In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing. A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs. The lyrics (words) of songs are typically of a poetic, rhyming nature, though they may be religious verses or free prose.
A song may be for a solo singer, a duet, trio, or larger ensemble involving more voices. Songs with more than one voice to a part are considered choral works. Songs can be broadly divided into many different forms, depending on the criteria used. One division is between "art songs", "pop songs", and "folk songs". Other common methods of classification are by purpose (sacred vs secular), by style (dance, ballad, Lied, etc.), or by time of origin (Renaissance, Contemporary, etc.).
A song is a piece of music for accompanied or unaccompanied voice or voices or, "the act or art of singing," but the term is generally not used for large vocal forms including opera and oratorio. However, the term is, "often found in various figurative and transferred sense (e.g. for the lyrical second subject of a sonata...)." The noun "song" has the same etymological root as the verb "to sing" and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the word to mean "that which is sung" or "a musical composition suggestive of song." The OED also defines the word to mean "a poem" or "the musical phrases uttered by some birds, whales, and insects, typically forming a recognizable and repeated sequence and used chiefly for territorial defence or for attracting mates."
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's self-titled debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest sole writer and singer of a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the 111-date Speak Now World Tour, which was attended by over 1.6 million fans and has become one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Swift is currently recording her fourth studio album, due for release in the fall of 2012.
Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), better known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age. He performed in various musical venues in his hometown throughout his childhood. He graduated from high school and then moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a musical career. Mars produced songs for other artists, joining production team The Smeezingtons.
Mars had an unsuccessful stint with Motown Records, but then signed with Atlantic Records in 2009. He became recognized as a solo artist after lending his vocals and co-writing the hooks for the songs "Nothin' on You" by B.o.B, and "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy. He also co-wrote the hits "Right Round" by Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha, and "Wavin' Flag" by K'naan. In October 2010, he released his debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. Anchored by the worldwide number-one singles "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade", the album peaked at number three on the Billboard 200. Mars was nominated for seven Grammys at the 53rd Grammy Awards, winning Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Just the Way You Are".
Plot
A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Keywords: 1800s, based-on-novel, canceled-wedding, conspiracy, death-of-friend, false-accusation, foreign-language-adaptation, island-prison, jealousy, marseille-provence
Count de Monte Cristo: Everything will go the way it has to go, even if it goes backwards.
Plot
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, cameraman, career, dating, daughter, drinking-alcohol, factory, falling-in-love
Plot
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, cameraman, career, dating, daughter, drinking-alcohol, factory, falling-in-love
Sometimes when I'm awful low
I don't think about the blue sky
Just wanna see the magic in her eyes
And it shows me the same afterglow
Why don't you think of something new
And make a day with Ophelia
Boy, you're beginning to see the dark
And it shows you the same afterglow
She ain't the kind
That you'll easily forget
Boy, you're husseling roses
Down the avenue of death
And you don't want
You don't want to lose her yet
(Oo-oo-oo-oooh
Oo-oo-oo-oooh
Oo-oo-oo-oooh)
She ain't the kind
That you'll easily forget
Boy, you're husseling roses
Down the avenue of death
And you don't want
You don't want to lose her yet
You're studying the dust
You're making (?)
You lost you mind from show to show
'Cause you couldn't find the same afterglow
So love has gone wrong
And the good moments were through
Don't know where I wanna go, I just wanna go
And I'm hoping to find the same afterglow
(Oo-oo-oo-oooh
Oo-oo-oo-oooh)
And I couldn't find the same afterglow
Songs from the chorus rain
Songs that will cause you pain
Songs that alleviate
Songs that will seal your fate
Songs for the sunny days
Songs for that warm embrace
Songs that will keep you cool
Songs that will make you cruel
Songs for the wielding
Songs to help you relax
Songs that forever last
Songs that belong to the past
Songs that will make you scream
Songs from your childhood dreams
Songs that will leave you blue
Songs that remind me of you
Songs that will make you smile
Songs that will stay for a while
Songs that will tear you apart
Songs that will mend your heart
Songs that you can't let go
Songs that you already know
Songs that you once knew
Songs that just passed through
Songs that you overheard
Songs that just occurred
Songs for the nighttime
Songs for the waistline
Songs for the dancing shoes
Songs for the Sunday blues
Songs that will make you sweat
Songs that you won't forget
Songs that were once so true
Songs that betrayed you
Songs that you always hum
Songs that will leave you numb
Songs that you will regret
Songs on an old cassette
Songs that will move you
Songs that are brand new
Songs on the radio
Songs that will make you glow
Songs from your first kiss
Ride boy ride keep the sun in your eyes
Your troubles you reliefed far behind
Oh boy you're free from this land to,.
So lift up your head, leave your troubles,.
When night, comes, build a fire in the sun
And watch as the moon shows its face
Then one by one you will see the stars return
Like a thousand diamond jewel drops shinning in space
Hey, hey, hey it's the sunshine day
And you're driftin away with the wind
So get up, boy, wipe the sleep from your eyes
Ride in to the morning, ride out to the skies
Ride boy, ride
Ride in to the morning, ride out to the skies
(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink of the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
Spare a part for his wife and his children
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth
And when I look into the this faceless crowd
A swirling mass of gray blue
Black and white
They don't look real to me
In fact, we all look so strange
Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading but get gamblers instead
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio
And when I look into this faceless crowd
A swirling mass of grays and
Black and white
They don't look real to you
Or do we look too strange
Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the three thousand million
Let's think of the humble of birth
If I'm feeling down
If I'm ever low
I just think of you
And the songs
Filled with lots of meaning
With everything I need
Spiritually healing
Words that comfort
You told me that you cared
You'd be there for me whenever I need
When you're far away and I need you
The songs can bring you closer
If I'm ever down
If I'm feeling low
I just think of you
And the songs
The ones that make me wonder
Will it be that good again
They inspire me to try
You told me that you cared
You'd be there for me whenever I need
When you're far away and I need you
The songs can bring you closer
Songs that let the past
Flood into my mind
Take me to the place
That we left
It's such a strange sensation
To live that time again
Songs can save you
They can break you
Set you cryin'
You told me that you cared
You'd be there for me whenever I need
When you're far away and I need you
The songs can bring you closer
A long time ago
You told me that you cared
You'd be there for me whenever I need
When you're far away and I need you
I used to cry myself to sleep at night
But that was all before she came
I thought love had to hurt to turn out right
But now she's here and it's not the same, just not the same
She fills me up, she gives me love
More love than I've ever seen
She's all I got, she's all I got in this world
But she's all the woman I need, I need, I, I needed
And in the morning when I kiss her eyes
She takes me down and she rocks me slow, yeah
And in the evening when the moon is high
She holds me close and she won't let go, she won't let go
She fills me up, she gives me love
More love than I've ever seen
She's all I got, she's all I got in this world
But she's all the woman that I need, yeah yeah, my need
Yeah yeah and I, and I, and I want the world to know
She fills me up, she gives me love
Bringing me more love than I've ever seen
She's all I've got, she's all I've got in the whole world
But she's all the woman that I need
She fills me up, she's the woman I love, woman I love, woman I love
And I've never, never seen, no way
True Lord, in this world
But she's all the woman that I need
She fills me up
She's in love again
The day is done, the blinds are drawn
the sound of the afternoon is gone
the cornerst ore has locked its door
everyone has left for home
when their sleepy little heads settle snug inside their beds
you and i will stay and watch the sun (fade away)
The balladeer, the buccaneer
the liar, the man who would be king
the cavalier, the profiteer
the one who knows only suffering
as the cannons gather rust and all their castles turn to dust
you and i will stay and see them all (fade away)
We are on an endless flight, my friend
no beginning and no end
i've forgotten more than i remember
i just want to hide myself away
but i know there's no escape
we must go on
go on forever
The sea will rise, the mountains fall
the earth will turn itself upside down
but we haven't seen it all before
and we will always be around
in a hundred million years when the planet disappears
you and i will stay and watch the world fade away
In a million trillion years when the planet disappears
you and i will stay and watch them all fade away (fade away...)
gonna watch them fade away
do do do do do (fade away...)
fade away...
fade away...
Long time ago (x2)
From the country to the town, from the soul to the crowd. woo woo oh oh oh
From the country to the town, from the soul to the crowd. woo woo
(I've just got to be free)
Set me, let me free, I'm locked up in the beat.
The poetry, the flow-etry? I'm locked up in the beat
With the microphone im in the zone, I'm locked up in the beat
Expression, thats the key, I'm locked up in the beat (I've just got to be free)
Come set me, let me free, I'm locked up in the beat (Ra)
The poetry, the flow-etry? I'm locked up in the beat
When Million Dan gets into the zone, I'm locked up in the beat
Expression, thats the key, I'm locked up in the beat.
I and I must be free, that's what I see as my destiny.
Love is what will set me free, make us friends from our enemies.
So I and I just let things be, forgive me for what I've done to thee
Is forgiving what you've done to me...
Come set me, let me free, I'm locked up in the beat
The poetry, the flow-etry? I'm locked up in the beat
With the microphone I'm in the zone, I'm locked up in the beat
Expression, thats the key, I'm locked up in the beat (i've just got to be free)
Come set me, let me free, I'm locked up in the beat (Ra)
The poetry, the flow-etry? I'm locked up in the beat
When Million Dan gets into the zone, I'm locked up in the beat
Expression, thats the key, I'm locked up in the beat.
Long time ago (x3)
(I've just got to be free) x2
I and I must be free, that's what I see as my destiny.
Love is what will set me free, make us friends from our enemies.
So I and I just let things be, forgive me for what I've done to thee
Is forgiving what you've done to me...
Well the moon moved past Nebraska
And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills
And angels danced on Jacob's stairs
Yeah, they danced on Jacob's stairs
There is this silence in the Badlands
And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled
By the whisper of a prayer
The whisper of a prayer
And the single hawk bursts into flight
And in the east the whole horizon is in flames
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name
I can feel the earth tremble
Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves
And the fury in the pheasant's wings
And there's fury in a pheasant's wings
It tells me the Lord is in His temple
And there is still a faith that can make the mountains move
And a love that can make the heavens ring
And I've seen love make heaven ring
Where the sacred rivers meet
Beneath the shadow of the Keeper of the plains
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name
From the place where morning gathers
You can look sometimes forever 'til you see
What time may never know
What time may never know
How the Lord takes by its corners this old world
And shakes us forward and shakes us free
To run wild with the hope
To run wild with the hope
The hope that this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain
And I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name
And I know this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song not sung in vain
I feel thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And with the prairies I am calling out Your name