 Genius Meanings
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The Smiths – The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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Please don't cry / For the ghost and the storm outside / Will not invade this sacred shrine / Nor infiltrate your mind / My life down I shall lie / If the bogey-man should try / To
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Glen Campbell (Ft. Steve Wariner) – The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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He got here red and wrinkled scared and cryin' / Then she took him up and held him to her breast / And he sure was glad to get what mama offered / Then he went to sleep and put his
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The Smiths – Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
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This is a typical Morrissey song about a person who is upset or depressed, and doesn’t want to waste any more time on thoughtless people. It was released as a single backed with “
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The Smiths – Still Ill
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“Still Ill” is a 1984 track by The Smiths, composed by lead singer Morrissey and guitarist Marr. The track premiered on the eponymous debut album The Smiths.
The song is primarily
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The Smiths – These Things Take Time
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“These Things Take Time” is another upbeat Smiths' song with an homoerotic sexual undertone. It was originally released as a B-side to the maxi single version of “What Difference
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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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[Instrumental]
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The Smiths – I Don't Owe You Anything
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“I Don’t Owe You Anything” tells the story of a person trying to charm someone over Johnny Marr’s smooth groove.
As stated in the book Mozipedia – The Encyclopedia of Morrissey
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The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves
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“Pretty Girls Make Graves” is about Morrissey’s view on sex expressed through an encounter with a lustful girl.
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The Smiths – Suffer Little Children
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“Suffer Little Children” is the final track on The Smiths’s self-titled debut album. It is about the Moors murders, but only mentions one of the two murderers involved, namely Myra
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Sandie Shaw & The Smiths – Hand In Glove
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[Verse 1] / Hand in glove / The sun shines out of our behinds / No, it's not like any other love / This one is different because it's us! / Hand in glove / We can go wherever we
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The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make?
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“What Difference Does It Make?” is the Smiths' third single in the UK, released on the 16th of January, 1984. The song peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart, being relevant in the
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The Smiths – Reel Around the Fountain
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From The Smiths' eponymous first album. “Reel Around the Fountain” met with controversy, with some tabloid newspapers alleging the songs were suggestive of paedophilia, a claim
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The Smiths – You've Got Everything Now
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Morrissey expresses his bitterness towards a person whom he implies is only faking his happiness, because Morrissey believes that having a casual life isn’t enough.
Morrissey
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The Smiths – Miserable Lie
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“Miserable Lie” tells the story of a naive country boy corrupted by the lustful ways of a prostitute. A quintessential Smiths track.
It is especially notable for its odd song
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The Smiths – Hand in Glove
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“Hand in Glove” was released in May 1983 as The Smiths' first single.
The song was later featured on the band’s first album, The Smiths, and also on their two compilation albums
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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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John Denver – The Chosen Ones
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I heard how all the lights went out in Memphis / On the death night anniversary of the king / The pretenders talking dirty in the palace / But it doesn't have that old familiar
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Corduroy – Data 70
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[Instrumental]
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” is a sacred Smiths classic by now, one that makes fans across the globe join hands and mope together. To some it is a depressive anthem, to
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The Black Sorrows – The Chosen Ones
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I heard how all the lights went out in Memphis / On the death night anniversary of the king / The pretenders talking dirty in the palace / But it doesn't have that old familiar
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Method Man & Redman – Blackout
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[Intro: Redman] / Yo, yo, yo, yo / All my people! / Yo, yo, yo, yo / Yo, yo, yo, yo / Yo, yo, yo, yo / Yo, yo, yo, yo! / [Verse 1: Redman] / It's Funk Doc, where the weed at, bitch
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The Fall – I am Damo Suzuki
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A tribute to the original sprechgesang madman, Can frontman Damo Suzuki.
From Reformation!:
This track is based to some extent on the Can track “Oh Yeah”, especially its
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Corduroy – Evolver
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[Verse 1] / I have seen the future / And it moves so fast / If you choose to be someone / Then make it last / [Chorus] / Be an evolver / Everything that can change will in time
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Pearl Jam – Black
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“Black” became one of Pearl Jam’s best-known songs and is a central emotional piece on the album Ten. Despite pressure from Epic Records, the band refused to make it into a single
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Bruce Dickinson – Killing Floor
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So this is dreamtime and all is quiet / So this is dreamtime and all is night / You've never been held by the hand of God / Who's rocking the cradle if he is not / He turned the
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Lil Yachty, Future & Playboi Carti – Flex Up
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On the Lil Boat 3.5 standout “Flex Up,” Atlanta trio Lil Yachty, Future, and Playboi Carti use three minutes to flex their lavish lifestyle.
Several snippets of the song surfaced
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Anna Nalick – Breathe (2 AM)
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“Breathe (2 AM)” describes the lives of the narrator and two friends who believe that their challenges are hard to overcome. However, instead of worrying that they will never
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Shinedown – How Did You Love
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[Verse 1] / You can have the sound of / A thousand voices calling your name / You can have the light of the world / Blind you, bathe you in grace / But I don't see so easily / What
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Neil Young – Rockin’ in the Free World (Electric)
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Young’s angry indictment of society during the Bush Sr. Era.
The first verse is about the narrator’s every day experiences in society, ending with how they’ve affected him.
The
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Brandon Mychal Smith & Tyler James Williams – Moment of Truth (Bling vs. Truth)
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The final rap battle in the Disney movie Let It Shine where Bling and Truth finally face off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKsw4b3XZ7s&feature=player_detailpage
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Halestorm – Rock Show
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[Verse 1] / Little girl / You like it loud / Come alive in the middle of a crowd / You wanna scream / You wanna shout / Get excited when the lights go down / [Chorus 1] / At the
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Helen Baylor – If It Had Not Been for the Lord on My Side
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[Chorus] / If it had not been for the Lord on my side / Where would I be? Where would I be? / If it had not been for the Lord on my side / Where would I be? Where would I be? / [
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Bandit, Grand Daddy I.U., Grand Puba, Mackwell, The Notorious B.I.G., Positive K, Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard, Raggedy Man & Snagga Puss – All Men Are Dogs (Nine Dog MC's Mix)
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[Chorus] / You ain't nothing but a (dog) / Every man I know is a (dog) / All ya gonna be is a (dog) / You ain't nothing but a (dog) / Ooh! / [Bridge 1: Snagglepuss] / In the
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The Cranberries – Zombie
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The Cranberries describe the violence in “The Troubles,” the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland between nationalists (mainly self-identified as Irish or Roman Catholic) and
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Blue on Black
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“Blue on Black” is a song about a mangled relationship. In each line of the chorus one piece completely consumes the other when the two are combined. For example, with blue and
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