Another red letter day
So the pound has dropped
And the children are created
The other half ran away
Taking all the cash
And leaving you with the lumber

Got a pain in the chest
Doctors on strike
What you need is a rest
It’s not easy, love
But you got friends you can trust

Friends will be friends
When you’re in need of love
They give you care and attention
Friends will be friends
When you’re through with life
And all hope is lost
Hold out your hands
‘Cause friends will be friends
Right ’til the end

Now it’s a beautiful day
The postman delivered
A letter from your lover
Only a phone call away
You try to track him down
But somebody stole his number

As a matter of fact
You’re getting used to life
Without him in your way
It’s so easy now
‘Cause you got friends you can trust

Friends will be friends
When you’re in need of love
They give you care and attention
Friends will be friends
When you’re through with life
And all hope is lost
Hold out your hands
‘Cause friends will be friends
Right ’til the end

It’s so easy now
‘Cause you got friends you can trust

Friends will be friends
When you’re in need of love
They give you care and attention
Friends will be friends
When you’re through with life
And all hope is lost
Hold out your hand
‘Cause friends will be friends
Right ’til the end

Friends will be friends
When you’re in need of love
They give you care and attention
Friends will be friends
When you’re through with life
And all hope is lost
Hold out your hand
‘Cause right ’til the end
Friends will be friends, yeah

Freddie Mercury je napisao tekst za pesmu „Friends will be friends“. Muziku je komponovao zajedno sa basistom John Deacon-om. Nalazi se na albumu grupe Queen „A kind of magic“ (1986). Iste godine je objavljena i kao singl.

Link za pesmu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AIlz08fZos

Someone falls to pieces, sleeping all alone
Someone kills the pain, spinning in the silence
She finally drifts away
Someone gets excited in a chapel yard, catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen white roses on a grave

Yeah, and to be yourself is all that you can do
Hey, to be yourself is all that you can do

Someone finds salvation in everyone, another only pain
Someone tries to hide himself, down inside himself he prays
Someone swears his true love until the end of time, another runs away
Separate or united, healthy or insane

To be yourself is all that you can do (All that you can do), oh
To be yourself is all that you can do (All that you can do), oh
To be yourself is all that you can do (All that you can do), oh
To be yourself is all that you can do

And even when you’ve paid enough
Been pulled apart or been held up
Every single memory of the good or bad
Faces of luck, don’t lose any sleep tonight
I’m sure everything will end up alright
You may win or lose

But to be yourself is all that you can do, yeah
To be yourself is all that you can do, oh

To be yourself is all that you can do (All that you can do), oh
To be yourself is all that you can do (All that you can do), oh-yeah
To be yourself is all that you can
Be yourself is all that you can
Be yourself is all that you can do

Tekst za pesmu „Be yourself“ napisao je Chris Cornell, dok su muziku komponovali svi članovi grupe Audioslave. Objavljena je kao singl početkom februara 2005. godine, najavljujući njihov drugi album „Out of exile“ (na kome je i „Doesn’t remind me“, još jedan njihov veliki hit). Na svakom od, nažalost, samo tri snimljena albuma za pet godina zajedničkog rada, nalaze se pesme koje su svojim kvalitetom zaslužile da ostanu trajno zabeležene u istoriji rok muzike. Jedna od njih je i „Be yourself“.

Link za pesmu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5FdFlUcl0

On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine moanin’ out its one-note song
You can think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night before

But your thoughts will soon be wandering, the way they always do
When you’re riding sixteen hours and there’s nothing there to do
And you don’t feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through

Here I am, on a road again
There I am, on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Well, you walk into a restaurant all strung-out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you as you’re shaking off the cold
You pretend it doesn’t bother you, but you just want to explode

Most times you can’t hear ’em talk, other times you can
All the same old clichés, is it woman, is it man?
And you always seem outnumbered, so you don’t dare make a stand

Here I am, on a road again
There I am, on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Out there in the spotlight you’re a million miles away
Every ounce of energy you try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play

Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin’ in your head
You smoke the day’s last cigarette, remembering what she said

Here I am, on a road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Here I am, on a road again
There I am, on the stage, yeah
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, there I go

„Turn the page“ je pesma koju je napisao i snimio Bob Seger. Nalazi se na njegovom albumu „Back in ’72“ objavljenom 1973. godine, kao poslednja na A strani ploče. To je jedna od najboljih pesama koju je Bob snimio. Sa svojom pratećom grupom The Silver Bullet Band,  objavljuje koncertni album „Live bullet“ tri godine kasnije, na kome je uvršćena i „Turn the page“. Antologijska pesma poznatog američkog muzičara.

Link za pesmu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONmFCkCGCc

„Don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right
Singin’: „Don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!“

Rise up this mornin’
Smile with the risin’ sun
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true
Sayin’, („This is my message to you-ou-ou“)

Singin’: „Don’t worry ’bout a thing
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right“
Singin’: „Don’t worry (don’t worry) ’bout a thing
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!“

Rise up this mornin’
Smiled with the risin’ sun
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true
Sayin’, „This is my message to you-ou-ou:“

Singin’: „Don’t worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don’t worry!“
Singin’: „Don’t worry about a thing“ – I won’t worry!
„‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right“

Singin’: „Don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right“
I won’t worry!
Singin’: „Don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right“
Singin’: „Don’t worry about a thing, oh no!
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!“

„Three little birds“ je pesma koju je napisao Bob Marley. Objavljena je na albumu „Exodus“ 1977. godine.

Nadam se da će sve biti u redu i to ne samo „every little thing“. Proći će i ova neman (da joj ne pominjem ime) koja nas je iznenada zahvatila ove godine i da se više nikada ne vrati. I da se ne pojave neke druge njoj slične. Čuvajte se! Sve će biti u redu!

Link za pesmu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNBCVM4KbUM

If you’re down an’ out, an’ you feel real hurt
Come on over, to the place where I work
An’ all your loneliness, I’ll try to soothe
I’ll play the blues for you.

Don’t be afraid, come on in
You might run across, yeah, some of your old friends
All your loneliness, I’ve got to soothe
I’ll play the blues for you.

Come on in, sit right here, let’s rap awhile
Ya see I’m kinda lonely too, ya know?
An’ loneliness is a very bad thing
If ya let it get the best of ya
An’ loneliness can get ya down, ya know?

Yeah, yeah, are you comfortable now?
Yeah, yeah, that’s outta sight
Yeah, as I was sayin’ before
Loneliness can get you down, an’ I have heard of, ah
Loneliness blowin’ some good people’s mind, ya know?

But ya can’t do that
This is a big world, this is a big world
An’ there’s too many nice things happenin’ in this world
You’re a very pretty girl
Where you live?

No, no, no, disregard that, that’s okay, that’s okay
Most important thing, I wanna know you
I say, I wanna know you
That’s groovy, ain’t it?
I’ll play the blues for you.

I ain’t got no big name
Oh Lord, an’ I ain’t no big star
I’ll play the blues for you on my guitar.

All your loneliness, I’ll try to soothe
I’ll play the blues for you.

Excuse me

Jedan od najlepših bluzeva ikada snimljenih, imao je svoju premijeru na ploči objavljenoj 1972. godine.

„I’ll play the blues for you“ napisao je Jerry Beach 1969 godine. Geater Davis je snimio ovu pesmu iste godine, ali taj tonski zapis nije objavljen (smatra se tzv. demo snimkom). Tri godine kasnije je po prvi put zvanično objavljena na ploči. Albert King je snimio album „I’ll play the blues for you“ na kome se nalazi istoimena pesma kao prva na A strani. Zbog trajanja od preko sedam minuta, dodato je u nazivu“Part 1-2″ jer je iste godine objavljena i singl verzija. Možda nije popularna i poznata kao neki tzv. bluz standardi, ali je u izvođenju Albert King-a – predivna. Snimili su je i mnogi drugi muzičari zaljubljenici u bluz, među kojima su Gary Moore, Joe Bonamassa, Melvin Taylor, Vargas Blues Band, Bryan Lee, Corey Stevens, Daniel Castro…

Link za pesmu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SP5JHLqXM8

Shall I tell you about my life

They say I’m a man of the world

I’ve flown across every tide

And I’ve seen lots of pretty girls.

I guess I’ve got everything I need

I would’t ask for more

And there’s no one I’d rather be

But I just wish that I’d never been born.

And I need a good woman

To make me feel like a good man should

I don’t say I’m a good man

Oh, but I would be if I could.

I could tell you about my life

And keep you amused I’m sure

About all the times I’ve cried

And how I don’t want to be sad anymore

And how I wish I was in love.

„Man of the world“ je pesma koju je snimila grupa Fleetwood Mac. Objavljena je na singlu izdatom 1969. godine.

To je jedna od najlepših pesma koju je komponovao Peter Green (29.10.1946.-25.07.2020.), pevač i gitarista grupe. On je autor i mnogih drugih poznatih pesama grupe Fleetwood Mac: „Black magic woman“, „Oh well“, „I loved another woman“, „Looking for somebody“, „Closing my eyes“, „Rattlesnake shake“, „Merry go round“, „The green manalishi (With the two prong crown)“, kao i predivnog instrumentala „Albatross“.

Link za pesmu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDGi0SZkgpI

It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Smiling faces I can see

But not for me

I sit and watch as tears go by.

My riches can’t buy everything

I want to hear the children sing

All I hear is the sound

Of rain falling on the ground

I sit and watch as tears go by.

It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Doing things I used to d

They think are new

I sit and watch as tears go by.

„As tears go by“ je jedna od prvih pesama koju su zajedno napisali Mick Jagger i Keith Richards. Kao autor ove pesme potpisan je i Andrew Loog Oldham, loji je bio menadžer grupe The Rolling Stones i producent ploča snimljenih na početku njihove karijere 1963-1967. Ipak, nisu je popularni Stonsi prvi snimili.

Oldham je u to vreme postao menadžer osamnaestogodišnje Marianne Faithfull, kojoj je ponudio da snimi ovu pesmu. „As tears go by“ je prvo objavljena na singlu sredinom 1964. i postala je veliki hit. Godinu dana kasnije našla se i kao prva pesma na B strani na debi albumu koji je Marianne Faithfull objavila i koji je jednostavno nazvan njenim imenom.

The Rolling Stones snimili su ovu pesmu na albumu „December’s children (And everybody’s)“  koji je objavljen u Americi 4. decembra 1965. Nekoliko dana kasnije pojavljuje se i singl na američkom kontinentu, da bi u Engleskoj bio objavljen februara sledeće godine.

Predivna pesma jednog od najboljih kompozitorskih tandema u istoriji rok muzike, koja je, eto, imala malo čudan tok objavljivanja na vinilu sredinom šezdesetih godina prošlog veka.

Link za pesmu Marianne Faithfull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-efIjZ_1yQg

Link za pesmu The Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37_J7zpD2ks

Roman candles that burn in the night

Yeah, you are a shining light

You lit a torch in the infinite (empty night)

Yeah, you are a shining light

Yeah, you light up my life.

You’ve always been a thorn in their side

But to me you’re a shining light

You arrive and the night is alive

Yeah, you are a shining light

Yeah, you light up my life.

We made a connection

A full on chemical reaction

Brought by dark divine intervention

Yeah, you are a shining light

A constellation once seen

Over Royal David’s city

An epiphany, you burn so pretty

Yeah, you are a shining light.

You are a force, you are a constant source

Yeah, you are a shining light

Incandescent into the darkest night

Yeah, you are shining light

My mortal blood (And all the blood) I would sacrifice

For you are my shining light

Sovereign bride of the infinite

Yeah, you are a shining light

Yeah, you light up my life.

We made a connection

A full on chemical reaction

Brought by dark divine intervention

Yeah, you are a shining light

A constellation once seen

Over Royal David’s city

An epiphany, you burn so pretty

Yeah, you are a shining light.

These are the days you often say

There’s nothing that we cannot do

Beneath a canopy of stars

I’d shed blood for you

The north star in the firmament

You shine the most bright

I’ve seen you draped (dressed) in an electric veil

Shrouded in celestial light.

We made a connection

A full on chemical reaction

Brought by dark divine intervention

Yeah, you are a shining light

A constellation once seen

Over Royal David’s city

An epiphany, you burn so pretty

Yeah, you are a shining light

You are a shining light

You are a shining light.

„Shining light“ je pesma koju je komponovao Tim Wheeler, gitarista i pevač grupe Ash. Objavljena je prvo kao singl ove grupe, da bi se nekoliko meseci kasnije našla na njihovom odličnom albumu „Free all angels“, koji je objavljen 2001. godine.

Annie Lennox je snimila obradu ovu pesme osam godina kasnije. To je uradila na savršen način. Nalazi se na njenom albumu „The Annie Lennox collection“, kao jedna od dve nove pesme koje su našle mesto na ovom izdanju.

Link za pesmu Ash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIcK30k6dwM

Link za pesmu Annie Lennox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfJeQDkz4JU  

People say we got it made

Don’t they know we’re so afraid?

Isolation.

We’re afraid to be alone

Everybody got to have a home.

Isolation.

Just a boy and a little girl

Trying to change the whole wide world.

Isolation.

The world is just a little town

Everybody trying to put us down.

Isolation.

I don’t expect you to understand

After you’ve caused so much pain.

But then again, you’re not to blame

You’re just a human, a victim of the insane.

We’re afraid of everyone

Afraid of the sun.

Isolation.

The sun will never disappear

But the world may not have many years.

Isolation.

„Isolation“ je pesma koja se nalazi na albumu „John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band“, objavljenom 1970. godine. U snimanju su pored Lennon-a (vokal i klavir) učestvovali Klaus Voormann (bas) i Ringo Starr (bubnjevi).

Mnogi muzičari su obradili ovu Lennon-ovu pesmu. Među njima su Joe Cocker, Snow Patrol, Mercury Rev, Ann Wilson, Matthew Sweet, Harry Nilsson…

Jeff Beck i Johnny Depp izvodili su je na koncertima tokom jeseni prošle godine a pre nekoliko dana su je i zvanično snimili. Razlog svi znamo.

Link za pesmu John Lennon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0hijDNgo8

Link za pesmu Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA_trAwSP00

If I could save time in a bottle,

The first thing that I’d like to do

Is to save every day

Until eternity passes away,

Just to spend them with you.

If I could make days last forever,

If words could make wishes come true,

I’d save every day

Like a treasure,

And then, again, I would spend them with you…

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do, once you find them…

I’ve looked around enough to know

That you’re the one I want to go through time with.

If I had a box just for wishes

And dreams that had never come true,

The box would be empty

Except for the memory of how

They were answered by you!

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do, once you find them!

I’ve looked around enough to know

That you’re the one I want to go through time with…

„Time in a bottle“ napisao je Jim Croce. Nalazi se na njegovom albumu „You don’t mess around with Jim“ objavljenom 1972. godine. Predivna pesma nastala u momentu kada je saznao da mu je supruga trudna.

Nažalost, Jim Croce je poginuo u avionskoj nesreći sledeće godine. Izdavačka kuća koja je objavila pomenuti album, nije imala nameru da pesmu izda kao singl. I kako se to neretko dešava, uradila je to dva meseca nakon tog tragičnog događaja.

Link za pesmu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h1davKgBYM