A Lizard State Lyrics

[Verse 2]
There was not much that I could do
Oh, not much that I could do
(Trapped in a lizard state!)
Well I got everyone on my back
But I'm not gonna crack like you cracked

You're a fucking pussy boy
Sipping up on my humblepie
You got no legs to get you near my height
So don't try and get near my hide

Don't try and get out the way yeah
I see what you gotta say
I hear your lizard state
If that's okay and if that's not okay
Say girl now what's okay

[Pre Chorus]
Well I don't want to be trapped in the black of your heart
And now I'm gonna make it clear and girl I'll tear you apart
From the inside to the out

[Verse 3]
But baby what am I to do
I've given up on loving you
I know it's not nothing new
So please do what I ask you to
And please do what I want of you
It's just not fair
Baby blue and girl it's true
One day I'm gonna have you
But for now I don't care
I still feel the pain
Of you not loving me the same
But girl what was I supposed to do?
Yeah I was so hung up on loving you
And girl believe me this is something new
‘Cause all I will do
Is girl whatever I have to do
They all knifed me in the back and girl I can’t believe
It’s slipping away like that

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Genius Annotation

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 self-confidence as he pleads with a lover to do what he tells her to. He conjures something of menace when he threatens: “Girl I’ll tear you apart/From the inside to the out”. Krule gives the air of someone who’s just begun to fall out of love and in turn begins to resent them. What he once so desperately desired is now a low-priority as he’s "certain” that “one day I’m gonna have you, but for now, I don’t care”.

NOTE TO LISTENER: Perspectives change throughout.
“And it is about reptiles”'
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-Zoo Kid

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What did King Krule say about "A Lizard State"?
Genius Answer

During an interview on an Italian radio show, Archy said:

“A Lizard State”, that was mad. That was like kind to do with the girl that I got from “Baby Blue.” I woke one morning and I wrote the whole song in like the period of an hour, ‘cause I had this burning pain in my mind and I wanted to throw it out. I woke up, I took my guitar and I wrote it. I put together some chords that I was on my mind from like a year. It was highly influenced by James Chance and the Contortions, the New York No wave scene in the late 1970s/early 1980s and it was also influenced by pain and straight anger that I wanted to get shit out.

During an interview with Gilles Peterson, Archy said:

It was written one morning, I just woke up and my teeth were clenching and I was angry, I don’t know why, well I do know why, it was because of a girl. So I started writing the song and the song goes through three different perspectives of me on one side of the girl, the girl and then the boy on the other side of the girl.

Archy told Pigeons & Planes:

There are like, four different perspectives on that song. I’m a woman in it, I’m a dude, it’s basically between me, another guy and one woman.

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