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Matchbox Twenty – English Town
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[Verse 1] / Come inside, the air I breathe / While the band still plays / It's the end of the coldest week / Come down into the sea / 'Cause everybody wants to get away sometimes
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Matchbox Twenty – Overjoyed
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Feeling my hands start shaking / Hearing your voice I'm overjoyed / I'm sorry but I have no choice, you're only getting better / Maybe you have your reasons / Maybe you're scared
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Matchbox Twenty – Wild Dogs (Running in a Slow Dream)
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[Verse 1] / We were eyes wide open when the world got dark / Dancin' to the rhythm that felt so hard, you could feel it / You could feel it / And blood ice cold, baby, racin
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Ryan Kern
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Get all the lyrics to songs by Ryan Kern and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics.
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Matchbox Twenty – She's So Mean
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[Verse 1] / I kn-kn-know a girl, she gets what she wants all the time / 'Cause she's fine / But for an angel, she's a hot, hot mess / Make you so blind, but you don't mind / [
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Matchbox Twenty – Parade
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[Verse 1] / When the slow parade went past / When it felt so good you knew it couldn't last / And all too soon the end was gonna come without a warning / And you'd have to just go
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Matchbox Twenty – Like Sugar
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[Verse 1] / I'm walking behind you / Calling the way you / Give away all your secrets / You're taking the high road / And picking your battles / Just the day I found you / [Chorus
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Matchbox Twenty – Radio
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[Verse 1] / Outside in America / Everybody's just waking up / Drinking coffee from a paper cup / To the sound of the radio / And there's a broke town girl in the parking lot
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Matchbox Twenty – Put Your Hands Up
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You're wide awake / Your heart beats / Sister Mary in her burning dress with God in her feet / They take and take / But no more / Cause now you gonna show em what the night is
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Matchbox Twenty – I Believe in Everything
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[Verse 1] / I want to make you sing, darlin' / I want to make you run / I want to sew on wings, darlin' / And fly right over the sun / [Verse 2] / There's a bustle in the wind
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Matchbox Twenty – Sleeping at the Wheel
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[Verse 1] / I, I could be anything / But for the fault that I've acquired on my way / We, we were the end of it / But now we see the sun shining in our face / We see the sun
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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 – How Long
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[Verse 1] / So many time with you and I / Thought it was right, but I was wrong, it's true / But I wouldn't feel the way I do / Without a sense of something real for you / And it's
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Matchbox Twenty – Help Me Through This
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I wanna stand on the tallest mountain / I wanna scream what I cannot name / But I don't really wanna be myself today / I wanna run on an open highway / I wanna walk in the desert
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Matchbox Twenty – I Will
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[Verse 1] / Tonight, looking back on all this life / It's funny how the time goes by / And how sometimes it slides away / [Verse 2] / Time, sliding through the dead of night
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Matchbox Twenty – Our Song
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North is a direction. It’s a place. It’s a marker of progress – and an intended destination. NORTH is also the title of Matchbox Twenty’s fourth album.
Atlantic Records
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Matchbox Twenty – The Way
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[Verse 1] / All I see lying there in front of me / Maybe we were here before / I just didn't wanna believe / But in all that time we never talked / You wrote it down so I couldn't
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Matchbox Twenty – Waiting on a Train
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You were gonna be the one / To tell me when you couldn't take it, take it / And I was gonna be the one to tell you that it ain't so bad / But if nobody cares / Then why should we
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3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
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The song was written by drummer/vocalist Brad Arnold in a mathematics class when he was fifteen and was one of the first songs he ever wrote.
In terms of the song’s meaning Arnold
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Matchbox Twenty – I Don't Wanna Be Loved
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So alone, you don't know if you can ever win / Your pretty face, stained to hell from all the things you've seen / But you've gotta learn to stand up, you've gotta learn to shout
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Drake – TSU
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On “TSU,” Drake sings about a stripper who’s trying to get her life together. However, because she started stripping in the first place, her parents cut off all ties with her and
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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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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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Sonder – One Night Only
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One Night Only is Sonder’s first single following the release of their debut EP, Into. This single represents an affair between a man and woman, in which the woman has a boyfriend
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The Wallflowers – One Headlight
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This song is about the loss of innocence and the pain of living in a broken world. However, it also offers a beacon of hope, suggesting that it is possible for humanity to
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