 Genius Meanings
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The National – Guest Room (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / They're gonna send us to prison for jerks / For having vague ideas of the way to turn each other on again / They're gonna send us to prison for jerks / [Chorus] / They'
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The National – Guest Room
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Guest Room Lyrics: They're gonna send us to prison for jerks / For having vague ideas of the way to turn each other on again / They're gonna send us to ...
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The National – Green Gloves (Live in Brussels)
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[Audience Cheering] / [Refrain] / Falling out of touch with all my / Friends are somewhere getting wasted / Hope they're staying glued together / I have arms for them / [Verse 1
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tropicmorning
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The National fangirl.
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The National – Mistaken For Strangers (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / You have to do it running / But you do everything that they ask you to / 'Cause you don't mind seeing yourself in a picture / As long as you look far away / As long as
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The National – Green Gloves
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The title “Green Gloves” may be a metaphor for jealousy (which is sometimes called “the green monster” in literature).
However, the song is actually about remembering someone by
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The National – Racing Like A Pro (Live in Brussels)
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[Spoken, continued from previous track: Matt Berninger] / Like us! / [Audience Cheering] / [Verse 1] / You're pink, you're young, you're middle class / They say it doesn't matter
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Electric Guest – This Head I Hold
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[Verse 1] / They call me a little grown-up / See, I'm upset because I've always been stuck / But I don't know what it is I'm without / Guess I'm in love with always feeling down
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The National – Squalor Victoria (Live in Brussels)
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[Audience Clapping] / [Verse 1] / Underline everything, I'm a professional / In my beloved white shirt / Underline everything, I'm a professional / In my beloved white shirt / [
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The National – Brainy
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“Brainy” is the third song on The National’s 2007 album, Boxer.
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The National – Brainy (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / I've been dragging around / From the end of your coat for two weeks / Everywhere you go is swirling / Everything you say has water under it / You know I keep your
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The National – Apartment Story
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“Apartment Story” is the seventh track on The National’s 2007 album Boxer. It was released as a single on November 5, 2007; the single’s B-side is a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “
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Original Broadway Cast of Beauty and the Beast (Ft. Barbara Marineau, Beth Fowler, Brian Press, Gary Beach, Heath Lamberts & Stacey Logan) – Be Our Guest
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[LUMIERE] / Ma chere Mademoiselle, it is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you here tonight! And now we invite you to relax, let us pull up a chair as the
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The National – Apartment Story (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on / La, la, la, la, la / Can you carry my drink? I have everything else / I can tie my tie all by myself
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The National – Fake Empire
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The opening track of The National’s 2007 opus, “Fake Empire” describes the hedonism and escapism of a culture lost to excess in the wake of its diminishing status as a world
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The National – Ada (Live in Brussels)
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[Spoken, continued from previous track: Matt Berninger] / Just start it from the very beginning of the record / [Verse 1] / Ada, don't talk about reasons why you don't wanna talk
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Peter, Paul and Mary – Danny's Downs
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On the day little Danny arrived / His father stared and his mother cried / They knew his name but they didn't know why / He looked the way he did / This thing happens to other kids
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Peter, Paul and Mary – Danny's Downs
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On the day little Danny arrived / His father stared and his mother cried / They knew his name but they didn't know why / He looked the way he did / This thing happens to other kids
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The National – Start a War
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[Refrain] / We expected something, something better than before / We expected something more / [Verse 1] / Do you really think you can just put it in a safe / Behind a painting
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The National – Ada
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“Ada” follows the singer as he converses with a female named Ada. She seems to be the singer’s love interest/close relative/good friend who suffers from social anxiety.
This can
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The National – Start A War (Live in Brussels)
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[Audience Cheering] / [Refrain] / We expected something, something better than before / We expected something more / [Verse 1] / Do you really think you can just put it in a safe
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The National – Fake Empire (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / Stay out super late tonight / Picking apples, making pies / Put a little something in our lemonade / And take it with us / [Chorus] / We're half awake in a fake empire
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Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Okieriete Onaodowan – Cabinet Battle #1
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These cabinet meeting scenes are staged and styled after live “rap battle” performances—like those in Style Wars, Scribble Jam or 8 Mile—where rappers freestyle, often with extreme
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Kabuto The Python (Ft. Adam WarRock, Beefy, Billy the Fridge, Buc Preston (of Southside), Dual Core, Jesse Dangerously, King Pheenix, Klopfenpop, MadHatter, Maros, MC Frontalot, Mega Ran, Mikal kHill, NAVI, Old Snake da CQC MC, The Ranger$, Remi-son, Say Hi, Schäffer the Darklord, Shael Riley, Da Silky Slimz (Big Wyrm and Masta Don da Mastodon), Sulfur, Thunderball (of Southside), Viet Vu, Whoremoans & Wordburglar) – The Guest List
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The track features 27 different rappers performing at least two bars each.
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TV Priest – House of York
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Please forgive me / King confessor / In the arms and the heads / Where we drink ourselves to death / Pious and gullible / Kings and queens and kings again / House of York, house of
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The National – Slow Show (Live in Brussels)
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[Verse 1] / Standing at the punch table, swallowing punch / Can't pay attention to the sound of anyone / A little more stupid, a little more scared / Every minute, more unprepared
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The National – Slow Show
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Boxer is the fourth studio album by Brooklyn-based indie rock band The National. It was released on May 22, 2007 by Beggars Banquet Records, and has since sold over 300,000 copies
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The National – Squalor Victoria
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Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning ... 8. Start a War. 9. Guest Room. 10. Racing Like a ... Squalor Victoria ( ...
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The National – Gospel
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / I've got two armfuls of magazines for you, I'll bring 'em over / So hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden / Hang your holiday
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Immortal Technique (Ft. C-Rayz Walz, Diabolic, LouCipher, Poison Pen, Pumpkinhead & Tonedeff) – Peruvian Cocaine
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On what’s surely ranked as one of the best posse cuts of all time, Immortal Technique (who is partly of Peruvian heritage and was born there) and guests break down all the
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Nas – Speechless Pt. 2
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[Intro] / Yeah, uh / It's comin' up, right? / Yeah / Yo, yeah, yeah / [Verse] / Y'all some drugs testers / My guess is, I won't be on your guest list / I'm unimpressed with doin
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The National – Gospel (Live in Brussels)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / I've got two armfuls of magazines for you, I'll bring 'em over / So hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden / Hang your holiday
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One Day – Love Me Less
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This is the first track released from One Day Crew. OD is made up of the likes of Nick Lupi and Jimmy Nice (Spit Syndicate), Kai and Raph (Jackie Onassis), Solo and Adit (
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Supreme Court of the United States (Ft. Tom C. Clark) – Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
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Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made it illegal for motels, hotels, and other public accommodations to discriminate against guests based on their race. After
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