Video hit Radiohead

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Street Spirit (Fade Out) (commonly referred to as "Street Spirit") is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, featured on their second studio album The Bends, which was released in 1995.

Noted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Thom Yorke as "one of the band's saddest songs" and describing it as "the dark tunnel without the light at the end", "Street Spirit" was released as the band's ninth single and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, the highest chart position the band achieved until "Paranoid Android" from OK Computer, which reached number three in 1997.

Yorke has suggested that the song was inspired by the 1991 novel The Famished Road, written by Ben Okri, and that its music was inspired by R.E.M.

The track is built around a soft melody in A minor with an arpeggio (broken chord) guitar part. A previous, working title for the song was "Three Headed Street Spirit", as seen in interviews with Thom Yorke preceding the release of The Bends.

The single is also acclaimed for the quality of its B-sides; for example, "Talk Show Host" rose to prominence after it was remixed by Nellee Hooper for the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet, since becoming a regular at Radiohead concerts.

In 2008, the song was featured on Radiohead: The Best Of, a compilation album.

Music video

The black-and-white music video for "Street Spirit" was filmed during two nights in a desert just outside Los Angeles.

It premiered in February 1996 and was directed by Jonathan Glazer, who said, "That was definitely a turning point in my own work. I knew when I finished that, because they found their own voices as an artist, at that point, I felt like I got close to whatever mine was, and I felt confident that I could do things that emoted, that had some kind of poetic as well as prosaic value. That for me was a key moment."

Glazer would later direct the video for "Karma Police".

The lyrics:

Rows of houses, all bearing down on me

I can feel their blue hands touching me

All these things into position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

And fade out again and fade out

This machine will, will not communicate

These thoughts and the strain I am under

Be a world child, form a circle

Before we all go under

And fade out again and fade out again

Cracked eggs, dead birds

Scream as they fight for life

I can feel death, can see its beady eyes

All these things into position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

And fade out again and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love

IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE

Video hit The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones - Fool To Cry

Fool to Cry is a ballad by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from their 1976 album Black and Blue.

Recorded in December 1974, the song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It is a slow-paced ballad. Mick Taylor had just left the band and the rest of the Stones were left without a lead guitarist. The recording of Black and Blue acted as a sort of audition for new guitarists, which led to session man Wayne Perkins playing guitar on this track.

Jagger plays electric piano and Nicky Hopkins performs regular piano on the track, with Hopkins also playing the string synthesizer.

Released as the lead single off Black and Blue on 20 April 1976, "Fool to Cry" reached #6 on the UK Singles Charts and #10 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

"Fool to Cry" was the only track from Black and Blue to appear on the Stones' career-spanning greatest hits albums Forty Licks in 2002 and GRRR! in 2012.

A music video was produced to promote the single.

The lyrics:

When I come home baby

And Ive been working all night long

I put my daughter on my knee, and she say

Daddy what's wrong?

I put my head on her shoulder

She whispers in my ear so sweet

You know what she says?

Daddy you're a fool to cry

Youre a fool to cry

And it makes me wonder why.

You know, I got a woman

And she lives in the poor part of town

And I go see her sometimes

And we make love, so fine

I put my head on her shoulder

She says, tell me all your troubles.

You know what she says? she says

Daddy you're a fool to cry

Youre a fool to cry

And it makes me wonder why.

Daddy you're a fool to cry

Oh, I love you so much baby

Daddy you're a fool to cry

Daddy you're a fool to cry, yeah

She says, daddy you're a fool to cry

Youre a fool to cry

And it makes me wonder why.

She says, daddy you're a fool to cry

Daddy you're a fool to cry

Daddy you're a fool to cry

Daddy you're a fool to cry

Even my friends say to me sometimes

And make out like I don't understand them

You know what they say

They say, daddy you're a fool to cry

Youre a fool to cry

Youre a fool to cry

And it makes me wonder why.

Im a fool baby

Im a fool baby

Im a certified fool, now

I want to tell ya

Gotta tell ya, baby

Im a fool baby

Im a fool baby

Certified fool for ya, mama, come on

Im a fool

Im a fool

Im a fool

Video hit AC/DC

AC/DC - T.N.T. (Live At River Plate, 2009)

T.N.T. is a single released in 1976 by the hard rock band AC/DC, taken from their Australian album T.N.T. and the international version of High Voltage.

The song was written by Bon Scott, Angus Young and Malcolm Young.

A slightly modified line from the song, "Lock up your daughters", was used as the title of AC/DC's first headlining tour of Great Britain in 1976 after the band's move from Melbourne, Australia, to London, earlier that year. 

In the media

The song was played in commercials for Napoleon Dynamite.

The song appears on the soundtrack to the game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.

After the September 11 attacks, the song was included on a widely circulated Clear Channel employee's list of potentially upsetting songs.

The song appears in a Christmas episode of That '70s Show.

The song is used by several sports teams, including the San Francisco Giants, the Ottawa Senators, the Cleveland Indians, the San Jose SaberCats, the Fremantle Dockers, the Wisconsin Badgers, Los Angeles Kings, the Portland Winterhawks, and the Prince George Cougars.

The song was used as ring entry music by British professional wrestler Mark "Rollerball" Rocco (Mark Hussey) on non-televised shows for All Star Promotions in the 1980s and early 1990s. A current wrestler for this same promotion, Robbie "The Body" Dynamite (Rob Berzins) has also been using this as his ring entry music since the early 2000s.

The song was played in the movies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Shiner.

Vancouver radio station "Classic Rock 101" created a song parody titled "PNE", to reflect on the exhibition's fair event.

The song is used by the Atlanta Braves when Peter Moylan (like the band, an Australian) comes into the game to pitch, and is also the entrance music of Baltimore Orioles catcher Taylor Teagarden.

American death metal band Six Feet Under recorded a cover version of the song for their album Graveyard Classics.

The song has been used in several promotions of the American channel TNT in the mid 1990s and also for their NASCAR Summer Series since 2010.

This song is featured in the AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack.

Kid Rock alludes to part of the song's lyrics, "I'm T.N.T., I'm dynamite", in the song "Welcome 2 the Party (Ode 2 the Old School)" from the album Devil Without a Cause.

Bob Rivers wrote a parody called "CNN", which is about a person who is addicted to the news network. This version also contains pieces of lyrics from the original song.

The lyrics:

See me ride out of the sunset

On your colored TV screen

Out for all that I can get

If you know what I mean

Women to the left of me

Women to the right

Ain't got no gun

got no knife

Don't you start no fight

(Chorus)

Cos I'm

T.N.T.

I'm Dynamite

T.N.T.

And I'll win the fight

T.N.T.

I'm a power-load

T.N.T.

Watch me Explode

I'm dirty, mean and mighty unclean

I'm a Wanted man

Public Enemy Number One

Understand

So lock up your daughter

And lock up your wife

Lock up your back door

And run for your life

The man is back in town

So don't you mess with around

(Chorus)

(Guitar Solo)

T.N.T. oi oi oi

T.N.T. oi oi oi

T.N.T. oi oi oi

T.N.T. oi oi oi

T.N.T.

I'm Dynamite (oi oi oi)

T.N.T.

And I'll win the fight (oi oi oi)

T.N.T.

I'm a power-load (oi oi oi)

T.N.T.

Watch me explode

Video hit Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man

Postcards from a Young Man is a single by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released as the third single from their tenth studio album of the same name on 28 February 2011.

"Postcards from a Young Man" entered the UK Midweek Charts at 36 but dropped to 54 when the official singles chart was announced at the end of the week.

In January 2012 the vinyl version of the single was announced as the 10th best-selling 7" vinyl in the UK during 2011.

The lyrics:

I don't believe in absolutes anymore

I'm quite prepared to admit I was wrong

This life it sucks your principles away

You have to fight against it every single day

These are the postcards from a young man

They may never be written or posted again

These are the postcards from a young man

They may never be written or posted again

It is like so many other things

As distant as your former sins

So sad and lonely and so derelict

As the optimism that we once shared

These are the postcards from a young man

They may never be written or posted again

These are the postcards from a young man

They may never be written or posted again

I'll send you postcards every single day

Just to prove I still exist

This world will not impose its will

I will not give up and I will not give in

And I will not give up and I will not give in

I won't betray your confidence

I won't pretend my way was lost

This world will not impose its will

I will not give up and I will not give in

Video hit Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson - Tears of The Dragon

Tears of the Dragon is the first single from Bruce Dickinson's second solo album, Balls to Picasso, released on 28 May 1994.

The song is talking about the departure of Dickinson from Iron Maiden.

Allmusic called "Tears of the Dragon" a "magnificent" track, "by far the album's best song".

The lyrics:

For too long now

There were secret in my mind

For too long now

There were things I sould have said

In the darkness

I was stumbling for the door

To find a reason

To find the time, the place, the hour

Waiting for the winter sun

And the cold light of day

The misty ghost of childhood fears

The pressure is building

And I can't stay away

I throw myself into the sea

Release the wave

Let it wash over me

To face the fear

I once believed

The tears of the dragon

For you and for me

Where I was

I had wings that couldn't fly

Where I was

I had tears I couldn't cry

My emotions

Frozen in an icy lake

I couldn't feel them

Until the ice began to break

I have no power over this

You know I'm afraid

The walls I built are crumblig

The water is moving

I'm slipping away

I throw myself into the sea

Release the wave

Let it wash over me

To face the fear

I once believed

The tears of the dragon

For you and for me

Slowly I awake

Slowly I rise

The walls I built are crumblig

The water is moving

I'm slipping away

I throw myself into the sea

Release the wave

Let it wash over me

To face the fear

I once believed

The tears of the dragon

For you and for me...

Video hit Scorpions

Scorpions - Still Loving You (MTV Unplugged, Live In Athens, 2013)

Still Loving You is a power ballad by Scorpions from their 1984 album Love at First Sting. It was the second single of the album, reaching #64 on Billboard Hot 100.

In France, the single sold 1.7 million copies.

The music video was released in July 1984, and was filmed in Dallas, Texas at Reunion Arena.

In an interview with Songfacts, Rudolf Schenker explained "It's a story about a love affair, where they recognized it may be over, but let's try again".

The song is also considered a thinly veiled metaphor for a still divided Eastern & Western Germany. "Your pride has built a wall so strong that I can't get through, is there really no chance to start once again?" and "Yes I've hurt your pride and I know, what you've been through, you should give me a chance, this can't be the end, I'm still loving you" were clear references to the Berlin Wall and the despair many Germans felt about their divided homeland.

A remixed version of the studio album version was included on the album Still Loving You in 1992. The remixed version was also released as a single in Germany and some other European countries.

The band has also re-recorded the song twice, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000 for the album Moment of Glory and an acoustic re-working for the album Acoustica in 2001.

Matthias Jabs' guitar soloing is prominent throughout, but the main solo played in the outro is by Rudolf Schenker.

Other versions

The song appears on the Scorpions' 1985 live double-album World Wide Live.

A remixed version of the studio album version was included on the album Still Loving You in 1992. The remixed version was also released as a single in Germany and some other European countries.

The song was later recorded on Scorpions' 2001 album Acoustica.

A version of the song was recorded for Scorpions' 2011 album Comeblack featuring Amandine Bourgeois.

A Romanian version was recorded by Mihaela Runceanu in 1989 entitled "Eu Nu Te-am Uitat".

It was covered by Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica on their 2000 EP Successor.

The Alex Skolnick Trio recorded a bebop version of the song on their 2002 album Goodbye to Romance: Standards for a New Generation.

Swedish group Tyskarna från Lund released a cover of the song on their album Metamorphobia in 2003.

Finnish pop/jazz/folk band Korpi Ensemble covered the song on their album Trails in 2007.

It was covered by Steve Whiteman of Kix and George Lynch of Dokken and appears on Lynch's 2008 album Scorpion Tales.

In 2008, Ecuadorian band Corvus recorded a Spanish version called "Aun te amo" on their album En tu asusencia, preserving their hard rock style.

A Brazilian version was recorded by Cleiton e Camargo entitled "Meu Anjo Azul".

The lyrics:

Time, it needs time

To win back your love again

I will be there, I will be there

Love, only love

Can bring back your love someday

I will be there, I will be there

I´ll fight, babe, I´ll fight

To win back your love again

I will be there, I will be there

Love, only love

Can break down the wall someday

I will be there, I will be there

If we´d go again

All the way from the start

I would try to change

The things that killed our love

Your pride has built a wall, so strong

That I can´t get through

Is there really no chance

To start once again

I´m loving you

Try, baby try

To trust in my love again

I will be there, I will be there

Love, our love

Just shouldn´t be thrown away

I will be there, I will be there

If we´d go again

All the way from the start

I would try to change

The things that killed our love

Your pride has built a wall, so strong

That I can´t get through

Is there really no chance

To start once again

If we´d go again

All the way from the start

I would try to change

The things that killed our love

Yes, I´ve hurt your pride, and I know

What you´ve been through

You should give me a chance

This can´t be the end

I´m still loving you

I´m still loving you, I need your love

I´m still loving you

Video hit Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (feat. PJ Harvey)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (feat. PJ Harvey) - Henry Lee

The song, which can be traced back as far as the 18th century, narrates the tale of the eponymous protagonist, Young Hunting, who tells a woman, who may have borne him a child, that he is in love with another, more beautiful woman.

Despite this, she persuades him to drink until he is drunk, then to come to her bedroom, or at least kiss her farewell. The woman then stabs him to death. She throws his body in the river — sometimes with the help of one of the other women of the town, whom she bribes with a diamond ring — and is taunted by a bird. She tries to lure the bird down from the tree but it tells her that she will kill it if it comes within reach. When the search for Young Hunting starts, she either denies seeing him or claims that he left earlier, but when Hunting's remains are found, in order to revoke her guilt, she reveals that she murdered him and is later burned at the stake.

Nick Cave, who covered the song, referred to the song as "a story about the fury of a scorned woman."

Henry Lee, a variant of Young Hunting, is a song by the Australian post-punk band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It is the third track and second single from the band's ninth studio album, Murder Ballads (1996), and was released on 26 February 1996 on Mute Records.

The song, which features a duet between frontman Nick Cave and the English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey, is alternately–arranged in comparison to other more traditional versions of "Henry Lee." Lyrically, the song borrows heavily from Dick Justice's version of the song.

Recording

The majority of the studio version of "Henry Lee" was recorded by The Bad Seeds at Sing Sing Studios and Metropolis Studios in Melbourne with Cave's vocal track. Harvey's vocal track was recorded at Wessex and Worldwide Studios in London.

Music video

Directed by Rocky Schenck, the promotional music video for "Henry Lee" features one scene throughout; Nick Cave, in the role of Henry Lee, and PJ Harvey, in the role of his lover, singing the duet.

There is a constant green backdrop in the background of the video. This format contrasted the former format used by Schenck for "Where the Wild Roses Grow" which focused on cinematography and featured several scenes. Body language is a stand-out feature of the video and after many varying forms of it, the pair slow dance at the end of the video.

The lyrics:

Get down, get down, little Henry Lee

And stay all night with me

You won't find a girl in this damn world

That will compare with me

And the wind did howl and the wind did blow

La la la la la

La la la la lee

A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

I can't get down and I won't get down

And stay all night with thee

For the girl I have in that merry green land

I love far better than thee

And the wind did howl and the wind did blow

La la la la la

La la la la lee

A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

She leaned herself against a fence

Just for a kiss or two

And with a little pen-knife held in her hand

She plugged him through and through

And the wind did roar and the wind did moan

La la la la la

La la la la lee

A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

Come take him by his lilly-white hands

Come take him by his feet

And throw him in this deep deep well

Which is more than one hundred feet

And the wind did howl and the wind did blow

La la la la la

La la la la lee

A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

Lie there, lie there, little Henry Lee

Till the flesh drops from your bones

For the girl you have in that merry green land

Can wait forever for you to come home

And the wind did howl and the wind did moan

La la la la la

La la la la lee

A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

Video hit The Pretenders

The Pretenders - Hymn to Her

The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978.

The original band comprised initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). Following the drug-related deaths of Honeyman-Scott and Farndon, the band has experienced numerous subsequent personnel changes, with Hynde as the only consistent member, and Chambers returning after an absence of several years.

The lyrics:

Let me inside you

Into your room

I've heard it's lined

With the things you don't show

Lay me beside you

Down on the floor

I've been your lover

From the womb to the tomb

I dress as your daughter

When the moon becomes round

You be my mother

When everything's gone

And she will always carry on

Something is lost

But something is found

They will keep on speaking her name

Somethings change

Some stay the same

Keep beckoning to me

From behind that closed door

The maid and the mother

And the crone that's grown old

I hear your voice

Coming out of that hole

I listen to you

And I want some more

I listen to you

And I want some more

And she will always carry on

Something is lost

But something is found

They will keep on speaking her name

Some things change

Some stay the same

Video hit INXS

INXS - Not Enough Time

Not Enough Time is the third single from the 1992 album Welcome to Wherever You Are, it was released simultaneously with "Baby Don't Cry" (Europe and Australia) but only in the US and Japan, by Australian rock band INXS.

The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence, the music in Sydney and the lyrics in Paris, France.

The lyrics to the song were originally intended for another composition from Welcome To Wherever You Are, which became later became the album's opening song 'Questions'.

The original version can be heard on the 2002 remaster of the album.

Australian singer, Deni Hines, featured as a backing vocalist on the song and also married guitarist, Kirk Pengilly, a year later in 1993.

A video has been released for the song on YouTube on Aug 3, 2011.

The lyrics:

And I was lost for words in your arms

Attempting to make sense of my aching heart

If I could just be everything and everyone to you

This life would be just so easy

Not enough time for all that I want for you

Not enough time for every kiss

And every touch and all the nights

I wanna be inside you

We will make time stop

For the two of us

Make time stop

And listen for our sighs

Not enough time for all that I want for you

Not enough time for every kiss

And every touch and all the nights

I wanna be inside you

Make time stop

Make time stop

In our fight against the end

Making love, we are immortal

We are the last two left on earth

And I was lost for words in your arms

Attempting to make sense of my aching heart

If I could just be everything and everyone to you

Not enough time for all that I want for you

Not enough time for every kiss

Not enough time for all my love

Not enough time for every touch

Make time stop

Make time stop

Not enough time for all that I want for you

Not enough time for every kiss

And every touch and all the nights

I wanna be inside you

We will make time stop

For the two of us

We will make time stop

We will make time stop

For the two of us

We will make time stop

Video hit ZZ Top

ZZ Top – I Gotsta Get Paid

As if it weren’t weird enough for ZZ Top use a commercial for Jeremiah Weed malt liquor to debut the first single from its upcoming new album, here’s something you may not have realized about the song itself.

The new track, I Gotsta Get Paid, is a thinly rewritten cover of ’25 Lighters,’ a local late ’90s hit for Houston hip-hop artists DJ DMD, Lil Keke, and MC Fat Pat.

In fact, as ‘Battleship‘ director Peter Berg remembers, ZZ Top was actually calling their version ’25 Lighters’ when producer Rick Rubin pitched it for inclusion on the film’s soundtrack.

Berg recalled his meeting with Rubin for the Hollywood Reporter: “I played an old ZZ Top song that I really liked and he said, ‘Yeah, that’s pretty good, but listen to this,’ and he played me this crazy song … It’s this old gangsta hip-hop song about drug dealing, but it sounded like a rock song. I was like, ‘This is insane, who made this?’ and he said, ‘ZZ Top; it’s new.”

The connection between the two songs was further illustrated by the Houston Press, where the history of ’25 Lighters’ is traced from its appearance on a pair of late ’90s Houston hip-hop compilations to its incorporation into a hit for rapper Big K.R.I.T. last year.

The lyrics:

25 lighters on my dressa, yessa

You know I gotta get paid

25 lighters on my dressa, yessa

You know I gotsta get paid

I got 25 lighters on my 25 folks

Gonna break the bank run 25 more

Bout to reap the suits with 25 flows

I got 25 lighters well don't cya know

25 flight diamonds in my ring

25 12s in the trunks to bang, oh lord

Make it move makin 25 mill'

Goin off a big don 99 seville cmon

25 lighters on my dressa, dressa

I gotsta get paid

I got 25 lighters on my dressa, dressa

You know I gotta get paid

Zig and me slammin 'bout 25 doors

Representing for the doors that holdin 25 more

Zz done put 25 out the door

Hittin the highway gon' do it, took 25 shows

25 lighters on my dressa, dressa

You know I gotta get paid

25 lighters on my dressa, dressa

Yessa I gotsta get paid

25 lighters on my dressa, yessa

I gotta gotta get paid I

25 lighters on my dressa, yessa

You know I got to get paid

Uh, cmon

Just check me out

All I got is a 25 ahaha

Video hit Tesla

Tesla - What You Give

Tesla is an American rock band formed in Sacramento, California in late 1982.

They have sold 14 million albums in the USA.

In February 2008, Tesla helped fund and headlined a benefit concert for victims of the Station nightclub fire. The show was broadcast by VH1 Classic.

Tesla played three songs: "What You Give", "Signs", and "Love Song", though "What You Give" did not make it onto the broadcast.

Band members

Current members

Frank Hannon – guitar, keyboards, piano, organ, backing vocals (1981–1996, 2000–present)

Brian Wheat – bass, piano, backing vocals (1981–1996, 2000–present)

Jeff Keith – lead vocals (1984–1996, 2000–present)

Troy Luccketta – drums, percussion (1984–1996, 2000–present)

Dave Rude – guitar, backing vocals (2006–present)

Former members

Steve Clausman – (1981)

Bobby Contreras – drums (1981)

Colleen Lloy – guitar, lead vocals (Joined band with Brook Bright as City Kidd in 1981–1983)

Brook Bright – guitar, vocals (Formed band as City Kidd in early 1980s) (1981–1983)

Jeff Harper – lead vocals (original lead vocalist for Earthshaker and City Kidd thru April 1983)

Joey Murrieta – guitar (before the breakout of Tesla) (1983)

Curtis Chapman – guitar (before the breakout of Tesla, when they were still called City Kidd) (1983–1984)

Tommy Skeoch – guitar, backing vocals (1984–1994, 1995, 2000–2006).

The lyrics:

Who's the one that makes you happy?

Or maybe, who's the one always on your mind?

And who is the reason you're livin' for?

Who's the reason for your smile?

I feel so lonely, yet I know I'm not the only one

To ever feel this way.

I love ya so much that I think I'm goin' insane.

I'm goin' crazy, outta my head.

Goin' crazy, outta my head.

Can't think about nothin' but your good, good love,

And what you give.

Now, ev'ry one needs somebody.

And you know, ev'rybody needs someone.

Well, and a-yes it's true!

Ev'rybody needs a special kind of love,

And you're the only one I'm thinkin' of.

You mean the world to me.

You are my only!

I feel so lonely, yet I know I'm not the only one

To carry on this way.

I love ya so much I lose track-a time,

Lose track of the days.

I'm goin' outta my head,

Goin' crazy, outta my head.

Can't think about a-nothin' but your good, good love,

And what you give.

It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give.

It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live.

It's only what you give, only what you give, only what you give,

It's not whatcha got, a-but the life you live.

It's the life you live.

[Spoken:] Play it pretty for the world.

You're the one that makes me happy. Oh yeah baby.

And you're the one always on my mind. And a-yes it's true.

You are my reason, my one and only that I've been livin' for

Why can't forever be forever and nothin' more. (To Chorus)

It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give.

It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live.

No, no, no, no, no!

It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give.

And it ain't what it's not, but a-what it is!

Only what you give, only what you give. It's only what you give.

It's not whatcha got, a-but a-what you give.

It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give. A-what you give woman.

It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live.

It's only what you give, only what you give, only what you give,

It's not whatcha got, but a-what you give.

It's only what you give. Only what you give. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Only what you give. Only what you give.

Only what you give, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Is that good enough for the girls we run around with?

I do believe so. Ooh, ooh, uh-huh.

Only what you give, what you give. Only what you give.

Only what you give.

Video hit Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen - You Never Can Tell (Live, 2013)

You Never Can Tell also occasionally referred to as "C'est La Vie" and "Teenage Wedding", is a rock and roll song by Chuck Berry.

It was composed while he was in prison for intent to commit a sex crime.

The song was originally released in 1964 on the album St. Louis to Liverpool, and has also been recorded or performed by Chely Wright, John Prine, New Riders of the Purple Sage, the Jerry Garcia Band, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger and Emmylou Harris.

The song describes a fictional wedding between a young couple and the events afterwards. Living in a modest apartment, the jobless young man finds work and, together with his spouse, they find prosperity.

They use the money to expand their music collection and eventually purchase a family car to drive to New Orleans to celebrate their anniversary, where they had originally met.

The chorus of the song is "'C'est la vie', say the old folks, 'it goes to show you never can tell'".

The melody was influenced by Mitchell Torok's 1953 hit "Caribbean".

In Pulp Fiction movie

The song became briefly popular again for a time in 1994 after the release of the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction.

The music was played for a contest at the fictional restaurant Jack Rabbit Slim's in which John Travolta as Vincent Vega and Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace danced for the contest's main prize. The music added an evocative element of sound to the narrative and Tarantino said that the song's lyrics of "Pierre" and "Mademoiselle" gave the scene a "uniquely 50's French New Wave dance sequence feel".

Cover versions

1974 Ronnie Lane, on Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance

1975 John Prine, on Common Sense

1975 Loggins and Messina, on So Fine

1976 New Riders of the Purple Sage, on New Riders

1977 Emmylou Harris, on Luxury Liner (as "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie")

1981 Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, on Leather and Lace

1984 Ian A. Anderson and Mike Cooper, on The Continuous Preaching Blues

1985 Bill Wyman's "Willie and the Poor Boys" featuring Charlie Watts, Andy Fairweather-Lowe, Mickey Gee, Geraint Watkins

1993 Aaron Neville, on The Grand Tour

1994 Bob Seger, on Greatest Hits (as "C'est La Vie")

1996 Status Quo, on Don't Stop

2005 Chely Wright, on The Metropolitan Hotel (as "C'est La Vie (You Never Can Tell)")

2005 Texas Lightning, on Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (as "C'est La Vie")

2008 Roch Voisine, on Americana

2010 The Morlocks, on Play Chess

2013 Bruce Springsteen, on the Wrecking Balltour, in Germany

The Lyrics:

It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well

You could see that Pierre did truly love the madamoiselle

And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell,

"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell

They furnished off an apartment with a two room Roebuck sale

The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale,

But when Pierre found work, the little money comin' worked out well

"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell

They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast

Seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz

But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell

"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell

They bought a souped-up jitney, 'twas a cherry red '53

They drove it down to Orleans to celebrate the anniversary

It was there that Pierre was married to the lovely madamoiselle

"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell