COME PICK ME UP
RYAN ADAMS
SONGWRITERS: VAN ALSTON & RYAN ADAMS
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: HEARTBREAKER
LABEL: BLOODSHOT
GENRE: ALTERNATIVE COUNTRY
YEAR: 2000

Heartbreaker is the debut solo studio album by American singer/songwriter Ryan Adams, released September 5, 2000 on Bloodshot Records. The album was recorded over fourteen days at Woodland Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. It was nominated for the 2001 Shortlist Music Prize. The album is said to be inspired by Adams' break-up with music industry publicist Amy Lombardi.
According to Adams, the album's title originates from a poster of Mariah Carey: "My manager called and said, 'You have 15 seconds to name this record,' "My eyes focused on this poster of Mariah wearing a T-shirt that said HEARTBREAKER. I just shouted, 'Heartbreaker!'"
A Deluxe Edition, featuring bonus recording session takes and pre-album demos, was released on May 6, 2016 on PAX-AM records.
When they call your name
Will you walk right up
With a smile on your face
Or will you cower in fear
In your favorite sweater
With an old love letter

I wish you would
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends
They're all full of shit
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would

When you're walking downtown
Do you wish I was there
Do you wish it was me
With the windows clear and the mannequins eyes
Do they all look like mine

You know you could
I wish you would
Come pick me up
Take me out
Fuck me up
Steal my records
Screw all my friends behind my back
With a smile on your face
And then do it again
I wish you would

I wish you'd make up my bed
So I could make up my mind
Try it for sleeping instead
Maybe you'll rest sometime
I wish I could.
NEVER MY LOVE
THE ASSOCIATION
SONGWRITERS: RICHARD P. ADDRISI & DONALD J. ADDRISI
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: INSIGHT OUT
LABEL: WARNER BROS RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1967

"Never My Love" is a pop standard written by American siblings Donald and Richard Addrisi and best known from a hit 1967 recording by The Association. The Addrisi Brothers had two Top 40 hits as recording artists, but their biggest success was as the songwriters of "Never My Love". Recorded by dozens of notable artists in the decades since, in 1999 the music publishing rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) announced it was the second most-played song on radio and television of the 20th century.
You ask me if there'll come a time
When I grow tired of you
Never my Love
Never my Love

You wonder if this heart of mine
Will lose its desire for you
Never my Love
Never my Love

What makes you think love will end
When you know that my whole life depends
On you (on you)

Never my Love
Never my Love

You say you fear I'll change my mind
And I won't require you
Never my Love
Never my Love

How can you think love will end
When I've asked you to spend your whole life

With me (with me, with me).
WHERE DREAMS GO TO DIE
JOHN GRANT
SONGWRITER: JOHN GRANT
WHERE: IN CONCERT 2011
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: QUEEN OF DENMARK
LABEL: BELLA UNION
GENRE: INDIE
YEAR: 2010

American singer-songwriter, born 25 July 1967 in Buchanan, Michigan, USA. Formerly associated with the Denver-based alternative rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Although co-founded by John Grant and Chris Pearson, the Czars were always Grant’s band, with most of the group’s acclaim stemming from his deep, resonant vocals and songwriting. The frontman reportedly butted heads with his four bandmates, but such creative tension helped mold the Czars into an eclectic group, and Grant’s voice -- despite being the cornerstone of every Czars album -- wouldn’t have shined as brightly without the dreamy, shoegazing music that flanked it. Queen of Denmark, his first release without the Czars, lacks that creative tension. Although recorded with Midlake (the band even shares billing in the album’s title), it feels more like a solo release, lacking both the cohesion of a proper lineup and the checks-and-balances system that Grant’s former bandmates provided. Left to his own devices, he unknowingly dilutes his strengths, whether he’s trading poetry for campy lyrics (“I wish I had the brain of a Tyrannosaurus Rex so I wouldn’t have to deal with all this crap”) or aiming for a contemporary version of ‘70s soft rock and coming up with mundane Americana instead. There’s no hiding the fact that Grant is a seriously talented vocalist, and the album’s best moments occur whenever he tones down the camp and, with a mix of Eddie Vedder’s baritone and Tim Buckley’s vibrato, reaches for the heartstrings instead. But with song titles like “Sigourney Weaver” and “Jesus Hates Faggots,” Queen of Denmark is more concerned with Grant’s cynicism.
Your beauty is unstoppable; your confidence unspeakable.
I know you know I know you know that I know that you know.
I'm willing to do anything to get attention from you, dear,
Even though I don't have anything that I could bargain with.

This is like a well-oiled machine. Could I please see that smile again?
It's all that makes me feel that I am living in this world
I see you closing all the doors. I see the walls as they go up
I know it's what you have to do. I'd probably do the same thing, too, my dear.

Baby, you're where dreams go to die.
I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye.
Baby, you're where dreams go to die.
I've got to get away. I don't want to, but I have to try.
Oh, baby!

You have to play your part, my dear. I've written it all down for you.
It doesn't matter if the things you say to me aren't true.
Just do it then I'll let you go. Just say the words and say them slowly.
I promise I'll tell no one. Yes, I cross my heart and hope to die

Baby, you're where dreams go to die.
I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye.
Baby, you're where dreams go to die.
I've got to get away. I don't want to, but I have to try.
Oh, baby!

Baby, you're where dreams go to die.
I regret the day your lovely carcass caught my eye.
Baby, you're where dreams go to die.
I've got to get away. I don't want to, but I have to try.
Oh, baby!

Oh, baby!
Oh, baby!

Oh, baby, please!
TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU
LADY GAGA
SONGWRITERS: DIANE EVE WARREN & STEFANI J. GERMANOTTA
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: TIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU
LABEL: INTERSCOPE RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2016

"Til It Happens to You" is a song produced and performed by American Singer Lady Gaga. She co-wrote the song with Diane Warren for the 2015 documentary film The Hunting Ground, which deals with campus rape in the United States. The song had leaked onto the Internet through an unofficial recording made at the film's premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was later released by Interscope Records to digital retailers on September 18, 2015. The director and producer of the film had looked for someone influential to write a song for it, and music supervisor Bonnie Greenberg contacted Warren who was interested. She wrote the song with Gaga and producer Nile Rodgers accompanied them during the recording, providing his suggestions.
A universal song about any kind of loss in life, "Til It Happens to You" was placed during two sequences in the film, highlighting the pain of sexual assault. The song consists of an orchestral production with strings, and an emotional vocal delivery from Gaga. Lyrically it asks listeners to stand in a victim's position and try to understand the turmoil they go through. "Til It Happens to You" was later included as part of a public service announcement video directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The video depicts various instances of violence against women and sexual assaults. It ends with a cautionary note about the effects of such distress, and individuals finding solace with their close friends and relatives.
You tell me it gets better, it gets better in time
You say I'll pull myself together, pull it together, you'll be fine
Tell me, what the hell do you know? What do you know?
Tell me how the hell could you know? How could you know?

Till it happens to you, you don't know how it feels, how it feels
Till it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real
No, it won't be real, won't know how it feels

You tell me hold your head up, hold your head up and be strong
'Cause when you fall you gotta get up, you gotta get up and move on
Tell me how the hell could you talk, how could you talk?
'Cause until you walk where I walk, this is no joke

Till it happens to you, you don't know how it feels, how it feels
Till it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real
(how could you know?)
No it won't be real
(how could you know?)
Won't know how I feel

Till your world burns and crashes
Till you're at the end, the end of your rope
Till you're standing in my shoes
I don't wanna hear a thing from you, from you, from you
'Cause you don't know

Till it happens to you, you don't know how I feel, how I feel
How I feel
Till it happens to you, you won't know, it won't be real
(how could you know?)
No, it won't be real
(how could you know?)
Won't know how it feels

Till it happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
(how could you know?)
Till it happens to you

You won't know how I feel.