Genius Lyrics
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Electric Light Orchestra – Twilight
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Continuing through “Prologue”, and opening up new wave in a whole new synthetic light, the second track “Twilight” is Six Flags on wheels.
The man is trying to explain how he got
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Electric Light Orchestra – Turn to Stone
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[Verse 1] / The city streets are empty now / (The lights don't shine no more) / And so the songs are way down low / (Turning, turning, turning) / A sound that flows into my mind
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Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
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In a BBC Radio interview, Lynne talked about writing “Mr. Blue Sky” after locking himself away in a Swiss chalet and attempting to write ELO’s follow-up to A New World Record:
It
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Electric Light Orchestra – Confusion
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Everywhere, the sun is shining / All around the world, it's shining / But cold winds blow across your mind / [Chorus] / Confusion (Confusion
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Electric Light Orchestra – Four Little Diamonds
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ELO has always been competently trying to get audiences into their music, including with the mixed-reviewed new-wave synthpop mix Time, but Four Little Diamonds comes closer to ELO
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Electric Light Orchestra – Evil Woman
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After finishing “Face The Music” Jeff Lynne listened to the album and in his opinion there was no good single. According to an interview with the RollingStone magazine, it was the
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Electric Light Orchestra – Wishing
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Little darlin', don't you cry / You know, I'll try to be there with you by and by / When everything is going wrong, now don't you cry / I'm wishin' / Little darlin', far away / I
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Electric Light Orchestra – The Fall
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[Verse 1] / I see the early glow / I hear you say hello / I watch the shadows fall / I don't see you at all / [Pre-Chorus] / It's a lie (I don't believe it's so) / It's a lie / [
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Electric Light Orchestra – Eldorado
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[Verse 1] / Here it comes, another lonely day / Playing the game, I'll sail away / On a voyage of no return to see / If eternal life is meant to be / And if I find the key / To the
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Electric Light Orchestra – Rain Is Falling
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Were you expecting an entry? Too bad, ELO! With a heart of a kid in the middle, and strings dominating everything here, as well as a synth, Rain is Falling is the symphonic seventh
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Electric Light Orchestra – I'm Alive
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“I’m Alive” is a soaring intro song for the 1980 movie Xanadu, and accompanies a segment where the Muses of the movie come to life, leave behind their wall mural, and explore Los
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Electric Light Orchestra – Secret Messages
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Catchy hooks are played out, as well as mesmerizing pop-rock culture, in the fantasist opener of the same name of the album.
A man is dealing with extreme amounts of information
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Electric Light Orchestra – Strange Magic
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The 1976 hit song that followed ELO’s bigger hit, Evil Woman
Both singles came out of their album Face the Music
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Electric Light Orchestra – Hold On Tight
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[Verse 1] / Hmm, hold on tight to your dream / Hey, hold on tight to your dream / When you see your ship go sailing / When you feel your heart is breaking / Hold on tight to your
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Electric Light Orchestra – Ticket to the Moon
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[Intro] / Remember the good old 1980s? / When things were so uncomplicated? / I wish I could go back there again / And everything could be the same / [Verse 1] / I've got a ticket
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Electric Light Orchestra – It's Over
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[Instrumental Prelude] / [Intro] / It's over, it's over, it's over / [Verse 1] / Summer came and passed away / Hardly seemed to last a day / But it's over, and what can I do
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Electric Light Orchestra – Beatles Forever
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Originally intended for inclusion on Secret Messages as the seventh track (between No Way Out and Letter From Spain), Beatles Forever remains the only Electric Light Orchestra
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Electric Light Orchestra – Epilogue
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Bringing about a concept of ambiguity, and dominating with synths, drums, and samples Epilogue is the thirteenth and mighty closer to the original album before it’s 2001 remaster
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Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line
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[Verse 1] / Hello, how are you? / Have you been alright / Through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights? / That's what I'd say / I'd tell you everything / If you'
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Electric Light Orchestra – Waterfall
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[Verse 1: Jeff Lynne] / So now it's getting late, for those who hesitate, got no one / But they don't understand and no one hears the sound / It's like a waterfall, it's an
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Electric Light Orchestra – Prologue
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With its deeply synthesized voice through a vocoder, and science fiction synths, as well as a wobbly sample of a rocket, “Prologue” is the fantasist opener to the fantasized album
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Electric Light Orchestra – Here Is the News
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Written in 1982, “Here is the News” is part of ELO’s concept album “Time”, about a man from 1981 travelling into the far off future of 2095 and having to deal with the stresses and
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Electric Light Orchestra – Easy Money
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One, two, three... / Tell me I'm mistaken / I must be kinda slow / But the only time you ever cared / Was when you needed more... easy money, easy money / You got out of control
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Electric Light Orchestra – Sweet Talkin' Woman
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[Intro] / (Sweet talkin' woman) / Where did you go? / [Verse 1] / I was searchin' (Searchin') on a one-way street / I was hopin' (Hopin') for a chance to meet / I was waitin' for
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Electric Light Orchestra – So Fine
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[Intro: Jeff Lynne, Kelly Groucutt] / Ooh-la, ooh-la, ooh-la, ooh-la, ooh / Ooh-la, ooh-la, ooh-la, ooh-la, ooh / Ooh-la, ooh la-la, ooh-la, ooh la-la, ooh / [Verse 1: Jeff Lynne
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Electric Light Orchestra – Look at Me Now
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[Verse 1] / Someone is waiting, lurking in the trees / The spirit of her is walking back to me / Ah, look at me now feeling emotion / Ah, look at me now / [Verse 2] / The King of
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Electric Light Orchestra – Nightrider
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[Verse 1: Jeff Lynne] / I remember somewhere in the rain / The faces of the passers-by / Staring faces broken blinds / I recall the situation clear / Standing in a crowded car / I
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Electric Light Orchestra – Across the Border
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[Intro] / I've been workin' so hard, baby / Tryin' to get to you / I'm gonna be there soon because / [Verse 1] / In the heat of the day many miles away / When the sun is beating
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Electric Light Orchestra – Roll Over Beethoven
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[Verse 1] / Gonna write a little letter, gonna mail it to my local DJ / Well, it's a jumpin' little record I want my jockey to play / Roll over Beethoven, gotta hear it again today
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Electric Light Orchestra – Is It Alright
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Dear Jo, don't know where to begin / So I'll just say hello / Dear Jo, is it so much better / Now you're on your own? / [Pre-Chorus 1] / (Is it
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Electric Light Orchestra – Momma
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[Verse 1] / She came up from the country with a smile for everyone / She left her blue horizon just to find another home / A lonely girl who'd traveled many days / A lonely heart
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