 Genius Lyrics
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King Krule – Out Getting Ribs
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“Out Getting Ribs” takes its title from a 1982 pencil-on-paper piece from Jean Michel Basquiat. Like the late artist, Zoo Kid makes deceptively simple, deeply personal/political
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King Krule – Easy Easy
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Marshall is hassled by police from the off on Easy Easy, but what’s really getting him down is the lack of an escape route.
There’s no future in England’s dreaming. Things get so
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King Krule – Ceiling
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“Ceiling” exemplifies the synths, electronica and jangly guitars that fill the open space which surrounds King Krule’s narration, somewhere between dystopian storytelling and rock
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King Krule – Broke
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note: these are the lyrics for the studio version – lyrics in the acoustic version vary slightly from the studio version.
a song writter by Archy Marshall when he was performing
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King Krule – Border Line
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The weight of the world weighs heavy on young Archy’s shoulders. On Border Line he describes his body merging into the deep cruel sea, but his soul floats above it, like Jean-
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King Krule – The Dream
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[Verse 1] / Start making sense of things / I saw pylons stretch to the east / I wasn't sure at all why our love / Becomes sorrow and withers free / Ran a firework of dogs to walk
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King Krule – Supermarché
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[Verse 1] / Bleeding into the brains of / Your cat, small fish, dog / She lays at night / (Right by the speeding light) / Seeping through the bolts and cogs / Of these machines of
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King Krule – Octopus
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The A-side of young wunderkind King Krule’s Rock Bottom is good; good enough, in fact, to be designated an AA-side instead of relegated to B.
It keeps in the same scatterbrained
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King Krule – Dum Surfer
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“Dum Surfer” is another gritty display of the visceral work of King Krule, matched with his rough jazz sound.
The second single of his second studio album, The OOZ, “Dum Surfer
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King Krule – Achtung!
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Whatever you do / Don't follow me, I won't follow you / I'm not turning back / I ain't turning back / Whatever you do / Don't follow me, I won't follow you / I'm not turning back
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King Krule – Rock Bottom (Live)
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[Intro] / This next song is dedicated to a Mr. Jacob Read / A Mr. Moody / Mr. MC Pinty / Mr. Michael Colvill here / And Mr. Bream / [Verse 1] / I've hit rock bottom / Ooh, now I'm
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King Krule (Ft. Okay Kaya) – Slush Puppy
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“Slush Puppy”, the fourth track from The OOZ, embodies the loneliness and frustration surrounding a past relationship. The song escalates intensity as it progresses; it’s subtle
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King Krule – Lead Existence
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Lead Existence builds for just a minute before snapping shut on the line I lost the soul to my blues, a long time ago which is, in itself, a pretty haunting line for somebody as
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King Krule – Biscuit Town
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The name “Biscuit Town” refers to the nickname of the town of Bermondsey within London, England. The town acquired this nickname from being the seat of the former Biscuit making
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King Krule – Rock Bottom
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On “Rock Bottom”, a song from Marshall’s new single as King Krule, Archy invokes Aztec Camera’s clean, strongly melodic guitars, but brutalises the hallowed timidness of Postcard
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King Krule – A Lizard State
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It’s a welcome change of pace when A Lizard State picks up the tempo in Krule’s debut 6 Feet Beneath the Moon. Backed by horns, Marshall adopts a Rat Pack swagger and ramps up the
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King Krule – Logos
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Krule softly sings about the torments he’s surrounded by; he mentions his drunken mother and his hard childhood.
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King Krule – Swan lake
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[Verse 1] / Floating with swans / I think she noticed me / Perhaps I held uncertainty, uneducated dishonesty / Well, whatever it was / That she saw in me / Held her hands up high
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King Krule – If Only It Was Warmth
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[Intro] / Running out of space for your mistakes / Running out of space for your mistakes / Running out of space for your mistakes / Running out of space for your mistakes / [Verse
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King Krule – Baby Blue
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[Verse 1] / My sandpaper sigh engraves a line / Into the rust of your tongue / Girl, I could've been someone to you / Would have painted the skies blue / [Chorus] / Baby blue / If
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King Krule – La Lune
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King Krule and his band played a few songs from it for BBC’s Zane Lowe. Aside from album cuts “Easy Easy” and “The Krockadile”, the guys played a new, non-album track called “La
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King Krule – Czech One
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“Czech One” is the first track by Archy Marshall under the alias King Krule in four years.
The single was released on August 23th, 2017 via True Panther and XL Recordings, and is
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King Krule – Emergency Blimp
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In this punk track from The OOZ, Marshall sings about insomnia and the utterly unhelpful sleeping pills prescribed by doctors.
The song’s title may be a reference to the ‘blimp
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King Krule – Whaleshark
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[Verse] / Where'd it all go wrong? / Found yourself again / Let it lose it's ties / And you paint your friends / One of them Ferris wheels / Looks like we'll meet again / It goes
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King Krule – Perfecto Miserable (Hey World! Version)
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[Intro] / The person you're calling is on another line / Just leave your message after the tone / And when you're done, press hash, or just hang up / [Chorus] / You're my
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King Krule – Pink Shell
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[Verse 1] / I've had / Plenty of people in my peripheral / I've spent / Many moons / Spilling my guts to many fools / And plead their lusting / All over the world / I've seen so
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King Krule – Cellular
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“Cellular” is the opening track to King Krule’s third studio album, Man Alive!. It was previously released as the third single for the album on February 18, 2020. A music video was
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King Krule – Neptune Estate
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Krule loves rap, and some of the word tangles in Neptune Estate suggest an interest in the way rappers get to fling around vivid clumps of language:
The brain lives on but the
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King Krule – Tortoise Of Independency
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[Verse 1] / Strokes out silent soft / It's been a while since her days have been / And in the cavernous sheets / She feeds a tortoise of independency / [Verse 2] / "Why do you walk
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King Krule – Time For Slurp
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I'm sorry for my bad / Communication / Communication / Communication / I'm sorry bout' my bad / Communication / Communication / Communication / I'm sorry for my bad / Communication
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King Krule – Empty Stomach Space Cadet
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[Verse 1] / And if I die, I don't search for me / The gates are, the gates are, are yet to open / And you were by my side through thick and thin / And if I die, and if I die, and
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King Krule – Alone, Omen 3
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[Verse 1] / Take a dip, if you're alone, take your time / Take a ticket, take the train to the end of the line / See where you can go, you spent it, it's plastic, no do or die
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King Krule – From The Swamp
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[Verse 1] / It's informing claustrophobia / You've been waiting for the end of the line / Where did all those big bad thoughts go? / I don't know where I slept last night / At
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King Krule – Sublunary
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“Sublunary”, or the sublunary sphere, is a concept derived from Greek astronomy and the work of Aristotle and references a space beneath the moon that holds no concrete physics
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King Krule – Ocean Bed
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“Ocean Bed” manages to utilize Krule’s voice in a quiet lullaby fashion that gently lays on top of the sweet guitars.
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King Krule – A Slide In (New Drugs)
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[Intro] / Won’t be wasting my time / Won't be wasting my time / [Verse] / I'm used to saying, “I don’t belong” / A burdened youth outcast from young / But how are you? I'm wasting
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King Krule – Flimsier
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[Verse] / She said "It seems like these days merge as one" / Oh, I tried to change them to better ones / But you called it a day / And now it's through / I don't throw it away
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King Krule – Our Vacuum
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[Verse 1] / From my thoughts far away / I leave, I don't stay / But the space between us is dark / In a cage of your hug / [Verse 2] / Our picture of room / Our stillness, our moon
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King Krule – Stoned Again
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In 2020, Krule told Pitchfork he recorded the song with sax player Ignacio Salvadores in 2016, even before the release of his previous album, The OOZ.
The title could also be a
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Nilüfer Yanya – midnight sun (king krule remix)
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I remember everything / So I can’t take back anything / Unless that’s how I’m meant to feel / Find myself a better deal / So I can’t take back / I’m meant to feel / Find myself / I
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