Genius Meanings
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John Legend – Love Me Now
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“Love Me Now” is the first single off John Legend’s fifth studio album: Darkness & Light.
John provided a teaser of the song on his Instagram, afterwards, during a Facebook live
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John Legend – All of Me
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“All of Me” is the third single from and sixth track on John Legend’s album Love in the Future (2013). Legend wrote it along with Toby Gad.
It has become one of Legend’s most
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Aaron Richards (Ft. Bret Paddock) – Love Me Now
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[Verse 1] / Pulling me further, further than I've been before / Making me stronger, shaking me right to the core / Oh, I don't know what's in the stars / Never heard it from above
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John Legend – Used to Love U
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The first single to be released off Legend’s debut album Get Lifted finds John falling out of love with a woman who’s only in it for the $$$.
Peep the charismatic music video
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Kanye West (Ft. John Legend) – Blame Game
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This entire song can be taken two different ways: One, Kanye is talking about his relationship with fame (pretty easy to see metaphor-wise). Two, he’s talking about a specific girl
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Kanye West (Ft. Chris Martin) – Homecoming
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Interpolating a line from Common’s “I Used To Love H.E.R.,” Kanye uses extended metaphor to describe his feelings for Chicago, his home, by comparing it to a lost girlfriend.
Ye
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John Legend (Ft. Brandy) – Quickly
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[Intro: John Legend] / Oh news said it / Oh yea / (Mafia) / [Verse 1: John Legend] / If I had twenty million dollars in a vault somewhere baby / It wouldn't matter anyway / 'Cause
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John Legend (Ft. Seal) – We Loved It
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[Produced by Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Dave Tozer & Travis Scott] / [Seal] / Come sweetly, stab me through the shadow of an open door / Wait quietly now, take us to the
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John Legend (Ft. Kanye West) – Number One
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[Intro] / Ooh, I promise not to do it again / I promise not to do it / [Verse 1: John Legend] / You can't say I don't love you / Just because I cheat on you / Cause you can't see
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John Legend – Show Me
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This is the fourth track off of John Legend’s second album, Once Again. In this song he is talking to God in a very philosophical and inquisitive way. He’s searching for answers to
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Joshua Bassett – would you love me now?
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[Verse 1] / I never wrote the letter that I swore I'd send / I never got to tell you what I really meant / I'm passing Pasadena, do you still live in LA? / 'Cause I can't help but
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J. Cole – Work Out
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After “Who Dat” failed to become a chart topper, J. Cole released “Work Out” as the second single off his debut album three months prior to its release, on June 5th, 2011, the
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John Legend – I Know Better
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“I Know Better” opens John Legend’s sixth studio album Darkness and Light and serves as its third single. The song is a gospel hymn and a connection of the social consciousness
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Meghan Trainor (Ft. John Legend) – Like I'm Gonna Lose You
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“Like I’m Gonna Lose You” is a love duet off of Meghan Trainor’s debut, Title. It features R&B singer and first time collaborator John Legend.
In this doo-wop ballad, both sing
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John Legend – Merry Christmas Baby / Give Love on Christmas Day
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Merry Christmas, baby / You sure did treat me nice / Merry Christmas pretty, baby / You sure did treat me nice / Gave me a diamond ring / For Christmas / Now I'm living in paradise
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John Legend – Take Me Away
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Oh, la, la, la, la, la / Yeah, yeah / We dance and sing somewhere in between heaven and hell / Gabrielle, that was her name / Everyone was smiling, dreamin' through their tears
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DJ Khaled (Ft. Fridayy, JAY-Z, John Legend, Lil Wayne & Rick Ross) – GOD DID
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In what is the most vintage DJ Khaled posse cut in a fair amount of time, “GOD DID” is the album-titled track for Khaled’s thirteenth studio album.
On the track, the artists
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John Legend (Ft. Chance the Rapper) – Penthouse Floor
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“Penthouse Floor” is a song about social injustice in the United States. The penthouse floor is a metaphor for the upper class of a society—the idea of “going to the penthouse
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John Legend – Cross the Line
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Only just a friend the love story begins / Now here's a happy ending to believe in / You're always there for me, now you're with me in my dreams / It's got me wondering if you ever
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John Legend (Ft. Miguel) – Overload
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[Verse 1: John Legend] / Yeah we used to flirt with freedom / 'Fore everybody knew our name / We became their favorite secret / Love for love and not for fame / Oh when I was your
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John Legend (Ft. Ludacris) – Tonight (Best You Ever Had)
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Purposely written for the Think Like A Man soundtrack (Kevin Hart movie) the track was used towards the final scenes of the movie.
John Legend talks to a girl in the song and let’
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John Legend (Ft. Brittany Howard) – Darkness and Light
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John Legend duets with the Alabama Shakes’ lead singer Brittany Howard for a slow-burning track that reclaims an old soul beat in which Brittany offers her soul signature in her
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John Legend – Conversations in the Dark
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[Verse 1] / Talk, let's have conversations in the dark / World is sleeping, I'm awake with you, with you / Watch movies that we've both already seen / I ain't even looking at the
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John Legend – This Time
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This song was on John Legend’s third album entitled Evolver. The song was #8 on the album. The song was featured on an episode of The Game.
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John Legend (Ft. André 3000) – Green Light
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“Green Light” was released as the lead single for John Legend’s third studio album Evolver. Known for his soulful piano ballads, Legend opted for an electro-funk sound this time
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John Legend – Wrap Me Up in Your Love
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[Intro] / Wrap me up in your love, wrap me up in your love / Wrap me up in your love this Christmas / Wrap me up in your love / [Verse 1] / Let's enjoy the holiday, be here and now
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John Legend & WENDY – Written In The Stars
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“Written In The Stars” is an R&B-Ballad with beautiful guitars. The lyrics are engraved on the stars, it is said that they will never change even if they are away or far from each
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Faouzia & John Legend – Minefields
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[Verse 1: Faouzia & John Legend] / Now this might be a mistake / That I'm calling you this late / But these dreams I have of you ain't real enough / Started bringing up the past
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John Legend – Same Old Story
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“Same Old Story” marks the 11th song off Darkness and Light.
John Legend adds a breakup song to the album, in which he sings about a partner repeatedly telling a lie that they will
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Frank Ocean – Quickly
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“Quickly” is a demo track by Frank Ocean from the unofficial compilation known as The Lonny Breaux Collection.
Ocean wrote this song for John Legend’s Evolver album.
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Lil Wayne (Ft. John Legend) – So Special
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This narrative rap, a tradition harkening as far back as La Di Da Di, concerns Wayne’s attempts to seduce a lovely lady, one of his regular hobbies. The hook is sung by John Legend
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John Legend – I Don't Love You Like I Used To
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[Verse 1] / I don't love you like I used to / I don't love you just the same / No, I couldn't pretend / Be a lie if I said we haven't changed / No, it's not the honeymoon / We've
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John Legend – Right By You (for Luna)
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“Right By You” marks the eighth song off John Legend’s Darkness and Light.
The song is dedicated to his daughter, Luna, born on April 14, 2016. The ballad imagines what the world
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John Legend (Ft. Buju Banton) – Can't Be My Lover
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[Intro: Buju Banton] / Have ah piece of body wey every good gyal deserve / But I won't allow this girl to mess with my nerves / Blessed figure, not to mention the curves / Through
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Joyner Lucas – I'm Sorry
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“I’m Sorry” is an emotional track describing a friend of Joyner’s who took his own life and Joyner’s responsive emotions to this tragedy.
The first verse is a letter written from
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John Legend (Ft. Kelly Clarkson) – Baby, It’s Cold Outside
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“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is a duet between John Legend and Kelly Clarkson, which appears on the deluxe edition of Legend’s album. The song marks the first Christmas collaboration
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Wale (Ft. USHER) – The Matrimony
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With assistance from R&B legend Usher, Wale explains to his lover how past relationships and his lifestyle make it difficult for him to appear as a good boyfriend.
He assures her
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