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Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground
Oct 1, 2025
Place a name upon the night One to set your heart alight And to make the darkness bright Paint the sky with stars.
You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly
I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about forgiveness... forgiveness, even if you don't love me anymore.
If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.
I've got the moves like Jagger.
Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.
When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.
When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.
We found love in a hopeless place.
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain
I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.
Every breath you take and every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I'll be watchin' you Every single day and every word you say Every game you play, every night you stay I'll be watchin' you
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
Unforgettable, that's what you are Unforgettable though near or far Like a song of love that clings to me How the thought of you does things to me Never before has someone been more Unforgettable in every way And forever more, that's how you'll stay That's why, darling, it's incredible That someone so unforgettable Thinks that I am unforgettable too
Summertime And the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.
I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you" Birds singing in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me
She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May her tender sighs
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.
I get by with a little help from my friends.