Troubadour Song & Patter

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Elvis Presley – Hounddog .........................................................................................................2

Hounddog Lyrics ........................................................................................................................3
The Beatles – Help....................................................................................................................4
Help Lyrics..................................................................................................................................5
The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar ........................................................................................6
Brown Sugar Lyrics...................................................................................................................7
The Monkees – I’m a Believer ................................................................................................8
I’m a Believer Lyrics.................................................................................................................9
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Love the one you’re with ............................................... 10
Bob Dylan – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door................................................................................11
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door Lyrics......................................................................................... 12
Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water .................................................................................... 13
Smoke on the Water Lyrics.................................................................................................. 14
Pink Floyd – Wish you were here ......................................................................................... 15
Wish you were here Lyrics ................................................................................................... 16
Bob Marley – Is this Love? ................................................................................................... 17
Is this Love? Lyrics ................................................................................................................ 18
Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight....................................................................................... 19
Wonderful Tonight Lyrics.................................................................................................... 20
Dido – White Flag.................................................................................................................... 21
White Flag Lyrics................................................................................................................... 22
Robbie Williams – Feel .......................................................................................................... 23
Feel Lyrics ............................................................................................................................... 24
Troubadour – The Iron Age................................................................................................. 25
Troubadour - Come Hell or High Water ........................................................................... 25
The Iron Age Lyrics .............................................................................................................. 26
Come Hell or High Water Lyrics ........................................................................................ 27
Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams ....................................................................... 28
Boulevard of Broken Dream Lyrics .................................................................................... 29
U2 – One................................................................................................................................... 30
U2 – Vertigo ............................................................................................................................. 31
One Lyrics................................................................................................................................ 32
Vertigo Lyrics ......................................................................................................................... 33
Elvis Presley – Hounddog

Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply
as Elvis and also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or simply "The King", was
an American singer and actor. He is regarded by many to be the greatest
entertainer of the 20th century. He was the most commercially successful
singer of rock and roll, but he also had success with ballads, country,
gospel, blues, pop, folk and even semi-operatic and jazz standards.

Elvis Presley is an icon of modern American pop culture.

During the late 1960's and through a large portion of the
1970's, Presley re-emerged as a live performer of old and
new hit songs, both on tour and in Las Vegas, Nevada,
where he was known for his on-stage highly energetic
performances both vocally and physically, his sartorial
jump-suits and capes adding to the drama. He attracted massive
attendance figures. His concert performances were staggering in quantity,
considering they numbered over 1,100 in 8 years. He continued to perform
before sell-out audiences around the U.S. until his death in 1977

His death was premature at 42, despite alarming concerns about his health.
When he died on August 16, 1977, it was a huge shock to his fans. However,
it soon became clear that a combination of over-work, obesity, depression,
bad diet and severe abuse of prescription drugs, accelerated his premature
departure. However, much confusion, conflict, contradictions and general
controversy still surrounds his death. Regardless, his popularity as a singer
has survived his death.

"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar that demonstrate the transition from rhythm

and blues to rock and roll. The original version was recorded by Big Mama
Thornton, while the remake was recorded by Elvis Presley. Big Mama's
version is slow and threatening. Her man is nothing but a hound dog, but he
won't be sniffing around anymore. The rhythm is jerky and the playing is
deliberately primitive. The lyrics are interrupted by growling from Big
Mama and barking and howling from the band. It is a blues song, plain and
simple, nothing rock and roll about it but the enthusiastic rendition.
 Hounddog Lyrics
(Johnny Otis & Big Mama Thornton, 1953)

You ain’t nothing but a hounddog, crying all the time

You ain’t nothing but a hounddog, crying all the time

You ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine

They said she was high class, but that was just a lie

They said she was high class, but that was just a lie

You ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine
The Beatles – Help

The Beatles (1960-1970) were an English musical

group from Liverpool, and are usually regarded as
the most critically acclaimed, commercially
successful popular music artists in history.
Although their initial musical style was rooted in
the sounds of 1950s Rock & Roll, the group
explored a great variety of musical styles, ranging
from Tin Pan Alley to Rockabilly. The innovative
music and style of John Lennon (1940–1980), Paul McCartney (1942—),
George Harrison (1943–2001), and Ringo Starr (1940—) helped to define
the 1960s.

Their final live performance was on the rooftop of the Apple building in
London on 30 January 1969. Lennon announced his departure to the rest of
the group in mid-September 1969, but the breakup was not made public
until the release of McCartney's first solo album in April 1970. One month
later, Let It Be followed as their last commercial album release.

Help! is a song by The Beatles. It served as the title song for both the
album Help! and the film Help!, and was also released as a single. The song
was #1 for three weeks in both the UK and USA. John Lennon wrote the
lyrics of the song to express his stress coming from the quick rise to a
massive level of success for The Beatles after years of obscurity. The rest
of the band felt somehow surprised learning this, but they considered it
normal. Since Lennon's feelings of insecurity were incongruous with the
band's image of confidence, Lennon felt it was nearly impossible for the
fans to understand the origin of the song.
 Help Lyrics
(Lennon & McCartney, 1963)

Help, I need somebody

Help, not just anybody,
Help, you know I need someone, help.

When I was younger, so much younger than today,

I never needed anybody’s help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I’m not so self assured,
Now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors.

Help me if you can, I’m feeling down

And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won’t you please, please help me.

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,

My independence seems to vanish in the haze.
But every now and then I feel so insecure,
I know that I just need you like I’ve never done before.

Help me if you can, I’m feeling down

And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won’t you please, please help me.
The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar

The Rolling Stones are a British rock band that

rose to prominence in the early 1960s during
the British Invasion. They were leaders of the
British R&B boom of the 1960s and presented a
rebellious, bohemian image that many other
bands continue to emulate. During their 1969
American tour, the Stones were introduced and
have often since been referred to as "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in
the World." For more than forty years of The Stones' existence Jagger,
Richards, and drummer Charlie Watts, have been constant members.

On July 26, 2005, the band announced the name of their new album, A
Bigger Bang, which was released September 6 to typically strong reviews.
The subsequent A Bigger Bang Tour began in August 2005, and visited
North America, South America and East Asia. By the end of 2005, the tour
had set a record of $162 million gross receipts. Later that month the band
played to 1.5 million people on the sands of Copacabana. It was the group's
biggest public audience of their career. In May 2006 Keith Richards went
in hospital for brain surgery after an apparent fall from a coconut tree on
the island of Fiji, causing a six week postponement in the European leg of
the tour. The Stones returned to North America for another round of
concerts in September 2006, and are expected to return to Europe in the
summer of 2007.

Brown Sugar was released in 1971 as the first single from the album Sticky
Fingers. The song was an immediate hit, but its lyrical subject matter has
often been a point of interest and controversy. The song deals with a
number of taboo subjects, including interracial sex, slave rape, and heroin
use (with the title being an apparent slang term for certain varieties of the
drug).
 Brown Sugar Lyrics
(Jagger/Richards, 1969)

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Sold in a market down in New Orleans.

Scarred old slaver know he’s doin’ alright.

Hear him whip the women just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should, A-huh.

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot,

Lady of the house wond’rin where it’s gonna stop.

House boy knows that he’s doin’ alright.

You should a heard him just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl should, A-huh.

I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy

Friends they were sweet sixteen.

I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like,

You should have heard me just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good

(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.

The Monkees – I’m a Believer

The Monkees were a four-man musical band created for an American

television series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968.
The Monkees were formed in 1965 in Los Angeles,
California. The overwhelming success of the music
demanded that this "band" perform live, so the
actors rehearsed the music and toured the US,
playing all of the music themselves. At their peak,
they were one of the most popular musical acts of
their time. The Monkees disbanded in 1970.

Several reunions of The Monkees have taken place.

The first reunion lasted from 1986 to 1989 while
another regrouping took place in 1996. The last time
The Monkees worked together was in 2001.

"I'm A Believer" is a song composed by Neil Diamond, recorded by The

Monkees in 1966. The single hit the number one spot on the U.S. Billboard
Hot 100 chart on December 31, 1966 and remained there for seven weeks,
becoming the biggest-selling record for all of 1967, and one of the biggest
of all time. Because of advance orders, it went gold within two days of
release.

This song was covered by Smash Mouth and Eddie Murphy in 2001, as part
of the soundtrack to the movie Shrek. Eddie Murphy, portraying the
character "Donkey", also performed a rendition of the song in the film.
"I'm a Believer" was a hit for both The Monkees and Smash Mouth.
 I’m a Believer Lyrics
(Neil Diamond, 1966)

I thought love was only true in fairy tales

Meant for someone else but not for me.

Love was out to get me

That’s the way it seemed.

Disappointment haunted all my dreams.

Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer

Not a trace of doubt in my mind.

I’m in love, I’m a believer!

I couldn’t leave her if I tried.

I thought love was more or less a given thing,

Seems the more I gave the less I got.

What’s the use in tryin’?

All you get is pain.

When I needed sunshine I got rain.

Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer

Not a trace of doubt in my mind.

I’m in love, I’m a believer!

I couldn’t leave her if I tried.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Love the one you’re with

Crosby, Stills & Nash, also Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when including
occasional fourth member Neil Young, are a folk rock/rock super group. The
band is known for their distinctive vocal harmonies and activist politics, and
have a strong association with the segment of 1960s counterculture known
as the Woodstock Nation. They are commonly referred to by their initials
CSN or CSNY and, for a time, were one of the few North American groups
to rival the Beatles in popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Bob Dylan – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Robert Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota (1941) and was raised
there and in Hibbing, His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from
Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine, and his parents, Abraham Zimmerman and
Beatrice Stone, were part of the area's small but close-knit Jewish
community. He lived in Duluth until age seven, when his father was stricken
with polio. The family returned to nearby Hibbing, Beatrice’s hometown,
where Robert Zimmerman spent the rest of his childhood.

In January 1961, he headed for New York City to perform and to visit his
ailing musical idol Woody Guthrie in a New Jersey hospital. Guthrie had
been a huge revelation to Dylan and was a major
influence. After initially playing mostly in small clubs
for little pay, he gained some public recognition after
a positive review in The New York Times by critic
Robert Shelton. Shelton's review and word-of-mouth
around Greenwich Village led to legendary music
business figure John Hammond's signing Dylan to
Columbia Records that October. His performances,
like his first Columbia album Bob Dylan (1962), consisted of familiar folk,
blues and gospel material combined with some of his own songs. In August
1962, Robert Allen Zimmerman went to the Supreme Court building in New
York and changed his name to Robert Dylan.

In 1972 Dylan signed onto Sam Peckinpah's film Pat Garrett and Billy the
Kid, providing the songs and playing a minor part. The most memorable song,
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door", has proved its durability. Although it was
originally recorded as a slow acoustic country song, it has been covered in
many tempos and styles, by over 150 recording artists, including The
Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters,
Guns N' Roses, Television, Avril Lavigne, Warren Zevon and Bon Jovi,

With the consent of Bob Dylan, a Dunblane musician named Ted Christopher
wrote a new verse for Knockin' On Heaven's Door in memory of the
Dunblane schoolchildren and teacher killed in the Dunblane massacre. The
recording of the revised version of the song, which included brothers and
sisters of the victims singing chorus and Mark Knopfler on guitar, was
released on December 9, 1996 in the UK, and reached number 1. The
proceeds went to charities for children.
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door Lyrics
(Bob Dylan, 1973)

Mama, take this badge off of me

I can't use it anymore.

It's gettin' dark, too dark to see

I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama, put my guns in the ground

I can't shoot them anymore.

That long dark cloud is comin' down

I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Deep Purple – Smoke on the Water

Deep Purple are an English hard rock band formed in London, England in
1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to
be one of the pioneer contributors to the Heavy metal and the hard rock
genre, although they have never seen themselves as a heavy metal band. To
date, the band has sold over 100 million albums.

In 1969 they recorded an album together with

the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted
by Malcolm Arnold. It was one of the first
collaborations between a rock band and an
orchestra, although at the time, certain
members of Purple (Blackmore especially) were
less than happy at the group being tagged as
"a group who played with orchestras" when
actually what they had in mind was to develop the band into a much tighter,
hard-rocking style. Deep Purple disbanded in 1976.

However, in April 1984, eight years after the demise of Deep Purple, a
reunion happened. It was announced on BBC radio's The Friday Rock Show
that the "classic" early 70s line-up of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, and
Paice was reforming and recording new material. Today, Deep Purple carries
on in the studio and around the globe as one of history's most prolific,
longest-lived, and hardest touring rock bands.

‘Smoke on the Water’ is a famous and influential rock song by Deep Purple.
It was first released on the album Machine Head. The song is known for its
central theme which is commonly the first riff learned by many beginner
guitarists. The lyrics of the song tell a true story: on December 7, 1971,
Deep Purple were in Montreux, Switzerland to record an album using a
mobile recording studio (rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the
Rolling Stones Mobile Studio) at the Montreux Casino. During a concert of
Frank Zappa a fire broke out that eventually destroyed the entire casino
complex, The "smoke on the water" that became the title of the song
referred to the smoke from the fire spreading over Lake Geneva from the
burning casino as the members of Deep Purple watched the fire from their
hotel across the lake. The "funky Claude" running in and out is referring to
Claude Nobs, the director of the Montreux Jazz Festival who helped some
of the audience to escape the fire.
 Smoke on the Water Lyrics
(Deep Purple, 1968)

We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline

To make records with a mobile, we didn't have much time

Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place around

But some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound

Funky Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out the ground

When it all was over we had to find another place

But Swiss time was running out, it seemed that we would lose the race

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

We ended up at the Grand Hotel, it was empty cold and bare

But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside making our music there

With a few red lights and a few old beds we make a place to sweat

No matter what we get out of this, I know we'll never forget

Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

Pink Floyd – Wish you were here

Pink Floyd are an English rock band noted for philosophical lyrics, classical
rock compositions, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and
elaborate live shows. One of rock music's most successful and influential
acts, the group has sold over 200 million albums worldwide, and an
estimated 73.5 million albums in the United States alone.

Pink Floyd had modest success in the late-1960s as

a psychedelic band led by the late Syd Barrett and
Roger Waters. Barrett's increasingly erratic
behaviour eventually forced his colleagues to
replace him with guitarist David Gilmour and the
band went on to record several elaborate concept
albums, achieving worldwide success with 1973's
The Dark Side of the Moon, 1975's Wish You
Were Here, 1977's Animals, and 1979's The Wall,
among the best-selling, most critically acclaimed, and enduringly popular
albums in rock music history. In 1985, singer, bassist, and songwriter Roger
Waters declared Pink Floyd defunct although the remaining members
continued recording and touring under the name, enjoying great commercial
success and eventually reaching a settlement with Waters.

After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Waters staged a gigantic charity
concert of The Wall in Berlin on July 21, 1990 to commemorate the end of
the division between East and West Germany. The concert took place on
Potsdamer Platz (a location which was part of the former "no-man's land"
of the Berlin Wall), featured many guest superstars, and, at the time, was
the biggest concert ever staged with an attendance of over 300,000 and
watched live by over 5 million people worldwide.

"Wish You Were Here" is the title track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish
You Were Here. The song's lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters's
feelings of alienation from other people and himself, as well as
disillusionment with music. Like most of the album, it also refers partly to
former Pink Floyd member, the late Syd Barrett (he died in July 2006).
Several cover versions of the song have been made by other artists.
 Wish you were here Lyrics
(Pink Floyd, 1975)

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,

Blue skies from pain.

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?

A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?

Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?

And did you exchange A walk on part in the war

for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

Year after year

Running over the same old ground.

What have you found? The same old fears.

Wish you were here

Bob Marley – Is this Love?

Robert Nesta Marley, (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981), better known as
Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the
most widely known performer of reggae music, and is famous for having
popularized the genre outside Jamaica. A faithful Rastafari, Marley is
regarded by many as a prophet of the religion, as well as one of the
greatest songwriters of all time.

His best known songs are a mixture of reggae,

rock, and rhythm and blues, and include ‘I Shot
the Sheriff’, ‘No Woman No Cry’, ‘Exodus’, ‘Could
You Be Loved’, ‘Redemption Song’ and one of his
most famous songs, ‘One Love’. His posthumous
album Legend (1984) became the best-selling
reggae album ever, with sales of more than 12
million copies.
Bob Marley was a member of the Rastafari movement, whose culture was a
key element in the development of reggae. Bob Marley became the leading
proponent of the Rastafari, taking their music out of the socially deprived
areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene. Now considered a
"rasta" legend, Marley's adoption of the characteristic Rastafarian
dreadlocks and famous use of marijuana as a sacred sacrament in the late
sixties were an integral part of his persona. He died of cancer in 1981.

"Is This Love" is a song by Bob Marley, released on his 1978 album Kaya.
The song became one of the best known Marley songs and was part of the
Legend compilation. ‘Jah’ (mentioned in the song) is the name commonly
used for God in the Rastafari religious movement.
 Is this Love? Lyrics
(Bob Marley, 1977)

I wanna love you and treat you right;

I wanna love you every day and every night:

We'll be together with a roof right over our heads;

We'll share the shelter of my single bed;

We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love - is this love that I'm feelin'?

Is this love - is this love - is this love - is this love that I'm feelin'?

I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now!

I got to know - got to know - got to know now!

I'm willing and able,

So I throw my cards on your table!

See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya -

love and treat ya right.

I wanna love you every day and every night:

We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads!

We'll share the shelter of my single bed;

We'll share the same room, yeah! Jah provide the bread.

We'll share the shelter of my single bed

Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight

Eric Patrick Clapton, nicknamed "Slowhand", is a

Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and
composer amd one of the most respected and
influential musicians of the rock era and widely
considered to be one of the greatest guitarists of all
time.

Although Clapton's musical style has varied throughout

his career, it has always remained rooted in the blues.
Clapton is credited as an innovator in several phases of
his career, which have included blues rock (with John
Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Yardbirds) and hard rock (with Cream).
Clapton has also achieved great chart success in genres ranging from Delta
blues (Me and Mr. Johnson) to pop ("Change the World") and reggae ("I
Shot the Sheriff").

"Wonderful Tonight" is a romantic song written by Eric Clapton about his

then-love, Pattie Boyd. It was included on Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand
and released as a single the following year.

It is generally regarded as a romantic song (one of the most popular slow-

dancing songs ever recorded), although Clapton's inspiration came as he
grew impatient for Pattie to finish dressing for a party. In that regard, the
lyric "You look wonderful tonight" could be interpreted less as a heartfelt
compliment and more as a prod to be finished getting dressed.
Nevertheless, the subsequent lyrics grow more patient and loving.

The song is a narrative, dealing with a party the pair

attended. Each of the three verses is a scene from a
part of the night: preparing for the party, going to the
party, and coming home from the party. In each scene,
he mentions how wonderful she is: how beautiful she
looks while preparing for the party, how happy he is to be at the party with
her, and how grateful he is that she puts up with him after he drinks a bit
too much.
 Wonderful Tonight Lyrics
(by Eric Clapton)

It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear.

She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair.

And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"

And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight."

We go to a party and everyone turns to see

This beautiful lady that's walking along with me.

And then she asks me, "Do you feel all right?"

And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight."

I feel wonderful because I see

The love lighting in your eyes.

And the wonder of it all

Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.

It's time to go home now; I've got an aching head,

So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.

And then I tell her, as I turn out the light,

I say, "My darling, you were wonderful tonight.

Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight."

Dido – White Flag

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong

(born December 25, 1971 in London) is a Brit
Award-winning English singer and songwriter who
performs under the name Dido. Dido's mother,
Claire, is a French poet and her father is Irish
publisher William Armstrong. Named after the
mythical Carthaginian queen, Dido was educated
at Thornhill Primary, City of London Girls', and
Westminster School. When she was the age of
five, she stole a recorder from school. At the
age of six, she attended the Guildhall School of
Music in London, England. By the time she
reached her teens, Dido had learned to play the
piano and the violin. She learned to play the guitar as an adult, showcasing
her skills to audiences during her 2004 Life For Rent tour. Prior to taking
up music full-time, she worked as a literary agent, whilst studying a degree
course in law at Birkbeck College, London, which she never completed.

Her first album ‘No Angel’ was released in 1999, and Dido toured
extensively to promote the record. The album was certified platinum in
over 35 countries, and is estimated to have sold over 13.5 million copies
worldwide. Dido's widely emulated hairstyle at this time became known as
the "Dido flip". After a sold-out worldwide tour, Dido announced she was
taking a sabbatical year in 2002, in which time she began to write and
record her second album.

This album, Life for Rent, was released September 30, 2003. "White Flag"
was the first track from the album to be played on the radio, and became a
major worldwide hit. The video for "White Flag" featured "Buffy" and
"Angel" star David Boreanaz. The song is about a girl who still loves a man
although this man doesn’t feel much for her anymore. She refuses to give
him up. The white flag symbolizes ‘surrender’, as in a war. The girl says that
she won’t ‘surrender’ and maybe one day win back her love.
 White Flag Lyrics
(Dido, 2003)

I know you think that I shouldn't still love you, or tell you that.

But if I didn't say it, well I'd still have felt it, where's the sense in that?

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder

or return to where we were

I will go down with this ship

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and destruction to come back again

And I caused nothing but trouble

I understand if you can't talk to me again

And if you live by the rules of "it's over",

then I'm sure that that makes sense

And when we meet, which I'm sure we will

All that was there will be there still

I'll let it pass and hold my tongue

And you will think that I've moved on....

I will go down with this ship

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be

Robbie Williams – Feel

Robbie Williams (born Robert Peter Williams on

February 13, 1974 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire) is an English pop artist/songwriter.
His career started as a member of the inmensely
successful band Take That in 1990, which he left in
1995. Since then, Robbie Williams has grown to
become one of the most successful male solo artists
in British history. Despite his lack of success in The
United States, his album sales stand at over 50
million worldwide and he has sold approximately 15 million singles around
the world. In the UK alone he has sold nearly 5.5. This brings his total sales
to more than 60 million copies. He holds 8 number one albums and has been
the recepient of countless awards. He is also the best-selling international
act in Latin America. Elton John recently described Robbie Williams as "the
#1 star in the world right now".

Williams has left the UK and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He
remains single. Speculation about his romantic life is rampant in the British
media. Williams likes to encourage an image as a smooth womaniser and
there are numerous widely-circulated Internet accounts, allegedly written
by Williams's female sexual partners, claiming his considerable prowess as
a lover. He regularly plucks female fans from the audience of his live
performances and kisses them on stage.

"Feel" is a 2002 single released by Robbie Williams, the first one from his
2002 album Escapology. It was Robbie's first song in the UK for over a
year and it was tipped to top the UK Singles Chart, but it only managed to
reach number 2. The video for the single was shot in black & white and
portraits Williams in a cowboy-like lifestyle. The video also features
actress Darryl Hannah as Williams' love interest.
 Feel Lyrics
(Williams & Chambers, 2002)

Come on hold my hand, I wanna contact the living

Not sure I understand, this role I’ve been given
I sit and talk to God and he just laughs at my plans
My head speaks a language, I don’t understand

I just wanna feel real love, feel the home that I live in
’cause I got too much life running through my veins
going to waste.

I don’t wanna die, but I ain’t keen on living either

Before I fall in love, I’m preparing to leave her
I scare myself to death, that’s why I keep on running
Before I’ve arrived, I can see myself coming

I just wanna feel real love, feel the home that I live in
’cause I got too much life running through my veins
going to waste
And I need to feel, real love and a life ever after
I cannot get enough.

I just wanna feel real love, feel the home that I live in
I got too much love running through my veins going to waste.

I just wanna feel real love, in a life ever after

There’s a hole in my soul, You can see it in my face
it’s a real big place

Come and hold my hand, I wanna contact the living,

Not sure I understand this role I’ve been given
Not sure I understand, not sure I understand
Troubadour – The Iron Age

When I was about 20 years old I started playing the guitar by copying Neil
Young songs. After a while I knew how to play 5 chords so decided it was
time to write my own songs. As a teacher of English I wanted to include
some of these songs in my classes. I came up with the idea to write a song
using newspaper articles and with students adding their own stanzas. That
is how the Iron Age song was born. In
this way you can write songs about a wide
variety of topics. My topic was Human
Rights, so I looked for articles that were
related to injustice and war. The picture
of the Chinese boy in front of tanks at
Tiananmen Square gave me the idea for
the first couplet. A photograph of
marching women demanding information
about their missing relatives gave rise to the second couplet and an article
on Amnesty International helped me to write the third. The line ‘why don’t
we light a candle instead of cursing at the night’ I took from that article.
Peter Benenson, the founder of Amnesty International, died in February
2005.

Troubadour - Come Hell or High Water

As with the Iron Age, for Come Hell or High Water

I used magazines and newspapers, this time mostly
an article on natural disasters in National
Geographic. I included storms, floods and
earthquakes and the ability of Man to face these
phenomena and their often devastating
consequences. The title means ‘whatever happens’.
It is a rare form of the subjunctive also used in the similar expression
‘come what may’.
 The Iron Age Lyrics
(Jan Bliek, 1998)

I can see him standing there with a carrier in each hand

Challenging the heartless power of the military armoured tanks
The left their scarlet message all around Tiananmen Square
Broken glass and bullet holes and bodies everywhere

Listen to the crying victims of the Iron Age

Dragging up their chains into the sky
Flung into dungeons, held like rats in a cage
Can anybody tell me why?

On the news I saw the long knives flashing cutting down East Timorese
Going out to vote for freedom and brought down to their knees
Some of us we just close our eyes while we say ‘this isn’t right’
Why don’t we just light a candle instead of cursing at the night?

Listen to the crying victims of the Iron Age

Dragging up their chains into the sky
Flung into dungeons, held like rats in a cage
Can anybody tell me why?

Aren’t you getting tired now of hearing Tyrants’ lies?

Or of drying bitter tears running from a young mother’s eyes?
When beloved husbands, sons and daughters simply vanish into thin air
Leaving those at home waiting in despair

Listen to the crying victims of the Iron Age

Dragging up their chains into the sky
Flung into dungeons, held like rats in a cage
Can anybody tell me why?
 Come Hell or High Water Lyrics
(Jan Bliek, 1998)

There’s a river in North Dakota, people call ‘Big Red’

Snow from the blizzards pushed her out the riverbed
Grand Fork was flooded, buildings came down
The dykes were sandbagged to protect the other towns

Now, Man’s got an instinct to preserve his life

Come Hell or High Water, he will always survive
Sometimes Mother Nature shows her violent side
Then people try to face her, they don’t run and hide

Thunderstorms and Twisters, Typhoons and Hurricanes

Draw a wide path of destruction all across the USA
The 97 Jarrel Texas freak tornado found its way to Double Creek
And razed all houses to the ground

Now, Man’s got an instinct to preserve his life

Come Hell or High Water, he will always survive
Sometimes Mother Nature shows her violent side
Then people try to face her, they don’t run and hide

In Anchorage, Alaska, people still tell the tale

Of seismic waves that moved the earth to 7 on the scale
In ’94 an 8-inch shift moved bridges and highways
Sent Clarnece Dean to an early death
On a road beneath LA
Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Green Day is a musical trio from East Bay, California, consisting of Billie
Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass) and Tré Cool
(drums). Their back-up players on guitar and keyboards are Jason White
and Jason Freese. Green Day is widely credited, along with fellow California
bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream popular interest
in punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s. Their success has
influenced prominent pop punk bands like Sum 41 and Good Charlotte.

The band has sold over 30 million albums in

the United States, and over 85 million records
worldwide, making them the most successful
punk band of all time. Green Day currently has
three Grammy Awards under their belt for
Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock
Album for American Idiot, and Record of the
Year for their single Boulevard of Broken
Dreams. Green Day's sound is often compared to first wave punk rock
bands such as the Ramones, The Clash and the Sex Pistols The majority of
their song catalogue is composed of distorted guitar, fast, manic drums,
and low, heavy bass. Armstrong's lyrics describe alienation, anger, angst,
insomnia, hysteria, and hallucinations, boredom, doing drugs and/or smoking,
and purely having fun.

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was the second single from Green Day's
ninth studio album, American Idiot. This song was named Record of the
Year at the Grammy Awards of 2006. The song was written by Green Day
(lyrics by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. In this moderate midtempo song
characterized by moody and depressing lyrics, Green Day speaks from the
point of view of the character Jesus of Suburbia from their American
Idiot "rock opera". The song preceding this track on the album,
Holiday, is supposed to be the character's "high" of being in
The City and Boulevard of Broken Dreams is his loneliness after
the fun stops. Holiday is the party, and Boulevard of Broken
Dreams is the hangover. The title is taken from a famous
photograph of James Dean called ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’.
Some of the proceeds of this song went to the victims of the Hurricane
Katrina disaster in New Orleans, LA.
 Boulevard of Broken Dream Lyrics
(Green Day, 2005)

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Where the city sleeps and I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,

Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I'm walking down the line that divides me somewhere in my mind

On the border line of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines

What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
U2 – One

U2 is an Irish rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland, featuring Bono on

vocals, rhythm guitar and harmonica; The Edge on lead guitar, keyboards
and vocals; Adam Clayton on bass guitar; and Larry Mullen, Jr. on drums,
percussion and occasional vocals. Formed in 1976, U2 has consistently
remained among the most popular acts in the world since the mid 1980s.
The band has sold approximately 50.5 million albums in the U.S., according
to the RIAA, and upwards of 170 million worldwide, The band has won 22
Grammy awards, more than any other recording artist. The band is also
politically active in human rights causes.

"One" is the third single from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby, and was
released in 1992. A fan favourite, this rock ballad is considered to be one
of the greatest U2 songs of all time. In 2006, it was voted as having
Britain's Best Lyric, as voted by
the public of the United Kingdom.
During the recording of Achtung
Baby, tensions in the band began to
rise over the direction of the
album, but when they wrote ‘One’
they started to come to an
agreement. It helped to bring a
renewed sense of optimism
towards the material they had
already recorded. Leaving Berlin on a high note, the band was able to
complete the rest of the album in Dublin. It is widely considered, by the
band and fans, to be the song that saved U2.

"One" has many debated meanings. One of them suggests that it's about a
gay son confessing to his father that he is HIV-positive. The most basic
interpretation suggests the song to be about two people who love each
other, but hurt each other too much to continue with their relationship,
which is a prominent lyrical theme. Others interpret the song as achieving
oneness in the spiritual sense, while yet another point of view suggests that
it's about the reunification of East and West Germany and the subsequent,
slow healing of past wounds as the Berlin Wall collapses. However, the most
popular interpretation suggests that the song is about Bono's lifelong
relationship with his father, based on their shared experiences following
the death of Bono's mother when he was 14.
U2 – Vertigo

Vertigo" is the opening track and first single from U2's 2004 album, How
to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. U2 lead singer Bono has described the album
as "our first rock and roll record." Although not a concept album in the
traditional sense, most of the music on the record deals with the world at
the crossroads of its existence. Love, war, peace and harmony, and
approaching death are running themes throughout the album.

The single was released for airplay on September 24,

2004; upon release the song received extensive airplay
and was an international hit. It won 'Best Rock Song',
'Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal'
and 'Best Short Form Music Video' at the 2005
Grammy awards. The song is a driving rocker with
impressionistic lyrics evoking a night at a dance club. As
noted by Rolling Stone and many other music
publications, the song's central riff sounds extremely
similar to Sonic Youth's 1990 single "Dirty Boots". The
bassline is also very similar to one of U2's own songs, "A Sort Of
Homecoming", taken from the album The Unforgettable Fire.

At the beginning of the song, U2 lead singer Bono counts off in Spanish
unos, dos, tres, catorce!. In English, this translates to "one(s), two, three,
fourteen!" When asked about this oddity in an interview for Rolling Stone,
Bono replied "there may have been alcohol involved." The "fourteen" may
also be because the album is U2's 14th studio release. A Spanish reply of
"¡Hola!" is also heard behind the "Hello, hello" of the refrain, as well as
"¿Dónde está?" after the line "I'm at a place called Vertigo," meaning
"Where is it (this place)?” During the last few seconds of the album version
of "Vertigo," Adam Clayton can be heard yelling at Bono in the background.
 One Lyrics
(U2, 2005)

Is it getting better or do you feel the same

Will it make it easier on you now you got someone to blame
You say one love, one life
When it's one need in the night
One love, we get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don't care for it

Did I disappoint you, or leave a bad taste in your mouth

You act like you never had love and you want me to go without
Well it's too late tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other
One...

Have you come here for forgiveness

Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much, more than a lot

You gave me nothing, now it's all I got
We're one but we're not the same
Well we hurt each other, then we do it again
You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love, one blood
One life, you got to do what you should
One life with each other, sisters, brothers
One life, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other ... One
 Vertigo Lyrics
(U2, 2004)

Unos, dos, tres, CATORCE!

Turn it up loud, captain

Lights go down, it's dark, the jungle is your head,

Can't rule your heart
I'm feeling so much stronger than I thought,
Your eyes are wide
And though your soul, it can't be bought, your mind can wander

Hello, Hello (¡Hola!) I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Donde esta?)

It's everything I wish I didn't know
Except you give me something I can feel, feel

The night is full of holes, as bullets rip the sky of ink with gold
They twinkle as the boys play rock and roll
They know that they can't dance, at least they know...
I can't stand the beat, I'm asking for the cheque
The girl with crimson nails has Jesus round her neck
Swinging to the music, swinging to the music, Oh, Oh, Oh

Hello, Hello (¡Hola!), I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Donde esta?)

It's everything I wish I didn't know
But you give me something I can feel, feel

Check it. Just for. You'll need it! (yeah)

All of this, all of this can be yours (3X)

Just give me what I want and no one gets hurt...

Hello, Hello (¡Hola!), I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Donde esta?)

Lights go down and all I know is that you give me something
I can feel, you are teaching me how
Your love is teaching me how, how to kneel, kneel