 Genius Meanings
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Matchbox Twenty – Selling Faith
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[Verse 1] / You and me and all this love / Ring the bell til summer comes / Calling out from a long, long way / We'll hold it down for one more day / [Pre-Chorus] / And when that
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Matchbox Twenty – Friends
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[Intro] / Woah, woah / Oh-oh-oh, oh / [Verse 1] / Flower in the desert / Spring into the fall / Rushing to the West side / When the east sent out the call / Lessons in the matter
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Matchbox Twenty – One Hit Love
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[Verse 1] / Don't wanna be your problem / Don't wanna be your pain / Don't wanna hold your sorrow / All in my hands / Don't wanna sell you something / I could never be / I know it
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Matchbox Twenty – Rebels
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[Verse 1] / When you lose yourself / In photographs / And the room gets heavy / 'Cause you can't go back to sixteen / To rainbow hair and ripped jeans / [Pre-Chorus] / To keep your
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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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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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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 – Don't Get Me Wrong
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[Verse 1] / I'm feeling calm, but I'm never relaxed / I feel it coming, but I'm holding it back / I'm on the edge, but I never attack / I'm straight off the moment / But I still
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Matchbox Twenty – Warm Blood
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[Verse 1] / I don't know what you've heard / I don't know what you think / Maybe now it's time we talk about it / I, I am almost certain / We're hanging off the brink / Maybe we're
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Matchbox Twenty (Ft. Amanda Shires) – No Other Love
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[Intro: Amanda Shires] / No other love / No other love / [Verse 1: Rob Thomas] / You say you're sorry / Well, I forgive you / It's all just smoke / We're moving on / 'Cause it don'
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Matchbox Twenty – Queen of New York City
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[Verse 1] / There's a rhythm to her heart / And a world inside her head / She'll tell you from the start / Boy, you don't know her yet / She's like a constellation / Of stars that
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Matchbox Twenty – Where the Light Goes
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[Chorus] / Can you tell me where the light goes / Every time your eyes close? / If it's there, then it doesn't show / Tell me where the light goes / I wanna know / [Verse 1] / Can
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Matchbox Twenty – I Know Better
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[Verse 1] / I will always know better / So I really don't see / A problem with knowing the answer / In the absence of those who agree / I've got access to information / That's
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Matchbox Twenty – Hang on Every Word
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[Verse 1] / Don't let your falling stars blow out / No matter what you've heard / Don't let the rainy days / Cloud what you're seeing / I know you're thinking that you've shown up
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Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
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Smash hit in the nineties. Few are aware that this is actually a cover of a song initially written by the three future members of Ednaswap, Scott Cutler, Phil Thornalley, and Anne
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Kid Rock – Cocky
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[Verse 1] / Guess who's back / I used to be broke, Confused, No Joke / Got used, Smoked Dope / Paid Dues, Refused, To give up quick / Now there's 10 Million Motherfuckers on my
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The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
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Originally, Keith wrote “Wild Horses” as a simple lullaby for his son, finding it more and more difficult to part from Marlon to go on tour.
The song then took on a different
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David Bowie – Modern Love
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David Bowie’s hit single from 1983, a song he claimed was inspired by Little Richard, especially the “back and forth” lyrics.
The first track and third single from the Let’s Dance
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Rob Thomas – Little Wonders
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This song was in the 2007 Disney animated film Meet the Robinsons. The song was originally written about Rob’s Dog, Tyler, who passed away.
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Staind – It's Been Awhile
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In this song, Staind lead Aaron Lewis is speaking of how, in his mind, he messes everything up and is disappointing the person who means the most to him. Lewis also dips into his
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The Calling – Wherever You Will Go
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“Wherever You Will Go” is the debut single by American band The Calling, released as the lead single from their debut studio album, Camino Palmero.
The Calling’s most popular song
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Birdy – People Help the People
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“People Help the People” was the second single taken from Cherry Ghost’s début album, Thirst for Romance.
English musician Birdy recorded a cover version of the song, which was
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Jeff Beck – People Get Ready (feat. Joss Stone) [Live]
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[Verse 1] / People get ready, there's a train a-coming / You don't need no baggage, you just get on board / All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming / Don't need no ticket
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Rob Thomas – Heaven Help Me
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[Verse 1] / In the evening when the stars shine down / All the bridge and tunnel girls come out / We can dance until the walls fall down / Cause tonight we own this town / But in
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Green Day – Basket Case
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“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.
It’s about Billie Joe
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Original Cast of The Lightning Thief Musical (Ft. Carrie Compere, George Salazar, James Hayden Rodriguez, Jonathan Raviv, Kristin Stokes & Sarah Beth Pfeifer) – The Campfire Song
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[LUKE], spoken / Come on, grab some ambrosia, and let the nectar flow / [PERCY, spoken] / Why is everyone scraping part of their plate into the fire? Is the food here really that
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Backstreet Boys – The One
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“The One” is the fourth and final single from the Backstreet Boys‘ third album, Millenium. The group actually wanted “Don’t Want You Back” to be their next single. They were making
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