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Genesis – No Son of Mine
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Not autobiographical, but rather a fictional story about a character who is either being abused or witnessing the abuse of his mother, according to Genesis singer Phil Collins
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My Chemical Romance (Ft. Liza Minnelli) – Mama
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“Mama” is a narrative told from the perspective of a soldier at war. He knows his death is coming soon, so he attempts to mend his broken relationship with his mother while he
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Genesis – Hold On My Heart (Live at the Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, 10th July 1992)
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Hold on my heart / Just hold on to that feeling / We both know we've been here before / We both know what can happen / Hold on my heart / Cause I'm looking over your shoulder / Ooh
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Genesis – Driving The Last Spike (Live at the Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, 13th July 1992)
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[Original Key] / Leaving my family behind me / Not knowing what lay ahead / Waving goodbye, as I left them in tears / Remembering all we'd said / I looked to the sky, I offered my
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Genesis – Afterglow (Live from Old Trafford Football Stadium, Manchester, 7th July 2007)
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Just like the dust that settles all around me / I must find a new home / The ways and holes that used to give me shelter / There all as one to me now / Oh, but I, I would search
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Genesis – Since I Lost You
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Inspired by the death of Eric Clapton’s son, Conor, who fell out of an open window in 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBEChcZPvvE
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Genesis – Old Medley (Live at the Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, 10th July 1992)
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[Part I: Dance on a Volcano] / [Verse 1] / Holy Mother of God / You've got to go faster than that to get to the top / Dirty old mountain all covered in smoke / She can turn you to
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Genesis – Home By The Sea / Second Home By The Sea (Live at the Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, 10th July 1992)
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[Home By The Sea] / Home by the Sea / Home by the Sea / Home by the Sea / Home by the Sea / Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall / Stealing through the dark of night
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Genesis – Never a Time
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There is never a time to say / 'Cause it seems to me we've lost our way / So we carry on down the road / When we live our lives haunted by / All the things we say and do / Keep on
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Tyler, The Creator (Ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt) – Rusty
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Track 14 on Tyler, the Creator’s album, WOLF, featuring Domo Genesis and Earl Sweatshirt. This song was performed live on Letterman, but the lyrics were heavily censored and Earl
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Genesis – Jesus He Knows Me
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A song about TV evangelists who promise false hope (such as financial success), if they send (usually) large sums of money to them. Released when several TV evangelists were under
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Genesis – Living Forever
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[Verse 1] / I'm feeling so confused today / It seems they've changed the rules again / Cause in my life, I'm trying hard / To do it all so I can remain / Healthy and sane / [Chorus
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Genesis – Fading Lights
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[Verse 1] / Another time it might have been so different / If only we could do it all again / But now it's just another fading memory / Out of focus, though the outline still
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Genesis – Way of the World
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If you take the tears from crying eyes / Will the hurt just disappear? / Put a weapon in the hand of a frightened man / Will he show no fear? / So we stand and we watch while the
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Xavier Wulf & BONES – MorningDew
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Sampled Grimes – Genesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FH-q0I1fJY
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Genesis – Tell Me Why
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[Verse 1] / Mothers crying in the street / Children dying at their feet / Tell me why / Ooh, tell me why / People starving everywhere / There's too much food but none to spare
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William Shakespeare – Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1
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Banquo discusses his fear that Macbeth has killed the king–“play'dst most foully” to fulfill the witches' prophecy.
Troubled by the witches' prediction that Banquo’s heirs will
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Nas – The World Is Yours
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“The World is Yours” was the third single from Illmatic that saw Pete Rock provide a jazzy boom bap backdrop with a piano sample from Ahmad Jamal’s “I Love Music” mixed with a
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Genesis – I Can't Dance
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The song’s motivation, according to Phil Collins‘ 1997 appearance on VH1 Storytellers, was a bit of contempt for male models, calling them “airheads.” He said this was a “mickey
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Genius: Song Lyrics Finder
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TLC – No Scrubs
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“No Scrubs” was the lead single from TLC’s third album, FanMail, released on February 2, 1999. The song was a huge success. Topping the charts in early 1999 and going #1 in the
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Genesis – Invisible Touch (Live at the Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, 13th July 1992)
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Night, tonight / Tonight, tonight / Well I've been waiting, waiting here so long / But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong, ooh now I know / She has a built-in ability to
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J. Cole (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Forbidden Fruit
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In the bible, Book Genesis, Adam and Eve are led into temptation by the serpent (the devil) and taste from the fruit that God had forbidden them to eat. This act, the fall of man
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Genesis – Supper's Ready
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Written and composed by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, and Michael Rutherford.
Personnel: Tony Banks – Keyboards, 12-string guitar
Phil Collins
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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib (Ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt) – Robes
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Track 11 on Piñata by Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
The sample heard through the song that forms the chorus is Sweet Dreamer by Lenny White.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlcUm451nWY
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Arianne Schreiber – Komm, süsser Tod
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“Komm, süsser Tod” (German for “Come, Sweet Death”) is the song that plays in the 1997 film The End of Evangelion directed by Hideaki Anno during the infamous “Third Impact” scene
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Genesis – The Knife
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“The Knife” was considered significantly more aggressive than the other songs that Genesis had recorded at the time. The lyrics were supposedly inspired by a book written about
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Ray Wilson – Congo
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You say that I put chains on you / But I don't think that's really true / But if you want to be free from me / You gotta lose me in another world / Send me to the Congo I'm free to
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Ray Wilson – Follow You Follow Me
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Stay with me / My love I hope you'll always be / Right here by my side if ever I need you / Oh my love, in your arms / I feel so safe and so secure / Every day is such a perfect
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Phil Collins – Son of Man
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[Verse 1] / Oh, the power to be strong / And the wisdom to be wise / All these things will come to you in time / On this journey that you're making / There'll be answers that you'
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