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Matchbox Twenty – Our Song
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North is a direction. It’s a place. It’s a marker of progress – and an intended destination. NORTH is also the title of Matchbox Twenty’s fourth album.
Atlantic Records
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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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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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Ryan Kern
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Get all the lyrics to songs by Ryan Kern and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics.
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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 – Put Your Hands Up
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You're wide awake / Your heart beats / Sister Mary in her burning dress with God in her feet / They take and take / But no more / Cause now you gonna show em what the night is
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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 – Like Sugar
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[Verse 1] / I'm walking behind you / Calling the way you / Give away all your secrets / You're taking the high road / And picking your battles / Just the day I found you / [Chorus
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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 – Radio
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[Verse 1] / Outside in America / Everybody's just waking up / Drinking coffee from a paper cup / To the sound of the radio / And there's a broke town girl in the parking lot
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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 – Sleeping at the Wheel
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[Verse 1] / I, I could be anything / But for the fault that I've acquired on my way / We, we were the end of it / But now we see the sun shining in our face / We see the sun
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Matchbox Twenty – Help Me Through This
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I wanna stand on the tallest mountain / I wanna scream what I cannot name / But I don't really wanna be myself today / I wanna run on an open highway / I wanna walk in the desert
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – English Town
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[Verse 1] / Come inside, the air I breathe / While the band still plays / It's the end of the coldest week / Come down into the sea / 'Cause everybody wants to get away sometimes
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Santana (Ft. Rob Thomas) – Smooth
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“Smooth” is a collaboration between Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas and Latin rock band Santana. Written by Thomas, and Itaal Shur, “Smooth” won three Grammys for “Song of the
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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 – 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 – 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 – Mercy, Mercy Me (Live)
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Oo oo aa mercy mercy me / Ah things ain't' what they used to be / Where did all the blue skies go / Poison is the wind that blows from the north and south and east / Oo mercy mercy
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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 – The Burn
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[Intro] / Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / Yeah / [Verse 1] / I thought about / Leavin' but I couldn't even get outta bed / I'm hangin' 'cause I couldn't get a ride outta
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