 Genius Meanings
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Loggins & Messina – Danny's Song
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Jim Messina, previously with Poco and Buffalo Springfield, the latter famous for its 60’s significant period hit For What It’s Worth, and Kenny Loggins, a then emerging newcomer
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Anne Murray – Danny's Song
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[Verse 1] / People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one / And we've just begun, I think I'm gonna have a son / He will be like him and me, as free as a dove / Conceived in love, the
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Gator Creek – Danny's Song
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Written by Kenny Loggins at the birth of his brother Danny’s son, Colin. First recorded by Loggins when he was a teenager, with the pop/funk band Gator Creek. This version of the
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Danny's Song
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[Verse 1] / People smile and tell me I'm a lucky one / And we've just begun, think I'm gonna have a son / He will be like she and me, as free as a dove / Come and see me, love, the
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Loggins & Messina – House at Pooh Corner
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While still in high school, Kenny Loggins had written the song for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for whom the song was a minor hit in 1970.
Later He and jim Messina recorded the
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Loggins & Messina – Vahevala
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“Vahevala” is a fictitious island off the coast of Jamaica, meant to evoke a sailor’s fantasy. It was written by Danny Loggins, Kenny’s older brother, and Daniel Lottimeiser
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Loggins & Messina – Listen to a Country Song
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It's Saturday night and my daddy's up late / Pickin' with my Uncle Bill / The neighbors don't mind 'cause they have a good time / Sippin' on my pappy's still / Old brother Dan's
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Loggins & Messina – Same Old Wine
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Well we give them the election / They keep filling our heads full of lies / Can we trust in new directons / When their promises are in disguise / Well someday the truth will catch
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Loggins & Messina – Nobody But You
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Someday is finally come / Open up your eyes to the truth / You know it's a magic thing / A man needs a woman like you / You bring all the morning light / Like a sun through the
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Loggins & Messina – Trilogy: Lovin' Me
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Late at night when I'm alone / I get a feeling deep inside me / My lips get dry / And I wonder, why / Darling, you're not with me / Lovin' me / Like no one I've ever known / I wake
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Loggins & Messina – Trilogy: To Make A Woman Feel Wanted
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You don't need threads in the style / Or bright shiny rings / To make a woman feel wanted / You just give her the best that you've got / And when you get started / Tell her she's
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Loggins & Messina – Your Mama Don't Dance
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Are Your Parents Uncool?
Then this is your song. It’s about a teenager whose parents are way too uptight, and it was Loggins & Messina’s first big hit.
The ideas in this song
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Loggins & Messina – A Love Song
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[Verse 1] / There's a wren in a willow wood / Flies so high and sings so good / And he brings to you what he sings to you / And the love in his lullaby / Seemed to tell me if I try
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Loggins & Messina – Watching the River Run
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[Verse 1] / If you've been thinking you're all that you've got / Then don't feel alone anymore / When we're together, then you've got a lot / 'Cause I am the river and you are the
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Loggins & Messina – Trilogy: Peace of Mind
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Ain't no use to keep taking abuse / From a friend who isn't kind / A friend in need or a friend that you need / Who can help you through the troubled times / So reach on out and
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Loggins & Messina – Angry Eyes
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[Verse 1] / Time, time and again / I've seen you starin' out at me / Now, then and again, I wonder / What it is that you see / [Chorus] / With those Angry Eyes / Well, I bet you
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Loggins & Messina – Sailin' the Wind
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Summer in our sky ships, forever, sailing the wind / Somewhere Sunday morning brings us miles from earthbound, sailing the wind / September, keeping kite time together we summon
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Loggins & Messina – Be Free
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I can see the world's changing / I can see it re-arranging / Happening before my very eyes / Everywhere the cements growing / In the street the traffic's flowing / Ruining the air
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Loggins & Messina – Back To Georgia
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My, my, my, my, my / Well, Ophelia / I got a heavy load / Maybe I'll walk on back to Georgia / Feel like a boy who ain't got no home / But come the morning / I'm gonna feel like
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Loggins & Messina – Rock 'N Roll Mood
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I pick me up by the seat of my pants / And put my fingers down on the keys / To sing a story that ends nobody's friends / I'm sittin' in a rock 'n' roll mood / I'd like to help but
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Loggins & Messina – Till the Ends Meet
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It's not the way that you say adieu / That leaves behind you a smilin' fool / It's that I know you're a song come true, baby I love you / And I'll follow you till the ends meet, oh
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The Pointer Sisters – Angry Eyes
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Time, time and again / I've seen you staring out at me / Now then and again / I wonder what it is that you see / With those angry ey-eyes / Well I'll be you wish you could cut me
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Kenny Loggins – House At Pooh Corner
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Christopher Robin and I walked along / Under branches lit up by the moon / Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore / As our days disappeared all too soon / But I've wandered much
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Tim McGraw & Jo Dee Messina – Bring On The Rain
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[Intro: Jo Dee Messina] / Ooh / [Verse 1: Jo Dee Messina] / Another day has almost come and gone / Can’t imagine what else could wrong / Sometimes I’d like to hide away somewhere
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HAIM – Gasoline
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Off of HAIM’s 2020 album Women In Music Pt. III, “Gasoline” is a sexy track about a possibly-dysfunctional relationship.
Said Danielle Haim:
“That slowed-down ending is due to
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