Genius Lyrics
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Grimes – Genesis
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The bouncy bass leads to “Genesis” open up an enthralling track detailing a darker perspective on falling in love, contrasting the rosy idealism observed in popular love songs with
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Grimes – Delete Forever
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“Delete Forever” – originally titled “Black Swan Blues” – is the third track on Grimes‘ 5th album Miss Anthropocene. Grimes wrote and produced the guitar-based song herself.
The
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Grimes (Ft. HANA) – We Appreciate Power
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“We Appreciate Power” is Grimes' first new song since the release of her critically-acclaimed 2015 album Art Angels. The single features longtime collaborator HANA, and is the
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Grimes – Flesh Without Blood
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Just a few years after the critically acclaimed album Visions came to light in 2012, Canadian songwriter and producer Grimes makes a huge comeback with “Flesh Without Blood
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Grimes & i_o – Violence
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“Violence” is a love song that seems to be sung from the perspective of the Earth and personifies the relationship between humans and climate change as an abusive one, a
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Grimes – My Name is Dark (Art Mix)
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“My Name is Dark”, originally titled “That’s What the Drugs Are For”, was first heard as a small snippet for Apple’s “Behind the Mac” ad campaign. The track has since undergone
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Grimes – REALiTi
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“REALiTi” was originally recorded for the follow-up to Grimes' 2012 breakthrough album, Visions, before she scrapped the whole thing. The song was then later released via a music
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Grimes – 4ÆM
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“4 AM” (stylized as 4Æm) is a song Grimes teased on Twitter on June 5, 2018. It appears in the soundtrack for Cyberpunk 2077, a video game released in 2020.
Grimes stated in her
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Grimes – New Gods
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A track from Grimes' fifth album Miss Anthropocene. It is a slow, dramatic piano ballad where Grimes' voice is the main feature.
Grimes spoke about the song during her Live
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Grimes (Ft. Janelle Monáe) – Venus Fly
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“Venus Fly” features Janelle Monáe, and is one of Grimes‘ favorite tracks off her fourth record Art Angels.
This song encapsulates Boucher and Monáe interrogating someone for
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Grimes – IDORU
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On June 5, 2018, she posted a demo snippet of the song recorded through her phone on twitter.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1003875361224945666
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Grimes – Pin
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“Pin” is the 9th track off Grimes' fourth album : Art Angels.
The artwork drawn by Grimes herself for the song shows a monkey, a killer whale and an eagle, with the word “fairy
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Grimes – Player of Games
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On July 22nd 2021 Grimes first previewed a teaser of the track via TikTok alongside the caption:
“Player of Games… demo ? #grimes #Space #dancer #fans #burningman made with @
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Grimes (Ft. Bleachers) – Entropy
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Grimes and Bleachers team up once again, this time for a song for HBO’s Girls, starring Jack Antonoff’s (Bleachers) girlfriend, Lena Dunham.
FMRDX put it well in their review of “
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Grimes – Artangels
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The title track, “Artangels”, or “Art Angels”, depending on what you prefer on a given day. After replying to fan with the chorus' lyrics, Grimes revealed that this song was “an
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Grimes (Ft. BloodPop®) – Go
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Released by Grimes as a thank-you to the fans waiting for her next album. “Go” was initially written by Grimes and BLOOD for Rihanna, but was purportedly rejected by the pop star
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Grimes – Before the fever
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“Before the fever” (originally stylised as B4 the Fever) is the ninth track on Grimes' fifth studio album Miss Anthropocene.
In the song, Grimes sings in her lower registers over
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Grimes – California
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As stated on her siriusXM takeover, “California” is a hate track towards the music website Pitchfork. This hate may be the result of various misinterpretations of her words, and
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Grimes – Utopia
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[Verse] / So many have gone before / And all have failed to end the war / Here you stand, the challenge is / To find the end of violence / [Chorus] / Utopia / Utopia / [Verse] / So
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Grimes – World Princess, Pt. II
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Assumed to be the “male producer diss track” Grimes spoke of in her FADER cover story, “World Princess, Pt. II” is the second installation of “World Princess” (stylized as World
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Grimes – Darq Souls
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In a 2020 interview for Pitchfork, Grimes revealed that “Darq Souls” was supposed to be the fourth track off Miss Anthropocene but it was later replaced by “Violence.”
According
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Grimes – Shinigami Eyes
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“Shinigami Eyes”, the first track released from Grimes' upcoming EP, Fairies Cum First, was officially released on January 26th, 2022.
The song was first teased by a Twitter post
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Grimes – Kill V. Maim
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“Kill V. Maim” is Grimes‘ favorite track off of her fourth LP, Art Angels. She told Q Magazine:
“Kill V. Maim” is written from the perspective of Al Pacino in The Godfather Pt II
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Grimes – Easily
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Grimes' least favorite track of the album, but also one of the most unique. It’s interpreted as a jab at people who try to latch on to her success.
The artwork depicts a Lara
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Grimes – Be a Body (侘寂)
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This is the eighth track off of Grimes' third studio album, Visions.
The Japanese title of this song refers to the concept of Wabi-Sabi, which represents a Japanese worldview that
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Grimes – Medieval Warfare
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“Medieval Warfare” was released August 3rd on Beats 1. The song features in the new DC Comics film Suicide Squad.
Grimes said about the song in an interview with Zane Lowe:
Well
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Grimes – You’ll miss me when I'm not around
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Originally titled Last Call, You’ll miss me when I’m not around is the 8th track in Miss Anthropocene, corresponding to the Demon of Suicide.
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Grimes – Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U)
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Symphonia IX (My Wait Is U) is the tenth track on Canadian recording artist Grimes' third studio album, Visions. IX is the roman numeral corresponding to the Latin number 9.
The
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Grimes – Belly of the Beat
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“Belly of the Beat” is the 5th track off Grimes' fourth album, Art Angels.
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Grimes – Angel
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[Verse 1] / Hey, little girl / Why don't you fall? / Why don't you fall? / Why don't you fall? / Right out of the sky? / [Verse 2] / Silence goes away / And I would pray / And I
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Grimes (Ft. Majical Cloudz) – Nightmusic
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Track #11 on Visions, this song is featuring Majical Cloudz.
A music video for the song was released on May 10th 2012. It takes place in a “barren, greywashed” landscape, and
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Grimes – Vanessa
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[Intro] / I've been / [Verse 1] / Oh, I've been waiting destiny / And my heart is here right next to me / And I'm caught waiting in the rain / Oh, I've been waiting destiny / And
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Grimes – Devon
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Grimes wrote this song about her ex-boyfriend, now friend, Majical Cloudz, whose real name is Devon Welsh. “Devon” is the seventh track off of Grimes' sophomore studio album
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Grimes – Eight
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This is track number four from Grimes' third studio album, Visions. It tells the tale of a confrontation with between two lovers. In an interview with DazedDigital, Grimes
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Grimes – LOVE
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[Verse] / It fucking sucks to be awake / Oh, Lord, I pray my soul to take / Nobody understands because / Everything they hate / Is everything I love / Every night I / Tell myself I
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Grimes – Life in the Vivid Dream
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“Life in the Vivid Dream” is the second half (or “act” in the video) of the first single, “Flesh without Blood”. They were released simultaneously on October 26, 2015 in a YouTube.
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Grimes – 100% Tragedy
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[Verse 1] / Try me tonight, try me tonight / I'll defeat you by the moonlight / Witness your own tragedy / I look like a flower, but I'm a serpent underneath / [Chorus] / A hundred
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Grimes – Rosa
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[Verse 1] / Midnight, afternoon / Morning comes, but not too soon / Rosa wakes up in my bed / We are separate / Vampires in our nights aware / I’m no longer happy in there / [
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Grimes – Circumambient
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[Verse 1] / Oh, baby, I can't say / That everything is okay / 'Cause I have a problem / And I don't know how to stop 'em / But, baby, I can't do / Anything to help you / And I'm
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Grimes – David
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David is an unreleased song from one of Canadian artist Grimes‘ scrapped albums, a project which she worked on in the time between between the release of albums Visions and Art
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Grimes – Caladan
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Caladan is the first song from Grimes' debut LP “Geidi Primes” released in January via Arbutus Records. . The title is a reference to the fictional planet of the same name from the
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Grimes – Enjoy The Angels On Earth
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[Chorus] / Sunlight in your eyes / The last angel / Fell out from the sky / [Verse] / Beauty / Beauty loved the beast / But he just stares into the sun / There ain't no Heaven
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