Genius Meanings
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CAKE – Italian Leather Sofa
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A cynical view of a relationship that’s built on superficiality and hedonism.
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Lord Taylor – 4 the Lord
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[Intro] / You know what it's like? / You know what it's like to be big man on campus? / You know what this- you know what that's like? / The big man on campus all my life / You
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CAKE – Frank Sinatra
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The first song on Cake’s album, Fashion Nugget. It also appeared It was used in The Sopranos episode “The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti” and the Daria episode “Road Worrier”
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CAKE – She'll Come Back to Me
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[Verse 1] / Last night I said to her / I didn't want to live inside a lie / If she wants him more than she wants me / Let this be / [Chorus] / She'll come back to me / She'll come
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CAKE – Daria
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[Verse 1] / When you tried to kiss me, I only bit your tongue / When you tried to get me together, I only came undone / When you tried to tell me the one for me was you / I was in
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CAKE – Friend Is a Four Letter Word
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[Chorus] / To me, coming from you, friend is a four-letter word / End is the only part of the word that I heard / Call me morbid or absurd / But to me, coming from you / Friend is
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CAKE – I Will Survive
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A cover of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 platinum disco hit.
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CAKE – It's Coming Down
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[Refrain] / It's coming down / It's coming down / [Verse 1] / It's raining outside, you've nowhere to hide / She's asking you why you think it's funny / [Refrain] / It's coming
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CAKE – Sad Songs & Waltzes
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A cover of Willie Nelson’s song from his 1973 classic album Shotgun Willie.
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CAKE – Nugget
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[Intro] / Okay / Alright / Ah no / This one, this one, this one / [Verse 1] / Heads of state who ride and wrangle / Who look at your face from more than one angle / Can cut you
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CAKE – Open Book
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[Verse 1] / She's writing, she's writing, she's writing a novel / She's writing, she's weaving, conceiving a plot / It quickens, it thickens, you can't put it down now / It takes
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CAKE – Stickshifts and Safetybelts
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[Verse 1] / Stickshifts and safety belts / Bucket seats have all got to go / When we're driving in the car / It makes my baby seem so far / [Chorus] / I need you here with me / Not
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CAKE – Race Car Ya-Yas
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[Verse] / The land of race car ya-yas / The land where you can't change lanes / The land where large, fuzzy dice still hang proudly / Like testicles from rear-view mirrors / The
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CAKE – The Distance
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This song is about a man that falls madly in love with a woman and convinces himself that he has to be successful to win her affection. She once loved him in return, but he devotes
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Beyoncé – ALIEN SUPERSTAR
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“ALIEN SUPERSTAR” is Beyoncé’s self-appraise, defining herself as one and only.
Bey is one of the best-selling artists of all time with over 100 million records sold worldwide
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CAKE – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
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[Verse 1] / You won't admit you love me, and so / How am I ever to know / You only tell me / "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps" / [Verse 2] / A million times I ask you, and then / I ask
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Paramount Pictures – The Wolf of Wall Street Screenplay
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1 INSERT - TV COMMERCIAL - DAY 1 / Over jungle sound effects, the CAMERA is low, moving through brush from the POV of a stalking animal. As the brush parts, revealing Wall Street
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Marcel Proust – Madame Swann at Home (Chapter 1)
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MADAME SWANN AT HOME / A BREAK IN THE NARRATIVE: OLD FRIENDS IN NEW ASPECTS — THE MARQUIS DE NORPOIS — BERGOTTE — HOW I CEASE FOR THE TIME
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F. Scott Fitzgerald – Assignment #3: The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1
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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; / If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, / Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, / I must have you!” / - Thomas
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Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes
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Angela's Ashes / A Memoir of a Childhood / By Frank McCourt / This book is dedicated to my brothers, Malachy, Michael, Alphonsus. I learn from you, I admire you and I love you
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 15 - Circe)
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Faithfull Place, off Lower Tyrone Street, where this chapter is located. Image via The National Archives of Ireland.
CIRCE
TIME: 12.00 midnight.
SCENE: Bella Cohen’s Brothel
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James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Chap. 5)
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He drained his third cup of watery tea to the dregs and set to chewing the crusts of fried bread that were scattered near him, staring into the dark pool of the jar. The yellow
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Virginia Woolf – Orlando (Chapter 6)
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Orlando went indoors. It was completely still. It was very silent. There / was the ink pot: there was the pen; there was the manuscript of her poem, / broken off in the middle of a
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Marcel Proust – Names of People (Chapter 1)
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CHAPTER ONE / NAMES OF PEOPLE: THE DUCHESSE DE GUERMANTES — SAINT-LOUP AT DONCIÈRES — MME. DE VILLEPARISIS AT HOME — MY GRANDMOTHER’S
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 18 - Penelope)
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TIME : none
SCENE : the bed
ORGAN : flesh
ART : none
COLOR : none
SYMBOL : earth
TECHNIQUE : monologue
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Marcel Proust – Place-names: The Place (Chapter 2)
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PLACE-NAMES: THE PLACE / MY FIRST VISIT TO BALBEC — FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF M. DE CHARLUS AND OF ROBERT DE SAINT-LOUP — DINNER WITH BLOCH AND HIS
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