 Genius Meanings
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Little Shadow
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Patience, shadow / For all your sight, there's no sight to see / Little shadow, little shadow / To the night, will you follow me? / Pardon, shadow / Hold on tight to your darkened
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
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A seductive and frightening mix of dance music and goth that confronts the deadly rave lifestyle without compromise or preaching, “Heads Will Roll” is the second single off indie
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock
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[Verse 1] / Unknown / Talk to unknown / Ever / Lasts forever / [Chorus] / Well, it's a sharp shock / To your soft side / Summer moon / Catch your shut eye / In your room / In my
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4 Non Blondes – What's Up?
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“What’s Up” was the second single from the 1992 album Bigger, Better, Faster, More! by 4 Non Blondes. It shot the band into international stardom, topping the charts in seven
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Skeletons
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“Skeletons” is the 4th track from YYYs’s It’s Blitz!, and the 3rd single off the album.
An acoustic version was released as a bonus track in the album’s Deluxe Edition and on the
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Matthew Perryman Jones – Living in the Shadows
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[Verse 1] / Smoke is clearing out / All the circling lights, blind me / I've been running out / Now it's all just a fight, to breathe / I gave it all, yeah / I gave everything
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
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“Zero” is the opening track from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ third studio album It’s Blitz.
“Zero” was the lead single from the album and released on Feb. 24, 2009.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dragon Queen
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[Verse 1] / My mouth is touching / Your mouth is running / No loving for nothing / Nobody, knock my body out / [Verse 2] / My mouth is blowing right up / I'm so gone / Incoming
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Clap Song
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My confession is the tension of our love / My profession is not to question our love / My confession is the tension of our love / My profession is not to question our love / I want
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Runaway
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[Verse 1] / I was feeling sad / Can't help looking back / Highways flew by / Run, run away / No sense of time / Like you to stay / Want to keep you inside / [Chorus] / Run, run
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric (acoustic)
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No longer no longer / What you ask / Strange steps / Heels turned black / The cinders the cinders / They light the path / Of these strange steps / Take us back, take us back / Flow
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Shame and Fortune
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[Verse 1] / "Shame is soft," they say / Lose when I play your game / Come if you call my name / Lose when I play your game / [Verse 2] / You got an attitude / You got a way / [Hook
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric
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[Verse 1] / No longer, no longer / What you ask / Strange steps / Heels turned black / The cinders, the cinders / They light the path / And these strange steps / Take us back, take
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Dua Lipa – Levitating
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With themes of space travel and excitement, “Levitating” is a joyful ode to the often-quick process of falling in love. Originally included on Dua Lipa’s 2020 album, Future
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Faces
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Faces is an iTunes exclusive bonus track, number 11, on It’s Blitz!.
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Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Considered by many to be the ultimate grunge anthem, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was the lead single for Nirvana’s second studio album and major label debut, September 1991’s
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Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
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Fly Away was the fourth single from Lenny Kravitz’s album 5.
The song peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Billboard’s Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock Tracks charts
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Nirvana – Lithium
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“Lithium” is a perfect description of manic depression, where every line is both happy and sad, up and down, while having references to God recalling when Kurt lived with a devout
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dull Life
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[Verse 1] / Want you to stay in a subtle way / Like you're walking again, all on me / Step slowly, you know that you fall between / Dark places, what a simple web we weave / [
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NLE Choppa (Ft. Blueface) – Shotta Flow (Remix)
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“Shotta Flow (Remix)” is a remix of NLE Choppa’s breakout hit “Shotta Flow”, with an assisted feature from rapper Blueface, marking the first collaborative effort between the two
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Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
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In an interview with Daily Telegraph, Gaga said that “Paparazzi” is about “struggling to balance success and love.”
An excerpt from a separate interview:
The song is about a few
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Rihanna – Cheers (Drink To That)
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“Cheers” is the third song on Rihanna’s 5th album Loud. Released August 2, 2011.
Filled with a soundboard of lazy, reggae pop cadence, meant for the ‘semi-alcoholics’. It opens
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Nebu Kiniza – Gassed Up
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“Gassed Up” is a song that Nebu Kiniza wrote about a party he attended his junior year of high school.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock (Acoustic)
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Unknown, talk to unknown / Ever, lasts forever / Well it's a shock, shock to your soft side / Summer moon / Catch your shut eyes in your room / In my room / In your room / In my
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Ginuwine – Pony
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“Pony” is Ginuwine’s debut single, released 3 months prior to his debut LP Ginuwine… the Bachelor in August 1996. The song was a huge commercial and critical success and is
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Phoebe Bridgers – I Know the End
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‘'I Know the End’‘ is the metalinguistic closing track of Phoebe’s sophomore album Punisher.
The apocalyptical folk ballad track reclaims the singer-songwriter narrative abilities
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Loren Gray – Queen
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[Verse 1] / Cross my heart and hope to die / I don't need another guy / To fight my battles, to overshadow me / Don't ya know I'm dangerous? / Fire burnin' in my blood / I got this
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Megan Thee Stallion – Body
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On “Body,” Megan Thee Stallion brags about her desirability, being the envy of other women, and the fantasy of their men. It served as the fourth single to Good News, and dropped
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Megan Thee Stallion – Savage
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Megan Thee Stallion decisively manifests herself as a “savage” on the second track from her third EP Suga, released on March 6, 2020. With plenty of references to her older songs
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Karen O (Ft. Ezra Koenig) – The Moon Song
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Karen O’s Oscar-nominated song from Spike Jonze’s spectacular movie, Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Karen O and Ezra Koenig performed the song together at
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Destiny's Child – Say My Name
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Destiny’s Child released “Say My Name” in 1999 as the third single from their second album Writings on the Wall. This album was their breakthrough success, and this song
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Ken Carson – Yale
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[Verse] / Uh, I keep your ho upstairs / When she wanna fuck, I just tell her, "Ring the bell" / Hit her from the back, she can't do nothing but yell / And she smart as fuck, I got
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Liam Gallagher – Better Days
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[Verse 1] / There'll be better days when the sun gets into you / And the shadows of your heart / There'll be better days when my love will find you / Even though we're miles apart
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No Guidnce – Yeah Yeah
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[Verse 1: Ebubé] / Yeah, uh / Don't know why all these girls keep competin' with you, yeah / Guess they're threatened by you, 'cause I get the best from you / 'Cause, see, we find
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Tool – Ænema
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The word Ænima is a portmanteau of the words Enema and Anima.
An enema is a procedure of introducing liquids into the rectum and colon via the anus. Metaphorically, it could refer
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Better Oblivion Community Center – Dominos
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Better Oblivion Community Center’s final song is a cover of Taylor Hollingsworth’s “Dominos", and deals with dark themes – substance abuse, isolation and community, searching for
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ROSÉ – Gone
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“Gone” is BLACKPINK member ROSÉ’s first original solo release, and showcases a mellifluous side of her while capturing the strengths of her soulful vocals. In this song, ROSÉ
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Justin Bieber (Ft. Jaden) – Never Say Never
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“Never Say Never” is a song by Justin Bieber, featuring guest vocals from Jaden. The song was originally recorded by Travis Garland with different lyrics and a different title of “
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Playboi Carti – Home (KOD)
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[Chorus] / Yeah, bring that money home, daddy waitin' for it / Bring that money home, daddy waitin' for it / Bring that money home, daddy waitin' for it / Bring that money home
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Nico & Vinz – Am I Wrong
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“Am I Wrong” was first released as a digital single in 2013, when Nico & Vinz still went by the name Envy. Following the single’s initial success, the duo signed with Warner Bros
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