 Genius Meanings
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Ghost – Watcher in the Sky
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Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song: “It enthusiastically explains how we can utilize science to make the world smaller and to reverse scientific things. Basically a flattened
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Ghost – Griftwood
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“Griftwood” shows an arena rock aesthetic, hiding his lyrical theme. The song talks about fake-preachers that use religion as a way to get richer. He has talked about it to Metal
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Cydonia (USA) – Midnight Man
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Knocking at big door of time... victim of fate, shade in the night / Searching the meaning of life... watcher of sky, spirit of dark / And while I'm walking in your dream / I touch
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Ghost – Darkness at the Heart of My Love
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“Darkness at the Heart of my Love” is a powerful ballad, such as Ghost’s “He Is” or “Life Eternal.” The song talks about indoctrination and trusting people who do not have the best
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Falling in Reverse – Watch the World Burn
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On “Watch the World Burn,” the band’s vocalist Ronnie Radke rapping about his inner demons, expressing his issues with his haters and people in the industry who don’t respect him.
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Agalloch – The Watcher's Monolith
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Blue textures cascade downward to the base of the monolith / Like brush strokes on a canvas of souls / Two arms reach out a cloak of silent nihil / Revenants untouched by the
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Ghost – Imperium
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The first track on Ghost’s fifth album, Impera. “Imperium” serves as the lead-in to “Kaisarion,” establishing a musical motif that returns at the end of the album in the song “
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Ghost – Respite on the Spitalfields
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[Verse] / We're here in the after of a murderous crafter, the past / Is spun like a yarn and mangled / With flesh and blood and bones, I wonder / Did no one hear the distant
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Ghost – Dominion
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Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song: “A segue, where we go outside the city to this vast landscape – meadows and all that, so you see another part of the empire. It’s meant to
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Ghost – Call Me Little Sunshine
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Second single from Ghost’s fifth album Impera. The song has references to Aleister Crowley, including the album cover artwork, which takes inspiration from a famous photo
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Ghost – Hunter's Moon
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The first single from Ghost’s fifth studio album, Impera, was also the first released song from the soundtrack of Halloween Kills, in which Michael Myers is hunted down by an angry
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Ghost – Spillways
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Impera’s third track, “Spillways” is a dancing track, hardly inspired by a lot of the 80s pieces. Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song:
This is an elegy for the darkness that
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Ghost – Hunter's Moon (End Credits / Film Version)
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[Verse 1] / It's been a long time coming / I'm coming back for you, my friend / To where we'd hide as children / I'm coming back for you, my friend / [Chorus] / Though my memories
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Momus – The Angels Are Voyeurs
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Momus describes the song on his former blog, Click Opera:
I think people might have been surprised to hear this song, after looking at the sleeve (and the label) and expecting
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Ghost – Kaisarion
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“Kaisarion” starts the album with power, musically and lyrically speaking. In the context of the album, Tobias Forge said to Metal Hammer:
That’s the violent start of this new
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Ghost – Bite of Passage
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[Instrumental]
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Ghost – Twenties
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The eighth track on Ghost’s fifth album, “Impera”. Tobias Forge previously told Kerrang! Magazine that Ghost’s new single Twenties has a vibe of “Slayer meets some sort of Missy
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The Fall Of Every Season – Her Withering Petals
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A manifest of this crucified hope / Familiar sound, reflecting his own blood / Haunting, yet intriguing / No watcher, no lock / Only the sweet voice / Daringly stepped out / To see
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The Decemberists – Starwatcher
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When asked to comment on the meaning of this song in a Reddit AMA, Colin said:
I think there are two figures – the starwatcher and the skywatcher and they’re both like wild
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Playboi Carti – Control
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“Control” starts off by a sampled voice clip from the hip-hop media personality Akademiks. The clip is from a Twitch stream where Akademiks announced the release date of the album.
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JAY-Z – Get My Shit Off
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An unreleased track by Jay-Z, produced by Timbaland. It was recorded around the time of The Blueprint 2.
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Eminem (Ft. Joell Ortiz, KXNG Crooked & Royce da 5'9") – I Will
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On “I Will,” Eminem reunites his Slaughterhouse comrades, KXNG Crooked, Royce da 5'9" and Joell Ortiz for a posse cut over a classic boom-bap beat. However, Slaughterhouse member
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Aeschylus (Ft. E. D. A. Morshead) – Agamemnon (Full Text)
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The first play in Aeschylus' trilogy, Orestia, and arguably the most famous of the three. Agamemnon is a domestic tragedy, telling the story of the murder of Agamemnon, King of
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SoFaygo – Hyakkimaru
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[Intro] / So if one fight, then we all fight / And I'm on go with no green light / Nigga, free DK, shout out my slatt / I'm feelin' like Autumn, the toolie go blatt / Juggin' that
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Rory Gallagher – Keychain
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I need a keychain, to lock up all this trouble / I need a fast train, leaving on the double / I'm going someplace, that's hard to follow / Got that feeling, that I should be long
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John Foxx – Ghosts on Water
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Ghosts on water give / To a gentle touch / Look back in silence / I can never see far / City as a memory and a / A squeak in the shoe / All the semaphore echoes / That get
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Pure Bathing Culture – Black Starling
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[Verse 1] / All the lonely sole survivors of markets of the ghosts / Obsidian only where magma is exposed / Where the world is wide / With wonders worth the roam / Wild watcher in
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Bruce Springsteen (Ft. Tom Morello) – Heaven's Wall
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[Intro] / (Raise your hands, raise your hands, raise your hands) / (Raise your hands, raise your hands, raise your hands) / (Raise your hands, raise your hands, raise your hands
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Playboi Carti (Ft. Bryson Tiller) – Fell in Luv
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“Fell In Luv” draws on Carti’s feelings towards his significant other with the assistance of Bryson Tiller. Accompanied by production from Carti’s friend and frequent collaborator
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Agalloch – Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires
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There are ghosts in every hallway / In every room, behind every door / Peering through every window into the past / Holding onto us in the bitterness of the mire / Leaving a trace
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Aviators – I Don't Want to Hurt You
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[Verse 1] / The rain feels colder now / The plague has left this town / I'll heal you / I'll heal you / The red and poisoned sea / Calls to the hate in me / I'll break you / I'll
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Motörhead – Bastards
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I was looking at the t.v. news / People everywhere blowing a fuse / People everywhere under the gun / Little kids dying never had no fun / Human beings ain't got no brains / Think
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Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter (Chap. 12)
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Dimmesdale goes to the top of the scaffold where Hester underwent her “public ignominy”. He cries out, but those that hear (Wilson and Hibbins) don’t respond. He bursts out
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