 Genius Meanings
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Neil Diamond – Holly Holy
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Holly holy eyes, dream of only me / Where I am, what I am / What I believe in / Holly holy / Holly holy dream / Wanting only you / And she come / And I run just like the wind will
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Neil Diamond (Ft. UltraLove) – Holly holy (NSFW Remix)
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Yeah / Yeah / Yeah, yeah / Sing / Sing / Sing / Sing / They try to tell me that I'm destined to lose / Dream on, you're better off just / Hitting the snooze boy / I'm up and at 'em
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Neil Diamond – Holly Holy (live)
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Holly holy eyes / Dream of only me / Where I am, what I am / What I believe in / Holly Holy / Holly holy dream / Wanting only you / And she come / And I run just like the wind will
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Junior Walker & The All Stars – Holly Holy
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[Verse 1] / Holly, holly holy eyes / Dream, a dream of love, ooh yeah / Where I am, what I am / What I believe in / Holly holy, y'all / [Verse 2] / Hol-Holly holy dream / Wanting
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Neil Diamond – Holly Holly
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Holly holy eyes / Dream of only you / Where I am, what I am / What I believe in / Holly holy / Holly holy dream / Wanting only you / And she comes / And I run just like the wind
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Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
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“Sweet Caroline” was inspired by a photograph of the then-9-year-old Caroline Kennedy. The lyrics were written a few years later about Diamond’s then-wife Marsha.
In 1969, the
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Neil Diamond – New York Boy
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Ain't no way / To get you out of me / Baby, there ain't no way / In the whole wide world / I'm about to see / By and by / You're all I ever need / Baby, when I forget how good life
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Neil Diamond – Mr. Bojangles
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This song isn’t about Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, the actor and dancer.
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Neil Diamond – Christmas in Killarney
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The holly green, the ivy green / The prettiest picture you've ever seen / Is Christmas in Killarney / With all of the folks at home / It's nice, you know, to kiss your beau / While
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Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline Radio Edit
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[Verse 1] / Where it began / I can't begin to know when / But then I know it's growing strong / Was in the spring / And spring became the summer / Who'd have believed you'd come
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Neil Diamond – Both Sides Now
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Rows and flows of angel hair / And ice cream castles in the air / And feather canyons everywhere / I've looked at clouds that way / But now they only block the sun / They rain they
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Neil Diamond – Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
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Diamond wrote this one for the ladies, which made up most of his fan base. David Wild wrote in his book He Is…I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond,
When
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Neil Diamond – Cracklin' Rosie
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Cracklin' Rosie" is a bottle of wine. Diamond got the idea for the song from a folk story of an Indian tribe in Northern Canada who had more men than women. He told David Wild at
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Neil Diamond – Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
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Diamond’s original intent for this song was to take evangelical preachers to task for what some of them did: take advantage of the down-hearted and troubled. The evangelical
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Neil Diamond – He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother
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The road is long / With many a winding turn / That leads us to who knows where / Who knows where / But I'm strong / Strong enough to carry him / He ain't heavy, he's my brother
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Neil Diamond – Song Sung Blue
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Song sung blue, everybody knows one / Song sung blue, every garden grows one / Me and you are subject to / The blues now and then / But when you take the blues / And make a song
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Neil Diamond – Until It's Time for You to Go
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You're not a dream / You're not an angel / You're a woman / I'm not a king / I'm a man / Take my hand / We'll make a space / In the lives that we planned / And here we'll stay
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Neil Diamond – Cherry, Cherry
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Baby loves me, yes, yes she does / Ah, the girl's outta sight, yeah / Says she loves me, yes, yes she does / Mmm, gonna show me tonight, yeah / Hey, she got the way to move me
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Neil Diamond – Walk on Water
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Walk on water, ain't it like her / She leads the children / Ain't it right, ain't it right, ain't it right / And ain't it wond'rous / The way she does it / Gives love and loves it
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Neil Diamond – I Am... I Said
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‘I Am… I Said’, released in 1971 was a strong chart hit, reaching number 4 in the US and UK singles charts, written about Diamond’s time in therapy in Los Angeles.
The track would
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Neil Diamond – Play Me
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She was morning, and I was night time / I one day woke up / To find her lying beside my bed / I softly said "Come take me" / For I've been lonely in need of someone / As though I'd
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