 Genius Meanings
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Foo Fighters – Overdrive
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[Verse 1] / Comin' down, I'm comin' 'round / This time I think I'm wakin' up / Give me loud to drown it out / Before the world starts breakin' up / [Pre-Chorus] / You change and
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Foo Fighters – All My Life
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“All My Life” is a song by the American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, released as the first single from their fourth album, One by One.
Dave Grohl said that the song was
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Foo Fighters – Come Back
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[Intro] / Oh-oh, oh-oh / Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh / [Verse 1] / Movin', again / Comfort of the chase / Now and again / This, my savin' grace / Dead on the inside, I've got nothing to prove
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Foo Fighters – Times Like These
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“Times Like These” is the second single off One By One, and a song with much symbolism regarding that album’s production.
After the early unsuccessful recording sessions, Dave
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Foo Fighters – Disenchanted Lullaby
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[Intro] / Oh-oh-oh / Oh-oh-oh / [Verse 1] / Disenchanted lullabies / Sing me yours, I'll sing you mine / Sing with me, now what's a boy to do? / What's a boy to do? / Sing along
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Foo Fighters – Have It All
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[Verse 1] / You're my size, I need to try you on / Someone in between the right and wrong / Through everything, you kept your wings apart / Through everything, you stayed the same
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Foo Fighters – Halo
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[Verse 1] / Good and bad, I swear I've had them / Both, they're overrated / But isn't it fun / When you get hold of one? / Some gone bad and some gone back / The good ones all get
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Foo Fighters – Low
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One of the first songs done after the break during the One by One sessions. Peaked at #10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart. Had a controversial music video where
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Foo Fighters – Lonely as You
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[Intro] / What would I do, lonely as you / Pleasure or pain, I can't choose / What would I do, lonely as you / Pleasure or pain, I can't choose / [Verse 1] / Wake up, you're
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Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone
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This song challenges the cultural couch potato mentality pervasive at the time (and to this day) that, in the name of safety, holds back countless millions of people from unlocking
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Foo Fighters – Tired of You
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A tender love song featuring Brian May of Queen. The only track from the original recording sessions of One by One (dubbed “Million Dollar Demos”) to end on the final album.
The
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
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A single from the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 1999 album Californication, the “other side” here is a metaphor for both the struggle to get back to a normal life after addiction and also
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Mountain – Mississippi Queen
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[Chorus] / Mississippi queen / If you know what I mean / Mississippi queen / She taught me everything / [Verse 1] / Way down around Vicksburg / Around Louisiana way / Lived a Cajun
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Fightstar – Overdrive
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The fifth track of Fightstar’s fourth studio album, Behind the Devil’s Back.
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Green Day – Brain Stew
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A song where Billie Joe Armstrong sings about insomnia from methamphetamine usage. Armstrong admitted to using speed for writing most of the band’s early songs. The symptoms
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Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting
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“Kung Fu Fighting” was written by Carl Douglas and Biddu Appaiah (who also produced the song).
The song was originally meant to be the B-side to the track “I Want to Give You My
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Tarraska – Getting Out Alive
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[Verse] / She comes around in quick machines / There’s a demon at my door / Firing rounds of gasoline / For the feeling I adore / My heart and soul, the lady knows / That she means
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Foo Fighters – Burn Away
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[Verse 1] / I have spent a lifetime waitin' for the chance / To save you my confession, save me your last dance / The same old superstitions haunt us now and then / I'm beggin' for
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Pearl Jam – Daughter [Tampa, Florida August 12 2000]
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[Verse] / Alone, listless / Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room / Young girl, violence / Center of her own attention / The mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it
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Devo – Whip It
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According to the band, “Whip It” was inspired by the poems in Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow.
Gravity’s Rainbow is a satirical novel that describes humanity’s evolution
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Napalm Death – The World Keeps Turning
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No way forward or back / In stalemate, we stagnate / Life cycle is an automation / Instinctively, we race to get ahead? / And now our virgin minds are raped / Another insignficance
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The Used – Sound Effects and Overdramatics
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Singer Bert McCracken said at the February 12, 2020 The Used show at Theater of Living Arts in Philly: “This song is about sexual intercourse.”
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Cheap Trick – Surrender
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Mother told me, yes, she told me / I'd meet girls like you / She also told me, "Stay away / You'll never know what you'll catch" / Just the other day I heard
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Metallica – Whiskey in the Jar
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Cover of Thin Lizzy’s version of a traditional Irish drinking song.
It is one of the most popular traditional Irish songs, widely covered and made famous by The Dubliners, who
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Don McLean – Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
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Don McLean’s “other” big hit (after American Pie) written about the tragic life and death of Dutch impressionist Vincent van Gogh.
The lyrics show Don McLean’s admiration for
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Oleander – Fight
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[Verse 1] / It's a little bit late now / To look at the clock / There's not a moment to waste / And not a second to wait / We’ve gotta pick up the pace / Yeah to get what we want
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Michael Schenker Group – Armed and Ready
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Are you high tonight, are you feeling right / Cos I need you now, like I never did before / Is it hard enough, is it loud enough / Cos if you don't approve, you can use the door
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Dark Tranquillity – State of Trust
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[Verse 1] / Like a crack in the clean slate / I see emotion take over the rational / We are the favoured sons of reason / With tools at our disposal / Squandered day by day / [Pre-
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Pearl Jam – Black - Live in Seattle, WA 06-December-2013
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[Intro] / Oh-ho / Oh, yeah / [Verse 1] / Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay / Were laid spread out before me as her body once did / All five horizons revolved around
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Pearl Jam – Daughter - Live in Seattle, WA 06-December-2013
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[Verse] / Alone, listless / Breakfast table in an otherwise empty room / Young girl, violence / Center of her own attention / The mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it
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Donna Summer – Bad Girls
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[Intro] / Toot toot, hey, beep beep, toot toot, hey, beep beep / Toot toot, hey, beep beep, toot toot, hey, beep beep / [Chorus 1] / Bad girls, talking ’bout the sad girls / Sad
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The Doobie Brothers – China Grove
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Named after an actual town in Texas. The origin of the city’s name is unknown.
As of the 2000 census, .08% of the population of China Grove registered as Asian. About 87
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