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The Strokes – Chances
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[Intro] / I waited by 'ya / I waited for 'ya / I waited on 'ya / But now I don't / [Verse 1] / You didn't see it / I didn't see it / I didn't see it / But now, oh, I do / I play
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The Strokes – One Way Trigger
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[Intro] / (One, two, three) / [Verse 1] / Get dressed in your bed / While she's asleep / It isn’t right / But it isn’t hard / Tell me, tell me, won’t you understand / Show me, show
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The Strokes – Happy Ending
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[Verse 1] / Say it all / Just get it all off your chest / Shake it up / 500,000 times / Say no more / We don't believe anything / Teenage angst / Come all ages / [Chorus] / Baby
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The Strokes – Welcome to Japan
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[Verse] / If we don't watch the sun, it will rise / If we don't take our time, it's not wise / Putting posters up for your band / (Hey, we're playing a gig tonight if you wanna
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The Strokes – Trying Your Luck
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On this track, Casablancas discusses his romantic ventures with a woman he has strong feelings for, and how he is willing to leave it all on the line to try and get her.
The song
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The Strokes – Threat of Joy
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As the third song, Threat of Joy represents the past, not only with the lyrics but the musical style. Casablancas channels his inner Lou Reed during the intro, while the
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Billy Squier – The Stroke
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Like The Violent Femmes‘ “Blister in the Sun”, Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself”, and The Vapors’ “Turning Japanese”, this song’s writer stridently denies that it’s about
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The Strokes – Call It Fate, Call It Karma
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The last track off Comedown Machine.
Discussing the recording process with Zane Lowe, bassist Nikolai Fraiture said:
We got off tour and we had these songs, some left over and
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The Strokes – 80's Comedown Machine
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[Verse 1] / It's not the first time / That I've watched you / Passing by / I've tried too hard / To get back there / But, you’re not on time / Anymore / Tried to get in with you
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The Strokes – Tap Out
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[Verse 1] / They found our city under the water / Gotta get my hands on something new / You don't want to be without this / Something isn't adding up / [Pre-Chorus] / Decide my
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The Strokes – Partners in Crime
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[Verse 1] / I forgot your jacket outdoors / Day's been something / See if I care / One; it's not okayish day, just so / But yes, if you insist / Okay / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh, alright
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The Strokes – Barely Legal (Rough Trade Version)
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[Verse 1] / I didn't take no shortcuts / I spent the money that I saved up / Oh, mama running out of luck / Like my sister, don't give a fuck / Oh these strange manners, I love 'em
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NEEDTOBREATHE – Chances
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[Verse 1] / I'm in a bunker now, smoking a cigarette / I'd take my helmet off but the war's not over yet / Slow my trembling hands, slow my wanting heart / Keep me calm 'til I find
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The Strokes – Fast Animals
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“Fast Animals” is the alternate version of the track “Slow Animals” from The Strokes' fifth album, Comedown Machine. It was featured as the B-side on the 7" release of the All The
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Arctic Monkeys – Cornerstone
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“Cornerstone” is the seventh track of Arctic Monkeys’ 2009 release Humbug, and the second single to be released from the album.
The song has a straightforward narrative. The
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The Strokes – All the Time
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[Verse 1] / Those that try anything once / Should we care about the only ones? / [Pre-Chorus 1] / All the time that I need is never quite enough / All the time that I have is all
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The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky
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“Eye In The Sky” is APP’s biggest hit, reaching #3 in the US in October 1982. There are many theories about its meaning.
Some see the song as about a break up, or more
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The Voidz – Human Sadness
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The first official release from Tyranny, “Human Sadness” centers on a sample of Mozart’s “Requiem” in D minor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII
A requiem is a Catholic
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Daft Punk (Ft. Julian Casablancas) – Instant Crush
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“Instant Crush,” the fourth single off of Random Access Memories, sees Daft Punk team up with Julian Casablancas from The Strokes in a mid tempo song with bass driven mellow verses
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David0Mario & himynameisshan. – Unspoken Chances
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This one is Mashpit certified / Every morning, every day, I am hopin' for a chance to get away / In the evening, every night, I am dreamin' of a chance to make it right / And if
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Paramore – When It Rains
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The fifth track on the album explores the mindstate of someone who committed suicide due to depression.
We see the subject had lost all hope with the narrator in disbelief as to
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The Strokes – 50/50
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[Verse 1] / Why's she telling me the story of her life? / All the things you wanna kill will give you spite / And if you've taken all the prisoners inside / As they're doling out
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Paramore – Miracle
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The seventh song of Paramore’s second album Riot! is a conversation of Hayley with herself and with God; she talks about her depression, getting through self-hate, and self-injury.
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Weiland – Broken Ego
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[Verse 1] / Can't love until you love yourself / Too scared to look in the mirror / The empty shell that stares me back / My confidence begins to crack / [Verse 2] / I waited for
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The National – Alphabet City
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[Verse 1] / I don't miss the world, not the way it was / I can't get there / Try to think of it, always at a loss / I can't get there / [Pre-Chorus] / All of your lonesomeness kept
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Arctic Monkeys – When the Sun Goes Down
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The second single from Arctic Monkeys' debut album is about prostitution around the studio they were recording in in Sheffield. It was a considerable commercial success, scoring
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The Strokes – Slow Animals
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[Verse 1] / You don't have to be so loud / Everyone can hear you in this whole damn crowd / You don't have to try so hard / I think they got the message, you were out of your mind
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October Fall – Second Chances
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I'm sick of second chances / Cigarettes turn to ashes / I'm standing under street signs / To know the places I've been my whole life / I watch the hours pass us / Another one burns
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Golden Earring – Twilight Zone
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Songwriter George Kooymans of Golden Earring was inspired not by the TV show “Twilight Zone”, but by the (at that point obscure) novel The Bourne Identity, which years later would
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Athlete – Chances
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This song appeared on the BBC sci-fi series, Doctor Who, specifically in the episode Vincent and the Doctor, in which the Doctor visits Vincent Van Gogh.
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D.notive (Ft. Tarby) – Second Chances
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[Verse 1] / I'm back at it again / And this time I will take you down with me / Time has given me its will / And I will that you don't rest at all / Keep looking over your shoulder
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All Time Low (Ft. Avril Lavigne) – Fake As Hell
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[Intro: Alex Gaskarth] / I know it's better if we both say / "So long and thanks for the memories" / I'd like to say that it's been real / But it's been fake as hell / [Verse 1
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Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
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“Are You Gonna Be My Girl” is a song by the Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2003 album Get Born. It was released as the first single from the album, released in 2003 in
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The Struts – Kiss This
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[Verse 1: Luke Spiller] / Thomas said stay home / Get away from me / Saying I was bad for you / He got his way / I'm gone for good / Making up stories / Keeping it secret / Taking
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The Offspring – The Kids Aren't Alright
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“The Kids Aren’t Alright” is the third single from the album Americana.
Its title is an allusion to The Who song “The Kids Are Alright.”
In the video below, Dexter talks more
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Omega – House of Cards, Part I
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In my life I couldn't put things to the right / On covered miles you can't find my fleeting marks / Worn out shoes, half read books, scarps of food / Failure everywhere, it's a
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Miss Fortune – The Kids Aren't Alright
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[Verse 1] / When we were young the future was so bright (Woah) / The old neighborhood was so alive (Woah) / And every kid on the whole damn street (Woah) / Was gonna make it big
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