Genius Meanings
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The Boomtown Rats – I Don't Like Mondays
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On the Monday morning of January 29, 1979, 16 year-old Brenda Spencer opened fire on the elementary school across the street from her family home. Using a .22 caliber rifle, she
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Bon Jovi (Ft. Bob Geldof) – I Don't Like Mondays
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The silicon chip inside her head / Got switched to overload / Nobody's gonna go to school today / She's gonna make them stay at home / And Daddy doesn't understand it / He always
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Tori Amos – I Don't Like Mondays
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[Verse 1] / The silicon chip inside her head / Gets switched to overload / And nobody's gonna go to school today / She gonna make them stay at home / [Verse 2] / And Daddy doesn't
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The Boomtown Rats – Episode #3
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That's not funny, I'm not laughing... / That concludes episode 3. We will return...
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The Boomtown Rats – Looking After Number One
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The world owes me a living / I've waited on this dole queue too long / I've been standing in the rain for fifteen minutes / That's a quarter of an hour too long / I'll take all
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Bob Geldof (Ft. Sting) – Crazy
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Here comes the night again, babe / Same night as every night, babe / And in the candle light, babe / Your beauty's like a knife / That slices through my life and / You drive me
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The Hood Internet – 1979 Samples
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See all of “1979” by The Hood Internet’s samples
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The Boomtown Rats – Having My Picture Taken
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[Intro] / "Hold it, fellas, watch the beauty." / [Verse 1] / My camera sees things my eyes can't see / I have it focused from here to eternity / Catch the moment, catch the breath
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The Boomtown Rats – The Elephant's Graveyard
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Ooh, did you slip the noose when the beast broke loose? / The elephants graveyard ain't the place to be / And white turns black, dies of heart attack / The elephants graveyard
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The Boomtown Rats – Real Different
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The world at any time might take its own thalidomide / It's just one of those things / You see eternity fell out of love when we invented self-destruct / It was one of those things
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The Boomtown Rats – Someone's Looking at You
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[Intro] / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / [Verse 1] / On a night like this / I
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The Boomtown Rats – Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
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[Intro] / (Hee-hee-hee...) / (Hee-hee-hee-Hee!) / (Hee-hee-hee...) / (Hee-hee-hee-Hee!) / [Verse 1] / I took a tube train through the subway systems / I rode those tunnels like a
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Dustin the Turkey (Ft. Bob Geldof) – Rat Trap
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[Intro: Bob Geldof & Dustin] / (Listen, take this seriously) / (Yeah, well, Bob I've the utmost respect for yeh, right? / Just keep the high notes low, love this one) / [Verse 1
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The Boomtown Rats – Sleep (Finger's Lullaby)
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[Verse 1] / I'm so wired / Very tired / Why can't I / Close my eyes? / Time's speeding / It's day, it's night, it's night, it's day / And it's time / I went to sleep / [Chorus
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The Boomtown Rats – When the Night Comes
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[Verse 1] / The offices are emptying their / Pale-faced wards into the street / Flickering their strip-light eyes / Shivering they readjust their lives from the air-conditioned
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The Boomtown Rats – Nothing Happened Today
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[Verse 1] / Turn on the TV, turn on the radio / Turn down that sound, turn down that sound / Open the curtains, open the windows / What's happening around? What's happening around
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The Boomtown Rats – Don't Believe What You Read
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[Verse 1] / As soon as I wake up every day / I look at the papers to see what they say / I know most what I read will be a lot of lies / But you learn really fast to read between
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The Boomtown Rats – Nice 'N' Neat
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[Verse 1] / Through tunnel vision, watch him rant and rave / He says, "There's life beyond the grave" / He wants his slice of the eternal cake / Well, God's in His Heaven and He's
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The Boomtown Rats – Like Clockwork
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[Intro] / (Tick, tock, tick, tock) / (Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock) / (Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock) / (Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick
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The Boomtown Rats – Diamond Smiles
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[Verse 1] / Traffic's wild tonight / Diamond smiles her cocktail smile / Tonight, she's in heavy disquise / She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time / Weather's mild
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The Boomtown Rats – Keep It Up
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[Verse 1] / Oh, in her two pound coat, she really thinks she's cloaked in mystery / She's actin' like some character from Agatha Christie / I got a pain in my shoes and all I wanna
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The Hood Internet – 1979
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One, two / Woo! / I wanna be your lover / Ah-ah-ah-oooh! / Awww- / Toot toot, hey, beep beep / Awww- / Toot toot, hey, c'est chic / Don't bring me down / Say oops upside your head
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The Boomtown Rats – Living in an Island
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[Verse 1] / Oh, night fell fast, like it did in the past / When the phone rang twice and a voice said "I think I'm alone" / I gave my advice and the voice said "Nice / But suicide
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The Boomtown Rats – (I Never Loved) Eva Braun
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[Intro] / "Are you really going out with Adolf?" / [Verse 1] / I never loved Eva Braun (Oh no?) / No, a thousand people say I did (Oh yeah?) / Yeah, she was just some girl who was
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