Genius Meanings
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Daryl Braithwaite – Let Me Be
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I run through this net / That baits me here tonight / Escapee heading for the unknown / A sole survivor of my family's plight / A man with nowhere I can call home / What does it
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Daryl Braithwaite – Love Songs
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[Verse 1] / Thought it was the end / My friends said that it's not the end of the world / Been waiting for that feeling / But nothing ever felt quite like being yours / [Pre-Chorus
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Daryl Braithwaite – All I Do
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I guess it's you, though my eyes may wander / All I do, seems to point to you / It won't be long, though it may seem much longer / All I do ... All I do and all I want to say / All
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Daryl Braithwaite – It's All in The Music
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I feel the rhythm - I feel the heat / I heard the voices - I feel the beat / I feel the spirit - reach out to me / Ooh oh / It's all in the music / Essential feel in from within
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Daryl Braithwaite – Pretending To Care
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Today I am your chariot horse / Tomorrow I'm your albatross / Suspended by the finest thread / No one could ever see / And when there's breathing in your ear / You put your faith
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Daryl Braithwaite – Dont Hold Back Your Love
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I know what it's like to be forgotten / Left alone with your simple dreams / Even they are fading fast / No one to turn to, no one to hold at night / And waking up to another day
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Daryl Braithwaite – As the Days Go By
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My love of life just gets stronger / As the days go by / Somethings I wish, they would last / Just a little bit longer / As the days go by / Somethings don't look to me / Like they
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Daryl Braithwaite – Higher Than Hope
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I remember long ago / Many things we didn't know / But hear me say / We still have time / Too many people / Change the world we live in / They don't know / They'll run out of time
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Daryl Braithwaite – One Summer
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[Verse 1] / Started out last night, I was thinking of days gone by / Of the times I've had and the things that I've left behind / Some change, some die, still we manage to survive
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Sherbet – Howzat
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You told me I was the one / The only one who got your head undone / And for a while I believed the line that you spun / But I've been lookin' at you / Lookin' closely at the things
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Daryl Braithwaite – The Horses
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[Verse 1: Daryl Braithwaite] / We will fly way up high / Where the cold wind blows / Or in the sun, laughin', havin' fun / With all the people that she knows / And if the situation
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Frank Ocean – Hublots
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“Hublots” is the tenth track on Frank Ocean’s visual album, Endless. It features a sample from “We Ride Tonight” by The Sherbs, which was also notably sampled in Daft Punk’s “
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Chosen Few (AUS) – Rise
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[Verse 1] / Friends, foes and firewood / Are gathering in the tenements tonight / While fast Eddie Robinson / Brings home food for those too slow / For too many years he has lived
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Peter Gabriel – Big Time Samples
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See all of “Big Time” by Peter Gabriel’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Daryl Hall & John Oates – Don't Hold Back Your Love
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I know what it's like to be forgotten / Left alone with your simple dreams / But even dreams are fading fast / No one to turn to when you can't sleep at night / Waking up to
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Daft Punk – Contact
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The closing track on Random Access Memories, raises numerous questions about the existence of intelligent life outside of planet Earth. It makes use of a sampled radio message from
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The Sherbs – We Ride Tonight
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / As we run into the flame / Of a love that has burned a scar deep in our hearts / Here I am, hiding the shame and I'll live a lie / While I'm
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Peter Gabriel – Big Time
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The third single off of Peter Gabriel’s album So. In this song, Gabriel describes a person who has great ambitions in life, though not necessarily positive ones.
Tony Levin, who
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Ian Thomas (CA) – All I Do
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I guess it's you, though my eyes may wander / All I do seems to point to you / It won't be long, though it may seem much longer / All I do... all I do and all I want to say / All I
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Todd Rundgren – Pretending To Care
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[Verse 1] / Today I am your chariot horse / Tomorrow I'm your albatross / Suspended by the finest thread / No one could ever see / And when there's breathing in your ear / You put
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Rickie Lee Jones – The Horses
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[Verse 1] / We will fly / Way up high / Where the cold wind blows / Or in the sun / Laughing having fun / With the people that she knows / And if the situation / Should keep us
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Vents (AUS) – No Rest for the Wicked
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[Verse 1:] / Cinematic massacres, purges, murders, animal urges / Militarism returned, made a massive resurgence / Unkind is a word just scratching the surface / Got me thinking
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Peter Gabriel – I Don't Remember
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[Intro] / Aaaah! / Uh! / Turn up! Turn up! Turn up! / Boom! / [Verse 1] / I got no means to show identification / I got no papers show you what I am / You'll have to take me just
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The Axis of Awesome – 4 Chords Live At 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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[Intro: Jordan Raskopoulos, Benny Davis, Lee Naimo, Jordan and Lee] / We've been a comedy rock band for close to 40 years now / And in all that time we never had a hit / But you
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