 Genius Meanings
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Dido – Stoned
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[Verse 1] / When you're stoned, baby, and I am drunk / And we make love, it seems a little desolate / It's hard sometimes not to look away / And think what's the point when I'm
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Dido – Sand In My Shoes
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“Sand In My Shoes” is the fourth and last single from Dido’s second studio album Life For Rent.
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Dido – White Flag
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“White Flag” is the lead single from Dido’s second album Life For Rent (2003). Lyrically, it’s about being unwilling to let go of a past relationship and refusing to give up on
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Dido – Mary's In India
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“Mary’s In India” is the fourth track on Dido’s second album, Life For Rent.
At the Brixton Academy concert, Dido introduced the song saying that it was initially inspired by an
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Dido – Take You Home
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“Take You Home” is a song by Dido from her fourth studio album Still On My Mind (2019). The house-influenced track features a feathery, pulsing beat that recalls some of her older
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Dido – Life for Rent
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“Life For Rent” is the title-track and second single from Dido’s second album.
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Dido – Do You Have a Little Time
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A trip-pop song with lushing strings and a hip-hop back-beat.
The protagonist speaks about someone in her life who seems too busy for her. Hence she asks, Do You Have A Little
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Dido – This Land Is Mine
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[Verse 1:] / From behind these walls I hear your song, oh sweet words / The music that you play lights up my world / The sweetest that I've heard / Could it be that I've been
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Dido – See the Sun
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[Verse 1] / I'm coming round to open the blinds / You can't hide here any longer / My god you need to rinse those puffy eyes / You can't lie still any longer / [Pre-Chorus 1] / And
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Dido – Closer
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[Verse 1:] / So leave your taxi waiting / And turn and close my door / And sit back down where you were sitting / A little closer than before / And when you look that serious / It
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Dido – See You When You're 40
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[Verse 1:] / I've driven round in circles for three hours / It was bound to happen that I'd end up at yours / I temporarily forgot there's better days to come / I thought that I
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Dido – Who Makes You Feel
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[Verse 1:] / I don't touch you the way I used to / And I don't call and write when I'm away / We don't make love as often as we did do / What couldn't wait now waits and usually
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Liz Phair – South Dakota (Girly-Sound Version)
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[Verse 1] / For a mean baby / Well, I like your pants / Born in South Dakota / For a mean baby / Well, I like your hips / Born in South Dakota / I was born in South Dakota / [Verse
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Dido – Paris
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[Verse 1] / Coming back from Paris on the train / I really didn't care if the journey took all day / Trying to turn the pages of my magazine / While trying to keep a hold of your
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Dido – Don't Leave Home
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“Don’t Leave Home” is the third single from Dido’s second studio album Life For Rent.
It was originally a demo recorded for her 1999 album No Angel and it was initially written
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Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
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Smash hit in the nineties. Few are aware that this is actually a cover of a song initially written by the three future members of Ednaswap, Scott Cutler, Phil Thornalley, and Anne
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Don Toliver (Ft. Kid Cudi) – Rolling Stone
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[Refrain: Don Toliver] / You said you wanna leave, okay, sorry / But whatever floats your boat / I been up 'til six in the mornin' / Tryna get mine for sure / I know lil' shawty be
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AKTHESAVIOR & Lord Fubu – Another Dimension
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[Intro] / Hey, hey / Hey, Lord, uh / [Chorus] / Pull up, I'm clean as a whistle / My whole gang official / Roll up some dank for the mental / So much pain I've been through / I
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Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
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“In the Air Tonight” remains one of Phil Collins‘ best known hits. Its music video was directed by Stuart Orme and played on MTV shortly after the channel launched in 1981.
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50 Cent (Ft. Olivia) – Candy Shop
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A classic club or love song all about getting that special someone back to the crib and getting hot and heavy, the lyrics are fuelled with sexual innuendo. Such innuendos including
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Cult of the Damned (Ft. Bill Shakes, Bisk, Black Josh, King Grubb, Lee Scott, Salar, Sleazy F Baby, Stinkin Slumrok & Tony Broke) – Cult of The Damned
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[Lee Scott] / I'm putting in the work, holey Hilfiger shirt / I shine me shoes even though they're still filled with dirt / I'm not tryna' find a wife, where the groupies at? / And
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Post Malone (Ft. Future & Halsey) – Die For Me
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“Die For Me” is a trap-pop banger that features Post and Future lamenting their relationships with untrustworthy women, while Halsey provides a women’s perspective on the bridge
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The Rolling Stones – Shattered
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“Shattered” was released on the 1978 album Some Girls, and details the experiences of the band when living in New York. It enjoyed some success as a single, reaching number 31 on
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Afroman – Because I Got High
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The epitome of a one-hit wonder, this song will be chanted, hummed and sung by stoners everywhere.
The song was written on a day when Afroman was feeling ambitious, but a friend
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Manfred Mann – Pretty Flamingo
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[Verse 1] / On our block / All of the guys call her Flamingo / 'Cause her hair glows like the sun / And her eyes can light the skies / [Verse 2] / When she walks / She moves so
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