Genius Meanings
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Birdy – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
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Smeared black ink / Your face is ashen and I'm barely listening / To last demands / I'm staring at the asphalt wondering / What's buried underneath / Where I am / Where I am / I'll
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The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
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“The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” is a melancholy track that describes the final days of songwriter Ben Gibbard’s long-distance relationship with fellow musician Allisyn Levy
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Birdy – What You Want
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What you want to say / Wait 'til you get home / I'm sick of communicating / Over the telephone / Tell me how you feel / For I am lonely too / Need you to know / I'm just as cold
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Birdy – Shelter
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This song is about a woman experiencing a new emotion and having the want and desire for people to be able to understand them.
It’s about feeling the need to be with someone and
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Birdy – Young Blood
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We're only young and naive still / We require certain skills / The mood, it changes like the wind / Hard to control when it begins / The bittersweet between my teeth / Trying to
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The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Smeared black ink / Your palms are sweaty / And I'm barely listening / To last demands / I'm staring at the asphalt wondering / What's buried underneath / [Bridge
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Birdy – Farewell and Goodnight
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Goodnight to every little hour that you sleep tight / May it hold you through the winter of a long night / And keep you from the loneliness of yourself / Heart strung, is your
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Birdy – Just a Game
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I don’t know where I am / I don’t know this place / Don’t recognize anybody / Just the same old empty face / See these people, they lie / And I don’t know who to believe anymore
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Birdy – White Winter Hymnal
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I was following the / I was following the / I was following the / I was following the / I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats / With scarves of red tied 'round
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Birdy – Comforting Sounds
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I don't feel alright / In spite of these comforting / Sounds you make / I don't feel alright / Because you make promises / That you break / Into your house / Why don't we share our
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Birdy – Fire and Rain
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[Verse 1] / Just yesterday morning, they let me know that you were gone / Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you / I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song / I
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Birdy – People Help the People (RAK Studios Session)
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[Verse 1] / God knows what is hiding in those weak and drunken hearts / Guess he kissed the girls and made them cry / Those hard-faced queens of misadventure / God knows what is
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Birdy – Without a Word
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“Without a Word” is the only song written by Birdy on her self-titled album, which mostly features covers of indie favorites.
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Birdy – I'll Never Forget You
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86 Charlie came over / He asked me for a favor / Asked me a question / Asked me to make an exception / 86 Charlie he came back / Said he'd been thinking it over / Says he's had a
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Birdy – Not About Angels
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Birdy’s song which was used for The Fault In Our Stars soundtrack.
In this mature song she shows at loss.
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Birdy – People Help the People
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“People Help the People” was the second single taken from Cherry Ghost’s début album, Thirst for Romance.
English musician Birdy recorded a cover version of the song, which was
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Birdy – 1901
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Counting all different ideas, drifting away / Past and present they don't matter; / Now the future's sorted out / Watch her moving in elliptical patterns; / Think it's not what you
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Birdy – Terrible Love
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[Verse 1] / It's a terrible love / And I'm walking with spiders / It's a terrible love and I'm walking in / It's a terrible love / And I'm walking with spiders / It's a terrible
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Birdy – Skinny Love
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“Skinny Love” is a song originally released by the indie-folk band Bon Iver in 2007. A cover version by Birdy was released in 2011.
This was Birdy’s debut single and charted at #1
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Mary J. Blige – Be Without You
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MJB’s 2007 Grammy award-winning single off The Breakthrough for Best R&B Song.
The video, shot in NYC, depicts MJB and her partner arguing to the point where he walks out of their
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 15 - Circe)
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Faithfull Place, off Lower Tyrone Street, where this chapter is located. Image via The National Archives of Ireland.
CIRCE
TIME: 12.00 midnight.
SCENE: Bella Cohen’s Brothel
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