 Genius Meanings
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The Offspring – Way Down the Line
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[Intro] / Nothing changes, 'cause it's all the same / The world you get's the one you give away / It all just happens again, way down the line / [Verse 1] / There is a chain that's
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The Offspring – Change the World
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“Change The World” is the last track on Ixnay on the Hombre. The drum solo at the beginning is used as the main menu music for Crazy Taxi.
The drum solo and guitar track are taken
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Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar – family ties
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“family ties” finds cousins Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar uniting for their first official collaboration after months of partnering under the pgLang imprint. Originally titled “Jump
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The Offspring – The Meaning of Life
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The second track on Ixnay on the Hombre. The Meaning of Life is about Dexter’s definition of it. He doesn’t want to be told by others what he is and isn’t allowed to do. The
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The Offspring – Living in Chaos
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[Intro] / Got a song, song, man / It goes like this / [Verse 1] / Somewhere the time was right / Could have been gone in ten / This world is hard to fight / Hitting you once, hit
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The Offspring – I Choose
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Seems to be about how fucked up and unfair life is if you look at it that way, but you can CHOOSE to see it in a positive way instead! Hence the chorus “What a NIGHTMARE come true
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The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
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“Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)” was the first single from The Offspring’s 1998 album Americana, and it is one of the band’s well-known songs.
It achieved significant pop and rock
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The Offspring – You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
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“You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” is the third track on The Offspring’s eighth studio album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and was released as the second single from the album on September
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System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
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Rick Rubin, who produced Toxicity for System of a Down, cites this song as one of his most important projects. He told Rolling Stone:
This song was originally going to be called “
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The Offspring – All I Want
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“All I Want” is one of the singles from The Offspring’s album Ixnay on the Hombre.
The band originally composed the song for Epitaph Records and Bad Religion. Originally titled “
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The Offspring – Mota
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The song tells about a man who likes to smoke marijuana, and talks about the effects of it.
He starts each day by waking up and smoking the bong on the table. One of the effects
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Green Day – Basket Case
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“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.
It’s about Billie Joe
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Green Day – Basket Case
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“Basket Case” spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, becoming arguably Green Day’s signature song of the pre-American Idiot days.
It’s about Billie Joe
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The Offspring – Why Don't You Get a Job?
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“Why Don’t You Get a Job?” is the second single from Americana. It peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks. It appears also on The Offspring’s Greatest Hits album.
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The Offspring – Make It All Right
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[Intro] / All I want to do is to fly away with you / (Ba-ba-da, ba-ba-da, ba-da, ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba-ba-ba) / (Ba-ba-da, ba-ba-da, ba-da, ba-ba-da, ba-da-ba-ba-ba) / [Verse 1] / No
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The Offspring – Staring at the Sun
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Staring at the Sun is the third track and second song on Americana. According to The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland, he wrote the song about the frustration of watching everyone
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Green Day – Holiday
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“Holiday” is an anti-war anthem that criticizes America’s war on Iraq, while at the same time reflecting and building up American Idiot’s main character. The track continues the
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The Offspring – Pay the Man
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Pay the Man is the final song on Americana. “The Man” is American slang for the government. It’s also interesting to note that The Offspring’s previous album Ixnay on the Hombre
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My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
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The singer reminisces about his teenage years and attempts to convey the unfair prejudice against teenagers that he experienced.
In this song, the singer (Gerard Way) talks about
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The Offspring – D.U.I.
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D.U.I. is a non-album song from The Offspring. It was written by Offspring guitarist Noodles and was used in the movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
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The Offspring – Don't Pick It Up
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This song is humorous at face value, but contains the more serious lesson, which is that you need to weigh your decisions and act responsibly unless you end up with serious
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Disturbed – Down with the Sickness
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“Down with the Sickness” is one of Disturbed’s most successful songs. The song was recorded in 1999 and was released as the second single from their debut studio album, The
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The Offspring – Self Esteem
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The song that got millions of mid-90s teenage boys self-righteously indignant. Believe us – we were there…
Dexter Holland has said that people have often thought that this was a
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The Offspring – Americana
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The title track and also the penultimate track on The Offspring’s fifth studio album, Americana.
In this song, Dexter talks about American culture and things characteristic of the
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Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
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Nicks wrote “Landslide” while in Aspen, Colorado, inspired, while looking at the mountains, by the thought that everything in her life she’d been building could come crashing down
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Everclear – I Will Buy You a New Life
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[Intro] / Mmmm....oh / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Here is the money that I owe you / Yeah, so you can pay the bills / I will give you more when I get paid again / I hate those people who
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The Offspring – Cool to Hate
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Cool to Hate is the fifth track on Ixnay on the Hombre. It is one of the few satirical songs on the album.
The Offspring’s guitarist Noodles has said that this was his favorite
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