Genius Meanings
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Owl City – The Bird and the Worm
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[Verse 1] / If you're the bird / Whenever we pretend it's summer / Then I'm the worm / I know the part, it's such a bummer / But fair is fair / If my segments get separated / I'll
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Owl City – Meteor Shower
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse] / I can finally see / That You're right there beside me / [Chorus] / I am not my own / For I have been made new / Please don't let me go / I
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Owl City – Fireflies
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“Fireflies”, Owl City’s debut single, was an international smash hit, effectively launching the genre Twee into the mainstream. It reached #1 in the US in November 2009.
The song
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Owl City – Dental Care
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[Verse 1] / I brush my teeth, and look in the mirror / And laugh out loud as I'm beaming from ear to ear / I'd rather pick flowers, instead of fights / And rather than flaunt my
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Owl City (Ft. Matthew Thiessen) – Tidal Wave
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“Tidal Wave” is a song about dealing with depression. It starts out with the narrator reflecting on his feelings of guilt and hopelessness, but the tone shifts in the final verse
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Owl City - Dental Care (Tradução em Português)
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[Tradução de "Dental Care" com Owl City] / [Verso 1] / Eu escovo meus dentes e olho no espelho / E rio bem alto com meu brilho radiante de orelha a orelha / Eu preferia colher
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Owl City – Hello Seattle (Ocean Eyes Version)
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In many Owl City songs, Adam creatively sings from the points of view of his nature-oriented characters. This song is no exception with Adam taking on the varied personas of a
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Owl City – Umbrella Beach
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In “Umbrella Beach”, Adam discusses a place in his childhood where he felt comforted and reflects back on fondly now as an adult. He uses metaphors to describe the fantasy games he
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Genius Terjemahan Bahasa Melayu – Owl City - Fireflies (Terjemahan Bahasa Melayu)
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[Verse 1] / Kau takkan percaya jika sepuluh juta kelip-kelip / Menyinari dunia ketika kutidur / Kerna mereka akan memenuhi udara / Dan meninggalkan air mata di merata tempat / Kau
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Owl City – Vanilla Twilight
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“Vanilla Twilight” is slower and softer than Owl City’s electronica songs, and radiates feelings of both coziness and melancholy at once. It tells of the narrator’s longing to be
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Owl City - Vanilla Twilight (Tradução em Português)
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[Tradução de "Vanilla Twilight" com Owl City] / [Verso 1] / As estrelas se inclinam para te beijar / E eu deito acordado sentindo sua falta / Me sirva uma dose pesada de atmosfera
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Owl City – The Tip of the Iceberg
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[Verse 1] / Welcome back, winter, once again / And put on your warm fuzzy sweater 'cause you'll feel much better when / The snowflakes fall gently to the ground / The temperature
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Owl City – Butterfly Wings
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[Verse 1] / If I was a raindrop / Would you be my thunderstorm? / It's cold so surround me / With rain clouds to keep me warm / I feel like I'm falling / So darling don't let me go
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Owl City – Hello Seattle (Remix)
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[Verse 1] / Hello Seattle, I am a mountaineer / In the hills and highlands / I fall asleep in hospital parking lots / And awake in your mouth / [Verse 2] / Hello Seattle, I am a
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Owl City – If My Heart Was a House
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[Verse 1] / You're the sky that I fell through / And I remember the view whenever I'm holding you / The sun hung from a string / Looking down on the world as it warms over
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Owl City – Rugs From Me To You
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[Verse 1] / Toupee or not toupee / That is the question / It refused to stay as it all turned grey / William Shakespeare's receding hair / Please excuse the pun / 'It's hair today
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Owl City – The Saltwater Room (Ocean Eyes Version)
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[Verse 1: Adam Young] / I opened my eyes last night and saw you in the low light / Walking down by the bay, on the shore / Staring up at the stars that aren't there anymore / I was
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Owl City – Sunburn
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[Verse 1] / So there we were, back home from somewhere inside my head / Oh, bravely I fought off the monsters beneath her bed / Pillars of postwar books supported my frame of mind
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Owl City - Fireflies (Tradução em Português)
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“Fireflies”, o single de estreia de Owl City, alcançou o topo das paradas em 24 países, inclusive na Billboard Hot 100. A canção foi inspirada por estrelas cadentes em um
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Owl City – Strawberry Avalanche
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This song explores a fictional world filled with fruit mountains, avalanches, and constellations, which is later revealed to be an elaborate imaginative romp during an outdoor
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Owl City – Hot Air Balloon
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This song, alongside “Strawberry Avalanche” were two promotional singles released in 2009 by Adam Young, the brains behind the electronic/synthpop project, Owl City before the
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Owl City – Fireflies (Adam Young Remix)
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The official remixed version of Owl City’s breakthrough and most recognizable single.
This version was remixed by Adam himself and was included as an exclusive iTunes track on the
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MC Chris – Twin Peaks
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Released on April Fool’s Day 2010, the song is about the cult TV drama “Twin Peaks”, about a murder leading to dark secrets. Of course, the song samples its theme song and Laura
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Nas (Ft. Lauryn Hill) – If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)
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Nas' exercise in Utopianism – inspired by Sir Thomas More (and Kurtis Blow).
Nas told Complex:
Being a hip-hop fan and Krush Groove fan, Kurtis Blow was my favorite rapper when I
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William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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This is Blake’s greatest statement of the Perennial Philosophy. Though, as poet and scholar Kathleen Raine says, Marriage is largely a restatement of the principles of alchemy (
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Wu-Tang Clan – Method Man
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If you don’t know who the Method Man is, you’re about to find out! Originally released as the B-side of “Protect Ya Neck,” “Method Man” quickly became its own classic.
Though
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Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton – King Arthur: Book 12 of 12
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ARGUMENT. / Preliminary Stanzas—Scene returns to Carduel—A day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment—The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy’s
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Bracken
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He actually says “Kraken”
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Marcel Proust – Place-Names: The Name (Chapter 4)
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PLACE-NAMES: THE NAME / Among the rooms which used most commonly to take shape in my mind during my long nights of sleeplessness
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Carol Ann Duffy – The Laughter of Stafford Girl's High
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Duffy’s largest poem in Feminine Gospels, a long mock-Epic, the linchpin of the collection. Some readers may be reminded of another Epic poem, Milton’s Paradise Lost, which
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Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – The Room Where It Happens
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Here, Burr dramatically dishes on and reacts to the news of the “Dinner Table Bargain,” also known as the Compromise of 1790. 100% relatedly, this song has a terribly unsurprising
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Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto 2)
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Canto the Second / I. / Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven!—but thou, alas, / Didst never yet one mortal song inspire— / Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was, / And is, despite of
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Friedrich Nietzsche (Ft. John McFarland Kennedy) – The Dawn of Day (Book V)
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423. / In the Great Silence.—Here is the sea, here may we forget the town. It is true that its bells are still ringing the Angelus—that solemn and foolish yet sweet sound at the
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