 Genius Meanings
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Maren Morris & Hozier – The Bones
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[Verse 1: Maren Morris] / We're in the homestretch of the hard times / We took a hard left, but we're alright / Yeah, life sure can try to put love through it, but / We built this
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Maren Morris – The Bones
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[Verse 1] / We're in the homestretch of the hard times / We took a hard left, but we're alright / Yeah, life sure can try to put love through it, but / We built this right, so
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Hozier – In the Woods Somewhere
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This song draws strong parallels to the first Canto of Dante’s Inferno, which begins as follows:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the
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Rag'n'Bone Man – Human
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“Human” is a song expressing the angst of the human condition and the inability of humans to be perfect or even fix many of the “real problems” in life.
Rag'n'Bone Man powerfully
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Hozier – Work Song
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This is the only song on Hozier’s self titled album to have a title that is not entirely composed of lyrics from the song.
The song is about the love of a worker’s life lending
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Lord Huron (Ft. Allison Ponthier) – I Lied
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“I Lied” debuted on April 30th, 2021 as the fourth single from their album “Long Lost.”
The song depicts a husband lamenting his inability to live up to the promises that he made
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R.E.M. – 7 Chinese Bros.
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This is the second song from R.E.M.’s second album, Reckoning. Like many songs from R.E.M.’s early career, the lyrics' meaning is oblique, but the song seems to be about about the
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Hozier – Blood
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“Blood” is a song listed for Hozier’s catalogue on BMI.
The songs has been performed live before, at least three times.
June 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZdSSCP8xM
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Doegaege – A DYING GNOME
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♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♪ / Aw yeah / Can’t breath- there’s no air in the bathroom / Everyone can hear me throwing up my sea food / Yeah / It’s happening again - losing my friends / Barbed wire
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Taylor Swift – my tears ricochet
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Swift shared via Instagram that “my tears ricochet” is about an “embittered tormentor showing up at the funeral of his fallen object of obsession.” She revealed in a YouTube
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BONES – Coffin
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[Intro] / What? / Bones / SESH / [Verse] / Smokin' up all my dope (dope) / Steppin' up on the scene (scene) / Women they know its Bones (Bones) / Razor blade in my jeans (jeans
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Second Thief – Amputation
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Wash me, heal me, fill me oh God / Wash me of my iniquity and cleanse me of my sin / I was born in iniquity and in sin my mother conceived / Help me to see joy and gladness that
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Bring Me The Horizon – Go to Hell, for Heaven’s Sake
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Oliver wrote this song aimed at himself, as he couldn’t stand his name at one point.
In a track-by-track interview with MetalFuckingRocks, vocalist Oli Sykes explained:
We were
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Hozier (Ft. Karen Cowley) – In a Week
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In the album’s only duet, Hozier and Karen Cowley sing about being two corpses rotting together. Even death can be romantic.
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Noah Kahan – Orange Juice
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[Verse 1] / Honey, come over / The party's gone slower / And no one will tempt you / We know you got sober / There's orange juice in the kitchen / Bought for the children / It's
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Bon Iver – Skinny Love
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Released as the first single from For Emma, Forever Ago, “Skinny Love” is a song about a failed relationship and the regret that stems from it.
The term “skinny love” has two
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Alana Springsteen – The Bones
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[Verse 1] / We're in the homestretch of the hard times / We took a hard left, but we're alright / Yeah, life sure can try to put love through it, but / We built this right, so
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Magenta – Breathe
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Here it comes / This empty page, this faded line / The story in your head is happening this line / The happy endings turning bad / The story's almost done / It's near the end, oh
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HYVNG LVRD – Watch Me Burn
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[Intro] / Watch and learn / Watch me burn / Put me in a fuckin' urn / Watch and learn / Watch me burn / Put me in a fuckin' urn / Watch and learn / Watch me burn / Put me in a
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Noah Kahan – Glue Myself Shut
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On “Glue Myself Shut,” Noah Kahan pays tribute to the people in his life that have been good to him and have sacrificed a lot, despite himself taking it for granted.
The lyrics
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Noah Kahan – Everywhere, Everything
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[Verse 1] / Ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh / It's been a long year / Would we survive in a horror movie? / I doubt it we're too slow moving / We trust everyone we meet / Two bodies riddled
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Death Cab for Cutie – Here to Forever
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[Verse 1] / In every movie I watch from the fifties / There's only one thought that swirls around my head now / And that's that everyone there on the screen / Yeah, everyone there
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Ft. Ray Dalton) – Can't Hold Us
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[Intro: Macklemore] / Hey, hey, hey / Good to see you / Come on, dude, let's go / Yeah, let's go / Hahaha, alright / Alright, okay / Uh, alright, okay / Alright, okay / [Verse 1
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KALEO – Way Down We Go
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“Way Down We Go” is a song by The Icelandic rock band Kaleo, released as the second single for their first studio album A/B.
Two music videos have been released to accompany the
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Harrison Lemke – Road Work Blues
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[Verse 1] / I'm on that stretch of 35 / Where the road work never seems to end; / I'm on that stretch of 35 / Where the road work never seems to end / Just like that stretch of 35
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Brandon Lake – Gratitude
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[Verse 1] / All my words fall short / I got nothing new / How could I express / All my gratitude? / [Verse 2] / I could sing these songs / As I often do / But every song must end
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BØRNS – Electric Love
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After one year in Los Angeles, West Michigan native Børns landed a record deal with Interscope, and the album Candy was released to much critical acclaim.
“Electric Love” followed
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Juzo – 20 Dead Souls
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[Verse 1] / Take a look into my eyes, see the truth that underlies / An angel on the surface but a mutant deep inside / My hue is turning black so I spray with a dye / I’m
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DIRTBOYS – Hellion
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432 The Divine / Cursed from my birth i’m forsaken / Head full of dread like Jamaicans / Fuck pigs man i’m bringing home the bacon / Bitch, i’m a beast word to motherfuckin Satan
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WemmyMo – What Can I Say
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[Intro] / Niggahs must want me dead / Niggahs better kill me now / Niggahs wanna watch me die / Niggah wanna see me gone / Twenty some shots I’m ducking / Had lil bro on my phone
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Monarchy – The Phoenix Alive (The Octans Edit)
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I fell between the lines made you surrender / The promise at the start just got lost in the way / Hell eternity gaze at the splendor / Give up all these simple games that we hold
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Mickey Jupp's Legend – Captain Cool
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Oh dressed in faded Levi's in a tie-dyed granite bed / Which put pressure on the world that he crewed to fill more whisky / Cos his hair is long, you'll call him seven kinds of
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Stice – Baton Down the Hatch
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Wipe out / Way out / Stupid atrocity / Cut out / Far out / Esprit de cour / Get off / Too much / Here come baton again / Get out / Conquer the mine / X out / X out / Kill evil
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The Lumineers – Ophelia
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“Ophelia” is “the cornerstone” of The Lumineers’s sophomore album, Cleopatra. It was the first track written and recorded for the album, following which band member Jeremiah
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Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
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By some interpretations, Cohen is in an argument with God. King David’s “hallelujah,” in the book of Psalms, is said to have pleased the Lord. Cohen addresses God: “But you don’t
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Will Wood – Cicada Days
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I wrote the original draft of this as part of a song-a-day challenge I took on following some major life changes. I didn’t end up writing a song every day, but this was one of the
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WEARRWOLF – DOGLEG
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(DON'T GET CAUGHT!) / (Ridin' dirty) / (W-W-W-W-WEARRWOLF) / Feel it / I ain't been the same / Since I saw stars up on the ceiling / Fifty in the range / If I cut twenty you can
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A Hope For Home – Yea, The Cold Embrace Of The Sea
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I heard the sound of ten thousand voices calling out / And as waves crash down, their bodies pulled from the ground / But I saw you there, with your feet firmly planted down. Could
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Liv kavadias – I Know That You Don't
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[Verse 1] / The AC just stopped working and I feel like it's on purpose 'cause I feel like no one likes me / It's the middle of the summer, feels like winter you're still cold and
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Jesse Cale & Rusty Clanton – I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love
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[Verse 1] / It's getting late but it's still much too early for me / To fall asleep so write it down / I hope the words don't lose their meaning in the morning / I hope you still
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Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire (Ft. Danny Brown, Das Racist, Despot & El-P) – The Last Huzzah (Remix)
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A Modern Day Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)? Not at Flava in Ya Ear level…but still a great group of MCs light it up in this alcohol-themed banger.
Video is a very reminiscent of Flava
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