 Genius Lyrics
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The Verve – Weeping Willow
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Weeping Willow stands the test of time because of its talk of guns under pillows and its intense, rich sonic layering.
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Richard Ashcroft – Weeping Willow
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When morning breaks / We hide our eyes and our lung's aching / Nothing's strange / It was in our hands from 6 to 10 / It slipped right out again / There'll be no better time
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The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony (MSG Version)
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[Instrumental]
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The Verve – Three Steps
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It's alright, alright / We're going through changes / Sometimes in life / You feel yourself rearranging / That's just the way it goes / Come on (repeat) / Why'know we nearly died
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The Verve – Echo Bass
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In the beds of a million homes / Lie the broken hearted / In the rooms in a million houses / Die the broken hearted / Tell me why, I just started / In the bridges, in the arches
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The Verve – Country Song
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Dying is easy / It's what I'm living for / I heard a beggar / As he wept on my floor / These days I just can't find my ground / No one seems to see me as I'm walking around / Cause
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The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work (Demo)
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All this talk of getting old / It's getting me down my love / Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown / This time I'm comin' down / And I hope you're thinking of me / As you lay down
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Warren Zeiders – Weeping Willow
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[Verse 1] / To her mama and her daddy, she's the best thing ever made / To the boys 'round here, she's the one that got away / To the bird on the barbwire, that girl looks like
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The Verve – The Longest Day
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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
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The Verve – So Sister
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I wrote your name in dust on a truck / As it rolled out of town / Just in case my love for you might be found / I cried my tears in a mountain stream / They'll sting you one day
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The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony (James Lavelle Remix)
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[Verse 1] / 'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony that's life / Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die / I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
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The Verve – Never Wanna See You Cry
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I don't like the way that you say you feel fine / When you look so down / And I don't like the way that the pills you take / They just keep you down / Shiny little minds / Trying
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The Verve – Lord I Guess I'll Never Know
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I heard you stirring in your sleep last night / I was awake with something on my mind / What happens when I leave, will you come with me? / These things I guess I'll never know
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The Verve – Stamped
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So, I'm living a bad dream / So, I'm living a bad dream / So, I'm living a bad scene / So, I'm living a bad dream / So, I'm having a bad dream / Oh, Oh, oh, oh ... / In a bad dream
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The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony (Extended Version)
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[Verse 1] / 'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony that's life / Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die / I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Willow Weep For Me
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Willow weep for me / Willow weep for me / Bend your branches green along the stream that runs to sea / Listen to my plea / Listen willow and weep for me / Gone my lovers dream
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Garth Brooks – Walking After Midnight
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[Verse 1] / I go out walkin' after midnight / Out in the starlight, just like we used to do / I'm always walkin' after midnight / Searchin' for you / [Verse 2] / I walk for miles
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The Verve – This Time
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[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
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The Verve – Neon Wilderness
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[Chorus] / In a neon wilderness / He was restless / Escape loneliness / Find a new address / [Bridge] / Stood before I sink / [Chorus] / In a neon wilderness / Spilled my last
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The Verve – Sonnet
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“Sonnet” verges on sappy, but some of Ashcroft’s Bono-tastic bombast makes the song soar.
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The Verve – Velvet Morning
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[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
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The Verve – The Drugs Don't Work
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“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.
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The Verve – Love Is Noise
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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
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The Verve – Catching the Butterfly
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[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
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The Verve – Lucky Man
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“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.
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The Verve – One Day
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[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
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Ella Fitzgerald – I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
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[Verse 1] / The poets say that all who love are blind / But I'm in love and I know what time it is / The good book go seek and ye shall find / Well, I have sought, and my, what a
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The Verve – The Rolling People
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[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
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The Verve (Ft. Liam Gallagher) – Come On
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[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
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The Verve – Space and Time
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“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
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The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
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“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
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Richard Ashcroft – Bittersweet Symphony
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[Verse 1] / 'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, my life / Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money, then you die / I wanna take you down the only road I've ever been down
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Richard Ashcroft – Lucky Man
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Happiness more or less / It's just a change me something in my levity / Oh my my / Happiness coming and going / I watch you look at me watch my fever growing, I know / Just where I
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Richard Ashcroft – Sonnet
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My friend and me / Looking through her red box of memories / Faded I'm sure / But love seems to stick in her veins you know / Yes, there's love if you want it / Don't sound like no
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Richard Ashcroft – Velvet Morning
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Yes, it's been long / And yes, I still feel strong / Into the half light / Another velvet morning for me, yeah / And time stands still / As you take your last pill / Into the half
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Richard Ashcroft – Space & Time
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There ain't no space and time / To keep our love alive / We have existence and it's all we share / There ain't no real truth / There ain't no real lies / Keep on pushin' 'cause I
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Richard Ashcroft – One Day
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One day maybe we will dance again / Under fiery skies / One day maybe you will love again / Love that never dies / One day maybe you will see the land / Touch skin with sand / You'
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Issey Cross – Bittersweet Goodbye
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[Verse] / I knew straight up when I met you / I saw it your eyes, thought it would be like mine / So don't think I'll ever forget you — no, no, no, but / Those moments spent with
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Duke Ellington – I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
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[Verse 1] / Never treats me sweet and gentle / The way he should / I got it bad and that ain't good / [Verse 2] / My poor heart is sentimental / Not made of wood / I got it bad and
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Richard Ashcroft – The Drugs Don’t Work
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All this talk of getting old / It's getting me down my love / Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown / This time I'm comin' down / And I hope you're thinking of me / As you're down
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First to Eleven – Bitter Sweet Symphony
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[Verse 1] / 'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony that's life / Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die / I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
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Richard Ashcroft – Check the Meaning
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When I'm low, and I'm weak, and I'm lost / I don't know who I can trust / Paranoia, the destroyer, comes knocking on my door / You know the pain drifts to days, turns to nights
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Richard Ashcroft – A Song for the Lovers
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[Verse 1] / I spend the night, yeah, looking for my insides / In a hotel room waiting for you / We're gonna make it tonight, yeah, something in the air / Tells me the time is right
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