 Genius Lyrics
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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 – Change - 2002 digital remaster
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I don't feel the sun's comin' out today / It's staying in, it's gonna find another way, yeah, hey / As I sit here in this misery / I don't think I'll ever no long' seen the sun
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Between the Buried and Me – Change
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I don't feel the suns comin' out today / It's staying in, it's gonna find another way / As I sit here in this misery / I don't think I'll ever (no Lord) see the sun from here / And
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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 – Cheetum Street
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It was late one night in Southern Texas / My dad was playing in a rock n' roll band / He took me along to a place called Cheetem Street / My bags were packed, I was ready to meet
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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 – 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 Faith – Can't Find My Way Home
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“Can’t Find My Way Home” is The best-known song of Blind Faith’s only album. It is best known for Winwood’s falsetto and the line “And I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home
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Blind Melon – Hypnotized
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What would you do if I told you / You wouldn't have to worry anymore / Throw all your scars in the ocean / Sink to the floor and disappear forever / Dreaming that's got me by this
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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 – What You Lost
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True Love has gone away, true love's gone away / True Love has gone away, true love's gone away / Ooh, I really can't remember what you say / It don't matter anyway / And I really
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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