Neneh Cherry

Released: October 19, 2018

Songwriter: Paul Simm Neneh Cherry Four Tet Booga Bear

Producer: Four Tet

[Verse 1]
Now everything in focus
I can see it clearly
Every little detail
Crystal clear and dread
Breaks my little brain
The clarity hurts
So looking at the pain now
We clearly let us down
If I could alter shift over petty ways
Plastic cups and paper plates
The quiet parties that never end
Don't mean a shit
It's easier unsaid

[Chorus]
Is it fallen leaves
The bird shit on my sleeve
With no luck at all
There'll be no luck for me
Watch me come undone
Look at what you see
Just because I'm down
Don't step all over me

[Verse 2]
Keep it under wraps then
Keep it sealed and safe
Things we left unsaid
Well, they become a roar
Push my buttons best
Unraveled at the seams
I have come undone
In the fabric of our dreams
Cover them so neatly
Too many layers deep down within me and yet
I guess we're like strangers
I don't even know
Pull my trigger now
And it would drown within me

[Chorus]
Is it fallen leaves
The bird shit on my sleeve
With no luck at all
There'll be no luck for me
Watch me come undone
Look at what you see
Just because I'm down
Don't step all over me
Don't step all over me

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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