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The Black Keys – Strange Desire
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[Intro] / Oh~ooh~oh, oh~oh oh-oh / Oh~ooh~oh, oh-oh / Oh~ooh~oh, oh~oh oh-oh / Oh~ooh~oh, oh-oh / [Verse 1] / I don't want to go to hell / But if I do it'll be 'cause of you / And
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The Black Keys – Modern Times
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[Verse 1] / They're going to get to it tomorrow / But they don't care at all / They're going to ease your pain and sorrow / But we heard the same before / All my loving friends
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The Black Keys – Goodbye Babylon
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[Verse 1] / Well I came to see / And what I found was not alright with me / Desperation, suffocation / And it'd been the same thing all along / [Chorus] / Goodbye Babylon / Goodbye
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The Black Keys – Elevator
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[Verse 1] / In the elevator I pick my floor / And if I want to battle I pick my war / [Chorus] / Hold tight / Hold on / Hold tight / I was blind for a time / Now I find / The
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The Black Keys – The Flame
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[Verse 1] / Out of all the things you've ever done / This time I can't go back / When a heart gets broke this many times / It's easy to lose track / [Chorus] / Taking all this pain
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The Black Keys – Just Got to Be
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[Verse 1] / When it come to pride / And other sinful matters / You're gonna be mislead / Left there in tatters / [Pre-Chorus] / I got to go because / Something on my mind / And it
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The Black Keys – Give Your Heart Away
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[Verse 1] / Follow you down, hold your hand / Make you realize I'm the only man / Who got the will and the way / To be the one to give my heart away, yeah / Yeah right oh / [Verse
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The Black Keys – Just a Little Heat
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[Verse 1] / Just a little heat / Now on this cold day / You know it would take my / Worry away, worry away / [Chorus] / It's in my head / I can't let go / No matter what you said
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The Black Keys – Your Touch
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[Verse 1] / And I want / And you got it / So much / I'm crazy for / [Chorus] / Your touch / Your touch / Your touch / Your touch / [Verse 2] / And I'll be good / Like I should
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The Black Keys – You’re the One
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[Verse 1] / When I was thirteen / My mom said "Son / You're the one I adore” / Now I'm old and wise / When I see your eyes / You're the one I adore / [Chorus] / Oh, oh, ooh, oh
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The Black Keys – Black Door
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[Verse 1] / What's behind your black door? / I want to know, I want to know, yeah / May take a week, honey, it may take more / I want to know, I want to know / [Break] / Oh, oh, oh
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Smoke Fairies – Strange Moon Rising
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[Verse 1] / Leaving the keys behind me / I felt you in the dark / A feeling crept inside me / Like twisted wire and rust / [Verse 2] / Drove where the headlights led me / The
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James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Chap. 1)
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I know that in writing the following pages I am divulging the great secret of my life, the secret which for some years I have guarded far more carefully than any of my earthly
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Danja Mowf (Ft. Shawn Chapelle) – Strange Fruit
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Chorus: Shawn Chapelle / Southern trees, bare us strange fruit / Blood on the leaves, blood at the roots / Black bodies swingin, in the Southern breeze / All that strange fruit
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Stranger Than Kindness
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“Stranger than kindness” deals with themes of passion and desire, but also depression and suicide.
The title may be in reference to Tennessee Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Stranger Than Kindness - Live from KCRW
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[Verse 1] / Stranger than kindness / Bottled light from hotels / Spilling everything / Wet hand from the volcano / It's sobers your skin / Stranger than kindness / [Verse 2] / You
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Stranger Than Kindness (Live at Alexandra Palace, 2020)
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Stranger than kindness / Bottled light from hotels / Spilling everything / Wet hand from the volcano / Sobers your skin / Stranger than kindness / You caress yourself / And grind
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Desire Marea – Be Free
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I tried to love you babe / You don't want to be free / Addicted to all your pain / You stay bound to the streets / I find it very lame / That you fear yourself / You live to lose
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Fever Ray – Stranger Than Kindness
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[Verse 1] / Stranger than kindness / Bottled light from hotels / Spilling everything / Wet hand from the volcano / Sobers your skin / [Verse 2] / Stranger than kindness / You
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Curren$y (Ft. Fiend & T.Y.) – Speculation
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(Intro: Curren$y) / Pulled up like FedEx / Double R headrest / Pulled up like FedEx / Double R headrest / Bad bitch sleeping on a Crooks and Castles bed set / Got keys to her pad
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Deftones – Urantia
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“Urantia” might refer to “The Urantia Book”, a book published in 1955 by the Urantia Foundation.
“Urantia” is a name given to Planet Earth in the book. The book, which has the
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Patsy Cline – That's My Desire
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[Verse] / To spend one night with you / In our old rendezvous / And reminisce with you / That's my desire! / To meet where gypsies play / Down in that dim cafe / And dance until
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dark Necessities
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Anthony Kiedis, who wrote the lyrics to “Dark Necessities” in Hawaii, explained that the song:
speaks to the beauty of our dark sides and how much creativity and growth and light
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Emanuel X (Ft. RexRiot) – Black Beamer Raps
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[Verse 1: Emanuel X] / First time in it knew / Pussy was Power/ / That's when I learned talk to women / About themselves and they'll listen for hours/ / But I don't have the / Time
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Sade – Smooth Operator
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“Smooth Operator” was the third single from Sade’s blockbuster debut album Diamond Life, which takes its title from the first line of this song. The single reached #5 on the US
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Lucifer Cast (Ft. Tom Ellis) – Wicked Game
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This song initially appears like other musical numbers in the show, with Lucifer (Tom Ellis) sitting at his piano and playing this morose Chris Isaak cover. However, God (Dennis
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NF – HOPE
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“HOPE” is NF’s first release of 2023 and his first release since his March 2021 mixtape, CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE), it serves as the lead single, intro and title track of his fifth
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Noisey (Ft. Action Bronson, Alexander Spit, A$ton Matthews, Bobby Creekwater, Bodega Bamz, Bryant Dope, CUZ Lightyear, CyHi, Danny Brown, Da$H, Del Harris, Flatbush Zombies, Heems, Killer Mike, Kilo Kish, Meyhem Lauren, Mike G, Nigel Nasty, Nipsey Hussle, Pill, Pregnant Boy, Problem, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Pusha T, Raekwon, Remy Banks, Renegade El Rey, RetcH, Rockie Fresh, Scotty ATL, Two-9, Vado, Yak Ballz, YG, Young Thug & Zebra Katz) – The Rap Monument
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44 Emcees all rapped a verse for Noisey’s “The Rap Monument”, the song was recorded during three sessions (held in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York) everything was put together
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Adele – Rolling in the Deep
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The 2012 song and record of the Year at the Grammy’s, “Rolling In The Deep” was described in an interview with Spin Magazine as a ‘gospel disco’ kiss-off to an unfaithful dude:
It
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Nas – N.Y. State of Mind
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Nas displays complex lyricism with his “N.Y. State of Mind” over a track from Gang Starr’s DJ Premier. The chorus samples a Rakim line from the track “Mahogany,” which is fitting
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Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities (Chap 3.13)
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Fifty-two / In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited their fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon
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Kutt Calhoun (Ft. Bishop Young Don) – Bouncin' Booties
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[Chorus: Bishop Young Don] / Bouncin booties, bouncin booties / That's what's up / Bouncin booties / That's what's up / Bounce it for me / Girl, that booty / You've got me like "Oo
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NPR – The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+
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200. Lori McKenna, "Humble & Kind" / 199. Rapsody (ft. BJ The Chicago Kid), "Black & Ugly" / 198. Demi Lovato, "Cool For The Summer" / 197. Kaki King, "Playing With Pink Noise
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