 Genius Meanings
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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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Vampire Weekend’s “Hold You Now” Samples A Melanesian Choral Song From ‘The Thin Red Line’
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The band has also used samples on songs like “2021” & “Step.”
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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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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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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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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 – 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 – 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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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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Hans Zimmer – God Yu Takem Laef Blong Mi
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God, yu tekem laef blong mi / Mi mi givim nao long yu / Bak mi giv evride / Blong leftemap nem blong yu / God, yu tekem han blong mi / Blong givhan long nara man / Mo yu tekem leg
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HAIM – Hallelujah
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[Verse 1: Danielle] / I met two angels, but they were in disguise / Took one look to realize / Tell 'em anything and they will sympathize / These arms hold me tight / Old fears
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HAIM – Go Slow
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“Go Slow” is a track from Haim’s debut studio album, Days Are Gone.
The theme is reminiscent of regretting an ever-present change within oneself, which is also expressed in “If I
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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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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 – 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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Clairo – Bags
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“Bags” is the first single from Clairo’s debut album Immunity. It was first teased on May 24, 2019, with Clairo announcing that the track would be available at midnight.
Co-
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Calvin Harris (Ft. HAIM) – Pray to God
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Despite the unlikely combination of EDM producer Calvin Harris and (mostly) rock band HAIM, this track successfully merges their strengths.
The harmonies sung by the Haim sisters
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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 – 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 – Falling
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Falling takes Haim to the precipice of something big and unspoken, with handclaps, bass licks, and quick-skipping harmonies that gather thickly around them until they leap into a
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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 – 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 – Kept Me Crying
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[Verse 1] / When you sleep, are you dreaming of me? / Hurts to say, but I'm always awake / If you want me, I'm waiting for you / If you call me, I'll pick up / Know I shouldn't
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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 – 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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HAIM – Send Me Down
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[Verse 1: Danielle Haim] / You came back, back into my arms like a heart attack-tack / With your certain charms coming right through my eyes / Over my body, a hand on my thigh
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Childish Gambino (Ft. Danielle Haim) – Won't Stop
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“Won’t Stop” gives a look into Childish’s mind whenever he thinks back about all that he potentially left back home in Atlanta, the thought of whether he’s a true role model, and
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HAIM – Don't Save Me (Cyril Hahn Remix)
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Never thought that I would grow so old of seeing the gold / Still I never want it to go / I would hold it up to my cold heart / Feel the way it used to start up / Take me back, t-t
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Vampire Weekend (Ft. Steve Lacy) – Flower Moon
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[Verse: Ezra Koenig & Steve Lacy] / Flower moon cursed the night / If the sun don't make things right / Then it's gonna take a year / Gonna take a year / Flower moon, sacred sign
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Winona Oak – Don't Save Me
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[Verse 1] / Never thought that I would grow so old of seeing the gold / Still I never want it to go / Would hold it up to my cold heart / Feel the way it used to start up / Take me
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HAIM – That Don’t Impress Me Much - triple j Like A Version
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“That Don’t Impress Me Much” is a cover of the Shania Twain song of the same name.
It was first performed by Haim on Australian radio station, Triple J, as part of their Like A
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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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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 – HAIM on The Wire
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Alana: I wish that we had like a video tape of every time we recorded The Wire. It would be like the craziest compilation of stress. / Este: It would also be the saddest, it would
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HAIM – You Never Knew
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[Verse 1] / It was a weight on my shoulders / A strain on my back / But I loved to have you right there by my side / (You couldn't take it, you couldn't take it) / It used to be
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HAIM (Ft. Thundercat) – 3 AM (Remix)
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[Chorus: HAIM] / Now you're calling / 3 AM, my head is spinning / Pushed off the sheets from my bed / 'Cause the phone keeps ringing / All I keep thinking is, "Have I lost my mind
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U2 – Lights of Home
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“Lights of Home” is a track on U2’s album Songs of Experience that was co-written by the Haim sisters from the alternative pop-rock band HAIM, who sing back-up vocals. The song was
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HAIM – Something to Tell You
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[Verse 1] / On the way down / A fall from grace / I was in for a heavy one / When I could feel you pull away / On the way down / It all was too much to take / Even though I tried
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HAIM – Falling (Duke Dumont Remix)
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I give a little / Into the moment like I'm standing at the edge, I know / That no one's gonna turn me around / Just one more step, I could let go / Oh, and in the middle / I hear
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