Song 9: Secrets - OneRepublic

I am not getting to these song descriptions as quickly as I had hoped! It's been a busy week, I guess: General Election (and the newspaper articles, blog posts and traditional media reports that one goes through to try and make an informed decision!) in the United States on Nov 2, Cubmaster duties, and broadcasting duties, not to mention the busy schedules of my ever growing children! Oh, yeah, and I have to work!! Doing some fun stuff with an auditorium sound system this week. Always learning new things! But I guess all that adds up to less time for the posts here at the Amature Music Mixer site! But there are some fun songs yet to post about for the 2010 Fall Mix! So...on to the next one!

Secrets was released as a single in the US on June 1, 2010 from the album, Waking Up which was released in November, 2009

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHm9MG9xw1o&feature=channel

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/o/one_republic/secrets.html

OneRepublic first came to my attention as part of the Summer Mix from last summer (2010), though they've been around for the past few years already, and I knew the song Apologize but didn't know who sang it. I've always liked songs that have soaring atmospheric qualities to them, which is why I've enjoyed songs like Space Age Love Song (and really, just about anything) by Flock of Seagulls, many of Journey's songs, punk-pop like Heart of Glass by Blondie, the harder - but still full and atmospheric - songs by groups like the Scorpions & Rush, and more recently the sounds of songs like Drops of Jupiter by Train and groups like Angels & Airwaves, Linkin Park and Yeasayer. There are many other songs and groups that fit in with this song type, and OneRepublic looks like they are one of them!

As a result, they are quickly becoming one of my favorites. So far, I haven't run across a OneRepublic song that I didn't like! I also like the quote found on a Wikipedia page from singer Ryan Tedder, "We're no respecter of genre. If its a good song or a good artist whether rock, pop, indie or hip hop, they've probably influenced us on some level...nothing's new under the sun, we're a sum of a bunch of parts." I think I liked its honesty. No presumptuous statement about "our music" or that they're supremely different - just an acknowledgement that they are what we all are: the sum of our backgrounds and experiences which at once makes us all the same in so many ways, but also makes each individual unique.

Secrets was a song mentioned in the notes from last summer's mix, when talking about the song that wrapped up that Mix, All The Right Moves. At that time, the song had only been released as a single across the pond and into Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since it became an official single in the US it has done well. Not spectacular, but well and it has been used in a number of places, from a promotional video for the TV show Lost, to iPad commercials. Meantime, the group with roots in Colorado is on a Fall Tour with Maroon5 (another group with a song on this mix), and is rumored to be joining British Boy Band JLS for a tour starting sometime this Winter. This comes after a busy summer of brief tours with the likes of Bon Jovi and P!nk, along with appearances on the Today show and wining Poland's Eska Award for Best International Group.

The song itself creates a number of interpretational possibilities (as evidenced by the 40 or so comments on the songmeanings.net page) which I'll leave up to the listener rather than post my ideas on the meaning behind the lyrics as I've done for a couple of earler song posts. Leave a comment with your thoughts!

More songs (and video): Say (All I Need) , Apologize , Timbaland Remix of Apologize , Stop and Stare

Song 8: If It's Love - Train

Released as a single from the album Save Me San Francisco in June, 2010 (the album was released in October, 2009)

Video: http://www.vh1.com/video/train/515379/if-its-love.jhtml

Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/if-its-love-lyrics-train.html



"This song was actually written on the same day as “Hey Soul Sister” in New York City. I wrote this song first in the day, and I was thinking about all these people who have been supportive of the band Train for so many years. I had also made a solo record, and (fans) were really supportive to me and I was just like, “I wanna write a love song finally after all these years, but I wanna write it to our fans and just say thank you."

That's a quote from lead singer Pat Monahan on the Wikipedia page for the song If It's Love. The second released single from what has become Train's most popular album since 2001's Drops of Jupiter, has soared to the #1 spot on the Adult Hot 40 charts, just like Hey, Soul Sister, Drops of Jupiter, and Calling All Angels had done. With their fourth single reaching that #1 status, Train has pulled into a tie with Matchbox Twenty & Daughtry for second place (trailing only Nickelback) for the most #1's on that chart in its history. Also of note, this song's success made Save Me San Francisco Train's first album with two Billboard Top 40 hits since their Grammy Award winning days (and five-members-in-the-band days) of the Drops of Jupiter album era. It has been a success that has returned Train to major popularity, gained them Certified Gold status for a studio album for the first time since 2003, and quieted the critics who had felt that Train's glory years were in their past when they had declining sales on three consecutive album releases - and I admit I was one of those that had that thought. On top of all that, Save Me San Francisco may still have more hit songs left on it: Their recent release of the song Marry Me on Oct 25th (just five days ago as I type this post) has already reached #19 on the Adult Contemporary charts.

If It's Love has some fun references that led to very little digging to discover the background for them (Wikipedia gets a bad rap sometimes, but it's invaluable for starting any online research process for general knowledge!). Here's some references from the song and what they're all about:

• There's a reference to the 80's "Big Hair Era" band, Winger (formed from former members of Alice Cooper's band, and known best for the song Seventeen) - Winger still tours and recently produced - in 2009 - their 5th studio album.
• The "Rain in Spain" comes from the song in the musical My Fair Lady
• The "Henry Lee" was a folk song and dance that got some renewed popularity when Nick Cave did a rendition of the song in 1995 with PJ Harvey (a live version is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AvdEO7ZAto, though I'll prewarn you...if Cave doesn't sing better than that on good night, it'll explain why I haven't heard much about him!). For more background on the song, see: http://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-HenryLee.html
• My favorite is the reference to poisonous perfume! Monahan has a quote listed on that Wikipedia article I mentioned earlier that says it all: "Have you ever been in an elevator with a lady who just got done perfuming? If you have, you won't wonder why I wrote it."

It looks like the break that the band took from each other following the For Me It's You album did wonders to restore their outlook on the band and the music they wanted to make. It also appears - based on some quotes out there on the web - that the remaining three members needed some time away to refocus and eventually regroup after they had lost two band mates in a matter of a couple of years. Last year I was comparing Train to Genesis because of the similarities (a popular band seeing the members get reduced to three, and members going their own directions at times, but coming together again). As it turned out, Genesis wound up having some of their biggest hits and greatest popularity after that change, and - with what's happened with their most recent album so far - the same thing might be true for Train as well.

Song 7: Under Control - Parachute

Released: May 19, 2009 on the album Losing Sleep

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HiRnS4k2Vw&ob=av2n

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/parachute/Under+Control/


Parachute is among the newest bands we've had on our mixes. Originally calling themselves Sparky's Flaw when most of the members were still in High School in Charlottesville, Virginia, the group of friends changed the name to Parachute in May 2008, coinciding with the group members' graduation from the University of Virginia. Losing Sleep is the band's first - and so far, only - album release. They have reached a measure of fame rather quickly, however! The group signed their first record deal while still juniors in college, have toured with acts that have been a part of recent Mixes (Secondhand Seranade, Switchfoot, 3 Doors Down, Kelly Clarkson and The Script), were a part of the 2008 Nivea New Year's Countdown (with the Jonas Brothers and Taylor Swift....which may or may not be viewed as a good thing!), released their album in May of 2009, got a contract with Nivea for the use of Parachute's songs in Nivea commercials, have been the musical act on many of the Late Night talk shows, members were featured on Episode 20 (June 15, 2009) episide of the "Live at Daryl's House" vidcast, and have performed with Train, Blue October and others at the 13th Annual Bite of Las Vegas Food Festival in the summer of 2009.

You'll notice that the music video uses a slightly different version of the song than what's available on the album. It was an interesting decision by the band to feature the different mix of the song for the video! I doubt such changes are done very often! It isn't a huge change, but - having listened to the song on the iPod a number of times before seeing (and hearing!) the video version - it is a noticeable one! Both versions of the song are good, in my opinion!

Being relatively new, there isn't a whole lot out there about the band. It's a nice storyline for them to have all been friends since childhood. The one non-native Charlottesville member - lead singer Will Anderson, who was born in California - moved to Charlottesville with his family when he was 11, and he now apparently views the Virginia city his hometown.

The band's website touts their willingness to "play for the radio" and have some appeal to the masses. There are some that would immediately label them as a "sellout" group because of this, but Anderson is quoted on the band's site as saying "why play if no one's there to listen?". The band recently completed a tour that took them to many points in Europe, and they are back in the states completing their Fall Tour 2010. The closest they come to our neck of the woods is their concert date at St. Louis on Veterans' Day (Nov 11). They don't even make it to any West Coast cities at all! Maybe they'll come this direction eventually. The band takes some pride in putting on a good live show, so it would be worth a trip to go see them, perhaps!

Song 6: Zero - Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Released March 9, 2009 on the album It's Blitz!

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGNo8RL5kM&ob=av2e

Lyrics: On You Tube

The first of a few songs in this mix that have been a part of previous compilations! The last time we had the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's on a mix it was about a year ago and they were in the running for a Grammy Award for the album that this song (as well as Heads Will Roll) comes from. As it turned out, the album that the song that came before theirs on that mix won that Grammy (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix), so they didn't come home with the hardware this time around. No matter. The Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's already had a Grammy, for the song Maps, and the critical acclaim just keeps landing in their laps with SPIN magazine and NME both naming this song as the best track of 2009.

What I found most interesting about this song (other than it's catchiness!) is the number of ways that the lyrics could be interpreted. You can read some of them at the bottom of the lyrics link provided above. It's a prime example, I think, of how lyrics at first glance see to be so obviously telling a certain story until another perspective is applied and suddenly the flexibility of our language creates many possibilities! The interpretation I like is the one relating to the progression of being an unknown "nobody" to growth in self-confidence, but there are others that are intriguing as well. I did a little looking to find out what the band's thoughts were, but didn't see anything that jumped out to tell me what that was!

The band is from New York City, but the video for this song was shot at locales in San Francisco, including the "Cool Super Discount" grocery store, though shots from San Fran's famous Chinatown are also included. I liked the beginning, where singer Karen O looks like she's prepping to go out on stage for a performance, then goes through the curtain and out onto a San Francisco street. Sort of a play on the Shakespearean "All The World's a Stage" idea?

The end of Sept, 2010 marked the 10-year anniversary of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs first-ever show which was in a small club in New York City. The band apparently wound up playing an anniversary show in a small club (called Secret Market Project, I think) to commemorate their beginnings at a cost of $20 a ticket!

No news that I could find on the band's next album, though the band is currently not on tour leading me to guess that they are not only in New York (since they just did their anniversary concert) but perhaps back in the studio to work on the next release. Just a guess, though!

Song 5: Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour

Released Sept 7, 2010 on the album Audio Secrecy

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEn-nTkbEM0

Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/say-youll-haunt-me-lyrics-stone-sour.html

Coming at you from Des Moines, Iowa is Stone Sour. The group is actually now in something of a reboot after originally coming together in 1992. The group broke apart for a bit (though never truly split) when two members, singer Corey Taylor and singer/guitarist Jim Root, joined Slipknot in 1997. Stone Sour reformed in 2002 and since then has produced four albums and acheived a couple of Grammy Award nominations in the area of Rock/Metal. This song comes from that most recent album, which is also the band's first studio album since original drummer Joel Ekman departed the group in 2006. I didn't see any specifics that indicated that Ekman's deprture caused any major problems for the band, but the fact that it took four years for the first studio effort to be produced after he left sure indicates that things weren't as smooth as they could have been! The other factor could also be the ongoing work that Root and Taylor have had with the nine-member group Slipknot during that time-frame. Slipknot itself- which also calls Des Moines its hometown - only recently has been inactive, and only because of a death in May 2010 of member and bassist Paul Gray that has left that group unsure of its future, though the rumor is that they are planning to begin a search for a new member and to have a new album out by 2012.

Of note is that the Audio Secrecy album is the first of Stone Sour's to not have a parental advisory label slapped on it. It's possible that the band is mellowing as its members get older - they fall in the 35-39 age group - or else they've just found other ways to get their song messages across! Stone Sour's sound is - predictably - often compared to that of Slipknot, though Stone Sour doesn't perform in the matching jumpsuits and individualized (and somewhat disturbing to some) masks that Slipknot has become known for. Another difference between the two is that Slipknot is usually much edgier than Stone Sour is in style. Think of Slipknot as comparable to early Metallica, with Stone Sour closer in their style to an early Def Leppard. Both are hard rock bands, but still so very different - which is somewhat amazing considering the two bands share a lead singer and a guitarist.

Say You'll Haunt Me is described by some as a "darkly sweet love song", and it has been called a song "about my wife and how I feel about my wife" by Taylor on the Noisecreep.com site. There were some posts that thought the song was meant as a tribute to the passing of Paul Gray, but the album and song were produced well in advance of that event.

And - after a one song fall off! - we are back to creative videos...the story it seems to tell doesn't seem to be a match (at least to me) with the song and the apparent meaning behind it, but it is interesting to watch! By the way, the car at the beginning of the video is a Hemi Cuda (short for the Plymouth Barracuda, more at Wikipedia here), one of the most sought after - and expensive - of the classic muscle cars.

Song 4: Dynamite - Taio Cruz

Released: October 2009 on the album Rokstarr



Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUjdiDeJ0xg&ob=av2e




Lyrics: http://www.directlyrics.com/taio-cruz-dynamite-lyrics.html




The song was officially released at the end of May 2010 - some seven months after the release of the album - and it soared into the top spot on the pop and R&B charts, making it one of the biggest of the summer hits (right up there with California Girls). My daughter probably said it best about this song when she said that it was "different, but fun to listen to". It's a song that is at once catchy, and conveys a sense of party-hard fun. I especially like the reference of "celebrating my life" - something that I think we all wish we could do more often!

Cruz comes across as something of a young pup at first glance, but he's already approaching his 30's and has been in the music business professionally since the age of 18. He initially became involved as a songwriter (winning a BRIT award at the age of 21), then producing. His first studio album was in 2008 (Departure), which actually followed the release of some singles over the course of a couple of years, all of which came out of his own studio based in his hometown of London. Rokstarr is his second full-length album, and the releases from that album have propelled him into international stardom.

About the only thing I don't like about the song is the video for it. Cruz is quoted in a Wikipedia article about his excitement for the video, referencing that it had a ton of props, and a lot of cool wrecked cars that were used in the shoot. Despite all that, I guess I found that I was disappointed in it. More on that below. But, meantime, here's my take on the video using lyrics set to the tune of the song:

This video made me throw my hands in the air somewhat,
Sayin' "What the...?"
Is this a joke or what?
I want a video that's fun to watch
But this one is lame-oh
No creativ-it-y - no!
'Cause it looks to me...
That there is no thought...like
"Let's make this easy...
Just have girls in tights!"
If I've seen it once,
Then I've seen it twice,
this vid-e-o
should be blown up with Dyn-O-Mite!

I think it's
lame, lame, lame, lame
That all they did was play the
game, game, game, game
And that's sad 'cause there could've been
fame, fame, fame, fame
If there had been a bit more use of
brain, brain, brain, brain

******

I probably came into this song's video with some expectations for something cool that depicted a guy "celebrating life" - with some snippets of the things he's celebrating like family, friends, acheivements - and then partying out at a club amongst those he's celebrating with, and instead I saw just another video with a bunch of girls, with no creativeness at all (partying in a junk yard? Really? Must have been the cheapest place to rent! Taio Cruz doesn't look like he's excited at all, and don't all the girls look...well...bored? You'd think they'd be at least more jumpy working around all those power tools and grinder sparks with no protective clothing!) I like girls in video as much as the next red-blooded dude, but this video isn't memorable at all. We've seen some interesting, weird, disturbing, reflective, and throwback videos, some of which with awful special effects, but they've all had some thoughtful and/or fun creativity to them. This one doesn't hold a candle to any of them. Rating: Gawd-Awful!

But I do like the song!

Song 3: To Lose My Life - White Lies

Released: January 2009 on the album To Lose My Life...


Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGEjz12YLiM

Lyrics: http://www.songlyrics.com/white-lies/to-lose-my-life-lyrics/

Among the sea of somewhat simplistic relationship songs comes this one. There are probably a few ways that it could be interpreted, but to me it's a song about what is an unpleasant reality: who dies first - you or those you care about? The wish in this song would be dying "at the same time", to prevent the pain of living without the ones you care about - so it's an unwelcome "choice": to lose your life or to lose your love. Along with that is another worry: once those you love pass away, will there truly be a time when they will be seen again? Sort of a "does the soul exist" question that strikes many of us that comes from the line in the song: "...and there's a part of me that still believes my soul will soar above the trees, but a desperate fear flows through my blood: a dead love's buried beneath the mud". My thought here is that the song is stating a hopefulness for the afterlife because it means that there will be the opportunity to be with those that were important to you once again, but at the same time there is concern that it won't turn out to be that way.

Whew! Hefty stuff for a catchy song! And - as one reviewer put it - a song that is "strangely sweet"!

The band itself has been together for just the past three years - forming in October of 2007. To Lose My Life... was the group's debut effort, and it was a hugely successful one. Despite a lukewarm critic response, the album went immediately to #1 on the British charts, and the song did the same thing - holding off attempts from Lady Gaga, The Script and Kings of Leon to unseat it. That was followed by a number of award nominations, appearances on Carson Daley's and David Letterman's late night talk shows, and tours where they provided support for Snow Patrol, Kings of Leon and Coldplay, and also headlined a number of short tour schedules. About the only bad thing that has happened to the group was a cancellation of some of their concert dates due to an illness that struck lead singer Harry McVeigh - but after he recovered, the concert tours continued and the cancelled ones were rescheduled.

They've become amzingly busy. So much so that the band wasn't able to work on new material until this year. Accordingto the Wikipedia article, the new album is completed and is scheduled for a mid-January, 2011 release, so apparently the group works quickly once they decide that it's time to get into the studio!


The band has been compared favorably to the 70's group, Joy Division. Interestingly, that group knows all about the complexity of emotions behind my interpretation of the song: in 1980, their lead singer and primary lyricist, Ian Curtis, died via suicide after suffering from a terrible bout of depression. This event took place just prior to the release of their first album. His friends and band members continued on after his death, but renamed themselves "New Order", who wound up becoming very successful, partly due to songs Ian had wrote before his death that the band used in later years.


Also interesting is that the band members of White Lies don't share the thought that they have a sound inspired by Joy Division, New Order or Interpol (another band that they get compared to). Their primary reason for the disagreement is that they weren't alive when those bands were at their peak, that their music is more uplifting and appealing, and that they favor a band called Secret Machines as being much more of an influence to their style.


I found that to be a somewhat ironic response - that a band who has a single called Death, and then has this song which references dying, would say they are "more uplifting" than anybody! But they do seem to be a good band, and I do like this song. It reminds me somewhat of Billy Idol's White Wedding in its sound as well as its darker undertones.


The other songs I've listened to are also catchy, have a danceable style, are a tad dark, and seem to be equally thought-provoking.


Other songs: Farewell To The Fairground, Unfinished Business

Song 2 - No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand

Released: January 2009 on the album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Video: On YouTube

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franzferdinand/noyougirls.html

Franz Ferdinand has actually been around for a little while, getting started in Scotland in 2002. FF is also the opposite of Grande, in a sense. Where "Grande" sounds like the name of a group, but is really an individual, "Franz Ferdinand" sounds like the name of an individual, but is actually a group (sorta like "Lynard Skynard", I guess!). More on the name in just a moment!

The band is four-member group (a drummer, and three guitarists...though the drummer can play guitar as well) and they hit their stride in 2004 when their self-titled album was named the best in Britain, and they won the Mercury Music Prize (more on that at Wikipedia is here). The following year they also snared two BRIT Awards for being the best British group and the best British rock act. Since that time, they've produced two more albums (with another presently in production), had a number of songs reach Top-40 status in Britain, and are starting to find success in the US and other locales, such as Japan. They haven't pulled out a Grammy Award win as of yet, but have been nominated for several.

To me - particularly this song - they invoke a sound somewhat like a fusion between Talking Heads and Loverboy. Sort of a punk rock meets arena rock connection, but with a dash of reggae thrown in. The song itself is from FF's most recent album, which is decribed as a concept album based on the idea of "partying all night and dealing with the affects afterward". That concept probably explains why the lyrics of this song could easily have been part of a conversation between two people arguing (discussing?!) guy/girl relationships after having a few! The band also described the album as something of a more thought-out effort than the one that had preceded it. That can be seen by the fact that this album had been worked on for about two years before it was released. Maybe not quite to the "standards" for cerebralness that bands like Boston have set, but in the "Crank-em-out-before-someone-else-gets-popular-to-milk-this-act-for-all-its-worth" thinkset that sometimes seems to pervade any music industry, regardless of the continent they're on, two years is a long time!

Now, on to the name. If anyone in the family is presently studying WW I, or is a WW I history buff, they'll probably recognize the band's name as belonging to Austria's Archduke who's assasination was the catalyst that ignited the First World War. The band first gave consideration for the name after watching a racehorse named Archduke Ferdinand. The band has said that if the name is taken with a deep intellectual viewpoint, one could say that, like the Archduke, the band could be a point of major change in music and the world. But, they are quick to mention that the meaning of the name shouldn't really be taken all that deeply. They really just liked the way the name sounded!

Oh, and the album cover. This will be like a Photography Class flashback, so be ready: It's part of a series of "crime scene" photos that the band has done when they visit a city. It's done in the style of Arthur Fellig, who became famous for his crime scene photography in the 20's and 30's in New York City, and also famous for how quickly he got to such scenes, which led to his nickname, "Weegee" (more on him at Wikipedia, here). The photo on the album cover is from an alley in Glascow, Scotland sometime after midnight. I was hoping to track down other photos in the series - which are described as activities in the night being happened upon bya photographer like Weegee - but had no luck. Did run across a good interview article here however!

Other songs by the band that you might like (with links to available video): Take Me Out, Can't Stop Feeling, Ulysses

Song 1 - Paisley Park - Grande

Released as a single on iTunes - May 2009

Video: Not found

Lyrics: Not found for this version (see note below)


Well, the first surprise of the process came right away: When doing a search on YouTube in an attempt to discover if a video existed for Grande's cover of Prince's mid-80's song (which, by the way, hit the radio airwaves just as the class of 1985 was wrapping up it's final year of HS) I got no mention of Grande, and instead wound up with a number of references to Carmen Electra stripping videos! Apparently, Ms. Electra had a connection to Prince's Paisley Park studios in Chan with a number of visits and I guess that's why YouTube decided my search for "Paisley Park Grande" should bring her up! So...um...I guess there isn't a video version of the song!


It was a little more difficult to find information about Grande as compared to most acts that I've dug up info on, and much of what I did find was in Norwegian, but eventually I was able to find out that "Grande" isn't a group. "Grande" is a guy! From Oslo, Norway, Kjetil Grande is the face on the album cover for his single release of the Prince song. He's more than just a face, however. I had never heard of him, but Norway certainly has. According to Grande's MySpace page (www.myspace.com/kjetilgrande), Grande has already won a Norway Grammy, and his recent album release (April 2010's You Are The Night) is a critcal and popular smash in that country.


From what I understand, Grande's version of Paisley Park was done as part of a huge compilation of Prince tribute songs that were performed by a number of Norway artists and then placed onto a 5 CD tribute pack! A link was provided on Grande's MySpace page that takes a visitor to a page where an order could be placed, but the page was - yes - all in Norwegian! No surprise, really, but I didn't want to take the time to translate! I imagine that Prince must be OK with the endeavor. It was put together two years ago, and the Purple One himself has usually been quite aggressive about going after anything that he would deem as "inappropriate". If Prince hadn't given the project his blessing, I doubt the ordering page would still be an active site!

It will be interesting if Grande can make some waves in America. In the meantime, this is a great rendition of Paisley Park. It's actually a bit up-tempo from the original, which I think is a nice touch. Other than that, and the addition of the electronic sounds meshed into Prince's groove funk along with the tape-player button clicks to start and end the song - almost as if you were listening to a cassette version of it on one of those old Panasonic recorders! - it's very true to the original.


Lyrics for Paisley Park (I couldn't find the lyrics for Grande's version of the song. These are Prince's lyrics. Grande's version is close but not exactly the same.)

Other songs: We Did It All