 Genius Lyrics
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Frank Turner – Photosynthesis
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This was the song that really “made” Turner: it’s his signature tune and won him a lot of fans. The song is taken from his breakthrough album, Love Ire & Song, and is the third
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Song Lyrics & Knowledge - Genius
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Photosynthesis by Frank Turner · Photosynthesis. Genius Annotation. Genius Annotation 2 contributors. This was the song that really “made” Turner: it's his ...
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Vesuvius – Frank Turner at the Royal Albert Hall
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Halfway through show #1655, Frank Turner apologises for being “a bit quiet lately”. This is only his twentieth show of the month, and that, quite frankly, is unacceptable / Of
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Frank Turner – Jet Lag
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In this heartbreaking song, Frank Turner blends the theme of life on the road with lost romance, painting the melancholic effect that touring can have on one’s morale.
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Frank Turner – Keira
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Lay you down tonight / Under butterflies / Put my headphones on / I'll see you at the dawn / Life for you is a better view / So simple and perfectly sane / If i pretend that you
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Frank Turner – Dan's Song
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Frank Turner’s turning 30 and he’s conflicted about it. On the one hand, his life doesn’t look too much like he ever thought it would have. On the other… you’re never too old to
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Frank Turner – Broken Piano
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A rare surrealistic fantasy from the usually pretty grounded Frank Turner, “Broken Piano” caps off 2013’s Tape Deck Heart. The song builds to an anthemic, English crescendo of “on
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Frank Turner – Sea Legs
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Moving, keep moving, the tour never stops / In the light of petrol stations and cheap corner shops / I have finally figured a list of the things that I've got / And the things that
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Frank Turner – Pay to Cum
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I make decision with precision / Lost inside this manned collision / Just to see that what is to be / Perfectly my fantasy / I came to know with now dismay / That in this world we
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Frank Turner – The Outdoor Type
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I always had a roof above me, I always paid the rent / And I've never set foot inside a tent / I couldn't build a fire to save my life / I lied about being the outdoor type / Well
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Frank Turner – Imperfect Tense
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In this song, Frank exhibits his time with drug addiction and withdrawal. Frank is “dedicated to running himself into the ground,” unable to work towards getting better, but more
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Frank Turner – Nashville Tennessee
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From the heart of the Southern Downs, to the North-East London reservoirs / From the start, the land scaped my sound, before I'd ever been to America / And if I knew anybody who
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Frank Turner – Riot Song
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[Verse 1] / Last night the kids sent London alight / Started out in Tottenham and the flames spread through the night / But they didn't burn the banks down, and they didn't fight
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Frank Turner – Jet Lag (rock version)
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I've heard it said, the trick / Is to set your watch when you hit the plane / And that way you can trick / The workings of a tired brain / But sometimes I feel sick / Sometimes I
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Frank Turner – Hits & Mrs
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True love / Is staying out late of an evening / Then crashing home late without warning / Still getting breakfast in bed in the morning / My girl / She rolls her eyes and she finds
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Frank Turner – St. Christopher Is Coming Home
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Saint Christopher is the saint patron of travelers and bachelors, which suits Frank very well, as in this song he tells on the evening with his friends missed because of his
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Frank Turner – You Are My Sunshine
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You are my sunshine, my only sunshine / You make me happy when skies are grey / You'll never know, dear, how much I love you / Please, don't take my sunshine away / The other night
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Frank Turner – Hold Your Tongue
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You've been pretty since the day that you were born / So the roots of your beautiful hair / Drew all the water that your body could hold / So when your soul needed water, no water
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Frank Turner – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
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Smeared black ink / Your palms are sweaty and I'm barely listening / To last demands / I'm staring at the asphalt wondering what's buried underneath / Where I am / I'll wear my
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Frank Turner – To Take You Home
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Frank’s ode to being in love with a French girl he met at a death metal show. It was love at first sight… worth noting is that there are a number of songs about meeting pretty
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Frank Turner – Something of Freedom
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Lord save me from those with my best interests at heart / Lord save me from sleeves emblazoned with hearts / From fools who place horses in front of their carts / Who care less for
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Frank Turner – American Girl
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Well, she was an American girl / Raised on promises / She couldn't help thinkin' / That there was a little more to life somewhere else / After all it was a great big world / With
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Frank Turner – Heartless Bastard Motherfucker
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Well I lie I cheat and I steal / And I don't give two shits about the way that you feel / I barely know who you are / But I'll break your heart and then I'll sleep in your car / I'
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Frank Turner – There She Is
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“There She Is” is the only completely new song released with Songbook, a greatest-hits collection spanning Frank’s first six albums and also featuring reworked versions of several
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Frank Turner – Dancing Queen
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You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life / See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the Dancing Queen / Friday night and the lights are low / Looking out for the
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Frank Turner – I Really Don't Care What You Did on Your Gap Year
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We were only supposed to go out for the night / But it's been a few hours now since it got light / We're a mess, and the worst part is we couldn't care less / There's water in the
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Frank Turner – Live & Let Die
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When you were young and your heart was an open book / You used to say, "Live and let live" / (you know you did, you know you did, you know you did) / But if this ever changing
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Frank Turner – Substitute
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Much like Ice-T in his original “99 Problems” or Don Giovanni recounting his sexual history girl by girl. His list is shorter and with a different purpose: he’s showing you that
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Frank Turner – Love Ire & Song
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This is the eponymous song from Frank Turner’s breakthrough album, Love Ire & Song. The album deals primarily with entering adulthood and accepting your mature self, and this track
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Frank Turner – Thatcher Fucked the Kids
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“Thatcher Fucked The Kids” is a song from Frank Turner’s debut solo EP, 2006’s Campfire Punkrock EP. The song was, almost immediately, a fan favourite, and has remained so right up
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Frank Turner – Tell Tale Signs
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“Tell Tale Signs” is a song about depression related to Amy, the girl who appears in a trilogy of songs (the others being “Reasons Not To Be An Idiot” and “I Am Disappeared
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Frank Turner – The Ballad of Me and My Friends
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This is a live song, as recorded in Camden venue The Barfly in August 2006. The theme of the song is similar to the opening song of Love, Ire & Song: it’s a tale about the life of
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Frank Turner – I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
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In this song, Frank Turner describes the life of a minor celebrity such as himself, and then lists the exploits of his nearest and dearest friends, other musicians from other
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Frank Turner – Smiling at Strangers on Trains
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It was the strangest thing today / I saw new footprints in abandoned pathways / Beneath forgotten undergrowth something stirring again / You were a single red blood cell but I lost
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Frank Turner – Plain Sailing Weather
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The fourth song on Turner’s 2013 album Tape Deck Heart is a bitter ode to breakups that pulls no punches. Despite the recent success of Mumford & Sons' similarly profane “Little
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Frank Turner – Long Live the Queen
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RbNdwY4ujw
“Long Live The Queen” is one of the best-known songs from Frank Turner’s 2008 album Love Ire & Song.
He wrote it in honour of Lex, a
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Frank Turner – Reasons Not to Be an Idiot
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Frank Turner is not impressed with our insular culture. We spend way too much time alone and on screens, feeling sorry for ourselves! Meanwhile, you’ve got friends and the sun is
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Frank Turner – Born to Run
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In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream / At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines / Sprung from cages out on highway 9
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