 Genius Lyrics
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – 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 – 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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Vertical Horizon – Everything You Want
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“Everything You Want” was one of the most played singles in 2000. The eponymous single off Vertical Horizon’s third studio album, the track skyrocketed to the top of the Billboard
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Rare Breed Entertainment (Ft. Daylyt & King Los) – Daylyt vs. King Los
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The long awaited matchup between Watt’s Daylyt and Baltimore’s King Los. This matchup was once hinted at in 2015 when Mos Def issued a challenge to the entire hip hop community
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights,Vol. 1 (Chap. 4.3)
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The Third Kalandar's Tale. / Know, O my lady, that I also am a King and the son of a King and my name is Ajíb son of Kazíb. When my father died I succeeded him; and I ruled and did
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