 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 – You’re Not the Only One (Live at Capitol Studios, solo)
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[Verse 1] / Wallow in the mire and then you're at the pinnacle / The fabricated smiles so wide that it hurts / Your composure is so brittle, and you hold yourself so well / Inside
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Sam Fender – Alright (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Spoken Intro] / But, this is one of me favourites, this is called Alright / [Verse 1] / Something changed at twenty-four / Spent my days moving to and fro / From the bed to the
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Sam Fender – Getting Started (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Intro] / One, two, one, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Eighteen, failed dream / Attracted to a bad scene / Think I'll make a couple errands / Cataclysmic age to be / When you're
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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 – Get You Down (Live From Finsbury Park)
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[Verse 1] / I try again / I study the pattern / I see the triggers / But I can't shake 'em loose / And all of my anger / You take on the chin / [Chorus] / And I get you down / I
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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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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 – Spit Of You (Live From Finsbury Park)
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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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Sun Silva – Blue Light
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Coz it was the first time, the kids ever wrote their own names / It was the first time / I’m sure / When was the last time, the kids ever checked their own weight? / All in a
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Sam Hamm – Batman 2 (early draft)
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Early draft that would eventually become Batman Returns.
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