Genius Meanings
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Johnny Cash – God's Gonna Cut You Down
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“God’s Gonna Cut You Down” is Johnny Cash’s version of a traditional folk song, also known as “Run On” or “Run On for a Long Time”.
The song is about how we all will come before
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Bailey Zimmerman – God's Gonna Cut You Down
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[Chorus] / You can run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Sooner or later, God'll cut you down / Sooner or later, God'll cut you down / [Chorus
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Marilyn Manson – God's Gonna Cut You Down
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[Chorus 1] / You can run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Sooner or later, God'll cut you down / Sooner or later, God'll cut you down / [
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Shawn James & The Shapeshifters – God's Gonna Cut You Down
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[Intro] / You can run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Sooner or later God'll cut you down / Sooner or later God'll cut you down / [Chorus
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Dead Posey – God's Gonna Cut You Down
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[Chorus 1] / You can run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Sooner or later, God'll cut you down / Sooner or later, God'll cut you down / [
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Moby – Run On
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“Run On” was the second single released in advance of Moby’s 1999 album Play. As with many of the tracks on the album, the song is a downtempo electronic composition anchored by a
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Genius Lists – Songs of Spirituality, Inspiration and Motivation
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Spiritual, inspirational and motivational songs have been major themes in music for as long as we’ve been making music. You’ll find many of these songs familiar and some that are
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Vinnie Paz – Death Messiah 2012
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[Chorus - Johnny Cash:] / You can run on for a long time...... / Sooner or later gonna cut you down / [Verse 1 - Vinnie Paz:] / Did protons and electrons create the earth? / Or did
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Johnny Cash – Hurt
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This song, originally written and performed by Nine Inch Nails, is of disputed meaning: is it about self harm, doing heroin, or both? Either way, no matter if it reflects Cash’s
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Johnny Cash – Further On (Up the Road)
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Track #5 of American V: A Hundred Highways (2006).
The song is a Johnny Cash’s version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Further On (Up the Road)” from the critical acclaimed album The
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Johnny Cash – I Came to Believe
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This is a powerful spiritual song, especially considering Cash’s history for hell-raising.
The song appears both on ‘American V’ and ‘Out among the stars’.
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Juice WRLD – Juice WRLD Hour Freestyle of Fire Over Eminem Beats
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[Intro: Tim Westwood & Juice WRLD] / Yo, it's TimWestwoodTV, up at Capital Xtra / Got my man Juice WRLD in the building / It's time to shut down the city again / Last freestyle
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Johnny Cash – Love’s Been Good to Me
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[Chorus] / I have been a rover / I have walked alone / Hiked a hundred highways / Never found a home / Still in all I'm happy / The reason is, you see / Once in a while along the
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Johnny Cash – On the Evening Train
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[Verse 1] / I heard the laughter at the depot / But my tears fell like the rain / When I saw them place that long white casket / In the baggage coach of the evening train / The
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Johnny Cash – Help Me
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[Verse 1] / Oh, lord, help me walk / Another mile, just one more mile; / I'm tired of walking all alone / And lord, help me to smile / Another smile, just one more smile; / Don't
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Johnny Cash – A Legend in My Time
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If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game / I'd be a legend in my time / If they gave gold statuettes for tears and regret / I'd be a legend in my time / But they don't give
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Johnny Cash – Rose of My Heart
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[Verse 1] / We're the best partners this world's ever seen / Together we're close as can be / But sometimes it's hard to find time in between / To tell you what you mean to me / [
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Johnny Cash – Like the 309
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Recorded just three weeks before his death in 2003, “Like The 309” was the last song Cash wrote. It shows him preparing for his journey with a smile on his face and a song in his
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The Loved Ones – Cocaine Blues
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Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds / I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down / I went right home and I went to bed / I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head / Got
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Drake – Nice For What
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The New Orleans bounce music-inflected “Nice For What” is Drake’s third single of 2018, coming after the Scary Hours EP which was released in January.
Throughout the song, Drake
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