 Genius Meanings
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Bloc Party – Skeleton
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[Verse 1] / All my thoughts are of ice / All my thoughts are of ice / All my bones are so tired / All my bones are so tired / So young and so handsome / So easily led / They told
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Bloc Party – Leaf Skeleton
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[Verse 1] / The journey starts / As all around, a battle rages on, battle rages on / Arjuna seeks / He throws his bow and conch up to the sky / Open your eyes, it's all around you
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Bloc Party – Mean
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes when you are sleeping / I wonder what you're dreaming / I wonder about your eyes and what they see / Yes, I know you're right / Always must win the fight
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Bloc Party – This Modern Love
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A song about falling in love, and the coy to-and-fro that people go through in beginning new relationships.
The other side is that this song could be seen as a metaphor for
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Bloc Party – Kettling
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This song describes a riot in the UK. The title ‘Kettling’ refers to a controversial tactic used by the Metropolitan Police to control protesters by surrounding them and videoing
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Bloc Party – Helicopter
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Bloc Party’s breakthrough hit, which is speculated to be about former U.S. president George Bush. In response to the interpretations, Okereke stated that he’d actually written the
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Bloc Party – Truth
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[Verse 1] / It was the truth / That fell from these lips / It blinded us / And then the darkness left / [Chorus] / So I am yours now / Respectfully / I am yours now / Truthfully
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Bloc Party – 3x3
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[Verse 1] / Three times three / First cut fast / Pierce the skin / It binds us / Spit, cum, blood / A liquid wax / No one loves you / No one loves you / No one loves you / As much
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Bloc Party – Day Four
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This is the sixth track from Four, an album many saw as a return to form.
The song makes a reference to the album’s title, there is something significant about the number four
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Bloc Party – Coliseum
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[Verse 1] / Got nightmare walking on two legs / There's a word for people like us / Can't shake the feeling we're moving backwards / History repeating itself / Ain't got time to
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Bloc Party – Two More Years
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Single released between the albums Silent Alarm and A Weekend in the City, and later included as a bonus track on a re-issued version of Silent Alarm. The song reached #7 on the UK
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Bloc Party – Black Crown
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[Verse 1] / "Because it's the rules" / Teacher said to boy / "Not my rules," he said, "No" / Talking in Ebonics, talking in italics / Talking, talking, talking, talking, talking
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Bloc Party – The Healing
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“The Healing” is a noted shift of sound from a lot of the surrounding songs on Four. Like “Day Four” and “Real Talk”, it’s more calmer and much more intimate of a song with very
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Bloc Party – We Are Not Good People
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[Verse 1] / Think fast, boy, think on your feet / If you don't know now then you never will, never will / Oh, you're too young to be so heavy / Rip off the seal and let me school
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Bloc Party – Octopus
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[Verse 1] / It hid and it hid in his bedroom / Psycho killer, teen dream, action film / Gonna show you how we get down in my hood / Bubbling and bubbling, the cheap champagne
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Bloc Party – Tulips (Minotaur Shock Remix)
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When you said tulips / I knew that you're mine / When I caught you there / Crying in the night / Wearing my jacket / Wearing that smile / I knew that I'd found you / Were you
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Bloc Party – The Pioneers (M83 Remix)
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(to try, try, try, try, cry) / (try, try, try, try, try, try, try, cry) [repeated] / Breathe in, breathe in, breathe in / Breathe in, breathe in, breathe in / (-trol) [repeated
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Bloc Party – Hero
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“Hero” is a B-side to early Bloc Party single, “Two More Years”. Its lyrics speak about how the average person can be a “hero” to someone else.
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Bloc Party – V.A.L.I.S.
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“V.A.L.I.S” is a science fiction novel by Phillip K. Dick fom 1981. It stands for Vast Active Living Intelligence System
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Bloc Party – Real Talk
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[Verse 1] / Can we get real for a moment? / You're my one and only friend / Watch the sunset from your sedan / Let your hand rest on mine / [Pre-Chorus] / I've lived in every town
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Bloc Party – So He Begins to Lie
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[Spoken Intro] / We'll just do it– (What?) / Have you got it? Have you got that already? / Alright / I'm gonna do it again (Yeah) / [Verse 1] / The camera's watching / He takes a
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Bloc Party – Team A
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[Verse 1] / How many times / Do I have to tell you / That these are my things? / That these are my things? / Been running your mouth / But people been listening / Say, if you wanna
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Lil Loaded – 6locc 6a6y
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“6locc 6a6y” could be considered as Lil Loaded’s breakout hit. The song blew up after YouTuber Tommy Craze reacted to the song in a video titled “Reacting To Music Videos With 0
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Lil Loaded (Ft. NLE Choppa) – 6locc 6a6y (Remix)
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This song was teased by Lil Loaded for quite some time. The song’s official release date was tweeted on June 17 and was released on June 19, 2020.
https://twitter.com/loadedcuh/
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Partners-N-Crime (Ft. DJ Jubilee) – N.O. Block Party
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[Kangol Slim] / My Hot Girl, and yo Hot Girl / Were sittin' by the Bayou, [Clap] / My Hot Girl, told yo Hot Girl / I got a Hot Boy that is fire / Talkin' bout a Hot Boy [Hot Girl
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My Chemical Romance – Welcome to the Black Parade
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This song is on My Chemical Romance’s third studio album, entitled The Black Parade. The song, as well as the rest of the album, follows The Patient, a man who is dying, through
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DJ Kay Slay (Ft. 3D Na'Tee, Aobie, AZ, Big Daddy Kane, Big Dubez, Billy Danze, Black Thought, Bodega Bamz, Bun B, Bynoe, Cassidy, Chris Rivers, Chuck D, Coke La Rock, Consequence, Conway the Machine, Cory Gunz, Dave East, DJ Doo Wop, Drag-On, E-A-Ski, E.D.I. Mean, Freddie Foxxx, Fredro Starr, Fred the Godson, Ghostface Killah, Gillie Da Kid, Grandmaster Caz, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Grand Puba, Greg Nice, Gunplay, Havoc, Hocus45th, Ice-T, Inspectah Deck, Jim Jones, Joell Ortiz, Jon Connor, J.R. Writer, Junior Reid, Kaflow Kaboom, King Kirk, Kool DJ Red Alert, Kool G Rap, KRS-One, KXNG Crooked, Lil' Cease, Lil' Fame, Loaded Lux, Locksmith, Lord Jamar, Lord Tariq, Maino, McGruff, MC Serch, MC Shan, Merkules, Metta Sandiford-Artest, Mike Cee, Millyz, Mistah F.A.B., Ms. Hustle, Mysonne, Nino Man, Omar Epps, OT the Real, Oun-P, Page Kennedy, Papoose, Peter Gunz, Pretty Tone Capone, PTKNY, Raekwon, Rah Digga, Ransom, Ras Kass, Redman, RJ Payne, Rock (Heltah Sk
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[Intro: DJ Kay Slay & Sheek Louch] / Trackateering Music / Man, y'all did it with this one here, y'all / People love to use that quote, "I'm doin' it for the culture" / But what
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Genius Lists – Songs Based On Stories
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The perfect way for Lit Geniuses to get in on the music scene, or vice versa. Let us know if you work on any of these songs by making an annotation.
– Album cover to Leviathan
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Juice WRLD – Tim Westwood Freestyle
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On June 29, 2018, Juice WRLD appeared on Tim Westwood’s segment on British hip-hop radio station, Capital XTRA. He freestyled for an hour over more than a dozen existing beats
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Apathy, Tak of S.O.B. & Celph Titled – All Night
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[Apathy] / I'll break ya brain cells off at the stem your status is stupider / Ap' is a nuclear blast, heart blacker than Lucifer / I could sit and write a list of all the shit I
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TzGwala – Drowning
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[Intro] / SBandz mixed this / I love Chris Rich / [Verse] / Used to run man down in my 97s (Gassed) / Twisted kid like Kevin (Fuck) / Back of the 125 it's revving, my only
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King of the Dot (Ft. Illipsis & Krome (Battle Rapper)) – Illipsis vs. Krome
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[Round 1: Krome] / Aight, so what’s good, Vancouver!? / Tonight, I don’t need a reaction / I mean, y’all asked for this matchup, with this nerd you been gassin’ / And this shit is
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Howard Zinn – Chapter 21: Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
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Halfway through the twentieth century, the historian Richard Hofstadter, in his book The American Political Tradition, examined our important national leaders, from Jefferson and
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Noam Chomsky – The Victors
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Part I / November, 1990 / At any historical moment, we are likely to find a conventional interpretation of the state of the world and our role within it, often gaining the force of
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Mario Puzo – The Godfather Screenplay
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The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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