 Genius Meanings
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Longest Wave
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“The Longest Wave” was inspired by Anthony Kiedis’ two year relationship with Helena Vestergaard, his model ex-girlfriend. As with several other songs on The Getaway, the lyricism
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
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The first single off of Californication describes the struggles addicts go through to get sober and how they are viewed different when they return to reality. Scar tissue is a good
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tippa My Tongue
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Lead single from their album Return of the Dream Canteen, and fresh on the heels of their Frusciante comeback album Unlimited Love, “Tippa My Tongue” features a throwback sound
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dark Necessities
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Anthony Kiedis, who wrote the lyrics to “Dark Necessities” in Hawaii, explained that the song:
speaks to the beauty of our dark sides and how much creativity and growth and light
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Go Robot
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This song is about how people nowadays act like robots (beings without feelings or emotions) when engaging in sexual intercourse. They don’t get attached to the person with whom
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
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A single from the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s 1999 album Californication, the “other side” here is a metaphor for both the struggle to get back to a normal life after addiction and also
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Sick Love
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[Verse 1] / Say goodbye to Oz and everything you own / California dreamin' is a Pettibon / LA's screaming you're my home / Vanity is blasted but it's rarely fair / I could smell
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
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“The Getaway” is the cryptically-written title track and opener from Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ 2016 album, that some have hypothesized to be about two people with a large age
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – This Ticonderoga
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In this song, the main singer, Anthony Kiedis pulls from his many relationships. As stated in an interview that “there were years when Kiedis slept with more than 100 partners.”
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Hunter
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“The Hunter” is an ode to Anthony’s father, John Kiedis, who is best known by his stage name, Blackie Dammett. Throughout the song Anthony reflects upon his relationship with
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Goodbye Angels
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The song is about the end of the relationship between lead singer Anthony Kiedis and Australian super model Helena Verstergaard. Although he loves her he’s accepted that it wasn’t
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Encore
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As its title suggests, “Encore” was initially a short instrumental jam session played onstage towards the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ live shows. Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dreams of a Samurai
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[Verse 1] / Standing naked in your kitchen / Feeling free that I could be alive / Clearly, I'm a contradiction / Too young to be my wife / A peaceful storm is never hectic / Her
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – We Turn Red
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Described as a funked-up tour of destinations in America’s East, South, Midwest, and Southwest, “We Turn Red” was the third track to be previewed ahead of the release of the Red
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Feasting on the Flowers
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This is the eighth song of the album and it seems to be directed to Hillel, ex-guitarist of the Peppers, that died from drug overdose in 1988.
Anthony already composed other
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Outer Space
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[Verse 1] / When I come to you, split this love in two / Overcome with fear but overdue / I set it free to let it move on / [Verse 2] / The crashing of your star, a fallen avatar
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Detroit
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As its title suggests, the song is a tribute to Detroit, the most populous city in the state of Michigan. Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith spent most of his childhood in
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Kaly
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[Verse 1] / I'm a lunatic, and a hypocrite / A lone star gone lost in vain / I'm a Kerouac, and a gunnysack / A fringe mad lad pre-ordained / [Pre-Chorus 1] / You don't have to
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Chicano Batman – Cycles of Existential Rhyme
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I’m driving in my car / Upon this crowded star / It’s been my longest night / Under this full moon light / As her brother Sun begins to rise / The new year’s passed it’s almost
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ALL – Carnage
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[Verse 1] / You came clearer / Than ever before / You did what no one else can / Just never follow up when I'm awake / Because I'd hurt you / You'd hurt me too / [Chorus] / You are
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Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS
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Pink Floyd – Breathe (In the Air)
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As the continuation to the album’s opening track “Speak to Me,” which seamlessly segues into “Breathe,” it is the first time we hear any lyrics.
This track is loosely based off
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Three Mile Pilot – Glitter Wave
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Red sea / Red tide / Black liver / Glitter wave / I'm on the glitter wave / Its not for me black channel / Silver dreams / White will freeze as red needs to believe / Realize up on
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The Beatles – I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” is one of the last songs The Beatles ever recorded. It appears as the closing track to Abbey Road’s A-side, but the core of the composition was
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The Lawrence Arms – The Slowest Drink at the Saddest Bar on the Snowiest Day in the Greatest City
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[Verse 1] / My eyes opened to the emptiness / My face was nothing but crooked lines / I guess somewhere I really fell behind / My feet were cold against the bathroom tile / Took a
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MALINDA – Like It’s the End
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[Intro] / There was just so much fear / Anytime I do anything / [Verse 1] / Where we were going, it's gone now / What time we had left, well it's done / Whatever we learned is
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MGMT – Little Dark Age
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“Little Dark Age” is the first single from MGMT’s 4th album of the same name. Produced by Patrick Wimberly, the track was featured on Zane Lowe’s show “Today’s World Record”, and
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A Day To Remember (Ft. Sierra Kay) – If It Means A Lot To You
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“If It Means a Lot to You” is a song about leaving behind a special person, swearing you will be back soon and often but, as time goes on, coming home isn’t as simple as one
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Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
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“Uptown Girl” is a Billy Joel classic that can be found on 1983’s An Innocent Man. Inspired by Frankie Valli’s “Rag Doll,” its lyrics find a “downtown boy” (lower class) waxing
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U2 – With or Without You
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“With or Without You” was released as the lead single from the album “The Joshua Tree”. It was the band’s most successful single at the time.
It features sustained guitar parts
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Zyrtck (Ft. pupis (ITA)) – NON MI AMERAI
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[Testo di "NON MI AMERAI" ft. yangmetastasi] / [Intro: yangmetastasi] / Per 'ste troie sono catechismo / Aspetto mezzi che passano mai / Per favore, non chiamarmi, Cristo / Mi
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Public Image Ltd. – Albatross
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Slow motion, slow motion / Getting rid of the albatross / Sowing seeds of discontent / I know you very well / You are unbearable / I've seen you up far too close / Getting rid of
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Lana Del Rey – West Coast
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“West Coast” is a surf-rock throwback produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. It uses the west coast to frame Lana Del Rey’s tale of leaving her lover to travel—only to return
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Oliver Tree – Jerk
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[Refrain] / You say you don't want me / You call me good for nothing / Straight to my face / You say you don't need me / You call me good for nothing / A waste of space / [Verse 1
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Guns N' Roses – Estranged
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The third song in the unofficial “Del James trilogy” including “Don’t Cry” and “November Rain.”
The director of the music video, Andy Morahan, said:
By the time we got to ‘
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