 Genius Meanings
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R.E.M. – Supernatural Superserious
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[Verse 1] / Everybody here comes from somewhere / That they would just soon forget and disguise / At the summer camp where you volunteered / No one saw your face, no one saw your
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R.E.M. – Airliner
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[Instrumental]
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R.E.M. – Sponge
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[Intro] / One, two, ready, go / [Verse 1] / Pleasure is melting like chocolate / My blue ribbon gumption is gone / All my gravy must have soaked into something / [Chorus] / And the
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R.E.M. – Yellow River
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So long boy, you can take my place / Got my papers, I've got my pay / So pack my bags and I'll be on my way / To Yellow River / Put my gun down, the war is won / Fill my glass high
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R.E.M. – Funtime (Live in Athens, 1992)
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(Fun) hey baby, we like your lips / (Fun) hey baby we like your pants / All aboard for funtime / (Fun) hey, I feel lucky tonight / (Fun) I'm gonna get stoned and run around / All
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R.E.M. – Fall On Me (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / There's the problem, feathers, iron / Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys / Feathers hit the ground / Before the weight can leave the air / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Buy the
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R.E.M. – Crush with Eyeliner
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“Crush With Eyeliner” is the second track on R.E.M.’s ninth studio album, Monster. It was released as the album’s fourth single and featured a Spike Jonze-directed music video.
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R.E.M. – Living Well is the Best Revenge (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / It's only when your poison spins into the life you'd hoped to live / That suddenly you wake up in a shaking panic / Now / You set me up like a lamb to slaughter / Garbo
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R.E.M. – Favorite Writer
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In Corsica the engines blew / Your favorite writer died / In a car, in a crash / Died in a fire imagine that / In a car, in a crash / Die in a fire imagine that / Engine, engineer
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R.E.M. – Houston (Live in London)
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[Verse] / If the storm doesn't kill me the government will / I've got to get that out of my head / It's a new day today and the coffee is strong / I've finally got some rest / So a
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R.E.M. – King of Comedy (808 State Remix)
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[Verse 1] / Make your money with a suit and tie / Make your money with shrewd denial / Make your money expert advice / If you can wing it / Make your money with a power ply / Make
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R.E.M. – Shiny Happy People (Hip Mix)
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[Intro] / Shiny happy people laughing / [Verse 1] / Meet me in the crowd, people, people / Throw your love around, love me, love me / Take it into town, happy, happy / Put it in
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R.E.M. – Redhead Walking
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[Verse 1] / Out there are silver-tressed darlings / And raven-maned delights / When ginger hair gets all fired up / She beats them in the night / [Refrain] / That redhead walking
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R.E.M. – You Are the Everything (Live in Greensboro, 1989)
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I feel like I can't even sing / (Say, say, the light) I'm very scared for this world, I'm very scared for me / (Say, say, the light) Eviscerate your memory
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R.E.M. – Love Is All Around
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I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes / Love is all around me and so the feeling grows / It's written on the wind, it's everywhere I go / So if you really love me, come on
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R.E.M. – Wall of Death
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[Intro] / Na na na, na na na na, na na na na na / [Verse 1] / Let me ride on the wall of death one more time / Let me ride on the wall of death one more time / You can waste your
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R.E.M. – Hallelujah
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[Verse 1] / The world is an oyster, the bitter refrain / The Lord is my shepherd, I cannot stay / This blessed earth, this beautiful lamb / A new day that breaks the dawn / [Verse
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R.E.M. – Man On the Moon (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Monopoly, Twenty-one, Checkers, and Chess
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R.E.M. – We All Go Back to Where We Belong
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[Verse 1] / I dreamt what you were offering / Imagine lying next to me / Your shirt and your reputation tossed / [Verse 2] / I will write our story in my mind / Write about our
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R.E.M. – A Month of Saturdays
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[Verse 1] / Five o'clock Friday / All my work is done / I can hardly wait / Let's take the server / Let's sling it around / Let's make it taste so sweet / I want to take all the
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion (Acoustic Live at KFOG, San Francisco)
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Oh, life is bigger / It's bigger than you and you are not me / The lengths that I will go to the distance in your eyes / Oh no, I've said too much, I set it
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R.E.M. – Hollow Man (Live from London)
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[Verse 1] / I've been lost inside my head / Echoes fall off me / I took the prize last night for complicatedness / For saying things I didn't mean and don't believe / [Chorus
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R.E.M. – Houston
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[Verse] / If the storm doesn't kill me, the government will / I've got to get that out of my head / It's a new day today and the coffee is strong / I finally got some rest / So a
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R.E.M. – Hollow Man
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[Verse 1] / I've been lost inside my head / Echoes fall off me / I took the prize last night for complicated mess / For saying things I didn't mean and don't believe / [Chorus
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R.E.M. – Mr. Richards
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Mr. Richards is one of several R.E.M. songs with more direct political content. In this case, the song reacts to the end of the Bush (George W. Bush) presidency, after much of the
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R.E.M. – I'm Gonna DJ
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Death is pretty final / I'm collecting vinyl / I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world / 'Cause if heaven does exist / With a kickin' playlist / I don't wanna miss it at the end of
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R.E.M. – Horse to Water
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[Verse 1] / I could have kept my head down / I might have kept my mouth shut / I should have held my own / You lead a horse to water and you watch him drown / [Verse 2] / You're
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R.E.M. – Until the Day Is Done
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[Verse 1] / The battle's been lost, the war is not won / An addled republic, a bitter refund / The business first flat earthers licking their wounds / The verdict is dire, the
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R.E.M. – Living Well Is the Best Revenge
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This song is the opening track to the 2008 album Accelerate and served in R.E.M’s return to rock music. The title is a reference to the George Herbert book of proverbs, Jacula
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R.E.M. – Man-Sized Wreath
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Michael Stipe said this song was about Former President George W. Bush’s visit to Atlanta to honor “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Stipe, an ardent liberal and opponent of President
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R.E.M. – Accelerate
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[Verse 1] / Sinking fast, the weights chained to my feet / No time to argue with belief / I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping / Faster than me / What put me here? Nothing to
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R.E.M. – Sing for the Submarine
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Michael has said in an interview that this song is about a submarine driven by melody as a metaphor for how some of his song ideas come about. Throughout he references songs that
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Blur – Song 2
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“Song 2” is the second single released from Blur’s eponymous fifth album. It is a deeply catchy satire of grunge music. It is named “Song 2” because it appears as the second track
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Blur – Song 2 Samples
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See all of “Song 2” by Blur’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Scarlett Johansson – Last Goodbye
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This is our last goodbye / I hate to feel the love between us die / But it's over, just hear this and then I'll go / You gave me more to live for / More than you'll ever know / Oh
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Beat Happening – Red Head Walking
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[Verse 1] / There are silver-tressed darlings / And raven-maned delights / Windward cop gets fired up / She beats him in the night / [Hook] / That red head walking / Red head
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