Neneh Cherry

Released: August 1, 2018

Songwriter: Bunny “Striker” Lee Euan Dickinson Booga Bear Robert “3D” del Naja Four Tet Neneh Cherry

Producer: Robert “3D” del Naja Four Tet

[Verse 1]
Love forsaken, risk worth taking
Spearmint flavours, all my pallet shutters
I’m a member of shattered allusions
And am I needless to say?
Another song, this is nothing new

[Pre-Chorus]
But love is big and every land
Every nation seeks its friends in France and Italy
And all across the seven seas
And Goddamn guns and guts and history
And bitter love still put a hole in me

[Chorus]
Bite my head off, still my world will always be
A little risk worth taking
Bite my hand off, still my world will always be
Another risk worth taking

[Verse 2]
Gotta step out a limb, swallow my pride
Surrender and not give myself away
Little measures all the time
Become part of you nothing new
Still have full for absolutions
In my day there’s no solution

[Pre-Chorus]
And love is big and every land
Every nation seeks its friends in France and Italy
And all across the seven seas
And Goddamn guns and guts and history
And bitter love still put a put a hole in me

[Chorus]
Bite my head off, still my world will always be
A little risk worth taking
Bite my hand off, still my world will always be
Another risk worth taking

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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