 Genius Meanings
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Massive Attack – Spying Glass
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“Spying Glass” is the only track on “Protection” to feature frequent Massive Attack collaborator and reggae legend Horace Andy. It is a cover of Andy’s original track of the same
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Horace Andy – Spying Glass - Massive Attack Version
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You live in the city / You stay by yourself / You avoid all wickedness / Still some people they run your yard / Just because you a rasta / You move to the country / You live in the
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Horace Andy – Spying Glass
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[Vocalese intro] / You live in the city / You mind you own business / What you see you don't see / Yet some people, they always see / They never mind their own business / You move
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Horace Andy – Skylarking
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[Refrain] / Skylarking, skylarking / That's what youths do today / Skylarking, skylarking / Before they stand up firm on their feet / [Verse 1] / Yet a little work, a little work
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Massive Attack (Ft. Horace Andy) – Girl I Love You
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Original working title was the inexplicably named “16 Seeter”, when the song debuted live in 2007. It remained known as such on the 2008 and 2009 tours, before being changed at the
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Horace Andy – Girl I Love You
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Girl I love you but your loving has gone forever / Gonna miss you but my love has gone forever / I say I love you but your loving has gone forever / Gonna miss you but my love has
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Massive Attack – Better Things
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[Verse 1] / Don't drag me down just because you're down / Just cause you're blue don't make me too / And though you've found you need more than me / Don't talk to me about being
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Massive Attack – Heat Miser
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Whilst not much information exists exactly on the origins of “Heat Miser” (or its sister songs, “Weather Storm” and “Sly”), it was the direct result of Massive Attack’s partnership
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Massive Attack – Three
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[Verse 1: Nicolette] / Three's my lucky number / And fortune comes in threes / But wish I knew that number / That even little children seem to see / [Chorus: Nicolette] / Oh, I'm
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Massive Attack – Sly
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Sly was the combination of Craig Armstrong’s strings combined with Nicolette’s unique sensual vocals. Massive Attack had chosen Nicolette to appear on the album Protection after
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Massive Attack – Weather Storm
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[Instrumental]
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Massive Attack – Eurochild
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“Eurochild” is the second of the two songs on Protection to feature Massive Attack collaborator Tricky. The title refers to the then newly-formed European Union.
The song’s
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Massive Attack – Light My Fire (Live)
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[Intro] / One more tune, rub it down to the sounds of the Massive / You want more? Hear this now / The sound of Mister Horace Andy / [Verse 1] / You know that it would be untrue
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Massive Attack (Ft. Tracey Thorn) – Protection
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The title track from the band’s second album, “Protection” is a collaboration between Massive Attack and Tracey Thorn, the lead singer of British duo Everything But the Girl.
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Marvel Studios – The Avengers: Avengers on the Helicarrier
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[after Loki is brought to the Helicarrier, he is contained in a glass cell] / Nick Fury: In case it's unclear, you try to escape, you so much as scratch that glass. [Fury presses a
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Sigmund Freud – The Uncanny
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I / It is only rarely that a psycho-analyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics, even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty but
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GameboyJones (Ft. Beau, Dayum Dahlia, Dobey Dobe, FrivolousShara, HazTik, Louverture & yayu) – Psych
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[Intro: Sliva Hound] / (Y'all really paid for this Sliva Hound beat) / [Verse 1: Tatsumaki (DayumDahlia)] / Yo, I'm that bitch / Psychokinetic, my bars go off and make your mans
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King of the Dot (Ft. Laugh N Stalk & Red Flag (Battle Rapper)) – Red Flag vs. Laugh N Stalk
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Stand out battle from the Mass4cre Day 2. card.
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Valve – Team Fortress 2 Developer Commentary
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Team Fortress 2’s Developer Commentary takes place on 3 maps, tc_hydro, cp_gravelpit, and cp_well. You can listen to this by clicking the “Developer Commentary” button on the Main
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George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (Book 1, Chapter 8)
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VII / VIII / From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee—real coffee, not Victory Coffee—came floating out into the street. Winston paused involuntarily
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The SCP Foundation – SCP-887 Log
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This is a log of the decoded and assembled output of SCP-887. Researchers are encouraged to volunteer at decoding the massive backlog of content. / Researcher: Dr. Zara / Sample
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Ben Jonson – The Poetaster Act 5. Scene 1
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Banquet halls are a very special place, where under one big roof so many different memories are made. From proms to weddings to baby showers, once that DJ starts to spin, there’s
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ScopeY (Ft. turkwegian) – Almost Every Movie I've Watched
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Total: 1708 films / 1940 / Pinocchio / =1 / 1941 / Citizen Kane / =1 / 1951 / Strangers On A Train / =1 / 1962 / Dr. No / =1 / 1963 / From Russia With Love / The Great Escape / =2
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Shwabadi (Ft. Aerial Ace, BlackLynk, Breeton Boi, Connor Quest!, FrivolousShara, GameboyJones, Ham Sandwich (USA), Mir Blackwell, Rustage & Zach B) – Beasts of Anime Cypher, Vol. 2
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[Verse 1: Puck (Aerial Ace)] / Gemstone with the fur coat / Got a bad bitch under contract / Shawty done with you Tom cats / I'm game changing, no rom hacks / See, when puck slide
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Tadashi Satomi (Ft. Atlus (Video Game)) – Persona 2 Game Script - Part 4
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SUMARU TV STUDIO ONE / (Miho, Mami, Lisa, Ginji, an Announcer, Chizuru, and Junko Kurosu are / all sitting down.) / ANNOUNCER: Now, we will ask Wang Long Chizuru to read what will
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Eric Schlosser – Introduction
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... attack. Cheyenne Mountain was chosen as the site ... Pull open the glass ... Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper ...
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Marcel Proust – Life with Albertine (Chap. 1.2)
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Sometimes I put out the light before she came in. It was in the darkness, barely guided by the glow of a smouldering log, that she lay down by my side. My hands, my cheeks alone
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Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (Section I)
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Date: 1899
Themes: Light and dark, Contrasting nature of Africa and Europe, Duality of human nature
Style and genre: Heart of Darkness is a frame story: the first narrator is the
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AJSC The DJ (Ft. Agony, AJR, AJSC The DJ, Akiva Schaffer, Alexandra Stan, Andrew Underberg, Andy Samberg, AnimationEpic, Baby Kaely, Baha Men, BENJIxScarlett, Billie Eilish, Blue Moon, BoyWithUke, Britney Spears, Bryant Oden, Christell, Cody Simpson, Colbie Caillat, Colleen Ballinger, Counting Crows, Creepy Nuts, CRNKN, Curbi, DaBaby, Dada Life, DaFuq!?Boom!, DAGames, Dante Klein, Dawin, Deerock, Deficio, Dirty Rush, Di Young, Dr. Dre, Drug Head, Eminem, Ephixa, Epic Rap Battles of History, Faul & Wad, FGTeeV, Flo Rida, Fountains of Wayne, Frizk, Funnel Vision, Galantis, Gooseworx, Hazbin Hotel, Inanimate Insanity, Insane Clown Posse, IShowSpeed, Jackal, Jack Harlow, Jack Stauber, Jagwar Twin, Jason Derulo, J. Dash, Jennifer Murphy, Jennifer Murphy Go Girl, Jeonghyeon, Jimmy Fallon, Jorma Taccone, JPB, Kanye West, Lauv, LazyTown, The Legend of Zelda, Lensko, LilDeuceDeuce, The Living Tombstone, The Lonely Island, LOUDPVCK, LunchMoney Lewis, Major Lazer, Maroon 5
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Now Playing: Faul & Wad - Tokyo / Hazbin Hotel: / So things look bad, and your back's against the wall / Your whole existence seems ****in' hopeless / You're feelin' filthy as a
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Screen Genius – Blow [Script]
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ON BLACK: / "A MAN MUST LOOK AT HIS LIFE AND THINK LUXURY." / FADE IN: / EXT. GUARJIRA, COLOMBIA - 1989 - DAY / A majestic panorama of the lush green slopes that are the
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Ernest Hemingway – The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngaje Ngai," the House of God
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Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction full screenplay
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Pulp Fiction is one of Quentin Tarantino’s most successful films commercially and critically. It is also a lot of people’s most favorite film of all time. Part of the intrigue is
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William James – CHAPTER XIX. THE PERCEPTION OF 'THINGS.'
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PERCEPTION AND SENSATION COMPARED. / A PURE sensation we saw above, p. 7, to be an abstraction never realized in adult life. Any quality of a thing which affects our sense organs
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William James – CHAPTER XXIV. [1]INSTINCT
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INSTINCT is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such away as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance. That
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Marcel Proust – Grief And Oblivion (Chap. 1)
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CHAPTER ONE / GRIEF AND OBLIVION / “Mademoiselle Albertine has gone!” How much farther
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Universal Pictures – Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas [Script]
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BLACK SCREEN / A desert wind moans sadly. From somewhere within the wind / comes the tinkly, syrupy-sweet sounds of the Lennon Sisters / singing "My Favorite Things." A series of
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Gore Vidal – The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh
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Originally published in Vanity Fair September 2001.
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Ed, Edd n Eddy – Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show Script
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Producers:
Daniel Sioui
Ruth Vincent
Voice Actors:
Matt Hill (Ed)
Samuel Vincent (Edd)
Tony Sampson (Eddy)
Keenan Christenson (Jimmy)
David Paul Grove (Jonny)
Janyse Jaud (Sarah
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James Bond – GoldenEye Script
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Our story begins with the classic 007 opening, except this time it’s Pierce Brosnan wearing the tux. / 1 - Ext. Top of Dam - Day / A plane does a fly-by over a dam as a security
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Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes (Chap. 4)
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I / That I should, at the beginning of this retrospect, mention again that Mr. Razumov's youth had no one in the world, as literally no one as it can be honestly affirmed of any
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Herman Melville – I and My Chimney
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The chimney of the Melville estate.
The story “I and my Chimney” was originally published in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in 1856.
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Radley Balko (Ft. Cato Institute) – S.W.A.T. Overkill: Appendix of Case Studies
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Paramilitary drug raids have been growing in number for 25 years. As they’ve become more frequent, so too have incidents in which these raids have gone wrong. Criminologist Peter
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