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Industrial City In The Clouds

by Jean Koning

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Asbestos Poisoning 03:16
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As long as I breathe this in The danger crawls right under my skin I didn't ask for this man I didn't ask for this man I walk alone the city streets Silence is the only thing I come to meet I didn't ask for this man I didn't ask for this man I don't know tides on my shores I don't know my face no more Because All my cells are now in panic All my cells are now in panic I return to the factory My name is a number They don't know me I am insignificant I am insignificant
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Cover Me Again 04:40
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Dear City, Dear City Won't you cover me again Spread your wings and fly You are a butterfly Spreading all your fame Dear City, Dear City Won't you cover me again For all the world to see What you mean to me Taking away all my pain Snow is falling on your rising flames Time will heal your scorching pain again Time to rise is now inane Dear City, Dear City Won't you cover me again Dressed all up to see What you gonna be Praying for every shame Dear City, Dear City Won't you cover me again In the darkest night In the wildest fight Protect me with your name Snow is falling on your rising flames Time will heal your scorching pain again Time to rise is now inane How beautiful thee are How beautiful thee are How beautiful thee are How beautiful thee are Dear City, Dear City Won't you cover me again Spread your wings and fly Just like a lullaby Labeling me insane Dear City, Dear City Won't you cover me again I let the world see Just what you mean to me
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Waakzaamheid, (de~) 02:30
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I found a seed For you and me We'll let it grow Into a dance hall The place to be Just you and me In the shadow of A happy childhood Dance for me Will you dance for me? Dance for me Will you dance for me? Dance for me Will you dance for me? Dance for me Will you dance for me? They know me here We've greased the carvings The beautiful The stakes are empty They let me in To find a cure here Relieve my pain Upon the dance floor Dance with me Will you dance with me? Dance with me Will you dance with me? Dance with me Will you dance with me? Dance with me Will you dance with me? The DJ sees Just what we need The place is moving The crowd is jumping I found a seed For you and me And if it grows We can go there pumping Dancing here We'll be dancing here Dancing here We'll be dancing here Dancing here We'll be dancing here Dancing here We'll be dancing here
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An Architects Dream 02:49
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The City is moving Moving through the light I'm dreaming this picture When the sky falls down I can see their bright eyes The paper is still white (However) The green is in my head Paper scratches under my crayon My big, black heart paints a street of a thing, alive, with coco smells in the skies For mankind The city is building into the sky The glass and white lines Are the empty basis of the torture in my mind The streets are paving The whaling fleet they once knew A viral thing And some call it art Some call it crime But it's real and high And I say I did it all for your Mankind Building The architects dream (The city is moving) The city is moving Moving through the light And I guess I was drunk Now I see this dollhouse reaching for the sky Water is streaming in canals that once disappeared In my dream I saw a lively city Reaching for the big blue sky With a beating heart For everyone to fly Now you're man? Kind?
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Chalk On A Blackboard 05:19
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We're chalk on a blackboard Go from this world to the next Our ships will leave the port Our minds will one day forget When you ride through our town With sunlight through woolly clouds You will tangle upside down Don't know how to make your parents proud In search of new harbors Our whaling fleet gets lost An horizon of armors Will pay for our healing costs The mills slowly turning The bearing wind in their sails The meadows are burning Not one creation has ever failed All of them are hard working Communists 'till the end of days But now the tables are turning The world no longer taking over our ways The green, and white, and red A trademark for all to see It kind of makes me sad They're cutting down our family tree The chalk, now erasing We're dust in the wind We're traveling fast The chalk, now erasing What have we done to our past? We're chalk on a blackboard Slowly everyday erased We're chalk on a blackboard Slowly everyday erased
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Abortion (The Industrial Waltz) 04:08
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With my back against the wall I thought I was heading for a fall Completely out of my control I couldn't even keep alive a doll Lying on my feeble back Erasing the mistake of my tracks I tried to learn your language But I couldn't cope with it A screaming pain within my chest I'm wiping out my rotting past A tiny mess, that's all that's left of you Perhaps in the end I was a bit too cruel Can you ever forgive me?
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Shipbuilding 03:18
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It's sophistication what they need It's intimidation what they see I pack my bags and I move away Go to a land where they know my name Well I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head Try not to teach me your words and greed A fleet like yours is all that we need A land far from your sobriety Where sawdust can't beat spawned spirits Here, well I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head Teach me to build a ship Teach me to build a ship Teach me to build a ship Teach me to build a ship Teach me to build a ship Teach me to build a ship Teach me to build a ship Teach me to build a ship Sophistication is lacking here They all bend down to shame and fear Some stupid statue is all I get And all their rudeness, sure, they'll forget Well I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head I'm in it over my head
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Gravedancing 03:45
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Back home they call me crazy Got no feel for my ideas They live a life that's lazy Wrapped in the veil of their fears The true sense of adventure Has none to do with murder Sharp dressed into their thick dreams A close call to all their screams I am gravedancing I am gravedancing I thought they'd like what I do The widows who say "I love you" To the stones on the graveyard I'd be the place where to start A pinch of empty keyhole And voodoo in the threshold Where there is darkness and blame I give a voice to a name I am gravedancing I am gravedancing I am gravedancing I am gravedancing Perhaps the soul that I bear Could not inhale the thick air Of love and lust on dark nights They'd give their hope to this Christ No hope could bring them alive Could feel the need of this jive But it is all in their hands Or will it mess up their plans? When gravedancing When gravedancing When gravedancing When gravedancing Back home they call me crazy Got no feel for my ideas They live a life that's lazy Wrapped in the veil of their fears They even think I'm dirty But I can see their pity I say again and again I give voices to their names
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It's Murder In The Fitting Room 01:50
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It's a game they're playing Until they smash brains in Hit her with a leather belt I's murder in the fitting room Knives are pulling out The rush of the game they play I feel his sweet fingers Touching, touching, touching her skin I thought they were friends I thought they were lovers I thought they were friends I thought they were lovers Left her in my corner Her skin bursts, and she bleeds A man in the doorway Making sure she will not leave I thought they were friends I thought they were lovers I thought they were friends I thought they were lovers I thought they were friends I thought they were lovers I thought they were friends I thought they were lovers
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Into The Clouds 05:16
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Goodbye my love Goodbye my family Goodbye my friend Goodbye your love for me Goodbye my heart Goodbye my closed front door Goodbye my stuff Goodbye my designated driver Goodbye my things Goodbye the pain I once had Goodbye my feel Goodbye my tenderness Goodbye my chairs Goodbye my breakfast at ten Goodbye my meals Goodbye my high definition TV Goodbye my car Goodbye my bed Goodbye my girls Goodbye my books Goodbye my studs Goodbye my rust Goodbye my school Goodbye my purpose in life Goodbye my playground Goodbye my safe ground I have to go I have to go I have to go Into the clouds Into the clouds Into the clouds Into the clouds My prose My pillows My shirts My foxholes My mind My plans My pillow talks My clouds My paper route My past My DVDs My girls, I once kissed My safety net My safety net My safety net
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A River, A Bird, A Man 03:38
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High above the river That's slowly streaming West A lonely bird is circling Looking for a nest And high above the river The bird is screaming down To a man, who's in the water A man about to drown The man, who's in the water Knows nothing but his name Because every thought and feeling He once had is called insane In his teens he did not party In his twenties he was blue In his thirties he was broken 'Cause when he meant: "I sure do love you" He said: "I don't, I don't love you"

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Koning began writing lyrics for the album before setting the words to music. He has cited the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud and Edgar Allan Poe as influences, as well as the artwork of Anton Pieck, the mythology of Pygmalion and music of The Dresden Dolls, De Kift, and The Velvet Underground. He has also spoken of researching the history of his birthplace Zaandam and neighbouring hamlets, including the notorious murder in the fitting room in 1984. He combined his research with descriptions of local architecture and folklore.
During a solo show for political party Groen Links, some weeks after mixing the album, Koning surprised his fan base with a percussive version of Asbestos Poisoning. He played a similar version of the song during his show at De Groote Weiver in September 2012. During the same time, he announced the release of the album on his website. He told a local TV-channel in New York City in November 2012: "I was really enjoying this different, enormous, wide breadth of sound that we created in the studio. It's quite a delicate sound, even when the entire orchestra plays. I began by writing quite a lot on the guitar, and then slowly as time went by, my writing started moving into experimenting with different guitars, massive piano-parts and using different sound applications, ones that I had never really experimented with. In the end, the orchestra - the biggest I ever worked with - started jamming on the basic tracks. It‘s the first time in history, the Salford Symphony Orchestra approached the music in a very punk way."
On the subject of a new vocal style for the album, Koning commented that "I couldn't sing the songs in a rich strong mature voice without it sounding completely wrong. So I had to slowly find the voice, and this voice started to develop, almost taking on the role of a narrator."


originally released April 25, 2013

written, produced and performed by Jean Koning (vocals, piano, guitars, synths and sampler)
tomas: bass james: drums ruud: conduction of orchestra
Salford Symphony: the orchestra
sleeve designed and photographed by S.T. Vacirca

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released April 25, 2013

produced by Jean Koning

Mastering: Denis Miller at M.D.B. Mastering Studio's, Brighton

original songs p/c 2013 Coffee&CheeseCake Records - used by kind permission.

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Jean Koning Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jean Koning has been a compelling force in the underground music scene since his unlikely folk&jazz debut transferring the band The Children of a Lesser God into the avant-punk extravaganza !JP in 1988. His star-studded career includes albums such as Notes from Purgatory, Man Enough to be a Woman and Wake Up In L.A.
Throughout his career, Mr. Koning has been honored with numerous awards. ... more

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