A hip-hop love song with a tone similar to Q-tip, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, and Jay-Z. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Note! This track contains deliberate *vinyl scratchy* sounds throughout. This is done for effect, on purpose, and is not an error or weakness with the audio file.]
Track details
| Track ID number: | 17112 |
|---|---|
| Genres: | Vocal Hip-Hop / Rap -- Vocal R&B / Soul / Urban -- Urban styles: R&B / Soul / Urban Pop |
| Moods/Emotions: | Laid back / Easy-going / Chilled -- Loving / Romantic / Tender |
| Suggested Production Types: | Family / Light Entertainment -- Love Story / Romance -- Teen / Youth / School |
| Prominent Instruments: | Bass (Electric) -- Drum machine / Electronic drums -- Piano (Acoustic) -- Saxophone & Soprano Saxophone -- Vocals (Male) / Singing with Lyrics |
| Keywords / Hints: | soft, pop, love, common, jay-z, mos def, talib kweli, loving, jazz, hip-hop, rap, rhythm, smooth, soft, piano, soothing, jazzy, heart, hope, real, cute, together, Q-tip, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Jay-Z |
| Tempo feel: | Slow -- Medium |
| Tempo Beats Per Minute: | 87 |
| Artist: | Dave Tough Band |
| Composer: | Dave Tough (BMI - CAE#: 499.731.594) |
| Publisher: | Tough Daddy Publishing (BMI) |
| SRCO (Sound Recording Copyright Owner): | Dave Tough |
| PRO / Non-PRO Track? | PRO (What's this?) |
| WAV file bit depth: | CD-quality / 16-bit (What's this?) |
| Stem files available for this track: | No |
| Lyrics: | I feel on top of the world, I wanna share it with you/ It's been a while girl n I know its true/ But I figure we were wrong, and now we can get along/ if we just keep singing our song/ Something like…Laaa, la laaa It's been a minute, yes ma'am its been a while/ Cause I swear the last time that we spoke I was a child/ A baby, an infant, I've grown so much/ The difference between then and now is infinite/ End sentence, what, you thought I had more to say?/ Well I do, telling the truth, but that isn't for today/ We can hash out the details like lawyers in a court room/ One day when its raining and we're suffering from boredom/ Right now, I'm tryna pull us out the doldrums/ of this "oh you don't support me" "oh I don't support you"/ Oh we know its not true, we hold each other up/ That's why even when we break up, we talk the next day cause/ I need you n you me, truly/ Needing you in my life is like needing to breathe/ So please, let me breathe n now let me see/ What we can do about you and me becoming we/ ___ Now we fight like we love, hard and with a passion/ It's a bad habit that we have a tendency to snap in/ We gotta watch it, be understanding, be cautious/ We don't wanna ruin second chances over being obnoxious/ No, hand lifting, fist rising, 2 AM at night fighting/ Neighbors waking, knocking on the door n then we're both silent/ That's when we laugh like oh, they don't understand/ We don't mean it like their thinking till we do it all again/ But hey, what's a relationship without something to work on?/ Although the work that we love to pursue is more likely with no shirts on/ Its ok, we close the curtains, cause this is for you and me/ Or do it like we do our fights, where the whole world can see/ Always open, always hope that our tomorrows getting brighter/ While our fights are getting dimmer and our burden getting lighter/ All I know is these days I'm heartless/ Cause I gave you mine So your chest is where two hearts rest/ ___ So let's all raise our glasses as the darkness ever passes/ And hope this is the last time we have to reattach, this/ Is hope for many years, and that our love will always last/ as The time around us passes, we'll be here till the last breath/ Inhale, feel the love in my lungs/ Its only you that ever truly knows where its all from/ Everything in me is ruled by my heart beat/ I rule the whole world and still it beats ever softly/ Its you and me, king and queen on a throne that we're building/ Right now its rent and ramen, someday it'll be children/ Some day it'll homes and our family that we've grown/ and teach um love until they think its the only thing we've ever known/ We'll put the…fights behind us, some of that…life behind us/ We're moving forward with the best of the past, rewind us/ And you'll only see the best, forgive, forget and move on/ And spend that whole time singing our song… |
| Album containing this track: | (None) |
Dave Tough Band
Dave Tough is a Nashville-based producer, engineer, songwriter and music industry educator. He has written and produced several songs for major motion pictures and television. Most recently in 2012 he had 9 placements in the television show "Hart of Dixie" and had over 10 placements in the CW television series "Remodeled". In 2011, his song "Falling" was featured in Seth Rogen's "Observe and Report" . Other songs have been featured in training films and commercials, including a Pantene shampoo ad series.
Dave has had cuts with several independent and label country and pop artists (and is an active voting member of the The Recording Academy (Grammy Awards). He is a member of the duo "Xavier & Ophelia" with co-creator DeAnna Moore.
As a songwriter Dave has been a top finalist in many songwriting contests and he won the Grand Prize Country Category in the 2009 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
As an engineer and producer, Dave has produced, engineered demos and master recordings for hundreds of artists worldwide over the internet.
Dr. Tough is an audio professor at Belmont University in Nashville, TN teaching audio recording and studio production. He has worked and studied under engineering names such as Bruce Swedien and Neil Citron. He has worked on the business side of the industry for Capitol Records, Warner Chappell Music, BMG Music Publishing and Capitol/EMI.
As an solo artist, Tough has released two solo albums Gravity Always Wins (2005) and I'm Right Here (1999). Tough has been recording and songwriting educator at UCLA, Cal Poly University, the University of North Alabama and most recently, Belmont University's Mike Curb College.
Dave Tough shares his namesake with the famous jazz drummer (Tough's great uncle) who played with the likes of Woody Herman, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.
Said Dave: "I enjoy making a living making music as there is something always new to learn. If you know one instrument, you can learn another. If you know how to engineer one style, you can always learn another. My main question I ask myself when writing and making music is "what gives you goosebumps". The mechanics of songwriting and engineering can get quite technical, however at the end of the day its what makes you feel something."