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10 SONGS ABOUT BEAUTY IN STARTS

We rounded up 10 of our favorite songs about the beauty of starts for the start of what we hope will be a beautiful new year.

1. BEGIN THE BEGIN

By: Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe

Performed by: REM

Birdie in the hand for life's rich demand

The insurgency began and you missed it

I looked for it and I found it

Myles Standish proud, congratulate me

A philanderer's tie, a murderer's shoe

Life's rich demand creates supply in the hand

Of the powers, the only vote that matters

Silence means security silence means approval

On Zenith, on the TV, tiger run around the tree

Follow the leader, run and turn into butter

Let's begin again, begin the begin

Let's begin again like Martin Luther zen

The mythology begins the begin

Answer me a question I can't itemize

I can't think clear, you look to me for reason

It's not there, I can't even rhyme here in the begin

A philanderer's tie, a murderer's shoe

Example: the finest example is you

Let's begin again, begin the begin

Let's begin again like Martin Luther zen

The mythology begins the begin

Answer me a question I can't itemize

I can't think clear, you look to me for reason

It's not there, I can't even rhyme here in the begin

A philanderer's tie, a murderer's shoe

Let's begin again, begin the begin

Let's begin again

Watch here this song performance here.

2. START ME UP

By: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

If you start me up

If you start me up I'll never stop

If you start me up

If you start me up I'll never stop

I've been running hot

You got me ticking gonna blow my top

If you start me up

If you start me up I'll never stop

Never stop, never stop, never stop

You make a grown man cry

Spread out the oil, the gasoline

I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine

Start it up

If you start it up

Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got

I can't compete with the riders in the other heats

If you rough it up

If you like it you can slide it up

Slide it up, slide it up, slide it up

Don't make a grown man cry

My eyes dilate, my lips go green

My hands are greasy, she's a mean, mean machine

Start it up

Start me up

Give it all you got

You got to never, never, never stop

Slide it up, baby just slide it up

Slide it up, slide it up, never, never, never

You make a grown man cry

Ride like the wind at double speed

I'll take you places that you've never, never seen

Start it up

Love the day when we'll never stop, never stop

Never, never, never stop

Tough me up

Never stop, never stop

You, you, you make a grown man cry

You, you make a dead man come

Watch this song perfomance here.

3. GET THIS PARTY STARTED

By: Linda Perry

Performed by: P!nk

I'm comin' up so you better get this party started

Get this party started on a saturday night

Everybody's waitin' for me to arrive

Sendin' out the message to all of my friends

We'll be lookin' flashy in my mercedes benz

I got lotsa style, got my gold diamond rings

I can go for miles if you know what I mean

I'm comin' up so you better get this party started

Pumpin up the volume, breakin down' to the beat

Cruisin' through the west side

We'll be checkin' the scene

Boulevard is freakin' as I'm comin' up fast

I'll be burnin' rubber, you'll be kissin' my ass

Pull up to the bumper, get out of the car

License plate says stunner number 1 superstar

I'm comin' up so you better get this party started

Makin' my connection as I enter the room

Everybody's chillin' as I set up the groove

Pumpin' up the volume with this brand new beat

Everybody's dancin' and their dancin' for me

I'm your operator, you can call anytime

I'll be your connection to the party line

I'm comin' up so you better get this party started

Get this party started

Get this party started right now

Get this party started

Get this party started right now

Watch this song performance here.

4. LET’S GET IT STARTED

By: William Adams, Allan Pineda, Jaime Gomez, Terence Yoshiaki, Michael

Fratantuno, George Pajon, Jr.

Performed by: the Black Eyed Peas

Let's get it started in here

And the bass keeps runnin' runnin'

And runnin' runnin'

And runnin' runnin' and

In this context, there's no disrespect

So when I bust my rhyme, you break yo necks

We got 5 minutes for us to disconnect

From all intellect and let the rhythm effect

To lose this inhibition

Follow your intuition

Free your inner soul

And break away from tradition

'Cause when we be out

Girl it's gonna be that

You wouldn't believe how

We wow out

Burn it till it's burned out

Turn it till it's turned out

Actin' up from north, west

East, south

Everybody

(Yeah)

Everybody

(Yeah)

Let's get into it

(Yeah)

Get stupid

(C'mon)

Get it started

(C'mon)

Get it started

(Yeah)

Get it started

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here, yeah

Lose control, all body, all soul

Don't move too fast, people just take it slow

Don't get ahead, just jump into it

Y'all hear about it, the Peas'll do it

Get it started, get stupid

Don't worry 'bout it people we'll walk you through it

Step by step, like the infant new kid

Inch by inch, with the new solution

Transmit hits, with no delusion

The feeling's irresistible and that's how we move it, yo

Everybody

(Yeah)

Everybody

(Yeah)

Let's get into it

(Yeah)

Get stupid

(C'mon)

Get it started

(C'mon)

Get it started

(Yeah)

Get it started

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here, yeah

And the bass keeps runnin' runnin'

And runnin' runnin'

(C'mon y'all!)

And runnin' runnin'

Let's get cuckoo!

(Uh huh)

Let's get cuckoo!

(In here)

Why not get cuckoo!?

(Uh huh)

Let's get cuckoo!

(In here)

Why not get cuckoo!?

(Uh huh)

Let's get cuckoo!

(In here)

Oh oh oh

Ya ya ya

Let's get ill, that's the deal

At the gate, and we'll bring the bud top drill

Just lose your mind, this is the time

Y'all guessed this drill just to bang your spine!

Just bob your head like me Apl.De

Up inside your club, or in your Bentley

Get messy, loud and sick

Y'all mind fast, no mo than another head trip

So come them now do not correct it

Let's get ign'ant, let's get hectic

(Yeah)

Everybody

(Yeah)

Everybody

(Yeah)

Let's get into it

(Yeah)

Get stupid

(C'mon)

Get it started

(C'mon)

Get it started

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, hah!

Let's get it started in here

(Woah oh oh)

Cuckoo!

(Uh huh)

We cuckoo!

(In here)

Let's get cuckoo!

(Uh huh)

We cuckoo!

(In here)

Why not get cuckoo!?

(Uh huh)

We cuckoo!

(In here)

Oh oh oh

Ya ya ya

Runnin' runnin'

And runnin' runnin'

Watch this song performance here.

5. THE SCIENTIST

By: Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion

Performed by: Coldplay

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry

You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you, tell you I need you

Tell you I'll set you apart

Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions

Oh let's go back to the start

Running in circles, coming in tails

Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy

It's such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh, take me back to the start.

I was just guessing at numbers and figures

Pulling your puzzles apart

Questions of science, science and progress

Do not speak as loud as my heart

Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me

Oh and I rush to the start

Running in circles, chasing our tails

Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy

Oh it's such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be so hard

I'm going back to the start

Ooooohhhhhhh [4x]

Watch this song performance here.

6. BRAND NEW DAY

By: Sting

How many of you people out there

Been hurt in some kind of love affair

And how many times do you swear that you'll never love again?

How many lonely, sleepless nights

How many lies, how many fights

And why would you want to put yourself through all that again?

"Love is pain," I hear you say

Love has a cruel and bitter way

Of paying you back for all the faith you ever had in your brain

How could it be that what you need the most

Can leave you feeling just like a ghost?

You never want to feel so sad and lost again

One day you could be looking

Through an old book in rainy weather

You see a picture of her smiling at you

When you were still together

You could be walking down the street

And who should you chance to meet

But that same old smile that you've been thinking of all day

You can turn the clock to zero, honey

I'll sell the stock, we'll spend all the money

We're starting up a brand new day

Turn the clock all the way back

I wonder if she'll take me back

I'm thinking in a brand new way

Turn the clock to zero, sister

You'll never know how much I missed her

Starting up a brand new day

Turn the clock to zero, boss

The river's wide, we'll swim across

Started up a brand new day

It could happen to you - just like it happened to me

There's simply no immunity - there's no guarantee

I say love's such a force - if you find yourself in it

And sometimes no reflection is there

Baby wait a minute, wait a minute

Wait a minute, wait a minute

Turn the clock to zero, honey

I'll sell the stock, we'll spend all the money

We're starting up a brand new day

Turn the clock to zero, Mac

I'm begging her to take me back

I'm thinking in a brand new way

Turn the clock to zero, boss

The river's wide, we'll swim across

Started up a brand new day

Turn the clock to zero buddy

Don't wanna be no fuddy duddy

Started up a brand new day

I'm the rhythm in your tune

I'm the sun and you're the moon

I'm a bat and you're the cave

You're the beach and I'm the wave

I’m the plow and you’re the land

You're the glove and I'm the hand

I'm the train and you're the station

I'm a flagpole to your nation - yeah

Stand up all you lovers in the world

Stand up and be counted every boy and every girl

Stand up all you lovers in the world

Starting up a brand new day

I'm the present to your future

You're the wound and I’m the suture

You're the magnet to my pole

I'm the devil in your soul

You're the pupil I'm the teacher

You're the church and I'm the preacher

You're the flower I'm the rain

You're the tunnel I'm the train

Stand up all you lovers in the world

Stand up and be counted every boy and every girl

Stand up all you lovers in the world

Starting up a brand new day

You're the crop to my rotation

You're the sum of my equation

I'm the answer to your question

If you follow my suggestion

We can turn this ship around

We'll go up instead of down

You're the pan and I'm the handle

You're the flame and I'm the candle

Stand up all you lovers in the world

Stand up and be counted every boy and every girl

Stand up all you lovers in the world

We're starting up a brand new day

Watch this song performance here.

7. THUNDER ROAD

By: Bruce Springsteen

The screen door slams

Mary' dress waves

Like a vision she dances across the porch

As the radio plays

Roy Orbison singing for the lonely

Hey that's me and I want you only

Don't turn me home again

I just can't face myself alone again

Don't run back inside

Darling you know just what I'm here for

So you're scared and you're thinking

That maybe we ain't that young anymore

Show a little faith there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright

Oh and that's alright with me

You can hide 'neath your covers

And study your pain

Make crosses from your lovers

Throw roses in the rain

Waste your summer praying in vain

For a saviour to rise from these streets

Well now I'm no hero

That's understood

All the redemption I can offer girl

Is beneath this dirty hood

With a chance to make it good somehow

Hey what else can we do now ?

Except roll down the window

And let the wind blow

Back your hair

Well the night's busting open

These two lanes will take us anywhere

We got one last chance to make it real

To trade in these wings on some wheels

Climb in back

Heaven's waiting on down the tracks

Oh-oh come take my hand

We're riding out tonight to case the promised land

Oh-oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road

Lying out there like a killer in the sun

Hey I know it's late we can make it if we run

Oh Thunder Road sit tight take hold

Thunder Road

Well I got this guitar

And I learned how to make it talk

And my car's out back

If you're ready to take that long walk

From your front porch to my front seat

The door's open but the ride it ain't free

And I know you're lonely

For words that I ain't spoken

But tonight we'll be free

All the promises'll be broken

There were ghosts in the eyes

Of all the boys you sent away

They haunt this dusty beach road

In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets

They scream your name at night in the street

Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet

And in the lonely cool before dawn

You hear their engines roaring on

But when you get to the porch they're gone

On the wind so Mary climb in

It's town full of losers

And I'm pulling out of here to win

Watch this song performance here.

8. FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME

By: Mick Jones

Performed by:Foreigner

I would climb any mountain

Sail across a stormy sea

If that's what it takes me baby

To show you how much you mean to me

And I guess it's just the woman in you

That brings out the man in me

I know I can't help myself

You're all in the world to me

It feels like the first time

Feels like the very first time

It feels like the first time

It feels like the very first time

I have waited a lifetime

Spent my time so foolishly

But now that I've found you

Together we'll make history

And I know that it must be the woman in you

That brings out the man in me

I know I can't help myself

You're all that my eyes can see

And it feels like the first time

Like it never did before

Feels like the first time

Like we've opened up the door

Feels like the first time

Like it never will again, never again

Feels like the first time, it feels like the first time

It feels like the very first time, very, very, it feels

It feels like the first time, oh it feels like the first time

It feels like the very first time

Open up the door, won't you open up the door? yeah

Feels like the first time

And it feels like the very first time

And it feels like the first time

It feels like the very first time

And it feels like the first time

It feels like the very first time

Oh it feels, it feels like the first time

Yeah it feels like the first time

Watch this song performance here.

9. SOAR

By: Christina Aguilera, Rob Hoffman, Heather Holley

Performed by: Christina Aguilera

When they push, when they pull

Tell me can you hold on

When they say you should change

Can you lift your head high and stay strong

Will you give up, give in

When your heart's crying out "that is wrong"

Will you love you for you at the end of it all

Now in life there's gonna be times

When you're feeling low

And in your mind insecurity seems to take control

We start to look outside ourselves

For acceptance and approval

We keep forgetting that the one thing we should know is

Don't be scared

To fly alone

Find a path that is your own

Love will open every door

See in your hands the world is yours

Don't hold back and always know

All the answers you will unfold

What are you waiting for

Spread your wings and soar

The boy who wonders, is he good enough for them

Keep trying to please them all

But he just never seems to fit in

Then there's the girl who thinks she'll never ever be

Good enough for him

He's trying to change and

That's a game she'll never win

In life there will be times when you're feeling low

And in your mind insecurity seems to take control

We start to look outside ourselves

For acceptance and approval

We keep forgetting that one thing we should know is

Don't be scared

To fly alone

Find a path that is your own

Love will open every door

See in your hands the world is yours

Don't hold back and always know

All the answers they will unfold

What are you waiting for

Spread your wings and soar

In the mirror is where she comes

Face to face with her fears

Her own reflection now foreign to her

After all these years

All of her life she has tried to be

Something besides herself

Now time has passed and she's ended up

someone else with regret

What is it is that makes us feel the need

To keep pretending

Gotta let ourselves be

Don't be scared

To fly alone

Find a path that is your own

Love will open every door

See in your hands the world is yours

Don't hold back and always know

All the answers you will unfold

Don't wait no more

Spread your wings and soar

Find your road

Love will open every door

See in your hands the world is yours

Don't look back in the window, you'll find your way

Always know all the answers will unfold

Oh don't wait

Spread your wings and soar

Don't wait no more

You've got to soar

Spread your wings and soar

Don't wait no more

No don't you wait no more

Spread your wings and soar

You've can soar

So what you waiting for

Don't wait, Don't wait

Soar

Watch this song performance here.

10. BEGIN THE BEGUINE

by Cole Porter

When they begin

the beguine

it brings back the sound

of music so tender

it brings back a night

of tropical splendor

it brings back a memory of green

I'm with you once more

under the stars

and down by the shore

an orchestras playing

and even the palms

seem to be swaying

when they begin

the beguine

to live it again

is past all endeavor

except when that tune

clutches my heart

and there we are swearing to love forever

and promising never

never to part

a moments divine

what rapture serene

to clouds came along

to disperse the joys we had tasted

and now when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted

I know but too well what they mean

so dont let them begin the beguine

let the love that was once a fire

remain an ember

let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember

when they begin the beguine

oh yes let them begin the beguine

make them play

til the stars that were there before

return above you

till you whisper to me

once more darling I love you

and we suddenly know what heaven we're in

when they begin

the beguine

Watch this song and dance performance video here.

Read more about Beautiful Starts, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including 10 New Books Full of Sparks, A New Start to the Universe, and Beautiful Starts to Your Day. in our posts throughout this week.

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