Genius Meanings
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Bob Dylan – Lay Down Your Weary Tune
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[Chorus] / Lay down your weary tune, lay down / Lay down the song you strum / And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings / No voice can hope to hum / [Verse 1] / Struck by
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Billy Bragg – Lay Down Your Weary Tune
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Lay down your weary tune, lay down / Lay down the song you strum / And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings / No voice can hope to hum / Struck by the sounds before the sun
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Silverstein – Song To Woody
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Silverstein’s cover of “Song To Woody” originally by Bob Dylan.
This cover appears as a digital bonus track on Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of
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Mariachi El Bronx – Love Sick
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I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired / And the clouds are weeping / Did I hear someone tell
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Zee Avi – Tomorrow Is A Long Time
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If today was not an endless highway / If tonight was not a crooked trail / If tomorrow wasn't such a long time / Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all / Yes, and only if
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Bob Dylan – With God On Our Side (Live)
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Oh my name it ain't nothin' / My age it means less / The country I come from / Is called the Midwest / I’s taught and brought up there / The laws to abide / And that the land that
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My Morning Jacket – You're a Big Girl Now
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[Verse 1] / Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet / And I'm out in the rain / Mmm, and you are on dry land / Mmm, you made it there somehow / You'
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Thea Gilmore – I'll Remember You
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I'll remember you / When I've forgotten all the rest / You to me were true / You to me were the best / When there is no more / You cut to the core / Quicker than anyone I knew
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We Are Augustines – Mama, You Been On My Mind
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Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat / And coverin' the crossroads I'm standing at / Or maybe it's the weather or something like that / But mama, you been on my mind / I don'
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Bob Dylan – Ballad of Hollis Brown (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Hollis Brown / He lived on the outside of town / Hollis Brown / He lived on the outside of town / With his wife and five children / And his cabin broken down / [Verse 2
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Michael Franti – Subterranean Homesick Blues
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Johnny's in the basement / Mixing up the medicine / I'm on the pavement / Thinking about the government / The man in the trench coat / Badge out, laid off / Says, he's got a bad
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Pete Townshend – Corrina, Corrina
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Corrina, Corrina / Girl, where you been so long? / Corrina, Corrina / Girl, where you been so long? / I been worryin' about you, baby / Baby, please come home / I got a bird that
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Silversun Pickups – Not Dark Yet
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Shadows are falling and I've been here all day / It's too hot to sleep time is running away / Feel like my soul has turned into steel / I've still got the scars that the sun didn't
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Brett Dennen – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
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Clouds so swift / Rain won't lift / Gate won't close / Railings froze / Get your mind off wintertime / You ain't goin' nowhere / Whoo-ee! Ride me high / Tomorrow's the day / My
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Sinéad O'Connor – Property of Jesus
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[Verse 1] / Go ahead and talk about him because he makes you doubt / Because he has denied himself the things that you can't live without / Laugh at him behind his back just like
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Evan Rachel Wood – I'd Have You Anytime
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Let me in here, I know I've been here / Let me into your heart / Let me know you, let me show you / Let me roll it to you / All I have is yours / All you see is mine / And I'm glad
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The Airborne Toxic Event – Boots of Spanish Leather
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Oh, I'm sailin' away, my own true love / I'm sailin' away in the morning / Is there something I can send you from across the sea / From the place that I'll be landing? / No, there'
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Joe Perry – Man of Peace
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Look out your window, babe, there's a scene you'd like to catch / The band is playing "Dixie," a man got his hand outstretched / Could be a thinker, could be the local priest / You
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Bob Dylan – Jet Pilot
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“Jet Pilot” is about a transgender woman who is admired by many heterosexual men, but they don’t know they’re admiring a biological male.
The instrumentation and style is similar
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Bob Dylan – I’ll Keep It with Mine
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“I’ll Keep It with Mine” is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964, first officially released by folk singer Judy Collins as a single in 1965. Dylan attempted to record the song for
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K'naan – With God on Our Side
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K'naan’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “With God on Our Side”, including additional lyrics specific to K'naan’s Somali heritage.
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Eric Burdon – Gotta Serve Somebody
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You may be an ambassador to England or France / You may like to gamble, you might like to dance / You may be the heavyweight champion of the world / You may be a socialite with a
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The Sweet Tea Project – Shelter from the Storm
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[Verse 1] / 'Twas in another lifetime / One of toil and blood / When blackness was a virtue / The road was full of mud / I came in from the wilderness / A creature void of form / "
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Sting – Girl from the North Country
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Cover of “Girl From The North Country” which was written in 1963 by Bob Dylan and was released on the second track of his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
Musically, this
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Bob Dylan – Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I’m in the mood, I want to leave my lonesome home / And sometimes I’m in the mood, I want to hear my milk cow moan / And sometimes I’m in the mood, I want to
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Bob Dylan – Mixed-Up Confusion
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Mixed-Up Confusion is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan. It was recorded with an electric band on November 14, 1962 during the sessions for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, but
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The Gaslight Anthem – Changing of the Guards
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Sixteen years / Sixteen banners united over the field / Where the good shepherd grieves / Desperate men, desperate women divided / Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves
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Flogging Molly – The Times They Are A-Changin'
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Come gather 'round people / Wherever you roam / And admit that the waters / Around you have grown / And accept it that soon / You'll be drenched to the bone / If your time to you
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Miley Cyrus – You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
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[Verse 1] / I’ve seen love go by my door / It’s never been this close before / Never been so easy or so slow / Shooting in the dark too long / When something’s not right, it’s
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Pete Seeger – Forever Young
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[Verse 1] / May God bless and keep you always / May your wishes all come true / May you always do for others / And let others do for you / May you build a ladder to the stars / And
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Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band – Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
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I was riding on the Mayflower / When I thought I spied some land / I yelled for Captain Arab / I have you understand / Who came running to the deck / Said, "Boys, forget the whale
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Kesha – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is a charity compilation album featuring new recordings of compositions by Bob Dylan by
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Bob Dylan – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
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[Verse 1] / He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks / Preoccupied with his vengeance / Cursing the dead that can’t answer him back / I’m sure that he has no
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