 Genius Meanings
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The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes
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“This Night Has Opened My Eyes” is inspired by and retells the events of the play A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, as Morrissey told interviewers at NME in the 7 June 1986
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Ariel Pink – This Night Has Opened My Eyes
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[Verse 1] / In a river the colour of lead / Immerse the baby's head / Wrap her up in the News Of The World / Dump her on a doorstep, girl / This night has opened my eyes / And I
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Hot Flash Heat Wave – This Night Has Opened My Eyes
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Hot Flash Heat Wave follow the Mood Ring EP with “This Night Has Opened My Eyes,” a cover of The Smiths. They covered the song previously live on tour.
The band shared on Bandcamp
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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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The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home
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The brilliantly titled “Barbarism Begins at Home”, during which Morrissey yelps as if in pain, is also about children being hit – a crack on the head is what you get for asking
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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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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 – The Draize Train
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The Smiths – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Perhaps the Smiths at their most delicate, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” is a minimal, yet lush two minutes of almost otherworldly beauty.
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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 – Girl Afraid
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On “Girl Afraid” Morrisey plays with the word girlfriend as “girl afraid” and boyfriend as “boy afraid”. The song deals with mistaken assumptions in the relationship of said girl
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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 – 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 – William, It Was Really Nothing
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This song is about a love triangle between 2 men and a woman. Many believe it’s addressed to William Mackenzie, lead singer of the Associates. In 1993 Mackenzie wrote the song “
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The Cure – Pictures of You
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“Pictures of You” is the fourth and final single released from Disintegration. It reached the top 30 in the UK and Germany, and was a minor hit in the US and The Netherlands.
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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 – How Soon Is Now?
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Sire Records chief Seymour Stein called it “the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ of the Eighties”, while co-writer Johnny Marr described it as “possibly our most enduring record. It’s most
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The Cure – Just Like Heaven
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“Just Like Heaven” was the third single from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me It was inspired by a trip Robert Smith took with his then-girlfriend (future wife) Mary Poole to Beachy Head
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Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
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“Punisher” is the title track from Phoebe Bridgers' sophomore album, written about her musical hero Elliott Smith. The song details a fictional encounter that Phoebe had with the
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Sia – Chandelier
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“Chandelier” was released as the lead single from Sia’s sixth studio album, 1000 Forms Of Fear. Despite its soaring melody, the song has a sad theme describing the life of a “party
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The Smiths – Still Ill (John Peel Session 14/09/83)
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[Verse 1] / I decree today that life / Is simply taking and not giving / England is mine, and it owes me a living / Ask me why and I'll spit in your eye / Oh ask me why and I'll
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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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