The first single off his upcoming album - A Brief Emotional Dragon - Kid Fourteen's song is a synth-western-ballad about being and feeling homeless, immigrating and relocating, wishful thinking and unfairness. Characterized by its consistent beat and marching bass line, Spaghetti western guitar chords, crooner vocals, and alarming sax, the song is as haunting as it is dreamy while carrying the weight of the world.

Releases March 15, 2023
Mixed by Anthony Sahyoun.
composed, recorded, performed and mastered by Khodor Ellaik.
Lyrics by Khodor Ellaik.
Single Cover by Mamdouh Lmchad.

Where do the homeless sleep when they dream
and which lovers do they take to their grave
do they look at the sky in between
an empty space
and a better place

Do they stand in the rain
and not feel the cold
like watching lovers being free (on old TVs)

Do they cry from happiness like mothers do
when their children go through
their empty nest to emptiness

Does their wine taste like kings
dignified in their madness
and the fate of the world
is in their glasses


and what remains of a beautiful dream
is the sun and what’s been
in the past a child and her eyes are wild
thinking the world
is fair

A Brief Emotional Dragon

Learning How to Die

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The 2nd single off kid fourteen's upcoming album, Cowboy Lonely uses classic western imagery and the figure of the wandering cowboy to express the solitary and tortuous world of a haunted man.
▫️ Produced by Khodor Ellaik
▫️ Co-produced and mixed by Anthony Sahyoun
▫️ Mastered by Ziad Moukarzel
▫️ Cover photo by Olivier Nemnom
▫️ Music and Lyrics by Khodor Ellaik
▫️ Backing Choir by Anthony Sahyoun
- The creation and recording process was funded by Goethe Institute Beirut.

All the words
Other worlds
All the Birds
flying down the drain

Standing on your window
Waiting for yourself
I've tried nothing comes to stay

Oh 90 days and 100 ways
Your skin and color change
Fear like a step down
Feels like a let down
Yourself eats the mind away

All what you've looked for
All what you've seen
Ten books and all the standard tools

Horses cars and planes
Wheels of fortune change
Keep looking wait and try in vain

Oh 100 days and 100 ways
Your skin and color change
Fear like a step down
Feels like a let down
Yourself eats the mind away

Oh 100 days and 100 ways
Your skin and color change
Fear like a step down
Feels like a let down
Yourself eats the mind away

All what you've looked for
All what you've seen
Ten books and all the standard tools

Standing on your window
Waiting for yourself
I've tried nothing comes to stay

Oh 100 days and 100 ways
Your skin and color change
Fear like a step down
Feels like a let down
Yourself eats the mind away

Cowboy Lonely

:النص 
محمود درويش - رحلة المتنبي الى مصر  
بصوت فاروق شوشة من إذاعة هنا القاهرة (برنامج لغتنا الجميلة)

- Poem: Mahmoud Darwich - Al-Mutanabbi's Journey to Egypt
- In the voice of Farouk Shousha from Radio Here's Cairo (Our Beautiful Language Program)
- Cover Art by Liên Hoàng Xuân

Al-Mutanabbi’s Journey to Egypt

Whirlwind Blues (Xiu Xiu Remix)

I Wonder If My Father

Humphrey, It's A Pleasure Principle

I Get Around All Day

The City Ways, The City Weighs

Find Your Lover

Whirlwind Blues

It's A Lovely Night

Fast Times In The Pleasure Land

Dream Kids Never Sleep

The Dancer

From the new album "Love'' set for release on March 21st, 2020 on KidsPlay Records.

* Music by Karim Shams and Khodor Ellaik
* Lyrics by Dani Ghassan Arbid
* Recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by Khodor Ellaik

- This song is the first single of the upcoming album 'Love' . The album started out roughly based on the 12 phases of love thoroughly represented in Arabic literature. During the creation process, it slowly shifted into exploring the complexity of human intimacy and how visceral feelings and vulnerability would sound like if all other senses of expression were lost. at a later, stage most lyrics were based on the writings of Dani Ghassan Arbid. It took form as a necessary expansion on the topic.

Love

Nobody Came, Nobody want To

Nobody Came, Nobody Wants To

Second single off the upcoming album 'Love' and the record's opener. 
Full album on March 21st, 2020 by Kidsplay.

* Music by Khodor Ellaik
*  Karim Shams on Synth Bass.
* Lyrics by Dani Ghassan Arbid.
* Recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by Khodor Ellaik

The album started out roughly based on the 12 phases of love thoroughly represented in Arabic literature. During the creation process, it slowly shifted into exploring the complexity of human intimacy and how visceral feelings and vulnerability would sound like if all other senses of expression were lost. at a later, stage most lyrics were based on the writings of Dani Ghassan Arbid. It took form as a necessary expansion on the topic.

Fear Takes a Man

Kid Fourteen is the solo moniker of Khodor Ellaik, a Lebanese musician and songwriter currently based in Paris, France. Khodor’s musical journey started in 2010 when he and friends formed the band Beirut Scum Society drawing inspiration from the early punk movement. They went on to release numerous demo tracks and one seven inch split on Tian An Men 89 but disbanded in 2013. After a short stint in New York, Khodor came back to Beirut and formed the No Wave outfit Friendly Faces with 3 other friends, but also shortly disbanded after playing one show only with Dirty Beaches back in 2014. By 2015 Khodor started experimenting with pop sounds, noise, electronic, and post punk to shape his own sound that quickly became Kid Fourteen - Releasing his debut album “Dream Kids Never Sleep” by 2016 with Lebanese label Ruptured. Two years later after touring and inviting Xiu Xiu to play in Beirut, a collaboration with Jamie Stewart directed Khodor to the label Pinyon, where he released his second album “Blood-thick Silence” and single ''Everybody wants a strong man'' in 2018. Khodor toured extensively between 2016 and 2019, and by   2020, He had recorded, arranged, mixed, and mastered his third album “Love" that was released on  his own label Kidsplay. It was re-released on Red Vinyl in 2021. He moved to Paris, France in 2022 where he is expected to release his 4th studio album ''A Brief Emotional Dragon" in spring 2023.

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