 Genius Lyrics
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Cage The Elephant – Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
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This single off of Cage The Elephant’s debut album features three verses, each dealing with an encounter with an immoral character that is trying to make money by any means
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Cage The Elephant – Flow
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Flow is the twelfth and final track on Cage the Elephant’s second studio album Thank You, Happy Birthday.
It features a laid back tempo, and short, simple lines. Its lyrical
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Cage The Elephant – Telescope
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Matt Shultz says, “I was sitting around with a couple of friends, and I started to have these revelations about songwriting. What struck me was, the more you try to distance
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Cage The Elephant – Rainbow
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[Verse 1] / Let's lay it out, lay it all on the table / Straight from the top, you called my hand, and I felt labeled / Saw the one past whispers that I hated / Trapped inside a
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Cage The Elephant – Out Loud
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[Verse 1] / With angry wings, I flew out of that town / I promised you I'd never turn around / Cocaine buzz and a caffeine high / Open all the windows under midnight skies / With
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Cage The Elephant – Metaverse
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[Verse 1] / Metaverse fallout / There's really no rush now / Just in case you wanna spell it out / Build me up to cut me down / [Pre-Chorus] / It's a natural progression / No need
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Cage The Elephant – Come a Little Closer
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[Verse 1] / Time shakes, found you at the water / At first you were my father / Now I love you like a brother / Earthquakes shake the dust behind you / This world at times will
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Cage The Elephant – Same
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[Verse 1] / It was lightning in a bottle / Happened in a fraction / Gasping for a breath / Smoke, fresh, everlasting / Just a glance, what's the chance? / Frantic in a bubble
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Cage The Elephant – Cigarette Daydreams
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“Cigarette Daydreams” presents the pain of one’s search for identity through the musings of a parted lover. The song itself has a softer, more brooding sound than most of Cage the
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Cage The Elephant – Neon Pill
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[Verse 1] / It takes one to know one / Back at it again / Birds of a feather / Until the end / Stitched, patched up and sewed in / I'll probably see you again / Most certain it's
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Cage The Elephant – Good Time
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[Verse 1] / I'm the bright lights, I'm the feature / I'm a spacehead, I'm a creature / I'm a lover, I'm a fable / I'm the glutton at your table / Tap dancing, dancing in the
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Cage The Elephant – Aberdeen
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The song was originally named Maybelline but was later changed to Aberdeen because Cage the Elephant’s lead singer Matt Shultz couldn’t stop singing the city’s name while
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Cage The Elephant – Sabertooth Tiger
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“Sabertooth Tiger” is about an evil personality, embodied by a person. The person who most likely has this personality is lead singer, Matt Shultz, or otherwise someone whom he/a
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Cage The Elephant – Golden Brown (Unpeeled)
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[Verse 1] / Golden brown, texture like sun / Lays me down, with my mind she runs / Throughout the night, no need to fight / Never a frown with golden brown / [Verse 2] / Every time
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Cage The Elephant – What I'm Becoming
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[Verse 1] / Slowly drift across the floor, can't escape from my mind / Yet I feel like moving on, but I'm stuck taking my time / A window, a sparrow, a spare room, a shadow / Tied
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Cage The Elephant – Whole Wide World (Unpeeled)
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[Verse 1] / When I was a young boy / My mama said to me / "There's only one girl in this world for you / And she probably lives in Tahiti" / [Interlude] / Go the whole wide world
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Cage The Elephant – Judas
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[Verse 1] / The time has finally come you get a mouth full / You only act on greed and by your actions this is proof / And can't you see the flowers dying all around you? / Got
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Cage The Elephant – Cold Cold Cold
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The fifth track on Tell Me I’m Pretty, this song is somewhat dark as it canvasses depression, comparing the feelings of sadness and melancholy to cold and darkness.
“Sweetie
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Cage The Elephant – Shake Me Down
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Hit single that got to air on the radio. It’s a slow smooth-bodied sound about Matt coming to terms with all the people he grew up with on his street, in his high school, in the
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Cage The Elephant – Shiver
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[Verse 1] / Timber shakes these trails, they all derail / Phony, false, and frail / An empty ocean lost our way with no direction home / Golden needles, names we take in vain
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Cage The Elephant – Rubber Ball
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[Verse 1] / Rolling around like a big rubber ball / Writing this song about some things that I saw / Trying to stand like a big strong tough man / Finding out fast that I'm sinking
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Cage The Elephant – Carry Me In
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Love, carry me in / Carry me in / Held down by my words and the weight of my sins / Fear, fear of myself / All these books on the shelf, yeah they're dusty again / All along the
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Cage The Elephant – Free Love
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Free Love closes Cage the Elephant’s debut album spectacularly, inducing elements of a carefree attitude over a fun time with a girl.
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Cage The Elephant – Black Widow
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Melophobia is on this album isn’t about the fear of music but about the fear of making music, and the divergent aspects of the band members.
Brad Shultz says, “I have a thing
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Cage The Elephant – Dance Dance
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[Verse 1] / Down on the corner, polyphonic visions / All the eyes were diamonds, technicolor wishes / Five-star paranoia, Hi-Fi superstition / Time to drop the needle, show 'em
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Cage The Elephant – Punchin' Bag
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[Verse 1] / She's a stone-cold straight-faced killer and a lover / And she won't put up with another brute who only wants to bruise her / Take her love and then abuse her / [
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Cage The Elephant – House of Glass
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As Rolling Stone describes it, “Over a dark, stormy bass/guitar vamp, Shultz sings about bad vibes and things falling apart. “It’s an illusion, this admiration/Of mutilation/My
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Cage The Elephant – Japanese Buffalo
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“Japanese Buffalo” is the eleventh song on Cage the Elephant’s second studio album, Thank You, Happy Birthday.
Lead singer, Matt Shultz, often sings from the perspective of some
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Cage The Elephant – The Unforgiven
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[Verse 1] / New blood joins this Earth / And quickly he's subdued / Through constant pained disgrace / The young boy learns their rules / With time, the child draws in / This
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Cage The Elephant (Ft. Alison Mosshart) – It's Just Forever
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[Verse 1: Matt Shultz] / Gonna make you mine forever / Never let you leave my sight / You can run, you can hide / But girl, I'm gonna make you mine / [Refrain: Alison Mosshart
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Cage The Elephant – Trouble
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“Trouble” is about Matt Shultz' struggles throughout his life, and how he has found solace in love. In interviews, Matt has been vocal about his childhood, stating that he did not
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Cage The Elephant – Always Something
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[Intro] / Ahhh! / [Verse 1] / Early in the morning / Rise to meet the sun / Work so hard to feed your wife / No time to show her love / And in the madness of the evening / With
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Cage The Elephant (Ft. Beck) – Night Running
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[Verse 1: Beck] / We're on a night run / Boy you better hold your tongue / Talking like you're coming from kingdom come / Rhythm and reeling, the feeling I'm riding / The sound
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Cage The Elephant – Sell Yourself
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[Verse 1] / Well, I tried to paint my mind / But now I'm stuck here in the middle / Got this scalpel in my hand / I'm operating on this riddle / Got my tongue in a tied knot / On
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Cage The Elephant – James Brown
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To me, this song is about copycats against the greats.
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Cage The Elephant – Too Late To Say Goodbye (Unpeeled)
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Oh my precious ember burning, my sweet glowing light / From the moment I first saw you I was yours and you were mine / Deep down we both knew you were trouble by design / And the
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Cage The Elephant – Halo
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[Verse 1] / Every time I get away, you find a way to reel me back in, aah / Tell me that you love me, hold me tight so we can always be friends, aah / I swear, I said it before and
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Cage The Elephant – Baby Blue
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Hole in my heart, I couldn't change / I didn't know what was supposed to / Stuck in the fire, turn in the grave / Watching the shadows stretch and taking my face / I didn't know
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Cage The Elephant – Ball and Chain
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[Verse 1] / Flirting with suspicion / Staring through the glass / Another false transaction / A production of the past / I was lost in fabrication / The finish line was fixed / The
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Cage The Elephant – That's Right
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[Verse 1] / Let your hair down, let's unwind / Take your problems, leave them behind / You got your troubles and I got mine / Baby that's right, baby that's right / I get in
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Cage The Elephant – Silent Picture
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[Verse 1] / He stood outside the door / At the bottom of the staircase / Trying to put the pieces together / Like a silent film he'd watched a thousand times before / She sank
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