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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...
20 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Many people assume that this song is about drugs, but it isn't. Petty got the idea for it when he saw a pilot being interviewed on TV. The pilot said how it wasn't hard learning to fly... the hardest part was coming down. The song was written in 1...
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...
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The lyrics to the song were written by lead vocalist Tim McIlrath, and deal with the political issue of forced displacement and the societal issues surrounding refugees, while the music was collectively written by the band. The song uses a contras...
8 May 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
This is the first single from the album The Black Parade. In an interview with MTV, lead singer Gerard Way explained that the concept of the album is "The Patient," who dies of cancer at an early age. According to Way, death comes in the form of y...
8 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
The title is often attributed as a phrase AC/DC guitarist Angus Young used to describe touring in America. There is a much more literal explanation, however. "Highway to Hell" was the nickname for the Canning Highway in Australia. It runs from whe...
