SCARS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL

ALESSIA CARA
SONGWRITERS: ALESSIA CARACCIOLO; WARREN FELDER; ANDREW WANSIL; COLERIDGE TILLMAN & JUSTIN FRANKS
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: KNOW-IT-ALL
LABEL: DEF JAM RECORDING
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 2016
 
         Alessia Caracciolo (born July 11, 1996), known professionally as Alessia Cara (/əˈlɛsiəˈkɑːrə/), is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. After producing acoustic covers, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014 and released her debut single the following year. "Here" peaked at number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart and was a sleeper hit in the United States, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
          Cara's debut studio album, Know-It-All (2015), peaked at number 8 on the Canadian Albums Chart and at number 9 on the Billboard 200. The album's third single, "Scars to Your Beautiful", peaked number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016. In 2017, Cara collaborated with DJ and producer Zedd to create the single "Stay", and with rapper Logic to feature in his song "1-800-273-8255". Cara has received nominations for four Grammy Awards, including a win for Best New Artist in 2018. She was nominated for Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 2019 Latin Grammys for her collaboration with Juanes on "Querer Mejor". Her second studio album, The Pains of Growing (2018), saw the moderate commercial success of the singles "Growing Pains" and "Trust My Lonely".
           "Scars to Your Beautiful" is a song recorded by Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara. Def Jam Recordings and Universal Music Group serviced it to contemporary hit radio on July 26, 2016, as the third single from her debut studio album Know-It-All (2015). The song was written by Alessia Caracciolo, Warren Felder, Andrew Wansel, Coleridge Tillman and Justin Franks, and produced by Pop & Oak and the latter two.
          It peaked at number eight and thus became Alessia Cara's second top-ten single on US Billboard Hot 100. 
 

She just wants to be beautiful
She goes unnoticed
She knows no limits
She craves attention
She praises an image
She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor
 
Oh, she don't see the light that's shining
Deeper than the eyes can find it
Maybe we have made her blind
So, she tries to cover up her pain
And cut her woes away
'Cause covergirls don't cry
After their face is made, but
 
There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
You should know you're beautiful just the way you are
And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful
We're stars and we're beautiful

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful
We're stars and we're beautiful
 
She has dreams to be an envy
So she's starving
You know, covergirls eat nothing
She says: Beauty is pain and there's beauty in everything
What's a little bit of hunger?
I can go a little while longer
She fades away
 
She don't see her perfect
She don't understand she's worth it
Or that beauty goes deeper than the surface, oh, oh, oh, oh
So to all the girls that's hurting, let me be your mirror
Help you see a little bit clearer
The light that shines within
 
There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
You should know you're beautiful just the way you are
And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful
We're stars and we're beautiful
 
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful
We're stars and we're beautiful
 
No better you than the you that you are
(No better you than the you that you are)
No better life than the life we're living
(No better life than the life we're living)
No better time for your shine, you're a star
(No better time for your shine, you're a star)
Oh, you're beautiful
Oh, you're beautiful
 
There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
You should know you're beautiful just the way you are
And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful
We're stars and we're beautiful
 
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful
We're stars and we're beautiful.

STONE CRAZY

BUDDY GUY
SONGWRITER: BUDDY GUY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: I WAS WALKIN’ THROUGH THE WOOD
LABEL: ALLIGATOR
GENRE: BLUE
YEAR: 1979
 
          George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues and has influenced guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a house guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with the harmonica player Junior Wells.
         Guy was ranked 23rd in Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". His song "Stone Crazy" was ranked 78th in the Rolling Stone list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Clapton once described him as "the best guitar player alive". In 1999, Guy wrote the book Damn Right I've Got the Blues, with Donald Wilcock. His autobiography, When I Left Home: My Story, was published in 2012.
          The Blues Giant (also known as Stone Crazy!) is the fourth studio album by Buddy Guy. It was an attempt to capture Buddy's ferocious live performance style in a studio setting. It contains some of his most aggressive and unpredictable guitar solos.
            The 1970s was a very hard time for traditional Blues musicians. Only one Buddy Guy studio album had been released in that decade (Hold That Plane! - recorded in 1969, released in 1972), until he and his band entered Concoret Studios in Toulouse, France for these sessions. Buddy was pleased to record with French producer Didier Tricard. To release this album, Tricard founded a new label, named "Isabel" by Buddy Guy after his mother.
Woman you must be stone down crazy
Either you're going to lose your mind
Yes I said baby you must be stone crazy
Either you're going to lose your mind
Yes I wanna know how could you treat me so dirty baby
You must think my little heart is made of iron
 
Lord as I sit here in my dark room
Tears rolling down from my eyes
Yes I sit I sit here in my dark room
Tears rolling all down from my eyes
Yes you know my little baby looked at me and said daddy
Ohh, God knows you're the hurted child
 
Oh yeah
Somebody come and get me
 
Yes I think I'm going back down south
People where the weather suits my clothes
Yes I said I'm going back down south
People where the weather suits my clothes
Yes you know that I'm playing around in this big city so long man
Ohh, 'till I'm almost just done froze
 
Darling you must be stone crazy
Or either you're going to lose your mind
Yes I said woman you must be stone down crazy
Either you're going to lose your mind
Yes I wanna know how could you treat me so low down and dirty
You must be think my little heart is made of iron
 
Wow as I sit here in my dark room
Tears rolling all down my eyes
Yes I sit I sit right here right here in my dark room
Tears rolling all down from my eyes
Yes you know my little girl looked at me and said
Ohh, my daddy is a hurted child
 
Ohh, Look-a-here now
Somebody come here
 
Lord I believe I'm going back down south
Where the weather suits my clothes
Yes I believe I'm going back down south
People where the weather suits my clothes
Yes you know that I've played around in these big cities so long man
Ohh, 'till I'm almost done froze.

A MILLION SIGNS

VIVIDRY
SONGWRITERS: BENJ PASEC & JUSTIN PAUL
COUNTRY:
ALBUM: YOUR GOOD LIES
LABEL: EPIDEMIC SOUND
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 2019
 
            I CANNOT FIND A REGISTRATION ABOUT THIS GROUP, OR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.

I think I might be over my troubles
Since you came, came around
Ooh
Something struck me
Oh baby
But it could have been my mind
Hmm
 
Oh it's not hard to see (yeah)
Why I was feeling dead
You saw right through it all
Oh I could not fake it
No matter how I tried
Ooh
 
You cured my aching heart
When you came, came around
I saw a million signs
I must be over it by now
There's a reason why, ooh
 
I think I might be over my troubles, yeah
They've been there for so long now
Hmm
 'Cause suddenly I think of tomorrow, yeah
Since you came, came around
Ooh
 
I feel like the only one
Who found out the reason why
Oh I was just lonely (lonely ooh)
But since you came around (came around)
All I see is tomorrow
 
When you hear me calling
Ooh
It's you and me
Ooh yeah
 'Cause I cannot fake it
No matter how I feel
Yeah
 
'Cause you heal my aching heart
When you come, come around
I saw a million signs
I must be over it by now
There's a reason why, ooh
I think I might be over my troubles
They've been there for so long now
It's, it's alright
'Cause suddenly I think of tomorrow (think of
tomorrow)
Since you came, came around
Ooh
 
I feel like the only one
Who found out the reason why
Oh I was just lonely
But since you came around (came around,
I could see)
All I see is tomorrow .

THE TRILL IS GONE

B. B. KING
SONGWRITERS: RICK DARNELL & ROY HAWKINS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: COMPLETELY WELL
LABEL: BLUESWAY RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1969
 
        Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".
          King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and Freddie King, none of whom are blood related). King performed tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his 70s. In 1956 alone, he appeared at 342 shows.
         King was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and the guitar in church, and began his career in juke joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago, and as his fame grew, toured the world extensively. King died at the age of 89 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 14, 2015.
        "The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. Hawkins' recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951. In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King. His rendition helped make the song a blues standard.

The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone, baby
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong, baby
And you'll be sorry someday
 
The thrill is gone
It's gone away from me
The thrill is gone, baby
The thrill is gone away from me
Although, I'll still live on
But so lonely I'll be
 
The thrill is gone
It's gone away for good
The thrill is gone, baby
It's gone away for good
Someday, I know I'll be open armed baby
Just like I know a good man should
 
You know I'm free, free now, baby
I'm free from your spell
Oh, I'm free, free, free now
I'm free from your spell
And now that it's all over
All I can do is wish you well.