I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Hear my voice, hear my voice
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Hear my voice, hear my voice
You would never guess what was living inside
Of people like me and you
Oh, will you erase what you embrace?
Oh, what will the good girls do
Sing it
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Hear my voice, hear my voice
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Hear my voice, hear my voice
You would never guess what was living inside
Of people like me and you
Oh, will you erase what you embrace?
Oh, what will the good girls do?
Sing it
I can feel you creep into my private life
I can feel you creep into my private life
I can feel you creep into my private life
I just wanna, I just wanna
Hear your voice, hear your voice
I just wanna, I just wanna
Hear your voice, hear your voice
I would never guess it was living inside
A hero like you-hoo-hoo
Oh, if music kills, if music kills
Then what will the good folks do?
Sing it
I just wanna, I just wanna
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
Hear your voice, hear your voice
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
I just wanna, I just wanna
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
Hear your voice, hear your voice
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
I would never guess it was living inside
A hero like you-hoo-hoo
(Reveal yourself)
Oh, if music kills, if music kills
Then what will the good folks do?
(Reveal yourself)
Sing it
I can feel you creep into my private life
(Let me go to that place, let me sit in that place, let me listen to that place)
I can feel you creep into my private life
(Let me listen to that place, feel the joy of that place, let me go to that place, let me sit in that place, lock in my soul to that place, feel the joy of that place, I will not abandon what my body knows!)
Reveal yourself, reveal yourself
Reveal yourself, reveal yourself
Reveal yourself, reveal yourself
Reveal yourself, reveal yourself
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
Hear my voice, hear my voice
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
I just wanna, I just wanna
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
Hear your voice, hear your voice
(Reveal yourself, reveal yourself)
You would never guess what was living inside
Of people like me and you
(Reveal yourself)
Oh, will you erase what you embrace?
Oh, what will the good girls do?
(Reveal yourself)
Sing it
Private Life was written by Merrill Garbus & Nate Brenner.
Private Life was produced by Merrill Garbus & Nate Brenner.
Tune-Yards released Private Life on Fri Jan 19 2018.
This track quotes Ladysmith Black Mambazo (“Reveal yourself, reveal yourself,”‘ taken from “King of Kings”), which definitely is a reference both to how that group influenced me as a musician as well as to the complications of [Paul Simon’s] Graceland project. How does a musician like myself reconci...