 Genius Meanings
|
|
James Blake – Famous Last Words
|
|
[Verse 1] / And I can't believe I'm still talkin' about you, that feeling / I should have lost it, I should have lost it by now / I can't believe I'm still holding out and seeing
|
|
|
James Blake – Funeral
|
|
[Verse 1] / I hold my ear to a shell / I hear somethin' that no one can sell / Y'know, I should’ve lived by the sea / 'Cause I feel invisible in every city / [Chorus] / And I know
|
|
|
James Blake – Life Is Not the Same
|
|
[Intro] / Daytrip took it to ten (Hey) / [Verse 1] / I played the ones you know / I took you all the way / But that was yesterday / I wore your favorite clothes / I said the things
|
|
|
James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart
|
|
[Chorus] / I have haunted many photographs / In the background, in the fore / And as many loves that have crossed my path / In the end, it was friends / In the end, it was friends
|
|
|
James Blake – Say What You Will
|
|
On Say What You Will James Blake lays out how he’s content with his current wealth and fame status, late in his music career. His current position is very much middle-ground and
|
|
|
James Blake – If I'm Insecure
|
|
[Verse 1] / If I'm so happy / How am I losing all this sleep? / If I'm the only child / How do I feel like the black sheep? / If this is what we always wanted / How's the signal so
|
|
|
James Blake – Foot Forward
|
|
[Intro] / Metro / [Verse 1] / It was built, in a day / So it fell, in a day / What do you expect? / What do you expect, what do you expect, what do you expect? / At best, we're a
|
|
|
James Blake (Ft. JID & SwaVay) – Frozen
|
|
[Intro: James Blake] / I've been losing all of my mind / They tell me I'm too hard to find / Tell me, am I? / How can that be true if you're mine? / Hopin' I'll be chosen / Body's
|
|
James Blake – I'll Come Too
|
|
“I’ll Come Too” is the 9th track on James Blake’s fourth full length studio album: Assume Form which was released on the 18th of January 2019.
The song features a moving sample
|
|
James Blake & slowthai – Funeral
|
|
[Verse 1: James Blake] / I hold my ear to a shell / I hear somethin' that no one can sell / You know, I should've lived by the sea / 'Cause I feel invisible in every city / [Chorus
|
|
Genius Brasil Traduções – James Blake - Life Is Not The Same (Tradução em Português)
|
|
[Tradução de "Life Is Not The Same", de James Blake] / [Intro] / Daytrip levou isso pro dez (Hey) / [Verso 1] / Eu toquei aquelas que você conhece / Eu te levei até o fim / Mas
|
|
|
James Blake – Lost Angel Nights
|
|
[Intro] / Whatever makes you / Whatever makes you feel / [Chorus] / Lost angel nights / Never jaded eyes / Envy is no crime / Away from me's just fine / Lost angel nights / Never
|
|
|
James Blake (Ft. SZA) – Coming Back
|
|
[Intro: James Blake] / Can't stick to that / Can't fade us to black / So I'm coming back, coming back, coming back, coming back / 'Cause it hurts, 'cause it hurts like the end of
|
|
|
Genius Brasil Traduções – James Blake - Funeral (Tradução em Português)
|
|
[Verso 1] / Eu coloco meu ouvido em uma concha / Eu ouço algo que ninguém pode vender / Você sabe que eu deveria viver perto do mar / Porque eu me sinto invisível em todas as
|
|
Genius – September 2021 Singles Release Calendar
|
|
WELCOME TO GENIUS' SEPTEMBER 2021 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For September 2021 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all
|
|
|
James Blake (Ft. Monica Martin) – Show Me
|
|
[Chorus] / Show me / I wish you'd show me / Show me / I wish you'd show me / [Verse 1: James Blake] / I heard you can show love / It's just not come out for me / I heard you had a
|
|
Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake – King's Dead
|
|
A star-studded collaboration. In his first single as the main credited artist since 2015, Jay Rock links up with Future, James Blake and Black Hippy partner and label mate
|
|
Metro Boomin & James Blake – Hummingbird
|
|
[Intro] / Metro / Ayy, lil' Metro on that beat / [Refrain: James Blake] / Hummingbird, summer song / Has it brought my life back? / Hangin' in the balance / Have you brought the
|
|
¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign (Ft. James Blake & North West) – BLESS ME
|
|
[Intro: Kanye West] / Northie, come out and play / [Chorus: James Blake] / You don't want no problems you just- (Talking) / You don't want no problems you just- (Talking) / You don
|
|
Drake – 0 to 100 / The Catch Up
|
|
This song features two parts. The first, “0 to 100,” is a typical braggadocio rap song resembling Drake’s smash “Started from The Bottom.” The second, “The Catch Up,” features an
|
|
JID – Sistanem
|
|
[Intro] / Cole, you stupid / [Verse 1: JID] / Look, you told me never let this get a hold of me / You hate to see me hurt, you wanna hurt someone for me / Way too down to Earth
|
|
|
James Blake – I'm So Blessed You're Mine
|
|
[Pre-Chorus] / Lover, is it alright, the way it is? / Lover, I've seen it all now, now I've seen this / Never saw you coming, but I saw the smoke / You never saw a life with me
|
|
Kendrick Lamar – ELEMENT.
|
|
On “ELEMENT.,” Kendrick asserts himself as the most dominant rapper in the game, taking his contemporaries to task and daring them to call him out on wax.
Kendrick delves into his
|
|
|
Genius Brasil Traduções – James Blake - Coming Back ft. SZA (Tradução em Português)
|
|
[Intro: James Blake] / Não posso me limitar a isso / Não posso escurecer isso / Então eu estou voltando, voltando, voltando, voltando / Porque isso dói, porque isso dói como o fim
|
|
JAY-Z (Ft. James Blake) – MaNyfaCedGod
|
|
“MaNyfaCedGod” finds JAY-Z delving back into the state of his relationship with wife Beyoncé and how they have conquered any trouble in their way.
In the television series Game of
|
|
Frank Ocean – Solo
|
|
On “Solo,” Frank touches on various aspects of being alone, such as self-love or waiting for a call from your lover. It’s not entirely clear if this song is specifically about
|
|
Kanye West (Ft. Sampha) – Saint Pablo
|
|
Initially titled “Closest Thing To Einstein,” the final track “Saint Pablo” addresses Kanye’s deepest thoughts and insecurities, namely the $53 million dollars of debt he mentioned
|
|
Taylor Swift – betty
|
|
“betty” touches on the aftermath of “august,” which describes a summer love that was doomed from the start. Listeners learn that while the summer affair was going on, the speaker
|
|
Beyoncé (Ft. James Blake) – Forward
|
|
The shortest song on the album, “Forward” is also a turning point. Whatever has happened in this relationship‚ Beyoncé’s moving ahead. It’s notable that a man’s soft voice (British
|
|
Travis Scott (Ft. 21 Savage & James Blake) – TIL FURTHER NOTICE
|
|
“TIL FURTHER NOTICE” is the outro track to Travis Scott’s long-awaited fourth studio album, UTOPIA. It was initially made during a session for Metro Boomin’s HEROES & VILLAINS on
|
|
James Blake – Tell Me
|
|
[Chorus] / Tell me if it's worth waking up for / When there are so many reasons to lie / Tell me when it's darker than nightfall / Tell me when you're all done / Give me some
|
|
Wham! – Last Christmas
|
|
“Last Christmas” is a song by Wham! It’s been widely covered by a multitude of artists, including Taylor Swift and Jimmy Eat World The song reached No. 1 in 2 countries and reached
|
|
|
James Blake – He's Been Wonderful
|
|
[Intro] / One, two, three / One, two, three / [Chorus] / He's really been (One, two, three) / He has really, really, really, really been (One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two
|
|
OutKast – Rosa Parks
|
|
This is the lead single from OutKast’s 1998 Aquemini. “Rosa Parks” may not have been the duo’s most successful single, but it established OutKast’s legitimacy as pioneers of
|
|
The Beatles – Yesterday
|
|
“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
|
|
|
JAY-Z – Adnis
|
|
On “Adnis” Jay pens an open letter to his late father Adnis “AJ” Reeves, who passed away from liver failure on June 19, 2003.
On Father’s Day 2017 JAY-Z dropped a snippet from “
|
|
A$AP Rocky (Ft. Action Bronson, Big K.R.I.T., Danny Brown, Joey Bada$$, Kendrick Lamar & Yelawolf) – 1Train
|
|
Featuring a slew of upcoming popular MCs over a beat crafted by Hit-Boy—the producer behind “Niggas in Paris”—"1Train" was the most anticipated track for many prior to the release
|
|
Billie Eilish – when the party's over
|
|
The second single from WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, “when the party’s over,” sees Billie putting some distance between her and her lover. It was described by the
|
|
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
|
|
This track about the inability of people to communicate emotionally, was thought by many to be a response to the Kennedy assassination as it was written during the same time and
|
|
Knowledge Drop: The Six Characters Taylor Swift Channels On ‘Folklore’
|
|
Get to know Betty, James, Rebekah Harkness, & more for the album’s one-year anniversary.
|
|
Miley Cyrus – Violet Chemistry
|
|
“Violet Chemistry,“ a synth-pop, love song, sees Cyrus wanting a lover to stay with them, and not deny what they have. Cyrus acknowledges this might be a bad idea, but they will do
|
|
A Track By Track Analysis Of Every Song On Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’
|
|
The Genius community wrote bios for every song, breaking down themes of love, drugs, and depression.
|
