 Genius Meanings
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HAIM – The Steps
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“The Steps” features a bright, catchy tune about trying to repair a relationship with a partner who’s completely checked out.
The lyrics evoke bitterness and frustration—but also
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Vampire Weekend (Ft. Danielle Haim) – We Belong Together
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“We Belong Together” is the third and final Danielle Haim/Ezra duet on Father of the Bride. Koenig set out to write a simple love song, and described it as the “most wholesome
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HAIM – HAIM on My Song 5
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Host: My Song 5 is a little bit of a surprise when you listen to the record. It's like "Is that you? Is that really you? It's not what I was expecting but I like it." / Danielle
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Vampire Weekend (Ft. Danielle Haim) – Hold You Now
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“Hold You Now” describes the intensity of a promising but unstable relationship and the love shared between two people. It is Vampire Weekend’s first collaboration with HAIM member
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HAIM – FUBT
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“FUBT”, standing for “Fucked Up But True”, is a guitar heavy ballad that The Forty Five called “the younger sibling of ‘The Steps’”.
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HAIM – Now I'm In It
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“Now I’m In It” is the second single from HAIM’s upcoming third album. It was released, alongside its video, on October 30th, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-UnzRM24IM
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HAIM – Gasoline
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Off of HAIM’s 2020 album Women In Music Pt. III, “Gasoline” is a sexy track about a possibly-dysfunctional relationship.
Said Danielle Haim:
“That slowed-down ending is due to
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Vampire Weekend (Ft. Danielle Haim) – Married in a Gold Rush
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“Married in a Gold Rush” is the second duet between Ezra and Danielle Haim from Vampire Weekend’s fourth studio album, Father of the Bride.
The song is about a married couple who
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HAIM – The Wire
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A studio version was finally released on July 29, 2013, after a live version of this song was released prior, keeping fans anticipating the release of a studio version.
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HAIM – Summer Girl
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“Summer Girl” is the lead single off of HAIM’s third studio album Women in Music Pt. III.
The track was written as a response to the uncertain feeling because of the band’s
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HAIM – Don't Wanna
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“Don’t Wanna”, the surprise single from HAIM was dropped on May 21, 2020 on BBC Radio 1. In a conversation with Annie Mac, the sisters described the making and production of the
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HAIM & Taylor Swift – Gasoline (Remix)
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[Verse 1: HAIM] / You took me back / But you shouldn't have / Now it's your fault if I mess around / I took a drag / But I shouldn't have / Now I'm coughin' up like I never smoked
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HAIM – Want You Back
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Want You Back is the first single released by HAIM from their sophomore effort Something to Tell You. It debuted on May 3rd, 2017 on BBC Radio 1.
In the song, Haim discusses the
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HAIM – I Know Alone
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[Verse 1] / Been a couple days since I've been out / Calling all my friends, but they won't pick up / Found another room in a different place / Sleeping through the day and I dream
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HAIM – Let Me Go
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[Verse 1: Danielle] / Get me out, give me in / I gave you everything I could give / You tried to take, you tried to make it / But take all everything you can't break / If you go so
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Twin Shadow (Ft. HAIM) – Saturdays
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“Saturdays” is an ‘80s-influenced pop-rock song featuring sister trio HAIM.
George Lewis Jr. told NYLON the song is about “remembering when we are at our best,” and Noisey Vice
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Taylor Swift (Ft. HAIM) – no body, no crime
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“no body, no crime” is an imaginative take on Swift’s part on a true crime story, featuring HAIM band member Este Haim—good friends of Swift's—as the center of a missing persons
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Vampire Weekend – Jerusalem, New York, Berlin
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“Jerusalem, New York, Berlin,” references three cities that are important to world history, but are especially important to Jewish identity. Jerusalem is the holiest city in
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HAIM – Man from the Magazine
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“Man from the Magazine” concerns how female artists are asked questions by journalists that male artists would never get, beginning with a true story from Este Haim about getting
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Vampire Weekend – Stranger
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Speaking to Pitchfork, Koenig said
With a song like “Stranger,” even the name of it compared to “Oxford Comma” or “Mansard Roof”—it’s inexpensive. No expensive words. I still
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HAIM – Los Angeles
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“Los Angeles” is the reflective, poignant opening track to HAIM’s third album Women in Music Pt. III about the city the sisters have grown up in. Lyrics from its first verse were
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Clairo – Impossible
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In “Impossible”, included as the second track on her debut album Immunity, Clairo speaks to a partner from her past, seeking closure and resisting temptations to reunite with them.
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HAIM – Edge
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[Verse 1: Danielle Haim] / I was always running, always hurt / But I couldn't let it go, it was too hard to get going / And I kept hoping that you would run first / I couldn't let
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HAIM – 3 AM
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[Intro] / Hey, uh, what's up? / Just calling to see if you're still up / But straight to voicemail, uh / Yeah, no biggie / Um, if you're up or whatever, just hit me up / [Chorus
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HAIM – Days Are Gone
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[Verse 1: Este, Este & Danielle] / And I got back up when I lost control / Over it all, over it all / And I knew that I couldn't take no more / 'Cause I want it all, I want it all
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HAIM – All That Ever Mattered
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[Verse 1] / When I look at your face / When I look in your eyes / This is not what you wanted / You never liked surprises / It's not about them or what they think we do / I never
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HAIM – Another Try
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[Verse 1] / One thing or two things / Never really mattered that much to me / Now all these apologies are on repeat / Is it destiny or just chemistry? / We're living in such
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HAIM – Don't Save Me
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“Don’t Save Me” describes a failing relationship and how it’s one-sided-ness has become a huge factor in the equation.
It was a single by HAIM, released on November 8, 2012. It
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HAIM – Up from a Dream
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[Verse 1] / I was dreaming again, you were there with me / We were on the beach, running in the sea / You pointed to a sign, but in dreams, you can't read / And in that moment, I
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HAIM – I've Been Down
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[Verse 1] / I've been running around town / Feeling up and down / Taped up the windows at the house / But I ain't dead yet / Would you even pick me out in the crowd? / 'Cause I can
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HAIM – Right Now
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HAIM debuted Right Now, from their sophomore album Something to Tell You on April 27, 2017. According to NME magazine, the song was released as a preview of the record, not as an
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HAIM – Leaning On You
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[Verse 1] / I might forget to turn out all the lights / But you take care of me when I have to leave at dawn / I might sleep in past all my alarms / But you take care of us when I
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HAIM – Ready for You
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[Verse 1] / Maybe I was trying to forget / All my crazy reactions over my ex / Maybe you played way too hard to get / So I kept it moving to another one night stand, baby / [Pre-
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HAIM – Night So Long
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“Night So Long” is the closing track of Something To Tell You. It says goodbye to a lover, a friend and the emotions they bring with them. It may seem hard but we can see that
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HAIM – Lost Track
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Prior to the official release of “Lost Track,” its music video played in theaters before screenings of Licorice Pizza, a film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Alana Haim
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HAIM – HAIM on Falling
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Host: I'm here with Haim / All: Yay / Host: And we're going to talk through your album Days Are Gone, track by track / All: Yes / Host: So the album when it started I thought that
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HAIM – My Song 5
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[Verse 1] / I found it hard, tried to reserve / I’ll get it right / When I am hurt (Hot for me) / The man's his own (Hot for me) / To her he’ll go (Hot for me) / But I’ll be fine (
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HAIM – Home
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[Verse] / You think you know about me, well, I know me better / I'm not the girl who waits around just to be walked all over / I never tread the line, I never fell and I never lied
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