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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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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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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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Big Sean (Ft. John Legend & Kanye West) – One Man Can Change the World
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On this soulful ballad, Sean invites label mates Kanye West and John Legend along as he reflects on the positive influences in his life, the struggles he faced throughout his
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John Legend (Ft. Snoop Dogg) – I Can Change
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Hmm... / [Intro: Snoop Dogg] / Hey yo nephew check this out man / Now I know you got that bad chick right there / You ain't even tripping off of her / But she doing all of that for
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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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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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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.
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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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Kygo (Ft. John Legend) – Happy Birthday
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“Happy Birthday” is track number 6 on Kygo’s debut album “Cloud Nine”.
Featuring multi-award winning singer-songwriter John Legend, this track combines his warm, soothing vocals
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John Legend – I Don't Love You Like I Used To (Piano Version)
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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 – Slow Dance
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[Intro] / Yeah / Sing it with me, y'all / Oh, oh yeah yeah / [Verse 1] / Can we wait just a minute / Slow it down for a minute now baby / You're talkin' loud, you're wildin' out
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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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John Legend – Merry Merry Christmas
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[Intro] / Ever you ready, brother unite us / Ever you been bad, all the united / [Pre-Chorus] / Woo, Christmas time with you / I made a little list of my favorite things to do / I
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John Legend – Ordinary People
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“Ordinary People” is a song by American recording artist John Legend, recorded for his debut album Get Lifted and released as the album’s second single.
This song was originally
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John Legend & Gary Clark Jr. – Wild
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[Verse 1: John Legend] / I just bought a new car / One where the top goes down / So we can see the stars / I wanna take you so far / Out past the Saturn rings / And into my heart
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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 – 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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John Legend – I Want You To Know
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[Intro] / Ayy / Oh, oh / [Verse 1] / Layin' on the couch, I couldn't not stare / How'd I get so lucky? Got you right there / Lookin' like a movie when you don't care / And even
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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 – One Last Dance
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[Intro] / Ha, ha, ha / Ha, ha, ha / [Verse 1] / Sometimes I wander down the street / The place I swept you off your feet / I haven't seen you here in a while / That drink you love
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John Legend – Nervous
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[Verse 1] / Adrenaline runnin' through my veins / I'm a skeleton when you say my name / And the high, no, it never goes away / Like jumpin' out an airplane to swimmin' with the
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John Legend – One Woman Man
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John Legend’s “One Woman Man” is about finding the love of your life and hoping to be with them forever. In his life, this woman is his wife, Chrissy Teigen.
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John Legend & Koffee – Don't Walk Away
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[Intro: John Legend] / Woah, oh woah / Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah / Woah, woah, woah / [Refrain: John Legend] / Come back, come back / We don't wanna go out like that / Come back
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John Legend (Ft. Estelle) – No Other Love
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[Intro: John Legend] / No other love / No other touch / Gimme, gimme oh so much / Turn me on, turn me on / [Verse 1: John Legend] / Won't you please get out of my head? / Get back
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John Legend – Floating Away
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(Oh Oh Oh) / She don't press me / Not like she used to / Everything that she don't do / That's what I want, what I need / Sinking rapidly / And that's when you sail through / Let
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John Legend (Ft. Jazmine Sullivan) – Love
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[Verse 1: John Legend, Jazmine Sullivan, Both] / Lately, we been cussin' / You pushin' on my buttons / It's cruel / How you do, how you do / I know that it's toxic love / But I
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John Legend – Memories
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[Intro] / Oh, oh-oh, yeah / [Verse 1] / Started out with a drink and a vibe / I ain't smoked, but I'm feeling so high / And I know you don't wanna sleep tonight, yeah / We were
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John Legend – Home
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[Verse 1] / There some things that you should know / At times, the world gets awfully cold / I'll still be there / You'll grow up and make mistakes / Find the roads that are still
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John Legend – Prelude
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Come on and go with me / There's something new for you to see / Come on and go with me / There's something new for you to see / Just relax / Just relax
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John Legend – Pieces
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[Verse 1] / I'm disconnected / Feelin' out of place / Don't know how this shit got so strange / Open eyes, but can't see you / Something for the pain / Anything to erase me / Drive
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John Legend (Ft. Gallant) – In the Room: Overload
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[Verse 1: John Legend] / Yeah we used to flirt with freedom / 'Fore everybody knew our names / We became their favorite secret / Love for love and not for fame / Oh, when I was
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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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DJ Khaled (Ft. Consequence, John Legend & Kanye West) – Grammy Family
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For “Grammy Family,” DJ Khaled calls on Kanye West, John Legend and Consequence as they boast about their lives as acclaimed artists and declare their label G.O.O.D. Music a
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Estelle, John Legend & Nas – Fall In Love (Remix)
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[Chorus: Estelle & Nas & Both] / Let's just fall in love / So we could fall in love / Let's fall in love / We could fall in love / When it's real, it can last to the end / We could
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John Legend, Travis Scott, Teyana Taylor, CyHi The Prynce & Malik Yusef – Sin City
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This song contains a sample of Rick James' “Mary Jane.”
The concept for the song is not about the city of Las Vegas which goes by “Sin City,” but rather about a fictional city in
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