 Genius Meanings
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James Blake – Say What You Will
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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
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James Blake – Say What You Will (Spotify Singles)
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[Verse 1] / Well, I've been normal, I've been ostracised / I've watched through a window as my young self died / I've been popular with all the popular guys / I gave them
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The Tallest Man On Earth – Say What You Will
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[Verse 1] / Well, I've been normal, I've been ostracized / I've watched through a window as my young self died / I've been popular with all the popular guys / I gave them
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James Blake (Ft. SZA) – Coming Back
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[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
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Dave & James Blake – Both Sides of A Smile
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“Both Sides of A Smile” is the ninth cut from Dave’s sophomore album We’re All Alone In This Together and sees James Blake take lead with the subdued strings of his guitar backing
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James Blake – Lullaby for My Insomniac
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“Lullaby for My Insomniac” is the outro to James Blake’s Assume Form.
The song is likely to have been written for an insomniac lover who Blake is trying to go to sleep with. He
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James Blake – Are You in Love?
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[Intro] / Are you in love? / Do your best impression for me / I try my hardest for you / Are you in love? / Are you in love? / [Verse] / Are-are we as one? / Everything desperate
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James Blake (Ft. Metro Boomin & Travis Scott) – Mile High
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“Mile High,” a collaboration between James Blake, Travis Scott, and Metro Boomin, is about joining the ‘mile high club,’ as asserted on the song’s chorus:
We just be mile high
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slowthai, James Blake & Mount Kimbie – feel away
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[Verse 1: slowthai] / We don't go on dates, we went our separate ways / And we don't conversate, she said I'm playin' games / She said she feels trapped, stuck up in this fuckin
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James Blake – Assume Form
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[Verse 1] / Now I'm confiding, know I may have / Gone through the motions my whole life / I hope this is the first day / That I connect motion to feeling / We spin slowly, we spin
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Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake – King's Dead
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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
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James Blake – Fire The Editor
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[Verse] / Fire the editor / He's killing the flame / Fire the editor / I know there's no place for blame / But he's trying to save me from failure / But I've already failed / '
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Metro Boomin, James Blake, A$AP Rocky & 21 Savage – Nonviolent Communication
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[Verse 1: James Blake] / You let me fall first, then you dream awake / I'd do anything to bring you to that other place / We speak so differently alone, love like Vincent we are
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Travis Scott (Ft. 21 Savage & James Blake) – TIL FURTHER NOTICE
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“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
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James Blake – Don't Miss It
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“Don’t Miss It” is James Blake’s second single released in 2018 following “If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead” released four months earlier. The song premiered on Blake’s BBC Radio
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James Blake – Power On
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[Verse 1] / I thought I might be better dead, but I was wrong / I thought everything could fade, but I was wrong / I thought I'd never find my place, but I was wrong / And where I
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James Blake – Funeral
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[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
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James Blake – You're Too Precious
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[Chorus] / So, so now, now, so now, so now / So, so now, now, so now, so now / You're too, you're too precious, precious / You're too, you're too precious, yes (Yes) / So, so now-
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James Blake – I'll Come Too
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“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
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James Blake – Are You Even Real?
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[Verse 1] / There's no five years / There's no ten years / Only this / Queen of, queen of, queen of queens / There's no knife / 'Cause there's no tension / Only this / Lucid dream
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James Blake (Ft. Monica Martin) – Show Me
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[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
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Drake – 0 to 100 / The Catch Up
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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
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James Blake – Famous Last Words
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[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
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James Blake – Death of Love*
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Lyrics from debut live performance in Glasgow, 30/04/2022 / I don't know how we got here / I think we might be sleeping / I think we might be walking to the death of love (To the
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JID – Sistanem
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[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
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Travis Scott (Ft. James Blake, Kid Cudi, Philip Bailey & Stevie Wonder) – STOP TRYING TO BE GOD
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On “STOP TRYING TO BE GOD,” Travis cautions rappers to not develop a God complex and to remain true to their roots. The song features Kid Cudi’s signature hums, vocals from Philip
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James Blake – I'm So Blessed You're Mine
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[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
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James Blake – Do You Ever
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[Intro] / I wanted the two seat version (Two seat) / I wanted the Saturday version (Saturday) / I thought there was more / [Chorus] / Really (Ah), do you ever think about me
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James Blake – Friends That Break Your Heart
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[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
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James Blake – Life Is Not the Same
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[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
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James Blake – F.O.R.E.V.E.R
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The fifth track on James Blake’s intensely emotive third studio album. “F.O.R.E.V.E.R.” is a work of melting balladry describing the variable permanence of love in relationships
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Kendrick Lamar – ELEMENT.
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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
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James Blake – Can't Believe the Way We Flow
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[Intro] / We flow, we flow, we flow, we flow (Oh no) / Can't believe the way we flow / We flow, we flow, we flow, we flow (Oh no) / Can't believe the way we flow / We flow, we flow
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Turbo & Gunna – Bachelor
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[Intro: James Blake] / Really (Ah), do you ever think about me? / Really, if you're honest with me / I'd like to say it's two-way (Ah) / Do you ever think about me? / Really, if
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