Ramalama (Bang Bang) - Róisín Murphy

Could a body close the mind out

Stitch a seam across the eye?

If you can be good, you’ll live forever

If you’re bad, you’ll die when you die

Hearing only one true note

On the one and only sound

Unzip my body, take my heart out

'Cause I need a beat to give this tune

Taking a picture of

Taking a picture of

Taking a picture of

Oh, the body swayed to music

Oh, the lightning glance

I would give it all and all

Maybe you would hear me

Ask for half a chance

Hearing only one root note

Planted firmly in the ground

Undo my heart, unzip my body

And lend to my ear a clear and a deafening sound

Unzip my heart

And if I need a rhythm

It’ll be to my heart I listen

If it don’t put me too far wrong

And if I, and if I

And if I need a rhythm

It’s gonna be to my heart I listen

If it don’t put me too far wrong

Everybody smile please

Nobody pay no mind to me

Finger in position on the switch

A little flash photography

Taking a picture of you

(To my heart)

Taking a picture of, taking a picture of me

Taking a picture

Ramalama bang bang

Flash, bang, big bang

Bing bong, ding dong

Dum dum d-dum dum

With a hammer, bang bang

Flash, bang, press gang

Bing bong, ding dong

Dum dum d-dum dum

With a st-stammer, bang bang

Crash bang, big bang

Boing boing, boing doing

Dum dum d-dum dum

With a st-stammer, the bang bang

(With a st-stammer)

With a st-stammer

(Crash bang, the bing bang)

Crash bang, big bang

(Boing boing, boing doing)

Bing bang, crash bang

(Dum dum d-dum dum)

And if I, and if I need a rhythm

It’s gonna be to my heart I listen

And if I, and if I need a rhythm

It’s gonna be to my heart I listen

And if I, and if I need a rhythm

It’s gonna be to my heart I listen

Need a rhythm

(And if I, and if I)

Need a rhythm

(And if I, and if I)

Need a rhythm

(And if I, and if I)

Need a rhythm

(And if I, and if I)

Need a rhythm

(And if I, and if I)

Need a rhythm

(And if I, and if I)

And if I, and if I need a rhythm