 Genius Meanings
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Foo Fighters – Chasing Birds
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[Verse 1] / Chasing birds to get high / My head is in the clouds / Chasing birds to get by / I'm never comin' down / My heart is six feet underground / [Chorus] / The road to Hell
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Foo Fighters – Cloudspotter
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[Verse 1] / Big baby, run and hide / Hope it don't sting when the feeling dies / I got sweet dreams tucked in tight / Silver screen sister in a suit and tie / Two lovers, sick and
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Foo Fighters – Waiting on a War
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The third and final preview from Medicine At Midnight, “Waiting on a War” is a multi-faceted song that has a deeply personal meaning for Foo Fighters' leader Dave Grohl
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Foo Fighters – No Son of Mine
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[Verse 1] / No son of mine will ever do / The work of villains, the will of fools / If you believe it, it must be true / No son of mine, no son of mine / [Verse 2] / No son of mine
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Foo Fighters – Love Dies Young
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[Verse 1] / Love dies young, and there's no resuscitation / Once it's done, no regeneration / It's a losin' game that'll make you play / Your hand against your chest, love dies
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Foo Fighters – Making a Fire
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[Refrain] / Na, na, na-na-na-na na, na / Na-na-na-na na, na, na-na-na-na na / Na, na, na-na-na-na na, na / Na-na-na-na na, na, na-na-na-na na / [Verse 1] / I've been waitin
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Foo Fighters – Shame Shame
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“Shame Shame” is the first single off Foo Fighters' tenth studio album Medicine At Midnight.
Foo Fighters debuted the song on November 7th, 2020 with a performance on Saturday
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Foo Fighters – Holding Poison
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[Verse 1] / I got this thing and I've been takin' it out on you / Takin' it out on you / Poor you / Like a machine that's always breakin' down on you / Breaking down on you / So
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Foo Fighters – Medicine at Midnight
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[Verse 1] / Say a prayer and close the light, thumb upon the scale / The pillow is cold, and that ship has sailed / Time has run the river dry, dry as a twisted trail / Into the
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
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The first single off of Californication describes the struggles addicts go through to get sober and how they are viewed different when they return to reality. Scar tissue is a good
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird
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“Free Bird” is a song by the American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, from the band’s first debut (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (1973). Released as a single the following
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The Flaming Lips – My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
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[Verse 1] / They tell us / "Autumn's a coming and soon everything around us will die / Only a fool believes that he is different from the birds in the sky / All those birds go
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M4ths – M4ths CD Collection
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This is my CD collection. It’s split into two parts. The first part is physical CD’s (I do not own any LPs) and the second part down at the bottom is digital downloads/buys.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Well she's walking through the clouds / With a circus mind that's running round / Butterflies and zebras / And moonbeams / And-a, fairytales / That's all she
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Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
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Nicks wrote “Landslide” while in Aspen, Colorado, inspired, while looking at the mountains, by the thought that everything in her life she’d been building could come crashing down
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Kerser – Deadset 7
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“Deadset 7” is the seventh installment in the Deadset series by Australian rap and hip-hop artist Kerser. “Deadset 7” is a promotional song for Kerser’s seventh album Engraved in
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Oasis – Champagne Supernova
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The epic rock ballad, “Champagne Supernova,” was released as the sixth and final single off (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?. In 2006, it was included in the “Best Of”-compilation
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Kid Cudi (Ft. MGMT & Ratatat) – Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare)
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Released as the third single from Kid Cudi’s debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day.
In his collaboration with MGMT and Ratatat, Kid Cudi discusses the lowlights of fame and
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Tyga – Reminded
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She said if you love me, let me know / If you don’t then let me go / [Tyga - verse 1] / The memories soon fade, why couldn’t they be erased / You hoping it’s just a phase, your
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Barenaked Ladies – One Week
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A quick summary of what’s going on here; the protagonist knows that he messed up with his girl, but he doesn’t want to admit it yet so he waits it out. The rap verses were recorded
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Of Monsters and Men – Your Bones
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson] / In the spring, we made a boat / Out of feathers, out of bones / We set fire to our homes / Walking barefoot in the snow / Distant rhythm of the drum
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Cory Branan – Lily
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[Verse 1] / We were just a phase of flowers / The happy days, the happy hours / When the rain streamed down / The fatal windows / And her eyes seemed far away / Up close / When all
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Michael Jackson – They Don't Care About Us
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The fourth single off Jackson’s album HIStory, this is one of Michael’s most controversial songs of all time and was accused of being anti-Semitic. The song is a plea against
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
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The notion of a Red Right Hand goes back to John Milton’s Paradise Lost where it also plays the role of an undefined threat. There are discussions among scholars whether it
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Taylor Swift – seven
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This song is about one of Taylor’s childhood friends who seemed to have had an unhappy life at home. Taylor reflects back on her innocence back then, how she thought that their
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Deftones – Change (In the House of Flies)
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One of a number of dense, sprawling epics (along with “Pink Maggit” and “Passenger”) which were far removed from the primal punch of past hits, “Change (In the House of Flies)” was
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The War on Drugs – Arms Like Boulders
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[Verse 1] / And so now, now that you realized / That planets are spheres with oil on the inside / And your God is only a catapult / Waiting for the right time to let you go / Into
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Nirvana – Drain You
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According to Kurt, this song was written about a dorky, old-fashioned kind of love. One of his favorite tracks, it was performed in most concerts ever since its composition up
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Kings of Leon – Pyro
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A lot of girls are looking for a guy to define them (as a cornerstone is used to define all parts of an edifice in blueprints)
It’s annoying.. (for the guy)
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The Cranberries – Dreams
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“Dreams” was the first single released by The Cranberries after being signed to Island Records. However, the band’s video for “Linger” was picked up by MTV in 1994 while they
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YNW Melly – Murder on My Mind
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“Murder on My Mind” is YNW Melly’s breakout song. It depicts a dark, upsetting story of Melly shooting a close friend and holding him in his arms as he slowly lost consciousness
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Religious Music / Hymns – How Great Thou Art
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[Verse 1] / O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder / Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made / I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder / Thy power throughout the universe
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Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
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“Hollaback Girl” was released as the third single from Gwen Stefani’s album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. The song was spurred after Courtney Love made a comment about Gwen Stefani in
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Migos (Ft. 2 Chainz) – Deadz
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On “Deadz,” the Migos team up with fellow Georgia native 2 Chainz for a somewhat majestic song about counting money.
“Deadz” refers to U.S. currency, which features the faces of
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Lady A – Better Off (Now You're Gone)
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[Verse 1] / I threw away a lifetime, you laughed and called it a sin / There ain't ever gonna be a way to work it out, not after a night like this / I've been waiting on your call
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Flyleaf – Cassie
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Cassie René Bernall (November 6, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was a student killed in the Columbine High School massacre, at age 17.
Initial reports suggested that Eric Harris asked
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