 Genius Meanings
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Jewel (Ft. Dolly Parton) – My Father's Daughter
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[Verse 1: Jewel] / She stepped off of the boat to see flowers in his hands / The man she would marry was as hard as the mountains / She had his children in a log cabin / Soon I'd
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Dan Fogelberg – Forefathers
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They came from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun / And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young / They'd heard that in America every man was free / To live the
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Jewel – Good Day
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[Verse 1] / I say to myself / Self, why are you awake again? It's 1 AM / Standing with the fridge wide open, starin' / Such a sight, florescent light / The stars are bright / Might
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J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only
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“4 Your Eyez Only” serves as a message to James McMillian, Jr.’s newborn daughter, recounting memories. James McMillian, Jr. is a friend whom Cole speaks of throughout the album.
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BIG TOPIC – Doing My Dance
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[intro] / Ayy / [Chorus] / I ain’t trippin’ on niggas I’m doing my dance / I done spinned on her butt, like a muhfuckin’ fan (skrtt, skrtt) / [Verse 1] / Hit on my jewel, my neck
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Eminem (Ft. Dido) – Stan
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In this song, Eminem corresponds with a crazed fan who becomes increasingly unhinged as the story progresses. This is one of his most well-received singles and was listed at #15 on
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Nas – Daughters
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The third song to drop from Nas' Life Is Good is a personal exposition over a soulful No I.D. beat. The beautiful background vocals are those of Kaye Fox, and the single art was
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Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita, Chapter Two
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In this second chapter of Nabokov’s excellent, impassioned novel of love, both of it’s characters and the words that make them up, Humbert recounts his upbringing and familial
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J. Ivy – Dear Father
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Dear Dad, / These words are being spoken and written because my heart and soul feel broken. I laugh to keep from crying but I still haven’t healed after all of my years of my
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Busta Rhymes & Rick Ross – Master Fard Muhammad
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[Verse 1: Rick Ross] / Have mercy for the spirits still prayin' for me / Times hard, so forgive me if I smell funny / Sleeping in cars, it be real with no hotel money / Louis
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Run The Jewels – Stay Gold
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RTJ is releasing Stay Gold IPA, a juicy New England-style IPA, in collaboration with Interboro Spirits & Ales, the head brewer of which, [Jesse Ferguson], co-founded Def Jux with
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Benny the Butcher – Trade It All
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[Intro] / Yo / [Verse 1] / I'm a product of the block I lived and the Pacs, Nas's and BIGs / For raw, took my dough across the George Washington Bridge / I was poor, for more shock
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JAY-Z (Ft. Chris Martin) – Beach Chair
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“Beach Chair” is the final song of Jay-Z’s 2006 post-retirement album Kingdom Come.
Jay spoke on the beginnings of the track in Decoded:
I was on vacation when I started writing
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Angela Carter – The Tiger's Bride
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My father lost me to The Beast at cards. / There's a special madness strikes travellers from the North when they reach the lovely land where the lemon trees ...
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Atz Kilcher (Ft. Jewel) – Alaska The Last Frontier
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[Intro: Atz Kilcher, Both] / Sometimes it's blood, sweat and tears / On Alaska's last frontier / But life is simple, life is good when you're living like you should / Hey, hey
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Jewel – Family Tree
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[Verse 1] / Mama, I see your face now / In the mirror / It's getting clearer / Daddy, all those things I said I wouldn't do / I've been drawn to / 'Cause I looked up to you / And I
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Eminem (Ft. Royce da 5'9" & White Gold) – You Gon' Learn
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On “You Gon' Learn,” Eminem teams up with Royce da 5'9" and White Gold to stress the importance of resilience and determination. Royce and Em present themselves as products of
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Young Thug – Droppin Jewels
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[Chorus] / Show me that I'm done / I'm finished here, but still no fear, yeah / Ain't no more reminiscin' / Ain't no more judgin', no intuition / Tell me why I'm livin' / Why am I
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JAY-Z – Come and Get Me
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Arriving just a few months after Jay-Z’s record-breaking musical accomplishments, here we find Hov bragging about how tough and untouchable he is. He invites those who hate on him
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Cast of Into the Woods – Prologue: Into The Woods
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This record-breaking 15 minutes long prologue introduces the movie’s main characters and their wishes.
The characters, except for the Baker and his Wife, come from four brothers
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William Shakespeare – The Winter's Tale Act 5 Scene 1
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We’re back with Leontes in Sicily. Cleomenes urges him to allow himself closure for his past sins, though Leontes will not. Paulina rubs salt in his wounds by reminding him how he
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Jewel – Plain Jane
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[Verse 1] / You wear couture clothing like a hunter wears camouflage / Hiding insecurity hoping no one ever catches on / You like to read scientific magazines like Vanity Fair
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Brand Nubian – The Beat Change
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[Sadat X] / Somebody went gold in the Billboard, it was a X, but it was Mia / Young boys ran to me in the local pizzeria / He said, "You Jamar and Haji man y'all hot to death
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Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto (Ch. 5)
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CHAPTER V. / Every reflection which Manfred made on the Friar’s behaviour, conspired to persuade him that Jerome was privy to an amour between Isabella and Theodore. But Jerome’s
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Jewel – The Shape of You
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Shape of You was originally released on iTunes in 2010. The song was re-recorded, and was released on her 2015 album, Picking Up the Pieces.
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Jewel – Mercy
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[Verse 1] / Simplicity does not come easy / When you're dreaming of being someone else / And grace you see is fleeting / When you're bleeding your inner self / [Chorus] / Have
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Christina Rossetti – A Royal Princess
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The poem begins by directly challenging the assumption that riches and privilege entail happiness. For the princess, who has a huge sense of compassion, watching people suffer due
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William Shakespeare – As You Like It Act 1 Scene 3
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Rosalind confesses that she’s fallen for Orlando, and Celia teasingly questions her as to why. Duke Frederick interrupts their banter and banishes Rosalind from court out of hatred
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Sticky Fingaz (Ft. Canibus, Clay the Raider, Guess Who (3), Rah Digga, Redman & Superb) – State vs. Kirk Jones
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Act 1 Scene 9
Sticky is in court after a jewel heist that killed his friend X-1 (Tyrone). Now he is being prosecuted for killing him.
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Jewel (Ft. Rodney Crowell) – It Doesn't Hurt Right Now
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[Verse 1: Rodney Crowell] / It doesn't hurt right now / I can breathe again / There's change in the air I can see and hear / It doesn't hurt right now / And I can talk about it
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William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night Act 2 Scene 4
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Orsino calls for an old, sad love song, and sends Curio to fetch the clown to sing it.
Orsino calls Viola/Cesario over and gives “him” some love advice: men’s passions are more
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William Shakespeare – King Lear Act 4 Scene 6
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Plot summary via Hudson Shakespeare Company:
Edgar convinces Gloucester that they have reached the top of the cliffs at Dover and then pretends to leave him. In an aside to
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights, Vol. 9 (Chap. 10)
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Kamar Al-Zaman and the Jeweller's Wife[FN#375] / There was once, in time of old, a merchant hight Abd al-Rahmán, whom Allah had blessed with a son and daughter, and for their much
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights, Vol. 4 (Chap. 2)
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Ala Al-Din Abu Al-Shamat.[FN#24] / "What is that?" asked he, and she said, It hath reached me that there lived, in times of yore and years and ages long gone before, a merchant of
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Original Broadway Cast of Into the Woods (Ft. Tom Aldredge) – Prologue: Into the Woods
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This prologue serves as an introductory chapter to the major themes of the play, giving us the following information:
Major fairytale motifs are used, beginning with the narrator
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Apollo Brown & Che Noir (Ft. Skyzoo) – Follow the Wisdom
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[Intro: Solomon Burke] / But the part of me that wants to change / Fights the part of me that tries / [Verse 1: Che Noir] / Yo, I'm top five, you can hear the proof when I spit a
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Bobby Mackey – Johanna
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Johanna Jewels, or sometimes simply “Jewel,” was a performer at the Latin Quarter nightclub in 1950 (now known as Bobby Mackey’s Music World), when she kindled a romance with a man
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Cara Dillon – Bold Jamie
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"Oh rise up my darling and come with me / I want to go with you and leave this country / To leave my fathers dwelling, this house and the land / So away goes Jamie with his love in
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights, Vol. 7 (Chap. 17)
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Julnar The Sea-Born And Her Son King Badr Basim Of Persia. / There was once in days of yore and in ages and times long gone before, in Ajam-land a King Shahrimán[FN#302] hight
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