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Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply
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Australian pop duo Savage Garden released a string of smash hits in the late ‘90s, but 1997’s “Truly Madly Deeply” became their signature song. Vocalist Darren Hayes reflected on
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Savage Garden – Crash and Burn
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[Verse 1] / When you feel all alone / And the world has turned its back on you / Give me a moment, please / To tame your wild wild heart / I know you feel like the walls are
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Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You
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“I Knew I Loved You” is a ballad by Australian pop duo Savage Garden about intuitive and inevitable love.
It was the first song to reach #1 on the Billboard charts by an
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Savage Garden – To the Moon & Back
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The first track on Savage Garden’s debut self-titled album. It tells the story of a woman who struggles with intimacy and is looking for someone to love her despite her flaws and
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Savage Garden – The Animal Song
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[Verse 1] / When superstars and cannonballs are running through your head / A television freak show, cops and robbers everywhere / [Verse 2] / Subway makes me nervous, people
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Savage Garden – I Want You
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This was Savage Garden’s breakout hit. “I Want You” was released in North America in February of 1997, where it peaked at No. 4 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and by April
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Savage Garden – Hold Me
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[Verse 1] / Hey / If we can't find our way out of these problems / Then maybe we don't need this / Standing face to face / Enemies at war, we build defenses / And secret hiding
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Savage Garden – Affirmation
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[Verse 1] / I believe the sun should never set upon an argument / I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands / I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's
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Savage Garden – Santa Monica
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In Santa Monica, in the wintertime / The lazy streets so undemanding / I walk into the crowd / In Santa Monica, you get your coffee from / The coolest places on the promenade
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Savage Garden – Chained to You
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[Verse 1] / We were standing all alone / You were leaning in to speak to me / Acting like a mover shaker, dancing to Madonna / Then you kissed me / And I think about it all the
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Savage Garden – Violet
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[Verse 1] / If there's a way that you could / Be everything you want to be / Would you complain that it came / Too easy? / Just like the games with you and me / A resolution hard
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Savage Garden – Break Me Shake Me
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[Verse 1] / I never thought I'd change my opinion again / But you moved me in a way that I've never known / You moved me in a way that I've never known / But straight away you just
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Savage Garden – Cherry cola
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Any time i need to see your face / I just close my eyes and i am taken to a place / Where your crystal mind and magenta feelings taken shelter / In the base of my spine, sweet like
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Savage Garden – Universe
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[Intro] / Hey, hey, yeah / [Verse 1] / Well, I'd like to take you as I find you / Imagine our clothes are on the floor / Feel my caress so soft and gentle / So delicate, you cry
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Savage Garden – The Lover After Me
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Many lyrics on this album are reflective of Darren’s divorce. This song details what one feels when the relationship has ended and the other party has moved on but you cannot. It’s
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Savage Garden – Mine
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[Chorus] / I wait in the darkness / Frozen winds surround my face / In the cover of darkness I can make believe; it's you / I feel you like the rain, I feel you like a storm cloud
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Savage Garden – Promises
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[Verse 1] / Well, don't you know I need a little indulgence? / We'll listen to the hunter becoming hunted / Every day there's a million advances / But don't be too forceful; you'll
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Savage Garden – Two Beds and a Coffee Machine
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Darren’s father was an alcoholic and was physically abusive.
This song details what women go through due to the domestic violence.
His father became abstinent when Darren was
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Savage Garden – Tears of Pearls
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[Verse 1] / And we stare each other down like victims in the grind / Probing all the weakness and hurt still left behind / And we cry / The tears of pearls / We do it, oh, we do it
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Savage Garden – All Around Me
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[Verse 1] / Well, you know every time I look at that expression printed on the page, I think I hear you / Whispering the magic and the compliments I need so badly / So baby, come
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Savage Garden – The Best Thing
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[Chorus] / Never want to fly, never wanna leave / Never wanna say what you mean to me / Never want to run, frightened to believe / You're the best thing about me / [Verse 1
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Savage Garden – A Thousand Words
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[Verse 1] / We stumble in a tangled web / Decaying friendships almost dead / And hide behind a mask of lies / We twist and turn and we avoid / All hope of salvage now devoid / I
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Savage Garden – Carry on Dancing
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[Verse 1] / The moonlight / Shines down interstellar beams / And the groove tonight / Is something more than you've ever seen / The stars and planets taking shape / A stolen kiss
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Savage Garden – I Don't Know You Anymore
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[Verse 1] / I would like to visit you for a while / Get away and out of this city / Maybe I shouldn't have called but someone had to be the first to break / We can go sit on your
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Savage Garden – You Can Still Be Free
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Cool breeze and autumn leaves / Slow motion daylight / A lone pair of watchful eyes / Oversee the living / Feel the presence all around / A tortured soul / A wound unhealing / No
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Savage Garden – Fire Inside The Man
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Woman I need your guiding hand / Show me the way to the promised land / The fever that burns in my heart / You're the fire inside the man, yes you are / Whenever I feel like just
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Savage Garden – I'll Bet He Was Cool
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[Intro] / Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah / [Verse 1] / You know every once in a while / I shoot the breeze I spend my time / I talk about silly things / I like to talk about Jesus Christ / '
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Savage Garden – Gunning Down Romance
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[Verse 1] / Love and other moments are just chemical reactions in your brain / And feelings of aggression are the absence of the love drug in / Your veins / In your veins / Love
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Savage Garden – I Don't Care
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I ride this train / In the windswept afternoon / And the sunlight warms the faces / Of the faithless who are waiting / I ride this train / But I need a conversation / Mozambique or
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Savage Garden – This Side Of Me
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I want to move in time with you / I want to breathe in rhyme with you / I want to feel the deepest kiss / And I want to know you feel like this / For this one time, one time / Let
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Savage Garden – Mine (And You Could Be)
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Q&A · 1. I Knew I Loved You · 2. I Knew I Loved You (7" Mini Me Mix) (Unreleased) · 3. Mine (And You Could Be) (Unreleased).
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Savage Garden – I Want You (Hot Radio Mix)
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[Chorus] / Ooh, I want you, I don't know if I need you, but / Ooh, I'd die to find out / Ooh, I want you, I don't know if I need you, but / Ooh, I'd die to find out / Ooh, I want
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