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Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song)


"you start kissing me, what's that about?" In the "Pokémon" version, the lyric is "you said you love me, what's that about?" When asked about the lyric change in an interview, M2M replied "the "Pokémon" people didn't find it appropriate to have kissing in the lyrics, because it was for younger kids. We think [the lyric change] was stupid. The original version is on ["Shades of Purple"], and that's the
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If You Asked Me To


"If You Asked Me To" is a song written by American songwriter Diane Warren. It was originally recorded by American singer Patti LaBelle for her ninth studio album "Be Yourself" (1989), and also for the soundtrack to the James Bond film, "Licence to Kill". The lyrics are from the point of view of a woman who pleads to her significant other: "If you asked me to, I just might change my mind, and let you in my life forever". Three years later
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Don't Say You Love Me (Fifth Harmony song)


song that finds the group asking a "close but inconsistent" lover for an honest relationship. The lyrics are structured in verse–pre-chorus–chorus form. "Don't Say You Love Me" was critically well-received by music critics who reviewed the song upon the album's release, with some citing it as one of the highlights of the record while praising the melancholy and vulnerability expressed in the song's lyrical content and sonic elements. An accompanying music video for "Don't Say You Love Me"
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What Have You Done for Me Lately


for Me Lately" is described as an uptempo dance song. It begins with a conversation with one of her friends, who asks Jackson the title question. Lyrically, it involves the singer asking why her lover was not as attentive as he once was. He was not treating her as well as he used to, and she calls him a "loser" in response. "I never ask for more than I deserve, you know it's the truth. You seem to think you're God's gift to this
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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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Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me


Sam Lansky of Idolator. Amy Sciaretto of PopCrush noted that the lyrics address to "how the love of a good man can make you beautiful, and that love, not looks, are what’s important in life." During the chorus, the group sings, "Right now the whole world could call me ugly / So what? To you, I'm not / You don't love me cause I'm beautiful, oh no / I'm beautiful cause you love me." When asked about the song,
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Trash (New York Dolls song)


hookers, rent boys, junkies, sneak thieves – or so the lyrics imply – but they're still human beings and their subject matter is still tragedy." Johansen quotes the lyric "how do you call your lover boy" from Mickey & Sylvia's 1956 song "Love Is Strange". According to music critic Robert Christgau, Johansen used ambiguity as a lyrical mode on the song, particularly when the lyric "please don't you ask me if I love you" is followed by "if you don't know
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You Won't Forget About Me


and synth strings. The songs lyrics, written by Minogue, Pete Hammond and Bruce Elliot-Smith, describe a summer romance that has now ended. The two lovers reassure each other that "you won't forget about me / as long as you live". After the success of her previous album, "Neon Nights", Minogue was asked by All Around the World Records, a major dance label whose main signings were Cascada, Ultrabeat, N-Trance and Flip & Fill, if she would write the lyrics
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No Te Pido Flores


Flores" is a mix of tropical rhythms with vallenato and Latin pop. The lyrics deal with heartbreak and disappointment over a previous relationship. In the chorus: "No te pido que traigas flores/ Tampoco que me des bombones/ Yo solo quiero una caricia/ Que me digas que tu me quieres." ("I'm not asking you to bring me flowers/ Nor to give me sweets/ I just want a caress/ That you tell me how much you love me.") she sings about how love is about actions and not gifts
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Asking 4 It


her life". In an interview with "Today"'s Matt Lauer, Stefani stated that the majority of her recent studio work would discuss her breakup with Rossdale. "Billboard" stated that the lyrics "Are you sure you wanna love me? / I know that it's a lot to handle me / But it is what it is / It's all part of my broken history" were "ultra personal". In his description of the track, Glenn Gamboa of "Newsday" stated that "'Asking
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Love Me Again (song)


Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In an interview with Digital Spy, Newman was asked if he sensed that the song had something special about it in the studio. He said, "Yeah. The guy I wrote it with (Steve Booker), we turned around and had massive grins on our faces thinking, 'There's something good here'. But you just never know how good it is, you know?". Newman was also asked if it was hard to write the lyrics about love
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Helter Skelter (song)


brief." The lyrics initially follow the title's fairground theme, from the opening line "When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide". McCartney completes the first half-verse with a hollered "and then I see you AGAIN!" The lyrics then become more suggestive and provocative, with the singer asking, "But do you, don't you, want me to love you?" In author Jonathan Gould's description, "The song turns the colloquialism for a fairground
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Anthony Wong Yiu-ming


of ‘Forbidden Colors’ in 1988, and the lyrics of ‘Forget He or She’ in 1989, I have never tried to hide my identity. But since you people and press are always keen to ask me about it, and press will definitely be asking me yet again later, I would like to tell you, once and for all, that I am not a tongzhi, but I am a homosexual. I am a faggot. I hope other homosexual people and faggots would not need to be like the
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Alice in Chains (album)


kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful." With the exceptions of "Grind", "Heaven Beside You", and "Over Now", the lyrics are all written by Staley. Staley said, "I just wrote down whatever was on my mind...so a lot of the lyrics are really loose. If you asked me to sing the lyrics to probably any one of them right now, I couldn't do it. I'm not sure what they are because they're still that fresh
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El Anillo


the song alludes to Lopez's relationship with Alex Rodriguez, with lyrics such as "Me tratas como una princesa y me das lo que pido. Tu tienes el bate y la fuerza que yo necesito", which in English translates to "You treat me like a princess and give me what I ask. You have the bat and the strength I need." Telemundo characterized the song as "an anthem for all the women out there that have put their time and effort in a relationship, and now all they're
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I Wanna Be with You (album)


single released from the record overall, the second in Australia. In its lyrics, Moore sings that what she feels about a guy is "so, so real". The song was written by Tony Battaglia, Shaun Fisher and produced by The Wasabees. "Lock Me in Your Heart" is a mid-tempo track where Moore asks her boy to "lock me in your heart and throw away the key". "Walk Me Home" is a ballad in which Mandy daydreams about her lover and she asks him
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Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo


"It was Pradeepji, ( Kavi Pradeep) the poet, who wrote the immortal lyrics, who came to me and asked me to sing the song. I declined, because there was no time to rehearse. You see, at that time I was working round-the-clock. To give special attention to one song seemed impossible. But Pradeepji insisted," Lata said, admitting that she was very nervous before the performance. Kavi Pradeep, the man who penned lyrics of the song, couldn't witness the
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Ask (song)


reference to Morrissey's youth, in which he frequently wrote letters to pen pals. Simon Goddard, the author of "Mozipedia", also traces the lyric "nature is a language, can't you read" to Alan Bennett's 1978 teleplay "Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf", which contained the line, "Nature has a language, you see, if only we'd learn to read it." Goddard additionally commented on the lyrics as a whole, writing: "a superficial plea to liberate
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Scream/Childhood


show...Over tinkling keyboards and strings that could be sweeping across a cinemascope panorama, he croons [the lyrics]". He described it as "creepy" yet "lushest". In the song, Jackson states, "No one understands me...They view it as such strange eccentricities, 'cause I keep kidding around". He invokes "the painful youth I've had" and asks the public to, "Try hard to love me" and, with a breaking voice, asks, "Have you seen
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This Land Is Your Land


'Relief Office' verse to "As they stood hungry, I stood there whistling, This land was made for you and me." The original lyrics are "As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking, Is this land made for you and me?" Voice actress and children's entertainer Debi Derryberry recorded a version for her musical album "What A Way To Play" in 2006. In 2010, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, the surviving members of Peter, Paul and Mary, requested that the
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Wanted Man (Paul Kelly album)


Cave's book of lyrics, "King Ink" (1988), and found "God's Hotel". When interviewing Cave for a newspaper article in "The Age", Kelly asked about the lyrics, Cave said "It's just a blues ... You can use the words if you want". Kelly only used five of twelve verses and adapted the tune from the chords of "Bittersweet" by Hoodoo Gurus. "Everybody Wants to Touch Me" describes how a pregnant woman becomes the object of curiosity,
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Touch My Body


, with Carey singing "If there's a camera up in here then I best not catch this flick on YouTube." Critic Rodman felt the song's lyrics describe the protagonist's sexual fantasies, but also serves as a warning to "potential touchers: 'If you run your mouth and brag about our secret rendezvous / I will hunt you down.' Yikes!" In an interview with Fox News, journalist Hollie McKay asked Carey if there was any literal interpretation regarding the lyrics "Touch My Body / Put Me
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Bye Bye Baby (Madonna song)


beats per minute. It is composed in the key of F minor, with Madonna's voice in a high register, spanning between F to A. The song has a basic sequence of G–B–G–D–G–Dm as its chord progression. In the song, lyrically Madonna asks questions for a lover she is about to abandon: "Does it make you feel good to see me cry? I think it does", she affirms. The lyric "I'd like to hurt you" was
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Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)


love, give me peace on earth / Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth." These lyrics bear a simple, universal message, one that, in the context of the time, related as much to the communal "peace and love" idealism of the 1960s as it did Harrison's personal spiritual quest. Harrison also asks for divine assistance to "cope with this heavy load", while his stated attempt to "touch and reach you with heart and soul" recalls the same plea
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When Love Takes Over


something happened the first time I heard it, and it was just beautiful. And I remember thinking 'Why is this "touching" me like this?' You know, it was like there was a kinda soul-tie to it!" Upon meeting Guetta, she asked him for the song so she could write its lyrics. "So I met David and asked him for the track... He gave it to me, and I brought it back here to London, UK and wrote the actual song".
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Congregation (song)


Brown: "Zac Brown is an enormous country star. I met him in a store and he asked me to produce an album. I'd never heard of him. I said to someone, 'Zac Brown has asked me to produce him' - they said, 'You should do it, he's huge' So I did the record without hearing any of his songs." Grohl also explained that the lyrics: "And they're singing like a bluebird in the round," references Nashville's iconic Bluebird
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Bashy


for Clarke to listen to. Clarke then asked Thomas to act as assistant music supervisor for the entire film. Thomas released his debut album, "Catch Me If You Can", on 1 June 2009. Hiphop.com rated the album 'good' and cited, "Catch Me If You Can is a debut album that perfectly encapsulates how hip hop has become the world's local music. With vocal accents, lyrical references, swagger and varied production styles that will take a minute for the non-Brit to get their head
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No Boys Allowed


of Us" by Grover Washington, Jr. When asked about the concept of the song, Hilson stated "I want everybody to feel like they can do the pretty girl rock [dance] ... It's like the hair brush in the mirror, don't hate me cause I'm beautiful, cause you are. Everybody is beautiful." "The Way You Love Me" is an upbeat song which generates influences of electro, R&B, and dance-pop. The song has been criticized for its explicit lyrics, that
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You and Me (Babe)


initially on the soundtrack for Apple Films' "Little Malcolm". In March that year, when sessions for "Ringo" were under way in Hollywood, Harrison and Evans shared a house in Los Angeles and co-wrote a song for Starr's album, titled "You and Me (Babe)". Evans had some lyrics for what he termed "a meditation song", and asked Harrison for help with the melody, after which Harrison reworked the composition on a piano. Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner describes the song
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You Found Me


Person in charge of this planet – are they sleeping? Smoking? Where are they? I just imagined running into God standing on a street corner like Bruce Springsteen, smoking a cigarette, and I'd have it out with Him." In a Reuters article about the album, Slade stated that the lyrics for "You Found Me" were written in 2007, and that the song asks about the problem of evil, why bad things happen to good people, after some of their friends and family went through very tough
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Live with Me


on Let it Bleed that guitarist Mick Taylor played on. He and Keith Richards created an original 2-lead guitar sound. The song's lyrics were cited as the reason why the London Bach Choir asked not to be credited for their contribution to "You Can't Always Get What You Want". The poet X. J. Kennedy suggested that the lyrics are part of a tradition of responses, beginning with John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh and continuing through C. Day-Lewis, to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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Double entendre


. Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" by The Bellamy Brothers. By one interpretation, the person being talked to is asked if they would be offended; by the other interpretation, they are asked if they would press their body against the person doing the talking. Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, in his somewhat controversial song "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", repeats the line
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Don't Tell Me That It's Over


the song saying: "'Don't Tell Me That It's Over' is a glossier, rockier effort laced with strings that wouldn't shame a stadium-filler from Take That or Coldplay. As ever though, it's Macdonald's knack for a proper pop chorus and that irresistible Gaelic lilt that catch your ear, and her pointed lyrics that hold it. "Tell me what I'm meant to see, why are you preaching at me?" she asks popstars with A Worthy Cause fetish. Oh Bono,
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Rape Me


in 1993, "'You'll never kill me. I'll survive this and I'm gonna fucking rape you one of these days and you won't even know it. Gllian G. Garr described the song's lyrics as "part submissive invitation, part defiant taunt, a mix that confused and disturbed many listeners," and led to Cobain frequently having to explain the song's meaning. When asked by MUCH's Erica Ehm in an August 1993 interview how the band was helping to raise awareness about sexism, Cobain
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Like the Way I Do


many other songs on the album ("Bring Me Some Water", "Similar Features", "Don't You Need"...), "Like the Way I Do" deals with the non-monogamous relationship she was in at the time. In the lyrics she asks her lover, who had told her that he had a crush on someone else, what he sees in the other person and what that person is giving to him that she herself cannot: "Tell me does she love you like the
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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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Guava Jelly (song)


risqué lyrics'". Authors Ian McCann and Harry Hawke predicted that "innocent" listeners would not recognize the explicit lyrics because of its "island charm". Marley begins the track by singing the line: "You said you love me" and follows with: "I said I love you". By incorporating "the concerns of soul" into the lyrics, he sings into the chorus: "Here I am / Me said, 'Come rub in 'pon me belly' / 'With you guava jelly
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The Easybeats


's So Fine' stamp. Australian Rock duo Divinyls recorded a cover of "I'll Make You Happy" on the B-side of the single "Science Fiction" in 1982 which later appeared on the album "Desperate". However, since the vocalist was a female, the lyrics "If you don't think I'm your man, Find somebody if you can, And ask them to hold your hand, Not me." were changed to "If you don't wanna be my man, Pass the
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A Cloud in Trousers


said, no such plans at all.' So they erased six pages, as well as the title. Then, there's the question about where the title has come from. Once somebody asked me how could I combine lyricism with coarseness. I replied: 'Simple: you want me rabid, I'll be it. Want me mild, and I'm not a man, a cloud in trousers.'" The first extracts from the poem (part of the Prologue and Part 4) appeared in the "
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Don't Say You Love Me (Fifth Harmony song)


"special" record saying that the group was taken to a "very vulnerable place" during the recording sessions. When describing the song, Brooke said: A midtempo song built on a moderate tropical, dembow rhythm, "Don't Say You Love Me" is a torch song that finds the group asking for an honest relationship. The lyrics are constructed in the traditional verse-chorus form. The chorus, sung in an emotive tone, is first performed by Lauren Jauregui who introduces the song over a melancholic acoustic guitar
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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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Theleis I Den Theleis


as did its album, featured a more mature sound from Rouvas than previously which was the bet Makis Matsas and Vangelis Yannopoulos along with Sakis Rouvas' manager Elias Psinakis took and won together. The song is of a 1990s dance-pop style with a strong beat, featuring a lot of bass. It has a large range in dynamics, a style commonly used in many Rouvas songs. Lyrically, the song sees Rouvas asking his lover "Do you want to or not? You will tell me tonight" and asking if
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I'm Goin' Down


love to me tonight, or are we gonna wait for the full moon again', y'know?" The song's lyrics include lines such as "I'm sick and tired of you setting me up / Setting me up just to knock-a knock-a knock-a me down" and "You used to love to drive me wild / But lately girl you get your kicks from just driving me down". The lyrics later turn into a stream of gibberish syllables. The "Born in the U.S.A.
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The Marshall Mathers LP


regarding glorification of violence in his lyrics, pointing out perceived hypocrisy in American society. According to Gabriel Alvarez of "Complex", Eminem's response ranges oscillates from "smart-ass ('Oh, you want me to watch my mouth, how?/Take my fuckin' eyeballs out and turn 'em around?') to smart ('Ain't they got the same moms and dads who got mad when I asked if they liked violence?/And told me that my tape taught 'em to swear/What about the makeup you allow your
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Anthony Wong Yiu-ming


celebrate their 25th anniversary. On the final night of the residency, Wong publicly came out as gay which received a standing ovation from the audience. Wong said: "After the first night of the residency, so many people have asked me, ‘Anthony, are you a tongzhi? And you have probably read my answer in newspapers. I’m not a tongzhi if you mean a communist comrade. If you are talking about a secret communist, then I’m not a tongzhi! Actually, I think since the lyrics
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Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song)


the song fades out. Lyrically, the song is about getting "the rules straight on a budding relationship: Slow down and don't say you love me until you give me some time and get to know me." According to musicologist Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik, "Don't Say You Love Me" is the "thinking person's teen pop." Ålvik rejects a superficial interpretation that the lyrics are a "moralistic message of abstinence", arguing instead that M2M "signal a stance that sounds considered and assured
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Born to Make You Happy


to re-write the original lyrics of the song. "I asked them to change the words to 'Born to Make You Happy.' It was a sexual song," she revealed. "I said, 'This may be a little old for me.' Because of the image thing, I don't want to go over the top. If I come out being Miss Prima Donna, that wouldn't be smart. I want to have a place to grow". "Born to Make You Happy
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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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Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely


Cafe" also placed it at number seven on her "Top 10 Backstreet Boys Songs", writing that, "it's their most emotional song, containing the lyrics, 'how can it be you’re asking me to feel the things you never show?'. Deep, guys." The music video for "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" was directed by Stuart Gosling in Los Angeles from December 11 to 12, 1999, following the 1999 Billboard Music Awards. It follows each of the band members
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You Fail Me


other details that made me want to remix it. Sonically, I wanted to make it fit more logically between "Jane Doe" and "No Heroes"." When asked about the concept of the album, Bannon said:"Lyrically/Thematically: After "Jane Doe" was recorded and released, I thought I was going to feel the emotional burden I was carrying lift from my shoulders. I had all the puzzle pieces there in front of me. Outlets bring closure, or at least that's what I thought. With
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You (George Harrison song)


, specifically for Ronnie Spector. The main lyrics – "I ... love ... you" and "You ... love ... me", in verses one and two, respectively – make it one of Harrison's simplest compositions. Author Ian Inglis comments that Harrison's lyrics here recall the Beatles' use of personal pronouns in songs such as "Love Me Do", "From Me to You" and "She Loves You" to effectively "include the listener in the song's narrative". A deviation from these lines
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Marley hypothesis


The original research for the Marley Hypothesis notes how the name for this psychological finding was coined in respect to the singer Bob Marley. The name of the hypothesis study echoes Bob Marley's song, 'Buffalo Soldier', on his lyrical composition surrounding the concepts of society, culture, and race. ""If you know your history" "then you will know where you’re comin’ from" "and you wouldn’t have to ask me" "who the heck do I think I am"."Bob Marley's
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Heroes and Villains


Master Painter" suggests God in the lyrics ""painted the violets and the daffodils"" and ""then came his masterpiece and when he was through he smiled down from heaven and he gave me you"". "You Are My Sunshine" ends with a string section descending to a low discordance where Brian used the adjectives "snappy" and "draggy" to instruct session players. When asked about "My Only Sunshine" in 2004, Parks could not remember having been involved with it. "Do You
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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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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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Killing in the Name


X Factor". Rage Against the Machine attracted controversy when they performed an uncensored rendition of the song on BBC Radio 5Live in mid-December 2009, despite the hosts asking them to censor the expletive end. During the crescendo of their performance, frontman Zack De La Rocha started out only singing "I won't do what you tell me", with a pause where he normally sings "fuck you", but after a few lines, he screamed the lyrics, "Fuck you, I won't do what you
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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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Les biches


you like a necklace of nasturtiums? A pretty necklace that I have covered with kisses? "If you give me "the bouquet I ask for "I will see if I "can marry you "It is at St Matthew's "that we will be married, "if you give me "the bouquet of wallflowers." And if I give you a bouquet – a bouquet of wallflowers do you promise me you will kiss me on the cheek? "I will give you "what you ask me, "
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Because (Guy d'Hardelot and Edward Teschemacher song)


"Because" ("Parce Que") is a song with music and lyrics by Guy d'Hardelot and English lyrics by Edward Teschemacher, originally published in 1902. The song's English lyrics by Edward Teschemacher are as follows: Because, you come to me, with naught save love, and hold my hand and lift mine eyes above, a wider world of hope and joy I see, because you come to me! Because you speak to me in accent sweet, I find the roses waking 'round my feet,
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Shades of Purple


and touring with Hanson in September. "Don't Say You Love Me" was released in October 1999 as the lead song from the "" soundtrack. There was a minor lyric change between the versions, as the original version contained the lyrics "then you start kissing me", which was deemed inappropriate for Pokémon's young viewers and was changed to "then you said you love me". The original version was retained on "Shades of Purple". Promoted by a "nonstop marketing effort", advanced airing
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Too Little Too Late


's "powerful" moral to be about "Accepting that you deserve better and its just a little too late for your partner to fix things", demonstrated by its lyrics "Go find someone else. I'm letting you go, I'm loving myself. You got a problem but don't come asking me for help"; "People"'s Julia Emmanuele compared this line to an Instagram caption. "The Boston Globe"'s Maura Johnston described the song as "chiding" in tone, while Sam Willett of
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Al-Ghafir


Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not Mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it.'" It has
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The Marble Index


a subdued halt in [its] final seconds". It features what may be Nico's first lyrics, inspired by her peyote visions with Jim Morrison: "He blesses you, he blesses me/The day the night caresses,/Caresses you, caresses me,/Can you follow me?/I cannot understand the way I feel/Until I rest on lawns of dawns—/Can you follow me?" Nico explained the peyote-induced experience which inspired the lyrics: "The light of the dawn was a very deep green and I believed I was upside
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Dōkoku


predicament by imploring him to "stop patronizing me". Upon reading the lyrics for the first time, Kudo's initial response was to ask for help with pronouncing the title from Yūzō Watanabe, her executive producer at the time. "How do you read this character?", the kanji for "dōkoku" (慟哭) being uncommon, Kudo remembers having to look it up in the dictionary. "Let's make it a cheerful song, to balance out the heavy lyrics," Kudo explained about her approach with
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Drafi Deutscher


asked by present songwriter Christian Bruhn what he intended to do with it to turn it into a complete song, he replied, ""Det machst du!" ("I want you guys to take care of it for me!"), so songwriter Günter Loose subsequently wrote the German lyrics to the melody. In the US, the song was released in 1966 under the title "Marble breaks and iron bends" with English lyrics sung by Deutscher. This English version entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 in May
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They All Laughed (song)


"They All Laughed" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written for the 1937 film "Shall We Dance" where it was introduced by Ginger Rogers as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire. The lyrics compare those who "laughed at me, wanting you" with those who laughed at some of history's famous scientific and industrial pioneers, asking, "Who's got the last laugh now?" People and advances mentioned are Christopher Columbus's proof the earth is
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Siberian Khatru


vocalist Jon Anderson, "'Khatru' means 'as you wish' in the Yemeni dialect of Arabic. When we were working on it, I kept singing the word over and over again, even though I had no idea what it meant. I asked somebody to look it up for me, and when they told me the meaning, it worked for the song." "Siberian Khatru" is written in the key of G major and is typical of Yes' music of this period, featuring abstruse lyrics,
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Run of the Mill (George Harrison song)


"Isn't It a Pity" and "Awaiting on You All". The song particularly resonates with its composer's widow, Olivia Harrison.Introduction by Olivia Harrison, in Harrison, p. 5. "George singing was always beguiling to me", she writes in her introduction to the posthumous edition of "I, Me, Mine", "and countless times I was his audience of one. "Run of the Mill" was a song I often asked him to play, the lyrics so wise, especially
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On and Off (Maggie Rogers song)


stated "This was one of the very first songs—I made it right after 'Alaska'. The lyrics, there’s this sort of sexual cliché in the song. There’s a lyric that says you turn me on, but if you listen to the rest of the lyrics, that is actually about emotional stability and being on and off and finding a person that grounds you. I think that’s one of the most important things to me in relationships." She also said in an interview with "Pigeons
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No Time for It


Source" wrote that its lyrics are a list of "all the things Fantasia has no time for (basically everything except money)". In the chorus, "You wanna tell me how it is, but there’s no time for it / You wanna tell me how you feel, but there's no time for it"; Fantasia sings in "a cool collected manner", contrasting with her biting lyrics. Idolator's Mike Wass described the song as a "catchy mid-tempo anthem" and its lyrics
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Dear Future Husband


be aware of if he wants to marry me. You need to take me on a date, bring me flowers every anniversary. Tell me I'm beautiful sometimes, if you wanna get that "special loving". Lyrically, "Dear Future Husband" deals with subjects of chivalry and marriage. It is based on a list of qualities a man should have if he wants to marry Trainor, or call her his girlfriend. Christina Lee of Idolator opined that the lyrics, "You got that 9-to-5, but baby,
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An Imaginary Report on an American Rock Festival


“When I met with Tibor Déry in connection with "Rock Festival" asked him if I understood correctly what the novel was about. I thought, it was about when you leave [your homeland], you bring it with you. He said 'yes'. So the story was in place for me.” Presser—previously known only as a rock musician—used his own musical style when composing thirteen songs for the musical. Concerning the lyrics, Adamis stated: "An Imaginary Report" met negative responses
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Undone (MercyMe album)


content. The album was also described as taking a more mature lyrical approach than their previous albums. "Here with Me" focuses on the theme of God's love and omnipotence, while "Homesick" focuses on "persevering on earth in anticipation of heaven", with Millard asking "“Lord won’t you give me strength to make it through somehow". The title track describes humanity's "never-ending quest for self-improvement"; Shaffer explained that “We’re undone from our freedom side of it
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Don't Judge Me


of Michael Jackson. Lyrically, Brown asks his lover to forgive him "for his past indiscretions" and "move on with the future." In the song, Brown encourages his lover that there is nothing going on between him and his ex-girlfriend as he sings, "You're hearing rumors about me / And you can't stomach the thought / Of someone touching my body / When you're so close to my heart / I won't deny what they saying / Because most of it is true / But
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Finding You (The Go-Betweens song)


it hits the line about lightning and then it’s like a crescendo. It’s written by Grant and he wrote it probably two years or something before he died, and I think it’s one of the best five to 10 songs he ever did. Magnificent song. I wrote most of the lyric. He wrote the chorus thing and I asked if I could write the verse lyric. It was so fresh; he played it to me and he’d only written it a week or two ago. He’d written
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Kawaranai Koto (Since 1976)


, percussion and occasional strings arrangement. The two choruses, however, feature a band arrangement with added guitars and percussion. The lyrics express somebody thanking a person they have been watching over and protecting for making them realise how much they loved them, despite being unable to express this to them. The lyrics ask the person's beloved to "instead of say thank you, look at me." The music video was directed by Jun Hara (原淳). The majority of the clip is made up of double exposed shots
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Say Something (Timbaland song)


slow at first, but it's a feel-good record." After Graham wrote to the music, he replied to Mosley, asking for his approval of the lyrics: "'I wanna make sure you like this hook. Because the way I'm rapping to it, I feel like it was my record. I had to realize this was not my record; this is a feature you want me to be on." He told him afterwards that it was Graham's record, giving his blessing for the
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You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)


"You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" is a song by Jamaican recording artist Dawn Penn from her first studio album, "No, No, No" (1994). The song's lyrics are credited to Penn, Bo Diddley and Willie Cobbs, and production was handled by Steely & Clevie. Penn had originally recorded a version of Cobbs' 1960 song "You Don't Love Me" in 1967, incorporating elements of its music and lyrics. It is claimed that the Cobbs song
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Needed Me


, you could have it / You needed me". Many critics considered it a kiss-off track. Forrest Wickman of "Slate" noted that lyrics stand for reversing stereotypical gender roles. In the other hand, Erin Macleod of NPR Music stated that the song's lyrics were metaphors for anti-colonialism. Macleod picked up on the track's lyrics such as "Didn't they tell you that I was a savage?, Fuck ya white horse and ya carriage", and stated that the phrases seem to be
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Mystery of Love


as the basis for songwriting since he was a child. The song opens with Stevens singing the first verse, the lyrics including "Oh, to see without my eyes / The first time that you kissed me". Brandon Tensley from "Pacific Standard" noted the lyrics, "The first time that you touched me / Oh, will wonders ever cease?", to describe the complicated relationship between Elio and Oliver. In the third iteration of the chorus, the lyrics change to "The last time that you touched
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Jefferson Airplane


mono pressings), because executives objected to the word "trip" in the lyrics. For similar reasons, RCA Victor substituted altered versions for two other tracks: "Let Me In", changing the line "I gotta get in/you know where" to "you shut your door/now it ain't fair." In the same song, they also switched the lyric "Don't tell me you want money" to "Don't tell me it ain't funny". "Run Around"
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Gene Simmons


afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs", paraphrasing a lyric from the Who's 1981 song "You Better You Bet". Gross replied: "That's a really obnoxious thing to say". At the time, Simmons refused to grant permission to NPR to make the interview available online. However, it appears in print in Gross' book "All I Did Was Ask" and unauthorized transcripts are available. NPR re-broadcast part of the interview in August 2007. In a
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I'll Make a Man Out of You


Children's Literature", the song's lyrics "initially define masculinity in opposition to femininity," with its first verse beginning, "Let's get down to business/To defeat the Huns/Did they send me daughters/When I asked for sons?" Its chorus reads, "You must be swift as the coursing river/With all the force of the great typhoon/With all the strength of a raging fire/Mysterious as the dark side of the moon" which, according to "Ways of Being
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You'll See


; she said "If you listen to those songs, you can hear how I was trying to absorb and utilize what I was learning for the recording [of "Evita"]." Lyrically the song talks of independence after the end of a love affair stating that Madonna will go onto greater things. When asked if the track was about revenge, the singer replied: "No, it's about empowering yourself", but also adding that "there's another side too which is—'Don't fuck with me, I do
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Mark E. Smith


"The Frenz Experiment", as well as "Bill Is Dead" (1990) and "Edinburgh Man" (1991). He did not respond to requests to explain the meaning or sources behind his lyrics. When asked by a journalist as to how much of his self could be found in the song's characters, he replied "dunno, you're the one sitting there in your round glasses and leather jacket. You tell me what you think its an extension of...for every bloke pulling a pint,
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The Lost Tapes (Nas album)


skin on our backs / We rent and we ask for reparations, then they hit us with tax"), and dependency ("I'ma Colombia record slave / So get paid / Control your own destiny, you are a genius / Don't let it happen to you like it did to me, I was a black zombie"). Its socially conscious lyrics deride media stereotypes of African Americans, inequality in the educational system, and black-on-black violence. According to writer Dax-Devlon Ross
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What You Waiting For?


that writing songs without her band members felt "humiliating and intimidating even if they're sweet and excited, because you're drowning in their creativity". That night, Perry began work on another track, which she played for Stefani the next day to motivate her. Stefani was impressed with the track, and Perry asked her, "What are you waiting for?" According to Perry, Stefani took the question as a dare, replying, "You're totally challenging me, right?" The two began writing lyrics
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Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights


as a more uptempo song, but the band felt the arrangement didn't fit, so it was reworked in the style of John Frusciante's first solo album. "Don't Close Your Heart" was described by Valo as "Jefferson Airplane meets Bon Jovi", and lyrically deals with similar themes to "Join Me in Death", but from a different perspective. According to Valo, the song talks about how "if things go to shit, you don't have to sink into the swamp. You can ask
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El Scorcho


enemy" is a lyric from Public Enemy's "Don't Believe the Hype". The first line of the song has been mistakenly thought to refer to punk band Half Japanese. The song also mentions the band Green Day in the lyric "I asked you to go to the Green Day concert/You said you never heard of them." In 2005, Weezer often changed the lyric to "I asked you go to the Foo Fighters concert" while on the Foozer tour; and changed it to "the Weezer
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Sep Ruf


river Rhine he built a flat-roofed house with large glass-windows, that should show the open democratic way, the new Germany was thinking. The bungalow is designed with two quadrates with two atriums and one part of the house is wide open to the park and the other private part into one atrium with a little swimming pool. When Ludwig Erhard got the keys he said: "You can understand me better, when you look at this house, as if you would listen to a political speech of mine"
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Babaji (song)


Babaji is like Roger's light of life" and "Roger's guiding light sort of guy." The lyrics reflect this in lines such as "All my life I felt that you were listening/Watching for ways to help me stay in tune" and "Babaji, oh won't you come to me/Won't you help me face the music." Music critic Dale Winnitowy described the song's religious content as "George Harrison-like." The lyrics emphasise the need for effort in order to attain enlightenment
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Finding You (The Go-Betweens song)


the chorus and he was just making stuff up in the verses. I asked him – it just hit me so hard, I could hear it and I drove away from that session and I had that song in my head. I got home and I just wrote the lyric. Phoned him up and said, “I’m sorry but I just jumped in on this.” He said, “Great, bring it over to me.” A couple of days later I had it all on a sheet and he
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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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Think of Me (The Veronicas song)


" is an electropop song that has been described as a breakup anthem. It contains "bittersweet" synths and lyrics that have been referred to as "brutally honest". The chorus, which contains the lyrics "Do you miss me in your sheets?/ Do you miss me in your bed?/ The way we talk all night/ The way I give you head", has been called "raunchy". Allison Stubblebine, writing for "Nylon", called the song the "perfect bittersweet ode to getting over a relationship; a
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The Paratrooper's Prayer


or success, or even health. All those things are asked of You so much Lord, that you can't have any left to give. Give me instead Lord what You have left. Give me what others don't want. I want uncertainty and doubt. I want torment and battle. And I ask that You give them to me now and forever Lord, so I can be sure to always have them, because I won't always have the strength to ask again. But give me also the courage,
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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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Rush (William Singe song)


Crush" by Jennifer Paige and asked him "What do you think of this song?" to which Singe replied, "Yo. This chorus? We can do something heavy with this." He spent time with Petroulas and another guy called Sebastian and started writing the song but we changed it from "Crush" to "Rush." Singe said "It's actually quite like a personal song to me because if you read the lyrics, it gets a bit deep. We had this 17-year-old producer from
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I'll Make a Man Out of You


Top 20 Disney Songs of All Time". Author Stephanie Osmanski cited "Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?" as her favourite lyric. Gregory E. Miller of the" New York Post "cited I'll Make a Man Out of You" as one of "The best (and the most underrated) Disney songs," writing, "Captain Shang’s battle-preparation anthem is the movie’s most quotable, with a memorable chorus and a slew of one-liners from supporting characters."
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Partition (song)


intercourse but rather use "the physical act of love as a form of agency", from which they derive pleasure. "Partition" gained significant attention for its explicit lyrics, with frequent references made to the opening lines of the first verse in which Beyoncé asks her driver to put up the partition. On the hook lines, Beyoncé adopts whispery vocals, singing that she wants to please her man, "Take all of me / I just wanna be the girl you like, girl you like". The closing minute
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U + Ur Hand


had heard guys using. The song caused controversy in the U.S. because of its allegedly "racy" references to masturbation, and consequently some radio stations refused to play it. Pink and her publicist stated that she wasn't allowed to sing "U + Ur Hand" on the U.S. television show "American Idol" because of such references. After being asked to change the title and lyrics to "U + Ur Heart," she said, "You want me to rewrite my song for you. For "American"
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