progenitor

predecessor; an ancestor in the direct line

Heard in 8 songs (3.5M+ combined views) — most famously in "Run For Cover" by The Killers.

Updated August 12, 2026

Songs Featuring “progenitor

The Killers - Run For Cover

Time: 0:29

What have you gathered to report to your progenitors?

Are your excuses any better than your senator's?

The Killers - Run For Cover

Franco Battiato - Il Ballo Del Potere

Time: 1:45

(The circle symbolizes Tai Chi which is formless and above duality)

(Here it is manifesting itself as the progenitor of the universe)

(It is divided into Yin, the dark, and Yang, the light, which signify)

Franco Battiato - Il Ballo Del Potere

Ghost Atlas - Lesser Gods

Time: 0:23

By shadows of ghosts and lesser gods

Progenitors to a future generation of wounds

See it all in black and blue

Ghost Atlas - Lesser Gods

Joaquín Sabina - Ay Calixto

Time: 0:42

Un seis de junio alumbró

Un Conde de Algora junior, al que pusimos Calixto, tal que es su progenitor

Y como para nacer de noble cuna, crecer, ser de la tuna y casarse, no hay que pasarse de listo

Joaquín Sabina - Ay Calixto

Sulfator - Genomorphis

Time: 4:27

Before your gods

Your progenitors

Bow down

Sulfator - Genomorphis

Hate Eternal - Para Bellum

Time: 1:59

Nor shall we relinquish our command

Progenitors, speak thy cruel words

Prepare for war!

Hate Eternal - Para Bellum

Hari Lyrics - Willy

Time: 1:54

Es su madre quién realmente por el fue que dio la cara

Y así su progenitor unos meses encerrado

Salió y nunca mas volvió ahora cosa del pasado

Hari Lyrics - Willy

Alan Vadom - MEXAPUTITE

Time: 0:16

Me pide tu novio un sobadón

Amixes del progenitor

Me andan tirando el calzón

Alan Vadom - MEXAPUTITE