Genius Meanings
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Cher – Woman's World
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“Woman’s World” is the lead single for Cher’s twenty-sixth album, Closer to the Truth. It’s a female empowerment anthem in the form of a club song.
Looks like she can’t stay away
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Original Broadway Cast of The Cher Show (Ft. The Cher Show Ensemble, Micaela Diamond, Stephanie J. Block & Teal Wicks) – Finale
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[STAR] / What am I supposed to do? / Sit around and wait for you? / Well, I can't do that / There's no turning back / I need time to move on / I need love to feel strong / 'Cause I
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Kate Bush – This Woman's Work
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“This Woman’s Work” is about being forced to confront an unexpected and frightening crisis during the normal event of childbirth. Used in the movie She’s Having a Baby, director
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Cher – You Haven't Seen the Last of Me
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[Verse 1] / Feeling broken, barely holding on / But there's just something so strong / Somewhere inside me / And I am down, but I'll get up again / Don't count me out just yet / [
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Cher – Dressed to Kill
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[Verse 1] / I slip into my shoes and slide into the night / I'm on the loose, you're in my sights / You know it's gonna hurt you, but it's just no use / You fall in love, they
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Cher – Will You Wait for Me
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[Verse 1] / I'll go for hours without saying a word / That don't mean there's nothing on my mind / If I had the words down in poetry / Then you know I'd write the perfect line
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4 Non Blondes – What's Up?
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“What’s Up” was the second single from the 1992 album Bigger, Better, Faster, More! by 4 Non Blondes. It shot the band into international stardom, topping the charts in seven
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Cher – Lie to Me
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[Verse 1] / Oh, fuck, just lie to me / Tell me somethin' sweet / Till I look the other way / Don't wanna start over, babe / Already gave you everything / I got nothing left of me
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Cher – Pride
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[Verse 1] / Livin' it up, livin' it up / We're livin' it up while the world is catching fire / Dancing in the flames / Feelin' in love, feelin' in love / We're feelin' in love and
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Cher – Sirens
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[Verse 1] / Last night I dreamt I was floating with you / The river so deep and the sky perfect blue / If we leave behind the dust in the sky / From the sound of sirens, the city
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Cher – Favorite Scars
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[Verse 1] / Best jump / Like do we feel we're going nowhere unless we're falling / We're not ready to give up until we're crawling / Don't make it easy on ourselves / Climbing
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Cher – Lovers Forever
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[Verse 1] / Imagine the life / Without death or disease / The kind of power to bring a rich man to his knees / I offer you this / But it comes with a price / A moment's pain for
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Cher – I Hope You Find It
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Cher covered “I Hope You Find It” for her twenty-fifth album, “Closer to the Truth” (2013). Her rendition is prominently a country pop ballad. The song was released as the second
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Cher – I Walk Alone
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[Verse 1] / There's a poet in me that remembers / And there's an honesty in every word / There's a dancer that feels her own beat / And there's a daughter who loves / There's a
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Cher – I Don't Have to Sleep to Dream
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[Verse 1] / I gave up the fight for love / Whoa, oh / Walked away, took off the gloves / No more wishing on a star / Waiting for someone / Whoa, oh / What if no one ever comes? / [
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Cher – Red
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[Chorus] / All I see is red, now / Just can't dream nothing else / All I see is red, now / I'm drowning, no one can help / [Verse 1] / Sirens through my head, everything you said
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Céline Dion – It's All Coming Back to Me Now
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“It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” originally written by Jim Steinman, was first recorded in 1989 by girl group Pandora’s Box, who featured it on Original Sin, their first and only
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James Brown – It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
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Released in 1966, this is one of Brown’s most powerful and well received ballads. As well as a staple of his live shows for years to come.
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Macklemore (Ft. Kesha) – Good Old Days
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“Good Old Days” is about making the most of life so years later you aren’t dwelling on past experiences with regret., possibly with regret. Ben looks back on his own experiences
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Peggy Lee – I’m a Woman
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I can wash out 44 pairs of socks and have 'em hangin out on the line / I can starch & iron 2 dozens shirts 'fore you can count from 1 to 9 / I can scoop up a great big dipper full
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Cher – Take It Like a Man
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“Take It Like A Man” appears as the second track on Cher’s twenty-fifth studio album Closer to the Truth, it was released with the album on September 20, 2013 and later as the
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Aretha Franklin – Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
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[Verse 1] / Take me to heart, and I'll always love you / And nobody can make me do wrong / Take me for granted, leaving love unshown / Makes willpower weak and temptation strong
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Extreme – More Than Words
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“More Than Words” is a single from Extreme’s 1990 album Extreme II: Pornograffiti. It was written by Nuno Bettencourt & Gary Cherone.
According to Nuno Bettencourt, the song is
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My Chemical Romance – Helena (So Long & Goodnight)
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“Helena” (sometimes titled “Helena (So Long & Goodnight)” on digital retailers like iTunes) was written as a tribute to Gerard and Mikey Way’s late grandmother. She was called
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Taylor Swift – my tears ricochet
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Swift shared via Instagram that “my tears ricochet” is about an “embittered tormentor showing up at the funeral of his fallen object of obsession.” She revealed in a YouTube
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Chaka Khan – I'm Every Woman
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1978’s “I’m Every Woman,” by Chaka Khan, is about the power and connectedness of all women. The first single from Khan’s Arif Mardin-produced debut album Chaka, it rose to #21.
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Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
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“Bat out of Hell” is the first song of Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell album trilogy. It was written by Jim Steinman, who had a love for “car crash songs”. He saw an operatic narrative
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Kid Rock (Ft. Sheryl Crow) – Picture
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“Picture” was co-written by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, and appears on Kid’s 2001 album, Cocky.
This is a duet sung by two lovers who represent stereotypical country music
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Wedding Singer Ensemble (Ft. Kevin Cahoon, Matthew Saldivar & Stephen Lynch) – Single
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[SAMMY, GUYS] / No one tells you how you ought to live / No one glares when you do jello shooters Jello- / No one says that you're insensitive / 'Cause her birthday meal took place
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Celtic Woman – Téir Abhaile Riú
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Look how the light of the town / The lights of the town are shining now / Tonight I'll be dancing around / I'm off on the road to Galway now / Look how she's off on the town / She'
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Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
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Written by Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason and released in 1970, ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’ is presumably about a female named Rosemary whom the protagonist is infatuated
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The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
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A dry-witted story of a man who failed to charm his love interest into bed, and how he got his revenge in an extreme (and sociopathic) way.
Norwegian Wood is my song completely
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Shania Twain – You're Still the One
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This song stemmed off from over 3 years of press speculation that Shania was using her husband Mutt Lange solely for her career and that their marriage wouldn’t last beyond that
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