YA YA
The Hombres»Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
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The Hombres were a garage rock band that had its roots in the thriving Memp… Read Full Bio ↴The Hombres were a garage rock band that had its roots in the thriving Memphis scene of the early 60's and who disbanded by 1969. Vocalist & organist B.B. Cunningham had earlier released some rockabilly sides on his fathers indie label Cover Records before being recruited to tour as a member of Ronny & The Daytonas with some Memphis High classmates. Originally the Bandits formed circa 1964 with Gary Wayne McEwen on guitar, B.B. Cunningham(d. 2012) on the organ (brother of Bill Cunningham of the Box Tops), Jerry Lee Masters on bass and John Will Hunter (d. 1976) on the drums. The band spent a couple years playing under the Ronny & The Daytonas name as the leader of that million selling Nashville based surf rock act didn't like touring. The band's claim to fame is the Huey P. Meaux produced track Let It All Hang Out, which took it's inspiration from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and an old country western 78. The origin of the comically bizarre lyrics in the song are presumably from the songwriters, but the spoken-word introduction – "A preachment, dear friend, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, Nicotine and the Temptations of Eve" – goes all the way back to 1947, when they served to introduce a song that was every bit as strange for its era as this one was in 1967: "Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women" by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven. The Hombres' "Let It All Hang Out" hit number 12 nationally in 1967, and decades later was included on the soundtrack of the Cameron Crowe film, Elizabethtown, the hit TV show, Cold Case, and has also been used in an advertising campaign for Foster's brand beer and for a TV commercial of a Dutch Bank. It has been sampled by UK hip-hop act Definition of Sound for their 1991 hit Wear Your Love Like Heaven and more recently covered by David Lee Roth for his 2007 album DLR World. B.B. Cunningham, after working session work with the likes of Lou Rawls and Billy Joel, joined the touring band of Jerry Lee Lewis in 1997, of which he remained a member until his death. Working part-time as a security guard at age 70, Cunningham was tragically shot and killed on the job in Memphis in October 2012. Jerry Masters continued his music career after his time in The Hombres, eventually becoming a prolific studio engineer in the early 1970s at Fame Studios, and mostly Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield Alabama. The legendary Sam Phillips of Sun Records had called Masters "the best goddamn mixing engineer in the world."
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Si me acerco
Tú te vas
Yo lo intento
Pero no sé cómo puedo hablar
Y mientras pasa la vida y nos devora la soledad
Yo te busco
Pero tú no estás
Y me muero
Por que vuelvas ya
Poco a poco
Cada vez más
Me vuelvo loco
Y no sé cómo podré escapar
Y no se cierra la herida y nunca deja de diluviar
Pero estoy solo
Quiero que vuelvas ya
No sé qué debo hacer
Si largarme de aquí
Yo sé que no soy nada y que no tengo a dónde ir
Pero no puede ser
Ya no sé qué decir
Lo he intentado todo y no eres feliz
Pero te quiero
Quiero que vuelvas ya
No sé qué debo hacer
Si largarme de aquí
Yo sé que no soy nada y que no tengo a dónde ir
Pero no puede ser
Ya no sé qué decir
Lo he intentado todo y no eres feliz
Pero te quiero
Quiero que vuelvas ya
Que vuelvas ya
Que vuelvas ya
The lyrics of The Hombres's song Ya Ya convey the desperation and loneliness felt by someone trying to reconnect with a lost love. The singer laments the fact that every time he tries to reach out, his love slips away. He is confused and doesn't know how to communicate his feelings. The passage of time only intensifies his longing and isolation. The repetition of "quiero que vuelvas ya" (I want you to come back now) throughout the song reflects the urgency and hopelessness of his situation.
The second verse speaks to the singer's mental state, as he becomes more and more consumed by his longing. He feels trapped and unable to escape the pain he is feeling. He compares his heartache to an open wound that never stops bleeding. He acknowledges that he is alone, and all he wants is for his love to return to him. The refrain of the song ("que vuelvas ya") takes on an increasingly desperate and pleading tone, as the singer repeats it over and over.
Overall, this song paints a picture of unrequited love and the difficulties of trying to maintain a relationship that seems to be slipping away. The lyrics convey a sense of helplessness and desperation in the face of an unresponsive partner, making it a powerful and relatable song for many listeners.
Si me acerco
I try to come closer
Tú te vas
But you go away
Yo lo intento
I try
Pero no sé cómo puedo hablar
But I don't know how to speak
Y mientras pasa la vida y nos devora la soledad
As life passes and loneliness devours us
Yo te busco
I look for you
Pero tú no estás
But you're not there
Y me muero
And I'm dying
Por que vuelvas ya
For you to come back now
Poco a poco
Little by little
Cada vez más
More and more
Me vuelvo loco
I'm going crazy
Y no sé cómo podré escapar
And I don't know how I can escape
Y no se cierra la herida y nunca deja de diluviar
And the wound doesn't close and it never stops raining
Pero estoy solo
But I'm alone
Quiero que vuelvas ya
I want you to come back now
No sé qué debo hacer
I don't know what I should do
Si largarme de aquí
If I should leave here
Yo sé que no soy nada y que no tengo a dónde ir
I know I'm nothing and I have nowhere to go
Pero no puede ser
But it can't be
Ya no sé qué decir
I don't know what else to say
Lo he intentado todo y no eres feliz
I've tried everything and you're not happy
Pero te quiero
But I love you
Quiero que vuelvas ya
I want you to come back now
Que vuelvas ya
Come back now
Que vuelvas ya
Come back now
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Written by: David Summers Rodriguez
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