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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 ...
“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 ...
The single mix of the song features a more prominent lead vocal track (and different phrasing in the opening lines) by Paul Simon, and less reverb, than the more common LP version. Billboard described the song as a "beautiful lyric ballad." [10] Cash Box described the song as a "hard-driving, pulsating ode about rather isolated young man."
"Beautiful Day" is played at a tempo of 136 beats per minute in a 4 4 time signature. [8] The song opens with a reverberating electric piano playing over a string synthesiser, introducing the chord progression of A–Bm 7 –D–G–D 9 –A. [9] This progression continues throughout the verses and chorus, the changes not always one to a bar. [9]
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" is a popular song with music by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981), and lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1909-1976). [1] It was originally planned to feature it in a Paramount Pictures film written for Betty Hutton (1921-2007), that never took off, which was to be called The Mack Sennett Girl (a.k.a. Keystone Girl ).
"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!
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder—everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest ...