 Genius Lyrics
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The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
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The Kinks' biggest hit (with Apologies to Lola’s advocates) from 1966, one of a long string of satirical hits – in this case criticizing the privileged ones who “suffered” from the
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The Kinks – Destroyer
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A song from the Kinks’ 1981 album, Give The People What They Want. It is nostalgic in that it is based off of previous hits for the hand like “All Day And All Of The Night” and “
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The Kinks – A Well Respected Man
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One of the Kinks' songs lambasting the social ills of British society, such as Sunny Afternoon and Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Written in 1965 by Ray Davies.
The song was on
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The Kinks – Moments
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Come on love / Let's forget about all the things that we've done wrong / Just remember all of the things that we've done right / I'm in no mood to argue and I'm in no mood to fight
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The Kinks – Phobia
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Everybody got something hidden / In a darkness deep inside / Everybody gotta fatal flaw / Everybody got something to hide / Take a look into my eyes / See the fear and silent cries
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The Kinks – Apeman
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The song is about a man who is unhappy with the modern world, thus desiring to escape the human condition and live in the jungle like an apeman. Many of Ray Davies' songs have
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The Kinks – Rats
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[Verse 1] / I was lost, just wandering 'round downtown / Many people were pushing me around / Hate spreads just like infection / Those rats jumping on and off my back / Fat black
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The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society
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This iconic Kinks song did not sell well on its release as a single.
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The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
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Initially called “Liverpool Sunset”, but changed to Waterloo Sunset after the Beatles released Penny Lane, their Liverpool stomping ground.
A very personal song by Ray Davies; per
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The Kinks – Victoria
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If you’re going to do a concept album about the Victorian era, you’d better start it off by making absolutely certain that the listener knows what you’re doing. “Victoria
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The Kinks – Arthur
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The closing track of the normal release of the Kinks' 1969 album, Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). Named after the main character of the album, Arthur Morgan
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The Kinks – Lola
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Lola is an attractive transvestite, according to songwriter Ray Davies, and the narrator is a young man flattered by the attention paid to him by her.
Davies claimed that he was
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The Kinks – Starstruck
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[Verse 1] / Baby, you don't know what you're saying / Because you're a victim of bright city lights / And your mind is not right / You think the world's at your feet / [Chorus] / '
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The Kinks – All Day and All of the Night
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The second hit by the Kinks – reached #2 in the UK and #7 in the US; it followed “You Really Got Me”, and it is very similar as well – same beat, similar riff and subject.
The
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The Kinks – Drivin'
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[Verse 1] / It seems like all the world is fighting / They're even talking of a war / Let all the Russians and the Chinese and the Spanish do their fighting / The sun is shining
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The Kinks – Picture Book
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[Verse 1] / Picture yourself when you're getting on / Sat by the fireside a-pondering on / [Chorus 1] / Picture book, pictures of your mama / Taken by your papa, a long time ago
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The Kinks – 20th Century Man
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The opening song for the Kinks’ 1971 album, Muswell Hillbillies. The song sets the overall theme for the album, referencing various later songs in the album like “Acute
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The Kinks – Got to Be Free
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The closing song of the Kinks’ 1970 album, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround. It shows the narrator breaking away from the music industry, longing to be free. It’s implied
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The Kinks – The Contenders
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“Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One” is a concept album detailing the career trajectory of a band—from their humble beginnings to their signing to their success to
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The Kinks – Demolition
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(Sung by Flash and his Cronies in their Den) / I spy with my little eye / Anything here that I can buy / I see a little thatched cottage / Looking so neat / With compulsory
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The Kinks – Days
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[Verse] / Thank you for the days / Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me / I'm thinking of the days / I won't forget a single day, believe me / I bless the light / I
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The Kinks – Predictable
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Don't know why I'm even bothering / (Predictable) Yeah, that's the mood I'm in / Go out for a walk then I come back in / (Predictable) Yeah, the mood that I'm in / (Predictable
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The Kinks – A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
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The fourth song on Misfits.
A semi-autobiographical song detailing Ray Davies and his brother Dave Davies considering breaking up The Kinks.
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The Kinks – Monica
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[Verse 1] / Under a lamplight / Monica stands at midnight / And every guy, he think he can buy her love / But money can't buy sweet lovin' from Monica / [Verse 2] / Morning to
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The Kinks – Powerman
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[Verse 1] / I know a man, he's a powerful man / Got the people in his power in the palm of his hand / He started at the bottom but he worked his way up / Now he's never going to
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The Kinks – Village Green
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[Verse 1] / Out in the country / Far from all the soot and noise of the city / There's a village green / Oh, it's been a long time / Since I last set eyes on the church with the
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The Kinks – Attitude
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You go down the pub / You wear make up / And old dad's trousers / Why don't you tidy up / You talk like a docker but you act like a queer / You drink champagne then complain it's
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The Kinks – The Moneygoround
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The Kinks had signed exploitative recording, publishing and management contracts that resulted in nearly all the money they made from songwriting, recording and touring being
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The Kinks – Do You Remember Walter?
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Shortly before the release of the Village Green Preservation album, Ray Davies told Melody Maker magazine that:
[…] Walter was a friend of mine, we used to play football together
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The Kinks – Alcohol
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One of many songs describing and lamenting social ills in the English society, from an album whose theme was this subject, Muswell Hillbillies.
Muswell was the London section
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The Kinks – Sitting by the Riverside
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The instrumentation on this song consists primarily of mellotron and piano.
It’s a song about, shock horror, sitting by the river side with a lover.
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The Kinks – Father Christmas
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The story of a man playing Santa outside a store when some kids attack him and demand money for Christmas. They have no use for toys as they won’t help the children and their
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The Kinks – Tired of Waiting for You
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[Chorus] / So tired, tired of waiting / Tired of waiting for you / So tired, tired of waiting / Tired of waiting for you / [Verse] / I was a lonely soul / I had nobody 'til I met
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The Kinks – Come Dancing
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In “Come Dancing”, frontman Ray Davies remembers when his big sister’s boyfriends would take her on dates to their local Palais de Danse. Despite its upbeat facade, Davies wrote
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The Kinks – The Good Life (Bonus Track)
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Well I failed my education / And I failed at my first job / Well I failed so bad that I nearly broke down / But then the good, good life came and turned my head around / Then a fat
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The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow
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Ray sings about that feeling you get on a long flight, having left the hustle and bustle for a bit, and you can just relax, detached from it all, looking out from your seat. The
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The Kinks – Fancy
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[Verse 1] / Fancy, if you believe in what I believe in / Then we'll be the same, always / Fancy, just look around thee / If you will fancy all the girls you see, always / [Verse 2
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The Kinks – Holiday
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[Chorus] / Holiday / Oh, what a lovely day today / I'm, oh, so glad they sent me away / To have a little holiday today, holiday / Holiday / And I'm just standing on the end of a
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