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Laundry EP

by King Karoshi

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1.
Laundry 03:10
The stupid door is locked on both sides and I don't want to walk back up the buzzer could sound anytime so I'll just sit here staring at the wall thinking how I never thought I'd be here now and when it's good it's great and when it's bad the curtain falls away to leave the fragile naked soul exposed and breakable I want to be home but there's 20 more stops a homeless man is making eyes at me my coat is way too warm but it's a chore to take it off things never go fast when you want them to and never slow down when you want to soak them in I feel her fingers on my neck I feel her breathing down my chest oh how close I was and could have been in some distant foreign time and the endless plane ride home that let it sting what a sorry state I'm in as I try to pull it all apart the moment flickers into view watch it tumble round and round and round, and round, and round, again
2.
Tallest Pawn 03:43
See how they hollow out the world Write bills like scripture and section it off And we punch in, close the cash and do the rounds And sweep up But I want the nicest collar The fancy letterhead To be an inch above To be the tallest pawn Fighting for the scraps On the corner office floor There’ll be nothing left to take but I’ll want more Wading in borrowed time More trash on the heap More coal on the fire And when the dam explodes We’ll swim in the pieces as they float their yachts But I want the nicest car The fancy letterhead To be an inch above To be the tallest pawn Fighting for the scraps On the corner office floor There’ll be nothing left to take but I’ll want more To be a precious piece A cog in the machine I fuel it with my blood Take a litre out of me If not I then someone else So why can’t it be me? Waiting in the wings Marching ‘till the end
3.
Fading Now 03:57
Day; leaves the marking's in the tree again I'm trapped in purgatory and night fall; when I'm released to stew and toil in quiet disapointment can I go home now? I'm tired of this place and every voice I hear here can't help but feel I'm just along for the ride mumbling through the motions and lately, it's all that I can see just one less year in front of me and last gasps and wasted energy do we ever have control can I go home now? I'm tired of this place and every voice I hear here can't help but feel I'm just along for the ride mumbling through the motions and something has been troubling the greyed in surroundings and everything is escaping the colours are fading fading now, fading now, the colours are fading now
4.
I wanna blot the sunlight out this morning I wanna ruin Santa Claus for little children and make the snow fall a little more and a little harder so everybody's stuck inside for a moment longer earlier, I stepped in a puddle near my front door checked my cell phone for a little box in the top left corner found some paint chips on the upper rim of my drinking glass said I'd take a nap and spent most of the day in bed it's not ideal but it's my own way of feeling right feed it candy floss and read it nursery rhymes boarding up the windows and locking it inside because it's mine took a stroll through an endless wave of tired faces we're knocking elbows and jostling for space in a big tin can, as we organize our dreary days brought together by a deadened (dead end) stare and a shared malaise we'll start an army of bitter malcontents we'll shuffle up the mountain and plant our flag if we don't forget it and when it starts to rain we'll say things like this are so extra typical hear our cry, the whimpering horn of the mildly annoyed
5.
how, how do we act when we don't know,  which horoscope is correct? so many hopefuls, hoping good will come their way momentary happiness, several times a day and maybe god is dead,  or just not listening or maybe he just never cared for you at all satan stole the remote control  and put evil in our heads giving thoughts to the monkeys we used to know too, too many ants in this world too many diets too many self help books just another empty promise away from self destruction how long before you break? these words won't mean a thing when the sun goes out I can only hope I won't be here to catch the end in this uncertain world we search hard to find a place a place to look out and see all there is to see and there's so, so much to think about and so little time to figure it out so I wait, it's all I can do as I'm sinking, down below

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Rémi Denis - Lead Guitar, Back-up Vocals
Patrick Dunphy - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Alexy Guérer - Drums, Back-up Vocals
Antoine Poliquin - Bass, Back-up Vocals

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released May 1, 2014

All songs by King Karoshi / Lyrics by Patrick Dunphy
Recorded by King Karoshi with help from Ben Pelchat
Mixed by Mathieu Dandurand / Mastered by Ryan Morey
Logo by Sève Création / Artwork by Anne-Sophie Lohou

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