 Genius Meanings
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Elbow – Grace Under Pressure
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Grace under pressure / Cooling palm across my brow / Eyes of an angel / Lay me down / Grace under pressure / Cooling palm across my brow / Eyes of an angel / Lay me down / Grace
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Elbow – Not a Job
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Pull the final splinters / Of missing picture winters / You have to give yourself a break / What's the fascination / With lovers at the station / You have to tear yourself away / [
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Elbow (Ft. The London Community Gospel Choir) – Ribcage
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We blew the doors didn't we? / Pissed in their champagne / And did a real thing didn't we? / Gave ourselves a name / And peeled away the shame / I wanted to explode / To pull my
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Elbow – Buttons and Zips
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Al had the guile and the sideways smile / Bad boy and god / Beck knew how to push a boy to blush / Known as The Fox / Tom came out in June to a crowded room / No one was shocked
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Elbow – I've Got Your Number
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Don't put this note by your face on the pillow / Don't put this letter in the pocket near your heart / Keep it in the bottom drawer where you hide the sex tools / I pray you always
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Elbow – Fallen Angel
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[Verse 1] / All the fallen angels / Roostin' in this place / Count back the weeks on worried fingers / Virgin mother what's-her-face / [Chorus] / You don't need to sleep alone
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Elbow – Switching Off
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Guy revealed that this song was written about the idea of choosing the last memory that flashes before your eyes on the verge of death, on a play on the idea of ‘final words’ of a
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Elbow – Crawling With Idiot
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It's crawling with idiots / I'm itchin' to leave / I'm soft with fatigue, I need somethin' / I've never seen anything quite like you / In here / [Chorus] / Come on, it's not
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Elbow – Fugitive Motel
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Lost in a lullaby / Side of the road / Melt in a memory / Slide in a solitude / Not 'til I can read by the moon / Am I going anywhere / Not 'til I can read by the moon / [Chorus
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Chic – Le Freak
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“Le Freak” enjoyed #1 status atop the disco charts for seven consecutive weeks in the summer of 1978, as well as being the first song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 three
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Royce da 5'9" (Ft. J. Cole) – Boblo Boat
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“Boblo Boat” is the lead single off of Royce’s Book of Ryan album. The song is an ode to a pair of steamships, the S.S. Columbia and the S.S. Ster. Clair, which ran the Detroit
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Lyrical Lemonade & Dave (Ft. Jack Harlow) – Stop Giving Me Advice
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“Stop Giving Me Advice” serves as the fourth single and the closure to Cole Bennett of Lyrical Lemonade’s album, All is Yellow. The track features Kentucky rapper Jack Harlow and
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Coldplay – Adventure Of A Lifetime
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The groovy fifth track on Coldplay’s dynamic A Head Full of Dreams takes a step into disco, with a simplistic song about life and love, backed by a funky dance floor beat. It
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2Pac – Temptations
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“Temptations” is the third and final single for 2Pac’s 1995 album, Me Against The World.
Apart from being one of the better known songs from the album, this song is exceptional in
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Kanye West (Ft. Consequence & GLC) – Spaceship
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Kanye enlists the help of friends and frequent collaborators GLC and Consequence to discuss the plight of the black man in the ghettos of Chicago. ‘Ye also discusses his work as a
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Pearl Jam – Black
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“Black” became one of Pearl Jam’s best-known songs and is a central emotional piece on the album Ten. Despite pressure from Epic Records, the band refused to make it into a single
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Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapter 28
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“No sir, thank you,” I heard Jem say. “It’s just a little walk.” “Be careful of haints,” the voice said. “Better still, tell the haints to be careful of Scout.” “There aren’t many
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Shawn Mendes – Mercy
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“Mercy” is a brooding piano ballad that focuses on heartbreak. It serves as the third single from Shawn Mendes' second studio album Illuminate.
During the week leading up to the
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Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber
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The Bloody Chamber is the first story in Angela Carter’s collection of short stories, ‘The Bloody Chamber’.
The Bloody Chamber begins and ends in Paris at the turn of the 20th
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blink-182 – Feeling This
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Revolving around the themes of lust and love, “Feeling This” is an enthusiastic pop-punk anthem that narrates the sexual adventures of a couple while at the same time showing the
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Crash Crew (Ft. Crash Crew, Disco Dave & Mix Master Mike) – High Power Rap
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We don't want to be left behind / All we want to do is just blow your mind / Just one more time... / [Reggie Reg] / And you say New York City right about now / To the sounds you
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DaBaby (Ft. Roddy Ricch) – ROCKSTAR
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Only seven months after likening himself to a “POP STAR,” DaBaby teams up with fellow 2019 superstar Roddy Ricch for “ROCKSTAR,” an ode to their reckless lifestyles.
DaBaby and
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Oleta Adams – Get Here
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[Verse 1] / You can reach me by railway / You can reach me by trailway / You can reach me on an airplane / You can reach me with your mind / You can reach me by caravan / Cross the
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K.A.A.N. – No Rest
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[Intro] / Yes Lawd. Knowledge. Nigga. Uh-huh. Uh-huh / Eh. Lawd. Uh-huh. Lawd. Knowledge nigga / [Chorus] 2x / And this as good as it gets, you couldn't find none better / I give
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The Genius Community’s 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
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Pusha T, Lana Del Rey and J.Cole all made the list, but who will be at the top?
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Iceage – The Lord's Favorite
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[Verse 1] / You're probably the only one, though it's hard to admit / That can save me, yeah / And I never liked to ask for a helping hand / But I do now, yeah / [Refrain] / I look
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Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes (Chap. 1)
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To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the
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Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird - Chapter 12
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compensation-something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injury, or suffering.
departed-a particular dead person or dead people.
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2Pac (Ft. George Clinton) – Can't C Me
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An aggressive gangsta track, that opens up the second disk of 2Pac’s classic double album All Eyez On Me.
Produced by Dr. Dre, it’s rumored that it was originally supposed to
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Chris Brown – Forever
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“Forever” is the lead single from the re-vamp of Chris' sophomore album, Exclusive. The track was initially recorded for a Wrigleys Doublemint commercial, and some lyrics also echo
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Algernon Blackwood – The Willows
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The Willows is one of the weirdest ghost stories ever. The story follows two men who are on a canoe trip through Europe when they get stuck in a Hungarian swamp they have been told
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Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line – Meant to Be
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“Meant to Be” is the closing track on Bebe Rexha’s third EP, All Your Fault: Pt. 2 and the lead single from her debut studio album, Expectations. Initially released as the EP’s
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Little Simz – 101 FM
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On “101 FM,” Simz reminisces her early life and come up in the U.K rap game. It was the third single from her third studio album and was premiered on Apple Music’s Beats 1 Radio by
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Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway (Part 7)
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It was precisely twelve o’clock; twelve by Big Ben; whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London; blent with that of other clocks, mixed in a thin ethereal way with the
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Hilltop Hoods (Ft. Ecca Vandal & Illy) – Exit Sign
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[Intro: Pressure] / I'm sick of us not doin' this right / That's why I think I'm cuttin' you from my life, no more / I'm sick of us not doin' this right / That's why I think I'm
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SPINALL (Ft. Tiwa Savage & Wizkid) – Dis Love
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Top boy / Yah / [Wizkid] / Tell me baby girl how you dey o? / Baby tell me make I know how you dey o? / Baby tell me how much I go pay o / And we go fly go anywhere for holiday o
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Angela Carter – The Courtship of Mr Lyon
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Outside her kitchen window, the hedgerow glistened as if the snow possessed a light of its own; when the sky darkened towards evening, an unearthly, reflected pallor remained
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Tha Alkaholiks (Ft. Xzibit) – Killin' It
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[Verse 1: Tash] / Ahh, ahh / I be killin' it (why Tash?) 'cause I be feelin' it / I get money so no need for stealin' it / I work diligent beneath the Earth's soil / Where I write
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James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter 2
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Chapter 2 / Uncle Charles smoked such black twist that at last his nephew suggested to him to enjoy his morning smoke in a little outhouse at the end of the garden / —Very good
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Genius – February 2017 Album Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' FEBRUARY 2017 ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
This page highlights the notable albums, EPs, mixtapes, etc, released in all genres throughout February 2017. Each
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DJ Lil Sprite (Ft. 701bonez, Fluenci, InterChopper, Kaoz, K-Fix, Kidshot, kVr, Mizury Mize, Sensei, Sinizter, SPLXT & VBL) – Undaground Choppers 7
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[Verse 1: K-Fix] / Tool in my pocket, I act a fool and for cock a shoot / I'mAnd then rocket shooting 'em, my opposition won’t stand a chance / All I do is rockin' and get the loot
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John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 10
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WHEN THE TRUCK had gone, loaded with implements, with heavy tools, with / beds and springs, with every movable thing that might be sold, Tom hung around the / place. He mooned into
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Marcel Proust – Life with Albertine(Chap. 1.2)
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Sometimes I put out the light before she came in. It was in the darkness, barely guided by the glow of a smouldering log, that she lay down by my side. My hands, my cheeks alone
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George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (Act 5)
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Mrs. Higgins's drawing-room. She is at her writing-table as before. The parlor-maid comes in. / THE PARLOR-MAID / [at the door] Mr. Henry, mam, is downstairs with
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Headie One – Martin's Sofa
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“Martins Sofa” is a highly-anticipated single by UK drill heavyweight Headie One. The track samples the instrumental to Flatbush Zombie’s single “Palm Trees” which has become
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John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces (Chapter 12)
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THERE HAD BEEN a flurry of excitement. The wild blowing of the postman’s whistle, the chugging postal truck out on Constantinople Street, his mother’s excited screaming, Miss Annie
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