 Genius Lyrics
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Green Day – The American Dream is Killing Me
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“The American Dream is Killing Me” is a powerful rock anthem that showcases Green Day’s dislike of the American way of life; it has subtle nods to the housing crisis, unemployment
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Green Day – The American Dream is Killing Me (110th Grey Cup Version)
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[Chorus] / The American Dream is killin' me / The American Dream is killin' me / When it's all double-talk of conspiracy / The American dream is killin' me / [Verse 1] / Send out
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Green Day – Look Ma, No Brains!
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[Verse 1] / Don't know much about history / 'Cause I never learned how to read / Dropout, I'm a knucklehead / Sick boy and I shit the bed / [Pre-Chorus] / Maybe I'm in love with a
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Green Day – Holiday (110th Grey Cup Version)
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[Intro] / This song is [?]! / One! / Two! / One! / Two! / Three! / Four! / [Verse 1] / Hear the sound of the fallin' rain / Comin' down like an Armageddon flame (Hey!) / The shame
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Green Day – Basket Case (110th Grey Cup Version)
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[Verse 1] / Do you have the time / To listen to me whine / About nothing and everything all at once? / I am one of those / Melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about
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Green Day – Saviors
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[Verse 1] / We've got a feelin' like a flicker of light / Out of sight, but like a halo / We're all waitin' on the summer, but the sun is out of view / It's not a hero or a capital
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Green Day – Father to a Son
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[Verse 1] / You're a lighthouse in a storm / From the day that you were born / A promise, father to a son / Your mother said it best / "We will be put to a test" / A promise
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Green Day – Living in the '20s
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[Verse 1] / Another shooting in a supermarket / I spent my money on a bloody soft target / Playin' with matches and I'm lighting Colorado / I got my scratcher and I'm gonna win the
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Green Day – Coma City
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[Verse 1] / Coma City / Open your eyes / Dead on arrival under smoky skies / Coma City (Coma City) / Children at play / Back from the chemist to mass on Sunday / [Chorus] / Like
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Green Day – 1981
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[Chorus] / She's gonna bang her head like 1981 / She's gonna bang her head like 1981 / (So long, farewell) / She's gonna bang her head like 1981 / She's gonna bang her head like
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Green Day – Fancy Sauce
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[Verse 1] / Take me to the inn called the loony bin / Somewhere I can rest my head and take it on the chin / Flowers all in bloom in my rubber room / Scratchin' at the wallpaper in
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Green Day – Corvette Summer
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[Intro] / Get around, I can get around / Fuck it up on my rock 'n' roll / (Here we go now) / Get around, I can get around / Drop a bomb on my rock 'n' roll / [Verse 1] / I don't
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YA~! IT"S TIME FOR THIS WEEKS FORUM (what lyrics are special to you, and what artist's era is your current fave?)
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(credit to @captainsnickers for the lyrics idea, and @TrepidatedDestruction for the eras idea. yes, i took it…shhh…live laugh I LOVE SNATCHING FORUM IDEAS FROM ROCK GENIUS~~~)
ANYWAY so, what lyrics have their special meaning to you? and what era of artist’s is your favorite, currently?
the lyrics stuck in my head right now –
~ glaive’s “not gonna cry, i’m gonna find my place in this world, count on it.” in
‘as if’.
it’s just so understandable and meaningful, because as a teenager, (19) i can promise you, many of us feel like we’re not understood and as if we have no place in the world. but we live to find it.
~ niki’s “baby, I’d give up anything to travel inside your mind.” in ‘every summertime’.
she talks about the ongoing love and passion towards one person and having such a close relationship with them. the nostalgia of summer from my freshman, through senior year, spending 3 months in korea with the boy of my dreams, ji han. now i live in seoul and we talk almost e
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Green Day – Goodnight Adeline
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[Verse 1] / Can you feel my pain? / Can you sing my sorrow? / Here comes a better day / But it's got nothin' to do with tomorrow / I'm sick in bed again / My head is under my
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Green Day – Dilemma
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[Verse 1] / Welcome to my problems / It's not an invitation / This is my dilemma / And it's my obsession / [Chorus] / I was sober, now I'm drunk again / I'm in trouble and in love
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Green Day – Fever (Bonus Track)
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[Verse 1] / It's never easy / When you're young / But you got your friends and the weekends / On a summer night / You're just a baby / Looking for some fun / On a lazy day and you'
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Green Day – Suzie Chapstick
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[Verse 1] / Will I ever see your face again? / Not just photos from an Instagram / Will you say hello from across the street? / From a place and time we used to meet? / Sometimes
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Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (Demo)
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / Born into Nixon I was raised in hell / A welfare child where the teamsters dwelled / The last one born but the first one to run / My town was blinded by
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Green Day – Bobby Sox
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[Verse 1] / Do you wanna be my girlfriend? / I'll take you to a movie that we've already seen / Or sit at home and watch reruns / There's no other place I'd wanna be / (Ooh, ooh-
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Green Day – Holiday
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“Holiday” is an anti-war anthem that criticizes America’s war on Iraq, while at the same time reflecting and building up American Idiot’s main character. The track continues the
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Green Day – Strange Days Are Here to Stay
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[Verse 1] / We stumble down the avenue / Like fairy dust and ballyhoo / They promised us forever, but we got less / There's no such thing as promises / Just secret codes from
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Lana Del Rey – Fuck it I love you
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“Fuck it I love you” is the fifth single from Lana Del Rey’s sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell!.
This song is a summer anthem that incorporates the frequent gloomy
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Lana Del Rey – Fuck it I love you
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“Fuck it I love you” is the fifth single from Lana Del Rey’s sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell!.
This song is a summer anthem that incorporates the frequent gloomy
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Green Day – One Eyed Bastard
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[Verse 1] / I'm making an offer that you cannot deny / You won't be laughing when I'm making you cry / 'Cause, ayy-oh! I hear the pleas get louder / You son of a bitch, you're
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Green Day – Basket Case
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“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.
It’s about Billie Joe
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Genius – October 2023 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' OCTOBER 2023 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For October 2023 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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Vaith – BLUE BENZ
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The world is yours, create it / And don't let nobody erase it / Need new Maserati I'm racin' / Got blues from inside of the basement / Headed forward, pacin' / Reach for the top
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Rage Against the Machine (Ft. Maynard James Keenan) – Know Your Enemy
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Continuing with the album’s general themes, “Know Your Enemy” contains anti-war and anti-authoritarian lyrics. This song finds Rage Against the Machine contrasting notions of the “
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Kanye West, JAY-Z & Big Sean – Clique
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“Clique” is the third single off of G.O.O.D. Music’s compilation album, Cruel Summer, following “Mercy” and “New God Flow”. The beat was produced by Hit-Boy (his second credit for
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Leon Bridges) – Kevin
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Macklemore debuted this emotional tribute to his friend Kevin, who overdosed on prescription medication in 2010, at the 2015 American Music Awards.
Macklemore’s a recovering
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Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero
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Described by Taylor herself as “one of my favorite songs that I have ever written”, “Anti-Hero” is the scintillating lead single from Midnights, her tenth studio album. Largely
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My Chemical Romance – Welcome to the Black Parade
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This song is on My Chemical Romance’s third studio album, entitled The Black Parade. The song, as well as the rest of the album, follows The Patient, a man who is dying, through
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The Killers – Mr. Brightside
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This was The Killers' first ever recorded song for their 2002 demo. The song was composed by guitarist Dave Keuning and the lyrics written by Brandon Flowers. It was re-recorded
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Genius: Song Lyrics Finder
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Kanye West – I Thought About Killing You
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“I Thought About Killing You” is the opening track from Kanye West’s eighth studio album, ye. The song debuted during West’s album premiere in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on May 31
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Taylor Swift – Cruel Summer
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“Cruel Summer” narrates the fragility and uncertainty at the beginning of Taylor’s relationship with Joe Alwyn. The two met officially at the Met Gala in May 2016, although she was
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Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
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Widely considered to be one of the greatest songs of all time, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the first single released from Queen’s fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera. It became
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Meek Mill (Ft. The-Dream) – Young Black America
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The track finds Meek rapping about the challenges faced by a young African American growing up in the streets just “tryna get [their] coins up” from segregation to police brutality
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Green Day – Restless Heart Syndrome
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Singer and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong told Q magazine May 2009 that the topic of this mid-tempo rocker is about prescription drug junkies. He explained:
It’s about
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Geto Boys – Mind Playing Tricks on Me
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Hip-hop’s most famous paranoia anthem inspired a whole generation of rappers to rhyme about the mental stress of the gangsta lifestyle, and helped lay the foundations for the
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Eminem – Kill You
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“Kill You” is the opening track to the album, and is a lyrical tirade against Kim, Debbie Mathers, girlish rappers and women in general. The call-and-response part after the hook
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Juice WRLD – Tim Westwood Freestyle
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On June 29, 2018, Juice WRLD appeared on Tim Westwood’s segment on British hip-hop radio station, Capital XTRA. He freestyled for an hour over more than a dozen existing beats
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