Details

• Status: Album track
• Length: 8:30
• Significant releases: This is Hardcore (album) (30 March 1998) (all releases)
• First played live: La Monte Young Benefit, Barbican Hall, London (31 October 1997)
• Last played live: Bournemouth International Centre (5 December 1998)
• Recorded: Between March 1997 and January 1998 (Olympic Studios, London & The Town House Studios, London)

Credits

• Writers: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Mark Webber
• Producer: Chris Thomas
• Engineer: Pete Lewis
• Assistant engineers: Lorraine Francis and Jay Reynolds

• Additional guest vocals: Neneh Cherry

Lyrics

Neneh Cherry:
Here in the night, love takes control
Making me high, making me whole

Here in the night, love takes control
Making me high, making me whole
I don't know
Oh, no no no
No, I don't know
No no no
No, I don't know

When I close my eyes I can see you lowering yourself to my level. I don't know where you got those clothes, but you can take them off, if it makes you feel better.

Don't stop it now
Now is so right
Now as the day slips away
And we slide into night
I don't know
Oh, no no no
No, I don't know
No no no
No, I don't know

I open my eyes and you're there, even better in the flesh, it would seem. I'm so ready and willing and able, it's untrue, to act out this love scene and make my dreams come true.

And how many others have touched themselves whilst looking at pictures of you? How many others could handle it, if all their dreams came true? I don't expect you to answer straight away, maybe you're just having an off day, but I need to believe in you. Yes I do. Yes I do.

Here in my heart
Here in my head
Live all your dreams for tonight
here in your bed
I don't know
Oh, no no no
No, I don't know
No no no
No, I don't know

So roll the soundtrack and dim the lights 'cos I'm not going home tonight. This love scene has begun. So let's get it on.

Lets make this the greatest love scene from a play no-one's thought up yet. I know you're feeling the same as me. Although what you gonna do about it? Now here's an exclusive: I've wanted you for years. I only needed the balls to admit it. When the unbelievable object meets the unstoppable force there's nothing you can do about it. No.

I will light your cigarette with a star that has fallen from the sky. Breathe in, breathe out, I love the way you move. Don't let anyone tell you any different tonight. You are beauty, you are class, you showed it all, but you still kept a little piece back just for me. A little piece back just for me. Just for me.

Oh, I don't know how you do it, but I love the way you do it, when you're doing it to me.

And if this is a dream, then I'm going to sleep for the rest of my life. For the rest of my life. For the rest of my life. For the rest of my life.

Links

• Last.fm

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