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The Doors – Queen of the Highway
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Jim Morrison wrote the lyrics about his relationship with Pamela Courson. She was with him in Paris when Morrison died in 1971.
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The Doors – Roadhouse Blues (Live)
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Keep your eyes on the road / Your hand upon the wheel / Keep your eyes on the road / Your hand upon the wheel / Goin' to the roadhouse / Gonna have a real, a good time / Yeah, back
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The Doors – Woman Is A Devil
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Me and the devil / Walking side by side / Me and the devil / Going to take you on a long and evil ride / The woman is a devil / That's what I've been told / Woman is a devil / That
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The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
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When Jim Morrison got drunk, he liked to sing Blues numbers at their jam sessions. They jammed on a lot of Blues numbers, and came up with this at one of the sessions. Its also
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Yellowman – Lost Mi Lover
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[Intro] / I think I know what's coming / Jesus Christ / Sounds reasonable / A special request and a popular demand / And your little wish is my command / A musical shack-attack, I
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The Doors – Indian Summer
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This song depicts one meeting his/her love during an Indian summer, a period defined by the US National Weather Service as “any spell of warm, quiet, hazy weather that may occur in
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The Doors – Carol
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Oh, Carol! / Don't let him steal your heart away / Yeah I've got to love you darling / If it takes me all night and day / Beat cool down / Over cool down / I can hear that highway
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Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
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“Stairway to Heaven” is one of Led Zeppelin’s most famous recordings, with many considering it the greatest rock song of all time. It tells the story of a greedy woman who is
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The Doors – Break On Through (Live)
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[Verse 1] / You know the day destroys the night / Night divides the day / Tried to run, tried to hide / [Chorus] / Break on through to the other side / Break on through to the
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The Doors – Money beats soul - 11/5/69
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Yeah, I got something to tell you 'bout your soul / Your soul ain't worth shit, mama / You know how much your soul's worth? / Your soul's worth about as much as you can get on Wall
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The Doors – Peace Frog
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“Peace Frog” is a song by The Doors which appears on the album Morrison Hotel. It was released in February 1970.
The lyrics were adapted from a couple of Morrison’s poems, one
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The Doors – Talking Blues
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Yeah / How me and my baby walking down the street / We's being friendly to person we meet / You know that / Yeah / Say "Hi neighbor" / "How are you doing" / Hey Dylan, how are you
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The Doors – Not to Touch the Earth (Take 1)
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Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun / Nothing left to do but / Run, run, run / Let's run, let's run / House upon the hill, moon is lying still / Shadows of the trees
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The Doors – Celebration Of The Lizard (An Experiment/work In Progress) (Bonus
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Lions in the street and roaming / Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming / A beast caged in the heart of a city / The body of his mother / Rotting in the summer ground / He fled the town
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The Doors – Peace Frog (False Starts & Dialogue) (Bonus)
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There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles / (She came) / There's blood on the streets, it's up to my knee / (She came) / Blood on the streets, in the town of Chicago / (
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The Doors – Moonlight Drive [Version 2]
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Let's swim to the moon / Uh-huh / Let's climb thru the tide / Penetrate the evenin' that the city sleeps to hide / Let's swim out tonight, love / It's our turn to try / Parked
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The Doors – Love me two times - take 3
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Love me two times, baby / Love me twice today / Love me two times, girl / I'm goin' away / Love me two times, girl / One for tomorrow / One just for today / Love me two times / I'm
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The Doors – The spy (version 2)
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Yeah / I'm a spy / In the house of love / I know the dream / That you're dreamin' of / I know the word / That you long to hear / I know your deepest secret fear / I'm a spy / In
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The Doors – Roadhouse talking blues - 11/5/69, takes 13-15
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Yeah, a keep your eyes on the road your hands upon the wheel / Keep your eyes on the road your hands upon the wheel / Yeah, we're goin' to the roadhouse we're gonna have a real, a
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
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Perhaps the quintessential Bruce number, this anthemic 1975 song contains many of the lyrical and musical hallmarks that make the band from E Street so justly famous. It is the
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The Doors – Blue Sunday
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The Doors short dramatic-lyrical love song. Written long before the album came out (in 1965), it was included in the album since it represented their “old style” – blues-rock
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The Doors (Ft. Jim Morrison) – Whiskey and Mystics and Men
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The song is mostly a studio creation, the vocal parts of Morrison are the same as the ones in the bootleg Missing Links (which is entirely from the February 25th 1969 The Soft
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The Doors – The Spy
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[Chorus] / I'm a spy / In the house of love / I know the dream / That you're dreamin' of / I know the word / That you long to hear / I know your deepest secret fear / [Chorus] / I'
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Robert Johnson – Me and the Devil Blues (Take 1)
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Recorded: Dallas, Texas, 1937
Released: 1938
Company: Vocalion Records, American Record Corporation
Format: 78 RPM Vinyl Record (Single)
Robert Johnson’s 1938 song “Me and the
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Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved
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“She Will Be Loved” is the third single released from the band’s 2002 debut album, Songs About Jane. The song peaked at number five in the US (becoming their second top ten there
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The Doors – Land Ho!
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[Verse 1] / Grandma loved a sailor / Who sailed the frozen sea / Grandpa was that whaler / And he took me on his knee / He said: "Son, I'm going crazy / From living on the land
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The B-52's – Love Shack
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The B-52s’ 1989 smash “Love Shack” is about a secluded place where lovers can meet to get it on. But that’s merely the most obvious meaning. The title also refers to the venues the
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Elton John – Tiny Dancer
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For pretty much all of Elton John’s greatest songs, the words were written by Bernie Taupin. The result is that sometimes Elton is singing words that are actually intensely
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Death Grips – Up My Sleeves
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Drenched in mania and frantic, claustrophobic instrumentation, “Up My Sleeves” has implications about celebrity, consumerism, deception, death, suicide, anti-foundationalism, and
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The Doors – Waiting for the Sun
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[Verse 1] / At first flash of Eden / We raced down to the sea / Standing there on freedom's shore / [Chorus] / Waiting for the sun / Waiting for the sun / Waiting for the sun / [
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The Killers – Read My Mind
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[Verse 1] / On the corner of Main Street / Just tryna keep it in line / You say you wanna move on and / You say I'm falling behind / Can you read my mind? / Can you read my mind
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Led Zeppelin – Ramble On
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“Ramble On” likens the life journey that the band members were on to find “the one” to the journey taken by Frodo and Sam in the Lord of the Rings franchise to find and destroy the
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Queen – Another One Bites the Dust
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“Another One Bites the Dust” took the world by storm. The song became a hit in 17 countries, but nowhere larger than in the United States, where it became the biggest-selling Queen
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Lady Gaga – The Queen
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“The Queen” is a song by Lady Gaga on the special edition of her third album, Born This Way.
Lady Gaga revealed on Twitter that the song was about bravery and wanting to be
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Brennen Leigh – Carole With An E
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[Verse 1] / Oh, Carole with an E / She's the finest trucker I have ever seen / Though only five-foot-three / You might say that she's the highway queen / In her big rig, haulin
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Eilen Jewell – Long Road
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(feat. Big Sandy) / I know it’'s not easy / To say goodbye / But I'’ll be back soon darlin’' / And everything will be all right / So keep your chin up / And dry your eyes / We'’ll
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The Doors – You Make Me Real
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I really want you / Really do / Really need you baby, God knows I do / 'Cause I'm not real enough without you / Oh, what can I do? / You make me real / You make me feel like lovers
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