Róisín Murphy ...
Róisín Marie Murphy (born 5 July 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter and record producer, known for her idiosyncratic musical, fashion, and performance styles. Murphy first came to note as one half of the electronic music duo Moloko with her then-boyfriend Mark Brydon. After the two ended their romantic relationship, Murphy embarked on a solo career, releasing her debut solo album, Ruby Blue, written and produced with Matthew Herbert, in 2005. Her second solo album, Overpowered, was released in 2007. Her third album, Hairless Toys was released in 2015.
Voice
Murphy has a contralto vocal range, which has been described as jazzy. On Moloko's first two albums, Murphy took on an almost narrative vocal style, sounding like she was imitating a number of different people in just one song. This switched to an more serious vocal delivery on their third album and even more so on their fourth and final one.
Musical style
As major influences Murphy has cited Sonic Youth (especially Kim Gordon), Pixies, Talking Heads and Grace Jones. Murphy first morphed her musical style from the trip hop sound of Moloko's first two albums, Do You Like My Tight Sweater? and I Am Not a Doctor, to that of an more organic one on Moloko's Things to Make and Do album. It uses an acoustic guitar on songs; "The Time is Now" and "Being Is Bewildering".
Her work has been variously described as electropop, dance-pop, art pop, avant-garde pop, and disco.
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''Moloko'',Róisín Murphy - ''The Time Is Now''.
[-Moloko were an English-Irish music duo from Sheffield, England.
The duo consisted of vocalist Róisín Murphy and producer Mark Brydon.
-"The Time Is Now" was written
by Zamora, Jasmin / Krebitz, Nicolette / Riemann, Katja]
You're my last breath
You're a breath of fresh air to me
Hi, I'm empty
So tell me you care for me
You're the first thing
And the last thing on my mind
In your arms I feel
Sunshine
On a promise
A day dream yet to come
Time is upon us
Oh, but the night is young
Flowers blossom
In the winter time
In your arms I feel
Sunshine
Give up yourself unto the moment
The time is now
Give up yourself unto the moment
Let's make this moment last
You may find yourself
Out on a limb for me
Could you expect it as
A part of your destiny
I give all I have
But it's not enough
And my patience is shot
So I'm calling your bluff
Give up yourself unto the moment
The time is now
Give up yourself unto the moment
Let's make this moment last
Give up yourself unto the moment
The time is now
Give up yourself unto the moment
Let's make this moment last
And we gave it time
All eyes are on the clock
But time takes too much time
Please make the waiting stop
And the atmosphere is charged
In you I trust
And I feel no fear as I
Do as I must
Give up yourself unto the moment
The time is now
Give up yourself unto the moment
Let's make this moment last
Give up yourself unto the moment
The time is now
Give up yourself unto the moment
Let's make this moment last
Tempted by fear
And I won't hesitate
The time is now
And I can't wait
I've been empty too long
The time is now
The tender night has gone
And the time has gone
Let's make this moment last
And the night is young
The time is now
Let's make this moment last
Give up yourself unto the moment
The time is now
Give up yourself unto the moment
Let's make this moment last
Roisin Murphy -"Evil Eyes" - from album ''Hairless Toys''.
There where I've been and the things I've seen
Well I just try remembering
That in their dreams those Kings and Queens
Are feeling just the way I feel
Agi-magic-la-talagy
(repeat 3)
My wish come true
I'm moving up to pastures new
To see it all again anew
It's always and forever true
That this is all I have to do
To get to you
Agi-magic-la-talagy
(repeat 3)
My spell on you
Hocus
Hocus pocus
Out of the realm of a dark material
Opus
New modus
Can't describe adequately
This ethereal dream
Makin' love's only make believe
It's possible to be achieved
If you're brave enough to take the lead
Invention always follows need
I have come to claim my prize
To kiss you on your tired eyes
My hopes and dreams are realised
The moment I've made up my mind
Focus
If I just focus
If I superstitiously believe
This wish will come true
(I wish for you)
Evil eye
I'll keep you by my side
This evil eye
Has powers I would prize
Your strange magic play
Keep me from harm's way
I've witnessed, Eye
It's mystery claim
Gonna put those demons in their place
(Get to know)
Gonna slap myself across the face
(Comings and goin')
Gotta face my demons all the day
(You know it)
The devil's work is made by idle hands
(Comings and goin')
Gonna put them demons in their place
(Get to know it)
Gonna slap myself across the face
(As long as you know it)
Gotta face my demons all the day
(You know it)
The devil's work is made by idle hands
(Comings and goin')
Gonna put those demons in their place
Hocus
Hocus pocus
Cast a spell and hope to hell
The Gods are listening
Ipsus
Calling orders
Out of the heavens we fell
With a formula
Come to
Agi-magic-la-talagy
(repeat 3)
My wish come true
We were glass house girls
in a plastic wigs and verse
In a crazy house
from within and from without
You could see right through
see the things that people do
There's no place to hide
when you live from the inside
All the blow
people I guess
from broken homes
never through stars
leave us alone
We were glass house girls
full of drugs or be enburf
build a house of glass
Out of pregnant from the bless
when it so revealed
must be sin to people in
ear angle sister
were aloud to dream
made a new reality
people who live in glass houses
No
Every glass house girls
kept the secret from the world
What you think you see?
A naive transparency
On a stage of glass
how long can that play? (glass)
every glass house child
is a trouble-inside
all the blow
little pieces around broken dreams
schedule in million different places
people live in glass (houses)
people live in glass (houses)
No
all the blow
what you think you see?
a naive transparency
On a stage of glass
how long can that play? (glass)
Róisín Murphy: ''Gotta Hurt'' - Album ''Hairless Toys'' (2015).
That's got to hurt, won't you admit?
There were injustices along the way
That's got to hurt, however poignantly
Don't let them laugh at me or laugh at you
That's got to hurt, these things you should tell
Why should you justify?
That's got to hurt; you handled it perfectly
But I see the hurting, there, in your eyes
That's got to hurt, won't you admit?
There were injustices
That's got to hurt, however poignantly
Don't let them laugh at me or laugh at you
Can I say I'm sorry if I have
Spoken out of turn?
Reckless, feckless
Careless talk
That's got to hurt, won't you admit?
There were injustices along the way
That's got to hurt, however poignantly
Don't let them laugh at me or laugh at you
That's got to hurt, things you should tell to me
Why should you justify? Deep down inside
That's got to hurt; you handled it perfectly
The fact that you're hurting me comes no surprise
That's got to hurt
Don't be offended
It was not my intention
Oh, to put you down
Your shoulder always
Will be there to cry on
It's got to hurt
Can I say I'm sorry if I have
Spoken out of turn?
(Please forget it) Reckless
(I regret it) Feckless
(Should have never) Careless
(Ever said it) Talk
That's got to hurt, won't you admit?
There were injustices along the way
That's got to hurt, however poignantly
Don't let them laugh at me or laugh at you
That's got to hurt, these things you should tell
Why should you justify?
That's got to hurt; you handled it perfectly
But I see the hurting, there, in your eyes
That's got to hurt, won't you admit?
There were injustices
That's got to hurt, however poignantly
Don't let them laugh at me or laugh at you
Can I say I'm sorry if I have
Spoken out of turn?
Reckless, feckless
Careless talk
That's got to hurt, won't you admit?
There were injustices along the way
That's got to hurt, however poignantly
Don't let them laugh at me or laugh at you
That's got to hurt, things you should tell to me
Why should you justify? Deep down inside
That's got to hurt; you handled it perfectly
The fact that you're hurting me comes no surprise
That's got to hurt
Don't be offended
It was not my intention
Oh, to put you down
Your shoulder always
Will be there to cry on
It's got to hurt
Can I say I'm sorry if I have
Spoken out of turn?
(Please forget it) Reckless
(I regret it) Feckless
(Should have never) Careless
(Ever said it) Talk
Roisin Murphy-''Gone Fishing''-Album ''Hairless Toys'' (2015).
I am uncommon sense
Sits close to abandonment
Learning, concerning
The different between do or die
Each step taken away from
A place of hopelessness
Takes me closer
To building another kind of family nest
There is no inclusion for sick and tired
Nobody close to us and recognize
Only exclusion for us, out there
Only delusion for her, sits in despair
I can't taste, so beautifully dressed
In the moment will feel this
I fear I could get to feel this
Destined to upon my name
Have around this far from home
The children of the day must ???
My new friends are like that
Mechanism I'm so alive in this
Children of god, the children of the passion
Found a place to express myself
Go on ahead, shadows hold
Circle into the board to get my prayers
Expensive things as cheap as thrill
No such thing as overkill
Children of god, the children of the passion
There is no inclusion for sick and tired
Nobody close to us and recognize
Only exclusion for us, out there
Only delusion for her, sits in despair
If there's, it's burning
They're just lay there, in burning
??? laying there, to eternity
You can't stop the change in them
It's easy to mind
I am uncommon sense
So beautifully dressed
My mother's mistake
My father's heartbreak
You're good to on fly this
The colors of paradise
You look practice of realness
She's so surreal
I am uncommon sense
Sits close to abandonment
Learning, concerning
The different between do or die
Each step taken away from
A place of hopelessness
Takes me closer
To building another kind of family nest
There is no inclusion for sick and tired
Nobody close to us and recognize
Only exclusion for us, out there
Only delusion for her, sits in despair
I can't taste, so beautifully dressed
In the moment will feel this
I fear I could get to feel this
Destined to upon my name
Have around this far from home
The children of the day must ???
My new friends are like that
Mechanism I'm so alive in this
Children of god, the children of the passion
Found a place to express myself
Go on ahead, shadows hold
Circle into the board to get my prayers
Expensive things as cheap as thrill
No such thing as overkill
Children of god, the children of the passion
There is no inclusion for sick and tired
Nobody close to us and recognize
Only exclusion for us, out there
Only delusion for her, sits in despair
If there's, it's burning
They're just lay there, in burning
??? laying there, to eternity
You can't stop the change in them
It's easy to mind
I am uncommon sense
So beautifully dressed
My mother's mistake
My father's heartbreak
You're good to on fly this
The colors of paradise
You look practice of realness
She's so surreal
Roisin Murphy-''Uninvited Guest''-Album ''Hairless Toys'' (2015).
I am walking the streets
I am wandering aimlessly
I can see that it's all for sale
and uncertains me
All alone
And it looks like everyone else
Is busy
All avoiding
Eye contact with me
I could be well dressed
Even all the money I've left
I could buy another day of nothing
Even in my best
I'm an uninvited guest
Waste another day of nothing
I could get out of my head
Even all the money I've left
I could buy another day of nothing
Even in my best
I'm an uninvited guest
Lost another day of nothing
I've been walking the streets
It's another purposeless day
I am far from the reasons it took to pass this way
I am haunted by thoughts
I am taunted by things to do
And people to see
Catch my eye, passerby
Before I
Pass through
I could be well dressed
Even all the money I've left
I could buy another day of nothing
Even in my best
I'm an uninvited guest
Waste another day of nothing
I could get out of my head
Even all the money I've left
I could buy another day of nothing
I could never quite forget
I'm an uninvited g(uest)
I'll keep wandering
Aimlessly
Until that flickering
Moment of intensity
I'll form with you, stranger
Recognise me
Well glance my way
See something in me, I
Keep on
Wandering
Aimlessly
Until that flickering
Moment of intensity
I'll find in your stranger
Recognise me
Glance my way
See something in me, I
Keep on wandering
Aimlessly
Until that flickering
Moment of intensity
I'll form with your stranger
Recognise me
See something in me
But see something
Here in the world
Time it recurs
While your world
I could be well dressed
Even all the money I've left
I could buy another day of nothing
Even in my best
I'm an uninvited guest
Waste another day of nothing
I could get out of my head
Even all the money I've left
I could buy another day of nothing
Even in my best
I'm an uninvited guest
Lost another day of nothing
Not sure if I'm gonna survive
Survive
Don't know if this is living a lie
Words fly
Not sure if I'm feelin' alright
On pride
I'm tired
Not sure if I'm ready to laugh... or cry.
Roisin Murphy -'' Unputdownable'',Album '''Hairless Toys'' (2015).
A quiet place to sit
A little light to see
Some time to read
Is really all I need
You're unputdownable
A story so confounding
The pages turn
So easily
You are my favourite book
And I like to spend my time
I'm fully occupied
Reading between the lines
You're unputdownable
A plot that's so unpredictable
That I read on
Compulsively
Well I'm left in confusion
By your epilogue
Where is the conclusion
A narrative arc
Well it's just been enthralling
Disbelief suspended
Our time
Standing still
No myth or fairy tale
Will ever quite the same
No moral to the story
You only go down in a blaze of glory
You're unputdownable
A fable so fantastical
I've learned to read voraciously
And when at last I come
To the end
I turn back to page one
And again
Pour over every word
Beautiful and absurd
You're unputdownable
A story so astounding
Could only be
The truth you seek
Well I don't like intrusions
And if I had my way
I'd close the door behind me
And they'd all melt away
I'll open up the book and
Climb right out of this time
If you'd let me
If you'd be so kind
If you'd allow me
To read your mind
If you'd let me
If you'd be so kind
If you'd allow me
To read your mind
(repeat)
Roisin Murphy -''Exploitation'' - from album ''Hairless Toys''.
If you'd lend me your ear
This is a so-called true story
We had the time of our lives
Stirring up clouds of scandal
Freedom, the ultimate freedom
Then the bomb shall hit
A fiasco
Who, who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
Never underestimate
Creative people and the depths that they will go
Loneliness
Cruising at high speed
Ain't that a feeling you and I know well
So let the sparks fly
You and I glide
Ticking like a time bomb 'til I receive your reply
Who, who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who
Who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
You're losing your aura of invincibility
And your self-effacing modesty
Should we leave the money and run?
You son of a gun
Or we could go down fighting
Who's exploiting who?
Who, who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
Who, who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who, who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who
Who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who
Who's exploiting who?
Who?
A little light to see
Some time to read
Is really all I need
You're unputdownable
A story so confounding
The pages turn
So easily
You are my favourite book
And I like to spend my time
I'm fully occupied
Reading between the lines
You're unputdownable
A plot that's so unpredictable
That I read on
Compulsively
Well I'm left in confusion
By your epilogue
Where is the conclusion
A narrative arc
Well it's just been enthralling
Disbelief suspended
Our time
Standing still
No myth or fairy tale
Will ever quite the same
No moral to the story
You only go down in a blaze of glory
You're unputdownable
A fable so fantastical
I've learned to read voraciously
And when at last I come
To the end
I turn back to page one
And again
Pour over every word
Beautiful and absurd
You're unputdownable
A story so astounding
Could only be
The truth you seek
Well I don't like intrusions
And if I had my way
I'd close the door behind me
And they'd all melt away
I'll open up the book and
Climb right out of this time
If you'd let me
If you'd be so kind
If you'd allow me
To read your mind
If you'd let me
If you'd be so kind
If you'd allow me
To read your mind
(repeat)
Roisin Murphy -''Exploitation'' - from album ''Hairless Toys''.
If you'd lend me your ear
This is a so-called true story
We had the time of our lives
Stirring up clouds of scandal
Freedom, the ultimate freedom
Then the bomb shall hit
A fiasco
Who, who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
Never underestimate
Creative people and the depths that they will go
Loneliness
Cruising at high speed
Ain't that a feeling you and I know well
So let the sparks fly
You and I glide
Ticking like a time bomb 'til I receive your reply
Who, who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who
Who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
You're losing your aura of invincibility
And your self-effacing modesty
Should we leave the money and run?
You son of a gun
Or we could go down fighting
Who's exploiting who?
Who, who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who, who, who
Who's exploiting who?
Who, who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who, who
Who's exploiting who?
I just don't know who
Who's exploiting who?
Won't you tell me who, who
Who's exploiting who?
Who?
ROISIN MURPHY -"Momma's Place"
So you think you know it all
But that's just the arrogance of youth
I've been there and I've done it, baby
I'm tellin' you the truth
Your Momma was a tear away
I used to think I knew it all
Thought I could play the game and not get played, no
But then the fall.
Don't you go pull a fast one
I used to be an awful rascal
Do you think you invented being bad?
I used to be a real rough-hewn
But had to become a tough one
Do you think you invented being bad?
[repeat]
I bet you think I look respectable
You should've seen me in my prime
You'd have thought that I was headed for, oh yeah
I life of crime.
I bet you think that you're the clever one, clever one
The one that got away.
Well, I've seen them come and seen them go, oh yeah
But I have it made.
I'm as sweet as I can be
I've earned respectability.
Do you know I have a history?
You won't get to pull the wool over my eyes
Fool, if you think you'll make a fool of me
Nothing you do remotely new.
It all been done, when I was young
In younger days I went astray
You mighta say, it's all a haze
It's all been done, your brand new craze
It all begun at Momma's place
Don't you go pull a fast one
I used to be an awful rascal
Do you think you invented being bad?
I used to be a real rough-hewn
But had to become a tough one
Do you think you invented being bad?
[repeat]
Familiar Feeling - Moloko (Róisín Murphy)
Nothing can come close
Nothing can come close
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
(repeat 2)
To this familiar feeling
To this familiar feeling
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
(repeat 5)
Nothing can come close
I never doubted it
What's for you will not pass you by
I never questioned it
It was decided before I asked why
It's all there, ever was
And it's all there, ever will be
How could you have questioned us?
It's yourself, you deceive
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Hush now, no need to say the words
At first sight you perfectly heard
Love in all its entirety
Is no less than we deserve
I saw your face, some place
I felt this feeling before
Is it deja vu?
Do I somehow know you?
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
(repeat 2)
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
Ever speaking
Nothing can come close
Nothing can come close
Nothing can come close
To this familiar feeling
We say it all without
100%- Moloko (Róisín Murphy)
Sure as a circle
Just keeps coming 'round
Sure as we've reached
The speed of sound
Sure as the sun will rise
In the mornin' sky
We'll never say it
Never say goodbye
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Just as there's beauty
In everyday things
There is joy universal
When the bird sings
As sure as there's changes
We will all stay the same
The immortal pose
Just pictures in a frame
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Show me amore
Trust in every sign
So be gone the space between us
There's no doubt in heart and mind
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Je t'adore
Now I know it will be
A hundred percent certainty
I'm giving you more
You can be sure
A hundred percent
Sure as a circle
Just keeps coming 'round
Just keeps coming 'round
The speed of sound
Sure as the sun will rise
In the mornin' sky
We'll never say it
Never say goodbye
Over & Over- Moloko (Róisín Murphy)
No I won't interfere
I'm the only sound you'll ever need to hear
Listen to my breath so near
Allow me to be every noise in your ear
Since that day I wake up early
Every morning which is good
But my stomach's churning, call me,
It would be nice if you could
Some days I question
The suggestion
You might not exist at all
Can we meet and talk it over
Would you be kind enough to call
Over and over
It's over all over
And over and over and over
And over.....
No there's no middle ground
Your off in another story
Or merry-go-round
No there'll be no measured terms
You fly in the face of the way the world turns
Like a frozen tidal wave
Since that day I'm standing still
You brought me here and I accept
Though you regret I never will
Just one sweet word
And then a smile from you
Is almost worth everything
I've given all I had to give
But you gave up giving in
You are everywhere I go
All the places we have been
I can't imagine where you are
For you are all I've ever seen
Over and over.....
All I've ever known
All I've ever seen
Places that I go
Places that we've been
MOLOKO -"Sing It Back" (Róisín Murphy)
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
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
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
Sing it back to me
Sing it back to me
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
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
Sing it, sing it
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