 Genius Lyrics
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The National – Slipped
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[Verse 1] / I'm in the city you hated, my eyes are falling / Counting the clicks with the living dead, my eyes are red / I'm in the crush and I hate it, my eyes are falling / I'm
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The National – Space Invader
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“Space Invader” features an extended instrumental outro of over three minutes with frontman Matt Berninger’s moody baritone mumbling throughout.
With a length of six minutes and
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The National – Hard to Find
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[Verse 1] / I can see the glowing lights / I can see them every night / Really not that far away / I could be there in a day / I wonder if you live there still / I kinda think you
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Lambchop – Slipped Dissolved and Loosed
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Well I'm not so well acquainted / With the topography of your mind / I need a detailed description / A representation of some kind / And i lost my balance / And toppled into a
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The National Wonder “What If?” On New Song “Space Invader”
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It’s one of two new singles from the group.
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The National – The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
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“The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” is the first single from The National’s seventh album Sleep Well Beast. According to an interview with Pitchfork, the song is “an
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Frightened Rabbit – State Hospital
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[Verse 1] / The half-backflip conception, state hospital birth / The most threadbare, tall story the country has ever heard / Brought home to breathe smoke in the arms of her
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David Bowie – God Knows I'm Good
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The song is written from the perspective of an observer in a supermarket that is seeing how a religious woman is trying to steal a stewing steak because she can’t afford it, while
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The National – About Today
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“About Today” is among the most depressive in a large catalog of depressive National tracks. In addition to its emotional impact, it’s quite clever in how it plays with conceptions
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Lorde – The Louvre
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“The Louvre” continues the euphoric narrative of excitement with Lorde’s relationship with her new crush, as established by preceding track “Homemade Dynamite.” Themes of obsession
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Radiohead – Kid A
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“Kid A” is one of the more challenging songs on Radiohead’s fourth LP. Much like the album’s opener, “Everything in its Right Place”, it is distinguished by a conspicuous lack of
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David Bowie – God Knows I'm Good (2019 Mix)
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[Intro] / I was walking through the counters of a national concern / And a cash machine was spitting by my shoulder / [Verse 1] / And I saw the multitude of faces, honest, rich and
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R.E.M. – Old Man Kensey - Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984
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[Verse 1] / Old man Kensey / Wants to be a sign painter / First, he's got to learn to read / He's going to be a clown on TV / Flexing his elbow, taut and free / (That's my folly) I
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Ricky Martin – Livin' la Vida Loca
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Martin’s biggest ever worldwide song, and a possible gateway to artists such as Shakira, Enrique Iglesias and even Paulina Rubio to cross over into the English speaking Billboard
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Linkin Park – Final Masquerade
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The heart-bleeding eleventh and penultimate track on Linkin Park’s sixth studio album, The Hunting Party, is a nostalgic callback to a brighter and more systematic time in rock
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Nikki Lynette – The Beautiful People
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[Intro] / I really love people who mouth off about you behind your back / And think it's not gonna get back to you / And then when it gets back to you / They really behave as if
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The National – Don't Swallow the Cap
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The first single off of The National’s 2013 release Trouble Will Find Me.
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The National – I Need My Girl
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“I Need My Girl” was written by all members of the band. It was released as a single (the fifth and final single from Trouble Will Find Me) in February 2014.
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Elvis Costello – I Lost You
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[Chorus] / I Lost You [2x] / You slipped from your costume / Like an actress in this tragedy / You're just an apparition in a haunting mystery / I fear that you've passed over me
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Bob Dylan – Pay in Blood
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[Verse 1] / Well I'm grinding my life out, steady and sure / Nothing more wretched than what I must endure / I'm drenched in the light that shines from the sun / I could stone you
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Sick of It All – Sidelined
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When I was distracted / And tricked to look away / Cowering from menace / I would capitulate / One by one / My freedoms slipped away / One by one / My senses dulled / I was
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The National – Pink Rabbits
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[Verse 1] / I couldn't find quiet, I went out in the rain / I was just soaking my head to unrattle my brain / Somebody said you disappeared in a crowd / I didn't understand then, I
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The National – Demons
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The first single off of The National’s album, Trouble Will Find Me, released on May 20th 2013 on 4AD records.
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JOHN (TIMESTWO) – Straight Lines
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[Verse 1] / Am I a shell / To be fossilized kind? / As I keep walking in the straight lines / Same face / Same figures on the right / 'Cause I keep walking in the straight lines
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The National – Learning
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A Perfume Genius cover, “Learning” was released as the B-side to the “I Need My Girl” single (which itself came with a cover contest for fans).
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Bad Company – Tracking Down A Runaway
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Call out the dogs and the National Guard / My baby got away and I'm taking it hard / I slipped the border and I jumped the train / I'll do anything to get her back again / Tracking
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Danny Michel – God Knows I'm Good
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I was walking through the counters of a national concern / And a cash machine was spitting by my shoulder / And I saw the multitude of faces, honest, stretched and clean / As the
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The National – Graceless
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In this song, Berninger talks about medicine and drugs (namely anti-depressants), and the effects that these can have on us.
The National first played the song during a concert at
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The National – I Should Live in Salt
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The opening track to The National’s 2013 album “Trouble Will Find Me,” is about lead vocalist Matt Berninger’s younger brother Tom.
Tom and Matt are almost a decade apart in age
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The National – Fireproof
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I think that’s mainly a romantic notion of a femme fatale kind of thing or someone who seems so emotionally indestructible, but then somehow that’s often a shell or a façade. In
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Free Rock – Higher Power
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Gone / But I don’t know where I’ve been / I guess I’m wrong / But I don’t see the point in / Dodging truth / It is not my business / Just for you / I am not forgiven / Every day
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The National – This Is the Last Time
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Written by Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner, This Is the Last Time is a song by The National, released in the band’s sixth studio album, Trouble Will Find Me (2013
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The National – Heavenfaced
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The band subsequently relocated to Dreamland Studios – located within a converted 19th century church, in West Hurley, New York – to record the track, “Fireproof”, entirely live
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The National – Humiliation
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“Humiliation” sees the main character feeling somewhat detached and indulging in some self-loathing.
Like many other tracks within The National’s Trouble Will Find Me, the song
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The National – Sea of Love
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On the Song Exploder podcast, lead singer and co-writer Matt Berninger explains:
[‘Sea of Love’ is] a romantic song about a man who’s bitten into the apple a little bit. It’s a
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Them Bird Things – Bible & a Buick
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Salla Day on vocals; Timo Vikkula on acoustic guitars and National Duolian; Arttu Tolonen on bass; Affe Forsman on drums and percussion.
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Snoop Dogg (Ft. Bad Azz, Kurupt, Mack 10, Techniec & Threat) – Keep It Real
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A popular once unreleased Death Row cut that is known most for being a popular collaboration of, at the time, a relatively unlikely combination of LA artists. However, it is also
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