 Genius Meanings
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Birdy – Wings
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“Wings” is the lead single off of Birdy’s second album Fire Within. It was commercially successful, especially in Europe.
The song is about longing
Speaking to the Daily Mail
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Birdy – Wings (Nu:Logic Remix - Edit)
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[Verse 1] / Sunlight comes creepin' in / Illuminates our skin / We watched the day go by / Stories of all we did / It made me think of you / It made me think of you / [Verse 2
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Birdy – Wings Live At Abbey Road
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[Verse 1] / Sunlight comes creepin' in / Illuminates our skin / We watched the day go by / Stories of all we did / It made me think of you / It made me think of you / [Verse 2
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Birdy – Wings (Nu:Logic Remix)
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[Verse 1] / Sunlight comes creepin' in / Illuminates our skin / We watched the day go by / Stories of all we did / It made me think of you / It made me think of you / [Verse 2
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Wing$
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“Wings” (stylized as “Wing$”) explores the consumerism that Macklemore feels plagues not only the youth but everyone in American Society: The idea that your worth as a person is
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Little Mix – Wings
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Opening track and first single off British X-Factor made girlband; Little Mix’s debut album DNA which was released on the 19th of November 2012.
“Wings” was written by all four
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Ween – Little Birdy
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[Intro] / Oh, little birdy / Oh, little birdy / [Verse 1] / I saw the little birdy sing / He sang with glee and everything / He sang for spring, and sang for me / And everything
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Tyler, The Creator (Ft. Kali Uchis, Roy Ayers & Syd) – FIND YOUR WINGS
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Following the 4 first tracks on the album, where Tyler realized that he no longer wants to to mess around, and live life recklessly and instead take a stand, find his own path and
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Birdy – Silhouette
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[Verse 1] / There are shadows in my dreams / Storms that steer me out of reach / And you just wait on my defeat / Hmm, hmm / So I built an army underneath / And now they guard me
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Mac Miller – Wings
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“Wings” sees Mac Miller finally admitting that his emotional wounds have almost completely healed, that he has moved on from the darkest parts of his life and that the future will
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Nothing But Thieves – Wings (BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge)
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[Verse 1] / Sunlight comes creeping in / Illuminates our skin / We watch the day go by / Stories of all we did / It made me think of you / It made me think of you / [Verse 2
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Dirty Birdy – Shoot The Wings
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(Intro) / Shoot the wings off the fly / Yo, I'm from the do it or you'll die / Where 85% of the populations getting high / Like the opposite of goodbye / One out of ten guys think
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The Beatles – Blackbird
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“Blackbird” is Paul McCartney’s hopeful essay on the Civil Rights Movement and the “End of Racism in America”.
The tune was inspired by J.S. Bach’s Bourrée in E minor, a well
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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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Birdy + RHODES – Let It All Go
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Birdy and Rhodes' melting “Let It All Go” details a couple on the verge of a break up and goes back to the “if you love something, let it go” cliché. The track features on both
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Birdy – Lights
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[Verse 1] / Strangest night was born / And carried away on a winter’s gust / Placed on the wings of a ghost-like dove / Dressed in all your clothes / I put you to bed in the lamp
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Birdy – Strange Birds
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[Verse 1] / Little ghost, you're listening / Unlike most you don’t miss a thing / You see the truth / I walk the halls invisibly / I climb the walls, no one sees me / No one but
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Birdy – The Otherside
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[Verse] / Autumn days, the doors you face / They're never gone, you never cry / But if your bridge ever falls, if it does / If it does, I'll catch you, babe / I will / Autumn fires
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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 – 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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Jesse Winchester – Skip Rope Song
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I used to know a pretty girl / Who cut off all her hair / The scissors flew among her curls / And curls were everywhere / I gathered up her fallen locks / And carried them away
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Vulfpeck (Ft. Antwaun Stanley & Theo Katzman) – Darwin Derby
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On November 14, 2018, “Darwin Derby” was found ahead of its initial release by Reddit user Kim-Jong-Jon through Zync Music, a music licensing and publishing company that works with
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Birdy – Celestial Dancers
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[Chorus] / Here we are / Just floating with the moon and stars / Just waiting for something, a little spark / I don't know what it is, but when it comes / I'll know it when it
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Birdy – Words As Weapons
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[Verse 1] / I feel your knife as it goes right in / Cut to my core but I'm not bleeding / All that you say tryin' to make me small / Well the bigger you get the harder you fall / [
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A$AP Rocky (Ft. Birdy Nam Nam & Skrillex) – Wild for the Night
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Acting as Long.Live.ASAP’s third single, this track marked Rocky’s first collaboration with his friend Skrillex. In an interview with Fuse he stated that they’d “wanted to work
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Omi Alba – Little birdy, fly north (a nonbinary song)
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Little birdy, they were told to stay in their nest / And forced to fly like all the rest / Flying south for winter never felt quite right at all / But they still continued to fly
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Birdy – The Same
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[Verse 1] / I've tried to be fair and pretend like I care / But no asset is worth all the time / Spent listening and laughing / To dramas that mean nothing / Can't find any depth
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Birdy – Maybe
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[Verse 1] / Maybe / I know it's just maybe / And we're only dreaming / For how this will go, oh-oh-oh / But maybe / One day this daydream / Will turn into real things / For all
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Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Skip Rope Song
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I used to know a pretty girl / Who cut off all her hair / The scissors flew among the curls / And curls went everywhere / I gathered up her fallen locks / And carried them away
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