 Genius Meanings
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Mitski – Door
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[Verse 1] / There is a door to me / I've never seen it / Sometimes I get closer to it / But I've never found it / At twilight, I almost had it / But then the night fell / I looked
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Mitski – I Want You
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[Verse 1] / I want you / I hold one card / That I can't use / But I want you / [Pre-Chorus] / You're coming back / And it's the end of the world / We're starting over / And I love
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Mitski – Shame
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[Verse] / It feels so good, it feels so good / And right outside the door nobody knows / They're right outside the door and they don't know how it / Feels so good, it feels so good
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Mitski – Everyone
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“Everyone” sees Mitski speak on her music career and her sudden rise to fame in a metaphorical manner.
Mitski breaks down the inspiration for the song’s production and the
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Mitski – There's Nothing Left for You
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[Verse 1] / There's nothing left for you, nothing in this room / Try and go outside, nothing waits for you / You had it once before, not anymore / So go on to that sweetheart's
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Genius Romanizations – 松原みき (Miki Matsubara) - 真夜中のドア / Stay With Me (Mayonaka no Door) (Romanized)
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[Intro] / To you / Yes, my love to you / Yes, my love to you, you / To you / [Verse 1] / Watashi wa watashi, anata wa anata to / Yuube itteta sonna ki mo suru wa / Gurei no jaketto
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Genius English Translations – 松原みき (Miki Matsubara) - 真夜中のドア / Stay With Me (Mayonaka no Door - Midnight’s Door) (English Translation)
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[Intro] / To you / Yes, my love to you / Yes, my love to you, you / To you / [Verse 1] / I am only me, you are only you / I said that last night and still feel the same way / You
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Mitski – Wife
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[Verse 1] / You're home, you're home, you're home to me / So leave me, leave me, leave me a map / I'm here at my cliff looking down / [Chorus 1] / I cannot bear you a son / But I
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Mitski – Liquid Smooth
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[Verse 1] / I'm beautiful, I know 'cause it's the season / But what am I to do with all this beauty? / Biology, I am an organism, I'm chemical / That's all, that is all / [Chorus
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Phoebe Bridgers – Garden Song
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Since Phoebe’s 2017 debut album, Stranger in the Alps, Phoebe Bridgers makes her solo return with the lead single “Garden Song” for her sophomore album Punisher.
In an interview
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Mitski – Happy
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“Happy” is the opening track on Mitski’s album Puberty 2. The track, along with the album, has received widespread acclaim. Speaking with NPR, Mitski talked about some of the
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Mitski – Dan the Dancer
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[Verse 1] / Dan had very long limbs from leading day to day / Hanging onto a cliff that stretched him everyday / And when she'd ask to hold hands / He would smile and let one of
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Mitski – Last Words of a Shooting Star
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In this track, Mitski takes a frightening experience on a turbulent plane as a way to reflect on her life before death. The “shooting star” from the title is literally the plane in
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Caroline Polachek – Door
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Released on June 19th, 2019, “Door” is former Chairlift vocalist Caroline Polachek’s first release under her own name and the first single from her debut solo album, Pang.
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Mitski – Shame (Jammin' Out Solo Version)
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[Verse 1] / It feels so good / It feels so good / And right outside the door nobody knows / They're right outside the door and they don't know how it / Feels so good / It feels so
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Mitski – Eric
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[Verse 1] / You like control, well, I do too / Take off my clothes and watch me move / You can come closer, I'll let you hurt me / How you choose / [Verse 2] / Help me with the
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Mitski – Me and My Husband
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“Me and My Husband” is the seventh track of Mitski’s fifth studio album Be The Cowboy released in August 2018.
Like earlier tracks on the album such as ‘Nobody’, ‘Me and My Husband
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Mitski – I Bet on Losing Dogs
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[Verse] / My baby, my baby (Ooh-oh) / You're my baby, say it to me (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh) / Baby, my baby (Ooh, ooh-oh) / Tell your baby that I'm your baby (Ooh-oh, ooh-oh) / [Chorus
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Mitski – Washing Machine Heart
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“Washing Machine Heart”, the twelfth track off Be the Cowboy, is sonically upbeat, but lyrically explores the “manic” nature of Mitski’s protagonist, who, in her words:
…is a
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Mitski – Abbey
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[Verse 1] / I am hungry / I have been hungry / I was born hungry / What do I need? / I am something / I have been something / I was born something / What could I be? / [Chorus 1
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Lana Del Rey (Ft. Father John Misty) – Let The Light In
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“Let The Light In” is the twelfth song on Lana Del Rey’s ninth studio album Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd. It features Father John Misty, with whom Lana has
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Mitski – Pearl Diver
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Pearl Diver, the final track of Mitski’s 2012 debut Lush, sees her describing herself or someone else as a pearl diver, constantly hunting for something more, with body free of
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Mitski – Bag of Bones
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“Bag of Bones” is said to be Mitski’s first-ever song, and details her outlook on a hollow relationship, most likely based solely around sexual gratification.
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Mitski – Real Men
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[Verse 1] / Real men don't need other people / And real men suck it in / Real men don't flinch or bleed in public / Oh, I think I'm a real man / [Verse 2] / Little boys cry and
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Radiohead – Creep
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According to Thom Yorke, “Creep” tells the tale of an inebriated man who tries to get the attention of a woman to whom he is attracted by following her around. In the end, he lacks
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beabadoobee & Laufey – A Night To Remember
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Filipino-English singer beabadoobee recruits Icelandic-Chinese vocalist Laufey on this jazzy love letter to an unforgettable romantic evening.
The pair first linked up in August
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IamDele – Big Smoke
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Yea / Pulling on big smoke / Bottom of my teeth gold / Yea hmmm / Pulling on big / Big on big / Big on big / Hmmm / Yea / Pulling on big smoke (big!) / Bottom of my teeth gold
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Mitski – Brand New City
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[Intro] / One, two / Honey, what'd you take? / [Verse 1] / Think my brain is rotting in places / I think my heart is ready to die / I think my body is falling in pieces / I think
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Laufey – Beautiful Stranger
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[Intro] / Mm / [Verse 1] / Beautiful stranger sitting right there / Looked up at me and my dark curly hair / Looked back for a second, didn't want to be rude / I tend to fall in
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Luce – Always Will
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[Verse 1] / I listen to the sounds / I listen to the sounds / Walking to your house / Oh / And I always will / [Verse 2] / I make it to your door / There's twenty-seven stairs / I'
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Mitski – Once More to See You
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[Verse] / In the rearview mirror I saw the setting sun on your neck / And felt the taste of you bubble up inside me / But with everybody watching us, our every move, we do have
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KID DAD – Wire & Guns
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Face to chest you make me question / Everything I think I am / Tell me which side of the medal / Is the one you’re standing on? / You wanna keep me out / You’re the border I would
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Square loop – Dare
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Talk me down / There’s a reason why / I’d rather have my feet planted on the floor / And when I walk in / Everybody’s staring straight through the door / I never thought that I
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bôa (UK) – Duvet
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The opening theme of the 1998 anime series Serial Experiments Lain, released as the 3rd track to Bôa (UK)’s 1998 album The Race of a Thousand Camels and later the first track on
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Harvey Parker (Ft. Harvey Parker) – Recent Tampering on the Far Side of Dusk
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Nightly shifts of scars and soars / Behind this cold framed door / Negotiations to absorb / As the unknown pleasures form / Hey, I have seen those eyes / They walk right past me
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Sandy Denny – East Virginia
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I was born in east Virginia / North Carolina I did go / There I met the fairest maiden / But her name I do not know / Her hair it was a brightsome color / And her cheeks were rosy
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Roy Brown – Ain't It A Shame
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[Verse 1] / When you see midnight fall on your window / And you hear no one calling your name / You say to yourself / 'Without your love, ain't it a shame' / [Verse 2] / And when
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Car Door Dick Smash – Kiddie Pool Full of Viscera
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The party begins / The clown walks in / Shitty arts and crafts / Nobody laughs / I swear to God / If he tells another joke / I'll beat him with a rod / I'll make him croak / I grab
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Robyn Hitchcock – Flanagan's Song
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All the young girls look like ravens / As they flock around the pool / And they peck at their reflection / In the shadows of men's drool / I could look out there forever / Forever
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