Genius Meanings
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Big Thief – Paul
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Story about some good old folk presumably in the rurals of america. Partners in crime. A girl with commitment issues. A man who wants to make her his lover. She cannot accept this
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Cavetown – Paul
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“Paul” is a cover of a 2016 song with the same name by Big Thief. The songs lyrics detail the story of a girl with commitment issues and a man who wants to make this significant
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Big Thief – Velvet Ring
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[Intro] / Two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Shoved in the kitchen of a city tomb / The light would flicker like a violent womb / The night was thicker than a smoky fume / And Liza
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Big Thief – Real Love
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[Verse 1] / Having a bad week? / Let me touch your cheek / I will always love you / [Verse 2] / Having your face hit / Having your lip split / By the one who loves you / [Chorus
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Big Thief – Lorraine
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[Verse 1] / When I saw the first time, the thunder came crashing / Your new blue eyeliner caught my distraction / And like we were two lovers forming from friction / Your mouth
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Big Thief – Vampire Empire
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[Verse 1] / Watching TV tired, bleeding on the bed / The milk has just expired, all the leaves are dead / I'm not quiet, you've been quiet, just receiving what you said / Reeling
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Big Thief – Simulation Swarm
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[Verse 1] / I tried to tell you / I didn't know how to stay / You believe she can see through / Cutting at the silent clay / A relief, beckon deep blue / Fettered in the magnet sun
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Big Thief – Mary
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‘Mary’ was written by Adrianne Lenker in the home which inspired the sentiment of the lyrics. In an interview with NPR, Lenker spoke about the inspiration for the song.
She first
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Big Thief – UFOF
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Adrianne Lenker has spoken about how U.F.O.F symbolizes the other, those things outside of ourselves, those things beyond our understanding. The album’s title, adds ‘Friend’ to ‘
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Big Thief – Masterpiece
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The first single form 2016’s album of the same name, Masterpiece is a powerful, uptempo song about the passing of time, and of lives. On one level it reminisces of times past
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Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek – The Last Time I Saw Paul
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[Verse 1] / Oh, the last time I saw Paul / I was horrible and almost let him in / But I stopped and caught the wall / And my mouth got dry so all I did was take him for a spin
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Paul Shapera – The Thief
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[Announcer] / And now, a word from our sponsor: / Folks, in these troubled times there's so many stresses that can get you down, one often wishes they could just take the
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Big Thief – Mythological Beauty
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This was the first single from Big Thief’s sophomore album, Capacity. The song is a meditation on the sacrifices, both literal and emotional, young parents are forced to take on.
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Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
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[Verse 1] / It's a little bit magic / Like a river of morning geese / In the new warm mountain / Where the stone face forms and speaks / [Chorus] / I believe in you / Even when you
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Big Thief – Spud Infinity
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[Chorus] / What's it gonna take? / What's it gonna take? / What's it gonna take / To free the celestial body? / [Verse 1] / From way up there, it looks so small / From way down
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Big Thief – Certainty
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[Verse 1] / Name on the line, last request / Pull the car over to find some rest / Saying, "I love you" / Need to lie here, need to leave / Living in the debt of make-believe
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Big Thief – Vegas
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Holed up in Vegas for only one week / And I caught you tongue and cheek by the side of the road / Of an automobile expo / Turned up the volume and you started to weep / And I
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Big Thief – Shark Smile
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[Verse 1] / She was a shark smile in a yellow van / She came around and I stole her glance / In my youth, a vampire / Evelyn shone quiet as roses sting / It came over me at a bad
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Big Thief – Randy
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Oh Randy, leave it up to me / I'll pour the water if you bring the tree / Nothing looks that real to me / I only see two or three colors / What's it like to breathe in? / Find a
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Big Thief – Change
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The track was previewed multiple times by Lenker via impromptu Instagram Live shows in 2021, before receiving its full band debut on 21 August 2021 at Garden Amphitheatre
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Big Thief – Those Girls
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[Verse 1] / Dropped call, mid fall / Only you can know for now / Island, demons / Only you can hold them down / [Chorus] / Those girls might hear me crying / The one, the only
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Thief Club – Oh Paul
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[Verse 1] / Hard to believe, still can't accept / I don't get to see you again / And this letter that I never sent / Has so much I wish you'd have read / See I wanted to tell you
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