 Genius Meanings
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Jonathan Groff & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" – You'll Be Back
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This song, framed as a letter from King George to the colonists, is a kind of extended double entendre. It addresses the grievances of the colonists and asserts George’s authority
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The Beatles – I'll Be Back
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[Verse 1] / You know if you break my heart I'll go / But I'll be back again / 'Cause I told you once before "goodbye" / But I came back again / [Bridge] / I love you so / I'm the
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Elliott Smith – I'll Be Back
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[Verse 1] / You know if you break my heart I'll go / But I'll be back again / Because I told you once before goodbye / But I came back again / [Verse 2] / I thought that you would
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The Buckinghams – I'll Be Back
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You know, if you break my heart, I'll go / But I'll be back again / 'Cause I told you once before goodbye / But I came back again / I love you so / I'm the one who wants you / Yes
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The Highwaymen – Highwayman
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Have you ever written a song so great that the four greatest Outlaw Country singers of all time named their supergroup after it? No? Well, that’s because you’re not Jimmy Webb.
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Peter, Paul and Mary – Leaving On a Jet Plane
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Written by John Denver in 1966, picked up by PP&M in 1967 for their Album 1700 and released as a single in 1969 – their only No. 1 hit.
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The Beatles – Can't Buy Me Love
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A number-one hit single for The Beatles, primarily written by Paul McCartney, “Can’t Buy Me Love” was one of their favorite live cuts back in the heyday of Beatlemania. Its
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The Beatles – Rocky Raccoon
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This is a folk pastiche by McCartney inspired by a fireside jam the group and their companions had in India.
The song takes its influences from American folk music phrasings and
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The Beatles – Wait
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First recorded and left off the Help! album, “Wait” was exhumed during the final day’s recording for Rubber Soul, nearly five months later. It was written while The Beatles were
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The Beatles – In My Life
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“In My Life” is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
The song originated with Lennon, and while McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent
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Cher – You Haven't Seen the Last of Me
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[Verse 1] / Feeling broken, barely holding on / But there's just something so strong / Somewhere inside me / And I am down, but I'll get up again / Don't count me out just yet / [
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Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger
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“Don’t Look Back in Anger” was released as the fourth single off of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, February 19th 1996. In 2006, it was included in the “Best Of”-compilation
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Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
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This tongue and cheek verbal duel of a couple has an eternal message of the unsolved conflict between the dreamer(he) and the practical(her), presented in Ray Charles’s unique way.
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The Beatles – I've Just Seen a Face
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The twelfth track of The Beatles' album Help!, “I’ve Just Seen A Face” seems to be a standard “Love At First Sight” song.
The working title of this song was “Auntie Gin’s Theme
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The Beatles – I Saw Her Standing There
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Track one, side one of Please Please Me.
Now considered a rock'n'roll standard covered by everyone from Pharrell Williams to Led Zeppelin, it was originally titled Seventeen as
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The Beatles – I'll Follow the Sun
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While this acoustic ballad first appeared on 1964’s Beatles For Sale, it is one of the Beatles' earliest Lennon-McCartney originals. Paul claimed that he wrote the song when he was
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The Beatles – I'll Cry Instead
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John Lennon wrote the song for the “break-out” sequence in the film. The song was recorded on 1 June 1964 in two sections, A and B, which could then be spliced together at a later
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The Beatles – I'm So Tired
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[Verse 1] / I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink / I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink / I wonder, should I get up / And fix myself a drink? / No, no, no / [Verse 2] / I'm so
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The Beatles – Paperback Writer
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This song was released in 1966, and its creation was spawned when McCartney was requested to “not make a song about love.” The primary inspiration came from Macca finding Ringo
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The Beatles – Free as a Bird
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The first of the final two Beatles singles
This is one of the rare recordings credited to The Beatles that did not include their late producer George Martin. Later, Martin said he
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Shania Twain – When
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[Intro] / One, two, now / Yeah! / [Verse 1] / If elephants could fly. I'd be a little more optimistic / But I don't see that happening anytime soon / I don't mean to sound so
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The Beatles – I'll Get You
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The b-side to She Loves You, this song is almost ironic in its levels of twee, Beatlemania-pandering pop sensibility.
Indeed, the band later made jokes out of the fact that they
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Wu-Tang Clan – Method Man
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If you don’t know who the Method Man is, you’re about to find out! Originally released as the B-side of “Protect Ya Neck,” “Method Man” quickly became its own classic.
Though
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The Beatles – Any Time at All
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[Chorus] / Any time at all / Any time at all / Any time at all, all you gotta do is call / And I'll be there / [Verse 1] / If you need somebody to love, just look into my eyes / I'
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The Beatles – I Feel Fine
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“I Feel Fine,” written primarily by John Lennon, was released as a single in 1964, with “She’s a Woman” as the B side.
Interestingly, the song features one of the first uses of
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The Rolling Stones – Paint It, Black
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From their 4th album, Aftermath. Per pophistorydig, the song is about the funeral of a girl from her lover’s viewpoint, and he wants the color of everything to match his mood.
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Sonny & Cher – Baby Don't Go
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Baby don't go, pretty baby please don't go / I never had a mother, I hardly knew my dad / I've been in town for 18 years / You're the only boy I've had / I can't stay, maybe I'll
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The Beatles – With a Little Help from My Friends
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Seamlessly transitioning from the first track on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, “With A Little Help From My Friends” features lead vocals from drummer Ringo Starr as his Sgt
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Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
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This song was given a lucky break when a Studio 54 DJ flipped to the B-side of “Substitute”, a Righteous Brothers cover. During a time when most disco hits were heavily produced
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JAY-Z – Encore
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Jay-Z kills the jive turkeys like it’s Thanksgiving
The production features vocals by John Legend, Don Crawley, GLC and Kanye West – a family singalong
Kanye samples the trumpet
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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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