 Genius Meanings
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The Paper Kites – The Sweet Sound of You
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[Verse 1] / Well, the days are getting colder now / And the nights are getting longer / Feels like half the world has gone to sleep / 'Till the weather blows right over / [Chorus 1
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The Paper Kites – Green Valley
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[Verse 1] / Emmy, my Emmy, won't you come on down? / Moves like the tide on a seaside town / Turned every eye and my eyes she found / Lips sweet water and a voice so sound / [Verse
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The Paper Kites – Bloom
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[Verse 1] / In the morning when I wake / And the sun is coming through / Oh, you fill my lungs with sweetness / And you fill my head with you / Shall I write it in a letter
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The Paper Kites – Till the Flame Turns Blue
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[Verse 1] / I wanna get back to you, baby / I wanna get back to those times / When we used to go downtown and just / And we'd burn until the flame turned blue / [Verse 2] / So put
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The Paper Kites – June's Stolen Car
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[Verse 1] / June had dark eyes she was a maker of the rain / One side of her wild the other still like the plains / She had smoke on her breath and a light on her face / That said
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The Paper Kites – Hurts So Good
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[Verse 1] / I can give up, I can get cold / I can get lost in a place that I call home / Well the night is still long, heavy like stone / Tellin' ourselves it's all we've ever
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The Paper Kites – Living Colour
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[Verse 1] / Move on living color / Like we're born creators / Shadows on the ceiling / When I'm in your favor / [Chorus] / And when it comes to go / Take me high, take me low
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The Paper Kites – Pocket Full of Rain
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[Verse 1] / There was a time when the road seemed brighter babe / And I've been dreamin' of a sky so blue / But every now and then it gets a little dark / And I've been walkin' in
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The Paper Kites – Black & Thunder
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[Verse 1] / Black and thunder all of my days / Lord only knows how to keep it at bay / And I'm a man of shadow, man of the light / But darkness it comes when I'm walking it right
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The Paper Kites – I Don’t Want to Go That Way
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[Verse 1] / I don't want to go that way anymore / I don't want to go that way anymore / There's a darkness coming down / Waiting at my door / I don't want to go that way anymore
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The Paper Kites – Maria, It's Time
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[Verse 1] / I didn't want it, it was plain to see / When we talked out plans makin' no money / I can no longer go to say it's fine / And I don't want nothin' I want a life / [Pre-
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The Paper Kites – Marietta
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[Verse 1] / When you moved to Marietta / I couldn't watch you go / I lay awake and listened / To the car drive down the road / [Verse 2] / And I couldn't help but feel like / I'd
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The Paper Kites – Mercy
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[Verse 1] / I remember, baby / I remember these long cold nights / I'm wide awake and dreamin' / Tell me, are you lonesome tonight? / See the moonlight on the rooftops / And the
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The Paper Kites – Midnight Moon
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[Verse 1] / I know a place that we can go / Where the night runs long but the town runs slow / Down at the roadhouse / We can play anyone that you want to play / You can dance all
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The Paper Kites – Darkness At My Door
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[Verse 1] / Well, I ain't no dancer / I can get on my feet / Every road I follow down / Is a dead-end street / Sometimes I find a little light / But it seems out of reach / Just
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The Paper Kites – Rolling On Easy
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[Verse 1] / Well, the boy in the barber still talks about you / Crows like he knew you so well / You kissed him so dizzy, he fell on the floor / Landed right under your spell / And
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M.I.A. – Paper Planes
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This penultimate song on Kala marries a deceptively airy beat with a song about tourist-murdering passport-counterfeiting thieves. The song can be read as the clichéd story of
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The Paper Kites – Burn the Night Away
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[Verse 1] / There was a time that was wasted / There was a time that was lost / And I'm dreamin' it over again / For you, I've been achin' / For you, I've been blind / And I'm
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The Paper Kites – Good Nights Gone
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[Verse 1] / Drivin' down Sixth Street on a Friday night / Held up at a stop sign and a traffic light / Starin' out, watchin' all the billboard signs / In between all of that / Can
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Simon Dupree And The Big Sound (Ft. Jacqui Chan) – Kites
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I will fly a yellow paper sun in your sky / When the wind is high, when the wind is high / I will float a silken silver moon near your window / If your night is dark, if your night
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Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
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From their top-selling album Rumours, “Dreams” was Fleetwood Mac’s only No. 1 hit in the US back in 1977.
The song was written by Stevie Nicks at a turbulent time for the band
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Fugees – How Many Mics
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In this song, the Fugees brag about their rap skills and prove their haters wrong.
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Adrianne Lenker – anything
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Adrianne Lenker’s “anything” came as a surprise on September 2, 2020, just a little under a year since her last major release in 2019 with Big Thief on Two Hands. The song was
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Rod Wave – By Your Side
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“By Your Side” is Rod Wave’s return after announcing in one of his tracks, “Gone Till November,” that he would be taking a hiatus. The track is his first release, after the release
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Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner (Chapter 6)
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Winter. / Here is what I do on the first day of snowfall every year: I step out of the house early in the morning, still in my pajamas, hugging my arms against the chill. I find
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Khaled Hosseini – Chapter 4
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In 1933, the year Baba was born and the year Zahir Shah began his forty-year reign of Afghanistan, two brothers, young men from a wealthy and reputable family in Kabul, got behind
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Khaled Hosseini – Chapter 19
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Again, the car sickness. By the time we drove past the bulletriddled sign that read THE KHYBER PASS WELCOMES YOU, my mouth had begun to water. Something inside my stomach churned
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Hawksley Workman – Maniacs
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Di-no-saur-us / Dead kites in farmer's fields / The jailed dreamers are growing gills / So eat it up you maniacs / Eat the whole thing / You maniacs / Fat-so-saur-us / Fat-so-saur-
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Khaled Hosseini – Chapter 25
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They won't let me in. / I see them wheel him through a set of double doors and I follow. I burst through the doors, the smell of iodine and peroxide hits me, but all I have time to
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