Genius Meanings
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Gang of Youths – Let Me Down Easy
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[Chorus] / You want someone to want you for who you are / I want someone to try, then let me down easy, easy tonight / Easy, easy tonight / [Verse 1] / Honey, it’s no secret that
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Sheppard – Let Me Down Easy
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Let Me Down Easy Lyrics · Night and day I've been doin' the math. To calculate where we wandered off track · But I know that this love was never easy. But ...
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Why Don't We – Let Me Down Easy (Lie)
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“Let Me Down Easy” is the third release by the American boy group Why Don’t We following their sophomore album, and their second release in 2022.
It relates back to the first
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Gang of Youths – The Heart Is a Muscle
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[Intro] / Break me off a piece of that / And mix it in with a little wine / With someone warm and smart, I guess / With a heart in first and a soul behind / And I won't give in / '
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Gang of Youths – Le symbolique
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[Instrumental]
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Gang of Youths – Achilles Come Down
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Achilles was a Greek demigod who fought in the Trojan War, and the hero of Homer’s Iliad.
In this song, the character of Achilles is standing on a rooftop, ready to kill himself
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Gang of Youths – Keep Me in the Open
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A touching ballad that reflects on the breakdown of singer Dave Le'aupepe’s marriage to his ex-wife, whose battle with cancer is described in Gang of Youths' first record The
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Gang of Youths – Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane
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A haunting seven-and-a-half-minute ballad that extends to nearly nine minutes if the preceding instrumental “L'imaginaire” is included. Frontman Dave Le'aupepe “recounts a
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Gang of Youths – Our Time Is Short
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[Verse 1] / We’ll make it down slowly, discover our hearts are dumb / There’s nothing that holy in loving like drunk kids love / And I’ve forgotten where I was / I see you in
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Gang of Youths – Atlas Drowned
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A powerful, anthemic belter and the second single from the album, “Atlas Drowned” explores singer Dave Le'aupepe’s dismissal of the objectivist theories put forward by Ayn Rand in
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Gang of Youths – Say Yes to Life
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[Verse 1] / There’s a sadness in the heart now of the imitation zone / Don’t forget about your brothers if you go at it alone / And I could almost take a whole life / To disclose
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Gang of Youths – Atlas Drowned
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A powerful, anthemic belter and the second single from the album, “Atlas Drowned” explores singer Dave Le'aupepe’s dismissal of the objectivist theories put forward by Ayn Rand in
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Gang of Youths – Say Yes to Life
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[Verse 1] / There’s a sadness in the heart now of the imitation zone / Don’t forget about your brothers if you go at it alone / And I could almost take a whole life / To disclose
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Imagine Dragons – Believer
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“Believer” thunders around a percussive backbeat and expressive vocals from Dan Reynolds to bring about a message of embracing pain, and using it as a tool for personal growth. It
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Gang of Youths – The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows
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Discussing the track, frontman Dave Le’aupepe said:
“This song came about after I struggled with writer’s block for a year, barely managing to etch out more than a single verse of
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. MC Eiht) – m.A.A.d city
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“m.A.A.d” is an acronym for both “my Angels on Angel dust” and “my Angry Adolescence divided.”
“m.A.A.d” is also a reference to the 90s Compton based hip-hop group “WC and the
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Frankie Valli – Can't Take My Eyes Off You
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“Can’t Take My Eyes off You” is a single recorded and released in 1967. It was Valli’s biggest hit until “My Eyes Adored You”, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
A testament to
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Skid Row – Wasted Time
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[Verse 1] / You and I together in our lives / Sacred ties would never fray / Then why can I let myself tell lies / And watch you die every day? / I think back to the times / When
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BoyWithUke – Toxic
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[Verse 1] / All my friends are toxic, all ambitionless / So rude and always negative / I need new friends, but it's not that quick and easy / Oh, I'm drowning, let me breathe / [
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Eve (Ft. Gwen Stefani) – Let Me Blow Ya Mind
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Samples/sounds eerily similar to Dr. Dre’s last track “The Message” from the 2001 album featuring Mary J Blige. Interestingly enough, “The Message” was the only track NOT produced
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2Pac – Keep Ya Head Up
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2Pac may have been a gangsta, but he had feelings too! This is a feminist anthem from Pac, with references to pro-choice politics and what one might call “rape culture”.
In a 1995
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Gang of Youths – Go Farther in Lightness
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The second of four interludes on the record, and the only one that features vocals. Go Farther in Lightness’s title track deals with frontman Dave Le'aupepe “(feeling) alien” and
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N.W.A – Gangsta Gangsta
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Off of N.W.A’s 1st album Straight Outta Compton.
You can also hear this song on the radio channel West Coast Classics in Grand Theft Auto V.
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50 Cent – Many Men (Wish Death)
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“Many Men (Wish Death)” is the third single from 50 Cent’s debut studio album Get Rich or Die Tryin'. This track deals with 50’s near death experiences (infamously, 50 was shot 9
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Kodak Black – Let Me Know
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[Verse] / Yeah / Out of sight, you're out of mind, you're out of luck, it's like nobody even care if you be 'round / Why I fall off with my niggas when I'm up? Why nobody stand up
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Gang of Youths – Fear and Trembling
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Named after the Soren Kierkegaard novel of the same name originally published in the 19th century, this opening track to the band’s sophomore album Go Farther In Lightness
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Sixpence None the Richer – Kiss Me
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“Kiss Me” is the lead single from Sixpence None The Richer’s eponymous album. Released in 1998 as a single, it debuted at #90 on Billboard’s Top 100 singles chart on November 19
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USHER – Nice & Slow
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[Intro] / What you doing? Really? / You know I'm coming over, right? / (Now, baby, tell what you wanna do with me?) / Now, you got it hot for me already, baby? / Okay / Be there in
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Gorillaz (Ft. Del the Funky Homosapien) – Clint Eastwood
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“Clint Eastwood” is the phenomenal debut single from “virtual band” Gorillaz, dropped in 2001. The funky aesthetic of the video and the song’s menacing, mellow beat made it one of
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Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M.
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Arguably one of the most iconic songs in hip-hop, the underlying idea of “C.R.E.A.M.” is found in its title—cash rules everything. The timeless piano riffs and background vocals
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