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TV on the Radio – Blues from Down Here
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[Verse 1] / From the depths I called you, Ma / For your breath and breast so warm and fabled / Your hands reached inside / Grabbed my heart, enlarged, disabled / Hailed for your
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TV on the Radio – Snakes and Martyrs
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Everyone makes the same wave at the same time / (Like pebbles on water) / And we call all those interrupting lines / (Sons and daughters) / A community / So let's join hands in
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TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
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The single that put TV on the Radio on the map en route to the huge success that was their album Return to Cookie Mountain, in 2006.
Tunde tells the story of becoming a werewolf
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TV on the Radio – Playhouses
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Playhouses / Swept away by the river now / Confounded / Sound it out now / Vodka cran in your hand and whose little girl are you now? / Oh, I'd ask for this dance / But I know you'
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TV on the Radio – Things You Can Do
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Prettiest one I know / Stole away all to show / You are so easy to love / You are so hard to let go / Prettiest world I know / Loveliest one I know / You were the first to come
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TV on the Radio – Wash the Day
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[Verse 1] / Little flightless metal birds / High above in limbless tree / Echoes from their tiny box / Ring out into the atmosphere / Creating beauty inadvertently / It was a
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TV on the Radio – Hours (El-P Remix)
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You walked around / Thought yourself beautiful / Just too bad they stare / Just too bad they stare / Broke up your crown / Called you unusable / See how well you fare / Stole
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TV on the Radio – Let the Devil In
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Beg the bee's forgiveness as it's falling from your sleeve / Watch its guts pump poison into sting / Watch it reach completeness, see it fall asleep / Legs above fold in eternal
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TV on the Radio – Hours
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You walked around, thought yourself beautiful / Just too bad they stared, just too bad they stared / Broke up your crown, called you "unusable" / See how well you fared / Stole
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TV on the Radio – A Method
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[Intro] / Eyes wide mine, suddenly everything / Flies by fine, mind goes on holiday / In its stead, clicking along the curb / Clucking tongues, how could they have the nerve? / [
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TV on the Radio – I Was a Lover
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I was a lover before this war / Held up in a luxury suite, behind a well-barricaded door / Now that I've cleaned up, gone legit / I can see clearly, round hole / Round hole, square
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TV on the Radio – Dirtywhirl
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[Verse 1] / Oh, there is a murderess amongst us / Her love is a violent spiral / Hurling in upon us / Conjured up at the birth of the world / Durga is a dancer / Mindless questions
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TV on the Radio – Tonight
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[Verse 1] / My mind is like an orchard / Clustered in frozen portraits / Of blossoms that bloomed so fine / Just to drop from the vine / I've seen 'em all tonight / [Chorus
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TV on the Radio (Ft. David Bowie) – Province
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[Verse 1] / Suddenly, all your history's ablaze / Try to breathe, as the world disintegrates / Just like autumn leaves, we're in for change / Holding tenderly to what remains / And
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Krystal Keith – Down Into Muddy Water
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[Verse 1] / Now you left me here and went out on the town / I don't know when I've been so down / The sky is dark, the moon's blue / I don't know what I'm gonna do / It's like
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Shelly Fairchild – Muddy Water
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[Verse 1] / Now you left me here and went out on the town / I don't know when I've been so down / The sky is dark, the moon is blue / I don't know what I'm gonna do / [Refrain
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Shakin' Stevens – Down into Muddy Water
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Now you left me here / And went on the town / I don't know when I've been so down / The sky is dark / The moon's blue / I don't know what I'm gonna do / It's like fallin' down into
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The Isley Brothers (Ft. Chanté Moore & R. Kelly) – Contagious
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[Intro: R. Kelly] / Here is a story about a man comin' in and / Finding his woman in bed with-- / Well, listen / [Verse 1: Ron Isley] / It's 2 A.M., I'm just getting in, about to
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Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
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“Wish You Were Here” is the title track on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album. The song’s lyrics encompass writer Roger Waters‘ feelings of alienation from other people, drawing particular
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The Animals – The House of the Rising Sun
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The Animals' version of the American folk song is considered one of the 20th century’s British pop classics. While the original version was sung in the character of a woman led
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John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads
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[Verse 1] / Almost Heaven, West Virginia / Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River / Life is old there, older than the trees / Younger than the mountains, growing like a breeze / [
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Kevin Costner & Modern West – Five Minutes From America
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I got two little kids in a broke down car / On the side of the road, in view of the Texaco star / I spent all of my money on water and food / I got a Willie on the radio, he's
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Cory Branan – Meantime Blues (Ardent Sessions)
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[Spoken] / Um, let's see, is that timer-- / (I'll get some Jack Daniels from my office if you want) / You just said, on the radio, that you have Jack Daniels in your office. Live
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Dub FX – Birds and the Bees
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[Intro] / It's a good night for the birds and the bees / Do you see the sunlight coming through the trees? / It's a good night for the birds and the bees / Do you see the sunlight
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Duran Duran – Ordinary World
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“Ordinary World” is the second track off of Duran Duran’s 1993 self titled album, known as “The Wedding Album.“ It was a big comeback single for the band, and is one of the two
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Ry Cooder – Cardboard Avenue
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[Verse 1] / Well, thank you for the drink my friend, that's alright with me / Let's drink to the workingman, wherever he might be / Remember what he stood up for and the struggles
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Genesis – Turn It On Again Medley (Live at Knebworth 1990)
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All I need is a TV show, that and my radio / Down on my luck again / Down on my luck again / I can show you, I can show you some of the people in my life / I can show you, I can
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Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
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In a BBC Radio interview, Lynne talked about writing “Mr. Blue Sky” after locking himself away in a Swiss chalet and attempting to write ELO’s follow-up to A New World Record:
It
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Lil Wayne – Fireman
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“Fireman” by Lil Wayne was the first single from his fifth studio album Tha Carter II. The single was produced by American production duo Doe Boyz, composed of Develop and Filthy
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Guns N' Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
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“Sweet Child O’ Mine” is the 9th track of Guns N’ Roses’ debut album Appetite for Destruction. The song became GNR’s most successful single, topping the Billboard Hot 100.
The
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The Weeknd – Wicked Games
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Abel finds himself in a first-person narrative exploring the subject of romance with a female (possibly a prostitute or stripper), knowing that it will fail in the end. Despite
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Journey – Don't Stop Believin'
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“Don’t Stop Believin'” was released as a single off of Journey’s hugely successful album Escape. To many, this song is considered the definitive Journey track. AllMusic’s Mike
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