Genius Meanings
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Morrissey – First of the Gang to Die
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Morrissey’s doomed romantic persona is the perfect vehicle for this update of American gangster mythology, which moves the action from the fedoras, Tommy guns, and speakeasies of
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Morrissey – First of the Gang to Die (Live at Earls Court)
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[Intro] / Los Angeles, you are too hot / [Verse 1] / You have never been in love / Until you've seen the stars / Reflect in the reservoirs / And you have never been in love / Until
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Zee Avi – First of the Gang
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[Verse 1] / You have never been in love / Until you've seen the stars / Reflect in the reservoirs / And you have never been in love / Until you've seen the dawn rise behind the
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Morrissey – There Is a Light There Never Goes Out (Live At Earls Court)
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[Verse 1] / Take me out tonight / Where there's music and there's people / And they're young and alive / Driving in your car / I never, never want to go home / Because I haven't
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Morrissey – How Soon Is Now? (Live At Earls Court)
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[Verse] / I am the son / And the heir / Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir / Of nothing in particular / [Chorus] / You shut your mouth / How can you say
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Morrissey – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (Live At Earls Court)
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[Verse 1] / Last night I dreamt / That somebody loved me / No hope, no harm / Just another false alarm / [Verse 2] / Last night I felt / Real arms around me / No hope, no harm
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Morrissey – November Spawned A Monster (Live at Earls Court)
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[Verse 1] / Sleep on and dream of love / Why? Because it's the closest you will get to love / Poor, twisted child, you're just so ugly, you're so ugly / The poor, twisted child
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Morrissey – Shoplifters Of The World Unite (Live At Earls Court)
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Learn to love me / Assemble the ways / Now, today, tomorrow and always / My only weakness is a list of crime / My only weakness is... well, never mind, never mind / Oh, shoplifters
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Morrissey – Subway Train / Munich Air Disaster 1958 (Live At Earls Court)
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[Intro] / I can't ever understand / Why my life has been cursed, poisoned, and condemned / When I been tryin', every night, to hold you near me / I'm tellin' you, it ain't easy
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Morrissey – Let Me Kiss You
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“Let Me Kiss You” was released as the third single off of You Are the Quarry.
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Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart
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The lead single from 2004’s You Are the Quarry, “Irish Blood, English Heart” is Morrissey’s best charting single in years, and is considered a major comeback effort.
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Morrissey – I Am Two People
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“I Am Two People” is a song included in the You Are the Quarry Deluxe Edition bonus disc.
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Morrissey – Bigmouth Strikes Again (Live At Earls Court)
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[Verse] / Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head / Oh-oh, sweetness, sweetness, I wasn't joking when I said / By rights you
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Morrissey – Munich Air Disaster 1958
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“Munich Air Disaster 1958” is a song included in the You Are the Quarry Deluxe Edition bonus disc. The title refers to a real life disaster where the plane carrying the majority of
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Morrissey – My Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye
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“My Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye” is a song included in the You Are the Quarry Deluxe Edition bonus disc.
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Pretenders – Back on the Chain Gang
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“Back On The Chain Gang” was originally released as a standalone single in the fall of 1982, a year after their second album Pretenders II. It became the band’s first of two top 10
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Morrissey – I Like You
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[Verse 1] / Something in you caused me to / Take a new tact with you / You were going through something / I had just about scraped through / Why do you think I let you get away
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Morrissey – The Never-Played Symphonies
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“Never Played Symphonies” is a song included in the You Are the Quarry Deluxe Edition bonus disc. It was originally a B-Side to “Irish Blood, English Heart.”
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Morrissey – Back on the Chain Gang
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[Verse 1] / I found a picture of you, oh / It hijacked my world that night / From a place in the past we've been cast out of, oh / Now we're back in the fight / [Chorus] / Yes, we'
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Morrissey – Come Back to Camden
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In this song, Morrissey is pleading with an ex-lover to return to him in Camden, a borough of London. He makes wry observations about his surroundings, which accurately reflect the
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Morrissey – Mexico
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“Mexico” is a song included in the You Are the Quarry Deluxe Edition bonus disc.
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Morrissey – Teenage Dad on His Estate
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“Teenage Dad on His Estate” is a song included in the You Are the Quarry Deluxe Edition bonus disc.
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Lupe Fiasco – Mural
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A Mural is any piece of artwork painted, or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the
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Morrissey – I Have Forgiven Jesus
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“I Have Forgiven Jesus” was released as the fourth and last single off of You Are the Quarry.
The song is about Morrissey feeling deserted by Jesus due to all the struggles he has
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Morrissey – How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?
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[Verse 1] / She told me she loved me / Which means / She must be insane / I've had my face dragged in / Fifteen miles of shit / And I do not, and I do not / And I do not like it
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Morrissey – Istanbul
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“Istanbul” was released as the second single off of World Peace is None of Your Business.
Istanbul is Morrissey’s second favorite city behind Rome.
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