 Genius Lyrics
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The Strokes – Chances
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[Intro] / I waited by 'ya / I waited for 'ya / I waited on 'ya / But now I don't / [Verse 1] / You didn't see it / I didn't see it / I didn't see it / But now, oh, I do / I play
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The Strokes – One Way Trigger
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[Intro] / (One, two, three) / [Verse 1] / Get dressed in your bed / While she's asleep / It isn’t right / But it isn’t hard / Tell me, tell me, won’t you understand / Show me, show
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The Strokes – Welcome to Japan
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[Verse] / If we don't watch the sun, it will rise / If we don't take our time, it's not wise / Putting posters up for your band / (Hey, we're playing a gig tonight if you wanna
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The Strokes – 80's Comedown Machine
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[Verse 1] / It's not the first time / That I've watched you / Passing by / I've tried too hard / To get back there / But, you’re not on time / Anymore / Tried to get in with you
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The Strokes – Threat of Joy
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As the third song, Threat of Joy represents the past, not only with the lyrics but the musical style. Casablancas channels his inner Lou Reed during the intro, while the
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The Strokes – Call It Fate, Call It Karma
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The last track off Comedown Machine.
Discussing the recording process with Zane Lowe, bassist Nikolai Fraiture said:
We got off tour and we had these songs, some left over and
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The Strokes – Fast Animals
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“Fast Animals” is the alternate version of the track “Slow Animals” from The Strokes' fifth album, Comedown Machine. It was featured as the B-side on the 7" release of the All The
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The Strokes – Tap Out
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[Verse 1] / They found our city under the water / Gotta get my hands on something new / You don't want to be without this / Something isn't adding up / [Pre-Chorus] / Decide my
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The Strokes – Trying Your Luck
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On this track, Casablancas discusses his romantic ventures with a woman he has strong feelings for, and how he is willing to leave it all on the line to try and get her.
The song
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The Strokes – Happy Ending
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[Verse 1] / Say it all / Just get it all off your chest / Shake it up / 500,000 times / Say no more / We don't believe anything / Teenage angst / Come all ages / [Chorus] / Baby
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The Strokes – Partners in Crime
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[Verse 1] / I forgot your jacket outdoors / Day's been something / See if I care / One; it's not okayish day, just so / But yes, if you insist / Okay / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh, alright
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The Strokes – All the Time
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[Verse 1] / Those that try anything once / Should we care about the only ones? / [Pre-Chorus 1] / All the time that I need is never quite enough / All the time that I have is all
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The Strokes – Slow Animals
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[Verse 1] / You don't have to be so loud / Everyone can hear you in this whole damn crowd / You don't have to try so hard / I think they got the message, you were out of your mind
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The Strokes – 50/50
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[Verse 1] / Why's she telling me the story of her life? / All the things you wanna kill will give you spite / And if you've taken all the prisoners inside / As they're doling out
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The Strokes – Barely Legal (Rough Trade Version)
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[Verse 1] / I didn't take no shortcuts / I spent the money that I saved up / Oh, mama running out of luck / Like my sister, don't give a fuck / Oh these strange manners, I love 'em
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D.notive (Ft. Tarby) – Second Chances
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[Verse 1] / I'm back at it again / And this time I will take you down with me / Time has given me its will / And I will that you don't rest at all / Keep looking over your shoulder
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October Fall – Second Chances
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I'm sick of second chances / Cigarettes turn to ashes / I'm standing under street signs / To know the places I've been my whole life / I watch the hours pass us / Another one burns
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Dancing Hoods – (Take My) Chances
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Should have took the short cut / Should have took the cash / I should have worked a little harder / To try to do more than just pass / But I didn’t know the short cut / Nobody told
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Ace BlueHunnidz – Second Chances
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I like the way my phone [?] and ring when I wake up / Couple miss calls from my lawyer, he gon' get a paycut / I be counting them racks you should go and see my pastor / And me and
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Athlete – Chances
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This song appeared on the BBC sci-fi series, Doctor Who, specifically in the episode Vincent and the Doctor, in which the Doctor visits Vincent Van Gogh.
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Billy Squier – The Stroke
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Like The Violent Femmes‘ “Blister in the Sun”, Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself”, and The Vapors’ “Turning Japanese”, this song’s writer stridently denies that it’s about
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Daft Punk (Ft. Julian Casablancas) – Instant Crush
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“Instant Crush,” the fourth single off of Random Access Memories, sees Daft Punk team up with Julian Casablancas from The Strokes in a mid tempo song with bass driven mellow verses
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Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone
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“Cornerstone” is the seventh track of Arctic Monkeys’ 2009 release Humbug, and the second single to be released from the album.
The song has a straightforward narrative. The
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Grade 8 – Chances Are
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Chances are... / Chances are I'd be dead if I never left / I need some truth to believe / I'm just inside a disease / I need to rest peaceful in my mind / That is before I reach
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BlvkDivmonds (Ft. Delta Deez) – REGI ICE
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[Chorus: BlvkDivmonds] / Pull up with a dragon on your block / This Rayquaza beam'll graze you, he get tailored 'cause he shot, uh / Regi Ice, my wrist got Regi rocks / If I blame
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Weiland – Broken Ego
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[Verse 1] / Can't love until you love yourself / Too scared to look in the mirror / The empty shell that stares me back / My confidence begins to crack / [Verse 2] / I waited for
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