 Genius Meanings
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Brandy Clark – Best Ones
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[Intro] / One, two, three / [Verse 1] / The good nights / Don't have rainy blue eyes that wreck me without warning / They don't taste like wine and cigarettes and melt into the
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Brandy Clark – I’ll Be the Sad Song
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[Verse 1] / If your life is a record / People and places are the songs / There'll be slow and there'll be fast ones / Lookin' forward, lookin' back ones / On that tiny two-lane
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Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally & Original Broadway Cast of Shucked – Friends (Acoustic Worktape)
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[BRANDY CLARK] / It's hard to say I'm sorry / It's hard to say I'm wrong / It's always been so easy for us to get along / For all my best intentions, I'm the one who's built a wall
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Brandy Clark – Stripes
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Brandy debuted her artist career with the single “Stripes”, a gun-loaded and fashion-conscious address to a fictional cheating husband. Backed with Western-influenced production
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Brandy Clark – Northwest
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[Verse 1] / St. Helen's ash is evergreen / Forever rainin' in my dreams / I don't need a picture / To remember Tilton River / Rollin' back behind our house / Of all the byways I've
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Brandy Clark – Bad Car
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[Verse 1] / I know it's a bad car, I know it's a piece of junk / I know the best tire on it is in the trunk / Just when you start to pass, it always starts to shake / 'Cause over
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Brandy Clark – Hold My Hand
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“Hold My Hand” by Brandy Clark and Mark Jones appears on her 2013 album, 12 Stories.
This is a lover’s plea for understanding and a reminder of just how fragile our egos really
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Brandy Clark – Three Kids No Husband
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[Verse 1] / She's got three kids, no husband / And she's two weeks late on last month's rent / She's waiting on the child support / And he keeps swearing that it's coming / But if
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Brandy Clark & Dwight Yoakam – Hold My Hand
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“Hold My Hand” is the duet version of one of Brandy Clark’s signature songs from 12 Stories. The production on this version is identical to the original, except with Dwight Yoakam’
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Brandy Clark – Homecoming Queen
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[Verse 1] / Twenty-eight shouldn't look this old / But the last ten years sure took their toll / On the girl in the picture with the plastic crown / That sequined dress wouldn't
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Brandy Clark – Take Mine
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[Verse 1] / When you're lookin' for light and all you seem to find is the dark / Winter and fall in the middle of May / When your world is out of confetti and your heart is nothin
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Brandy Clark – All Over Again
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[Chorus] / Oh, I hate you, hate you, hate you / A thousand times, and then / I fall in love all over / [Verse 1] / I swear you off like caffeine, sugar, and cigarettes / Try to run
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Brandy Clark – Hungover
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[Verse 1] / I did the laundry, I cleaned the kitchen / Swept up the pieces of those broken dishes / I drank my coffee while yours got colder / All while you were hungover / [Verse
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Brandy Clark – Get High
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Starting off with an echoey, sinister-sounding dobro solo, “Get High” tells the story of a jaded housewife and her longing to escape her mundane marriage and restrictive routine by
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Brandy Clark – Up Above the Clouds (Cecelia's song)
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[Verse 1] / You can't always see it / That's why they call it faith / And I know you don't believe it / But you'll smile again someday / [Chorus] / When your blue eyes are cryin
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Brandy Clark (Ft. Brandi Carlile) – Dear Insecurity
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[Verse 1: Brandy Clark, Brandi Carlile] / Dear insecurity, oh, we meet again don't try to flirt with me / You're not really my friend but you take up half this bed / Livin' rent-
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Brandy Clark – Come Back to Me
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[Verse 1] / If there's sand that you ain't wrote your name in / If you're tired of the view from the same window / If there's lips that you wanna get drunk on / Ferris wheels that
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The Band Perry – Better Dig Two
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[Verse 1] / I told you on the day we wed / I was gonna love you 'til I's dead / Made you wait 'til our wedding night / That's the first and the last time I wear white / [Verse 2
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Brandy Clark (Ft. Derek Trucks) – Ain't Enough Rocks
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On the sinister, banjo-backed murder ballad, “Ain’t Enough Rocks,” Brandy sings about two young girls who kill their father to escape the physical and sexual abuse he inflicts upon
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Hayes Carll (Ft. Brandy Clark) – In the Mean Time
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[Verse 1 - Hayes Carll] / The good times we've had, the smiles and the laughs / Are the pictures that fill up these frames / That hang in the halls and cover the walls / Of the
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Brandy Clark – Buried
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[Verse 1] / I'll fly myself to France / First class New York to Paris / Get drunk on wine and dance / With someone who ain't embarrassed / To kiss me on the dance floor / Yeah
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Brandy Clark – Drinkin’ Smokin’ Cheatin’
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[Verse 1] / I ain't been drinkin', but if I was drinkin' / I think I'd be drinkin' bourbon / And right now you'd be a blur / And I wouldn't hear a word / 'Cause I'd be good and
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Brandy Clark (Ft. Lucius) – Tell Her You Don't Love Her
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[Verse 1] / I'm tired of watchin' her cry on my livin' room couch / The sound of your name swings her mood, puts the rain in her clouds / She can't be herself at a party 'cause she
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Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally & Original Broadway Cast of Shucked – Maybe Love
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[BRANDY CLARK] / Maybe love / Starts out young / Makes you mad, makes you dumb / If I'd let pride get in the way / Then maybe love could save the day / [BRANDY CLARK, SHANE
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Ashley McBryde & Brandy Clark – If These Dogs Could Talk
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[Verse 1] / There's a three-legged beagle who lays there spread eagle / On the driveway outside Patti's trailer / He looks like he's sleepin', but he knows she's dealin' / And that
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Caroline Innerbichler (Ft. Alex Newell) – Friends
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[LULU] / It's hard to say I'm sorry / [MAZIE] / It's hard to say I'm wrong / [LULU] / When it's been so easy / For us to get along / [MAZIE] / For all my best intentions / I'm the
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Brandy Clark – She Smoked in the House
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[Verse 1] / She smoked in the house / Burnt holes in the couch / Lipstick-circled butts in the ashtray / She saved in Folgers cans / Swore credit was a scam / Bought everything at
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NosyNeighbour
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I transcribe indie country and I occasionally write annotations. Country music fan and most forgettable winner of “‘Tate of the Week”!
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Brandy Clark – Daughter
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[Verse 1] / When you broke my heart / I wanted to cut the brake line on your four wheel drive / And poison your Pabst Blue Ribbon / When you drug my name all through the mud / I
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Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow
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The third single off of Kacey Musgraves' debut full-length studio album, “Follow Your Arrow” goes through the double standards of life with the inspirational message of doing
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Miranda Lambert – Mama's Broken Heart
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Dealing with a terrible breakup, Miranda debates revenge and crying, switching between violent rage and emotional failing. In the end, her mother’s hard words help bring Miranda
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Tenille Townes – Christmas Cards
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[Verse 1] / Best friends forever, don't ever change / Chiseled in purple ink on a bulldog yearbook page / We had more hairspray than we had bangs / But hairdos, love, and
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