Black Cherry Lyrics
How can it be? I can taste you now
How can I see when you're everything?
[Pre-Chorus]
All the world in one grain of sand
And I've blown it
All my world in one grain of sand
And you own it
[Chorus]
Black cherry, black cherry
Stone
Black cherry, black cherry
[Verse 2]
Hearing you say it, I could die
Trembling star just reminds me
[Pre-Chorus]
All the world in one grain of sand
And I've blown it
All my world in one grain of sand
And you own it
[Chorus]
Black cherry, black cherry
Stone
Black cherry, black cherry
Excite me, ignite me
Oh, and you know
I miss you, I kiss you
Oh, and you know
[Chorus]
Black cherry, black cherry
Stone
Black cherry, black cherry
[Post-Chorus]
Excite me, ignite me
Oh, and you know
I miss you, I kiss you
Oh, and you know
About
“Black Cherry” is an electronic ballad about lost love. It was released as Black Cherry’s fourth and final single on March 1, 2004, with the B-side “Gone to Earth”. It reached #28 in the UK Singles Chart.
On the compilation album iTunes Originals: Goldfrapp, Will Gregory talked about the song:
I think we’d gone into a more sort of upbeat, drumsy, spice for the second album, we definitely left Felt Mountain behind. “Black Cherry” was written probably torwards the end of that [homonymous] album and it’s a slight kind of turn back in that direction in that it has this epic kind of quality to it. It just has a very, very simple chord sequence and melody, but sometimes those things that are very simple you can stand hearing repeatedly."
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Alison commented on the song on Twitter during the lead-up to the release of The Singles:
Love Will’s string arrangements! There was a period when every time I performed this song, halfway through I would start crying."
It was released as Black Cherry’s fifth and final single on March 1, 2004, with the B-side “Gone to Earth”. It reached #28 in the UK Singles Chart.
- 1.Ooh La La
- 2.Number 1
- 4.Lovely Head
- 6.A&E
- 8.Train
- 10.Rocket
- 11.Believer
- 12.Black Cherry
- 13.Yellow Halo
- 14.Melancholy Sky
