 Genius Lyrics
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Marc E. Bassy – XX
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[Intro] / Maybe we get high, just so we can come back down to earth / Maybe we'll get by / That's all that matters / Baby when I'm alone, I'm never really alone / Just pretending
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The xx – Intro
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“Intro”, a simple, two minute instrumental song is easily The xx’s most popular song. As of August 2017, it’s their most streamed song on Spotify, racking up over 200 million
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Lucii – XX
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[Intro] / Zero / [Verse 1] / Don't fuck around / Make us come around / That .44 gonna gun him down / SB, my familiar / Mafia, my gango / Go Tirana in Lambos / But we brought UK in
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Lacuna Coil – Humane XX
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[Intro: Cristina Scabbia] / (Ah-ah-ah... a-a-a-ah, ah...) / [Verse 1: Andrea Ferro, Andrea Ferro & Cristina Scabbia] / You walk on by without a feeling to your stroll / You walk
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morgxn – xx
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[Verse 1] / You got me stoned / And I like how it feels / When my heartbeat, beat on my chest / That's how I know that it's real / [Verse 2] / You got me high / But I'm not wearing
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Jamie xx (Ft. Romy) – Loud Places
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“Loud Places” was the fourth song released in advance of Jamie xx’s 2015 album, In Colour, which followed the “Girl” / “Sleep Sound” single released the previous year. The track
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The xx – On Hold
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“On Hold” is about trying to extend an already broken relationship. When you keep someone on hold during a phone call, they don’t know if they should wait for the call to resume or
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Lacuna Coil – Comalies XX
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[Intro: Andrea Ferro] / You walk on by / Wondering why / [Verse 1: Cristina Scabbia] / Parlami / Il tuo silenzio guarda dentro / Non resisterò / È un attimo, nel tuo vuoto sento
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The xx – Say Something Loving
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Airy and open, “Say Something Loving” uses echoed guitars, a matching bassline, varied percussion and programming as well as orchestration to express the feeling of feeling
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The xx – Unfold
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[Verse 1: Oliver Sim] / Am I blind? / You move your hand away from mine / And I don't take it as a sign / That you're any less than mine / [Chorus 1: Oliver Sim, Romy Madley Croft
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The xx – Islands
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“Islands” is about fully committing oneself to one person in that relationship. Although the narrator has had other relationships and casual flings, the relationship they find in
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The xx – Angels
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“Angels” opens with a restrained style and soft-spoken verses about the idea of being in love. Croft’s lyrics compare the premature end of an relationship to “dreaming of angels
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Jamie xx (Ft. Romy) – SeeSaw
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“SeeSaw” is the third track on Jamie xx’s solo debut In Colour, featuring bandmate Romy Croft from The xx.
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Izaya Tiji – Foreign Xx
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[Intro] / Yuh, yeah / Yeah / Yeah / Ye-yeah / Ye-yeah / Yeah (He shot at me) / [Verse] / Tryna get rich, I'm tryna get rich, I'm tryna get rich (Yuh) / I'm tryna get big, I'm tryna
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The xx – Shelter
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“Shelter” is the kind of track that launched the xx into a global phenomenon. Romy’s lyrical longing to right her perceived “wrong” is heart-wrenching. When it’s set to the stark
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S3RL (Ft. Nikolett) – Silicon XX
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I'm your silicon girl / I'm your silicon girl / Every time you look at me you turn me on / Makes me feel like I can live again, the day has just begun / We have a perfect life
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Jamie xx – Gosh
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“Gosh” was the third song released in advance of Jamie xx’s 2015 album, In Colour, following the “Girl” / “Sleep Sound” single released the previous year.
“Gosh” was initially
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The xx – Basic Space
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“Basic Space” is about sex and intimacy in a new-relationship. The song, written solely by band member Romy Madley-Croft, utilizes several metaphors including water, stone, wax
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m0v – xx
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[Verse 1] / Shut up, I need no pity / Die, I be making fifties / Holding a fat rack that I made all alone now / Got my wrist bloody, bloody, I don't insist / Making a new song and
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The xx – Missing
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[Chorus: Oliver Sim] / My heart is beating / In a different way / Been gone such a long time / I don't feel the same / My heart is beating / In a different way / Been gone such a
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The xx – Fiction
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[Verse 1] / Fiction when we're not together / Mistaken for a vision, something of my own creation / I wake up alone, with only daylight between us / Last night the world was
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The xx – Replica
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Driven by Oliver Sim’s looping bassline, Romy’s haunting guitar hooks and mellow keyboards and a stripped-down piano melody from Jamie, “Replica” evolves the intimate, mid-tempo
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The xx – Fantasy
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Mysterious in composition and with hushed vocals by Sim, “Fantasy” opens up with overlaid synths, the ends with a distorted bassline, Romy’s guitar hooks and fluttering samples
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The xx – Sunset
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The 6th track off The xx’s sophomore effort, Coexist features typically minimal but intriguing production.
This song was also featured in the season 2 finale of popular US legal
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The xx – Infinity
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Starting with the music itself screams nostalgia, the echoing of the guitar, everything is really slow with the reverb. And this perfectly mimics the kind of emotions that are
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The xx – Heart Skipped a Beat
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Oliver and Romy trades lines detailing the difficulties and emotions felt after a break-up.
This track is one of the stand-out cuts off The xx’s critically acclaimed debut album
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Lacuna Coil – Self Deception XX
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[Verse 1: Andrea Ferro] / I'll never waste another day / Searching to find the reason / Why did I choose to play this game? / This goes too far, I'll take no more / [Verse 2
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The xx – I Dare You
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“I Dare You” is the second premiered song from The xx’s third album I See You. It premiered on Saturday Night Live on November 20th, 2016 and explains the feelings of dealing with
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The xx – Together
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From the soundtrack for the 2013 film version of The Great Gatsby.
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The xx – Crystalised
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“Crystalised” is about a complicated relationship, and ultimately uses crystallization as a metaphor for love. It’s the lead single from The xx’s eponymous debut album. Romy and
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The xx – Reunion
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The song explores the idea of getting back together after a break up.
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Oliver Sim – GMT (Jamie xx Remix)
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I'm on Greenwich Mean Time missing you, missing you / Someone decided to save my life, pink and blue, pink and blue / There's a parting in the sky just moments before night and / I
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Genius Romanizations – G-Dragon - 그 XX (That XX) (Romanized)
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In “그 XX (That XX),” G-Dragon secretly crushes on a girl who’s in a relationship with a guy that cheated on her. The girl is blinded by love, so she refuses to believe the truth
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The xx – Dangerous
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Kicking it off with an ensemble of brass instruments, “Dangerous” starts off I See You with a more livelier sound and aesthetic than Coexist and xx, while still retaining the
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Lacuna Coil – Unspoken XX
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[Verse 1: Andrea Ferro, Cristina Scabbia & Andrea Ferro] / And it doesn't matter how you feel now / Anything at all / Seems to be your only way, so vicious / Heavenly apart / When
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The xx – Reconsider
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iTunes bonus track from Coexist
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Jamie xx – It's So Good
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It's so good, it's so good / It's so good, it's so good / It's so good, it's so good / It's so good, it's so good / It's so good, it's so good / It's so good, it's so good / It's
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