 Genius Meanings
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The Killers – From Here on Out
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[Verse 1] / A little birdie whispered in my ear / You've been cooking up a world of fear / Put your hands in things you shouldn't have known / He was riding in the danger zone
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The Killers – Here with Me
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“Here With Me” is a song by The Killers from their album Battle Born.
Its lyrics focus on lead singer Brendan Flowers wanting a girl/woman to be there with him and how he misses
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The Killers – Mr. Brightside
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This was The Killers' first ever recorded song for their 2002 demo. The song was composed by guitarist Dave Keuning and the lyrics written by Brandon Flowers. It was re-recorded
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The Killers – Land of the Free
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“Land of the Free” is a song by The Killers, which handles tough subjects in America such as gun control, immigration and racial tensions. The song premiered on January 14th, 2019
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The Killers – A Dustland Fairytale
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“A Dustland Fairytale” is a song from The Killers' 4th studio album, Day & Age, released in 2008.
It was written about the story of how lead singer Brandon Flowers' parents met
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The Killers – Terrible Thing
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“Terrible Thing” is the third song from The Killers' seventh album Pressure Machine. The song centers on a gay teenager who’s contemplating suicide. This song just as the others in
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The Killers – Miss Atomic Bomb
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Brandon Flowers told the backstory of the song to NME: “It’s a beautiful picture of this woman in the desert. I think she’s still alive. I met Bernie Taupin for the first time and
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The Killers – Deadlines and Commitments
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[Chorus] / That place we all run to / It can come down on you / The expectation can be great / If you should ever tire / Or if you should require / Sudden simple twist of fate / [
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The Killers – Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
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This is the first track from the Killers' 2004 debut, Hot Fuss. Written by lead singer Brandon Flowers and bassist Mark Stoermer, it is one of their most popular and critically
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The Killers – The Calling
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Track 9 off the rock band’s fifth studio album Wonderful Wonderful which was first debuted at a show in London on September 12th.
The song starts with a live biblical monologue by
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The Killers – When You Were Young
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The lead single off of Sam’s Town. The song contemplates the difference between expectations and reality through a love affair between a girl and a gentleman who ‘doesn’t look a
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The Killers – This River is Wild
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Debatable for many symbolic interpretations, the river has most commonly been interpreted as representing life – This life is wild; this life is mysterious. The protagonist suffers
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The Killers – Pressure Machine
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[Intro] / We met dragging Main at Spanish Fork / And he wasn't moving away from here, so it wasn't really— / And we could build a house here / But— / [Verse 1] / Hope'll set your
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The Killers – Sam's Town
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Flowers bemoans lost Americana as he thinks about growing up in a small town with big ambitions that the people around him seemed to doubt.
The opening song of the album, “Sam’s
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The Killers – Heart of a Girl
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[Verse 1] / Looking out my window an angel in robe appeared and nearly pulled me apart / A million miles of freedom / A million miles of road / But I still don’t know where to
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The Killers – The Rising Tide
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[Verse 1] / The streets of persuasion / Are plated with gold / Your heart's in the right place / But you traveled down the wrong road / Like so many before you, the gates open wide
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The Killers – The Man
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The upbeat, bass-driven “The Man” is The Killers’s first new song in five years and the lead single from their fifth album Wonderful Wonderful.
It was the last song recorded for
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The Killers – West Hills
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[Intro] / Alright, well, I'm 26 so I've lived here for 26 years / I married my high school sweetheart, so we've been marri— / We've been together 11 years / Um, I don't really
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The Killers – Fire In Bone
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[Intro] / (Fire in bone) / I felt fire in bone / (Fire in bone) / I felt fire in bone / (Fire in bone) / [Verse 1] / I felt cast out / I felt eighty-sixed / I felt darkness / But I
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Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
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“Take Me Out” is a song by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. It was released as the second single from their eponymous debut studio album in the United Kingdom on 12
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The Killers – A Matter of Time
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This is a song about the inevitability of heartbreak when love isn’t grounded in trust; it’s just a matter of time until it crashes.
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten
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The Killers – Read My Mind
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[Verse 1] / On the corner of Main Street / Just tryna keep it in line / You say you wanna move on and / You say I'm falling behind / Can you read my mind? / Can you read my mind
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The Killers (Ft. Bruce Springsteen) – Dustland
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[Verse 1: Brandon Flowers] / A Dustland fairytale beginning / With just another white trash county kiss / In '61, long brown hair and foolish eyes / He looked just like you'd want
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The Killers – Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll
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This song is one big joke–really! The Killers' here are singing about how people thought they were indie when they were trying to be and succeeding at being a pop punk band in the
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Liz Cass – Killers
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[Verse 1] / You're all right / You're okay / Tripped on your right foot / Then your left got in your way / Are you stuck there? / Tipping over fault lines / Spent ten of your nine
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The Killers – All These Things That I've Done
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“All These Things That I’ve Done” was written by frontman Brandon Flowers and features gospel choir The Sweet Inspirations. It was released as the third single from the band’s
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The Killers – The Getting By
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[Intro] / It's just small-town filling and just living the small town an— / Like my kids ride dirt bikes and motorcycles / And they just go across the street in the field and ride
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The Killers – Quiet Town
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[Intro] / Oh yeah, oh no, the train, the train / Every two or three years, the train kills somebody / Every two or three years, yeah / Everybody knows about the train, okay? / You
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