 Genius Meanings
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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 – Easy Easy (Live)
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[Intro] / This is our last song / [Verse 1] / Well, same old Bobby, same old beat / Well yeah, they got nothing on me / The same old cars, same old streets / But yeah, they got
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Foreign 2
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Watery ambience introduces and purveys Foreign 2, the song that comes closest to trip-hop on 6 Feet Beneath the Moon.
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King Krule – Cementality
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6 Feet Beneath the Moon’s 7th track “Cementality” is perhaps the album’s most depressing offering, yet is so sinisterly soothing that it sends shivers rattling down your spine.
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King Krule – Bathed in Grey
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6 Feet Beneath the Moon closes on “Bathed In Grey”, a poet’s paradise of rhyming tercets that paint a deathly ballad, all framed in soft piano, and the closing words reference
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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 – Will I Come
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Krule has been making quite a bit of noise of the past year and today he’s back with something new for our ears. “Will I Come” is much different from the others on 6 Feet Beneath
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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 – Little Wild
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This is the bonus track on the Japanese CD of this album.
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King Krule – The Krockadile
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See my eyes can't see clear / Cause their coated in fear / Shut down the left hemisphere / And it sent me here to abort / My intentions of thought / Or of thoughtful cause are no
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King Krule – The Krockadile
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See my eyes can't see clear / Cause their coated in fear / Shut down the left hemisphere / And it sent me here to abort / My intentions of thought / Or of thoughtful cause are no
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King Krule – Airport Antenatal Airplane
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“Airport Antenatal Airplane” is the ninth track of Man Alive!, King Krule’s third studio album. It’s a smooth, meditative moment on the album rarely characterised by vocal and drum
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Yellow Days – That Easy
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[Verse 1] / Oh sometimes I just wanna run away / It's got too much babe / I dont even know how, but I just fell out / God I'm rude, in the abyss I loom / So I'll just wonder / Show
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King Krule (Ft. Raveena) – Seagirl
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[Intro: Raveena] / (Take, take, take, take) / (Take, take, take, take, take, take, take, take) / (Take, take, take, take, take, take, take, take) / (Take, take, take, take) / (Take
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King Krule – Has This Hit?
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The climax of the eyes of the world and the view of a very depressing future."
– Zoo Kid
British music fans should gaze upon King Krule with great pride. Under immense
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King Krule – Blood Stained Sheets
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Oh well these blood stain sheets / Oh well these blood stain sheets / They were my world / Girl you know I never sleep / Don't you know I never sleep / You're my world / It's got
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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 – 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 – Stoned Again (Live)
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[Intro] / We're gonna get a bit more romantic / You know / I heard it's the right place / [Verse 1] / Yeah, she's my sweet / My sweet and sour, my lemon honey / I ran all the way
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King Krule – Seaforth
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“Seaforth” is the first single from King Krule’s fourth album Space Heavy, released on April 13th, 2023, along with its accompanying music video directed by Jocelyn Anquetil.
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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 (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 – Emergency Blimp (Live)
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[Intro] / And no help still / And no help still / [Verse 1] / She said it hurts when he stares at lights / I guess my brain was full, indecision on the lefthand side / But the
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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 Slide In (New Drugs) [Live]
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[Verse] / I'm used to saying, "I don't belong" / A burdened youth outcast from young / But how are you? I'm wasting your own time / And once consumed, spit gunk from lungs / To
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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 – Energy Fleets (Live)
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[Intro] / Energy fleets / [Verse 1] / Where are you going? / The day's about to end / Such a funny life / I lead / I think about it all the time / I bleed / Watch it flow right out
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RATKING (Ft. King Krule) – So Sick Stories
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Released March 18th, 2014, “So Sick Stories” is the second single off of Ratking’s debut album, So It Goes. This song finds Ratking teaming up with English songwriter and fellow XL
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King Krule – Slush Puppy (Live)
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[Intro: King Krule] / Thank you all for coming out tonight / This next song's called "Slush Puppy" / One, two, three / [Verse: King Krule & Jacob Read] / Don't you dare, baby, dare
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King Krule – Out Getting Ribs (Live)
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[Verse 1] / And hate runs through my blood / Well, my tongue was in love / But my heart was left above / I've gotta be leaving now / I thought I'd never be shut down / But, girl, I
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