 Genius Meanings
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Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
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“Sound & Color,” the title track from the Shakes' sophomore album, shares more than an ampersand with the band’s debut Boys & Girls, which marked the Athens, Alabama group with a “
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Alabama Shakes – Gimme All Your Love
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[Verse 1] / So much is going on / But you can always come around / Why don't you sit with me, for just a little while? / Tell me, what's wrong? / [Chorus] / If you'd just give me
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Alabama Shakes – This Feeling
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[Verse 1] / I just kept hoping, I just kept hoping / The way would become clear / I spent all this time / Try'na play nice / And fight my way here / [Pre-Chorus] / See, I've been
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Alabama Shakes – Dunes
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The third track on Sound & Color, about someone’s spiral out of control in response to the end of a souring relationship.
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Alabama Shakes – Don't Wanna Fight
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“Don’t Wanna Fight”, the lead single from soul-rockers Alabama Shakes' sophomore album, Sound & Color, focuses on a relationship marred by constant struggles set to a blues-rock
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Alabama Shakes – Gemini
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The song is a reference to the Greek myth of Castor and Pollux, also known as the constellation Gemini.
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Alabama Shakes – Makin' Me Itch
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[Verse 1] / Well do you know how hard it is for me to talk to other boys / Your in the back of mind, I knew you're divine / I think I've got no choice but to love you / Oh you, you
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Alabama Shakes – Joe
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Using traveling as a metaphor for hopping from bad relationship to bad relationship, the band tells a classic unrequited love story in which the storyteller wants nothing more than
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Alabama Shakes – Over My Head
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Brittany Howard told Consequence of Sound that this is her favorite song on the record. It’s a soulful, resonant ballad that explores the idea of being aware of love at all times
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Alabama Shakes – Future People
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[Verse 1] / Some want to see / Those who've gone above / Friends that they've lost / People they love / I'd rather meet / The me down the road / To lead me through the fog / Wouldn
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Alabama Shakes – Drive By Baby
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[Verse 1] / I see you're skinny, and I've never seen you here before / Well come on baby / You've got my attention / Come on, and getcha some more / You get me first / Feeling that
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Alabama Shakes – Shoegaze
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[Verse 1] / Can't wait for night to come / That's when the fun really begins / My brain cools off when that day is done / And then I'll tuck myself in / [Chorus] / It ain't no fun
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Alabama Shakes – Someday
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[Verse 1] / Someday / Has come today / Everything I believe / It really happenin' / I'd like a friend / I come from a place where / Everything I can dream / Angels, make-believe
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Alabama Shakes – The Greatest
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[Spoken Intro] / Check - check this out / And a-five, six, seven, eight / [Verse 1] / Well, I never meant to be the greatest / I only ever want to be your baby / Life is perfect in
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Alabama Shakes – Don't Wanna Fight (Live from Capitol Studio A)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Ooh, your lines, my lines / Don't cross them lines / What you like, what I like / Why can't we both be right? / Attacking, defending
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Alabama Shakes – Dunes (Live from Capitol Studio A)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Somewhere over the dunes, love / I walked, I wept / Enough / I turned the desert into seabed / I swam from the terrible depths, babe
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Alabama Shakes – Miss You
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According to an interview with Q Magazine, this song is about a couple who are addicted to crystal meth.
“It’s like a love story set in this really f–ked relationship that deals
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Alabama Shakes – Guess Who
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[Verse 1] / I can't tell you how I feel, but I do / Those things they say can't get to me, but they do / I don't see the sky as blue, as you do / Should I fantasize? There must be
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Alabama Shakes – Heat Lightning
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[Verse 1] / Well it felt like heat lightning struck me / When you walked into the room / My God, it hit so suddenly / I didn't know what I should do / I felt like I wanted to
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GRAMMY Awards – 2016 Nominees
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After Alicia Keys unveiled the nominees for the “big four” categories live on CBS, the Grammys unveiled the remaining categories shortly after on their website on December 7th 2015
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Alabama Shakes – Hold On
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The debut single from the Alabama Shakes, hailing from you guessed it, Athens, Alabama. “Hold On” was symbolic of the phenomenon that the band became in 2012, as the song was well
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Alabama Shakes – Hang Loose
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[Verse 1] / Don't worry, sweet baby! / Don't you ever worry about a thing / Put them worries on the shelf and learn to love yourself / Don't be your own worst enemy / [Chorus
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Alabama Shakes – You Ain't Alone
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[Verse 1] / You ain't alone, so why you lonely? / There you go on the dark end of the street / Are you scared to tell somebody how you feel about somebody? / Are you scared what
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Alabama Shakes – Always Alright
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After debuting their first album, Boys & Girls in 2012, which critics and fans believe was the best rock album of the year, Alabama Shakes released this song for academy award
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Thlns – Great Albums
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2016 / Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid / Anderson .Paak - Malibu / Bibio - A Mineral Love / Casey Mecija - Psychic Materials / Chairlift - Moth / Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
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Alabama Shakes – Rise to the Sun
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[Verse 1] / All I believe in is a dream / I haunt the Earth, though I am fully seen / In all my years, I've never felt more sure than now / Well, I got to get off this rock
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