Róisín Murphy

Ramalama (Bang Bang)

B B B B B B B B B B B B
BANG BANG!

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…

To my heart
And if I
And if I
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 take me too far gone

Need a rhythm
I need a rhythm
And if I
And if I need a rhythm

Taking a picture of
Oh the body swayed to music
Oh the lightning glance
If 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 get 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
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 DO DUM DUM

With a hammer BANG BANG
Flash Bang Press Gang
Bing Bong
Ding Dom
Hum Hum H’ Hum

With a st’ stammer
B’ Bang Bang
Crash Bang
B’ Big Bang
Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Dom dom d’ dom

With a st’ stammer
With a st’ stammer
With a st’ stammer
B’ Bang Bang

Crash Bang
Big Bang
Bang Bang
Crash Bang

Unzip my heart
And if I need a rhythm
Gonna be to my heart I listen
And if I
And if I
Need a rhythm
Gonna be to my heart I listen

And if I
And if I
Need a rhythm
Need a rhythm
Need a rhythm