 Genius Meanings
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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 – The Tide is High (Demo)
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The tide is high but I'm holdin' on / I wanna be your number one / I'm not the kinda girl who gives up just like that, oh no / Ev'ry girl wants you to be her man / But I'll wait my
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The Paragons – The Tide Is High
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The tide is high but I'm holding on / I'm gonna be your number one / I'm not the kinda man who gives up just like that / No / It's not the things you do that really hurts me bad
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Blondie – The Tide Is High (Live)
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[Intro] / [Chorus] / The tide is high but I'm holdin' on / I'm gonna be your number one / I'm not the kind-a girl who gives up just like that, oh no / [Verse 1] / It's not the
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Atomic Kitten – The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)
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“The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)”, originally recorded by The Paragons, was covered by the group Atomic Kitten in 2002. Their version was released as the second single from
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Angelina – The Tide Is High
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The tide is high, but I'm holding on / I'm gonna be your number one / I'm not the kind of girl / Who gives up just like that / Oh nooooooooo... / The tide is high, but I'm holding
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Blondie – Autoamerican Ad
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[Narration] / ("Here's Looking at You") / It's all new and it's the only way to go / Get ready to take the ride: Autoamerican / ("The Tide is High") / Autoamerican: all-new, all-
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Kardinal Offishall (Ft. Rihanna) – Numba 1 (Tide Is High) [Album Version]
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This song involves a dialogue between Kardinal and a girl that wants to be his girlfriend or wife. He doesn’t want to date her exclusively, but she tells him that she will be his
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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 – Heart of Glass (Live from Havana, 2019)
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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 – Moonlight Drive
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[Verse] / Let's swim to the moon / Let's climb through the tide / You reach your hand to hold me / But I can't be your guide / Even though I love you / As I watch you glide
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The Doors – Moonlight Drive
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“The song is known to fans as being one of the first written by lead singer Jim Morrison. According to the Morrison biography No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny
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Blondie – Ring of Fire (Home Tape)
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[Verse 1] / Love is a burning thing / And it makes a fiery ring / Bound by wild desire / I fell into a ring of fire / [Verse 2] / The taste of love is sweet / When hearts like ours
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Blondie – Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45) (Take 1)
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Flight 45 was last seen alive / On the runway / Leaving for some fun / In the hot tropic sun / Back next Monday / And our friends are at the airport / Cousin Bill says / "Enjoy the
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The Beta Band (Ft. Sean Reveron) – Won
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This is the closing track from the album Hot Shots II.
It contains a sample from the Harry Nilson song “One”.
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John Holt – Stick By Me
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Stick by me, I'll stick by you / Stick by me, I'll stick by you / My life on earth would be useless, can't you see? Oh-oh / If I didn't have you to stick by me / I love you
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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 – Spaghetti Song (Atomic Pt. 2)
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Tonight / Make it magnificent / Tonight / Make it tonight / Your hair is beautiful / Ooh-oh tonight / Atomic / Oh-oh / Atomic / Oh-oh / Oh-oh / Atomic / Oh-uh
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Blondie – Detroit 442 (Take 2)
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You know he can't be tested / He can't be read or found / The urban grey takes breath away / He wants to push his pedal to the ground / And the night's what's right / Puts him at
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Blondie – Angels on the Balcony (Giorgio Moroder Demo)
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[Mostly unintelligible scat, likely from Jimmy Destri] / In the rain, a-ah hey / Feel the rain, burn again / I could've slept a dream on the ocean bed / Sleepyhead, time for bed
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Vance Joy – Riptide
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The intro and first single to Vance Joy’s debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing was a critical and commercial success. Critics praised its clever lyrics filled with pop
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Blondie – Atomic (Diddy Remix – Radio Edit)
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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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