Genius Lyrics
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 (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 – No Rain (Ripped Away Version)
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All I can say you know my life it's pretty plain / I like watchin' the puddles gather rain / And all that I can do, is just pour some tea for two / And speak my point of view, but
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Letters From A Porcupine
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Underlying / Oh, so more important here / Any kind / Oh, what ever shakes a thrill / Mark my face / The air is really heavy now / I pledge allegiance / So, God, why don't you come
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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 – 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 – 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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