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TV on the Radio – Lover's Day
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[Verse 1] / Oh, but the longing is terrible / A wanton heart under attack / I wanna love you all the way off / I wanna break your back / Color of all that's hysterical / Travels
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TV on the Radio – DLZ
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Written by Adebimpe, this song was released in 2008 on TV on the Radio’s third studio album, Dear Science.
Although it was never released as a single, DLZ is one of the band’s
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TV on the Radio – Family Tree
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“Family Tree” swirls with warm electronic beats and harmonics that detail the story of two lovers and the prejudice they face from one of their families.
It’s a track that’s
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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 – Ride
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Seventh track from TV on the Radio’s 2014 album, Seeds. In an interview, Tunde Adebimpe explains:
It’s a positive song about teaming up against despair. It’s literally the ride of
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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 – Second Song
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[Verse] / Confidence and ignorance approved me / Define my day today / I've tried so hard to shut it down, lock it up / Gently walk away / Appetites and impulses confuse me
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TV Girl – Lovers Rock
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The ninth track off TV Girl’s French Exit, “Lovers Rock” is a love ballad named after the reggae sub-genre Lovers Rock, common in the ‘70s and '80s, which was noted for its
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TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
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The song was first released in 2003 in TV on the Radio’s EP Young Liars. Another version, with a shortened intro, was released in 2004 in the band’s album Desperate Youth, Blood
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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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TV on the Radio – Love Dog
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In a way, “Love Dog” acts as a counterpoint to TVOTR’s 2006 single, “Wolf Like Me”. But in lieu of savage guitars and lust-packed lyrics, “Love Dog” drips with tender pathos and
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TV on the Radio – Shout Me Out
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[Verse 1] / Storm, cast me out / So I can feel it in another way / I won't talk about / Woah, passenger's hide / If I can feed it for another day / It might run me dry / [Pre-
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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 – Red Dress
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[Verse 1] / Hey Jackboot / Fuck your war / Cause I'm fat and in love / And no bombs are falling on me for sure / But I'm scared to death / That I'm living a life not worth dying
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TV on the Radio – Golden Age
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[Verse 1] / Heartbeat sounding / Ricocheting in their cage / Thought I'd lose my balance / With the ground's bounce and sway / And all this violence / And all this goes away / And
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Halfway Home
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The lazy way they turned your head / Into a rest stop for the dead / And did it all in gold and blue and gray / The efforts to allay your dread / In spite of all you knew and said
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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 – 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 – 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 – Crying
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[Verse 1] / Laugh in the face of death under masthead / Hold your breath through late breaking disasters / Next to news of the trite / And the codes and the feelings / That meant
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TV on the Radio – Dancing Choose
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[Verse 1] / He's a what? He's a what? He's a newspaper man / And he gets his best ideas from a newspaper stand / From his boots to his pants to his comments and his rants / He
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TV on the Radio – Stork & Owl
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“Stork & Owl” is fourth song on TV on the Radio’s third studio album, released on September 22, 2008.
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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 – 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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Modern Talking – TV Makes the Superstar (Radio Edit)
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You take your chance / To be the one / And anything is possibel / If you’re strong, oh yeah / Sometimes you up / Sometimes you down / But you feel it in your heart / You can’t go
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K.T. Oslin – Hold Me
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Husband comes in and he said wife / Turn down the radio turn off the TV listen to me / Let me tell you about my day / So she sits down and she listens and he begins to speak / When
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Rumi – No Room for Form
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This poem provided the inspiration for the song “Staring at the Sun,” by TV on the Radio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uo2WLQ2LVA
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