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The Kinks – Strangers
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“Strangers” was written by Dave Davies, the Kinks' guitarist and younger brother of Ray Davies. The song has always served as a highlight in Davies' solo sets and was used, to
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Lucius – Strangers
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[Verse 1] / Where are you going I don't mind / I've killed my world and I've killed my time / So, where do I go what do I see / I see many people coming after me / So where you're
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The Kinks – Strangers Samples
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See all of “Strangers” by The Kinks’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The Kinks – Strangers Covers
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See all of “Strangers” by The Kinks’s covers
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Kush Mody (Ft. Leah Goldman & Watsky) – Strangers
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[Chorus 1: Leah Goldman] / Where are you going I don't mind / I've killed my world and I've killed my time / So where do I go what do I see / I see many people coming after me / So
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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 – Guilty
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Stand before your maker, it will make or break you / While living for today / I know you, you are a faker, don't try me I will take you / While living for today / Don't stand in
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The Kinks – What Are We Doing?
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What am I doing in a place like this / When it's painfully clear that my face don't fit? / What am I doing acting identikit / When all I want to do is to be the opposite? / Why am
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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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Christopher Cross – Loving Strangers
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Young and free, kicking the fences down / Somewhere hearts are breaking but he can't hear the sound / They got nothin' in common / He smiles away on the wings of a dream / He's all
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The Kinks – The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached
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Haven't we come a long way / From newly-weds in our bed-sitter flat? / We skimped and scraped every penny / For a down payment on our semi-detached / New towns for all the young
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The Kinks – Anytime
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You can walk outside / On a crowded street / People pass you by / And no one stops to speak / And when you haven't got a friend / And the world's falling down around you / And you
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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 – The Contenders (Instrumental Demo)
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Instrumental
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The Kinks – Bright Lights (Bonus Track)
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Time's running out just as fast as it can / She's leaving me cold / I don't understand / Hearts beating hard on the edge of the floor / Gotta kill this pain 'cause I can't take no
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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 – Entertainment
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There's been another assassination / T.V. cameras moving in / To shoot the bloodstains on the pavement / And get them on the News at Ten / Will he live or will he die, before we go
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Norah Jones – Strangers (Live at the Living Room)
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Where are you going I don't mind / I've killed my world and I've killed my time / So where do I go what do I see / I see many people coming after me / So where are you going to I
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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 – War Is Over
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Old soldiers talk about the battles fought / To build a better world for me and you / They sacrificed their lives to make a dream come true / Now they're forgotten men remembered
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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 – Denmark Street
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This song outlines the signing of The Contenders, despite the fact that the label executive hates their music and their look. But, as the exec states, he signs them up because he’d
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The Kinks – A Long Way from Home
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The song addresses a successful pop star from the point of view of a wiser acquaintance who sees how the star has lost his way, giving in to materialism and forgetting the people
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The Kinks – Down All the Days (Till 1992)
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Down all the days / Though the past is just a blink away / The future waits for me and you / Down all the days to 1992 / Here is hope for all the people / And generations yet to
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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 – 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 – Now and Then
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In the beginning of it all there was the land / And the sea and she sky / Then into the middle of it all there came man / To live on the land / And then a great nation / Put into
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The Kinks – Get Back in Line
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During a period of high unemployment, a young man goes to the union hall to see whether any work is available, a daily ritual that he finds degrading. He deplores his dependence on
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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 – Top of the Pops
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“Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One” is a concept album that plots the career trajectory of a band from its humble beginnings to its signing to its success to its
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