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The Kooks - Down

The Kooks - Down Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Listen
Released: 2014

Down Lyrics

Oh oh yeah I'm here Downtown
There's a rumor baby
You're planning to bring me

Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down

You tryna set me up
Until ?
Oh yeah you talkin' behind me
You talkin' behind me
You're talking behind my back
You wanna watch me fall (watch me fall)
But I won't break (I won't break)
I know you like to hit me,
I kick you to the ground and tryna be me
You tryna bring me down

Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down (what the hell)

I'm so sexual
It's all about the ?
If you wanna please me
Touch me
So let me know what's next
I'm gonna hit you up (hit you up)
Then I'm gon' let you down (let you down)
Just to prove a point
That you can't break a man who's already down

Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down (what the hell)

It's getting a little louder (louder)
A little louder (louder)
I said la (la) I said la (la)
I said la la la-la la la
(La la la-la la la)
La la la-la la la
(La la la-la la la)
There's a rumor

You shall bring me down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down (You can never ever bring me down)
Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down
Down down, down down (what the hell)

Writer/s: LUKE PRITCHARD, DEAN JOSIAH
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Down

The first song to be made available from the Kooks' Listen album, it received its worldwide premiere on Zane Lowe's March 11 2014 BBC Radio 1 show. "Down" was released on April 20 via Virgin/EMI and was described as "a mission statement from a band that have rediscovered what they loved about making music in the first place."

The R&B-influenced song was written by the band's frontman Luke Pritchard and Hip-Hop pioneer Inflo, who co-produced Listen. Recording sessions were split between London and LA. "With this record we didn't do any rehearsing beforehand," Pritchard said. "I'd write a song with Inflo or on my own, put it up and we'd all play over it. There was a real freedom to the process."

The Kooks - Forgive & Forget

The Kooks - Forgive & Forget Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Listen
Released: 2014

Forgive & Forget Lyrics

Don't say that I never moved you
Just because I saw the light before you did
And you say that I never showed you
All the rooms inside of my soul

Yeah
Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Walking up and down the hall
Frankie and his favorite lover
Speaking all the words she wants to hear
But that don't mean forever

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Sitting down by the fire
Frankie plays the guitar
To people playing make believe
They say, "can we get a little higher?"

You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
So easy baby
But I can't stand
An hour break
Another day
So let me make it easy babe

And it goes on and on
On and on and on

Packing her bags
She found somewhere to stay
And in the car to the station
You know the world looks a little brighter
And then there's no need for conversations
Tell me why

You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
You give it away
So easy baby
But I can't stand
An hour break
Another day
So let me make it easy babe

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you

Yeah
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Yeah
I forgive and forget you
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me
Yeah
So I forgive and forget you
You say you need someone to love you
But it ain't me

Writer/s: LUKE PRITCHARD, ALEXIS NUNEZ, DEAN WYNTON JOSIAH COVER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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After bonding with Inflo whilst traveling in America, Kooks fromtman Luke Pritchard headed to Los Angeles with the hip hop producer to pen some tunes. This story of a couple breaking up in a bar was the first song they wrote together. The singer explained to Q magazine that the "magic" first take vocal demo for this song in LA was later sewn into the band's London sessions.

The song's performance-based video was directed by Ivana Bobic, who is known for the movies The Priest and Frankie Teardrop (both 2009) and In the Night (2012). The clip finds The Kooks performing the song 'in the round', surrounded by dancers. Bibic told Promo News : "Forgive & Forget is such a fun, big track that I wanted to have an all-singing-all-dancing approach to it - the whole lot - band, dancers and a giant human zoetrope."

"The title suggested a kind of tongue-in-cheek love amnesia and constant repetition, so I wondered if I could make the whole video circular - constantly spinning around and around," she added. "I wanted the dancers to multiply into the band performance as the track progresses, they're like space-babes with an Alexander Wang twist, appearing from the dark. The dance builds and builds to the big middle eight drums where the whole spinning circus accelerates to a giant zoetrope and the dancers turn into one. It's a bit of a visual pun on the 'forgetting.'"

The Kooks - It Was London

The Kooks - It Was London Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Listen
Released: 2014

It Was London Lyrics

It was in London
Where we heard the revolution
From Covent Garden
All the way down to Brixton

It was in Tottenham
Man got shot by a policeman
A young girl went to test them
Went up against the system
Oh oh, I don't know

Who are you
Who are you

On the television
Of course they blame the youth for disruption
Cause they took Fortnum & Mason
And nothing said about the shooting
Just the looting

It was in London
It was in London

And it was thunder
Caught between love and anger
From Trafalgar
All the way up to Camden

Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?

London town, London town
London town, London town

Writer/s: DEAN WYNTON JOSIAH COVER, LUKE PRITCHARD
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This gritty tune finds Luke Pritchard recounting the 2011 London Riots, which left England's capital city in a state of mayhem. The Kooks vocalist explained to Sound Of Boston how the song tried to capture the band's feelings at the time: "A big city like that, London, Paris, you have this illusion that everything's safe, and that sort of thing happens and the walls come crashing down," he said. "The police brutality that happened around that time… we wrote a song about that."

Thousands of mostly young males rioted in several London boroughs for several days during early August 2011 as well as in other places in England. The resulting chaos generated looting and arson as well as the deaths of five people. The riots inspired a number of songs including:

"Kids" by Mikky Ekko

"Uptight Downtown" by La Roux

In addition the video for Plan B's single "Ill Manors" features footage of the riots.