German thrash metal band Kreator returned to its classic thrash roots after a period of experimentation on its 2001 album Violent Revolution. The album was critically acclaimed and the followup tour was a huge success. In addition to their classic thrash style, the band incorporated the sounds of the rising metal scene of Gothenburg, Sweden, the new happening city of extreme rock in the new decade. The album cover brought back the imagery of the 'Coma Of Souls' album from 1990.

In 2003, the band released Live Kreation, which was recorded on the above-mentioned tour. The album features a ghoulish figure playing a dismembered victim as if he were a stringed musical instrument.

An interesting note is that the band's name is not merely a cool spelling of the word 'creator' with a K, but in German, Kreator is the name of a German demon. :idea:

The tracks from 'Live Kreation' included:

Track listing

Disc 1

"The Patriarch" - 1:08
"Violent Revolution" - 5:06
"Reconquering the Throne" - 4:50
"Extreme Aggression" - 4:09
"People of the Lie" - 3:16
"All of the Same Blood" - 5:53
"Phobia" - 3:26
"Pleasure to Kill" - 2:48
"Renewal" - 3:59
"Servant in Heaven - King in Hell" - 5:08
"Black Sunrise" - 4:41
"Terrible Certainty" - 4:45
"Riot of Violence" - 5:46


Disc 2

"Lost" - 3:50
"Coma of Souls" - 5:02
"Second Awakening" - 4:50
"Terrorzone" - 6:11
"Betrayer" - 4:50
"Leave This World Behind" - 3:27
"Under the Guillotine" - 4:48
"Awakening the Gods" - 3:17
"Golden Age" - 4:38
"Flag of Hate" - 3:22
"Tormentor" - 3:55


From 'Violent Revolution':

Reconquering the Throne

Paralyse the actions of the weak
Force fed propaganda preying on the meek
Individuals resisting defeat
Manipulate the colonies, infected by their seed

Vampires of possession
Shroud of cold distrust
Watching as you finally fall
Then drag you through the dust
The only way to save your soul
From scum with hearts of stone

Reconquering The Throne

Parasites have drained you from your mind
Anesthisize your conscience infliction will take time
Fools once trusted, guilty of the crime
Suck deep upon your energy, delusions lead the blind

Our rising has begun

A million hearts
not alone
Light the spark
Storm the throne

Violent Revolution

Society failed to tolerate me
And I have failed to tolerate society
Still I can’t find what you adore
Inside I hear the echoes of an inner war
Nothing can take the horror from me
Your sick world the loss of all morality
My hate has grown as strong as my confusion
My only hope my only solution
is a Violent Revolution

Violent Revolution, Violent Revolution
Reason for the people to destroy

I do not need a cause for my rage
I just despise the nature of the human race
When all I see is repulsion and hate
Violence becomes my only friend, my saving grace
When love is lost beyond your control
A pale shadow of lust can not enlight your soul
So keep your ice cold bitter illusions
I don’t need your empty world my only solution
is a Violent Revolution

Violent Revolution, Violent Revolution
Reason for the people to destroy

Beauty is no more it’s all gone
And utopia will not come
Trust I can not feel, only pain
And my burning mind has gone insane


All Of The Same Blood (Unity)

See them all marching beyond the horizon of hate
Bound by an ancient curse, annihilate
Nothing will break them apart
No sign of fear ever touches their hearts
So they endure side by side
Brothers in spirit their trust and their faith
Their bloodline

All Of The Same Blood, All Of The Same Blood
Legions forgotten by the gods

See them all marching towards the final frontier
Fantasies killed by realities cold atmosphere
Ambitions to purify
Cleansing all cast out dehumanise
Destroy all that crosses their path
Armies of totalitarian psychopaths

All Of The Same Blood, All Of The Same Blood
Legions forgotten by the gods

Is this what distopia breeds
Within the darkest beliefs
Taking utopia away
Distorted truth lead you astray
With time you will come to see
Deprived of the hope that was built on unity

And so the darkness fades, metropolis awakes
Another empty day in lives so dark and grey
And words of propaganda hammered into their heads
Consumers swastikas to put some life into the dead


Servant In Heaven / King In Hell

Some may struggle and some may fall
One only follows, another one leads
And while some only endure constant slavery
Others satisfy their never ending greed

Some born to win, some born to loose
What fate may come, only time can tell
Better to live in sin than nothing else to choose
Servant In Heaven, King In Hell

Some may give and some may take
One only suffers others celebrate
And while some know that their time will never come
Others realise that it’s never ever too late

Some see the dark, some see the light
What's in your view only time can tell
Better to taste the fire than swallowed by the night
Servant In Heaven, King In Hell

Some are cast aside as anger blinds the mind
Baptised in flames to lead again
To see them take it all a tearing of the heart
A thousand reasons for your hate

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Meanwhile, back in America, Seattle's own power/progressive metal band Nevermore released Enemies Of Reality in 2003, which featured new guitarist Steve Smyth, formerly of Testament and Vicious Rumors. In spite of the quality of the songs, fans considered the production of the album, which was produced by former Queensryche guitarist Kelly Gray, to be rather inferior and not up to the band's usual standards. The situation was remedied when the album was re-mixed and re-mastered by veteran metal producer Andy Sneap for a re-release in 2005. The band dedicated the album to the late Death guitarist/frontman Chuck Schuldiner, with a caption in the liner notes which reads: "This record is dedicated to Chuck. Let the metal flow into eternity..."

The album featured such songs as "Abivalent", "I, I Voyager", "Never Purify",
"Create the Infinite", "Noumenon", and the title track.

Enemies Of Reality

Enemies Of Reality

We are the nothing grating against the norm
We are the something that will not conform
No one understands what we've been given

We are the useless by-products of soulless meat
We are all gone we all sing the same tragedy

Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving

Waiting to sanitize bastard tongues
To purify the ignorance that hides the sun
The less you understand the more you're driven

Packaged and processed the masses are force fed
The standards they judge us on swallow the rot we shed

Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving

Breathing dust and decay while I'm sipping
Human trust and betrayal
Losing faith once again
Take my hand my friend, my foe, I am enemy

Open wide and eat the worms of the enemy
We are the enemies of reality, in a world that's unforgiving
Open wide, eat the words, become what you most fear


Ambivalent

Blind and ambiguous, all part of the game
I've feigned my ambivalence with a smile

All my hate beneath me forms a cage
All this time to form the man I became

The sun in my hand becomes my despair
For I still want the truth

Play the fool so ignorant in the shadow of disdain
Breeding your deception without eyes

All my hate beneath me forms a cage
All this time to form the man I became

The sun in my hand becomes my despair
For I still want the truth

Play the fool so ignorant, deception is the game
Bleeding hearts and soiled minds
Reflect the state of our being

All my hate beneath me forms a cage
All this time to form the man I became

The sun in my hand becomes my despair
The sun in my hand becomes my despair

Play the fool so ignorant, deception is the game
Bleeding hearts and soiled minds
Reflect the state of our being


Never Purify

Scrape the pain off of my lips and watch our lives unwind
When I am in the camera eye self-immolation can never purify

Look at me, I'm on display
Another animal in this zoo our creator betrayed
If you don't feel the lesson, you're blind and deaf my son
But don't run

Look at me, I'm on the wire

I am not your saviour

Scrape the pain off of my lips and watch our lives unwind
When I am in the camera eye self-immolation can never purify

I am not your saviour

Look at me, I'm never afraid
I'll never look back in disdain

Scrape the pain off of my lips and watch our lives unwind
When I am in the camera eye self-immolation can never purify

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


2003 version; 2005 re-mastered version;

Steve Smyth live:

Speaking of Seattle's own progressive metal mainstays (okay, from Bellevue, folks on the Eastside on the other side of I-90 get irritated if you act like they're a rich "suburb" of Seattle), Queensryche released a new album, Tribe, in 2003. There was more than a little excitement from the record label as former guitarist Chris DeGarmo returned to the band briefly to lend his hand to
a few tracks--the label broadcast this as a "reunion" of the classic lineup, but the band cautioned everyone that this was not a reunion, but just a special guest spot where he would help the band finish the album and contribute guitar parts. It was frustrating that the label wanted to advertise the re-appearance of DeGarmo as a "reunion" in order to create good PR and boost sales of the new album. However, the album was rather disappointing in sales and not considered one of their best.

The album features on the cover a crude rendering of the band's talisman as if scrawled by an indegenous tribesman.


Open

You're an angel with your wings broken,
wearing sandals that I tripped in.
You're a holiday already taken,
a cocktail that's stirred never shaken.

Your heads in overload.
You've reached your threshold
and you're about to explode.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

You're like a hand gun that's fully loaded
making idle threats of violence.

Your heads in overload.
You've reached your threshold
and you're about to explode.

Open your eyes. You take what you want for free,
Open your eyes. and you see what you want to see.
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. Do you really think I'm blind?
Open your eyes and your mind.
Open your mind.
Open your eyes. and you see what you want to see.
Open your eyes. To you everyone is blind.
Open your eyes and your mind.

Open your eyes. Just say what you want to say?
Open your eyes, you see yours isn't the only way .
Open your eyes. Do you really think I'm blind?
Open your eyes and your mind.
Open your mind.


Tribe

Tribe

[Music by: Jackson / Rockenfield / Tate / Wilton]

Taken to a place underground,
a cavern, ten thousand steps down.
The only light was fire fly glow,
reflecting in the blue crystal show.
Feeling in the darkness surrounding me,
roots of giant Sequoia trees
anchor the canopy of life that's above.
The answer to the mystery of life is _

Traveled through the jungles of the Yucatan
and drank the potion from the magic man.
Held the starlight inches from my face,
pushed the door open, # 7.
I walked the path way to heaven.
Saw the same face of God.

Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I'm every man, trying my best to get to know
because everything's at stake.

We're the same tribe.

Passing through Morocco for the faithful is a trip.
Hallucinating visions drives my desert ship.
For a thousand miles we could not fail,
can't enjoy if you can't inhale.
Clearly a lifetimes need of some experience and
for the record, peace.

Seems every where I go
I see the same face, I feel the same flow.
With every one I meet and every hand I shake,
I see myself in every man, trying my best to get to know
because everything's at stake.

We're the same tribe.


:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

In 2003, Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy released Anthems Of Rebellion, their second with new vocalist Angela Gossow. Videos were made for the songs "Dead Eyes See No Future" and "We Will Rise", the latter of which featured a legion of people racing across a beach under a darkened sky. According to the band, one of the participants in the video hurt an ankle considerably in leaping off a large hill but, fortunately, did not sue. Two songs, "End of the Line" and "Dehumanization", featured a second voice singing in harmony, which must have been an interesting endeavor, considering Gossow's perfecly deep, growling death metal vocals.

We Will Rise

Tear down the walls
Wake up the world
Ignorance is not bliss
So fed up with second best
Our time is here and now

I am the enemy
I am the antidote
Watch me closely
I will stand up - now

We will rise
Rise above

Stereotype Fools
Playing the game
Nothing unique
They all look the same
In this sea of mediocrity
I can be anything
Anything I want to be

We will rise


Dead Eyes See No Future

Giving our blood
To the doomsday machine
Fighting for ravaged land
A worthless gain
Marching on a dead end road

A violent new disorder
Feeding off mistrust
Forgot what we were fighting for
A worthless aim
A victory stinking of despair

Dead eyes
See no future
Falling from grace
We are coming home

Battalions of hate
Seeking shelter in hell
Bloodstained memories
Will we ever be forgiven
Our twisted fate
Time will tell

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:


Bassist Sharlee D'Angelo live:

Guitarist Chris Amott doing his best Cousin It:

Angela Gossow (x2):

Chris Amott throws the goat:

We Will Rise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PZjiE4Xwus

Dead Eyes See No Future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsJ0bsdRDzk

Colorado band Jag Panzer, a power metal band who had been around for over twenty years, released Decade of the Nail-Spiked Bat, a compilation of best-ofs and out-takes on a two-disk set in 2003. The band had a strong cult following in the metal underground ever since they peaked in the mid-80's. The band, named after a German World War II tank, was deeply inspired by the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal and had defended the metal faith through thick and thin all these years. In the early part of the 21st century, the band was still going strong with many newer fans embracing traditional, power metal.

The songs on the album included:

"Reign Of The Tyrants"
"Eyes Of The Night"
"The Church"
"Metal Melts The Ice"
"Forsaken"
"Fallen Angel"
"Battle Zones"
"Warfare"
"Tower Of Darkness"
"Licensed To Kill"
"Generally Hostile"
"The Watching"
"She Waits"
"Edge Of Blindness"
"Spirit Suicide"
"Iron Shadows"
"Black Sunday"
"Symphony Of Terror"
"Death Row"
"The Crucifix"

The Crucifix

When your love exists no more it's time to find another door
Rekindling flames that have gone dim, let feelings spread on a whim
Look toward the light and fix your eyes, let the white dove fly
When your love exists no more it's time to find another door

Hearts are dry it's time they burn
The wheel of life has stopped its turn
Pound the flesh unto the tree
Bound and hung before me
Cast your lots unto him now
Search your hearts before the bow
Life's too short, why throw away
Save the best for the final day

Bleed into the world of sin
The blood will flow to the hearts within
Agonizing pain and death
Well, it's burning everything that's left
Kneel before the one so true
He's the king of all and even you
Darkness ruling everyone
Praising another as the one true son

Burn his number into the flesh
666 the final test
See the mark sweep the land
On the forehead, on the hand
Hang the one that we all know
Crucify the inner soul
Sell your soul unto the maker
The Crucifix


Battle Zones

Warriors in the rain soaked jungle
Fighters for an unknown cause
Death reflecting every victim
My life is lost in the reapers jaws

Daybreak brings more of the terror
Napalm clears a path miles long
My nostrils fill with scents of incineration
The enemy lies in heaps, hundreds strong

Battle Zones
You're in my
Battle Zones
Battle Zones

Rapid fire machines guns blaring
Flames destroy cities by the score
I must escape this evil vision
Get my orders from the overlord

I see the final day is coming
I feel it way down deep into my bones
This nightmare is finally over
Is it time for this man to come home?

I'm coming home

Battle Zones
You're in my
Battle Zones
Battle Zones


Death Row

So you think you got it made
Standing so close to the stage
Hear the sound like a battering ram

But what you don't know
Is Jag Panzer's got control
And the power is all in our hands

Yes, as decibels raise
Your eardrums will split
Like fire from hell and the grave
With vengeance and malice
We'll yell and we'll scream
Our violence evolves from the stage

So I'll give you my body
To do what you want
I'm boiling with passionate flare
You know it's controlled
But not for very long
Take your soul with my deadly stare

Death Row
Your standing in the
Death Row
Ringing inside your head
Death Row
First seven rows
Death Row
Louder till we raise the dead

So keep raising your hands
Oh you're such loving fans
We're headbangers, one and all
I'm aiming to please
Bring you down to your knees
You've suddenly lost all control

Death Row
Your standing in the
Death Row
Ringing inside your head
Death Row
First seven rows
Death Row
Louder till we raise the dead

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Chris Broderick live:

In spite of his previous work with Nirvana and his current work with the Foo Fighters, drummer/guitarist Dave Grohl found time to compile songs for a metal side project called Probot, a name which combined "probe" with "robot", which featured a large number of metal and hard rock musicians from the 80's and 90's he grew up listening to and being inspired by when he started out in music.

Many artists did not physically participate in the recording, but sent recorded samples for Grohl to include on the album. Artists such as Lemmy of Motorhead, Max Cavalera of Sepultura and Soulfly, Scott "Wino" Weinrich of The Obsessed and St. Vitus Dance, and others, contributed to both vocals and musical tracks. Guitarists such as Kim Thayil, formerly of Soundgarden, sent recorded guitar parts to him. On the band's main track, "Shake Your Blood", 66 adult movie actresses from SuicideGirls website appeared in the video, which ranking at #2 in the list of the best metal videos of the new millennium in a vote carried out by MTV2.

The album's track listing is as follows:

"Centuries of Sin" with Cronos (Venom)
"Red War" with Max Cavalera (Soulfly, Sepultura)
"Shake Your Blood" with Lemmy (Motörhead)
"Access Babylon" with Mike Dean (C.O.C.) and Bubba Dupree (of VOID) on guitar
"Silent Spring" with Kurt Brecht (D.R.I.)
"Ice Cold Man" with Lee Dorrian (Cathedral, Napalm Death, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine)
"The Emerald Law" with Wino (Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls, The Hidden Hand)
"Big Sky" with Tom G. Warrior (Apollyon Sun, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost)
"Dictatosaurus" with Snake (Voivod)
"My Tortured Soul" with Eric Wagner (Trouble)
"Sweet Dreams" with King Diamond (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate)
Hidden Track: "I Am the Warlock" with Jack Black (Tenacious D)

The album's artwork was created by musician Away (Michel Langevin) of Voivod.

Shake Your Blood

Looking for relief in your miserable life
You need some rock and roll
And you better get it right
Got to roll them bones,
Do everything they say
If you're cool, you're the fool.
Make it work everyday.

Rock out, make it quick
My, my, my, let it rip
Rock out, feeling good.
Break your heart. Shake your blood.

Out upon the stage, crowd is going wild,
Love to see them women, babe
I ain't in denial.
Make you crazy too. Make you show it out.
Feeling good, get some wood
You should, You knew you could

Rock out, do it now
My, my, my, show me how
Rock out, make it good.
Break your heart. Shake your blood

Want to be a winner, want to be the man.
Want to drive yourself insane,
Join up with the band
Want to fall in love, want to make your mark
Want to get out in the storm, want to break
A thousand hearts

Rock out, strike it rich
My, my, my, it's a bitch
Rock out, I knew you could
Break your heart. Shake your blood

The Emerald Law

I do not die, but awaken from the dream i lived
As above? so below, be revealed, the truth be known
Questions, pieces strewn shrouded answers hewn
With love so grow, beneath his paws the tablets glow

Behold the falcon surveys the horizon
Great scribe let us see, your runes of mystery
Serpent shares your name, the keeper of eternal flames
Prevail the law of three, the goddess guides humanity

He weighs your heart a life pure a life false
And they learn the sword decieved by false words
And their greed and their lies cause them to be blind
And so become, prevail the law of one
And so become, the falcon
And so become, the falcon

And now the souls they swing
Swirl in the cosmic ring
Creations spark it has no time
Rejoin the realm of divine

Enthroned true one he sails into the sun
Falcon at the helm glides through the netherrealm
Be shown unseal the laws have been concealed
Earthly majesty tables of destiny

Bloodline blood trail
The truth becomes the grail
So far so near cloaked in the mists of fear
Above below what's hidded will be shown
Divine majesty true scrolls of destiny
What's concealed will be revealed
Those you see will be received
The law of three, humanity
The law of one, INTO THE SUN

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Shake Your Blood ( an incredibly steamy, not-the-stuff-you'd-show-at-church, kind of vid): :drool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09hBGGpSjk

Bottom pic: Dave, Lemmy, and Wino:

As the biological warfare scare had long died down, Anthrax, the band whose name sparked controversy a few years earlier on account of their name, returned with a return to form with their new album, We've Come For You All, in 2003. The album was their first with new guitarist Rob Caggiano. Even though it was more critically acclaimed than their previous efforts as of late, the so-called "comeback" album made it only to #122 on the charts, a rather disappointing showing for a band who were considered one of the Big Four of thrash. The album included such tracks as What Doesn't Die", "Safe Home", "Taking the Music Back", and a cover of The Ramones' "We're a Happy Family". Dimebag Darrell of Pantera even made another appearance on "Strap It On" and "Cadillac Rock Box".

What Doesn't Die

First in last out overthrown
It's been picked clean to the bone
And so hard to remember things
Like when we used to kill our kings
Crusading for hypocrisy
Under our nose the holy bleed
Crumbling under its own weight
Apologies if you relate
'cause

You cannot kill
What doesn't die
Live up to my promise
My full potential realized
Death lives right inside your pocket
Take him out and have a laugh
Go and p*** your life away
Another ugly waste of clay
And up above there's no one home
Why don't you answer your phone?
Reminding me to learn that poem
First in last out overthrown
Because
A stream of consciousness flows into a river of blood
Stem this tide of violence
as it rises like a flood


Safe Home

I've been down this road once or twice before
through the open door
i come falling through it
there's a sign post up ahead
like a watershed
and it opens my eyes
ways, for me to begin
to be born again
and knowing for the first time
ways, all so differently
shine for me to see
the better man that I am

I've been places in my head
behind me worse than what's ahead
and on my path just like a dream
takes me from the inbetween
from out of nowhere you came strong as stone
and now I'll never have to be alone
what it is I know

you have always been my safe home
I walk, I run, I burn out into you
you have always been my safe home
my whole world has moved on

I know what I am and I'll always be
your reality, is better than I could dream
all my fears turn from black to white
and i'd stand and fight
the whole world for you
faith, and destiny
I never did believe
my only god is love and
faith, what I see in you
and I can hold it true
like a weight in my hand.

Taking the Music Back


Taking The Music Back

Your lies that took me where I've been
Your lies don't make me who I am
Your lies that left me scarred
And so f***ing hard
Your lies that burn me deep inside
Your lies that helped to bleed me dry
Left on your own
Because your cover's blown

I am, taking the music back
Against your will I'm not a slave
Against the deal and you ge paid
I won't throw you a rope
Against it, you're the enemy
Against it, your philosophy
S*** thrown against the wall
You'll eat it all

Strap It On

Strap It On

And my plate is full
And I feel the pull
And my time is spent
Searching for something that came and went

Take me back
Take me back to a golden time
From '75 to '79
And it makes it easy, so easy for me

Strap it on
Strap it on my old school
I change by staying the same (I seem to remember this line)

And it grows inside
Metastasize
And my brain goes crazy
Sepia toned days are hazy

Take me back
Take me back to the heavy time
From '85 to '89
It makes it easy so easy for me.

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

At the height of the European power metal resurgence, in a disturbing turn of events, it was announced that Finnish power/prog metal titans Stratovarius had broken up, though no real reason had been given for the dissolution of the group. Apparently vocalist Timo Kotipelto and drummer Jörg Michael (pronounced Yorg) had some unexplained disagreements with the band's founder, Finnish guitar hero Timo Tolkki. The band continued on briefly with their replacements, Katriina "Miss K" Wiiala on vocals and Anders Johansson of Hammerfall temporarily on drums. The band was to complete a European tour with the new lineup in support of the latest album, Elements, Part 1.

However, fans were shocked to learn that while touring in Spain, Tolkki was attacked and stabbed by an angry, disgruntled fan. While rock magazines and newspapers there plastered photos of the injured guitarist, it was soon later discovered that there had, in fact, been no stabbing at all! What was a little closer to the truth was that Tolkki was exhibiting signs of mental illness, that he was suffering from severe bi-polar disorder, and that his wounds were in reality self-inflicted. In the coming year, the band would enter into a period of brief hiatus as Tolkki sought treatment during hospitalization.


Eagleheart

All through the night he is lying awake
Wond'ring how much more can he take
Watching the walls where the shadows dance
Drifting away into a trance
And his eyes are blazing with fire

Dreams burnt to ashes so many times
Highest of mountains, still he climbs
Ready to fly, cause he just can't stay
Flame burning brighter with every day
And his eyes are blazing with fire
Longing for the deepest desire

Heart of an eagle
He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart

Fever is burning in his veins
Determined with courage, breaking the chains
Back against the wall under blood red skies
Prepared to fight until he dies
And his eyes are blazing with fire
Longing for the deepest desire

Heart of an eagle
He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart

Heart of an eagle
He flies through the rainbow
Into a new world and finds the sun
Spreading his wings
Above all the sorrows
The glory of Eagleheart


Fantasia

Welcome to my world
Close the gates
You've come from far away
I've been expecting you
You are the holders of the key
To the story that never ends

Fantasia
Resides deep in your heart
Leave your worries far behind
Fantasia
Let the freedom ring the bell
Let us all unite
Borders made of hate are gone
Nations singing the song of peace
In Fantasia

How would it be? A world without hate
Without heaven, without hell
No wars, no arms, no religion, no God
Just your own truth

(Fantasia can arise in you)

Fear and darkness prevail
But finally they will fail

Fantasia
Resides deep in your heart
Leave your worries far behind
Fantasia
Let the freedom ring the bell
Let us all unite
Borders made of hate are gone
Nations singing the song of peace
Fantasia

Fantasia
One day when love conquers all
Mankind will prevail
No more jealousy
Fantasia
No more envy no deceit
The nothing is gone
Future's bright and glorious
We are all victorious
We are kings in Fantasia

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Timo Tolkki:

Also in 2003, Stratovarius released Elements, Part 2.

Alpha & Omega

I am the earth and sky
I am the low and high
I am the snowflake in the winter evening
I am the birth and death
I am your final breath
I am the one that gave you life and freedom
Choosing your own way

Everything you've ever known
Every seed that you have sown
Came from me I made you
My creation is supreme
This is all my perfect dream
No mistakes in God's great perfect cosmic play

I am the Alpha I am the Omega
I am the beginning and the end of time
I am the Alpha I am the Omega
My whole creation stands before me tonight

I am the dark and light
I am the day and night
I am the mirage
I am the echo
I am the fear and anger
I am a familiar stranger
I am the shadow I m a star that guides you
Until the end of time.


I Walk To My Own Song

I'm walking the streets and I hear what you say
Advising me tilling me how to play
I know your name it's called Mr.Mean
One thing I've learned you don't know beans

High I fly
I touch the sky
Far above the frozen hearts
You can't kill my dreams
You can't kill my spirit
I was born to be free

I walk to my own song
Every day the power grows stronger in me
I walk to my own song
Head up proud
I'm the master of my own destiny

You think you know what is better for me
Holding me lectures of how I should be
Shrugging my shoulders I leave you behind
Anyway I look at it you are blind

Awaken the Giant

Awaken The Giant

I'm staring at the wall
Sick and tired of all
Manic depression makes me crawl
It makes me small
I need some peace of mind
The pressure makes me blind
The labyrinth of pain, the exit I must find
It's all inside of me, the answers lie within
And all that I can win I take for myself
I'm the one who holds the key
To all that I can be
My spirit yearns for truth,
It's learning to be free

Through the years
I was doing things the wrong way
But now I've changed it is time to say

Awaken the giant
Don't let it sleep
Awaken the giant
Look deep within

I won't give up the fight
Until I see the light
I won't give in
To the gloominess of life
The end is in my sight
In the middle of darkest night
I see my future's bright
I'm reaching for new heights


:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Back in America, Dream Theater released Train Of Thought, an album considered to be perhaps their heaviest album, which had been strongly influenced by classic metal albums such as Metallica's 'Master Of Puppets' and Iron Maiden's 'Number Of the Beast', which they had covered in concert. Many fans were put off by Dream Theater venturing away from their classic prog roots in the vein of Yes and King Crimson in the 70's, while others embraced their metal direction and finding inspiration in newer progressive acts such as Tool. The album featured some of their longest pieces, such as "This Dying Soul", "In the Name Of God", which touched on the acts of notorious cult leaders, "Endless Sacrifice", "Honor Thy Father", and the instrumental "Stream Of Consciousness", all of which were over ten minutes in length. The album also featured one of their most popular songs to date, "As I Am", which was played in regular rotation on rock radio.

Drummer Mike Portnoy wrote the song "Honor Thy Father" for his step-father, with whom he had a tumultuous relationship. "I'm not very good at writing love songs, so I decided to write a HATE song!!!"

During the recording, Portnoy and former keyboardist DT Kevin Moore were reunited for Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos' side project Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI. Dream Theater also went on the road with Queensryche opening shows that year.


Honor Thy Father

Honor Thy Father

[Lyrics by Mike Portnoy]

We're taught unconditional love
That blood is thicker than water
That a parent's world would revolve
Always around their son or their daughter

You pretend I was your own
And even believed that you loved me
But were always threatened by some
Invisible blood line that only you could see

You took advantage of an outreached hand
And twisted it to meet your every need
''Gimme time to re-charge my batteries,
I'll see her when she's older and I'll bounce her on my knee''

Well listen to me you ungrateful fool
Here comes a dose of reality
You'll go to your grave a sad and lonely man
The door is now closed on your pathetic little plan

On and on and on and on it goes
It's so easy to run away with nothing in tow

How can you ever sleep a wink at night
Pretending that everything is alright
And have the nerve to blame this mess on me

Never in my life have I seen someone
So Ignorant to the damage he has done
You're the rotted root in the family tree

I tried your 4 bill therapy
I tried to make amends
But nothing could lure you out of your selfish shell again
Expecting everyone to bow and kiss your feet
Don't you see respect is not a one way street
Blaming everyone for all that you've don e wrong
I'll get my peace of mind when you hear this song

On and on and on and on it goes
And with every passing day true colors show

How can you ever sleep a wink at night
Pretending that everything is alright
And have the balls to blame this mess on me

Never in my life have I seen someone
Oblivious to the damage he has done
You're the rotted root in the family tree

Watch where you walk
Don't you dare cross the crooked step
Watch the way you talk
Don't cross the crooked step

On and on and on and on it goes
Chauvinistic, heartless, selfish, cold

How can you ever sleep a wink at night
Pretending that everything is alright
And have the balls to blame this s:censored: on me

Never in my life have I seen someone
So f:censored:ing blind to the damage he has done
You're the rotted root in the family tree


In the Name Of God

In The Name Of God

[Lyrics by John Petrucci]

How can this be?
Why is he the chosen one?

Saint gone astray
With a scepter and a gun

Learn to believe
In the mighty and the strong

Come bleed the beast
Follow me it won't be long

Listen when the prophet
Speaks to you
Killing in the name of God

Passion
Twisting faith into violence
In the name of God

Straight is the path
Leading to your salvation
Slaying the weak
Ethnic elimination

Any day we'll all be
Swept away
You'll be saved
As long as you obey

Lies
Tools of the devil inside
Written in Holy disguise
Meant to deceive and divide
Us all

Listen when the prophet
Speaks to you
Killing in the name of God

Passion
Twisting faith into violence
In the name of God

Blurring the lines
Between virtue and sin
They can't tell
Where God ends
And mankind begins

They know no other
Life but this
From the cradle
They are claimed

Listen when the prophet
Speaks to you
Killing in the name of God

Passion
Twisting faith into violence
In the name of God

Hundreds of believers
Lured into a doomsday cult
All would perish
In the name of God

Self-proclaimed messiah
Led his servants
To their death
Eighty murdered
In the name of God

Forty sons and daughters
Un-consenting plural wives
Perversions
In the name of God

Underground religion
Turning toward
The mainstream light
Blind devotion
In the name of God

Justifying violence
Citing from the Holy Book
Teaching hatred
In the name of God

Listen when the prophet
Speaks to you
Killing in the name of God

Passion
Twisting faith into violence
In the name of God

Religious beliefs
Fanatic obsession
Does following faith
Lead us to violence?

Unyielding crusade
Divine revelation
Does following faith
Lead us to violence?

[Chant:]
Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord
he is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored
he hath loosed the fateful lightning
of his terrible swift sword
his truth is marching on.

glory, glory, hallelujah
glory, glory, hallelujah
glory, glory, hallelujah...


As I Am

As I Am

[Lyrics by John Petrucci]

Don't
Tell me what's in
Tell me how to write
Don't tell me how to win
This fight
Isn't your life
It isn't your right
To take the only thing that's
Mine

Proven over time
It's over your head
Don't try to read between the
Lines
Are clearly defined
Never lose sight of
Something you believe in

Takin' in the view from the outside
Feeling like the underdog
Watching through the window I'm on the outside
Living like the underdog

I've been trying to justify you
In the end I will just defy you

To those who understand, I extend my hand
To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am
Not under your command, I know where I stand
I won't change to fit your plan, Take me as I am

As I am

Still
Running uphill
Swimming against the current
I wish I weren't so
F:censored:ed
Feels like I'm stuck
Lost in a sea of mediocrity

''Slow down,
You're thinking too much
Where is your soul?''
You cannot touch
The way I
Play
Or tell me what to say
You're in the way
Of all that I believe in

Takin' in the view from the outside
Feeling like the underdog
Watching through the window I'm on the outside
Living like the underdog
I've been wasting my breath on you
Open minds will descend upon you

To those who understand, I extend my hand
To the doubtful I demand, take me as I am
Not under your command, I know where I stand
I won't change to fit your plan, take me as I am

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

In 2003, Rush released their Rush In Rio DVD, which contained three disks of their performances in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the year before. The concert was filmed on the final night of their Vapor Trails tour at the Estádio do Maracanã (stadium) in front of 40,000 fans. The Carmen Miranda-looking dinosaur on the cover is a sort of "in joke" that Rush are "ancient dinosaurs" of progressive rock in a world of modern NU-metal and pop punk--dinosaurs who just happen to be more forward-thinking than their hip chart-topping rivals. As it was stated in the lyrics of 1980's 'Natural Science':

"The most endangered species,
The honest man,
Will still survive annihilation.
Forming a world
State of integrity,
Sensitive, open and strong."


Yet, by the end of the year, an incident would occur that, after the extended
bereavement hiatus of Neil Peart, would severely endanger Rush as well, as we shall see. :(

Track listing:

1st CD:

"Tom Sawyer" – 5:04
"Distant Early Warning" – 4:50
"New World Man" – 4:04
"Roll the Bones" – 6:15
"Earthshine" – 5:44
"YYZ" – 4:56"
"The Pass" – 4:52
"Bravado" – 6:18
"The Big Money" – 6:03
"The Trees" – 5:12
"Freewill" – 5:48
"Closer to the Heart" – 3:04
"Natural Science" – 8:34

2nd CD:

"One Little Victory" – 5:32
"Driven" – 5:22
"Ghost Rider" – 5:36
"Secret Touch" – 7:00
"Dreamline" – 5:10
"Red Sector A" – 5:16
"Leave That Thing Alone" – 4:59
"O Baterista" – 8:54
"Resist" – 4:23
"2112" – 6:52

3rd CD:

"Limelight" – 4:29
"La Villa Strangiato" – 10:05
"The Spirit of Radio" – 5:28
"By-Tor and the Snow Dog" – 4:34
"Cygnus X-1" – 3:12
"Working Man" – 5:48


Some of the special surprises in the DVD included a cartoon of "By-Tor And the Snow Dog", a live clip of the band performing "Anthem" in 1975, and multiple angles of the band performing.

Jumping back for a moment to 2000, Geddy Lee released My Favourite Headache that year, his first solo album, recorded during the band's extended hiatus while Neil Peart sorted things out during his bereavement leave and motorcycle trip across America. Neil put the band on notice earlier when he said, "Consider me retired", after his the devastating double loss of his daughter and wife, and the band seriously pondered whether they would return to music at that point. Geddy decided to assemble some musicians for a solo album, which was preceded by Alex Lifeson's one-off band Victor in 1996.

In other Rush news, also that year, Geddy and Alex contributed a hard rock version of "Oh Canada" to the 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut" soundtrack. :cool:

My Favorite Headache

One man standing on the plains of Abraham
Watching the damaged sunrise
One man standing near the edge of a quiet breakdown

I watch the sea, it helps to anchor me
I watch the sea, it helps to anchor me

Once you start hiding you keep on hiding
Till your paranoia calms down
Once you start watching you keep on watching
Till you're tied up and your spell bound

Just between the ice ages anyway
I want to talk, but I haven't got too much to say
I don't mean to be so Nihilistic
Forgive me if I seem to be too realistic

Once you start running you keep on running
Till your muscles start to break down
Once you start falling you keep on falling
Till you hit the cold cold ground

I watch TV - What do you want from me?
I watch TV - What do you want from me?

Just between the ice ages anyway
I want to talk, I haven't got enough to say
I don't mean to be so nihilistic
Forgive me if I seem to be too realistic

Once you start hiding you keep on hiding
Till you feel you're safe and sound
Once you start watching you keep on watching
Till you're tied up and you're spell bound

I watch the sea, it helps to anchor me
I watch the sea, I saw it on TV


The Present Tense

Living in the Present Tense
When you lose the past
And the future makes no sense
You're living in the Present Tense

Crawling out, secure and confident
Imbued with innocence
Ready for the whirl
Suddenly the view was more intense
Living in a different kind of world

You're living
Living in the present tense
There's nothing to blame
No victim of consequence
You're living in the Present Tense

Something you said
It made me
Step outside ..the moment
Eyes pan right and left
around my world

Open yourself
Up to the possibility
Aware of some reality
Outside your world

In a silent universe
The moment can be so real
You almost can't stand it

In a distant universe
Distracted from ourselves
You can't help but wonder

In a crowded universe
When the talking turns to noise
You almost start laughing

You're living
Living in the present tense
When you lose the past
And the future makes no sense
You're Living in the Present Tense
Nothing to blame
No victim of consequence
You're living in the Present Tense

:guitar: :banana: :mango

After the breakup of Rage Against the Machine, the band's former members sought a singer to replace departing vocalist Zach de la Rocha. They decided that, in spite of jamming with a few notable rappers, that they did not want another rapper for their upcoming group. They wanted a real singer,
and producer Rick Rubin pointed them in the direction of former Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell. Rubin also persuaded the three of them to go into group therapy with performance coach Phil Towle (who famously worked with Metallica during the making of St. Anger). The group took him up on his suggestion, and the four got together to perform. The band found Cornell to be a perfect fit, and from there a new band was born:

AUDIOSLAVE.


Rubin had high hopes for the new band, citing guitarist Tom Morello as the
"Jimmy Page of today". Bassist Tim Commerford agreed, thinking that the group could turn from a "Yardbirds-into-Led Zeppelin" kind of scenario. Morello was beyond impressed with Cornell's performance: "He stepped to the microphone and sang the song and I couldn't believe it. It didn't just sound good. It didn't sound great. It sounded transcendent. And ... when there is an irreplaceable chemistry from the first moment, you can't deny it."
There was a sort of haggling about the origin of the band's name, from the rumor that they were about to name themselves Civilian, which was already taken, to the fact that a British band had the name Audioslave and Morello's group paid them $30,000 to use the name. Music insiders found the name rather flaccid and uninspired--it didn't have the zing of Rage Against the Machine or Soundgarden--in fact, it was considered by many to be one of the "worst, dumbest" band names in rock history. ohno:

In 2002, rumors ran rampant that not only was the band slated for that year's Ozzfest, in spite of having no music ready, but that, already, the group had "broken up" due to interband conflicts. What had happened, in fact, was that the band's rough demos had been leaked onto the internet. In an interview, Morello blamed "some jackass intern at Bad Animal Studios in Seattle" for the theft of the demos which were merely raw takes and completely unfinished or intended for public consumption. The band had in fact split up, but not because of quarrels between band members, but because of conflicts between the managers of both Cornell and Rage Against the Machine. After the band fired both managers and hired a completely different one, the band regrouped and continued recording. In September of 2002, the band put out their first single, "Cochise", named after the famous Native American chief, a few months before the album's release. The video for the song raised more than a few eyebrows during filming: fireworks pyrotechnic explosions during the band's playing at the atop an under-construction tower convinced residents living near Los Angeles' Sepulveda Dam that a terrorist attack was underway! :eek2: Reportedly, the local police and news station received hundreds of calls from people who feared the city was under siege. There was no attack, just another goofy music vid with special effects. Like citizens of Tinseltown were unused to stuff blowing up for action movies.... :rolleyes:

Cochise

Well I been watchin'
while you been coughin
I've been drinking life
while you been nauseous
and so I drink to health
while you kill yourself
and I got just one thing
that I can offer

go on and save yourself
and take it out on me
go on and save yourself
and take it out on me yea

well I'm not a martyr
I'm not a prophet
and I won't preach to you
but heres a caution
you better understand
that I won't hold your hand
but if it helps you mend
then I won't stop it

go on and save yourself
and take it out on me
go on and save yourself
and take it out on me
go on and save yourself
and take it out on me
go on and save yourself
and take it out on me yea

drown if you want
and I'll see you in the bottom
where you crawl
on my skin
and put the blame on me
so you don't feel a thing

go on and save yourself
and take it out on me
go on and save yourself
and take it out on me
go on and save yourself
and take it out on me
go on and save yourself
and take it out on me yeah

:guitar:

Cochise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXdSOxEnwWM

Though Audioslave's debut was a huge hit upon its release in late 2002 with its updated 70's classic rock sound, many critics were not entirely full of praise for the album. Some critics derided it as an "uninspired", "predictable", and full of polished, over-produced studio gimmickry courtesy of Rick Rubin. While Cornell had a fine voice, as usual, his lyrics were "gibberish". Was this band and their album all that it promised? It often seemed like a pale imitation of what we'd come to expect from such a musical partnership. How did members of two of the most popular and incendiary bands of the 90's mire themselves in such mediocrity? :confused:

Other critics, however, saw differently. Many said the band had the potential
to become one of the biggest bands of the new decade, and that their take on classic rock and 70's metal, i.e., Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, was unique and refreshing. In addition to "Cochise", the band scored with such songs as "Show Me How To Live", "Like a Stone", "What You Are", and "I Am the Highway".

The band made its live debut on November 25, 2002, playing on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York for Late Night With David Letterman. The band also played the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas show in Los Angeles, which ended with an emotional embrace between band members signifying the end of a tumultous, yet rewarding year. "These guys saved my life this year!" Cornell told the crowd. What he meant was that the rest of the band endured his entering rehab for drug use during recording, confirming rumors and speculation about his activities behind the scenes. Cornell also went through a hellish breakup with his wife at that time as well, and the personal pressures mounted on him. His bandmates were there, fortunately, to help him see it through.

The band toured through early 2003 and even went on the bill with the resurrected Lollapalooza fest.

Show Me How To Live

In with the early dawn
Moving right along
I couldn’t buy an eye full of sleep
And in the aching night
Under sattelittes
I was not recieved
built with the stolen parts
A telephone in my heart
Someone get me a priest
To put my mind to bed
This ringing in my head
Is this a cure or is this a disease

Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live
Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live

In the afterbirth
On the quiet earth
Let this things remind you
You thought you made a man
You better think again
Before my role defines you

Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me a life
Now show me how to live
Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live

And in your waiting hands
I will land
And roll out of my skin
And in your final hours I will stand
Ready to begin
Ready to begin
Ready to begin
Ready to begin

Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live
Nail in my hand
From my creator
You gave me life now
Show me how to live
Show me how to live
Show me how to live
Show me how to live
Show me how to live


Gasoline

House is haunted
I just want to go for a ride
Out and on
Before I set this room alight
Left alone
Forever and for crimes unclear
With my patience gone
Someone take me far from here

Burnin' that gasoline
Yeah
Burnin' that gasoline

New day, yawning
Another day of solitaire
House is honest
Clearly more than I can bare
Drag me off
Before I set my world on fire
Out and gone
The sun will never set tonight

Burnin' that gasoline
Yeah
Burn that gasoline

'N Oh, what force
Only a can of red
Says danger on it
I have found another way

Burnin that gasoline
Yeah
Burnin' that gasoline
Burnin' it all away
Burnin' it all away


What You Are

And when you wanted me,
I came to you.
And when you wanted someone else,
I withdrew.
And when you asked for light,
I set myself on fire.
And if I go far away,
I know you'll find another slave.

Now I'm free
from what you want.
Now I'm free
from what you need.
Now I'm free
from what you are.

And when you wanted blood,
I cut my veins.
And when you wanted love,
I bled myself again.
Now that I've had my fill of you,
I'd give you up forever.
And here i go far away,
I know you,
you'll find another slave.

Now I'm free
from what you want.
Now I'm free
from what you need.
Now I'm free
from what you are.

Then a vision came to me
when you came along.
I gave you everything but then
you wanted more.

Now I'm free
from what you want.
Now I'm free
from what you need.
Now I'm free
from what you are.

Now that I'm free
from what you want.
Now that I'm free
from what you need.
Now that I'm free
from what you are.

:guitar:

Like a Stone

On a cobweb afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death
Reading how we'll die alone
And if we're good we'll lay to rest
Anywhere we want to go

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone

And on my deathbed I will pray
To the gods and the angels
Like a pagan to anyone
Who will take me to heaven
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago
The sky was bruised
The wine was bled
And there you led me on

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone, alone

And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
Of all the things that I've done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams until my death
I will wander on

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone, alone


I Am the Highway

Pearls and swine bereft of me
Long and weary my road has been
I was lost in the cities
Alone in the hills
No sorrow or pity for leaving I feel

I am not your rolling wheels
I am the Highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky

Friends and liars don't wait for me
'Cause I'll get on all by myself
I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you
I feel

I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightning
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night, the night..

Yeeah
I am not your rolling wheels
I am the Highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
But I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightning
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night, the night..
Yeeeh, Yeeeh, Yeeeh, Yeeeh.

:guitar:

Show Me How To Live (which paid homage to a 1971 road movie, 'Vanishing Point', using actual footage from the film. The video was banned from MTV, reportedly because it shows band members in a high-speed car chase running police cars and motorcycles off the road. Wow, gee, MTV balking at "controversial". :rolleyes: ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMtivHV47A

Like a Stone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j823QH6cU

Trapt was another "post-grunge"/alternative metal band (do the sub-genres for everything ever get tedious?? :rolleyes: ) from Los Gatos, California, who hit the charts in 2003 with their self-titled debut which featured the popular tune "Headstrong". The album also contained the successful tracks "Still Frame" and "Echo". "Headstong", their biggest song, became the theme song to WWE Bad Blood that summer.

Headstrong

Circling your, circling your, circling your head
Contemplating everything you ever said
Now I see the truth, I got a doubt
A different motive in your eyes and now I’m out
See you later
I see your fantasy, you want to make it a reality paved in gold
See inside, inside of our heads yeah
Well now that’s over
I see your motives inside, decisions to hide

[CHORUS]
Aaah!
Back off I'll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong
Headstrong, we’re Headstrong
Back off I'll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong, Yeah
And this is not where you belong...

I can’t give everything awaaaaaay
I won't give everything awaaaaaay

Conclusions manifest
Your first impressions got to be your very best
I see you’re full of ****, and that’s alright
That’s how you play I guess you get through every night
Well now that’s over
I see your fantasy, you want to make it a reality paved in gold
See inside, inside of our heads, Yeah
Well now that’s over
I see your motives inside, decisions to hide

Aaah!
Back off I'll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong
Headstrong, we’re Headstrong
Back off I'll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong, Yeah
And this is not where you belong...

I can’t give everything away (this is not where you belong)
I won't give everything away

I know, I know all about
I know, I know all about
I know, I know all about
I know, I know all about
I see your motives inside, and your decision to hide

Aaah!
Back off I'll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong
Headstrong, we’re Headstrong
Back off I'll take you on
Headstrong to take on anyone
I know that you are wrong, Yeah
And this is not where you belong...
Where you belong...

(This is not where you belong) I can't give everything away...
(This is not where you belong) I won't give everything away...
(This is not where you belong)

(INSTRUMENTAL 12 seconds)

(Quietly)
I can't give everything away (x3)


Still Frame

Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out
Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out of here
Release me, I'm just as lost as you
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you

And every time I think I've finally made it
I learn I'm farther away than I've ever been before
I see the clock and it's ticking away
and the hourglass empty
What the f:censored: do I have to say

Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out
Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out of here
Release me, I'm just as lost as you
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you

Keep it inside
the image portrayed
As if I couldn't stand losing as if I couldn't be saved, no way
A small confession I think I'm starting to lose it
I think I'm drifting away from the people I really need
A small reflection on when we were younger
We had it all figured out 'cause we had everything covered
Now we're older it's getting harder to see
What this future will hold for us,
what the f:censored: are we going to be?

Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out
Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out of here
Release me, I'm just as lost as you
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you (LOST X7)

I'm just as lost as you, what am I going to do?
I'm afraid I'm falling farther away
I'm falling farther away
I'm falling farther from where I want to be
I'm afraid I'm falling farther away
I'm falling farther away
I'm falling farther away

Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out
Please help me 'cause I'm breaking down
this picture's frozen and I can't get out of here
Release me, I'm just as lost as you
Believe me, I'm just as lost as you

I'm just as lost as you!! (not breaking me down)(lost lost)


Echo

Close my eyes
Let the whole thing pass me by
There is no time
To waste asking why

I'll run away with you, by my side
I'll run away with you, by my side
(Close my eyes)
(Let the whole thing pass me by)
I need to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride
(Asking why)

I think about your face
And how I fall into your eyes
The outline that I trace
Around the one that I call mine
Time that called for space
Unclear where you drew the line
I don't need to solve this case
And I don't need to look behind

Close my eyes
Let the whole thing pass me by
There is no time
To waste asking why ( asking why )

I'll run away with you, by my side (by my side)
I'll run away with you, by my side
I need to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride
(Asking why)

Do I expect to change
The past I hold inside?
With all the words I say
Repeating over in my mind
Some things you can't erase
No matter how hard you try
An exit to escape
Is all there is left to find

Close my eyes
Let the whole thing pass me by
There is no time
To waste asking why (asking why)

I'll run away with you, by my side (by my side)
I'll run away with you, by my side
(There is no time)
(Let the whole thing pass me by)
I need to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo in my mind
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo can subside

So I close my eyes
Let the whole thing pass me by
There is no time
To waste asking why

I'll run away with you, by my side
I'll run away with you, by my side
(There is no time)
(Let the whole thing pass me by)
I need to let go, let go, let go, let go of this pride
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo in my mind
Until this echo, echo, echo, echo can subside

:guitar:

Massachusetts band Staind returned in 2003 with 14 Shades Of Grey, which showed the NU-metal band going into a softer, more mainstream, traditional rock direction than on their previous efforts. Fatherhood appeared to have mellowed out frontman Adam Lewis, who wrote and sang tunes for his new daughter, as well as some for his idol, the late Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. The album featured such popular tracks as "So Far Away", "Price To Pay", and "How About You". The album featured more introspective songs than ones with Lewis' angst-filled shrieks from earlier releases.

Their song "Price to Play" was the official theme song of WWE's Vengeance pay-per-view event in July 2003. As well, their song "So Far Away" was featured on an episode of WWE RAW as part of a video tribute to hardcore wrestling legend Mick Foley. The band's appearance at Reading Festival during the 2003 tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure.


Don't know, but I'm detecting a little too much pathos with some of these bands. ohno: :crybaby:

So Far Away

This is my life
Its not what it was before
All these feelings I’ve shared
And these are my dreams
That I’ve never lived before
Somebody shake me
Cause I, I must be sleeping

(chorus)
And now that we're here,
So far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
And all the mistakes,
One life contained
They all finally start to go away
And now that we're here its so far away
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive, and I’m not ashamed to be the person that I am today

These are my words
That I’ve never said before
I think I’m doing ok
And this is the smile
That I’ve never shown before

Somebody shake me
Cause I, I must be sleeping

(chorus)
And now that were here
So far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
And all mistakes one life contains
They all finally start to go away
And now that were here
So far away
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive, and I’m not ashamed to be the person that I am today

I'm so afraid of waking
Please don't shake me
Afraid of waking
Please dont shake me

(chorus)
And now that were here
So far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
And all the mistakes one life contains
They all finally start to go away
And now that were here
So far away
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive, and I’m not ashamed to be the person that I am today

How About You

if someone else showed you the way
would you take the wheel and steer?
it hurts me that you're not ashamed
of what you're doing here
if they jumped off a bridge
would you meet them on the ground?
or would you try to claim
that it never made a sound

[chorus]
everyone plays the hand they're dealt
and learns to walk through life themselves
not everything in life is handed on a plate
when people think your words are true
it doesn't matter what you do
i sold my soul to get here
how 'bout you?

so you choose to force your hand
what a strange way to make friends
and you always change the rules
so the drama never ends
and you blindly go through life
judging only by its worth
just try not to forget
that the meek inherit earth

[chorus]

so please don't take offense
this is just a point of view
cuz i'm the only one who
will say these things to you

[chorus]

:guitar:

The two surviving Beatles and Apple Corps head Neil Aspinall continued their goal to recontextualize the Beatles's history and tie up loose ends. In 2003, Apple released Let It Be . . . Naked.

Along with a few changes in running order and song selection - "Don't Let Me Down" was included, because it was recorded during the original January 1969 Let It Be sessions - Let It Be . . . Naked differed from the original album released in May 1970 in how the songs were presented. Phil Spector's touches - glossy production, orchestras, echo - were toned down or eliminated altogether. Glyn Johns's touches - false starts, studio banter, impromptu jamming - were done away with. What Let It Be . . . Naked meant to be was the what the original album should have been - a consistent, streamlined, coherent document of the Beatles's January 1969 Apple sessions. It was regarded as one of the best albums of 2003, though it could have easily been the best album of 1970 (although Family's A Song For Me is still my choice for that year ;)).

Truth be told, though, much of the technology that made Let It Be . . . Naked possible didn't exist back in the early seventies. Better late than never - this record set right a mistake that had persisted for thirty-three years.

The album was a hybrid of originally released takes that were re-edited and remixed, previously unreleased takes of other songs, and new edited versions of familiar tunes. A special "Fly on the Wall" bonus disc from the Twickenham rehearsal sessions was also included, and it continued a previously unheard and an (apparently) uncompleted Lennon-McCartney song, "Because You Know I Love You So," in the form of a rough, brief run-through.

The original 1970 release remains available for purists and anti-revisionists.

Not sure if we this lyric from their 1999 'Dysfunction' album, have to check, but here is a decent song by Staind that received much airplay:

Just Go


I'm kinda numb
It’s so distorted
You left me here with this damage that you've caused
My tortured faces
I’ve f:censored:ed up places
In my memories none of them I've lost, but...

I haven't been here long enough to know
Everytime I feel this I just lose control
Such a cancer on the face of everything that's beautiful
I wish that this would just go, go.

It's kinda sick
I feel so dirty
I'm kinda tragic kinda insecure
But I know that I'm the only
One that can fix whatever's wrong I'm sure, but...

I haven't been here long enough to know
Everytime I feel this I just lose control
Such a cancer on the face of everything that's beautiful
I wish that this would just go, go.

I feel so alone
From all I've become
I'll take you down
I'll feel so down
I'm water while you drown
You're lifted while I'm down
I'm cancer in your womb
I'm the needle in your spoon, but...

I haven't been here long enough to know
Everytime I feel this I just lose control
Such a cancer on the face of everything that's beautiful
I wish that this would just go, go.

Just
Just
Just
Just go
Go
Go

All these f:censored:ing (lies 3x)
All your f:censored:ing (lies 3x)


:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

In case we also haven't covreed this, pop-punk band Good Charlotte released
The Young And Hopeless, whose title was based on the popular soap opera 'The Young And the Restless', in late 2002. It became their major breakthrough album with such tracks as 'Lifestyles Of the Rich And Famous",
"The Anthem", "Girls & Boys", "Hold On", and the title track. The above singles charted over the course of 2003.

The band's runaway success with this album gained them much visibility on MTV, Saturday Night Live, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. The band was a huge concert draw for disaffected teens, though often the band saw themselves in dangerously precariously situations. One time while touring Scotland, the band thought it might be nice to go out and meet a few fans at one local spot, sign a few autographs and generally hang with their audience. A member of their touring entourage strongly advised them not to go out, it wasn't safe. When the band disregarded this warning, they found themselves completely mobbed by rabidly delirious fans from everywhere who wanted to meet their idols up close! :eek: The situation got so crazy that the band was barely able to escape the throng and make a getaway in their vehicle. It was one time they wished they had listened!


Lifestyles Of the Rich And Famous


Always see it on TV
Read it in the magazines
Celebrities who want sympathy
All they do is p:censored: and moan
Inside the Rolling Stone
Talking about
How hard life can Be

I'd like to see them spend a week
Living life out on the street
I don't think they would survive
If they could spend a day or two
Walking in someone else's shoes
I think they'd stumble and they'd fall
They would fall...
Fall...


Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'
If money is such a problem
Well they got mansions
Think we should rob them

Did you know if you were famous
You could kill your wife

I'd like to see them spend a week
Living life out on the street
I don't think they would survive
If they could spend a day or two
Walking in someone else's shoes
I think they'd stumble and they'd fall
They would fall

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'
If money is such a problem
Well they got mansions
Think we should rob them
(Rob them)
(Rob them)

They would fall(they would fall)
They would fall....

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
They're always complainin'
Always complainin'
If money is such a problem
You've got so many problems
Think I can solve them

Lifestyles of the rich and the famous
We'll take your clothes, cash, cars and homes
Just stop complainin'

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous ----


The Young And Hopeless

Hard days made me, hard nights shaped me
I don't know they somehow saved me
And I know I'm making something out of this life they called nothing
I take what I want
Take what I need
They say it's wrong but it's right for me
I won't look down
Won't say I'm sorry
I know that only God can judge me

And if I make it thru today will tomorrow be the same
Am I just running in place?
and if I stumble and I fall
Should I get up and carry on or will it all just be the same

'Cause, I'm young and I'm hopeless
I'm lost and I know this
I'm going nowhere fast that's what they say
I'm troublesome, I've fallen
I'm angry at my father
It's me against this world and I don't care, I don't care

Benji:
And no one in this industry
Understands the life I lead
When I sing about my past
It's not a gimmick, not an act
These critics and these trust fund kids
Try to tell me what punk is
But when I see them on the streets, they got nothing to say....

And if I make it through today will tomorrow be the same
Am I just running in place?
If I stumble and I fall
Should I get up and carry on or will it all just be the same

'Cause, I'm young and I'm hopeless
I'm lost and I know this
I'm going nowhere fast that's what they say
I'm troublesome, I've fallen
I'm angry at my father
It's me against this world and I don't care, I don't care
I don't care, now I don't care

I'm young and I'm hopeless
I'm lost and I know this
I'm going nowhere fast that's what they say
That I'm troublesome, I've fallen
I'm angry at my father
It's me against this world and I don't care, I don't care
I don't care
I don't care


:guitar:

Girls & Boys

Educated
With money
He's well dressed
Not funny
And not much to say in
Most conversations
But he'll foot the bill in
All situations
Cause he pays for everything

Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money
Boys will laugh at girls when they're not funny

Paper
Or plastic
Don't matter
She'll have it
Vacations
And shopping sprees
These are a few
Of her favorite things
She'll get what she wants
If she's willing to please
His type of girl
Always comes with a fee
Hey now there's nothing for free

Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money
Boys will laugh at girls when they're not funny
And these girls like these boys
like these boys like these girls
The girls with the bodies like boys with Ferraris
Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money

Let's go!
Eh, eh!

Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money
Boys will laugh at girls when they're not funny
And these girls like these boys
like these boys like these girls
The girls with the bodies like boys with Ferraris
Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money

All of these boys, yeah and all of these girls
Losing their souls in a material world
All of these boys, yeah and all of these girls
Losing their souls in a material world
All of these boys, yeah and all of these girls
Losing their souls in a material world
All of these boys, yeah and all of these girls (Faded Out)


The Anthem

Good Charlotte - The Anthem Lyrics
(Yeah, here we go)
It's a new day, but it all feels old
It's a good life, that's what I'm told
But everything, it all just feels the same

At my school, it felt more to me
Like a jail cell, a penitentiary
My time spent there, it only made me see

That I don't ever wanna be like you
I don't wanna do the things you do
I'm never gonna hear the words you say
and I don't ever wanna, I don't ever wanna be

You...don't wanna be just like you
Oh what I'm sayin' is this is the anthem, throw all your hands up,
you... don't wanna be you

Go to college, a university, get a real job,
That's what they said to me
But I could never live the way they want
I'm gonna get by, and just do my time, out of step while, they all
get in line
I'm just a minor threat so pay no mind

Do you really wanna be like them, do you wanna be another
trend?
Do you wanna be part of that crowd?
'cause I don't ever wanna, I don't ever wanna be

You...don't wanna be just like you
Oh what I'm sayin' is this is the anthem throw all your hands up,
you, don't wanna be you

Shake it once, that's fine
Shake it twice, that's okay
Shake it three times, you're playing with yourself, again.

You...don't wanna be just like you
What I'm sayin' is this is the anthem throw all your hands up,
Y'all got to feel me, sing if you're with me, you, don't wanna
be just like you (just like you)
This is the anthem throw all your hands up, y'all got to feel
me, sing if you're with me
Another loser anthem (whoa-oh)
Another loser anthem (whoa-oh)
Another loser anthem (whoa-oh)
Another loser anthem


Riot Girl

She's got tattoos, and piercings
She likes Minor Threat she likes Social Distortion
My girl's a hot girl
A hood rat who needs an attitude adjustment

Christina, wouldn't wanna meet her
She hates you Britney so you better run for cover
My girl's a hot girl, a riot girl and she's angry at the world

Emergency call 911
She's pissed off at everyone
Police rescue, FBI
She wants a riot, she wants a riot

And everywhere we go, she gets us thrown out constantly
But that's okay
'Cuz I know, I know, I know my baby would do anything for me
Yeah

Christina, wouldn't wanna meet her
She hates you Britney so you better run for cover
My girl's a hot girl, a riot girl and she's taking on the world

I said

Emergency call 911
She's pissed off at everyone
Police rescue, FBI
She wants a riot, she wants a riot

She wants a riot, she wants a riot

oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh oooh
Don't ya know that all I really want is you
I got it all and all I really want is you

Emergency call 911
She's pissed off at everyone
Police rescue, FBI
She wants a riot, she wants a riot

Emergency call 911
She wants a riot, she wants a riot
Police rescue, FBI
She wants a riot, she wants a riot

:guitar:

Also in 2003, Ukiah, California, hardcore punk/alternative band AFI (which reportedly stands for A Fire Inside) released Sing the Sorrow. The band had been around since the early 90's and released several EPs and a few full-length albums such as 'Answer That And Stay Fashionable', 'Very Proud Of Ya', 'Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes', 'Black Sails In the Sunset', and 'The Art Of Drowning'. In 1998, guitarist Mark Stopholese was replaced by Jade Puget. In 2002, the band switched from an independent record label to Dreamworks for wider release, with such popular songs as "Girl's Not Grey", "The Leaving Song Pt. II", and "Silver and Cold" from 'Sing the Sorrow'. The album reached #5 on the charts and the videos for the songs received much airplay on MTV.

The album came in two covers, one with the band's logo on a black background, and another with only a completely black cover, a la Spinal Tap's 'Smell the Glove'.

Girl's Not Grey

I'll lay me down tonight,
Much further down.
Swim in the calm tonight.
This art does drown.

(What follows)me as the whitest lace of light,
(will swallow whole)just begs to be imbrued?
(What follows)has led me to this place where I belong with all erased?
What follows?

All insects sing tonight, the coldest sound.
I'd send Gods grace tonight,
Could it be found?

(What follows)
Me as the whitest lace of light
(Will swallow whole)
Just begs to be imbrued?
(What follows)has led me to this place, where I belong with all erased?

I'll lay me down tonight,
Much further down.
Watch stars go out tonight.
On sinking ground.

I'll lay me down.
I'll lay me down.

(What follows)me as the whitest lace of light
(Will swallow whole)
Just begs to be imbrued?
What follows,(Whoooaa) has led me to this place where I belong with all erased?

What follows
Will swallow whole
What Follows
Will swallow whole


The Leaving Song Pt. 2

Don't waste your touch
You won't feel anything
Or were you sent to save me?
I've thought to much
You won't find anything
Worthy of redeeming.

Yo he estado aquí muchas veces antes y he regreso... (I HAVE BEEN HERE A LOT OF TIMES AND HAVE COME BACK AGAIN)

to...

BREAK DOWN!
and cease all feeling
BURN NOW!
What once was breathing
REACH OUT!
And you may take my heart away!

Imperfect cry
Scream in ecstasy
So what befalls the flawless?

Look what i've built
(Please dont do this)
It shines so beautifully.
(Why wont you look at me?)
Now watch as it destroys me.

Y regreso aquí otra vez y comienzo... (AND I COME BACK HERE AND I START AGAIN )

to...

BREAK DOWN!
and cease all feeling
BURN NOW!
What once was breathing
REACH OUT!
And you may take my heart away!

BREAK DOWN!
and cease all feeling
BURN NOW!
What once was breathing
REACH OUT!
And you may take my heart away!


I left it all behind and never said goodbye.
I left it all behind and never said goodbye.
I left it all behind and never said goodbye.
I left it all to die.

I saw its birth,
I watched it grow,
I felt it change me.
I took the life,
I ate it slow,
Now it consumes me...

BREAK DOWN!
and cease all feeling
BURN NOW!
What once was breathing
REACH OUT!
And you may take my heart away!

BREAK DOWN!
and cease all feeling
BURN NOW!
What once was breathing
REACH OUT!
And you may take my heart away!

HEART AWAY!


Silver And Cold
I, I came here by day,
but I left here in darkness
and found you, found you on the way.

But now, it is silver and silent.
It is silver and cold.
You in somber resplendence,
I hold...

Your sins into me,
oh, my beautiful one.
Your sins into me. whoa
As a rapturous voice escapes
I will tremble a prayer
and I'll beg for forgiveness.
Your sins into me,
Your sins into me
oh, my beautiful one.

Light, like the flutter of wings,
feel your hollow voice rushing
into me as you're longing to sing.
So I,I will paint you in silver.
I will wrap you in cold.
I will lift up your voice as I sing.

Your sins into me,
oh, my beautiful one, now
Your sins into me. woah.
As a rapturous voice escapes
I will tremble a prayer
and I'll beg for forgiveness.
Your sins into me,
Your sins into

Cold in life's throes
I'll fall asleep for you.
Cold in life's throes
I only ask you turn away.
Cold in life's throes

I'll fall asleep for you.
Cold in life's throes
I only ask you turn
as you seep into me,
oh, my beautiful one, now...

Your sins into me,
oh, my beautiful one.
Your sins into me. whoa
As a rapturous voice escapes
I will tremble a prayer
and I'll beg for forgiveness.
Your sins into me,
Your sins into me. oh

Your sins into me,
oh, my beautiful one, now
Your sins into me. whoa
As a rapturous voice escapes
I will tremble a prayer
and I'll beg for forgiveness.
Your sins into me,
Your sins into...
Your sins into me
Your sins into me,
Oh my beautiful one!

:guitar:


I dunno, kiddies, this ain't yer father's punk rock. Unfortunately. ohno:

Hurry up and head to your local Hot Topic, and you, too, can look just like this!!

Simple Plan was another pop-punk band from Montreal, Canada, who scored with their debut album released in 2002, No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls. Formed in 1995 under the name Reset, the band's first album featured the popular, perfect pop-punk singles, "I'm Just a Kid", "I'd Do Anything", "Addicted", and "Perfect". The album's title comes from a tag line expression in rugby which states, "No pads, no helmets, no p:censored:s". Mark Hoppus from blink-182 and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte contributed guest vocals on some of the tracks. The band also opened for another "punk" performer Avril Lavigne (the "Try To take me in the Hersheys highway" tour, as they called it) and Green Day, as well as performing on the Vans Warped Tour.


They aimed for a pure pop-punk record. Wow, Sid Vicious and Darby Crash would be rolling in their graves at this one. Pop-punk. Tres cool. (Okay, Sid would be rolling around in Air Duct #2 at Heathrow Airport in London). ohno:


Nice cover, though: :D

I'd Do Anything

Another day, is going by
I'm thinkin' about you all the time
But you're out there
And I'm here waiting

And I, wrote this letter, in my head
Cuz' so many things were left unsaid
But now you're gone
And I can't think straight

This could be, the one last chance, to make you understand, yeah

I'd do anything
Just to hold you in my arms
To try to make you laugh
Somehow I can't put you in the past
I'd DO ANYTHING
Just to fall asleep with you
Will you remember me?
Cuz' I know I won't forget you

Together we, broke all the rules
Dreamin' of droppin' out of school
And leave this place
To never come back

So now, maybe after, all these years
And if you miss me have no fear
I'll be here
And I'll be waitin'

This could be, the one last chance, to make you understand
And I just can't let you leave me once again, yeah

I'd do anything
Just to hold you in my arms
To try to make you laugh
Somehow I can't put you in the past
I'd do anything
Just to fall asleep with you
Will you remember me?
Cuz' I know I won't forget you

I close my eyes
And all I see is you
I close my eyes
I try to sleep, I can't forget you
Nanana, nanana
And I'd do anything for you
Nanana,nanananaaaa

I'd do anything
Just to hold you in my arms
To try to make you laugh
Somehow I can't put you in the past
I'd do anything
Just to fall asleep with you
To fall asleep with you
With you, yeah
I'd do anything
To fall asleep with you
I'd do anything
There's nothing I won't do
I'd do anything
To fall asleep with you
I'd do anything
Cuz' I know, I won't forget you

I'm Just a Kid

I woke up it was 7
I waited 'till 11
Just to figure out that no one would call
I think i've got a lot of friends but I don't hear from them
What's another night all alone?
When your spending everyday on your own
And here it goes


I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that it's not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me
tonight

And maybe when the night is dead, I'll crawl into my bed
I'm staring at these four walls again.
I'll try to think about the last time, I had a good time
Everyone's got somewhere to go
And they're gonna leave me here on my own and here it goes

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me...

What the Hell is wrong with me,
Don't fit in with anybody
How did this happen to me?
Wide awake I'm bored and I can't fall asleep
And every night is the worst night ever

I'm just a kid [5 times]

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that it's not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world.

I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world
Nobody cares,cause im alone and the world is
having more fun than me tonight

I'm all alone tonight
Nobody cares tonight
Cause I'm just a kid
Tonight...

Addicted

I heard you're doing okay
But I want you to know
I'm a addic-,
I'm addicted to you

I can't pretend I don't care
When you don't think about me
Do you think I deserve this?

I tried to make you happy
But you left anyway

I'm trying to forget that
I'm addicted to you
But I want it and I need it
I'm addicted to you
Now it's over
Can't forget what you said
And I never wanna do this again

Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker

Since the day I met you
And after all we've been through
still a addic-,
I'm addicted to you
I think you know that it's true
I'd run a thousand miles to get you
Do you think I deserve this?

I tried to make you happy
I did all that I could
Just to keep you...
But you left anyway

I'm trying to forget that
I'm addicted to you
But I want it and I need it
I'm addicted to you
Now it's over
Can't forget what you said
And I never wanna do this again

Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker

How long will I be waiting?
Until the end of time

I don't know why I'm still waiting
I can't make you mine

I'm trying to forget that
I'm addicted to you
But I want it and I need it
I'm addicted to you

I'm trying to forget that
I'm addicted to you
But I want it and I need it
I'm addicted to you
Now it's over
Can't forget what you said
And I never wanna do this again
Heartbreaker...

Heartbreaker
I'm addicted to you

HeartBreaker
I'm addicted to you

Heartbreaker
I'm addicted to you

Heartbreaker
I'm addicted to you

Heartbreaker


Perfect

Hey dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan?
And do you think I'm wasting my time
Doing things I wanna do
But it hurts when you disapprove all along

And now I try hard to make it
I just wanna to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't pretend that I'm alright
And you can't change me

Because we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect

I try not to think
About the pain I feel inside
Did you know you used to be my hero
All the days you spent with me
Now seem so far away
And it feels like you don't care anymore

And now I try hard to make it
I just wanna make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
I can't stand another fight
And nothing's alright

Because we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect

Nothing's gonna change the things that you said
Nothing's gonna make this right again (right again)
Please don't turn your back
I can't believe it's hard just to talk to you
But you don't understand (you don't understand)

Because we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect

Because we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect

:guitar:

Pop-punk/alternative (and sometimes covert hair metal) band American Hi-Fi released The Art Of Losing in early 2003. The album featured such songs as "The Breakup Song" and the title track.


Interesting factoid: How the band got their name, according to the members in an interview is that they happened to meet none other than Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones at a club way back when. They asked him what would be a good name for their band, and Richards thought for a moment and replied, "American Hi-Fi". Rock and roll legends were thus born. :cool:

The Art Of Losing

Last call now I'm outta time
And I don't got no valentine
Singled out, now I stand alone
The underdog in a modern world
Suburbia is hot tonight
But nothing seems to feel alright
I don't want your sympathy
I just need a little therapy
At least that's what they say to me

Hey ho let's go
I'm gonna start a riot
You don't wanna fight it
One to f:censored: you
Don't tell me what to do
I don't wanna be like you
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm my own worst enemy
Knock me down I'll keep on moving
It's the art of losing

Fit the mold and do what you're told
Get a job and start growing old
9 to 5 can make your dreams come true
But I don't wanna be like you
I'm not cool and I'll never be
I break the rules and I guarantee
I don't want your sympathy
I just need a little therapy
At least that's what they say to me

Hey ho let's go
I'm gonna start a riot
You don't wanna fight it
One to f:censored: you
Don't tell me what to do
I don't wanna be like you
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm my own worst enemy
Knock me down I'll keep on moving
It's the art of losing

You call me a loser
Say I'm just a user
But I'll just keep on moving
Cause that's the art of losing

Hey ho let's go
I'm gonna start a riot
You don't wanna fight it
One to f:censored: you
Don't tell me what to do
I don't wanna be like you
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm my own worst enemy
Knock me down I'll keep on moving
It's the art of losing

Wahhhooo (It's the art of losing)
Wahhhooo (It's the art of losing)

We're the kids
We're the kids
We're the kids in America
We're the kids
We're the kids
We're the kids in America


The Breakup Song

I can’t believe I hung around with you
All this time
You drove me crazy with your ocd
Girl your out of your mind
I’m counting on ufo’s to beam me up
I just don’t know
How long I can take this s:censored:
I’m over it girl you gotta go

It’s over were over
Just like in crimson and clover
Were sinking and I’m thinking
How the hell did we get so stupid
It’s the end ex girlfriend
I don’t care what you think of me now
So long your gone
This is the break up song

One more thing before you go
Would you please give me my records back
My bloody valentine, the pixies, cheap trick and back in black
You can keep the dog we bought
But you can’t go near the standard bar
Don’t hang around
Don’t call my friends
They wont know who you are

Its over we’re over
Just like in crimson and clover
Were sinking and I’m thinking
How the hell did we get so stupid
It’s the end ex girlfriend
I don’t care what you think of me now
So long your gone
This is the break up song

So long your gone
This is the break up song

Its over we’re over
Just like in crimson and clover
Were sinking and I’m thinking
How the hell did we get so stupid
It’s the end ex girlfriend
I don’t care what you think of me now
So long your gone
This is the break up song

So long your gone
This is the break up song [x3]

THIS IS THE BREAKUP SONG

:guitar:

Also in the rising pop punk/emo department of your local teen rock/fashionware boutique,
Chicago suburb band Fall Out Boy broke out with such indie albums as 2002's 'Fall Out Boy's Evening Out with Your Girlfriend' and 2003's Take This To Your Grave. The band's members decided to form a group which shared interests in bands such as Green Day, the Smiths, and even....Neurosis?? The dark alternative metal band with the cult following? :confused: Interesting...

Fronted by lead singer Patrick Stump, the band actually played their first two shows without a name until they asked the crowd what they should call themselves. One member of the audience shouted, "Fallout Boy!!", a reference to the comic book sidekick of Radioactive Man on The Simpsons. So the name stuck.

'Take This...' featured such songs as Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy", "Dead On Arrival", and "Saturday", whose videos appeared on FUSE and mtvU, which was directed more toward college outlets. These singles became very popular and opened the band up to bigger and better things.

Dead On Arrival

Hope this is the last time
'Cause I'd never say no to you
This conversation's been dead on arrival
And there's no way to talk to you
This conversation's been dead on

A rivalry goes so deep between me
And this loss of sleep over you

This is side one, flip me over
I know I’m not your favorite record
The songs you grow to like never stick at first
So, I’m writing you a chorus
And here is your verse

No, it's not the last time
'Cause I’d never say no to you
This conversation's still dead on arrival
And there's no way to talk to you
When you're dead on

A rivalry goes so deep between me
And this loss of sleep over you

This is side one, flip me over
I know I’m not your favorite record
The songs you grow to like never stick at first
So, I’m writing you a chorus
And here is your

Whoo!

This is side one, flip me over
I know I’m not your favorite record

This is side one, flip me over

This is side one, flip me over
I know I’m not your favorite record
The songs you grow to like never stick at first
So, I’m writing you a chorus
And here is your verse
Here is your


Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentlemen.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
You were the last good thing about this part of town.

When I wake up, I'm willing to take my chances on the hope I forget
that you hate him more than you notice I wrote this for you. (For you, so)

You need him. I should be him...
I could be an accident but I'm still trying.
That's more than I can say for him.

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
you were the last good thing about this part of town.

Someday I'll appreciate in value, get off my ass and call you...
but in the meantime I'll sport my
brand new fashion of waking up with pants off at four in the afternoon.

You need him. I should be him...
I Could be an accident but I'm still trying.
And That's more than I can say for him.

1-2-3-4!
Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentlemen.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
You were the last good thing about this part of town.

won't find out (he won't find out)
won't find out (he won't find out)

Where is your boy tonight? I hope he is a gentleman.
Maybe he won't find out what I know:
you were the last good thing about this part of town.
[x2]


Saturday

I'm good to go
And I'm going nowere fast
It could be worse
I could be taking you there with me
I'm good to go
But it looks like I'm still on my own

I'm good to go
For something golden
Though the motions I've been going through have failed
And I'm coasting on potential towards a wall
At a hundred miles an hour

When I say...
Two more weeks
My foot is in the door (yeah)
I can't sleep
In the wake of Saturday (Saturday)
Saturday
When these open doors were open-ended
Saturday
When these open doors were open-ended

Pete and I attacked the laws of Astoria
with promise and precision and we'll mess up youthful innocence
And I read about the afterlife
But I never really lived more than an hour (more than an hour)

When I say...
Two more weeks
My foot is in the door (yeah)
I can't sleep
In the wake of Saturday (Saturday)
Saturday
When these open doors were open-ended
Saturday yeah
When these open doors were open-ended

And I read about the afterlife
But I never really lived
And I read about the afterlife
But I never really lived

Two more weeks
My foot is in the door
Me and Pete
In the wake of Saturday
Saturday
When these open doors were open-ended
Saturday
When these open doors were open-ended
Saturday Saturday oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

:guitar:

Meanwhile, a band halfway across the world was making its way into the American charts: Australia's Jet, a group heavily influenced by the British Invasion, classic British rock acts, and Britpop, including The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Easybeats, The Faces, as well as AC/DC and Oasis. The band's 2003 release, Get Born, featured such infectious retro-rock style tunes as "Cold Hard Bitch", "Are You Gonna Be My Girl", "Rollover DJ", and the ballad, "Look What You've Done".

In 2002, the band created a growing buzz in clubs Down Under that, thanks to the breakthrough success of fellow Australian "retro" rockers, The Vines, Jet were able to sell huge quantities of their EP 'Dirty Sweet', whose name was taken from the lyrics of the early 70's hit "Get It On" by T-Rex. This sparked international interest in both Britain and America. The band flew to Los Angeles to record 'Get Born', whose title is taken from a line in Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". Billy Preston even made a guest appearance on the album playing keyboards. The band supported The Rolling Stones on their tour in 2003. "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" and "Rollover DJ" hit the top of the charts in America and Britain.


In spite of American and Britain undergoing a revival of sorts of retro fever, the members of Jet, in a cover story in Guitar World in 2003, acted like prima donnas in regards to such guitar heroes as Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, claiming that they were pretty much "pointless" and "boring". Well, to each his own, but let's just see how long that retro schtick goes on, shall we? ohno: That juvenile cockiness only goes so far.


Vai and Satch rule, by the way. :rock:


Cold Hard Bitch

Yeah!

Gotta leave town
Got another appointment.
I spent all my rent,
Girl you know I enjoyed it,yeah!!

Ain't gonna hang around till
there's nobody dancing.
I don't wanna hold hands and talk
about our little plans, alright!

Cold hard bitch
Just a kiss on the lips
And I was on my knees
Im waitin, give me
Cold hard bitch
She was shakin' her hips
so that was all that I need.
My lady, give me
Cold hard bitch
Just a kiss on the lips
And I was on my knees

Gonna check her out
She's my latest attraction.
Gonna hang around
Wanna get a reaction. Yeah!!
Gonna take her home cause
she's over romancing
Don't wanna hold hands and talk
about our little plans alright!

Cold hard bitch
Just a kiss on the lips
And I was on my knees
Im waitin, give me
Cold hard bitch
She was shakin' her hips
So that was all that I need
My lady, give me
Cold hard bitch!
Just a kiss on the lips,
And I was on my knees.

Yeah Im waitin
Yeah Im waitin
Yeah Im waitin
Yeah Im waitin!!

Cold hard bitch
Just a kiss on the lips,
And I was on my knees.
Im waitin, give me.
Cold hard bitch,
She was shakin' her hips.
so that was all that I need
My lady, give me
Cold hard bitch
Just a kiss on the lips
And I was on my knees.
My lady give me.


Rollover DJ

"Got your Rhymes going round in my head
Got your supersonic beats mixing up my Keds
"So dance little DJ come on
"What's your name?

"I wanna move but I don't feel right
Cause you've been playing other peoples songs all night
"So tell what you're trying to say
What's your name?

Hey Rollover DJ
You're spinning away
On my time
Hey, who cares what you play
Say whatever you say, I don't mind
Hey, roll over DJ, if you don't mind

Well I know that you think you're the star
A pill poppin' jukebox is all that you are
So tell me it ain't that way
What's you're name?

Hey roll over DJ
You're spinning away
On my time
Hey, who cares what you play
Say whatever you say, cause I don't mind
Hey roll over DJ if you don't mind

Bridge/Solo
"Hey roll over DJ
"You're spinning away
On my time
Hey, who cares what you play
Say whatever you say, cause I don't mind
"Hey roll over DJ if you don't mind
Hey roll over DJ if you don't mind
"Hey roll over DJ if you don't mind

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Let's go!!

I said a 1,2,3, take my hand and come with me
'Cause you look so fine
And I really wanna make you mine.

I said you look so fine
And I really wanna make you mine.

Oh, 4,5,6 come on and get your kicks
Now you dont need that money
When you look like that, do ya honey?

Big black boots,
Long brown hair,
She's so sweet
With her get back stare.

Well I could take,
You home with me,
But you were with another man, yeah!
I know we ain't got, much to say,
Before I let you get away, yeah!
I said, are you gonna be my girl?

Well, so 1,2,3, take my hand and come with me
Because you look so fine
And I really wanna make you mine.

I said you look so fine
And I really wanna make you mine.

Oh, 4,5,6 come on and get your kicks
Now you dont need that money
With a face like that, do ya...

Big black boots,
Long brown hair,
She's so sweet
With her get back stare.

Well I could see,
You home with me,
But you were with another man, yeah!
I know we ain't got, much to say,
Before I let you get away, yeah!
I said, are you gonna be my girl?

Oh Yeah
Oh Yeah
C'mon
I could see,
You home with me,
But you were with another man, yeah!
I know we, ain't got much to say,
Before I let you get away, yeah!
Uh, be my girl.
Be my girl.
Are you gonna be my girl? Yeah!


Look What You've Done

Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to prove

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems likes such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Give me back my point of view
'Cause I just can't think for you
I can hardly hear you say
What should I do, well you choose

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems likes such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to do

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems likes such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

:guitar: :banana: :mango

The Vines, with whom Jet were often compared, were another Australian band from those years who helped usher in a "retro rock" craze in the early 2000's. They had been described as a combination of The Beatles and Nirvana, and the band got their name from frontman Craig Nicholls' dad's frontman lead in a local Elvis cover-band called The Vynes.

The band got their start in 1994, and by 2001, flew to Los Angeles to record songs, but put their recording on hold when they ran out of money. They flew back to Australia and released a single, "Factory", which made a very minor dent on the charts Down Under, but attracted attention elsewhere. They signed with a label and their first album, Highly Evolved, was released in late 2001. The album's title track entered the charts below the Top 30, but the album soon gained momentum on the charts in Australia, Britain, and America, with such singles as "Get Free" and "Outtathaway!". The band also began to appear on the cover of such magazines as Rolling Stone and NME.

In 2003, the band returned to the studio to record a new album to be released the following year.

Highly Evolved

I'm feeling happy so highly evolved
my time's a riddle that will never be solved
dreamin for somethin
reachin for somethin
just waitin for the sun to carry me in

if you feel low
you can buy love
from a payphone
i don't feel low

my brother Bill
he work for the market
life is an arrow and now he's the target
dreamin for somethin
reachin for somethin
just waitin for the sun to carry me in

if you feel low
you can buy blow
from a payphone
i don't feel low

highly evolved
highly evolved
highly evolved
highly evolved


Outtathaway!

I get
What I own
Don't let
The feelings that I choose
'Cause everybody else do

Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you

(oh now come on and make room)

We think
You're a lot different
Your number ain't your thing
Your life is on the wrong end

Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you

Now C'mon (aaaaah...)
Now C'mon (aaaaah...)
Now C'mon (aaaaah...)

Gotta get outtathaway! (aaaaah...)
No time for me to stay (aaaaah...)
When I speak out of line (aaaaah...)
I don't believe in time (aaaaah...)


Get Free

I get
What I own
Don't let
The feelings that I choose
'Cause everybody else do

Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you

(oh now come on and make room)

We think
You're a lot different
Your number ain't your thing
Your life is on the wrong end

Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you

Now C'mon (aaaaah...)
Now C'mon (aaaaah...)
Now C'mon (aaaaah...)

Gotta get outtathaway! (aaaaah...)
No time for me to stay (aaaaah...)
When I speak out of line (aaaaah...)
I don't believe in time (aaaaah...)

:guitar:

Another "retro rock" band of a different sort, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, were an art punk group from New York City whose name, in spite of sounding like something from a Beatles lyric, actually came from New York City local lingo. The band was unique in that, like The Doors, did not feature a bass player. The band's members included vocalist Karen O (full name Karen Lee Orzołek, whose mother was Korean and father was Polish), drummer Brian Chase, and guitarist Nick Zinner. The band started in 2000 released two EPs, their self-titled disk in 2001 and 'Machine' in 2002.

In 2003, the band released their first full-length album, Fever To Tell, which became a huge seller worldwide, with such popular tracks as "Maps" and "Y Control". The album became a critically praised record which was even nominated for a Grammy.

Karen O was known for giving a totally salacious performance in rather over-the-top fashions. In addition to spitting water, beer, or even grapes into the crowd, she even pretends to have sex with the stage monitor cabinets. Her stage show became so provocative that she was even approached by Playboy magazine to appear on the cover, which she has given some time to consider.
Unfortunately, her performances got so out of control at one point, where she accidentally fell off the stage at the Livid Festival in Australia and was taken to the hospital. A few days later, she re-appeared onstage in a wheelchair.

But 2003 was also a good year for her, as she had her breasts plaster-casted by famed groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster in 2003. The story of the Plaster Casters was an interesting tale of rock and roll history, as in the late 60's many groupies wanted to make souvenirs of their favorite rock and roll idols' genitalia by creating molds in which plaster would be cast to resemble the real thing. Cynthia Plaster Caster, a groupie from back in the Woodstock era, began forming the same with women's breasts in 2000. KISS even wrote a song about her, "Plaster Caster", on the 'Love Gun' album.

Maps

Pack up;
I’m straight;
Enough;
Oh say, say, say;you'll
Oh say, say, say;you'll
Oh say, say, say;you'll
Oh say, say, say;you'll
Oh say, say, say you'll

Wait, they don’t love you like I love you;
Wait, they don’t love you like I love you;
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you.

Made off;
Don’t stray;
Well, my kind’s your kind;
I’ll stay the same!
Pack up;
But Don’t stray;
Oh say, say, say;
I'll Oh say, say, say!

Wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps!
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you …

Wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you;
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps;
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you!
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps!
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you …


Y Control
oh so all my lovin' go's
under the fog fog fog
and i will leave them all
well i'm just a poor little baby
cause well i believe them all

oh so while your growing old
under the gun gun gun
and i believe them all
well i'm just one poor baby
cause well i believe them all

[Pre-chorus]
i wish i could buy back
the woman you stole

[Chorus]
Y-control, Y-control
you walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
out of control, out of control
you walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
out of control, high control
you walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners
out of control, out of control
you walk, walk, walk, walk, walk my winners out

oh so all my lovin' go's <<<----
under the fog fog fog
and i believe them all
well i'm just a poor little baby
cause well i believe them all

[Repeat pre-chorus and chorus once]

:guitar:

And of course the biggest "retro"-leaning act, The White Stripes, released their most popular album at that point, 2003's Elephant, which featured the major tracks "Seven Nation Army", a Burt Bacharach cover "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", and "The Hardest Button To Button". Music fans and critics were apparently enamored by Jack White's tones from his old pawnshop prize guitars from the '50's and '60's that he was listed at #17 on Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists Of All Time in an issue that year. (What, and Tony Iommi and Randy Rhoads only made #86 and #85??
:confused: ) Also people seemed to enjoy Jack White's throaty yelp as well. Rock and roll was going back to basics, stripped down garage rock and complete simplicity. Also that year, Jack and Meg White appeared in a Jim Jarmusch movie, 'Coffee and Cigarettes', in a segment titled " Jack White Shows Off His Tesla Coil" (which had nothing to do with the late 80's blue collar metal band known for "Modern Day Cowboy" and "Love Song", but about the radio inventor Nikola Tesla).

Jack White also got himself in a heap of trouble early next year when he began hitting guitarist Jason Stollmeister of the Detroit band The Von Bondies during a record release party for another local band, quarrelling over issues regarding album production credits that White helped co-produce for Stollmeister's group. White was ordered to take anger management classes and to pay a fine.
:boxing:

The Hardest Button To Button

We started living in an old house
My ma gave birth and we were checking it out
It was a baby boy
So we bought him a toy
It was a ray gun
And it was 1981

We named him "Baby"
He had a toothache
He started crying
It sounded like an earthquake
It didn't last long
Because I stopped it
I grabbed a rag doll
Stuck some little pins in it

Now we're a family
And we're alright now
We got money and a little place
To fight now
We don't know you
And we don't owe you
But if you see us around
I got something else to show you

Now it's easy when you don't know better
You think it's sleazy?
Then put it in a short letter
We keep warm
But there's just something wrong with ya
Just feel that you're the hardest little button to button


I had opinion that didnt matter
I had a brain that felt like pancake batter
I got a backyard with nothing in it
Except a stick, a dog
And a box with something in it

The hardest button to button (x4)
Ah oh

The hardest button to button(x2)
Ah oh

The hardest button to button(x4)
Ah oh


I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself
planning everything for two
doing everything with you
and now that we're through
I just don't know what to do

I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself
movies only make me sad
parties make me feel as bad
cause I'm not with you
I just don't know what to do

like a summer rose
needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
to beat love away

well I don't know what to do with myself
just don't know what to do with myself
planning everything for two
doing everything with you
and now that we're through
I just don't know what to do

like a summer rose
needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
to beat love away

I just don't know what to do with myself
just don't know what to do with myself
just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself


Never got into this song, even though everyone seems to love it:

Seven Nation Army

I'm gonna fight 'em off
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back

And I'm talking to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette
And the message coming from my eyes
Says leave it alone

Don't want to hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell

And if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you want to hear
But that's what I'll do
And a feeling coming from my bones
Says find a home

I'm going to Wichita
Far from this opera forevermore
I'm gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every pore
And I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
Right before the lord
All the words are gonna bleed from me
And I will think no more
And the stains coming from my blood
tell me "go back home"

:guitar: :banana: :mango

If we haven't covered this previously, here is a decent song from The White Stripes' 2002 album 'White Blood Cells':


Dead Leaves And the Dead Ground

Dead leaves and the dirty ground
When I know you're not around
Shiny tops and soda pops
When I hear your lips make a sound
When I hear your lips make a sound

Thirty notes in the mailbox
Will tell ya that I'm coming home
And I think I'm gonna stick around
For a while so you're not alone
For a while so you're not alone

If you can hear a piano fall
You can hear me coming down the hall
If I could just hear your pretty voice
I don't think I need to see at all
Don't think I need to see at all

Soft hair and a velvet tongue
I wanna give ya what you give to me
And every breath that is in your lungs
Is a tiny little gift to me
It's a tiny little gift to me

I didn't feel so bad 'til the sun went down
Then I come home
No-one to wrap my arms around
Wrap my arms around

Well any man with a microphone
Can tell you what he loves the most
And you know why you love at all
If you're thinking of the holy ghost
If you're thinking of the holy ghost

:guitar:

One of the biggest names to come out of 2003 was Evanescence, whose lead singer Amy Lee became one of the most enchanting figures in music in recent years. Their huge-selling debut, Fallen, featured the hit "Bring Me To Life", which topped the charts well into 2004. Often comparisons were drawn between both them and Lacuna Coil, which also featured an alluring female lead singer, though there were differences in both bands and frontwomen. Many began to confuse the two, while others accused both bands of "ripping off" each other, which was not the case at all.

The seeds of Evanescence were planted in 1994 when both Lee and guitarist Ben Moody met at a youth camp where he heard her singing Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)". A musical partnership was born, and began playing local shows in Little Rock, Arkansas. They became a big draw and received airplay as well. After a few name changes, they settled on the name Evanescence, which meant "falling away" or "disappearance". Lee liked the name, "it is mysterious and dark, and places a picture in the listeners' mind." The band began to release a few EP's, such as their self-titled debut disk and 'Sound Asleep' in 1998 and 1999. While the band gathered a buzz, Lee welcomed fans to download copies of their EPs from the internet, as the disks were released in limited supply.

But there was a sort of controversy arising from the band, one from which Lee wanted to distance herself and the band. In 2003, as they released 'Fallen', they found out that they had received airplay on Christian radio and distribution in Christian bookstores. Why was this? Were Evanescence a Christian band, one looking for Christian crossover status? How did they receive the moniker? Apparently, it was due to comments Ben Moody had made to the press in 1998, stating "We've had the same dream from the beginning; to write with everything in us and totally do the music we love while at the same time using that as a tool to share with others what Christ has done in our lives," as well as, "We hope to express in our music that Christianity is not a rigid list of rules to follow..." and also "The message we as a band want to convey more than anything is simple—God is Love." While it was true that the band were Christians in their personal lives, the band had no intentions of being pegged as a "Christian" band, the whole moniker developed false expectations by Christian listeners of the band and destroyed the mystique. While other "Christians-in-a-secular-market" bands may have enjoyed that appeal, such as P.O.D. and Jars Of Clay, Evanescence found it possibly limiting in how the band was received. It was likely that with the tagging of the "Christian" label, people would expect them to proselytize at concerts or insert evangelical buzz-word references or not-so-subtle
"Christian" metaphors in their lyrics. The band may have wanted to create an aura to listeners that left their songs open to interpretation, rather than to broadcast some "spiritual" agenda out loud.

Christian music industry distributors, however, contradicted their claims. Terry Hemmings, CEO of Christian music distributor Provident, expressed puzzlement at the band's about-face, saying "They clearly understood the album would be sold in these channels (in Christian music)." In the wake of the controversy, "Bring Me To Life" was dropped by many Christian radio stations; the song was Top 5 on Radio & Records' Christian Rock Top 30 one week, and completely gone the next. Ex-vocalist and keyboardist David Hodges eventually left the band over the controversy, with other members stating that he had been pulling them in more of a Christian direction than Lee and Moody were comfortable with. :confused:

Regardless of the controversy, the quandary over their labelling did not hurt their popularity. The 'Fallen' album went on to sell Platinum six times over, and 15 million copies worldwide. They appeared on the Nintendo World Fusion that year and on WWE No Way Out as well. "My Immortal" was featured in the soundtrack to the movie 'Daredevil'. "Bring Me To Life" even earned the band a Grammy.

Bring Me To Life

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb,
Without a soul (without)
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back....home


(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I Can't Wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become

Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe~ into me and make me real
Bring me to life

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I Can't Wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become

(Bring me to life)
I've been living a lie,there's nothing inside
(Bring me to life)
Frozen inside without your touch,
Without your love,darling
Only you are the life, among the dead

All this time I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me

I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything

Without a thought, without a voice, without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something more!
Bring me to life

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I Can't Wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up)
Before I come undone
(Save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become
(Bring me to life)

I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside!
(Bring me to life.)


Going Under

Now I will tell you what I've done for you -
50 thousand tears I've cried.
Screaming, deceiving and bleeding for you -
And you still won't hear me.
(going under)
Don't want your hand this time - I'll save myself.
Maybe I'll wake up for once (wake up for once)
Not tormented daily defeated by you
Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom

I'm dying again

I'm going under (going under)
Drowning in you (drowning in you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through
I'm going under

Blurring and stirring - the truth and the lies.
(So I don't know what's real) So I don't know what's real (and what's not)*So I don't know what's real* and what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head
So I can't trust myself anymore

I'm dying again

I'm going under (going under)
Drowning in you (drowning in you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through

I'm...

So go on and scream
Scream at me I'm so far away (so far away)
I won't be broken again (again)
I've got to breathe - I can't keep going under

I'm dying again

I'm going under (going under)
Drowning in you (drowning in you)
I'm falling forever (falling forever)
I've got to break through

I'm going under (going under)
I'm going under (drowning in you)
I'm going under


My Immortal

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave
Coz your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me by your resonating mind
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

I tried so hard to tell myself that your gone,
But though you're still with me,I've been all alone all along

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me, me, me, me

:guitar:

The decision to drop Evanescence as a "Christian" band by the group themselves and the Christian industry seemed to be rather mutual. The band did not want to be saddled with the "Christian" tag, and Christian retailers and press, which initially fell in love with the band, turned the band away when members of the band began using profanity and other "less-than-Christian" language in interviews. "There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise," said Lee, "and that we have some secret message … We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience." Amy Lee began to be treated as the wayward
"prodigal daughter"--who just hadn't come home yet to the fatted calf.

It may have been true that in the early days of the band, they were tied in to a local underground Christian scene, but in the later years, they chose not to be identified with it. As disappointing and frustrating as it may have been for the Christian industry, it was only fair to ask: Does the "Christian" scene hurt, rather than help, a new artist who more or less have some personal faith in God, etc.? Does it "explain" away the music before it is able to impress a new listener? Christian music may not be "religious" in the traditional sense, but still, it seemed to be "religious" in this new-fangled,
"hip" sort of way. Musicians and youth pastors may have broken out the Birkenstocks and thrown on a t-shirt with a neat, pithy caption (or worse, a recognizable corporate logo with an evangelical message encrypted within) reflecting their proselytizing intentions, but still, it still smacked of religion, especially in a day and age where the Religious Right still spooked many who were unchurched. It could also be possible that the band suffered from poor treatment and insufferable demands by the church to "act more Christian", etc., as their visibility grew, resulting in a collective crisis of faith. But some in the Christian press have acted as if it was just the growing pangs of a band who had become "spiritually immature" as their popularity rose. Moody and Lee chose to keep their faith separate from the band: "I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band," Moody said.

It was true that Christian music was no longer the best kept secret of the church. It was perhaps for that reason that Evanescence decided not to be part of it. The band wanted to create a sense of mystery, open-ended questions, searching, a sense of pain and longing with which their audience could identify. Contemporary Christian music served no purpose by merely handing people answers and telling people "the truth", acting as if they were the only ones right. Christian music was only about "happy", self-sufficient people who no longer strove for anything nor expressed suffering or need. Listeners did not care how much the church brigades knew--they wanted just someone to empathize with their problems, it was not about having all the "right answers". Just knowing someone felt like them was enough. This was most likely the scenario behind why Evanescence decided to distance themselves from Christian music--they had seen too much judgementalism and self-righteousness, and sometimes, not enough love and understanding. Their music was a precious gift that the money-changing church merchants couldn't touch and taint.

Even with their claims of not identifying with the Christian music scene, there
was a strong Christian theme in the following song. But they wanted to make it in such a way that didn't sound like more Christian "buzz-words", but a universal theme of pain and longing using Christian metaphors:

Tourniquet

I tried to kill the pain
But only brought more (so much more)
I lay dying
And I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
Am I too lost
To be saved?
Am I too lost?

My God, my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God, my tourniquet
Return to me salvation

Do you remember me?
Lost for so long
Will you be on the other side?
Or will you forget me?
I'm dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming
Am I too lost
To be saved?
Am I too lost?

My God, my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God, my tourniquet
Return to me salvation

(Return to me salvation)

(Ohhhhhh)

(I want to die)

My God, my tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God, my tourniquet
Return to me salvation

My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied?
Christ? (Christ)
Tourniquet
My suicide

(Return to me salvation)

(Return to me salvation)


Everybody's Fool

Perfect by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that

Never was and never will be
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled

Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
but now I know
she

Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled

Without the mask
Where will you hide?
Can't find yourself
Lost in your lies

I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore

It never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled

It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
Somehow now you're everybody's fool

My Last Breath

Hold on to me, love
You know I can't stay long
All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid
Oh...
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms?

Holding my last breath
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you
Sweet raptured light
It ends here tonight

I miss the winter
A world of fragile things
Look for me in the white forest hiding in a hollow tree
(Come and find me)
I know you hear me
I can taste it in your tears

Holding my last breath
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you
Sweet raptured light
It ends here tonight

Closing your eyes to disappear
You pray your dreams will leave you here
But still you wake and know the truth
No one's there

Say goodnight
Don't be afraid
Calling me, calling me as you fade to black

(Say goodnight...)
Holding my last breath
(Don't be afraid...)
Safe inside myself
(Calling me, calling me as you fade to black)
Are all my thoughts of you
Sweet raptured life
It ends here tonight

(Holding my last breath...)
(Safe inside myself...)
(Are all my thoughts of you...)
(Sweet raptured life it ends here tonight...)

(Holding my last breath...)

:guitar:

Bring Me To Life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKer9hry-Gg

Going Under:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjf9C6atT4&feature=related

Amy Lee and Ben Moody live:

In 2002, Boston modern metal band Godsmack released "I Stand Alone" for the movie 'The Scorpion King', the third installment in 'The Mummy' saga. The single topped the charts at #1 and stayed there for weeks. The band then released Faceless in 2003, which featured the Grammy-nominated "I Stand Alone" as well as "Straight Out Of Line", "Re-align", "I F:censored: Hate You", "Serenity", and "I Am".

The band offered two different versions as to how the album's title came about: drummer Shannon Larkin explained that he and lead singer Sully were standing by a pool wearing nothing more than a smile when a woman in a neighboring house opened her window to catch them buck-naked. She gasped, open-mouthed :eek: as the two apologized and dove into the pool. Minutes later, the two bandmates received a little visit from the police. However, bassist Robbie Merrill explained, "It came from the band's feeling that, despite our radio and sales success, we still flew a bit under the radar". The previous explanation by Larkin, however puzzling in relation to the album title, still made for an entertaining tale.

I Stand Alone

Now I've told you this once before can't control me
If you try to take me down you're gonna pay
I feel your every nothing that your doing for me
I'm thinking you oughta make you own way

I stand alone inside
I stand alone(I stand alone)

You're always hiding behind your so-called goddess
So what, you don't think that we can see your face?
Ressurrected back before the final falling
I'll never rest until I can make my own way

I'm not afraid of fading
I stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone inside
I stand alone(I stand alone)

Now it's my time (now it's my time)
It's my time to dream (It's my time to dream)
Dream of the skies (dream of the skies)
Make me believe that this place isn't plagued by the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out before you can breathe
Breathe into me

I stand alone inside
I stand alone

Feeling your sting down inside me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
everything that I believe is fading

I stand alone inside
I stand alone inside
I stand alone inside
I stand alone inside


Straight Out Of Line

(verse 1)

There's no reason, there's no compromise
Change in seasons, living the high life
I don't know you so don't freak on me
I can't control you, you're not my destiny

(hook)

Straight out of line
I can't find a reason why I should justify my ways
Straight out of line
I don't need a reason, you don't need to lie to me

(verse 2)

I'll confess this: you're my tragedy
I laid you to rest just as fast as you turned on me
Gone forever, banished the memories
this place of pleasure are masked by your misery

(hook)

Straight out of line
I can't find a reason why I should justify my ways
Straight out of line
I don't need a reason, you don't need to lie to me
Lie to me

Straight out of line
I can't find a reason why I should justify my ways
Straight out of line
I don't need a reason, you don't need to
Don't need to lie to me
Lie to me
Lie to me
Lie to me

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Re-align

Decisions made from desperation
No way to go
Internal instincts craving isolation
For me to grow

My fears come alive
In this place where I once died
Demons dreaming
Knowing I...I just needed to realign

Fell in a river of illusion
And apathy
Drowning in a self-induced confusion
I'd rather be YEAH!

My fears come alive
In this place where I once died
Demons dreaming
Knowing I...I just needed to realign

My fears come alive
In this place where I once died
Demons dreaming
Knowing I...I just needed to realign

My fears come alive
In this place where I once died
Demons dreaming
Knowing I...I just needed to realign

My fears come alive
In this place where I once died
Demons dreaming
Knowing I...I just needed to realign
Yeah!


This next song became popular as an acoustic version:

Serenity

As I sit here and slowly close my eyes
I take another deep breath
And feel the wind pass through my body
I'm the one in your soul
Reflecting inner light
Protect the ones who hold you
Cradling your inner child

I need serenity
In a place where I can hide
I need serenity
Nothing changes, days go by

Where do we go when we just don't know
And how do we relight the flame when it's cold
Why do we dream when our thoughts mean nothing
And when will we learn to control

Tragic visions slowly stole my life
Tore away everything
Cheating me out of my time
I'm the one who loves you
No matter wrong or right
And every day I hold you
I hold you with my inner child

I need serenity
In a place where I can hide
I need serenity
Nothing changes, days go by

Where do we go when we just don't know
And how do we relight the flame when it's cold
Why do we dream when our thoughts mean nothing
And when will we learn to control

Where do we go when we just don't know
And how do we relight the flame when it's cold
Why do we dream when our thoughts mean nothing
And when will we learn to control

I need serenity [x4]


:guitar:

In 2003, Black Label Society, the band fronted by Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, released The Blessed Hellride, an album praised as their finest work. However, the bass slot was left open after Robert Trujillo, who played with both BLS and for Ozzy, departed to join Metallica. Subsequently, James Lomenzo replaced him on a more ongoing basis after former bassist Mike Inez briefly returned for a two-week tour.

The album featured some of their most popular tracks, including "Stillborn" and "Doomsday Jesus", as well as the ballad-y acoustic rock title track. "Doomsday Jesus" was featured on the soundtrack to the game MTX: Mototrax, but with altered lyrics. On "Stillborn", Ozzy even contributed vocals with Zakk.

Stillborn

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Blinded (Change to Blind Me)
Erase what was
Stillborn, I have become

The feelings I once felt are now dead and gone
I've waited here for you for so very long

So empty
Just a shell of a man
Stillborn, this I understand

The feelings I once felt are now dead and gone
I've waited here for you for so very long

[But], I've waited here for you, so long

[But], I've waited here for you… for you

The feelings I once felt are now dead and gone
I've waited here for you for so very long

[But], I've waited here for you… so long
[But], I've waited here for you… so long
[But], I've waited here for you… so long
I waited here for you … for you


Doomsday Jesus

kill your past and all you thought you knew
blacked out, hatred running through and through
horsemen rolls, tomorrow's fading fast
make damn sure, aint nothings gonna last
ohhh
ohhh
Doomsday Jesus we need you now
oooh
oooh
Doomsday Jesus we need you now

Souls that bleed have nowhere left to run
blind the crucifix and shoot the gun
generals speak, we leave a trail of dead
keep on killing 'til theres nothing left

ohhh
ohhh
Doomsday Jesus we need you now
oooh
oooh


The Blessed Hellride

break me down and roll me once again
got no time to think of now and then
catch my breath pick myself up off the floor
one more drink, a nervous breakdown, then another war
oh, you can never get too low,
when youre so damn high
oh, been out rolling
on the blessed hellride

Through the lines, aint no in betweens
Gardens of filth, the obscure and the obscene
catch my breath, pick myself up off the floor
one more drink, a nervous breakdown, then another war

oh, you can never get too low when you're so damn high
oh, been out rolling, on the blessed hellride
you can never get too low when youre so damn high,
on the blessed hellride

oh, you can never get too low when you're so damn high
oh, been out rolling, on the blessed hellride
you can never get too low when youre so damn high,


Stoned And Drunk

Disillusioned, pure confusion,
where I'm rolling, never never knowing
Walkin' minefields, all is surreal,
where I'm rolling, never never knowing
Walked out of my mind,
don't wanna find, whatevers left
Poppin' pills and drinkin' booze,
smokin' everyday
Stoned and drunk completely gone,
my world is here to stay

Ain't no silence, constant violence,
where I'm rolling, never never knowing
Demolition, crucifixion,
where I'm rolling, never never knowing

Walked out of my mind,
don't wanna find, whatevers left
Stoned and drunk completely gone,
my world is here to stay
Hide my fears and kill my doubts,
whatevers in my way
Poppin' pills and drinkin' booze,
smokin' everyday
Stoned and drunk completely gone,
my world is here to stay

Walked out of my mind,
don't wanna find, whatevers left
Stoned and drunk completely gone,
my world is here to stay
Hide my fears and kill my doubts,
whatevers in my way
Poppin' pills and drinkin' booze,
smokin' everyday
Stoned and drunk completely gone,
my world is here to stay

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

A Perfect Circle, the band fronted guitarist Billy Howerdel with Tool's Maynard Keenan on vocals returned with a new album for 2003, The Thirteenth Step, however, two members would not be returning: bassist Paz Lenchantin and guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen. Lechantin dropped out of APC when she decided to join Zwan, the short-lived group fronted by former Smashing Pumpkins vocalist/guitarist Billy Corgan, and Van Leeuwen left for Queens Of the Stone Age. Bassist Jeordie White, more infamously known as the former Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson's band, teamed up with A Perfect Circle, as did guitarist Danny Lohner, who briefly appeared on the album, but was replaced by former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha for the upcoming tour.

Interestingly, A Perfect Circle was on their way to becoming more famous in their own right while Tool was lying low preparing for their next album. Contrary to popular belief, A Perfect Circle was not a Maynard Keenan "side project", at least not in the sense that it was "his" band, but one started by guitarist Howerdel, who was a former guitar tech for Tool. Maynard just happened to be the singer. The album's title is a possible reference to Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Step Program, with the band alluding to a cryptic "thirteenth step". The album's songs dealt with themes of addiction, on some of the band's most popular tracks "Weak And Powerless", "The Outsider", and "Blue".

Weak And Powerless

Tilling my own grave to keep me level
Jam another dragon down the hole
Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren
One that pushes me along and leaves me so

Desperate and ravenous,
So weak and powerless over you

Someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of China
White as Dracula as I approach the bottom

Desperate and ravenous,
So weak and powerless over you

Pale angel go away
Come again some other day
The devil has my ear today
I'll never hear a word you say
Promised I would find a little solace
And some peace of mind
Whatever just as long as I don't feel so

Desperate and ravenous,
So weak and powerless

Desperate and ravenous,
So weak and powerless
Over you


The Outsider

Help me if you can,
It's just that this,
Is not the way I'm wired,
So could you please,
Help me understand why,
You've given in to all these reckless dark desires, you're
Lying to yourself again,
Suicidal imbecile,
Think about it,
You're pounding on a fault line,
What will it take to get it through to you, precious?
I’m over this
Why do you wanna throw it away like this,
Such a mess,
Why do I wanna watch you.


Disconnect and self destruct one bullet at a time,
What's your rush now?
Everyone will have his day to die

Medicated,
Drama queen,
Picture perfect numb belligerence,
Narcissistic,
Drama queen,
Craving fame and all its decadence

Lying through your teeth again,
Suicidal imbecile,
Think about it,
You're pounding on a fault line,
What will it take to get it through to you precious?
I'm over this, why do you want to throw it away like this?
Such a mess, Why do I wanna watch you?

Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet at a time,
What's your rush now?
Everyone will
Have
His
Day
To
Die

They were right about you
They were right about you

Lying to my face again,
Suicidal imbecile,
Think about it, you're pounding on a fault line,
What will it take to get through to you precious?
I’m over this
Why do you throw it away like this?

Such a mess,
I'm over this
Over this!

Disconnect
And self destruct,
One
Bullet
At a time
What's
Your
Hurry,
Everyone will
Have
His
Day
To
Die
If you choose to pull the trigger,
Should your drama prove sincere,
Do it somewhere
Far away from here


Blue

I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
Best to keep things in the shallow end
Cause I never quite learned how to swim

I just didn't want to know
Didn't want, didn't want,
Didn't want, didn't want

Close my eyes just to look at you
Taken by the seamless vision
I close my eyes,
Ignore the smoke,
Ignore the smoke

Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
While I just sit and stare at you

Because I don't want to know
I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
I just didn't want

Mistook their nods for an approval
Just ignore the smoke and smile

Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a perfect color for your eyes
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
While I just sit and stare at you

I don't want to know

:guitar:

The album cover was a little freaky. :eek: puke:

Rising Canadian post-grunge/alt-metal/whatever gods Nickelback released The Long Road in 2003. The album featured such tracks as "Someday", "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good", "Because Of You", "Figured You Out", "Throw Yourself Away", and "See You At the Show". One song, "Should've Listened", was covered by country singer Travis Tritt. The song "Figured You Out" drew a little controversy for its salacious subject matter. "Throw Yourself Away" was based on a true story of a girl at a prom who gave birth inside the restroom and disposed of her baby in trash bag. She was then arrested for homicide. According to lead singer Chad Kroeger in an interview, incidents like this occurred quite often.


But not as often as Nickelback being played round the clock on "rock" stations for the remainder of the decade. :rolleyes:

Someday

How the hell did we wind up like this
Why weren't we able
To see the signs that we missed
Try to turn the tables

I wished you'd unclench your fists, and unpack your suitcase
Lately there's been too much of this
But don't think it's too late

(Chorus)
Nothing's wrong
Just as long as you know that someday I will
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright
But not right now
I know you're wondering when
You're the only one who knows that
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright
But not right now
I know you're wondering when

Well I'd hope that since we're here anyway
That we could end up saying
Things we've always needed to say
So we could end up staying
Now the story's played out like this
Just like a paperback novel
Let's rewrite an ending that fits
Instead of a Hollywood horror

(Chorus)
Nothing's wrong
Just as long as you know that someday I will
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright
But not right now
I know you're wondering when
You're the only one who knows that
Someday, somehow
I'm gonna make it alright
But not right now
I know you're wondering when
You're the only one who knows that


Feelin' Way Too Damn Good
I Missed you so much that I begged you to fly here to see me
You must have broke down because you finally said that you would
But now that you're here I just feel like I'm constantly dreaming
Cause something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good

For forty-eight hours I don't think that we left my hotel room
Should show you the sights 'cause I'm sure that I said that I would
We gotta make love just one last time in the shower
Well Something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good

It's like everytime I turn around
I fall in love and find my heart face down
And where it lands is where it should
This time it's like the two of us should probably start to fight
Cause something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good

Sometimes I think best if left in the memory
It's better kept inside than left for good
Lookin' back each time they tried to tell me
Well something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good

It's like everytime I turn around
I fall in love and find my heart face down
And where it lands is where it should
This time it's like the two of us should probably start to fight
'Cause something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good, oh, oh
Feelin' way too damn good

I Missed you so much that I begged you to fly here to see me
You must have broke down because you finally said that you would
But now that you're here I just feel like I'm constantly dreaming
'Cause something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good

And it's like everytime I turn around
I fall in love and find my heart face down
And where it lands is where it should
This time it's like the two of us should probably start to fight
'Cause something's gotta go wrong 'cause I'm feelin' way too damn good, oh, oh
Feelin' way too damn good
(I missed you so much that i begged you to fly here and see me)
Feelin' way too damn good
(I missed you so much that i begged you to fly here and see me)


puke:

Figured You Out

I like your pants around your feet
And I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While your looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And I love the places that we go
And I love the people that you know
And I love the way you can't say no
to many long lines in a row
I love the powder on your nose

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)

I like the freckles on your chest
And I like the way you like me best
And I like the way you're not impressed
While you put me to the test
I like the white stains on your dress

And I love the way you pass the check
And I love the good times that you wreck
And I love your lack of self-respect
While you're passed out on the deck
I love my hands around your neck

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
(Why not before, you never tried)
(Gone for good, and this is it)

I like your pants around your feet
And I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While your looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And I hate the places that we go
And I hate the people that you know
And I hate the way you can't say no
to many long lines in a row
I hate the powder on your nose

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard, just to figure you out
(Now I did, you wonder why)
(Why not before, you never tried)
(Gone for good, and this is it)


Throw Yourself Away

Baby's born on the bathroom floor
The mother prays that it'll never cry
And nothing's wrong you got your prom dress on
When they ask you say it isn't mine

Oooh, you know they're gonna know you lied

Why the hell don't you throw yourself away
You know they're gonna burn it down
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you out
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you
Why the hell don't you throw yourself away
You know they're gonna burn it down

So keep the way you feel anonymous
And hide it all until the day you die
Your secret's safe at least you thought it was
But you can only keep it for a little while

Oooh, and now you're terrified

Why the hell don't you throw yourself away
You know they're gonna burn it down
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you out
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you
Why the hell don't you throw yourself away
You know they're gonna burn it down

Baby's born on the bathroom floor
Mother prays that it'll never cry
And nothing's wrong you got your prom dress on
And when they ask you say it isn't mine

And damn you for thinkin' we would never know
And damn you for thinkin' we would never mind
Only reason that you made it this far
You never asked Him but you never try

Why the hell don't you throw yourself away
Why the hell don't you blow yourself away
You know they're gonna burn it down
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you out
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you out
Wash my, hands of this
You notice how God ain't even helping you
Why the hell don't you throw yourself away
You know they're gonna burn it down


Because Of You

Hands on the mirror, can't get much clearer
Can't make this all go away
Now that you're bleeding you stare at the ceiling
Watch as it all fades away

From what you do, because of you
You know I can't be there
Each time that you call
I swore not to come, but I m here after all
I know by the look that I see in your eye
I won't stand around and I won't watch you die
From what you do

What you do, what you do
What's become of you?
What you do, what you do
What's become of...?

Now that you did this, you ask for forgiveness
Doctor could you be my priest
You say you're mistaken, but look what you've taken
You laugh as you lie through your teeth

From what you do, Because of you
You know I can't be there
Each time that you call
I swore not to come, but I m here after all
I know by the look that I see in your eye
I won't stand around and I won't watch you die
From what you do

What you do, what you do
What's become of you?
What you do, what you do
What's become of...?

From what you do...

Hands on the mirror, can't get much clearer
Can't make this all go away
Now that you're bleeding you stare at the ceiling
And watch as it all fades away

From what you do, Because of you
You know I can't be there
Each time that you call
I swore not to come, but I m here after all
I know by the look that I see in your eye
I won't stand around and I won't watch you die
From what you do

What you do, what you do
What's become of you?
What you do, what you do
What's become of...?
Because of you!!
Bacause of...


Should've Listened

There's clothes all over the floor
I don't remember them being here before
Smell of perfume isn't here
Why's lipstick on the mirror
And still I don't understand

No pictures left in the hall
There's three new holes in my wall
Where the hell's my credit cards
Why's my wallet in the yard
And still I don't understand

Well now I guess I should've listened
When you said you'd had enough
A little trick I picked up from my father
In one ear and out the other
Why's LOVE gotta be so tough

Should see the look on my face
My ****'s all over the place
Why's this happening to me
Why'd you take both sets of keys
And still I don't understand

Well now I guess I should've listened
When you said you'd had enough
A little trick I picked up from my father
In one ear and out the other
Why's LOVE gotta be so tough

And now I guess I should've listened

There's clothes all over my floor
I don't remember them being there before
There are no candles in here
Lipstick's still on my mirror
And still I don't understand

Now I guess I should've listened
When you said you'd had enough
A little trick I picked up from my father
In one ear and out the other
Why must LOVE be so tough

Well Now I guess I should've listened
When you said you'd had enough
A little trick I picked up from my father
In one ear and out the other
Why's LOVE gotta be so tough


:sleep2:

Nickelback were a pretty big concert draw that year as well:

While Nickelback was busy cranking out radio-friendly rock, a band of a different stripe was emerging with their own sound and a unique approach to songwriting: New York State's own Coheed and Cambria, a band which combined both alternative and pop-punk with progressive rock. Like other prog-rock bands such as Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, and Canada's Max Webster, no one in the band was named Coheed and Cambria. But the band was very reminescent of another prog-rock giant, Rush, in that the high-pitched-vocals of vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez, matched those of Geddy Lee. The comparisons did not end there, as the band's albums also wrote concept albums with an expanded storyline, much like Neil Peart's epic songs of old, over subsequent albums. At first, the band balked at the comparison's with Canada's prime power trio, not even having heard of Rush, but after hearing their albums, began to enjoy them immensely.
What was once a mortal enemy of punk-pop, the seemingly bloated and dated
prog-rock subgenre, was widely embraced by the band.

The band began in the mid-90's as the band Shabutie, but after a number of lineup changes, became Coheed and Cambria, with guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Michael Todd, and drummer Josh Eppard, in addition to Sanchez. In 2000, the band Shabutie released an album called 'Delirium Trigger', which was the inciting moment for
Sanchez' storyline of his two fictional characters named Coheed and Cambria,
in a sci-fi saga called The Bag.On.Line Adventures, later named 'The Armory Wars'. The band renamed themselves after the two characters, and began to record their albums as a continuing story in a musical series, as well as with a graphic novel and comic book. The Second Stage Turbine Blade, their debut album, was released in 2002, which featured Bad Brains guitarist Dr. Know guesting on one track. The fictional husband and wife team, Coheed and Cambria, are introduced on the album, which features an intriguing plot about Coheed having been infected with a serum which would enable him to destroy the universe:

Man and wife Coheed and Cambria are used as the centerpiece to enable Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhelm Ryan's attempt at destroying his archrival Mage, Mariah Antillarea. Due to a memory swiping years ago, the couple are led to believe that their former lives have now come back to haunt them. They’re told by General Mayo Deftinwolf (Ryan's Right hand) that they were long ago implanted with a great threat to Heaven’s Fence, The Monstar Virus. A virus with the ability to turn its host (Coheed) into a being powerful enough to drain the Keywork's energy sources to spark Armageddon, while their dear old counterpart, Inferno was given the only means to unlock it. Through more lies, they are led to believe their children have genetically acquired a mutated form of the virus, the Sinstar. This new strain only requires its host to mature to a certain age, and has no antidote unlike the Monstar. Their children cannot be saved and time will not side with them. Coheed and Cambria are faced with an unimaginable dilemma: to murder their own children or face Armageddon.

In addition to Rush, the band also was influenced by pop-punk act At the Drive-In as well as former Smiths vocalist Morrissey. The band was a huge hit on the Vans Warped Tour as well as with the alternative underground.
In 2003, the band released their followup, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, which continued the intriguing saga, and contained the popular track "A Favor House Atlantic". The plot continues as follows:

Ten years after the "…Turbine Blade", son Claudio emerges from the depths of Shylos Ten, the Fence's "quiet" planet where the Red Army performs its brutal interrogations and imprisonments. In finding out that his entire family has been murdered, Claudio begins his quest for vendetta. His foes, Supreme Tri Mage Wilhelm Ryan and General Mayo Deftinwolf sense that he is still alive and holds special powers. They know they must stop him before he defeats them. Meanwhile, Inferno (Jesse Kilgannon) takes up arms against the Red Army (“Man your Battlestations”) in an effort to seek the same kind of vengeance on him. In Claudio’s re-emergence he teams up with Ambellina, the Prise who is cast out by her peers and forced to be his guide. The pair along with Sizer, a disassembled IRO-bot, seek out Inferno to find answers as to why his family were killed, but their plans take an unexpected turn in a ship called the Velourium Camper, and a freighter pilot named Al.

Delirium Trigger

we're now up here alone, terror on the intercom, can someone save us?
systems malfunction, blast it this damn machine, over and out captain
something lurks, creeps on the counter top somewhere behind you
parasitic cyst i can't stand to watch it's coming up and out of your chest

remember when we were young
sit up right on the table a photograph of earth feeding me a way back
frightened i tear alone or maybe not the the only one there
hello... hello? when it rings will you answer?
there corner tall short stance
it's you come on kill me!!
you made a good friend to me but while you were outnumbered
and torn they made us do things...

oh dear god, i don't feel alive when you're cut short misery
will you pray it be the end? give a look surprise wide eyed to me
then you'll know just what i am the scare that triggers your fear
come know me in a different light now come know me as god

you made a good friend to me but while you were outnumbered
and torn they made us do things... to you...

run sand hourglass it's my time will i be worth?
spin 'round carousel when your horse isn't screwed in

oh dear god, i don't feel alive when you're cut short misery (raise forth lost cause)
will you pray it be the end? give a look surprise wide eyed to me (raise forth
lost cause)
then you'll know just what i am (subtle demise the legitimate cry)
the scare that triggers your fear come know me in a different light now
come know me as god (raise forth lost cause)

A Favor House Atlantic

your eyes tell the stories of a day you wish you could
recall the moments that once have
re-track the footsteps that brought us to this favor
i wouldn't ask this of you

good eye sniper
i shoot, you run

the words you scribbled on the walls
the loss of friends you didn't have
i'll call you when the time is right
are you in, or are you out
for them all to know the end of us all

run quick they're behind us
didn't think we'd ever make it
this close to safety in one piece
now you want to kill me
in the act of what could maybe
save us from sleep and what we are

good eye sniper
now i shoot, you run

the words you scribbled on the walls
the loss of friends you didn't have
i called you when the time is right
are you in or are you out
for them all to know the end of us all

bye, bye beautiful
don't bother to write
disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
face step let down, face step step down

the words you scribbled on the walls
the LOSS of friends you didn't have
i'll call you when the time is right
are you in or are you out
for them all to know

bye, bye beautiful
don't bother to write
disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
face step let down, face step step down

bye, bye beautiful
don't bother to write
disturbed by your words and they're calling all cars
face step let down, face step step down


Blood Red Summer

Faint white figures paint my sleep,
Please don't tell my secrets keep them hidden (you got it, you got it, you got it)
If the words that matter reach your face from the floor,
will you be wondering if, or (do I need what is given or honest)
Does it cost me scarring if the words stay true
even number your nephew (I don't want it , don't wan't it, don't want it anymore)

(Chorus: )
And when the answer that you want
Is in the question that you state
come what may
come what may
(Repeat)

In a pain that buckles in your knees
Could you stop this if I bleed (you got it, you got it, you got it)
So destined I am to walk among the dark
a child in keeping secrets from (Will they know what I've done in the after)
In the sought for matter when the words blame you
in a blood red summer I'll give you (I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want it)

(Chorus:)
And when the answer that you want
Is in the question that you state
come what may
come what may
(X2)

what did I do to deserve?
What did I do to deserve? (This, this)
(x2)

(ad-libbing)
wa oh wa ooooh
wa oh oh oh woah


what did I do to deserve?
What did I do to deserve? (This, this)
(x3)

What did I do to deserve
What did I do...

:guitar:

At the height of the band's popularity, Christian NU-metalers P.O.D. experienced a moment of upheaval when guitarist Marcos Curiel left the band to tend to his side project, The Accident Experiment, as well as due to "spiritual differences". Depending on who is to be believed, Curiel was fired rather than exiting the band of his own accord in the fall of 2002. Jason Truby, former guitarist of Christian thrash/death metal band Living Sacrifice. Jason debuted on P.O.D. performing "Sleeping Awake", from the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack.

Part of Curiel's ejection from the band had to do with the fact that he felt was not allowed to "be himself" at all times within the band, that he felt pressured to put on happy face and be "good guy" all the time even behind the scenes, as part of the band's "Christian" reputation. The band's management determined he was not "cutting it spiritually", and sent him an angry e-mail. When he consulted his bandmates, they told him by phone that not only was he out of the band, but that they had found a new guitarist. Muriel was shocked--this switch had been planned for a while without his knowledge. They first seemed enthusiastic about future projects, but he was unaware of what was really going on. But it was time to move on. His new project would have elements of his favorites, Black Sabbath, Rush, and Led Zeppelin all mixed in with a hint of prog. It would be more along the lines of Audioslave and sound nothing like P.O.D.

"As soon as I was out, they started talking stuff behind my back," he said. "It's very, very shady. I have friends defending me on the Web site, and every time they put something up in defense of me, it gets deleted. I'm like, 'What? This is not fair, dude.' ... Then I found out they had another guitar player already. I was like, 'Whoa, they've been plotting this for a long time.'"

Meanwhile, the band released their self-titled album in 2003, which saw a move away from NU-metal and more toward straight on rock and metal. It was a sure sign of the times that the NU-metal hysteria was dying down and people were ready to embrace something heavier, or at least not as trendy. The album's sales were disappointing due to the shakeup at Atlantic Records which left the band with poor promotion, though it did manage to sell at 500,000 units initially. Word of mouth helped propel further sales. The album yielded two singles, "Will You" and "Change the World". Christian guitar hero Phil Keaggy even made an appearance on the tracks "Revolution" and
"Eternal".

The album cover featured artwork by Latino artist Daniel Martin Diaz. While Diaz was a devout Roman Catholic, more controversy ensued when Christian bookstores refused to carry the album due to its "negative" themes. His artwork on the cover and inside the CD cover was full of Catholic imagery and symbolism, with more than a touch of mysticism. Was the Christian music industry really afraid of different expressions in art? Did it have to be so digestible to average consumers? :confused:

Will You

See you sitting next to the window in the bedroom
She breaks down (breaks down)
Crying over something and staring into nothing
Afraid now (hate now)
Wanting, needing, haunting
It's killing me
Faking what has happened to live the life like that man
I break down I (it's fake now)

Will you?
Will you love me tomorrow?
So Will You?
Will you stay with me today?

Fade in and out of reason to fight the way she's feeling
She breaks down (breaks down)
Going through the motions and holding on to hopes
And her dreams now (somehow)
Shaken, mistaken, forsaken
It's killing me
Wishing you could change, but he's always been this way
If you leave now (I'll drown)

Will you?
Will you love me tomorrow?
So Will You?
Will you stay with me today?
Will you?
Will you be here tomorrow?
Will you remember yesterday?

Yesterday! Yesterday! Yesterday! Yesterday!

This time I'm sorry
This time I'm sorry
This time this time, I'm sorry for this time
This time this time, I'm sorry
This time I'm sorry!

WWill you?
Will you love me tomorrow?
So Will You?
Will you stay with me today?
Will you?
Will you be here tomorrow?
Will you remember yesterday?

Will you[6x]
So will you
Will you[6x]


Change the World

Imagine a place only your soul can vision
The heart of a child who looks, sees and listens
She paints a picture using every color
And what she sees, she sees is like no other

[Chorus]
One word, a voice unheard
You can change the world
With everything I know you're made of
One word, a voice unheard
You can change the world
If everyone would stop and listen

The arts of innocence makes so much sense
But placed in the wrong hands, well then it's wasted
Filtered through the eyes of a pure mind
A one-of-a-kind paradise for you and I (You and I)

[Chorus]

Break the cycle, find your rhythm
Share the gift that you've been given

You can
You can change the world

You can
You can change the world
You can change the world

[Chorus (repeat)]


Sleeping Awake

Reveal to me the mysteries
Can you tell me what it means
Explain these motions in metaphors
Unlock these secrets in me
Describe the vision the meaning is missing
(Won't anybody listen?)
Define the riddles of my mind
Nothing is really what it seems

[Chorus]
Dreaming of Zion awake, sleeping awake
Dreaming of Zion awake, can't stop sleeping awake
Do you see what I see? Can u hear what I hear? Do you feel what I feel?
Can't stop sleeping awake
Do you see what I see? Can you hear what I hear? Do you feel like I feel?
Can't stop sleeping awake

Can you, see it, the writing
Can you tell me what it means
Translate the symbols enigma
Expressions keep questioning me
The message is written, the meaning is missing
(Won't any body listen?)
Prophecy interpreting the signs
Nothing is really what it seems

[Chorus]
Dreaming of Zion awake, sleeping awake
Dreaming of Zion awake, can't stop sleeping awake
Do you see what I see? Can u hear what I hear? Do you feel what I feel?
Can't stop sleeping awake
Do you see what I see? Can you hear what I hear? Do you feel like I feel?
Can't stop sleeping awake

Do you see what I see?
Can you hear what I hear?
Do you see what I see?
Can you hear what I hear?
Do you feel like I feel?
Can you dream like I dream?

Do you see what I see?
Can you hear what I hear?
Do you feel like I feel?
Do you dream like I dream?
Anybody see me? Anybody hear me? Anybody feel me?
Anybody out there?

[Chorus]
Dreaming of Zion awake, sleeping awake
Dreaming of Zion awake, can't stop sleeping awake
Do you see what I see? Can u hear what I hear? Do you feel what I feel?
Can't stop sleeping awake
Do you see what I see? Can you hear what I hear? Do you feel like I feel?
Can't stop sleeping awake

Anybody see me? Anybody hear me? Anybody feel me?
Anybody out there?

:guitar:


Marcos Curiel above; Truby below; band with Truby:

Also in 2003, Latino NU-metal act Ill Niño released Confession, which became their biggest release yet, hitting Gold status. Their hit "How Can I Live" was featured on the 'Freddy vs. Jason' soundtrack.

How Can I Live

I am so alike you in so many ways
I know I'm just a copy that carries on the stain

But we make the same mistake
Cuz we are one and the same
But we leave behind the stain
That cannot seperate

All that lies in me
All that dies in me
How can I live without you?
All that lies in me
All that dies in me
How can I live without you?

I am your mirror image of all you left behind
You made me what I am and who the hell am I?

But we make the same mistake
Cuz we are one and the same
But we leave behind the stain
That cannot seperate

All that lies in me
All that dies in me
How can I live without you?
All that lies in me
All that dies in me
How can I live without you?

Why, yo no entiendo porque
I know that our lives are the same
Y mi vida is just a guessing game
A dirty stain that I cannot play
But I follow your steps
In the same way that you just
Walked away and pushed away
The fact that I will not live

Do you think of me?
Do you dream of me?
I always dream about you
Do you think of me?
Do you dream of me?
I always dream about you

All that lies in me
All that dies in me
How can I live without you?
All that lies in me
All that dies in me
How can I live without you?


Have You Ever Felt?

Sometimes I feel like the world is looking over my shoulder
I don't know why but I feel my patience getting shorter

I don't want to know
I don't want to feel
I don't want to be
I don't want to sound crazy

I don't want to sound insane
But I can't take the pressure
Have you ever felt the same?
Like you just need to run away

I don't want to sound insane
But I can't take the pressure
Have you ever felt the same?
Like you just need to run away

Away

The tension builds but I feel the walls are getting thicker
And then I still make believe that I am feeling better

I don't want to know
I don't want to feel
I don't want to be
I don't want to sound crazy

I don't want to sound insane
But I can't take the pressure
Have you ever felt the same?
Like you just need to run away

I don't want to sound insane
But I can't take the pressure
Have you ever felt the same?
Like you just need to run away

Away

I don't want to sound insane
But I can't take the pressure
Have you ever felt the same?
Like you just need to run away

I don't want to sound insane
But I can't take the pressure
Have you ever felt the same?
Like you just need to run away

:guitar:

Of course, the growing list of emo/"screamo" bands that year would not be complete without Story Of the Year, a St. Louis act that released their first major album Page Avenue on the Maverick record label in 2003. Oh, that Madonna. (I.e., *Shewhobegatcandlebox*) Always trying to cash in on her trendy bucks. ohno:

The band formed under the name Big Blue Monkey in the mid-90's until they found out that a blues group already had the name in 2001. After switching to Story Of the Year, the band released 'Page Avenue', their big commercial debut which featured the hits "Until the Day I Die" and "Anthem of Our Dying Day".

A bizarre side note in the wake of the band's success: In 2004, the story was posted that the band got into a physical fight with members of Godsmack's road crew--and lost. The alleged reason for the brawl? The members of Godsmack were "jealous" of SOTY's performance. The police had no record of the event, no arrests, though pictures of the bloodied and bruised SOTY band members was posted on the band's web site. The members of Godsmack were not personally involved in the incident. SOTY eventually took the post down, possibly fearing legal reprisals, and replacing it with a note stating, "I took the Godsmack post down because we are going to ask them to go get some ice cream with us." :smash: :boxing: So what was the truth, anyway? :confused: Who cares??

Story Of the Year.....or Flavor of the Month? ohno:


Such pathos in the lyrics:

Until the Day I Die

Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you, for you
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you

As years go by
I race the clock with you
But if you died right now
You know that I'd die to
I'd die too

You remind me of the times
When I knew who I was (When I knew who I was)
But still the second hand will catch us
Like it always does.

We'll make the same mistakes
I'll Take the fall for you
I hope you need this now
cuz I know I still do.

Until the day I die (Until the day I die)
I'll spill my heart for you
Until the day I die (Until the day I die)
I'll spill my heart for you

Should I bite my tongue
Until blood soaks my shirt?
We'll never fall apart
so Tell me why this hurts so much

My hands are at your throat
And I think I hate you
But still we'll say, "remember when"
Just like we always do, just like we always do

Until the day I die (Until the day I die)
I'll spill my heart for you
Until the day I die (Until the day I die)
I'll spill my heart for you
Yeah I'd spill my heart!!!!!!
Yeah I'd spill my heart, for you!!!!!!!

My hands are at your throat
And I think I hate you
We made the same mistakes
mistakes like friends do,
my hands are at your throat
and I think I hate you
we made the same mistakes.

Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you, for you

Until the day I die (Until the day I die)
I'll spill my heart for you, for you
Until the day I die (Until the day I die)
I'll spill my heart for you

Until the day I die (Until the day I die)
Until the day I die!!!!!!


Anthem Of Our Dying Day

The stars will cry
The blackest tears tonight
And this is the moment that I live for
I can smell the ocean air
And here I am
Pouring my heart onto these rooftops
Just a ghost to the world
That's exactly...
Exactly what I need

From up here the city lights burn
Like a thousand miles of fire
And I'm here to sing this anthem
Of our dying day

For a second I wish the tide
Would swallow every inch of this city
As you gasp for air tonight
I'd scream this song right in your face
If you were here
I swear I won't miss a beat
Cause I never
Never have before

From up here the city lights burn
Like a thousand miles of fire
And I'm here to sing this anthem
Of our dying day

Of our dying day
Of our dying day
Of our dying!!!

For a second I wish the tide
Would swallow every inch of this city
As you gasp for air tonight!!

From up here these city lights burn
Like a thousand miles of fire
And I'm here to sing this anthem
Of our dying day
From up here the city lights burn
Like a thousand miles of fire
And I'm here to sing this anthem
Of our dying day
From up here the city lights burn
Like a thousand miles of fire
And I'm here to sing this anthem
Of our dying day

Our dying day
Of our dying!!!


And the Hero Will Drown

The night will come
and rip away
her wings of innocence through every word we sing.
Maybe it's time,
to spit out the core
of our rotting union
hopefully before...
It chokes
us to our senses.

Guess it's too bad
that everything we have
is taken away...

Swim in the smoke
the hero will drown
intoxicating beauty tears everything down.
But still our hands
bound at the wrist
this romantic tragedy is suffocating from...
Your fist
in a sea of fire.

Guess it's too bad
that everything we have
is taken away...

Guess it's too bad
that everything we have
is taken away...(taken away!)

(NOW!)

Hero, hero...
this word you'll never know...
Hero, hero...
this word you'll never know...
you'll never know.

Guess it's too bad
that everything we have
is taken away...(TAKEN AWAY!)

Guess it's too bad
that everything we have
is taken away...(TAKEN AWAY!)

Guess it's too bad
that everything we have
is taken away!

Guess it's too bad
that everything we have
is taken away...

Away, away, away...
They're taking it away.
Away, away, away...
I'm taking it away...

:guitar:

In 2003, at the opposite end of the musical spectrum, hardcore band Hatebreed released The Rise Of Brutality, which featured their first single, "This Is Now", a song and video whose success was no doubt helped by lead singer Jamey Jasta's hosting of the new Headbanger's Ball on MTV2, a show thankfully brought out of retirement from several years before. Few of the songs were over three minutes in length.

This Is Now

Another memory and I'm asking myself
How can I let the past be the past.
Once and for all take a hold of the future
And not let it control what I aspire to have.
I see where my decisions have brought me
What's done is done and it's time to start again
Can't let it tear me in two waste me away
I gotta believe
Cause this is now
How can I change tomorrow if I can't change today.
This is now
If I control myself I control my destiny.
What I've seen and what I've been through has made me who I am
There was a time in my life where I had no desire to carry on
I couldn't see a place for me or a will to survive
I never thought to rely on myself or the beliefs that I have denied
But this is now
How can I can change tomorrow if I can't change today
This is now
If I control myself I control my destiny
If I control myself I control my tomorrow
I got to change today
Cause this is now
How can I change tomorrow if I can't change today.
I must control myself if I 'm to control my destiny.
Cause this is now.
Cause this is now
How can I change tomorrow if I can't change today.
This is now
If I control myself I control my destiny


Straight To Your Face

Straight to your face with the truth
The longer it takes for you to achieve
The faster they want to see you break
It's in their nature to try to destroy
What they know they could not help create
I've seen it for years and I know first hand
Who is genuine and who is fake
The rest of the leeches will come and go
Good riddance, we hated you anyway
Straight to your face with the truth!
Sometimes it gets hard
When the road to the future take you back
To a better day, you wonder and ask yourself
Where the time went and why some people
Had lost their faith
Through some memories and the friendships we had over time have begun to fade
We're still right here and we're stronger than ever
What we've done can never be taken away

Live For This

Let's go!
Live for this, Live, Live
Live for this
Live for this, Live, Live
If you don't live for something, You'll die for nothing.
Through the best and the worst
The struggle and sacrifice.
For the true who've remained and the new blood.
Motivation, undying allegiance
Striving through the hardships and affliction.
Every drop of blood
Every bitter tear
Every bead of sweat
I live for this
Live for this, Live, Live
Live for this
Live for this, Live, Live
If you don't live for something you'll die for nothing.
What we have are not possessions we own
It's not weighed by greed or personal gain
This is real a desire for freedom.
A place apart from a world in abandon.
Every drop of blood
Every bitter tear
Every bead of sweat
I live for this
Live for this, Live, Live
If you don't live for something you'll die for nothing.
I live for this.
Every drop of blood
Every bitter tear
Every bead of sweat
I live for this

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

Slayer was nominated for a Grammy for the song "Disciple" on the 'God Hates Us All' album, but, not surprisingly, the judges, fearing unintentional connotations with the events of 9/11, gave the award to Tool song "Schism" instead. Slayer had more things with which to concern itself, as it went on tour in 2003 where they played their entire 'Reign In Blood' album in its entirety, all 29 minutes of pure thrashing excitement, a release considered one of the finest, most important metal albums of all time. In addition, the band also featured a bloody "rainstorm" as fake blood showered them and the audience from atop the stage! :cool: :rock:

The band released both a live DVD, War At the Warfield, recorded live at the Warfield Theater in Los Angeles, and a box set, Soundtrack To the Apocalypse, which came complete with sordid, assorted Slayer classics, previously unreleased material, and live concert footage on one disc. The box set contained other must-haves such as a backstage pass laminate, a wall banner, and a 60-page booklet full of pictures and text. The band searched through mountains of material they had stored over the years, and consulted with their record company as to what was to be considered to be the definitive "SLAYER" material. Their label decided to release it prior to the (un)holiday rush later that fall.

The track listing is as follows:

Disc One: (material from the mid-80's to early 90's)

"Angel of Death" – 4:50
"Criminally Insane (Remix)" – 3:07
"Postmortem" – 3:27
"Raining Blood" – 4:12
"Aggressive Perfector" – 2:28
"South of Heaven" – 4:45
"Silent Scream" – 3:05
"Live Undead" – 3:50
"Mandatory Suicide" – 4:04
"Spill the Blood" – 4:49
"War Ensemble" – 4:51
"Dead Skin Mask" – 5:16
"Hallowed Point" – 3:24
"Born of Fire" – 3:07
"Seasons in the Abyss" – 6:26
"Hell Awaits" (Live) – 6:49
"The Antichrist" (Live) – 3:11
"Chemical Warfare" (Live) – 5:25

Disc Two: (mid-90's to early 2000's)

Track listing:

"Sex. Murder. Art." – 1:50
"Dittohead" – 2:30
"Divine Intervention" – 5:32
"Serenity in Murder" – 2:36
"213" – 4:51
"Can't Stand You" – 1:27
"Ddamm" – 1:01
"Gemini" – 4:51
"Bitter Peace" – 4:31
"Death's Head" – 3:29
"Stain of Mind" – 3:24
"Disciple" – 3:35
"God Send Death" – 3:45
"New Faith" – 3:05
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Iron Butterfly) – 3:16
"Disorder" w/Ice T (Medley of 3 Exploited songs. Disorder, War & UK '82) – 4:56
"Memories of Tomorrow" (Suicidal Tendencies) – 0:53
"Human Disease" – 4:20
"Unguarded Instinct" – 3:44
"Wicked" – 6:03
"Addict" – 3:41
"Scarstruck" – 3:31


Disc three: S:censored: You've Never Heard (previously unreleased songs and demos):

Track listing
"Ice Titan" (Live) – 4:18
"The Antichrist" (Rehearsal) – 2:53
"Fight till Death" (Rehearsal) – 3:30
"Necrophiliac" (Live) – 5:00
"Piece by Piece" (Rough Mix)" – 2:13
"Raining Blood" (Live) – 3:09
"Angel Of Death" (Live)– 4:58
"Raining Blood" (Jeff Hanneman Home Recording) – 2:00
"South of Heaven" (Jeff Hanneman Home Recording) – 3:29
"Seasons in the Abyss" (Live) – 6:43
"Mandatory Suicide" (Live) – 3:59
"Mind Control" (Live) – 3:05
"No Remorse (I Wanna Die)" w/Atari Teenage Riot – 4:15
"Dittohead" (Live) – 3:03
"Sex, Murder, Art" (Live) – 2:22
"Bloodline" (Live) – 4:02
"Payback" (Live) – 6:39

Disc four: S:censored: You've Never Seen (DVD): (previously unreleased live footage from the early/mid-80's and at other points in the band's career)

[edit] Track listing
"Die by the Sword (Live)"
"Aggressive Perfector (Live)"
"Praise of Death (Live)"
"Haunting the Chapel (Live)"
"Necrophobic (Live)"
"Reborn (Live)"
"Jesus Saves" (Live)
"War Ensemble" (Live)
"South Of Heaven" (Live)
"Dead Skin Mask" (Live)
"Gemini" (Live)
"Kerrang! Magazine Awards '96: Heaviest Band Award"
"EPK for Diabolus in Musica"
"Stain of Mind"
"Bloodline" (Live)
"Disciple" (Live)
"God Send Death" (Live)

Disc five: Live at The Grove in Anaheim, CA, May 2, 2002 (Bloodpack, Deluxe Edition only)

Disc #5 was recorded live May 2, 2002 at The Grove in Anaheim, California.

Track listing
"Darkness of Christ" – 1:48
"Disciple (Live)" – 4:30
"War Ensemble (Live)" – 5:40
"Stain of Mind (Live)" – 3:59
"Postmortem (Live)" – 4:20
"Raining Blood" (Live) – 3:25
"Hell Awaits" (Live) – 7:14
"At Dawn They Sleep" (Live) – 7:44
"Dead Skin Mask" (Live) – 6:32
"Seasons In The Abyss" (Live) – 4:32
"Mandatory Suicide" (Live) – 5:13
"Chemical Warfare" (Live) – 7:00
"South Of Heaven" (Live) – 4:32
"Angel Of Death" (Live)– 6:18

Disciple

Drones since the dawn of time
Compelled to live your sheltered lives
Not once has anyone ever seen
Such a rise of pure hypocracy
I'll instigate I'll free your mind
I'll show you what I've known all this time

God Hates Us All, God Hates Us All
You know it's true God hates this place
You know it's true he hates this race

Homicide-Suicide
Hate heals, you should try it sometime
Strive for Peace with acts of war
The beauty of death we all adore
I have no faith distracting me
I know why your prayers will never be answered

God Hates Us All; God Hates Us All
He F***in' hates me

Pessimist, Terrorist targeting the next mark
Global chaos feeding on hysteria
Cut throat, slit your wrist, shoot you in the back fair game
Drug abuse, self abuse searching for the next high
Sounds a lot like hell is spreading all the time
I'm waiting for the day the whole world f***ing dies

I never said I wanted to be God's disciple
I'll never be the one to blindly follow

Man made virus infecting the world
Self-destruct human time bomb
What if there is no God would you think the f***in' same
Wasting your life in a leap of blind faith
Wake the f*** up can't ignore what I say
I got my own philosophy

I hate everyone equally
You can't tear that out of me
No segregation -separation
Just me in my world of enemies

I never said I wanted to be God's disciple
I'll never be the one to blindly follow
I'll never be the one to bear the cross-disciple

I reject this f***in' race
I despise this f***in' place

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

The merging of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, forming Audioslave, was not the only supergroup from 90's rock members that emerged onto the scene. Former members of Guns N' Roses, Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, joined together after attending a benefit concert for drummer Randy Castillo, who later died of cancer, in 2002. The band found they still shared the same goals and values--they wanted to bring back a total straight on rock band into the limelight. The former Gunners asked former G N' R guitarist Izzy Stradlin if he was interested in joining, but given his reticence to touring and possible drama with lead singers (thanks to Axl), he declined. Instead, the band recruited guitarist David Kushner, a veteran axeman who had played with the likes of with Wasted Youth, Suicidal Tendencies, The Infectious Grooves, and Dave Navarro. He had known Slash from school and had even worked with Duff McKagan before, so the guitarist seemed to be a logical fit. While they searched for and auditioned possible lead singers, they dubbed themselves simply "The Project". The band then settled on the name:


VELVET REVOLVER.

It was a decent name, it had that connection to Guns N' Roses: Something hard and dangerous, tempered with an image of an object soft and gentle--a perfect clever contrast, as was their previous band's name. VH-1 aired a show with the band members auditioning potential vocalists, 'VH1 Inside Out: The Rise of Velvet Revolver', and a large number of contenders showed up, including Buckcherry's Josh Todd, former Skid Row screamer Sebastian Bach, Kelly Shaefer of Atheist and Neurotica, Michael Matijevic of Steelheart, A. Jay Popoff of Lit, Myles Kennedy of Creed spinoff band Alter Bridge, and Travis Meeks of Days Of the New. Former Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton was also approached but declined. The one lead singer who liked what he heard from the band was Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland, who was finally chosen to front the new group. The lineup was now complete.

The band released their first track, "Set Me Free", for the movie 'The Incredible Hulk' in 2003, as well as a cover of Pink Floyd's "Money" for the movie 'The Italian Job', and played their first show at the El Ray that summer. But before the band could finish their first official debut album recording, there was a matter of Weiland appearing in court on drug charges and being ordered to undergo rehab. It seemed that Weiland's drug problems would follow him wherever he went.

Set Me Free

You operate and motivate on synthetic fuel
You're mother nature and an atom bomb
As long as you're kept full of pretty bodies
Your little secret will be safe with me

Around again
Insane again
It comes again
And sets me free

[Chorus:]
So set me free, set me free
'Cause I think you need my soul
Set me free, set me free

You're kept alive and polarized with one thing in mind
Metabolize everything that you see
But now and then or a little later
Now I'm gonna take you down with me

Around again
Insane again
She comes again
And sets me free

[Chorus x2]
So set me free, set me free
'Cause I think you need my soul
Set me free, set me free

[Bridge x2]
So take me down
Take me, down, down, down, down
Take me down, take me down

[Chorus x4]
So set me free, set me free
'Cause I think you need my soul
Set me free, set me free

My freedom!

That's a wrap!

:guitar: :guitar: :guitar:

Now that Scott Weiland had found a new home with another band, the remaining members decided to call it a day. The band decided to release a best-of album that fall titled simply Thank You, as a way of expressing its gratitude to fans' support over the past decade. The album featured the new radio hit "All In the Suit That You Wear", as well as a live acoustic version of their hit "Plush".

Fortunately, this would not be the last we would hear from the members of STP. :cool:

All In the Suit That You Wear

Hey you, someone said you were lost out there
In the grip, trying to strangle us all down here
In the meantime, are you ever gonna set us free
Hey you, will we ever get out of here?

Are you ever gonna surrender
do you even care
Wasn't talking about sweet submission
It wasn't even there

All in the suit that you wear
When you're looking for something
It's in the suit that you wear
when you're hiding from someone
All in the suit that you wear
When you wear it

Hey You, you keep a-walking the razor
On the edge, you cut your feet when you stand in there
In the meantime, there's always someone to set you free
Hey You, will you ever get out of there

Are you ever gonna surrender
do you even care
Wasn't talking about sweet submission
It wasn't even there

All in the suit that you wear
When you're looking for something
It's in the suit that you wear
when you're hiding from someone
All in the suit that you wear
When you wear it

In the suit that you wear
In the suit that you wear
In the suit that you wear
In the suit that you wear

All in the suit that you wear
When you're looking for something
It's in the suit that you wear
when you're hiding from someone
All in the suit that you wear
When you wear it

All in the suit that you wear
When you wear it

All in the suit that you wear
When you wear it

:guitar:

Jumping back to 2001 for a moment, Stone Temple Pilots did release one underrated gem, or perfect waste of vinyl, depending on whom you talk to, Shangri La Dee Da, where the band stepped away from their harder edged sound into a rather poppier direction. The album featured the standout
track, "Days Of the Week", as well as tunes with clever titles such as "Bi-Polar Bear". One track, "Too Cool Queenie", touches on the suicide of Kurt Cobain, and points the finger at Courtney Love as the person who pushed him over the edge with her constant badgering and hectoring.

Days Of the Week

Monday, back from the dead
I'm letting it go, back for another one
Tuesday, shoot me in the head
I'm takin' it back, takin' it back
It'll take it back

Wednesday, she's looking for a friend
She'll get what she wants
Can't seem to get enough
Thursday, it's more than I can stand
I'm holding her down, holding her down
She's down again

I've gotta find a way to find her
Where could she be?
Four days of the week she thinks I'm the enemy

One day, left me for the dead
Woke up on the floor, time for another one
Two days, she's leavin' me again, can't take it no more
Out through the open door

Three days, she's found herself a friend
She got what she wants
Still never get enough
Four days, she's back with me again
She's pullin' me down, pullin' me down
I'm down again

I've got to find a way to find her
Where she could be?
Four days of the week she thinks I'm the enemy

Monday's gone
Tuesday's fadin'
Wednesday's gone
Thursday's all but wasted now

Monday, back from the dead
I'm letting it go back for another one
Tuesday, shoot me in the head
I'm taking it back, taking it back
I'll take it back

I gotta find a way to find her
Where could she be?
Four days of the week she thinks I'm the enemy
thinks I'm the enemy


Bi-Polar Bear

So I'm letting it go again
I'm halfway full on
Left my meds on the sink today
My head will be racing by lunchtime

So I'm holding her hand again
My palm sweats
Hold on
Think I've had too much coffee
I'm manic as hell
But I'm goin' strong
Left my meds on the sink again
My head will be racing by lunchtime

Don't sleep behind the wheel at the stoplight
Can't sleep behind the wheel as you're drivin' home

You keep comin' down the hill as you're fallin'
You keep fallin' from the hill as you're comin' down


Too Cool Queenie

There was this girl
Who lived not too long ago
As a matter of fact I think
She lives still
She knew she could do no wrong
Just singin' those songs
That we all knew

She would always crash the party
It was no surprise
It was for her

Too Cool Queenie

There was this boy
He played in a rock-n-roll band
And he wasn't half-bad,
At saving the world
She said he could do no right
So he took his life
His story is true

It's ok cause what goes around, comes around
It's all right cause what goes around, comes around

And now this girl,
Yeah she got real famous
And she made lots of money and
Some of his too
But still she thinks she can do no wrong
Just playing those songs
She's all too cool

:guitar: :banana: :mango

In similar manner as STP, the Red Hot Chili Peppers stepped away from their heavier funk rock sound for a more ballad-esque poppier sound on their 2002 album By the Way. The album featured such tracks as "The Zephyr Song", "Can't Stop", "Universally Speaking", "Fortune Faded", "Dosed", and the title track. The album was their second release after guitarist John Frusciante's return from a devastating drug addiction that sent him out of the band. 1999's 'Californication' saw the band's triumphant return to form, and 'By the Way' did not disappoint, either--well, except for maybe a few fans who wanted something funkier. It was not as big a seller as their previous album, but it was good to see the whole band working, brimming with health and vitality, and creating new material.

The Zephyr Song

Can I get your hand to write on
Just a piece of leg to bite on
What a night to fly my kite on
Do you want to flash a light on
Take a look it’s on display - for you
Coming down no not today

Did you meet your fortune teller
Get it off with no propellor
Do it up it’s on with Stella
What a way to finally smell her
Pickin' up, but not too strong - for you
Take a piece and pass it on

Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We’ll find a place together
Fly on my wind

Rebel and a liberator
Find a way to be a skater
Rev it up to levitate her
Super friendly aviator
Take a look it’s on display - for you
Coming down no not today

Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We’ll find a place together
In the water where I center my emotion
All the world can pass me by
Fly away on my zephyr
We’ll find a place together

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa - do you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa - won’t you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We’ll find a place together

In the water where I center my emotion
All the world can pass me by
Fly away on my zephyr
We’re gonna live forever
Forever


Dosed

I got dosed by you and,
Closer than most to you and,
What am I supposed to do,
Take it away,
I never had it anyway,
Take it away,
And everything will be okay...

In you a star is born and,
You cut a perfect form and,
Someone forever warm,
Lay on, lay on, lay on, lay on,
Lay on, lay on, lay on, lay on...

Way upon the mountain where she died,
All I ever wanted was your life,
Deep inside the canyon I can't hide,
All I ever wanted was your life...

Show love with no remorse and,
Climb on to your seahorse and,
This ride is right on course,
This is the way,
I wanted it to be with you,
This is the way,
I knew that it would be with you,
Lay on, lay on, lay on, lay on,
Lay on, lay on, lay on, lay on...

Way upon the mountain where she died,
All I ever wanted was your life,
Deep inside the canyon I can't hide,
All I ever wanted was your life...

I got dosed by you and,
Closer than most to you and,
What am I supposed to do,
Take it away,
I never had it anyway,
Take it away,
And everything will be okay...

Way upon the mountain where she died,
All I ever wanted was your life,
Deep inside the canyon I can't hide,
All I ever wanted was your life...


Universally Speaking

I saw your face
Elegant and tired
Cut up from the chase
Still, i so admire
Bloodshot your smile
Delicate and wild
Forgive me, she was styled
Rip right through me

Silveretta the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her,
I got her on my mind
Nothing better,the feeling is so fine
Simply put, i saw your love stream flow

Come on, baby,'cause theres no name for
Give it up and i got what i came for
Universally speaking
I take it back and you make me nervous
Nothing better than love and service
Universally speaking
I win in the long run

I saw your crime
Dying to get high
Two of a kind
Beats all hands tonight

Silveretta the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her,
I got her on my mind
All the better, to make it is so fine
Simply put, i saw your love stream flow

Come on, baby, 'cause there's no name for
Give it up and i got what i came for
Universally speaking
I take it back and you make me nervous
Nothing better than love and service
Universally speaking
I win in the long run

Silveretta the jets of a lifetime
Go and get her,
I got her on my mind
Nothing better,the feeling is so fine
Simply put, i saw your love stream flow
Simply put, i saw your love stream flow

Let's go


By the Way

Standing in line to see the show tonight,
And there's a light on,
Heavy glow.
By the way I tried to say I'd be there,
Waiting for.
Dani the girl is singing songs to me,
Beneath the marquee,
Overload.

Steak knife.
Card Shark.
Con job.
Boot cut.

Skin that flick, she's such a little DJ.
Get there quick by street but not the freeway.
Turn that trick to make a little leeway.
Beat that nic but not the way that we play.

Dog town.
Blood bath.
Rib cage.
Soft tail.

Standing in line to see the show tonight,
And there's a light on,
Heavy glow.
By the way I tried to say I'd be there,
Waiting for.

Black jack.
Dope dick.
Pawn shop.
Quick pick.

Kiss that dyke, I know you want to hold one.
Not on strike, but I'm about to bowl one.
Bite that mic, I know you never stole one.
Girls that like a story so I told one.

Song bird.
Main line.
Cash back.
Hard top.

Standing in line to see the show tonight,
And there's a light on,
Heavy glow.
By the way I tried to say I'd be there,
Waiting for.
Dani the girl is singing songs to me,
Beneath the marquee... of her soul.

By the way I tried to say I'd be there,
Waiting for.

Ooh ahh, 'guess you never meant it
Ooh ahh, 'guess you never meant it
Ooh ahh, 'guess you never meant it
Ooh ahh, 'guess you never meant it
Ooh ahh, 'guess you never meant it
Ooh ahh, 'guess you never meant it
Ooh ahh, 'guess you never meant it
Ohh ahh.

Standing in line to see the show tonight,
And there's a light on,
Heavy glow.
By the way I tried to say I'd be there,
Waiting for.
Dani the girl is singing songs to me,
Beneath the marquee,
Of her soul.
By the way I tried to say i know you,
From before
Standing in line to see the show tonight,
And there's a light on,
Heavy glow.
By the way I tried to say I'd be there,
Waiting for.

Can't Stop

Can't stop addicted to the shin dig
Chow top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the westend
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth as some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meant
White heat is screaming in the jungle
Complete the motion if you stumble
Go ask the dust for any answers
Come back strong with 50 belly dancers

[Chorus:]
The world I love
The tears I drop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Ever wonder if it's all for you
The world I love
The trains I hop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Come and tell me when it's time to

Sweetheart is bleeding in the snowcone
So smart she's leading me to ozone
Music the great communicator
Use two sticks to make it in the nature
I'll get you into penetration
The gender of a generation
The birth of every other nation
Worth your weight the gold of meditation
This chapter's going to be a close one
Smoke rings I know your going to blow one
All on a spaceship persevering
Use my hands for everything but steering
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
Mop tops are happy when they feed you
J. Butterfly is in the treetop
Birds that blow the meaning into bebop

[Repeat Chorus]

Wait a minute I'm passing out
Win or lose just like you
Far more shocking
Than anything i ever knew
How about you
10 more reasons
Why i need somebody new just like you
Far more shocking than anything I ever knew
Right on cue

Can't stop addicted to the shin dig
Chow top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the westend
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth as some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meant

Kick start the golden generator
Sweet talk but don't intimidate her
Can't stop the gods from engineering
Feel no need for any interfering
Your image in the dictionary
This life is more than ordinary
Can I get 2 maybe even 3 of these
Coming from the space
To teach you of the Pleaides
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
This life is more than just a read thru


:guitar: :banana: :mango

The Red Hot Chili Peppers released Greatest Hits in 2003, which was their second best-of collection, the first being 'What Hits!?' released in 1992, which contained their 80's material. The album featured a new song titled
"Fortune Faded".

The tracks included:

"Under the Bridge" – 4:35 (from the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
"Give It Away" – 4:47 (from the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
"Californication" – 5:32 (from the album Californication)
"Scar Tissue" – 3:38 (from the album Californication)
"Soul to Squeeze" – 4:52 (from the soundtrack to Coneheads)
"Otherside" – 4:17 (from the album Californication)
"Suck My Kiss" – 3:38 (from the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
"By the Way" – 3:38 (from the album By the Way)
"Parallel Universe" – 4:31 (from the album Californication)
"Breaking the Girl" – 4:57 (from the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
"My Friends" – 4:11 (from the album One Hot Minute)
"Higher Ground" – 3:24 (from the album Mother's Milk)
"Universally Speaking" – 4:19 (from the album By the Way)
"Road Trippin'" – 3:28 (from the album Californication)
"Fortune Faded" – 3:23 (Previously Unreleased)
"Save the Population" – 4:07 (Previously Unreleased)


Fortune Faded

They say in chess you've got to kill the queen and then you've made it.
Oh I, do you
A funny thing, the king who gets himself assassinated.
Hey now, every time I lose
Attitude

You took a town by storm the mess you made was nominated.
Oh I, do you
Now put away your welcome soon you'll find you've overstayed it.
Hey now, every time I lose
Attitude

So divine
Hell of an Elevator
All the while my fortune faded
Never mind, the consequences of the crime this time my fortune faded.

The medicated state of mind
You'll find is overrated.
Oh I, do you
You saw it all come down and now it's time to imitate it.
Hey now, every time I lose.
Attitude

So divine
Hell of an Elevator
All the while my fortune faded
Never mind, the consequences of the crime this time my fortune faded.

Come on God do I seem bulletproof?
(Ooh)

So divine
Hell of an Elevator
All the while my fortune faded
Never mind, the consequences of the crime this time my fortune faded.

So divine
Hell of an Elevator
All the while my fortune faded
Never mind, the consequences of the crime this time my fortune faded.

:guitar: :banana: :mango

Masked metalers Mushroomhead released their second album, XIII, considered their first proper album with original studio material for a major label, also in 2003. The album featured the track "Sun Doesn't Rise", which appeared on the 'Freddy vs. Jason' soundtrack. The album contained the use of piano, which differentiated them from other similar techo/industrial metal bands.

The album was also the last to feature vocalist JMann, who left the band to tend to his ailing father. Guitarist Marko Vukcevich , known by his stage name Bronson, also left the band as well when his father, , scientist, inventor and famous chess expert, Dr. Milan Vukcevich, also died that year.

This may have already mentioned, but the band features a member whose name is Pig Benis. You can't go wrong when your bassist is named Pig Benis. :D Also, Jens Kidman of Meshuggah makes an appearance on the song "The Dream Is Over".

Quite the year for "masked" and make-up-wearing bands. First Slipknot (who accused the 'Shroomheads of "ripping them off" when in fact, they came long before the 'Knots), Mudvayne, Motograter, and now Mushroomhead, on their second release. That wouldn't kill the scene, would it? ;)

Sun Doesn't Rise


Some kind of evidence
Some kind of reason
Why I can't find a way
To begin my life

Somewhere in this dying day
If I could only find a way for my escape
I find it hard to concentrate with all my past mistakes

To begin my life

I can't feel my faith can't recall my crime
I think I sealed my fate along the way I may have lost my mind
I guess We're all damaged in our own way
Alone in our own way
Distant headlights desolate highway

Sun doesn't rise at all
Who knows how far I'll fall
Sun doesn't rise at all
Who knows how far I'll fall

With eyes wide open
Can't recall my crime I think I sealed my fate
I can watch my world evolve
Alone in our own way I think I sealed my fate
Nothing left to die for
Can't recall my crime I think I sealed my fate
Thoughts inside can make me crawl
I think I sealed my fate
Make me drop down on my knees
Break me down until I question me
Darkness can't destroy my drive

Sun doesn't rise at all
Who knows how far I'll fall
Sun doesn't rise at all
Welcome my downfall
Sun doesn't rise at all

Somewhere in this dying day as I plan my great escape
I find it hard to concentrate while you maintain control
I fold and falter empty altar all I gave I pray it makes me whole
I think the brinks around the corner and there's an error in my soul

I can't feel my faith can't recall my crime
I think I sealed my fate along the way I may have lost my mind
I guess We're all damaged in our own way
Alone in our own way
Distant headlights desolate highway

Sun doesn't rise at all
Who knows how far I'll fall
Sun doesn't rise at all
Who knows how far I'll fall

I can't feel my faith
Can't recall my crime
Damaged in our own way
Alone in our own way
Desolate Highway


Kill Tomorrow

Want to
We can if we want to
Lead you from behind you

Time will take it's toll re-evaluate
The leeches and the lepers start to salivate
Truth is impaired cannot moderate
Tension escalates you cannot tolerate
Make you want to fly
Blind is the ambition that will navigate
Default by design the virus infiltrates
Corrupted and coerced the silence penetrates
Echoing the void now disintegrate

If you feel sometimes we're falling
Like we're falling away
I would not blame you
While you flow through my veins
Well we pay the price we pay
Kill tomarrow yesterday

Want to
We can if we want to

Leave it all behind it's time to walk away
A predator has a tendency to stalk their prey
With the dawning of the sun awakes another day
Desires that's required to play another game
Make you want to fly
Blame will point it's finger shed some light on fault
Around these memories we will build our wall
Install instant karma start restoring all
Focus on the rise and ignore the fall

If you feel sometimes we're falling
Like we're falling away
I would not blame you
While you flow through my veins
Well we pay the price we pay
Kill tomarrow yesterday

Want to
We can if we want to
Lead you from behind you
Make you want to fly

Time will take it's toll re-evaluate
The leeches and the lepers start to salivate
Truth is impaired cannot moderate
Tension escalates you cannot tolerate
Make you want to fly
Blind is the ambition that will navigate
Default by design the virus infiltrates
Corrupted and coerced the silence penetrates
Echoing the void now disintegrate


Mother Machine Gun

Can we make progress - Have we learned our lesson
How can we take the test - Without the questions
The mind will play Pontius- The hearts the defendant
The soul is the conscience - You're the next contestant

Some how the greatest point comes without reason
Some how my made up mind acts without thinking right

Interrogate the truth until you hear what you like

Now I can't understand what keeps me going there is no master plan
Nothing to go on to grow on
Believe in - Everything leaves me cold
Too many promises - Not enough evidence of my soul

Interrogate the truth until you hear what you like
Nothing to go on to grow on
Not enough evidence
Somehow know where do I begin
Of my soul

Now I can't understand what keeps me going there is no master plan
Nothing to go on to grow on
Believe in - Everything leaves me cold
Too many promises - Not enough evidence of my soul now

Interrogate the truth until you hear what you like

Nothing to go on to grow on
Not enough evidence
Somehow know where do I begin
Interrogate the truth until you hear what you like
Nothing to go on to grow on believe in
Of my soul
Somehow know where do I begin

It's time to take the stand and defend your innocence
You can slip through the system by exploiting it's arrogance
It's time to take the stand and defend your innocence
You can slip through the system by exploiting it's arrogance

Not enough evidence of my soul
Not enough evidence
Interrogate the truth until you hear what you like
Of my soul
Somehow know where do I begin
Interrogate the truth until you hear what you like
Nothing to go on to grow on
Not enough evidence
Of my soul


The Dream Is Over

Betrayed - by my soul
The blame - placed on my shoulders
Weight - I will carry all the way to my grave
I cannot be saved abandoned is my faith
Awaken now the dream is over

Daylight breaks on a broken home (disconnect)
Stakes are high and the temple's gone (resurrect)
Rebuild this structure stone by stone (reinstate)
Overcome this overload (restrain)

Pain
Remains
This pain
Remains

Betrayed - by my soul
The blame - placed on my shoulders
Weight - I will carry all the way until I'm

Broken down and I'm on the run (defense)
From myself and the damage done (prevent)
Future falls and past mistakes (avoid)
Conflict calls and complicates (destroyed)

Pain
Remains
This pain
Remains

Rise up from the ashes rethink my beliefs
The world rusts on it's axis
As my heart pleads for relief
Need relief

Betrayed - by my soul
The blame - placed on my shoulders
Weight - I will carry all the way until the

Daylight breaks on a broken home (disconnect)
Stakes are high and the temple's gone (resurrect)
Rebuild this structure stone by stone (reinstate)
Overcome this overload (restrain)

Pain
Remains
This Pain
Remains

Betrayed - by my soul
The blame - placed on my shoulders
Weight - I will carry all the way to my grave
I cannot be saved abandoned is my faith
Awaken now the dream is over
Betrayed - by my soul
The blame - placed on my shoulders
Weight - I will carry all the way to my grave
I cannot be saved abandoned is my faith
Awaken now the dream is over

:rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:

One band we hadn't heard from for a while, Primus, reunited for another DVD/EP titled Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People. The DVD contained videos for many of the band's most popular tracks. Bassist Les Claypool explained that the album was rather a DVD happening to contain an EP of music, rather than the other way around. The band briefly toured a show consisting of two sets, the latter of which featured their breakthrough album, 1991's 'Sailing the Seas Of Cheese' in its entirety. The following year, the band would play their previous album 'Frizzle Fry' all the way through as well.

The DVD features:

Music videos:

"John the Fisherman" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Too Many Puppies" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" (from Sailing the Seas of Cheese)
"Tommy the Cat" (from Sailing the Seas of Cheese)
"My Name Is Mud" (from Pork Soda)
"DMV" (from Pork Soda)
"Mr. Krinkle" (from Pork Soda)
"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" (from Tales from the Punchbowl)
"Southbound Pachyderm" (from Tales from the Punchbowl)
"Shake Hands With Beef" (from The Brown Album)
"Over the Falls" (from The Brown Album)
"Lacquer Head" (from Antipop)
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (Charlie Daniels cover, from Rhinoplasty)

Live performances:

'Horrible Men' assortments of live clips
'Horrible Swill' assortments of live clips from the Brown Album era
"Southbound Pachyderm" (from Tales from the Punchbowl)
"Pudding Time" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Mr. Krinkle" (from Pork Soda)
"Groundhog's Day" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Duchess and the Proverbial Mind Spread" (from The Brown Album) (On some DVDs it is listed as "Kalamazoo live")
"Lacquer Head" (from Antipop)
"My Name Is Mud" (from Pork Soda) (Live at Woodstock 94)
"Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers" (from Sailing the Seas of Cheese) (Live at Woodstock 94)
"To Defy The Laws of Tradition" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Too Many Puppies" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Frizzle Fry" (from Frizzle Fry)

Track listing:

"The Carpenter and the Dainty Bride" - 6:35
"Pilcher's Squad" - 1:54
"Mary the Ice Cube" - 4:36
"The Last Superpower AKA Raspscallion" - 7:16
"My Friend Fats" - 7:55

Radiohead's 2003 album, Hail To the Thief, subtitled 'The Gloaming', saw the band return to its more alternative rock and guitarist based roots, after a series of keyboard and electronica-related releases. The album's songs were shorter, and though critics hailed the music, sales were moderate. The band felt that they rushed through the recording of the album, causing the music to suffer. But mistakes were part of the band's development, so they felt a little content about that. The album featured tracks with apparent subtitles, which are as follows:

"2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)" – 3:19
"Sit down. Stand up. (Snakes & Ladders.)" – 4:19
"Sail to the Moon. (Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky.)" – 4:18
"Backdrifts. (Honeymoon is Over.)" – 5:22
"Go to Sleep. (Little Man being Erased.)" – 3:21
"Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky is Falling in.)" – 4:29
"We suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.)" – 4:56
"The Gloaming. (Softly Open our Mouths in the Cold.)" – 3:32
"There there. (The Boney King of Nowhere.)" – 5:23
"I will. (No Man's Land.)" – 1:59
"A Punchup at a Wedding. (No no no no no no no no.)" – 4:57
"Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Executioner.)" – 3:52
"Scatterbrain. (As Dead as Leaves.)" – 3:21
"A Wolf at the Door. (It Girl. Rag Doll.)" – 3:23


Some listeners thought perhaps the title was a reference to the chant directed against President Bush and his perceived usurpation and takeover of
the presidential election in 2000, but guitarist Thom Yorke replied that that would have been a rather "shallow" basis by which to name an album.

2+2=5

(We're on. Thats a nice way to start Jonny)

Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes a five

I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April's showers
And two and two always makes a five

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can SCREAM and you can shout
It is too late now

Because...
You have not been!

Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
You have not been paying attention

Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
You have not been paying attention

Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
You have not been paying attention

Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention oohh

I try to sing along
But I get it all wrong
'Cause I’m not
'Cause I’m not

I swat 'em like flies but like flies the buggers keep coming back NOT
But I’m not

All hail to the thief
All hail to the thief

But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not

Don't question my authority or put me in the box
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not

Oh go and tell the king that the sky is falling in

When it's not
But it's not
But it's not
Maybe not
Maybe not


The Gloaming

Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers, you’re murderers
We are not the same as you
Genie let out of the bottle
Funny how, funny how

When the walls bend, when the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
When the walls bend, when the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
With your breathing

They will suck you down to the other side (x4)
To the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells

They should be ringing (x12)
This is the gloaming

Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
We're alarming
We're alarming

And the walls bend, and the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
And the walls bend, and the walls bend
What is he doin‘? what is he doin‘?
This is the gloaming (x4)
This is the

:guitar:

Below, goodies that came with the purchase of the album:

In one spectacular moment in pop culture history, a meeting of the minds, err--faces, occurred at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards show when two of the planet's trashiest tarts, Madonna and Britney Spears kissed each other, full on the mouth, apparently Frencho-style, during a performance of the former's song "Hollywood". Audiences and the press were stunned and wowed by the brief salivatory exchange where Madonna, dressed as a "groom" in black, locked lips with Brit, dressed as a bride in white. In addition, Madonna gave fellow "bride" Christina Aguilera a quick lipsmack. :kiss: :love:

The stunt, while being all provocative showbiz entertainment, was the first of its kind ever seen on television. Not since Ellen Degeneres' "coming-out" episode (nor the bisexual kiss between Muriel Hemingway and Roseanne on one 'Roseanne' episode) had such a display of seemingly homoerotic activity been aired in prime time. But make no mistake--as much as horny viewers were thrilled by the same-gender smoock by two of music's biggest female performers at the time, Ms. *Shewhobegatcandlebox* Material Mom was not exactly turned on by Britbrat's personal oral hygiene: she smelled of cigarette smoke!! puke: There were also reports of a behind-the-scenes war of words between Britney and Christina over the kiss as well. Oh well, as long as everyone was thoroughly entertained, that was all that mattered.

Madonna and Britney were in fact partners....in music, that is. Sorry, no salacious details of *extra-curricular* activities between the two are available. Mentoring Madonna, the Grande Dame of trash-pop, provided guest vocals on the track of her young charge Britney's "Me Against the Music". While Madonna maintained a professional relationship with Britney, she also mentored the younger twenty-something talent trollop in more spiritual pursuits as well: the study of Kabbalah, an ancient form of Jewish mysticism. Britney became a willing acolyte and began to fully practice it for the next few years before personal travails sidelined her interest in it. This apostacy from Madonna's fashionable religion deeply disappointed Ms. Goy Toy. After all the Kabbalah books and materials she had given Brit, this was how she repaid her? :snob:

So no face-sucking in the future? Nope....Just sucking musically.
:nod: :yeahthat:

Almost makes you forgive the Mad One for giving us Candlebox and destroying
all of popular music. Almost.

Now after watching the video segment after the world's most famous kiss, do you think that anyone is gonna CARE about that twirpy rapper who came on after that?? ohno:

Madge, Brit, and Xtina perform "Hollywood":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBR9juCEYI

Okay, the GOOD part, in slo-mo: :drool: :eyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S61Z1EYlhSE

When she wasn't brushing up on her facial inhaling skills on fellow celebutarts,
Madonna, aka *Shewhobegatcandlebox*, released her album, American Life, in 2003. While the album received mixed reviews for a more socially conscious point of view in her lyrics, she was heaped another mountain of criticism for her video for the song's hit title track, which featured scenes of war, carnage, explosions, and violence. The sex bit of her past vids was one thing, but this whole violent thing was another. It just didn't go well, in this peaceful day and age. Before the video was to air in Europe, she pulled it and submitted a family-friendly edited version, with images of her singing in front of flags of countries all over the world. But it didn't help her album sales, it only topped at #37 on the American charts, becoming the lowest selling album of her career, but did hit #2 on the UK charts.

In this time of America's life, anything considered critical of the country's foreign policy and the actions of its brave, Fearless Leader, was interpreted as "un-American" and "un-patriotic", and Madonna, America's (formerly)favorite Material Mom, was no exception. She was always one to go against the grain, such as with her sexual expression and shaking off expectations of gender and the like, whether because of her true beliefs about the rightness of her cause, or just generating controversy to sell. But in 2003, it was completely the unpardonable sin to speak ill of anything having to do with America, whether for good or bad, and Madonna, like so many other artists, had "crossed the line". Madonna explained that she decided to air the edited version so as not to offend viewers at this sensitive time in our nation's history. (Gee, Madonna, you're such a sell-out!! ohno) The video did do well in other countries which did not support the war in Iraq. Her social critique of America's actions in Central Asia contributed to her low sales (or maybe people were starting to find out that her music was not deserving of the hype after all.:D ). patriot:


So perhaps the VMA kiss was all in order to perk up sales? ;)


American Life

Do I have to change my name?
Will it get me far?
Should I lose some weight?
Am I gonna be a star?

I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl
I tried to be a mess, I tried to be the best
I guess I did it wrong, That's why I wrote this song
This type of modern life - Is it for me?
This type of modern life - Is it for free?

So I went in to a bar, looking for sympathy
A little company - I tried to find a friend
It's more easily said, it's always been the same
This type of modern life is not for me
This type of modern life is not for free

American life (American life)
I live the American dream (American dream)
You are the best thing I've seen
You are not just a dream (American life)

I tried to stay ahead, I tried to stay on top
I tried to play the part, but somehow I forgot
Just what I did it for and why I wanted more
This type of modern life - Is it for me?
This type of modern life - Is it for free?

Do I have to change my name? Will it get me far?
Should I lose some weight? Am I gonna be a star?

American life (American life)
I live the American dream (American dream)
You are the best thing I've seen
You are not just a dream (American life X2)

I tried to be a boy, tried to be a girl
tried to be a mess, tried to be the best
tried to find a friend, tried to stay ahead
I tried to stay on top ...



I'm drinking a Soy latte,
I get a double shotte,
It goes through my body,
And you know I'm satisfied
I drive my Mini Cooper
And I'm feeling super-dooper
Yo they tell I'm a trooper
And you know I'm satisfied
I do yoga and Pilates
And the room is full of hotties
So I'm checking out the bodies
And you know I'm satisfied
I'm digging on the isotopes
This metaphysics s*** is dope
And if all this can give me hope
You know I'm satisfied
I got a lawyer and a manager
An agent and a chef
Three nannies, an assistant
And a driver and a jet
A trainer and a butler
And a bodyguard or five
A gardener and a stylist
Do you think I'm satisfied?
I'd like to express my extreme point of view
I'm not Christian and I'm not a Jew
I'm just living out the American dream
And I just realised that nothing
Is what it seems

Do I have to change my name
Am I gonna be a star
Do I have to change my name


Madonna sang this song for the James Bond movie of the same name:

Die Another Day

I'm gonna wake up, yes and no
I'm gonna kiss, some part of
I'm gonna keep this secret
I'm gonna close my body now

I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day, another day
I guess I'll die another day, another day
I guess I'll die another day, another day
I guess I'll die another day

Sigmund Freud
Analyse this
Analyse this
Analyse this, this, this….

I'm gonna break the cycle
I'm gonna shake up the system
I'm gonna destroy my ego
I'm gonna close my body now

I think I'll find another way
There's so much more to know
I guess I'll die another day
It's not my time to go

For every sin, I'll have to pay
I've come to work, I've come to play
I think I'll find another way
It's not my time to go

I'm gonna avoid the cliché
I'm gonna suspend my senses
I'm gonna delay my pleasure
I'm gonna close my body now

I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day


I think I'll find another way
There's so much more to know
I guess I'll die another day
It's not my time to go


(2x's)
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess I'll die another day

Another Day
Another Day
Another Day
Another Day
Another Day
Another Day
Another Day


Hollywood

Everybody comes to Hollywood
They wanna make it in the neighborhood
They like the smell of it in Hollywood
How could it hurt you when it looks so good

Chorus:
Shine your light now
This time it's gotta be good
You get it right now
'Cause you're in Hollywood

There's something in the air in Hollywood
The sun is shinin' like you knew it would
You're ridin' in your car in Hollywood
You got the top down and it feels so good

Everybody comes to Hollywood
They wanna make it in the neighborhood
They like the smell of it in Hollywood
How could it hurt you when it looks so good

I lost my memory in Hollywood
I've had a million visions, bad and good
There's something in the air in Hollywood
I tried to leave it but I never could

(chorus)

Music stations always play the same songs
I'm bored with the concept of right and wrong

Everybody comes to Hollywood
They wanna make it in the neighborhood
They like the smell of it in Hollywood
How could it hurt you when it looks so good

(chorus)

'Cause you're in Hollywood
'Cause you're in Hollywood
In Hollywood (repeat three times)

Check it out, this bird has flown

(chorus)

'Cause you're in Hollywood
'Cause you're in Hollywood
In Hollywood (repeat three times)

Push the button
Don't push the button
Trip the station
Change the channel
(repeat three times)

:banana: :mango

American Life (uncensored version). In it. she makes her point that war is fashionable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Mw156D1CY

American Life (edited version):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55xDxaXw5E



Wow, doesn't the cover look like those old radical Che-ccone Guavara posters? ;) peace:

In 2002, Madonna acted in a movie directed by her husband Guy Ritchie, 'Swept Away, a desert island castaway love affair flick. The movie bombed so badly that Madonna insisted she would never act in another film.


Promises, promises. ohno: ;)

[Madonna's] social critique of America's actions in Central Asia contributed to her low sales (or maybe people were starting to find out that her music was not deserving of the hype after all.:D ). patriot:


So perhaps the VMA kiss was all in order to perk up sales? ;)



Of course, after Bush was elected to a second term, Madge didn't care about politics anymore and regressed to her 1985 persona, thus - alas - saved her career. We'll get to 2005 later.

Andyes, she is satified. Her wealth allows to live high on the hog in London well her fellow native Detroiters compete with their own kids for low-wage jobs at Wal-Mart.

From a putative British solo peformer (the U.K. can have her!) to a real British band. . . .

Belle and Sebastian - as in the Marshall Tucker Band, the band's name doesn't refer to any group members - are a Scottish pop-rock band known for witty lyrics and and deceptively light pop-rock arrangements. They became a favorite band of white people who hated hip-hop and still wanted to be, well, hip.

In 2003, Belle and Sebastian released Dear Catastrophe Waitress, a delectable album that included "Step Into My Office, Baby," a clever song equating office politics with sexual politics. ;)

Step Into My Office, Baby - Belle and Sebastian

She called me up today
Meet me down at the old café
I jumped into the shower
I was getting my marching orders

We need to talk
Step into my office, baby
I want to give you the job
A chance of overtime
Say, my place at nine?

She gave me some dictation
But my strength is in administration
I took down all she said
I even took down her little red dress

We need to talk
Step into my office, baby
I’m going to give you the job
I’m pushing for a raise
I’ve been pushing now for days

I’m a slave to work
I’m only living when I walk amongst the office staff
And catch up with the office wag
I’ll be in bed by nine
My curtains drawn
My thoughts composed
I get to work on time

She’d never stand for any lies
She’s got an Out Tray full of guys
I could sense a breath, a whole new feeling
Now she says she wants to call a meeting

I’ve got to change my ways
Dress for business every day
A smart suit and a kipper tie
A big arrow pointing to my fly

We need to talk
Step into my office, baby
I want to give you the job
A chance of better pay
Can you start today?

My output is in decline
I was burned out after Thatcher
My banner I laid down with a sigh
Now I doubt if I’ll ever catch her

We need to talk
Step into my office, baby
I want to give you the job
A chance of overtime
Say, my place at nine? ;)

One band we hadn't heard from for a while, Primus, reunited for another DVD/EP titled Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People. The DVD contained videos for many of the band's most popular tracks. Bassist Les Claypool explained that the album was rather a DVD happening to contain an EP of music, rather than the other way around. The band briefly toured a show consisting of two sets, the latter of which featured their breakthrough album, 1991's 'Sailing the Seas Of Cheese' in its entirety. The following year, the band would play their previous album 'Frizzle Fry' all the way through as well.

The DVD features:

Music videos:

"John the Fisherman" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Too Many Puppies" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" (from Sailing the Seas of Cheese)
"Tommy the Cat" (from Sailing the Seas of Cheese)
"My Name Is Mud" (from Pork Soda)
"DMV" (from Pork Soda)
"Mr. Krinkle" (from Pork Soda)
"Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" (from Tales from the Punchbowl)
"Southbound Pachyderm" (from Tales from the Punchbowl)
"Shake Hands With Beef" (from The Brown Album)
"Over the Falls" (from The Brown Album)
"Lacquer Head" (from Antipop)
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (Charlie Daniels cover, from Rhinoplasty)

Live performances:

'Horrible Men' assortments of live clips
'Horrible Swill' assortments of live clips from the Brown Album era
"Southbound Pachyderm" (from Tales from the Punchbowl)
"Pudding Time" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Mr. Krinkle" (from Pork Soda)
"Groundhog's Day" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Duchess and the Proverbial Mind Spread" (from The Brown Album) (On some DVDs it is listed as "Kalamazoo live")
"Lacquer Head" (from Antipop)
"My Name Is Mud" (from Pork Soda) (Live at Woodstock 94)
"Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers" (from Sailing the Seas of Cheese) (Live at Woodstock 94)
"To Defy The Laws of Tradition" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Too Many Puppies" (from Frizzle Fry)
"Frizzle Fry" (from Frizzle Fry)

Track listing:

"The Carpenter and the Dainty Bride" - 6:35
"Pilcher's Squad" - 1:54
"Mary the Ice Cube" - 4:36
"The Last Superpower AKA Raspscallion" - 7:16
"My Friend Fats" - 7:55
That album cover's what I call mouthing off

In 2003, Britney Spears also released a new album, In the Zone, which moved away from the production of Max Martin and her traditional synthpop dance music, and hooked up instead with major names such as Moby, R. Kelly,
and Red Zone. She wrote most of the album's songs herself, including the tracks, "Me Against the Music", "Everytime", and "Toxic". In spite of the album having the distinction of making Britney the first female performer in music history to have all four albums debut at #1, the disk received tepid, if not harsh reviews by critics. It was far too much for some to think of Britney as maturing as a young woman when she was everyone's delectable schoolgirl sexpot only a year or so before. According to a reviewer in Stylus magazine, who gave her album a D rating, "Ultimately, In the Zone suffers greatly from Britney's uneasy transition from teen tart to sexually powerful woman. Had Britney been in charge of her career direction instead of mercilessly prostituted by her management, she might have been able to produce something with some semblance of musical vision." Other critics were more gracious in their praise in that the album ran the gamut of various contemporary dance music styles and had a solid selection of hits.

Spears would promote the album on her upcoming Onyx Hotel tour in the following year.

Me Against the Music
with Madonna on guest vocals

All my people in the crowd, grab a partner take it down.


B: It's me against the music
M: uh uh
B: It's just me
M: And me
B: Yeah
M: C'mon

M: Hey Britney
B: Are you ready?
M: uh huh, are you?
B: uh!

*sung*
B&M: And no one cares
B: It's whippin' my hair, it's pullin' my waist
B&M: To hell with stares
B: The sweat is drippin' all over my face
B&M: And no one's there
B: We're the only ones dancin' up in this place
B&M: Tonight I'm here
B: Feel the beat of the drum, gotta get with that bass.

B: I'm up against the speaker, tryin' to take on the music. It's like a competition, me against the beat. I wanna get in a zone, I wanna get in a zone. If you really wanna battle, saddle up and get your rhythm. Tryin' to hit it, chic-a-taa
B: In a minute I'm a take you on, I'm a take you on
Hey, hey, hey

CHORUS

B&M: All my people on the floor
B: Let me see you dance
M: Let me see ya
B&M: All my people wantin´ more
B: Let me see you dance
M: I wanna see ya
B&M: All my people round and round
B: Let me see you dance
M: Let me see ya
B&M: All my people in the crowd
B: Let me see you dance
M: I wanna see ya

B&M: How would you like a friendly competition. Let's take on this song. M: Let's take on this song. Let's take on this song.
B&M: It's you and me baby, we're the music. Time to party all night long.
M: All night long.
B: All night long.
M: Gee, lets go!

B&M: We're almost there
B: I'm feelin' it bad and I can't explain
B&M: My soul is bare
B: My hips are movin' at a rapid pace
B&M: Baby feel it burn
B: From the tip of my toes, runnin' through my veins
B&M: And now's your turn
B: Let me see what you've got. Don't hesitate.

B: I'm up against the speaker, tryin' to take on the music. It's like a competition, me against the beat. I wanna get in a zone, I wanna get in a zone. If you really wanna battle, saddle up and get your rhythm. Tryin' to hit it, chic-a-taa. In a minute I'm a take you on, I'm a take you on
Hey, hey, hey


CHORUS

B&M: Get on the floor, baby lose control
M: Yeah.
B&M: Just work your body and let it go
B&M: If you wanna party, just grab somebody
B&M: Hey Britney
B&M: We can dance all night long

M: Hey Britney, you say you wanna lose control. Come over here I got somethin´ to show ya. Sexy lady, I'd rather see you bare your soul. If you think you're so hot, better show me what you got. All my people in the crowd, let me see you dance. C'mon Britney lose control, watch you take it down.

B&M: Get on the floor, baby lose control. Just work your body and let it go. If you wanna party, just grab somebody. Hey Britney, we can dance all night long

CHORUS

M: All my people in the crowd, let me see you dance. C'mon Britney take it down, make the music last. All my people round and round, party all night long. C'mon Britney lose control, watch you take it down.


Toxic

Baby, can't you see, I'm calling
A guy like you should wear a warnin'
It's dangerous, I'm fallin'

There's no escape, I can't wait
I need a hit, baby give me it
You're dangerous, I'm lovin' it

[Bridge:]
Too high, can't come down
Losing my head,
Spinning 'round and 'round
Do you feel me now?

[Chorus:]
With a taste of your lips, I'm on a ride
You're toxic, I'm slippin' under
taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?
And I love what you do
Don't you know that you're toxic?

It's getting late to give you up
I took a sip from my devil's cup
slowly, It's taking over me

[Bridge]
Too high, can't come down
It's in the air and it's all around
Can you feel me now?

[Chorus:]
With a taste of your lips, I'm on a ride
You're toxic, I'm slippin' under
Taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?
And I love what you do
Don't you know that you're toxic?
Don't you know that you're toxic?

(Taste of your lips I'm on a ride)
You're toxic, I'm slippin' under
taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?

With a taste of your lips, I'm on a ride
You're toxic, I'm slippin' under (Toxic)
taste of a poison paradise
I'm addicted to you
Don't you know that you're toxic?

Intoxicate me now
With your lovin' now
I think I'm ready now
(I think I'm ready now)
Intoxicate me now
With your lovin' now
I think I'm ready now.


Everytime

Notice me
Take my hand
Why are we, Strangers when, Our love is strong?
Why carry on
Without me?

Everytime I try
To fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see
You in my dreams
I see your face
It's haunting me
I guess I need you baby

I make believe
That you are here
It's the only way
I see clear
What have I done?
You seem to move on easy

n' everytime I try
To fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see
You in my dreams
I see your face
You're haunting me
I guess I need you baby

I may have made it rain
Please forgive me
My weakness caused you pain
And this song's my sorry
Oooh...

At night I pray
That soon your face will fade away

And Everytime I try
To fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see
You in my dreams
I see your face
You're haunting me
I guess I need you baby

:banana: :mango

'American Idol' returned for its second season in early 2003 with a new list of names and hopefuls, a few of them would become legendary:

Season 2 (2003)

Clay Aiken, the very popular runnerup --May 21

Kimberley Locke May 14

Joshua Gracin May 7, who, though he became a fourth-place runnerup, began a successful career in country music the following year

Trenyce April 30

Carmen Rasmusen April 23, who also made a successful career in music

Kimberly Caldwell April 16

Rickey Smith April 9

Corey Clark, who was disqualified during that time for not revealing that he had a police record, and would later end up in controversy, allegedly for having an affair with one of the judges, former dance diva Paula Abdul --April 2

Julia DeMato March 26

Charles Grigsby March 19

Vanessa Olivarez

and the winner: Ruben Studdard

One contestant, Frenchie Davis, was disqualified from the competiition when nude photos of her surfaced on the internet. Shades of Vanessa Williams, anyone? ;)

Clay Aiken, while not the big winner on the second season , was the contestant who created the biggest buzz on the show for a long while. With his chummy looks and spikey cropped hair, he was one of the most recognizable faces on the program--as well as for, of course, his talent (I wouldn't know, Mr. ABlairican Metal Dude never watched him nor the show).

Born Clayton Holmes Grissom in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1978, young Clay sang at churches and local productions, developing a reputation as quite the singing prodigy, and continued his performances while at college. During his stint as a tutor for a child with autism, he was urged to auditon for American Idol. When he first came to the judges' attention, they admittedly thought he
was too "nerdy" looking to be a serious contender--until they heard him sing a version of 70's disco band Heatwave's "Always And Forever". They were impressed enough by his performance to have him advance to the second round. At times it looked certain that he would not succeed after a number of rounds, but he managed to come back and hold on. Part of what helped his chances was that he underwent a radical transformation--"I looked like Opie!', he remarked of his initial outing--hair stylists and fashion consultants made him over with a new hairdo and striped shirts, as well as replacing his glasses with contact lenses. A total "geek to chic" metamorphosis. After covering such songs as Elton John's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" and The Foundation's "Buttercup", he moved up in ranks to become an audience favorite.

Though he lost to Ruben Studdard by a very close count, he became immersed in a whirlwind of fame--he was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone that year. In the cover story, he commented, "One thing I've found of people in the public eye, either you're a womanizer or you've got to be gay. Since I'm neither one of those, people are completely concerned about me." Perhaps it was his "geeky" charm that gave some the idea that he was somehow "gay", not fitting in macho stereotypes. In a later issue People magazine, he vented his frustration about constant questions and queries (no pun intended) about his perceived sexual orientation. "It doesn't matter what I say. People are going to believe what they want."


All well and fine, but he loses points with me when he said in an interview that he hated cats. :mad:

:cat: :kitties: :cat: :kitties: :cat: :kitties: :cat:

In the fall of 2003, Clay Aiken released his debut album, Measure Of a Man, several months after the second season of American Idol had finished. The album debuted at #1 on the "Billboard 200" and was, with 613,000 copies sold in its first week, the highest-selling debut for a male solo artist since Snoop Dogg's "Doggystyle" in December 1993. It received RIAA Double Platinum certification November 17, 2003.

'Measure Of a Man' wasthe highest-selling debut for a solo artist in 10 years, and to date the highest debut of any Idol. The album received RIAA Double Platinum certification November 17, 2003 (Producer/RCA head CEO Clive Davis presented a Double Platinum plaque to Aiken by on October 22, 2003, during Good Morning America--when the album had sold the astonishing number above after only one week, beginning on its release date of October 13). The album spawned both the hit single "Invisible" and his first hit song, "This Is the Night". Later that year, Aiken won the Fan's Choice Award at the American Music Awards ceremony, and his CD single "This Is the Night/Bridge Over Troubled Water" won the Billboard award for the Best-Selling Single of 2003.

Invisible

What are you doing tonight
I wish I could be a fly on your wall
Are you really alone
Who's stealing your dreams
Why can't I bring you into my life
What would it take to make you see that I'm alive

[Chorus]

If I was invisible
Then I could just watch you in your room
If I was invincible
I'd make you mine tonight
If hearts were unbreakable
Then I could just tell you where I stand
I would be the smartest man
If I was invisible
(Wait...I already am)

Saw your face in the crowd
I call out your name
You don't hear a sound
I keep tracing your steps
Each move that you make
Wish I could read what goes through your mind
Wish you could touch me with the colors of your life

[Chorus]

Reach out
But you don't even see me
Even when I scream out
Baby, you don't hear me
I am nothing without you
Just a shadow passing through

[Chorus]


This Is the Night

When the world wasn't upside down
I could take all the time I had
But I'm not gonna wait
When a moment can vanish so fast
’Cause every kiss is a kiss you can never get back

Lift me up
In your eyes
If you told me that is what heaven is
Well, you'd be right
I've been waiting forever for this
This is the night

When the answer to all my dreams
Is as close as a touch away
Why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?

Lift me up
In your arms
If you told me that is what heaven is
Well, you'd be right
Hold me close
To your heart
I would go with you to the ends of the Earth and we'll fly
I've been waiting forever for this
This is the night

This is the night where we capture forever
And all our tomorrows begin
After tonight we will never be lonely again

Lift me up
In your arms
If you told me that is what heaven is
Well, you'd be right
Hold me close
To your heart
I would go with you to the ends of the Earth and we'll fly
I've been waiting forever for this
This is the night


Wasn't there a Clay Aiken smiley around a while back? :confused:

The big winner on American Idol's second season, Ruben Studdard, was lucky enough to have a Ruben Studdard Day declared by Alabama Governor Bob Riley of his hometown state on March 11, 2003, in his honor. :cool: party:

Studdard was born in Frankfort, Germany, in 1978 while his father was stationed overseas in the U.S. army. He was a lifelong native of Birmingham, Alabama, where he began singing for his local church at the age of three, and grew up listening to his mother's albums by top r & b and gospel artists, including Donny Hathaway. After winning a football scholarship to Alabama A & M, he began to pursue his musical goals in earnest. He graduated from college in 2000, then joined a jazz/r & b group called Just a Few Cats, from Birmingham. "A lot of people don't realize how hard I was trying to get into the business before American Idol," Studdard related several years later. "I was making demos and just working so hard." A back-up singer from Just a Few Cats asked him to accompany her to Nashville, Tennessee for an audition on the 2003 second season of American Idol.

When auditioning, Studdard sang Stevie Wonder's "Ribbon in the Sky." This guided him to being one of the local finalists. On American Idol, he impressed viewers with his performances of the Leon Russell/Bonnie Bramlett song "Superstar" (originally a hit for The Carpenters and Luther Vandross) and the Peabo Bryson/Regina Belle duet "A Whole New World"; during his time on the show, Studdard received praise from music legends such as Lionel Richie, Neil Sedaka, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, Luther Vandross, and Gladys Knight.

During the televised competition, Studdard gained the nickname "Velvet Teddy Bear" and was noted for his shirts printed with "205", the telephone area code of his hometown of Birmingham. Studdard also did a cover version of "For All We Know", originally recorded by Donny Hathaway. He won the contest over runner-up Clay Aiken by only 134,000 votes out of 24,000,000 cast in the May 2003 finale, becoming the second American Idol winner and the first and only male to hold that title until 2006, when fellow Birmingham native Taylor Hicks won Idol's season five.

Ruben Studdard released his debut album, Soulful, in the fall of 2003, which was preceded by his first single, his first single, a cover of Westlife's "Flying Without Wings", which he had sung on the show's finale. Fueled largely by sales, the album debuted at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In December 2003, advance orders for his album Soulful topped the 1 million mark before it was released into stores. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart that month, selling over 400,000 copies in its first week and attaining the highest first-week sales of any American Idol winner. The single "Sorry 2004" from this album found substantial airplay, reaching #9 in the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Billboard R&B singles chart. Studdard received a Grammy Award nomination in December 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Superstar", nominated with his idol Luther Vandross (Vandross won that category). In March 2004, Ruben won the NAACP Outstanding New Artist award.

Flying Without Wings

Everybody's looking for that something
One thing that makes it all complete
You'll find it in the strangest places
Places you never knew it could be

Some find it in the faces of their children
Some find it in their lovers eyes
Who can deny the joy it brings
When you've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

Some find it sharing every morning
Some in their solitary lives
You'll find it in the words of others
A simple line can make you laugh or cry

You'll find it in the deepest friendships
The kind you cherish all your life
And when you know how much that means
You've found that special thing
You're flying without wings

So impossible as they may seem
You've got to fight for every dream
Cause who's to know which one you let go
Would have made you complete

But for me it's waking up beside you, yeah
To watch the sun rise on your face
To know that I can say I love you
at any given time or place

It's the little things that only I know
Those are the things that make you mine, all mine
And it's the flying without wings
Cause you're my special thing
I'm flying without wings

You´re the place my life begins
And you'll be where it ends
I'm flying without wings
And that's the joy it brings
I'm flying without wings

Sorry 2004

(I'm Sorry)
(I'm Sorry)

[Verse 1]

It's like I missed a shot,
It's like I dropped the ball.
(Damn I'm Sorry)
It's like I'm on stage, and I forgot the words.
(Damn, I'm sorry)
It's like building a new house, with no roof and no doors.
(Damn, I'm sorry)
It's like trying to propose, and I ain't got the ring.
(Oooh damn I'm sorry)
But girl I've apologized a million times before.
(I'll apologize a million more)
So here it comes again for all the wrong I've done.
(Girl get ready babe)
Here's One million one.

[Chorus]
Girl this is my sorry for, 2004,
And I aint gonna mess up no more, this year,
I'm 'a take this one chance,
And make it real clear,
I'm sorry for May ,
And I'm sorry for June ( for real ) ,
And sorry for July ( i am ) ,
In case I don't tell you,
August, September, October, November 'till your December.
I'm sorry.
(I'm sorry 2004)

[Verse 2]

Its like stayin' out at night,
and way too much to drink.
(Damn, I'm sorry)
It's like you change your hair,
and I don't say a thing.
(Damn I'm sorry)
It's like we're fallin' fast asleep,
with no kiss, and before we hit,
(Damn, I'm sorry)
It's like I forgot your gift,
on 02 14 03.
(Damn, So sorry!)
But girl I've apologized a million times before.
(I'll apologize a million more)
So here it comes again for all the wrong I've done.
(Girl get ready babe)
Here's One million one.

[Hook]
Girl I'm sorry for the way that I did you
I'm sorry from the bottom of my heart, for how I hurt you girl
I'm sorry on the weekend, sorry on the weekday
Sorry for the things I did, Sorry for the things I said
Sorry for the lies
Sorry for the times
I didn't care what you want,
I didn't care what you like,
But all I can do is, tell you that I'm sorry babe. I'm sorry babe
(sorry, I'm sorry)

Oooooooooooooohhhhhhh![echo]
Wooooooooh!
All them strip clubs,
All them hot tubs.
I'm gonna give them up,
'Cause I dont want to lose your love

[Repeat Chorus]

[Starts Fading]

Girl, this is my sorry for, 2004.
Sorry 2004
Girl, this is my sorry for,2004
Sorry 2004


Superstar

And oh so far away
I fell in love with you
Before the second show
And your guitar
And you sound so sweet and clear
But you're not really here
It's just the radio

Chorus
Don't you remember you told me you love me baby
You said you'd be coming back this way again babe
Baby, baby, baby, baby ohoooooooo baby
I love you
I really do

Loneliness, is such a sad affair
Sad affair
And I can't hardly wait to be with you again
But what to say, to say to make you come again
Ohhh honey
Come on back to me again
I wanna be, I wanna be anywhere you are ohhhh

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