 Genius Meanings
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The Smiths – Sheila Take a Bow
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[Verse 1] / Is it wrong to want to live on your own? / No, it's not wrong, but I must know / How can someone so young sing words so sad? / [Chorus] / Sheila take a, Sheila take a
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Telekinesis – Sheila Take A Bow
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[Verse 1] / Is it wrong to want to live on your own? / No, it's not wrong, but I must know / How can someone so young sing words so sad? / [Chorus] / Sheila take a, Sheila take a
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The Smiths – Back to the Old House
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[Verse 1] / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / I would rather not go / Back to the old house / There's too many bad memories / Too many memories there / [Refrain] / Oh
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Destroyer – Cover from the Sun
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Nancy takes a bow / Sheila takes Manhattan / Lunatics in satin / I think I know what you did last summer / You run for cover from the sun / So what's new, the girl thinks you are a
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The Smiths – Is It Really So Strange?
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“Is It Really So Strange?” describes Morrissey’s friend Linda and her movements in living in both Manchester and London after her art exhibition was moved to the capital. She
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The Smiths – I Keep Mine Hidden
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“I Keep Mine Hidden” was the last song The Smiths recorded together. It was released as a B-side to “Girlfriend In A Coma.”
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The Smiths – Work Is a Four-Letter Word
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“Work Is A Four Letter-Word” is one of the songs recorded in The Smith’s last session together. It is a cover of a Cilla Black’s song.
Johnny Marr hated the song so much that it
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The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Version)
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[Verse 1: Morrissey] / Upon the sand, upon the bay / "There is a quick and easy way" you say / Before you illustrate / I'd rather state / I'm not the man you think I am / I'm not
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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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[Instrumental]
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The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home - 7" Version
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[Verse] / Unruly boys who will not grow up / Must be taken in hand / Unruly girls who will not settle down / They must be taken in hand / [Chorus] / A crack on the head is what you
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The Smiths – Stretch out and Wait
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“Stretch Out And Wait” is about how everyone in the world nowadays (1987) only thinks about getting laid, and how far people will go to find someone to achieve this with. It seems
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The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Live)
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[Verse 1] / From the ice age to the dole age / There is just one concern / And I have just discovered: / [Chorus] / Some girls' are bigger than others / Some girls' are bigger than
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The Smiths – Sweet and Tender Hooligan
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Morrissey uses sarcasm and satire to ridicule the justice system in the way of how it forgives the young “sweet and tender hooligans.” In the song he’s playing a role of a
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The Smiths – Golden Lights
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Widely accepted as one of the Smiths' worst songs, “Golden Lights” is a cover of English singer-songwriter Twinkle’s 1965 single about an ordinary lad who loses all sight of his
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The Smiths – Half a Person
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This song is about adolescence and a crush that Morrissey used to have during his teen years but never said anything to, which he is addressing here.
This song shows everything
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The Smiths – Reel Around The Fountain (Troy Tate Version)
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[Verse 1] / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / You made
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The Smiths – Panic
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This song was written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr and is the first song to be recorded with the new member at the time, Craig Gannon. The song is influenced by the T.Rex song “
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The Smiths – Sweet and Tender Hooligan [Peel Session 12/17/86]
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[Chorus 1] / He was a sweet and tender hooligan, hooligan / And he said that he'd never, never do it again / And of course he won't (oh, not until the next time) / He was a sweet
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William Fitzsimmons – Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Good times for a change / See the luck I've had / Could make a good man turn bad / So please, please, please / Let me, let me, let me / Let me get what I want / This time / Haven't
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Kitten – Panic
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[Verse 1] / Panic on the streets of London / Panic on the streets of Birmingham / I wonder to myself... / Could life ever be sane again? / The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
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The Smiths – Shoplifters Of The World Unite
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The title alludes to the communist slogan “workers of the world, unite!”
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Trespassers William – There is a light that never goes out
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There Is A Light That Never Goes Out / Take me out tonight Where there's music and there's people Who are young and alive Driving in your car I never never want to go home Because
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Katy Goodman – What She Said
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[Verse 1] / What she said / "How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead / And decided to bury me? God knows, I'm ready!" / [Verse 2] / What she said was sad / But then, all the
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The Beatles – Blackbird
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“Blackbird” is Paul McCartney’s hopeful essay on the Civil Rights Movement and the “End of Racism in America”.
The tune was inspired by J.S. Bach’s Bourrée in E minor, a well
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Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia
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“Cecilia” is a song written by Paul Simon. It was first recorded by Simon and Garfunkel for their 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. When released as a single, it reached #4 in
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Elk City – I Know It's Over
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[Verse 1] / Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head / And as I climb into an empty bed / Oh well, enough said / I know it's over - still I cling / I don't know where
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Girl in a Coma – Rubber Ring
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A sad fact widely known / The most impassionate song / To a lonely soul / Is so easily outgrown / But don't forget the songs / That made you smile / And the songs that made you cry
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Nas – Ether
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Ether is the second track on Nas' 2001 album Stillmatic. The song was a response to Jay-Z’s “Takeover” – a diss track which appears as the second track on Jay-Z’s album The
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The Rest (band) – Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
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[Chorus] / Stop me, oh, stop me / Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before / Stop me, oh, stop me / Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before / Nothing's
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The Smiths – London
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In this song Morrissey speaks out directly to a man who decided to catch a train to London to pursue a better life, continuously speaking to his own feelings and asking him if he
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Kendrick Lamar, Summer Walker & Ghostface Killah – Purple Hearts
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“Purple Hearts” is the final track on the first disc and the ninth track overall from Kendrick Lamar’s fifth and final studio album with Top Dawg Entertainment, Mr. Morale & The
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Sara Lov – Well I Wonder
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Well, I wonder / Do you hear me when you sleep? / I hoarsely cry / Well, I wonder / Do you see me when we pass? / I half die / Please, keep me in mind / Please, keep me in mind
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The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
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As can be expected with a song called “Smack My Bitch Up”, this song caused an uproar as it appeared to promote violence against women. The band took every opportunity to explain
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EST Gee (Ft. Jeezy) – The Realest
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[Intro: EST Gee] / Yeah, yeah, don't go against the— / Yeah, yeah, yeah (They say life is a bitch) / [Verse 1: EST Gee] / If I die, I still go out the realest (The realest) / He
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Solvents (band) – Is It Really So Strange?
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[Verse 1] / I left the North, I travelled South / I found a tiny house and I can't help the way I feel / Oh yes, you can kick me, and you can punch me / And you can break my face
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