 Genius Lyrics
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The Rolling Stones – Child of the Moon
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“http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOChildOf.html” is a mix of psychedelic & rock & roll, ultimately The Rolling Stones signaling their end with psychedelic music all together and a
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Bonnie Tyler – Love of a Rolling Stone
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You hate old Chicago ,in the winter time / When the cold wind blows right through you / And you said it ain't no fun / You called west a dream come true / Then one week it got the
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Father John Misty – To S.
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[Verse 1] / Flyin' on past in your voodoo mask / High on your own supply / And the way that you hold my hand to the bone / Honestly ain't half bad / [Chorus] / No / What about life
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Van Morrison – Into the Mystic
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From his 1970 album Moondance – a ballade that is as mysterious as the mysticism to which Morrison alludes throughout the song.
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The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers
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“Dead Flowers” is one of the most pessimistic songs ever written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. In it they describe a relationship in the process of breaking apart between a
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Bruce Springsteen – Radio Nowhere
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“Radio Nowhere”. The first song on the Boss’s 2007 album, Magic. According to a Rolling Stone interview, it’s about making a connection with people. Springsteen explained,
“It
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The Rolling Stones – Dreamy Skies
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[Verse 1] / Well, I got to take a break from it all / 'Cause the wind and the wilderness calls / And I just need some peace from the storms / I got to take a break from it all / [
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Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
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“Black Dog,” named after a Labrador dog that wandered around the studio while Led Zeppelin was recording, sees Robert Plant lamenting about a failed relationship with a gold digger
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Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
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Bob Dylan wrote “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” – one of his greatest compositions – during the summer of 1962. Although it is often linked with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Dylan
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Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
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“Stairway to Heaven” is one of Led Zeppelin’s most famous recordings, with many considering it the greatest rock song of all time. It tells the story of a greedy woman who is
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Eminem – Kill You
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“Kill You” is the opening track to the album, and is a lyrical tirade against Kim, Debbie Mathers, girlish rappers and women in general. The call-and-response part after the hook
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Taylor Swift – 'tis the damn season
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“‘tis the damn season” is the fourth track on evermore, and marks the first time that Taylor Swift has cursed in a song title.
In the liner notes of the album, Swift wrote that
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Van Morrison – Sweet Thing
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Sweet Thing is the only song on the album to look forward instead of backward. In the words of an Allmusic reviewer:
Over the endlessly descending, circular progression, Morrison
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The B-52's – Roam
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“Roam” was the fourth single from the B-52’s' 1989 hit album, Cosmic Thing. “Roam” hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart during March 1990.
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Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
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“Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison appears on his first solo studio album, Blowin' Your Mind (1967).
The song was originally titled “Brown Skinned Girl”, but the record label, Bang
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Beyoncé – Hold Up
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“Hold Up” is Beyoncé’s salacious and assertive ode to her partner. In it, she verifies that she loves him physically and emotionally, but also states her intention to figure out
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Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
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This track is a rework of the 1929 song “When the Levee Breaks,” a blues tune by the couple Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. It was written about the Great Mississippi Flood of
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Cory Morrow – Straight To Hell
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I grew up just west of the tracks / Holding me to hold you back, around your door she's calling out my name / She said son won't you go outside, I've got a man coming over tonight
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Ben E. King – Stand By Me
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Released in 1961, this song was inspired by the spiritual hymn “Lord Stand By Me”. It has since been recorded into more than 400 other versions.
It was ranked the 122nd out of
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Fat Freddy's Drop – Flashback
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There's something natural in the way you touch me / (Yeah) / It's a feeling that I can't describe / (Yeah) / There's something mystic in the soul connection / (Yeah) / There's
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The Chocolate Watchband – Misty Lane
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Chorus: / Down, Down, Misty Lane / Willow weep in the summer rain / Down, Down, Misty Lane / I wish that we were there again / The gentle grass that rests beneath us / As we lay
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Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
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Fleetwood Mac’s singer Stevie Nicks' signature song, one of the many classic hits produced by the group in the mid ‘70s, constantly voted as one of the top all time 500. Based on
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9
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Possibly ELP’s best-known song. 1st Impression-2nd Part opens with a rapid-fire organ ostinato on A-flat over a tambourine. Heldentenor vocalist Greg Lake opens with “Welcome back
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Nas – Take It in Blood
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This song was on Nas' sophomore album It Was Written
It features a sample of “Mixed up Moods and Attitudes” by the 70’s R&B Group The Fantastic Four and it also samples Kool Keith
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The Manhattans – The Way We Were / Memories
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Wish that I could wind / Like a spiral stair through time / With your body next to mine / Warm and satisfying / Wish that I could catch / A night train to the past / Climb aboard
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The Kinks – Misty Water
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By the town of Straight and Narrow / There's a dark and misty place / Everything is hazy / So the people are afraid / All except Maria's daughters / Who believe in misty ways
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The Turtles – The Walking Song
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[Verse 1] / Bacon fried, squinty-eyed, moments of the dawn / Misty street callin' me, "Get dressed and walk around" / In the square, standing there girl, so said "What's the matter
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band – "Belle" of the Earth
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The road is empty, the subway lies ahead / There is no music all the sounds have gone dead / The day is misty, there's no life around / 'Cause there's something wrong in this town
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Andrew Bird – Sisyphus
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[Verse 1] / Sisyphus peered into the mist / A stone's throw from the precipice, paused / Did he jump or did he fall as he gazed into the maw of the morning mist? / Did he raise
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The Residents – Hitler Was a Vegetarian
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["Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" by John Fred & His Playboys] / (Instrumental) / ["96 Tears" by Question Mark and the Mysterians] / Too many teardrops for one heart to be cryin
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 1
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Cold and misty morning, I heard a warning borne in the air / About an age of power no one had an hour to spare / Where the seeds have withered, silent children shivered, in the
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The Grateful Dead – Lost Sailor / Saint of Circumstance - Live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - 10/31/1979
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Compass card is spinning, helm is swinging to and fro / Oh, where is the dog star, oh, where's the moon / You're a lost sailor, been away too long at sea / Somedays the gales are
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The Kinks – Trust Your Heart
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The ninth song on Misfits.
Written by Dave Davies, this is the only song on the album not written by Ray Davies. It is a simple statement that when it gets down to it, the best
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Mandrake Paddle Steamer – Strange Walking Man
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[Verse 1] / There was a strange walking man / Leaving footsteps on my lawn / He cried, "I can't understand / My love left just before the dawn / From velvet valleys of dreams / By
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John Vincent III – That's Just The Way It Is, Babe
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[Verse 1] / Hey, hey, let's leave this whole thing behind / Buy ourselves some land, babe, and act like we own it / Somewhere down south where the skies feel like home / Outside of
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Element of Crime – A Ship Is Passing
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I could have been insomnia / On a misty night / The sound of your own breath / Keeps you from sleeping / So strange this stillness / In the middle of the night / The fog horn's
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