Neneh Cherry

Released: October 19, 2018

Songwriter: Neneh Cherry Four Tet Sox Booga Bear

Producer: Four Tet

Yeah

Oh life
Oh life

All we ever give a damn for, it's funny
Need so little space
'Cause everything we dreamed of
Amount to fit inside a hand

To throw it all away
To lambs that need to sleep
Dressed in wolves clothes

To run away I count
How many times it hurts
How does it count?
Anyway I try

A female dog can bite
Deep vein thrombosis
Life can hurt so bad

It seems sick to me now
It's funny how fragile is a life
That can have everything now too
Nothing left at all

Amounts to little pieces
Always one receiving
Reality's like a clock
Dish it out to another
Who has nothing, not even a pot to piss in
Nothing
Nothing left at all

Sleepless nights
Nothing
Like a female dog's got a name
Life's a bitch
Deep pain thrombosis
Life is a bitch

Oh life
Yeah
Oh life
(Thrombosis)
Oh life

Thrombosis
Somehow I'm sick
Like a blood clot, deep thrombosis
Like a blood clot, deep thrombosis

Oh life
Thrombosis
Somehow it's sick, it's not funny
I can be so vain
I can bring pain

Life is funny then you die
Thrombosis coming on doing life
It hurts so bad
Why it hurts so bad?
Like a blood clot, deep thrombosis

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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