 Genius Lyrics
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Matchbox Twenty – Push
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“Push” is a song by Matchbox Twenty off of their 1996 release Yourself Or Someone Like You. The song is about an emotionally abusive relationship that Rob Thomas was in with a
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Matchbox Twenty – Overjoyed
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Feeling my hands start shaking / Hearing your voice I'm overjoyed / I'm sorry but I have no choice, you're only getting better / Maybe you have your reasons / Maybe you're scared
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Matchbox Twenty – Wild Dogs (Running in a Slow Dream)
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[Verse 1] / We were eyes wide open when the world got dark / Dancin' to the rhythm that felt so hard, you could feel it / You could feel it / And blood ice cold, baby, racin
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Matchbox Twenty – How Far We've Come
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[Intro] / (Hello, hello, hello) / [Verse 1] / I'm wakin' up at the start of the end of the world / But it's feelin' just like every other mornin' before / Now I wonder what my life
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Matchbox Twenty – If You're Gone
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One of the most emotional tracks in Matchbox Twenty’s catalogue, “If You’re Gone” was a huge chart hit, exploding to number 5 on the Us Billboard 100, and number 1 on the US
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Matchbox Twenty – Suffer Me
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[Verse 1] / She wanted something just like the real thing / He needed love and it all worked out somehow / He knows that love is the king of emotion / But he can't touch her 'cause
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Matchbox Twenty – Cold
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[Verse 1] / I will do without / The spaces in between / If you can tell me now / What it means to be / [Pre-Chorus 1] / You have been found out / I have been deceived, by the one
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Matchbox Twenty – Long Day
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Long Day is Matchbox 20’s very first single, coming off of their first album “Yourself or Someone Like You.” Although it wouldn’t be until later singles that the band would attain
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Matchbox Twenty – Don't Get Me Wrong
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[Verse 1] / I'm feeling calm, but I'm never relaxed / I feel it coming, but I'm holding it back / I'm on the edge, but I never attack / I'm straight off the moment / But I still
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Matchbox Twenty – Back 2 Good
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“Back 2 Good” was the fifth single from Matchbox Twenty’s debut, Yourself of Someone Like You.
Rob Thomas, the band’s lead singer, has described the song to be about “screwing up
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Matchbox Twenty – Warm Blood
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[Verse 1] / I don't know what you've heard / I don't know what you think / Maybe now it's time we talk about it / I, I am almost certain / We're hanging off the brink / Maybe we're
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Matchbox Twenty – Rebels
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[Verse 1] / When you lose yourself / In photographs / And the room gets heavy / 'Cause you can't go back to sixteen / To rainbow hair and ripped jeans / [Pre-Chorus] / To keep your
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Matchbox Twenty – Friends
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[Intro] / Woah, woah / Oh-oh-oh, oh / [Verse 1] / Flower in the desert / Spring into the fall / Rushing to the West side / When the east sent out the call / Lessons in the matter
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Matchbox Twenty – Rest Stop
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[Verse 1] / Just three miles from her rest stop / And she slams on the brakes / She said I tried to be, but I'm not / So could you please collect your things / Well, I don't wanna
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Matchbox Twenty – Hang on Every Word
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[Verse 1] / Don't let your falling stars blow out / No matter what you've heard / Don't let the rainy days / Cloud what you're seeing / I know you're thinking that you've shown up
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Matchbox Twenty – One Hit Love
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[Verse 1] / Don't wanna be your problem / Don't wanna be your pain / Don't wanna hold your sorrow / All in my hands / Don't wanna sell you something / I could never be / I know it
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Matchbox Twenty – She's So Mean
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[Verse 1] / I kn-kn-know a girl, she gets what she wants all the time / 'Cause she's fine / But for an angel, she's a hot, hot mess / Make you so blind, but you don't mind / [
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Matchbox Twenty – How Long
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[Verse 1] / So many time with you and I / Thought it was right, but I was wrong, it's true / But I wouldn't feel the way I do / Without a sense of something real for you / And it's
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Matchbox Twenty (Ft. Amanda Shires) – No Other Love
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[Intro: Amanda Shires] / No other love / No other love / [Verse 1: Rob Thomas] / You say you're sorry / Well, I forgive you / It's all just smoke / We're moving on / 'Cause it don'
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Matchbox Twenty – Angry
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[Verse 1] / So scream you / Out from behind the bitter ache / You're hangin' on the memory / You need most / [Verse 2] / You still want love / Love's ugly, smooth and delicate
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Matchbox Twenty – Hang
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[Verse 1] / She grabs her magazines, she packs her things and she goes / She leaves the pictures hanging on the walls, she burns all her notes / And she knows she's been here too
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Matchbox Twenty – Could I Be You
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“Could I Be You?” is Track 8 on Matchbox Twenty’s More Than You Think You Are.
It’s a song of utter despair, though also exemplifies the “grass is always greener” adage.
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Matchbox Twenty – All I Need
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[Verse 1] / Everywhere someone's getting over / Everybody cries, and sometimes / You can still lose even if you really try / Talkin' 'bout the dream like the dream is over / Talk
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Matchbox Twenty – You & I & I
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[Verse 1] / Well, it's for sure / Well, things came down hard / And you couldn't wait here / Well, all I ever think about is myself / And anyone else / They get strung out / But I
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Matchbox Twenty – Feel
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[Verse 1] / What you want? What you got? / Live your life in a crawl space / I'd help you out, but you don't / Want a chance at a better life / You said you never took a ride / And
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Matchbox Twenty – Kody
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[Verse 1] / Kody sat down on the avenue / He tapped his feet, to the humming of the highway / He watched the light shine down on the broken glass and thought / I don't got no
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Matchbox Twenty – Busted
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[Verse 1] / I forget when words were only words / She knows the party makes me nervous / In this stage we can't get hurt / Don't try to understand me / We're too cool to be alone
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Matchbox Twenty – Queen of New York City
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[Verse 1] / There's a rhythm to her heart / And a world inside her head / She'll tell you from the start / Boy, you don't know her yet / She's like a constellation / Of stars that
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Matchbox Twenty – Argue
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[Verse 1] / She don't, but she will / He says anything to keep her by him / She takes, what she gets / And she never did flinch / [Pre-Chorus 1] / So over, and over, anyone / With
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Matchbox Twenty – Damn
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[Verse 1] / This old world well / Don't it make you wanna think "damn" / This cold girl well / Don't she make you wanna scream "damn" / [Pre-Chorus 1] / What's the matter girl
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Matchbox Twenty – I Know Better
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[Verse 1] / I will always know better / So I really don't see / A problem with knowing the answer / In the absence of those who agree / I've got access to information / That's
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Matchbox Twenty – Mad Season
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[Verse 1] / I feel stupid / But I know it won't last for long / And I've been guessing / And I could have been guessing wrong / You don't know me now / I kinda thought that you
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Matchbox Twenty – These Hard Times
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Morning falls like rain into the city life / There goes another night / Losing my breath in waves / Knowing that ever crash is bleeding the hourglass / And taking the strife from
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Matchbox Twenty – Parade
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[Verse 1] / When the slow parade went past / When it felt so good you knew it couldn't last / And all too soon the end was gonna come without a warning / And you'd have to just go
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Matchbox Twenty – Disease
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[Verse 1] / Feels like you made a mistake / You made somebody's heart break / But now I have to let you go / I have to let you go / [Verse 2] / You left a stain / On every one of
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Matchbox Twenty – Can't Let You Go
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I'll stick around / See how bad it gets / I'll settle down and deal with old regrets / You know I, I adore you / I Can't let you go / Can't let you go / You're part of my soul
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Matchbox Twenty – Where the Light Goes
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[Chorus] / Can you tell me where the light goes / Every time your eyes close? / If it's there, then it doesn't show / Tell me where the light goes / I wanna know / [Verse 1] / Can
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Matchbox Twenty – Soul
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[Verse 1] / Hang out my window and over your head / Stare at your feelings to see where they end / You're waiting here for someone else to break you from the inside / You've been
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Matchbox Twenty – Downfall
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[Verse 1] / I wonder how you sleep / I wonder what you think of me / If I could go back / Would you have ever been with me? / I want you to be uneased / I want you to remember / I
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Matchbox Twenty – Leave
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[Verse 1] / It's amazing / How you make your face, just like a wall / How you take your heart, and turn it off / How I turn my head, and lose it all / [Verse 2] / It's unnerving
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Matchbox Twenty – All Your Reasons
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(Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Bah Duh Bah) / (Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Buh Dah) / (Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Bah Duh Bah) / (Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Buh Dah) / Why don't
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Matchbox Twenty – I'll Believe You When
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I've tried so many times / To tell you how I feel / But you're far too disbelieving / Are you trying to get even with me / Maybe once or twice / I wasn't fair I wasn't nice / But
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