 Genius Lyrics
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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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Down By Law – Nothing Good On The Radio
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[Verse 1] / Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men / I never wanna hear that crap again / [Chorus] / But there's nothin' good on the radio / (Nothin'!) / No, there's nothin' good on the
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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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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – The Way
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[Verse 1] / All I see lying there in front of me / Maybe we were here before / I just didn't wanna believe / But in all that time we never talked / You wrote it down so I couldn't
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Kid Rock (Ft. Joe-C) – Devil Without a Cause
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[Verse 1: Kid Rock] / You knew that I was coming cause you heard my name / But you don't know my game, you never felt my pain / Can't read my brain but you read my lips / And got
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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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Rob Thomas – Pieces
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[Verse 1] / Run away, run away if you can't speak / Turn a page on a world that you don't need / Wide awake and you're scared that you won't come down now / [Pre-Chorus] / Didn't I
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Kid Rock – Cocky
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[Verse 1] / Guess who's back / I used to be broke, Confused, No Joke / Got used, Smoked Dope / Paid Dues, Refused, To give up quick / Now there's 10 Million Motherfuckers on my
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Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
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Behind the catchy, upbeat “Semi-Charmed” melody that entranced many a tween when it was released in 1997 is a dark tale of a relationship’s descent into crystal meth addiction.
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Rob Thomas – Gasoline
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[Verse 1] / Oh well, oh well / I guess you got it all worked out so far / You adjust your reason / Until you see the light from where you are / [Pre-Chorus] / But you can never win
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Smash Mouth – All Star
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Smash Mouth’s best known song, with part of its enduring popularity/infamy caused by its inclusion in the opening scene of Shrek. And yet the music video is a tie-in to another
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Matchbox Twenty – I Don't Wanna Be Loved
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So alone, you don't know if you can ever win / Your pretty face, stained to hell from all the things you've seen / But you've gotta learn to stand up, you've gotta learn to shout
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