 Genius Meanings
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Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
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Where to even begin with one of the most monumental classics in the soul music canon? Over the course of the early 1960s, Columbia Records had released nine albums and over two
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Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (Live in Paris, 1968)
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[Verse 1] / You're a no good heartbreaker / You're a liar and you're a cheat / And I don't know why / I let you do these things to me / My friends keep telling me / They tell me
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Kelly Clarkson – I Never Loved a Man (The Smoakstack Sessions)
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You're a no good heart breaker / You're a liar and you're a cheat / And I don't know why / I let you do these things to me / My friends keep telling me / That you ain't no good
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Kasia Kowalska – I Never Loved a Man
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You're a no good heartbreaker / You're a liar and you're a cheat / And I don't know why / I let you do these things to me / My friends keep telling me / That you ain't no good
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Aretha Franklin – Never Let Me Go
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[Verse 1] / Just let me love you tonight / Forget about tomorrow / My darling, won't you hold me tight / [Chorus] / And never let / Never let me go / [Verse 2] / Dry your eyes / No
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Aretha Franklin – Chain of Fools
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“Chain of Fools” is about discovering your partner has been unfaithful.
One of five Top 10 hits Aretha scored in 1967, it rose to #2.
The following year, this song wound up on
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Aretha Franklin – Day Dreaming
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[Chorus] / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Daydreaming and I'm thinking of you / Look at my mind
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Aretha Franklin – (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
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[Verse 1] / Looking out on the morning rain / I used to feel so uninspired / And when I knew I had to face another day / Lord, it made me feel so tired / [Pre-Chorus] / Before the
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Aretha Franklin – Dr. Feelgood
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[Verse 1] / I don't want nobody, always / Sittin' around me and my man / I don't want nobody, always / Sittin' right there / Lookin' at me and that man / Be it my mother, my
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Allison Crowe – I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
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You're no good, heartbreaker / You're a liar and you're a cheat / And I don't know why I let you do these things to me / My friends keep telling me that you ain't no good / Oh
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Aretha Franklin – Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
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[Verse 1] / Take me to heart, and I'll always love you / And nobody can make me do wrong / Take me for granted, leaving love unshown / Makes willpower weak and temptation strong
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Aretha Franklin – Ain't No Way
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[Verse] / Ain't no way for me to love you / If you won't let me / It ain't no way for me to give you all you need / If you won't let me give all of me / I know that a woman's duty
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Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
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[Verse 1] / Rock steady, baby / That's what I feel now / Let's call this song exactly what it is / Step and move your hips with a feeling from side to side / Sit yourself down in
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Aretha Franklin – My Song
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[Verse] / You told me that you would leave me here in tears / Now you're gone and hours seem like years / So darling, i sing my song / Your leaving makes my heart beat slow and
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Aretha Franklin – Respect
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Aretha Franklin’s signature song was a groundbreaking female empowerment anthem of the late 1960s.
Originally a minor hit by Otis Redding in 1965, Aretha’s “Respect” was given a
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Aretha Franklin – All the King’s Horses
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[Intro] / All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put our two hearts together again / [Verse] / We sat on the wall of happiness / We sat on the wall of love / We
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Aretha Franklin – I Say a Little Prayer
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Originally written for Dionne Warwick by Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 1966, Aretha and her ‘Sweet Inspirations’ were fooling around before a show and warming up by singing “Say
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Aretha Franklin – Don't Play That Song
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[Verse 1] / Don't play that song for me / 'Cause it brings back memories / Of days that I once knew / The days that I spent with you / Oh, no, don't let them play it (Oh, no) / It
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Aretha Franklin – Tracks of My Tears
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[Verse 1] / People say I'm the life of the party / Because I tell a joke or two / Well, although I may be laughing loud and hearty / Deep inside I'm blue / [Chorus] / So take a
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Aerosmith – Never Loved a Girl
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[Intro] / You're a no good heart breaker / You're a liar and you're a cheat / I don't know why I let you do these thing to me / My friends keep telling me that you ain't no good
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Roxette – I Never Loved A Man
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You're no good, heartbreaker / You're a liar and you're a cheat / I don't know why I let you do these things to me / My friends keep telling me you're no good / But they don't know
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Aretha Franklin – See Saw
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes, you love me / Like a good man ought to / Sometimes, you hurt me so bad / My tears run like water / You get me out / Not before your friends / And then you
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Aretha Franklin – Baby, Baby, Baby
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[Chorus] / Baby, baby, baby, this is just to say / How much I'm gonna miss you / But believe while I'm away / That I didn't mean to hurt you / Don't you know that I'd rather hurt
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Aretha Franklin – Gentle On My Mind
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[Verse] / It’s knowing that your door is always open / And your path is free to walk (free to walk, free to walk, free to walk, free to walk) / That makes me know that I can leave
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Aretha Franklin – Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
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Ain't nobody / (No...) / Going to turn me around no more / (No...) / Ain't nobody / (No...) / Going to turn me around / (No...) / Well I've learned my lesson and now I've see
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Aretha Franklin – You’re a Sweet Sweet Man
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[Verse 1] / I don't care what they say / I don't care what they do / Take all of my loving / Come on and get it / I've been loving you too long / And I can't quit it / Little boy
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Aretha Franklin – Night Life
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[Verse 1] / In the evening, when the sun goes down / You're gonna find me, doing / What I'm doing right now, and next just sitting around / [Chorus] / The night life, it ain't no
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Aretha Franklin – You Send Me
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[Verse 1] / Darling you send me / Darling you send me / Darling you send me / Honest you do / Honest you do / Honest you do / Woah-Oh-Oh / You thrill me, darling you thrill me
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Aretha Franklin – Angel
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[Intro] / I got a call the other day / It was my sister Carolyn, saying / "Aretha, come by when you can / I've got something that I wanna say" / [Bridge] / And when I got there
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Aretha Franklin – Save Me
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[Chorus] / Save me, somebody save me / Save me, somebody save me, yeah / [Verse 1] / Promised myself after the first romance / I wouldn't give you a second chance / They say if you
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Aretha Franklin – Think
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“Think” is a hit single by undisputed queen of soul Aretha Franklin. The song topped the Billboard R&B Charts and reached an impressive #7 on the Pop Charts as well. Released in
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Aretha Franklin – Good Times
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[Chorus] / Everybody get in the groove and let the good times roll / I'm going to stay here 'til I soothe my soul / If it takes all night long / [Verse] / Yeah, it might be one o'
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Aretha Franklin – The Woman
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[Verse 1] / Darling, the question has been answered / And you tried hard not to say / It would have come out anyway / What did you do? / How could you have meant it, oh, when you
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Aretha Franklin – Don't Let Me Lose This Dream
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[Verse 1] / If I lose this dream (This dream) / I don't know what I'm going to do / If I lose this dream (This dream) / I'm dreaming about for me and you / [Bridge] / If it goes
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Aretha Franklin – Let It Be
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[Verse 1] / When I find myself in times of trouble / Mother Mary comes to me / Speaking words of wisdom / Let it be / And in my hour of darkness / She is standing right in front of
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Aretha Franklin – Wholy Holy
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[Intro] / Ooh-ooh / Ooh-ooh / [Verse] / Woah, holy wholly / Come together wholly / People, we have got to come together / With all of the strength / Have all of the feeling, yeah
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Aretha Franklin – Good to Me As I Am to You
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[Verse] / If you had a dollar / And I had a dime / I wonder, could I borrow yours / As easy as you could mine? / Because when you need my love / And I give time after time / And
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Aretha Franklin – Dark End of the Street
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[Verse 1] / At the dark end of the street / That's where we always meet / Hiding in shadows where we don't belong / Living in darkness to hide our wrong / You and me at the dark
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Aretha Franklin – You and Me
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[Chorus] / (You and me) will always be joined together for eternity / (You and me) will always be joined together for eternity / [Verse 1] / We've got each others love and
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Aretha Franklin – Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
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[Intro] / Baby, baby, sweet baby / There's something that I just got to say / Baby, baby, sweet baby / You left me hurting in a real cold way / [Verse 1] / Speak your name / And I'
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Aretha Franklin – Pullin'
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[Verse 1] / Everyone knew but me, that soon / You would be calling it off and gone / Everyone pitied me, had so much sympathy / They didn't think i'd be strong / [Chorus] / Oh, i'm
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Aretha Franklin – Baby, I Love You
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If you want my lovin' / If you really do / Don't be afraid, baby / Just ask me / You know I'm gonna give it to you / Oh, and I do declare (I do) / I wanna see you with it / Stretch
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Aretha Franklin – Border Song (Holy Moses)
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[Verse 1] / Holy Moses, I have been removed / I have seen the spectre, he has been here too / Distant cousin from down the line / Brand of people who ain't my kind / Holy Moses, I
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