #4 Record by Australian rock band You Am I. It was released in 1998 and reached number 28 on the Australian ARIA singles chart; the band's highest-charting single. Rogers said the song, "was my favourite song that I'd written at that point. I loved the lyrics in particular, but it just wasn't recorded in the way I thought it should." "You Want It So Bad" is a You
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Marry You


can create. These ideas, words, and lyrics and how they can get into the fabric of society and affect people’s lives in such an amazing way." In an interview with Idolator Bruno Mars said that the song had its beginning by "just playing the chords," and then freestyling the lyrics "I think I wanna marry you!". He continued, "you’re in Vegas...had way too many drinks, and you love everybody, and you want to do something that you probably shouldn’t
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I Love U (Tila Tequila song)


signature of 4/4, with a tempo of 105 beats per minute. The song starts with a spoken introduction where Tequila says "I think I love you, but if you ever hurt me I'll fucking kill you," and then transitions into a crunk beat which is built around a repetitive electric guitar riff and utilizes strong elements of hip hop music such as 808 bass, claps and hi-hats. Lyrically, the song is about a dominant female. In the chorus, Tequila sings "You better go down when
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Father (Ms. Dynamite song)


"...if you think the lyrics are strong on that ("Judgement Day") wait till you here "Father" the second cut on the single. Lyrics like "I spent 23 years trying to be what you wanted to me be though it seemed that you never see me until I picked up the mic and I was on the TV now your ringing of my phone like every week" and "How can you call yourself a man when you can't love your own unless you can control them".
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Raining Diamonds


Then he picked up his guitar and started strumming the chords and said 'and the first line is going to be ... I declare war on love' and just sang. ... He had written the first line and then I came up with 'Finally I ran out of pages and I declare war on love'. That was the process of writing. Lyrically, Coulter said that "Raining Diamonds" is "all about knowing your value and not settling for less than what you believe you are worth." According to
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Serve the Servants


a father/but instead I had a dad/I just want you to know that I don't hate you anymore/There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before"". However, Cobain stated that the lines were included at the last minute and that "they just happen to fit really well". Author Charles R. Cross, in his 2001 Cobain biography, "Heavier Than Heaven", also described these lines as bitter lyrics aimed at Cobain's father. The last line of the chorus
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Stop Breaking Down


lyrics, including the refrain "I don't believe you really really love me, I think you just like the way my music sounds" in place of Johnson's "The stuff I got it gon' bust your brains out, hoo hoo, it'll make you lose your mind". Williamson's song inspired the versions sung "by most postwar Chicago blues artists". In 1954, Baby Boy Warren recorded it as a Chicago-style blues shuffle, but used most of Johnson's lyrics. Forest City Joe
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She Loves You


setting up the microphone when I first saw the lyrics on the music stand, 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah!' I thought, Oh my God, what a lyric! This is going to be one that I "do not" like. But when they started to sing it – bang, wow, terrific, I was up at the mixer jogging around." The "
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You Get What You Give (song)


"Top of the Pops" appearance, it was truncated at "kick you". In a "Time" interview, U2 lead guitarist The Edge is quoted saying "You Get What You Give" is the song he is "most jealous of. I really would love to have written that." "Billboard" gave a mixed review, saying that it was a "chugging, Wham!-style pop song with slightly cheesy lyrics" but that the ending lyrics were "interesting". The song was listed No. 440
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Robert J. Bentley


that he "worr[ied] about loving you so much" and that "[w]hen I stand behind you, and I put my arms around you, and I put my hands on your breasts [...] and just pull you real close. I love that, too." At a press conference that day, Bentley apologized for the comments but denied having an affair and stated that his relationship with Mason had not been sexual. Bentley admitted that he had made a mistake by saying "inappropriate things" to Mason,
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You Don't Know Love (Olly Murs song)


there. I can just imagine certain first-time listeners becoming impatient and changing the station before it even hits the right hook of a chorus. The chorus is well worth the wait though. With its jaded lyric, buzzing synths and layered harmonised vocals it delivers its statement with enough certainty to have you humming, “You don’t know love, you don’t know love!”. While this one phrase is lyrically placed in the context of not knowing love till it hurts you, it is delivered in a way
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New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)


Otherside of the Game" from her debut album, "Window Seat" contains stomp-and-clap breakdowns built under halting lyrics. According to Badu, the album's closing track, "Out My Mind, Just in Time", is a three-movement song: "The first movement is called 'Recovering Undercover Over-lover.' It actually sums up the whole album, because I'm talking about love and emotion – 'I need you to do this,' 'I want you to do this
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Boy Oh Boy (Alexandra Stan song)


just because something needs to be released. [The song] is a mixture of [different] styles. I would say it is a more '90s track but with a contemporary feel". On another occasion, the singer described the single as an "old kind of style, but a new style. It's like eurodance." According to her, the lyrical message is "[her way] of expressing the girls' need to be loved [...] and sometimes you just need to tell to the
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Eyes, Nose, Lips


beats per minute, the song features the lyrics "I can’t erase you even when you’re gone / I still remember your eyes, nose, lips, touch and your small nails," and "Can I ever see you again just for a moment, or even by chance / I get anxious day by day" that expresses a faint longing for the past loved one. "The Star Online" noted that the track is a "heartfelt love song that's heavy on the piano and low on audio enhancements
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Zendaya (album)


and was described by Zendaya as having a "Kanye West type of vibe". "Love You Forever" is an up-tempo "90s throwback" song that has been compared to the work of the late singer Aaliyah. Lyrically the song discusses Zendaya falling in love on the dance floor, the concept of the song is introduced with lyrics such as "We on that all night, get it right/ If you keep on moving like that, I might love you forever/ We on that first time love high/ Just keep
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DJ Premier


"Oh no. Please don’t." Then when they heard "Ain’t No Other Man," "Back In The Day," and all the other records were still constructed like Premier tracks they were like, "Yo, I really love this album. I was really impressed. I was worried, but you totally sound like what we love about you." Until you hear it, don’t say a word. I never want to be just attached to hip hop. I want to be attached
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