 Genius Lyrics
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Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
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“The Middle” was written after Jimmy Eat World had been dropped from Capitol Records after their previous album Clarity had been released. Jimmy Eat World’s first album Static
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Jimmy Eat World – Hear You Me
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“Hear You Me” was written for sisters Mykel and Carli Allen, who were big supporters of both Jimmy Eat World and Weezer. They tragically died of a car crash in 1997. The title
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Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness
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[Verse 1] / If you're listening, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh / Sing it back, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh / String from your tether unwinds (String from your tether unwinds) / Whoa-oh, whoa-oh / Up
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Jimmy Eat World – Pain
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Pain was the first single off of Jimmy Eat World’s 2004 release, “Futures.” It was also a #1 song on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. In addition, it has been featured in
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Jimmy Eat World – You
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Get it while you know it's good, the risk was made to take / There's a million desperate wants; I only expect pain / Pages and pages blank, a fashion of disease / Clean up and make
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Jimmy Eat World – Dizzy
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[Verse 1] / You close your eyes and kiss your hand then you blow it / But it isn't meant for me, and I notice / If the choice was ours alone / Then why'd we both choose letting go
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Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
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The opening title track to Bleed American and one of Jimmy Eat World’s most raucous and volatile songs. A song from the perspective of a lonely, drug-fueled adolescent, the title
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Jimmy Eat World – Anderson Mesa
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Don't leave without intentions / Don't leave without intentions / Mind's made up, my own decision / Don't leave without intentions of ever coming back / Don't leave without
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Jimmy Eat World – Telepath
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[Verse 1] / In my mind, you are an empty old apartment / Sitting on your mother's table next to you is her / Carving out our names into each piece of wood and concrete / I told her
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Jimmy Eat World – Episode IV
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Episode IV leads us away from here / Don't expect to find what you're looking to / I can see the light leading away from you / Let's disappear / We'll take a trip of no return to
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Jimmy Eat World – Anais
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There was so much we felt we discovered / Breathing heavy with your face against my shirt / You were the one who said I love you first / Isn't it funny how the feeling starts to
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Jimmy Eat World – Gotta Be Somebody's Blues
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[Verse 1] / Let the water come / She's the only one I love / Let the fat man drop / She's the sweetest honey pot / [Chorus] / Will they see the sky again? / Who will sing their
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Jimmy Eat World – 23
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[Verse 1] / I felt for sure last night that once we said goodbye / No one else will know these lonely dreams / No one else will know that part of me / I'm still driving away and I'
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Jimmy Eat World – Just Tonight...
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[Verse 1] / I was scared but once I thought about, I let it go / Everything she said to me I guess I ought to know / We're all tired talk when it comes to shove / Put up, put out
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Jimmy Eat World – Littlething
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[Verse 1] / It's how I've often felt / When I find myself / Oh, on nights like these / Like Christmas Eve / From the empty office window / To the street outside / It's everything
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Jimmy Eat World – Electable (Give It Up)
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[Verse 1] / I came up like everyone, they taught us all the same / I said what they told me to say, and then from that they grade / Give up repeating the facts, fact can be
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Jimmy Eat World – Work
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[Verse 1] / If you only once would let me / Only just one time / Then be happy with the consequence / With whatever's going to happen tonight / Don't think we're not serious / When
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Jimmy Eat World – My Enemy
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The story is common / So plain we pass by often / All motion defeated / By endless what-if questions / Obvious, we own it / Our anxious scars and bruises / Heavy hands swing slowly
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Jimmy Eat World (Ft. Davey von Bohlen) – A Praise Chorus
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This is basically a love ode to the bands and artists who’ve inspired Jimmy Eat World (most notably The Promise Ring, with the reference to and guest singing by Davey von Bohlen).
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Jimmy Eat World – My Sundown
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The closing track of Bleed American, “My Sundown”, leaves the audience with one final American persona: The American Dream. Realizing his true potential, the protagonist proclaims
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Jimmy Eat World – Ten
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[Verse 1] / We left behind the busy crowd / So it seems we slow down / Meet me with a way out through the lies / Nowhere, going nowhere in the fake yellow light / [Chorus] / Blame
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Jimmy Eat World – Your House
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[Verse 1] / When you're on, I swear you're on / You rip my heart right out / You rip my heart right out / I think the whole room can hear me clear my throat / You rip my heart
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Jimmy Eat World – Through
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[Verse 1] / Sounds so great, everything you're saying / Do lies out loud change anything? / Go get mad / Have a child's tantrum / 'Til everyone knows how wronged you've been / [
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Jimmy Eat World – Caveman
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A monster lives in your backyard / The 2x4's are making their way around / The big get bigger when the fight's done / I found that secret door / A man with a shovel's going to dig
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Jimmy Eat World – In the Same Room
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Fingers in / Listen what voices say / Fingers in / Listen what voices say / You always wrote for me, ego / Risk worth taking, risk worth leaving / Seems I'm still afraid of promise
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Jimmy Eat World – You and I
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You and I / We might be strangers / How ever close we get sometimes / Its like we never met / But you and I / I think we can take it / All the good with the bad / Make something
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Jimmy Eat World – Pain (Demo Version)
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I don't feel the way I've ever felt / I know, gonna smile and not get worried / I try but it shows / Anyone can make what I have built / And better now / Anyone can find the same
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Jimmy Eat World – The World You Love
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[Verse 1] / I got a story, it's almost finished / Now all I need is someone to tell it to / Maybe that's you / Our time is borrowed and spent too freely / Every minute I have needs
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Jimmy Eat World – Futures
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[Verse 1] / I, I always believed in futures / I hope for better in November / I try the same losing lucky numbers / It could be a cold night for a lifetime / [Pre-Chorus] / Hey now
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Jimmy Eat World – The Most Beautiful Things
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[Verse 1] / You say the most beautiful things / An endless list of treasures of trimmings / It takes all my faith just to start / I don't care now how much I'm wrong / [Chorus] / (
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Jimmy Eat World – Coffee and Cigarettes
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Coffee & Cigarettes tells a story of heading West as a young adult to find your fortune. The title is a reference to the sequential set of short films by Jim Jarmusch of the same
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Jimmy Eat World – Kill
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this song is about that person who will always make you melt, but will never be the person you spend your life with.
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Jimmy Eat World – Stop
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[Verse 1] / Don't have to be the prettiest / If you have the mind and willingness / No one stops a girl who knows what she’s got / No reason why / I can't help following with my
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Jimmy Eat World – Disintegration
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“Disintegration” is the opening track from Jimmy Eat World’s 2005 EP, Stay On My Side Tonight. The song features uncharacteristically negative lyrics, and harmonized vocals during
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Jimmy Eat World – Always Be
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[Verse 1] / Could've been a night like any other / One of us has to drive / One of us gets to think / I'll force a laugh to break the silence / It's gonna get harder still / Before
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Jimmy Eat World – Softer
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[Verse 1] / She's perfect in her own way / Smoke rings rising to the winter grey / She's perfect in her own way / Shining, stepping off a silver train / [Chorus] / Now, I'm getting
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Jimmy Eat World – All the Way (Stay)
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“All the Way (Stay)” is an upbeat power-pop song about feeling comfortable in one’s skin while venturing out in the world.
In October 2018, the band spoke about the song in an
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