 Genius Meanings
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Logic – Time Machine
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[Verse] / I built a time machine for you / But you always die, no matter what I do / Every time I go back, I always seem to fail / And the Angel of Death always prevails / [Chorus
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Elvis Presley – My Little Friend
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[Verse 1] / My warped and worried mind resorts / To wandering off to ponder things I never talk about / A pretty girl I used to know / But wouldn't know if we met face to face
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Chonny Jash – The Mind Electric
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[Verse 1] / Look who it is, the saddened and weak / It seems those beams of light have caused some glare / Freakish and dismal, hollow and bleak / I could go on, but let's leave it
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Doctor Destruction (Ft. iamJMARS & Like) – Outer Space Gang
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[Intro: Doctor Destruction] / Hidden within each of us is not only the capacity to love and hate / But to take that final step to be not only a creator, but a destroyer / A mad
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Rage Against the Machine – Autologic (Demo)
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C'mon! / Drop the A-U-T-O-L-O-G-I-C / Drop the A-U-T-O-L-O-G-I-C / Hey / Drop the A-U-T-O-L-O-G-I-C / Drop auto logic / You thought you could get with / Me and Tommy hittin' man
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Logic – Under Pressure
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Under Pressure’s title track was also its lead single, however, the single version was abbreviated to 3:50. Logic premiered the track during his While You Wait Tour, performing it
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Illogic (Ft. Aesop Rock & Vast Aire) – Time Capsule
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[Verse 1: Aesop Rock] / Dear then, I'm writing from the now / Trying to steer this crooked zen to St. Elsewhere and warn your crowds / The current date somewhat irrelevant, I can't
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Logic – Supermarket
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This song most closely correlates with the novel when compared to the rest of the tracks on this soundtrack.
The lyrics throughout this song resemble Flynn’s thoughts, the main
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Michael P. Williams – Steel and Pure Logic (Excerpt from "Chrono Trigger")
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Excerpt from Michael P. Williams’s nonfiction book about the classic time-traveling RPG Chrono Trigger.
Michael P. Williams’s book delves deep into connections between Crono’s
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Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
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One of the most iconic songs of ’60s psychedelic rock, “White Rabbit” uses imagery from Alice In Wonderland to illustrate the surreal effects of taking hallucinogenic drugs.
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Witchfinder General – Last Chance
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Would you step inside my time machine / Come see places you have never been / To Vortex Hill of eternal life / Or back in time, to see the strife / Where do we come from now
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David Bowie – Saviour Machine
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The song tells the story of a hypothetical scenario, where mankind finds a miracle cure (in this case the “Saviour Machine”) to all its problems. This solution is in the form of
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Chonny Jash – Dream (Outro from Calamity)
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[Intro] / (Endlessly, helplessly, ceaselessly, callously) / (Senselessly, tactlessly, fractally, haplessly) / Panic at the thought of what the thought will bring (Slow) / Apathy
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Logic – DeLorean
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In the 12th track from Supermarket, The title pays honor to the Sci-fi movie “Back to the Future” and especially to the car The Delorean: as it goes in the song Logic fantasies
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Logic – Pretty Young Girl
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Logic reveals skills across multiple genres in “Pretty Young Girl,” one of the first ballads Logic has ever teased and released.
This song was debuted at Logic’s first show on the
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Canibus – Poet Laureate II
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From Canibus' album Rip the Jacker, Bis raps for seven straight minutes over three beats constructed by Jedi Mind Tricks producer Stoupe. The vocals for this entire album were
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Daft Punk – Technologic
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In the song, an electronically transposed voice chants technological commands. For example, “Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, drag it, drop it, zip, unzip it” are spoken in
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Möngöl Hörde – Hey Judas
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John Archibald Wheeler once said that time is just nature's way of stopping everything from happening at once, as if the universe had a limited amount of bandwidth, or low RAM
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Universum – Black Logic
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Thrashing through all that is me / Stranglehold on my soul / Blinded by this self driven machine / The burnt, frayed ends of control / Why do I feel obliged to such enmity? / A
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Kanye West (Ft. Big Sean, Charlie Wilson, Common, Kid Cudi & Pusha T) – G.O.O.D. Friday
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“GOOD Friday,” which contains Kanye’s label’s name (Getting Out Our Dreams = G.O.O.D.), features some of the label’s premier talents. Kanye, Common and Cudi have a limited presence
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Nas – N.Y. State of Mind
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Nas displays complex lyricism with his “N.Y. State of Mind” over a track from Gang Starr’s DJ Premier. The chorus samples a Rakim line from the track “Mahogany,” which is fitting
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Logic – Best Friend
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[Chorus] / You're my best friend, you're the air that I breathe / You're the love of my life, the only thing I'll ever need / You're the reason I wrote this song / You're the one
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Eminem – Killshot
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“Killshot” is a response to Machine Gun Kelly’s “RAP DEVIL,” which was in itself a response to “Not Alike” from Eminem’s August 2018 album Kamikaze. The diss track dropped eleven
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Logic – Contra
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In “Contra” Logic talks about how he is recently starting to blow up and go mainstream. He notices that many of these new fans were not here in the beginning, and how many of them
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Kendrick Lamar – ELEMENT.
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On “ELEMENT.,” Kendrick asserts himself as the most dominant rapper in the game, taking his contemporaries to task and daring them to call him out on wax.
Kendrick delves into his
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Supertramp – The Logical Song
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A perfect example of combination of great lyrics, beat, and instrumentation in a 1979 hit that is constantly ranked in the “top 100 best rock songs”.
“The Logical Song” was the
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Chonny Jash – The Mind Electric (Full Version)
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[Part I: The Heart Acoustic] / [Verse 1] / Think of these thoughts as hackneyed and trite / Clichéd, depraved, disturbing, and contrived / Shallow, cold, wretched, miserable, dark
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Logic – We Get High
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“We Get High” is a song that Logic dedicated to the city of Chicago. His love for the city derives from it being the first place he ever sold out a show.
In 2017 he actually
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Logic (Ft. Action Bronson) – In my lifetime
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[Intro: Logic & Shwhy ] / Check (Yow) / Yeah, yeah / Actually, that was pretty dope there (Ayo) / Can't even lie / [Verse 1: Logic & Funkmaster Flex] / Ayo, I got game, plenty
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Jordan Ward & Joony – IDC
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[Intro Jordan Ward] / Mm-mm, mm, mm-mm / Mm-mm, mm, mm-mm / Hm / [Chorus: Joony] / I don't care, I just want you to know / I don't like what you did, that shit hurt / I don't care
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