 Genius Meanings
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Television – Guiding Light
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[Verse 1] / Do I, do I / Belong to the night? / Only, only / Only tonight / All the ladies / Stay inside / Time may freeze / A world could cry / All this night / Running loud / I
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Grave Pleasures – Haunted Afterlife
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There's no atonement / There is no judgement / There's no revelation / No pearly gates needs of wisdom / No reincarnation / No coming saviour / No light from heaven / No unearthly
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The Adverts – Television's Over
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Time to pull out the plugs / But we run out of la-la-la-la-la-love / But we're being deserted, or let loose / I've just seen the dead walk by, and they don't seem jealous of my
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Ras Kass – TV Guide
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[Ras Kass] / The world is a TV show, sometimes you need the TV Guide / [Verse 1] / As the World Turns, NBC Dateline (flat line!) / 3rd Planet From the Sun / Millennium, Earth
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CeeLo Green – Rhythm Of Life
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This song contains a sample of the theme to the television show, Knight Rider. The original song was by Stu Phillips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbfVmzF7N4g
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Television – Elevation
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[Verse 1] / The last word / Is the lost word / Why don't you say so? / Say so / [Pre-Chorus] / I sleep light on these shores tonight / I live light on these shores / [Chorus
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Television – Venus
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The character in Venus – possibly Tom Verlaine himself – is hanging out with a friend through the streets of NYC.
Verlaine’s vivid and surrealistic imagery suggests both an acid
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Ace of Base – Mr. Replay
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[Verse 1] / What's the matter, baby / Why you being so cold-hearted lately? / Oh, what, can't you see I'm aching when you turn your back on me? / Why you acting shady? / How come
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Television – Prove It
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[Verse 1] / The docks / The clock / A whisper woke him up / The smell of water would resume / The cave / The waves / Of light, the unreal night / The flat curving of a room / Get
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Television – Torn Curtain
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Final track from the album Marquee Moon. Recorded versions of this song go back as far as 1975. It is thought this song was written and first performed after Richard Hell left the
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Television – See No Evil
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“See No Evil” is the first song of off Television’s debut album Marquee Moon. It features impressionistic lyrics and a focus on guitar arpeggios to create melody in the guitar part
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Television – Marquee Moon
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“Marquee Moon” is the title track off Television’s debut album of the same name. In a 1977 interview with Caroline Coon for Melody Maker, lyricist and guitarist Tom Verlaine stated
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Television – Little Johnny Jewel
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[Verse 1] / Now Little Johnny Jewel / Oh, he's so cool / He had no decision / He's just trying to tell a vision / But some thought that this was sad / And others thought it mad
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Television – Friction
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Featuring a more sensible punk beat, but beginning in a minor key that includes an opening guitar solo going down a scale, “Friction” proves itself an inspiration for John McGeoff’
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Girl Talk – On and On
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[Instrumental: Cream - Sunshine of Your Love] / [The Notorious B.I.G. – Nasty Boy] / Uhh, I go, on and on and on and / Then take her to the crib and let your bone in / Easy, call
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Luca Fogale – Worthy Of Love
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[Verse 1] / Leave the television on / I can't sleep / If it's quiet / Dreams of hospital beds / And the rain / On the highway / And the breath in my lungs / Oh, it feels / Like a
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Shooter Jennings – Black Ribbons
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Broke down at the end of the night / Can't seem to get anything right / So numb I can't feel things anymore / Somehow could feel me letting go / I know there's so many things
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Television – Friction (Alternate Version)
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I knew it musta been some big set-up / All the action just would not let up / It's just a little bit back from the main road / Where the silence spreads and the men dig holes / I
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Lene Marlin – Is It True
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I thought I caught a glimpse of you / I thought I saw your face / As the Sunday morning due / Melted every trace / Did you walk the earth in vain / Conquering the dead / Or did
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Jennifer Stigile – Wind's Nocturne (Luna's Boat Song)
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Wishing on a dream that seems far off / Hoping it will come today / Into the starlit night / Foolish dreamers turn their gaze / Waiting on a shooting star / But what if that star
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VÉRITÉ – love you forever
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[Verse 1] / Did you know when you started / Watching me like a television / On-demand in the palm of your hand? / You would leave and turn me off / I'm a little bit nauseous / '
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Richard O'Brien (Ft. Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien & Susan Sarandon) – Over at the Frankenstein Place
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[Janet] / In the velvet darkness of the blackest night / Burning bright, there's a guiding star / No matter what or who you are / [Brad & Janet] / There's a light / [Phantoms
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John Park (존박) – I'm Always by Your Side
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[Verse 1] / When I walk down a road / I don't know well / And I'm full of scare and doubt / I think of you, I think of you / And when life shuts me down / And there's no way to win
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Lester Bangs – Astral Weeks
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I mean that in this song or whatever inspired it Van Morrison saw the absolute possibility of loving human beings at the farthest extreme of wretchedness, and ...
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Jade E. Davis – The Medium of the 21st Century Is Light (Chapter Five)
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This is the world we live in. Digital culture means we are constantly surrounded by screens that take us to a world that has more data and information than we ...
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Blue – Long Time
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[Verse 1] / The warmth in your smile is the warmth I desire / 'Cos it's cold and lonely in this place, oh yeah / And I need to get close to the flames in a fire / And lose myself
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LeAnn Rimes – On the Side of Angels
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On the Side of Angels is the last single from Leann Rimes‘ second album You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs.
The song was also featured in the 1997 television movie Holiday
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Aesop Rock – Coordinates
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[Les Miserables sample] / Platoon of sappers advancing toward the barricade! / Troops behind them, fifty men or more! / [Verse 1] / I target the crux of all that's considered sin
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Cults – Gilded Lily
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[Verse 1] / Now it's been long enough to talk about it / I've started not to doubt it, just wrap my head around it / I remember when you told me it's an everyday decision / But
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Sorcha Richardson – Archie
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[Verse 1] / I met a boy called Archie / We were seventeen / He took me to a party by the cemetery / Money in the jukebox / Waited for our song / But we were in the garden / When
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E-life – More Days To Come
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[Chorus] / You can't keep fooling yourself / Can't nobody ever test me / I am your guiding star, your shining light / You wish you could be / There's not a minute, hour, day or
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WhoIsTiz – 2023 Listening Log
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2023 Listening Log (January 1st - December 26th) / 262 days N/A / 54 albums (italicized) / 4 EPs / [January] / [Jan. 1st] / Marvin Gaye ~ Save the Children (4:03), Beastie Boys
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Madonna – Lucky Star
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Released in 1983, this upbeat dance-pop tune was the fourth single from Madonna’s self-titled debut album. It was her first top 5 hit, charting at #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100.
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