CARRY YOU HOME

JAMES BLUNT

SONGWRITERS: JAMES BLUNT & MAX MARTIN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: ALL THE LOST SOULS

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 2007

 

        James Hillier Blount(born 22 February 1974), better known as James Blunt, is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army, he served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. After leaving the military, he rose to fame in 2004 with the release of his debut álbum Back to Bedlam, achieving worldwide fame with the singles "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover".

        Blunt's first album has sold over 11 million copies worldwide, topping the UK Albums Chart and peaking at number two in the US. "You're Beautiful" was number one in the UK, the US and a dozen other countries. Back to Bedlam was the best-selling album of the 2000s in the UK, and is one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history. Blunt has since sold over 20 million records worldwide. He has received several awards, including two Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 2006—two MTV Video Music Awards, and two Ivor Novello Awards, as well as receiving five Grammy Award nominations and an Honorary Doctorate for Music in 2016 by the University of Bristol.

          "Carry You Home" is the third single from James Blunt's second studio album, All the Lost Souls. The single was released on 24 March 2008. The song peaked at Nº 20 on the UK Singles Chart. The song had already debuted at Nº 173 in September 2007, solely on download sales of the album All the Lost Souls. The single was Blunt's last release to be available on three different physical formats.

Trouble is her only friend

And he's back again

Makes her body older

Than it really is

She says it's high time she went away

No one's got much to say in this town

Trouble is the only way is down

Down, down

 

As strong as you were

Tender you go

I'm watching you breathing

For the last time

A song for your heart

But when it is quiet

I know what it means

And I'll carry you home

I'll carry you home

 

If she had wings she would fly away

And another day God will give her some

Trouble is the only way is down

Down, down

 

As strong as you were

Tender you go

I'm watching you breathing

For the last time

A song for your heart

But when it is quiet

I know what it means

And I'll carry you home

I'll carry you home

 

And they were all born pretty in New York City tonight

And someone's little girl was taken from the world tonight

Under the Stars and Stripes

 

As strong as you were

Tender you go

I'm watching you breathing

For the last time

A song for your heart

But when it is quiet

I know what it means

And I'll carry you home

I'll carry you home

 

As strong as you were

Tender you go

I'm watching you breathing

For the last time

A song for your heart

But when it is quiet

I know what it means

And I'll carry you home

I'll carry you home.

EVERGLOW

COLDPLAY

SONGWRITERS: CHRIS MARTIN; GUY BERRYMAN; JOHNNY BUCKLAND; MIKKEL ERIKSEN; TOR HERMANSEN & WILL CHAMPION.

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS

LABEL: PARLOPHONE RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 2015

 

        Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1996. Vocalist, rhythm guitarist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion met at University College London and began playing music together from 1996 to 1998, first calling themselves Pectoralz and then Starfish before finally changing their name to Coldplay. Their creative director and former manager Phil Harvey is considered the fifth member of the band.

          After changing their name to Coldplay, the band recorded and released two EPs, Safety in 1998 and The Blue Room in 1999, the latter was their first release under a major record label, Parlophone. Coldplay achieved worldwide fame with the release of the song "Yellow" in 2000, followed in the same year by their debut album Parachutes, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. The band's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head(2002), was released to critical acclaim. Their next record, X&Y, was the best-selling album worldwide of 2005. While the Brian Eno-produced fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends(2008) was the best-selling album of said year and earned the band three Grammy Awards. In 2011, Coldplay released their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto, which topped the charts in over 34 countries and was the UK's best-selling rock album of 2011. The band have since released Ghost Stories(2014), A Head Full of Dreams(2015) and Everyday Life(2019).

        Coldplay have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They have won numerous awards throughout their career, including nine Brit Awards, seven MTV Video Music Awards, eight MTV Europe Music Awards and seven Grammy Awards from 35 nominations. The band's first three albums—Parachutes(2000), A Rush of Blood to the Head(2002), and X&Y(2005) — are among the best-selling albums in UK chart history.

      "Everglow" is a song by British rock band Coldplay. It is the fourth track from their seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams. It features uncredited guest vocals by Gwyneth Paltrow, who at the time was married to Chris Martin despite their separation being announced in 2014. The track premiered during Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show on 26 November 2015 and was originally released as a promotional single for the album on 27 November 2015.

       On 11 November 2016, however, the song was released as the fourth official single from the album through a newly recorded stripped-down version, which was inspired by Martin's unrehearsed solo performance of the song at the recente Glastonbury Festival. This recording ends with a sample of Muhammad Ali's 1977 speech in Newcastle upon Tyne.

         The track revolves around a heartfelt piano riff and was written in the key of C# Minor at 73 BPM and a chord progression that alternates between C#m-A-E-G#m7 and C#m-A-E-B

Oh, they say people come

They say people go

This particular diamond

Was extra special

 

And though you might be gone

And the world may not know

Still I see you celestial

 

Like a lion you ran, a goddess you rolled

Like an eagle you circled, in perfect purple

So how come things move on? How come cars don’t slow?

When it feels like the end of my world

And I should, but I can't let it go

 

But when I'm cold, cold

When I'm cold, cold

There's a light that you give me

When I'm in shadow

There's a feeling you give me, an everglow

 

Like brothers in blood

Sisters who ride

Yeah, we swore on that night

We'd be friends 'til we die

 

But the changing of winds

And the way waters flow

Life as short as the falling of snow

And now I'm gonna miss you, I know

 

But when I'm cold, cold

In water rolled, salt

I know you're always with me

And the way you will show

And you're with me wherever I go

'Cause you give me this feeling, this everglow

 

Oh, what I would give for just a moment to hold

Yeah, I live for this feeling, this everglow

So if you love someone

You should let them know

Oh, the light that you give me will everglow.

SUPERMARKET FLOWERS

ED SHEERAN

SONGWRITER: ED SHEERAN; JOHNNY MCDAID & BENJAMIN LEVIN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: DIVIDE

LABEL: ASYLUM RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2017

 

          Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE (/ˈʃɪərən/; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, actor, and businessman. After first recording music in 2004, he began gaining attention through YouTube. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, Nº 5 Collaborations Project. He signed with Asylum Records the same year.

        Sheeran's debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011 and topped the UK Albums Chart. It contained his first hit single "The A Team". In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Sheeran's second studio album, × (pronounced "multiply"), was released in June 2014. It was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015. In the same year, × won Album of the Year at the 2015 Brit Awards, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. A single from ×, "Thinking Out Loud", earned him the 2016 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

        Sheeran's third album, ÷(pronounced "divide"), was released in March 2017, and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017. The first two singles from the album, "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill", broke records in a number of countries by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. By March 2017, Sheeran had accumulated ten top 10 singles from ÷ on the UK Singles Chart, breaking the record for most top 10 UK singles from one album. His fourth single from ÷, "Perfect", reached number one in the US, Australia and the UK, where it became the Christmas number one in 2017. The world's best-selling artist of 2017, he was named the Global Recording Artist of the Year. Released in 2019, his fourth studio álbum Nº.6 Collaborations Project debuted at number one in most major markets, and spawned three UK number one singles, "I Don't Care", "Beautiful People" and "Take Me Back to London".

        Supermarket Flowers is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was included on his third studio álbum ÷(2017). After the album's release it charted at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. It was released as a promotional single following Sheeran's performance at the 2018 Brit Awards.

 

I took the supermarket flowers from the windowsill

I threw the day old tea from the cup

Packed up the photo album Matthew had made

Memories of a life that's been loved

 

Took the Get Well Soon cards and stuffed animals

Poured the old ginger beer down the sink

Dad always told me: Don't you cry when you're down

But mum, there's a tear every time that I blink

 

Oh, I'm in pieces, it's tearing me up, but I know

A heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved

 

So I'll sing hallelujah

You were an angel in the shape of my mum

When I fell down you'd be there holding me up

Spread your wings as you go

And when God takes you back He'll say: Hallelujah, you're home

 

I fluffed the pillows, made the beds, stacked the chairs up

Folded your nightgowns neatly in a case

John says he'd drive then put his hand on my cheek

And wiped a tear from the side of my face

 

I hope that I see the world as you did, 'cause I know

A life with love is a life that's been lived

 

So I'll sing hallelujah

You were an angel in the shape of my mum

When I fell down you'd be there holding me up

Spread your wings as you go

And when God takes you back He'll say: Hallelujah, you're home

 

Hallelujah

You were an angel in the shape of my mum

You got to see the person I have become

Spread your wings and I know

That when God took you back He said: Hallelujah, you're home

BREAK IT TO ME GENTLY

BRENDA LEE

SONGWRITERS: DIANE LAMPERT & JOE SENECA

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ...”LET ME SING”.

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCKABILLY

YEAR: 1963

 

       Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard.

            At 4 ft 9 inches tall (approximately 145cm), she received the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite" in 1957, after recording the song "Dynamite" when she was 12, and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.

        In 1969, Lee returned to the charts with her recording "Johnny One Time" penned by A.L. "Doodle" Owens and Dallas Frazier. The song reached #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #41 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also earned Lee her second Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal. Later success came with a return to her roots as a country singer, with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee is the only woman to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

          "Break It to Me Gently" is a pop song written by blues musician Joe Seneca with lyrics by Diane Lampert. Both Brenda Lee and Juice Newton met with considerable success with their versions of the song.

           Brenda Lee recorded "Break It to Me Gently" on August 31, 1961 with Owen Bradley producing the session at his Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville: after another track from the same session, "Fool #1", had become a Top Ten hit. "Break It To Me Gently" was released as a single at the end of 1961 and reached number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1962. In 2008, the Brenda Lee version of the song was featured at the closing of season 2, episode 7 of the AMC series Mad Men. Lee's "Break It to Me Gently" is on the track list of the CD Pan Am: Music From and Inspired By the Original Series set for release January 17, 2012.

Break it to me gently, let me down that easy way

Make me feel you still love me if it's just, just for one more day

Break it to me gently so my tears, my tears won't fall too fast

If you must go, then go slowly, let me love you 'till then

 

The love we've shared oh so long, it's a tender part of me

If you must take your love away, take it gradually

And break it to me gently, give me time, oh give me a little time to ease the pain

If you must go, then go slowly, 'cause I'll never love again

 

If you must take your love away, take it gradually

And break it to me gently

Give me time, oh give me a little time to ease the pain

Love me just a little longer, 'cause I'll never, never love again

'Cause I'll never, no never love again.