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27 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This is also known as "Whoo-Hooo," which is the chorus. The title is not in the lyrics, as the name "Song 2" was originally just a working title, with Blur introducing it that way during live performances. Fans soon identified the song as "Song 2"...
27 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
A special edition of Daily Song Facts featuring songs with a short amount of trivia. Enjoy! Fat Lip by Sum 41 This is about lead singer Deryck Whibley's parents. His parents wanted him to be just another normal person, but Deryck wanted to do what...
25 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Ben E. King recorded this shortly after leaving The Drifters in 1960. It gave him a solid reputation as a solo artist. After leaving The Drifters, King auditioned for the wildly successful songwriting/production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoll...
23 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is about man's desire to kill and destroy. Sabbath got the idea from war stories they heard when they did a show at an American Air Force base during a tour of Europe. They wrote the song when they were in a grim deserted place in Zurich...
21 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This reflects the mood of lead singer Billy Corgan, who was very depressed when he wrote it. Corgan was in therapy, suffering from writer's block, and struggling with expectations that Smashing Pumpkins would be the next Nirvana. With the lyric, "...
21 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Gavin Rossdale wrote this about his relationship with his girlfriend at the time, a model named Jasmine Lewis. She is credited as a backup vocalist on the Sixteen Stone album. Rossdale dated her for about five years before their breakup, which was...
14 May 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
In an interview with VH1, lead singer Pat Monahan revealed that he wrote this song about the death of his mother. Train released their first album in 1998, and were touring that year when Monahan's mother was dying of lung cancer - she was a heavy...
14 May 2020 1 minute read 4 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Lead singer Chris Martin has said that the lyrics are about being devoted to someone, wanting to do anything for them: writing a song for them, swimming across the sea for them and so on. He said that it's not necessarily a romantic devotion, but...
11 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Frontwoman and lyricist Hayley Williams told Kerrang!, that it's "the first time I've been able to write a song about that [love]." She added: "Josh [Farro] (guitar) brought me the music and I thought it was so beautiful. I don't know where my hea...
11 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This was originally recorded by a British group called The Arrows in 1975, and it was written by their lead singer Alan Merrill and guitarist Jake Hooker. The song was released as a B-side with "Broken Down Heart." The song didn't chart and was ba...
