 Genius Meanings
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Tenacious D – Video Games
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[Intro: Jack Black & Kyle Gass] / Are you plugged in? (Yeah) / Alright, you ready? / One-two, a one-two-three / [Verse 1] / I don't play video games no more, never play video games
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Tenacious D – Inward Singing
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“Inward Singing” is a comedy sketch where Jack announces to Kyle that he wants to shows off a thing called inward singing. He demonstrates how you can use it to sing while
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Tenacious D – Wicked Game
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[Verse] / What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way / What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you / What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way / What a
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Tenacious D – Deth Starr
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The world is fucking turning to shit / The earth don't stand a chance / Hurricane typhoon will destroy the city / We've got to clean up the skies and recycle / We've got to stop
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Tenacious D – Tribute
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“Tribute” was released as the lead single off their self-titled debut album. The song plays out as a tribute to the actual best song in the world that the D have forgotten what
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Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
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This tale of unrequited obsessive love after a heartbreak appeared on Isaak’s third album, Heart-Shaped World, in 1989. However, it only became a hit in January 1991, having
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Jack Black – Peaches
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“Peaches” is a love song that appears at two segments in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
In one idle moment, Bowser (voiced by Jack Black) sits at his piano and belts out this power
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Tenacious D – MAKING LOVE
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[Jack Black] / Relax JB, it'll be alright / Go with it, don't be afraid, we are your friends and more / It's important that we fuck right now, so let your penis explore
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The Beatles – You Never Give Me Your Money
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The centrepiece of the Side B medley on Abbey Road, it pays tribute to the band itself and the internal struggles that by then had fatally wounded their relationship.
With their
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XXXTENTACION – Moonlight
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[Intro] / Yeah / [Chorus] / Spotlight, uh, moonlight, uh / Nigga, why you trippin'? Get your mood right, uh / Shawty look good in the moonlight / All these pussy niggas so bad mind
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REO Speedwagon – Keep on Loving You
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“Keep On Loving You”, REO Speedwagon’s first of two number one hits in the US, was described by frontman Kevin Cronin as “the most painful song I ever wrote”. It was written about
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XXXTENTACION – SAD!
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On “SAD!” X laments about the struggle of letting go of a loved one and the feeling of depression that follows.
He details emotions of uncertainty surrounding a specific
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Fousheé – stupid bitch
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[Intro] / I'll blow your brains out you stupid bitch / I'll blow your brains out you stupid bitch / [Verse 1] / Talk your shit / Niggas got a lot of lip / Don't care, haha
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Foo Fighters – The Pretender
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“The Pretender” was a late addition to the Foo Fighters' sixth album, but once recorded soon started growing in importance, becoming the leading single off Echoes, Silence
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Multibird – Riot
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Make way we come on / Make way for reason / Make way we come on / Make way we’re leaving / (Woo, woo!) / We’re entering the age of reason / (Woo, woo!) / Never better time for
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Chris Stapleton – Tennessee Whiskey
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Kentucky songwriter Chris Stapleton’s breakout solo hit is a bluesy ballad about the intoxicating power of love. The song reached #1 on Billboard’s Country Songs chart after
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Colorblind (Rock) – Love Is Red
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I swear I'm hearing footsteps on the floor / Villain's what you make of me / I know what you want / You just wanna take this from me / This is who I am baby, no one ever told you
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Nemertines (Ft. Jake Wolf (Reflections)) – Blood
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Hey you / Do you see / What I see / I think we're meant to be / Mismatched with misery / Displaced dependency / Tenacious tendencies / It's all make-believe / Everything's
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Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum
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A song from Arctic Monkeys' 2006 album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It remains a fan favourite and helped popularise the Yorkshire word ‘mardy’, meaning sulky or
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Multibird – Weirdly Weathered
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The moon isn’t such an easy mountain to move / Nothing but breeze in the eye / Pounds of brick, mud and paper / Caves of gold, nothing is safer / To move every moon just with your
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Cruel Youth – Mr. Watson
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“Mr. Watson” is the first single off of Cruel Youth’s debut EP, +30mg. It was released on February 18th, 2016 along with a note from Teddy Sinclair herself on Instagram:
“Cruel
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AKAI SOLO – Incursio Fur
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[Verse: AKAI SOLO] / Yo, check / Y'all ain't about nothing like a triple K meeting in vast space / Niggas ain't stool, the putrid stench gave the whole shit away / Y'all in the
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Lil Peep – Problems
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On the 14th of June, 2017, “Problems,” among other songs, was leaked through an accidental posting on Peep’s SoundCloud. It would go on to be the final song on his debut album Come
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Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
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This song ridicules the married couple sex-life, describing it as boring, repetitive and… short.
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