Come With Me

Label

Epic records

Genre

Stage & Screen

Media Type

CD

Duration

0:00

Composer(s)

Jimmy Page;Robert Plant;John Bonham;Sean Combs;Mark Curry

Entered Chart

Jun 27, 1998

Peak Date

Jul 25, 1998

Released

June 9, 1998

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

78954

"Come With Me" is based on Led Zeppelin's 1975 song "Kashmir." It uses the same music, with Puff Daddy rapping over it. Led Zeppelin fans were horrified when they heard this song, feeling it defiled one of the band's classic songs, but Zep guitarist Jimmy Page was on board with it and played guitar on the track. The song came about after Puff Daddy was asked to create a song for the 1998 blockbuster movie Godzilla. According to Puff, he heard "Kashmir" in a TV commercial for a Led Zeppelin's greatest hits album, and thought it would be a great song to rework for the movie because it builds in intensity, evoking a monster stomping through the streets. Led Zeppelin are very protective of their songs, but Puff Daddy was very brazen and asked Jimmy Page not only for permission, but to play the guitar part so he wouldn't have to work around a sample. Surprisingly, Page was all for it. "I thought that would be great," the English axeman told Uncut magazine. "I'd been into musical fusion since I first listened to music." Page also helped promote the song; he performed it with Puff Daddy on Saturday Night Live and later at the NetAid benefit concert. "It was interesting to see him to see him do the performances," Page said. "The way he improvised each time was right up my street." Puff Daddy's lyrics don't have any specific references to the Godzilla movie, but are more a string of disjointed, vaguely menacing phrases. It's an allegory for the film itself, a big-budget production that made money but was roundly panned and quickly forgotten. The film seemed like an attempt to kick off a new franchise in the tradition of Jurassic Park, but nobody was very impressed with it. The song was a fairly big hit, going to #4 in the US, but it didn't have much staying power. When the song was re-released on Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits, Puff Daddy's obscenities were "censored" with Godzilla's roar. "Come With Me" showed just how much of a song you could use as source material and get away with it. Puff Daddy tended to use wide swaths of the songs he sampled or interpolated, not just bits and pieces. The previous year, he incorporated huge chunks of "Every Breath You Take" by The Police into "I'll Be Missing You," and he lifted lots of the Diana Ross song "I'm Coming Out" for "Mo Money Mo Problems." "Come With Me" was an even bigger grab, using pretty much the entire "Kashmir" track minus the vocals. "Come With Me" plays in the closing credits of the movie and anchors the Godzilla soundtrack, which is called Godzilla: The Album. It's the only song on the soundtrack that's used in the film. It's also the only rap song on the album, which also includes a remix of Green Day's "Brain Stew" and a song by Jamiroquai written for the soundtrack called "Deeper Underground." The album went on to sell over a million copies. There are no samples on this song. It was created with a live orchestra augmented by guitar from Jimmy Page, bass and guitar from Tom Morello, keyboards from Jeffrey Walker and drums from Mario Winans. Puff Daddy is credited as the producer and co-writer (along with Led Zeppelin). The backing track essentially re-creates Zeppelin's "Kashmir." Tom Morello's appearance on the track is a little odd. Known for his activism and work in the fire-breathing protest music group Rage Against The Machine, he's not a guy you'd expect to contribute to a corporate monstrosity like this. Of course, he did get to work with Jimmy Page, and what guitarist would turn that down? Rage Against The Machine contributed a song to the soundtrack called "No Shelter" that basically trolls the movie, with lead singer Zack de la Rocha tearing into Hollywood for making senseless movies designed to keep us from thinking about how we're all being manipulated. When "Come With Me" was released in the summer of 1998, Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant were touring together as Page and Plant. That April, they released an album called Walking Into Clarksdale.

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Hear my cries
Hear my call
Lend me your ears
See my fall
See my error
Know my faults
Time halts
See my loss
Know I'm lacking
Backtracking
Where I met you
Pistol packing
Itchy finger
Trigger happy
Try to trap me
Bad rap

Wiretap me
Back-stab me
Break the faith
Fall from grace
Tell me lies
Time flies
Close your eyes

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You'd never hurt me
Now I'm disgusted
Since then adjusted
Certainly you fooled me
Ridiculed me
Left me hanging
Now shit is boomeranging
Right back at you
Think long range
Narrow-minded

Left me blinded
I cosigned it
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I grinded
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I close my eyes
And I see..
You standing there
I cry...
Tears...
Of sorrow...
I die....


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Fuck my foes
Damn these hoes
You're stepping on my toes
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Give me room to breathe
I'm not hearing it
I'm not fearing it
I'm up to my ears in it
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Some women find that seductive
Some say it's lunacy
Reluctantly I've been moving on
I ignore you
Sorry if I bore you
I neglect you
Don't mean to disrespect you
Can't you see
I love you dearly

And that sincerely
But you annoy me
You can't avoid me
I'm here to stay
Forever and ever and a day
That's never
I can't let you go
I can't forget it
Why you did it
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And won't acquit it
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I'll fucking bite you
Can't stand nobody like you
You can't run
You can't hide
No surprise
Close your eyes

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Hear my calls
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Hear my calls
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Hear my cries
Hear my calls
Lend me your ears
See my fall
See my errors
Know my faults
Time halts
See my loss
Know I'm lacking
Backtracking
Where I met you
Pistol packing

Itchy finger
Trigger happy
Try to trap me
Bad rap
Wiretap me
Backstab me
Break the faith
Fall from grace
Tell me lies
Time flies
Close your eyes
Come with me

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I'm gonna take you with me

I want to fight you
I'll fucking bite you
Can't stand nobody like you
You can't run
You can't hide
No surprise
Close your eyes

Come with me
I'm gonna take you with me
I'm here to stay
Forever ever
And ever and day that's never
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