
Live in Toronto at History - June 10, 2024 - Hit Parade Tour 2024
The live version of "Sing It Back" mixes elements from the original album version along with the "Boris Dlugosch Musical Mix", which became a dance anthem around the world!
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"Sing It Back" is a song written and performed by Irish-English electronic music duo Moloko (Róisín Murphy and Mark Brydon). It first appeared in its original version on Moloko's second album, I Am Not a Doctor (1998); it was released as a single on 8 March 1999, reaching number 45 on the UK Singles Chart. The song experienced chart success after it was remixed by DJ Boris Dlugosch, peaking at number four in the UK in September 1999. Murphy had started writing the lyrics while clubbing in New York City, and knew the song was at heart a dance track, but the group wanted to record it in a different artistic fashion for its album version.
Together with their record company they had commissioned mixes by Todd Terry (who had turned Everything But the Girl's "Missing" into an international club anthem). Moloko were not satisfied with the Terry mix and had to convince their label Echo Records to put out the Dlugosch version instead. The remixed version was eventually featured on over 100 compilations, and was later added on Moloko's third album, Things to Make and Do, after hitting the top ten on the UK Singles Chart. In 1999 it reached number one on the US dance chart. As a form of barter for the remix, Moloko vocalist Róisín Murphy later co-wrote and appeared on Dlugosch's "Never Enough" single, starring in the video for that release as well.
Lyrics
[Intro]
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
[Verse 1]
When you are ready
I will surrender
Take me and do as you wish
Have what you want
Your way's
Always the best way
I have succumbed to
This passive sensation
Peacefully falling away
I am a zombie
Your wish will command me
Laugh as I fall to my knees
[Chorus]
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
[Verse 2]
Can I control this empty delusion
Lost in the fire below?
And you come running
Your eyes will be open
And when you come back I'll be as you want me
Only so eager to please
My little song will keep you beside me
Thinking your name as I sing
[Chorus]
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
[Interlude]
Come, come
Come to my sweet melody
Come, come
Come to my sweet melody
[Verse 3]
Now you can't help it
If you have been tempted
By fruit hanging ripe on the tree
And I feel useless
Don't care what the truth is
You will be here come the day
Truth do you hear me?
Don't try to come near me
So tired, I sleep through the light
If you desire
To lay here beside me
Come to my sweet melody
[Chorus]
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
Bring it back, sing it back
Bring it back, sing it back to me
"Murphy's Law" is a song recorded by Irish singer Róisín Murphy. It was officially released on 4 March 2020, serving as the fifth single from Murphy's fifth solo studio album, Róisín Machine, released later that year. Written by Murphy, Dean Honer, Michael Ward and Richard Barratt, with song also produced by the latter, "Murphy's Law" lyrically refers to the adage of the same name in a scenario where Murphy unintentionally runs into a former lover.