UK number one pop song lyrics: Dilemma (Nelly & Kelly), Heaven (DJ Sammy) & others

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"Number 1" pop singles in the UK (quarter 4, 2002)


Sections:	Introduction
	Sound of the Underground (Girls Aloud)
	Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word (Blue featuring Elton John)
	Lose Yourself (Eminem)
	If You're Not The One (Daniel Bedingfield)
	Dirrty (Christina Aguilera)
	Unbreakable (Westlife)
	Heaven (DJ Sammy)
	Dilemma (Nelly & Kelly)
	Links

Related pages:	Britain/Music/Lyrics (number 1s on other dates)
	British/Music/Pop (British pop music)

INTRODUCTION

Lyrics and background notes to songs which first reached number 1 in the UK singles chart between October and December 2002.

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SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND

Number 1 on: 22 December 2002, 5 January 2003, 12 January 2003

Type of song:

	THE GIRLS ..... beat ...		THE BOYS
	Sound of the Underground (CD single #2) Artist: Girls Aloud Label: Polydor Date: December 2002		Sacred Trust/After You're Gone (CD single) Artists: One True Voice Label: Jive Date: December 2002

The British Christmas number 1 single in 2002 was "Sound of the Underground" by Girls Aloud. This is a new girl group created through the popular television series "PopStars - The Rivals". They sold about 220,000 CDs during the week. Their website is: http://www.girlsaloud.co.uk.

The rival boy band created the television series was One True Voice. Their song "Sacred Trust" was the number 2 single over Christmas. The boys sold about 150,000 CDs during the week.

The song is about someone who is enjoying the loud music and disco dancing at a night-time party in someone's house. "Crank the bass" means to turn up the lower frequencies of the music (the beat). The noise is disturbing the people living nearby ("neighbours banging on the bathroom door"), and the beat can also be heard outside ("in the backstreet lights").

Sound of the Underground
Girls Aloud

Disco dancing with the lights down low
Beats are pumping on the stereo
Neighbours banging on the bathroom wall
You're saying crank the bass
I gotta get some more

Water's running in the wrong direction
Got a feeling its a mixed up sign
I can see it in my own reflection
Something funny's going on inside my mind
Don't know what is pushing me higher
It's the static from the floor below
Then it drops and catches like a fire
It's a sound I, it's a sound I know

It's the sound of the underground
The beat of the drum goes round and around
Into the overflow
Where the girls get down to the sound of the radio
Out to the electric night
Where the bass line jumps in the backstreet lights
The beat goes around and round
It's the sound of the under-
Sound of the underground

Chain reaction running through my veins
Pumps the bass line up into my brains
Screws my mind until I lose control
And when the building rocks I know it's got my soul

Water's running in the wrong direction
Got a feeling it's a mixed up sign
I can see it in my own reflection
Something funny's going on inside my mind
Don't know what is pushing me higher
It's the static from the floor below
Then it drops and catches like a fire
It's a sound I, it's a sound I know

I don't know what - it's pushing me higher
It's the static from the floor below
And then it drops and catches like fire
It's a sound I, it's a sound I
It's a sound I, it's a sound I know

The bass line jumps in the backstreet light
It's the sound of the under-
Sound of the underground
The bass line jumps in the backstreet light
It's the sound of the under-
Sound of the underground

SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD

Number 1 on: 15 December 2002

Type of song:

	Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word (CD single #1) Artists: Blue featuring Elton John Label: Innocent Date: December 2002		Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word (CD single #2) Artists: Blue featuring Elton John Label: Innocent Date: December 2002
	One Love (CD album) Artist: Blue Label: Innocent Date: November 2002		Greatest Hits 1970-2002 (box set: 3 CD albums) Artist: Elton John Label: Rocket Date: November 2002

The fourth number 1 single for London group Blue, and the fifth for the British singer Sir Elton John. Elton John first released this song in 1976. The words are written by Bernie Taupin and the melody by Elton John.

The singer did something wrong but found it hard to apologise ("sorry seems to be the hardest word" to say). Now his partner has left ("I wake to find you're not there") and it may be too late to say these things. He wants to "talk it over" and find a way to "make you love me".

The official Blue website is at: http://www.officialblue.com.

Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Blue featuring Elton John

What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you're not there

What do I do to make you want me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word

What do I do to make you love me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I do when lightning strikes me
What have I got to do
What have I got to do
When sorry seems to be the hardest word

LOSE YOURSELF

Number 1 on: 8 December 2002

Type of song:

Lose Yourself (CD single)
Artist: Eminem
Label: Interscope/Shady Records
Date: December 2002

8 Mile
Artist: Eminem, Various
Label: Interscope
Date: October 2002

Eminem is an American white rap singer. The words to his songs often contain a lot of slang and frequently describe violent and angry situations. This song is part of the soundtrack of the film 8 Mile, in which Eminem stars. The film will be released in the UK in the middle of January. It is partly based around the life of Eminem.

This song is about a young man who is trying to escape from his life of poverty by becoming a rap singer. He is being encouraged to make the most of this chance ("one opportunity", "one shot", "once in a lifetime"). The chorus suggests to the singer: "lose yourself in the music" (concentrate all of your efforts on singing and writing). In the first verse the singer is struggling at the start of his singing career ("he's nervous", "he opens his mouth but the words don't come out"). In the second verse the singer has become successful but is spending all his time touring from "coast to coast" and has grown apart from his family ("barely knows his own daughter"), but is then rejected by his music company (he has become "cold product"). In the final verse he is struggling again to make money and support his wife and baby ("these goddam food stamps don't buy diapers": diapers are American English for nappies). "Mekhi Phifer" (mentioned in this verse) is a young American actor who was given the starring role in a Spike Lee film in 1995 despite having no previous acting experience: he plays Future in this new film (8 Mile).

Lose Yourself
Eminem

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted - one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Yo, His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking, how everybody's choking now
The clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that easy
No, he won't have it , he knows his whole back city's ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stacked that he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again yo
This whole rap city
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo,

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better,

His soul's escaping, through this hole that it's gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a new world order
A normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post mortem
It only grows harder, only grows hotter
He blows us all over these hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's known as the globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold water
These ho's don't want him no more, he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it’s old partner, but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo, you better

No more games, I'm a change what you call rage
Tear this motherfucking roof off like 2 dogs caged
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhyming and stepwriting the next cypher
Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
Cause man, these goddam food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life
And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder
Trying to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter-totter caught up between trying to be a father and a prima donna
Baby mama drama's screaming on and
Too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another jam or not
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go it's my shot.
Feet fail me not or not this may be the only opportunity that I got

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better,

You can do anything you set your mind to, man

IF YOU'RE NOT THE ONE

Number 1 on: 1 December 2002

Type of song:

If You're Not The One (CD single)
Artist: Daniel Bedingfield
Label: Polydor
Date: November 2002

Gotta Get Thru This (CD album)
Artist: Daniel Bedingfield
Label: Polydor
Date: August 2002

This is Daniel Bedingfield's second number 1 single: "Gotta Get Thru This" was number 1 in December 2001. Daniel was born in New Zealand in 1979, but moved to live in Lewisham, south London.

This song is a love ballad. The singer is in love with a girl, but they are apart at the moment. This song is full of many negatives, probably because they have said some negative things to each other and these words are staying in his head. He misses her very much ("I miss you, body and soul so strong that it takes my breath away") and wants to get back together ("Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?"). He thinks that she is "the one" for him, and dreams that in future they will get back together and she will become his wife ("I hope you are the one I share my life with").

Daniel Bedingfield's official website: http://www.danielbedingfield.com.

If You're Not The One
Daniel Bedingfield

If you're not the one then why does my soul feel glad today?
If you're not the one then why does my hand fit yours this way?
If you are not mine then why does your heart return my call
If you are not mine would I have the strength to stand at all

I never know what the future brings
But I know you are here with me now
We'll make it through
And I hope you are the one I share my life with

I don't want to run away but I can't take it. I don't understand
If I'm not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

If I don't need you then why am I crying on my bed?
If I don't need you then why does your name resound in my head?
If you're not for me then why does this distance maim my life?
If you're not for me then why do I dream of you as my wife?

I don't know why you're so far away
But I know that this much is true
We'll make it through
And I hope you are the one I share my life with
And I wish that you could be the one I die with
And I'm praying you're the one I build my home with
I hope I love you all my life

I don't want to run away but I can't take it. I don't understand
If I'm not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

'Cause I miss you, body and soul, so strong that it takes my breath away
And I breathe you into my heart and pray for the strength to stand today
'Cause I love you. Whether it's wrong or right
And though I can't be with you tonight
You know my heart is by your side
I don't want to run away but I can't take it. I don't understand
If I'm not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

DIRRTY

Number 1 on: 17 November 2002 & 24 November 2002

Type of song:

Dirrty (CD single)
Artist: Christina Aguilera
Label: RCA
Date: November 2002

Stripped (CD)
Artist: Christina Aguilera
Label: RCA
Date: October 2002

This is the second number 1 song in the UK by the American artist Christina Aguilera.

This song is about a girl going to a club all night (until "eight in the morning"), dancing to the music, and then making love to a man (getting "dirty").

There are a few examples of American English in the song. "Butt" and "ass" are slang words for a person's buttocks (the equivalent words in British English are "bum" and "arse"). A "parking lot" is known as a "car park" in British English.

Christina's official website is at: http://www.christinaaguilera.com.

Dirrty
Christina Aguilera (featuring Redman)

[Redman:]
Ah, dirrty (dirrty)
Filthy (filthy)
Nasty, you nasty (yeah)
Too dirrty to clean my act up
If you ain't dirrty
You ain't here to party (woo!)

Ladies (move)
Gentlemen (move)
Somebody ring the alarm
A fire on the roof
Ring the alarm (and I'm throwin' elbows)
Ring the alarm (and I'm throwin' elbows)
Ring the alarm (and I'm throwin' elbows)

Oh, I'm overdue
Give me some room
I'm coming through
Paid my dues
In the mood
Me and the girls gonna shake the room

DJ's spinning (show your hands)
Let's get dirrty (that's my jam)
I need that, uh, to get me off
Sweat until my clothes come off

It's explosive, speakers are pumping
Still jumping, six in the morning
Table dancing, glasses are mashing
No question, time for some action

Temperature's up (can you feel it)
About to erupt
Gonna get my girls
Get your boys
Gonna make some noise

Wanna get rowdy
Gonna get a little unruly
Get it fired up in a hurry
Wanna get dirrty
It's about time that I came to start the party
Sweat dripping over my body
Dancing gettin' just a little naughty
Wanna get dirrty
It's about time for my arrival

Ah, heat is up
So ladies, fellas
Drop your cups
Body's hot
Front to back
Now move your ass
I like that

Tight hip huggers, low for sure
Shake a little somethin' on the floor
I need that, uh, to get me off
Sweat until my clothes come off

Let's get open, cause a commotion
We're still going, eight in the morning
There's no stopping, we keep it popping
Hot rocking, everyone's talking

Give all you've got (give it to me)
Just hit the spot
Gonna get my girls
Get your boys
Gonna make some noise

Rowdy
Gonna get a little unruly
Get it fired up in a hurry
Wanna get dirrty
It's about time that I came to start the party
Ooh sweat dripping over my body
Dancing gettin' just a little naughty
Wanna get dirrty
It's about time for my arrival

Here it comes, it's the one
You've been waiting on
Get up, get it up
Yup, that's what's up
You can just put your butt
To the maximum
Uh oh, here we go
Here we go

You can tell when the music
Starts to drop
That's when we take it
To the parking lot
And I bet you somebody's gonna
Call the cops
Uh oh's, here we go, here we go

Wanna get rowdy (rowdy)
Gonna get a little unruly (ruly)
Get it fired up in a hurry (hurry)
Wanna get dirrty
It's about time that I came to start the party (party)
Sweat dripping over my body (body)
Dancing gettin' just a little naughty
Wanna get dirrty
It's about time for my arrival

Rowdy
Dance and getting a little unruly
Get it fired up in a hurry
Let's get dirrty
It's about time that I came to start the party
Sweat dripping over my body
Dancing gettin' just a little naughty
Wanna get dirrty
It's about time for my arrival

Uh, what

UNBREAKABLE

Number 1 on: 10 November 2002

Type of song:

Unbreakable (CD single, version 1)
Unbreakable (CD single, version 2)
Artist: Westlife; Label: RCA
Date: November, 2002

Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits (CD)
Artist: Westlife
Label: RCA
Date: November 2002

This is the 11th number 1 song in the UK for the Irish group Westlife. The band have just released their Greatest Hits album.

This song is a simple love song. The love between the singer and his girlfriend is so strong that it cannot be destroyed (it is "unbreakable").

Unbreakable
Westlife

[Shane:]
Took my hand
Touched my heart
Held me close
You were always there

By my side
Night and day
Through it all
Maybe come what may

Swept away on a wave of emotion
Overcaught in the eye of the storm
And whenever you smile
I can hardly believe that you're mine
Believe that you're mine

[All:]
This love is
It's unmistakeable
And each time I look in your eyes
I know why
This love is untouchable
I feel that my heart just can't deny
Each time I look in your eyes
Oh baby, I know why
This love is unbreakable

[Bryan:]
Shared the laughter
Shared the tears
We both know
We'll go on from here

Cause together we are strong
In my arms
That's where you belong

I've been touched by the hands of an angel
I've been blessed by the power of love
And whenever you smile
I can hardly believe that you're mine

[All:]
This love is unbreakable
It's unmistakeable
Each time I look in your eyes
I know why
This love is untouchable
I feel that my heart just can't deny
Each time you whisper my name
Oh baby, I know why

[Mark:]
This love is unbreakable
Through fire and flame
When all this over
Our love still remains

[All:]
This love is unbreakable
It's unmistakeable
And each time I look in your eyes
I know why
This love is untouchable
I feel that my heart just can't deny
Each time you whisper my name
Oh baby, I know why
Cause each time I look in your eyes
Oh baby, I know why

[Shane:]
This love is unbreakable

HEAVEN

Number 1 on: 3 November 2002

Type of song:

Heaven (CD single)
Artist: DJ Sammy
Label: Data
Date: October 2002

Heaven (CD album)
Artist: DJ Sammy
Label: Data
Date: March 2003

Bryan Adams made the song "Heaven" popular in 1984 as a romantic ballad. DJ Sammy has made this dance version, which is sung by a lady known as Yanou.

In the song we learn that the singer and her boyfriend used to be partners a long time ago ("Oh, thinking about our younger years; There was only you and me"). The man then left her to be with another girl, but that relationship has now finished and the man has got back together with the singer ("Now nothing can take you away from me; We've been down that road before; That's over now"). The singer is expressing how happy she and her boyfriend are now that they are together again: she believes that it is obvious that he really loves her now ("And I'm finally there in your heart; It isn't too hard to see; We're in heaven").

Heaven
DJ Sammy & Yanou

Baby you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven

We're in heaven

Oh, thinking about our younger years
There was only you and me
We were young and wild and free
Now nothing can take you away from me
We've been down that road before
That's over now
You keep me coming back for more

Baby you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And loving is all that I need
And I'm finally there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see,
We're in heaven
We're in heaven

Now nothing can change what you mean to me
There's a lot that I could say
But just hold me now
Cause our love will light the way

Now our dreams are coming true
Through the good times and the bad
I'll be standing there by you
We're in heaven

Baby you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And loving is all that I need
And I'm finally there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see,
We're in heaven

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

We're in heaven.

DILEMMA

Number 1 on: 20 October & 27 October 2002

Type of song:

Dilemma (CD single)
Artist: Nelly (featuring Kelly Rowland)
Label: MCA
Date: October 2002

Nellyville (CD album)
Artist: Nelly
Label: MCA
Date: July 2002

Dilemma is by the male American rap singer Nelly (from St Louis, Missouri). It is taken from the album Nellyville. The female singer is Kelly Rowland, who is part of the group Destiny's Child.

A dilemma is a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two possibilities, both of which are unpleasant. The woman (Kelly, called K in the song) is having a love affair with the man, Nelly ("she got the hots for me"). But she already has a partner and they have a young child ("she got a man and a son"). The man also has a partner ("but you and me, we got ties for different reasons"). Nelly and Kelly both face the dilemma about whether they should split up with each other or if they should leave their current partners. Kelly tells Nelly that she will still love him, whatever decision she takes ("I love you, I need you"; "no matter what I do, all I think about is you").

The song uses American English, including some slang used in rap music (there is a dictionary of rap slang at: http://www.rapdict.org; hip hop dictionary, or see the book: "Hip Hoptionary: the Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology"). Some of the words or phrases are explained below, followed by the complete lyrics. For more examples of differences between British English and American English, see: English/Study.

boo - boyfriend (a word used in American rap slang).
I'm crazy over you - I like you very much.
I met this chick - I met this young woman (the word 'chick' is American slang and may offend some women, like the word 'bird' in British English).
The block from me - the building in the next street (block is American English).
She got the hots for me - she is sexually attracted to me (American slang).
She got a man and a son - she has a partner and child.
Like a shortstop - like one of the players in a baseball team, who stands in his position and waits until a ball is hit in his direction (he cannot control this) (American English expression).
Ma - mother (American English expression).
Niggers - black men (this word is very offensive unless it is used by a black person, as in this case).
Tripping - kidding (fooling around)
Ain't no dame - she isn't a well-behaved lady (American English expression).
Steez - style (a word used in American rap slang).
Your whole demeanor (American English spelling of demeanour) - the way you look and behave.
Holler - to shout.
Swoop me in his two-seater - Kelly drives outside Nelly's flat in her partner's sports car and shouts to him to come and join her.
Now that's gangsta - behaviour like a member of the mafia (a gangster) (American rap expression).
You can always count on my love - you can always rely on my love for you (I will always love you).
East Coast, Down South, West Coast, MidWest - regions of the United States

Dilemma
Singer: Nelly (featuring Kelly Rowland)

I love you and I need you
Nelly, I love you, I do
Need you

No matter what I do
All I think about is you
Even when I’m with my boo
Boy, you know I’m crazy over you