Neneh Cherry

Released: January 13, 2014

Producer: Four Tet

Feel good but I feel away
Walking down the street, lost my way
It’s my reflection but what’s my name?
Every thought I had just runs away
Don’t get hungry, makes my angry
Agitated hungry, frustrated angry
Wet all the papers sticking to my shoe
And then a crack Smoky-hussy getting in my way too

Got my fingers in my ears, I can’t hear you
What I don’t hear; you can’t upset me
What I don’t know I can’t hear can’t upset me
Don’t touch me, don’t stress me
Everything is everything, good things come to those who wait, they say
If everything is everything, good things come to those who wait, they say

Can’t hear with my right ear
Can’t see shit with the left eye
Wracking out money, can’t even rest
Doctor been telling me I got the stress
Got me in a room to get undressed
I got the right toons, listen to my chest

La, la, la…
Shallow water Midget Mountain high
Beat me up, dress me out, hold you down
In your filthy way singing me your big death song
Dysfunctional, deleted it long ago
La, la, la…
Everything is everything, one tip;
Good things come to those who wait
If everything is everything, I need it, I need it
Good things come to those who wait
Time is morphine and I’m bleeding
Clock is ticking always making me little late
Shallow water Midget Mountain high
Beat me up, dress me out, hold you down
Your filthy ways appeal to me
Dysfunctional, I don't want to know
I want it now, I want it now
I climbed to the top, dysfunctioning like I know he will go
Victimized, I can hear you when sing the ? song
With the chorus, I deleted it, long ago, slippery slope
Everything is everything, one tip;
Good things come to those who wait
If everything is everything, I need it, I need it
Good things come to those who wait
I want it, I want it, I need it, I need it
Yeah, yeah, alright, yeah yeah...

Neneh Mariann Karlsson was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and a father from Sierra Leone. Her mother raised her in a commune with her stepfather, jazz musician Don Cherry (father of Eagle Eye Cherry).

She moved to London in the 1980s and immersed herself in the Bristol music scene (where Massive Attack and Portishead would form), getting involved with bands such as The Cherries, The Slits, New Age Steppers, Rip Rig + Panic and Float Up CP.

But it was her collaboration with the duo Morgan-McVey, who released only the one single “Looking Good Diving”, that would be the springboard to launch her into international stardom. The single’s B-side featured Cherry rapping over the A-side’s instrumental tracks with what later became the lyrics to her 1988 debut breakout single “Buffalo Stance” (its music reworked by Bomb The Bass' Tim Simenon) – which reached the top 10 in eleven countries.

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