 Genius Lyrics
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Blind Melon – No Rain
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“No Rain” was released in September 1992 as the second single from Blind Melon’s debut album, Blind Melon. Full of pathos; Shannon Hoon sings of the depressed tendencies that would
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Blind Melon – Drive
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Musing on addicts with specific references to a friend who would get Shannon Hoon to drive him to score heroin.
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Blind Melon – Lemonade
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[Verse 1] / There's such a thing as self opinion / And this far down south, I have no self-control / If anybody else feels like they're nobody / Well then, you're gonna have to
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Blind Melon – Deserted
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[Verse 1] / Grab my knee and / Look at me and try to tell me / I'll be home soon / Asleep in my bed and unstoned / I'm tired of me this way / [Chorus] / I don't know what I've
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Blind Melon – Glitch
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Sitting' on the back of my time / Fishing' through the city's phone lines / Suddenly, till my back's out of line / Who, today, will be knocked off / And who controls all the chalk
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Blind Melon – Hell
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I have no fingertips / They were burned away from too many stove trips / Can't find no fingernails / I ate them off cause I was hungry as hell / Can't read, can't clear my mind
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Blind Melon – Time
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So long, so long, bye / [Verse 1] / Said, all these people, they won't leave me alone / And we need, a little time to ourselves / And half these reasons why / I'm sketchin' all the
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Blind Melon – Change
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Change is the first song Shannon ever wrote. He wrote it after waking up from a drug binge. It appeared on Blind Melon’s first album. Shannon used to sing the song to his mother
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Blind Melon – Holy Man
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[Intro] / I was born on the banks of a hot muddy river / The child of one stupid steamy night / Born to roam beneath the sun / What do you think of me? / I'm better left alone / [
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Blind Melon – Dumptruck
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[Verse 1] / New York City soothing my / Itchy, itchy month of May / Time has passed for Ms. Onassis / Decay on display / [Chorus] / I don't want to go down / I don't want to go
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Blind Melon – I Wonder
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[Intro] / All alone, the broadening skies / Under thee, every night, I lie (every night, I will lie) / Scratch and claw and grip the rails / Every day, my living hell / Oh God, you
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Blind Melon – Wilt
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[Verse 1] / Hair-raising shake, you're much too late / You should have jumped a couple of cars before / Now, if I may, I'll walk away / I'm selling Silly Putty door-to-door / And
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Blind Melon – Mother
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"The skies have darkened / And the seas have dried / Your honest ways have turned to lies / Your hands of promise / Turned to hands of pain / You take for granted the life that God
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Blind Melon – Skinned
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This song is about serial killer Ed Gein who used to dig up graves and skin the corpses and wear those skins and dance around. Here Shannon (the author and singer of Blind Melon at
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Blind Melon – 2x4
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[Refrain] / I'm talkin' / I'm talkin' / I'm talkin' to myself more / [Verse 1] / Needle, fetal / Someone's pouring warm gravy all over me / And you see that synthetic therapy / Don
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Blind Melon – The Duke
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[Verse 1] / Out here in nothin', engulfed by the sea / And there's no one here, except these fishes and me / I think I could die here / Then I'm hit, leveled hard by the rising
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Blind Melon – Pull
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[Chorus] / Pull you down, now / [Verse 1] / Knees knelt, I got my arms open wide / And the shades turned, so the colors die / No, don't hold too tight to the reel / 'Cause it's a
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Blind Melon – Walk
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[Verse 1] / Find myself singing the same songs everyday, yeah / Ones that make me feel good / When things behind a smile ain't okay / Around and over and in-between the seas / I
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Blind Melon – Soul One
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How come, girl was there when I needed one / How come, girl was there when the song is done / Some say, open your eyes to a brighter light / Okay, open my arms they were right
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Blind Melon – Hello, Goodbye/Galaxie
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“Galaxie” is about how Shannon Hoon can’t escape his heroin addiction no matter how happy he outwardly appears. The “Cadillac that’s sittin' in the back” is the family car, the one
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Blind Melon – Vernie
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[Verse 1] / Is it the way you're speakin'? / Is it because I'm peakin'? / Twistin' your face, thumb in hand / [Chorus] / But you gotta have your own space to play in / A collection
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Blind Melon – New Life
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A drug abuser finds out he is about to become a father. The father considers impending parenthood, wonders, and ultimately pleads, that this life event and the love and
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Blind Melon – For My Friends
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I remember we used to sit out back and drink until the morning light / Always bummin' smokes and talking trash about the plans that we had / Summers come and gone and the winter
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Blind Melon – Soup
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[Verse 1] / The clothesline of cold eyes is washing away the face before / Now, tell me what's wrong / You see, everyone's gone / You gotta do your best to decorate this dying day
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Blind Melon – Paper Scratcher
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[Verse 1] / Shuffle can to can, nobody really gives a damn / For every living day, I give myself a hand / Now, I'm scroungy as can be / I got all you normals looking at me / I'll
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Blind Melon – Toes Across the Floor
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[Verse 1] / Doesn't anybody feel / That all these killers should be killed / And all these healers should be healed / So all these beggers can be filled? / And now, tell me, why am
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Blind Melon – Sleepyhouse
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“The song "Sleepyhouse” is a recollection of a time the band spent at their residence of the same name, and with friends at a yellow house in Chapel Hill, North Carolina."
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Blind Melon – Tones of Home
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[Verse 1] / What do you think they would say / If I stood up, and I walked away? / Nobody here really understands me / And so I wave goodbye, I'm fine / I'm fine / [Chorus] / Tones
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Blind Melon (Ft. Jena Krauss) – Mouthful of Cavities
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Written and recorded roughly a year before Shannon Hoon’s death, “Mouthful of Cavities” is an admission of an empty life. The tone is mellow, almost lonely, but the subject of the
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Blind Melon – Dear Ol' Dad
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[Verse 1] / Come now, and listen babe / I gotta reason why I behave / Like a child with the light in his eyes / Running naked on a cold winter night / I'm like a pigeon that's
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Blind Melon – Carseat (God's Presents)
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Off of Blind Melon’s second album
The first part of the song is primarily based on the story of Susan Smith, a South Carolina native convicted for the murder of her two sons. She
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Blind Melon – All That I Need
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All that I need is the air that I breathe / And all that I need are things I don't need / And all that really matters is what matters to me / And who, of you, are like me? / If I
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Blind Melon – Soak the Sin
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[Verse 1] / I've got to buy some shoes / These ones are getting loose / My feet are sinking in the sun, and it ain't fun / [Pre-Chorus] / But it looks like rain up ahead in forty
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Blind Melon – John Sinclair
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[Verse 1] / It ain't fair, John Sinclair / In the stir for breathing air / Won't you care for John Sinclair / In the stir for breathing air / Let him be, set him free / Let him be
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Blind Melon – The Pusher
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Snowflakes rolling over my ear / Goose bumping liver / If I'm hungry at 4:30 in the morning / Pink Dot will deliver / And I'm oh so tired / Of you pushing that thorny crown / Down
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Blind Melon – St. Andrew's Hall
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[Verse 1] / Big stretch, not much sleep / And a big palm tree rubbing against my cheek / I got a bright blue Saturday / In the rummage, sellin' the rubbish to me / [Pre-Chorus
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Blind Melon – Life Ain't So Shitty
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[Verse 1] / Life ain't so shitty / There's a lot that you can be / And ain't it a pity / But it's alright to smile back at me / And if we both go there / We can count on problems
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Blind Melon – Seed to a Tree
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[Verse 1] / Woah, as I shit / I sit and wonder why / My floor's so cold and my back's broken tile / Life is good / Go ahead, even though it won't be long / In the candles, come
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Blind Melon – St. Andrew's Fall
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[Verse 1] / Big stretch, not much sleep / I got a couple of palm trees on each side of my cheek / And it's a bright blue Saturday / In the rummage, sellin' the rubbish to me / [Pre
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Blind Melon – Swallowed
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[Verse 1] / Come down from the ceiling / Oh, these pills were made for feeling / Oh, so divine / [Chorus] / I've got a lump in my throat / So I'll keep hold of hope / Oh yeah, oh
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Blind Melon – Harmful Belly
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Scratch my eyes out for you / Strap dynamite to my sides / Shed a carcass for you / Oh, empty out my soul / I'm begging you, just give me a chance / Stick with me and we'll see the
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Blind Melon – Three Is A Magic Number
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Three, oh, it's the magic number / Yeah it is, it's the magic number / Somewhere in that ancient mystic trinity / You get three / It's the magic number / With the past and the
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Blind Melon – Sometimes
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There's a price you will pay when you're on top of the world / Oh, when everyone wants to be your friend or companion / There's a fine line between your own heaven and hell / Oh
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