 SongMeanings Interpretations
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alt-J - Fitzpleasure Lyrics & Meanings
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Fitzpleasure Lyrics & Meanings: Tralala, in your snatch fits pleasure, broom-shaped pleasure, / Deep greedy and Googling every corner. / Dead in the middle of the C-O-double M-O-N, / Little did I know then that the Mandela Boys soon become Mandela Men. / Tall woman, pull the pylons down / And wrap them around the necks of all the feckless men that queue to be the next. / Steepled fingers, ring leaders, queue jumpers, rock fist paper scissors, lingered fluffers. / In your hoof lies the heartland / Where we tent for our treasure, pleasure, leisure, les yeux, it’s all in your eyes. / In your snatch fits pleasure, broom-shaped pleasure, / Deep greedy and Googling every corner, / Blended by the lights.
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alt-J - Hunger of the Pine Lyrics & Meanings
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Hunger of the Pine Lyrics & Meanings: Sleeplessly embracing / Butterflies and needles / Line my seamed-up join / Encased in case I need it / In my stomach, for my heart / Chain mail / / Hunger of the pine / / Sleeplessly embracing / Yawn yearns into me / Plenty more tears in the sea / And so you finally use it / Bedding with me you see at night / Your heart wears knight armour / / Hunger of the pine / (I'm a female rebel) / Sleeplessly / Embracing / You / / Realization grew on me / As quickly as it takes your hand / To warm the cool side of the pillow / I'm there for you, be there for me / I'll hum the song the soldiers sing / As they march outside our window / / Hunger of the pine / (I'm a female rebel) / Sleeplessly / Embracing / You / / Une immense espérance a traversée la terre / Une immense espérance a traversée ma peur
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alt-J - Taro Lyrics & Meanings
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Taro Lyrics & Meanings: Indochina, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road / To photo, to record meat lumps and war, / They advance as does his chance – very yellow white flash. / A violent wrench grips mass, rips light, tears limbs like rags, / Burst so high finally Capa lands, / Mine is a watery pit. Painless with immense distance / From medic from colleague, friend, enemy, foe, him five yards from his leg, / From you Taro. / Do not spray into eyes – I have sprayed you into my eyes. / 3:10 pm, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes / All colours and cares glaze to grey, shrivelled and stricken to dots, / Left hand grasps what the body grasps not – le photographe est mort. / 3.1415, alive no longer my amour, faded for home May of ‘54 / Doors open like arms my love, Painless with a great closeness / To Capa, to Capa Capa dark after nothing, re-united with his leg and with you, Taro. / Do not spray into eyes – I have sprayed you into my eyes. / Hey Taro!
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alt-J - In Cold Blood Lyrics & Meanings
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In Cold Blood Lyrics & Meanings: [Verse 1] / 01110011 / Crying zeros and I'm hearing 111s / Cut my somersault; sign my backflip / Pool, summer, summer, pool, pool summer / Kiss me / / [Verse 2] / Hair the way the sun really wants it to be / Whiskey soda, please, your G&T's empty / Jeff's inflatables have sunk to the bottom / Pool, summer, summer, pool, pool summer / Kiss me / / [Bridge] / Cali, let's dive, dive down / To the pool's bottom where we belong / Cali, you're sinking like a bleeding stone / All above crowd around, so fucking loud / / [Chorus] / Mr Caspian's killer told me so / (Lalalala-la-la) / Heard it down on the radio / (Lalalala-lalala) / My pool, summer, summer, pool, summer vibes killed / In cold blood / / [Verse 3] / 01110011 / Crying zeros and I'm hearing 111s / Lifeless back slaps the surface of the pool / Pool, killer, killer, pool, pool, killer / Kiss me / / [Chorus] / Mr Caspian's killer told me so / (Lalalala-la-la) / Heard it down on the radio / (Lalalala-lalala) / My pool, summe
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alt-J - Breezeblocks Lyrics & Meanings
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Breezeblocks Lyrics & Meanings: She may contain the urge to run away / But hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks, / Citrezene your fever's gripped me again / Never kisses all you ever send are fullstops, la la la la / / Do you know where the wilds things go / They go along to take your honey,la la la la / Break down now weep build up breakfast now / Let's eat my love my love love love, la la la la / / Muscle to muscle and toe to toe, / The fear has gripped me but here I go, / My heart sinks as I jump up, / Your hand grips hand as my eyes shut, / And Ahhh ahhh ahhh ah ah, ahhh ahhh ahhh ah ah / / Do you know where the wild things go / They go along to take your honey, la la la la / Break down let's sleep build up breakfast now / Let's eat my love my love love love, la la la la / / She bruises coughs she splutters pistol shots / But hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks / She's morphine queen of my vaccine my love my love love love, la la la la / / Muscle to muscle and toe to toe, /
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alt-J - Something Good Lyrics & Meanings
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Something Good Lyrics & Meanings: Something good, / Oh, something good, / Oh, something good, / Oh, something good tonight will make me forget about you for now. / / Get high, hit the floor before you go. / Matador, estocada, you’re my blood sport. / / But something good, / Oh, something good, / Oh, something good, / Oh, something good tonight will make me forget about you for now. / / Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you, / Now that I’m fully clean, the matador is no more and is dragged from view. / / Get high, hit the floor before you go. / Matador, estocada, you’re my blood sport. / Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you, / Now that I am clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view. / / But something good, / Oh, something good, / Oh, something good, / Oh, something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.
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alt-J – Breezeblocks
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This is song from ∆’s (pronounced: Alt-J) debut album, An Awesome Wave.
“Breezeblocks” tells the story of a desperate man’s attempts to win over his love’s affections again as she
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alt-J – Every Other Freckle
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This is the third single off of alt-J (∆)’s 2014 album This Is All Yours.
The song’s lustful theme and metaphors are reminiscent of “I Wanna Be Yours” by John Cooper Clarke.
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alt-J – ❦ (Ripe & Ruin)
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❦
This song is also known as “Interlude 1” or “Interlude I”.
The fleuron character or “printer’s flower” (❦) used in the title of this song is used in book printing to divide
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alt-J – Taro
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There are so many things rolled into Taro – mournful Dispensary Girl-esque post-rock strings and bells plus vocal tone, Indian pop straddling the bridge and a history lesson.
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alt-J – Fitzpleasure
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“Fitzpleasure,” the album’s most frenetic and even schizophrenic composition, jumps between Gregorian chant to Afropop-tinged dubstep to ethereal electronica yet never feels
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alt-J – Tessellate
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In which the ultimate Shorty Said soundalikes roll on with Tessellate, the most Devendra Banhart of all Alt-J songs. Doesn’t matter though, because its piano lollop is as
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alt-J – Ms
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Ms is almost hymnal – smells like Benedictine spirit – as though Alt-J have taken refuge from reality and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in that Cambridge basement of
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alt-J – Matilda
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Named after Natalie Portman’s character in Leon: The Professional, the name of the song follows the English spelling rather than the French spelling of “Mathilda” used in the film
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alt-J – Left Hand Free
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The second single off of This Is All Yours is described by the band members as the “least Alt-J song ever”. It was rumoured to have been made in large part to appease the label
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alt-J – Bloodflood
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Bloodflood is about being flooded with fear, and the name of the album (An Awesome Wave) is taken from the lyrics of this song. This phrase is an embodiment of the record, evoking
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Alt-J Croons About Unrequited Love On New Track “Adeline”
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“Where the devil’s jaws are far too weak to tear you away.”
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alt-J – Choice Kingdom
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“Choice Kingdom” is an ode to their home country of England, with a typical ∆ spin on it of course.
This is evidenced by the title of the interlude before this track, “❦ (Garden
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alt-J – Dissolve Me
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“Dissolve Me” betrays a jazz influence in the way it meanders in a manner that most indie bands cannot manage.
The name “dissolve me” may be a reference to drug use, but also a
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alt-J – Something Good
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A perfect taster of why Alt-J won the fiery acclaim of the Mercury Prize, Something Good is a mix of ghostly harmonies, shuffling drums and folk guitars that should be pretentious.
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Alt-J Turns A Pool Party Into A Murder Scene On New Single “In Cold Blood”
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“Lifeless back slaps the surface of the pool.”
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alt-J – Leon
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“Leon” goes a little further back into new wave and post-punk, which makes it stand out more than any other song Alt-J have previously abandoned.
Just like “Matilda”, the lyrics
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alt-J – Intro
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The opener to alt-J’s An Awesome Wave, “Intro” wastes no time indicting the pretentious, unoriginal ilk of the music festival scene. It’s a beautiful song with some really biting
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alt-J – Lovely Day
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This song is a hidden track on ∆ (Alt-J)’s second album This Is All Yours.
It is a cover of “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers.
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alt-J (Ft. PJ Sin Suela) – Pleader (Trooko Version)
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It was a pleasure to work on this remix. After doing my research and finding out that the inspiration of the song is based on a book called “How Green Was My Valley” everything
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alt-J – Portrait
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‘Portrait’ was recorded under the FILMS moniker, and is the earliest (pre-) alt-J recording out there. The track has a far greater rock influence, but it just isn’t in the same
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alt-J – Breezeblocks Samples
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See all of “Breezeblocks” by alt-J’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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BBC Radio – BBC Radio 1 Playlist (4th August-10th August 2014)
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The playlist on BBC Radio 1 for the week commencing 4th August/finishing 10th August. Highlights include ∆ (Alt-J)’s “Hunger Of The Pine”, Cheryl Cole’s “Crazy Stupid Love” and Vic
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NEW: VERIFIED WISHLIST
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Greetings GEB!
@TheScrivener and I just finished a tri-medium chat regarding many things including but not limited to this post. The title says itself: WHO DO YOU WANT TO SEE VERIFIED ON GENIUS?
This isn’t limited to any genre of music, any medium of entertainment, — if you want to verify an astronaut to annotate NASA’s website, post it here! The goal of this wishlist is to continually foster communal growth re annotations, but also bringing in new users to the site and including fan communities to explore what we have to offer.
Whomever is put on this list will be vetted for a few criteria regarding viability of obtaining the verified from individual reaching out (i.e., you emailing the artist or their managed pitching verifieds to them and helping them annotate their songs) or using HQ’s resources to contact people.
The best thing about Genius is when users and verifieds act in concert to expand annotated knowledge — help us on this mission!
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Ellie Goulding – Tessellate
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Tessellation is an art of mathematics that focuses on shapes to form polygons which in turn make a beautiful design. Like the work of M.C. Escher or a mosaic.
Tessella in Greek
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We should make sure we tag all the pop songs.
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First of all, I apologize for being inactive recently. Blame video games.
Anyways, since we’re moving to the new tag system, we may want to ramp up the tagging effort. It’s possible we might have major holes with some of our top artists, and we need to patch them.
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Eagles – Hotel California
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One of the most mysterious and widely speculated songs in rock history, “Hotel California” is best described in the words of its creators. As Don Henley explained in the Daily Mail
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Pusha T (Ft. JAY-Z) – Drug Dealers Anonymous
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On “Drug Dealers Anonymous,” Pusha T and Jay Z deliver two stellar verses over an eerie DJ Dahi beat. Both MC’s heavily reference their former days as drug dealers and spit
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t.A.T.u. – All The Things She Said
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Released in 2002, “All the Things She Said” was the lead single off t.A.T.u’s debut English album, 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane. It was originally recorded in 2000 in t.A.T.u’s
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Genius traductions françaises – Alt-J - Taro (Traduction française)
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[Couplet 1] / Indochine: Capa saute de la Jeep / Deux pieds rampent sur la route / Pour photographier, pour enregistrer, des morceaux de viande et la guerre / Ils avancent comme
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Modern Talking – Cheri Cheri Lady
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[Verse 1] / Oh, I cannot explain / Every time, it's the same / Oh, I feel that it's real, take my heart / I've been lonely too long / Oh, I can't be so strong / Take a chance for
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Rock Team, Assemble!
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As you might’ve heard via this announcement, I’m the new Rock Genius Community Staffer!
This means so many feels and cool things, but mostly it means that I’m going to be working super close with all of you. I’m super excited to get going and I want to hear from you all…
What’s your favorite thing about Rock Genius?
Who are your favorite rock bands/artists?
What awesome things are you working on right now?
What ideas do you have to get Rock Genius killin it?
Literally anything else!
Looking forward to hearing from you all and talking to you each individually so that we can make this the best Rock community of all times! Spread the loove
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