 Genius Lyrics
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Jewel (Ft. Dolly Parton) – My Father's Daughter
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[Verse 1: Jewel] / She stepped off of the boat to see flowers in his hands / The man she would marry was as hard as the mountains / She had his children in a log cabin / Soon I'd
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Vulture – 9/15/14 - 12 Best New Songs of the Week
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Every week, members of the Vulture staff highlight the best new music of 2015. If the song is worthy of your ears and attention, you will find it here
http://www.vulture.com/2015/
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Cosy Sheridan – Cordelia
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I was Cordelia, before I died / I was the apple of my father's eye / The jewel of his kingdom / Damn my truth and my pride / I was Cordelia, if only I'd lied / I was Cordelia, the
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Karan Casey – Roger the Miller
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Young Roger the miller came courting of late / To a farmer's fine daughter called beautiful Kate / She had for her fortune a many fine things / Beautiful silks and gold, diamonds
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Nas – Daughters
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The third song to drop from Nas' Life Is Good is a personal exposition over a soulful No I.D. beat. The beautiful background vocals are those of Kaye Fox, and the single art was
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Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts – The Constant Lovers
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[Verse 1] / A sailor courted a farmer's daughter / That lived convenient to the Isle of Man / And mark good people what followed after / A long time courting and nothing done / A
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Jewel – His Pleasure is My Pain
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[Verse 1] / A man stands in the doorway like a small child, angry fists / She lies in her bed, her head buried in her pillow, she stares at the moon / He speaks to her, all the
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BIG TOPIC – Doing My Dance
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[intro] / Ayy / [Chorus] / I ain’t trippin’ on niggas I’m doing my dance / I done spinned on her butt, like a muhfuckin’ fan (skrtt, skrtt) / [Verse 1] / Hit on my jewel, my neck
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Benny the Butcher – Trade It All
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[Intro] / Yo / [Verse 1] / I'm a product of the block I lived and the Pacs, Nas's and BIGs / For raw, took my dough across the George Washington Bridge / I was poor, for more shock
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Jewel – Good Day
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[Verse 1] / I say to myself / Self, why are you awake again? It's 1 AM / Standing with the fridge wide open, starin' / Such a sight, florescent light / The stars are bright / Might
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Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita, Chapter Two
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In this second chapter of Nabokov’s excellent, impassioned novel of love, both of it’s characters and the words that make them up, Humbert recounts his upbringing and familial
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Ben, infamous, 17, madsic – Family reunion june 2010
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The love of my life / Left a few days early / Only after my mother snapped at me / Insisting he go with her to the reunion / Looking back i am starting to realize / Major things
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Angela Carter – The Tiger's Bride
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The Tiger's Bride Lyrics. My father lost me to The Beast at cards. There's a special madness strikes travellers from the North when they reach ...
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LP Rambo (Ft. EKwesco) – Keke Palmer
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[Hook: LP Rambo] / Peep he a opp he get hit with the scope / Talk out his neck he get hit in the throat / Can't pick a bitch, I'mma get with 'em both / He wanted beef, you gone get
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Rekcahdam & 1-1 – My Daughter
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I don't know where you are or what you're doing / But That's normal for me right now / When you called me for the first time in a yea / I didn't care about it / I was playing a
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Jewel – Love Used to Be
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[Verse 1] / Love used to be the ruler / From which you measured all / Love used to be the dizzying height / From which you wished to fall / Love used to be the white and gauzy
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Run The Jewels – a few words for the firing squad (radiation)
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As the last song of the album a few words for the firing squad (radiation) is a journey of recollection by both Killer Mike and El-P as they look at how each on has reached this
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Young Thug – Droppin Jewels
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[Chorus] / Show me that I'm done / I'm finished here, but still no fear, yeah / Ain't no more reminiscin' / Ain't no more judgin', no intuition / Tell me why I'm livin' / Why am I
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Chino XL (Ft. Bun B) – Xross Your Heart
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[Verse 1: Bun B] / They say the meek shall inherit the earth / Well I'mma fuck Meek daughter / Marry her then kill Meek's father / Once his ass die and she inherit the shit / Man I
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Robert Louis Stevenson – The Dynamiter (Story of the Fair Cuban)
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I am not what I seem. My father drew his descent, on the one hand, from grandees of Spain, and on the other, through the maternal line, from the patriot Bruce. My mother, too, was
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Jewel – Pretty Faced Fool
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[Verse 1] / A rose will start to fade / Without rain and some warm sunshine / It will die every time / Fence, you're always on the fence / You're one foot in / Then you're back out
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Jewel – Nicotine Love
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[Verse 1] / Go ahead, touch me like that / The way you pull my head back / Go ahead, breathe me in / Bite me 'til I bleed / This love is like barbed wire running through my veins
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Bryann T (Ft. Drew Ava) – Intercede (Remix)
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[Spoken: Bryann Trejo] / Bout to cry on this one / [Verse 1: Bryann Trejo] / I pray you remember me when it's all said and done / I pray you remember me as a soldier and a son
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Anne Bradstreet – To the Memory of my dear and ever honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; Who deceased, July 31. 1653. an
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By duty bound, and not by custome led / To celebrate the praises of the dead, / My mournfull mind, sore prest, in trembling verse / Presents my Lamentations at his Herse, / Who was
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Jewel – Mercy
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[Verse 1] / Simplicity does not come easy / When you're dreaming of being someone else / And grace you see is fleeting / When you're bleeding your inner self / [Chorus] / Have
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Jewel – Everything Breaks
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[Verse 1] / Under the shadows, forbidden and hot / Desire grows more often than not / And sorry is a stupid word, it's a stupid thing to say / Especially considering it's not like
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights, Vol. 9 (Chap. 10)
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Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller's Wife[FN#375] / There was once, in time of old, a merchant hight Abd al-Rahmán, whom Allah had blessed with a son and daughter, and for their much
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Brand Nubian – The Beat Change
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[Sadat X] / Somebody went gold in the Billboard, it was a X, but it was Mia / Young boys ran to me in the local pizzeria / He said, "You Jamar and Haji man y'all hot to death
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Eminem (Ft. Dido) – Stan
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In this song, Eminem corresponds with a crazed fan who becomes increasingly unhinged as the story progresses. This is one of his most well-received singles and was listed at #15 on
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Jewel – The Shape of You
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Shape of You was originally released on iTunes in 2010. The song was re-recorded, and was released on her 2015 album, Picking Up the Pieces.
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