 Genius Meanings
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The Beatles – Don't Bother Me
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This was the first song George Harrison wrote on his own. It wasn’t particularly highly regarded by any of The Beatles, but they kept it.
A lot of the girls were mad on him, so we
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The Beatles – I Need You
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This is the fourth track on the UK release of Help! “I Need You” is the second-ever Beatles song written by George Harrison; the first being “Don’t Bother Me.”
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
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On his 1970 album After the Gold Rush, Neil Young wrote a song called “Southern Man,” which described the racism in the South as he saw it after visiting there.
I saw cotton
And I
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The Cardigans – Lovefool
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“Lovefool” is track #7 on The Cardigans’s third album First Band on the Moon.
“Lovefool” was the song that propelled The Cardigans to international stardom. US listeners took
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The Beatles – Roll Over Beethoven
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[Verse 1: George Harrison] / Well, gonna write a little letter / Gonna mail it to my local DJ / It's a rocking little record / I want my jockey to play / Roll over, Beethoven
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Weezer – Hash Pipe
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According to an interview with Rivers Cuomo, the song was written on the same night as “Dope Nose.” The story is that he took “a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of
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The Beatles – Nowhere Man
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“Nowhere Man” is the fourth track of The Beatles' album Rubber Soul. In a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon recalled the background to this song: “I remember I was just
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Cardi B – Bodak Yellow
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On “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi brings up her past as a stripper and how she has cemented her legitimacy in the rap game with her peerless work ethic. It’s the first single she released
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Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn
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[Lynn, Eva, both] / Evelyn, Evelyn / Why do we bother to stay? / Why are you running away? / Don’t you feel like severing? / Everything’s just come together at last / It’s broken
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Wings – Mrs. Vandebilt
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[Intro] / Down in the jungle, living in a tent / You don't use money, you don't pay rent / You don't even know the time, but you don't mind / [Chorus] / Ho, hey ho / Ho, hey ho
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The Zombies – She's Not There
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The British group debut 1964 hit – the only song of theirs to ever chart in the UK. It reached No. 2 in the US. They had an even greater success with their 1968 hit “Time of the
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Why don't people like Let It Be?
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Beatles LIB, not Mats to clear things up.
I’m not the biggest Beatles fan in the world, but I see a lot of flak for Let It Be, and especially Spector’s treatment of some of the songs, which I really don’t get. I actually think it has some of their strongest songwriting outside of The White Album. It does have some crap, IMO “One After 909” is pretty bad, and “Maggie Mae” and “For You Blue” I could take or leave, and I do get where people are coming from on the Spectorization of “The Long and Winding Road” though I don’t think that song would’ve been all that great no matter what.
Those duds aside, you’ve got the title track which is great in all its incarnations, “Two of Us” which is poignant and sees John and Paul at some of their best collaborative singing ever IMO, “I Me Mine” which I love both original and naked and is a tribute to George’s songwriting. There’s also “I’ve Got A Feeling” which has grown on me a lot; Paul and John’s playing musical foils to
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The Beatles – Dear Prudence
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This song was written by John Lennon in India while they were studying Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. One of their friends, Prudence Farrow (Mia Farrow’s
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Matt Berninger – Let It Be
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[Verse 1] / Some things I cannot hide / No matter how hard I try / Some things I can't even see / You say to me let it go / Hey lighten up a little, take a joke / Sometimes I can't
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Descendents – Catalina
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[Intro] / My room's a mess, I don't care / Tired of sitting at my desk / You can't bother me / Man, I'm far away from you / Got to get away / You can't ruin my day / You can't tell
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Al Green – God Blessed Our Love
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[Intro] / God blessed our love / Even in the morning when I rise / I say, God blessed our love / [Verse 1] / And every morning when I rise / I can just see heaven more in your eyes
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Kid Caprio – Understood
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(Verse) / Someone tell Ye that I’m signing to GOOD / I’d never beg them to vibe but they should / Probably just cause I’m not from the east / Otherwords meaning I’m not from the
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George Harrison – Mama You've Been On My Mind (Demo)
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Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat and coverin' / The crossroads I'm standin' at / Or maybe it's the weather or somethin' like that / But, mama, you been on my mind / I don
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Utopia – Feel Too Good
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[Verse 1] / I feel too good to go to work today / I need a little more time so I can stay this way / [Pre-Chorus 1] / (Let's go for a ride on the circle line) / Couldn't you use a
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Moullinex – Catalina
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My room's a mess, I don't care / Tired of sitting at my desk / You can't bother me / Man, I'm far away from you / Got to get away / You can't ruin my day / You can't tell me what
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Fred Hammond – Please Don't Pass Me By
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Verse 1 / There was a blind man on the road side, and he heard a commotion yeah / It was Jesus passing by with a crowd and it stirred his emotions / He'd been displaced his whole
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The Beat – Save It For Later
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The biggest hit for the English Beat in the United States and the first single from their final album Special Beat Service.
Written by frontman Dave Wakeling before the formation
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