 Genius Meanings
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Alicia Keys – Dead End Road (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / My heart is heavy like a stone / Hot as Hell up in the cold / Loneliness is sleeping in my room / Love is empty on the plate / Nothing left to give or take / Waiting
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Brandi Carlile) – Paper Flowers (Originals)
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[Verse 1: Alicia Keys] / Somebody never told me there's a last time for everything / Even a landslide is an opening / Turning metal into gold, silver lining / Somebody never told
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Alicia Keys – Is It Insane (Originals)
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[Intro] / Turn my mic up / [Chorus] / Is it insane? / My life's in your love's hands / Is it insane? / You got a hold on me / [Verse 1] / When you're near all of me trembles
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Brent Faiyaz) – Trillions
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[Verse 1: Alicia Keys] / Ain't gon' let me down / Ain't gon' break my heart, baby / Only gon' love me back / Only gon' fill me up, yeah, never gon' fuck it up, no way / Definitely
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Alicia Keys – Is It Insane (Unlocked)
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[Intro] / Turn my mic up / [Verse 1] / Is it insane, my life's in your loves hands? / Is it insane, you got a hold on me? / When you're near, all of me trembles / Slightest touch
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Alicia Keys – Old Memories (Unlocked)
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[Intro] / Ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee / Oh, ooh, ooh / Oh, old memories / They don't go away, no / They don't go / [Instrumental Break] / [Verse 1] / Old memories, they don't go away
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Alicia Keys – Skydive (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes it's pouring rain / Houselights are out / And I need you to follow my direction / Yeah, follow me, I'm falling out / Like you know me, hold my hand / [Pre-
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Alicia Keys – Best Of Me (Unlocked)
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[Verse 1] / You get the side of me / I would hold back and not reveal / You feed the mystery / You are my red and my blue pill / It made me come alive / Don't be a lie, it feels so
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Pusha T) – Plentiful (Originals)
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[Verse 1: Pusha T] / The devil's always preying on the weaker souls / All that we can know, it was all good just a week ago / Prada carry-ons, off to Mikonos / Celebrating life on
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Alicia Keys – Only You (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / I am nothing without you here / With you, I love without fear / Nothing, oh, nothing they say about you / Has meaning to me / [Chorus] / We won't let nothing / Take
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Alicia Keys – Nat King Cole (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / Take off your coat, take off your clichés / Show off a side that no one sees / You got the whole world right here in your pocket / Chasing those stardust melodies / [
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Alicia Keys – Love When You Call My Name (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / I hear your voice and it's all around me / I can't contain all the ways you make me feel / Love when you call my name / Even if I go for miles and hours / There's only
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Alicia Keys – Daffodils (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / I, I've been walking in the snow / Looking for myself in the cold / You, you've been afraid of the night / Looking for the money on your own / [Pre-Chorus] / Sun always
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Alicia Keys – Like Water (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I'm doing good / Sometimes I feel so bad / Sometimes we give up the fight / Sometimes we can't see the light bright / You know how lovers flow / You know how
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Alicia Keys – Old Memories (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / Old memories, they don't go away / They show up before you leave / And disappear when you wish they'd stay / No heart is immune, no secret is kept / Yeah, they only get
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Khalid & Lucky Daye) – Come For Me (Unlocked)
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[Verse 1: Lucky Daye] / Look me in my eye, know you know the vibe / In you I confide, something I can't hide / Tell me what it's worth, I put in the work / You know I'm the one
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Fivio Foreign, Kanye West & Alicia Keys – City of Gods
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“City of Gods” is a collaboration between Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys and is a triumphant ode to Fivio and Keys’ hometown of New York City. The song serves as the
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Alicia Keys – Billions (Originals)
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[Verse 1] / Ain't gonna let me down / Ain't gonna break my heart, baby / Only gonna love me back / Only gonna fill me up, yeah / Never gonna fuck it up, no way / Definitely drive
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Lucky Daye) – Stay
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[Verse 1: Alicia Keys] / You send my heart way up / And you let me in your space / Show me everything you're made of / Give me more than I can take / When I don't know what to say
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Lil Wayne) – Nat King Cole (Unlocked)
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[Verse 1: Lil Wayne] / So unforgettable / More than incredible / More than a metaphor, more than you're ready for / More intellectual / More than electrical, glowing like Eddison
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Alicia Keys (Ft. Swae Lee) – LALA (Unlocked)
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[Intro: Alicia Keys] / (EarDrummers) / Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / Ooh, ooh / La, la-la, la, la-la, la, la (Ooh, ooh) / (Mike WiLL Made-It) / [Chorus: Swae Lee & Alicia Keys] / Light the
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Lil Durk – Pelle Coat
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[Intro] / (Banger) / (The Melody) / (DJ on the beat, so it's a banger) / [Refrain] / They scared to come outside / [Verse 1] / I know why, because they dyin' for sure / 2010
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Nas – N.Y. State of Mind
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Nas displays complex lyricism with his “N.Y. State of Mind” over a track from Gang Starr’s DJ Premier. The chorus samples a Rakim line from the track “Mahogany,” which is fitting
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Kanye West – Diamonds from Sierra Leone
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This was Late Registration’s lead single, and it was technically a bonus track on the album.
Jay-Z would later jump on the track for the remix.
West explained the inspiration for
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Logic (Ft. Alessia Cara & Khalid) – 1-800-273-8255
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On “1-800-273-8255,” Logic shows that suicide is never the answer to anyone’s problems. He wants people to know that there is always help available, such as the National Suicide
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Songer – The Sunrise Session
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Beat 1 / [Intro] / Yes yes, the sunrise session / I apologise for starting deep but I'm not gonna finish with it / Yeah / [Verse] / I wish I could pretend that all my mental state
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Kanye West (Ft. Kid Cudi & Raekwon) – Gorgeous
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“Gorgeous” sees Kanye describing the ugly nature of social injustice in America, ironically calling the nation “gorgeous” because of it.
Recorded during his self-imposed exile in
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Billie Eilish – ocean eyes
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“ocean eyes” is the debut single from then 13-year-old Billie Eilish. She posted the song on SoundCloud where it organically went viral, generating over a million plays. The song
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Adele – Rolling in the Deep
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The 2012 song and record of the Year at the Grammy’s, “Rolling In The Deep” was described in an interview with Spin Magazine as a ‘gospel disco’ kiss-off to an unfaithful dude:
It
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Damian Marley – Welcome to Jamrock
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Jamrock is Damian Marley’s personification of the poverty stricken areas in Jamaica which have fallen victim to political corruption and gang violence.
In this song Damian shows a
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Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles
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The lead single for Carlton’s debut album Be Not Nobody, “A Thousand Miles” has solidified itself over the years as an Internet sensation that cross through all forms of media
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Jessie J (Ft. B.o.B) – Price Tag
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Released as Who You Are’s second single, “Price Tag” was a huge commercial success, topping the Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK charts (her first #1 in all these countries).
The
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020)
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1 | Marvin Gaye | What's Going On | 1971 / 2 | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds | 1966 / 3 | Joni Mitchell | Blue | 1971 / 4 | Stevie Wonder | Songs in the Key of Life | 1976 / 5 | The
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