 Genius Lyrics
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Fear Factory – Fear Campaign
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"Fear" / "The mind is fear" / Hate, war and terror, murder, disaster / Rape, drugs and violence, lost in our failure / Fear is suffering, intimidate to obey / Fear is control
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Fear Factory – Mechanize
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Slave to the industry, faceless in the machine / You do not realize you're dehumanized / You cannot survive, unless you comply / I built it to break it / I built it to break it
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Fear Factory – Powershifter
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Feared your control and excessive greed / Abuse of your power disgraced me / You want war, you got war / More than you bargained for / I damn you and leave defiantly / Cut you out
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Fear Factory – Controlled Demolition
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Destroying lives of innocence / Collateral dissonance / Malignant depravity / Faith based mob and their mentality / Bodies were falling / Burning and screaming / Buildings
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Fear Factory – Industrial Discipline
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There is no dissension when lives have been broken / Enslaved and beaten / Lies have been spoken / Pure manipulation / Whatever soul was left has been erased / Only a machine
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Fear Factory – Final Exit
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"Final exit / The practicality of self deliverance" / "Final exit" / Your life no longer has any value / Let them tell you what your own life is worth / There is no compassion as
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Fear Factory – Soul Wound (demo)
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A tortured whipping dog defiled / Stalked by oblivion and denial / Scarring lacerations / Hopeless devistation / The cuts, cut deeper / The cuts, cut deeper / The cuts, cut deeper
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Fear Factory – Designing the Enemy
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All you are / I have made / All you are / I have made / All that I wanted / I gave to you / I have no sympathy / I show no mercy / All that I hated / I placed in you / I wait for
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Fear Factory – Christploitation
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There is no meaning in your death anymore / The words of your life no longer adored / Your prayers are just lies that fall on deaf ears / Faith has all been lost in our blood and
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Fear Factory – Oxidizer
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The smallest part / A single spark / Can leave this world in ashes / The fire inside / Burns my mind / Set to destroy the masses / Burn / This / World / Down / Consuming tide
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Fear Factory – Self Immolation (demo)
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Skin / Your scars / Surface is / Rusty blades / Self immolation crying out / Self immolation crying out / Self immolation crying out / Self immolation crying out / Oblivion / Your
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Limp Bizkit – Indigo Flow
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[Intro] / Yo, what up? / Got Christian and Dino in the house / Fear Factory action / We kick off this new joint here for all my homies / [Verse 1] / Separating the true breeds from
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Fiction Factory – (Feels Like) Heaven
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[Verse 1] / Heaven is closer now today / The sound is in my ears / I can't believe the things you say / They echo what I fear / Twisting the bones until they snap / I scream but no
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John Lennon – Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
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A lovely song John wrote for his son, Sean. It’s quite a lot like a lullaby, and he’s really just a father comforting his son.
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Lauryn Hill – Ex-Factor
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The second single off Ms. Hill’s classic album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The song has been claimed to be aimed at former Fugees bandmate, Wyclef Jean. Jean was married to
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Joy Division – Candidate
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In this piece, Joy Division makes an analogy between the harshness and difficulties that can be found in the juridic and political procedure to become a leader of men and the
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The Icicle Works – A Factory In The Desert
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It rolls in like a cold wind / It fills me up with fear / The icy fingers clutch me / With each motion that I hear / Though diligence caress me / Deliverance unfold / The distant
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Coolio (Ft. L.V. (South Central Cartel)) – Gangsta's Paradise
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“Gangsta’s Paradise” was released in August 1995 as the lead single from the Dangerous Minds soundtrack and the song’s success led Coolio to name his second studio album Gangsta’s
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Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston – The Prince Of Egypt (When You Believe)
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‘When You Believe’ is a 1998 duet between Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for the DreamWorks Animated film The Prince of Egypt
The song’s message is that when you believe in
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Jamie Foxx (Ft. Rico Love) – Freak
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[Intro: Rico Love] / Yeah / Feel real good / [Verse 1: Jamie Foxx] / Cameras on the ceiling / Cameras on the corners of my bed (Yeah) / I barely know you but I'm feeling / Like you
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Limahl (Ft. Beth Andersen) – The NeverEnding Story
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“The NeverEnding Story” is the end theme of the 1984 film The Neverending Story. The film is, in turn, an adaptation of the novel Die unendliche Geschichte (1979) by Michael Ende.
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Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
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Bob Dylan wrote “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” – one of his greatest compositions – during the summer of 1962. Although it is often linked with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Dylan
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Ycee (Ft. Olamide) – Jagaban (Remix)
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[Intro] / You want to sing music / Want to sing music / You think music is for everybody / Ycee, oti wa’n street, nibo lo wan si / Ehn Ycee / Am a beast, dem don forget to lock my
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Nas (Ft. DMX) – Life Is What You Make It
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Track 11 off of the 1999 LP ‘I Am …’ from Nas feat. DMX
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Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
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“Yonkers” is the first single off Tyler, The Creator’s debut album, Goblin and is widely considered as his breakout song.
The song’s title is named after the city of Yonkers, New
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Gloria Estefan – A Little Push
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Funny how you never know / Where your heart is gonna go / Suddenly you're being pulled into a rising undertow / What started as a little rain / Grows into a hurricane / Riding on a
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Keri Hilson (Ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo) – Knock You Down
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The fourth single from Hilson’s 2009 album, In A Perfect World…, features a passionate verse from West, and a reference to Ne-Yo’s hit Miss Independent.
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Barack Obama – Speech to UN General Assembly
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President Barack Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly on September 24, 2014. Major topics include Russian military action in Ukraine, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
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Beyoncé – Halo
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One of Bey’s most vocally demanding and optimistic works, “Halo” comes off as a centerpiece in the I Am… disc of Beyoncé’s third studio album. Equipped with emotional vocalizations
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Nas (Ft. Lauryn Hill) – If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)
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Nas' exercise in Utopianism – inspired by Sir Thomas More (and Kurtis Blow).
Nas told Complex:
Being a hip-hop fan and Krush Groove fan, Kurtis Blow was my favorite rapper when I
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Bill Withers – Lean on Me
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It’s not often that a song works equally well as a Black Nationalism anthem and as an educational song for little children. “Lean on Me” fits the bill.
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Kanye West – On Genius and Fashion
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Wait a second, would you rather me not talk at all? ’Cause I don’t want to like, I don’t want to rattle no cages or nothing, I don’t want to like, I don’t want to get in trouble. I
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Nelson Mandela – No Easy Walk to Freedom
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Occasion: Presidential address to the ANC (Transvaal) Congress
Place: Transvaal South Africa
Date: Monday, September 21, 1953
Presentation notes:
This was the Presidential
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George Wallace – "Segregation Forever" Speech
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George Wallace’s infamous 1963 inauguration speech, where he promised Alabama residents “segregation forever”
Wallace gave this speech from the portico of the Alabama State
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Walter Crunkite – Notes on "Strange Fruit" in Kanye and Jay-Z
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Kanye West’s Yeezus and Jay-Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail, release just weeks apart, go in dramatically different directions after Jay and Ye’s previous collaboration Watch the Throne
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Peter Kropotkin – An Appeal to the Young
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Addressed to young men and women preparing to enter the professions, An Appeal to the Young was first published in 1880 in Kropotkin’s paper, La Revolte, and was soon thereafter
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