Genius Meanings
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Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue
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Guyanese-British singer Eddy Grant’s seminal response to the 1981 Brixton riot; riots that were themselves a response to police brutality, racial tension, and the high level of
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Eddy Grant – Gimme Hope Jo'anna
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“Gimme Hope, Jo'Anna” is known as an anti-apartheid anthem from the 1980s.
The song topped the Dutch Top 40 chart for 5 weeks in 1988. It also peaked at #7 on the U.K. Singles
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Eddy Grant – Telepathy
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Telepathy, telepathy, ah / Na, na, na, oh-oh-oh-oh / Telepathy, telepathy, ah / Whoo! / You wanna know how I know all about you / You wanna know if it's something special / You don
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Eddy Grant – Romancing the Stone
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I'm romancing the stone / Never leaving your poor heart alone / Every night and every day / Gonna love the hurting away / I'm romancing the stone / Never leaving your poor heart
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Eddy Grant – Ire Harry
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Lives in Brixton / And he's got a degree / Ire Harry, Ire / He just wanna be free / Born a loser / See him walking the streets / Never too sure, too sure / About where he'll sleep
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Eddy Grant – I Love to Truck
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Yeah! / I truck around / Some people say I can't be good for you / I got myself / Too many love affairs to care for you / Oh-whoa-whoa, I love to truck / But even so, my darling, I
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Eddy Grant – Another Revolutionary
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Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / Do-do-do-do, do-do-do / Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / Do-do-do-do, do-do-do / Another revolutionary / God, they watch him put his ship to sea / But he can't paddle waves with
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Eddy Grant – We Got to Work It Out
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Been in rage, but feeling better / Something to talk about / I never knew but I discovered / Your love is all around town / Hey, hey, hey / Caught you bang in the middle of your
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Eddy Grant – Welcome to La Tigre
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Giovanni he got fixed in a minute / Woe he never got smart; Tina started fooling around / Race didn't have nothing to do with it / She loved who he loved; she started fooling
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Eddy Grant – Political Bassa-Bassa
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Political bassa, yeah / Political bassa / Ain't too convinced / It's political bassa-bassa / Political bassa, yeah / Political bassa / Ain't too convinced / It's political bassa-
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Eddy Grant – Kill 'Em with Kindness
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Don't give up / It's no use losing out / Don't get uptight in this moral fight / Just one way to go / Before you fall, think / Your back's against the wall / Zero's to lose and if
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Eddy Grant – I Don't Wanna Dance
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I don't wanna dance / Dance with you baby no more / I'll never do something to hurt you, though / Oh but the feeling is bad / The feeling is bad / I love your personality / But I
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Eddy Grant – Walking on Sunshine
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Do it, oh, do it / Oh, do it, do it / Oh, do it / Looking through the morning dew / A smoking mountain's nothing new / Lead me to the mountain top / And we'll work until it's time
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Eddy Grant – In L.A.
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I was the hero at the movies tonight / I watched 1,000 Red Indians fight / I watched them let their arrows go / Into some fresh Red Indian snow / I begged a girl who was-a living
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Eddy Grant – It's All in You
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Little by little you show to me / One more side of your personality / I always knew that somewhere in your heart / You'd hurt when we were torn apart / But of late I been hearing
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Eddy Grant – Rock You Good
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You know, girl, I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna make you feel good tonight / Oh, girl, I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna rock you good / I'm gonna
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Eddy Grant – Till I Can't Take Love No More
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I don't know what to do, I don't know what to say / I never had a love to measure up to your love / And all the little ways that you been good to me / I've never been afraid, oh
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Eddy Grant – Race Hate
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Race hate mashing up the world / Race hate mashing up the world / Race hate mashing up the world / Race hate mashing up the world / Oy, did you hear on the radio today / Man shot
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Eddy Grant – Ugly Woman
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If you want to be happy and live a king's life / Never make a pretty woman your wife / If you want to be happy and live a king's life / Never make a pretty woman your wife / All
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Eddy Grant – Boys in the Street
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Oh... / You don't know till you been in my corner / Know till you been in my shoes / Know if your love is for true, yeah / Only them who feel it knows / Only them who feel it knows
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Eddy Grant – My Turn to Love You
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Oh, my turn to love you / And I got to do, got to do / Do, do, do it, baby, do it, child / My turn to love you / And I got to do, got to do / Oh, my turn to love you / And I got to
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Eddy Grant – Village Life
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Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh, oh-oh / I gotta get some village life / When my body need a lover / I gotta get some village life / When my body need a lover / Don't put too
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Eddy Grant – Nobody's Got Time
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Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Nobody's got time, nobody's got time / Every time you turn your
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Eddy Grant – Blue Wave
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When the morning dew says goodbye to you / And the sky's forever blue / Blue wave, what's there to do / Well, what do you think? Oh, my life / You're my love supreme, climax to my
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Eddy Grant – Just Imagine I'm Loving You
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Oh... / Don't let your mother tell you no / Oh, darling, baby, in your dreams tonight / Tell me what you gonna do / Use me as your pillow and, darling / Just imagine I'm loving you
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Eddy Grant – My Love, My Love
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Ah-ah-ah-ah, my love, my love / (Yeah, yeah, yeah, darling, yeah) / Feel I'm still, whoo, feel I'm still / In love with you / Ah-ah-ah-ah, my love, my love / (Yeah, darling, yeah
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Eddy Grant – Talk About Love
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Oh well, you talk about love when you're in the mood / You talk about sweet love when you feel rhythm / When I dress up on you / Why, I can love you 'til the dawn / I know the
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Eddy Grant – Too Young to Fall
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You're too young to fall in it / Oh, baby, to fall / You're too young to fall / You're too young to fall in it / Oh, baby, to fall / You're too young to fall / The hunger and
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Eddy Grant – War Party
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You invite me to a war party, me no wanna go / Everybody seem to be inviting me to / A war party, me no wanna go / Heard about the last one, so thanks but no thank you, you / You
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Eddy Grant – Do You Feel My Love
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You left me with a problem / Now I know what it's all about / You took my heart and split it up / Now you know what it's all about / Do you feel my love / Do you feel it as I
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Eddy Grant – Come On Let Me Love You
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Yeah, oh-oh / Yeah, oh-oh / Yeah, oh-oh / Yeah, oh-oh / Come on let me take you down no / Come on let me make you round no / Come on let me love you / Come on let me love you
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Eddy Grant – Drop Baby Drop
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My heart does the tango / With every little move you make / I love you like a mango / Wish we could make it everyday / I want you to drop baby, drop baby, drop / Drop all your love
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