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Casting away all hope. He still hopes that she will grab it but he knows that her heart is distant from his.

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“Clarity” is about lovers knowing their relationship is doomed to fail from the start, but embarking on it anyway.

At the 56th Grammy Awards, “Clarity” won a Grammy Award for the Best Dance Recording.

It also appears on Foxes' debut album Glorious as an acoustic version.

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User macdaddyj pointed out an interesting play on words in the title of this track, “A Wake”.

Throughout the song, Macklemore emphasizes his spiritual “awakening” after a difficult time with drugs and alcohol in his own life. Now that he is “awake” to his own and others' foolishness, he is ending his old ways and finally putting his old life to death. This song represents the mourning of his past life, or in other words, a “wake”

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According to Mika’s track-by-track review, “The Origin of Love” was written to convey fear, resentment and anger but also convey happiness, representing MIKA’s experience with love:

The song’s about love. The song’s about joy. It’s like all good joyful love songs, full of contradictions. It’s got fear in it, it’s got resentment, it’s got anger, but it just makes you happy, it’s like a shot of adrenaline. It represents for me, what it’s like to be in love.

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“Tonight I’m Getting Over You” is a song by Canadian recording artist Carly Rae Jepsen, released as the fourth and final single from Kiss. An official remix featuring rapper Nicki Minaj was released on May 6, 2013.

Lyrically the song revolves around break-up, with its lyrics dealing about about getting over an ex.

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Seven inch Louboutin high-heels

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Referencing his song, “Mighty Healthy”, which serves as this song’s hook.

Shake that body, party that body
Don’t fuck with Ghost you’ll feel sorry

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A tasteless joke on Asians making porn videos, in which the stars will act as cooks, and they be getting it on while serving customers and shit.

Other images have been considered, but they’re too explicit for Rap Genius.

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In his hustling days, his favorite vials of cocaine or heroin were red tops (those with red plastic stoppers).

Also, Ghostface’s trademark color was red, and he wore it a lot.

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Bragging about how many pairs of Wallabees he owns

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