I'M YOURS

JASON MRAZ

SONGWRITER: JASON MRAZ

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: WE SING, WE DANCE, WE STEAL THINGS

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2008

Jason Thomas Mraz (/məˈræz/; born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2002 he released his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" that reached #4 on the US Billboard chart. His second album, Mr. A-Z, released in 2005, peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008 Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200. and was an international commercial success primarily due to the hit "I'm Yours". The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his first top ten single, and spent a then-record 76 weeks on the Hot 100. His fourth album, Love Is a Four Letter Word, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, his highest-charting album to date.

Mraz has won two Grammy Awards and received two additional nominations, and has also won two Teen Choice Awards, a People's Choice Award and the Hal David Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. He has earned Platinum and multi-Platinum certifications in over 20 countries, and has toured in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and parts of Africa. As of July 2014 Mraz has sold over seven million albums, and over 11.5 million downloaded singles. His musical style, from rhythmic feeling to his use of nylon string guitars, has been heavily influenced by Brazilian music.

"I'm Yours" is the first single released by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz from his third studio album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.(2008) The song was originally released on a limited edition EP called Extra Credit as a demo in 2005 to promote his second studio album Mr. A–Z. It was performed in his 2004 and 2005 gigs and already became a crowd favorite before its release. "I'm Yours" was nominated for Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards. It was also used for the Australian Seven Network's promotion of the season premiere of Packed to the Rafters.

"I'm Yours" was immensely successful in the US on the Billboard charts. At 76 weeks on the Hot 100, it held the record for most weeks spent on the chart, breaking the previous record of 69 weeks set by LeAnn Rimes’ song "How Do I Live" in 1998; this record has since been broken by Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive", which spent 87 weeks on the chart, and AWOLNATION's "Sail", which spent 79 weeks on the chart. As of January 2013, it is the tenth best-selling digital song of all time in the US, selling over 6 million downloads, and 12.2 million worldwide. It remains Mraz's biggest US hit single to date. The song was used as an 'inspiration' for the Bollywood movie Nautanki Saala song "Mera Mann Kehne Laga". It was the only song to crack Billboard's top 600 of all time despite never cracking the top 5.

Mraz first launched the song from the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, at Michele Clark's Sunset Sessions in 2008. He also sang a version on Sesame Street titled "Outdoors" and released a successful remixed version featuring Lil Wayne and Jah Cure. 

There was a demo version of this song included on a limited-release bonus EP "Extra Credit" (2005), which Jason Mraz used to promote his "Mr. A-Z" (2005) album.

Many covers of this track have been made and posted on YouTube. The singer told Billboard magazine, "I never instigated any of the covers. But I can see why people are drawn to the song. And because it is about generosity, I wanted to share it."

This song was released as the album's first single because of the fans' response to it.

This song was being performed live for about five years before its release. Jason Mraz noted, "When I finally recorded it, my fans were relieved that we didn't overproduce it. We kept the feel and arrangement true to how we play it live."

Well, you done, done me and you bet I felt it

I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted

I fell right through the cracks, now I'm trying to get back

Before the cool done run out, I'll be giving it my bestest

And nothing's gonna stop me but divine intervention

I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

But I won't hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well, open up your mind and see like me

Open up your plans and damn, you're free

Look into your heart and you'll find love, love, love, love

Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing

We're just one big family

And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved

Loved, loved, loved, loved

So I won't hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I'm sure

There's no need to complicate, our time is short

This is our fate, I'm yours

D-d-do you, but you, d-d-do

But do you want to come on?

Scooch on over closer dear

And I will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror

And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer

But my breath fogged up the glass

And so I drew a new face and I laughed

I guess what I'm saying is there ain't no better reason

To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons

It's what we aim to do, our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait I'm yours

Open up your mind and see like me

Open up your plans and damn, you're free

Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours

So please don't, please don't, please don't

There's no need to complicate

Cause our time is short

This is, this is, this is our fate, I'm yours!

WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES

BIG DADDY WILSON

Songwriter: joe south

Country: u. s. a.

Album: love is the key

Label: ruf records

Genre: blues

Year: 2009

Big Daddy Wilson was born more than 50 years ago in a small town called Edenton, North Carolina. The population of Edenton counts less than 6000, 55% African Americans, 25% below the poverty line. “We were very poor but I had a very beautiful childhood“, Wilson remembers. “Me and my sisters were raised by Mom and Grandma. We lived a simple life, we went to church every Sunday, school on weekdays. I also worked back then on the tobacco plantation and in the cotton fields, I was a real country boy.“ Wilson sang in church but he never thought about going on stage. “I was extremely shy.“ His guardians meant well for the fatherless boy and they often sent him to church also during the week. “That won´t hurt him, keeps little Wilson away from drugs and off the streets.“

Young Wilson quit school at 16, and sometime later joined the US Army. Being a poor black man in the south and living in a small town, jobs were scarce. After being stations in Germany, the young man became homesick. “I found out the quickest way to go back home was to see that you got married. They’ll allow you a vacation time about two weeks to go home to get married. Wilson convinced his officers of his impending wedding and returned Stateside, refusing to return to Germany. After six weeks his mom was so worried that she begged him to go back to the military. “And so I was back in Germany.“

A few years later Wilson met a German girl who became his wife. She is the reason for him staying and also the reason for a poem which became Wilson´s first song. 

And then Wilson heard the blues for the first time. Back in Edenton he had listened to music only in church and from the local, country radio station. But now he went for the first time to a real blues concert. “I met the blues here in Germany. I didn’t know what the blues was before“ Big Daddy Wilson says. “It was here that I found a part of me that was missing for so long in my life.“ It did not take long and the shy guy who had written some poems started looking for melodies. He went on stage, jammed all over the German blues scene and made an impression with his warm and soulful voice. He began touring with bands and as a duo and even released a few records. “My sister came all the way to see me perform and she couldn’t believe it. No, that’s not my brother. It seems like all my shyness was gone – thanks to my music. “ 

     Champion Jack Dupree, Louisiana Red, Eddie Boyd... many musicians who made Europe their home and brought the blues with them succeeded here better than in the U.S. Even Luther Allison lived in Europe for 14 years before his big break. 

         And now there´s Big Daddy Wilson, an American singer and songwriter who found his home in northern Germany. But something is different regarding Big Daddy Wilson. When he came over from the U.S. there was no blues in his baggage. He initially discovered the blues here in Germany which is where he will begin his international career.

With his international solo debut on RUF Records Big Daddy Wilson is going to take one step further in his late career as a musician. For “Love Is The Key“ he recorded his own songs exclusively with a small band; taking it back to the roots, often reduced to acoustic instruments, but always full of soul. You can listen to his very first song here,“ Anna“  the song about his wife. Gospel is the foundation for “Keep Your Faith In Jah“, but this doesn’t keep the songwriter Wilson from praising the talents of a gypsy queen from New Orleans, “Jazzy Rose“. In “Hard Days Work“, Big Daddy uses monotone drones for hypnotic effects on the listener, while breezy off beats Jamaica-style let “Dreaming“ to swing along. Autobiographic aspects can be found elsewhere: “Ain´t No Slave“reminds us of the African-American history and at the same time makes us aware of Wilson’s grown confidence. His good friend Eric Bibb guests on two songs about Wilson’s roots ,”Country Boy” , “Walk A Mile In My Shoes”. He’s very proud of Bibb´s presence because “I’ve learnt so much from him,” says Wilson.

The fruits of this learning can be tasted on Big Daddy’s imminent European Tour. Does he dare to imagine that he could take this music all the way back to his roots in North Carolina?

“That’s a dream, but one that makes me nervous“ the Father of three laughs; it’s clear that his homesickness is gone – along with his shyness.

Walk a mile in my shoes

Then you know how I feel

Walk a mile in my shoes

For you judge this man

If you walk in my shoes

You might understand

People always try to tell me

Tell me whatta would do

Some really want to help me

Lord I know it’s true

Everybody gotta opinion

Better take some advice

Don’t really make no difference

I got to live my own life

I’m simple type of fellow

Don’t need much this old life

I read my Bible (all have mercy)

Try to live my life right

I don’t need nobody

Tell me what I oughta do

If you really want to help me

Take a walk with my shoes

Walk a mile in my shoes

Then you know how I feel

Walk a mile in my shoes

For you judge this man

If you walk in my shoes

You might understand

Don’t… Nobody wanna listen

Everybody know the way

Everybody know the answer

Before the question is raised

Everybody think they know me

Don’t even know my name

If you really want to help me

You gotta feel my pain, oh lord

Walk a mile in my shoes

(Walk a mile, walk, walk a mile)

Walk a mile in my shoes

(Walk a mile, walk, walk a mile)

Walk a mile in my shoes

Hey people, for you judge this man

If you walk in my shoes

You might understand.

GIRL IN AMBER

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

SONGWRITERS: WARREN ELLIS, NICHOLAS CAVE

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: SKELETON TREE

LABEL: BED SEED LTD.

GENRE: AVANT-GARDE

YEAR: 2016

Skeleton Tree is the sixteenth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was released on 9 September 2016 on Bad Seed Ltd. A follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed álbum Push the Sky Away(2013), Skeleton Tree was recorded over 18 months at Retreat Recording Studios in Brighton, La Frette Studios in La Frette-sur-Seine and Air Studios in London. It was produced by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis and Nick Launay. During the sessions Cave's 15-year-old son Arthur died from an accidental cliff fall. Most of the album had been written at the time of Cave's son's death, but several lyrics were amended by Cave during subsequent recording sessions and feature themes of death, loss and personal grief.

Skeleton Tree's minimal production and "less polished" sound incorporates elements of electronic and ambient music and, like Push the Sky Away, features extensive use of synthesizers, drum machines and loops. Several songs on the album utilize avant-garde techniques, including the use of dissonant musical elements and non-standard song structures. Cave's allegorical and often-improvised lyrics have also been noted to be less narrative and character-based than on previous Bad Seeds albums.

One More Time with Feeling, a documentary film about the aftermath of Cave's son's death and the recording process of Skeleton Tree, accompanied the album's release. Directed by Andrew Dominik, the film received a limited release and was conceived by Cave to explain the context and themes of Skeleton Tree without conducting interviews with the media. Both the film and the album received widespread critical acclaim.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne in 1983 by vocalist Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist-vocalist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey(all from Australia), guitarist George Vjestica(United Kingdom), keyboardist/percussionist Toby Dammit (United States) and drummers Thomas Wydler (Switzerland) and Jim Sclavunos (United States). With their "brutal blues and gothic nightmares" songs, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have been considered "one of the most original and celebrated bands of the post-punk and alternative rock eras in the '80s and onward". They have released seventeen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.

The band was founded in 1983 following the demise of Cave and Harvey's former group the Birthday Party, the members of which met at a boarding school in Victoria. By the release of their fifth studio album Tender Prey in 1988, they shifted from post-punk towards an experimental alternative rock sound, later incorporating various influences throughout their career. 2008's Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and the side-project Grinderman were influenced by garage rock. Synthesizers and minimal guitar work feature prominently on Push the Sky Away(2013), recorded after Harvey's departure from the band in 2009.

Some go and some stay behind

Some never move at all

Girl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall

Let no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor

Girl in amber, long to slumber, shuts the bathroom door

The phone, the phone, the phone it rings, it rings, it rings no more

The song, the song, the song it spins since nineteen eighty-four

The phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, the phone, it rings no more

The song, the song it's been spinning now since nineteen

And if you want to bleed, just bleed

And if you want to bleed, just bleed

And if you want to bleed, don't breathe a word

Just step away and let the world spin

And now in turn, you turn

You kneel, lace up his shoes, your little blue-eyed boy

Take him by his hand, go move and spin him down the hall

I get lucky, I get lucky cause I tried again

I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you've been gone

I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world

In a slumber til your crumble were absorbed into the earth

Well, I don't think that any more the phone it rings no more

The song, the song it spins now since nineteen eighty-four

The song, the song, the song it spins, it's been a spinning now

And if you'll hold me I will tell you that you know that

And if you want to leave, don't breathe

And if you want to leave, don't breathe

And if you want to leave, don't breathe a word

And let the world turn

The song, the song it spins, the song, it spins, it spins no more

The phone, it rings, it rings and you won't stay

Don't touch me

Don't touch me

Don't touch me

Don't touch me.

WISHING I WAS THERE

NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

SONGWRITERS: : NATALIE IMBRUGLIA; PHIL THORNALLEY & COLIN CAMPSIE

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: LEFT TO THE MIDLE

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR:

Wishing I Was There" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia, released on 31 May 1998 as the third single from her debut album Left of the Middle. The track was produced by Phil Thornalley and was co-written by Imbruglia, Thornalley and Colin Campsie. The single reached number five in Canada, Hungary and Iceland, became a top-twenty hit in the United Kingdom, and broke the top 30 in Imbruglia's native Australia.

Natalie Jane Imbruglia(/ɪmˈbruːliə/im-BROO-lee-ə, Italian: [imˈbruʎʎa]; born 4 February 1975) is an Australian-British singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, she began a singing career with her chart-topping cover of Ednaswap’s song "Torn".

Her subsequent album, Left of the Middle(1997), sold 7 million copies worldwide. Imbruglia's five subsequent albums have combined sales of 3 million copies worldwide, and her accolades include eight ARIA Awards, two Brit Awards, one Billboard Music Award, and three Grammy nominations.

Imbruglia has appeared in several films, including the 2003 release Johnny English and the 2009 Australian indie film Closed for Winter. She has modelled for several brands, such as L'Oreal, Gap, and Kailis.

Amongst other philanthropic work, Imbruglia served as a longtime spokesperson for Virgin Unite and campaigns to raise awareness of obstetric fistula.

Take your hand

And place it in my pocket

Flick your eyes back in their sockets

Put those thoughts away

Sometimes they're much to loud

I'll take a breath

And cradle your sweet head

Should've stayed at home in bed

Put that face away I'm melting for you

I know, I get cold

'Cause I can't leave things well alone

Understand I'm accident prone

Me, I get free

Every night the moon is mine

But when the morning comes

Don't say you love me

Don't say you need me

I really don't think that's fair

Boy, I'm not so dumb

But when you leave me

I'll be wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there

I dreamt

About another girl in bed with you

You just laughed and smiled

Denied the proof

We're fine till I think of a problem

I wish it made sense

Like a joke that no one gets

It's a life without regret

I want it to feel that way, forever and ever

I know, I get cold

'Cause I can't leave things well alone

Understand I'm accident prone

Me, I get free

Every night the moon is mine

But when the morning comes

Don't say you love me

Don't say you need me

I really don't think that's fair

Boy, I'm not so dumb

But when you leave me

I'll be wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there

Wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there

Wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there with you

Wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there

Wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there with you

Now don't say you love me

Don't say you need me

I really don't think that's fair

Whoa, I'm not so dumb

But when you leave me

I'll be wishing I, wishing I

Wishing I was there with you

Wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there

Wishing I, wishing I, wishing I was there with you.