 Genius Lyrics
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Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things
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[Verse 1] / Soldiers, come quickly / I feel the earth beneath my feet / I'm feeling badly, it's not an attempt at decency / And if you're well off, well, then I'm happy some for
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Rilo Kiley – Silver Lining
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“Silver Lining” is the first song from Rilo Kiley’s final album Under The Blacklight. The song is about a relationship and its end. The song plays with the idiom ‘Every cloud has a
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Rilo Kiley – Dreamworld
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“Dreamworld” by Rilo Kiley explores escapism. The song describes disappointing situations that people ignore, choosing to pretend to live in their “dreamworld,” where things are
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Rilo Kiley – Portions for Foxes
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[Verse 1] / There's blood in my mouth 'cause I've been biting my tongue all week / I keep on talking trash but I never say anything / [Pre-Chorus] / And the talking leads to
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Rilo Kiley – August
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[Verse 1] / August, I'll see you soon / Under yellow moons / Where I'll gather what's left of you / And August, I'm on your side / Or did I speak too soon? / Now we've crossed the
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Rilo Kiley – 13 (Sandbox Session)
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When I was thirteen I liked the boys on the TV shows / Teen Beat posters pasted up on my window / And I took them to the bedroom in my mind / When I was fourteen I liked the girls
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Rilo Kiley – Xmas Cake
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It's almost Christmas / When I take off my make up I look old and defeated / I'm not so dangerous / Cry into my Christmas cake / Starin' holes into me all night / You should just
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Rilo Kiley – 15
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“15” is an indie song by Rilo Kiley about a misled 15 year old girl who is taken advantage of by a scummy man. The lyrics strongly suggest that he is abusive and a bad influence
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Rilo Kiley – Does He Love You?
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In a narrative form familiar to country songs, “Does He Love You?” depicts conversations between two friends. The narrator lives in California and is unmarried, while her friend is
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Rilo Kiley – Pictures of Success
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[Verse 1] / Build your own television receiver / Staying home can't be that bad for me / 'Cause I'm not scared / But I'd like some extra spare time / Easily earn me big money / [
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Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
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[Intro] / Hm, it wasn't that rad / [Verse 1] / And it's only doubts that we're counting / On fingers broken long ago / I read with every broken heart / We should become more
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Rilo Kiley – Asshole
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[Verse 1] / You woke up an asshole / I couldn't believe my eyes / I really hate my bad eye / And I thought you knew / [Verse 2] / You woke up my girlfriend / I can't believe my
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Rilo Kiley – So Long
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[Verse 1] / Watch me fly away / Through the night sky, yeah / Now that all you touched has finally turned grey / And roads can't hold us down / Winds will move us around / With no
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Rilo Kiley – Science Vs. Romance
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[Verse 1] / I used to think if I could realize I'd die / Then I would be a lot nicer / Used to believe in a lot more / Now I just see straight ahead / That's not to say I don't
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Rilo Kiley – A Better Son/Daughter
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From the 2002 album The Execution of All Things, “A Better Son/Daughter” is one of frontwoman Jenny Lewis’s most personal songs, detailing a deeply wounded speaker who eventually
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Rilo Kiley – Breakin' Up
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[Verse 1] / It's not as if New York City / Burnt down to the ground / Once you drove away / It's not as if the sun won't shine / When clouds up above / Wash the blues away / [
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Rilo Kiley – Spectacular Views
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[Verse 1] / In steep cliffs, rocks all piled up / Mysteries of your passing luck / And ages pass, shells and bits of bone / Forming new limestone / To give things their turn / [
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Rilo Kiley – Papillon
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This is the 4th song off of Rilo Kiley’s EP, which was released in 1999.
The song shares a title with an allegedly autobiographical book written by Henri Charriere. Papillon
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Rilo Kiley – Glendora
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[Verse 1] / It's New Year's Eve, I'm in Glendora / I'm the only living person in Glendora / Headin' east on the freeway / I left my prom dress on the bus stop in Duarte / I switch
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Rilo Kiley – It's a Hit
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The opening track to More Adventurous, “It’s a Hit” begins as a mid-2000s George W. Bush protest song and develops into an exploration of Jenny Lewis' frustration with songwriting
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Rilo Kiley – Frug
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[Verse 1] / And I can do the Frug / I can do the Robocop / I can do the Freddie / I cannot do the Smurf / [Verse 2] / And I can hate your girl / I can tell you that she's real
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Rilo Kiley – Emotional
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Christ, you're already gone / And I thought it'd take longer to kill you / And a month is no time at all / No time to reach down and erase you / You're so emotional / In the light
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Rilo Kiley – Ripchord
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The song is speculatively, but most commonly regarded to be about the death of singer/songwriter Elliott Smith. The group opened for some of Smith’s final shows and was good friend
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Rilo Kiley – All The Drugs
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All the drugs make you stupid / Paranoid and ruthless / But now you're finally clean / You've been strip-searched and rung up / Like lights that were strung up / The drugs who've
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Rilo Kiley – Always
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[Verse 1] / I should've known / With a boy like you / Your middle name is Always / "I'd always love you" / Uh-huh, yeah / [Verse 2] / You let the needle drop / I think that you
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Rilo Kiley – Dejalo
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[Chorus] / Dejalo, nuestra cosa / Dejalo, nuestra cosa / Dejalo, nuestra cosa / Dejalo, nuestra cosa / [Verse 1] / I got a mind if you wanna waste it / I got a man if you wanna
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Rilo Kiley – The Absence of God
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[Verse 1] / The absence of God will bring you comfort, baby / And planning is for the poor, so let's pretend that we're rich / And I'm not my body or how I choose to destroy it
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Rilo Kiley – Paint's Peeling
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[Verse 1] / The paint's peeling off the streets again / And I'll drive and close my eyes in Michigan / [Pre-Chorus 1] / And I feel nothing, not brave / It's a hard day for
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Rilo Kiley – Runnin' Around
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You know he's always runnin' around / 'Cause he's a runnin' around kind of guy / You know he's runnin' around / And with runnin' around he's fine / He's runnin' around with a bad
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Rilo Kiley – Go Ahead
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[Verse 1] / If you wanna find yourself by traveling out west / Or if you wanna find somebody else that's better / Go ahead, go ahead / [Verse 2] / If you wanna buy a brand new
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Rilo Kiley – It’ll Get You There
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All the trips that you take, they will get you there / All the little white pills you take, they will get you there / All the compliments that you take, they will get you there
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Rilo Kiley – Close Call
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[Verse 1] / She was born on a Brighton pier / To a gypsy mother and a bucket of tears / Her good looks coulda sailed a ship / But her will alone coulda sunk it / Funny thing about
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Rilo Kiley – My Slumbering Heart
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[Verse 1] / In my dreams, I see myself hitting a baseball / In a green field somewhere near a freeway / I'm all tan and smiling and running from third base / And it's hot and the
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Rilo Kiley – We'll Never Sleep (God Knows We'll Try)
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[Verse 1] / Stealing away into the night / Won't get you any higher / We'll never sleep, God knows we'll try / The hospital is closed / [Chorus] / And how long will it last
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Rilo Kiley – I Never
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[Verse 1] / I'm only a woman / Of flesh and bone / And I wept much, we all do / I thought I might die alone / [Chorus] / But I / Had never, had never, had never, had never, had
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Rilo Kiley – Capturing Moods
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[Verse 1] / Moods don't command you / If you don't know what you're going through / There's love for you / Up where the population grows / [Verse 2] / There's friendly people in
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Rilo Kiley – Love and War (11/11/46)
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[Verse 1] / All is fair in love, and we're in love / Now that everybody's dead, we can finally talk / Can vanity and happiness coexist? / All the lovers we've taken in direct view
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Rilo Kiley – Wires and Waves
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[Verse 1] / There are twelve hours, there's a day between us / And you called to say you're sorry in your own way / There are oceans and waves and wires between us / And you called
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Rilo Kiley – Under the Blacklight
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[Verse 1] / When you get sober, will you get kinder? / 'Cause when you get uptight, it's such a drag / When I get older, I won't remember / Until that day comes, I've got somethin
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Rilo Kiley – Plane Crash in C
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Plane Crash in C details the tension between someone who is more feeling and subjective (the narrator) compared to someone who is someone who is more thinking and objective (the
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Rilo Kiley – Jenny, You're Barely Alive
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[Verse 1] / And it's all the treasures / That shine in the street / As we drive right over them / And it's all the mornings / We missed for sleep / As the sun glides over our
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Rilo Kiley – Draggin' Around
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Here's to all the luck that pours down on me / Here's to all the melodies that picked us up off our seats / Here's to the younger ones when they replace me / Here's to the
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