 Genius Lyrics
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Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under
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“Seventeen Going Under” is the lead single from Sam Fender’s second album and describes the struggles he had at age 17.
The song was first performed on August 13th 2020 in
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Noah Kahan & Sam Fender – Homesick
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In the recent months, Noah Kahan, the artist behind “Stick Season,” has been actively revisiting his hits alongside some of the music industry’s major figures. Kahan’s latest
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Sam Fender – The Borders
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[Verse 1] / We were like brothers / Everybody said we looked the same / You a little taller, and broader, and bolder / We were afraid of your mother / Hell, she used to hit you so
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Sam Fender – Hypersonic Missiles
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Building upon this Brit Award winning artist’s theme of ‘starting again’ with society, toxic masculinity and the possibility of redemption, Sam Fender released “Hypersonic
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Sam Fender – Sad But True (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Hey, I'm your life, I'm the one who takes you there / Hey, I'm your life, I'm the one who cares / They, they betray, I'm your only true friend now / They, they'll
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Sam Fender – Getting Started
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[Verse 1] / Eighteen, failed dream / Attracted to a bad scene / Think I'll make a couple errands / Cataclysmic age to be / When you're out of luck and your mother's in need / I
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Sam Fender – Dead Boys
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“On average, 84 men take their own lives in the UK every week.”
The song is about how (British) society ignores or chooses to ignore male suicides, perhaps due to social stigma
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Sam Fender – White Privilege
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[Verse 1] / Start up my motor, eat, drink some burgers and cola / Feed my addictions and vices, oh, how my iPhone entices / My echo chamber media, regurgitated trivia / Befall the
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Sam Fender – Play God
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“Set in an alternate dystopian reality that shares similarities with our own world,” Sam Fender’s “Play God” revolves around the idea of an Orwellian overlord who controls society
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Sam Fender – Mantra
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[Verse 1] / "Please stop tryin' to impress people who don't care about you" / I repeat as a mantra / I've known this wicked waltzer all too long / It's the cycle I'm stuck on / And
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Sam Fender – Alright
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[Verse 1] / Something changed at twenty-four / Spent my days moving to and fro / From the bed to the bathroom floor / Tear away my rancid skin / This must be penance for my evasion
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Sam Fender – Long Way Off
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[Verse 1] / I've seen enough of it / The sides are all cemented / Their incentives look the same / Are they vetted in the same ways? / As the little guy puts blood and tears / In
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Sam Fender – Paradigms
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[Verse 1] / Every bully that had maimed you, bled you dry / And the blinkered say that boys will be boys / And they're just kids being sly / And they wonder why some die / [Verse 2
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Sam Fender – You're Not the Only One
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The song is about his best mate and himself “coming out on the other end of a bad place” and going out to party. He told Virgin Radio that “It’s a celebratory song about loving
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Sam Fender (Ft. Holly Humberstone) – Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)
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[Verse 1: Sam Fender, Holly Humberstone, Both] / I remember the sickness was forever / I remember snuff videos / Cold Septembers, the distances we covered / The fist fights on the
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Sam Fender – The Dying Light
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[Verse 1] / This town is a world of waifs and strays / Comedy giants, penniless heroes / Dead men at the bar, I've drank with them all / Through misadventure and drag / But I'm
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Sam Fender – Better of Me
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[Verse 1: Sam Fender] / It opened up Pandora's box / And it all came rushin' out like water / Trapped inside a pressurised vat / I lay crooked on the stairs / Pickin' fights with
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Sam Fender – Pretending That You're Dead
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[Verse 1] / Can't see through my letterbox / For piles of letters / And I can't get out my door / The bailiffs come / But I don't care 'bout that / And everybody's asking me
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Sam Fender – Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored (Live from BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge)
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[Verse 1] / You got me some type of way / Ain't used to feelin' this way / I do not know what to say / But I know I shouldn't think about it / Took one look at your face / Now I
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Sam Fender – Good Company
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The song juxtaposes the best and worst of himself, but he concludes that he always ends up giving the love interest of the song his worst side.
Debuted in Hamburg on the 5th March
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Sam Fender – That Sound
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[Verse 1] / Serotonin stole the moment / The best of me was left under / The bed-sheets on that sombre morning / Dying for some REM / My mind is always troubled with / Where have I
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Sam Fender – Get You Down
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[Verse 1] / I try again / I study the pattern / I see the triggers / But I can't shake 'em loose / And all of my anger / You take on the chin / [Chorus] / And I get you down / I
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Sam Fender – Saturday
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[Verse 1] / Overtired, overworked, underpaid, under pressure / Always tying up loose ends / The unchained melody out of tune, remedy for the weekend / To cure the weekday blues
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Sam Fender – Iris
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Lyrics From BBC Radio 2 Debut / [Verse 1] / Stumble 'round Clifford's Fort with no good intentions / Blag a few fish off the boats and make me way up the hill / That's the problem
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Sam Fender – Poltergeists
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[Verse 1] / This is where I make my stand / In the corner of the hotel room / With the receiver in one hand / Holdin' on to the wanin' sound / Of a crackled voice on a dodgy line
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Sam Fender – The Leveller
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[Verse 1] / Stunned by the stillness of it all / Waitin' in vain for the almighty crash / As little England rips itself to pieces / [Verse 2] / Buried my grandma along with her
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Sam Fender – Call Me Lover
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Sam penned this song when he was 19, he has since fallen out of love with it slightly as he admitted in a backstage interview after his Shepherd’s Bush gig (2/5/19).
He has
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Sam Fender – Last to Make It Home
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[Verse 1] / Mary, what looked like a mirage / Made of glimmering silver in sunken eyes / It was actually there in the palm of my hand / But your existence is widely debated / I'm
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Sam Fender – Two People
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In “Two People,” Sam Fender takes on the role of a bystanding balladeer, recalling the domestic violence he’d hear as a teen from a neighboring couple and feeling powerless to help
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Sam Fender – Use (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Emphatic, over-dramatic, pathetic stories are spun / 'Bout me and my loose tongue / They'll have the jealousy pouring out as they sniff up the filth / And text a tirade
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Sam Fender – Angel in Lothian
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[Verse 1] / Well an angel fell somewhere in Lothian / I was only a child but I trust my eyes / She burnt up like a comet before me / Before I could even say "Hi" / Saw kingdoms
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Sam Fender – Millenial
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In an interview with Live4ever Media, Fender said:
It’s a bit of, like, a tongue-in-cheek kind of response to the tabloids' view of millennials. But, at the same time, there are
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Sam Fender – Leave Fast
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This song is about the confined nature that small towns can have, and how difficult it can be to leave it all behind, much as you may want to.
Hailing from North Shields in the
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Sam Fender – The Kitchen - Live
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[Verse 1] / I have a friend called Jimmy / He loves his bed as a bar / He chews your ear off at four in the morning / Smoking Richmond‘s out the kitchen door / And I have a friend
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Sam Fender – Poundshop Kardashians
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Like many other Sam Fender songs of late, this is a brutally honest encapsulation of modern society. His social commentary uses the Kardashian family name to further isolate the
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Sam Fender – Winter Song
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[Spoken Intro] / [?] / [Verse 1] / When winter's shadowy fingers / First pursue you down the street / And your boots no longer lie / About the cold around your feet / Do you spare
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Sam Fender – Little Bull Of Blithe
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[Verse 1] / Call me your little bull of blithe / Call me the twinkle in your eye / You sing Sam-I-Am / Washed his face in a frying pan / And I was your little bull of blithe / [
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Sam Fender – Spit Of You
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[Verse 1] / They say I'm the spit of you / And they're not wrong / Bury my head too / Stomach hurts all the time / Can't shift it / Been like that since eight / Knotted up with the
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Sam Fender – Spice
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[Verse 1] / Bright kid leaves school / Gets job, hates it / Fakes it too long / Sees no way out / [Verse 2] / Can't talk to girls / No sex for years / Loses his will to live / But
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Sam Fender – Aye
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[Verse 1] / They don't act up for the camera / They just sit back and command them / And collect and deflect and abandon / They even wrote all the Ten Commandments / They watched
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Sam Fender – Friday Fighting
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Friday Fighting recounts a bar crawl from Sam’s perspective, in which he omni-presently observes scenes of bravado and instinctive behaviour by those around him.
In Sam’s
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Sam Fender – Dead Boys - Prelude
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[Instrumental] / I'm firing on three cylinders / If only I knew what you meant / I'm firing on three cylinders / If only I knew what you meant / I'm firing on three cylinders / If
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Sam Fender – All Is On My Side
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A social observation of the British night out culture follows a character on an evening bar crawl. Due to a lack of alternative, they reluctantly partake, but, Sam offers the
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Sam Fender – Greasy Spoon
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[Verse 1] / Sickly sweet candy beat / In a fragrant greasy spoon / Knock back black coffee / Work until the afternoon / [Hook] / She hardly sleeps / She hardly eats / She hardly
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Sam Fender – Hold Out
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[Verse 1] / Cab lines fill up with hot headed hard boys / Capering from the stand / Shivering lovers sharing coats and one liners / Awaiting the late night dance / Friday hyenas
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