Cyndi Lauper

Songwriter: Tom Kelly Billy Steinberg Cyndi Lauper

Producer: Lennie Petze Cyndi Lauper

[Verse 1]
My heart keeps beating me to death
I see you move and I can't catch my breath
I wanna touch you with my lips
I wanna touch you with a kiss
My heart keeps pounding like a fist
I see you there and I just can't resist
You make me tremble like this
You make me tremble like a jellyfish

[Chorus]
It's primitive
You got me-oh, woah
It's primitive (Primitive)
You make me feel primitive
When you lock me in your arms, oh-oh
You chain me to your heart, oh
Oh...
Ah-yeah...

[Verse 2]
I hear you calling out my name
And when you talk, your words they numb my brain
You make this fire in me start
I wanna to touch you with my heart
Hear you whisper in the dark
And when you touch me I just come apart
I feel the fever in your hands
We feel things we don't even understand

[Chorus]
It's primitive
You got me-oh, woah
It's primitive (Primitive)
You make me feel primitive
When you lock me in your arms, oh-oh
You chain me to your heart, oh
It's animal, oh...

[Bridge]
Like the moon pulls at the tide
I'm at your side (I'm at your side)
The world in which we live

[Chorus]
Is primitive
You got me-oh, woah
It's primitive (Primitive)
You make me real primitive
When you lock me in your arms, oh-oh
You chain me to your heart, oh
It's primitive
(Primitive)
You got me-oh, woah
It's primitive (Primitive)
You make me feel primitive
When you lock me in your arms, oh-oh
You chain me to your heart, oh
It's animal (animal), oh (oh)

[Outro]
The way you set me on fire (on fire)
Me, me, me, me-oh
Primitive, primitive
E-oh (e-oh)
Primitive
The way you set me on fire...

An 80’s pop starlet that skyrocketed her way to the top of the mainstream game, Cyndi Lauper has made her mark as an artist both socially and musically.

Beginning her solo career in the 1983 with hit debut album She’s So Unusual, Lauper came to be a household name with the four top-five hits that came with the record, including breakthrough single “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and the visceral, chart-topping “Time After Time”. Her camp attitude, electrifying vocals, and unrelenting earworms made an impression on the general public, and she would take home Best New Artist and Best Album Package at the Grammy’s for She’s So Unusual, amidst 4 other nominations. Lauper would never reach the same sort of stardom again musically following She’s So Unusual, but her legacy was far from over.

She’s So Unusual set the ground for her next True Colors. Released in 1986, the album most notably contained title-track “True Colors”, which would grow to become a primary anthem of the gay rights movement. Lauper would later serve as a key advocate of the LGBT community, and she has fairly consistently addressed homophobia throughout her career.

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