 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – Hypersonic Missiles (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Verse 1] / Dutch kids huff balloons in the parking lot / The Golden Arches illuminate the business park / I eat myself to death, feed the corporate machine / I watch the movies
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Sam Fender – Play God
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“Set in an alternate dystopian reality that shares similarities with our own world,” Sam Fender’s “Play God” revolves around the idea of an Orwellian overlord who controls society
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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 – Call Me Lover
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Sam penned this song when he was 19, he has since fallen out of love with it slightly as he admitted in a backstage interview after his Shepherd’s Bush gig (2/5/19).
He has
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Sam Fender – Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Shields Remix)
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Jun 19, 2019 ... Start the song bio. Q&A. Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning. Ask a question. Who produced ...
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Sam Fender – That Sound
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[Verse 1] / Serotonin stole the moment / The best of me was left under / The bed-sheets on that sombre morning / Dying for some REM / My mind is always troubled with / Where have I
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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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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 – 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 – Use (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Emphatic, over-dramatic, pathetic stories are spun / 'Bout me and my loose tongue / They'll have the jealousy pouring out as they sniff up the filth / And text a tirade
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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 – Aye
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[Verse 1] / They don't act up for the camera / They just sit back and command them / And collect and deflect and abandon / They even wrote all the Ten Commandments / They watched
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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 – Start Again
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[Verse 1] / Let's start again / An embryonic world / All the books are burned / We'll have to relearn, everything / New religions / Same old science / 'Cause the tests came back
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Sam Fender – Leave Fast
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This song is about the confined nature that small towns can have, and how difficult it can be to leave it all behind, much as you may want to.
Hailing from North Shields in the
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Sam Fender – Dead Boys
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“On average, 84 men take their own lives in the UK every week.”
The song is about how (British) society ignores or chooses to ignore male suicides, perhaps due to social stigma
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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 – Hold Out
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[Verse 1] / Cab lines fill up with hot headed hard boys / Capering from the stand / Shivering lovers sharing coats and one liners / Awaiting the late night dance / Friday hyenas
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Sam Fender – Play God (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Verse 1] / You were cracking all your fingers / With your eyes fixed to the floor / Sound had echoed down the street / By the monument you hear / Man is screaming through a
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Sam Fender – Better of Me (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Spoken Intro] / Alright, this song is called "Better of Me" / [Verse 1: Sam Fender] / It opened up Pandora's box / And it all came rushin' out like water / Trapped inside a
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Sam Fender – Paradigms
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[Verse 1] / Every bully that had maimed you, bled you dry / And the blinkered say that boys will be boys / And they're just kids being sly / And they wonder why some die / [Verse 2
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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 – Howdon Aldi Death Queue
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[Screamed] / Get off the metro now! / Rule Britannia / Marmalade and jam / Skitzy fucking Tory cunts / Have come to kill me Nan, whey! / [Verse 1] / I got a letter from the NHS
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Sam Fender – Iris
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“Iris” is set to be featured in Jamie Childs' 2024 action thriller, Jackdaw, which is set in the North East of England.
The track was debuted live on Edith Bowman’s BBC Radio 2
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Sam Fender – Dead Boys - Prelude
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[Instrumental] / I'm firing on three cylinders / If only I knew what you meant / I'm firing on three cylinders / If only I knew what you meant / I'm firing on three cylinders / If
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Sam Fender – Better of Me
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[Verse 1: Sam Fender] / It opened up Pandora's box / And it all came rushin' out like water / Trapped inside a pressurised vat / I lay crooked on the stairs / Pickin' fights with
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Sam Fender – The Dying Light (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Spoken Intro] / Alright, this song, hum, we pretend to walk off-stage and you guys, I hope you know what to do, we might pretend to walk off-stage. I hate fucking encores, that's
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Sam Fender – The Leveller
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[Verse 1] / Stunned by the stillness of it all / Waitin' in vain for the almighty crash / As little England rips itself to pieces / [Verse 2] / Buried my grandma along with her
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Sam Fender – Little Bull Of Blithe
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[Verse 1] / Call me your little bull of blithe / Call me the twinkle in your eye / You sing Sam-I-Am / Washed his face in a frying pan / And I was your little bull of blithe / [
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Sam Fender – Saturday (Live From Finsbury Park)
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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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Sam Fender – Mantra (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Spoken Intro] / I've always wanted to play this next song just as the sun sets and so finally we'll have that right now / [Verse 1] / "Please stop tryin' to impress people who don
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Sam Fender – Will We Talk? (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Verse 1] / "Blue Monday" / Blarin' loudly out the speaker / Fluorescent liquid in his beaker / Another night they've gone too far / She said / "I don't usually do this kind of
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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 – Howdon Aldi Death Queue (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Screamed] / Get off the metro now! / Rule Britannia / Marmalade and jam / Skitzy fucking Tory cunts / Have come to kill me Nan, whey! / [Verse 1] / I got a letter from the NHS
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