Genius Meanings
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Peek-a-Boo
|
An oddball in the Banshees catalog, “Peek-A-Boo” is a very danceable track built around a reverse sample from John Cale’s song, “Gun” and a manipulated vocal from Siouxsie Sioux
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Rhapsody
|
In the soil of our sadness / Hear our hearts bell a serenade / A faint choir tenderly shaping / A lament, a hollow refuge / In the blood of the twinkling sky / Breathing in air
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Rawhead and Bloodybones
|
Bad word or bad deed / Unpunished invites grief / Here's Rawhead and Bloodybones / Reaching from dark cupboard / Crouching under stair / Lurking in chimney, pond or well / We're
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Killing Jar
|
[Verse 1] / Down where this ugly man seeks his sustenance / Down in the blue, midnight flare / A glass hand cuts through the water / Scything into his twisted roots / Then from his
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Face to Face
|
[Verse 1] / Face to face, my lovely foe / Mouth to mouth, raining heaven's blows / Hand on heart, tic tac toe / Under the stars, naked as we flow / Cheek to cheek, the bitter sweet
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Burn-Up
|
[Verse 1] / A crumpled future in your fist / The killing streak ascends sun-kissed / And the firestarter from within / Pokes out from fever blistered grin / King Salamander, that's
|
|
Louis Armstrong – Jeepers Creepers
|
Armstrong premiered this song in the 1938 film Going Places. He sang the song to a racehorse, partly because African-Americans couldn’t generally sing to each other in Hollywood
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – I Could Be Again
|
Through glowing gloom, I see the flicker of treason / Dancing on the picture of what might have been / This minute will last a day, these days will last for years / And those years
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Dizzy
|
[Chorus] / Dizzy / Dizzy / Oh, so dizzy / [Verse 1] / Scorpio rising on the horizon / Thunder tumbling from the mountains / Harpy sirens strangle silence / A piece of mind left
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Turn to Stone
|
[Verse 1] / High above the sickle moon / All senseless thought slips and drowns / A place, a time gone out of mind / Reaction swims, the opal tide / [Chorus] / Oh, ferry me down
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Scarecrow
|
[Verse 1] / He trembles in the bitter wind / Until it's time for us to speak / Whilst others here are sleeping sound / I'll slip away by floorboard creak / Upon the hill he'll hear
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Carousel
|
[Verse 1] / You clamber up and look behind / Their watchful eyes, the helping hands / A hen that's fierce and painted blue / With red eyes, wants to swallow you / [Chorus] / A
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Ornaments of Gold
|
[Verse 1] / Silver couches to recline upon and ornaments of gold / Silver moonbeams dance in fountains below shining citadels / Surrounded by silver gates ascending silver stairs
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Fireworks
|
The body is wrapped in shadow / The face is built of cinders / And panic tears thro' your silhouette / As you're squeezed by burning fingers / And he's crackling in our colours
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Last Beat of My Heart
|
In the sharp gust of love / My memory stirred / When time wreathed a rose / A garland of shame / Its thorn, my only delight / War-torn, afraid to speak / We dare to breathe
|
|
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Halloween
|
[Verse 1] / The night is still / And the frost, it bites my face / I wear my silence like a mask / And murmur like a ghost / [Chorus] / Trick or treat, trick or treat / The bitter
|
|
John Cale – Gun
|
[Verse 1] / Me and my partner, we work on a run / The quick try to get quicker and the creepers get hung / Now it's you that got wasted tonight on a job / One lost his liquor and
|
|
DeVotchKa – The Last Beat of My Heart
|
In the sharp gust of love / My memory stirred / When time wreathed a rose / A garland of shame / Its thorn my only delight / War torn, afraid to speak / We dare to breathe
|
|
LANY – Love At First Fight
|
Love At First Fight is the first single off LANY’s fifth studio album, I Really Really Hope So.
|
|
LANY – Love At First Fight (Stripped)
|
[Verse 1] / Met you in a bathroom line / Dive bar on the Lower East Side / You were lookin' at me like you didn't wanna be just friends / Two months and twenty-four days
|