Neneh Cherry

Released: February 25, 2014

Strip me naked and put me outside
Strip me naked and put me out the pasture
Multitask could keep your head above the water
Smell of any money keeps the wolves from the door

And there's the men with my taxes
It's the kinkiest of pricks now
Run a little faster
Make it go a little further
Maybe I can go far
Maybe I can catch you
Maybe I can make good
For the love of so many

[Chorus]
Can we catch oh oh oh
Oh oh oh share it all
And if we're here
Could be there
Oh oh oh another day if we get this

Strip me naked and put me down right
Stress me naked my wings need to blast off
Life is going faster like a bus it runs me over
No kind of beacon fill me up and make me whole now

I could run a little faster
Maybe I can catch a ride
Run a little further
Like you run me over
Move slower than the money
But maybe I could make good
Maybe I can go far
For the love of so many

[Chorus]

So there's the men with my taxes
They can be such pricks now
They're a little better
And go without this further
Maybe I can go far
Maybe I can catch you
I'm like a go-kart
For the love of so many

[Chorus x 2]

I wanna know now, baby
Can we? Baby
End of the trail
Rounds in the wind

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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