10th Anniversary The

American Idol 10th Anniversary The Lyrics
1.Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

Lyricist:Martin SandbergLukasz
Writer(s):Lukasz

Here's the thing
We started out friends
It was cool, but it was all pretend
Yeah, yeah, since you been gone
You're dedicated, you took the time
Wasn't long 'til I called you mine
Yeah, yeah, since you been gone
And all you'd ever hear me say
Is how I picture me with you
That's all you'd ever hear me say

But since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so movin' on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you, now I get what I want
Since you been gone

How can I put it, you put me on
I even fell for that stupid love song
Yeah, yeah, since you been gone
How come I'd never hear you say
I just wanna be with you
Guess you never felt that way

But since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so movin' on, yeah, yeah
Thanks to you, now I get, I get what I want
Since you been gone

You had your chance, you blew it
Out of sight, out of mind
Shut your mouth, I just can't take it
Again and again and again and again

Since you been gone(since you been gone)
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so movin' on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you(thanks to you)
Now I get, I get what I want
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so movin' on, yeah yeah
Thanks to you(thanks to you)
Now I get(I get)
You should know(you should know) that I get
I get what I want

Since you been gone
Since you been gone
Since you been gone


2.Superstar - Ruben Studdard

Lyricist:Bonnie BramlettLeon RussellPeter J. MurrayJames McMillan
Writer(s):Bonnie BramlettLeon Russell
Mixing:James McMillanPeter J. Murray

Long ago, and, oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you're not really here, it's just the radio

Don't you remember, you told me you loved me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby
I love you, I really do

Loneliness is such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait to be with you again
What to say to make you come again?
Come back again and play your sad guitar

Don't you remember, you told me you loved me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby
I love you, I really do

Don't you remember, you told me you loved me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby
I love you, I really do


3.Invisible - Clay Aiken

Lyricist:Desmond ChildAndreas CarlssonChris Braide
Writer(s):Andreas CarlssonChris BraideDesmond Child

Oh-oh-ohh
What she doin tonight?
I wish I could be a fly on your wall.
Are you really alone? Whos stealing dreams?
Why cant I breathe you into my life?
(So tell me) What would it take to make you see that Im alive?

If I was invisible
And I could just watch you in your room
If I was invincible
Id make you mine tonight
If hearts were unbreakable
And I could just tell you where I stand
I would be the smartest man
If I was invisible
Wait, I already am

Saw your face in the crowd, I call out your name
You dont hear a sound
I keep tracing your steps, each move that you make
Wish I could read what goes through your mind
(Oh baby) Wish you could touch me with the colors of your light

If I was invisible
And I could just watch you in your room
If I was invincible
Id make you mine tonight
If hearts were unbreakable
And I could just tell you where I stand
I would be the smartest man
If I was invisible
Wait, I already am

(Id make you mine tonight) Invisible
I reach out but you dont even feel me
Even when I scream out
Baby, you dont hear me(you dont hear me)
I am nothing without you
Just a shadow passin through
(Invisible, Invisible, Invisible, Invisible)

If I was invisible
And I could just watch you in your room
If I was invincible
Id make you mine tonight
If hearts were unbreakable
And I could just tell you where I stand
I would be the smartest man
If I was invisible(Id make you mine)
If I was invisible(Id make you mine)
If I was invisible(Id make you mine)
If I was invisible(Id make you mine)
If I was invisible(Id make you mine)
If I was invisible(Id make you mine)


4.When I See U - Fantasia

Lyricist:Sam WattersLouis BiancanielloKevin RistoWaynne
NugentJanet SewellErika Nuri
Writer(s):Erika NuriJanet SewellKevin RistoLouis BiancanielloSam
WattersWaynne Nugent

Mafia

I put your picture on mirror
Start to blush when somebody says your name
In my stomach there's a pain
See you walkin' my direction, I go the other way

I start to stutter when I speak
Try to stand, but my knees go weak
What's happenin' to me?
In the dark, can you tell me what it means?

I laid my head on my pillow
I'm starin' out the window
Shown a star for a sign
It's the reason why

You're always on my mind
When you come around I get shy
When I see u, when I see u
Never know when you might walk by
So I gotta be right on time
When I see u, when I see u

I scribble X and O's in my notebook
Checkin' how my hair and my nails look
I feel myself in the zone
I get nervous when you call, so I say I'm not home

I see your face when I hear my favorite song
Should I send an e-mail at home?
You're the number 1 topic on the phone
I wonder if you know, or do you have a clue?

I laid my head on my pillow
You got me starin' out the window
Was shown a star for a sign
What's the reason why?

You're always on my mind
When you come around I get shy
When I see u, when I see u
Never know when you might walk by
So I gotta be right on time
When I see u, when I see u

Something now is taking over me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm not gonna run
I'm just gonna stand here and see, oh yeah

You're always on my mind
When you come around I get shy
When I see u, when I see u
Never know when you might walk by
So I gotta be right on time
When I see u, when I see u

You're always on my mind
When you come around I get shy
When I see u, when I see u
Never know when you might walk by
So I gotta be right on time
When I see u, when I see u


5.Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood

Lyricist:Chris TompkinsJosh Kear
Writer(s):Chris TompkinsJosh Kear

Right now he's probably slow dancing
With a bleached-blond tramp
And she's probably getting frisky
Right now, he's probably buying
Her some fruity little drink
'Cause she can't shoot whiskey

Right now, he's probably up behind her
With a pool stick
Showing her how to shoot a combo
And he don't know

I dug my key into the side
Of his pretty little souped-up 4 wheel drive
Carved my name into his leather seat
I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights
Slashed a hole in all 4 tires
And maybe next time he'll think before he cheats

Right now, she's probably up singing some
White-trash version of Shania karaoke
Right now, she's probably saying, 'I'm drunk'
And he's a thinking that he's gonna get lucky

Right now, he's probably dabbing on 3 dollars
Worth of that bathroom Polo
Oh and he don't know

That I dug my key into the side
Of his pretty little souped-up 4 wheel drive
Carved my name into his leather seat
I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights
Slashed a hole in all 4 tires
And maybe next time he'll think before he cheats

I might've saved a little trouble for the next girl
'Cause the next time that he cheats
Oh, you know it won't be on me!
No, not on me

'Cause I dug my key into the side
Of his pretty little souped-up 4 wheel drive
Carved my name into his leather seat
I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights
Slashed a hole in all 4 tires
Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats
Oh, maybe next time he'll think before he cheats
Oh, before he cheats
Oh


6.Takin' It To The Streets - Taylor Hicks

Lyricist:Michael McDonald
Writer(s):Michael McDonald

You don't know me but I'm your brother
I was raised here in this living hell
You don't know my kind in your world
Fairly soon the time will tell
You...telling me the things you're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see

Takin' it to the streets(takin' it to the streets)
Takin' it to the streets(no more need for runnin')
Takin' it to the streets(Oh, oh-oh, nah, nah)

Take this message to my brother
You will find him...everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty's despair
Are you...telling me the things you're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see

Takin' it to the streets(takin' it to the streets)
Takin' it to the streets(no more need for runnin')
Takin' it to the streets(takin it to the streets)
Takin' it to the(BREAK)

Are you...telling me the things you're gonna do for me(yeah,
hah)
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see

Takin' it to the streets(takin' it to the streets)
Takin' it to the streets(no more need for runnin')
Takin' it to the streets(Ah, yeah)
Takin' it to the streets(takin' it to the streets)
Takin it to the streets(we'll discuss it further)
Takin' it to the streets(Ah, nah)
Takin' it to the streets(takin' it, takin' it)
Takin' it to the streets(hey, yeah, now)
Takin' it to the streets(Takin'...it to the streets)
Takin' it to the streets(no more need for runnin')
Takin' it to the streets(no more need for hidin')
Takin' it to the streets(ah, yeah, yeah)
Takin' it to the streets(no...more)
Takin' it to the streets(yeah, yeah)
Takin' it to the streets(takin' it, takin' it)
Takin' it to the streets(aaaaahhh)
Takin' it to the streets(takin' it, takin')
Takin' it to the streets(no more need)
Takin' it to the streets(takin' it, takin' it)


7.Home - Daughtry

Lyricist:Chris DaughtryDebbie Lurie
Writer(s):Chris Daughtry
Mixing:Debbie Lurie

I'm staring out into the night, trying to hide the pain
I'm going to the place where love
And feeling good don't ever cost a thing
And the pain you feel's a different kind of pain

Well, I'm going home, back to the place where I belong
And where your love has always been enough for me
I'm not running from, no, I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old
So I'm going home, well I'm going home

The miles are getting longer, it seems, the closer I get to you
I've not always been the best man or friend for you
But your love it makes true and I don't know why
You always seem to give me another try

So I'm going home, back to the place where I belong
And where your love has always been enough for me
I'm not running from, no, I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old

Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it all
You just might get it all and then some you don't want
Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it all
You just might get it all, yeah

Oh, well I'm going home, back to the place where I belong
And where your love has always been enough for me
I'm not running from, no, I think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these faces are getting old
I said these places and these faces are getting old
So I'm going home, I'm going home


8.No Air Duet - Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown(Main Version)(
feat. Chris Brown)

Lyricist:E. GriggsH. Mason Jr.J. Fauntleroy IID. ThomasSteve
Russell
Writer(s):D. ThomasE. GriggsH. Mason Jr.J. Fauntleroy IISteve
Russell

Tell me how i'm supposed to breathe with no air?

If i should die before i wake
It's 'cause you took my breath away
Losing you is like living in a world with no air oh

I'm here alone didn't wanna leave
My heart won't move it's incomplete
If there was a way that i could make you understand

But how do you expect me
To live alone with just me?
'cause my world revolves around you
It's so hard for me to breathe

Tell me how i'm supposed to breathe with no air?
Can't live can't breathe with no air
It's how i feel whenever you ain't there
There's no air no air

Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me?
If you ain't here i just can't breathe
There's no air no air

No air air
No air air
No air air
No air air

I walk i ran i jump i flew
Right off the ground to float to you
With no gravity to hold me down for real

But somehow i'm still alive inside
You took my breath but i survived
I don't how but i don't even care

So how do you expect me
To live alone with just me?
'cause my world revolves around you
It's so hard for me to breathe

Tell me how i'm supposed to breathe with no air?
Can't live can't breathe with no air
It's how i feel whenever you ain't there
There's no air no air

Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me?
If you ain't here i just can't breathe
There's no air no air

No air air
No air air
No air air
No air air

No more
Baby
There's no air no air
No air oh!

Tell me how i'm supposed to breathe with no air?
Can't live can't breathe with no air
It's how i feel whenever you ain't there
There's no air no air

Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me?
If you ain't here i just can't breathe
There's no air no air

(no air)
(no air)
(no air)
(no air)

Tell me how i'm supposed to breathe with no air?
Can't live can't breathe with no air
It's how i feel whenever you ain't there
There's no air no air

Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me?
If you ain't here i just can't breathe
There's no air no air

No air air
No air air
No air air
No air


9.Light On - David Cook

Lyricist:Chris CornellBrian Howes
Writer(s):Brian HowesChris Cornell

Never really said too much
Afraid it wouldn't be enough
Just try to keep my spirits up
When there's no point in grieving

Doesn't matter anyway
Words can never make me stay
Words will never take my place
When you know I'm leaving

Try to leave a light on when I'm gone
Something I rely on to get home
One I can feel at night, a naked light
A fire to keep me warm

Try to leave a light on when I'm gone
Even in the daylight, shine on
And when it's late at night you can look inside
You won't feel so alone

You know we've been down that road
What seems a thousand times before
My back to a closing door
And my eyes to the seasons

That roll out underneath my heels
And you don't know how bad it feels
To leave the only one
That I have ever believed in

Try to leave a light on when I'm gone
Something I rely on to get home
One I can feel at night, a naked light
A fire to keep me warm

Try to leave a light on when I'm gone
Even in the daylight, shine on
And when it's late at night you can look inside
You won't feel so alone, ooh yeah!

Sometimes it feels like we've run out of luck
When the signal keeps on breaking up
When the wires cross in my brain
You'll start my heart again when I come along, yeah

Try to leave a light on when I'm gone
Something I rely on to get home
One I can feel at night, a naked light
A fire to keep me warm

Try to leave a light on when I'm gone
Even in the daylight, shine on
And when it's late at night you can look inside
You won't feel so alone

Try to leave a light on when I'm gone
Even in the daylight, shine on
And when it's late at night you can look inside
You won't feel so alone


10.Live Like We're Dying - Kris Allen

Lyricist:Steve KipnerAndrew FramptonDanny O' DonoghueMark Sheehan
Writer(s):Andrew FramptonDanny O' DonoghueMark SheehanSteve Kipner

Sometimes we fall down, can't get back up
We're hiding behind skin that's too tough
How come we don't say I love you enough
Till it's to late, it's not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come
And we could make a feast from these crumbs
And we're all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you,
What would you wish you would've done

Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbye
Should be so careful who we live out our lives
So when we long for absolution,
There'll no one on the line, yeah

Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

Like we're dying, oh, like we're dying..

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

You never know a good thing till it's gone
You never see a crash till it's head on
Why do we think we're right when we're dead wrong
You never know a good thing till it's gone

Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

Like we're dying, oh, like we're dying..

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying..


11.Whataya Want From Me - Adam Lambert

Lyricist:P!nkMax MartinShellback
Writer(s):Max MartinP!nkShellback

Hey, slow it down whataya want from me
Whataya want from me
Yeah I'm afraid whataya want from me
Whataya want from me

There might have been a time
When I would give myself away
Oooh once upon a time I didn't give a damn
But now, here we are so whataya want from me
Whataya want from me

Just don't give up I'm workin it out
Please don't give in, I won't let you down
It messed me up, need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, whataya want from me
Whataya want from me
Whataya want from me

Yeah, it's plain to see(plain to see)
that baby you're beautiful
And there's nothing wrong with you
(nothing wrong with you)
It's me, I'm a freak(yeah)
but thanks for lovin' me
Cause you're doing it perfectly
(it perfectly)

There might have been a time
When I would let you slip away
I wouldn't even try
But I think you could save my life

Just don't give up I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in, I won't let you down
It messed me up, need a second to breathe
Just keep comin around
Hey, whataya want from me(Whataya want from me)
Whataya want from me(Whataya want from me)

Just don't give up on me
(uuuuuuh) I won't let you down
No, I won't let you down

(So hey) just don't give up
I'm workin it out
Please don't give in,
I won't let you down
It messed me up(It messed me up)
Need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, whataya want from me

Just don't give up I'm workin' it out
Please don't give in, i won't let you down
It messed me up, need a second to breathe
Just keep coming around
Hey, whataya want from me(whataya want from me)
whataya want from me(whataya want from me)
whataya want from me


12.Sweet Serendipity - Lee DeWyze

Lyricist:Lee DeWyzeDavid GlassJordan Lawhead
Writer(s):David GlassJordan LawheadLee DeWyze

Sweet Serendipity
Ohhhhhhh, ohhhhhhh!

I ain't got no car
And I've got one pair of jeans
They've been stretched too far
And now they're weak at the seams
I can't say what's next
And I got nothin' up my sleeve
But I don't lose my head
Cause' it ain't really up to me

And I'm doing just fine
I'm always landing on my feet,
In the nick of time,
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain't gonna stress
Cause' the worst ain't happened yet
Something's watching over me like
Sweet Serendipity

Oh, oh, oh oh oh, ohhhhhhh!
Sweet Serendipity
Oh, oh, oh oh oh, ohhhhhhh!

I don't ask for alot
No nothing more than I need
Cause' I love what I got
Don't need to play no lottery
I just wanna' be strong
Happy end of the road
I don't want to hold on
I want the strength to let go

And I'm doing just fine
I'm always landing on my feet,
In the nick of time,
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain't gonna stress
Cause' the worst ain't happened yet
Something's watching over me like
Sweet Serendipity

And what will be will be, in the nick of time,
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain't gonna stress
Cause' the worst ain't happened yet
Something's watching over me like
Sweet Serendipity

Oh, oh, oh oh oh, ohhhhhhh!

Sweet Serendipity
Oh, oh, oh oh oh, ohhhhhhh!
Like Sweet Serendipity

Don't look fate can only find you
Can't choose for something to surprise you
Set sail without a destination
See where the wind will take you
You never know when you're gonna fall
But I'm not worried, no I'm not worried at all

And I'm doing just fine
I'm always landing on my feet,
In the nick of time,
By the skin of my teeth
I ain't gonna stress
Cause' the worse ain't happened yet
Something's watching over me

And I'm doing just fine
I'm always landing on my feet,
In the nick of time,
And by the skin of my teeth
I ain't gonna stress
Cause' the worst ain't happened yet
Something's watching over me like
Sweet Serendipity

Oh, oh, oh oh oh, ohhhhhhh!
Sweet Serendipity
Oh, oh, oh oh oh, ohhhhhhh!
Sweet Serendipity

Don't look fate can only find you
Can't choose for something to surprise you
Set sail without a destination

Sweet, sweet
Sweet, sweet
Sweet, sweet
Sweet Serendipity
Sweet, sweet
Sweet, sweet
Sweet Serendipity

I don't know
Sweet, Sweet Serendipity