 Genius Lyrics
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Roxy Music – Street Life
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[Verse 1] / Wish everybody would leave me alone—yeah / They're always calling on my telephone / When I pick it up there's no one there / So I walk outside just to take the air / [
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Roxy Music – The Space Between
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Track two of Roxy Music’s final album Avalon (1982) written by Bryan Ferry.
A spacey dreamy piece of sophisto-funk highlighted by Andy Mackay’s sax lines, “The Space Between
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Roxy Music – Do the Strand
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Lead singer Bryan Ferry has described his idea for ‘Do The Strand’ as:
[…] being that of the ‘dance of life’ – thus bringing to mind earlier dance phenomena, such as the avant
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Roxy Music – Mother of Pearl
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Stranded was a change of direction for Roxy Music. Brian Eno had left, and their sound became more “rock group”.
Ferry’s lyrical complexity endured.
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Roxy Music – Psalm
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Try on your love / Like a new dress / The fit and the cut / Your friends to impress / Try on your smile / Square on your face / Showing affection / Should be no disgrace / Try out
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Roxy Music – Whirlwind
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Mayday, cut down to size again / What then, when less is more, my friend / I'll change, let me start again / Disguise, it's too weird to explain / Why, I'll always call your name
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Roxy Music – Avalon
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The title track of Roxy Musics final studio album, Avalon.
It was released as a single in 1982, reaching no. 13 in the UK Singles Chart.
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Roxy Music – Just Like You
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The second track on 1973’s Stranded, “Just Like You” (written by frontman Bryan Ferry) is a piano-driven ballad that deals with themes of change and love – and the loss of the
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Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home a Heartache
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Few songs have been written about a man’s love for his blow-up “doll”.
In this case, the arguably overly-descriptive and passionate lyrics about the doll are written to emphasize
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Roxy Music – Jealous Guy
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I was dreaming of the past / And my heart was beating fast / I began to lose control / I began to lose control / I didn't mean to hurt you / I'm sorry that I made you cry / I didn'
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Roxy Music – Both Ends Burning
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Please don't ever let me down / For you know I'm not so sure / Do I have the speed to carry on / I'll burn you out of my mind, I know / You're a flame that never fades / Jungle red
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Roxy Music – She Sells
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Now you're talking in headlines / Up to the minute and free / Stop, press, hold the front page / Up as a mirror / Are you reading me? / Watch you walking in waltz time / A jigsaw
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Roxy Music – More Than This
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[Verse 1] / I could feel at the time / There was no way of knowing / Fallen leaves in the night / Who can say where they're blowing? / As free as the wind / Hopefully learning
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Roxy Music – Bitter-Sweet
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Well this is such a sad affair / I've opened up my heart / Oh so many times / But now it's closed / Oh my dear / Every salted tear / It wrings bittersweet applause / But when the
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Roxy Music – Love Is the Drug
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Comparing romantic longings with those of drug users is a classic trope in popular music, going back to songs like 1973’s “Love Jones” or even 1932’s “You’re Getting to Be a Habit
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Roxy Music – Pyjamarama
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[Verse 1] / Couldn't sleep a wink last night / Oh how I'd love to hold you tight / They say you have a secret life / Made sacrifice your key to paradise / [Verse 2] / Never mind
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Roxy Music – If There Is Something
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If there is something that I might find / Look around corners / Try to find peace of mind I say / Where would you go if you were me / Try to keep a straight course not easy
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Roxy Music – Amazona
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[Verse 1] / Amazona / Is a zone where / There is no doubt / No more fall-out - / Why don't you step / Through the mirror and see? / [Verse 2] / From Arizona / To Eldorado / Sure is
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Roxy Music – Ladytron
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The second track from Roxy Music’s self-titled debut, this song was written by Brian Ferry and features a typically Roxy juxtaposition of odd sounding instrumentation over a pretty
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Roxy Music – Strictly Confidential
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From their mind blowing second album “For Your Pleasure”.
An often overlooked song given that it’s sandwiched between “Beauty Queen” and “Editions Of You” (two much loved Roxy
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Roxy Music – Beauty Queen
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Valerie, please believe / It never could work out / The time to make plans / Has passed / Faded away / Ooh, the way you look / Makes my starry eyes shiver / Then I look away / Too
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Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
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In 1964 when Bryan Ferry was an art student he painted a picture titled “Virginia Plain”. It was reportedly of a packet of cigarettes and a woman on a plain (landscape feature
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Roxy Music – Dance Away
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Yesterday, when it seemed so cool / When I walked you home, kiss goodnight / I said "it's love", you said "alright" / Its funny how, I could never cry / Until tonight, when you
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Roxy Music – Sea Breezes
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I've been thinking now for a long time / How to go my own separate way / It's a shame to think about yesterday / It's a shame, a shame, it's a shame / (Chorus) / We've been running
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Roxy Music – The Main Thing
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Look at my hand, there's a soul on fire / You can lead me even higher / It's the main thing / The main thing / The main thing / Everybody knows there's a good thing gone / You can
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Roxy Music – Bitters End
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At last the crimson chord cascades / To shower dry cordials within / Too late to leap the chocolate gate / Pale fountains fizzing forth pink gin / While destiny prepares to fly
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Roxy Music – 2 H.B.
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Written as a tribute to Humphrey Bogart (2HB being an acronym for “To Humphrey Bogart”) and particularly his movie Casablanca.
The mid song sax solo by Andy MacKay – although
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Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model
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First track from self-titled debut album. Written by Bryan Ferry, who is also lead singer.
The song opens the record presenting Roxy Music with grandiloquence: it features Eno’s
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Roxy Music – Same Old Scene
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Nothing lasts forever / Of that I'm sure / Now you've made an offer / I'll take some more / Young loving may be / Oh so mean / Will I still survive / The same old scene? / In our
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Roxy Music – Chance Meeting
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I never thought I'd see you again / Where have you been until now? / Well how are you how have you been / It's a long time since we last met / It seems like yesterday when I first
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Roxy Music – The Thrill of It All
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The sky is dark / The wind is cold / The night is young / Before it's old and grey / We will know / The thrill of it all / The time has come / It's getting late / It's now or never
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Roxy Music – Would You Believe?
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Would you believe in what I do / When the things that I make are all for you? / And in a while I'll come to you / Showing showing why what I think will all come true / Well I'm
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Roxy Music – Editions of You
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Well, I'm here looking through an old picture frame / Just waiting for the perfect view / I hope something special will step in to my life / Another fine edition of you / A pin-up
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Roxy Music – The Bob (Medley)
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I dreamed last night about your face / Your star shone all night / Over the moon it shone brighter / Star shining so bright / You were so pure not for this world / So gentle and
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Roxy Music – Take a Chance with Me
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As they say, two can play / But keep that song away from me / In my time, too much love / Has made me sad for so long / I was blind, can't you see / Through the long, lonely night
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Roxy Music – My Only Love
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Do I ever wonder? / More than words can say / Heaven knows it's / Hard enough to pray / Let me tell you something / There's a change in me / Even now you're gone / You'll always be
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Roxy Music – Out of the Blue
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All your cares / Now they seem / Oh so far away / All your fears / I fear I once shared / Now I know / There's a future / For all of us / Not so long ago / I was so scared / You
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Roxy Music – A Song for Europe
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Here as I sit / At this empty cafe / Thinking of you / I remember / All those moments / Lost in wonder / That we'll never / Find again / Though the world / Is my oyster / It's only
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Roxy Music – Oh Yeah
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[Verse 1] / Some expression in your eyes / Overtook me by surprise / Where was I? / How was I to know? / Ohh oh ohh / [Bridge] / How can we drive to a movie show / When the music
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