 Genius Meanings
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City and Colour – Meant to Be
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[Verse 1] / When I grew up / I had big city dreams / I wondered if the Bible was wrong / What the hell were they teachin' me? / I was lost in thought / And I could not hide it
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City and Colour – Without Warning
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[Verse 1] / Did someone say that this would be easy? / Did they proclaim this too shall pass? / One thing I know you learn for certain / Is that the good times, they never last / [
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City and Colour – Sleeping Sickness
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“Sleeping Sickness” is the second single from City and Colour’s second album, Bring Me Your Love. The song features vocals from Gordon Downie, the lead singer of The Tragically Hip
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City and Colour – Underground
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[Verse 1] / Abandoned and lamenting / The wasted days were spent running from ourselves / Aimlessly ramblin' but hey man, at least we've got our health / Oh, but it ain't enough
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City and Colour – Un-Thinkable - I'm Ready
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Moment of honesty / Someone's gotta take the lead tonight / Whose it gonna be? / I'm gonna sit right here / And tell you all that comes to me / If you have something to say / You
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City and Colour – A Little Mercy
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[Verse 1] / The day begins to blur / Under this bruised light / Within the beast still stirs / Am I unfit to guide? / And now I'm weeping towards the sky / For what seeps back into
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City and Colour – Little Hell
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This song is about a couple which have problems because he has got an addiction. They are trying to get out of this little hell and he wonders if they can
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City and Colour – After Disaster
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[Verse 1] / Now, I know this might be the hurt talkin' / But I can't imagine a world without us / I didn't think it would be this lonely / But now I feel it deep in my guts / Oh
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City and Colour – The Love Still Held Me Near
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[Verse 1] / Awake, awake, my darling / The moon is down / The waves, the waves, they are crashing all around / What would you do? / What would you say, if I was gone? / Losing your
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City and Colour – Bow Down to Love
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[Verse 1] / If I could gather up all the hate / Light a match and burn it all away / Then with compassion in my voice / I would sing this song / In hope that we might find a better
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City and Colour – The Water is Coming
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[Verse 1] / The water is coming / Will we hold back the rising tide? / The water is coming / Can we survive mankind? / Pray for redemption / Gnash your teeth and gnaw it off at the
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City and Colour – Things We Choose to Care About
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[Verse 1] / How can you just walk out on me / Without a trace? / I don't hear the sound of your voice / I can't see your face / On one side of the coin, there's a cure / But on the
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City and Colour – Commentators
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I don’t wanna be revolutionary / No, I'm just looking for the sweetest melody / If I overstayed my welcome / I would take my things and leave / ‘Cause I’m not trying to be
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City and Colour – Hard, Hard Time
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[Verse 1] / I've become acquainted with the dead / And the gratitude I owe to them, I could never comprehend / So many things I still wanna say / And if the word is true, then I
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City and Colour – Fucked it Up
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[Verse 1] / Turn off the lights / And roll down the window shades / We can't go outside / 'Cause the world is hidden away / Ghosts are running wild / In these empty streets tonight
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City and Colour – Sleeping sickness - demo
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And I awoke / Only to find my arms were empty / Through this night it seems that you were with me / And now my dreams are not what they're meant to be / And I'm alone, alone / And
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City and Colour – Begin Again
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[Intro] / Cheers, Horse (Cheers, Horse) / One, two, three / [Verse 1] / It's been a long time since I've felt peace in my mind / Through cold, dark days I've been holding the line
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Alicia Keys – Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)
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Another love-themed song on Alicia’s 4th studio album, The Element of Freedom.
While the theme of the song seems quite simple, it’s about a starting relationship where both persons
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Billie Eilish – watch
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“watch” describes Billie’s perspective of unrequited love as she can’t grasp why she isn’t with the one she wants to be with.
This second single off of Billie’s debut EP was
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Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line – Meant to Be
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“Meant to Be” is the closing track on Bebe Rexha’s third EP, All Your Fault: Pt. 2 and the lead single from her debut studio album, Expectations. Initially released as the EP’s
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Kanye West (Ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR) – Ghost Town
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“Ghost Town” is perhaps the standout track on ye—at any rate, it’s the album’s sonic climax. Assisted by PARTYNEXTDOOR and long-time collaborator Kid Cudi, Kanye places Jersey
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Dean Lewis – How Do I Say Goodbye
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[Verse 1] / Early mornin' there's a message on my phone / It's my mother saying "Darlin', please come home" / I fear the worst, but how could you leave us all behind? / There's so
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Taylor Swift – Question...?
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Reflecting upon a past relationship on “Question…?,” Swift asks her former lover if their newer romantic experiences compare to the time that they spent together. Implicitly, she
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Arctic Monkeys – Sculptures of Anything Goes
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[Verse 1] / How am I supposed to manage my infallible beliefs / While I'm sockin' it to ya? / Performin' in Spanish on Italian TV / Sometime in the future / Whilst wondering if
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Movements – Colorblind
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[Verse 1] / Breathe in / Run fingers over scarred skin / Let the guilt rain down all over me / Try to justify my hypocrisy / And breathe out / Watch the words as they fall from
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Shawn Mendes – Carried Away
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[Verse 1] / We had nights of endless music / We were dizzy dancing 'til the dawn / We were free, singing sweet harmonies with the city / But maybe that was someone else's song / [
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Lana Del Rey – Brooklyn Baby
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“Brooklyn Baby” is the fourth single released from Lana Del Rey’s third studio album, Ultraviolence. Like much of her music, it is steeped in nostalgia for an earlier period in
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Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi – I See the Light
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“I See the Light” is a romantic duet in Tangled between Rapunzel and Eugene. It is sung when Rapunzel is finally achieving her lifelong dream to see the floating lanterns. The song
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