 Genius Meanings
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Captain Sensible – Happy Talk
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Happy talkin', talkin Happy talk / Talk about things you'd like to do / You've got to have a dream / If you don't have a dream / How you gonna have a dream come true / Talk about
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Captain Sensible – Brenda (Parts 1 & 2)
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And when I wake / Amazing how the difference / Between what it seems in your dreams / And the day when it gets light / And when I sleep / The patterns that resembled you / Arise in
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Captain Sensible – There Are More Snakes Than Ladders
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What you say, do you know the way? / Shall we quit this place? / Play with toys 'till we make no noise / And we won't loose face / You've gotta be joking / You've gotta be joking
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Captain Sensible – Martha the Mouth
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You know I saw you on old Frosty's TV show / When you said the things we really didn't ought to know / But you can't forget about the thugs, Martha / Won't you tell us 'bout the
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Captain Sensible – Wot
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[Verse 1] / When I woke up this morning I was feelin' fine / But this cat starts banging, man, what a swine / So I called reception but to no avail / That's why I'm telling you
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Captain Sensible – Nobody's Sweetheart
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You're nobody's sweetheart now / They don't favor you somehow / Your fancy hose, silken gown / You'd look out of place in your own hometown / As you walk down the avenue (Avenue
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Captain Sensible – Royal Rave Up
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My name is Andy, they say I'm randy / I'm filthy rich too, it comes in handy / For chasing ladies in far off places / 'Cause I'm a man of so many faces / Fly the copter, ride the
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Captain Sensible – Brenda Part 1
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And when I wake / Amazing how the difference / Between what it seems in your dreams / And the day when it gets light / And when I sleep / The patterns that resembled you / Arise in
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The Damned – Love Song
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[Intro - Captain Sensible and Jack Howarth] / Ladies and gentlemen, how do? / Ha ha! / Yeah! / Yeah! / Woo hoo! / Ha ha ha! Yeah! / Let's go! / Let's go! / Let's keep it turning
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Captain Sensible – I'm a Spider
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I'm the spider / Deep inside ya / I'm the spider / Who won't fall down / See that spider who crawls / Up the side of the wall / He's fallen down so many times / But he's starting
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Captain Sensible – Croydon
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I attended Stanley Tech / In South Norwood Hill / I think it was, oh yeah / Where the bronze bust was nicked / Let me think, it must've been in my third year / Lying in wait
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The Damned – Life Goes On
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[Verse 1] / Life goes on and on, and on / If you think it's all gone wrong / Go on and on, and on / [Verse 2] / Life's a con, a con, a con / If you think you can't go on / Go on
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Captain Sensible – It Would Be So Nice
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It would be so nice / It would be so nice / It would be so nice / Be so nice / Everybody wakes and in the morning / Hot tea, can't stop yawning / Pass the butter, please
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Captain Sensible – Glad It's All Over
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Submarines in the harbor / Incognito / Submarines of your dreams / Not mine / The red red sky / Must take the price / For giving to the people / Who never never go to war / We're
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Dizzee Rascal – Dream
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How am I gonna pull this off man without sounding dumb? / This is too sensible for me man / How you gonna have a dream come true? / [Verse 1] / I used to dream about crazy little
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The Damned – Torture Me
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Torture me / I'm just an animal you see / I'm the slap for your lap / Not upset / You know pets don't really feel / Torture me / Why don't you carve my body up / Throw me into a
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The Damned – Idiot Box
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Appearing on The Damned’s second album, Music For Pleasure (1977), Captain Sensible wrote Idiot Box about New York Punk band, Television. The Damned were supposed to support them
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Captain Sensible – A Nice Cup of Tea
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When I awoke this morning / There was light all around the place / Get to the bathroom mirror / Can that sight really be my face? / Go downstairs, the sunlight glares / Across the
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The Damned – Melody Lee
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Melody Lee, a broken mind and a broken dream / A burst of speed, a change of heart / Your life was cruel they called it art / Melody Lee, you need a mirror to set you free / You
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Jane Austen – Persuasion (Chap. 23)
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One day only had passed since Anne's conversation with Mrs Smith; but a keener interest had succeeded, and she was now so little touched by Mr Elliot's conduct, except by
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Gossip Girl – Pilot
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The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan’s Upper East Side learn that Serena van der Woodsen is back in town, though her reasons for returning are mysterious.
– Pilot episode
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DreamWorks – Shrek (Script)
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SHREK / Written by / William Steig & Ted Elliott / SHREK / Once upon a time there was a lovely / princess. But she had an enchantment / upon her of a fearful sort which could
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The Damned – Machine Gun Etiquette
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I remember what you said (second time around) / Don't you wish that we were dead (second time around) / No more getting pushed around (second time around) / Not that we've gone
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Jane Austen – Persuasion (Chap. 21)
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Anne recollected with pleasure the next morning her promise of going to Mrs Smith, meaning that it should engage her from home at the time when Mr Elliot would be most
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John Ruskin – Sesame and Lilies (Chap. 1)
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Sesame. Of King's Treasuries / “You shall each have a cake of sesame,—and ten pound.” / Lucian: The Fisherman. / My first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity
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The Damned – Smash It Up
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We've been crying now for much too long / And now we're gonna dance to a different song / I'm gonna scream and shout 'til my dying breath / I'm gonna smash it up 'til there's
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Glee (Ft. Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith, Jane Lynch, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison & RILEY) – 1x04—Preggers, Glee
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Transcription of the fourth episode of the first season of “Glee” entitled “Preggers,” aired on 26 September, 2009.
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The Beatles – A Day in the Life
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For “A Day in the Life,” John Lennon wrote the opening and closing sections, while McCartney contributed the bridge. For the climax, they hired an orchestra of 40 musicians
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George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man (Act 3)
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In the library after lunch. It is not much of a library, its literary equipment consisting of a single fixed shelf stocked with old paper-covered novels, broken backed, coffee
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The Damned – Neat Neat Neat
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“Neat Neat Neat” is the opening song to the Damned’s debut, Damned Damned Damned. It is known for its iconic bassline.
The song gained an increase in popularity when filmmaker
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (Ft. Constance Garnett) – The Possessed (Chap. 1.2)
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Prince Harry. Matchmaking. / THERE WAS ANOTHER being in the world to whom Varvara Petrovna was as much attached as she was to Stepan Trofimovitch, her only son, Nikolay
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Pink Floyd – It Would Be So Nice
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[Chorus] / It would be so nice / It would be so nice / It would be so nice / To meet, sometime / [Verse 1] / Everybody wakes, and in the morning / Hot tea and can't stop yawning
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Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction full screenplay
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Pulp Fiction is one of Quentin Tarantino’s most successful films commercially and critically. It is also a lot of people’s most favorite film of all time. Part of the intrigue is
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Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows - Chapter 5: Dulce Domum
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The title of this chapter translates as “sweetly at home”.
See here for a description of the work as whole.
Cover from the first illustrated edition.
Title page from the
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Plato – The Republic (Book 6)
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Plato begins with his Theory of the Forms. He begins with Universals and then asserts that the Universals are the cause of the particulars. This theory is then applied to human
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George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (Act 2)
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Next day at 11 a.m. Higgins's laboratory in Wimpole Street. It is a room on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for the drawing-room. The double doors
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Louisa May Alcott – Little Women (Chap. 12)
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Beth was postmistress, for, being most at home, she could attend to it regularly, and dearly liked the daily task of unlocking the little door and distributing the mail. One July
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