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Had You in MeNeneh Cherry

Released: October 2, 1996

Featuring: Tricky

Songwriter: Tricky Neneh Cherry Mark Saunders

Producer: Tricky Mark Saunders

Note: it begins with Tricky speaking in the background to
Someone in the studio

(i shoulda been a women. i don't understand why im a man)

[Neneh Cherry+Tricky:]
Had you in me (x4) In me (x2)
Sick of what i feel, sick of being real
Better stay clear or I might hijack a plane
Im getting sick of what i feel, sick of being real
You better stay clear cos im about to blow the fuck up

[Neneh Cherry:]
Soap on my body's gonna make me clean
Giving birth makes me scream
See my life pass before me as i drown in the shadow under My Bubble bath
A forced laugh a forged autograph
First my body, Now my corpse
I exercise daily...love my sports
I need when i concieve, I sow seed, i can see no remourse

[Tricky:]
I'm liquid

[Neneh Cherry:]
Serving speed, self deceit
I teased you now youre tame
Put treacle on your tummy to keep you sticky when i steal
I take from you i hate for you
You fools who feel free (?)
You look like a little somebody looking for something

[Tricky:]
And im still myself (to fade)

Neneh Cherry

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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