 Genius Lyrics
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Queens of the Stone Age – Time & Place
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[Intro] / (Go) / [Verse 1] / You got a lotta nerve coming 'round this place / If you're a pretty boy, you've got to save face / [Pre-Chorus] / And it's all wrong / [Chorus] / Turn
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Queens of the Stone Age – Made to Parade
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The fifth track off the 2023 release In Times New Roman…', the title is a phrase commonly used in association with Them Crooked Vultures, a ‘super’ group comprised of Josh Homme
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Queens of the Stone Age – Straight Jacket Fitting
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[Verse 1] / Come for a fitting way of life / It's all the rage, enslaved, in style / Come for a fitting way of life / Straight jacket fitting a little too tight / [Pre-Chorus
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Queens of the Stone Age – What The Peephole Say
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[Verse 1] / I don't care what the people say / If you gotta knock, then go away / Oh, fears, ideas they grow like a weed / Used to wash my brain but dirty thoughts just came and
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Queens of the Stone Age – Emotion Sickness
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[Intro] / Use once and destroy / Single servings of pain / A dose of emotion sickness / I just can't shake / Then my fever broke / [Verse 1] / You got no possessions, just your
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Queens of the Stone Age – Obscenery
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[Verse 1] / Mannequins have flawless skin / You can dress 'em up like me if you like / But don't lobotomy, I'm happy and free / Listening to crickets in the pale moonlight / I don'
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Queens of the Stone Age – Negative Space
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[Verse 1] / In an atmosphere I don't recognize / I don't know what's true, particularly if it's from you / Oh, betrayal, it tears me up inside / I'm just a fool who is terrified
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Queens of the Stone Age – The Vampyre of Time and Memory
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Josh Homme hops behind the piano for this melancholy lament on how sometimes trying to make love work, wears you down and makes you want to pull your hair out.
“The Vampyre of
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Queens of the Stone Age – Domesticated Animals
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“Domesticated Animals” spins around a 7/8 time signature, a lowkey simplistic guitar riff and a heavy bassline that slowly builds in momentum until it erupts during the song’s mid
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Queens of the Stone Age – Paper Machete
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“Paper Machete” off of In Times New Roman… centers around a brutal takedown of a manipulative and masochistic character, presumed to be Josh Homme’s ex-wife, Brody Dalle. Homme
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Queens of the Stone Age – Carnavoyeur
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[Verse 1] / Nothing, nothing / Nothing inside / And there's no reason to cry / Just fade away like love / Clutching, hanging / By a nail in this life / Desperate always / Always
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Queens of the Stone Age – Regular John
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In North American English slang, the clients of prostitutes may also be referred to as “johns” or “tricks.” A “regular John” may therefore be taken to mean an individual who
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Queens of the Stone Age – I Sat by the Ocean
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“I Sat By The Ocean” was released as the second single of the album. The song debuted on May 8, the band performed a couple of their new songs on a small intimate concert in
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Queens of the Stone Age – Villains of Circumstance
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The closing track of the album, “Villains Of Circumstance” was actually written years before its release, as it has been performed as far back as 2014. The song is a long slow
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Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used to Do
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“The Way You Used To Do” is a fast paced song with a swinging robotic guitar drive. Its “big band swing” is reminiscent of musician Cab Calloway’s music, with its pep and punch.
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Queens of the Stone Age – Sicily
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[Verse 1] / I'm all used up again / I beat myself like a broken record / Objectified, misuse me as directed / My sweet nothing / The pound of flesh again / Silhouettes witness
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Queens of the Stone Age (Ft. Trent Reznor) – Era Vulgaris
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The Latin term “Era Vulgaris” actually translates to ‘Common Era’, instead of ‘Vulgar Era’ as one might guess. Josh Homme chose it because “It sounds like ‘the Vulgar Era’, which I
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Queens of the Stone Age – The Sky Is Fallin'
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“The Sky Is Fallin” is a continuation of Homme’s journey throughout the California desert: a central theme that Songs For the Deaf. It’s essentially a post-apocalyptic epic that
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Queens of the Stone Age – 3's & 7's
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“3’s and 7’s” was released as the second single off of Era Vulgaris. Despite the misleading name, skittish guitar and erratic tempo changes, this song is actually in a run-of-the-
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Queens of the Stone Age (Ft. Elton John & Trent Reznor) – Fairweather Friends
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Josh has said that this song is about how his friend’s reacted to him having a hard time getting back into the swing of being a musician after his botched surgery. Some of them
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Queens of the Stone Age – Another Love Song
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This song has bassist Nick Oliveri singing the lead vocals. This fact becomes disturbing when you find one of the reasons why he left Queens of the Stone Age.
“In January 2004
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