 Genius Meanings
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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 – I Ain't the Same
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[Verse 1] / Well, I've been going through the motions / Wonder if anyone can see / That I been looking for something / Have you been looking for me? / [Chorus] / I ain't the same
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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 – I Found You
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[Verse 1] / This isn't sometimes / Yeah, it's for always / If I'm gonna love you with all of my heart / And if there is no more time / This always remains / Even as the world spins
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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 – Hold On (Live At KCRW)
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[Verse 1] / Bless my heart, bless my soul / I didn't think I'd make it to twenty-two years old / There must be someone up above / Sayin', "Come on, Brittany, you got to come on up
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Alabama Shakes – Heavy Chevy
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A bonus track on their first album, Boys and Girls.
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Alabama Shakes – I Found You (Live At KCRW)
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[Verse 1] / This isn't sometimes / Yeah, it's for always / If I'm gonna love you with all of my heart / And if there is no more time / This always remains / Even as the world spins
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Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (Live At KCRW)
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[Verse 1] / Oh, why can't we be best friends anymore? / They say a friend ain't to be / Between a girl and a boy / I don't know who said it / Or why it got to be so wrong / Oh, why
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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 – Joe (Live from Austin City Limits)
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[Verse 1] / Joe / What am I to do? / I been all around this world / Looking for something like you / Oh, Joe / You know I always roam / But I still ain't got what I want / [Verse 2
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Alabama Shakes – Be Mine
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DECLARATION FOR YOUR LOVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9v1WEv5FM
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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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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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Alabama Shakes – Heartbreaker
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[Chorus] / How was I supposed to know you was a heartbreaker? / I didn't know, I couldn't know / Now I'm laying on this killing floor, and I wanna die / [Verse 1] / Listen / How I
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Alabama Shakes – Goin' to the Party
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This song is on the band’s album Boys & Girls. In this song Brittany is saying how she is always there for her man, and takes care of him, because she enjoys the thrill she gets
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Alabama Shakes – On Your Way
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Brittany Howard has stated that this song is about her sister Jaime, who died of cancer at only 13 years old.
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Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
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When lead singer, Brittany Howard was a teenager, she was mocked for having a boy for a best friend. This comment has since shaped her way of life and the friendships she’s made
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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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Vince Staples & Larry Fisherman – Thought About You
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[Verse 1] / I just wanna get my bread / And talk my shit 'fore I end up dead / I got all this blood sitting on my hands / I never gave no fuck, so they understand / Why I feel this
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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 – Always Alright (Live At KCRW)
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[Verse 1] / Well you come upstairs but not to talk / You stay a little while then you do a little walk on home / I hear you downstairs smoking cigarettes / I hear you talking - / '
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home
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This country folk song released in 2010 initially had modest commercial success on the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart, reaching number 25.
After fronting a Peugeot car
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Brittany Howard – Short and Sweet
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[Verse 1] / There are miles between us / Time between us / There is something between us / I may be a fool to dream of you / But God, it feels so good to dream at all / Something
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The Underachievers – Unconscious Monsters (Evermore Outro)
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As the final track on the album, UA provides a very somber, yet hopeful song, encapsulating both “phases” of the album’s dualistic themes. Both Issa and AK realize how much their
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Sam Hunt – Take Your Time
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Co-written by Sam Hunt, Josh Osborne, and Shane McAnally, “Take Your Time” is the second single off Hunt’s debut album, Montevallo. It is a mid-tempo ballad with lyrics half-spoken
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Guns N' Roses – Patience
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One of the Guns N' Roses' most famous and beautiful songs. This song was the main single of their second album G N' R Lies.
Played with only three guitars, it remains one of rock’
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HoneyKomb Brazy – Freestyle (That's the Intro)
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I put this on everything, I'm screaming fuck 12 and a bed sprang / Fuck about taking a rest, I'm chasing a check I'll sleep when I'm dead mane / I'm some’ like head mane, I just
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Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman: Act 2
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Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams
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Murs & 9th Wonder – God Black / Black God
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[Verse 1] / They waving guns in South Central, same on the Southside / Gotta be a real nigga just to stand outside / I'm on the corner with my main man T-Smith / The streets done
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Quentin Tarantino – True Romance - Screenplay
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Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
IMDB
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Bethel Music (Ft. Molly Skaggs) – Ain't No Grave (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Oh, shame is a prison as cruel as a grave / Shame is a robber and he's come to take my name / Oh, love is my redeemer, lifting me up from the ground / Love is the power
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Zach Bryan – Summertime's Close
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[Verse 1] / Well, I've had cold and humid mornings on city streets and back porches / But I ain't never breathed a breath as fresh as you / And I've seen children playin' on the
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Paramount Pictures – Forrest Gump
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EXT. A SAVANNAH STREET - DAY (1981) / A feather floats through the air. The falling feather. / A city, Savannah, is revealed in the background. The feather / floats down toward the
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Kendrick Lamar – Auntie Diaries
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“Auntie Diaries” is the sixth track on disc two from Kendrick Lamar’s fifth and final studio album with Top Dawg Entertainment, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers; it is the fifteenth
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