 Genius Meanings
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Sting – Soul Cake
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[Chorus] / A soul cake, a soul cake / Please, good missus, a soul cake / An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry / Any good thing to make us all merry / A soul cake, a soul cake
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Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
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“Black Dog,” named after a Labrador dog that wandered around the studio while Led Zeppelin was recording, sees Robert Plant lamenting about a failed relationship with a gold digger
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Peter, Paul and Mary – A’ Soalin’
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[Intro] / Hey ho, nobody home / Meat nor drink nor money have I none / Yet shall we be merry / Hey ho, nobody home / (Hey ho, nobody home) / Meat nor drink nor money have I none
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Sting – Balulalow
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[Verse] / O my dear heart, young Jesu sweit / Prepare thy creddil in my spreit / And I shall rock thee in my heart / And never mair from thee depart / But I shall praise thee
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Sting – The Burning Babe
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[Verse] / As I in hoary winter's night / Stood shivering in the snow / Surprised I was with sudden heat / Which made my heart to glow / And lifting up a fearful eye / To view what
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Sting – Cherry Tree Carol
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[Chorus] / When Joseph was an old man, an old man was he / He courted Virgin Mary, the queen of Galilee[x2] / [Verse] / When Joseph and Mary were walking one day / Here is apples
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Sting – Cold Song
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[Verse] / What power art thou who from below / Hast made me unwillingly and slow / From beds of everlasting snow? / Sees thou not how stiff, how stiff and wondrous old / Far, far
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JAY-Z (Ft. Kanye West & Rihanna) – Run This Town
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The three principal artists of Jay-Z’s newly-formed Roc Nation record label—Kanye West, Rihanna, and the Hov himself—announce to the world that they “run the town.” Jay explained
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Sting – Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
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[Verse] / Lo, how a Rose ever blooming / Lo, how a rose ever blooming / From tender stem hath sprung / Of Jesse's lineage coming / As men of old have sung / It came a flower bright
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Sting – Now Winter Comes Slowly
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[Verse] / Now Winter comes slowly, Pale, Meager, and Old / First trembling with Age, and then quivering with Cold / Benummed with hard Frosts, and with snow covered over / Prays
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Sting – The Coventry Carol
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Sting performed the sixteenth-century Christmas carol Coventry Carol which laments the Massacre of the Innocents at the orders of King Herod.
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Sting – You Only Cross My Mind in Winter
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[Verse] / Always this winter child / December's sun sits low against the sky / Cold light on frozen fields / The cattle in their stable lowing / When two walked this winter road
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Sting – There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
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[Verse] / There is no rose of such virtue / As is the rose that bare Jesu / Alleluia / For in this rose contained was / Heaven and earth in little space / Res miranda / By that
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Puff Daddy & the Family (Ft. 112 & Faith Evans) – I'll Be Missing You
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Puff Daddy’s tribute to his friend The Notorious B.I.G. was written, recorded, and released less than three months after Biggie’s death, and became one of the top-selling rap
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Sting – The Snow It Melts the Soonest
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[Chorus] / Oh, the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing / [Verse 1] / And the corn it ripens fastest when the frost is settling in / And when a woman tells me my
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Barenaked Ladies – One Week
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A quick summary of what’s going on here; the protagonist knows that he messed up with his girl, but he doesn’t want to admit it yet so he waits it out. The rap verses were recorded
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Sting – Bethlehem Down
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"When He is King we will give Him a King's gifts / Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown / Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph / Fair with her first-born on
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Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
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“Sultans of Swing” by Mark Knopfler appears on the self-titled Dire Straits album – 1978. It’s a story song, told as a second person narrative about the London Jazz experience and
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Cypress Hill (Ft. Barron Ricks) – Steel Magnolia
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[Intro] / Attendant: "That takes a fourteen shot clip / You expecting an army?" / Serpico: "No....just the division" / [Barron Ricks] / "Yeah, once again, (that's right) / We about
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Slipknot – Snuff
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“Snuff” is a relatively slow song, as compared to the majority of other songs on the All Hope Is Gone. The acoustic dark song tells the story of a man who falls in love and
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Shaggy (Ft. Rikrok) – It Wasn't Me
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The idea for this song was inspired by a bit from Eddie Murphy’s “Raw,” wherein Eddie suggests that once a man gives his woman a good orgasm he can give her outlandish excuses for
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Rustage (Ft. BlvkDivmonds, Cam Steady, Connor Quest!, HalaCG, Ham Sandwich (USA), Saa, Shwabadi & yayu) – Hashira
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[Verse 1: Rengoku (Rustage)] / Uh, new degrees, not turning off the gas / Through the trees, I turn a mob to ash / Fruit machine, I'm dropping squads like cash / I bring a red sun
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KJ-52 – They Know Not Ft. Passion & L.P.
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CHORUS: Forgive them Father for they know not that what they doing / even though we gone astray and our soul is ruined / You keep pursuing divine blood shed in contribution
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Meyhem Lauren, Madlib & DJ Muggs (Ft. Action Bronson) – Szechuan Capital
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[Intro] / Uh huh, [?] can't even let niggas around you / (DJ, MOTHAFUCKIN, MUGGS) / Yo / [Hook: Mayhem Lauren] / Protect your energy, counterproductiveness the enemy / I'm just an
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
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As one of the most famous protest songs of the Vietnam War era, “Fortunate Son” revives this timeless message with the snarl and swagger of the 1960s righteous rock and roll.
As
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OR3O – Undertale True Pacifict Meledy
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Long ago / You and me / We all lived in harmony / But a war / Interfered / Humans, monsters lived in fear / There was a barrier that set us apart / Those who walked past it never
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eLZhi – Deep
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[Verse 1] / I’m the bell ringer, shell slinger / Hidin' bodies 'til the smell lingers / Until they pale as Renée Zellweger, when El sting ya / You feelin' like the braille finger
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MF DOOM – Kon Karne
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“Kon Karne,” which is Spanish for “with meat” but with Ks instead of Cs, is DOOM’s evocative tribute to his late brother, DJ Subroc, who was tragically killed in a car accident in
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Diatheke – Splendour
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“Onward / Forward / Leave behind / Your anguish / Racing / Reaching / Gaze upon / The Splendour” / What sting is this that comes to afflict me / The skies fume red with fury
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De La Soul (Ft. Dres & A Tribe Called Quest) – What Yo Life Can Truly Be
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This version of De La Soul’s “Saturdays” is a continuation of the Saturday roller skating party from the original track on their 1991 sophomore album De La Soul is Dead. Q-Tip
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Ylvis – Stonehenge
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[Verse 1] / My life is so successful / I've got everything a man could ever need / Got a 1000 dollar haircut / And I even have a talk show on TV / And I know I should be happy, but
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Drake (Ft. Playboi Carti) – Pain 1993
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“Pain 1993” is a nod to fashion designer Ian Connor’s motto, “Born from Pain 1993.” Ian is a longtime friend of Drake and Carti and he was previously Carti’s manager. Carti even
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Katy Perry – Roar
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“Roar” is the lead single off Katy Perry’s fourth studio album Prism. The song deviates from the electro-pop sound on Teenage Dream in exchange for a mid-tempo pop-rock anthem
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StephGoesToChile – Crazy-28
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[Verse 1: Machoman Karthik] / Oou Latin Papi looking so nice / Werk it Dairy Queen, give them cone with tha ice / Eating cake, mmm daddy so spice / Hol' up- snack break chicken
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A$AP Rocky (Ft. Mark Ronson, Miguel & Rod Stewart) – Everyday
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This song follows Rocky’s releases “Multiply” and “M'$” as the first official single for his album At.Long.Last.A$AP. Rocky stated the former two records would not appear on his
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Otis Redding – (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
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By the time Otis Redding wrote “(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay”, he was ambitious to finally record a number one hit. Even though he finally succeeded his goal with this song
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King of the Dot (Ft. Charron & Rone) – Rone vs. Charron
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After six years of call outs, Charron finally gets a chance to battle the former champ, Rone, who is coming off a two year hiatus in battle rap.
This is an instant classic and
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