Water Me Lyrics
He won't make love to me now
Not now I've set the fee
He said it's too much in pound
I guess I'm stuck with me
[Refrain]
He told me I was so small
I told him, "Water me"
I promise I can grow tall
When making love is free
[Verse]
He won't make love to me now
Not now I've set the fee
He said it's too much in pound
I guess I'm stuck with me
[Outro]
He told me I was so small
I told him, "Water me"
About
“Water Me” is the first single from FKA twigs' EP2. With production from Arca, one of the producers behind Kanye West’s Yeezus, this track incorporates a vast, dark ambience that is slightly dreary in an odd, yet intimate manner.
Q&A
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‘Water Me’ was something that Alejandro [Arca] and I did at the end of a session. It wasn’t a particularly successful session up until that point. We were making these beats and I was whisper-rapping over some stuff, and it all felt a bit empty. We had half-an-hour left at the end, and we started playing together. I was on the Tempest, doing some drums. And Alejandro started adding some synths. The Tempest has this great function where you can record something straight into it and start manipulating it. Very quickly the words came to me, out of nowhere. I’m not going to lie and say I laboured over it for ages. I think I wrote it in about seven minutes.
It’s really emotional. [laughs] We were really emotional in the studio on that day, I remember. Two emo little souls, together. That’s very unlike us. Usually in the studio it’s… it’s ridiculous. We’ll work for an hour and then put on some Janet Jackson and dance around the room. Then we’ll put on some merengue tune and tango through the studio. We work very quickly. Technically, he’s so fast, which really suits me. I don’t like to labour over things. In my experience, the first idea is usually the best one. And once I start to think about it, it implodes on itself.
