 Genius Lyrics
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The Kooks – Is It Me
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[Verse 1] / Is it me? Is it you? / Is it the times that we’re living through? / Was it hard when I had to leave? / That day you seemed to change / We all need someone to guide us
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The Kooks – Killing Me
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[Verse 1] / It's killing me, yeah, the things that you can do / That no one else can do to me at all / Am I wasting my time? As I fear that I'll go out / And find someone that's
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The Kooks – See Me Now
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[Verse 1] / Well, I've been a lot of places / I learned to tie my own tie too / I've met a lot of faces / I've got some questions I'd like to ask you / [Chorus] / If you could see
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The Kooks – You Don't Love Me
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[Verse 1] / But you don’t love me the way that I love you / ’Cause if you did, girl, you would not do those things you do / You kill my heart just to see if I will rise / Above
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The Kooks – Naive
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Featured on the Kooks' debut studio album Inside In/Inside Out, “Naive” was released on 2006 as the fourth single of the album. It’s the best-selling single of the Kooks, having
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The Kooks – Pull Me In
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I get this feeling sometimes / Like there’s nothing in the world that isn’t mine / And I could have it all / Maybe I should have it all / I’ll take you out of your life / Just the
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The Kooks – Forgive & Forget
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The song is about a womanizer (Frankie) who seduces a girl. After she “gives it away,” she confesses her feelings for him. Unfortunately Frankie tells her that if love is what she
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The Kooks – Tell Them From Me (Studio Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I might seem distant, some of the time / That's only because you're mine / I see you on the television screen / You know you always blow the mind / But no one notices
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The Kooks – Ask Me
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I see you there / Trying to take that love / I know so much more / Than I ever gave in credit for / It's so much better if you ask me / But you just went along to party / And I see
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The Kooks – Do You Love Me Still?
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[Verse 1] / I have thought that you have come back lately / To tear my soul away from me / 'Cause when I see you / You rip my heart out / But all the same you're not to blame
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The Kooks – Eskimo Kiss
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[Verse 1] / We had so much fun / She gave me an Eskimo kiss / We put our records on / And set sail, towards the sun / Ooh, it's so much fun / [Chorus] / She's like the rose without
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The Kooks – You Don’t Love Me (Remastered 2021)
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[Verse 1] / But you don’t love me the way that I love you / ’Cause if you did, girl, you would not do those things you do / You kill my heart just to see if I will rise / Above
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The Kooks – Westside
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[Verse 1] / I was living on the westside / When you brought me south / At first you didn't like the look of me / Your borders were closed / Although you said I'm bad company / We
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The Kooks – Do You Wanna
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[Verse 1] / I was hoping that you had an atlas in your head / So fed up of the same old man / There's broken bedrooms and there are broken hands / You were so fed up of the same
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The Kooks – Down
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[Intro] / Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, it's just / I've been hearing 'round town / There's a rumour, baby / You're planning to bring me / [Chorus] / Down, down, diggy-de, down, down, diggy-
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The Kooks – Around Town
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[Verse 1] / You can get yourself into a fight / If that's the way you wanna live your life / You can get yourself connected / To the world that we are thrown to, yeah / [Pre-Chorus
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The Kooks & Seeb – Naive (Remix)
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[Verse 1] / I'm not saying it was your fault / Although you could have done more / Oh, you're so naïve yet so / How could this be done / By such a smiling sweetheart? / Oh, and
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The Kooks – Picture Frame
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[Verse 1] / I didn't notice anything strange / About the picture in your picture frame / It was drawn of a fountain in your Paris / Bought for a fiver most probably / Didn't mean a
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The Kooks – You Don't Love Me (Acoustic Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Oh you don’t love me the way that I love you / ’Cause if you did, girl, you would not do those things you do / You kill my heart just to see if I will rise / Above your
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The Kooks – She Moves in Her Own Way
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[Verse 1] / So at my show on Monday, I was hoping someday / You'd be on your way to better things / It's not about your make-up or how you try to shape up / To these tiresome paper
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The Kooks – Are You Ready for Love
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Catch a star if you can / Wish for something special / Let it be me, my love is free / Sing a song to yourself / Think of someone listening / One melody, you're all for me / I'll
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The Kooks – Ooh La
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This song is rumored to be about lead singer, Luke Pritchard’s ex-girfriend, Katie Melua. Melua discovered success around about the same time as The Kooks.
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The Kooks – How'd You Like That
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[Verse 1] / Well, I was sleeping / Only in my head / Slipping in and out of time / And I was lifting / Always higher / And the women of heaven sang / They were singing / [Chorus
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The Kooks – Backstabber
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[Verse 1] / You're like a rock to a stone / So tell me, how can you break a broken soul? / I don't wanna feel no more / Baby, baby, I just wanna be adored / And something's telling
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The Kooks – Femme Fatale
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Don't ha-habits become you / Don't habits become your way / I know, I know that you're an impressive person / Don't let it ruin your safe (?) / Oh your safe (?) / Hate me, hate me
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The Kooks – Runaway
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[Verse 1] / Girl, I wanna be good to you / I never wanna do you no harm / I'm caught up in this fascination / Helping with your alarms / Ignore life if you want to, babe / Do what
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The Kooks – Outstanding (Demo)
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Sometimes I think, I don't understand / The words of loving that that nobody can / It's far to let in the day to be hanging / Upside down / I give it up for this love I found / Who
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The Kooks – All Over Town
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This song is about blocking out all the people trying to tear you down. This could be about someone from the paparazzi or media that are constantly trying to tear down celebrities
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The Kooks – Vicious
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[Verse 1] / All in my head with thoughts of the Underground / On my way to see you again / 'Cause we've been on this leg so goddamn long / It's hard to see it has an end / Oh, it
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The Kooks – Time Awaits
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[Intro] / And time waits for no man but you / And time waits for no man but you / Hold on and don't leave this town / Hold on and don't leave this town / [Verse 1] / Here we are
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The Kooks – Crazy
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I remember when / I remember, I remember when I lost my mind / But there was something so pleasant about that place / Even your emotions had an echo / In so much space / And when
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The Kooks – Taking Pictures of You
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[Verse 1] / I have a secret I want to tell you / Each time that I close my eyes, I can feel you / I run away with my imagination / And I am blinded by your light, you fill up the
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The Kooks – Fa La La
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This track was only available in the bonus RAK album that came along with the special double disc version.
In this song, Hugh Harris was on vocals instead of the band’s usual Luke
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The Kooks – Fuck the World Off
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[Intro] / Yeah / [Verse 1] / And all I wanna do is get to you / Get to you, get to you / Let me fuck the world off just for you / Let me do that for you / [Verse 2] / And watch me
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The Kooks – California
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Don't you know baby I'm a leading man / I dig down deep when I say I love you / Well I can hold my own with the best of them / I guarantee you, you never seen nothin' / Nothin
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The Kooks – Petulia
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[Verse 1] / Sits just right when you're around / Take it dry, take a drive to town / Meaningful, nothing but you / Petulia, you're in my blood again / [Chorus] / Like a heart
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The Kooks – Good Times
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[Verse 1] / Sat in her lap is this illusion / That you can please everybody in here / My mind is open, but nothing is clear, oh no / His eyes around her have a conclusion / [Chorus
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The Kooks – By My Side
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When you feel like you've fallen out of use / Come by my side / The starved pain my girl you have induced / Come dine by my side / Everything she said to me was true / So now I
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