 Genius Lyrics
|
|
The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
|
|
“Bitter Sweet Symphony” is perhaps the most ambitious Britpop hit of the late 90s. It is now absolutely everywhere. It’s lyrically opaque, and it is six minutes long, but that hasn
|
|
|
The Verve – Lucky Man
|
|
“Lucky Man” was released as the third single off of Urban Hymns. It applies the same formula to existential angst that Whitney Houston called The Greatest Love of All.
|
|
|
The Verve – The Drugs Don't Work
|
|
“The Drugs Don’t Work” was released as the second single off of Urban Hymns. One interpretation is that it was written following the death of singer Richard Ashcroft’s father.
|
|
The Verve Pipe – Colorful
|
|
The show is over - close the storybook / There will be no encore / And all the random hands that i have shook / Well, they're reaching for the door / I watch the backs as they
|
|
|
The Verve – Sonnet
|
|
“Sonnet” verges on sappy, but some of Ashcroft’s Bono-tastic bombast makes the song soar.
|
|
The Verve – Already There
|
|
[Verse 1] / Seen it all / I'm already there / Seen it all / I'm already there / Save your books and your pills / I don't need them, I'm there / Save your books and your pills / I
|
|
The Verve – Love Is Noise
|
|
Released as the first single from their 2008 album Forth, “Love Is Noise” was The Verve’s first release since the band broke up in 1999. It was a big success for the band, reaching
|
|
The Verve – Muhammad Ali
|
|
You gotta want it / Really want it / Gonna paint a picture / So vivid in colour / You'll wanna buy another / You'll wanna buy another / Who feels history? / Who needs history
|
|
|
The Verve – Slide Away
|
|
[Verse 1] / So take your time / I wonder if you're here just to use my mind / Don't take it slow / You know I've got a place to go / You always do that / Something I'm not quite
|
|
The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony (MSG Version)
|
|
[Instrumental]
|
|
The Verve (Ft. Liam Gallagher) – Come On
|
|
[Verse 1] / I must be feeling low / I talked to God in a phone box on my way home / I told you my answer / I left you my dreams on your answer machine, oh / [Chorus] / Come on
|
|
Ren – Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve retake)
|
|
[Verse] / I've got dirt on my Reeboks from staying out all night / I spent my last ten pounds on this pack of Marlboro Lights / I phoned up Stevie, I said "G, you alright?" / He
|
|
|
The Verve – Star Sail
|
|
[Verse 1] / Hello, it's me, it's me / Callin' out I can see you / Hello, it's me, cryin' out / Cryin' out, are you there? / [Verse 2] / Hello, it's me, it's me / I want to touch
|
|
The Verve – Jalfrezi
|
|
There's nothing left to say / All the words been used up anyhow / I noticed from today / And your life's on time release / And the magics growing stronger yea / You must becoming
|
|
The Verve Pipe – Photograph
|
|
If you want beautiful, pitiful / Have me in a picture / And if you want make me dance, throw me 'round / Spin upon your finger / Blind labors the blind and I am / Unwilling to
|
|
The Verve – Twilight
|
|
[Verse] / What i said / Couldn't be that good / Because you left / You left / What i did / Seems so strange now / When i touch you / And you taught me / And what we did / Was
|
|
The Verve – Gravity Grave
|
|
[Verse 1] / Get Back, get back again and again / I've been here since I can remember when / My life is a boat, being blown by you / With nothing ahead, just the deepest blue / [
|
|
|
The Verve – Weeping Willow
|
|
Weeping Willow stands the test of time because of its talk of guns under pillows and its intense, rich sonic layering.
|
|
The Verve – History
|
|
[Verse 1] / I wander lonely streets / Behind where the old Thames does flow / And in every face I meet / Reminds me of what I have run from / [Chorus] / In every man, in every hand
|
|
|
The Verve – Appalachian Springs
|
|
Does anybody know where we're really gonna go? / I was wondering if we've got that real soul / You know the thing you cannot trade or ever own / Does anybody know where we're
|
|
|
The Verve – The Rolling People
|
|
[Intro] / Big shout out / [Verse 1] / I got one more life / Can you see it wasting away? / But I got a plan, oh / Do you understand? / [Verse 2] / The drugstore wife / I was
|
|
|
The Verve – Velvet Morning
|
|
[Verse 1] / Yes / It's been long / And yes / I still feel strong / [Refrain] / Into the half light / Another velvet morning for me, yeah / [Verse 2] / Time / Stands still / As you
|
|
|
The Verve – Butterfly
|
|
[Verse 1] / You could flap your wings a thousand miles away, butterfly / A laughing salesman sings, his world so far away, butterfly / [Chorus] / Butterfly / Butterfly / [Verse 2
|
|
|
The Verve – Space and Time
|
|
“Space and Time” is a ballad from The Verve’s 1997 album, Urban Hymns.
This song reflects on two people that are in a long term relationship based on physical attraction and
|
|
|
The Verve – All night long
|
|
This is awakening / Waiting for the night to come / Wishing you was with me / Yeah, I can feel the morning sun / Grant me a promise / Love come along, yeah / Oh, all night long
|
|
The Verve – Blue
|
|
[Verse 1] / There you were on the floor cut up / And all alone I'll help you / Conceived in a chrome dream I was a crease / In the shirt that this world wears / Till I met Blue, I
|
|
|
The Verve – The Longest Day
|
|
Oh, I know it's supposed to be / Some kind of visionary / Laying on your head / We've got you in our hands / Ah, we've been here for so long / Yeah, there's nothing changed
|
|
|
The Verve – Valium Skies
|
|
[Verse 1] / How do you keep yourself from folding? / Seems like the whole world is losing / How do you stop yourself from giving in? / Seems like the whole world is frying / [
|
|
The Verve Pipe – The Freshmen
|
|
This sleeper hit by The Verve Pipe was recorded in 1992 acoustically, then re-released as a hit single in 1996. It is considered by many to be the band’s trademark song.
The
|
|
|
The Verve – All in the Mind
|
|
[Verse 1] / So I got in the car / We drove for a mile / I didn't even learn her name / She said: "You've got the money and I've got the time / [Chorus 1] / Five years later on
|
|
|
The Verve – This Time
|
|
[Verse 1] / Looking back on my life / You know that all I see are things I coulda changed / I should have done / Where did the good times go? / Good times so hard to hold / This
|
|
|
The Verve – A Northern Soul
|
|
“A Northern Soul” is Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft’s response to the Oasis song Noel Gallagher dedicated to Ashcroft, “Cast No Shadow”.
|
|
|
The Verve – Virtual World
|
|
[Verse 1] / See the water break my hand / No one knows my name, I'm not in demand / Signs are right, the signs are here / Who needs a virtual world / When I can see it now? / I can
|
|
|
The Verve Pipe – Villains
|
|
I turned the volume up this morning / 'Till there was ringing in my ears / I haven't felt this good in years / Another villain on the cover / Of every major magazine / The victim
|
|
|
The Verve – The Crab
|
|
Oh no, no, no, no / And I'm watching her die / On my TV / And the daddy cries / How could it be / And it could be you / And it could be me / Child full of giving / Child full of
|
|
The Verve Pipe – Somebody Someday
|
|
There's a promise of an open road / A wanderlust awoken / But that promise is a pinky swear / And it's likely to be broken / Throwing dollars at the desperate times / Begging
|
|
|
The Verve – Catching the Butterfly
|
|
[Verse 1] / So you born / And so you thought / The future's ours / To keep and hold / Oh, child within / Has healing ways / It sees it through / My darkest days / [Chorus] / I'm
|
|
The Verve Pipe – Suppertime!
|
|
Why do we call it a hamburger there's no ham in it / Why do we call it a sandwich there's no sand in it / Why do we call it a hotdog if there's no dog in it (or is there?) / I don'
|
|
|
The Verve – One Day
|
|
[Verse 1] / One day maybe we will dance again / Under fiery skies / One day maybe you will love again / Love that never dies / [Verse 2] / One day maybe you will see the land
|
|
|
The Verve – Mover
|
|
Well, I read about the soldier / Found dead in his hole / And I read about the future / If I bought and sold / I'm a mover / I can't sleep at night / I'm a mover / I can't sleep at
|
|
|
The Verve – Make It 'Till Monday
|
|
[Chorus] / Hey, my friend, are we gonna make it till Monday? / [Verse 1] / Another Friday night waiting for a revelation / I can see a million faces in the condensation / In a
|
|
|
The Verve – So It Goes
|
|
[Verse 1] / Life / Roll my die / Change this life / You said this movie was mine / But now you go and change your mind / This is my life / [Chorus 1] / So it goes / You come in on
|
