Tidal

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Tidal by Imogen Heap

About Tidal

The "8-bit" sounds in this song are actually a Nintendo Gameboy, provided to Imogen by chiptune artist and friend Pixelh8. NPR's All Things Considered aired an interview with Imogen on Sept. 1st, 2009. In the interview, Heap takes Block through the song "Tidal" piece by piece; the result is enough to make listeners wonder whether Heap is tempted to throw every toy into a song. "Yeah. And I do," Heap says. "I do start with the computer and make noises with synthesizers and stuff. .

Tidal Lyrics

[00:20.73] Before electric light
[00:26.50] You paddled through the soup of darkness as a crocodile
[00:32.17] Cherry picking in the river
[00:36.35] I would leave crisp note footprints at the Bankside
[00:43.22] Watch it closely you see it begin to move
[00:46.10] Watch it closely you see it begin to flicker
[00:50.05] While we're here
[00:52.91] Let's see what happens
[00:55.07] What we got, got, got to lose?
[00:58.81] (What we got to lose?)
[01:01.86] While we're tidal
[01:04.48] And flexed on a full moon
[01:07.29] It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to
[01:13.07] In every wonder what you are
[01:16.80] (Whoa, whoa, oh-oh, whoa)
[01:18.93] I've blurted everything I know just for a piece of it (uh-uh)
[01:24.71] Flash frozen, patchworked and fallow
[01:28.71] I sprung up in hearts and arrow superhighways
[01:35.98] Watch it closely you see it begin to move (Whoa oh)
[01:38.80] Watch it closely you see it begin to flicker
[01:42.95] While we're here
[01:44.65] Let's see what happens
[01:48.15] What we got, got, got to lose?
[01:54.55] (What we got to lose?)
[01:56.08] While we're tidal
[01:57.22] And flexed on a full moon
[01:59.92] It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to, love
[02:03.93] Whoa, whoa
[02:04.88] Do what you feel
[02:07.73] Just how you like
[02:10.70] Nobody has to know
[02:16.52] Do what you feel
[02:19.43] Just how you like
[02:22.38] Nobody has to know
[02:28.67] Watch, watch
[02:30.05] Watch
[02:31.59] Watch, watch
[02:33.95]
[02:38.03] What we got to lose?
[02:40.57] While we're here
[02:42.76] Let's see what happens
[02:45.45] What we got, got, got to lose?
[02:49.13] Ooh, whaoa, whoa-oh
[02:51.65] While we're tidal
[02:54.34] And flexed on a full moon
[02:57.00] It'd be a sure, sure shame to not to, whoa
[03:05.56] Do it for England
[03:08.17] Do it for love
[03:11.01] Do it for us
[03:15.88] Do it for goodness sake
[03:18.65] Do it for all the times
[03:22.01] We wished we had
[03:26.73] Do what you want
[03:29.61] Just how you like
[03:32.67] Nobody has to know
[03:38.59] Do what you want
[03:41.49] Just how you like
[03:44.39] Nobody has to know
[03:48.22]

From the album: Ellipse (Deluxe Version)