 Genius Lyrics
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Gabrielle Aplin – Home
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her album English Rain on a blog post.
I’ve definitely written about Home before. I had the chorus for about a year before I
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Gabrielle Aplin – Skylight
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[Verse 1] / Stuck in a haze / Couldn't be better / It's all I ever wanted / Let's stay here forever / Life gets so loud / We don't need to listen / You make me feel like Friday
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Gabrielle Aplin – Call Me
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[Verse 1] / You know who you are / I told you I was happy when I couldn't be worse / Told you to leave me alone when I couldn't want you more / And I regret it / You know who I am
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Gabrielle Aplin – Be Yourself
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[Verse 1] / Hey, how you doin'? / I got a pocket full of rhythm for you / And if you don't know what it is you should do with it / Follow me (Follow me) / Hey, where you goin'? / I
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Gabrielle Aplin (Ft. Bastille) – Dreams
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[Verse 1: Dan Smith] / Now there you go again, you say you want your freedom / Well, who am I to keep you down? / It’s only right that you should play it the way you feel it / But
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Gabrielle Aplin – Salvation
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
It’s about someone or something entering your life just at the right time and pulling you
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Gabrielle Aplin – Alive
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Kinda like Salvation, I was going through a time last year that I’d never gone through before
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Gabrielle Aplin & JP Cooper – Losing Me
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[Verse 1: JP Cooper] / Wanna lie to you / Say I'm doing so well / Show you photos too to prove that I've been doing so well / Wanna hide the truth, wanna dress up hell and heaven
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Gabrielle Aplin – Magic
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[Verse 1] / Remember when we snuck out of your birthday? / Didn't even say goodbye / 'Cause even there in a room full of faces / All I saw was you and I / And our friends, no, they
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Gabrielle Aplin – Kintsugi
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Drawing an enlivened comparison to the Japanese pottery technique kintsugi, the mending of a broken vase with gold, silver, or platinum, Aplin honors her own scars from her past
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Gabrielle Aplin – The Power of Love
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A slightly-altered cover version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s 1984 UK number one, produced by Mike Spencer and David Kosten.
On 11 November 2012 “The Power of Love” entered the
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Gabrielle Aplin – Panic Cord
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote Panic Cord nearly 4 years ago now. It sounds a lot meaner than it actually was. In a
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Gabrielle Aplin – Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / I'm sick and tired of hanging out my window / I've learnt from past experience / Rain can't make flowers grow / Friends don't stick around / They go which way the wind
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Gabrielle Aplin – My Mistake
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“My Mistake” is the first single from Gabrielle Aplin’s third album, Dear Happy. It is a piano ballad about accepting and owning your flaws.
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Gabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy
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Whilst I was writing “Dear Happy”, I was thinking I was writing a letter to happiness. It’s more about writing a letter to yourself, or your past/present/future self. You know
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Gabrielle Aplin – Anyway
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[Intro] / Anyway, anyway, I'm feeling, mm, mm-mm, hm / Anyway, anyway, ba, da, da / [Verse 1] / I can't decipher my feelings / I should've bottled them all / But I spilled them on
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Gabrielle Aplin – Heavy Heart
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[Verse 1] / Saw you staring into nothing / In the silence something's screaming / I know you're trying but there's nothing you can say / I feel better in the morning / When all my
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Gabrielle Aplin – November
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
November isn’t about a personal situation, or anything that specifically happened to me. It
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Gabrielle Aplin – A While
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[Verse 1] / When it rains / Yeah, it rains / We can be so unforgiving / It leaves us unforgiven / We're the same / We never change / It's the reason we’re together / We’re just
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Gabrielle Aplin – Start of Time
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Start of time was inspired by my favourite poem ‘The Hollow Men – T. S. Eliot’. There’s a
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Gabrielle Aplin – Good Enough
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[Verse 1] / Tell me how I can be good enough / I wanna be easy and open like you / The way that you navigate is effortless / The way that you talk and the way that you move / I
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Gabrielle Aplin – Coming Home
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[Verse 1] / I wonder where my friend has gone / I wonder where it all went wrong / Was there something that I should have known? / I looked for him in Amsterdam / I cried for him
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Gabrielle Aplin – Mariana Trench
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[Verse 1] / What the fuck am I even hearing on the news? / I can't remember the last time we met, and I miss you / Oh, I just wanna run away, but I can't even move / I don't know
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Gabrielle Aplin – Waking up Slow
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Described as an “a-ha!” moment, Aplin’s lead off single to a new EP has our narrator come to the realization they’ve fallen head over heels for someone they used to see as a friend
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Gabrielle Aplin – Don't Say
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[Verse 1] / Don't say / "What's the matter, babe, are you okay?" / I'll send them all away 'cause it's too late / Just hanging by a single thread / And don't dare / Take me in your
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Gabrielle Aplin – Take It Easy
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[Verse 1] / You got my heartbeat / You've got my lungs / You got inside of my chest / I made a mess of it / Made a mess of my head / I couldn't fight it / You made yourself right
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Gabrielle Aplin – Night Bus
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Night Bus is a glimmering and infectious track that follows Aplin’s journey home on the night bus, observing the people around her and knowing that she has to end a relationship
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Gabrielle Aplin – Hurt
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[Verse 1] / I shiver when you touch my skin / And I know without asking / You’re right there where you wanna be / You’re right here in front of me / And you talk about travelling
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Gabrielle Aplin – Please Don't Say You Love Me
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote this after watching 500 Days Of Summer though it wasn’t actually about it or based on
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Gabrielle Aplin – Miss You
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“Miss You” reads as a song about missing a long-lost friend/lover, but as Aplin explains (see below) it is also a letter to a former version of herself.
The track is Aplin’s first
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Gabrielle Aplin – Human
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Human is a really universal song. You can take from it what you like. For me, at the time I
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Gabrielle Aplin & Hannah Grace – In the Bleak Midwinter
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[Verse 1: Hannah Grace, Hannah Grace and Gabrielle Aplin] / In the bleak midwinter, frost winds made moan / Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone / Snow had fallen, snow on
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Gabrielle Aplin & Hannah Grace – River
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[Intro - Gabrielle Aplin; Both] / It's coming on Christmas / They're cutting down trees / They're putting up reindeer / And singing songs of joy and peace / Oh I wish I had a river
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Gabrielle Aplin – Say Nothing
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The second track off of Aplin’s Avalon EP. Uploaded to YouTube on October 5th, 2017, this song is about the ending of a relationship due to a partner being unable to make an excuse
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Gabrielle Aplin – Never Fade
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[Verse 1] / Pinning polaroids on a cold brick wall / Hanging fairy lights on the garden porch / Gravitating to the nearest brawl / We're only young, so we'll come back for more
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Gabrielle Aplin – Make It Better
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[Verse 1] / I just wanna / Be at a level where I feel like normal / Nothing special, just like me / But on a good day, that's all I want / [Verse 2] / Nothing clever / I've tried
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Gabrielle Aplin – Wish I Didnt Press Send
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[Verse 1] / I was walking 'round my hometown thinkin' 'bout you / Thinkin' 'bout how no one's ever hurt me like you did back then / It was fun to forget / Now I'm sleeping through
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Gabrielle Aplin – Puzzle Piece
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[Verse 1] / A man's too keen to sell what I don't need / The rain, it falls down up off the street / So many people, how could they all exist? / It gets me thinking, but I shouldn'
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Gabrielle Aplin – Space Oddity
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"Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / "Ground Control to Major Tom (10, 9, 8, 7, 6) / Commencing countdown
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Gabrielle Aplin – Sweet Nothing
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[Verse 1] / The rain starts falling, when you're calling me / Why can't you see? / I'm diving underwater just to breathe / [Pre-Chorus] / And I'm feeling lonely / I'm feeling blue
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Gabrielle Aplin – Strange
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[Verse 1] / Always been afraid of my mistake / Scared of what it could've been / Safe in my embrace / Always thought that I would never change / But there's something in your short
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Gabrielle Aplin & Zeeba – Skylight
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[Verse 1: Gabrielle Aplin, Zeeba] / Stuck in a haze / Couldn't be better / It's all I ever wanted / Let's stay here forever / Life gets so loud / We don't need to listen / You make
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Gabrielle Aplin – Fake Plastic Trees
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[Verse 1] / Her green plastic watering can / For her fake Chinese rubber plant / In the fake plastic earth / That she bought from a rubber man / In a town full of rubber plans / To
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Gabrielle Aplin – Love Back
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[Verse 1] / Always your way / Won't bend, we break / I give, you take / And now I'm running out of patience, I'm waiting / You're so disappointing / 'Cause I give, you take / And
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Gabrielle Aplin – Until the Sun Comes Up
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“Until the Sun Comes Up” introduces the tone of the album perfectly; it encapsulates the serious issue of caring for yourself mentally, of letting worries go and having a great
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Gabrielle Aplin & Hannah Grace – December
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[Verse 1 - Hannah Grace] / White skies, winter time / Oh, the warm soul of you / Feeling bright, feeling kind / Oh, the warm soul of you / [Pre-Chorus - Hannah Grace] / I don’t
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