 Genius Lyrics
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Audioslave – Wide Awake
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[Verse 1] / You can look a hurricane right in the eye / 1200 people dead or left to die / Follow the leaders, were it an eye for an eye / We'll all be blind, deaf or murdered, this
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Chris Cornell – Wide Awake
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[Verse 1] / You can a look a hurricane right in the eye / 1200 people dead or left to die / Follow the leaders, were it an eye for an eye we'd all be blind / Deaf or murdered, and
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Audioslave – Sound of a Gun
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[Verse 1] / In the here and now I wait / Down among the young and the old / With the moon and the ground I play / With my children in my home / This is for the daughters and sons
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Audioslave – Broken City
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[Verse 1] / My city sleeps by the side of a freeway / A city of scraps / In the winter time she wore a yellow coat / Now there's nothing on her back / If a building falls you
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Audioslave – Revelations
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[Verse 1] / You know what to do, you know what I did / Since you know everything, just clue me in / I am such a wreck, I am such a mess / I know what I know, why don't you fill in
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Audioslave – Original Fire
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[Chorus] / The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on / The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on / [Chorus] / The original fire has
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Audioslave – Moth
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[Verse 1] / Thought I was different, it seems I'm just the same / As again I put my hand over the flame / I thought, I was smarter as I flew into the sun / But it turned out the
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Audioslave – One and the Same
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[Verse 1] / Well, they don't hate you, you know they love you / But they're going to come, kill you / They don't mean you any harm / It's just what they do / Could be your mother
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Audioslave – Somedays
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[Intro] / Somedays, somedays / Somedays just ain't so easy / [Verse 1] / Wake up, look around / Just before your feet hit the ground / Where they make the oil and street / Is where
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Audioslave – Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye
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[Verse 1] / Just like a rescue of a stray dog in the rain / I was hungry when you found me / And you could tell by my tail and my rib cage / What was once around me / [Chorus] / I'
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Audioslave – Jewel of the Summertime
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[Verse 1] / When I was 18 / I didn't know pain when the sun was high / Burnt face, shadow's erased / And I knew I'd be alright / Left that behind me, uh huh / Something blinded me
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Chris Cornell – Seasons
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Chris Cornell has never really said on record what this song is about. Not until in 2012 a fan attending his concert in Paris asked him “What is Seasons about Chris?”
Chris
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Soundgarden – Rusty Cage
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This Chris Cornell penned song was released as the third single from Soundgarden’s third studio album, Badmotorfinger. The song became an instant hit peaking at #41 in the UK and
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Audioslave – Until We Fall
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[Verse 1] / I walk the streets without I regret / I stood alone and watched myself fall apart / Answered the voices in my head / Slipped through the chainlink of a broken heart / [
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Aerosmith – I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
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“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” was Aerosmith’s first number one song. It was featured in the movie Armageddon, which starred Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv Tyler. U2 was originally
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Black Thought (Ft. ?uestlove) – Live Intro Performance
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[Intro] / Uh-huh! Two fifteen, twenty-one pound / [Verse] / I said, memory banks too strong to try and jog with / I'd probably fry your omelette on some com shit / Long fire-arms
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Audioslave – Shape of Things to Come
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[Verse 1] / Well, it's late in the hour / And a few more grains of sand will fall / On the colorful flowers / Grown upon the dust and moss / Now I feel the worst is near / I hold
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Soundgarden – Outshined
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One of Soundgarden’s earliest songs to achieve mainstream success, “Outshined” was the band’s first to appear on the US Rock chart back in early 1992. Chris Cornell wrote it about
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Chris Cornell – Cleaning My Gun
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[Verse 1] / You and I went gently, you and I went far and wide / You and I went deeply, you and I went for a ride / But somewhere in the ashes of this burning lovers' game
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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