Genius Meanings
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 Hamm – Batman 2 (early draft)
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Early draft that would eventually become Batman Returns.
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Marcel Proust – Names of People (Chapter 1)
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CHAPTER ONE / NAMES OF PEOPLE: THE DUCHESSE DE GUERMANTES — SAINT-LOUP AT DONCIÈRES — MME. DE VILLEPARISIS AT HOME — MY GRANDMOTHER’S
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