Neneh Cherry

Songwriter: Booga Bear Neneh Cherry

Producer: , The Dynamik Duo Mark Saunders The Bubble Bunch

Out of control
MMM- stick it where it hurts
Girl, I'll be peeling you off the ceiling... That's right Hee Hee
[Eagle-Eye Cherry:]
Ladies and gentlemen- Neneh Cherry

[Verse 1:]
Well you laughed at me right in my face
At the wrong time and in the wrong place
You turned around and said "I'm all shook up"
Said to me "I'm your sweet buttercup
You're lying, you're lying, begging him to stay and crying
You're lying, you're lying, you're never satisfied

[Chorus:]
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right

[Verse 2:]
You took my man, the only one I ever had
You took my man, I didn't treat you bad

*Anyway, it's gonna get you anyway
Any day, it's gonna get you*

You took my man and didn't mean it
But you did it to hurt my feelings
What I should do is slap you in your face
You left me here with a pain below my waste
You lose a guy you move into the larder
You got no style, why don't you try a little harder
Chocolates, bananas, doughnuts and salami
Ain't gonna fit coz you're full of boloni

[Chorus]

[Verse 3:]
Only back alley rats take other peoples cats
And then strike back, that isn't where I'm at

[Chorus]

I thought you were my friend... God, you're just so digital girl
You're like one of those cabbage patch creatures - DJ!

You're burning the candle at both ends, you're gonna feel the heat
If everything you do comes back to you, by now you'd be dead meat
You took my man and took his body
Strapped him to your bed just to have his baby
Everybody knows you're a phoney
You just want his alimony

[Chorus]

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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