 Genius Lyrics
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The Verve Pipe – The Freshmen
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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.
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The Verve Pipe – The Freshmen (acoustic)
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When I was young I knew everything / She, a punk who rarely ever took advice / Now I'm guilt-stricken, sobbin' with my head on the floor / Stopped a baby's breath and a shoe full
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The Verve Pipe – Suppertime!
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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'
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The Verve Pipe – Penny Is Poison
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Blushing a cue for her falsities / Advantage is my only masterpiece / Penny is poison but I don't mind / Penny is poison but I don't mind / Gardening malice for murderers / Flushes
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The Verve Pipe – Colorful
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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
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The Verve Pipe – Photograph
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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
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The Verve Pipe – La La
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With everyone around us singing la la / We slip out of their view / Then you thought you heard me singing la la / But I don't have the strength to / From the moment that I give out
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The Verve Pipe – Cereal
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I love my cereal, my cereal / Morning, noon and night / I love my cereal, my cereal / Satisfies my appetite / It could be sugar coated corn puffs shaped in a flake / One little
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The Verve Pipe – Villains
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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
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The Verve Pipe – Hero
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I can't believe that it was good for anyone / To be worth the wait / I tried to send you with your money's worth / And the attention sure felt great / With all eyes upon me / Some
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The Verve Pipe – Hit and Run
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What a dark day for a bright girl run down / Just a hop, skip, and a jump from town / Tuesdays are tedious / It's early in the week for tempting fate / But you were looking for a
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The Verve Pipe – Veneer
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Thirteen miles on 31 are drying / All along adopt-a-highway / Lay the empty cans of masquerade / Thirteen miles on 31 are drying / The sky is lavender with ivory clouds / That
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The Verve Pipe – Cup of Tea
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I'm visiting / The ground's a little weathered where I stood / Right field in my neighborhood / I was mostly last, always least, dig it / At graduation everyone / Will throw their
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The Verve Pipe – Somebody Someday
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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
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The Verve Pipe – No One's Gonna Break This Heart (Again)
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A part of you is lost and never found / When love lifts you then it lets you down / Suffering reality / You feel the weight of gravity / It grabs you and it pulls you to the ground
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The Verve Pipe – When One Became Two
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When one became two, well the two of us knew / That whatever will be's gonna be / And what was to be was that two became three / It's beginning to look like a family / I still
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The Verve Pipe – Medicate Myself
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I hear you cryin' for me / But I see the anger in your eyes / I want what will not judge me / I need what keeps me warm inside / A man without a purpose / Stares from the mirror on
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The Verve Pipe – Never Let You Down
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I'm trying to keep my feet on the ground / I'm getting to like this feeling I've found / I'm getting to love the thought of having you around / And I will never let you down / Your
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The Verve Pipe – Go To Sleep Now
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Go to sleep now / Warm in your bed / Go to sleep now / All your books have been read / Let the visions dance through your head / Rest your eyes, it's the end of the day / Hold my
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The Verve Pipe – Reverend Girl
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We are for today / We are for the moment / We are a crusade / But we are invalid / 1:00 AM rummaging / Stain my hands on her antique / 2:00 AM / Reverend girl / I am so indifferent
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The Verve Pipe – Television
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She's signing autographs for hours / The line is longer when you deal with amateurs / I've got some autographs of others / But a shirt that smells a little like her / Once the bane
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The Verve Pipe – Wonderful Waste
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Could you crawl any slower / You're such a church goer / Got the home field advantage / All that you can manage / Is to stay home drinking / The thought of it is bringing me down
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The Verve Pipe – Overboard
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Truth lives next to consequence / It comes and goes like winter wind / Blowing across the straits one night / Cold as death and real as sin / I loved her and she loved me / Bound
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The Verve Pipe – The Freeze
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What a happy place / A canopy of branches / On a bed of green / What a lovely scene / Now among the wild / With eyes upon me / I'm afraid to breathe / I am only flesh and bone
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The Verve Pipe – I Want All Of You
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I want all of you / I want all of you / From your feet up to your mouth / Every inch of north and south / I'll keep calling you / I'll keep calling you / Won't you listen to me say
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The Verve Pipe – Set Me on Fire
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Here I am / All alone in a crowd / Let this feeling / Crash over me now / 'Cause I'd rather feel lonely / Than nothing at all / So let me be lonely / Let me go, let me go / I've
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The Verve Pipe – Happiness Is
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The world is giving you the run around / It leaves you feeling low and let down / But happiness is wherever you find it / I'm not waiting for a friend beside me / Or for the Lord
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The Verve Pipe – She Has Faces
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She has faces up in her bedroom / And they gaze down on her / Guarding her slumber / A black bead rosary under her pillow / And when it thunders / She clutches it tightly / And she
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The Verve Pipe – Out Like A Lamb
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I'm feeling very moses like / You think that i could lead you? / Or humble, more like david / Would you help me cause i need you? / Or i'll be charismatic / With the power to
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The Verve Pipe – Drive You Mild
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And if I ever drive you mild / And suffering this open kiss / And I'm barely juvenile / When everyone is outrageous / And I alone will be sleeping through the afternoon / And if I
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The Verve Pipe – Forever Reaching
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It's just a thread of crimson that binds us / Wrapped in red, it always reminds us / This is how it begins / A moment found, try to keep it from ending / Who are we to defy gravity
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The Verve Pipe – Her Ornament
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Never really meant to volunteer / Felt the urge to stretch after a yawn and accidentally raised my hand / I just want to be her special someone who will never pioneer / I prefer to
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The Verve Pipe – If I Could Make You Feel
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If I could make you feel / If I could make you feel / It wouldn't matter what you feel as long as you feel it / If it's pain we'll find a way to heal it / If it's love I'll find a
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The Verve Pipe – She Loves Everybody
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She loves everybody / She loves everyone / Like the picture taken twenty years ago / That she keeps in her portfolio / He wants everybody / He wants anything / And they part the
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The Verve Pipe – Don't Say It's Over
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Fall to the floor / Facedown and cry, you're hearing your favorite song / But I cannot hide / Or promise that I won't ever again let you down / Don't say it's over / Don't say it's
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The Verve Pipe – Barely (If At All)
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When my love complained, every word / A breath on my last dandelion / And so lovers will leave and their tears / Souvenirs for the very first time / I searched the world reluctant
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The Verve Pipe – Gotta Move On
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Love is not strong / Love is not stable / I tried to hold it / But I wasn't able / I never thought that I'd be / Saying this to you / But what else could I do? / Love leads to loss
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The Verve Pipe – Complimentary Love
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There were times, better times / Back before we started losing our minds / I don't know why we can't say goodbye / And start looking ahead instead / So yesterdays were better days
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The Verve Pipe – Wake Up
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Wake up, wake up, wake up / It's time to go to school / Your mom and dad won't let you be a fool / Wake up, wake up, wake up / It's fun to get up early in the morning / Early in
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The Verve Pipe – The F Word
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I've got to get arrested / To keep you interested / And I should have known / That I can't change the world by staring at it / My arms have little feeling / From lifting to the
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The Verve Pipe – Found
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Here comes the restlessness again / Starts in my fingers then I'm bursting right out of my skin / My conscience whispers "time to go" / Born in my heart, it's the only thing I know
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The Verve Pipe – Cattle
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Boy, there was a day, an assortment of rhymes / And waving, we rode that parade for awhile / And everybody knew everybody / Boy, there was a day being lonely was hard / And then
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The Verve Pipe – I've Suffered a Head Injury
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la / (La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la) / La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la / (La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la) / Vanilla Iceman / Cometh
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The Verve Pipe – Colorful (Rock Star Version)
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Show is over, close the story book / There will be no encore / And all the random hands that I have shook / Well, they're reaching for the door / I watch their backs as they leave
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