Genius Meanings
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Elton John – Healing Hands
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[Verse 1] / I never dreamed I could cry so hard / That ain't like a man / I could fly like a bird some days / Had a place where I could land / I could have sworn we were all locked
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Elton John – Sacrifice
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[Verse 1] / It's a human sign / When things go wrong / When the scent of her lingers / And temptation's strong / Into the boundary / Of each married man / Sweet deceit comes callin
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Elton John (Ft. Cantores In Ecclesia Choir) – Indian Sunset
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This song focuses on the events surrounding the Trail of Tears, and the displacement of many Native American groups by the United States. Elton John said that whenever Bernie
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Elton John & Little Richard – The Power
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[Verse 1] / I have sold myself through and through / I have walked in the darkness too / Felt a red sun, the living proof / Washed my hands in the honest truth / I have carried
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Elton John – Durban Deep
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[Verse 1] / I won't see you until Christmas / I breathe coal dust, I get blisters / But the foreman he don't worry / He say work, boy, there's no hurry / Don't that big red sun
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Elton John – Club at the End of the Street
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[Verse 1] / When the shades are drawn / And the light of the moon is banned / And the stars up above / Walk the heavens hand in hand / There's a shady place / At the end of the
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Elton John – Blue Avenue
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[Verse 1] / I gotta quit this habit / It's like some drug for you / You've been my sweet, sweet addict / I've been your little white boy blue / You've got the same obsession / We
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Elton John – Amazes Me
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[Verse 1] / You're a cool little one / My dark southern breeze / Sweeps through my fingers / And it amazes me / Dixie shadowland / Your envy shelters me / Lay down your burden
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Elton John – I Never Knew Her Name
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[Verse 1] / Well, she swept through the church / Like a sweet Sunday prayer / While the choir sang "Son of Heaven" / And the groom just walked on air / I was killing time with
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Elton John – Sleeping With the Past
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[Verse 1] / Like a thief he's come, like a thief he's gone / He's stolen your tears one by one / You're proud to love him, it's a foolish sign / You're a broken heart at the scene
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Evanescence – My Immortal
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First released on Origin, “My Immortal” is an Evanescence rock ballad describing the loss of a close relative or a significant other.
The song is named ‘my immortal’ because it is
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Kanye West – All of the Lights
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“All of the Lights” is the 4th single from Kanye West’s 5th studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
The song is about Kanye’s qualms living as a celebrity with personal
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Elton John – Whispers
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[Verse 1] / Look at me twice with wildcat eyes / Promise me everything except a blue night / Shudder like ice in cut crystal glass / Melt in embraces of crazy-eyed past / [Refrain
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Elton John – Stone's Throw from Hurtin'
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[Verse 1] / Help me information / Get emotion on the line / This war that's raging in my heart's / Getting harder all the time / Our painted smiles are cracking / Our worried
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Elton John – Love is a Cannibal
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We follow the dog who follows the cat / We swallow the chain if they don't fight back / We come and go, just getting by / We got a flag on the moon, we got a hole in the sky / And
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Genius Lists – Songs of Spirituality, Inspiration and Motivation
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Spiritual, inspirational and motivational songs have been major themes in music for as long as we’ve been making music. You’ll find many of these songs familiar and some that are
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Mary Travers – Indian Sunset
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As he awoke that evening with the smell of wood-smoke clinging / Like a gentle cobweb hangin' upon a painted teepee / He went to see his chieftain with his war lance and his woman
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Guns N' Roses – November Rain
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This piano ballad grand masterpiece became the signature song and the centerpiece of their simultaneous twin double album releases Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.
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Kanye West – Through the Wire
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On October 23, 2002, Kanye crashed his car and fractured his jaw. The “Through the Wire” title comes from the fact that Kanye recorded the original version while his mouth was
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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Rolling Stone is one of the leading music magazines today, and their list of the 500 “Greatest Songs” of all time is considered by them to be “the definitive list”. It was
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