Neneh Cherry

Released: February 25, 2014

Featuring: Robyn

[Neneh]
I'm skipping down the street
Just trying to mind my business
I've got my blinkers on
So don't stop I can win this
[Robyn]
I see the wolf packs
Congregate on the corners
Hiding their cut backs
While attending the mourners

[Neneh & Robyn]
Got eyes behind our back
Wash your mouth, face the pack
Out of the black, out of the blue
I just want you to want it too!

[Neneh]
I'm Neneh, I'm complete
When all my kids are happy
I feel what's gone before
Will come right back and slap me!
[Robyn]
I'm Robyn on the microphone into the speaker
You know I'm not sick like that
But I've got a fever

[Chorus Neneh & Robyn]
On our toes to the black
From the red, we'll be back
Out of the black, out of the blue
I just want you to want it too
These are the facts And here is the news
We just want you to want it too

[Neneh]
Spread my wings and
Take small river sips ??? planet

[Robyn]
Spread my wings planet below life
???

[Chorus Neneh & Robyn]

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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