 Genius Lyrics
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The Smiths – Back to the Old House
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[Verse 1] / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / There's too many bad memories / Too many memories there / [Refrain] / Oh
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The Smiths – Back to the Old House (John Peel Session 9/14/83)
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[Verse 1] / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / There's too many bad memories / Too many memories there / There / [Verse
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Billy Bragg – Back to the Old House
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I would rather not go back to the old house / I would rather not go back to the old house / Too many memories, bad memories / Too many memories there / When you cycled by, here
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The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
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Sire Records chief Seymour Stein called it “the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ of the Eighties”, while co-writer Johnny Marr described it as “possibly our most enduring record. It’s most
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The Smiths – What Difference Does it Make? - Single Edit
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[Verse 1] / All men have secrets and here is mine / So let it be known / For we have been through hell and high tide / I can think I can rely on you / And yet you start to recoil
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The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians (Peel session, August 1984)
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[Verse 1] / The last night of the fair / By the big wheel generator / A boy is stabbed and his money is grabbed / And the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine / She is famous, she
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The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes
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“This Night Has Opened My Eyes” is inspired by and retells the events of the play A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, as Morrissey told interviewers at NME in the 7 June 1986
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The Smiths – Reel Around The Fountain (Troy Tate Version)
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[Verse 1] / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / You made
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The Smiths – William, It Was Really Nothing
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This song is about a love triangle between 2 men and a woman. Many believe it’s addressed to William Mackenzie, lead singer of the Associates. In 1993 Mackenzie wrote the song “
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The Smiths – Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
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This is a typical Morrissey song about a person who is upset or depressed, and doesn’t want to waste any more time on thoughtless people. It was released as a single backed with “
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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Perhaps the Smiths at their most delicate, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” is a minimal, yet lush two minutes of almost otherworldly beauty.
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The Smiths – Still Ill (John Peel Session 14/09/83)
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[Verse 1] / I decree today that life / Is simply taking and not giving / England is mine, and it owes me a living / Ask me why and I'll spit in your eye / Oh ask me why and I'll
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The Smiths – Girl Afraid
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On “Girl Afraid” Morrisey plays with the word girlfriend as “girl afraid” and boyfriend as “boy afraid”. The song deals with mistaken assumptions in the relationship of said girl
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The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
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“The Queen is Dead” parodies media fascination with the royal family over bombastic guitar bursts and an aggressive bass line. Officially listed on physical tracklist as “The Queen
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The Smiths – This Charming Man
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“This Charming Man” is The Smiths' second single of 1983, depicting the story of a poor boy coming in contact with an upper class man and feeling unwelcome due to his lack of
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” is a sacred Smiths classic by now, one that makes fans across the globe join hands and mope together. To some it is a depressive anthem, to
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The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session 18/05/83)
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[Verse 1] / All men have secrets and here is mine / So let it be known / We have been through hell and high tide / I can surely rely on you / And yet you start to recoil / Heavy
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The Smiths – These Things Take Time (David Jensen Session 26/06/83)
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[Verse 1] / Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind / You took me behind a disused railway line / And said, "I know a place where we can go / Where we are not known
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The Smiths – Is It Really So Strange?
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“Is It Really So Strange?” describes Morrissey’s friend Linda and her movements in living in both Manchester and London after her art exhibition was moved to the capital. She
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The Smiths – Hand in Glove (Single A-side Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Hand in glove / The sun shines out of our behinds / No, it's not like any other love / This one is different, because it's us / Hand in glove / We can go wherever we
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The Smiths – Handsome Devil (John Peel Session 18/05/83)
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“Handsome Devil” appears on the November 1984 compilation album Hatful Of Hollow, having been recorded originally during the John Peel session at the BBC, May 31, 1983.
The lyrics
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Phoebe Bridgers – Smoke Signals
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Smoke signals are a form of communication in which a person would use fire and smoke to transmit or communicate a message to another person across a long distance.
In the song
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The Smiths – Golden Lights
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Widely accepted as one of the Smiths' worst songs, “Golden Lights” is a cover of English singer-songwriter Twinkle’s 1965 single about an ordinary lad who loses all sight of his
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The Smiths – Stretch out and Wait
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“Stretch Out And Wait” is about how everyone in the world nowadays (1987) only thinks about getting laid, and how far people will go to find someone to achieve this with. It seems
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Bessie Smith – Back-Water Blues
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[Verse 1] / When it rained five days, and the sky turned dark as night / When it rained five days, and the sky turned dark as night / Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at
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The Smiths – Sweet and Tender Hooligan
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Morrissey uses sarcasm and satire to ridicule the justice system in the way of how it forgives the young “sweet and tender hooligans.” In the song he’s playing a role of a
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The Smiths – Sheila Take a Bow
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[Verse 1] / Is it wrong to want to live on your own? / No, it's not wrong, but I must know / How can someone so young sing words so sad? / [Chorus] / Sheila take a, Sheila take a
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Polo G – Bloody Canvas
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On “Bloody Canvas,” Polo G narrates a story of gang violence and revenge over a mellow, piano-heavy trap instrumental.
While Polo has not specified its origin, the track’s lyrics
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Drake (Ft. JAY-Z) – Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2
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One of the most anticipated songs off Nothing Was The Same, which was originally a loose Magna Carta… Holy Grail track, features El Padrino himself. This marks the third time they’
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Lauren Spencer Smith – Fingers Crossed
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On “Fingers Crossed” Lauren sings of an ex-lover, and remembers when the pair were still together. Spencer-Smith recalls the good and bad of the relationship, going from the two
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Drake – Jaded
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“Jaded” is about Drake feeling used by his love interest. The term describes a person who has been hurt so much that they’ve become numb to pain and indifferent about relationships
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The Smiths – I Know It's Over
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“I Know It’s Over” is a ballad for the desperate and lonely. It uses basic allusions to the idea of loneliness producing despair, but the attention to the speaker’s ego, and how it
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AUGUST 08 – Minivan
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[Verse 1] / I can see your old house from here / Doesn't feel the same without you near / We used to chase down stars in the dead of night / Drinking E&J, blowing on a Paradise / I
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Lauren Spencer Smith – Flowers
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A 31-second snippet of “Flowers” was first shared on Lauren Spencer-Smith’s TikTok on March 3, 2022 with over 4.5 million views. When shared again on TikTok on March 16, 2022, this
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Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
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Tears For Fears' biggest chart hit, peaking at #2 in their home country of Britain and topping the charts in the US, Canada and New Zealand. Although a massive hit, Rule The World
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Elliott Smith – True Love
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Kevin Moyer, the producer of the documentary film Heaven Adores You said of True Love, as it appears on the Heaven Adores You soundtrack:
This was a song that Elliott would often
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J. Cole – Back to the Topic (Freestyle)
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J. Cole drives around and gets high. He’s got a lot on his mind, ok?
Original instrumental: “Must Be Love” by Cassie
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Radiohead – No Surprises
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“No Surprises” is the fourth and final single from Radiohead’s third album, OK Computer. It was the first song to be recorded for the album, and the band actually stuck with the
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