Neneh Cherry

Released: October 19, 2018

Songwriter: Paul Simm Neneh Cherry Four Tet Booga Bear

Producer: Four Tet

[Verse 1]
You're all over me
Step back over my spit
You're all over me
On the count of the place where I sit
You're all over me
Respect me or then this is it
You're all over me
Step back, step back

[Chorus]
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt

[Verse 2]
Little stream of consciousness
Better get ready
Better get ready
I'm a soldier
Already gone
I'm a soldier
Took this too far
I'm a soldier

[Chorus]
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt, yeah

[Verse 3]
Accept me everywhere
Everywhere I go
Accept me anywhere
And I will never show
Present me evidence
I hope we'll never suppose
For in me common sense
Keep us on our toes

[Chorus]
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt
If you love me anymore
You would run me out
If you love me every thought
I would never doubt

World turn out
I am who I am
You, I, care
We, I am, you care
Yeah

Let's roll down with the brothers in the house
Big chill all the way to Streatham
All the way to Streatham, my friend
That's the way we roll out
Yeah, West London massive

Look at what you're viewing now
Genie, would you give me your real name?
Place on locked, not of the gangway
Limitations always

They should get laid out, played out, you know
Set to gauge range, straight to you friend
Stretched out, gamers, played out, over-run
Stretching out a lot of nothing

Got time for nothing
Gotta make something for-for-for-for-for
Something, something, something, some

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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