Genius Meanings
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Beck – Elevator Music
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[Intro] / 1, 2, you know what to do / Alright / [Verse 1] / I'm uptight super, gathered out of the frame / I shake a leg on the ground like an epileptic battery man / I'm making my
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Beck – Where It's At
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“Where It’s At” is the first single from Beck’s album Odelay.
Many of the vocal samples in the song come from an obscure sex education album called Sex for Teens (Where It’s At).
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Beck – Inside Out
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See us come, runnin' from nothin' / Through the grave, looking for somethin' / We're not lost, we're just losing / All we used will hold us together / If you take a road out from
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Beck – Movie Theme
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[Verse] / Looking for a ladder in the stratosphere / So I can be happy, let my bones melt away / Stranded on a plane that was circling round / I carry my heart like a soldier with
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Beck – No Complaints
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[Verse 1] / We are aimless / And the target is an empty wall / We're out of patience / With smiles that cut across her face / [Chorus 1] / No complaints, but I wish I had more time
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Beck – Soldier Jane
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[Verse 1] / No one cares what dress she wears alone / Tattered rags and paper bags and all / She's the one sleeping in today / Drag her down, don't let her drown in dirt / [Verse 2
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Beck – Think I'm in Love
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[Verse 1] / I really think I better get a hold of myself / Don't want to let the night get ahead of myself / Whispering her love through a smoke ring smile / She doesn't know what
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Beck – Cellphone's Dead
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Beck vents his anxieties about living in a Brave New World-like setting: where overwhelming amounts of sensory information threaten to cast us adrift in a sea of irrelevance. This
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Beck – Nausea
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[Verse 1] / Now I'm a seasick sailor on a ship of noise / I got my maps all backwards and my instincts poisoned / In a truth blown gutter full of wasted years / Like blown-out
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Beck – The Information
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[Verse 1] / The information is laughing at us / The ticker tape feeds the mind / Looking for a lost transmission / A heaven that we left behind / [Chorus] / When the information
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Nas – Represent
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After slowing things down on “One Time 4 Your Mind,” “Represent” finds Nas getting hyped up with his crew from Queensbridge backing him up in the studio. DJ Premier sampled Lee
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Beck – Strange Apparition
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[Verse 1] / Lord, please don't forsake me / In my Mercedes Benz / All the riches and the ruins / Now we all know how that story ends / [Chorus 1] / Strange apparition / Haunting my
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Beck – Dark Star
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[Intro] / One, two / One, two / [Verse 1] / A disappointment condition, a perfunctory prescription / Of an indigent mindset of belligerent silence / We got all we need droning out
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Beck – 1000BPM
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[Verse 1] / Electronic eye vision, astromagnetic / Corrupted files from galactical planets / Write a new genetic code, thoughts get transported / From neanderthal skulls to digital
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Beck – Motorcade
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[Verse 1] / These toys are all lifeless, the armor's worn off / The shadow of a shadow is the ghost of a bomb / Skyscraper standing in a desert alone / A helicopter searchlight is
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Beck – Where It's At (U.N.K.L.E. Remix)
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[Verse 1] / There's a destination a little up the road / From the habitations and the towns we know / A place we saw the lights turn low / The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow
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Beck – O Menina
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O Menina / O Menina / O Menina / O Menina / O Menina / O Menina / O Menina / O Menina / Torn out girl on beach black hair black / With black lipstick throwing daggers with her eyes
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Beck – We Dance Alone
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[Verse 1] / Send a telegram, tell me your thoughts / I wanna live for a day in the way that we lost / But unfortunately, the Twain got crissed not crossed / Left the keys in the
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Beck – This Girl That I Know
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Laser Animator / Add another to the breaker / On a broken escalator / We could get what we need / 'Cause it's a night of confessions / Electric digressions / Honorable mentions get
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David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
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The title track and second single off of Bowie’s 1974 album, Diamond Dogs. This song further explores the dystopian future set up in Future Legend.
Bowie uses the cut up technique
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Beck – Dirty Dirty
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Dirty dirty nights / Underneath the flashing lights / Crawling on the basement floor / I can't see you anymore / What you do, you do for me / Don't forget I'm on my knees / Make
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Beck – The Horrible Fanfare / Landslide / Exoskeleton
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[The Horrible Fanfare] / [Verse 1] / Ashes of ancients, the nations repainted / The chain gang chatelaine, changing the station / The theme song playing, the anthem of normal / The
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Beck – Timebomb
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Ahh, suck a headphone! / We got a time bomb / We got a time bomb / We got a time bomb / Na na na na / We got a warning light / We got a warning light / We pull the plug out and we
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Shinsight Trio – Lucky Dayz
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[Verse 1] / Stepped out the house and found some money on the ground / I got to work late and the computers were down / My supervisor came over, He said to go home / But they'd pay
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Nas (Ft. National Symphony Orchestra (USA)) – Represent (Live)
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[Intro: Nas] / "Represent to the fullest" / Let's represent forever / "Represent" / We gon represent forever / "Represent" / I will represent forever / "Represent" / Yeah, say what
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Eddie Cochran – Twenty Flight Rock
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Oh well, I've got a girl with a record machine / When it comes to rockin' she's the queen / We love to dance on a Saturday night / All alone, I can hold her tight / But she lives
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Sugababes – Push the Button
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“Push the Button” was released as the lead single from the Sugababes fourth studio album – Taller in More Ways. It describes the sexual frustration a woman has from her crush being
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Blaze The Sky (Ft. Chelsea V. & Vimbisai) – Blaze The Sky
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[Chorus: Chelsea V. & SkyBlew] / People know about us wherever we go / Hands to the sky like at every show / Going on tour all over the globe / And they know and [?] / People know
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Khia – My Neck, My Back (Lick It)
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[Intro] / All you ladies pop your pussy like this / Shake your body: don't stop, don't miss / All you ladies pop your pussy like this / Shake your body: don't stop, don't miss
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Jenny Lewis – Little White Dove
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“There is only one moment of digital manipulation on the record: a brief chirrup of auto-tune in the middle of Little White Dove.
“That came about because Beck was altering my
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