SLEEP TO DREAM

FIONA APPLE

SONGWRITER: FIONA APPLE MAGGART

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TIDAL

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: TRIP HOP/ROCK

YEAR: 1997

 

          Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart(born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released five albums from 1996 to 2020, which have all reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.

        The youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City and was raised alternating between her mother's home in New York and her father's in Los Angeles. Classically trained on piano as a child, she began composing her own songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, Tidal, containing songs written when she was 17, was released in 1996 and received a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Rock Performance for the single "Criminal". She followed with When the Pawn... (1999), produced by Jon Brion, which was also critically and commercially successful and was certified Platinum.

      For her third album, Extraordinary Machine(2005), Apple again collaborated with Brion and began recording the album in 2002. However, Apple was reportedly unhappy with the production and opted not to release the record, leading fans to protest Epic Records, erroneously believing that the label was withholding its release. The album was eventually re-produced without Brion and released in October 2005. The album was certified Gold, and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. In 2012, she released her fourth studio album, The Idler Wheel..., which received critical praise and was followed by a tour of the United States and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2013. Apple's fifth studio album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, was released in 2020 to widespread acclaim, earning two Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance for the lead single "Shameika".

           "Sleep to Dream" is a song written and recorded by American alternative singer-songwriter Fiona Apple. It was released on April 14, 1997 by Work Records and Columbia Records as the second single from her debut studio album, Tidal.

           The song's accompanying music video was filmed by French diretor Stéphane Sednaoui and received positive reviews. Apple won the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video in 1997, in which it garnered worldwide controversy after she proclaimed during her acceptance speech: "This world is bullshit, and you shouldn't model your life about what we think is cool, and what we're wearing and what we're saying." Despite peaking at only number 28 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, the song remains one of Apple's most successful singles to date. 

I tell you how I feel but you don't care

I say tell me the truth but you don't dare

You say love is a hell you cannot bear

And I say give me mine back and go there for all I care

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

 

I have never been so insulted in all my life

I could swallow the seas to wash down all this pride

First you run like a fool just to be at my side

And now you run like a fool but you just run to hide

I can't abide

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

 

Don't make it a big deal, don't be so sensitive

We're not playing a game anymore

You don't have to be so defensive

 

Don't you plead me your case, don't bother to explain

Don't even show me your face 'cause it's a crying shame

Just go back to the rock from under which you came

Take the sorrows you gave and all the stakes you claim

And don't forget to blame

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise

 

I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream

You got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem

This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways

So don't forget what I told you don't come around

I got my own hell to raise.

WHEN LOVE CALLS

ATLANTIC STARR

SONGWRITERS: DAVID LEWIS & WAYNE I. LEWIS

COUNTRY:

ALBUM: RADIANT

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1981

 

       Atlantic Starr is an American band based in White Plains, New York. They are best known for the hits "Always", "Secret Lovers", "Send for Me", "Circles", "Silver Shadow" and "Masterpiece".

       Radiant is the third studio album by American rhythm and blues band Atlantic Starr.

Mmm, mmm

Hey, hoo, yeah

Ooh, ooh, yeah, whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah

Yeah

 

Here I stand with open arms

I'm offerin' my love to you

I want to do for you

All the things that you want me to

 

There's so much more

That I could do for you, yeah

But you just won't let me give you my love, boy

What is wrong with you

 

Don't you know when love calls, yeah

You'd better answer (You'd better answer)

‘Cause it might be big mistake

If you decide to hesitate

 

Oh, when love calls, yeah

You'd better answer (You'd better answer)

Don't let it slip away too many times

‘Cause love may not ever come again

 

Ooh, no

Oh, no

 

I know that your heart is into playin' the field

And that blinds you

Baby, you can't see

The forest for the trees, no, no

 

The candle in my heart

Burns slowly every day

Don't you mess around too long

And let it melt away

 

And I'm tellin' you when love calls, yeah

You'd better answer (You'd better answer)

‘Cause it might be big mistake

If you decide to hesitate

 

Oh, when love calls, yeah

You'd better answer (You'd better answer)

Don't let it slip away too many times

‘Cause love may not ever come again, oh

 

True love is so hard to come by

It's precious and it's rare, yeah

But I've got a lot of it to give

Don't miss out, don't you dare

 

Just this time

Come on and see it through, oh

I'm willing and waiting

But it's all up to you, oh...

 

When love calls, yeah

You'd better answer (You'd better answer)

Don't let it slip away too many times

‘Cause love may not ever come again

 

You'd better listen, yeah

(You'd better listen when love calls, baby)

(You'd better listen when love calls your name)

 

I'm callin' your name

(You'd better listen when love calls, baby)

(You'd better listen when love calls your name)

 

Ooh, ooh, yeah, whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah

(You'd better listen when love calls, baby)

(You'd better listen when love calls your name)

 

Ooh, ooh, yeah, whoa, whoa, yeah, yeah

(You'd better listen when love calls, baby)

(You'd better listen when love calls your name)

 

Ah, ah, yeah

(When love calls)

Ooh, better answer me, baby

‘Cause I'm waiting here for you.

DRUGS & MONEY

CHASE ATLANTIC

SONGWRITER: CHRISTIAN ANTHONY; CLINTON CAVE; JASON MERRIS BELL; JORDAN RAND MILLER & MICHEL CAVE

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: CHASE ATLANTIC

LABEL: WARNER RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 2017

 

           Chase Atlantic(occasionally stylized as CHASE ATLANTIC) is an Australian alternative R&B band and production trio from Cairns, Queensland, formed in 2014. The group consists of lead vocalist Mitchel Cave, rhythm guitarist and vocalist Christian Anthony, lead guitarist, saxophonist, and backing vocalist Clinton Cave, touring guitarist Patrick Wilde, and touring drummer Jesse Boyle. Chase Atlantic has released seven EPs and three albums, Dalliance in 2014, Nostalgia in 2015, Paradise EP in 2016, Part One, Part Two, and Part Three in 2017, Chase Atlantic in 2017, Phases in 2019, Don't Try This in 2019, and Beauty in Death in 2021.

 

I think I'm God and some other shit, yeah

You know how I get when I'm in my head, yeah

Pink shadows in the basement, whoa

What's that pink shadow in the base-

 

Mama, I'm sorry, reality's boring

I cut it up, wash it all down with a forty

I probably won't snort it

My head is discarded

I try to ignore it, I try to ignore it

I'm searching for a drag, girl, you know the story

Girl, you know the story

 

Drugs and fucking money

I can hear the birds sing

Drugs and fucking money

Fucking up this whole thing

Drugs and fucking money

Only thing that I need

Drugs and fucking money, yeah

 

Yeah, drugs and fucking money

I can hear the birds sing

Drugs and fucking money

Fucking up this whole thing

Drugs and fucking money

Only thing that I need

Drugs and fucking money, yeah

Drugs and fuck-

 

Gold plated chain in my pocket

I could make it rain if I wanted to

She said, "You got drugs 'cause I want 'em", hell no

I told you that I ain't, got to stop it

 

Mama, I'm sorry, reality's boring

I cut it up, wash it all down with a forty

I probably won't snort it

My head is discarded

I try to ignore it, I try to ignore it

I'm searching for a drag, girl, you know the story

Girl, you know the story

 

Drugs and fucking money

I can hear the birds sing

Drugs and fucking money

Fucking up this whole thing

Drugs and fucking money

Only thing that I need

Drugs and fucking money

 

Yeah, drugs and fucking money

I can hear the birds sing

Drugs and fucking money

Fucking up this whole thing

Drugs and fucking money

Only thing that I need

Drugs and fucking money, yeah

Drugs and fucking

Damn, I love it

Maybe I should drop it, pick a different subject

Maybe it's deliberate if it's lacking substance

Baby, you still listen so I know you love it

I know you love it

 

Oh, I guess I could say some nice things

Or write about how good my life's been

I'm sure your parents wouldn't like me

These circumstances can be frightening

Guess I managed all your time, please

Balance addiction on a tight string

Money and drugs are all I think about

So I'ma drop this song and let the birds sing

 

Damn, I love it

Maybe I should drop it, pick a different subject

Maybe it's deliberate if it's lacking substance

Baby, you still listen so I know you love it

I know you love it.

EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE

GEORGE BENSON

SONGWRITER: BERNARD INGHNER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: IN FLIGHT

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1977

 

          George Washington Benson(born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist.

      A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others. He then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. His álbum Breezin' was certified triple-platinum, hitting nº 1 on the Billboard album chart in 1976. His concerts were well attended through the 1980s, and he still has a large following. Benson has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

          In Flight is a 1977 studio album by George Benson and was released on the Warner Bros. Records label. It was certified Platinum by the RIAA. 

Everything must change,

Nothing stays the same.

Everyone must change

Nothing stays the same.

 

The young become the old,

Mysteries do unfold.

'Cause that's the way of time

Nothing and no one goes unchanged.

 

There are not many things

In life you can be sure of.

Except

 

Rain comes from the clouds,

And sun lights up the sky,

And humming birds do fly.

 

Winter turns to spring.

Wounded heart will heal.

Never much too soon

Everything must change

 

The young become the old,

Mysteries do unfold.

'Cause that's the way of time

Nothing and no one goes unchanged.

 

There are not many things

In life you can be sure of.

Except

 

Rain comes from the clouds,

And sun lights up the sky,

And humming birds do fly.