“It started off quite specific in my mind, but it became more and more about an escape fantasy,” says Shaw of the meaning behind “Her Hippo”. “[It’s] the idea of wanting to run away from something or someone or a situation or a place that was negative, but there’s also a little bit of a seed of ligh...
The house is just twelve years old
Soft landscaping in the garden
An electrician stuck his finger in the plughole and shouted "Yaba!"
Her hippo
Everyday he's a dick
Strong one
No one
The man above
A name
A word
I get upset in the heat
I'm smiling constantly and people constantly step on me
His shadow looms around
A feeling of bees' legs on my face
Safe inside a secret love
Let's run
Anyway
Mystical Shakespeare shoes
A trapped pеrson screaming
The last thing I looked at in this hand-mirror was a human arsеhole
Well, Helen's situation has really put all that in the shade now
There he goes he doesn't care
Mostly angry scrappy songs
And where does that romantic jealousy come from?
Te amo Manuel
Married then
Her hippo
Every day he's a dick
Strong one
Great one
The man above
A name
Aword
I'm smiling constantly and people constantly step on me
I'd like to run away with you on a plane but don't bring those loafers
That silly woman's done a too-straight fringe
A baby's appearance
More espresso less depresso
Solutions for damp since 1971
But I can rebuild
I'm a devious snake and I keep it in my wig room
Well...
Well, well, well
Well, well, well
I'm inside the gate, it's a tiny little area and it's rammed, everything's going great so far. Got my shorts on in preparation for the hot, these idiots in trousers, they don't know what they're doing. Feel like I wanna send you twenty texts
Let me know when you're inside the plane
I'm smiling constantly and people constantly step on me
Her Hippo was written by Lewis Maynard & Nicholas Buxton & Tom Dowse & Florence Shaw.
Her Hippo was produced by John Parish.
Dry Cleaning released Her Hippo on Fri Apr 02 2021.