Genius Lyrics
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Stevie Wonder – As
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Someone more interested in generating sales would have named this song “Always.” But Stevie already mastered the charts, so he named this song “As”, after the first word in the
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Stevie Wonder – Overjoyed
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“Overjoyed” is a single from Stevie Wonder’s 1985 hit album In Square Circle. The lyrics describe a man hoping to bring to reality a romance that he’s only dreamed of. The song was
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Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster (Jammin')
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The Reggae-inspired “Master Blaster (Jammin')” was the first single off Stevie Wonder’s 1980 album Hotter Than July. The song interpolates “Jamming” by Bob Marley and the Wailers
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Stevie Wonder – Someday at Christmas
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[Verse 1] / Someday at Christmas, men won't be boys / Playing with bombs like kids play with toys / One warm December, our hearts will see / A world where men are free / Someday at
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Stevie Wonder – Part-Time Lover
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“Part-Time Lover” was released as the lead single from Stevie Wonder’s 1985 album In Square Circle. It tells a story of undercover lovers, who hide their infidelity from their
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Stevie Wonder – Visions
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This the second track off of his critically acclaimed album, “Innervisions”.
Stevie Wonder talks about an ideal society where we are not only at peace with others but also with
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Stevie Wonder – I Just Called to Say I Love You
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This song was written, produced, and performed by Stevie Wonder for Gene Wilder’s October 1984 romantic-comedy, The Woman in Red. The song won both the Golden Globe and Academy
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Stevie Wonder – Skeletons
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“Skeletons” is the first single from Stevie Wonder’s relatively minor 1987 album, Characters.
The song peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the R&B chart. It remains
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Stevie Wonder (Ft. Dionne Warwick) – Weakness
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[Verse 1: Stevie Wonder + Dionne Warwick] / Every time I think our love is drifting apart / Something always throws it back together / And every time I think I've found someone new
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Stevie Wonder – Living for the City
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Wonder tells the life story of a black man living in Mississippi during the Civil Rights era.
The man has seen the hardships faced by his family, but doesn’t allow that to
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Stevie Wonder – Blowin’ in the Wind
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[Verse 1] / How many roads must a man walk down before they call him a man? / How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand? / How many times must those
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Stevie Wonder – The Masquerade
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[Verse 1] / Your eyes don't shine like they used to shine / And the thrill is gone when your lips meet mine / [Chorus] / I'm afraid the masquerade is over / And so is love, and so
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Stevie Wonder – Evil
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Stevie Wonder ends Music of My Mind with “Evil,” a melancholy track that sees him personifying evil and having a conversation in regard to evil’s motives within society. In a 2018
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Stevie Wonder – Black Man
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[Verse 1] / First man to die / For the flag we now hold high / Was a Black man / The ground where we stand / With a flag held in our hand / Was first the red man's / Guide of a
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LUCKI (Ft. Chance the Rapper) – Stevie Wonder
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Stevie Wonder – Saturn
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This song is the first of the four songs not originally on the Songs In The Key Of Life album, but appearing on the smaller EP entitled A Something’s Extra that went with the
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Stevie Wonder – Big Brother
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This Bluesy, Electric-Folk song was influenced by the book 1984 written by George Orwell. The song makes numerous references to the book in various verses.
As was often the case
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NSG (Ft. Aitch) – STEVIE WONDER
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[Intro] / What the fuck they talking 'bout man? / Them man are some mugs, you know? / How did we get here? We step on them / Kill 'em with a sledgehammer / Them man are ants to me
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Stevie Wonder – Another Star
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“Another Star” is a lengthy latin disco song about heartbreak and the difficulties of getting over a break-up. It is the final song of the main body of Songs in the Key of Life
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Gucci Mane & Future – Stevie Wonder
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[Verse 1: Gucci Mane] / They say money is the root of evil / I say money is the reason why I'm so rude to people / Ten women on a date and I'm treating nigga / I gotta say my grace
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Stevie Wonder – Lately
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[Verse 1] / Lately, I have had the strangest feeling / With no vivid reason here to find / Yet the thought of losing you's been hanging / 'Round my mind / Far more frequently you'
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Stevie Wonder – Village Ghetto Land
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The overall lyrical theme of “Village Ghetto Land” is the patronizing manner in which the wealthy choose to address socioeconomic disparity, if at all. Stevie explores this concept
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Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder – Ebony and Ivory
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A hit for both Paul and Stevie, “Ebony and Ivory” is a song about racial equality, using the black and white keys on a piano as a metaphor. Written exclusively by Paul, he decided
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Stevie Wonder – You Are the Sunshine of My Life
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“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” is a single from Stevie Wonder’s album Talking Book. It was written and produced by Stevie.
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in
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Stevie Wonder – Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing
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This song, with lyrics in Zulu and Spanish, talks about how love is what’s music is all about.
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Stevie Wonder – Sugar
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[Chorus] / Sugar, Sugar / How I wanna be your main boy / Sugar, Sugar / How I wanna be your play toy / [Verse 1] / Got no time for every woman / Thinking that she's looking fine
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Stevie Wonder – Creepin'
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[Verse 1] / I can hear you sighing / Saying you'll stay beside me / Why must it be / That you always creep / Into my dreams? / [Verse 2] / On the beach we're sitting / Hugging
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Stevie Wonder – Pastime Paradise
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Steve Lodder writes that the song can be understood in two different ways. It compares and contrasts the difference between the negative attitude of someone who has a flawed past
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Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour
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The song was originally written about Wonder’s girlfriend while he was at the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing, Michigan, and had the title “Oh My Marsha”. After they broke
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Stevie Wonder – Fingertips Pts. 1 & 2
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HOST: Right about now, ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to continue with our show by introducing to you a young man that is only 12 years old and he is considered to be the genius
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Stevie Wonder – Superstition
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“Superstition” was a pivotal shift not only in Stevie Wonder’s career, but also in popular black music. The song in some ways represents the end of the Civil Rights Movement and
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Godcaster – Don't Make Stevie Wonder
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[Refrain: Judson Kolk] / Don't make Stevie Wonder / Wonder if he's appreciated / Don't make Stevie Wonder / Wonder if he's appreciated, oh / [Chorus: Von Lee (Judson Kolk)] / One
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Stevie Wonder – Ribbon in the Sky
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Ribbon in the Sky was released as a surprise single for the promotion of Stevie Wonder’s greatest-hits compilation album Stevie Wonder’s Original Musiquarium I.
The song peaked at
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Stevie Wonder – Happy Birthday
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Today a staple at birthday parties, Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” originally served as an unofficial commercial to call up people to sign the petition for a Martin Luther King
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Stevie Wonder – Sunny
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[Verse 1] / Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain / Sunny, you smiled at me and really eased the pain / Oh, the dark days are gone and the bright days are here / My Sunny
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Stevie Wonder – Too High
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Stevie Wonder may be blind, but he reads the national landscape, particularly regarding black America, with penetrating insight on Innervisions, the peak of his 1972-73 run of
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Epic Rap Battles of History (Ft. Lilly Singh & T-Pain) – Wonder Woman vs Stevie Wonder
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The two biggest wonders of the world face off (no, not Great Wall vs. Great Pyramid) in rap battle of wonder-ful proportions. Get it? Anyway, DC Superhero and feminist icon Wonder
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Stevie Wonder – Have a Talk with God
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“Have a Talk with God” is an inspirational synth-funk tune about praying or communicating with God as a solution to one’s problems. It was nominated for ‘Best Inspirational
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Stevie Wonder – If It's Magic
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Though never mentioned explicitly, “If It’s Magic” is about love and its preciousness. And as the song warns, if we’re not careful, it will be short-lived.
The song is the 15th in
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