Genius Meanings
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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 – 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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Local Natives – Out Getting Ribs
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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 got to be leaving now / I thought I’d never be shot down / But girl I’m
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Archy Marshall – Out Getting Ribs
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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 got to be leaving now / I thought I'd never be shot down / But, girl
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Rock Genius – Rock Genius Most Viewed Cleanup
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New cleanup project!
This is designed to make all of Rock Genius’ most viewed pages clean and perfect. The following are about 50 of the most viewed pages from the past few months
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Cold Hart – Stranger Things
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[Hook: Coldhart] / I swear you got a hold on me... / I swear you got a hold on me / I swear it's like the strangest thing / And I'll kill all your enemies / Cuz girl you're the
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Myself, The Artist – Autopilot!
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[Chorus] / Autopilot, yeah / Would you catch me if I fall? / Sneak a peak at your decorated fault line / Baby I don’t know it all / And maybe it’s your sentimental peace of mind
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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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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 – 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 – Baby Blue (Live)
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[Segue] / Pulling us in / [Verse 1] / My sandpaper sigh engraves a line / Into the rust of your tongue / Girl, I could've been someone to you / Would've painted the skies blue / [
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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 – The OOZ (Live)
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[Chorus] / I don't know why / I search for you / Could we align? / Could we meet here until the end of time? / Oh, girl / I don't know why / I don't know why / [Verse 1] / In soft
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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 – 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 – 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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Pitchfork – The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s
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1. Kendrick Lamar: “Alright” (2015) / 2. Grimes: “Oblivion” (2012) / 3. Robyn: “Dancing on My Own” (2010) / 4. Beyoncé: “Formation” (2016) / 5. Frank Ocean: “Thinkin Bout You” (
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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 – 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 – Cellular (Live)
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[Verse 1] / There's a television / There's a television / Speaking to me / There's a French girl / On my television / She's crying / In the palm of my hand / [Verse 2] / In moving
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King Krule – Please Complete Thee (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Please complete me / It must be the answer / Everything just seems to be numb that surrounds / Why aren't you near me? / What stars are you under? / If only I could be
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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 – 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 – Little Wild
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This is the bonus track on the Japanese CD of this album.
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King Krule – Perfecto Miserable (Live)
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[Chorus] / You're my everything / Make me feel alright, you're the only thing / Make me feel just fine, you're my everything / Make me feel alright, you're the only thing / Girl
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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 – 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 – 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 – Alone, Omen 3 (Live)
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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, we spent it, it's plastic, no do or die
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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 – 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 – Comet Face (Live)
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[Intro] / I don't really have too much to say / [Verse 1] / Not again, Peckham Rye, half five / Boy on the ground with his pants down, what happened to him in his past life? / What
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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 – Underclass (Live)
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[Intro] / One, two / I'm just a piece of shit / The moon hangs, up above / Makes judgment of all of us / Girl, I've had enough of what you think of me / I wasn't sure of what I was
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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 – Half Man Half Shark (Live)
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[Intro] / Half man with the body of a shark / Half man with the body of a shark / Half man with the body of a shark / Half man with the body of a shark / Half man with the body of
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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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