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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Way It Is
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Bruce Hornsby’s second single and biggest hit, “The Way It Is,” a song about the civil rights era, reached #1 in the US in late 1986. It was also a top 30 hit in several other
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The way it is - remastered
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Standing in line, marking time / Waiting for the welfare dime / 'Cause they can't buy a job / The man in the silk suit hurries by / As he catches the poor old lady's eyes / Just
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Down the Road Tonight
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[Verse 1] / There's a place / A local roadside shack / A poor man's Paris with parking in the back / There's a girl there / She knows how to unwind / She don't talk much but she
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Every Little Kiss
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[Verse 1] / Way out here, working on the docks / Everyone sees the long day through / But what would I do without the nights / And the phone, and the chance just to talk to you
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Way It Is Samples
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Road Not Taken
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Down in the southwest Virginia town of Richlands / I fell in love with an Appalachian girl / She lived in a long line of little row houses / On the side of an old strip mining hill
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Way It Is Samples
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See all of “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Mandolin Rain
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Mandolin Rain was a song from Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s debut album The Way It Is.
The song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Way It Is Interpolations
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Valley Road
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“The Valley Road” is the second track and first single from 1988’s Scenes From the Southside.
Like many songs by the band, it’s socio-political in nature and details a scenario
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Wild Frontier
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Here I am / I'm in a gaseous haze / Ten lanes and tall boys / Going both ways / El Dorado riding on the fringe / Aztec princes take revenge (take revenge) / This ain't my style
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2Pac (Ft. Talent) – Changes
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“Changes” is Pac’s timely meditation on race, class and politics.
The piano and chorus are sampled from “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range.
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The River Runs Low
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The rain held back again / Haven't felt a drop since you went away / Outside of town, the hills are brown / I guess way out there you'd call 'em golden / Lines outside the welfare
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Across the River
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Well, she moved back around here / Thirty-five weeks ago today / Oh, down the lane / Well, at night she walks on the banks / And remembers how she dreamed of rowing away / And how
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The valley road - remastered 2003
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Sometimes I lead, sometimes I follow / This time I'll go where she wants me to go / She said maybe today, maybe tomorrow / Deep in the woods down the low valley road / While no one
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – I Will Walk With You
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A strong man feels weak in the still heat of the day / Nothing is black and white, just a hazy gray / There's a long lonesome sound in the distance calling back to me / You look
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Old Playground
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Walking on the sidewalk, roundball under my arm / Everybody knows how you play is who you are / Walking down the road, looking for a game or two / The real moves come through, no
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Chevy Chase – The Way It Is
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Standing in a bookstore line / Waiting for the bell to chime / So you can go to class / Dancing in your underwear / Taking air conditioner repair / So you can get a job / Greendale
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – On the Western Skyline
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[Verse 1] / About this time of evening, out by the bay / They turn the road lights on the bridge / Well, a diesel rolls in silhouette, eastbound / Lovers glad the sun has set / [
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Stander on the Mountain
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And he stands at the banquet room bar / Looking over the crowd / The reunion band playing too loud / And he sees his fellow old star / Looks him up and down / Sees a little of
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Cory Wong & Metropole Orkest (Ft. Cody Fry) – The Way It Is - Live
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[Verse 1] / Standing in line, marking time / Waiting all day for the welfare dime / 'Cause they can't buy a job / While the man in the silk suit hurries by / As he catches the poor
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Bruce Hornsby – The Changes
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The scene is set, everybody's in place - / Two chairs filled for every five gone to waste / The pantsuit girl gave me a nasty gaze / Said, "Play that on your own time." / I walk to
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Look Out Any Window
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While other songs from 1988’s Scenes from the Southside are described as short stories set in the South, “Look Out Any Window” is more like a critical essay about the devastating
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E-40 – Things'll Never Change Samples
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See all of “Things'll Never Change” by E-40’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Red Plains
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Four walls I built one winter / She came to share my name / For years we lived as lovers on the open plains / Far off the heat wave shimmers / Pipelines and the gasoline / One day
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Long Race
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[Verse 1] / It's a hazy winter's day / And I'm staring out on the southland / In the twilight distance on the bay / My mind sees you running through the marshland / [Pre-Chorus
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Barren Ground
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There were people living in a green valley / Found a way to make a lot of money / Made the green turn gradually gray / They figured they could do whatever they wanted / Everything
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Polo G – Wishing For a Hero Samples
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See all of “Wishing For a Hero” by Polo G’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Lil B – Hip Hops Alive
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The sample for this entire song, including the chorus is taken from a song called “The Way It Is” from Bruce Hornsby’s 1986 album of the same name.
Knowing that Lil B reps the
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