 Genius Meanings
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Moby – Run On
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“Run On” was the second single released in advance of Moby’s 1999 album Play. As with many of the tracks on the album, the song is a downtempo electronic composition anchored by a
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Moby – Heavy Flow
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[Verse 1] / I want to break you down slow / Because you know I never understand / How this fucked up life makes / Sweat into blood and hands? / When I see it, I can't wait it / Got
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Moby – Natural Blues
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“Natural Blues” is a song by American musician Moby. The song was released as the fifth single from his 1999 studio album “Play”. It samples “Trouble So Hard” by American folk
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Moby – After
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[Chorus] / Oh when you had the time to give / Oh when I had a life to live / But my mind was slow / But my mind was slow / But my mind was slow / But my mind was slow / But my mind
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Moby – Honey
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“Honey” is the first track on Moby’s 1999 commercial breakthrough Play. It was also the first commercially released single from the album, released nearly eight months ahead of the
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Mac Miller – Grand Finale
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This is the last song off Mac’s Faces mixtape, which he produced himself.
http://youtu.be/p4ufTwERhcs
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Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 37: Sunset)
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THE CABIN; BY THE STERN WINDOWS; AHAB SITTING ALONE, AND GAZING OUT. / I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong
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Moby (Ft. Gwen Stefani) – South Side
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“South Side” was the eighth single released from Moby’s commercial breakthrough, Play. Inspired by his visits to Chicago and searching out house music venues, he described the
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Moby – Find My Baby
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“Find My Baby” is the second track from American electronica musician Moby’s studio album Play, released on May 17, 1999.
The song is based on a heavy sample from “Joe Lee’s Rock
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Moby – Porcelain
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“Porcelain” was the sixth single off Moby’s commercial breakthrough Play. The song, a melancholic electronic ballad, was based on particularly painful breakup. Moby recalled:
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Rihanna – Lift Me Up
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Rihanna returns from a music hiatus with “Lift Me Up,” the lead single from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie soundtrack, titled Wakanda Forever: The Album released in 2022
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Moby Grape – Ode to the Man at the End of the Bar
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Hours passing slowly by, people, they come and go / I sit and drink a pitcher of beer and the world, it turns so slow / I asked the girl for another glass, I broke the one I had
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Moby – Machete
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“Machete” is the ninth track of American musician Moby’s studio album Play, released on May 17, 1999 through V2 Records.
It has got one of the few hard-hitting rhythms present on
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Fabolous (Ft. Jazzy) – Real One
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Loso describes a girl he meets and attempts to convince her that he’s the kind of guy she needs in her life, cuz ain’t nobody realer than him.
This beat samples the Fugees‘ cover
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Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 81: The Pequod Meets The Virgin)
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The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen. / At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and Germans
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Radiohead – No Surprises
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“No Surprises” is the fourth and final single from Radiohead’s third album, OK Computer. It was the first song to be recorded for the album, and the band actually stuck with the
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Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 91: The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud)
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"In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry." SIR T. BROWNE, V.E. / It was a week or two after the last whaling
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Moby – The Sky Is Broken
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“The Sky Is Broken” is the seventeenth track of American musician Moby’s studio album Play, released on May 17, 1999 through V2 Records.
It has a similar structure to “If Things
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Moby – Unter Den Linden
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Oh, my loss / Once we felt love / The cold and, oh, need loss / Oh, I feel love / I'm melting, I will waste in her move / Melting, like a twist in her mow / Moment, I will see this
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Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness
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On “Motion Sickness,” Bridgers sings about how an older man has caused her distress in the form of what she describes as “emotional motion sickness,” explaining how he built her up
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Moby – Study War
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[Spoken Sample] / Finally brother after a while / The battle will be over / For that day when we shall lay down our burden / And study war no more / Finally brother after a while
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Moby – Bodyrock
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“Bodyrock” was the third single released from Moby’s 1999 album Play. It charted in the UK Top 40 and was eventually nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental.
As with
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Moby (Ft. Inyang Bassey) – The Poison Tree
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Mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm / Look at how life has gone away / My sweet love is gone away / My sweet love is gone today / My sweet love is gone today / Oh my baby / Oh my love / Oh my baby
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Moby (Ft. Aynzli Jones) – Alice
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[Intro] / My head keeps turning turning / Like Russian roulette / Thoughts are like bullets / I cannot do this, do this, do this, do this / I cannot do this, do this, do this, do
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Jeff Buckley – Mojo Pin
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“Mojo Pin” is the first song on Jeff Buckley’s 1994 album Grace. It was written by Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas, and was first introduced on his EP, Live at Sin-é. Buckley stated
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KALEO – Way Down We Go
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“Way Down We Go” is a song by The Icelandic rock band Kaleo, released as the second single for their first studio album A/B.
Two music videos have been released to accompany the
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Moby – 7
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“7” is the tenth track of American musician Moby’s studio album Play, released on May 17, 1999 through Mute and V2 Records.
The minimalist track–its only elements are distorted
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Waka Flocka Flame (Ft. Blair Maxberry & Cartier Kitten) – Wet Wet
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[intro: Waka Flocka Flame] / Like my life got hard wood floors on it / I don't walk on concrete man / I walk on hard wood floors and ballin' / Like a person with no watch I ain't
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Moby – Mistake
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[Verse 1] / Don't speak to me this way / Don't ever let me say / Don't leave me again / Don't leave me again / [Chorus] / Oh you never felt this lost before / And the world is
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Moby – Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
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“Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?” was the fourth commercial single released from Moby’s 1999 album Play. It reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart and (in its various remixed
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Tom "T-Bone" Stankus – Existential Blues
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Hey, man, what are you really into, huh? / The elusive butterfly has just tip-toed past my door / My buddy likes the Yankees; she says "Hey, T-Bone, what's the score?" / And I say
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Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 42: The Whiteness of the Whale)
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One of the most famous and poetic chapters of Moby-Dick, “The Whiteness of the Whale” finds Ishmael/Melville delving deeply into the symbolism–and terror–of the color white.
For
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Modjo – Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
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The debut single from Modjo is also their best known track, taking the UK by storm by leaping straight in at #1, as well as reaching the top ten in more than ten other countries
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The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
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John Lennon’s son Julian came up to him after a day in pre-school and showed him a picture that he’d drawn of his friend named Lucy who was flying amidst a backdrop of bright stars
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Diddy (Ft. Ma$e) – Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
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“Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” is the first single off Puff Daddy’s hugely successful debut album No Way Out. Although Puffy was already an accomplished producer and music executive
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