 Genius Meanings
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Oasis – The Turning
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“The Turning” is a mid tempo song with lyrics centered around religious themes and the eventual end of everything. Fittingly, the song has backing vocals provided by the National
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Oasis – The Nature of Reality
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[Verse] / The nature of reality / Is pure subjective fantasy / Space and time and here and now / Are only in your mind / Machine of god and devil too / With no weapons just the
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Oasis – The Shock of the Lightning
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“The Shock Of The Lightning” was released as the lead single off Oasis' comeback album, Dig Out Your Soul. In 2010 it was included in the singles collection Time Flies… 1994-2009.
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Oasis – Turn Up the Sun
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The only opening track of any Oasis album not to be written by Noel Gallagher.
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Coldplay – Yellow
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“Yellow” is the fifth track and second single from Coldplay’s 2000 debut album Parachutes. It is one of their oldest and most enduring hits, continuing to be a celebrated staple of
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Radiohead – High and Dry
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The second single from Radiohead’s second album, The Bends. “High and Dry” was released on a double A-side with the album’s opening track, “Planet Telex.”
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Stop the Clocks
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“Stop the Clocks” shares its name with a “Best-of”-compilation album by Oasis. The song is an old Oasis song that never got finished, so the compilation album is named after this
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Brandyn Burnette – Clean
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[Intro] / Ah, ah / Ah, ah / Yeah / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Mm, mm / Oh / [Verse 1] / Early in the morning I hear the birds chirping / The sun is still shining / The world is
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Oasis – Falling Down
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“Falling Down” was the third and last single to be released off of Dig Out Your Soul (as well as the last single ever by Oasis, as they split up in 2009). In 2010 it was included
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Iced Earth – Burning Oasis
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[Intro] / Ah! / Ah! / [Verse 1] / Raging fire surrounds me / The embers seems to glow / Woman, man and serpent / Temptation fills her soul / [Refrain] / Ah! / Ah! / [Verse 2
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Coldplay – The Scientist
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“The Scientist” is a very mellow song about trying to analyze a broken relationship.
The song’s melody is inspired by “Don’t Look Back in Anger” by the Oasis, especially the piano
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Semisonic – Closing Time
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Dan Wilson deals in deep metaphor in “Closing Time,” seeming to detail the literal closing of a bar when it kicks out all of the late-night drinkers, but is, instead, about the
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Oasis – To Be Where There's Life
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[Verse 1] / Days, turning to night / Pray for the light / Let me come through / Let me take you / Way over the line / [Verse 2] / Everyone fallin', everyone fallin' / Jailers come
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O.A.R – Shattered (Turn the Car Around)
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“Shattered (Turn the Car Around)” is the second single from O.A.R.’s sixth album, All Sides. It peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song is about a guy leaving a gal and
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Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
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Tears For Fears' biggest chart hit, peaking at #2 in their home country of Britain and topping the charts in the US, Canada and New Zealand. Although a massive hit, Rule The World
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Fool's Garden – Lemon Tree
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“Lemon Tree” is a single by German Band Fool’s Garden released in April 1995 in the USA, and October 1995 in the UK, taken from Fool’s Garden’s second album, Dish of the Day.
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Oasis – D'You Know What I Mean?
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“D'You Know What I Mean” was released as the lead single off Be Here Now. It is a “call to arms” song that samples a drum beat from N.W.A’s “Straight Outta Compton.” At the time of
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Genius English Translations – Stray Kids - Silent Cry (English Translation)
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[Verse 1: Felix, *Lee Know*, Han, Bang Chan, Seungmin] / You, *pretending to be unaffected, just like that* / (You) are smiling but I can hear it in your words / You always say "I'
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A Great Big World – Kaleidoscope
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[Verse 1] / My life / My life was black and white and I believed it, I believed it / My eyes / My eyes looked at the world, but couldn't see it / I couldn't see it / [Pre-Chorus
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Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
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Vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong wrote “Good Riddance” after a break-up with a girlfriend who moved to Ecuador.
Billie Joe said in Guitar World, “In the song, I tried
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Bob Seger – Turn the Page
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[Verse 1] / On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha / You can listen to the engine moanin' out his one note song / You can think about the woman or the girl you knew the
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Oasis – I'm Outta Time
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“I’m Outta Time” was released as the second single off Dig Out Your Soul. In 2010 it was included in the singles collection Time Flies… 1994-2009.
Written by Liam Gallagher, he
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Adeline (Ft. KAMAUU) – Stages
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[Verse 1: Adi Oasis] / Woo, hey / Oh-oh, aah-aah, ah, yeah / Spending my days at the studio / And I’m always on the grind / Hoping my song gets on the radio / While I got so much
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Lady Gaga – 911
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In “911,” Gaga explores the role of antipsychotic medication and the effect it has had on her life.
The song’s hook was first teased in an interview with Paper Magazine.
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UGK (Ft. OutKast) – Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)
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The Underground Kingz (Bun B, Pimp C) and the Outkasts (André 3000 and Big Boi) unite in a classic track about the women in their lives. There are two stories about actually
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