 Genius Meanings
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Talk Talk – Such a Shame
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General Comment:
This song is about Luke Reinhart’s “The Dice Man,” wherein the main character uses a roll of the dice to determine his daily actions and add a measure of
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Delain – Such a Shame (Talk Talk cover)
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Such a shame / To believe in escape / 'A life on every face' / But that's a change / Until I'm finally left with an '8' / Tell me to relax - I just stare / Maybe I don't know / If
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The Foreshadowing – Such A Shame
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Such a shame to believe in escape / A life on every face / And that's a change / 'Til I'm finally left with an eight / Tell me to relax, I just stare / Maybe I don't know if I
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Charlie Puth (Ft. Selena Gomez) – We Don't Talk Anymore
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Charlie Puth does another love duet with Selena Gomez, this time bemoaning the regrets after a breakup.
“We Don’t Talk Anymore” is the second single from Nine Track Mind. The song
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Talk Talk – It's My Life
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“It’s My Life” is the title track to Talk Talk’s sophomore album. It became their only top 40 hit in the US and reached #13 in the UK. The song is about a man in a relationship
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Talk Talk – For What It's Worth
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[Verse 1] / I love to hear you sing / In every style you give / Sometimes a touch aright / Finally you tried / [Verse 2] / Such pressure you can apprehend / In every trial you'll
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Counting Crows – A Murder of One
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Blue morning, blue morning / Wrapped in strands of fist and bone / Curiosity, kitten / Doesn't have to mean you're on your own / You can look outside your window / He doesn't have
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Talk Talk – It's You
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[Verse 1] / Say it again / Heart of stone / Red on your face / So alone / [Chorus] / Say it again / I'll know it's you / God only knows / Why do lies about this girl bother you
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Talk Talk – It's Getting Late in the Evening
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[Intro] / Everybody's laughing / Everybody's laughing / Everybody's laughing / Everybody's laughing / [Verse 1] / Brilliant sky / Set the sails, our hearts are open / Don't cry / I
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Nouvelle Vague – Such a Shame
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Such a shame to believe in escape / A life on every face and that's a change / Till I'm finally left with an eight / Tell me to relax, I just stare / Maybe I don't know if I should
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112 – It's Over Now
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[Verse 1: Daron Jones] / What is this, numbers in your pocket? / I remember when you used to throw those things away / Why do you wanna keep in touch now? / Who gave you a reason
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Saint Raymond – Talk
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[Verse 1] / My head's a little messed right now / As the song creeps through my window / A blank piece of paper I can't seem to fill / Last night, your face if looks could kill / [
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Talk Talk – Without You
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[Verse 1] / Well, I know those you don't understand you criticise / And I know I can never mean anything within your eyes / Stop acting like that, everybody needs to rearrange
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Talk Talk – Strike Up the Band
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[Verse 1] / Driving in the back seat around the town / Listen to the lights, I want to see the sound / Of music playing in my head / I never heard a word you said / [Chorus: Mark
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Talk Talk – Pictures of Bernadette
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[Verse 1] / Change, I was flying / Seems my life is dying / [Pre-Chorus] / How can I confess / I've given everything that I had and still you left / How can I forget / I'm getting
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Talk Talk – Why Is It So Hard?
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[Verse 1] / Forgive me if I flip my face of passion / It's the only way / Condemn me if I raise my voice in anger / Such a dumb, dumb way / [Chorus] / Why is it so hard? / Better
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Nightly – Twenty Something
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In “Twenty Something,” Jonathan surrenders to what seems like the end of his relationship with his long-term girlfriend. Although both feeling heartbroken, he wants them to focus
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Talk Talk – John Cope
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[Verse 1] / Weapons at my feet / Some kind of living / Weapons at my feet / Some kind of living / [Verse 2] / Beggar sits to plead / Some kind of giving / Beggar sits to plead
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JK & Jimin – We Don’t Talk Anymore
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[Chorus: Jung Kook] / We don't talk anymore / We don't talk anymore / We don't talk anymore, like we used to do / We don't love anymore / What was all of it for? / Oh, we don't
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Talk Talk – Again a Game… Again
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[Verse 1] / Take my hand / Colours seem so black inside your head / Does everything reflect the time you spend? / So tired of thanking you / You hide your face / Don't ask me to
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Talk Talk – ?
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[Intro] / Ah ah ah ah oh / Ah ah ah ah oh, ah-ah-ah / [Verse 1] / It's okay / If you don't like the words I say / Throw 'em away / But sing it just the same / [Chorus: Mark Hollis
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Wiz Khalifa – This Plane
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Wiz uses the familiar plane/high metaphor to talk about fame and such.
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Bruce Springsteen – It’s a Shame
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[Verse 1] / Well, I walk the way you want me to / And I'll talk the way you want me to / And I've tried to do all I can just to please you / Well, I work hard every day for you
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Drake – Shot for Me
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Drake does an ode to his exes (at least those who don’t live in Texas) on the second cut off of his Take Care LP. Here Drake demonstrates his ability to create ambiguous texts by
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Talk Talk – I Believe in You
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“I Believe In You” is about both Talk Talk’s frontman Mark Hollis, and his older brother, Ed Hollis. It is the sole single from Spirit of Eden.
Ed Hollis had produced and written
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KIDZ BOP Kids – We Don't Talk Anymore
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[Chorus] / We don't talk anymore / We don't talk anymore / We don't talk anymore, like we used to do / We don't laugh anymore / What was all of it for? / Oh, we don't talk anymore
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Jennifer Lopez (Ft. LL COOL J) – All I Have
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[Intro: Jennifer Lopez, Debra Laws & LL Cool J] / Love is life and life is living / It's very special / All my love… / Oh-oh-oh / Uh, baby, don't go / All my, all my, all my love
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – It’s a Shame (Mt. Airy Groove)
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[Intro] / Yo, Flash, this time cut it in mellow / [Verse 1] / Hey teacher (What?) Talk to me (About what?) Peace (There is no peace) / Why? (Who wants to know?) We do ('Cause men
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Hayes Carll – It's a Shame
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The time has come, there is no second chance / We've been drifting on an empty aching sea / You were the girl I never knew I wanted / I was the boy you hoped you'd never see
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A-Wall – Loverboy
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[Verse 1] / Yeah, you can call me lover boy / They say I throw my heart around / And you can be my lover girl / I'll pick you up, drive you around / I'll show you how to fall in
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Lloyd (Ft. André 3000 & Lil Wayne) – Dedication To My Ex (Miss That)
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[Intro: Lil Wayne] / Hey y'all / I've come to talk about this girl that had my love, you see / I went away for a while and / She gave my love away, and / I really shouldn’t blame
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Madvillain – All Caps
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“All Caps” is a reference to MF DOOM’s preference that his stage name be written in all capital letters. The song includes the instructional lyrics, “Just remember ALL CAPS when
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Dave – Professor X
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‘Professor X’ marks British rapper Dave’s first release since his March 2019 debut album Psychodrama. The song features on the Top Boy tracklist, a new Netflix series, in which
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Evelyn "Champagne" King – Shame
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“Shame” is the debut single from Evelyn Champagne King’s debut album, Smooth Talk.
The song peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, #8 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Music/Club Play
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Billie Eilish – bitches broken hearts
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“bitches broken hearts” finds the narrator calling out someone, most likely an ex-lover, who acts as if they don’t care about or miss the protagonist when in reality, they can’t
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