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PJ Harvey -Memphis

PJ Harvey - Memphis Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Good Fortune
Released: 2001

Memphis Lyrics

You breathing into my mouth
I'll take it
I'll take it for you

You want to sing
Then sing it for me
You got something
Left to say

Untie me
We're taking away
Unlikely
Out of time

When you still got
So much to say
I'll write it
A song for you

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling

Oh what a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing

You said
There's a special place
And it's scaring
The shit out of me

In Memphis
On Valentine's day
You wrote it
In a letter to me

Well I wish I had given you more time
To say thank you
My beautiful friend

But sometimes you gotta send it away
To bring it
To bring it back again

But oh what a way to go
So peaceful
He's smiling

Oh what a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing

You'll always
Have open eyes
You'll always
Have a special place

In Memphis
On Valentine's day
Die suddenly
At a wonderful age
We're ready
We're ready to go
When you still got so much to say

Somehow I know
You drank and stole
Receiving just everything

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling

Oh what a way to go
I know that you're smiling

Oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
I'm singing

Oh
What a way to go
I know that
You're smiling
You're peaceful
You're smiling
You're peaceful
You're smiling

I know that
You're smiling
You're peaceful
You're smiling

Writer/s: Harvey, Polly Jean
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Memphis

This song is a tribute to the late Jeff Buckley, who died in 1998.

PJ Harvey - M-Bike

PJ Harvey - M-Bike Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 4-Track Demos
Released: 1993

M-Bike Lyrics

M-Bike

This is a swipe at Harvey's former boyfriend, Joe Dilworth, who is a drummer, photographer and German motorbike enthusiast.

"But all he's speaking and all he sees.
Is just his motorbike, not me."

The pair later worked together when Dilworth played drums on "Working For The Man" from Harvey's 1995 To Bring You My Love set.

A live version can be found in the long-form video Reeling with PJ Harvey, released in 1994.

PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig

PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dry
Released: 1992

Sheela-Na-Gig Lyrics

I've been trying to show you over and over

Look at these my child-bearing hips
Look at these my ruby red ruby lips
Look at these my work strong arms and
You've got to see my bottle full of charm
I lay it all at your feet
You turn around and say back to me
He said

Sheela-Na-Gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist

Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Just like the first time, said he didn't care
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Heard it before, no more
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Turn the corner, another one there
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Heard it before
He said

Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist

Put money in your idle hole
Put money in your idle hole

Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Just like the first time, said he didn't care
Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Heard it before, no more
Gonna take my hips to a man who cares
Turn the corner, another one there
Gonna take my hips to a man who cares
Heard it before
He said

Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist
Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig
You exhibitionist

Put money in your idle hole
Put money in your idle hole

He said "Wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean"
He said "Please take those dirty pillows away from me"
He said "Wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean"
He said "Please take those dirty pillows away from me"

Writer/s: HARVEY, POLLY JEAN
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Sheela-Na-Gig

A sheela-na-gig is a carving of a naked woman holding her vagina open. They are to be found carved on old churches (yes, really!) in Great Britain and Ireland. So the lyric, "He said, 'Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig, you exhibitionist!'" is exceedingly graphic.