I Am... Sasha Fierce

Beyonce is probably the most famous thing in R'n'B music right now. She is the one who has been dominating it for so many years now and when she releases an album everyone takes notice. She is usually taking over the charts from all her rivals. She is an artist that I have loved since Destiny's Child. But when she is a solo act she is so much better.

Her third studio album I Am... Sasha Fierce is her best album to date. The album is a representation of herself and her alter ego Sasha Fierce. The first disc is her more love song/ballads and her alter ego unleashes her more up tempo diva side. The album has been in the charts since it's release in 2008 and sold around six million albums to date. A very amazing record for a woman who has only had three albums. Another amazing fact she is the only woman in R'n'B to have three number one albums top the billboard charts that go onto win best album at the Grammy awards.

As I adore this album this was a hard choice to just choose three tracks. I have only chosen my three favorites in terms of the ones that really get me still to this day and I can't stop listening to. I'd have posted five songs on this but I can just display the three best tracks to get my point across. All my choices are more dedicated to her Beyonce Ballad side but I still love her Sasha Fierce tracks just as much.


HALO

Remember those walls I built
Well, Baby they're tumbling down
And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make up a sound

I found a way to let you in
But I never really had a doubt
Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

It's like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breaking
It's the risk that I'm taking
I ain't never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace

You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it wont fade away

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo

Hit me like a ray of sun
Burning through my darkest night
You're the only one that I want
Think I'm addicted to your light

I swore I'd never fall again
But this don't even feel like falling
Gravity can't forget
To pull me back to the ground again

Feels like I've been awakened
Every rule I had you breaking
The risk that I'm taking
I'm never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace

You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
Halo, Halo


DISAPPEAR

If I begged and If I cried
Would it change the sky tonight?
Would it give me sunlight?
Should I wait for you to call?

Is there any hope at all?

Are you drifting by?

When I think about it
I know that I was never there or ever cared
The more I think about it
The less that I was able to share
With you
I tried to reach you
I can almost feel you
You're nearly here
And then you disappear
(Disappear Disappear Disappear)
You Disappear
(Disappear Disappear Disappear)

And then I lie all by myself
I see your face I hear your voice
My heart stays faithful
And time has come and time has past
If it's good it's got to last
It feels so right

When I think about it
I know that I was never there or even cared
The more I think about it
The less that I was able to share
With you
I tried to reach you
I can almost feel you
You're nearly here
And then you disappear
(Disappear Disappear Disappear)
You disappear
(Disappear Disappear Disappear)
You you disappear

I missed all the signs
One at a time
You were ready
What did I know
Starting our lives
Now my love I'm ready to shine

When I think about it
I know that I was never there or even cared
The more I think about it
The less I was able to share
With you
I tried to reach you
I can almost feel you
You're almost here
And then you disappear
You disappear
You disappear
You disappear
Disappear


HELLO

Oh
Oh Oh Oh Oh
I love to see you walk into the room
Body shining lighting up the place
And when you talk, Everybody stops
Cause they know you know just what to say and
The way that you protect your friends
Baby, I respect you for that
And when you grow, you take everyone you love along
I love that shit

Don't fly me away
Don't need to buy a diamond key
To unlock my heart
You shelter my soul
You're my fire when I'm cold
I want you to know

You had me at Hello, Hello, Hello
You had me at Hello, Hello, Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you stole my cool
Cause you had me at hello
Hello, Hello

I get so excited when you travel with me
Baby while I'm on my grind
And never would I ever let my hustle
Come between me me and my family time and
You keep me humble, I like this type
Cause you know there's more to life
And if I need ya, you will be here
You will make the sacrifice

Don't fly me away
Don't need to buy
A diamond key a diamond key
To unlock my heart
You shelter my soul
You're my fire when I'm cold
I want you to know

You had me at Hello, Hello, Hello
You had me at Hello, Hello, Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you stole my cool
You had me at hello
Hello, Hello

Gotta feel you and be near you
You're the air that I breathe to survive
Gotta hold you, wanna show you
That without you my sun doesn't shine

You had me at Hello, Hello, Hello
You had me at Hello, Hello, Hello
It was many years ago
Baby when you stole my cool
You had me at hello
Hello, Hello

M!ssundaztood

I thought I would do a POP album this time around for my review. With POP music it's sometimes seen as manufactured junk. That would be putting it lightly. But there are artists who are apart of this genre type who mix it up and show that a POP album can be absolutely amazing.

P!nk's second album M!ssundaztood is exactly that, It was where I think people stood up and took notice of her as a true artist. Her first album Can't Take Me Home was an attempt to display her as an R'n'B artist. I personally believe that and that has been my opinion since I first heard it. With her second album she took control of the album and her career and showed that she can deliver something that is extremely fun but it's also a serious attempt at showing she can deliver a mature album.

The first album to me felt like she is a tough bitch and has a shitload of attitude. But M!ssundaztood is almost like every emotion that she wish she could have said first time around and had no creative control. Give an artist room to move and show that she the can evolve and P!nk did just that and delivered an amazing POP record that showed a serious artist who had much more to say then her first studio album hinted. I believe the worldwide sales of fifteen million also proved that she is a fucking star.

With my choices for my favorite tracks It was so hard to pick three so I will include four this time around as this album is packed with so many good tracks. All my choices in regards to lyrics have a theme of a vulnerable woman who isn't as tough as she appeared first time around. They hint at emotional sides that she didn't get to display first time around. These four choices are my favorite tracks off M!ssundaztood.


JUST LIKE A PILL

I'm lying here on the floor where you left me
I think I took to much
I'm crying here, what have you done?
I thought it would be fun

I can't stay on your life support
There's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your morphine
Cause it's making me itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again
But she's being a little bitch
I think I'll get out of here
Where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of making me better
You keep making me ill
You keep making me ill

I haven't moved from the spot where you left me
This must be a bad trip
All of the other pills, they were different
Maybe I should get some help

I can't stay on your life support
There's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your morphine
Cause it's making me itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again
But she's being a little bitch
I think I'll get out of here
Where I can

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of making me better
You keep making me ill
You keep making me ill

I can't stay on your life support
There's a shortage in the switch
I can't stay on your morphine
Cause it's making me itch
I said I tried to call the nurse again
But she's being a little bitch
I think I'll get out of here
Where I can run

Run just as fast as I can
To the middle of nowhere
To the middle of my frustrated fears
And I swear you're just like a pill
Instead of making me better
You keep making me ill
You keep making me ill


FAMILY PORTRAIT

Uh Uh Some deep shit
Uh Uh look away
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Mama please stop crying
I can't stand the sound
Your pain is painful and it's
Tearing me down

I hear glasses breaking
As I sit up in my bed
I told dad you didn't mean
Those nasty things you said
You fight about money
Bout me and my brother
And this I come home to
This is my shelter

It ain't easy growing up in world war three
Never known what love could be
You'll see
I don't want love to destroy me
Like it has done my family

Can we work it out (Can we)
Can we be a family (Can we)
I promise I'll be better (I promise)
Mommy I'll do anything (I'll do anything)
Can we work it out?
Can we be a family?
I promise I'll be better
Daddy please don't leave

Daddy please stop yelling (stop)
I can't stand the sound (Can't stand the sound)
Make mama stop crying
Cause I need you around (Yeah yeah yeah)
My mama she loves you (I know it)
No matter what she says It's true
I know that she hurts you
But remember I love you too!

I ran away today, ran from the noise
Ran away (Ran away)
Don't wanna go back to that place
But don't have no choice, no way (No choice, no way)

It ain't easy growing up in world war three
Never knowing what love could be
But I've seen, I don't want love to destroy me
Like it did my family

Can we work it out (Can we work it out oh!)
Can we be a family
I promise I'll be better (I promise)
Mommy I'll do anything (Anything to keep you here)
Can we work it out?
Can we be a family?
I promise I'll be better (I promise, I promise)
Daddy please don't leave

In our family portrait (In our family portrait)
We look pretty happy (We look pretty happy)
Let's play pretend, Act like it comes naturally
I don't want to have to split the holidays
I don't want two addresses
I don't want a stepbrother anyways
And I don't want my mom to have to change her last name
Oh no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no

In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
We look pretty normal
Let's go back to that
In our family portrait
We look pretty happy
Let's play pretend, Act like it goes naturally

In our family portrait (Can we work it out)
We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
We look pretty normal (I promise I'll be better)
In our family portrait (Can we work it out)
We look pretty happy (Can we be a family)
Let's play pretend (I promise I'll be better)
Act like it comes naturally (Daddy please don't leave)
Oh let's go back to that
Oh let's go back to that
Remember the days
Remember the days
Please go back to that (Daddy please don't leave)

Don't leave, Don't leave, Daddy don't leave
Don't leave, Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Don't leave, Don't leave
Turn around please, He's so mad

Remember that night you left
You took my shining star
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Daddy don't leave
Don't leave us here alone

Mama I'll be nicer
I'll be so much better
I'll tell my brother
Oh I won't spill the milk at dinner
I'll be so much better
I'll do everything right
I'll be your little girl forever
I'll go to sleep at night
Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Oh


DON'T LET ME GET ME

Never win first place
I don't support the team
I can't take direction
And my socks are never clean
Teachers dated me
My parents hated me
I was always in a fight
Cause I can't do anything right

Everyday I fight a war against the mirror
I can't take the person staring back at me
I'm a hazard to myself

Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
I wanna be somebody else, yeah

LA told me
You'll be a POP star
All you have to change
Is everything you are
Tired of being compared
To damn Britney Spears
She's so pretty
That just ain't me

So Doctor, Doctor
Won't you please prescribe me something?
A day in the life of someone else
Cause I'm a hazard to myself

Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
Yeah
Don't let me get me
Don't let me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself
So irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself


GOIN TO CALIFORNIA

I'm goin to California
To live in the summer sun
The streets are made of silver
I'm like a rabbit on the run
Philadelphia freedom
Well it's not like you have heard
No, no, no
This city of brotherly love
Is full of pain and hurt

I'm goin to California
To find my pot of gold
Corruption on every corner
Hustlers selling sweets
Baby is home crying
While her mom is on the streets
Everybody's dying
Have you heard the news today?
A woman in North Philly is mourning
A bullet took another son away
Why?

I'm goin to California
I'm going far, far, far away
Goin to California, yeah

Goin to California, yeah
To resurrect my soul
The sun is always shining, shining
Or at least that's what I'm told
I'm goin to California
There's a better life for me, yes
I'm goin to California
I'll write and tell you what I see
I'm goin to California
Somebody say a prayer for me

Favourite Worst Nightmare

With only three albums and a forth on the way. The Arctic Monkeys have become one of my top three favourite English bands. They hit the music scene with their smash hit "I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor" and since then have in my own personal opinion Matured as a Alternative Rock band.

Favourite Worse Nightmare is their second album and also their best to date. The album for me is a much darker album. Not in the sense that it's not at all lighthearted but with their first album, I felt as if I was listening to a bunch of hormonal teenagers rock out in their garage (Not at all a bad thing). I am drawn to darker subject matter in songs and lyrics and this album must have been written at a time when Lead Singer Alex Turner was going through some more darker times.

The choices for my lyrics in this post are Do Me A Favour, Old Yellow Bricks & 505. They are the best songs on the album and like I stated above they are also the most rich in lyrical content. Two of them I perceive as songs about the ending of a relationship/tiring of the person you love and the curious nature of cheating on your partner and one is what I have gathered as my own opinion to be a song about escaping a life that has grown to small and wishing for something better. An escape from the past.


DO ME A FAVOUR

Well the morning was complete
There was tears on the steering wheel dripping on the seat
Several hours or several weeks
I'd have the cheek to say they're equally as bleak!

It's the beginning of the end
The car went up the hill
And disappeared around the bend
Ask anyone they'll tell you that
It's these times that it tends
To start to breaking off
To start to fall apart
Hold on to your heart

Do me a favour, break my nose!
Do me a favour, tell me to go away!
Do me a favour, and stop asking questions!

She walked away while her shoes were untied
And the eyes were all red
You could see that we'd cried
And I watched and I waited
Till she was inside
Forcing a smile and waving goodbye

Curiosity becomes a heavy load
Too heavy to hold
Too heavy to hold
Curiosity becomes a heavy load
Too heavy to hold
Will force you to be cold

Do me a favour and ask if you need some help
She said "Do me a favour and stop flattering yourself"
And to tear apart the ties that bind
Perhaps "fuck off" might be too kind!
Perhaps "fuck off" might be too kind!


OLD YELLOW BRICKS

Old yellow bricks
Love's a risk
Quite the little escapologist
Looked so miffed
When you wish
For a thousand places better than this

You are the fugitive
But you don't know what you're running from
You can't kid us
And you couldn't trick anyone
Houdini, love you don't know what you're running away from

Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?
Blinded by nostalgia
Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?

She was enraged by the way
That the emperor puts traps in the cage
And the days she being dull
Lead to nights reading beer bottles

You're such a fugitive
But you don't know what you're running from
You can't kid us
And you couldn't trick anyone
Houdini, love you don't know what you're running away from

Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?
Blinded by nostalgia
Who wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up?

You're at a loss
Just because
It wasn't all that you thought it was

You are the fugitive but you don't know what you're running away from

She said I want to sleep in the city that never wakes up
And revel in nostalgia
I know I said he wants to sleep in the city that never wakes up but
Dorothy was right though


505

I'm going back to 505
If it's a 7 hour flight or a 45 minute drive
In my imagination you're waiting, lying on your side
With your hands between your thighs

Stop and wait a sec
When you look at me like that my darling
What did you expect
I'd probably still adore you with your hands around my neck
Or I did last time I checked

Not shy of a spark
The knife twists at the thought that I should fall short of the mark
Frightened by the bite though it's no harsher then the bark
The middle of adventure is such a perfect place to start

I'm going back to 505
If it's a 7 hour flight or a 45 minute drive
In my imagination you're waiting, lying on your side
With your hands between your thighs

But I crumble completely when you cry
It seems like once again you've had to greet me with goodbye
I'm always just about to go and spoil the surprise
Take my hands off of your eyes too soon

I'm going back to 505
If it's a 7 hour flight or a 45 minute drive
In my imagination you're waiting, lying on your side
With your hands between your thighs and a smile

Version 2.0

Version 2.0 is the second album from one of my all time favorite Alternative Rock bands Garbage. The album to me is their best album to date and also the album that certified them as not just a Alternative Rock band but the band dabbling with more Electronica in their tracks made it that much more enjoyable for me.

The album was a hit critically, It went multi platinum in many countries and sold over four million copies to date. The album for me has some of my all time favorite songs in terms of emotionally charged lyrics. The lyrics that I post all have meaning to me in the sense I can relate to them in some way or another.

Shirley Manson is one of those artists who can write lyrics and once sung by her are just heartbreaking. They never seem fake and emotionally it just hits hard and on Version 2.0 a few of the songs do exactly that. Lyrics like "Knocked Down, Cried Out, Been Down Just To Find Out, I'm Through, Bleeding For You" Could describe my last five relationships. The album for me is almost like a break up album mixed with some sex thrown in with a hint of revenge. All in all the best Garbage album released.


YOU LOOK SO FINE

You look so fine
I want to break your heart
And give you mine
You're taking me over

It's so insane
You've got me tethered and chained
I hear your name
And I'm falling over

I'm not like all of the other girls
I can't take it like the other girls
I wont share it like the other girls
That you used to know

You look so fine

Knocked down
Cried out
Been down just to find out
I'm through
Bleeding for you

I'm open wide
I want to take you home
We'll waste some time
You're the only one for me

You look so fine
I'm like the desert tonight
Leave her behind
If you want to show me

I'm not like all of the other girls
I wont take it like the other girls
I wont fake it like the other girls
That you used to know

You're taking me over
Over and over
I'm falling over
Over and over

You're taking me over
Drown in me one more time
Hide inside me tonight
Do what you want to do
Just pretend happy end
Let me know let it show

Ending with letting go
Ending with letting go
Ending with letting go

Let's pretend happy end
Let's pretend happy end
Let's pretend happy end
Let's pretend happy end


SPECIAL

I'm living without you
I know all about you
I have run you down into the ground
Spread disease about you over town

I used to adore you
I couldn't control you
There was nothing that I wouldn't do
To keep myself around and close to you

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I couldn't care less

I...
I...

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know

I used to amuse you
I knew that I'd lose you
Now you're here and begging for a chance
There's no way in hell I'd take you back

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I've run out of comments
I'm tired of the violence
I couldn't care less

I'm looking for a new
I'm looking for a new
I'm looking for a new
I'm looking for a new

We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town

I thought you were special
I thought you were special
I thought you were special
I thought you were special


THE TRICK IS TO KEEP BREATHING

She's not the kind of girl
Who likes to tell the world
About the way she feels about herself
She takes a little time in making up her mind
She doesn't want to fight against the tide

And lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone

Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around

Can't bear to face the truth
So sick he cannot move
And when it hurts he takes it out on you

And lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone

Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around

The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing

She knows the human heart
And how to read to stars
Now everything's about to fall apart
I wont be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around
I wont be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around

The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing

Back To Black

My first lyrics on Lyrically Melodic are from the album Back To Black by Amy Winehouse. The multi platinum award winning album that's sold close to fifteen million albums worldwide deserve a mention on my blog.

Regardless of Amy and her public issues, battle with drugs and her train wreck like behaviour. She is still an amazing artist in my eyes and the lyrics rightfully so on this Jazz/Soul inspired album make my first entry on my blog.

The album is heavily dark. The songs and lyrical content are more focused on break ups and heartbreak and it truly works well with the Jazz/Soul element of the album.

I have selected two songs from the album to reference lyrics from as these two are my favorite songs off the album and the lyrics really hit a spot with me. So let me know what you think of my choices and see anyone also enjoys the song or lyrics.


BACK TO BLACK

He left no time to regret
Kept his dick wet
With his same old safe bet
Me and my head high and my tears dry
Get on without my guy

You went back to what you know
So far removed
From all that we went through
And I tread a troubled track
My odds are stacked
I'll go back to black

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to, I go back to us

I love you much
It's not enough
You love blow and I love puff
And life is like a pipe
And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
When I go back to

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to

Black, Black, Black, Black, Black, Black

I go back to
I go back to

We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black


TEARS DRY ON THEIR OWN

All I can ever be to you
Is a darkness that we knew
And this regret I got accustomed to
Once it was so right
When we were at our high
Waiting for you in the hotel at night
I knew I hadn't met my match
But every moment we could snatch
I don't know why I got so attached
It's my responsibility
And you don't owe nothing to me
But to walk away I have no capacity

He walks away
The sun goes down
He takes the day but I'm grown
And in your way
In this blue shade
My tears dry on their own

I don't understand
Why do I stress the man
When there's so many bigger things at hand
We could of never had it all
We had to hit a wall
So this is inevitable withdrawal
Even if I stop wanting you
A perspective pushes true
I'll be some next man's other woman soon

I shouldn't play myself again
I should just be my own best friend
Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men

He walks away
The sun goes down
He takes the day but I'm grown
And in your way
In this blue shade
My tears dry on their own

So we are history
Your shadow covers me
The sky above
A blaze that only lovers see

He walks away
The sun goes down
He takes the day but I'm grown
And in your way
In this blue shade
My tears dry on their own

I wish I could say no regrets
And no emotional debts
Cause that kiss goodbye the sun sets
So we are history
Your shadow covers me
A blaze that only lovers see

He walks away
The sun goes down
He takes the day but I am grown
And in your way
My deep shade
My tears dry

Welcome To Lyrically Melodic!

Welcome to Lyrically Melodic.

This blog is a landscape to note all Music Lyrics, Album Reviews and My thoughts on everything music. I have decided to create this blog as a place to spew forth my love of music and lyrics and what certain songs and the lyrically content mean to me.

I have a very wide variety of taste in music. I love everything from:

POP
House
Rock
Metal
Folk
Elctronica
R'n'B
& Many More...

I am one of those people that believes just because it's mainstream doesn't mean it's bad. You can find a meaning in almost everything that is released in the realm of music and as above I tend to note all and everything that strikes a chord in me and even may occasionally review the latest albums I buy to give you my two cents on how good or bad the album is... I welcome all comments and thoughts on my choices, good or bad.

Hope you enjoy the future choices and reviews that make it on this blog.