Genius Meanings
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Phil Collins – You Can't Hurry Love
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“You Can’t Hurry Love” is a 1966 song originally recorded by The Supremes on the Motown label.
Collins wanted to try and recreate the ‘Sixties’ sound but as recording studios
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The Supremes – You Can't Hurry Love
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“You Can’t Hurry Love” is a song performed by American female vocal group and Motown Records' most commercially successful act The Supremes.
Written and produced by one of Motown’
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Phil Collins – I Don't Care Anymore
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Released in 1982, this darker, more somber solo song outlines Collins' feelings about the difficult divorce he was going through at the time and especially, his wife’s alleged
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Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho, Genesis
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In one of the interludes littered throughout the novel, American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis, in the voice of Patrick Bateman, mediates over the discography and significance of the
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Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind of Love [Serious Hits...Live!]
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When I'm feelin' blue / All I have to do is take a look at you / Then I'm not so blue / When you're close to me / I can feel you heart beat / I can hear you breathing in my ear
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Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight ('88 Remix)
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I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord / And I've been waiting for this moment, for all my life, oh Lord / Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
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Tanner Wareham – Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)
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[Verse 1] / And I'd give up forever to touch you / 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow / You're the closest to Heaven that I'll ever be / And I don't wanna go home right now
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Phil Collins – No Way Out
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Everywhere I turn, I hurt someone / But there's nothing I can say to change / The things I've done / Of all the things I hid from you / I cannot hide the shame / And I pray someone
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Phil Collins – It Don’t Matter to Me
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[Chorus Intro] / Well it don't matter to me what you say, what you say / And it don't matter to me what you're doing alright, alright / [Verse 1] / Because I've heard it all so
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Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind of Love
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The song is a cover of the Mindbenders song from 1966, taken from the movie Buster, a film in which Phil Collins starred in himself. This is a cover of the song of the same name
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Phil Collins – True Colors
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In 1998, the song was covered by Phil Collins for his compilation album …Hits. The version was a smooth-jazz-influenced version compared to the original.
The song clearly is about
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Phil Collins – Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
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Taking place in the aftermath of a breakup, “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)” is a power ballad about asking for another chance.
The song details the narrator’s feelings
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Phil Collins – Two Hearts
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“Two Hearts” won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song alongside the Carly Simon song Let the River Run from Working Girl (with the latter having beaten the former for the
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Phil Collins – Do You Know, Do You Care
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[Verse 1] / You said you would, you didn't and I wanna know why / And don't make no excuses / You promised, you promised, you better explain / Tho' I don't know what the use is
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Phil Collins – People Get Ready
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There's a train a-coming / You don't need no baggage / You just get on board / All you need is faith / To hear the diesels humming / Don't need no ticket / You just thank the Lord
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Phil Collins – Like China
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[Verse 1] / My mom and daddy both say / I must be crazy to be this infatuated / But I know you know / We got something special never felt before / You get me going just looking at
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Phil Collins – Take Me Home [Serious Hits...Live!]
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Take that look of worry, I'm an ordinary man / They don't tell me nothing, so I find out all I can / There's a fire that's been burning right outside my door / I can't see, but I
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Phil Collins – Thru These Walls
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[Chorus] / I can hear through these walls / I can hear it when they're fooling around / I can hear through these walls / And I hear every sigh, every sound / I can hear through
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Phil Collins – Don’t Lose My Number [Serious Hits...Live!]
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Billy, Billy don't you lose my number / 'Cause you're not anywhere that I can find you / They came at night leaving fear behind / Shadows were on the ground / Nobody knew where to
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Phil Collins – Why Can’t It Wait ’Til Morning
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[Verse 1] / Why can't it wait till morning? / We can talk about it then / Because I've had a drink too many / And my troubles, well I ain't got any / Why can't it wait till
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Phil Collins – Two Hearts [Serious Hits...Live!]
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Well there was no reason to believe / She'd always be there / But if you don't put faith in what you're believin' / It's getting ya nowhere / And it teaches you to never give up
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Phil Collins – It's Alright
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Oooo, yeah, yeah / They say it's alright / They say it's alright / Say it's alright / Have a good time / 'Cause it's alright / Whoa, it's alright / Now we gonna move it slow / When
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Tanner Wareham – Stick Season
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[Intro] / Take two / [Verse 1] / As you promised me that I was more than all the miles combined / You must have had yourself a change of heart like / Halfway through the drive / '
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Phil Collins – I Cannot Believe It's True
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[Verse 1] / When I opened your letter yesterday / I could not believe my eyes / Because I've already given all I have to give / And I think it must have slipped your mind / But I
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Prime (AUS) – Tunguska
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[Intro] / (Woo) [?] / [?] good morning / Even if you're listening at nighttime, it's good morning / That's just the rules / I don't make 'em / But I adhere to them strictly, let's
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Kirk Franklin (Ft. Bono, Crystal Lewis, Dalon Collins, Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly & Tamela Mann) – Lean On Me
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[Intro: Kirk Franklin] / This is for that little child with no father / For that man that doesn't have a place to stay / For that little boy living with AIDS / [R. Kelly] Can I
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Phil Collins – Easy Lover [Serious Hits...Live!]
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Easy lover / She'll get a hold on you, believe it / She's like no other / Before you know it, you'll be on your knees / She's an easy lover / She'll take your heart, but you won't
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Genesis – It's Gonna Get Better
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[Chorus] / Reach out, hands in the air, don't care / Just what they're saying / Hold out, just keep on hoping against hope / That it's gonna get better / Don't worry, there's no
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