GOODBYE IS JUST ANOTHER WORD

LOBO

SONGWRITER: KENT LAVOIE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CALUMET

LABEL: BIG TREE RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1973

 

       Roland Kent LaVoie(born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo(which is a Spanish word for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". These three songs, along with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love", gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart.

        Calumet is the third album by Lobo, released in 1973 on Big Tree Records. It was reissued in 2008 by Wounded Bird Records and includes six bonus tracks.

The album peaked at Nº 128 on the US Top LPs chart. Two of its singles were top 30 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and top 5 hits on the Easy Listening chart. "There Ain't No Way" and its B-side "Love Me For What I Am" were minor hits on the Hot 100.

If the time should ever come

That you feel our race is run

And you're old brass bed's the only

thing that we share

If you think our ships come in

Let's just break it off my friend

Cause nothings worse than playing like you care.

 

There's nothing that's so final about leaving

Even though I know that's what you've heard

Just like forgive, forget and try again

Goodbye is just another word.

 

If you feel the time is right

And you sneak off in the night

And live out all those stories in your head

When your shiny knight goes home

And you're left there all alone

And you need a friend remember what I said.

ANGELA

THE LUMINEERS

SONGWRITERS: SIMONE FELICE; DANIEL BLUMENFELD & CHRISTIAN CASTAGNO

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CLEOPATRA

LABEL: DUALTONE RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 2016

 

     The Lumineers are an American folk rock band based in Boulder, Colorado. The founding members are Wesley Schultz(lead vocals, guitar) and Jeremiah Fraites(drums, percussion, piano). Schultz and Fraites began writing and performing together in Ramsey, New Jersey, in 2005. Cellist and vocalist Neyla Pekarek(cello) joined the band in 2010, and was a member until 2018. The Lumineers emerged as one of the most popular folk-rock/Americana artists during the revival of those genres, their popularity growing in the 2010s. The band's stripped back raw sound draws heavily from artists that influenced Schultz and Fraites such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. They are known for their energetic live shows and several international hit singles including "Ho Hey", "Stubborn Love", "Ophelia", "Angela" and "Cleopatra". The band has become one of the top touring bands in the United States and is also popular in other countries.

   The Lumineers have released four albums on American independent label Dualtone Records(Dine Alone in Canada and Decca/Universal worldwide). Their self-titled first album was released in 2012 and peaked at Nº 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200. It has been certified triple platinum in the U.S. and Canada, platinum in the U.K. and Ireland, and gold in Australia. Their second album, Cleopatra, was released in 2016 and debuted at Nº 1 on the Billboard 200, and also on the Canadian and British album charts. It is currently certified platinum in the U.S. Their third album, titled III, was released on September 13, 2019 and debuted at Nº 2 on the Billboard 200. Their fourth album, Brightside, was released on January 14, 2022. The Lumineers have publicly campaigned to ban mobile phones at their concerts, providing a locking pouch for people to hold their phones in during live performances.

      Cleopatra is the second studio album by American indie folk band The Lumineers. The album was released in the United States on April 8, 2016, and contains the singles "Ophelia", "Cleopatra", "Angela" and "Sleep on the Floor". The album received positive reviews and commercial success, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200. It is the last album by the band to feature Neyla Pekarek, who left in October 2018 to pursue a solo career.

When you left this town, with your windows down

And the wilderness inside

 

Let the exits pass, all the tar and glass

'Til the road and sky align

 

The strangers in this town

They raise you up just to cut you down

Oh Angela it's a long time coming

 

And your Volvo lights lit up green and white

With the cities on the signs

 

But you held your course to some distant war

In the corners of your mind

 

From the second time around

The only love I ever found

Oh Angela it's a long time coming

Home at last

 

Were you safe and warm in your coat of arms

With your fingers in a fist

 

Did you hear the notes, all those static codes

In the radio abyss?

 

Strangers in this town

They raise you up just to cut you down

Oh Angela it's a long time coming in

Oh Angela spent your whole life running away

Home at last

Home at last

 

Vacancy, hotel room, lost in me, lost in you

Angela, on my knees, I belong, I believe

Home at last

Home at last

Home at last

Home at last

Home at last.

LOVE ME FOR WHAT I AM

LOBO

SONGWRITER: LAVOIE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CALUMET

LABEL: BIG TREE

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1973

 

       Roland Kent LaVoie(born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo (which is a Spanish word for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". These three songs, along with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love", gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart.

          Calumet is the third album by Lobo, released in 1973 on Big Tree Records. It was reissued in 2008 by Wounded Bird Records and includes six bonus tracks.

The album peaked at Nº 128 on the US Top LPs chart. Two of its singles were top 30 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and top 5 hits on the Easy Listening chart. "There Ain't No Way" and its B-side "Love Me For What I Am" were minor hits on the Hot 100.

I wore the clothes you liked

You said they gave me that look

I even tried to like the food

I know you like to cook

I parted my hair on the left

I carried your arm on the right

I slept late in the morning

And I stayed out late at night.

 

I can't give any more of my soul away

And still look myself in the mirror everyday

I can't change any more

Of what makes me be myself

And still have enough left

Not to be somebody else

I'm not demanding as a man

Just asking you, love me for what I am.

 

I tried hard not to say

The things you don't like to hear

And when to you it was apropos

I nibbled on your ear

I opened the door up for you

I kept my big mouth shut

Well I've been going down

While you've been going up.

HOW CAN I TELL YOU

CAT STEVENS

SONGWRITER: YUSUF ISLAM(CAT STEVENS)

COUNTRY : U. K.

ALBUM: TEASER AND THE FIRECAT

LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1971

 

        Yusuf Islam(born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in his career, Islamic music. He returned to making secular music in 2006. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

         His 1967 debut album and its title song "Matthew and Son" both reached top ten in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman(1970) and Teaser and the Firecat(1971) were certified triple platinum in the US. His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four went to Nº1 on Billboard Pop Albums and spent weeks at the top of several major charts. He earned ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit for four artists. His other hit songs include "Father and Son", "Wild World", "Moonshadow", "Peace Train", and "Morning Has Broken".

         In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all of his guitars for charity, and left his musical career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has since bought back at least one of these guitars as a result of the efforts of his son Yoriyos. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. His current stance is that he never supported the fatwa: "I was cleverly framed by certain questions. I never supported the fatwa." He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace as well as other humanitarian awards.

        In 2006, he returned to pop music by releasing his first new studio album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. With that release and subsequent ones, he dropped the surname "Islam" from the album cover art – using the stage name Yusuf as a mononym. In 2009, he released the album Roadsinger and, in 2014, he released the album Tell 'Em I'm Gone and began his first US tour since 1978. His second North American tour since his resurgence, featuring 12 shows in intimate venues, ran from 12 September to 7 October 2016. In 2017, he released the album The Laughing Apple, now using the stage name Yusuf/Cat Stevens, using the Cat Stevens name for the first time in 39 years. In September 2020, he released Tea for the Tillerman 2, a reimagining of his classic album Tea for the Tillerman to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

         Teaser and the Firecat is the fifth studio album by Cat Stevens, released in October 1971. English keyboardist Rick Wakeman played piano on "Morning Has Broken" and English musician Linda Lewis also contributed vocals on "How Can I Tell You".

          At the Australian 1972 King of Pop Awards the album won Biggest Selling L.P

How can I tell you

That I love you

I love you

But I can't think of right words to say

 

I long to tell you

That I'm always thinking of you

I'm always thinking of you

But my words just blow away

Just blow away

 

It always ends up to one thing, honey

And I can't think of right words to say

 

Wherever I am girl

I'm always walking with you

I'm always walking with you

But I look and you're not there

 

Whoever I'm with

I'm always, always talking to you

I'm always talking to you

And I'm sad that you can't hear

Sad that you can't hear

 

It always ends up to one thing, honey

When I look and you're not there

 

I need to know you

Need to feel my arms around you

Feel my arms around you

Like a sea around a shore

 

Each night and day I pray

In hope that I might find you

In hope that I might find you

Because heart's can do no more

Can do no more

 

It always ends up to one thing, honey

Still I kneel upon the floor

 

How can I tell you

That I love you

I love you

But I can't think of right words to say

 

I long to tell you

That I'm always thinking of you

I'm always thinking of you

 

It always ends up to one thing, honey

And I can't think of right words to say.

THE DREAMING TREE

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND

SONGWRITERS: DAVID JOHN MATTHEWS & STEFAN K. LESSARD

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: BEFORE THESE CROWDED STREETS

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR:1998

 

       Dave Matthews Band(also known by the initials DMB) is an American rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991. The band's founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer and backing vocalist Carter Beauford, violinist and backing vocalist Boyd Tinsley, and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. As of 2022, Matthews, Lessard, and Beauford are the only remaining founding members still performing with the band.

     Dave Matthews Band's 1994 major label debut album, Under the Table and Dreaming, was certified platinum six times. As of 2018, the band had sold more than 25 million concert tickets and a combined total of 38 million CDs and DVDs. Their 2018 album, Come Tomorrow, debuted at Nº 1 on the Billboard 200, making DMB the first band to have seven consecutive studio albums debut at the peak. The band won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for "So Much to Say".

       A jam band, Dave Matthews Band is renowned for its live shows. The band is known for playing songs differently each performance; this practice has become a staple of their live shows since the early 1990s.

        Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998. It was the last official album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite until 2012's Away from the World and their first album recorded at The Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, California. The album title is taken from the lyrics of the song "The Dreaming Tree." It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release knocking the Titanic soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.

Standing here

The old man said to me

Long before these crowded streets

Here stood my dreaming tree

Below it he would sit

For hours at a time

Now progress takes away

What forever took to find

And now he's falling hard

He feels the falling dark

How he longs to be

Beneath his dreaming tree

Conquered fear to climb

A moment froze in time

When the girl who first he kissed

Promised him she'd be his

Remembered mother's words

There beneath the tree

No matter what the world

You'll always be my baby

Mommy come quick

The dreaming tree has died

The air is growing thick

A fear he cannot hide

The dreaming tree has died

 

Oh

Have you no pity

This thing I do

I do not deny it

All through this smile

As crooked as danger

I do not deny

I know in my mind

I would leave you now

If I had the strength to

I would leave you up

To your own devices

Will you not talk

Can you take pity

I don't ask much

But won't you speak

Please

 

From the start

She knew she had it made

Easy up 'til then

For sure she'd make the grade

Adorers came in hordes

To lay down in her wake

She gave it all she had

But treasures slowly fade

Now she's falling hard

She feels the fall of dark

How did this fall apart

She drinks to fill it up

A smile of sweetest flowers

Wilted so and soured

Black tears stain the cheeks

That once were so admired

She thinks when she was small

There on her father's knee

How he had promised her

You'll always be my baby

Daddy come quick

The dreaming tree has died

I can't find my way home

There is no place to hide

The dreaming tree has died

 

Oh

If I had the strength to

I would leave you up

To your own devices

Will you not talk

Can you take pity

I don't ask much

But won't you speak

Please

 

Take me back

Take me back

Take me back

Take me back

Take me back

Take me back

Take me back

Save me please.

THAT WASN’T ME

BRANDI CARLILE

SONGWRITERS: BRANDI M. CARLILE; PHILLIP JOHN HANSEROTH & TIMOTHY JAY HANSEROTH

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: BEAR CREEK

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 2012

 

         Brandi Marie Carlile (born June 1, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and producer whose music spans many genres. As of 2021, Carlile has released seven studio albums and earned 18 Grammy Award nominations, including one for The Firewatcher's Daughter(2015), six for By the Way, I Forgive You(2018), three for her work as producer and songwriter on Tanya Tucker's album While I’m Livin’(2019), and three for "Right on Time" from In These Silent Days(2021). She was the most nominated woman at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, with six, including nominations for Album of the Year(By the Way, I Forgive You), Record of the Year and Song of the Year("The Joke"). In 2019, Carlile formed an all-female quartet with Amanda Shires, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby called the Highwomen. They released their debut album, The Highwomen, in 2019 to critical and commercial acclaim, and won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song for the track "Crowded Table" in 2021.

        Born in Ravensdale, Washington, a rural town southeast of Seattle, Carlile dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music, teaching herself piano and guitar. Her debut major label album, Brandi Carlile(2005), was released to critical acclaim yet achieved limited commercial success. Carlile garnered wider recognition with her 2007 single "The Story", from her album of the same name. In 2017, The Story was awarded Gold status by the RIAA for selling 500,000 copies. That same year, Carlile released Cover Stories, featuring 14 artists covering tracks from the original The Story album, including Adele, Pearl Jam, and Dolly Parton, it debuted at Nº 30 on the Billboard 200. All proceeds benefited War Child UK, a charity organization to benefit children whose lives have been directly affected by war. Her fifth album, The Firewatcher's Daughter, earned Carlile her first Grammy nomination, for Best Americana Album in 2016, and peaked at Nº 9 on the Billboard 200. Her sixth album, By the Way, I Forgive You, was released in February 2018 to critical and commercial acclaim. It debuted at Nº 5 on the Billboard 200, her highest charted position to date, and also reached Nº 1 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums. Her seventh album, In These Silent Days, was met with further critical and commercial success, debuting at Nº 11 on the Billboard 200, and Nº. 1 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums and Folk Albums charts.

        Carlile's music through the years has been categorized in several genres, including pop, rock, alternative country, and folk. She said of her style, "I've gone through all sorts of vocal phases, from pop to blues to R&B, but no matter what I do, I just can't get the country and western out of my voice."

      Bear Creek is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile. The album was released June 5, 2012, through Columbia Records. The album was produced by Grammy Award winner Trina Shoemaker. The title of the album refers to the Bear Creek Studio at which the majority of the album was recorded.

Hang on, just hang on for a minute

I've got something to say

I'm not asking you to move on or forget it

But these are better days

To be wrong all along and admit is not amazing grace

But to be loved like a song you remember

Even when you've changed

 

Tell me did I go on a tangent?

Did I lie through my teeth?

Did I cause you to stumble on your feet?

Did I bring shame on my family?

Did it show when I was weak?

Whatever you see, that wasn't me

That wasn't me, that wasn't me

 

When you're lost you will toss every lucky coin you'll ever trust

And you'll hide from your god like he never turns his back on us

And you'll fall all the way to the bottom and land on your own knife

And you'll learn who you are even if it doesn't take your life

 

Tell me did I go on a tangent?

Did I lie through my teeth?

Did I cause you to stumble on your feet?

Did I bring shame on my family?

Did it show when I was weak?

Whatever you see, that wasn't me

That wasn't me, that wasn't me

 

But I want you to know that you'll never be alone

I wanna believe do I make myself a blessing to everyone I meet

When you fall I will get you on your feet

Do I spend time with my family?

Did it show when I was weak?

When that's what you see, that will be me

That will be me, that will be me

That will be me.

THE SUN IS BURNING

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL

SONGWRITER: IAN CAMPBELL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WEDNESDAY MORNING, 3 A. M.

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 1964

 

         Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, and their biggest hits—including "The Sound of Silence" (1965), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "The Boxer" (1969), and "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1970)—reached number one on singles charts worldwide.

         Simon and Garfunkel met in elementary school in Queens, New York, in 1953, where they learned to harmonize and began writing songs. In 1957, under the name Tom & Jerry, the teenagers had their first minor success with "Hey Schoolgirl", a song imitating their idols, the Everly Brothers. In 1963, aware of a growing public interest in folk music, they regrouped and were signed to Columbia Records as Simon & Garfunkel. Their debut, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., sold poorly; Simon returned to a solo career, this time in England. In June 1965, a new version of "The Sound of Silence" overdubbed with electric guitar and drums became a US AM radio hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The duo reunited to release a second studio album, Sounds of Silence, and tour colleges nationwide. On their third release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme(1966), they assumed more creative control. Their music was featured in the 1967 film The Graduate, giving them further exposure. Their next álbum Bookends(1968) topped the Billboard 200 chart and included the number-one single "Mrs. Robinson" from the film.

      Simon and Garfunkel had a troubled relationship, leading to artistic disagreements and their breakup in 1970. Their final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water, was released that January, becoming one of the world's best-selling albums. After their breakup, Simon released a number of acclaimed albums, including 1986's Graceland. Garfunkel released solo hits such as "All I Know" and briefly pursued an acting career, with leading roles in the Mike Nichols films Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge and in Nicolas Roeg's 1980 Bad Timing. The duo have reunited several times; their 1981 concert in Central Park attracted more than 500,000 people, one of the largest concert attendances in history.

       Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is the debut studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Following their early gig as "Tom and Jerry", Columbia Records signed the two in late 1963. It was produced by Tom Wilson and engineered by Roy Halee. The cover and the label include the subtitle exciting new sounds in the folk tradition. Recorded in March 1964, the album was released on October 19.

The album was initially unsuccessful, so Paul Simon moved to London, England and finished his first solo album The Paul Simon Songbook. Art Garfunkel continued his studies at Columbia University in his native New York City, before reuniting with Simon in late 1965. Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. was re-released in January 1966 (to capitalize on their newly found radio success because of the overdubbing of the song "The Sound of Silence" in June 1965, adding electric guitars, bass guitar and a drum kit), and reached Nº 30 on the Billboard 200. It was belatedly released in the UK two years later (in 1968) in both mono and stereo formats.

         The song "He Was My Brother" was dedicated to Andrew Goodman, who was their friend and a classmate of Simon at Queens College. Andrew Goodman volunteered in Freedom Summer during 1964 and was abducted and killed in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.

           The album is included in its entirety as part of the Simon & Garfunkel box sets Collected Works and The Columbia Studio Recordings(1964–1970).

The sun is burning in the sky

Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by

In the park the lazy bees

Are joining in the flowers among the trees

And the sun burns in the sky

 

Now the sun is in the West

Little kids go home to take their rest

And the couples in the park

Are holding hands and waitin' for the dark

And the sun is in the West

 

Now the sun is sinking low

Children playing know it's time to go

High above a spot appears

A little blossom blooms and then draws near

And the sun is sinking low

 

Now the sun has come to earth

Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death

Death comes in a blinding flash

Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash

And the sun has come to earth

 

Now the sun has disappeared

All is darkness, anger, pain and fear

Twisted sightless wrecks of men

Go groping on their knees and cry in pain

And the sun has disappeared.