 Genius Meanings
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Tame Impala – Elephant
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Tame Impala’s first major hit was inspired by the arrogant bands and artists that Kevin Parker encountered in the Perth rock scene; who were certain of their future success. In
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Tame Impala – Elephant (Todd Rundgren Remix)
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Well, he feels like an elephant / Shakin' his big grey trunk for the hell of it / He knows that you're dreaming about / Being loved by him / Too bad your chances are slim / And it’
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The Wiggles (Ft. Jeff Fatt & Murray Cook) – Elephant (triple j Like A Version)
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Iconic Australian entertainers The Wiggles answered the call by Triple J hosts Bryce and Ebony to perform a cover for Like A Version. They made contact with Blue Wiggle and
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Tame Impala – Mind Mischief
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[Chorus] / Feels like my life is ready to blow / Me and my love, we'll take it slow / I hope she knows that I'll love her long / I just don't know where the hell I belong (No, no
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Jkey – Mad Psilocybe
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Mad Psilocybe a song by Jkey depicting a bad trip experience. The instrumental was purposely being loud and aggressive as it catches the song’s message and concept. The concept was
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Tame Impala – One More Hour
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The concluding track to The Slow Rush, “One More Hour” features Kevin thinking back on all that has led him to where he is, and what he has to look forward to in life. It touches
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Tame Impala – The Boat I Row
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[Verse 1] / Many ways to go / It's hard to self-assure / When everyone's a pro / Saying, "It's so obvious" / But really, they don't know (They don't know) / Just like a monster
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Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss
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“Solitude Is Bliss” possesses perhaps the most accessible classic rock/pop sensibilities of Tame Impala’s first album Innerspeaker. The song makes heavy use of effects associated
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Tame Impala – Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
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“Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” is the second single from Tame Impala’s second album, Lonerism. It was released on October 1, 2012, four days ahead of the full-length release.
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Cage The Elephant – Telescope
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Matt Shultz says, “I was sitting around with a couple of friends, and I started to have these revelations about songwriting. What struck me was, the more you try to distance
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Tame Impala – Keep On Lying
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“Keep On Lying” is the eighth track from Tame Impala’s Lonerism. Multiple songs from the album feature ambient sounds recorded by Parker on his dictaphone, which he explained:
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Tame Impala – Be Above It
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“Be Above It” incorporates an interesting juxtaposition as the opening track to Lonerism. While the looping, fast-paced drums represent one’s eagerness for immediate success, the
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Tame Impala – Apocalypse Dreams
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[Verse 1] / This could be the day that we push through / It could be the day that all our dreams come true / For me and you / Till we're at the end of just another day / Are you
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Tame Impala – Why Won’t They Talk to Me?
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Being the sixth track in Tame Impala’s sophomore album, “Why Won’t They Talk to Me” is Kevin Parker’s realisation that he needs human connection.
After 2010’s “Solitude is Bliss
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Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better
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“The Less I Know the Better” describes the pain of a man feeling left out in a love triangle, illustrated with a complex arrangement of groovy bass hooks, sensual Rhodes piano
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Tame Impala – Endors Toi
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“Endors Toi” means “go to sleep” in French. The track delivers psychedelic satisfaction in the form of wandering synths, crashing drums and hypnotizing delay effects.
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Travis Scott (Ft. Pharrell Williams, Tame Impala & The Weeknd) – SKELETONS
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“SKELETONS” features longtime collaborator The Weeknd and also marks Travis' second collaboration with Pharrell Williams, who is listed as a producer on Rodeo’s “Flying High.”
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Cage The Elephant – Cigarette Daydreams
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“Cigarette Daydreams” presents the pain of one’s search for identity through the musings of a parted lover. The song itself has a softer, more brooding sound than most of Cage the
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Tame Impala – Music to Walk Home By
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[Verse] / But that's only when I think of you (Think of you, think of you) / Some vision that I hold on to (Hold on to, hold on to) / You know it's everything I do (Thing I do
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Tame Impala – She Just Won't Believe Me
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[Interlude] / But she just won't believe me / She just won't believe me / I'd never be deceiving / But she just won't believe me
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Tame Impala – Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
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[Chorus] / Nothing that has happened so far has been anything we could control / I am just here waiting for the perfect time to tell you I don't know / Maybe I'm just reading into
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Tame Impala – Beverly Laurel
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[Verse] / Why do they say that they know what's right for me? / Hey, I know what's right for me / Why do they say that they know what's right for me? / Hey, I know what's right for
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Tame Impala – Retina Show (Unreleased Demo)
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[Chorus: Jay Watson] / It's the retina show for your eye / It's the ego of instinctive desire / It's the reason that you make me break down and cry / It's the retina show for your
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Tame Impala – The Bold Arrow of Time
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An interlude at the end of this Innerspeaker track was co-written by Jay Watson and Kevin Parker. Dominic Simper played bass here, and Jay Watson played drums, as well as guitar
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Tame Impala – Are You A Hypnotist
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[Verse 1] / I had forgiven you / For tricking me again / But I have been tricked again / Into forgiving you / [Chorus] / What is this? / Are you some kind of hypnotist? / Waving
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Tame Impala – Solitude Is Bliss (Canyons “Dow Jones” Mix)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse] / Movement doesn't flow / Quite like it does when I'm alone / Movement doesn't flow / Quite like it does when I'm alone / I'll be the one who's free
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Cage The Elephant – Black Madonna
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Continuing the running theme of empty and meaningless success from “Social Cues”, Black Madonna describes both the beauty and the emptiness that comes with success and living a
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Tame Impala – Sun's Coming Up
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[Verse] / All those things I ever, thought would never end / To think they're now all memories, sends me 'round the bend / To watch her airplane swaying, coming in to land / There
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Tame Impala – Led Zeppelin
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[Verse 1] / Senses taking over / Thought you set me free / I've tried to get up / But it was pouring down on me / Keeps on burnin' deeper / Desperate for you to be / Seven
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Tame Impala – The Sun
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“The Sun” is one of the oldest songs written by Tame Impala’s frontman, Kevin Parker. It is the only song on Tame Impala’s first EP that was not re-released as part of a later
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Tame Impala – A Girl Like You - triple j Like A Version
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[Verse 1] / I've never known a girl like you before / Now, just like in a song from days of yore / 'Cause here you come a-knocking, knocking on my door / And I've never met a girl
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Tame Impala – Island Walking
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[Verse 1] / I could never see your eyes / And I can't see past the lies / Which is why / I still long for us / And in the meantime / Here comes the chorus / [Guitar Solo] / [Verse
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Cage The Elephant – Spiderhead
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[Verse 1] / I am the one you left for dead / Say you want it, too / You are the bullet in my head / And as you stand over my grave / Tell me it's okay / Your porcelain lips upon my
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Tame Impala – Mind Mischief (The Field Remix)
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Feels like my life is ready to blow / Me and my love we'll take it slow / I hope she knows that I'll love her long / I just don't know where the hell I belong / How optimism led me
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MGMT – Electric Feel
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“Electric Feel” is about sex and the “electric” sensations it provides. It also uses electricity to refer to love, and mentions how worldwide love would change the world.
It is
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Kanye West (Ft. Pharrell Williams, Tame Impala, Travis Scott & The Weeknd) – Skeletons
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This is an early version of Travis Scott’s album cut, “SKELETONS,” from his 2018 album, ASTROWORLD.
Travis made use of some of the lyrics on the final version, while Kanye reused
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Tame Impala – Be Above It (Erol Alkan Rework)
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(Gotta be above it, gotta be above it, gotta be above it, gotta be above it) / (Gotta be above it, gotta be above it, gotta be above it, gotta be above it) / (Gotta be above it
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Arctic Monkeys – 505
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“505” is one of the songs that marks a turning point in Alex Turner’s songwriting, as he discovers new emotional depths.
The organ chords are the same as were used in Ennio
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Cage The Elephant – Social Cues
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“Social Cues” weighs the anxieties that accompany success as a rockstar – a well-tread theme in rock/music history (e.g. Pink Floyd’s The Wall). The “back room” of the chorus
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