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vb. (context idiomatic intransitive English) To restore one's life (or a given situation etc.) to a normal state, after a calamity, shock etc.
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"Pick Up the Pieces" is a 1974 song by the Average White Band from their second album, AWB. On the single, songwriting credit was given to founding member and saxophonist Roger Ball and guitarist Hamish Stuart individually and the entire band collectively. It is essentially an instrumental, apart from the song's title being shouted at several points in the song. The song features an intro 4 measures of Csus7#9, sus 4 (C F Bb Eb) afterwards in the theme 8 measures of Fm7 (F Ab C Eb), 2 measures of Bb7 (Bb D F Ab), 4 measures of Fm7.
"Pick Up the Pieces" was released in the United Kingdom in July 1974 but failed to chart. When the album was released in the United States in October 1974, radio stations there started to play the song, and on 22 February 1975, it went to the top of the US singles chart and peaked at number five on the soul charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 20 song for 1975. After its US success, the song charted in the UK and climbed to number six. "Pick Up the Pieces" also made it to number eleven on the US disco chart.
Pick Up the Pieces EP is the second EP, and fourth record overall, by A Thorn for Every Heart. Independently released, it was the last before their hiatus in 2009.
Pick Up the Pieces is the debut album from Jamaican roots reggae group The Royals, collecting recordings made between 1973 and 1977, and produced by Royals lead vocalist and only constant member Roy Cousins. Musicians on the album include members of The Wailers, Soul Syndicate, The In Crowd, and the Now Generation. The album was later licensed to United Artists subsidiary Ballistic Records, and was reissued in an expanded form in 2002 by Pressure Sounds. The songs on the album have been described as "some of the most musically sublime expressions of Rastafarian faith and the hardships of ghetto living Jamaica has produced".
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"Pick Up the Pieces" is a song by American recording artist Jason Derulo for his second studio album, Future History (2011). It was written by Derulo, Josh Walker, Olivia Waithe, Tiffany Fred, Michael McGregor, Peter King, Lee Monteverde and Kelly Sheehan. Production was handled by J.R. Rotem and JD Walker. The song was released as one of four promotional singles for the album on September 9, 2011. It was later released as the album's sixth and final single in Australia on August 9, 2012, coinciding with the release of the platinum edition of Future History and Derulo's stint as a judge on the TV series Everybody Dance Now.
"Pick Up the Pieces (To My Heart)" is a Cindy Valentine single co-written with Tony Green and released under Arista Records in 1989. "Pickup the Pieces (To My Heart)" climbed the Dance/Club chart, peaking at No. 11 in a 16-week chart run. "Pickup the Pieces (To My Heart)" was featured in the film, Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991), HBO's feature film, Just Can't Get Enough (2002) and is included on numerous compilation albums.
Usage examples of "pick up the pieces".
Controlling myself with some difficulty -- for I too was succumbing to the general irritability -- I told them to pick up the pieces, which were gathered into two caps.
He's gonna wait just outside and come in when whatever's done is done, mostly to pick up the pieces.
The shock of Mayberry's error had been shattering and I stuck around and helped her pick up the pieces.
Adica didn't mean to cause so much harm, but now someone has to try to pick up the pieces.
She had left him to pick up the pieces of his life, then breezed right back after five long years of convincing himself that she wouldn't ever return.
I have to go back and pick up the pieces, be my own self again and finish what all of us were building together.
Such a nation might ignite conflict between superpowers, hoping to sit on the sidelines and pick up the pieces.