Neneh Cherry

Released: October 26, 1992

Songwriter: Booga Bear Neneh Cherry

[Verse 1:]
On a table lies the crust of what he had and just leaves behind
As I put bread down on the list of things that I had to buy
By the store lays your mountain bike
You on the floor still looking hard core
The colour is red under my shoe
And the friend is gone who put a hole in you

[Pre-Chorus:]
Insensitivity took a hold of me and I felt it colour me blue inside
+ I left taking a part of you like red, red paint on the sole of my shoe
Nothing to do with common sense or

[Chorus:]
Sensitivity... I'm feeling cold like concrete
Your dignity's reflecting tn the way I feel it

[Verse 2:]
Open minded; the thoughts are clear
From feeling regardless... heart beats with pain
You were oh so happy just the other day...
Now heart beats with pain took it all away

The cradle did rock for you too...
Looking out from the inside while life turns to blue
Watching all the glass faces leave their red footprints on our

[Chorus]

By the store lays your mountain bike
You on the floor no more hard core
The colour was red under my shoe
And the friend is gone who put a hole in you

Guided by the blue light that takes you away; I'm on my way home

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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