2) Brian Hannon and Kelly Grant, former Catholic grade school friends, both moved to Charleston after graduating from college, eventually reconnected and started playing music together under the name Company. Throughout their journey, the duo experienced a tour with Band of Horses, SXSW, an EP release and the recent release of their debut album, Holy City. Tragically, after the album release, Kelly Grant unexpectedly passed away.
3) "Company" is also a common, albeit incorrect, tag often associated with various broadway shows. If this non-artist appears in your charts, do last.fm and yourself a favor. Fix your tags by putting the actual artist name in the artist field. Not the show name, not “Company”, but the actual artist name.
4) Dubstep artist from southampton. small time.
When You're An Addams
Company Lyrics
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Once a year when the last leaf of autumn falls, we gather to honor the great cycle life and death. Come, every member of our clan - living, dead, and undecided and let us celebrate what is to be an Addams.
Gomez(Sung): When you're an Addams
You need to have a little moonlight
When you're an Addams
You need to feel a little chill
You have to see the world in shades of gray
Motricia(Spoken): That's the way
Gomez and Morticia: When you're an Addams
You need to have a sense of humor
Gomez and Morticia: When you're an Addams
Morticia: You need to have a taste for death
Gomez and Morticia: Who cares about the world outside
And what it wants from you
When you're an Addams
You do what Addams always do!
Addams Family: When you're an Addams
Gomez: You gotta have a lotta passion
Addams Family: When you're an Addams
Morticia: You need to really love your wife
Gomez (Spoken): Several times a day
Addams Family: You're happy when your toes are in the mud
Fester and Grandma: You smile a bit the moment you smell blood
AA-OOOH!!!
Addams Family: When you're an Addams
Wednesday: You need to grab a bow and arrow
Addams Family: When you're an Addams
Puggsley: You need a moment to explode
Grandma: Just pour a potion
Fester: Flip the switch
Fester, Grandma, Wednesday, and Pugsley: And wait till things get hot
Addams Family: When you're an Addams
You have to really stir the
Pot
Fester: So keep your sunshine
And keep your glee
Country music and Tennessee
Wednesday: Keep you laughter
Grandma: And MTV
Addams Family: And all will be all right
Give us shadows and give us gloom
Broken glass in a motel room
Something fun we can all exhume
And give it all tonight!
Gomez(Spoken): And on this special night, beneath our Family Tree, we summon our beloved Ancestors.
Ancestors: Once torn asunder
Down six feet under
We get to gather here
Male Ancestor One: Dead for forever
Male Ancestor Two: Bled from whatever
Male Ancestors One and Two: Called now to reappear
Male Ancestor Three and Female Ancestor One: Every cadaver
Start the palaver
Once in an Addams year
Ancestors: Hold your decaying
Hear what we're saying
Time now to give a cheer
Gomez (Spoken): Line Dance!
Bunny Hop!
Do the Twist!
Rigor Mortis!
All: When you're an Addams
(That's right! When you're an Addams)
You have a very special duty
(Late night! Out with the Addams!)
When you're an Addams
(With one bite)
You're obligated to the clan
It's family first and family last
And family by and by
When you're an Addams
The standard answers don't apply
When you're and Addams
You do what Addams do or-
Ughhh
Die!
The song "When You're An Addams" from the musical comedy The Addams Family introduces this famously dark and eccentric family with a lively and catchy tune. The song begins with Gomez Addams describing how the cycle of life and death is celebrated by the Addams family during a particular time of the year. He then sings about the unique traits that identify an Addams, from having a fondness for moonlight and a taste for death to seeing the world in shades of gray and putting poison in the day. Morticia and the rest of the clan chime in about the importance of having a sense of humor and being able to find joy in the darker things of life. The song ends with a celebration, summoning the Addams Family ancestors and performing a line dance.
Line by Line Meaning
Ah, the intoxicating spell of the graveyard.
Once a year, when the last leaf of autumn falls, we gather to honor the great cycle of life and death as Addams Family.
When you're an Addams
You need to have a little moonlight
To be an Addams, you should embrace darkness with a little bit of silver light.
When you're an Addams
You need to feel a little chill
As an Addams Family member, you must feel cold more often than usual.
You have to see the world in shades of gray
You have to put some poison in your day
An Addams has to perceive the world with a unique way, dark and toxic.
That's the way
That's the way of being an Addams.
When you're an Addams
You need to have a sense of humor
To be an Addams, you should have a dark sense of humor.
When you're an Addams
You need to have a taste for death
Having an appreciation towards dark things associated with death is mandatory for being an Addams Family member.
Who cares about the world outside
And what it wants from you
When you're an Addams
You do what Addams always do!
As an Addams Family member, you don't care about the outside world and always do what you identify as characteristic of the Addams family.
When you're an Addams
You gotta have a lotta passion
Being an Addams family member requires being passionate about what the family stands for.
When you're an Addams
You need to really love your wife
Gomez (Spoken): Several times a day
Members of the Addams family should love their respective partner passionately.
You're happy when your toes are in the mud
You smile a bit the moment you smell blood
AA-OOOH!!!
When you're an Addams
Addams Family members are delighted with dirt and love the smell of blood.
You need to grab a bow and arrow
You need a moment to explode
Addams family members should be skillful with equipment like bow and arrow and should think of explosives with excitement.
Just pour a potion
Flip the switch
And wait till things get hot
Creating something new with the right combination of components and waiting for the final result is something Addams Family members fancy.
When you're an Addams
You have to really stir the
Pot
To be an Addams, you must love stirring the pot, a symbol of new creations for this family.
So keep your sunshine
And keep your glee
Country music and Tennessee
Keep you laughter
And MTV
And all will be all right
Though Addams lie in darkness, they advise you to stay happy in life's sunshine and relish things like country music and laughter. They believe everything will be okay, then.
Give us shadows and give us gloom
Broken glass in a motel room
Something fun we can all exhume
And give it all tonight!
Members of the Addams family love darkness, destructed stuff in hotels, and make fun out of digging something (or someone) out of the grave and party hard.
Once torn asunder
Down six feet under
We get to gather here
Dead for forever
Bled from whatever
Called now to reappear
Every cadaver
Start the palaver
Once in an Addams year
Hold your decaying
Hear what we're saying
Time now to give a cheer
On a certain day, every year, as an Addams member, we get to gather and cheer with the resurrected dead bodies blasted from their graves.
And on this special night, beneath our Family Tree, we summon our beloved Ancestors.
As the moon rises high, and all the members of the Addams family gather around the family tree, we summon our loved ones that passed away.
Bunny Hop!
Do the Twist!
Rigor Mortis!
All: When you're an Addams
(That's right! When you're an Addams)
Addams family loves to dance with twists, Bunny Hops, and even use their deaths as a way to dance while being an Addams member.
You have a very special duty
(Late night! Out with the Addams!)
When you're an Addams
(With one bite)
You're obligated to the clan
It's family first and family last
And family by and by
When you're an Addams
The standard answers don't apply
When you're and Addams
You do what Addams do or-
Ughhh
Die!
Being an Addams imposes a unique and essential responsibility on its members, to take part in the family as a priority, but not the society's standards. And not abiding by these responsibilities can cause one's death as an Addams member.
Writer(s): Andrew Edwin Lippa
Contributed by Anna Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.