Genius Meanings
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Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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Rupert Holmes’s claim to fame – the hit that was the last number 1 of the ‘70s in the US. It was also a top 30 hit in New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK.
“Escape” is
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Rupert Holmes – Touch and Go
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Nobody said that / Life is always fair / Sometimes it clips your wings / While you're in mid-air / But there's a thread / Between your life and mine / And when you're losin' hope
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Rupert Holmes – Lunch Hour
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She gets an hour for lunch but if it comes to the crunch / She can stretch it if you know what I mean / She meets him at a hotel where they're not known very well / 'Cause they
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Rupert Holmes – Talk
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When she said, "I don't really want to know you / All I wanna do is show you" / Why did I begin to talk? / When I said, "Tell me do you like linguine? / Have you seen the new
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Rupert Holmes – Widescreen
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There are songs that sound like movies / There are themes that fill the screen / There are lines I say that sound as if they're written / There are looks I wear the theater should
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Rupert Holmes – Partners in Crime
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She's under-age and she's underweight / And she's one month hooked and she's two months late / She comes from Wyoming / And he named her Desiree / She hit New York like a farm-
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Rupert Holmes – In You I Trust
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I don't trust no magazine / I don't trust the price of gasoline / And when you say I must / I simply say, "Ooh, in you I trust" / Seeing is believing you / When I see your eyes, I'
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Rupert Holmes – Him
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[Verse 1] / Over by the window / There's a pack of cigarettes / Not my brand, you understand / Sometimes the girl forgets / She forgets to hide them / I know who left those smokes
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Rupert Holmes – Nearsighted
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If you take these glasses from my face, I think that you will find / I'm undeniably, certifiably just this shade of blind / But I don't envy those of you with 20/20 vision / Who
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Rupert Holmes – One Born Every Minute
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I get the feeling that when I was young / I missed the day of school / When everyone learned how to never get hurt / And never to play the fool / I am the lifetime owner of the
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Rupert Holmes – Studio Musician
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I am a studio musician / We've never met, but you know me well / I am the English horn that played the poignant counter-line / Upon the song you heard while making love in some
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Rupert Holmes – Who, What, When, Where, Why
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Who (who ooh ooh ooh ooh) / What (woo ooh ooh ooh ooh) / Where (woo ooh ooh ooh ooh) / Why (tell me why, tell me why, tell me why) / I don't understand / Let's sit down and talk
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Rupert Holmes – The Old School
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The board of education and the leaders of this town / Have determined that the time has come to tear my old school down / Ginger, stand beside me as they lay into the walls
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Rupert Holmes – Show Me Where It Says
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Where's it say I gotta be (Where's it say? Where's it say?) / What the world would make of me? (Where's it say? Where's it say?) / Where's it say I gotta sign (Where's it say
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Rupert Holmes – Singles
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Singles / You and I are singles / Strangers / Trying to stay warm in the snow / Maybe / We will wake as strangers / Or maybe we will find / We have somewhere to go / Couples / All
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The Buoys – Timothy
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[Verse 1] / Trapped in a mine what had caved in / And everyone knows the only ones left / Were Joe and me and Tim / [Verse 2] / When they broke through to pull us free / The only
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Rupert Holmes – Aw Shucks
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I know I'll never forget the very last time we met / Down by the Hudson, a quarter past three / You said you wanted to quit, and though I stumbled a bit / I'm here to say that you
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Rupert Holmes – Answering Machine
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In this song, Rupert Holmes describes a situation where he tries to call his girlfriend, whom he wants to marry. He tells her over a message on her answering machine on her phone
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Rupert Holmes – Terminal
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I've come back this morning to where I first came alive / Here within this terminal where the buses arrive / I was a commuter on the 804, worked for a computer on the 19th floor
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Rupert Holmes – Deco Lady
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She goes to discos with a hard-running crowd / Dressed up to kill, they never speak very loud / Her style and speed are from another decade / And when she struts the street, she's
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Rupert Holmes – Speechless
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I can make a speech / When the mood comes to me / Yes, it's true / But oh, pretty darlin' / I'm speechless when it comes to you / Speechless when you reach for my hand / I'm so
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Rupert Holmes – You'll Love Me Again
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She said, "I'm leaving." / I said, "You're leaving." / She said, "Somehow I thought you knew." / She said, "I'll phone ya." / I said, "No, I'11 see you— / And don't believe this
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Rupert Holmes – I Don't Need You
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I don't need you / I don't need you half as much / As you need me / And I thank my lucky stars / That you have freed me / 'Cause I'm losing weight at last / Losing weight and
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Rupert Holmes – Drop It
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You and me can beat this rap / It's a rat race headin' for a mouse trap / Let's drop it / Mmm, honey, let's drop it, drop it, drop it, drop it / Who's got what and what's got who
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Rupert Holmes – Queen Bee
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Great Land o'Goshen, there's a lot of locomotion / In the middle of a big bee hive / You can do the blamin' on the pistil and the stamen / But you know it's just the jungle jive
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Rupert Holmes – Phantom of the Opera
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[Verse 1] / I wrote a song tonight, and no one else will hear it / Although my voice rings long / If you were once to see my face I know you'd fear it / Your screams would drown my
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Rupert Holmes – Town Square
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Riding on a midnight bus and through the window / I read the signposts like pages in a storybook / In the flare of a truck on the white line trail / I search the roadside / For
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Rupert Holmes – Guitars
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Taut and tight, there's a net in the night / The evening is strung with strings / Power lines intertwine with the vines / The telephone wire sings / My pulse is racing / I need to
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Rupert Holmes – I Don't Want to Get Over You
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All my friends drop by and say / "Say get yourself in hand, it's a brand new day" / Though I see the sun, I don't see the light / Since you left, it's been one friendless, endless
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Rupert Holmes – Lullaby for Myself
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Self-contained / And self-content / No promises to keep / I've got things so together / That I just can't fall asleep / Walked the night / And drank the moon / Got home at half
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Rupert Holmes – Let's Get Crazy Tonight
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Life can be too much, you see / We all need insanity / You're off the hook when you're off the wall / You got to say, "the hell with them all" / Come on, let's get crazy tonight (
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Rupert Holmes – The People That You Never Get to Love
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[Verse 1] / You're browsing through a secondhand bookstore / And you see her in nonfiction V through Y / She looks up from World War II / And then you catch her catching you
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Rupert Holmes – Adventure
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Everywhere I turn, there are people just like me / All searching, desperately, for adventure / Risking life and limb in a million daring deeds / For everybody needs their adventure
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Rupert Holmes – Philly
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Momma, you came from northern Tennessee / Pappa, you said the country's no good for me / You had so much to gain, ya moved on to Pennsylvania lights / Philly, you were the town
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