Genius Meanings
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O.C. Smith – Daddy's Little Man
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[Verse 1] / My, my... just look at daddy's little man / Stand up, let me take a look at you / My, you must have grown about a foot or two / Since last weekend... let's run in / And
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O.C. Smith – La La Peace Song
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Mmm hmm, la la, oh, yeah / What's that sound, so profound / Over heads of children, Lord / As they pass / Sounds like thunder / But there's no rain / This kind of thunder blows
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O.C. Smith – Baby, I Need Your Loving
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Baby I need your loving / Baby I need your loving / Although you're never near / Your voice I often hear / Another day and another night / I long to hold you tight / 'Cause I'm so
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O.C. Smith – Color Him Father
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[Intro] / Mm... (color him father) yes, and color him love / (Color him father) oh, color him love / (Color him father) and then color him love / (Color him father) / [Verse 1
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O.C. Smith – The Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp
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[Chorus] / Oh, the path was deep and wide / From footsteps leading to our cabin / Above the door there burned a scarlet lamp / And late at night a hand would knock / And there
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O.C. Smith – Main Street Mission
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It’s open each day of the week to people in my condition / Just a meal and a place to sleep in the shelter of Main Street Mission / Once I had a true love and well a good home and
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O.C. Smith – Honey (I Miss You)
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See the tree / How big it's grown / But friend it hasn't been too long, wasn't it / I laughed at her / And she got made / The first day she planted it / Was just a twig / And then
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Gordon Parks (Ft. O.C. Smith) – Don't Misunderstand
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Don't misunderstand, we are only strangers / On our way to someone else / To some place we forgot / Don't mistake my smile, it just means I'm lonely / Love me till this day has
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O.C. Smith – The Learning Tree
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Where grows the learning tree / By rivers that flow in the night / Winds that blow after sundown / That's what a boy should know / Fireflies and restless thoughts / In tall fields
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O.C. Smith – Little Green Apples
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This is the original version of the song Little Green Apples, as it has been covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, and etc.
The song was released in
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O.C. Smith – Sounds of Goodbye
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[Intro] / Goodbye... / [Verse 1] / Restless footsteps walkin' down the hallway in the middle of the night / I start hearing little sounds, they comin' so magnified here in the
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Gordon Parks (Ft. O.C. Smith) – Blowin’ Your Mind (Main Title)
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Now look here! / Who twists your spine till it feel likes jelly / And heats your blood till it's boiling wine? / Who splits your heart in a zillion pieces? / (Shaft) Baby, he'll
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Gordon Parks (Ft. O.C. Smith) – Don't Misunderstand (Demo)
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Don't misunderstand, we are only strangers / On our way to someone else / To some place we forgot / Don't mistake my smile, it just means I'm lonely / Love me till this day has
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Al Wilson – La La Peace Song
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Mmm hmm, la la, oh, yeah / What's that sound, so profound / Over heads of children, Lord / As they pass / Sounds like thunder / But there's no rain / This kind of thunder blows
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Roger Miller – Little Green Apples
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“Little Green Apples” by Roger Miller appears on his 1968 album, A Tender Look at Love.
Made famous by Glen Campell and Bobbie Gentry this same year, Miller wrote this for his
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Kendrick Lamar – FEEL.
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On “FEEL.,” Kendrick catalogs the wide range of feelings, particularly the negative ones, that his stardom has elicited.
He feels like nobody is looking out for him, yet cites a
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The Prodigy – Thunder
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I hear thunder but there's no rain / This kind of thunder breaks walls and window pane / I hear thunder but there's no rain / This kind of thunder, t-t-thunder / T-t-thunder / T-t-
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Frank Ocean – Seigfried
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“Seigfried,” the fifteenth track on Frank Ocean’s Blonde, might be called a metaphysical break-up song. Based on the mention of “a speckled face”, the song may be about male model
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Long John Baldry – Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
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Original Recorded by O. C. Smith, Son of Hickory Holler’s tramp tells the story of an older mother with an abusive alcoholic husband raising 14 children and having to turn to
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O.C. – You And Yours
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Samples Lonnie Liston Smith’s “A Garden Of Peace”, which Ski Beatz also sampled for the classic, “Dead Presidents” by Jay-Z.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ue1CbwcpI
It samples
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Johnny Darrell – Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
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Oh the path was deep and wide from footsteps leadin' to our cabin / Above the door there burned a scarlet lamp / And late at night a hand would knock and there would stand a
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Hurricane Smith – Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?
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[Verse 1] / Have I a hope for half a chance / To even ask if I could dance with you, you-ooh? / Would you greet me or politely turn away? / Would there suddenly be sunshine / On a
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MC Alien – MC Alien 2014 OC Talent Show Rap
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Intro: Yeah, what's up OC! I hope you're ready, cuz here I go! Check it out / Hook: / This is what I do, try to bring some new better stuff / This is what I do, keep it real, so
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