 Genius Meanings
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Rush – Seven Cities of Gold
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[Verse 1] / A man can lose his past, in a country like this / Wandering aimless / Parched and nameless / A Man could lose his way, in a country like this / Canyons and cactus
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Taylor Swift – gold rush
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“gold rush” is a song depicting the jealousy the narrator has because she is attracted to someone who everyone admires.
Because of this, she has to stop picturing her life with
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Rush – Wish Them Well [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Victimized, Bereaved, And Disappointed, Seemingly At Every Turn, I still resist feeling defeated, or cynical. I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in
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Rush – Subdivisions [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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[Verse 1] / Sprawling on the fringes of the city / In geometric order / An insulated border / In between the bright lights / And the far unlit unknown / [Verse 2] / Growing up it
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Rush – The Analog Kid [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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A hot and windy August afternoon / Has the trees in constant motion / With a flash of silver leaves / As they're rocking in the breeze / The boy lies in the grass with one blade
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Rush – Peke’s Repose/Halo Effect [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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[Instrumental] / I Had Fallen Helplessly In Love with one of the performers. She was so different from “the girl I left behind,” and I was beginning to understand I had only
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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – El Dorado
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[Verse 1] / I'm Gold Rush Kate from the Golden State with a nugget around my neck / I keep the red lights burning bright from here to Hell and back / I've dug for silver and for
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Cast of Dora and the Lost City of Gold – Hooray! We Did It
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Oh hooray, we did it / We found the golden Parapata / Oh hooray, we did it / Deep inside America / Oh hooray, we did it / We survived the Amazon jungle / Oh hooray, we did it / I
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Fivio Foreign, Kanye West & Alicia Keys – City of Gods
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“City of Gods” is a collaboration between Fivio Foreign, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys and is a triumphant ode to Fivio and Keys’ hometown of New York City. The song serves as the
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Death Cab for Cutie – Gold Rush
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“Gold Rush” finds Death Cab’s frontman Benjamin Gibbard lamenting on the changing face of his adopted hometown city of Seattle, Washington, which has experienced extraordinary
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
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On his 1970 album After the Gold Rush, Neil Young wrote a song called “Southern Man,” which described the racism in the South as he saw it after visiting there.
I saw cotton
And I
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PARTYNEXTDOOR – FREAK IN YOU
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“Freak In You” is the second song of COLOURS 2 by PARTYNEXTDOOR, where he speaks about a girl’s “inner freak”. The song was first previewed at a live performance on May 21st, 2017.
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Seven Kingdoms – Blackwater Rush
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Raise the chain / And trap their ships against the current and the walls / Pick off the traitors one by one / Our catapults rain down a vicious brew / That burns a deadly hue
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Rush – Caravan
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The opening track of Rush’s 2012 concept album Clockwork Angels, and the lead single of the album. Written by drummer Neil Peart, “Caravan” describes both the initial setting and
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Ludacris (Ft. Nate Dogg) – Area Codes
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What’s the area code in heaven again?
Whatever afterworld you do (or don’t) believe in -rest assured- Nate Dogg and Luda got hoes there.
And in case you’re a visual learner:
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Qumu – Ecruteak City / Cianwood City (From "Pokémon Gold and Silver")
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[Instrumental]
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Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – The Schuyler Sisters
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Referred to as the Destiny’s Child number of the musical, “The Schuyler Sisters” explosively introduces two of Hamilton’s major female players, Angelica and Eliza Schuyler… as well
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Danny Vera – Gold Rush
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[Verse 1] / Hear the train leavin' / Ain't coming back no more / See the buildings rising / All that glitters ain't no gold / 'Cause the city don't feel like home no more / She
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Danny Vera – Gold Rush
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[Verse 1] / Hear the train leavin' / Ain't coming back no more / See the buildings rising / All that glitters ain't no gold / 'Cause the city don't feel like home no more / She
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Christmas Songs – The Twelve Days of Christmas
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“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is an English Christmas carol that enumerates each day by the gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.
Frederic Austin was known to
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Nas (Ft. Lauryn Hill) – If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)
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Nas' exercise in Utopianism – inspired by Sir Thomas More (and Kurtis Blow).
Nas told Complex:
Being a hip-hop fan and Krush Groove fan, Kurtis Blow was my favorite rapper when I
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Ed Sheeran – Gold Rush
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“Gold Rush” is the 16th track on +, Ed Sheeran’s debut studio album, serving as a bonus track for its Deluxe Edition.
Watch him perform it live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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Motorcycle – As the Rush Comes (Original Radio Edit)
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Travellin' somewhere, could be anywhere / Theres a coldness in the air, but I don't care / We drift deeper, life goes on / We drift deeper, into the sound / Travellin' somewhere
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Wu-Tang Clan – Bring da Ruckus
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The opening track of the Wu-Tang Clan’s classic debut album Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers sets the stage for a Shaolin takeover of the rap game.
“Bring da Ruckus” is remastered
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The Hold Steady – Sweet Payne
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THS hits all of the album’s big themes with this song – unified scenes, celebrity lookalikes, mysterious parts of Minneapolis, our favorite street gang, and more
Craig Finn had
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The Flying Burrito Brothers – Sin City
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This song is in part a warning to naive, talented musicians coming to LA to make their careers. Chris Hillman had seen the music industry chew up and spit out many people, himself
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Gorillaz (Ft. Bootie Brown & Tame Impala) – New Gold
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[Chorus: Kevin Parker] / But in the magic cove, there's a pretty one / I asked her where it goes 'cause I really want / I wonder if she knows that we're underwater / That's the way
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2Pac (Ft. Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman) – California Love
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2Pac and Dr. Dre rap about the many facets that accompany living the California lifestyle.
Arguably his most famous song, it was the first track he released after his stint in
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Big Time Rush – Boyfriend
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[Chorus: All] / Your boy, boy, bo-bo-boy, bo-bo-boyfriend / Your boy, boy, bo-bo-boy, bo-bo-boyfriend / Your boy, boy, bo-bo-boy, bo-bo-boyfriend / Your boy, boy, bo-bo-boy, bo-bo-
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Rush – Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres
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The first track off of Rush’s sixth album, Hemispheres. “Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres” is a continuation of “Cygnus X-1, Book I: The Voyage”, the closing track on Rush’s
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Michael Jackson – Human Nature
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Human Nature, which peaked at No. 7 on the Hot 100, is one of Jackson’s best ballads, and one of the few songs to capture the wide-eyed, childlike wonder that is part and parcel of
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Snoop Dogg (Ft. Kurupt & LBC Crew) – Gold Rush
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[Verse 1: Snoop Dogg] / Josey Wales was known for robbin' trains and banks / Layin everybody down for diamond rings and chains / It remains the same in the year you live in, see
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Veeze – Weekend
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[Intro] / Yeah / [Verse 1] / This shit ain't for the weak men / You ain't gettin' money, you was ballin' for a weekend / Just gettin' started, already in the deep end / This just
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Spotify – New Music Friday 07/14/23
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Post Malone - Overdrive / Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? / KAROL G - S91 / Troye Sivan - Rush / Jung Kook - Seven (feat. Latto) (Explicit Ver.) / Quavo & Future- Turn Yo Clic
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Drake & 21 Savage – Hours In Silence
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Drake & 21 get emotional about a distant lover on this heartfelt track.
Drake talks about taking his lover out from the hood, and how she wouldnt be here without him. He takes
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J. Cole – t h e . c l i m b . b a c k
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On “t h e . c l i m b . b a c k,” J. Cole talks about rediscovering his love for rap and some of his traumatic life experiences.
Two days before releasing the song, Cole
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Rush – Halo Effect
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[Verse 1] / What did I see? / Fool that I was / A goddess, with wings on her heels / All my illusions / Projected on her / The ideal, that I wanted to see / [Chorus] / What did I
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Audien (Ft. Michael SanFilippo) – Leaving You
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“Leaving You” was released in 2013 on Zouk Recordings. It was the immediate follow-up single to Audien’s smash hit “Wayfarer”, cementing his status as a big name in electronic
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Leon Bridges – Beyond
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[Verse 1] / Don't wanna get ahead of myself / Feeling things I've never felt / It's kinda hard for me to explain / Her personality and everything / Brings me to my knees, oh / She
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Rush – The Garden [Clockwork Angels Tour]
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Long Ago I Read A Story From Another Timeline about a character named Candide. He also survived a harrowing series of misadventures and tragedies, then settled on a farm near
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$UICIDEBOY$ (Ft. Pouya) – BREAKDALAW2K16
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Pouya rejoins the boys for the first track on Eternal Grey: “BREAKDALAW2K16”—all about breaking da law.
The song itself is a homage to Three 6 Mafia’s “Break Da Law ‘95,” a song
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Fleetwood Mac – Gold Dust Woman
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Written by vocalist Stevie Nicks, “Gold Dust Woman” is a fusion of love-loss devastation and coping with an excess of drugs:
‘Gold Dust Woman’ was really my symbolic look about
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Taylor Swift – happiness
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Despite its appearance, “happiness” has a deceptive title—as Taylor acknowledged herself during the “willow” premiere. It’s a classic Taylor track about moving on from a decaying
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