Genius Lyrics
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Audra McDonald – Tom
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One year ago, the twelfth of May / That luncheonette where he appeared / I see him first, and then he smiles / I won't forget, I won't forget— / Something sad is playing on the
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Chevelle – Tom
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And I don't think I'd like to feel this / I wanna make the craving stop now / So pity now, many forces coming down / Alive now / Yes, a bothersome bunch, a few / And they carry
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Holy Fuck – Tom Tom
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I defy all the crooked little smiles of them / I defy the beady little eyes of them / Execution of a useless plan / Execution of a useless man / I defy the crooked little smiles of
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Steve Goodman – Turnpike Tom
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First time I met old Turnpike Tom / Sittin' in a diner in Bloomington / He said "Are you going my way?" / He had a sleeping bag and his hat was torn / And both his thumbs were two
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Fat Ron & Eat – Peeping Tom
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Looking at you / Talking to you / Touching on you / Can you see me? / I'm looking at you / Can you hear me? / I'm talking to you / Can you feel me? / I'm touching on you / Aw don't
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Rockwell – Peeping Tom
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“Peeping Tom”, the second single from Rockwell’s second album Captured, sees him once again trying to capitalize on the success of his big hit, “Somebody’s Watching Me”.
This time
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Shiny Toy Guns – Major Tom
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Standing there alone / The ship is waiting / All systems are go / Are you sure? / Control is not convinced / But the computer / Has the evidence / "No need to abort" / The
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Tom Rosenthal – It's OK
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[Verse 1] / Keep me here, my heart is near / My love has gone a-way / Tell me true, my heart is new / My love has gone a-way / [Chorus] / It's okay / I know someday I'm gonna be
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Led Zeppelin – Poor Tom
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This song was composed in 1970 at Olympic Studios, during the recording sessions for Led Zeppelin III. Seeing as it did not end up on a studio album, it was later included on Coda
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Change of Heart
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Petty was trying to write something in the style of ELO songs like “Do Ya.” “I loved the way Jeff Lynne used chords,” Petty said. “That’s how it started, that big crunchy guitar
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Codeine – Tom
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[Verse 1] / My words have broken throats / Too ashamed to speak / Afflicted by disease / They are so weak / [Chorus] / I'll throw sand in your eye / You need a reason to cry / I'll
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Topher – Dear Tom
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Verse: / As a black conservative I catch a lotta hate / I'm more effective against the DNC than Watergate / But I never did it for the numbers that it may generate / Can't say the
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Placebo – Peeping Tom
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Quite simply, as Brian said, it’s about a peeping tom:
It’s about voyeurism, it’s about being a peeping tom. I try in the song to place you inside the head and make you feel the
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Tom MacDonald & Adam Calhoun – American Flags
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[Chorus: Tom MacDonald] / My people love this country, and we’re under attack / They bannin’ us, they cancel us for speakin’ the facts / If you’re man enough, come stand with us
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Игорь Стравинский (Igor Stravinsky) – No word from Tom
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This soprano aria concludes Act I of the opera, as the appropriately named Anne Trulove is in her father’s country home while waiting for a message from Tom, who left her to try to
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Runaway Trains
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She's up there all alone / I'm down here changing lanes / Her room was dark and cold / I'm listening to the waves / And I'm depending on time, babe / To get you out of my mind / I
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Tom Odell – Somebody Else
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[Verse 1] / I'm walking down the road / Saw you driving past / In somebody else's car / I'm thinking to myself / "I bet you're probably breaking / Somebody else's heart" / [Refrain
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Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes – What Kinda Music
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[Intro: Loyle Carner, Tom Misch] / What kinda music / Hey / [Verse 1: Tom Misch] / I didn't make a sound / I was hidden amongst the crowd / Take another look around / I know that
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Tom Odell – Another Love
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In an interview, Tom Odell explains:
“Another Love” is a confusing one; it’s not a traditional love song. The song, for me, is about trying—really trying with all your heart—to be
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Girl Named Tom – Helplessly Hoping
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[Verse 1] / Helplessly hoping / Her harlequin hovers nearby / Awaiting a word / Gasping at glimpses / Of gentle true spirit / He runs, wishing he could fly / Only to trip at the
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Grant-Lee Phillips – Blind Tom
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Tom's at the piano talkin' to a ghost / Playin' with his eyes shut tight / Here's a little song, I learnt it from the wind / I heard it on the wind last night / Beats workin' in
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David Bowie – Space Oddity
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‘Major Tom’ is a fictional character created by David Bowie for this song in 1969. That same year marked the first moon landing, so space was “in”; this was a year after Stanley
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Echo
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Put down your things and rest a while / You know we've both nowhere to go / Yeah, Daddy had to crash / He's always halfway there, you know / And no, I don't pretend there's any
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Lo Tom – Overboard
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You really messed me up / When you couldn't see me / But I finally understood my place / In that sycamore tree / Don't stop on account of me / I'm not living there anymore / Weak
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Tom MacDonald – Eminem
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[Verse 1] / I feel like old school Eminem / Back when they hated him for everything he said / Back when we thought middle fingers and telling the system to suck it would never end
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Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Peepin' Tom
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A cover by Courtney of Kurt’s own song.
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Toots & The Maytals – Peeping Tom
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Peeping, peeping, peeping tom / Peeping, peeping, peeping tom / Peeping, peeping, peeping tom / Everywhere you go he's just peeping tom / Tom on the cow, tom on the mule / Tom on
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Tom MacDonald – Superman
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[Verse 1] / Unlocked my phone, and watched the world die / They're crying to God while they run for their lives / Blood in the streets, bombs in the skies / Goodbye / [Verse 2] / I
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Mentors – Peepin' Tom
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What's cool and understood / The peep tom around the neighborhood / I got my spy scope / Me and my band were high on dope / I'm a peepin', I'm a peepin' tom! / I'm a peepin', I'm a
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(G&S Finale)
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For this section, Tom Lehrer uses a lyrical prosody (and intro) reminiscent of “My Name is John Wellington Wells”, from G&S' operetta The Sorcerer.
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Peeping Tom (Ft. Odd Nosdam) – Five Seconds
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[Verse 1] / Strolling through the slaughterhouse of love / Rags and ruins and stars above / I'm as naked as I can be in this life / This labyrinth is only one straight line / Back
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Tom Odell – The End
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[Verse 1] / I was twenty days clean yesterday / I get a key ring if I make it through to May / Can we talk? Is that okay? / If you've got time, I know a place / A rose garden in
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Tom Robinson – War Baby
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Only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof / Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise / I don't even care what other people are there / I just stare and
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Tom Waits – Martha
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The last song on the A side of Waits' first album Closing Time. It was covered the same year by Tim Buckley, who was a more established artist at the time.
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JT Music (Ft. Rockit Music) – Peeping Tom
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[Verse 1: Cypher (JT Music)] / I'm not an undercover cop but I just caught you on my wire / Time to lay you out, the cyber bully's on this Cypher / Smile! You're live on SpyCam and
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