 Genius Meanings
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Breaking Benjamin – What Lies Beneath
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[Verse 1] / Take a breath / Hold it in / Start a fight / You won't win / Had enough / Let's begin / Never mind / I don't care / [Pre-Chorus] / All in all / You're no good / You don
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Breaking Benjamin – Down
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[Verse 1] / Lie beneath / Faded and selfish, I fall between / Jaded and helpless, I long to breathe / Wasted and empty inside defeat / Faceless and buried alone / [Pre-Chorus
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Breaking Benjamin – Lights Out
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This song is from dear agony album and the album tracks basically talking about mind conditions as you can see the album art is a picture of Ben’s brain. And it’s just going along
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Breaking Benjamin – Without You
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[Verse 1] / Search for the answers I knew all along / I lost myself / We all fall down / Never the wiser of what I've become / Alone, I stand / A broken man / [Pre-Chorus] / All I
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Breaking Benjamin – Bury Me Alive
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[Verse 1] / I keep falling out of line / I was drained and left behind / All will fade and petrify / Feed the hate and starve the lies / [Pre-Chorus] / Falling in between / I am
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Breaking Benjamin – Crawl
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[Verse 1] / A shadow of a man / I am nothing less / I am holding on / Still holding on / And every now and then / Life begins again / I am holding on / Still holding on / [Pre-
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Breaking Benjamin – Hopeless
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“Hopeless” is the fifth track of the album Dear Agony.
The song tells about depression and suicide and what it’s like feeling this way.
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Breaking Benjamin – Anthem of the Angels
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[Verse 1] / White walls surround us / No light will touch your face again / Rain taps the window / As we sleep among the dead / [Pre-Chorus] / Days go on forever / But I have not
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Breaking Benjamin – I Will Not Bow
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“I Will Not Bow” was used to promote (and included in) the 2009 Bruce Willis film Surrogates. The single was released to radio six weeks prior to both the film and the band’s
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Breaking Benjamin – Into the Nothing
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“Into The Nothing” is the penultimate track on post-grunge band Breaking Benjamin’s fourth studio album Dear Agony. The song is a solo composition by frontman Benjamin Burnley. Ben
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Breaking Benjamin – Close to Heaven
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[Verse 1] / Pain / Come alive / I try to breathe / Shade my eyes / Follow the damned / I have lost the way again / [Verse 2] / Stay / Trust in life / Carried beneath / Dead arise
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Breaking Benjamin – Give Me a Sign
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[Verse 1] / Dead star shine / Light up the sky / I'm all out of breath / My walls are closing in / Days go by / Give me a sign / Come back to the end / The shepherd of the damned
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Breaking Benjamin – Fade Away
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[Intro] / I'm cold and broken / [Verse 1] / It's over—I didn't want to see it come to this / I wonder If I will ever see your face again / And I know that I will find a way to shed
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One Direction – Story of My Life
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“Story of My Life” is the second single off of One Direction’s third album, Midnight Memories. It details the struggles of trying to chase after a girl who plays “hard to get.”
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Lyn Inaizumi – Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There
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“Wake up, Get up, Get out there” is the title song for Persona 5, featured in the opening animation that plays whenever you start the game.
It is a song about questioning one’s
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Lyn Inaizumi – Life Will Change
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Life Will Change is the fourth song off of the Persona 5 soundtrack. The song plays in the later dungeons (sixth dungeon onward) after a the calling card is placed, as well as when
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Owl City – Fireflies
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“Fireflies”, Owl City’s debut single, was an international smash hit, effectively launching the genre Twee into the mainstream. It reached #1 in the US in November 2009.
The song
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Sapphire – Break in to Break Out
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This is a cover of the opening theme of Persona 5: The Animation, an anime adaptation of the 2015 JRPG Persona 5.
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Linkin Park – Crawling
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The 5th track on Linkin Park’s debut album, Hybrid Theory. It won a Grammy in 2002 for Best Hard Rock Performance.
The song alternates between rap-sung lyrics by Mike Shinoda and
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Keane – Somewhere Only We Know
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“Somewhere Only We Know” is a song by English alternative rock band Keane, officially released as the lead single from their debut album Hopes and Fears.
Keane lead vocalist Tim
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Death Cab for Cutie – Everything's a Ceiling
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[Verse 1] / Way way down in a hole / There's no feeling / 'Cause when you're so far beneath the floor / Everything's a ceiling / We dug it down as deep as we could / Just like we
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Rock Genius – Band Names
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Some band names are so well thought out that they say everything there is to say about the group in one succinct appellation. Others don’t really mean much at all! Here at Rock
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Dio – Holy Diver
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Dio sums up the narrative of the song in an interview with Sam Dunn in the 2005 film Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey:
The song ‘Holy Diver’ is really about a Christ-figure, who on
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Linkin Park – Numb
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“Numb” is the third single and the final track of Linkin Park’s second studio album, Meteora.
One of Linkin Park’s most well known and critically acclaimed songs, “Numb” topped
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The Blasting Company (Ft. Jack Jones) – Into the Unknown
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Spoilers for Over the Garden Wall under the cut
A clever way of foreshadowing a great deal of the show, “Into the Unknown” serves as viewers' first introduction to Over the Garden
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Rush – Limelight
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Notably ambivalent about fame and the consequent adoring crowds, Rush drummer Neil Peart penned these lyrics as a statement of such a sentiment, most forcefully in the lines:
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AmaLee – Life Will Change (From "Persona 5")
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It's not a game / I'm not a robot AI challenging you / I'm not a phantom / I'm in your face and / I'm here to see it through / Right before your eyes / Watch us multiply / Come to
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Noisey (Ft. Action Bronson, Alexander Spit, A$ton Matthews, Bobby Creekwater, Bodega Bamz, Bryant Dope, CUZ Lightyear, CyHi, Danny Brown, Da$H, Del Harris, Flatbush Zombies, Heems, Killer Mike, Kilo Kish, Meyhem Lauren, Mike G, Nigel Nasty, Nipsey Hussle, Pill, Pregnant Boy, Problem, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Pusha T, Raekwon, Remy Banks, Renegade El Rey, RetcH, Rockie Fresh, Scotty ATL, Two-9, Vado, Yak Ballz, YG, Young Thug & Zebra Katz) – The Rap Monument
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44 Emcees all rapped a verse for Noisey’s “The Rap Monument”, the song was recorded during three sessions (held in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York) everything was put together
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Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)
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Lauryn Hill’s breakout solo single from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, “Doo Wop (That Thing)” hit #1 on the Billboard charts and netted Hill two Grammys for Best R&B Song and
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Rise Against – Re-Education (Through Labor)
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The song “Re-Education (Through Labor)” is off of Rise Against’s fifth studio album Appeal to Reason.
Lead singer Tim McIlrath described the song saying “It’s talking a lot about
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Red – Let It Burn
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[Verse 1] / I watch the city burn / These dreams like ashes float away / Your voice I never heard / Only silence / Where were you when our hearts were bleeding / Where were you
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