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Kings of Convenience – Parallel Lines
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What's the immaterial substance that envelopes two? / That one perceives as hunger and the other as food / I awake in tangled covers to a sash of snow / You dream in a cartoon
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Kings of Convenience – Toxic Girl
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In the sky, the birds are pulling rain / In your life, the curse has got a name / Makes you lie awake all through the night / That's why / She's intoxicated by herself / Every day
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Kings of Convenience – Days I Had with You
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Standing on the top of the mountain / Staring at the blue sky / Dreaming of the ocean / And the days I had with you / The days I had with you / The days I had with you / Walking in
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Kings of Convenience – Leaning Against the Wall
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Your eyes are cold / I know you'll tell me all / Not to fall / I lean against the wall / I'm on the floor / Not listening anymore / I should have known / The things to which you're
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Kings of Convenience – Surprise Ice
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When past sometimes takes you with soft hands / Forceless it pulls you to your chair / Hides you away from these half days / Sunless, at the end of the year / The air is like a
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Kings of Convenience – Failure
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Using the Guardian as a shield / To cover my thighs against the rain / I do not mind about my hair / Your jacket may be waterproof / But know in the moment you get home / You're
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Kings of Convenience – Winning a Battle, Losing the War
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Even though I'll never need her / Even though she's only giving me pain / I'll be on my knees to feed her / Spend a day to make her smile again / Even though I'll never need her
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Kings of Convenience – I Don't Know What I Can Save You From
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[Verse 1] / You called me after midnight / Must have been three years since we last spoke / I slowly tried to bring back / The image of your face from the memories so old / I tried
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Kings of Convenience – Manhattan Skyline
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We sit and watch umbrellas fly / I'm trying to keep my newspaper dry / I hear myself say / My boat's leaving now / So we shake hands and cry / Now I must wave goodbye / Wave
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Kings of Convenience – The Weight of My Words
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There are very many things / I would like to say to you / But I've lost my way / And I've lost my words / There are very many places / I would like to go / But I can't find the key
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Kings of Convenience – The Passenger
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I didn't know you were there until you said "hello" / You had been watching me for I don't know how long / I hit my head against the lamp, as by surprise, I stood up / "Don't be
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Kings of Convenience – Little Kids
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Little kids playing in the park downtown / Someone's dad is watching from the side of the ground / I'm following my shadow, so I cross the street / Car passing stereo, I like the
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Kings of Convenience – I'd Rather Dance with You
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Track #8 on Kings of Convenience’s second album Riot on an Empty Street.
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Kings of Convenience – Singing Softly to Me
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[Verse] / Things seem so much better when / They're not part of your close surroundings / Like words in a letter sent amplified by the distance / Possibilities and sweeter dreams
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Kings of Convenience – Envoy
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If it comes back to me, I'll let you know / Or why don't you call back to see tomorrow / I hope I can be the hand that you need / It sounded like a really good solution at the time
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Kings of Convenience – The Girl from Back Then
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And I sat down and said / "I don't want to suffer" / But she told me / She had nothing to offer / No more / I sat down and said / "I don't want to suffer" / But she told me / She
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Kings of Convenience – Summer on the Westhill
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From my seat I see the fields move by / Colours strong, it's been a long, long time / It's the first time I see summer on the Westhill / I lean back and let my eyes just go
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Röyksopp – Remind Me
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“Remind Me” is the fourth single by Norwegian duo Röyksopp, with vocals provided by occasional collaborator, Kings of Convenience singer Erlend Øye.
“Remind Me” spent 3 weeks on
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Genius: Song Lyrics Finder
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Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire
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Kings of Leon released their fourth album later the month on this release, their second in successive years, and by rights the Nashville quartet would’ve be running short on ideas
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Cam'ron (Ft. Opera Steve) – Killa Cam
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Not only was Cam'ron’s 2004 sophomore Roc-A-Fella release Purple Haze “the album that launched a thousand rap blogs,” it’s also responsible for this very website!
“Killa Cam” was
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Childish Gambino – V. 3005
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Because the Internet’s lead single houses some of Gambino’s existential thoughts with a catchy hook and beat.
He said of the song:
Everybody’s like, ‘It’s a love song,’ it’s kind
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Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day
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Ice Cube describes his ideal day: a pork-free breakfast, Yo MTV Raps!, gambling, a sexual rendezvous, and no murders in his neighborhood. By juxtaposing miraculous events (like
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Olivia Rodrigo – drivers license
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“drivers license” is the first single and third track on Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album SOUR. It is a possible love ode about Rodrigo moving on from her previous relationship with
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The Knack – My Sharona
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The first single released by the Knack, “My Sharona” topped the US pop chart in 1979 and was declared song of the year. Overseas it reached the top 20 in several countries
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Guns N' Roses – Civil War
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Before its release as the opening track on the Guns N' Roses album Use Your Illusion II in 1991, “Civil War” first appeared on the 1990 charity compilation Nobody’s Child: Romanian
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URLtv (Ft. Danny Myers & Hollow Da Don) – Hollow Da Don vs. Danny Myers
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Main event of Hollow Da Don’s charity event for the homeless.
Battle blogger Vada Fly details the recent back and forth between the two battlers although it should be noted that
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King of the Dot (Ft. Hollohan & Pat Stay) – Hollohan vs. Pat Stay
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In all of Battle Rap history this battle will be the one for generations to come. This is a battle of two ex best friends who have been friends since the age of 10. These two
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The Notorious B.I.G. (Ft. Diddy & Ma$e) – Mo' Money Mo' Problems
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“Mo' Money, Mo Problems” represents Puff Daddy and the Family’s 1997 coming out to a crossover audience.
The song discusses the troubles that come with affluence. It was released
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JAY-Z & Kanye West – Gotta Have It
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A lecture on success, money, the desire to get them both; and how you deal with those who try to take them from you. The song is one of many on Watch The Throne that addresses
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Travis Scott – HIGHEST IN THE ROOM
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On “HIGHEST IN THE ROOM,” Travis discusses his relationship with his now-wife and mother of his child – Kylie Jenner – and his self-proclaimed title as the most intoxicated person
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The Palmer Squares (Ft. Loud Mouth) – Interstate Cypher
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[Verse 1: Term K] / I'm a massive nitwit / Tad bit masochistic / Masking this, it's Stanley Ipkiss / Snap like a twig I'm a stick in the mud / Scratching a itch, it's in my blood
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blackbear – idfc
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On the standout and lead single off of his album deadroses, “idfc“ details blackbear’s complex feelings for a girl. Even though he has feelings for her, he acts like he doesn’t
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Walt Whitman – Song of Myself
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Walt Whitman’s masterpiece. A grand tribute to democracy, sex, the body, the soul, and the open road. If there’s such a thing as The Great American Poem, this is it.
“Song of
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Kendrick Lamar – Rigamortus
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From Team Kendrick:
When rigor mortis occurs within a corpse, its muscles tighten, causing the body to become stiff and very difficult to move. The chemical reaction makes all
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Lil Peep & Lil Tracy (Ft. Slug † Christ) – pain
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[Intro: Slug † Christ, Lil Peep, Slug † Christ & Lil Peep] / Woah, it's Slugga, Peep and Tracy / Yeah / I thought you knew pain / Don't lie, don't lie / Don't lie, don't lie / Yeah
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