Genius Meanings
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Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under
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“Seventeen Going Under” is the lead single from Sam Fender’s second album and describes the struggles he had at age 17.
The song was first performed on August 13th 2020 in
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Sam Fender – The Dying Light
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[Verse 1] / This town is a world of waifs and strays / Comedy giants, penniless heroes / Dead men at the bar, I've drank with them all / Through misadventure and drag / But I'm
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Sam Fender – Spit Of You
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[Verse 1] / They say I'm the spit of you / And they're not wrong / Bury my head too / Stomach hurts all the time / Can't shift it / Been like that since eight / Knotted up with the
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Sam Fender – Last to Make It Home
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[Verse 1] / Mary, what looked like a mirage / Made of glimmering silver in sunken eyes / It was actually there in the palm of my hand / But your existence is widely debated / I'm
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Sam Fender – Greasy Spoon
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[Verse 1] / Sickly sweet candy beat / In a fragrant greasy spoon / Knock back black coffee / Work until the afternoon / [Hook] / She hardly sleeps / She hardly eats / She hardly
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Sam Fender – The Borders
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[Verse 1] / We were like brothers / Everybody said we looked the same / You a little taller, and broader, and bolder / We were afraid of your mother / Hell, she used to hit you so
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Sam Fender – Two People
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In “Two People,” Sam Fender takes on the role of a bystanding balladeer, recalling the domestic violence he’d hear as a teen from a neighboring couple and feeling powerless to help
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Sam Fender – Will We Talk?
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Written in 2016, “Will We Talk?” is about the emotional ambiguity presented by one night stands, something Sam admits he was surrounded with as he grew up.
Like many of Sam’s
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Sam Fender – Hypersonic Missiles
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Building upon this Brit Award winning artist’s theme of ‘starting again’ with society, toxic masculinity and the possibility of redemption, Sam Fender released “Hypersonic
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Sam Fender – Getting Started
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[Verse 1] / Eighteen, failed dream / Attracted to a bad scene / Think I'll make a couple errands / Cataclysmic age to be / When you're out of luck and your mother's in need / I
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Sam Fender – You're Not the Only One
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The song is about his best mate and himself “coming out on the other end of a bad place” and going out to party. He told Virgin Radio that “It’s a celebratory song about loving
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Sam Fender – Friday Fighting
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Friday Fighting recounts a bar crawl from Sam’s perspective, in which he omni-presently observes scenes of bravado and instinctive behaviour by those around him.
In Sam’s
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Noah Kahan & Sam Fender – Homesick
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In the recent months, Noah Kahan, the artist behind “Stick Season,” has been actively revisiting his hits alongside some of the music industry’s major figures. Kahan’s latest
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Sam Fender – Spice
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[Verse 1] / Bright kid leaves school / Gets job, hates it / Fakes it too long / Sees no way out / [Verse 2] / Can't talk to girls / No sex for years / Loses his will to live / But
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Sam Fender – Angel in Lothian
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[Verse 1] / Well an angel fell somewhere in Lothian / I was only a child but I trust my eyes / She burnt up like a comet before me / Before I could even say "Hi" / Saw kingdoms
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Sam Fender – Waiting For Love
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[Verse 1] / Where there's a will, there's a way, kind of beautiful / And every night has its day, so magical / And if there's love in this life, there's no obstacle / That can't be
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Sam Fender – White Privilege
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[Verse 1] / Start up my motor, eat, drink some burgers and cola / Feed my addictions and vices, oh, how my iPhone entices / My echo chamber media, regurgitated trivia / Befall the
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Sam Fender – The Kitchen - Live
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[Verse 1] / I have a friend called Jimmy / He loves his bed as a bar / He chews your ear off at four in the morning / Smoking Richmond‘s out the kitchen door / And I have a friend
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Sam Fender – Pretending That You're Dead
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[Verse 1] / Can't see through my letterbox / For piles of letters / And I can't get out my door / The bailiffs come / But I don't care 'bout that / And everybody's asking me
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Sam Fender – Saturday
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[Verse 1] / Overtired, overworked, underpaid, under pressure / Always tying up loose ends / The unchained melody out of tune, remedy for the weekend / To cure the weekday blues
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