 Genius Meanings
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Beck – Farewell Ride
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Beck’s continuation to Blind Lemon Jefferson’s “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3mxjtpyBc
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Beck – Girl
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[Verse 1] / I saw her, yeah, I saw her with her black tongue-tied / Round the roses / Fist pounding on a vending machine / Toy diamond ring stuck on her finger / With a noose, she
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Beck – Missing
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[Verse 1] / I prayed heaven today / Would bring its hammer down on me / And pound you out of my head / I can't think with you in it / [Verse 2] / I dragged all that I owned / Down
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Beck – Guero
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See me comin to town with my soul / Straight down out of the world with my fingers / Holding onto the devil I know / All my troubles'll hang on your trigger / Take your eyes and
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Beck – E-Pro
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“E-Pro” is the opening track on Beck’s 2005 album Guero. It was released as the lead single from the album in March 2005. The song was Beck’s second #1 on the Modern Rock chart and
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Beck – Broken Drum
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“Broken Drum” is the eighth track off of Beck’s 2005 album Guero. The song’s original name was “Outerspace”.
The track is similar to the previous album Beck had released, Sea
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Beck – Go It Alone
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[Verse 1] / I'm coming over / See me down at the station by the lane with my hands in my pocket / Jingling a wish coin / That I stole from a fountain that was drowning all the
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Beck – Earthquake Weather
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[Verse 1] / Space ships can't tame the jungle / And I feel like I'm giving in / We've been drivin' through a desert / Looking for a life to call our own / [Chorus] / I push, I pull
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Beck – Qué Onda Güero
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This track paints a vivid lyrical picture of a Latino immigrant neighborhood in inner-city Los Angeles. Beck spent much of his childhood in such areas, including East Hollywood
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Beck – Emergency Exit
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[Verse 1] / 14 miles away from a landfill grave / Never pawned my watch and chain / To the landlord living inside my head / Never paid my rent till the lights went dead / Then I
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Beck – Scarecrow
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[Verse 1] / I'm walking through the other side / With the devil trying to take my mind / And my soul's just a silhouette / From the ashes of a cigarette / [Verse 2] / Illusions
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Beck – Clap Hands
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[Verse 1] / I'll clap my hands along, and rattle on like a vagabond / I'll rip my uniform, and bend the floor to the early morning / I'll shake your dollar bill, and spend it all
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Beck – Black Tambourine
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Beck has admitted on XFM that this song sounds closest to the raw rock album he has been planning to make for a while now. He called this song a “Bo Diddley / Adam Ant party”.
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Beck – Send a Message to Her
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[Verse 1] / Get up son, hit your head like a drum / Weeds are all grown in vain / Too much time, I got too much time / Livin' in a waste of space / [Chorus] / Take yourself, don't
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Beck – Hell Yes
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“Hell Yes” is the seventh track off of Beck’s 2005 album “Guero”. Another hip hop track off of Guero that Beck did not intend, but still had fun with it (obviously). Here’s what he
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Beck – Rental Car
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[Verse 1] / Hey now girl, what's the matter with me? / We're on a back road something to see / Straight as a razor kicking the dust / Digging through ditches and falling to rust
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Seal (Ft. Jeff Beck) – Like a Rolling Stone
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Once upon a time you dressed so fine / You even threw the bums a dime in your prime / Didn't you? / People called and say beware doll you're bound to fall / But you, you thought
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Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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The fourth track on Elton John’s 1973 double album of the same name, and the second single from the album. Written by Elton and his co-songwriter Bernie Taupin, “Goodbye Yellow
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Mouse Rat – 5000 Candles in the Wind (Bye Bye Li’l Sebastian)
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“5000 Candles in the Wind” is a song from the band Mouse Rat that appeared in the Parks and Recreation episode “Li'l Sebastian”. It is about a miniature horse who recently died
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Brett Dennen – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
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Clouds so swift / Rain won't lift / Gate won't close / Railings froze / Get your mind off wintertime / You ain't goin' nowhere / Whoo-ee! Ride me high / Tomorrow's the day / My
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Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger
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“Don’t Look Back in Anger” was released as the fourth single off of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, February 19th 1996. In 2006, it was included in the “Best Of”-compilation
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Bob Dylan – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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When Dylan performed “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” for the first time at the Gaslight Cafe in October 1962, Suze Rotolo – his girlfriend at the time – had already been taking
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The Genius Community’s 50 Best Albums of 2016
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Chance The Rapper, Solange, Frank Ocean, and more top our list.
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Future (Ft. Drake) – I'M ON ONE
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In “I’M ON ONE,” the Atlanta native recruits the Canadian superstar Drake for a trap collaboration where the artists express their love for drugs, women, and jewelry.
The
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Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Witch Of Atlas
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Pictured above is Percy Shelley.
Shelly’s use of science relating to Prometheus is conjoined in this poem.
- The witch is the spirit of love and beauty.
- Greek and Egyptian
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights, Vol. 5 (Chap. 74.2)
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The Story of Janshah.[FN#536] / 'Know, O my brother, that my sire was a King called Teghmús, who reigned over the land of Kabul and the Banu Shahlán, ten thousand warlike chiefs
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch – Venus in Furs
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Title: Venus in Furs / Author: Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch / Translator: Fernanda Savage / VENUS IN FURS / Of this book, intended for / private circulation, only / 1225 copies
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Marcel Proust – Chapter 3
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CHAPTER THREE / THE SORROWS OF M. DE CHARLUS. — HIS SHAM DUEL. — THE STATIONS ON THE ‘TRANSATLANTIC.’— WEARY OF ALBERTINE I DECIDE TO BREAK WITH HER / I was dropping with sleep. I
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