 Genius Lyrics
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Gabrielle Aplin – Home
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her album English Rain on a blog post.
I’ve definitely written about Home before. I had the chorus for about a year before I
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Gabrielle Aplin (Ft. Bastille) – Dreams
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[Verse 1: Dan Smith] / Now there you go again, you say you want your freedom / Well, who am I to keep you down? / It’s only right that you should play it the way you feel it / But
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Gabrielle Aplin – Alive
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Kinda like Salvation, I was going through a time last year that I’d never gone through before
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Gabrielle Aplin – Skylight
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[Verse 1] / Stuck in a haze / Couldn't be better / It's all I ever wanted / Let's stay here forever / Life gets so loud / We don't need to listen / You make me feel like Friday
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Gabrielle Aplin – Salvation
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
It’s about someone or something entering your life just at the right time and pulling you
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Gabrielle Aplin – Be Yourself
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[Verse 1] / Hey, how you doin'? / I got a pocket full of rhythm for you / And if you don't know what it is you should do with it / Follow me (Follow me) / Hey, where you goin'? / I
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Gabrielle Aplin – Please Don't Say You Love Me
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote this after watching 500 Days Of Summer though it wasn’t actually about it or based on
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Gabrielle Aplin – The Power of Love
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A slightly-altered cover version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s 1984 UK number one, produced by Mike Spencer and David Kosten.
On 11 November 2012 “The Power of Love” entered the
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Gabrielle Aplin – Call Me
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[Verse 1] / You know who you are / I told you I was happy when I couldn't be worse / Told you to leave me alone when I couldn't want you more / And I regret it / You know who I am
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Gabrielle Aplin – Panic Cord
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote Panic Cord nearly 4 years ago now. It sounds a lot meaner than it actually was. In a
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Gabrielle Aplin – My Hero
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[Verse 1] / Too alarming now to talk about / Take your pictures down and shake it out / Truth or consequence, say it aloud / Use that evidence, race it around / [Chorus] / There
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Gabrielle Aplin – Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / I'm sick and tired of hanging out my window / I've learnt from past experience / Rain can't make flowers grow / Friends don't stick around / They go which way the wind
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Gabrielle Aplin – Start of Time
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Start of time was inspired by my favourite poem ‘The Hollow Men – T. S. Eliot’. There’s a
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Gabrielle Aplin – Anyway
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[Intro] / Anyway, anyway, I'm feeling, mm, mm-mm, hm / Anyway, anyway, ba, da, da / [Verse 1] / I can't decipher my feelings / I should've bottled them all / But I spilled them on
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Gabrielle Aplin – Waking up Slow
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Described as an “a-ha!” moment, Aplin’s lead off single to a new EP has our narrator come to the realization they’ve fallen head over heels for someone they used to see as a friend
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Gabrielle Aplin – Human
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
Human is a really universal song. You can take from it what you like. For me, at the time I
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Gabrielle Aplin – Fake Plastic Trees
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[Verse 1] / Her green plastic watering can / For her fake Chinese rubber plant / In the fake plastic earth / That she bought from a rubber man / In a town full of rubber plans / To
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Gabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy
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Whilst I was writing “Dear Happy”, I was thinking I was writing a letter to happiness. It’s more about writing a letter to yourself, or your past/present/future self. You know
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Gabrielle Aplin – Miss You
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“Miss You” reads as a song about missing a long-lost friend/lover, but as Aplin explains (see below) it is also a letter to a former version of herself.
The track is Aplin’s first
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Anna Straker & Gabrielle Aplin – Good Days Bad Days
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[Verse 1: Anna Straker] / I'm hungover again / I went out with my friends / They said it'd be fine to get out of my mind / Now I'm stuck in my bed / Didn't bail on my plans, so I
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Gabrielle Aplin – Kintsugi
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Drawing an enlivened comparison to the Japanese pottery technique kintsugi, the mending of a broken vase with gold, silver, or platinum, Aplin honors her own scars from her past
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Gabrielle Aplin – November
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
November isn’t about a personal situation, or anything that specifically happened to me. It
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Gabrielle Aplin – Magic
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[Verse 1] / Remember when we snuck out of your birthday? / Didn't even say goodbye / 'Cause even there in a room full of faces / All I saw was you and I / And our friends, no, they
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Gabrielle Aplin – A While
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[Verse 1] / When it rains / Yeah, it rains / We can be so unforgiving / It leaves us unforgiven / We're the same / We never change / It's the reason we’re together / We’re just
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Gabrielle Aplin – Say Nothing
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The second track off of Aplin’s Avalon EP. Uploaded to YouTube on October 5th, 2017, this song is about the ending of a relationship due to a partner being unable to make an excuse
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Gabrielle Aplin – Night Bus
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Night Bus is a glimmering and infectious track that follows Aplin’s journey home on the night bus, observing the people around her and knowing that she has to end a relationship
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Gabrielle Aplin – Until the Sun Comes Up
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“Until the Sun Comes Up” introduces the tone of the album perfectly; it encapsulates the serious issue of caring for yourself mentally, of letting worries go and having a great
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Gabrielle Aplin – Hurt
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[Verse 1] / I shiver when you touch my skin / And I know without asking / You’re right there where you wanna be / You’re right here in front of me / And you talk about travelling
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Gabrielle Aplin – Make It Better
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[Verse 1] / I just wanna / Be at a level where I feel like normal / Nothing special, just like me / But on a good day, that's all I want / [Verse 2] / Nothing clever / I've tried
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Gabrielle Aplin – Keep On Walking
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
This was the most spontaneous song on the album and was probably written the quickest, it
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Gabrielle Aplin – Coming Home
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[Verse 1] / I wonder where my friend has gone / I wonder where it all went wrong / Was there something that I should have known? / I looked for him in Amsterdam / I cried for him
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Gabrielle Aplin – Stay
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The fourth song off of Aplin’s Avalon EP. First released as a performance through Mahogany Sessions on April 13th, 2017, the song chronicles a relationship ready to give out and a
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Gabrielle Aplin – Ready to Question
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Gabrielle explained the lyrics to each song on her English Rain album on a blog post.
I wrote this song a little while ago. I was in Hertfordshire with two friends (Tom and Nick
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Gabrielle Aplin – Heavy Heart
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[Verse 1] / Saw you staring into nothing / In the silence something's screaming / I know you're trying but there's nothing you can say / I feel better in the morning / When all my
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Gabrielle Aplin – Take It Easy
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[Verse 1] / You got my heartbeat / You've got my lungs / You got inside of my chest / I made a mess of it / Made a mess of my head / I couldn't fight it / You made yourself right
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Gabrielle Aplin – One of Those Days
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[Verse 1] / So much to think about, I'm down beside myself / And I don't know why / So when in doubt, I let it out / 'Cause it's okay to cry / [Pre-Chorus 1] / See, when I have a
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Gabrielle Aplin – Space Oddity
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"Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / "Ground Control to Major Tom (10, 9, 8, 7, 6) / Commencing countdown
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Gabrielle Aplin – Mariana Trench
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[Verse 1] / What the fuck am I even hearing on the news? / I can't remember the last time we met, and I miss you / Oh, I just wanna run away, but I can't even move / I don't know
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Gabrielle Aplin & Hannah Grace – River
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[Intro - Gabrielle Aplin; Both] / It's coming on Christmas / They're cutting down trees / They're putting up reindeer / And singing songs of joy and peace / Oh I wish I had a river
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Gabrielle Aplin – So Far So Good
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[Verse 1] / (Are we, are we, are we?) / I didn't notice you, I was preoccupied / There was a crowd around / And I didn't like you, no lie / But you won me over with your smile / (
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Gabrielle Aplin & Hannah Grace – December
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[Verse 1 - Hannah Grace] / White skies, winter time / Oh, the warm soul of you / Feeling bright, feeling kind / Oh, the warm soul of you / [Pre-Chorus - Hannah Grace] / I don’t
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Gabrielle Aplin – Evaporate
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[Verse 1] / Flesh and bone wrapped up in skin / Kept alive by oxygen / But right now, breathing is so tough / They say they know what I can feel / And time will find a way to heal
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Gabrielle Aplin – Take Me Away
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[Verse 1] / Take me away from the demons in my brain / Take me out to the world / Take me out into the day / And let me find / My peace of mind / I was alone / I was taken with the
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Gabrielle Aplin – Never Fade
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[Verse 1] / Pinning polaroids on a cold brick wall / Hanging fairy lights on the garden porch / Gravitating to the nearest brawl / We're only young, so we'll come back for more
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Gabrielle Aplin – Don't Say
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[Verse 1] / Don't say / "What's the matter, babe, are you okay?" / I'll send them all away 'cause it's too late / Just hanging by a single thread / And don't dare / Take me in your
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Gabrielle Aplin – Letting You Go
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[Verse] / Sometimes I wake up thinking about you / Sometimes I just don't wake up at all / I wish you were the one / That I can’t live without / But I'm cold, I'm cold / I know
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