Biography:
You may not expect one of the most compelling new voices in hip hop to wield dual psychology and sociology degrees from Stanford University or find inspiration in the buttoned-up world of indie rock, but for K.Flay, defying expectations is simply part of the game.
Kristine Flaherty grew up outside of Chicago, devouring her father's classic rock records and staying up late dancing to Parliament-Funkadelic in the living room. It was this same musical open-mindedness that would later spark her artistic development.
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- Can't Sleep
- Bad Things
- Black Wave
- Blood In The Cut
- Cant Sleep
- Carry On
- Champagne
- Crush Me
- Dreamers
- Every Where Is Some Where
- Everyone I Know
- Fever
- Fml
- Fvcking Crazy
- Giver
- Heavy Cross Out
- High Enough
- Hollywood Forever
- Im Good
- Its Just A Lot
- Less Than Zero
- Make Me Fade
- Mason Jar
- Mean It
- Slow March
- The Cops
- The President Has A Sex Tape
- Thicker Than Dust
- Time For You
- Turn It Around
- You Felt Right
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
===================================================================================
K.Flay - Crush Me
===================================================================================
01. Blood In The Cut
02. Hollywood Forever
03. Dreamers
04. You Felt Right
===================================================================================
01. Blood In The Cut
===================================================================================
No capo
You can either play the riff throughout the entire song or play the chords listed
below. The chords are taken from K.Flay's 91X San Diego X-Session performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtLOsLyksNo
Main riff:
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------------|
E|-0--0--------0--0--------|-0--0-----0--7--5--3-----|
* = Only play the low E string and then gradually build up
[Intro]
Em
[Verse 1]
Em
The boy I love’s got another girl
He might be fucking her right now
Am
I don’t have an apartment
Em
Thought if I was smart I’d make it far
But I’m still at the start
Em
Guess I’m contagious it’d be safest if you ran
Fuck that’s what they all just end up doing in the end
Am
Take my car and paint it black
Take my arm, break it in half
Em
Say something, do it soon
It’s too quiet in this room
[Chorus]
G
I need noise
Am
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
G
I need noise
Am
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em*
I need blood in the cut
I need blood in the cut
[Interlude]
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------------| x2
E|-0--0--------0--0--------|-0--0-----0--7--5--3-----|
[Verse 2]
Em
Met back up with the boy I love
Cried on the streets of San Francisco
Am
I don’t have an agenda
Em
All I do is pretend to be ok so my friends
Can’t see my heart in the blender
Em
And lately I’ve been killing all my time
Reading through your messages
My favorite way to die
Am
Take my head and kick it in
Break some bread for all my sins
Em
Say a word, do it soon
It’s too quiet in this room
[Chorus]
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em*
I need blood in the cut
I need blood in the cut
[Interlude]
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------------| x2
E|-0--0--------0--0--------|-0--0-----0--7--5--3-----|
[Break]
G Am Em
I-I-I I-I I-I-I
G Am Em
I-I-I I-I I-I-I
Em*
Blood in the cut, cut, cut
Em
Na na na na na....
[Chorus]
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em*
I need blood in the cut
N.C.
I need blood in the cut
===================================================================================
02. Hollywood Forever
===================================================================================
No capo
[Intro]
A C G A
[Verse]
A
I’m hiding from mirrors
C G A
I’m frightened of sex
A
Despising my image
C G A
I’m enlightened and slightly obsessed
[Chorus]
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark everything it feels better, whoa
A C F G A
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
[Verse]
A
I’m scared I’m a loser
C G A
Aware of my face
A
My father was a user
C G A
And I’m afraid I’m just the same
A
I used to be so confident
So sober and awake
I never thought to act
Devoted and ashamed
C
Wanted to call my ex
G
To hear him say my name
A
Over the phone to me
[Chorus]
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark everything it feels better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
[Bridge]
A C
In a house on a cliff on the coast
F G
Well I prayed to my god with a toast
A C
Said a cheers to the reasons I’ve been at it all evening
F G
All I wanted was to never get old
A C
On a bed in a room with a key
F G
I was reading a rag magazine
A C
Said a cheers to the demons who’ve been with me all evening
F G
All I wanted was to never be seen
[Chorus]
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark I’m alive, I’m a legend, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
===================================================================================
03. Dreamers
===================================================================================
No capo
[Intro]
F Bb D Eb
F Bb D Eb
[Verse]
F Bb D Eb
Nobody showed you how to live? Me either
F Bb D Eb
Get a steady job, couple kids, act decent
F Bb
But I’ve been on a ten-speed
D Eb
Thinking about the time as the sun sets
F Bb
Like, what would I do different
D Eb
If I hit rewind and did it again?
F Bb
I, I tried to figure it out
But nothing was coming to mind
D
Remembered all my mistakes
Eb
But the memories made me smile
F Bb
I told the one that I loved
That love would mean letting me go
D
Even though I was afraid
Eb
You gotta do some things on your own
[Chorus]
F Bb D Eb
This one goes out to all the dreamers at sea
F Bb D Eb
This life is only what you want it to be
F Bb
And I want more, I want more
D Eb
I want more, I want more
F Bb N.C. Eb
I want more, I want more, I want more
[Verse]
F Bb D Eb
You go to heaven when you die I’m betting
F Bb D N.C.
You’re still with me on the line? Just checking
F Bb
Cause I’ve been making fast friends
D Eb
Late at night the kind when the sun sets
F Bb D Eb
Like, waking up and thinking honey why I do it again?
F Bb
I, I came to in a cold sweat
With a nosebleed feeling hopeless
D
Thought I maybe might be dead
Eb
Till I got my pen sat down and wrote this
F Bb
Suddenly I felt fine inside a mind so full of ghosts
N.C.
The darkest nights mean you see the stars the most
[Chorus]
F Bb D Eb
This one goes out to all the dreamers at sea
F Bb D Eb
This life is only what you want it to be
F Bb
And I want more, I want more
D Eb
I want more, I want more
F Bb N.C. Eb
I want more, I want more, I want more
[Bridge]
Gm F
I used to knock on wood, I used to never curse
Dm Eb
I used to think I could control the universe
Gm F
With my obsessive thoughts and what felt like a prayer
Dm Eb
I shouted to the sky don’t let my family disappear
Gm F
I used to feel alone, I used to not belong
Dm Eb
But little did I know I had the power all along
Gm F Dm Eb
The only thing to fear is never being scared
[Chorus]
F Bb D Eb
This one goes out to all the dreamers at sea
F Bb D Eb
This life is only what you want it to be
F Bb
And I want more, I want more
D Eb
I want more, I want more
F Bb D Eb
I want more, I want more, I want more
===================================================================================
04. You Felt Right
===================================================================================
No capo
[Intro]
C# F# C# F#
[Verse 1]
C#
We met on a Wednesday
In the summer, it was blazing
F#
You looked at my black jeans, said "are you crazy?"
C#
I guess I might have laughed
And after that you stuck to me like glue
F#
But you had a girl at home and too many tattoos
C#
I was in a rough patch, real depressed
F#
You took my hand and said "the sun it rises in the east"
But I came from the west
C#
My heart it skipped and that was that
F#
I should have known don’t trust a poet
Cause they can’t do the math
[Chorus]
C#
I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time
F#
Headed on a bad trip with the wrong high
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
I hadn’t had a good thing in a long time
F#
Moving in the fast lane with the wrong guy
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
[Interlude]
C# F#
[Verse 2]
C#
We met on a Friday
In the winter, it was freezing
F#
Felt a bit like history repeating
C#
We’d been on a break
But then decided we could try to spend the night like friends
F# N.C.
And roam the city, knowing what that meant
C#
So we were back and I was pouring poison
F#
Texting you reports from everywhere I went
And you’d write back I miss you even more
N.C.
And it was torture for me
I should have known don’t trust a poet
Cause they prefer to bleed
[Chorus]
C#
I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time
F#
Headed on a bad trip with the wrong high
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
I hadn’t had a good thing in a long time
F#
Moving in the fast lane with the wrong guy
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
[Verse 3]
C#
Wrote this on a Sunday after months out on the road
F#
Wonder if you have regrets and which direction those thoughts go
C#
Like was it worth it in the end?
F#
Sometimes it feels like you just used me for my mind and innocence
C#
And now I heard you had a kid, finished a book and got a wife
F#
Things been good to you since that last goodbye
N.C.
But I just have to say my piece
You should have known don’t trust a poet
Cause we know how to speak
[Final Chorus]
C#
I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time
F#
Headed on a bad trip with the wrong high
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
I hadn’t had a good thing in a long time
F#
Moving in the fast lane with the wrong guy
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
You felt right to me
F#
You felt right to me
C# F#
You felt right to me
K.Flay - Crush Me
===================================================================================
01. Blood In The Cut
02. Hollywood Forever
03. Dreamers
04. You Felt Right
===================================================================================
01. Blood In The Cut
===================================================================================
No capo
You can either play the riff throughout the entire song or play the chords listed
below. The chords are taken from K.Flay's 91X San Diego X-Session performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtLOsLyksNo
Main riff:
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------------|
E|-0--0--------0--0--------|-0--0-----0--7--5--3-----|
* = Only play the low E string and then gradually build up
[Intro]
Em
[Verse 1]
Em
The boy I love’s got another girl
He might be fucking her right now
Am
I don’t have an apartment
Em
Thought if I was smart I’d make it far
But I’m still at the start
Em
Guess I’m contagious it’d be safest if you ran
Fuck that’s what they all just end up doing in the end
Am
Take my car and paint it black
Take my arm, break it in half
Em
Say something, do it soon
It’s too quiet in this room
[Chorus]
G
I need noise
Am
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
G
I need noise
Am
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em*
I need blood in the cut
I need blood in the cut
[Interlude]
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------------| x2
E|-0--0--------0--0--------|-0--0-----0--7--5--3-----|
[Verse 2]
Em
Met back up with the boy I love
Cried on the streets of San Francisco
Am
I don’t have an agenda
Em
All I do is pretend to be ok so my friends
Can’t see my heart in the blender
Em
And lately I’ve been killing all my time
Reading through your messages
My favorite way to die
Am
Take my head and kick it in
Break some bread for all my sins
Em
Say a word, do it soon
It’s too quiet in this room
[Chorus]
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em*
I need blood in the cut
I need blood in the cut
[Interlude]
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-------------------------|-------------------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------------| x2
E|-0--0--------0--0--------|-0--0-----0--7--5--3-----|
[Break]
G Am Em
I-I-I I-I I-I-I
G Am Em
I-I-I I-I I-I-I
Em*
Blood in the cut, cut, cut
Em
Na na na na na....
[Chorus]
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em
I need noise
I need the buzz of a sub
Em
Need the crack of a whip
Need some blood in the cut
Em*
I need blood in the cut
N.C.
I need blood in the cut
===================================================================================
02. Hollywood Forever
===================================================================================
No capo
[Intro]
A C G A
[Verse]
A
I’m hiding from mirrors
C G A
I’m frightened of sex
A
Despising my image
C G A
I’m enlightened and slightly obsessed
[Chorus]
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark everything it feels better, whoa
A C F G A
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
[Verse]
A
I’m scared I’m a loser
C G A
Aware of my face
A
My father was a user
C G A
And I’m afraid I’m just the same
A
I used to be so confident
So sober and awake
I never thought to act
Devoted and ashamed
C
Wanted to call my ex
G
To hear him say my name
A
Over the phone to me
[Chorus]
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark everything it feels better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
[Bridge]
A C
In a house on a cliff on the coast
F G
Well I prayed to my god with a toast
A C
Said a cheers to the reasons I’ve been at it all evening
F G
All I wanted was to never get old
A C
On a bed in a room with a key
F G
I was reading a rag magazine
A C
Said a cheers to the demons who’ve been with me all evening
F G
All I wanted was to never be seen
[Chorus]
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark I’m alive, I’m a legend, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
A C F G
In the dark everything it looks better, whoa
A C F G
Hollywood forever, Hollywood forever
===================================================================================
03. Dreamers
===================================================================================
No capo
[Intro]
F Bb D Eb
F Bb D Eb
[Verse]
F Bb D Eb
Nobody showed you how to live? Me either
F Bb D Eb
Get a steady job, couple kids, act decent
F Bb
But I’ve been on a ten-speed
D Eb
Thinking about the time as the sun sets
F Bb
Like, what would I do different
D Eb
If I hit rewind and did it again?
F Bb
I, I tried to figure it out
But nothing was coming to mind
D
Remembered all my mistakes
Eb
But the memories made me smile
F Bb
I told the one that I loved
That love would mean letting me go
D
Even though I was afraid
Eb
You gotta do some things on your own
[Chorus]
F Bb D Eb
This one goes out to all the dreamers at sea
F Bb D Eb
This life is only what you want it to be
F Bb
And I want more, I want more
D Eb
I want more, I want more
F Bb N.C. Eb
I want more, I want more, I want more
[Verse]
F Bb D Eb
You go to heaven when you die I’m betting
F Bb D N.C.
You’re still with me on the line? Just checking
F Bb
Cause I’ve been making fast friends
D Eb
Late at night the kind when the sun sets
F Bb D Eb
Like, waking up and thinking honey why I do it again?
F Bb
I, I came to in a cold sweat
With a nosebleed feeling hopeless
D
Thought I maybe might be dead
Eb
Till I got my pen sat down and wrote this
F Bb
Suddenly I felt fine inside a mind so full of ghosts
N.C.
The darkest nights mean you see the stars the most
[Chorus]
F Bb D Eb
This one goes out to all the dreamers at sea
F Bb D Eb
This life is only what you want it to be
F Bb
And I want more, I want more
D Eb
I want more, I want more
F Bb N.C. Eb
I want more, I want more, I want more
[Bridge]
Gm F
I used to knock on wood, I used to never curse
Dm Eb
I used to think I could control the universe
Gm F
With my obsessive thoughts and what felt like a prayer
Dm Eb
I shouted to the sky don’t let my family disappear
Gm F
I used to feel alone, I used to not belong
Dm Eb
But little did I know I had the power all along
Gm F Dm Eb
The only thing to fear is never being scared
[Chorus]
F Bb D Eb
This one goes out to all the dreamers at sea
F Bb D Eb
This life is only what you want it to be
F Bb
And I want more, I want more
D Eb
I want more, I want more
F Bb D Eb
I want more, I want more, I want more
===================================================================================
04. You Felt Right
===================================================================================
No capo
[Intro]
C# F# C# F#
[Verse 1]
C#
We met on a Wednesday
In the summer, it was blazing
F#
You looked at my black jeans, said "are you crazy?"
C#
I guess I might have laughed
And after that you stuck to me like glue
F#
But you had a girl at home and too many tattoos
C#
I was in a rough patch, real depressed
F#
You took my hand and said "the sun it rises in the east"
But I came from the west
C#
My heart it skipped and that was that
F#
I should have known don’t trust a poet
Cause they can’t do the math
[Chorus]
C#
I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time
F#
Headed on a bad trip with the wrong high
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
I hadn’t had a good thing in a long time
F#
Moving in the fast lane with the wrong guy
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
[Interlude]
C# F#
[Verse 2]
C#
We met on a Friday
In the winter, it was freezing
F#
Felt a bit like history repeating
C#
We’d been on a break
But then decided we could try to spend the night like friends
F# N.C.
And roam the city, knowing what that meant
C#
So we were back and I was pouring poison
F#
Texting you reports from everywhere I went
And you’d write back I miss you even more
N.C.
And it was torture for me
I should have known don’t trust a poet
Cause they prefer to bleed
[Chorus]
C#
I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time
F#
Headed on a bad trip with the wrong high
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
I hadn’t had a good thing in a long time
F#
Moving in the fast lane with the wrong guy
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
[Verse 3]
C#
Wrote this on a Sunday after months out on the road
F#
Wonder if you have regrets and which direction those thoughts go
C#
Like was it worth it in the end?
F#
Sometimes it feels like you just used me for my mind and innocence
C#
And now I heard you had a kid, finished a book and got a wife
F#
Things been good to you since that last goodbye
N.C.
But I just have to say my piece
You should have known don’t trust a poet
Cause we know how to speak
[Final Chorus]
C#
I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time
F#
Headed on a bad trip with the wrong high
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
I hadn’t had a good thing in a long time
F#
Moving in the fast lane with the wrong guy
C#
I don’t really know why
F#
But you felt right to me
C#
You felt right to me
F#
You felt right to me
C# F#
You felt right to me
Kaau Crater Boys
Kaay
Kabaret Potem
Kacey Musgraves
Kadebostany
Kalafina
Kalapana
Kalben
Kalei Mau
Kaleo