 Genius Meanings
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Off With Their Heads – Jackie Lee
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[Verse 1] / Drunk in a waiting room, I can't fall asleep / Without knowing how you're gonna be / Thinking about what you have, it isn't half-bad / Sometimes it's so hard to see / [
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Off With Their Heads – Your Child Is Dead
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[Verse] / The last thing you need is more security / I think the problem has spoken for itself / You're teaching your kids to repeat what you did / Growing up as a dickhead
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Off With Their Heads – Hard to Admit
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[Verse 1] / It's hard to admit I still think about you / Five years, two-thousand days / I've been living without you / I know I was a dick and I ruined your life / That's just as
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Off With Their Heads – Heroin in NYC
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[Verse 1] / We've got a secret that we cannot explain / We're happier than we were yesterday / We're so high that our minds, they don't have frames / It's New York City in the
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Off With Their Heads – Theme Song
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[Verse] / I don't give a fuck about anything / When I think about the future, all I see is it bringing me pain / Misery and poverty / And I've been trying for fifteen years / To
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Off With Their Heads – Die Today
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[Verse 1] / I'm not gonna go to work today / I want to feel the sun shine on my face / And pretend like everything's okay / Won't let anything get to me / My morning coffee and
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Off With Their Heads – I Hope You All Die
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Through the train yards and the streetlights / Stumble all the way home / Empty train yards, broken streetlights / Now it's starless at home / And I got so, and you get so, yeah we
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The Band – The Weight
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“The Weight,” by the Band’s Robbie Robertson, appears on their album Music from Big Pink (1968).
Robertson tells a story about a traveler’s visit to a small town, but mixes
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Jackie Lee – Headphones
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“Headphones” is a definite feel-good, dance-around-the-room song. In it he talks about his woman who loves to listen to music with her headphones on. Jackie Lee’s full name is
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Babyface Ray (Ft. Lil Durk) – Wonderful Wayne & Jackie Boy
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[Verse 1: Babyface Ray & Lil Durk] / I swear I got it honest, think I got it from grandmama / I got Wayne in my blood, Jackie Boy about them dollars (Jackie Boy, yeah) / I was in
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Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
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“50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” was written & produced by Paul Simon. Phil Ramone was the co-producer on the song.
The song was written after Paul Simon’s divorce from his first
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Jackie Lee Cochran – Georgia Lee Brown
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The night was rainy and the night was blue / And I was thinkin' only of a gal I knew / I took a walk to the middle of town / I had to have a pretty lady named Georgia Lee Brown / (
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John McMartin (Ft. Christine Ebersole, Erin Davie, Kelsey Fowler, Michael Potts & Sarah Hyland) – Marry Well
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[MAJOR, spoken] / Forgive me, ladies, but we live in perilous times / If you want to anchor yourself in an uncertain world / You’re only one recourse / (singing) / With your eye on
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Big Moe (Ft. Big Pokey & E.S.G. (Rapper)) – Maan!!
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[Intro: Noke-D] / What's the deal? It's Noke-D, baby / Huh, got Moe-yo, Po-yo, and my boy E.S.G., Sammy Sosa / The freestyle kings in here, say, look here / They got a song out
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Brent Faiyaz – JACKIE BROWN
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[Chorus] / Only been a few hours, but it felt like days / Only been days, but it feel like months / I been gone for a year, only wrote like once / Life moves fast when you do what
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Hozier – Jackie and Wilson
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This is the third song from Hozier’s eponymous debut. Below is a video from Hozier’s facebook page, where he talks about the song.
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Sam Fender – Aye
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[Verse 1] / They don't act up for the camera / They just sit back and command them / And collect and deflect and abandon / They even wrote all the Ten Commandments / They watched
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Tool – Rosetta Stoned
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In the song, a character goes through a “drug trip” in the infamous deserts of Area 51.
It’s a long, daunting occurrence especially when the aliens approach him, pick him up and
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Bakar – Hell N Back
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“Hell N Back” is the lead single from Will You Be My Yellow?. On the track, Bakar reminisces of the memorable and fun moments he’s had with his significant other. Especially, the
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J. Cole & Bas (Ft. Lil Tjay) – [The Jackie]
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“The Jackie” is Bas’ second leading release of 2021 and presumably the first single from his upcoming album. The summer anthem is a collaboration of three New York residents who
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Don't Flop (Ft. E. Ness & Ness Lee) – E. Ness vs. Ness Lee
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[Round 1: Ness Lee] / Is you the only nigga from Philly who face can't grow hair? / 40 years later, shit ain't there: so weird / There's just a blank space on your face that says '
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Dreamville, EARTHGANG & J. Cole (Ft. Saba & Smino) – Sacrifices
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“Sacrifices” features Midwest rappers Smino and Saba in their first collaboration with Dreamville’s J. Cole and EARTHGANG. On the track, which closes out ROTD3, each artist
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Lemon Demon – The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
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The Ultimate Showdown was a Flash movie submitted to Newgrounds by Shawn Vulliez (altffour) and Neil Cicierega (Trapezoid) on December 22, 2005. It is a music video that featuring
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Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole
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The first song on Pretty Hate Machine and second single from it, “Head Like A Hole” is one of the more popular songs on the album. The single release is also known as Halo 3, and
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JAY-Z – Dirt Off Your Shoulder
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“Dirt off Your Shoulder” is the second single released from Jay-Z’s 2003 album The Black Album.
In 2004, the song was combined with the Linkin Park’s single “Lying from You” and
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The 1975 – About You
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“About You” is the penultimate song included in The 1975’s fifth studio album Being Funny in a Foreign Language.
The song is a musical continuation of the band’s 2013 single “
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Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side
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Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” is a tribute to Andy Warhol’s “factory” of friends and superstars from the New York underground. Here’s Holly, Jackie and Joe in 1971:
The
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The Beatles – Yesterday
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“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
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Gravediggaz – 1-800-Suicide
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The eighth track of as well as 6 Feet Deep’s third single. While the music and the theme seem dark, the actual lyrics tend to be cartoonish–a trademark of the Gravediggaz and the
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Tiësto & Dzeko (Ft. Post Malone & Preme) – Jackie Chan
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The latest collaboration from Tiesto and Dzeko is actually a remix of “Jackie Chan” by Preme. However, this is officially billed as a Tiesto & Dzeko production featuring Preme
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Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite
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Well, look-a there, look-a there / Look-a there, look-a there, ooh wee / Look-a there, look-a there / Look-a there, ooh wee / Ooh! Ah! Ooh! Ah! Ooh wee / Well, she's so fine, fine
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Bo Burnham – All Eyes on Me
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“All Eyes On Me” is the eighteenth track on Bo Burnham’s fourth album, Inside (The Songs), compiled from his May 2021 Netflix special. This song is a sort of “encore” for the
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Original London Cast of The Phantom of the Opera (Ft. Sarah Brightman & Steve Barton (Actor)) – All I Ask of You
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A song from the 1986 musical (and later 2004 movie) The Phantom of the Opera. “All I Ask of You” depicts Raoul singing to Christine that he will be there to protect her from the
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SpotemGottem – Beat Box
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[Intro] / Let go / (D— Damn E, this shit exclusive) Stretch gang / Face shots to the face, don't trip on your lace / Mafia / [Chorus] / Bur— Bur— Burn away a carbon beam, knock
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Chow Mane (Ft. Jackie Faye, Late Lee & Lio) – Code Yellow
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[Intro - Jackie Faye] / We are reporting live from Koreatown, Los Angeles / We have three young whippersnappers wildin' out / I... I think it's a Code Yellow / We got some A's in
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The Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Lovin'
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[Verse 1] / (Hey!) / Well my temperature's rising and my feet on the floor / Crazy people knocking 'cause they're wanting some more / Let me in, baby, I don't know what you got
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21 Savage – Bank Account
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“Bank Account” sees 21 Savage rapping about his wealth amongst other things over a dark beat produced by Metro Boomin and 21 Savage himself.
The track samples Coleridge-Taylor
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Emeli Sandé – Next To Me
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“Next to Me” is a choir-backed, soulful track that sees Emeli Sandé insists on her man’s loyalty. It was the third single of her debut album Our Version of Events, and one of the
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Commodores – Nightshift
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The Commodores had been around for a while, long enough that a lot of their friends and inspirations died. They give a special dedication to two of those friends, Marvin Gaye and
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Garth Brooks – Friends in Low Places
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[Verse 1] / Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots / And ruined your black-tie affair / The last one to know, the last one to show / I was the last one you thought you'd
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NF – Let You Down
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On “Let You Down,” NF laments the struggles he had earlier in his life, and looking back at himself he felt like he “let himself down.” This track is similar to his songs “Got You
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