 Genius Meanings
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Labi Siffre – My Song
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[Verse 1] / This is my song / And no one can take it away / It's been so long, but now you're here / Here to stay / And I wonder if you know what it means / To find your dreams
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Labi Siffre – I Got The
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A classic soul song best remembered by being sampled in “My Name Is”. To the point that when Joss Stone covers it, that iconic keyboard riff warrants an:
I promise I won’t rap, I
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Labi Siffre – Watch Me
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Watch me when you call my name / See me sparkle, see me flame / Singing a song, playing a game / Oh, I'm so glad you came / Watch me when you look my way / See me smiling, be my
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Labi Siffre – Come on Michael
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[Pre-Chorus 1] / Me and my friends have a friend called Michael, me and my friends / Well, me and my friends have a message for you Michael, me and my friends / [Chorus 1] / Well
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Labi Siffre – Hotel Room Song
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[Verse 1] / Sitting in a hotel room, have to start work soon / Hmm / Breakfast on a plastic tray, Birmingham is very grey / Hmm / Wasn't very good last night, got to be bright
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Labi Siffre – Cannock Chase
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[Verse 1] / Sitting in the back seat of my car / With my arms round my guitar / And the rain falls from the roof of the world / Nothing around just the trees and the ground / There
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Labi Siffre – Saved
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[Verse: Labi Siffre] / I am a free man, and my father, he was a slave / I have been broken, but my children will be saved / Saved for the fire, of man's desire / Saved for tomorrow
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Labi Siffre – Thank Your Lucky Star - 2006 Remastered Version
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Five years old, rice pudding cold / What!? Not moving?! / Pick up the spoon. Get grooving! / There's kids your age and younger / Fat and thin with hunger / So you can thank your
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Labi Siffre – Blue Lady
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[Verse 1] / Blue Lady, blue in your hair / Butterfly glasses, unsensible shoes / Gin on your table, a small one to start / Rings on your fingers, a drink for your heart / [Chorus
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Labi Siffre – Old Time Song
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Sitting here listening to an old-time song / Wondering where you are and what you're doing / Are you all alone? / Are there moments when I cross your mind? / Or have our memories
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Labi Siffre – Nothing in the World Like Love
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There's nothing in the world like love / It's a feeling you can never get tired of / If you start right away / Well believe what I say / You could brighten your day / There's
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Labi Siffre – Another Year
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[Verse 1] / We started well - I looked at you you looked at me / We fell into that dream it wasn't hard for me to do, you were lovely / And I hardly even knew I was laughing all
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Labi Siffre – Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
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[Verse 1] / Crying / Crying never did nobody no good no how / That's why I don't cry / That's why I don't cry / [Verse 2] / Laughing / Laughing sometimes does somebody some good
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Labi Siffre – Who Do You See
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I look at you / You look at me / I wonder who / Do you see? / I wonder do you see / What I see when I look / At me? / Do you see a mountain? / Do you see a boar? / Do you see a
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Labi Siffre – Bless the Telephone
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[Verse 1] / It's nice to hear your voice again / I've waited all day long / Even wrote a song for you / It's strange, the way you make me feel / With just a word or two / I'd like
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Labi Siffre – A Little More Line
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Sitting here and it's getting late / Should I go or should I wait / I don't know what is going on / I just know that it's going on / Is it the truth or is it all lies / Can I
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Labi Siffre – Maybe When We Dance
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[Verse 1] / Say the words and don't be afraid for me / I'm not a child, I've lied, I'm a man now / And I can see by your smile and by your hand holding mine / There is a place for
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Labi Siffre – I Don't Know What's Happened to the Kids Today
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I don't know what's happened to the kids today / We were different from the kids today / In every way / We didn't have none of this crazy music / We didn't have none of these crazy
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Labi Siffre – Down
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It seems like everything is going wrong all day long / I've wondered / There must be something I can do to help the day along / Perhaps a song will do / Well how does that sound to
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Labi Siffre – Not So Long Ago
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Not so long ago there was a man I knew quite well / He didn't do much, well he didn't think so / Working nearly every day and sleeping every night / A little sighing / A little
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Labi Siffre – Gimme Some More
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[Chorus 1] / Ooh, it's a beautiful day / Ooh, I've never felt this way before / Gimme some more / Ooh, well I'm feelin' so fine / Oh, you know I'll lose my mind for sure / Gimme
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Labi Siffre – Words
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[Verse 1] / Smile an everlasting smile / A smile can bring you near to me / Don't ever let me find you gone / Cause that would bring a tear to me / [Verse 2] / This world has lost
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Labi Siffre – I Love You
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[Verse 1] / I don't mind if you don't mind about the way / I love you (the way I love you) / I'm just tryin' to do the best I can to prove / That I love you (I love you) / But can
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Labi Siffre – When I'm On My Own You Are on My Mind
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[Verse] / When I'm on my own you are on my mind / You don't have to be very far from me / And I'm inclined to wonder about you / How you are and what are you up to / [Verse] / When
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Labi Siffre – The Vulture
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[Verse 1] / They call me the vulture 'cause that's my name / I fly high, around the town, looking for game / Any girl who's lost her man, I'm by her side, as fast as i can / And i
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Labi Siffre – Rocking Chair
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[Verse] / Rocking myself to sleep / In this rocking chair / It's easy to fall asleep / In the cool night air / It's been a hard day, a hard day / A little work at a little place
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Labi Siffre – Here We Are
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[Verse 1] / Here we are, near or far from the places we're going / Is there some way of knowing where we are? / [Verse 2] / Talk out loud to a cloud in the sky or a stranger / If
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Labi Siffre – Dreamer
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Dreamer, dream away the night / When you wake I will be here / To greet you with the light / Dream on, the moon is on the wane / When you wake we will be here / The sun to light
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Labi Siffre – Fool Me a Good Night
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[Verse 1] / I don't mind that you lied to me, I don't mind, and that's true / I just want you to be with me, now and again will do / [Chorus] / So love me just a little bit, show
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Labi Siffre – (Something Inside) So Strong
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The higher you build your barriers / The taller I become / The further you take my rights away / The faster I will run / You can deny me / You can decide to turn your face away
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