Results for “Howard Jones”

Artists

Howard Jones John Howard Jones is a British musician. He had ten top-40 hit singles on the UK singles…

Songs

The One to Love You

Howard Jones

A song about romantic self-doubt dressed in cosmic imagery: a narrator wonders why he's been chosen as a partner, and tries to…

romantic insecurity self-transformation distance and connection

Crackity Jones

Pixies

A frantic, barely two-minute sketch of a roommate whose grip on reality is slipping, delivered with the manic energy and…

mental illness paranoia housing instability

Me & Mr Jones

Amy Winehouse

A blistering, funny complaint about a lover who keeps letting the narrator down, built around a chant of ownership that keeps…

possessive love betrayal and self-deception ambivalence

The Cold Hard Truth

George Jones

George Jones builds this song around a striking conceit: the truth itself shows up as a character, confronting a man about the…

personified truth/conscience infidelity and self-deception moral reckoning

Ol' George Stopped Drinkin' Today

George Jones

This is George Jones turning the mythology of his own drinking and unreliability into black comedy, imagining his own death and…

alcoholism mortality self-mythology

Walk Through This World With Me

George Jones

A simple, direct marriage proposal set to music, built almost entirely from a single repeated plea. George Jones uses plain,…

romantic devotion commitment companionship

Come Away with Me

Norah Jones

A spare, invitational love song built almost entirely around a single plea: leave with me. Norah Jones strips the lyric down to…

escape and refuge intimacy versus the outside world simplicity as devotion

Choices

George Jones

A late-career George Jones confession set as a plainspoken moral ledger: a man looking back on a life of drink and lost…

regret addiction free will versus fate

What Am I to You?

Norah Jones

A plainspoken plea for reciprocity, built around a single unanswered question asked to a lover whose feelings remain opaque.…

unrequited or uncertain love emotional vulnerability romantic insecurity

Oats In the Water

Ben Howard

A terse breakup meditation that trades confession for weather and decay imagery, watching two people drift apart without raised…

separation and independence corrosion of trust inevitability of loss

I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair

George Jones

A defiant novelty-tinged honky-tonk anthem in which an aging performer refuses the trappings of old age, insisting his body may…

aging and mortality defiance of retirement identity tied to performance

Happy Pills

Norah Jones

A breakup song built around the mechanics of extraction rather than grief: the narrator is less interested in mourning the…

emotional detachment self-liberation toxic relationships

Sunrise

Norah Jones

A slow, hazy love song built around the disorienting feeling of time slipping by unnoticed with someone you're absorbed in.…

domestic intimacy time dissolving quiet devotion

Ol' Red

George Jones

A comic prison narrative told in George Jones's late-career storyteller voice, in which a convicted murderer talks his way into…

cunning versus authority folk-hero outlawry trust and betrayal

The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)

George Jones

A novelty-tinged story song built on a bait-and-switch: an old man's admiring description of a car turns out to be a description…

nostalgia lost youth double meaning/wordplay

Chasing Pirates

Norah Jones

A short, hazy meditation on insomnia and mental overdrive, triggered by a brief, ambiguous exchange with someone the narrator…

insomnia overthinking unspoken longing

Finally Friday

George Jones

A workingman's release-valve anthem: cash burning a hole, a weekend lover waiting, and a chorus that treats Friday night as a…

escapism the work week grind hedonism vs. routine

Thinking About You

Norah Jones

A quiet meditation on lingering attachment during a quiet separation, where the narrator acknowledges doubt about being needed…

unrequited devotion letting go seasonal imagery as emotional metaphor

Don't Know Why

Norah Jones

A hushed torch song built around a single unresolved regret: the narrator failed to show up for someone and can't explain why.…

regret and self-reproach emotional paralysis longing

Turn Me On

Norah Jones

A slow-burning torch song built almost entirely on a single conceit: the narrator as an object or organism left inert until a…

dependency in love longing and stasis ambivalence toward a partner

I Gotta Get Drunk

George Jones

A honky-tonk confessional in which the narrator describes his own drinking as an inevitability rather than a choice, framing…

compulsive drinking fatalism disguised as humor social ritual of the bar

White Lightning

George Jones

A novelty rockabilly tale about a moonshiner and his lethal homemade whiskey, told by his admiring kin in a comic, exaggerated…

Appalachian folklore outlaw defiance of authority masculine bravado

Woody and Dutch On the Slow Train to Peking

Rickie Lee Jones

A fragmentary, almost cinematic sketch of two street characters, Woody and Dutch, moving through a nocturnal Los Angeles soaked…

nostalgia for vanished music scenes street mythology and male bonding language as rhythm and disguise

Danny's All-Star Joint

Rickie Lee Jones

A breezy, scat-inflected sketch of a diner-adjacent hangout where the regulars trade swagger, small debts, and street slang.…

street-level community generosity and pride urban nightlife

Living It Up

Rickie Lee Jones

A street-corner narrative about a loose cast of hustlers, drifters, and broken women orbiting a stoop and an alley, told with a…

urban mythology romanticized self-destruction outsider solidarity

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

This is a cover of the Kenny Rogers/First Edition psychedelic-country classic, reworked by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings into a…

disorientation psychedelic experience self-examination

This Land Is Your Land

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings take Woody Guthrie's populist anthem and rebuild it as a soul-funk testimony, restoring the…

inequality and exclusion reclaiming a national myth land and belonging

Better Things

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

A deep-soul kiss-off built on a single defiant refrain, this song is less about the breakup itself than about the work of…

self-reclamation after betrayal performed confidence moving on as active labor

Please Come Home for Christmas

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

A soul rendering of the Charles Brown blues-ballad classic, this version lets Sharon Jones mine the gap between Christmas's…

loneliness during the holidays longing and reunion blues within celebration

8 Days (Of Hanukkah)

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

A soul-funk counting song that walks through the eight nights of Hanukkah night by night, pairing each day with a ritual or…

ritual and repetition family and domestic warmth cultural specificity

Funky Little Drummer Boy

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

This is Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' funk-soul remake of the classic carol about a poor boy who has nothing to offer the…

humility and self-worth gift-giving beyond material means devotion expressed through music

A Lucky Guy

Rickie Lee Jones

A song about romantic self-betrayal, sung from the vantage of someone who has just watched an admission of love get met with…

unrequited love self-protection through irony loneliness

We Belong Together

Rickie Lee Jones

A sprawling, cinematic ballad that treats young love and gang-movie mythology as the same story, cutting between James…

doomed youth and romantic myth performance of masculinity movie/pop-culture as emotional language

The Horses

Rickie Lee Jones

Written as a lullaby-like address to a child (widely understood to be written for the songwriter's daughter), the song uses…

parental love and letting go freedom versus vulnerability flight as spiritual aspiration

Chuck E.'s In Love

Rickie Lee Jones

A gossipy, jazz-inflected shaggy-dog story about a friend whose sudden weirdness turns out to be the classic symptoms of a…

infatuation and its telltale signs street-level bohemian romance gossip and small-town social detective work

On Saturday Afternoons in 1963

Rickie Lee Jones

A brief, hazy meditation on nostalgia and the loss of childhood innocence, framed as direct address to someone urged to hold…

nostalgia loss of innocence memory

Nobody's Baby

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

A declaration of independence delivered as a break-up song: the narrator walks out on a partner who mistreated her and refuses…

self-respect emancipation from a bad relationship refusal of subordinate roles

100 Days, 100 Nights

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

A slow-burning soul testimony that treats emotional patience as hard-won wisdom: the narrator insists that real character only…

romantic caution the gap between performance and truth self-knowledge through time

Ain't No Chimneys In the Projects

Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings

A soul-funk Christmas song that reframes a child's naive question about Santa into a tribute to a mother's quiet, unglamorous…

working-class childhood maternal sacrifice innocence versus adult understanding

Above And Beyond (The Call Of Love)

Rodney Crowell

A plainspoken proposal song built almost entirely around one repeated pledge: that devotion, not money, will be the measure of a…

romantic devotion class and money courtship and destiny