 Genius Meanings
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Long as I Can See the Light
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[Verse 1] / Put a candle in the window / But I feel I've got to move / Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon / Long as I can see the light / [Verse 2] / Pack my bag and
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Dolly Parton (Ft. John Fogerty) – Long As I Can See The Light
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[Verse 1: Dolly Parton, John Forgerty, Both] / Put a candle in the window / 'Cause I feel I got to move / Oh, I'm going, going / I'll be coming home soon / Long as I can see the
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John Fogerty (Ft. My Morning Jacket) – Long as I Can See the Light (2013)
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Put a candle in the window / 'Cause I feel I've got to move / Though I'm going, going / I'll be coming home soon / Long as I can see the light / Pack my bag and let's get movin
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
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“Have You Ever Seen the Rain” was released as a single in 1971 from the album Pendulum (1970) by roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song charted highest in Canada
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John Fogerty (Ft. Allen Toussaint, Jennifer Hudson & Rebirth Brass Band) – Proud Mary (2013)
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Left a good job in the city / Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day / And I never lost one minute of sleepin' / Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been / Big wheel keep on
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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“I Heard It Through The Grapevine” is an extended cover of a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966 and recorded by various artists under
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John Fogerty (Ft. Foo Fighters) – Fortunate Son (2013)
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[Verse 1] / Some folks are born made to wave the flag / Ooh the red, white and blue / And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief" / Ooh, they point the cannon at you / [Chorus
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Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
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“Total Eclipse of the Heart” was written by Jim Steinman and released by Bonnie Tyler in 1983. It reached number 1 in several countries, including the UK and US.
The “turn around
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising
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Creedence Clearwater Revival have a sense of impending doom on their 1969 hit “Bad Moon Rising.” The song was the lead single from Creedence Clearwater Revival’s third studio album
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – My Baby Left Me
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[Verse 1] / Yes, my baby left me, never said a word / Was it something I done, something that she heard? / You know she left me, my baby left me / My baby even left me, never said
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who'll Stop the Rain
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The song Craig Werner called the “best blues songs written about Vietnam”, “Who’ll Stop The Rain” is one of Creedence’s most popular and well-regarded songs. A rootsy folk rock
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
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As one of the most famous protest songs of the Vietnam War era, “Fortunate Son” revives this timeless message with the snarl and swagger of the 1960s righteous rock and roll.
As
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Charlie Puth – See You Again (Original Version)
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The original version of the smash hit of the same name. A few years after writing the track, Charlie was approached by the team behind Furious 7 and picked up an offer that would
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A Band of Bitches – Feelin' Blue
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[Verse 1] / Hailing and thunder out in the rain / Soaking wet fever in the brain / Now I’m certain which way to go / But all I got to move that for sure / [Chorus] / I’m feeling
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Run Through the Jungle
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Many interpret this song as a Vietnam War protest. In reality, Fogerty was writing about the growing American fascination with guns.
He said this about the song:
I was talking
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Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
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In a BBC Radio interview, Lynne talked about writing “Mr. Blue Sky” after locking himself away in a Swiss chalet and attempting to write ELO’s follow-up to A New World Record:
It
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Los Lonely Boys – Born On The Bayou
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[Verse 1] / Now when I was just a little boy / Standing to my daddy's knee / My papa said son don’t let the man get you do what he done to me / Cause it’ll get ya / Cause it’ll get
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The Doobie Brothers – Black Water
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Hallmark of the mature style of the Doobies' original incarnation, blending their NorCal biker origins with Southern influences
The song is a tune to accompany Huckleberry Finn
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Moby – The Sky Is Broken
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“The Sky Is Broken” is the seventeenth track of American musician Moby’s studio album Play, released on May 17, 1999 through V2 Records.
It has a similar structure to “If Things
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Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream
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The non-gospel gospel song “If I Can Dream” was based almost entirely upon the famous Martin Luther King Jr quote, “I Have a Dream”, and the connection is obvious throughout the
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lookin' Out My Back Door
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John Fogerty’s ode to a situation many often find themselves in – having a circus appear in your backyard. Fogerty has admitted that he and the band largely eschewed drugs (outside
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