 Genius Meanings
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Blondie – Rip Her to Shreds
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[Intro] / Hey, psst-psst, here she comes now / [Verse 1] / Oh, you know her / Would you look at that hair? / Yeah, you know her / Check out those shoes / She looks like she stepped
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Blondie – Rip Her to Shreds (Live)
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[Verse 1] / (Hey! Psst PSST! Here she comes now.) / Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair / Yeah, you know her, check out those shoes / She looks like she stepped out of
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Boomkat – Rip Her to Shreds
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[Intro] / Hey, psst, psst / Here she comes now / Oh, you know her / Here she comes now / [Verse 1] / Oh, you know her / Would you look at that hair? / Yeah, you know her / Check
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Blondie – Man Overboard
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[Chorus] / Man overboard, sinking in a sea of love / Man overboard, he jumped, didn't need a shove / Oh, I've been sailing the sea of love, experiencing romance / With what I know
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Blondie – X Offender
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When bassist Gary Valentine was 17-years-old he got his underage girlfriend pregnant and was given a statutory rape charge as a result. He penned a song titled “Sex Offender
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Blondie – In the Flesh
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[Verse 1] / Darling, darling, darling / I can't wait to see you / Your picture ain't enough / I can't wait to touch you in the flesh (Ooh) / Darling, darling, darling (Darling) / I
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Blondie – Dreaming
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[Verse 1] / When I met you in the restaurant / You could tell I was no debutante / You asked me what's my pleasure / A movie or a measure? / I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of
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Blondie – Rifle Range
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[Verse 1] / I was all alone with the scent of a bone / And my heart was stuck in this emptiness zone / I had not a care, though I wanted to hear / The voice of a maiden who was
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Blondie – Atomic
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[Chorus] / Uh-huh, make me tonight / Tonight, make it right / Uh-huh, make me tonight / Tonight / Tonight / Oh, uh-huh, make it magnificent / Tonight / Right / [Verse 1] / Oh, your
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Blondie – The Tide Is High
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Blondie’s early 1981 chart-topping cover of Jamaican group The Paragons song was the lead single of the album Autoamerican, where they incorporated elaborate orchestration, heard
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Blondie – Call Me
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Blondie’s biggest hit, “Call Me”, was also the biggest song of 1980 in the US, spending six weeks at the top of the chart that spring. It also topped the UK pop chart and reached
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Blondie – Little Girl Lies
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[Verse 1] / She loves you right now, so don't close your eyes / She'll be talking and laughing with six other guys / Flirtatious and cute, she'll take you the route / Telling
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Blondie – Rapture
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People argue over this song’s place in the history of rap. Was it… the first rap song? The first commercial rap song? The first rap song to sell X number of copies / place X on the
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Blondie – Puerto Rico
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[Intro] / Do-do, do-do / Do-do, do-do, do... / [Verse 1] / You say you wanna take me down to Puerto Rico / Crowded Puerto Rico / Humid Puerto Rico / You say you wanna take me up to
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Blondie – In the Sun
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[Intro] / Hm / Surf's up / [Verse 1] / In the sun, I'm waiting for the day / Having fun, and you're far away / Moonlight nights, water seems so clear / Ooh, city lights while I'm
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Blondie – Union City Blue
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One of the few singles off of Eat to the Beat, “Union City Blue” was written by Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry and bassist Nigel Harrison. A purely new-wave track, it’s much
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Blondie – Platinum Blonde
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[Verse 1] / I want to be a platinum blonde / Just like all the sexy stars / Marilyn and Jean, Jayne, Mae and Marlene / Yeah they, they really had fun / In a luminous Day-Glo shade
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Blondie – Sunday Girl
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Written for Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry’s runaway cat, Sunday Man, “Sunday Girl” details a pious woman whose restrictions in life have lead to a depressed state of mind
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Blondie – Maria (Live)
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[Verse 1] / She moves like she don't care / Smooth as silk, cool as air / Ooh, it makes you wanna cry / She doesn't know your name / And your heart beats like a subway train / Ooh
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Blondie – Out in the Streets
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[Chorus] / He don't hang around with the gang no more / He don't do the wild things that he did before / [Verse 1] / (Oh) / He used to act bad / Used to, but he quit it / It makes
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Blondie – The Thin Line
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[Intro] / You hate me / Yeah, you hate me! / [Verse 1] / You think I don't see murder in your eye / When you're looking at me / You love me / Yeah, you love me! / You don't wanna
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Blondie – Dreaming (Live)
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[Verse 1] / When I met you in the restaurant / You could tell I was no debutante / You asked me what's my pleasure / A movie or a measure? / I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of
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Blondie – Kung Fu Girls
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[Intro] / Yāt, yih, sāam! / [Verse 1] / Down in Chinatown, the year of the cock / He sold the silver belt, put it in hock / Fistful of money, mouth full of gold / Soon to be free
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Blondie – Look Good in Blue
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You look good in blue / It matches your skin, your eyes dripping with pain / Someone like you / Getting off on the lies 'cause it dulls your surprise again / If it's alright with
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Blondie – A Shark in Jets Clothing
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[Verse 1] / I always had my eyes on you but you came from across the line / I had to make good time to see you but you had to pay the fine / All the boys on my side knew that you
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Blondie – Hanging on the Telephone
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Blondie’s well-known version of “Hanging on the Telephone” by US West Coast power pop band The Nerves.
Like Aretha Franklin’s famous cover of “Respect,” Blondie’s version changes
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Blondie – Heart of Glass (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out had a heart of glass / Seemed like the real thing, only to find / Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind / [Verse 2
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Blondie – X Offender (Original Private Stock Single Version)
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[Intro] / I saw you standing on the corner / You looked so big and fine / I really wanted to go out with you / So when you smiled / I laid my heart on the line / [Verse 1] / You
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Blondie – The Attack of the Giant Ants
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[Verse 1] / Giant ants from space snuff the human race / Then they eat your face, never leave a trace / [Chorus] / La la la la la, la la la la la, la la la la la (Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Blondie – Denis
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[Chorus] / Oh Denis doo-be-do / I'm in love with you, Denis doo-be-do / I'm in love with you, Denis doo-be-do / I'm in love with you / Denis Denis, oh with your eyes so blue
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Vigil – Therapist
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Therapist sits and waits for me / Till she sees me drop my guard / She can make me cry / Therapist squirms excitedly / I think she enjoys this / She can make me cry / Oh, therapist
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Blondie – Picture This
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[Verse 1] / All I want is a room with a view / A sight worth seeing, a vision of you / All I want is a room with view, oh-oh / I will give you my finest hour / The one I spent
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Blondie – X Offender (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine / I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled / I laid my heart on the line / You read me my
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Blondie – Hanging on the Telephone (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall / If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall / I know he's there, but I just had to call / [Refrain] / Don
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Blondie – Atomic (Live)
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[Chorus] / Uh-huh, make me tonight / Tonight, make it right / Uh-huh, make me tonight / Tonight / Tonight / Oh, uh-huh, make it magnificent / Tonight / Right / [Verse 1] / Oh, your
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Blondie – Rapture (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Toe to toe, dancing very close / Barely breathing, almost comatose / Wall to wall, people hypnotized / And they're stepping lightly / Hang each night in rapture / [
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Blondie – Call Me (Live)
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Color me your color, baby / Color me your car / Color me your color, darling / I know who you are / Come up off your color chart / I know where you are
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Blondie – One Way or Another (Live)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / One way or another, I'm going to find ya / I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya / One way or another I'm going to win ya / I'm gonna get ya
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Vinnie Vincent – Love Kills
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So long since I've waited / To live again / You've brought my world to an end / Love takes its victim and leaves its remains / My broken heart has died in vain / Tell me why have
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