Neneh Cherry

Released: October 19, 2018

Songwriter: Neneh Cherry Four Tet Booga Bear

Producer: Four Tet

[Verse 1]
Slow jam
Coming with memory
Don't live for nostalgia
But the impact of everything resonates

[Verse 2]
What I wear in my hair?
Grease in the air
Dax in days of somewhere that I knew
Knew me too, flip the cheque, turn the deck
But never turn the sound down

[Verse 3]
What it was then make it now
Bring it over, throwback, bring it on
Got my knickers in a twist
Broke some glass, broken politics
Try to bring it on

[Refrain]
It's my politics living in the slow jam
Everything low, rain slow
Play for supreme
Delightful, painful
Play with me synchronized
I'm a Pisces hanging from the vine
Live it out a day at a time

My name is Neneh
March tenth
Water sign

[Refrain]
It's my politics living in the slow jam
Playful, supreme
Delightful, hateful
Play with me
It's my politics living in the slow dance
Synchronized devotion
I'm a Pisces hanging from the vine
Live it out a day at a time

[Refrain]
It's my politics living in the slow jam
Playful, supreme
Delightful, hateful
Play with me
It's my politics living in the slow dance
Synchronized devotion
I'm a Pisces hanging from the vine
Live it out a day at a time
It's my politics living in the slow jam
Playful
It's my politics living in the slow jam

[Outro]
You can take me to the Garden of Eden
Lead me there
And see me play
You can take me to the Garden of Eden
Lead me there
And see me play
Take me to my, to my tomb
And see me play

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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