 Genius Lyrics
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Rush – Seven Cities of Gold
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[Verse 1] / A man can lose his past, in a country like this / Wandering aimless / Parched and nameless / A Man could lose his way, in a country like this / Canyons and cactus
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Rush – Seven Cities of Gold [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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The Legend Had Passed Down For Generations. Far across the Western Sea, where the steamliners could not fly, lay a wilderness land hiding seven cities of gold. I dared the crossing
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Song Directory
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Jun 13, 2012 ... Rush – Wish Them Well Lyrics · Rush – BU2B2 Lyrics · Rush – The Wreckers Lyrics · Rush – Seven Cities of Gold Lyrics · Rush – Halo Effect Lyrics ...
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Rush – Force Ten [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Tough times demand tough talk / Demand tough hearts demand tough songs / Demand- / We can rise and fall like empires / Flow in and out like the tide / Be vain and smart, humble and
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Rush – The Percussor/Binary Love Theme/Steambanger’s Ball
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[Drum Solo]
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Rush – Carnies [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Under the gaze of the eight elms / A spectacle like you've never seen: / Spinning lights and faces / Demon music and gypsy queens! / The glint of iron wheels! / The bodies spin in
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Rush – YYZ [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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[instrumental]
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Rush – Far Cry [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Pariah dogs and wandering madmen / Barking at strangers and speaking in tongues / The ebb and flow of tidal fortune / Electrical changes are charging up the young / It's a far cry
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Rush – Wish Them Well [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Victimized, Bereaved, And Disappointed, Seemingly At Every Turn, I still resist feeling defeated, or cynical. I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in
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Rush – Peke’s Repose/Halo Effect [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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[Instrumental] / I Had Fallen Helplessly In Love with one of the performers. She was so different from “the girl I left behind,” and I was beginning to understand I had only
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Fivio Foreign, Kanye West & Alicia Keys – City of Gods
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“City of Gods” is a collaboration between Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys and is a triumphant ode to Fivio and Keys’ hometown of New York City. The song serves as the
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Rush – Manhattan Project [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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[Verse 1] / Imagine a time when it all began / In the dying days of a war / A weapon that would settle the score / Whoever found it first would be sure to do their worst / They
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Rush – Headlong Flight
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Geddy Lee explained to MusicRadar.com that the lyrics talk, “about our hero looking back over his life and seeing all the good and all the bad things he had done and yet he still
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Rush – Caravan
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The opening track of Rush’s 2012 concept album Clockwork Angels, and the lead single of the album. Written by drummer Neil Peart, “Caravan” describes both the initial setting and
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Audien (Ft. Michael SanFilippo) – Leaving You
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“Leaving You” was released in 2013 on Zouk Recordings. It was the immediate follow-up single to Audien’s smash hit “Wayfarer”, cementing his status as a big name in electronic
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Rush – Clockwork Angels
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In “Clockwork Angels,” the protagonist has arrived in Crown City and finds himself in awe of the wonders there. He describes the angels, which hover high above Chronos Square.
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Rush – BU2B2
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From the liner notes:
ii – The Pedlar 2
The ever-wandering pedlar.
“What do you lack?”
THOSE FATEFUL WORDS, “What do you lack?” spark an inner monologue about all that I have
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Rush – Carnies
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[Verse 1] / Under the gaze of the angels / A spectacle like he's never seen / Spinning lights and faces / Demon music and gypsy queens / [Chorus 1] / The glint of iron wheels / The
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Rush – The Garden [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Long Ago I Read A Story From Another Timeline about a character named Candide. He also survived a harrowing series of misadventures and tragedies, then settled on a farm near
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Nas (Ft. Lauryn Hill) – If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)
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Nas' exercise in Utopianism – inspired by Sir Thomas More (and Kurtis Blow).
Nas told Complex:
Being a hip-hop fan and Krush Groove fan, Kurtis Blow was my favorite rapper when I
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Rush – Halo Effect
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[Verse 1] / What did I see? / Fool that I was / A goddess, with wings on her heels / All my illusions / Projected on her / The ideal, that I wanted to see / [Chorus] / What did I
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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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Michael Jackson – Human Nature
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Human Nature, which peaked at No. 7 on the Hot 100, is one of Jackson’s best ballads, and one of the few songs to capture the wide-eyed, childlike wonder that is part and parcel of
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Rush – Wish Them Well
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[Chorus 1] / All that you can do is wish them well / All that you can do is wish them well / [Chorus 1] / All that you can do is wish them well / All that you can do is wish them
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Rush – BU2B
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BU2B and Caravan were both released as the first single off the twentieth studio album by Rush. The song tells the story of a young man who was brought up to believe in the world
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Rush – The Wreckers
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[Verse 1] / The breakers roar / On an unseen shore / In the teeth of a hurricane / Oh, we struggle in vain / A hellish night / A ghostly light / Appears through the driving rain
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Rush – The Garden
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The title of this track echos the conclusion of Voltaire’s “Candide” where the protagonist decides that the ultimate duty of life is simply to “cultivate our garden.”
The entire
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Lil Eddie – City Of My Heart
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Ooh, oh oh oh oh oh oh / Way over here from across the street / Wanna jump out the window, make you notice me / But when you give me the eye, I become a nervous guy (yeah) / Wish I
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Rush – The Anarchist
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The fourth track on Rush’s 2012 concept album Clockwork Angels, and the fourth single from the album. Written by drummer Neil Peart, “The Anarchist” introduces the album’s titular
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (Ft. Duke Bootee & Grandmaster Melle Mel) – The Message
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” may not have been the origin of conscious-rap in the early ‘80s, but it took the idea, ran away with it, married it, had
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Marco Lys – The Story Continues
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Focus [repeat]
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2Pac (Ft. Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman) – California Love
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2Pac and Dr. Dre rap about the many facets that accompany living the California lifestyle.
Arguably his most famous song, it was the first track he released after his stint in
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HelloThereThom – List of All-Time Owned Games
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By no means a comprehensive list (I played a lot of games when I was younger), these are just the games I can remember at the moment. Good times. The list doesn’t include games I’
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Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – The Schuyler Sisters
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Referred to as the Destiny’s Child number of the musical, “The Schuyler Sisters” explosively introduces two of Hamilton’s major female players, Angelica and Eliza Schuyler… as well
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Inner City – Good Life 2017
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[Verse 1] / Let me take you to a place I know you want to go / It's a good life, yeah / I wanna stand around and beg you / Just don't say no, no, no, no, no / I have got a feeling
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Publius Vergilius Maro – The Aeneid (book 6)
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[1] Thus he cries weeping, and gives his fleet the reins, and at last glides up to the shores of Euboean Cumae. They turn the prows seaward, then with the grip of anchors’ teeth
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