 Genius Meanings
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The Stooges – Search and Destroy
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Iggy Pop took this title from an article in Time Magazine:
The lyrics, I just sorta took out of Time magazine, the concept of search and destroy. I used to read Time obsessively
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Soundgarden – Searching With My Good Eye Closed (Live)
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[Intro] / This is my good eye / Do you hear a cow? / A rooster says / Here is a pig / The devil says / [Verse 1] / Painted blue across my eyes and tie the linen on / And I'm on my
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Soundgarden – Fell On Black Days (live)
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[Verse 1] / Whatsoever I feared / Has come to life / Whatsoever I've fought off / Became my life / Just when every day / Seemed to greet me with a smile / Sunspots have faded / And
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Soundgarden – Burden in My Hand
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Guitarist Kim Thayil considered it “the contemporary ‘Hey Joe.’ I thought there was something to the melody, the lyric, and the feel — the overall emotive sort of discomfort and
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Soundgarden – Boot Camp (Live)
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[Verse] / I must obey the rules / I must be tame and cool / No staring at the clouds / I must stay on the ground / In clusters of the mice / The smoke is in our eyes / Like babies
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Soundgarden – Earache My Eye
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My momma socks it to me / Trying to tell me how to live / But I don't listen to her / 'Cause my head is like a sieve / My daddy kicked me out / 'Cause I wear my sister's clothes
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Soundgarden – Nothing To Say (Live)
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[Intro] / Nothing, nothing, nothing but the one thing / [Verse 1] / Someone said my words are out of balance / Nothing to say, you've got nothing to say / Dying words I bury
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Soundgarden – Dusty (Live)
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[Intro] / Heeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy / [Verse 1] / I think it's turning back around / And I think I like it / I think it's turning back around / Though I don't know why it is / I think it's
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Soundgarden – Spoonman (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Feel the rhythm with your hands / (Steal the rhythm while you can) / Spoonman / Speak the rhythm on your own / (Speak the rhythm all alone) / Spoonman / [Chorus
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Soundgarden – Waiting For the Sun
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Can you feel it / Now that Spring has come / That it's time to live in the shattered sun / Waiting for the sun / Waiting for the sun / Waiting for the sun / First time we? / We
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Soundgarden – Can You See Me
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Can you see me? / I'm singing this song to you / Can you see me baby? / I'm singing this song to you, yeah / If you can see that you can / See in the future for a thousand years
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Soundgarden – Come Together
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[Verse 1] / Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly / He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller / He got hair down to his knees / Got to be a joker he just do what he
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Soundgarden – Into the Void (Sealth)
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A cover of the Black Sabbath song “Into the Void”, the lyrics have been replaced with a speech spoken by Chief Sealth (commonly known as Chief Seattle, for whom the city of Seattle
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Soundgarden – Outshined (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I got up feeling so down / I got off being sold out / I've kept the movie rolling / But the story's getting old now / Oh yeah / I just looked in the mirror / Things
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Soundgarden (Ft. Stephanie Barber) – Touch Me
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In the night / In the city / Alone in my room / Ooh, wall to wall / [Chorus] / Touch me, can you feel it / Touch me, it feels good / Touch me, yeah I can feel it / Touch me
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Soundgarden – Big Bottom
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The bigger the cushion / The sweeter the pushin' / That's what I said / The looser the waistband / The deeper the quicksand / Or so I have read / My baby fits me like a flesh
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Soundgarden – I Don't Care About You
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I say / Down on South Street Philadelphia / I'm from Avenue C / I saw fear in his eyes / He was ready to freeze / From the Valley Hotel! / I don't care about you! / I don't care
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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun (Live)
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[Verse 1] / In my eyes, indisposed / In disguises no one knows / Hides the face, lies the snake / The sun in my disgrace / Boiling heat, summer stench / 'Neath the black the sky
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Soundgarden – Stray Cat Blues
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I hear the click-clack of your feet on the stairs / I know you're no scare-eyed honey / There'll be a feast if you just come upstairs / This ain't no hanging matter / No, this ain'
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Soundgarden – Girl U Want
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[Verse 1] / Swings from somewhere you can't see / She sits in the top of the greenest tree / She send out an aroma of unrefined love / Drifts on down in a mist from above / [
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Lamb of God – Laid to Rest
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The song is meant to be a first-person narrative of a murder victim, haunting his killer from beyond the grave. On the other side, the lyrics also have a connection to the Iraq War
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Velvet Revolver – Slither
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The first single from Velvet Revolver’s debut album. “Slither” topped a composite world modern rock chart in June 2004 and was later #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart for 8
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Led Zeppelin – Communication Breakdown
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“Communication Breakdown” is Led Zeppelin’s lead single from their debut album, Led Zeppelin. An instant classic, the song has been recognised by acts such as Iron Maiden
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Rob Zombie – Dragula
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Zombie told Billboard magazine that the title came from “the name of Grandpa Munster’s dragster on the old TV show.” He goes on to say that it “was a classic show with great comic
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Combichrist – They
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They wanna own you / And their screams are like thunder / You are losing your mind / And it makes you sick / A sickened soul / And your world is going under / Like you never
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