Genius Meanings
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Glass Animals – Heat Waves
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“Heat Waves” is the fourth single from UK band Glass Animals' third studio album Dreamland. The song features a melancholy tone but maintains high energy through its instrumental
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Glass Animals Breaks Down The Meaning Of “Heat Waves”
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Learn about the song’s lyrics on the latest episode of ‘Verified.’
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Glass Animals – Gooey
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The second single off of Glass Animals' debut album, ZABA, and the first to US alternative radio.
As described in an interview, it’s about “youth and naïvety and childishness
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Glass Animals – Helium
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[Verse 1] / 9:09 / You gonna call it or am I? / One more time / This puppy love is out of line / One more slide / And then we're back to real life / [Pre-Chorus] / Ooh, and I'm
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Glass Animals – Take a Slice
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The character of this song is presumably, from deduction, about the Asian guy in the bottom right corner. About the song itself, Dave explains:
This track is about someone with a
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Glass Animals – The Other Side of Paradise
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This song characterizes the basketball player on the album cover.
The title is a reversal of the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel This Side of Paradise.
“This is musically
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Glass Animals – Agnes
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According to a Facebook post, “Agnes” is Dave Bayley’s favorite song on How to Be a Human Being.
Each song on the album is represented by one of the characters on the cover; from
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Glass Animals – Youth
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“Youth” is about the nostalgia and the strange mix of happiness and sadness that swirls around it. It is sung from a parent to a child.
The song is the second single from Glass
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Glass Animals – Space Ghost Coast to Coast
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“Space Ghost Coast To Coast” combines bits and pieces of millennial childhood nostalgia with musings on school shootings. Frontman Dave Bayley explained to Flood and The
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Glass Animals – Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth
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“Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth” is about looking back at yourself at the beginning of a relationship and recognising that you were acting completely different to normal. The
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Glass Animals – Black Mambo
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“Black Mambo” is the second track on and first single from Glass Animals' debut album ZABA.
In a literal sense, the song is about a sloth and a mole facing off in a game of
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Glass Animals – Dreamland
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“Dreamland” is the title track and third single from Glass Animals' third studio album, Dreamland. The song features Dave singing over a slow, dreamy instrumental reminiscing about
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Glass Animals – Mama's Gun
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“Mama’s Gun” is the fifth song from Glass Animals’s How To Be A Human Being. The song focuses mainly on mental health and samples “Mr. Guder” by The Carpenters.
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Glass Animals & Denzel Curry – Tokyo Drifting
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“Tokyo Drifting” is Glass Animals' first musical release since their 2016 album How To Be A Human Being. This track is the group’s first collaboration with South Florida hip-hop
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Glass Animals – Poplar St
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This song is about the woman in the white dress on the right side of the album cover, according to Genius.
This song is meant to open with a kind of musical/lyrical image of a
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Glass Animals – Pork Soda
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“Pork Soda” is the fourth track off of Glass Animals' sophomore record How to Be a Human Being, as well as the source of the pineapple becoming a symbol of Glass Animals fandom.
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Glass Animals – Cane Shuga
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Due to “Cane Shuga” being featured in the album teaser, the first preview of How to Be a Human Being that many fans heard was from this song.
This song is about the character in
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Glass Animals – Hot Sugar
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“Hot Sugar” conveys the feelings of someone who thinks they’re falling in love for the first time, when in reality they just admire the other person’s cool persona. The narrator
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Glass Animals – Your Love (Déjà Vu)
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“Your Love (Déjà Vu),” described by band frontman Dave Bayley as a “conflicted booty-call anthem,” is about toxic relationships that you know are bad for you but can’t seem to cut
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Glass Animals – Dust in Your Pocket
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[Verse 1] / One young fawn, in a maze / Eager-eyed and the milky haze / Scampers round, heavy feet / Spinny legs and knobbly knees / Twitching tail and tongue-in-cheek / She
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Glass Animals – Pools
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“Pools” is the second single off Glass Animals' debut album ZABA.
The song features an exotic, upbeat background, mixing sud-American desert plains shamanic psychedelism with a
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Glass Animals – Toes
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Toes is the eighth track on Glass Animals' debut album ZABA.
According to lead singer Dave Bayley:
The lyrics are about that book, The Island of Dr. Moreau, which is about a man
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Glass Animals – Domestic Bliss
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“Domestic Bliss” narrates a tragic instance of an abusive relationship the mother of one of Dave Bayley’s childhood friends was in.
In an interview with NME, Bayley said:
I was
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