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Owl City – Fireflies
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“Fireflies”, Owl City’s debut single, was an international smash hit, effectively launching the genre Twee into the mainstream. It reached #1 in the US in November 2009.
The song
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Owl City – New York City
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[Verse 1] / I'm digging through the glove box / I thought I had a map in here / The driver's door doesn't lock / I bought the car my junior year / There's candy in my backpack
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Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time
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Carly Rae Jepsen of “Call Me Maybe” fame joins Owl City on this radio-friendly comeback single, which peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In October 2012, Jepsen and Adam Young
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Owl City – Cinematic
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[Intro] / Go play / [Verse 1] / Your life is a matinée / In a galaxy far, far away / And your debut it's a sold out show, yeah / It's a blockbuster movie and you play the lead role
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Owl City – Vanilla Twilight
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“Vanilla Twilight” is slower and softer than Owl City’s electronica songs, and radiates feelings of both coziness and melancholy at once. It tells of the narrator’s longing to be
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Owl City (Ft. SEKAI NO OWARI) – Tokyo
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[Verse 1: Owl City] / Feels like I've been away for a thousand years / So tired of these airports and souvenirs / I shiver in the night and I think of you / [Pre-Chorus: Owl City
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Owl City – Panda Bear
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[Verse 1] / I'm moving to Tokyo / 'Cause I'm tired of San Francisco / My contracts are finally void / And I am getting out / [Verse 2] / On houses and building tops / I swallow the
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Owl City – Cloud Nine
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[Verse 1] / Pull the moon down with a lasso / Make your ceiling full of stars glow / I can sneak in through the window / And I could say it but we both know / You got me floatin
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Owl City (Ft. Aloe Blacc) – Verge
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Released as the first single off of his upcoming 2015 album, Mobile Orchestra, Owl City and Aloe Blacc join hands to create a powerful theme of moving on with power, with a theme
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Owl City – Be Brave
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Released alongside “Cloud 9” on April 6th, “Be Brave” is one of the songs from the final EP before his full album release of Cinematic. Adam tweeted regarding the song:
https://
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Owl City – The Bird and the Worm
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[Verse 1] / If you're the bird / Whenever we pretend it's summer / Then I'm the worm / I know the part, it's such a bummer / But fair is fair / If my segments get separated / I'll
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Owl City – Kamikaze
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[Verse 1] / The princess in her flower bed / Pulled the jungle underground / Where cherry bombs stain the blackbirds red / And explosions never make a sound / [Chorus] / (Oh, comet
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Owl City (Ft. Breanne Düren) – The Saltwater Room
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This song details a relationship between two people who are separated by distance. Although they truly love each other, the distance has made them grow apart and it seems as though
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Owl City (Ft. HANSON) – Unbelievable
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Single off of Mobile Orchestra. A light-hearted song about how unbelievable life can be…
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Owl City (Ft. HANSON) – Unbelievable
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Single off of Mobile Orchestra. A light-hearted song about how unbelievable life can be…
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Owl City – Up All Night
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The second track from Owl City’s EP – Ultraviolet.
The song which is reminescent of Owl City’s breakthrough single, Fireflies, talks about a romantic exchange of longing between
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Owl City – Always
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[Verse 1] / When the road is long / And your strength is gone / Remember I am just a prayer away / When the way is hard / And you are faint of heart / Remember I am just a prayer
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Owl City – Sunburn
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[Verse 1] / So there we were, back home from somewhere inside my head / Oh, bravely I fought off the monsters beneath her bed / Pillars of postwar books supported my frame of mind
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Owl City – Silhouette
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“Silhouette”, A sentimental, introspective, and bittersweet song, is about someone who feels anxious, heartbroken, alone, and struggles with regret, but is encouraged that life
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Owl City – This Isn't the End
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Track number 3 from Owl City’s first in a series of EPs – Ultraviolet is a heart rending story of a little girl whose father commits suicide when she is very young. The song
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Owl City – When Can I See You Again?
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The main song for the soundtrack of the Wreck-It-Ralph movie, “When Can I See You Again?” tells about the eternal friendship, and people whom it hurts to say goodbye.
This song is
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Owl City – Angels
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As the third song on Owl City’s junior album, “Angels” is about a distraught man (presumably Adam Young), who asks for evidence of God’s existence. He realizes angels exist on
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Owl City – Cave In
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[Verse 1] / Please take a long hard look / Through your text book, cause I'm history / When I strap my helmet on I'll be long gone / 'Cause I've been dying to leave / Yeah, I'll
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Owl City (Ft. Shawn Chrystopher) – Alligator Sky
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“Alligator Sky” is the first single from Adam’s second album, All Things Bright and Beautiful. It went straight to #1 on iTunes when released, however failed to chart well on the
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Owl City – My Muse
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[Verse 1] / I remember when I saw you at the movies / And to me, you were a stranger in the room / But to my surprise, I met your eyes and that was when I knew / There's nowhere
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Owl City – The Real World
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The first song of Owl City’s second major label album, All Things Bright and Beautiful, featuring one of his most quotable lyrics of all time.
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Owl City – Vitamin Sea
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[Intro] / Mm-mm, do-do-do, ooh-ooh / [Verse 1] / I think highly of Hawaii / I got a cheap flight and a plan / So heads up, Nancy, don't get antsy / While I'm workin' on my tan / [
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Owl City – Galaxies
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This ties in with the general space themes of this album and especially with the previous track, which referenced the Challenger. Futhermore, this is an early example of the
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Owl City – Meteor Shower
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse] / I can finally see / That You're right there beside me / [Chorus] / I am not my own / For I have been made new / Please don't let me go / I
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Owl City (Ft. Mark Hoppus) – Dementia
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4th track on The Midsummer Station and 3rd track of the previous EP Shooting Star.
“Dementia” features vocals by Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 and +44.
The song was mixed by Chris Lord-
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Owl City – Paper Tigers (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Well I’ve been huddled up alone by the fire even though / I’m not exactly feeling cold / And I’ve been bundled up for days too confused to be amazed / At all the icy
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Owl City – Plant Life
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Interestingly enough, the first Owl City song to credit a co-writer, in this case being Matthew Thiessen of Relient K.
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Owl City – Early Birdie
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[Verse 1: Adam Young] / Good evening, shuttle bus! / Tell me where you're gonna take us / Some place that I have never been / It's chic transportation to new destination / Where I
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Owl City – Adam, Check Please
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[Verse 1] / I said, "Hey, I'm looking for Casey Connor / Here's my résumé / I'm looking for a part-time job / And I can start today / Well, I heard you needed some help in frozen
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Owl City – The Tornado
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[Verse 1] / It was just startin' to drizzle as I walked out the door / But I've delivered papers in the rain like that before / 3:30 in the morning, I was happy as a lark / As I
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Owl City – Learn How to Surf
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[Verse 1] / I spent the summer in Santa Cruz / And I met a blonde on the beach with lots of quirky tattoos / She had that old movie quote, "We're gonna need a bigger boat" / Two
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Owl City – Sons of Thunder
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[Verse 1] / We are the new sons of thunder / We are uncrushable diamonds of light / We are the daughters of wonder / And when we leave the Earth / With a shower of sparks / We'll
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Owl City – January 28, 1986
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This track contains snippets from Ronald Reagan’s Space Shuttle “Challenger” Tragedy Address on January 27th, 1986.
Here is the official speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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Owl City (Ft. Lights) – The Yacht Club
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This is the eleventh track of Owl City’s All Things Bright and Beautiful, in which Lights sings some parts of the song with Owl City.
She also appears in the music video from Deer
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