Video hit Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams - Somebody (live in Belgium, 1988)

Somebody is a rock song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams fourth studio album Reckless (1984).

It was the second single released from the album Reckless. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stewart Mason from Allmusic said "Following the Big Rawk Anthem ("Run to You") and the Sensitive Power Ballad ("Heaven"), "Somebody" covers the third base as a straight-ahead singalong pop song with a killer chorus. A gift to an entire generation of cover bands working the bar circuit, "Somebody" has a chorus so simple and catchy that you can actually sing along to it even if you've never actually heard the song before, and Adams and his indispensable musical partner, Jim Vallance, helpfully point out the feasibility of said activity by incorporating a large, somewhat ragged group of backing vocalists for the lengthy vamp of a fadeout. Rather like "Run to You," "Somebody" is just slightly too schematic to qualify as an all-time heartland rock classic, but it still sounds good on the radio."

Somebody was part of the 24 songs, for which the first file-sharing copyright infringement lawsuit brought by major record labels to be tried to a jury.

Jammie Thomas, single mother of four, was found liable in a 2007 trial for downloading the 24 songs from Kazaa and ordered to pay $222,000($9,250/song) in damages, in a second trial, in 2009, a jury again found against Thomas, this time awarding $1,920,000($80,000/song) in damages.

The lyrics:

I been lookin' for someone

Between the fire and the flame

We're all lookin' for somethin'

To ease the pain

Now who can you turn to

When it's all black and white

And the winners are losers

You see it every night

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

Everybody needs somebody

When you're out on the front line

And you're watchin' them fall

It doesn't take long to realize

It ain't worth fightin' for

I thought I saw the Madonna

When you walked in the room

Well your eyes were like diamonds

And they cut right through, oh they cut right through

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

We all need somebody

Another night another lesson learned

It's the distance keeps us sane

But when the silence leads to sorrow

We do it all again, all again

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

We all need somebody

Video hit Michael Buble

Michael Buble - "Everything" (live at Madison Square Garden)

Everything is a Grammy Award-nominated single, recorded by Canadian singer Michael Bublé, and released as the lead single from his third major-label studio album, Call Me Irresponsible.

Bublé wrote the lyrics of "Everything" for his then girlfriend Emily Blunt.

He later explained: "I wrote the song about the great happiness of real love, but at the same time I was making a statement about the world. We’re living in really crazy times, and I wanted to say that no matter what’s happening, this person in my life is what really makes it worthwhile."

Unlike Bublé's other work, this song strays away from being big band oriented, and carries a more adult contemporary sound, carrying some elements of pop and rock.

It is completely devoid of a horn section, as well as being guitar driven. A piano and an acoustic guitar carry the main melody of the song, with electric guitars audible in the chorus. Bublé's vocal arrangement is also different to his previous material; his voice often makes big interval changes in most of his material, but his voice in this particular song is projected smoothly without going into loud intervals. It is comparable to his previous hit, and adult contemporary single, "Home", from the album It's Time.

The music video for the song features scenes of Bublé performing the song into a mic, as well as holding an open audition for actors and entertainers to appear in the video, finally choosing the right candidate at the end.

The video was posted on the popular video sharing site YouTube, where to date it has received over thirty-six million hits. Bono impersonator Pavel Sfera makes a cameo appearances in the video.

In Italy, the song topped the digital singles chart in April 2007, before reaching the top of the overall singles chart over a year later in June 2008.

The lyrics:

You're a falling star

You're the getaway car

You're the line in the sand

When I go too far

You're the swimming pool

On an August day

And you're the perfect thing to say

And you play it coy

But it's kinda cute

Oh when you smile at me

You know exactly what you do

Baby don't pretend

That you don't know it's true

'Cause you can see it

When I look at you

And in this crazy life

And through these crazy times

It's you, it's you

You make me sing

You're every line

You're every word

You're everything

You're a carousel

You're a wishing well

And you light me up

When you ring my bell

You're a mystery

You're from outer space

You're every minute of my every day

And I can't believe

That I'm your man

And I get to kiss you baby

Just because I can

Whatever comes our way

We'll see it through

And you know

That's what our love can do

And in this crazy life

And through these crazy times

It's you, it's you

You make me sing

You're every line

You're every word

You're everything

And so la la la la, la la la

So la la la la, la la la

And in this crazy life

And through these crazy times

It's you, it's you

You make me sing

You're every line

You're every word

You're everything

You're every song

And I sing along

'Cause you're my everything

Yeah, yeah

Video hit Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open

Into the Great Wide Open is the eighth studio album by American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, first released in July 1991.

The album was the band's last with MCA Records. The album was the second Petty produced with Jeff Lynne after the success of 1989's Full Moon Fever.

The music video for the title song starred Johnny Depp, who had moved to Los Angeles as a teenager to seek rock stardom, along with Gabrielle Anwar, Faye Dunaway, and Matt LeBlanc.

For the most part, Into the Great Wide Open was warmly received by critics.

Dave DiMartino, reviewing the album for Entertainment Weekly said that the album was the closest "classic" album Tom and the band have made in fifteen years, saying that the album was a return to their first two albums. He feels that this is due largely to Jeff Lynne and that the songs are better than the ones on Full Moon Fever.

Rolling Stone critic, Parke Puterbaugh, called the album a cross between Full Moon Fever and Damn the Torpedoes, said that it features Petty's best lyrics and that it is much better than Let Me Up (I've Had Enough).

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic felt less of the album, saying that it sounds too much like Full Moon Fever, which he thinks should not have been as successful as it was. He said that the album was "pleasant" but was not his best.

In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the album a one-star honorable mention, calling it "a worthy effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well like.

The lyrics:

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school

He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo

He met a girl out there with a tattoo too

The future was wide open

They moved into a place they both could afford

He found a nightclub he could work at the door

She had a guitar and she taught him some chords

The sky was the limit

Into the great wide open

Under them skies of blue

Out in the great wide open

A rebel without a clue

The papers said Ed always played from the heart

He got an agent and a roadie named Bart

They made a record and it went in the chart

The sky was the limit

His leather jacket had chains that would jingle

They both met movie stars, partied and mingled

Their A&R man said "I don't hear a single"

The future was wide open

Into the great wide open

Under them skies of blue

Out in the great wide open

Video hit Johnny Hallyday and Florent Pagny

Johnny Hallyday et Florent Pagny - Toute la musique j'aime

Johnny Hallyday in duet with Florent Pagny sings "Toute la musique que j'aime" live at The Eiffel Tower in 2000.

The lyrics by Michel Mallory.

The lyrics:

Toute la musique, que j'aime

elle vient de là elle vient du blues

les mots ne sont jamais les mêmes

pour exprimer ce qu'est le blues

J'y mets mes joies, j'y mets mes peines,

et tout ça ça devient le blues

je le chante autant que je l'aime

et je le chanterai toujours

Il y a longtemps sur des guitares

des mains noires lui donnaient le jour

pour chanter les peines et les espoirs

pour chanter Dieu et puis l'amour

la musique vivra tant que vivra le blues

Le blues ça veut dire que je t'aime

et que j'ai mal à en crever

je pleure mais je chante quand même

c'est ma prière pour te garder

Toute la musique que j'aime

elle vient de là elle vient du blues

les mots, les mots, les mots ne sont jamais les mêmes

pour exprimer ce qu'est le blues

J'y mets mes joies, j'y mets mes peines,

et tout ça ça devient le blues

je le chante autant que je l'aime

et je le chanterai toujours

Il y a longtemps sur des guitares

des mains noires lui donnaient le jour

pour chanter les peines et les espoirs

pour chanter Dieu et puis l'amour

la musique vivra tant que vivra le blues

Le blues ça veut dire que je t'aime

et que j'ai mal à en crever

je pleure mais je chante quand même

c'est ma prière pour te garder

toute la musique que j'aime

elle vient de là elle vient du blues

les mots ne sont jamais les mêmes

pour exprimer ce qu'est le blues

Video hit Garbage

Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains

Only Happy When It Rains is a song written and produced by alternative rock group Garbage for the band's self-titled debut studio album. The song was recorded at the band's own recording studio, Smart Studios, in Madison, Wisconsin, being mixed twice before its release. The bleak content of the lyrics was intended as a parody of the angst filled themes present in mid-1990s alternative rock, as well as a sarcastic reference to Garbage's own preference for darker themes.

"Only Happy When it Rains" was released as the third single from the campaign for Garbage in both the United Kingdom (in September 1995) and North America (in February 1996), being issued in three formats vinyl, CD maxi, and cassette.

The song received positive reviews, praising the production and Shirley Manson's singing, and became the band's breakthrough single, charting strongly on both the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100. It also crossover to pop radio formats, propelling their debut album into the Top 100 of the Billboard 200 for the first time, and the song's music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, received much airplay on MTV. "Only Happy When it Rains" has gone onto to be an enduring work for the group, being featured in the video game Guitar Hero 5 and receiving covers by Richard Cheese, Katerina Graham and Metallica.

The song's bleak lyrics were explained by Marker as a mockery of the angsty "wearing your heart on your sleeve thing" themes prevalent in mid-1990s alternative rock songs, as well as a self-deprecating reference to Garbage's own dark lyrics, with Manson explaining that the song was "a dig at ourselves because we like records that don't make us feel very happy, and at this so-called 'alternative' scene of 'we're so weird and more wonderful than everybody else'". Vig added that "'Only Happy When It Rains' was about what happened with grunge and the angst-filled thing which has dominated the American alternative rock scene. With us there's self-deprecation, we have to poke fun at ourselves because we're so incredibly obsessive about the songs and the lyrics, which makes us filled with self-loathing, hurhur."

Garbage admitted to referencing both the title of the The Jesus and Mary Chain song "Happy When It Rains" (1987) and Manson's own Scottish psyche.

Lyrically, Manson described "Only Happy When It Rains" as "about wanting love but knowing life will always get in the way.... yet not being obliterated by that. It's a song for people that know what it is like to live on the dark side of life. It's about devotion but a different kind. A devotion to the truth and to freedom... and to hell with the consequences."

The lyrics:

I'm only happy when it rains

I'm only happy when it's complicated

And though I know you can't appreciate it

I'm only happy when it rains

You know I love it when the news is bad

Why it feels so good to feel so sad

I'm only happy when it rains

Pour your misery down

Pour your misery down on me

Pour your misery down

Pour your misery down on me

I'm only happy when it rains

I feel good when things are going wrong

I only listen to the sad, sad songs

I'm only happy when it rains

I only smile in the dark

My only comfort is the night gone black

I didn't accidentally tell you that

I'm only happy when it rains

You'll get the message by the time I'm through

When I complain about me and you

I'm only happy when it rains

Pour your misery down...pour your misery down

Pour your misery down on me...pour your misery down

Pour your misery down...pour your misery down

Pour your misery down on me...pour your misery down

Pour your misery down...pour your misery down

Pour your misery down on me...pour your misery down

Pour your misery down...pour

You can keep me company

As long as you don't care

I'm only happy when it rains

You want to hear about my new obsession

I'm riding high upon a deep depression

I'm only happy when it rains...pour some misery down on me

I'm only happy when it rains....pour some misery down on me

I'm only happy when it rains...pour some misery down on me

I'm only happy when it rains...pour some misery down on me

I'm only happy when it rains...pour some misery down on me...pour some misery down on me...pour some misery down on me...pour some misery down on me.

Video hit Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

She Drives Me Crazy is a song recorded by English group Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1988 album The Raw and the Cooked. The song peaked at Number 5 as a single in the band's native UK in January 1989 (it was released on New Year's Day) before hitting Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 15 April 1989. It also reached Number 3 on the Dutch Top 40.

The unique snare drum "pop" sound was created by recording the snare drum portion separately. A speaker was then placed on top of the snare drum, and a microphone below. The original recording of the snare drum part was played back through the speaker and re-recorded.

Two music videos were produced for the song, one by Philippe Decouflé and one by Pedro Romhanyi. Similar to Decouflé's only other music video, New Order's "True Faith", his version includes extensive choreography and performers in unusual costumes, including two identical dancers with completely different coloured-outfits, as well as a person with a television on their head. This version received several nominations at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Video.

Parodies

American comedian Arsenio Hall, under the pseudonym "Chunky A", recorded a novelty parody of this song, called "Ho is Lazy." It appears on the 1989 album Large and In Charge.

"Weird Al" Yankovic parodied this song as "She Drives Like Crazy" for his 1989 soundtrack album UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff.

Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy recorded a version as the opening track to the 1994 Muppet album Kermit Unpigged. A music video, featuring cameo appearances by various celebrities, was released to promote the album.

The Fine Young Camels sing "C Drives Me Crazy", a "Sesame Street" parody of "She Drives Me Crazy". A camel in the Mojave desert (voiced by Paul Jacobs) sings about how he loves the letter C and things that start with C. He is backed by two male Anything Muppets dressed as Arabs. A cat and a cookie also sing and dance along. The number features an introduction by Jerry Nelson, stating it's their "greatest, and only, hit ever."

The lyrics:

I can't stop the way I feel

Things you do don't seem real

Tell me what you've got in mind

'Cause we're runnin' out of time

Won't you ever set me free

This waiting round is killing me

She drives me crazy

Like no one else

She drives me crazy

And I can't help myself

I can't get any rest

People say I'm obsessed

Everything you say is lies

But to me there's no surprise

What I had for you was true

Things go wrong, they always do

She drives me crazy

Like no one else

She drives me crazy

And I can't help myself

I won't make it on my own

No one likes to be alone

She drives me crazy

Like no one else

She drives me crazy

And I can't help myself

Video hit Eric Clapton feat. Babyface

Eric Clapton feat. Babyface - Change The World

Change the World is a song written by Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick which was recorded by Eric Clapton with backing by Babyface for the soundtrack of the 1996 film Phenomenon. The song won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year (for the songwriters), as well as Best Male Pop Vocal performance. The song was chosen by the RIAA as one of the Songs of the Century, ranked at #270.

The single peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the summer of 1996. It also spent 13 weeks at #1 on the adult contemporary chart and remained on that chart for over a year and a half (80 weeks), a feat which was extraordinarily rare at the time.[1] Since then, however, certain songs have remained on the AC chart for extended periods of time, prompting the eventual creation af an Adult Contemporary recurrent chart for songs that have stayed on the chart for many weeks and fallen below a certain threshold.

Although "Change the World" is better known as an unplugged acoustic track, a rare electric performance of the song was featured on Babyface's 1997 live album Babyface MTV Unplugged NYC, with Clapton on co-lead vocals, playing his namesake signature Fender Stratocaster guitar. There was also another electric cover of this track, released the following year, with Nathan East on electric bass.

In the song, the performer expresses his desire to communicate his love to an unnamed woman. This love, he fears, will go unrequited without a drastic change in his life.

Previous to the release of Clapton's hit version, the song was recorded by country superstar Wynonna Judd for her album Revelations, released in February 1996. Wynonna, however, did not release her version as a single despite the popularity of Clapton's.

The lyrics:

If I can reach the stars

Pull one down for you

Shine it on my heart

So you could see the truth

That this love I have inside

Is everything it seems

But for now I find

It's only in my dreams

And I can change the world

I will be the sunlight in your universe

You would think my love was really something good

Baby if I could change the world

And if I could be king

Even for a day

I'd take you as my queen

I'd have it no other way

And our love would rule

This kingdom we had made

Till then I'd be a fool

Wishing for the day

That I can change the world

I would be the sunlight in your universe

You would think my love was really something good

Baby if I could change the world

Baby if I could change the world

I could change the world

I would be the sunlight in your universe

You would think my love was really something good

Baby if I could change the world

Baby if I could change the world

Baby if I could change the world

Video hit Sade

Sade - Cherish The Day

Cherish the Day is a song by the English band Sade, released in 1993 as the fourth and final single from their fourth studio album, Love Deluxe (1992).

In the black and white shot music video, Sade performs the song while playing a guitar on the rooftop of an NYC skyscraper as her bandmates and a few other people vibe to the music on the streets below. 

Helen Folasade Adu, (born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade is a Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer.

She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.

In 2002, she received an OBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace for services to music, and she dedicated her award to "all black women in England".

In 2012, Sade was listed at number 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women In Music.

The lyrics:

You're ruling the way that I move

And I breathe your air

You only can rescue me

This is my prayer

If you were mine

If you were mine

I wouldn't want to go to heaven

I cherish the day

I won't go astray

I won't be afraid

You won't catch me running

You're ruling the way that I move

You take my air

You show me how deep love can be

You're ruling the way that I move

And I breathe your air

You only can rescue me

This is my prayer

I cherish the day

I won't go astray

I won't be afraid

You won't catch me running

I cherish the day

I won't go astray

I won't be afraid

Won't run away

You show me how deep love can be

You show me how deep love can be

This is my prayer

I cherish the day

I won't go astray

I won't be afraid

Won't run away

Won't shy

I cherish the day

I won't go astray

I cherish the day

I cherish the day

I cherish the day

I cherish the day

I cherish the day

Video hit Diana Krall

Diana Krall - Boy From Ipanema (Live In Rio)

Diana Krall has had a long time fascination with bossa nova, a type of music which perfectly suits her sophisticated yet sensual style. This culminated in her new studio album Quiet Nights (released by Verve in spring 2009) and in this stunning concert filmed in the home of the bossa nova, Rio de Janeiro, in November 2008. Accompanied by her band and an orchestra, Diana Krall delivers a superb set of standards in true bossa nova style but clearly bearing her unique stamp. 

"Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965.

It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.

Ipanema is a seaside neighborhood located in the southern region of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

When sung by female artists the song has often been rendered as "The Boy from Ipanema", such as by Shirley Bassey, Peggy Lee, Petula Clark on the Muppet Show, and Diana Krall on her 2009 album Quiet Nights.

The lyrics:

Tall and tan and young and handsome

The boy from Ipanema goes walking

And when he passes, each girl he passes goes ahah

When he walks, he's like a samba

He swings so cool and sways so gently

That when he passes, each girl he passes goes ahah

Oh, but I watch him so sadly

How can I tell him I love him

Yes, I would give my heart gladly

But each day when he walks to the sea

He looks straight ahead, not at me

Tall and tan and young and handsome

The boy from Ipanema goes walking

And when he passes, I smile

But he doesn't see, no doesn't see

Oh, but I watch him so sadly

How can I tell him I love him

Yes, I would give my heart gladly

But each day when he walks to the sea

He looks straight ahead, not at me

Tall and tan and young and handsome

The boy from Ipanema goes walking

And when he passes, I smile

But he doesn't see, no doesn't see

Video hit Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge - I Need To Wake Up

I Need to Wake Up is a song by Melissa Etheridge, written for the 2006 documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth.

It is the first instance of a documentary film winning the Best Song category, beating three songs nominated from the musical film Dreamgirls.

Etheridge received the 2006 Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Need to Wake Up". Upon receiving the award, she noted in her acceptance speech:

Mostly I have to thank Al Gore, for inspiring us, for inspiring me, showing that caring about the Earth is not Republican or Democrat; it's not red or blue, it's all green.

The song was on the enhanced version only of her greatest hits album, The Road Less Traveled.

The lyrics:

Have I been sleeping?

I’ve been so still

Afraid of crumbling

Have I been careless?

Dismissing all the distant rumblings

Take me where I am supposed to be

To comprehend the things that I can’t see

Cause I need to move

I need to wake up

I need to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Something’s got to break up

I’ve been asleep

And I need to wake up

Now

And as a child

I danced like it was 1999

My dreams were wild

The promise of this new world

Would be mine

Now I am throwing off the carelessness of youth

To listen to an inconvenient truth

That I need to move

I need to wake up

I need to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Something’s got to break up

I’ve been asleep

And I need to wake up

Now

I am not an island

I am not alone

I am my intentions

Trapped here in this flesh and bone

Oh I need to move

I need to wake up

I need to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Something’s got to break up

I’ve been asleep

And I need to wake up

Now

I want to change

I need to shake up

I need to speak out

Oh, Something’s got to break up

I’ve been asleep

And I need to wake up

Now 

Video hit Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown Goes Down (live)

Bobby Brown or Bobby Brown (Goes Down) is a song by Frank Zappa released on his album Sheik Yerbouti in 1979. One of his best known songs, it was hugely successful in Europe.

The song describes a wealthy, misogynist student named Bobby Brown, "the cutest boy in town", whose life is the archetypical American Dream until a traumatic sexual encounter with "Freddie", a lesbian involved in the women's liberation movement, leaves him questioning his sexuality. He eventually realizes that he is gay and by the end of the song is a self-described "sexual spastic" involved in golden showers and S&M, for which he thanks Fred. This song was more successful in Europe than America and this is why it is only featured on the vinyl and European CD version of Zappa's best of Strictly Commercial.

The lyrics:

Hey there, people, Im bobby brown

They say Im the cutest boy in town

My car is fast, my teeth is shiney

I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie

Tiny heinie ho!

Here I am at a famous school

Im dressin sharp

Im actin cool

I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper

Let her do all the work n maybe later I'll rape her

Oh God I am the american dream

I do not think Im too extreme

An Im a handsome sonofabitch

Im gonna get a new glove n be real rich

Get a good, get a good, get a good, get a good job...

Womens liberation

Came creepin all across the nation

I tell you people, I was not ready

When I fucked this dyke by the name of freddie

She made a little speech then,

Aw, she tried to make me say when

She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick

I guess it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick

Oh God I am the american dream,

But now I smell like vaseline

An Im a miserable sonofabitch

Am I a boy or a lady...i don't know which

I wonder...wonder...hi-ho silver!...

So I went out n bought me a leisure mask

I jingle my change, but Im still kinda cute

Got a job doin radio promo

An none of the jocks even think about tonso

Eventually me n a friend

Sorta drifted along into s&m

I can take about an hour on the tower of power

Long as I gets a little golden shower

Oh God I am the american dream

With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream

An I'll do anything to get ahead

Hi-ho silver!

Oh god, oh god, Im so fantastic!

Hi-ho silver!

And my name is bobby brown

And my name is bobby brown

Hi-ho silver!

Way!

And my name is bobby brown

Hi-ho silver!

Oh, never mind...

The name of this song is: keep it greasey

Video hit Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen - Dance me to the end of love (live, London, 2008)

Dance Me to the End of Love is a 1984 song by Leonard Cohen. It was first performed by Cohen, on his 1984 album Various Positions. It has since been recorded by various artists, and has been described as "trembling on the brink of becoming a standard".

In 1996, Welcome Books released a book called Dance Me to the End of Love, as part of its "Art & Poetry" series; the book featured the lyrics of the song alongside paintings by Henri Matisse.

Cover versions

Vocal jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux recorded a version for the fifth and last of the Queer as Folk soundtracks connected with the Showtime series.

Americana duo The Civil Wars frequently cover the song in concert. One of their live renditions appears on the Live at Eddie's Attic.

The lyrics:

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the end of love

Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone

Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on

Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long

We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born

Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn

Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in

Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the end of love

Video hit The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin (live)

Nights in White Satin is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, written by Justin Hayward and first featured on the album Days of Future Passed.

There are two single versions of the song, both stripped of the orchestral and "Late Lament" poetry sections of the LP version. The first edited version, with the songwriter's credit shown as "Redwave", was a hasty sounding 3:06 version of the LP recording with very noticeable chopped parts. However, there are many versions of the single that are listed on the labels at 3:06, but in fact are closer to the later version of 4:26.

Some versions, instead of ending cold as most do, segue briefly into the symphonic second half ("Late Lament"), and, in fact, run for 4:33 (but are also listed on the label as 3:06). For the second edited version (with the song's writing credited to Hayward), the early parts of the song were kept intact, ending early at 4:26. Just about all single versions were backed with a non-LP B-side, "Cities".

Band member Justin Hayward wrote the song at age 19 in Swindon, and titled the song after a friend gave him a gift of satin bedsheets. The song itself was a tale of a yearning love from afar, which leads many aficionados to term it as a tale of unrequited love endured by Hayward. The London Festival Orchestra provided the orchestral accompaniment for the introduction, the final rendition of the chorus, and the "final lament" section, all of this in the original album version. The "orchestral" sounds in the main body of the song were actually produced by Mike Pinder's Mellotron keyboard device, which would come to define the "Moody Blues sound".

Although it only had limited commercial success on its first release, the song has since garnered much critical acclaim, ranking #36 in BBC Radio 2's "Sold on Song Top 100" list.

Other uses of the song

This song is featured in Wolfgang Petersen's 1991 film, Shattered.

This song is featured in the 1992 film, Split Second

This song is featured in Robert De Niro's 1993 film, A Bronx Tale

This song is featured in Martin Scorsese's 1995 film, Casino.

This song is featured in Rob Zombie's 2009 remake, Halloween II

This song is featured in Bertrand Bonello's 2011 film, House of Tolerance

This song is played over the opening credits of Tim Burton's 2012 film Dark Shadows

This song is featured in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a novel by Stephen Chbosky as it appears on a music playlist by the novel's protagonist, Charlie.

This song is featured in The Boat That Rocked

This song is featured in the Heath Kirchart segment in the 2001 Transworld Skateboarding video Sight Unseen.

It is also featured in the Wiseguy episode "No One Gets Out of Here Alive", in the climactic scene between Vinnie Terranova and Sonny Steelgrave. This was removed in the DVD release.

The song is featured in the TV movie The 70s.

This song is featured in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo when Deuce gets high on space cake.

The lyrics:

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,

Letters I've written, never meaning to send.

Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before.

Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.

'Cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you.

Gazing at people, some hand in hand,

Just what I'm going through they can't understand.

Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend,

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

And I love you, yes I love you,

Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,

Letters I've written, never meaning to send.

Beauty I've always missed, with these eyes before.

Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.

'Cos I love you, yes I love you,

Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.

'Cos I love you, yes I love you,

Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.

Breath deep

The gathering gloom

Watch lights fade

From every room

Bedsitter people

Look back and lament

Another day's useless

Energy spent

Impassioned lovers

Wrestle as one

Lonely man cries for love

And has none

New mother picks up

And suckles her son

Senior citizens

Wish they were young

Cold hearted orb

That rules the night

Removes the colours

From our sight

Red is gray and

Yellow white

But we decide

Which is right

And

Which is an Illusion