Genius Meanings
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Matchbox Twenty – Bright Lights
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Bright Lights is the third track by American alternative group Matchbox Twenty. It was released as the third single from their third album, More Than You Think You Are.
The song
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Matchbox Twenty – 3 AM
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3 AM is written from the perspective of a 12 or 13 year old Rob Thomas, whose mom has cancer. It is about her reaction to the cancer and how he processed and dealt with the entire
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Matchbox Twenty – Unwell
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“Unwell” is the second single from Matchbox Twenty’s third album, More Than You Think You Are. It is one of their most well-known songs and was very popular at the time of its
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Matchbox Twenty – Can't Let You Go
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I'll stick around / See how bad it gets / I'll settle down and deal with old regrets / You know I, I adore you / I Can't let you go / Can't let you go / You're part of my soul
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Counting Crows – Mr. Jones
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“It’s really a song about my friend Marty and I. We went out one night to watch his dad play, his dad was a Flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain, and he was in San Francisco
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Matchbox Twenty – Tired
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You've been talking for an hour / And I swear to God that I can't hear a word you say / So would you come to me, come to me / I get caught up and the waves of conversation they
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Matchbox Twenty – How Far We've Come
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[Intro] / (Hello, hello, hello) / [Verse 1] / I'm wakin' up at the start of the end of the world / But it's feelin' just like every other mornin' before / Now I wonder what my life
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Matchbox Twenty – These Hard Times
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Morning falls like rain into the city life / There goes another night / Losing my breath in waves / Knowing that ever crash is bleeding the hourglass / And taking the strife from
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Matchbox Twenty – Feel
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[Verse 1] / What you want? What you got? / Live your life in a crawl space / I'd help you out, but you don't / Want a chance at a better life / You said you never took a ride / And
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Matchbox Twenty – Soul
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[Verse 1] / Hang out my window and over your head / Stare at your feelings to see where they end / You're waiting here for someone else to break you from the inside / You've been
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Matchbox Twenty – Downfall
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[Verse 1] / I wonder how you sleep / I wonder what you think of me / If I could go back / Would you have ever been with me? / I want you to be uneased / I want you to remember / I
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Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
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Behind the catchy, upbeat “Semi-Charmed” melody that entranced many a tween when it was released in 1997 is a dark tale of a relationship’s descent into crystal meth addiction.
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Matchbox Twenty – If I Fall
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(When I get) / (When I get) / When I get close to something beautiful / Then I feel low because I know I'll never have it for too long / I've been every where / I'm like an
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Matchbox Twenty – All I Need
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[Verse 1] / Everywhere someone's getting over / Everybody cries, and sometimes / You can still lose even if you really try / Talkin' 'bout the dream like the dream is over / Talk
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Matchbox Twenty – Cold
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[Verse 1] / I will do without / The spaces in between / If you can tell me now / What it means to be / [Pre-Chorus 1] / You have been found out / I have been deceived, by the one
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Matchbox Twenty – The Difference
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[Verse 1] / Slow dancin' on the boulevard / In the quiet moments while the city's still dark / Sleepwalkin' through the summer rain / In the tired spaces you could hear her name
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Matchbox Twenty – Disease
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[Verse 1] / Feels like you made a mistake / You made somebody's heart break / But now I have to let you go / I have to let you go / [Verse 2] / You left a stain / On every one of
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Matchbox Twenty – Could I Be You
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“Could I Be You?” is Track 8 on Matchbox Twenty’s More Than You Think You Are.
It’s a song of utter despair, though also exemplifies the “grass is always greener” adage.
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Matchbox Twenty – All Your Reasons
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(Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Bah Duh Bah) / (Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Buh Dah) / (Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Bah Duh Bah) / (Bah Dah Dah Dah Bah Bah Bah Buh Dah) / Why don't
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Matchbox Twenty – You're So Real
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[Verse 1] / Yes I am / I hope you think you read me / Hope I start talking crazy before you understand me / Are we through? / You think that I'm beneath you / But you like the
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Matchbox Twenty – So Sad So Lonely
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[Verse 1] / I found out, on a late-night drive / In my winter coat, with my bloodshot eyes / Well, my faith ain't been, no friend to me / And the way I sin is hangin' off of me / [
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Matchbox Twenty – I'll Believe You When
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I've tried so many times / To tell you how I feel / But you're far too disbelieving / Are you trying to get even with me / Maybe once or twice / I wasn't fair I wasn't nice / But
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Train – Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)
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“Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” was the lead single from Train’s second studio album, Drops of Jupiter, released in 2001. Taking the music industry by storm, the song catapulted Train
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Matchbox Twenty – Hand Me Down
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[Verse 1] / Someday they'll find your small town world on a big town avenue / Gonna make you like the way they talk, when they're talkin' to you / Gonna make you break out of your
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Paolo Nutini – New Shoes
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“New Shoes” is the fourth single from Paolo Nutini’s debut album, These Streets. It was used as the headlining single for the US release of the album.
It peaked at: #108 on the
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Smash Mouth – All Star
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Smash Mouth’s best known song, with part of its enduring popularity/infamy caused by its inclusion in the opening scene of Shrek. And yet the music video is a tie-in to another
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Waylon Jennings – Good Hearted Woman
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[Verse 1] / A long time forgotten our dreams had just fell by the way / And the good life he promised ain't what she's livin' today / But she never complains of the bad times or
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