 Genius Meanings
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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 – 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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Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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Rupert Holmes’s claim to fame – the hit that was the last number 1 of the ‘70s in the US. It was also a top 30 hit in New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK.
“Escape” is
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Ocean Alley – Partner In Crime
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(Verse 1) / Won't you tell me I'm fine? / Won't you tell me I'm right? / Cos I'm a freight train / And I'm running off my tracks again / (Verse 2) / Won't you tell me it's okay
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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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 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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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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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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Oreo the Animaniacs Guy (Ft. Yakko Warner) – She's a Rebel
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[Chorus: Yakko Warner] / She's a rebel, she's a saint / She's the salt of the earth, and she's dangerous / She's a rebel, vigilante / Missing link on the brink of destruction / [
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True Moon – The Moon Is Out
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How can we ever, ever, ever, ever make this work / When I hate you, I hate you, I hate you so much it burns / How can we ever, ever, ever, ever make this work / When I hate you, I
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The Babies – Breakin' The Law
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[Intro] / Breakin’ the law, we used to break the law / Breakin’ the law, we used to break the law / Breakin’ the law, we used to break the law / Breakin’ the law, we used to break
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Young Galaxy – Crying my heart out - edit
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I was your boyfriend / I was your partner in crime / But on the weekends / We never made the time / Never realized until I let you go / Never realized until I let you go / Ohhhh
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Rhett Miller – You Were a Stranger
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[Verse 1] / Wind blew hard / Rain pelted the car / I squeezed the wheel and I held it together / You rode along / Whistlin' a song / Knowing you were next to me made me feel better
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J. Cole – Kevin's Heart
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In “Kevin’s Heart,” Cole is singing from the stance of a person in love with drugs. Throughout the track, he references taking Xannies and smoking blunts, and relates the use of
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Olivia Rodrigo – good 4 u
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“good 4 u” is the third single from Olivia Rodrigo’s debut studio album, SOUR. The song’s hook is laced with sarcasm, as Olivia sharply addresses her former partner for quickly
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SZA – Low
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[Intro: SZA] / Tell 'em to shoot / I'm out the loop, I'm out of range / Oh, I stay out the way / [Pre-Chorus: SZA] / Got another side of me, I like to get it poppin' / But these
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The Wrecks – Fvck Somebody
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[Verse 1] / What do you want? / My God / I just wanna go somewhere without you / What do you want? / My God / I just wanna love someone who's not you / But here we are / Living it
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New Order – Age of Consent
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“Age of Consent” is the opening track of the band’s second album Power, Corruption & Lies. The narrator of “Age of Consent” wants to leave a relationship but he nor his partner
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Olivia Rodrigo – hope ur ok
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In “hope ur ok,” Olivia reminisces about old friends, presumably part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Despite losing contact, she reminds them that nothing is as bad as it seems, wishes
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Avenged Sevenfold – A Little Piece of Heaven
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A Little Piece Of Heaven is the 9th track of the band’s self titled fourth album. The idea for the song’s storyline, and music video came to the band’s drummer (The Rev) in a dream
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Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning (Acoustic Version)
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[Verse 1] / Outside the cafe by the cracker factory / You were practicing a magic trick / And my thoughts got rude / As you talked and chewed / On the last of your pick and mix
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Wa Wa Nee – I Could Make You Love Me
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[Chorus] / I could make you love me / I could make you want me / I could make you love me / I could make you happy / I could make you love me / I'll make you love me / [Verse 1
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Lit – C'mon
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We could go on / Wonderin' / If it's gonna turn out like we planned it would / When we were young / And all we knew / Was what the hell it meant to live for the moment / Man one
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The Offspring – Original Prankster (Demo 1)
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(You can do it!) / Until the break of dawn / Life life / Cannot go by the letter / Time Time / Anton can make it better / Noise noise / Anyone will do / Can you feel it slip away
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Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning
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The first single from the Arctic Monkeys' third album, Humbug.
The acoustic version has a third verse:
Oh, you were reading a book about some idiot
And telling me about another
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