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Wake Up in L​.​A.

by Jean Koning

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1.
Listen up, you’re only breaking all my windows Brave dear son, why did you go on being a weirdo Got twenty wetsuits and you’re still completely naked I always feel around you I just have to fake it Did you ever make a study of my manifesto A clear wide shot of beach life bimbo’s at the disco You’re nothing but boredom around my Malibu mansion This is me, man, can I get some fucking attention You’re wandering the safe road Lying on a board and playing with the angry waves Lying on a board and shouting out your stupid name So ancient, so ancient Lying in the surf and kissing with your latest girlfriend Your girlfriend My girlfriend Your girlfriend My girlfriend Twenty years ago, you know, I was one of them Living on the beach, had a girlfriend I called Sam Celebrating the bonfire, the vanity, this salty magic How the hell did you end up so fucking tragic You’re wandering the safe road Lying on a board and playing with the angry waves Lying on a board and shouting out your stupid name So ancient, so ancient Lying in the surf and kissing with your latest girlfriend Your girlfriend My girlfriend Your girlfriend My girlfriend Lying on a board and playing with the angry waves Lying on a board and shouting out your stupid name So ancient, so ancient Lying in the surf and kissing with your latest girlfriend Lying on a board and playing with your former girlfriend Lying on a board and shouting out your girlfriends name So ancient, so ancient Lying in the surf and kissing with your latest girlfriend Your girlfriend My girlfriend Your girlfriend My girlfriend Listen up, you’ve just lost your latest girlfriend Why do you keep accepting, why don’t you take a stand I’m sorry that you caught us in here all wet and naked I’m sorry to tell you boy, but with you she had to fake it
2.
Lying in bed one afternoon A perfume haze came all too soon Distracted by my heavy gun Your hotel key belongs to the sun The ebony lying on my chest Is changing light in reverence You pick up everything in sight Adorable to your early flight We’re dining Amsterdam, we’re dining so well We’re dining Amsterdam, we’re dining in Hell Blow the leaves outside the park On a little blanket after dark This could just make a faerie sound And it could make your momma proud The whisky is taking upper hand And the wind carries grains of sand Lying in bed all afternoon Did I always feel like such a loon We’re dining Amsterdam, we’re dining so well We’re dining Amsterdam, we’re dining in Hell Lying in bed one afternoon A perfume haze came all too soon Distracted by my heavy gun Your hotel key belongs to the sun The ebony lying on my chest Is changing light in reverence You pick up everything in sight Adorable to your early flight
3.
California 04:21
Lying on a Californian Beach Completely out of reach Last night you had Judy on the phone But now you found out no one’s at home They’re joyfully playing in the sand You wish they’d crash the plane on land The little minded slender girl Is showing off her latest swirl And no one is there just for you The sun is bright but you’re feeling blue The telephone is off the hook They’re beautiful and you’re afraid to look So you just take another beer You have no friends - no one is here Flipping through a magazine There’s nothing that you haven’t seen Another day, another dime Just praying away this awful time You’ll wake up in L.A. You’ll wake up in L.A. by yourself You’ll wake up in L.A. You’ll wake up in L.A. by yourself There’s nothing there to suit ya But, hey dude, it’s California Where The Terminator reigns supreme And everybody has a dream But everybody just ain’t me So let us get away from here The 101 until we reach the end That’ll be a lovely day spend You’ll wake up in L.A. You’ll wake up in L.A. by yourself You’ll wake up in L.A. You’ll wake up in L.A. by yourself Finally you will take another test Where you’ll be just like all the rest Your rejection will be send in mail By the time you crack another nail Stripping off your hardwood floor And begging God for that little more Fuck it; you will never ever reach That skinny girl with her teeth in bleach
4.
One simple morning turning into a day of magic Freezing frames and unwantedly so tragic A mysterious smile was carving through the looking glass I remember the cool white wine and you dancing on their trash They couldn’t frame you so where are you now They couldn’t tame you so where are you now I said: where are you now for me The fading photo of my lovely wedding dress A two year wedding design: to be a test The restless counter fact still howling at the door The eyes of Laura Mars can see what’s there no more They couldn’t frame you so where are you now They couldn’t tame you so where are you now I said: where are you now for me They couldn’t frame you so where are you now They couldn’t tame you so where are you now I said: where are you now for me
5.
Well, there is just this little priest Who needs a boy to be released And, well, you know, he took him back And tried to cover all his tracks And then he stroked his lovely hair And felt ashamed for his despair But you know what it’s all about Even though they weren’t very loud One day the boy just had enough And boy, he turned out to be tough He made a victim of the priest Who needs a boy to be released The boy went shouting out his name And the Lord’s name in all his vain And took the priest to his little hole And then, well, he just lost control It’s a tale as old as time And there he lay, the little priest Took no more boys to be released But God will look the other way If he should feel like boy some day
6.
Sorrow 04:44
Once more leaving your Glass-bottom mansion And now I’m busy trying to hold on to the tension Gripping the slipping wheel Don’t you think it’s time we’d meet for real? Don’t you think it’s time we’d meet for real? What’s that feeling inside of me? Don’t tell me I’m only falling here. What’s that feeling inside of me? Don’t tell me sorrow’s gripping me. Well, come on, baby, you’re the only one I was just wondering where you came from While tasting your creamy cum Don’t you know tomorrow might never come? Don’t you know tomorrow might never come? What’s that feeling inside of me? Don’t tell I’m only falling here. What’s that feeling inside of me? Don’t tell me sorrow’s gripping me. What’s that feeling inside of me? Don’t tell me I’m only falling here. What’s that feeling inside of me? Don’t tell me sorrow’s gripping me.
7.
Did you change the colour of your hair The slightest chill you pick up in the air You read the book - you know it’s there Black, black current in your tub You hail it out and you pick it up and you throw it away Couldn’t feel the magic everywhere Or feel the love in his latest stare So you want out of this despair Black, black current in your tub You hail it out and you pick it up and you throw it away One single slice across your wrist It feels like you’re just another twist The girl who shall be missed Black, black current in your tub You hail it out and you pick it up and you throw it away The girls are jumping on your bed You watch as the water slowly stains red Let’s hope they will never forget The pain is crawling on your face The wrong time and surely the wrong place Another life slowly erased
8.
Maybe 04:03
The glass still contains some wine Reflecting every little crime We’ll look the other way We’ll look the other way Laura sailing across all the seas A bandage covering both her knees We’ll look the other way We’ll look the other way The cure is in electricity It brings you everything you need Why are we here anyway Cigarettes and atoms everywhere His neutrons will make you climb the stair We’ll look the other way We’ll look the other way You changed your weight overnight But you’re still challenging your heavy mind We’ll look the other way We’ll look the other way The glass still contains some wine Reflecting every little crime
9.
Your latest test, your wrecking ball Your breath ran pest, your missing call You’re doing this, you’re running hot This awful truth, this awful spot My empty grave, my hairy chest The blue eyed stare, my Sunday best The spat out cum, a slipped out note A tiny crust, you rock that boat My blocking hand, this funky smell One hit below, this is your hell My blocking hand, this funky smell One hit below, this is your hell Little white lie, a secret date A bottle of wine, this is what you create What now my love, is this the end What about all the letters that you send A broken vase, a closing door There’s nothing here, still you want more My blocking hand, this funky smell One hit below, this is your hell My blocking hand, this funky smell One hit below, this is your hell With syphilis you run me down I leave the throne, you steal the crown The master bed is empty now And I remember a single vow He was a tourist is our bedroom That would make me your wretched groom You say: fuck me I say: just die I bless you with love you spit in my eye You leave the house, you make me cry Is there only but and no question of why You walk away from every plot You’re shouting now: you make it something it’s not

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Dark organ-washed bass-pounding shuffle till it hurts post-post-punk lo-fi danceable terror from Jean Koning (& they’re some damn catchy tunes).

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released October 31, 2011

Jean: vocals, piano and organ
James: drums

Produced by Jean Koning
This album was made entirely through Leslie Cabinets

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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.
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