 Genius Meanings
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Syreeta – Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
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[Verse 1] / Sneaking kisses in the hall / Writing love notes on the wall / Bein' each other's all and all each day / Lovers walkin' in the rain / So close, we felt each other's
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Jeff Beck – Cause We've Ended As Lovers (Live)
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[Instrumental]
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Jeff Beck – Scatterbrain
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[Instrumental]
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Jeff Beck – She’s a Woman
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My love don't give me presents / I know that she's no peasant / My baby don't get me no presents / She don't give the boys the eye / She hates to see me cry / She's a woman who
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Jeff Beck – You Know What I Mean
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[Instrumental]
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Jeff Beck – Blanket (feat. Imogen Heap) [Live]
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[Verse 1] / Emotionless this city lies / Cruel it is, it clouds my eyes / The dull, the dark shades on my day / I live inside this place / [Verse 2] / Locked up inside my metal
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Jeff Beck – Led Boots (Live)
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[Instrumental]
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Jeff Beck – People Get Ready (feat. Joss Stone) [Live]
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[Verse 1] / People get ready, there's a train a-coming / You don't need no baggage, you just get on board / All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming / Don't need no ticket
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Jeff Beck – Nadia (Live)
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[Instrumental]
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The Underachievers – Eyes Wide Open
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The second track on their 2017 album, Renaissance, “Eyes Wide Open” addresses themes such as: overcoming self-doubt, existing alongside nay-sayers, and the power of expression.
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Guns N' Roses – Locomotive (Complicity)
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The song “Locomotive” was written in a house Slash and Izzy Stradlin rented in the Hollywood Hills following the Appetite for Destruction tours. It is often praised by fans because
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Beck – Devils Haircut
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Devils Haircut is Beck’s second single supporting his 1996 studio album Odelay.
Similar to most of Beck’s songs on Odelay and surrounding material, a good deal of this song is
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Marvin Gaye – What's Going On
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What’s Going On is an exquisite plea for peace on Earth, sung by a man at the height of crisis. In 1970, Marvin Gaye was Motown’s top male vocal star, yet he was frustrated by the
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Jeff Beck – Situation
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People fight for the basic right to choose / To live a life we don't intend to lose, The time has come when we must all decide / To end our evil ways or let the whole world slide
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New Radicals – You Get What You Give
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“You Get What You Give” became the signature song of the New Radicals, released as the lead single from their only album Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too. It topped the pop charts
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Logic – Nikki
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The identity of Nikki is finally revealed. In this song Logic struggles with his nicotine addiction which he refers to as Nikki; note the similarity of pronunciation – Nikki and
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Beck – Loser
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The verses of Beck’s breakout hit seem to be mainly a stream of consciousness consisting of nonsense while announcing to the world he’s just a slacker. But some feel he juxtaposes
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The Yardbirds – Over Under Sideways Down
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Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty explained: “‘Over Under Sideways Down’ was about the situation of having a good time – a bit of decadence, really – in the ‘60s. Cars and girls are
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Stevie Wonder – Lookin' for Another Pure Love
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This song is about Stevie Wonder’s search for love like he experienced once before. He never felt heartbreak or sadness until this woman left him.
While the song mainly mentions
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Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls (Ft. Barrett Wilbert Weed) – I'd Rather Be Me
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“I’d Rather Be Me” begins just after Regina gets her revenge on Cady Heron by distributing pages of her “Burn Book” around the school, which caused a fight among the junior-class
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Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls (Ft. Barrett Wilbert Weed, Erika Henningsen & Grey Henson) – Revenge Party
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This song is the beginning of Cady, Janis, and Damian’s evil plan to take down Regina George—they’re seeking revenge for Regina stabbing Cady in the back by winning Aaron Samuels
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Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls (Ft. Erika Henningsen & Kerry Butler) – It Roars
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Cady’s introductory song. She expresses longing for a life outside of the one she has in Africa and a newfound excitement for high school back in the U.S. The song makes use of
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Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls (Ft. Ashley Park, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Erika Henningsen, Grey Henson, Kate Rockwell & Taylor Louderman) – Meet The Plastics
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This song introduces the Plastics, a group made up of queen bee Regina George and her loyal followers, the socialite Gretchen Wieners and the not-so-bright Karen Smith. It ends
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Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya & The Greatest Showman Ensemble – The Greatest Show
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This single song encapsulates most of the major arcs in the movie, from Barnum’s dream as a child to Carlyle’s relationship with Wheeler to Barnum losing sight of his initial
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Cher – If I Could Turn Back Time
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“If I Could Turn Back Time” was included on Cher’s nineteenth studio album, Heart of Stone. The song was released on June 1, 1989 as the second North American and first European
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