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MIKA – Relax, Take It Easy
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[Intro] / Ooh, ah, ah / A-ah, ah, ah... / [Verse 1] / Took a ride to the end of the line / Where no one ever goes / Ended up on a broken train / With nobody I know / But the pain
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MIKA – Lollipop
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The seventh track from Mika’s 2007 debut album “Life in Cartoon Motion”. Despite mixed critical reception, the album did very well sales-wise, ending up as the ninth-best-selling
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MIKA – Grace Kelly
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“Grace Kelly” is a genre-defying pop song about being yourself. It’s named for Hollywood legend Grace Kelly—this opening dialogue is based off her 1954 film The Country Girl. The
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MIKA – Relax, Take It Easy Samples
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See all of “Relax, Take It Easy” by MIKA’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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MIKA – Relax, Take It Easy (BBC Blue Room Session)
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Took a ride / To the end of the line / Where no one ever goes / Ended up on a broken train / With nobody I know / But the pain / And the longing’s the same when you’re dying / Now
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MIKA & Ariana Grande – Popular Song
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This song is about bullied, unpopular students eventually becoming a successful and making a “popular” song while the bullies are stuck at dead end jobs. The final message of the
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MIKA – Love Today
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I’ve been crying for so long / Fighting tears just to carry on / But now, but now it’s gone away / Hey girl why can’t you carry on / Is it cuz your just like your mother / A little
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax
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“Relax” is the debut single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the United Kingdom in 1983. It was written in 1982 after frontman Holly Johnson came up with the basic idea
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MIKA – Billy Brown
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“Billy Brown” is the main character in a story told by Mika. Billy isn’t sure about his sexuality and that causes him problems.
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MIKA – Any Other World
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In contrast with the more upbeat, tongue-in-cheek songs on the album, this song is of a quite serious nature and differs significantly in tempo.
Mika said of this song:
There is
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MIKA – Happy Ending
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Mika described the story behind the song:
“It’s about a few things. In a way, it’s a kind of sad break-up song like ‘My Interpretation.’ But, at the same time, it’s about a lot of
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MIKA – Origin of Love
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According to Mika’s track-by-track review, “The Origin of Love” was written to convey fear, resentment and anger but also convey happiness, representing MIKA’s experience with love
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MIKA – Blame It On The Girls
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This song is part of Mika’s second studio album, The Boy Who Knew Too Much and it’s about people who would rather blame everything else but try to solve their problems. People who
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MIKA – Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
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[Intro] / Big girl, you are beautiful... / [Verse] / Walks into the room, feels like a big balloon / I said, "Hey girls, you are beautiful" / "Diet coke and a pizza, please." Diet
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MIKA – Stuck in the Middle
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[Intro] / Ooh, oh-oh! / [Verse 1] / I sit and think about the day that you're gonna die / Your wrinkled eyes betray the joy with which you smile / Care to see my reason? / Care to
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MIKA – Ring Ring
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[Verse 1] / I was sitting on the fence / And I thought that I would kiss you / I never thought I would've missed you / But you never let me fall, push my back against the wall
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MIKA – Over My Shoulder
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Over my shoulder, running away / Feels like I'm falling, losing my day / Cold and dry / Cold and dry / Fog out my daylight, torture my night / Feels like I'm falling far out of
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MIKA – Live Your Life
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[Verse 1] / You've got the whole world in your pocket / But you just don't know / Everybody's smilin' at you everywhere you go / It's like you've got that secret / That everybody
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MIKA (Ft. Chiara) – Stardust (Italian Version)
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I could be staring / At somebody new / Stuck in my head / Is a picture of you / You are the thunder / I was the rain / I wanna know / If I'll see you again / I said I love you
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MIKA – We Are Golden
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[Chorus] / Teenage dreams in a teenage circus / Running around like a clown on purpose / Who gives a damn about the family you come from / No giving up when you're young and you
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Nik Yato – Mika
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[Verse 1] / If it's bout my state of mind / I ain't feeling fine / I cannot describe, take the shit that I'm prescribed / Just so I can pass the time / Break the lock, what the
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MIKA – Your Sympathy
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Running out of breath / Chasing down the big parade, rising up my hand, thought I'd beg the marching band to play, for me / All of these illusions, they really mean the world to me
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MIKA – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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Sweet dreams are made of this / Who am I to disagree? / I travel the world and the seven seas / Everybody's looking for something / Some of them want to use you / Some of them want
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Justin Timberlake – Until the End of Time
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A song themed about the fantasizing of a world without the distractions which people in contemporary society have to deal with on a daily basis, such as corruption and various
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MIKA – Erase
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I shouldn't have called so late last night / All insecure- out of my mind / I shouldn't have left that message on your phone / I shouldn't have said the things I said / Lookin' for
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MIKA – My Interpretation (Acoustic)
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You talk about life, you talk about death / And everything in between / Like it's nothing and the words are easy / You talk about me and talk about you / And everything I do / Like
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MIKA – Underwater
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“Underwater” is the #5 track in Mika’s third studio album, The Origin of Love. It was released as the album’s third single in France and the second single in Europe.
In a video on
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MIKA – Stardust
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[Verse 1] / I could be staring at somebody new / But stuck in my head is a picture of you / You were the thunder, I was the rain / I wanna know if I'll see you again / I said "I
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MIKA – My Interpretation
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[Verse 1] / You talk about life, you talk about death / And everything in between / Like it's nothing / And the words are easy / You talk about me and talk about you / And
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MIKA – Grace Kelly (Acoustic)
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[Verse 1] / Do I attract you? / Do I repulse you with my queasy smile? / Am I too dirty? Am I too flirty? / Do I like what you like? / I could be wholesome, I could be loathsome
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Miley Cyrus – Flowers
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“Flowers” is the lead single from Miley Cyrus' eighth studio album Endless Summer Vacation. The song speaks about her past relationship with ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, releasing
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MIKA (Ft. Pharrell Williams) – Celebrate
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[Intro: MIKA & Pharrell Williams] / I want the whole world to celebrate! (Let’s go) / [Verse 1: MIKA] / I wanna come home / To the only place I know / Where the trees I've planted
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MIKA – The Only Lonely One
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Hey / Eins, zwei, drei, vier! / Who lives without love / Got lots of things but it's not enough / Am I the only lonely one? / I turn on my TV / See lots of houses / But there's
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MIKA – Yo Yo
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[Verse 1] / Take out all my sorrow, put that on a beat / Take out all my sorrow, put it on repeat / I know by tomorrow you'll come back to me / If you're not back tomorrow, what
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Monolord – Glaive (It's All the Same)
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You had it all, it kept you awake / Feeling so small, it kept you in shape / It's all in your head, it's just a game / You try something new but it's all the same / There's nothing
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The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook & Central Cee – TOO MUCH
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[Chorus: Jung Kook & The Kid LAROI] / Uh, if we had the chance and the time to spend / Would you do it again? Would you do it again? / Was it too much? Uh, yeah (Too much) / Was it
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MIKA – Love Today (Acoustic)
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Alternative cover artwork of this single:
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MIKA – Happy ending (Remix)
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This is the way you left me / I'm not pretending / No hope, no love, no glory / No happy ending / This is the way that we love / Like it's forever / Then live the rest of our life
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USHER – Show Me
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[Intro] / How's life? / Great, everybody's going through something / They gotta get over it / You can't go around / Let's just enjoy the time / [Verse 1] / The night is young / You
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