DO I WANNA KNOW?

ARTIC MONKEYS

SONGWRITERS: ALEX TURNER & ARTIC MONKEYS

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: AM

LABEL: DOMINO RECORDING COMPANY

GENRE: INDIE ROCK

YEAR: 2013

 

         "Do I Wanna Know?" is a song by English rock band Arctic Monkeys written by Alex Turner. It was released on 19 June 2013 by Domino Recording Company as the second single from their fifth studio album, AM(2013). It received a digital download release through iTunes as well as an accompanying music video. Before its release as a single, the song was premiered by the band live in May 2013 on the AM Tour, where it was often played as the opening number. It is na indie rock, psychedelic rock, stoner rock and blues rock song, and is built around a stomping guitar riff.

          "Do I Wanna Know?" peaked at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart, charted in several other countries and was the first Arctic Monkeys song to have ever entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, peaking at number 70 in March 2014. The song was nominated for Best Rock Performance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in 2015. In December 2019, the song was ranked number three on Guitar World's list of the 20 best guitar riffs of the decade.

Have you got colour in your cheeks?

Do you ever get that fear that you can't shift

The type that sticks around like summat in your teeth?

Are there some aces up your sleeve?

Have you no idea that you're in deep?

I've dreamt about you nearly every night this week

How many secrets can you keep?

'Cause there's this tune I found

That makes me think of you somehow

And I play it on repeat

Until I fall asleep

Spilling drinks on my settee

 

(Do I wanna know)

If this feeling flows both ways?

(Sad to see you go)

Was sorta hoping that you’d stay

(Baby, we both know)

That the nights were mainly made

For saying things that you can’t say tomorrow day

 

Crawling back to you

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few?

'Cause I always do

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new

Now, I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

 

So have you got the guts?

Been wondering if your heart's still open

And if so, I wanna know what time it shuts

Simmer down and pucker up

I'm sorry to interrupt, it's just I'm constantly on the cusp

Of trying to kiss you

I don't know if you feel the same as I do

But we could be together if you wanted to

 

(Do I wanna know)

If this feeling flows both ways?

(Sad to see you go)

Was sorta hoping that you’d stay

(Baby, we both know)

That the nights were mainly made

For saying things that you can’t say tomorrow day

 

Crawling back to you (crawling back to you)

Ever thought of calling when you've had a few? (You've had a few?)

'Cause I always do ('cause I always do)

Maybe I'm too (maybe I'm too busy)

Busy being yours (being yours)

To fall for somebody new

Now, I've thought it through

Crawling back to you

(Do I wanna know)

If this feeling flows both ways?

(Sad to see you go)

Was sorta hoping that you’d stay

(Baby, we both know)

That the nights were mainly made

For saying things that you can’t say tomorrow day

 

(Do I wanna know?)

Too busy being yours to fall

(Sad to see you go)

Ever thought of calling, darling?

(Do I wanna know?)

Do you want me crawling back to you?

LOVER COME BACK

CITY AND COLOUR

SONGWRITER: DALLAS GREEN

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: IF I SHOULD GO BEFORE YOU

LABEL: DINE ALONE RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK ROCK

YEAR: 2015

 

          Green began releasing City and Colour songs on the internet for fans to download. Eventually, he compiled and rewrote several of these songs to make his first album, Sometimes. The full-length debut was released on November 1, 2005, to a good reception, described by one reviewer as "dynamically gentle and vulnerable". The cover art was designed by Scott McEwan, in a tattoo-esque style; Green "still may decide to have some of them inked at a later point in time".

        Green indicated that his view that the "best music for [him] is sad music", influenced the type of songs he created. He also said that he "love[s] music to sort of escape to" and the idea of sad music that people could identify with. Green said of the album that, "a lot of those songs are written on some of the experiences I've been through and stuff and that's just how I deal with it. I just write songs when I'm bummed out and I feel happier." Sometimes won the 2007 Juno award for Alternative Album of the Year.

        If I Should Go Before You is the fifth studio album by City and Colour. It was released on October 9, 2015, through Dine Alone Records. The release was City and Colour's third consecutive studio album to reach Nº 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart.

Bound for trouble from the start

I've been walking through this old world in the dark

All along right by my side

There you were shining, my ray of light

 

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

Lover come back, lover come back to me

 

I'll never be as good as I'd like to be

Eternally restless refusing to believe

But I think that we missed our connection

I wanted to feel your affection

Until my final days

 

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

Lover come back, lover come back to me

 

I am warm enough yet I still shiver

I am fed but still I starve

You know me I am the great misgiver

Always waiting on the clouds to part

 

I sing lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

So lover come back, lover come back to me

 

Lover come back, lover come back to me

Won't you ever come back, ever come back to me

How could I have been so foolish to let you leave

So lover come back, lover come back to me.

WRECKED

IMAGINE DRAGONS

SONGWRITERS: BENJAMIN ARTHUR MCFEE; DANIEL COULLER REYNOLDS; DANIEL WAYNE SERMON & DANIEL JAMES PLATZAM

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MERCURY – ACT 1

LABEL: KIDINAKORNER RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 2021

 

      Mercury – Act 1 is the fifth studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, released on September 3, 2021 by Kidinakorner and Interscope Records.

           Following the conclusion of their Evolve World Tour in 2018, Imagine Dragons' fourth studio album Origins was released that November. Unlike their previous albums, the band did not tour in promotion of Origins, instead opting to take time off to decompress and spend time with family.

     The album was announced on June 30, 2021, revealing the cover art and release date

Days pass by and my eyes stay dry, and I think that I'm okay

'Til I find myself in conversation, fading away

The way you smile, the way you walk

The time you took to teach me all that you had taught

Tell me, how am I supposed to move on?

 

These days I'm becoming everything that I hate

Wishing you were around but now it's too late

My mind is a place that I can't escape your ghost

 

Sometimes I wish that I could wish it all away

One more rainy day without you

Sometimes I wish that I could see you one more day

One more rainy day

 

Oh, I'm a wreck without you here

Yeah, I'm a wreck since you've been gone

I've tried to put this all behind me

I think I was wrecked all along

Yeah, I'm a wreck

 

They say that the time will heal it, the pain will go away

But everything, it reminds me of you and it comes in waves

Way you laugh when your shoulders shook

The time you took to teach me all that you had taught

Tell me, how am I supposed to move on?

 

These days I'm becoming everything that I hate

Wishing you were around but now it's too late

My mind is a place that I can't escape your ghost

 

Sometimes I wish that I could wish it all away

One more rainy day without you

Sometimes I wish that I could see you one more day

One more rainy day

 

Oh, I'm a wreck without you here

Yeah, I'm a wreck since you've been gone

I've tried to put this all behind me

I think I was wrecked all along

 

These days when I'm on the brink of the edge

Remember the words that you said

Remember the life you led

You'd say, "Oh, suck it all up, don't get stuck in the mud

Thinkin' of things that you should have done"

I'll see you again, my loved one

 

I'll see you again, my loved one

Yeah, I'm a wreck

I'll see you again, my loved one

 

Yeah, I'm a wreck without you here (loved one)

Yeah, I'm a wreck since you've been gone (I'm a wreck since you've been gone)

I've tried to put this all behind me

I think I was wrecked all along (I'm a wreck)

Yeah, I'm a wreck

 

Sometimes I wish that I could wish it all away but I can't

One more rainy day without you (one more rainy day)

Sometimes I wish that I could see you one more day but I can't

One more rainy day.

SCARED TO BE LONELY

DUA LIPA

SONGWRITERS: NATE CAMPANY; MARTIJN GARRITSEN; KYLE SHEARER; GEORGIO HESDEY TUINFORT & GEORGIA OVERTON

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SCARED TO BE LONELY

LABEL: STMPD RCRDS

GENRE: FUTURE BASS/ELECTRO

YEAR: 2017

 

         "Scared to Be Lonely" is a song recorded by Dutch DJ Martin Garrix and English singer Dua Lipa. It was written by Garrix, Giorgio Tuinfort, Nathaniel Campany, Kyle Shearer, and Georgia Ku, while the production was handled by Garrix, Tuinfort, Valley Girl, and Lorna Blackwood. The song was released for digital download and streaming as a standalone single on 27 January 2017 by Stmpd Rcrds and Epic Records, after being premiered by Garrix at the 2017 AVA Festival a month earlier. It was later included on Dua Lipa: Complete Edition(2018), the super deluxe reissue of Lipa's eponymous debut studio album.

          "Scared to Be Lonely" is a future bass track with electro and emo-EDM elements. Lyrically, the song sees Lipa singing about the ending of a relationship. The song received acclaim from music critics, with many commending Lipa's vocals and the song's emotive production. The song was a commercial success, reaching the top 10 of charts in 17 countries worldwide, including Garrix's native region of the Netherlands, reaching the third position. It additionally reached number 14 and 76, respectively, on the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Hot 100. The song has since been certified platinum or higher in 15 territories, including quadruple platinum awards in Norway and Sweden as well as a triple platinum award in the Netherlands.

         The music video for "Scared to Be Lonely" was directed by Blake Claridge and filmed in Scotland. It features Garrix walking around a landscape, reminiscing about past relationships, while Lipa sings in a forest. The two further promoted the song in 2017 with live performances at Capital FM's the Jingle Bell Ball, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Two remix EPs and an acoustic version were released. The EPs include remixes by Brooks, DubVision, and Loud Luxury.

It was great at the very start

Hands on each other

Couldn't stand to be far apart

Closer the better

 

Now we're picking fights and slamming doors

Magnifying all our flaws

And I wonder why, wonder what for

Why we keep coming back for more

 

Is it just our bodies? Are we both losing our minds?

Is the only reason you're holding me tonight

'Cause we're scared to be lonely?

Do we need somebody just to feel like we're alright?

Is the only reason you're holding me tonight

'Cause we're scared to be lonely?

 

Too much time, losing track of us

Where was the real?

Undefined, spiraling out of touch

Forgot how it feels

 

All the messed up fights and slamming doors

Magnifying all our flaws

And I wonder why, wonder what for

It's like we keep coming back for more

 

Is it just our bodies? Are we both losing our minds?

Is the only reason you're holding me tonight

'Cause we're scared to be lonely?

Do we need somebody just to feel like we're alright?

Is the only reason you're holding me tonight

'Cause we're scared to be lonely?

 

Scared to be lonely

Even when we know it's wrong

Been somebody better for us all along

Tell me, how can we keep holding on?

Holding on tonight 'cause we're scared to be lonely

Even when we know it's wrong

Been somebody better for us all along

Tell me, how can we keep holding on?

Holding on tonight 'cause we're scared to be lonely

 

Is it just our bodies? Are we both losing our minds?

Is the only reason you're holding me tonight

'Cause we're scared to be lonely?

 

Scared to be lonely

Scared to be lonely

Eh, eh, scared to be lonely.