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The song's lyrics are about addiction, [5] specifically substance abuse. [6] According to the song's writer, frontman Jonathan Davis, the song is actually written from the perspective of the drug itself, being inspired by Brad Paisley's personification of alcohol in his 2005 single "Alcohol", [6] and other older country music songs that touched on the subject. [7]
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
The song's lyrical heroine, the Kupala Night Maiden is “weeding a rose, piercing her white hands” and “plucking flowers, weaving wreaths, and shedding tears”. [2] It is considered that the song has become “the national personification of Belarus as a country with a beautiful and sad woman’s face”. [1]
“This is a song I actually sat and took the time to write,” says the 23-year-old, who came up with the sappy love-bomb ballad while driving home from his son’s mother’s house at seven in ...
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (also known as "One Kind Favor") is a song recorded by American blues musician Blind Lemon Jefferson in two slightly differing versions in October 1927 and February 1928, [1] that became "one of his most famous compositions". [2] Son House used the melody on his 1930 recording of "Mississippi County Farm Blues". [3]
Name of song, writer(s), original release, and year of release Song Writer(s) Original release Year Ref. "45 Revolutions Per Minute" [a] John Fogerty: Pendulum (40th Anniversary Edition) 2008 [1] "Bad Moon Rising" John Fogerty Green River: 1969 [2] "Before You Accuse Me" Ellas McDaniel † Cosmo's Factory: 1970 [3] "Bootleg" John Fogerty Bayou ...
The song also crossed over to pop radio. [15] The song was certified Diamond on July 28, 2023. [16] It was the third best-selling song in the US in 2017, and the best-selling country song, with 1,818,000 copies (3,723,000 units including streams) sold in the year. [17] [18] It has sold 1,951,000 copies in the United States as of June 2018. [19]
"Time in a Bottle" is a song by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. He wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant in December 1970. [2] It appeared on Croce's 1972 ABC debut album You Don't Mess Around with Jim and was featured in the 1973 ABC made-for-television movie She Lives!