 Genius Meanings
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John Lennon – Oh My Love
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[Chorus] / Oh my love for the first time in my life / My eyes are wide open / Oh my lover for the first time in my life / My eyes can see / [Verse 1] / I see the wind, oh I see the
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Martin L. Gore – Oh My Love
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Oh my love for the first time in my life / My eyes are wide open / Oh my lover for the first time in my life / My eyes can see / I see the wind, oh I see the trees / Everything is
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Jackson Browne – Oh, My Love
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Oh, my love, for the first time in my life / My eyes are wide open / Oh, my lover, for the first time in my life / My eyes can see / I see the wind, oh, I see the trees
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John Lennon – Oh Yoko!
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“Oh Yoko!” is a 1971 song, written and performed by John Lennon, that was first released on Imagine.
The song was written about his wife Yoko Ono, and features Nicky Hopkins on
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Soko – Oh My Love
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Oh my love for the first time in my life / My eyes are wide open / Oh my lover for the first time in my life / My eyes can see / I see the wind, oh I see the trees / Everything is
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The Beatles – In My Life
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“In My Life” is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The song originated with Lennon, and while McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent
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John Lennon – Look At Me
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[Intro] / Okay? / (Yes, thank you) / [Verse 1] / Look at me / Who am I supposed to be? / Who am I supposed to be? / Look at me / What am I supposed to be? / What am I supposed to
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The Beatles – Yesterday
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“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
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The Beatles – This Boy
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John Lennon wrote this song. One of his early compositions, it is seemingly simple, but very clever. The song contains only a few notes, but the space between the notes is filled
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John Lennon – Jealous Guy
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Lennon wrote the melody when he was in The Beatles. They recorded it as a demo called “Child of Nature”, which he’d written about their trip to India to study with Maharishi Mahesh
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The Beatles – With a Little Help from My Friends
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Seamlessly transitioning from the first track on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, “With A Little Help From My Friends” features lead vocals from drummer Ringo Starr as his Sgt
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The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand
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This is the song that topped the U.S. charts and made The Beatles, in their own words, “toppermost of the poppermost” (sourced here. This is where Beatlemania took off on a global
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The Beatles – All My Loving
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Unusually for McCartney, the lyrics to All My Loving came before the music.
It was the first song I’d ever written the words first. I never wrote words first, it was always some
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The Beatles – A Day in the Life
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For “A Day in the Life,” John Lennon wrote the opening and closing sections, while McCartney contributed the bridge. For the climax, they hired an orchestra of 40 musicians
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The Beatles – Eight Days a Week
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“Eight Days a Week” was originally issued in 1964 as a single from Beatles for Sale. However, it wasn’t released in the US until 1965. It came out in advance of the 1965 album
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The Beatles – It's Only Love
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The Beatles recorded “It’s Only Love” during an afternoon session on June 15, 1965. It took six takes to get right, though only four of those were complete. Its original working
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George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
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“My Sweet Lord” was the first single from George Harrison’s first solo album All Things Must Pass. “My Sweet Lord” became a huge success, reaching number 1 on the US Billboard Hot
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John Lennon – God
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A controversial song in which Lennon distanced himself from what he saw as idols being worshiped by people, including, interestingly, God and Jesus. The song, along with a comment
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The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Written and sung by George Harrison, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is considered one of the Beatles' masterpieces.
Rolling Stone ranked it #10 in their “100 Best Beatles Songs
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John Lennon – Oh Yoko! (take 9)
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In the middle of the night / In the middle of the night I call your name / Oh Yoko, oh Yoko, my love will turn you on / In the middle of the bath / In the middle of the bath I call
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The Beatles – And I Love Her
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The Beatles began recording “And I Love Her” on 25 February, 1964. They recorded two takes that day, with a full electric line-up, but it was evidently not the sound they were
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The Beatles – Falling In Love Again (Live in Germany)
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[Verse 1] / Falling in love again, for the love we share / As you hear me say, "I adore you" / I'm falling in love again, oh, my darling, it seems / Oh, my darling, it seems I love
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The Beatles – I've Got a Feeling
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This song is a combination of three unfinished song fragments; McCartney’s “I’ve Got a Feeling”, Lennon’s “Everybody Had a Hard Year”, and “Watching Rainbows”.
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Juice WRLD – All Girls Are the Same
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“All Girls Are the Same” flips the rap stereotype of an artist conquering a plethora of women with a Juice WRLD signature – a slow moving track about sorrow and heartbreak.
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The Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There
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Track one, side one of Please Please Me.
Now considered a rock'n'roll standard covered by everyone from Pharrell Williams to Led Zeppelin, it was originally titled Seventeen as
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The Beatles – Something
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“Something” is the first George Harrison penned track on Abbey Road. It is hailed as one of the greatest love songs of all time by Frank Sinatra, who mistakenly introduced it in
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The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
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“Eleanor Rigby” is a song about loneliness and depression representing a departure from their early pop love songs.
This is an early example of the Beatles taking risks and
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The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere
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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver.
A simple love song and Mojo Magazine’s 4th best song ever written, “Here, There And Everywhere
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The Beatles – Michelle
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A McCartney song inspired by a comical faux-French ballad he used to busk in the streets when he was a teenager in order to attract women and make his friends laugh. Paul asked
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John Lennon – How?
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[Verse 1] / How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing? / How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn? / How can I go forward into something I'm not
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The Beatles – If I Fell
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“If I Fell” is a rare ballad by John Lennon that was often playfully introduced in concert as “If I Fell Over.” It was the b-side of the single “And I Love Her” and peaked at #53
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Wings – Dear Friend
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[Verse 1] / Dear friend, what's the time? / Is this really the borderline? / Does it really mean so much to you? / Are you afraid, or is it true? / [Verse 2] / Dear friend, throw
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