| Feist – Caught a Long Wind Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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She is Truly the undisputed Queen if Indie! All her lyrics are included with her CD “Metals”. I love the whole album, and strongly suggest you buy her new CD. It’s dirt cheap at “Arts And Crafts” and they don’t ever gouge you with the shipping!!!! http://www.arts-crafts.ca |
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| America – Are You There? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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‘"Are You There" is an unusually pained but melodic rap by Dewey. He explained something about how that song came about: "Are You There" on the Harbor album was one of my real strong songs. That's kind of a good example because the song came straight out of the gut. We were on tour, and it was half way through the tour, and through physical abuse, basically, and some natural illnesses, we had to cancel. Daniel was one of the "illees," Gerry was sick too, and I felt this sort of "coitus interruptus" of the tour. You know, you just start rolling and WHAM! the tour is cancelled! So I came home and wrote the song -- it was like: "The day we lost our voice with little Joyce [choice], I can't explain, an act of agony." And that just came out at one sitting.’ Source: Comprehensive History: America Revisited http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/hist03.htm |
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| America – Lonely People Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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‘The second single from Holiday was a Dan Peek composition, "Lonely People." Co-written with Dan's wife, Catherine, "Lonely People" was a very simple song with a potent message, a radical departure from America's lyrically vague efforts of the past, including Dewey's impressionistic "Tin Man." Lasting just under two and a half minutes, it was a short song even for a group noted for its brief compositions, but then a powerful message need not take long to articulate. "Lonely People" featured a strikingly positive and upbeat feel for a song which basically had a melancholy underpinning -- that of loneliness and emptiness. The song also featured both a harmonica and a piano solo toward the middle of the song for the just the right hook. The honesty of both the flavor and the message that the song offered struck a chord with the public, and it rode all the way to Number Five on the Billboard singles chart in March 1975. Ten years later, Dan reflected back on the song's legacy: I've had a lot of letters from people, a lot of people coming up to me personally, and... some have even said it literally changed their life. When you have that kind of response, that's what you're looking for really as an artist. Every artist is trying to convey some kind of a message. It may be as simple as, "Let's all let our hair down and have a good time"... So I'm happy that "Lonely People'" has a good message and one that people have received, and one that has touched a lot of people.’ Source: Comprehensive History: America Revisited http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/hist01.htm |
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| America – To Each His Own Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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‘"To Each His Own" was Gerry's autobiographical song describing the heartache of living life constantly on the move.’ Source: Comprehensive History: America Revisited http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/hist02.htm |
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| America – Amber Cascades Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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‘"Amber Cascades." Perhaps one of America's most underrated songs, "Amber Cascades" had a peaceful, yet uptempo sound with harps, soft trombones, and breezy harmonies. Underneath the exterior, though, lay a more ominous current. As Dewey explained: It's harder for me to write a good song about something that's just a good, groovy time; there's always a "minor," as in minor chord, that I like to write about. It's sure hard for me to write about "bounced the baby on my knee" or "these fun times," you know. That isn't enough to get me to write. I always like to throw in something, get something extra; the words, the images, the colors, like purple or whatever, that have that little tinge of possible terror -- I call it menacing, that's the word. A little menacing. Minor keys, minor choruses, as in "Sandman": "I understand you've been running from the man." Or in "Midnight" and even in "Amber Cascades": "stop all the slaughter in view" -- just a word like slaughter. For all of its appeal, "Amber Cascades" was unable to rise past number 75 on the Billboard survey, and disappeared after just four weeks on the charts.’ Source: Comprehensive History: America Revisited http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/hist01.htm |
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| America – Tin Man Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Perhaps more than any other song, the lyrics to "Tin Man" have been scrutinized by America fans and general observers alike. From Internet chat rooms to TV quiz shows, people have wondered what lyrics like "Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man that he didn't, didn't already have" meant. Over a decade later, Dewey looked back at the unorthodox songwriting method which produced this memorable song: Great English, that one... isn't it? Good grammar. That line was just lifted straight off the "Wizard Of Oz." In the end all of those characters already had brains and courage and a heart, and so on. And of course Tin Man was the heart. Essentially I do use words very haphazardly. I just put words together and in a lot of cases it's like word association... I hope there's always a positive side to all my songs... No message as such, no, it's just flighty, colorful words. Certainly if that one line suggests that we all have something within us that we may be looking for, then that is the message, to seek within. But I don't like to get too heavy on any of that stuff... Source: Comprehensive History: America Revisited http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/hist01.htm |
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| America – A Horse With No Name Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Horse With No Name" was written by Dewey when he was eighteen. The song was a kind of abstract summation of everything he was missing about the States. He explained: "I really do like the desert a lot and 'Horse With No Name' was written while I was sitting in a room in England on a grey drizzly day -- those last few years we were there it seemed like the sun never came out!" There is a visionary feeling to the song also: "It was at first just the two-dimensional version brought into the desert, and then the last verse has something to do with an ecological thing. The actual horse didn't have much to do with it; it was representative of freedom or something, because it had no name and it just ran away at the end!" Source: Comprehensive History: America Revisited http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/hist01.htm |
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| America – California Revisited Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Dan, Dewey, and I took a trip to Stonehenge. It was before they fenced it in. We were sitting on those ancient rocks, listening to a group of young American tourists. We were well immersed in British culture by this time, and the loud, brash American kids were all talking at once. Saying things like 'I'm from L.A., and I'm from Long Beach'. I turned to Dewey and Dan and said, 'Everyone I meet is from California!'" Source: Comprehensive History: America Revisited http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/hist01.htm |
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| America – Ventura Highway Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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America member Dewey Bunnell wrote this song. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times October 1, 2006, he explained: "It was 1963 when I was in seventh grade, we got a flat tire and we're standing on the side of the road and I was staring at this highway sign. It said 'Ventura' on it and it just stuck with me. It was a sunny day and the ocean there, all of it." Regarding the lyrics, "Seasons crying no despair, alligator lizards in the air," Bunnell said: "The clouds. It's my brother and I standing there on the side of the road looking at the shapes of clouds while my dad changed the tire." There's no official "Ventura Highway," but Ventura is a county in California, and Highway 101 runs through it. |
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