 Genius Lyrics
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Sting – Soul Cake
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[Chorus] / A soul cake, a soul cake / Please, good missus, a soul cake / An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry / Any good thing to make us all merry / A soul cake, a soul cake
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Sting – Balulalow
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[Verse] / O my dear heart, young Jesu sweit / Prepare thy creddil in my spreit / And I shall rock thee in my heart / And never mair from thee depart / But I shall praise thee
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De La Soul – Voodoo Circus
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[Dave] / Kick up the dust like "Another One Bites the" / It ain't the Queen version, see you heard 'em back on Bentley Road / With the show council - whattup Divine - the bell rang
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Sting – Now Winter Comes Slowly
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[Verse] / Now Winter comes slowly, Pale, Meager, and Old / First trembling with Age, and then quivering with Cold / Benummed with hard Frosts, and with snow covered over / Prays
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Sting – Cherry Tree Carol
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[Chorus] / When Joseph was an old man, an old man was he / He courted Virgin Mary, the queen of Galilee[x2] / [Verse] / When Joseph and Mary were walking one day / Here is apples
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Sting – The Burning Babe
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[Verse] / As I in hoary winter's night / Stood shivering in the snow / Surprised I was with sudden heat / Which made my heart to glow / And lifting up a fearful eye / To view what
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Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
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“Black Dog,” named after a Labrador dog that wandered around the studio while Led Zeppelin was recording, sees Robert Plant lamenting about a failed relationship with a gold digger
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Sting – Blake's Cradle Song
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Sweet dreams, form a shade / O'er my lovely infant's head / Sweet dreams of pleasant streams / By happy, silent, moony beams / Sweet Sleep, with soft down / Weave thy brows an
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Sting – Cold Song
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[Verse] / What power art thou who from below / Hast made me unwillingly and slow / From beds of everlasting snow? / Sees thou not how stiff, how stiff and wondrous old / Far, far
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Sting – Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
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[Verse] / Lo, how a Rose ever blooming / Lo, how a rose ever blooming / From tender stem hath sprung / Of Jesse's lineage coming / As men of old have sung / It came a flower bright
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Sting – You Only Cross My Mind in Winter
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[Verse] / Always this winter child / December's sun sits low against the sky / Cold light on frozen fields / The cattle in their stable lowing / When two walked this winter road
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JAY-Z (Ft. Kanye West & Rihanna) – Run This Town
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The three principal artists of Jay-Z’s newly-formed Roc Nation record label—Kanye West, Rihanna, and the Hov himself—announce to the world that they “run the town.” Jay explained
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Sting – The Coventry Carol
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Sting performed the sixteenth-century Christmas carol Coventry Carol which laments the Massacre of the Innocents at the orders of King Herod.
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Slice The Cake – Odyssey to the Gallows
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[Part 1. The Exile] / She said to me / "Let me put a spark in your smile, and paint whispers upon your lips / Paint sweet whispers of who we might yet be." / The dawn looked
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Sting – The Snow It Melts the Soonest
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[Chorus] / Oh, the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing / [Verse 1] / And the corn it ripens fastest when the frost is settling in / And when a woman tells me my
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Sting – Hurdy Gurdy Man
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[Verse] / In the snow there / Stands a hurdy gurdy man / With his frozen fingers / Plays as best he can / Barefoot on the ice / He shuffles to and fro / And his empty plate / It
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Sting – Bethlehem Down
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"When He is King we will give Him a King's gifts / Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown / Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph / Fair with her first-born on
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P!nk – Never Gonna Not Dance Again
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[Verse 1] / If someone told me that the world would end tonight / You could take all that I got, for once I wouldn't start a fight (Yeah, right) / You could have my liquor, take my
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Puff Daddy & the Family (Ft. 112 & Faith Evans) – I'll Be Missing You
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Puff Daddy’s tribute to his friend The Notorious B.I.G. was written, recorded, and released less than three months after Biggie’s death, and became one of the top-selling rap
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Meyhem Lauren, Madlib & DJ Muggs (Ft. Action Bronson) – Szechuan Capital
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[Intro] / Uh huh, [?] can't even let niggas around you / (DJ, MOTHAFUCKIN, MUGGS) / Yo / [Hook: Mayhem Lauren] / Protect your energy, counterproductiveness the enemy / I'm just an
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Cypress Hill (Ft. Barron Ricks) – Steel Magnolia
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[Intro] / Attendant: "That takes a fourteen shot clip / You expecting an army?" / Serpico: "No....just the division" / [Barron Ricks] / "Yeah, once again, (that's right) / We about
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Deadly Venoms (Ft. Jamie Sommers, La The Darkman & Lin Que) – Rap Scholar
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[Chorus: N-Tyce (DV's) {La the Darkman}] / We all Rap Scholars, we dimes amount to dollar / Anything less than a mill', don't even bother / What we out for? (Makin' paper) / Eh-yo
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eLZhi – Deep
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[Verse 1] / I’m the bell ringer, shell slinger / Hidin' bodies 'til the smell lingers / Until they pale as Renée Zellweger, when El sting ya / You feelin' like the braille finger
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Barenaked Ladies – One Week
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A quick summary of what’s going on here; the protagonist knows that he messed up with his girl, but he doesn’t want to admit it yet so he waits it out. The rap verses were recorded
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F.L.O (USA) – Burn Notice
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[Hook] / I tell 'em this is what we do / I know you hear me coming and you can deny it now but you can't hide / And there really ain't no way that you can stop it now but you can
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Jonny Farias & dIIP – Thanks For Waiting - Live at Union Tavern, Somerville, MA, April 29, 2023
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[Verse 1] / Alright, it’s seven kid, present, this penman is still the freshest / Took a while to lock in, but I’m back now, who guessed it? / Give ‘em something refreshing to
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LoganPlayz – Look At Me / People
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[Part I: Look At Me] / [Chorus] / Look at me, oh-oh-oh / Look at me, oh-oh-oh / Yeah, you know my luck and all of my studies / So look at me / Look at me, oh-oh-oh / Look at me, oh
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Diatheke – Splendour
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“Onward / Forward / Leave behind / Your anguish / Racing / Reaching / Gaze upon / The Splendour” / What sting is this that comes to afflict me / The skies fume red with fury
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Sting – Christmas at Sea
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[Verse] / All day we fought the tides between the North / Head and the South / All day we hauled the frozen sheets to escape the / Storms wet mouth / All day as cold as charity, in
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