 Genius Meanings
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The Offspring – Breaking These Bones
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[Verse 1] / Lights out and pull the shades / Look back on better days / Alone now with this pain that's burning / No one feels like me / I blacken all the walls / I'm blocking all
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One Direction – Story of My Life
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“Story of My Life” is the second single off of One Direction’s third album, Midnight Memories. It details the struggles of trying to chase after a girl who plays “hard to get.”
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The Offspring – Army of One
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[Chorus] / And the world keeps on turning / As we all come undone / While the lost keep on searching / I'm the army of one / [Verse 1] / We are one, but I don't belong / It's hard
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The Offspring – Coming for You
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[Verse 1] / Time to go and get our kicks / Dropping out and getting in the mix now / In the back room, nothing to do / We're not bored, we're just sick of you, yeah / Yeah, sick of
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The Offspring – Gone Away (2021)
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[Verse 1] / Maybe in another life / I could find you there / Pulled away before your time / I can't deal, it's so unfair / [Chorus] / And it feels, and it feels like / Heaven's so
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The Offspring – In the Hall of the Mountain King
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[Instrumental]
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The Offspring – This is Not Utopia
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[Verse 1] / Like a shot without a warning / Lies a life that's left behind / And though I try, it's something I just can't unsee / It's burned into my mind / And I wake up in the
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The Offspring – Let the Bad Times Roll
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[Intro] / Oh, baby, let the bad times roll (Oh-oh-oh-oh) / Oh, baby, let the bad times roll (Oh, oh-oh-oh) / [Verse 1] / We're gonna hang 'em high / We're gonna shoot straight up
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The Offspring – Hassan Chop
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On “Hassan Chop,” The Offspring rework a guitar riff from their 1986 demo “Call It Religion” — at 1:12 on “Hassan Chop,” you can hear the same guitar solo that appears at 0:58 on “
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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 – The Opioid Diaries
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[Verse 1] / Their end of days looks more like tomorrow / Their end of days started with a pill / But they're not junkies like the news guy said / They're just kids who've gotten
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The Offspring – Behind Your Walls
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[Chorus 1] / Tell me, how do I read you when all I see is a stare? / How do you look for the signs when nothing is there? / So you think / When the water won't cut the flame / And
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Faulty Radiator (Ft. Atria (US)) – Holocaust (Bleeding Heart Mix)
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Dein todestag schadet dir nicht / God's loving land / What have you done / What have I done to deserve this fun? / Where was god when he / Took all of us and grinded our bones
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System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.
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“B.Y.O.B.” (“Bring Your Own Bombs”) is the first single released from American heavy metal band System of a Down’s fourth album Mezmerize.
Like their earlier song “Boom!,” it was
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The Offspring – We Never Have Sex Anymore
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[Verse 1] / We never have sex anymore / We never roll around on the floor like we did so long ago / And you never yell at me anymore / You never want to even the score like you did
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Fall Out Boy – Thnks fr th Mmrs
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One of Fall Out Boy’s now classic songs, “Thnks fr th Mmrs” tells the tale of doomed lovers who are still in it for the sex. The third single from their third album, Infinity on
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Papa Roach – Last Resort
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This song is about the cutting and suicidal thoughts of one of the band’s friends.
Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” held its ground on the Billboard Hot 100 for three straight months
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Cypress Hill – Insane in the Brain
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“Insane In The Brain” was released as the lead single from Cypress Hill’s second album. It topped in August 1993 the US Rap Chart and reached #19 on the US Pop Chart the following
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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 Presidents of the United States of America – Kitty
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[Intro] / Meow, meow, meow-meow, meow-meow / Meow / Meow / Meow / Meow / [Verse 1] / Little bag of bones been out all night / Little bag of bones been out all night / Can you hear
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Shadow of Intent – The Forsaken Effigy
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Savage structure of hypocrisy / A vile being of infamy untainted for centuries below The Library / Murderous echoes in his wake / Contagion, a relic of death / Hatred embodiment
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Timothy Brindle – Death & Resurrection Pt. 2 - Circumcision
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[Turntablism] / "Gotta infiltrate your section / With Christ's death, burial, and resurrection" / "Christ's death and resurrection is / The main theme of the whole Old Testament
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Duster – Inside Out
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Will I be able to speak / After a stiff drink? / Would it break my panic? / Would the sweat stop pouring out? / Slow and deliberate / With her words / She'll walk through / My
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Friedrich Engels – The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Chap. 2)
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Study guide questions, via Marxists.org:
What does “consanguinity” mean and what is meant by the “consanguine family”?
Marx notes Morgan’s observation about “systems of
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blink-182 – What's My Age Again?
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Arguably one of the greatest pop-punk anthems and one of the most popular blink-182 songs. “What’s My Age Again?” was written by Mark Hoppus and was inspired by the fact that he
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Charles Darwin – Chapter 6: Difficulties of Theory
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Difficulties on the theory of descent with modification. Transitions. Absence or rarity of transitional varieties. Transitions in habits of life. Diversified habits in the same
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Kevin Gates – Super General (Freestyle)
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[Intro] / (Well, we could be superstars) / I gotta get this off my chest, you heard me? / (We been rather wreckin' cars) (Ayy, bro, is that Jambo?) / I forgive you for anything you
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Publius Vergilius Maro (Ft. John Dryden) – Aeneid: Book 7
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And thou, O matron of immortal fame, / Here dying, to the shore hast left thy name; / Cajeta still the place is call'd from thee, / The nurse of great Aeneas' infancy. / Here rest
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Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
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The first single from In Utero, “Heart-Shaped Box” details the battle of wills inherent to a new relationship when one doesn’t quite feel so strongly about another person.
“Heart-
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Set It Off (Ft. William Beckett) – Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
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“Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing” is a song by American pop punk band Set It Off. The song appears on their album Duality, and features vocals from William Beckett of The Academy Is….
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Genius – 50 Best Songs of 2015
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The Genius Community discussed over 450 songs in six weeks to ultimately decide the 50 best songs of 2015. Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.
Listen to the 50 Best
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Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon
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PROLOGUE / Two tires fly. Two wail. / A bamboo grove, all chopped down / From it, warring songs / ....IS THE BEST THAT CORPORAL BOBBY SHAFTOE CAN DO ON short notice--he's standing
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William James – CHAPTER XXIV. [1]INSTINCT
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INSTINCT is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such away as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance. That
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Henry Callaway – The Religious System Of The Amazulu - Part 1 Creation Story
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UNKULUNKULU is no longer known.1 It is he who was the first man;2 he broke off3 in the p. 2 beginning.4 We do not know his wife; and the ancients do not tell us that he had a wife.
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Genius – February 2021 Singles Release Calendar
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WELCOME TO GENIUS' FEBRUARY 2021 SINGLES RELEASE CALENDAR!!!
For February 2021 album releases, visit this page
This page highlights the notable singles released in all genres
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