 Genius Meanings
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Ben Howard – Small Things
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This opening song is an indication of the depressive themes to follow in the rest of the album. A much different experience than his first album, but no less musically riveting
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Ben Howard – Small Things - Live
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[Verse 1] / Oh, my mind / I walk down Mayflower Road again / The wailing sun / Echoes from the park seem so absurd / The bus takes hours / I knew it would, but I can't shake the
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Oh hey, I wasn't listening
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Almost every stanza starts off with a greeting of either “hey” or “hello,” but these two different greetings differ in context.
“Oh hey” is more of an offhand saying that shows that the narrator was caught off guard and not paying attention/listening – possibly because he’s too used to them.
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Slumber, not in my lifetime / Won't spend my days in my bed
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Reminiscent of Bon Jovi’s “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” and also the phrase popularized by Nas in “N.Y. State of Mind”:
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Sleep, though necessary to function properly, can be seen as time wasting – something he’s trying to avoid in this song since he knows he’s going to die eventually.
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And what of him? / What the hell, love?
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This is a seeming breaking point for him after spending much of the album talking about holding things in.
Fed up with how quickly she moved on while he sits in his despair and loneliness, he yells out his frustrations, comparing the barren feeling in his heart to a desert.
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In a tale of Conrad's
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I believe that “The Tale” by Joseph Conrad is referenced here.
There is a war at sea and the main character, the commander, comes upon a ship that is undeterminably friend or foe. The Commander feels that the captain of that ship is lying to him about his intentions. Not knowing where the heart of the captain of that ship truly lies, the Commander sends him to his death in the form of false directions that lead to impassable waters. The Commander struggles with the thought that he condemned innocent men to their deaths.
Ben Howard writes about specific people in his life, It is possible that he is talking about somebody he was conflicted with, he regrets sending them away because he wasn’t sure who they really were at the point where he sent them out of his life. Seems to focus on unsurety and possibly regret.
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Ben Howard – Evergreen
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[Verse] / Christmas flared amongst us / And we called it evergreen / Built a world without your love / And I built it mean / Christmas flared amongst us / And we called it
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Ben Howard – In Dreams
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[Verse 1] / Always a riddle in the world she said / Always a riddle inside my head / Always a thing of wonder / The way we come to be / Oh it's a big old place for me / Yeah it's a
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Ben Howard – Time Is Dancing
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[Verse 1] / Wrapped up in dissonance / I'm sorry that I just walked away / Lost in the insignificance of mine / I had no words to say / Now I am better / I implore you to say it
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Ben Howard – All Is Now Harmed
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Howard uses the drums, mainly the loudness of the crash cymbals, to represent the ongoing storm in his life, along with the chaos ensuring around him.
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Ben Howard – Oats in the Water
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Oats in The Water was written in Morocco while Ben was fighting a fever. The song has been featured on an episode of The Walking Dead, The Following and on the trailer for the game
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Ben Howard – Black Flies
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“Black Flies” is about a friendship Ben once had that ended up fading into obscurity. While listening to the song you can tell it has struck a chord deep within him; containing
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Ben Howard – Am I In Your Light? (Vinyl Exclusive)
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[Chorus] / Am I in your light, babe? / Am I in your light? / Am I forced beside you? / Am I in your heart? / [Chorus] / Am I in your light, babe? / Am I in your light? / Am I
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Ben Howard - She Treats Me Well (Tradução em Português)
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[Tradução de "She Treats Me Well" com Ben Howard] / [Verso 1] / Vi fortuna na minha vida / Dei tudo para o homem em vez disso / O amanhã ainda vem, eu ainda estou sobre meus
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Ben Howard – Oldest Trick In The Book
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[Verse 1] / A shred of grace among the common thieves / They left your passport with the policía / Robbed but thankful / Well that's the oldest trick in the book / [Chorus] / Baby
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Ben Howard – Rivers in Your Mouth
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[Verse 1] / Hold it in, the river in your mouth is pouring out / Water takes the shape of all that it surrounds / Yeah I know, I've been trying so hard / To keep in time with all
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Ben Howard – Sorry Kid
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“Sorry Kid” is the fifth track that anticipates Collections from the Whiteout. The single premiered on BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds with Annie Mac four days prior to the album drop.
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Ben Howard – In Dreams - Live
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[Verse 1] / Always a riddle in the world she said / Always a riddle inside my head / Always a thing of wonder / The way we come to be / Oh it's a big old place for me / Yeah it's a
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Ben Howard – Everything
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[Verse 1] / And the birds still sing outside these / These windows, where we sat together / Like nothin' ever happened here, oh / Oh, the white house on the hill and black clouds o
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Ben Howard – Crowhurst's Meme
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This song, along with “What a Day“ was released on Ben Howard’s official YouTube account on 11th of December 2020, without any prior notice or announcements and taken away after a
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Troye Sivan – Angel Baby
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“Angel Baby” is a single by Troye Sivan, released on September 9th, 2021.
Sivan announced the single on Instagram a few weeks before its release, saying:
surprise gushy juicy
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James Newton Howard (Ft. Jennifer Lawrence) – The Hanging Tree
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Note: The text on this page contains the original lyrics contained in Suzanne Collins’s novel, which do not exactly match the lyrics sung by Jennifer Lawrence in the film
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Ziggy Alberts – Days in the Sun
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And so I woke to the, sun on the window of my car / And I said, I woke, to the summer on my window / And I miss you most when the sunlight filters across these empty sheets / Days
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Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer
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“The Boxer” is considered one of Paul Simon’s masterpieces, telling the story of a young boy who laments his poverty and then turning to that of a boxer.
It was first suggested
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Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman: Act 2
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Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams
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Smash Mouth – All Star
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Smash Mouth’s best known song, with part of its enduring popularity/infamy caused by its inclusion in the opening scene of Shrek. And yet the music video is a tie-in to another
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Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls (Ft. Ashley Park, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Erika Henningsen, Grey Henson, Kate Rockwell & Taylor Louderman) – Meet The Plastics
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This song introduces the Plastics, a group made up of queen bee Regina George and her loyal followers, the socialite Gretchen Wieners and the not-so-bright Karen Smith. It ends
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Raekwon (Ft. Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah & Method Man) – Ice Cream
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The third single from Raekwon’s classic debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Rae, Ghost and Cappa dedicate this one to the ladies with help from Method Man on the hook.
The main
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Fabolous (Ft. Paul Cain) – Wolves In Sheeps Clothing
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[Intro] / Them niggas is talking baby / Don't mind them, they just talking / They know they can't fuck with me baby / You tell them like that bitch told Scarface / What did she say
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Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman: Act 1
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Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept that the values he has clung to all his life are flawed. The play is a montage
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Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls (Ft. Erika Henningsen & Kerry Butler) – It Roars
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Cady’s introductory song. She expresses longing for a life outside of the one she has in Africa and a newfound excitement for high school back in the U.S. The song makes use of
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Melanie Martinez – K-12 (Movie Script)
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“K-12” is a theatrical film directed and written by Melanie Martinez. It follows the same name of Martinez’s sophomore album K-12.
The story is about Crybaby (Melanie Martinez
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Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
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“Sound & Color,” the title track from the Shakes' sophomore album, shares more than an ampersand with the band’s debut Boys & Girls, which marked the Athens, Alabama group with a “
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