 Genius Meanings
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Birdy – Your Arms
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[Verse 1] / Who could say what would follow / Big holes in the dark / I couldn't say where you'd gone to / But every night I would ask / [Pre-Chorus] / When hope went away / I
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Birdy – Surrender
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[Verse 1] / Strange, this wilderness inside / The heart drifts from hot to cold / You think it can't make up its mind / And suddenly it's always known / Suddenly it's always known
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Little Birdy – Into My Arms
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You are having the time of your life / You are having the time of your life / You miss me, I miss you / The same as before / But I don't love you, I don't need you / The same as
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Birdy – Lighthouse
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[Verse 1] / Caught up in the riptide / Like a storm on a dark night / In so deep / And it's pulling me from both sides / It's hard to stay upright in this changing sea / And I'm so
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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 – Heartbreaker
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[Intro] / (Ayy-oh, ayy-oh) / (Ayy-oh, ayy-oh) / Ayy-oh, ayy-oh, oh / Ayy-oh, ayy-oh, oh / [Verse 1] / Feel like I've been reading you wrong / And we've tilted from where we started
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Birdy – I Only Want To Be With You
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[Verse 1] / I don't know what it is that makes me love you so / I only know I never want to let you go / 'Cause you started something, oh, can't you see / That ever since we met
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Jonas Brothers – Little Bird
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[Verse 1: Nick Jonas] / Came in the world, my baby girl / Beautiful angel / Oh, I could cry, got your mother's kind eyes / Tryna stop time, no, I could never ask for more / [Chorus
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Sugar Ray (Ft. Super Cat) – Fly (Remix)
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[Intro: Super Cat] / What it is! All nice and easy slip of the curl / This is Super Cat and Sugar Ray riding through / Spread your love and fly, fly... / [Verse 1] / All around the
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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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Steeleye Span – Bonny Birdy
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O it's of a knight on a summer's night / Was riding o'er the lee, diddle / There he spied a bonny bird / Sitting upon a tree. Singing: / "Wow for the day! / An gin it for the day
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Birdy – Raincatchers
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[Verse 1] / Baring my soul to you / And here comes the rain again / Once the weight of the world was a feather / Sweet innocence / There is a dusty room / Kept for a friend / You
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Lana Del Rey – Video Games
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Considered Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough hit, “Video Games” served as the first single off the artist’s wildly successful sophomore studio album and major label debut, Born to Die
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Bon Iver – Skinny Love
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Released as the first single from For Emma, Forever Ago, “Skinny Love” is a song about a failed relationship and the regret that stems from it.
The term “skinny love” has two
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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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Maiah Wynne – The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird (Interview Song)
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[Verse 1] / When I was a babe I fell down in the holler / When I was a girl I fell into your arms / We fell on hard times and we lost our bright color / You went to the dogs and I
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Little Birdy – Beautiful To Me
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Go ahead, don't go, don't leave my open arms all warm / And go see I don't know if you're here for me / Well look the afternoon is the only place where you and I belong / You're
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Lorde – Liability
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“Liability” is new territory for Lorde: it’s a soft, piano-driven ballad that’s far more personal than her previous work. Lorde herself described the song as “a strange part of [
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Birdy – When Doves Cry (Live For BBC Radio 2)
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[Verse 1] / Dig, if you will, the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you, my darling / Can you picture this? / [Verse 2] / Dream, if
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Jacob Collier & Brandi Carlile – Little Blue
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[Verse 1: Jacob Collier] / Little blue, be my shelter / Be my cradle, be my womb / Be my boat, be my river / Be the stillness of the moon / If I could, I'd go with you / To a place
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Lana Del Rey – Cinnamon Girl
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In “Cinnamon Girl,” Lana Del Rey expresses conflicted feelings about an intense and possibly unhealthy relationship, while begging her love interest to nurture her instead of
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Hozier – Cherry Wine (Live)
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This song details an emotionally and physically abusive relationship that is excused and lovingly described by the victim because of his attachment to his abuser. The tone of the
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Florence + the Machine – Never Let Me Go
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Florence Welch and Paul Epworth wrote this R&B-tinged piano ballad. The band first premiered the song during a concert at New York’s Creators Project on 15 October 2011.
Talking
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Miley Cyrus – River
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“River” is the second single from Miley Cyrus' eighth studio album, Endless Summer Vacation. Miley shows passion and devotion to a significant other with some sexy lyricism over a
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Birdy – Portraits
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[Verse 1] / Writin' you down like you're mine on the lines of my body / Call me obsessed, but I'd die if you were to speak to me / (Dance some more, dance some more, dance some
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