 Genius Lyrics
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Elbow – The Bones of You
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[Verse 1] / So I'm there / Charging around with a juggernaut brow / Overdraft speeches and deadlines to make / Cramming commitments like cats in a sack / Telephone burning and a
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Elbow – Grounds for Divorce
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“Grounds for Divorce” is a sombre description of the day-to-day life of an alcoholic. Its title and lyrics refer to the band’s late friend Bryan Glancy, who died in 2006 after a
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Sesame Street – Bones (Inside of You)
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Feel your fingers, feel your toes / Grab your elbow, pinch your nose / Touch your ankle, tap your knees / Give your chin a little squeeze / You'll feel something hard inside / And
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Ivor Cutler – I Worn My Elbows
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I worn my elbows down to the bone for you / I worn my elbows down to the bone for you / I worn my elbows down to the bone, down to the bone / I worn my elbows down to the bone for
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Elbow Bones and teh Racketeers – {Take me for} A Night In New York
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I Have known a thousand guys / Who would want my big brown eyes / And at least a hundred times / They have almost lost their mind / I have had them promise me / Caviar and
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Elbow – Golden Slumbers
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[Verse 1] / Once there was a way / To get back homeward / Once there was a way / To get back home / [Chorus] / Sleep, little darling, do not cry / I will sing a lullaby / Golden
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Glass Bones – Void
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Will is written, get it all / And you'll be thriving as I fall / As you raise your crumbling wall / And you don't have to worry now / Lived my years / I've seen my share / The
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BONES – KeepTellingYourselfThat
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[Intro] / What? / [Verse 1] / The boy in the bubble, the furthest from trouble / When I look at you, it's like damn (Damn) / You give me sympathy practically instantly / I feel so
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Elbow – Neat Little Rows
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My high priestess folded neatly / Back in your box, oh Lord / Called the song he sang so sweetly / Back in your box, oh Lord / Found myself astride a tiger / Lifting my head just
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Elbow – Come On, Blue
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[Verse 1] / Dust to dust / Trust and wonder glowing in your marrow / I picture your growing bones, you know / And I dread and love tomorrow / [Pre-Chorus] / Come on, Blue / As if
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Elbow – The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver
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Frontman Guy Garvey told the Manchester Evening News that this song, inspired in part by the Manchester skyline, has a very similar theme to “The Bones of You.” He explained:
“I
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Elbow Bones and The Racketeers – A Night in New York
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The first to put a simple truth in words / Binds the world in a feeling all familiar / Cause everybody owns the great ideas / And it feels like there's a big one 'round the corner
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Elbow (Ft. John Grant) – Kindling (Fickle Flame)
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[Verse 1: John Grant & Guy Garvey] / Had a circular saw blade / Where I should have had a heart / You kept your boat afloat for so long / I was trusted, I adored her / And I tore
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Megan Thee Stallion (Ft. DaBaby) – Cash Shit
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Released on Megan Thee Stallion’s debut mixtape Fever, the hit “Cash Shit” is the first of the numerous collaborations between Megan and Charlotte, North Carolina rapper Dababy.
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Hobbie Stuart – What Time Do You Call This?
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What time do you call this? / I've been craning bewildered all my days / What time do you call this? / Shrink with me, tower with me / Wither with me, flower with me / Endlessly
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Elbow – Starlings
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Starlings– the first track on Elbow’s fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid– is all about expectations, or at least subverting them.
The track begins with an intense cacophony before
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Lost Dogs – Devil's Elbow
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There by the sumac and the thicket of the evergreen / Carved our names next to the others in Pacific CIty Beams / We passed the faded billboards and all the tumbleweed dreams / It'
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Diane Cluck – Pull Out the Bad Bone
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I went to the doctor / And what did I say? / "Pull out the bad bone / But let my skeleton stay / Pull out the bad bone / I'll be on my way" / I went to the doctor / And what did
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Shakey Graves – Built to Roam
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[Verse 1] / This lazy living, yeah it sure tastes good / Oh, let's make a killing down in Hollywood / And buy ourselves some nice fancy home in the hills / Spend all our fancy ol
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2-Hye – My Crew (Ft. Bones)
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I rendezvous with the crew by the liquor store / Typical to buy a Swisher Sweet and a Forty-O / Guaranteed to brake another neck of a corner hoe / Take it up a notch and I could
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Elbow – Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)
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Garvey said of the track:
This was written in a little house in France, I remember my sister coming to visit, and walking up the country lane with her from the local village
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Elbow – High Ideals
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There's a laddered tear in my high ideals / Like I took a chair on the battlefield / And any noble fire that was burning in my chest / Is acid in my belly at the very best / There'
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Canyon City – Fix You
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[Verse 1] / When you try your best but you don't succeed / When you get what you want but not what you need / When you feel so tired but you can't sleep / Stuck in reverse / [Verse
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Shawn Mendes – Mercy
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“Mercy” is a brooding piano ballad that focuses on heartbreak. It serves as the third single from Shawn Mendes' second studio album Illuminate.
During the week leading up to the
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Elbow – One Day Like This
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“"One Day Like This” is the second single from Elbow’s fourth studio album The Seldom Seen Kid, released on 2 June 2008 on two 7" vinyl records and one CD single.
On 21 May 2009
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Elbow – Mirrorball
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Frontman Guy Garvey said, “is very simply about the morning after meeting somebody and falling in love.” He added: “It’s what’s going through my mind while I’m on the streets of
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Tyrik Tell – Off My Chest
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(Tyrik Tell) / Yo Espo, I’ma ride the track like a metro / Step up to the mic, you’ll get thrown back like retros / Dawg on the beat, I could’ve went to a pet show / You tryna
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Da Lench Mob – Guerillas in tha Mist
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A reference to the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist, Da Lench Mob uses a very subtle, understated gorilla/ape/primate motif in the song. Some of the references might be hard to spot
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Maja Koman (Ft. Leepeck) – Hand to Hand
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Cheek to cheek / And hip to hip / Knee to knee / Where are you? / Where are you? / Lips to lips / And jaw to jaw / Finger to finger / Where are you? / Where are you? / I miss you
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The Boss Hog Barbarians – Givva Hog a Bone
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{Give a hog a bone, bitch!} / "You have to keep 'em on a short leash and let 'em know who's boss / Otherwise they'll bite your arm off at the elbow" / [Celph Titled] / I'll never
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Kaotic Steel – Merc With A Mouth
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[Verse: Kaotic Steel] / I got a tattoo of time ticking on my chest / My name tatted on seven bitches breasts / So I know it's real, bitch I know you crazy / For dick and fame that
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Elbow – Friend of Ours
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The heartbreaking closing track on “The Seldom Seen Kid” written and performed for the Seldom Seen Kid himself, Bryan Glancy, a Manchester singer songwriter and best friend to Guy
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