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Matchbox Twenty – I Will
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[Verse 1] / Tonight, looking back on all this life / It's funny how the time goes by / And how sometimes it slides away / [Verse 2] / Time, sliding through the dead of night
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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 – 3 AM
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3 AM is written from the perspective of a 12 or 13 year old Rob Thomas, whose mom has cancer. It is about her reaction to the cancer and how he processed and dealt with the entire
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Matchbox Twenty – I Believe in Everything
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[Verse 1] / I want to make you sing, darlin' / I want to make you run / I want to sew on wings, darlin' / And fly right over the sun / [Verse 2] / There's a bustle in the wind
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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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Rob Thomas Breaks Down The Meaning Behind Your Favorite Matchbox Twenty Songs
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Go behind the lyrics you know by heart.
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Ryan Gosling – Push
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[Verse 1] / Said, I don't know if I've ever been good enough / I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is cavin' in / And I don't know if I've ever been really loved / By a
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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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Matchbox Twenty – Bent
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“Bent” is a song by Matchbox Twenty, released as the lead single from their album, Mad Season. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release, becoming Matchbox Twenty’s
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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 – Unwell
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“Unwell” is the second single from Matchbox Twenty’s third album, More Than You Think You Are. It is one of their most well-known songs and was very popular at the time of its
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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 – 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 – 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 – Real World
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“Real World” holistically has an escapist theme, with the persona fantasizing about various situations and wanting to keep the “real world” away. However, the bridge indicates that
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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 – If I Fall
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(When I get) / (When I get) / When I get close to something beautiful / Then I feel low because I know I'll never have it for too long / I've been every where / I'm like an
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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 – Last Beautiful Girl
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[Verse 1] / This will all fall down / Like everything else that was / This too shall pass / And all of the words we said / We can't take back / [Verse 2] / Now every fool in town
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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 – Waiting on a Train
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You were gonna be the one / To tell me when you couldn't take it, take it / And I was gonna be the one to tell you that it ain't so bad / But if nobody cares / Then why should we
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Matchbox Twenty – You Won't Be Mine
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[Verse 1] / Take your head around the world / And see what you get from your mind / Write your soul down word for word / See who's your friend and who is kind / [Pre-Chorus] / Well
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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 – Push (Sped Up Version)
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[Verse 1] / She said I don't know if I've ever been good enough / I'm a little bit rusty, and I think my head is caving in / And I don't know if I've ever been really loved / By a
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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 – 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 – Tired
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You've been talking for an hour / And I swear to God that I can't hear a word you say / So would you come to me, come to me / I get caught up and the waves of conversation they
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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 – Stop (Remix)
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[Verse 1] / Yes it's true that I believe / I'm weaker than I used to be / I wear my heart out on my sleeve / And I forget the rest of me / [Verse 2] / Yes there's times I've been
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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 – 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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4everfreebrony – Little Show (Matchbox Twenty ponified)
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[Verse 1] / Well, I wonder what it's like to be the voice actor / I wonder what it's like to know that I'm in the show / I'd work up the talent to bring out any sound they'll ask
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Matchbox Twenty – The Difference
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[Verse 1] / Slow dancin' on the boulevard / In the quiet moments while the city's still dark / Sleepwalkin' through the summer rain / In the tired spaces you could hear her name
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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 – 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 – You're So Real
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[Verse 1] / Yes I am / I hope you think you read me / Hope I start talking crazy before you understand me / Are we through? / You think that I'm beneath you / But you like the
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