Genius Meanings
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Otis Redding – Stand By Me
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[Verse 1] / When the night has come / And the land is dark / And the moon is the only / Only light we see / No, I won't be afraid / No, no, no, no, no, no / No, I won't be afraid
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Otis Redding – Come To Me
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[Verse 1] / Come to me for I'm lonely / Come to me for I'm lonely, darling / Come to me and be my girl / For I love, love you so / [Verse 2] / Come to me forget the past / Think of
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Otis Redding – You Send Me
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[Verse 1] / Darling you, send me / I know you, you send me / Darling you, you send me / Honest you do, honest you do / Honest you do, honest you do / [Verse 2] / Darling you, you
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Ben E. King – Stand By Me
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Released in 1961, this song was inspired by the spiritual hymn “Lord Stand By Me”. It has since been recorded into more than 400 other versions.
It was ranked the 122nd out of
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Otis Redding – (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
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By the time Otis Redding wrote “(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay”, he was ambitious to finally record a number one hit. Even though he finally succeeded his goal with this song
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Spanish Love Songs – Otis/Carl
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Otis/Carl is dedicated to vocalist Dylan Slocum’s departed grandfather Carl, whose favourite singer was Otis Redding. The lyrics parallel Redding’s famous song “(Sittin' On) The
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Aretha Franklin – Respect
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Aretha Franklin’s signature song was a groundbreaking female empowerment anthem of the late 1960s.
Originally a minor hit by Otis Redding in 1965, Aretha’s “Respect” was given a
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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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Rolling Stone is one of the leading music magazines today, and their list of the 500 “Greatest Songs” of all time is considered by them to be “the definitive list”. It was
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Otis Redding – Something is Worrying Me
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[Verse 1] / Something is worrying me, yeah / And that something is driving me in misery, oh / I can tell the way things change / That you've been loving some other man / [Chorus
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Otis Redding – Remember Me
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[Verse 1] / Remember me / Don't you forget me, child / We are all only here / Just for a little while / Do you remember the guy / That guy that you were dating? / He broke your
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Otis Redding – Love Have Mercy
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Love have mercy, yeah, on my soul / How many kisses, y'all, have I stole? / From other girls they didn't belong to me / That's why the payback is just misery, yeah / Love have
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Sara Evans – Otis Redding
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[Verse 1:] / Fireflies are out tonight / Air is heavy / And the moon is bright / I love this time of year / I talked to you this afternoon / You said you didn't have very much to
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Otis Redding – Pain In My Heart
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[Verse 1] / Pain in my heart, she's treating me cold / Where can my baby be? Lord, no one knows / Pain in my heart just won't let me sleep / Where can my baby be? Lord, where can
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L.A Salami – Just Wasting Time (The Otis Redding Way)
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Please dont pay me any mind / As i stand here by / By the riverside / Watching it all go by / I just find all this life quite syntillating / It surprises me every time / That you
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Otis Redding – A Waste Of Time
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[Verse 1] / How dare should I have asked you, "What's your name?" / Should you ask me the same? / But dig, let's don't be wasting our time / Let's don't leave each other blind / If
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Otis Redding – Security
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[Verse 1] / I want security, yeah / Without it I'm at a great loss, oh now / Security, yes / And I want it at any cost, oh now / I don't want no money right now, no no no no no no
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Otis Redding – Open The Door
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[Spoken Intro] / I've been so wrong, so many times / And you know what I'm talkin' about / We've all been wrong a time in our life / And we all make mistakes sometimes of leaving
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Otis Redding – Try a Little Tenderness
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Backed by Booker T. & the M.G.’s and produced by Isaac Hayes, Otis' version of the pop staple has been popular since its recording – most famously cropping up in Kubrick’s 1964 Dr
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Otis Redding & Carla Thomas – It Takes Two
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One can have a dream, baby / Two can make that dream so real / One can talk about bein' in love / Two can say how it really feels / One can wish upon a star / Two can make that
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Otis Redding – The Dog
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Do the dog, do the dog / Do the dog now, baby / Come on, do the dog, yeah / Do the dog / Everybody's doin' the dog / Come on, hey baby / Do the hound dog, yeah / Do the hound dog
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Otis Redding – Hey Hey Baby
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[Verse 1] / Hey, hey, pretty baby / Baby, you sure is fine / Hey, hey, pretty baby / Baby, you sure is fine / Every time I look at you / You drive me out of my mind / [Verse 2
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Otis Redding – Louie, Louie
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Halo Louie Louia oooh baby / Baby Louie Louia / Gotta sing my song now nah now / Halo Louie Louia oooh baby / Now Louie Louia / Come on help me sing this song here / I walked down
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