 Genius Meanings
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Roxy Music – Jealous Guy
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I was dreaming of the past / And my heart was beating fast / I began to lose control / I began to lose control / I didn't mean to hurt you / I'm sorry that I made you cry / I didn'
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Roxy Music – Jealous Guy (Live)
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I was dreaming of the past / And my heart was beating fast / I began to lose control / I began to lose control / I didn't mean to hurt you / I'm sorry that I made you cry / I didn'
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The Weeknd – Jealous Guy
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The Weeknd remakes John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy” with Mike Dean and synths and gives it a new meaning for his series The Idol.
The song features on episode four as a metaphor for
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John Lennon – Jealous Guy
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Lennon wrote the melody when he was in The Beatles. They recorded it as a demo called “Child of Nature”, which he’d written about their trip to India to study with Maharishi Mahesh
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Donny Hathaway – Jealous Guy (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I was dreaming of the past / And my heart was beating fast / I began to lose control / I began to lose control / [Chorus] / I didn't mean to hurt you / And I'm sorry I
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Pitchfork – The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s
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1. David Bowie – "Life on Mars?" / 2. Michael Jackson – "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" / 3. Marvin Gaye – "What's Going On" / 4. Donna Summer – "I Feel Love" / 5. Kate Bush – "
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Roxy Music – Like a Hurricane
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[Intro] / This is a Neil Young song / It's called "Like a Hurricane" / [Verse 1] / Once I thought I saw you / In a crowded hazy bar / Dancing on the light from the star to star
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LUCKI – 13
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On “13,” LUCKI brags about his wealth and exhibits his travel status, touring from country to country to perform live—over a spacey instrumental. The title “13” pays homage to the
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Roxy Music – More Than This
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[Verse 1] / I could feel at the time / There was no way of knowing / Fallen leaves in the night / Who can say where they're blowing? / As free as the wind / Hopefully learning
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Roxy Music – Can't Let Go
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Well I rush out blazin' / My pulse is racin' / As the rain streams down my face / There's no turning back now / To fight with fate / Outnumbered, out of place / They said go west
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Roxy Music – Love Is the Drug
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Comparing romantic longings with those of drug users is a classic trope in popular music, going back to songs like 1973’s “Love Jones” or even 1932’s “You’re Getting to Be a Habit
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Roxy Music – Mother of Pearl
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Stranded was a change of direction for Roxy Music. Brian Eno had left, and their sound became more “rock group”.
Ferry’s lyrical complexity endured.
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Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
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In 1964 when Bryan Ferry was an art student he painted a picture titled “Virginia Plain”. It was reportedly of a packet of cigarettes and a woman on a plain (landscape feature
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Roxy Music – Do the Strand
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Lead singer Bryan Ferry has described his idea for ‘Do The Strand’ as:
[…] being that of the ‘dance of life’ – thus bringing to mind earlier dance phenomena, such as the avant
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Roxy Music – My Only Love
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Do I ever wonder? / More than words can say / Heaven knows it's / Hard enough to pray / Let me tell you something / There's a change in me / Even now you're gone / You'll always be
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Roxy Music – Oh Yeah
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[Verse 1] / Some expression in your eyes / Overtook me by surprise / Where was I? / How was I to know? / Ohh oh ohh / [Bridge] / How can we drive to a movie show / When the music
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Nas (Ft. AZ, Cormega & Foxy Brown) – Affirmative Action
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“Affirmative Action” is track eight from It Was Written. It was a posse cut, introducing The Firm.
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Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
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In an interview with Daily Telegraph, Gaga said that “Paparazzi” is about “struggling to balance success and love.”
An excerpt from a separate interview:
The song is about a few
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Roxy Music – Avalon
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The title track of Roxy Musics final studio album, Avalon.
It was released as a single in 1982, reaching no. 13 in the UK Singles Chart.
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The Soft Boys – Insanely Jealous
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She's walking down the street / Me - I'm just invisible / And who or where she walks with makes no difference to me / The people that she meets / She turns them into sideshows
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Bryan Ferry – He'll Have to Go
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Put your sweet lips a little closer / To the phone / And let's pretend that we're together / All alone / I'll tell the man to turn the juke-box / Way down low / And you can tell
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South Park Mexican – In My Hood
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[SPM] / One, Two buckle that fool / He's Fuckin with me, if he's Fuckin with you / Hillwood to my bones, to my chromosomes / Got two forty-fo's so I'm not home alone / Push a
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Roxy Music – Over You
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Oh, baby / This is nowhere / Wish I was somewhere / Over you / Your sweet lips / Tell me there's no chance / No more romance / Over you / Oh, baby / How can I go on? / Crying so
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Roxy Music – Pyjamarama
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[Verse 1] / Couldn't sleep a wink last night / Oh how I'd love to hold you tight / They say you have a secret life / Made sacrifice your key to paradise / [Verse 2] / Never mind
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Bryan Ferry – Let's Stick Together ('88 Remix)
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And now the marriage vow is very sacred / The man has put us together now / You ought to make it stick together / Come on, come on and stick together / You know we made a vow to
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Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him?
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This is the first single released by Joe Jackson for his first album, Look Sharp! The song is about a man peoplewatching from his apartment window, pointing out how pretty women
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Roxy Music – To Turn You On
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I could show you in a word / If I wanted to / A window on a world / With a lovely view / From close up inside a single room / With an open book aside / Like you read in school / It
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Roxy Music – Out of the Blue
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All your cares / Now they seem / Oh so far away / All your fears / I fear I once shared / Now I know / There's a future / For all of us / Not so long ago / I was so scared / You
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LUCKI – Bby Pluto
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[Intro] / (Tay Keith, fuck these niggas up) Everything a rack, fuck a hunnid', keep it that / Are ya, haha / Ayy, ayy / I like sayin' we slime, but I'm Baby Pluto, ayy / Ayy, ayy
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Wu-Tang Clan – Reunited
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[Intro: Ms. Roxy] / It's Wu motherfuckers, Wu-Tang motherfuckers / It's Wu motherfuckers, a Wu-Tang motherfuckers / It's Wu motherfuckers, a Wu-Tang motherfuckers / It's Wu / [
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The Soft Boys – You'll Have to Go Sideways
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[Instrumental]
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