Genius Lyrics
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Bloc Party – Sunday
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Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, thinks Okereke, all life–and all emotional points–are here. He addresses this directly on “Sunday.” The drums pound like a headache after
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Bloc Party – Banquet
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“Banquet” is a punk/electro UK anthem, full of swagger and sexual tension. It was the second single off the band’s debut album, and amassed a large amount of remixes, most notably
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Bloc Party – Coliseum
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[Verse 1] / Got nightmare walking on two legs / There's a word for people like us / Can't shake the feeling we're moving backwards / History repeating itself / Ain't got time to
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Bloc Party – Blue
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[Verse 1] / Blue, it was lagoon blue / Your 57 Ford Anglia, you picked me up in it / Your horned rimmed glasses get in the way / So we do air kisses, let me breathe you in / In the
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Bloc Party – The Good News
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The second single from HYMNS (2015), “The Good News” was first made available as an instant grat download when you pre-ordered the album on iTunes.
There are some strong blues
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Bloc Party – Montreal
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The 4th track from British indie rock band Bloc Party The Nextwave Sessions [EP]. In this song Kele seems to be in a rock in a hard place with his friends telling him they miss him
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Bloc Party – Zephyrus
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Zephyrus was an ancient Greek god of the West Wind and of spring.
There’s a myth where he and another god, Apollo, were both after the same boy (Hyacinthus). He saw them playing a
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Bloc Party – Strut
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Lewis had a wobble / But he's back on his feet / Slick and dedicated / Coming off a losing streak / Tranced in the ether / But he's giving off too much heat / Working himself
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Bloc Party – Acting Out
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[Verse 1] / I was minding my beeswax / Trying to be a better me / Trying to stay with Jesus / But something's kinda off / I'm starting to feel triggered / Like a flame burning on a
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Bloc Party – Day Four
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This is the sixth track from Four, an album many saw as a return to form.
The song makes a reference to the album’s title, there is something significant about the number four
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Bloc Party – Eden
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[Verse 1] / Underneath the iron cloud / That will not let my daylight out / So I smoke myself until I go / See-through / Atomised and bugging out / Signal fails in the CBD / So I
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Bloc Party – Paraíso
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[Verse 1] / It was a look that I understood / In another life, maybe I would have been yours / Vision in white standing by the bar / Like a wrecking ball, like a Japanese weight
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Bloc Party – Lean
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Exclusive to the Amazon MP3 edition of Four, and also on the Four More EP (which came free with a Musikexpress magazine).
Not to be confused with “Mean”!
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Bloc Party – The Present
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Written for the War Child charity album Help: A Day in the Life, this song is revered by fans as one of the band’s great tracks.
Earlier live versions featured slightly different
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Bloc Party – Team A
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[Verse 1] / How many times / Do I have to tell you / That these are my things? / That these are my things? / Been running your mouth / But people been listening / Say, if you wanna
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Bloc Party – So Real
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[Verse 1] / Heartbreak the first, comes to me in bursts / You danced with him whilst I could see you / Although it hurts, tears are not enough / To dissolve all the pain I'm
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Bloc Party – Exes
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“Exes” was the first song to be premiered from HYMNS (2016) — it was performed acoustically for Australian radio network Triple J, and added to the band’s 2015 setlist. The song is
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Bloc Party – Emma Kate's Accident
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This is a B-side from A Weekend in the City era Bloc Party. Before Intimacy was released with “Ion Square”, this was the longest Bloc Party song at a little over 5 ½ minutes.
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Bloc Party – New Blood
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[Verse 1] / I've been living too long in the tundra / I've been living too long at sea / And all my loved ones forgot about me / So I tame the urge to fight back / Sounding off to
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Bloc Party – Trojan Horse
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[Verse 1] / You used to take your watch off before we made love / You didn't want to share our time with anyone / You used to close your eyes when we kissed goodbye / You didn't
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Bloc Party – The Girls Are Fighting
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[Intro] / Hey, ey, ey / Hey, ey, ey / [Chorus] / Hey, hey, hey / The girls are fighting / Hey, hey, hey / The girls are fighting / Hey, hey, hey / The girls are fighting / Hey, hey
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Bloc Party – High Life
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[Verse 1] / If you want, if you will, you know I'm good for it / If you want, if you will, you know I'm all about it / See, I've been waiting patiently to catch a falling star
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Bloc Party – Virtue
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[Verse 1] / Temptation hides in the space between / Lord, help me fight this desire for fire / Words can cleanse and purify or tear down a pack of lies / In your presence
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Bloc Party – Staying Fat
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The duelling vocals throughout the verse and chorus in this are unique to a Bloc Party song.
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Bloc Party – Black Crown
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[Verse 1] / "Because it's the rules" / Teacher said to boy / "Not my rules," he said, "No" / Talking in Ebonics, talking in italics / Talking, talking, talking, talking, talking
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Bloc Party – The Peace Offering
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I was filming my final scene the other day / When something really rather grave came over me / "Don't take it so personal," you used to say / "It's only a game" / The first thing I
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Bloc Party – Different Drugs
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“Different Drugs”, one of the longer songs on HYMNS, explores a broken relationship. Kele, from a first-person perspective, suggests that artificial highs are the only way this
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Apathy, M. Shinoda & Tak of S.O.B. – Bloc Party
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[Green Lantern:] / This is an Invasion! / [Intro: Apathy & Mike Shinoda] / Hey Ap', why don’t you do the uh--the intro on this shit? / Yo Apathy, Fort Minor, Styles of Beyond
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Bloc Party – Always New Depths
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[Verse 1] / All the clouds are black / Mother is cried out / Someone else broke my fall / I don't remember / Internationally bastardised / Internationally tongue-tied / The truth
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Bloc Party – Into the Earth
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[Verse 1] / This fennel tea that you bought for me / Well, it does its magic discretely / I wrote this song for you, it's true / In our only south facing room / See, I don't know
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Bloc Party – By Any Means Necessary
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[Verse 1] / She walks as in by remote control / Wicked fingers pull her strings / All is not what it seems / The girls that flirt don't get very far / Eyes on the prize, remember
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Bloc Party – Atonement
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[Verse 1] / It will be hard, my love / It will be hard but it can be done / My kisses will put out / Out the forest fire I started / I will not let, I will not let / You get
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Bloc Party – Tulips (Minotaur Shock Remix)
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When you said tulips / I knew that you're mine / When I caught you there / Crying in the night / Wearing my jacket / Wearing that smile / I knew that I'd found you / Were you
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Bloc Party – Storm and Stress
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B-side to Little Thoughts.
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