 Genius Meanings
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Foo Fighters – X-Static
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[Verse 1] / Leadin' everything along / Never far from bein' wrong / Never mind these things at all / It's nothin' / Couldn't find a way to you / Seems that's all I ever do / Turnin
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Foo Fighters – I'll Stick Around
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One of the few songs written on the eve of recording Foo Fighters, “I’ll Stick Around” is defined by Dave Grohl as “a very negative song about feeling you were violated or deprived
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Foo Fighters – For All the Cows
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“For All The Cows” is a near nonsensical song that involves Grohl rambling about what people say about him, what he thinks, and what he’s going to do about it all.
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Foo Fighters – Better Off
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[Verse 1] / Breakin' the static, a life automatic / Everyone mad about you / Look like a dirty old bruise / Face like a faded tattoo / Life imitated, it's only faded / Tired of
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Foo Fighters – Alone + Easy Target
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This song pertains to Dave’s feelings in the last months of Nirvana. Kurt began feeling unsatisfied with Dave’s drumming. The anger on this song climaxes with a killer drum solo.
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Foo Fighters – Floaty
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[Verse 1] / He floats, floats away / On the ground, he comes back down / [Verse 2] / They float, float away / On the ground, they come back down / [Verse 3] / She floats, floats
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Foo Fighters – Good Grief
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“Good Grief” describes the painful and annoying struggle of defeat and being let down. It can often be perceived as a benefit at first, but it quickly becomes a burden.
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Foo Fighters – Big Me
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“Big Me” is a heartfelt ballad written for Dave Grohl’s first wife, Jennifer Youngblood.
It’s best remembered for the music video spoofing Mentos commercials, which Grohl felt it
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Foo Fighters – Podunk
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[Verse 1] / Power is as sacred to that they never even teach / Only if it's black or white see the challenges / Open eyes are broken if you'd just consider me / Cut you loose, I
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Foo Fighters – Exhausted
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Dave Grohl’s voice has a very melancholy sound on this track. This, along with the repetitive, buzzing chord progression gives the listener the feeling of being exhausted.
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Foo Fighters – Wattershed
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This song is a true homage to Dave Grohl’s punk days. The fast ripping instrumentals and the angry nonsensical lyrics make this an unforgettable punk piece. Throughout the song
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Five for Fighting – Superman (It's Not Easy)
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“Superman” is the third song on Five for Fighting’s sophomore album, America Town.
It became a huge radio hit after the horrific 9/11 attacks. It peaked at #14 on Billboard’s Hot
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Foo Fighters – How I Miss You
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[Intro] / How I miss you / How I miss you / How I miss you / I should never call / How I hope that you still miss me / [Verse 1] / Did I lose you / Did I lose you / Did I lose you
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Foo Fighters – Winnebago
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An outtake from the Foo Fighters sessions that was still included in a few special editions of the album, and as a B-side for most of its singles.
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Foo Fighters – Ozone
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[Verse 1] / I'm the kind of / Guy who likes feeling / High Feeling high and dry / And I really like to fly / I'm your kind of guy, girl / I'm not too shy / And I want you to fly
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Static Dress – Marisol
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Fix your disease / Leave in a cardboard box / Syringe induced dreams / Help forget all of us / Pray under him / Crucifix with no meaning / Do not resuscitate / Appetites have run
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Foo Fighters – This Is a Call
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The opening track of Foo Fighters, “This Is A Call” serves as “a ‘hello’ and a ‘thank you’” to everyone that had played a key role" in Dave Grohl’s life. It was the Foo Fighters
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Beartooth – Fed Up
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[Intro] / I'm so fed up I've had it / I'm so fed up I've had it / I'm so fed up I've had it / I never want peace, I thrive in the panic / [Verse 1] / Fed up with you, fed up with
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Foo Fighters – Oh, George
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[Verse 1] / The train that I got onto up and left that town / Threw it up as it went down / Strange enough, it left me rude and turned around / Watched as they all took their vows
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Foo Fighters – Oh, George
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[Verse 1] / The train that I got onto up and left that town / Threw it up as it went down / Strange enough, it left me rude and turned around / Watched as they all took their vows
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Five for Fighting – 100 Years
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A deeply sentimental song about how fast life goes by, “100 Years” is the fourth track on Five For Fighting’s third album, The Battle For Everything. In the US, it reached #28 on
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Foo Fighters – Weenie Beenie
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[Verse 1] / I'm molasses! / Hung in rent! / Read a sponsor! / One shot, no post-show! / [Chorus 1] / Tear it off, but not a lot / It's not enough to debate / [Verse 2] / As if you
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System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.
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“B.Y.O.B.” (“Bring Your Own Bombs”) is the first single released from American heavy metal band System of a Down’s fourth album Mezmerize.
Like their earlier song “Boom!,” it was
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Static Dress – cubicle dialogue
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Sold out of sight / Falling out of our minds / Relay the hurt on ourselves / An ill exchange in foresight / The "ovel" anagram of that four letter phrase / It could have changed
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Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
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“The Middle” was written after Jimmy Eat World had been dropped from Capitol Records after their previous album Clarity had been released. Jimmy Eat World’s first album Static
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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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Slipknot – Psychosocial
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“Psychosocial” is a song about hate for life and broken society. It’s the second single from All Hope is Gone and was nominated for the 2009 Grammy for Best Metal Performance
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Pearl Jam – No Way
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[Verse 1] / Here's a token of my openness / Of my need to not disappear / How I'm feeling, so revealing to me / I found my mind too clear / [Refrain] / I just need someone to be
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Modern Baseball – Hiding
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[Verse 1: Jake Ewald] / Take the train to Frankford, I won’t answer when they call / I guess that’s just my gift to myself / Drank a lot and danced to The Cure, holding on for dear
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The Killers – When You Were Young
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The lead single off of Sam’s Town. The song contemplates the difference between expectations and reality through a love affair between a girl and a gentleman who ‘doesn’t look a
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Loathe – Gored
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You'll break / Merciless in full form / A sacrilege conceived in robed black / Impossible to rip apart from it / Listen close, hear it calling for you / It moves through you
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Amaranthe – Automatic
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[Intro: Elize & Jake] / It's who I am and what I feel, my life is automatic / Up in the air, it's what I breathe and it is never static / [Verse 1: Jake, Andy & Elize] / Don't let
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Static Dress – Unexplainabletitlesleavingyouwonderingwhy (Welcome In)
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[Verse 1] / Welcome in / To a house so inviting / Topped up emotions with sedatives / Hit that old familiar taste (Hit that old familiar taste) / She cannot be saved / With her
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Static Dress – Adaptive Taste
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[Verse] / Check the vital signs / Use it all / You've become salvageable / (Not to come to mention) / How much you've changed / Oh, how we've grown apart / Just let me leave / [Pre
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Static Dress – ...Maybe!!?
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[Verse 1] / Is this how it's meant to end? / Fitting broken pieces again / Save yourself from this one (This one) / [Pre-Chorus] / Remove everything, you still won't be missed
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Static Dress (Ft. Jess Nyx) – Courtney, just relax (Redux)
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[Intro: Oliver Appleyard] / Take a seat / On this cold metal chair / [Verse 1: Oliver Appleyard] / Pale blue taste that she’s met many times (Met many times) / Chalk choking bitter
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The Goo Goo Dolls – Name
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Rzeznik was inspired to write “Name” about his relationship with former MTV VJ Kennedy. It should also be noted that Rzeznik’s parents both died before he turned 17 years old, so a
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Hinder – Lips of an Angel
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“Lips of an Angel” is the lead single from Hinder’s Triple Platinum debut album, Extreme Behavior. It is by far their best known track.
With the resurgence of the rock ballad
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SonReal (Ft. Kardinal Offishall) – Monday Night
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Hook: / Got one thing right / Sipping little juice up on a Monday night / I was gonna write something for radio to play / But fuck it, all I had to say was love me because I'm real
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