LYRICS - Put Your Hands Up - Nerina Pallot

Okay so I noticed that a lot of people are being linked to my blog whilst searching for the lyrics to Nerina Pallot's forthcoming single: 'Put Your Hands Up'. I wrote a short post about the song a few days ago but the lyrics weren't included. I had a quick look online but couldn't find the lyrics anywhere so I thought I'd release them onto the world wide web. I'm pretty sure these are the correct lyrics and I have checked with a few other Nerina fans but feel free to let me know with a comment if you think there are any mistakes. 'Put Your Hands Up' is due to be released on May 23rd, so... enjoy!!

Oh it’s the strangest thing,
I wasn’t looking out for anything.
My boat had just set sail,
I was flying as the wind prevailed.

What did you think you were doing, doing?
I couldn’t shake loose, not from you, not from you.
I couldn’t shake loose, now I don’t mind.

Put your hands up,
Say you won’t stop
Giving me love,
Cos I need you to feel me, feel me.
Put your hands up,
Say you won’t stop
Giving me love
I don’t care if it’s greedy, greedy.

Whatever you want, you’ve got it.
Whatever you do I’m on it.
Whatever you want, you’ve got it,
Just put your hands up.

I was a lonely girl,
Swimming lost in the widest sea.
But the truth of it,
There ain’t no man could ever get to me.

Now I just see stars when I’m with you.
This is my heart that I give you.
What did you do with your voodoo, voodoo child?
What did you do to me?

Put your hands up,
Say you won’t stop
Giving me love,
Cos I need you to feel me, feel me.
Put your hands up,
Say you won’t stop
Giving me love
I don’t care if it’s greedy, greedy.

Whatever you want, you’ve got it.
Whatever you do I’m on it.
Whatever you want, you’ve got it,
Just put your hands up.

Put your hands up.
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
Put your hands up.
(Oooooooh)


Put your hands up,
Say you won’t stop
Giving me love,
Cos I need you to feel me, feel me.
Put your hands up,
Say you won’t stop
Giving me love
I don’t care if it’s greedy, greedy.

Whatever you want, you’ve got it.
Whatever you do I’m on it.
Whatever you want, you’ve got it,
Just put your hands up

Put your hands up now,
Come on and put your hands up now.
Whatever you want you’ve got it,
Just put your hands up

Nerina Pallot - Put Your Hands Up

So it's a very exciting time in the world of Nerina Pallot at the moment. On May 30th her new album 'Year of the Wolf' will be released and I have a feeling it's going to be a big one. The first single: 'Put Your Hands Up' is currently named as Popjustice's song of the day, with a snippet of the track, which I have to say is incredible! Popjustice describe the song as "an understated yet PATENTLY BRILLIANT tune", warning it "is highly addictive". Click here to visit the Popjustice article. The single will be released on May 23rd, so you better make sure that you all buy it!

The final cut for 'Put Your Hands Up' is an absolutely beautiful song, the brass instruments work brilliantly with Nerina's voice and great lyrics and provide a whole new take on a song that we've only previously heard live. It's a really lively track that Pallot once described as 'a bit Eurovision' and 'as camp as Christmas', but since the original live version that we heard it's definitely progressed; 'Put Your Hands Up' would be wasted on Eurovision. I don't think I could be more excited for the music video, especially as Nerina once pictured people on roller skates wearing sailors outfits and cossacks dancing. So a big ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ for 'Put Your Hands Up', and bring on May 23rd!

Here is a sneak preview of the new single.. and it sounds amazing!!

My Favourite Covers 12/01/11

Yes, yes I'm a week late again but I will catch up at some point.. I promise. Okay this week I just have one cover to share with you, and it's a bloody amazing one. A friend of mine showed it to me a while ago, and I'm still in love with it. It's just such a different take on the original, and on an instrument I've never actually seen used before.

Real Late Starter - Josie Lloyd - originally by Nerina Pallot. Nerina ran a competition to find the best cover of the first single from her third album, and this didn't win, but I really think it should have done. Josie plays the song here on Kora, which is a West African Harp. This is such a beautiful cover. You HAVE to watch this.

Check back soon for more of my favourite covers!

So Fly

It feels like it's been a really long week, I keep thinking it's Monday or Tuesday, but it's only Saturday. I'm so mixed up with the days. I'm completely fed up with uni work now. I just want it all to be done. Anyone fancy doing it for me? I just can't seem to get motivated today. I'm just listening to the same four songs on repeat:

Turn & Turn Again - All Thieves
G6 Refix - Charli XCX, Mercedes & MNEK
In My Head - Until June
Life on Mars - Nerina Pallot & Theoretical Girl

And eating Dairylea lunchables... takes me right back to my childhood. I want to go back there.. when homework was so easy! By Monday, I've still got to write an essay, finish off an essay I've started, write and reference 200 words on an email alteration, edit a short story, write 750 words of creative work, edit a critical analysis, write a critical analysis, and write one more book review. I don't know how I'm going to get this all done. I just want it to be Tuesday so I can go out and get wasted with the uni lot. And then I have until February off. Bliss. I just have to make it there.

& Now I'm feeling so fly, like a G6. Ha.

My Favourite Covers 05/01/11

Right, this week for my favourite covers, I'm going to pick some that I've been listening to and loving for years.

1) Regina Spektor's beautiful cover of the classic Chelsea Hotel #2 originally by Leonard Cohen. I've always loved this song, but Regina brings a whole new dimension to the song. I really love this cover.


2) Nerina Pallot's cover of 'Frank Mills' from the musical Hair. I hadn't heard this song before I saw Nerina sing it live, but it really is beautiful. In my opinion this is one of the only songs in existance that works despite the fact that it doesn't rhyme. A stunning cover. Unfortuately I could only find one clip of this, and it's sandwiched between two other songs, but it's still definitely worth a listen.



3) Emiliana Torrini's breathtakingly beautiful cover of 'I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You', originally by Tom Waits has been one of my favourite songs for a number of years now. This is definitely worth a listen, especially if you haven't heard Emiliana's music before. Such a great cover, check it out!!

My Life According To...

Using only song titles from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a song title.

Pick Your Artist: Nerina Pallot

Male or Female? The Girl From Lakeville

How do you feel? Is This A Low?

Describe where you currently live: Damascus

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Idaho

Your best friend is: Human

What's the weather like: Blue Christmas

If your life was a tv show, what would it be called: All Bets Are Off

What is life to you: Patience

Your last relationship was: My Last Tango

Your current relationship: Impossible

Your fear: Everybody's Gone To War

What is the best advice you have to give: Confide In Me

How you would like to die: Heart Attack

Your soul's present condition: Learning To Breathe

Your motto: Put Your Hands Up

15 Albums

The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

‎1. Nerina Pallot - Dear Frustrated Superstar
2. Anna Nalick - Wreck of the Day
3. Brandi Carlile - The Story
4. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
5. Florence and the Machine - Lungs
6. Nerina Pallot - Fires
7. Imogen Heap - Ellipse
8. Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
9. Ingrid Michaelson - Girls and Boys
10. Kirsty MacColl - Titanic Days
11. Lisa Mitchell - Wonder
12. Nerina Pallot - The Graduate
13. Regina Spektor - Far
14. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
15. Regina Spektor - 11:11

Skeleton Key EP - Nerina Pallot : REVIEW

Skeleton Key is Nerina Pallot's third (and in my opinion greatest) EP to date. It went on sale in April 2010, and Pallot has called this her 'most thematically linked EP so far'.

Wolf And I 4:33
And So It Should 3:07
Break Up At The Disco 3:25
Is This A Low? 5:56
Skeletons 3:31



The opening track is 'Wolf and I', the only track I'd heard prior to the release of the EP via the 'I Don't Want to Go Out' sessions that Nerina broadcasts on ustream on Monday nights at 9pm. I had heard the song played on the piano, but the EP version contains spooky electronic backing music, a haunting drum beat and eerie intertwining backing vocals. The first line bears reference to the final track on the EP, a cover of 'Skeletons' originally by Rickie Lee Jones; 'I dream of a song from 1981'. Fans of Nerina didn't find out the true meaning of 'Wolf and I' until September 2010 when Nerina gave birth to a beautiful baby boy nicknamed 'Wolfie', and the lyrics finally revealed a whole new meaning. This song shows a whole new side to Pallot that we have not witnessed before showing thoughts about motherhood, fears during pregnancy and life with child. 'Wolf and I' is such an honest song, and this contributes magnificently to the overall beauty of it. This really is an excellent opening track.

'And So It Should' is the second track on the EP. This is a really wonderful acoustic guitar track, capturing some of the most prominent worries that growing up entails. It is also a tale of wanting more from life. The song begins rather quietly but as Pallot's voice grows stronger, the track brings in piano and backing vocals. 'And So It Should' contains some of Pallot's finest lyrics to date, including 'cast like a stone in the deepest blue, rolling oblivious 'til I came to', and 'blinded by beauty that I have seen, in this world we've never been', and of course, the repeated line that acts as a sort of chorus: 'My heart cries out for more, and so it should'. The lyrics suggest that Pallot is secretly hoping for more from life. I absolutely adore this song; it shows a slightly darker side to Pallot than the album released six months before this EP, 'The Graduate'.


The third track on the EP is the fantastically upbeat 'Break Up At The Disco'. Pop takes over completely in this song, I feel like it's something I ought to have danced to in the 90's. This is my favourite track on the EP for a number of reasons, including the ingenious lyrics. Some of my favourites are 'I don't lose but this ain't winning, take me back to the beginning, I've just about had, just about had just, just about had enough', and 'when I said I was open-minded, what did I know'. Also, the widely used repetition creates a great effect that adds to the excellence of the track. The electronic beat works perfectly with Pallot's strong vocals and this really positive song makes me smile every time. The 'so what?!' attitude that Pallot portrays here gives us a different perspective from her usual sombre and melancholy song-writing; which is a warmly welcomed change. It's almost too good for an EP, and I still have my fingers crossed that it will make Pallot's fourth album. There's a reason why this is one of my top 10 most played tracks on iTunes.

Track 4 on the EP is 'Is This A Low?'. This track is something entirely new that we haven't seen from Pallot before. Nerina herself described this EP as some of her darkest work, and that is displayed overpoweringly in 'Is This A Low?'. What a contrast from the tracks on the 'Junebug' EP and Pallot's third album 'The Graduate'! The strong guitar contrasts with the softer voice that Pallot uses on this track. The lyrics tell a story of depression and low emotions and confusion. This song shows a more experimental side to Pallot's work, demonstrating all sorts of ideas that we have not seen from her before; however it reminds me somewhat of a song that would fit into 'Dear Frustrated Superstar, Pallot's first album quite nicely. The closest song of Pallot's that I could compare it to is 'If I Know You'. A very 'different' track, but beautiful in it's own right.

The final track on the EP is the previously mentioned cover of 'Skeletons' by Rickie Lee Jones. The first word that springs to mind is 'beautiful'. Such beautiful vocals from Pallot, laying on top of delicate piano. This track especially demonstrates Pallot's abilities as a vocalist, as she is not the lyricist here. The song tells the tale of a pregnant woman whose husband gets mistaken for a criminal and shot whilst they are on the way to the hospital to give birth, based on a real story. I believe that this is a track that Nerina would not have been able to put her heart and soul into had she not experienced pregnancy and such worries herself. Such a beautiful track that is so different to Jones' original, but so similar at the same time.



This EP is a masterpiece of creative ideas and insanely brilliant music. This is a great album to listen to if you want to hear something a little different and a lot darker than Nerina's usual music. Recommended to anyone who enjoys music from Nerina Pallot and is interested to hear to new ideas that are presented in this much deeper and darker, but equally brilliant EP.

Junebug EP - Nerina Pallot : REVIEW

Junebug was the second of three EPs released by Nerina Pallot, a London-born and Jersey raised singer-songwriter. It was released in June 2009, three years after the second release of her second album, 'Fires'. Pallot is renowned for writing her own songs, but on this EP she introduces her husband Andy Chatterley into the works as co-writer.

1. Junebug 4:10
2. Bloom 3:58
3. God of Small Things 3:21
4. How Do We Cope? 3:06
5. This Will Be Our Year 4:00


The first track on the EP is the title track: 'Junebug'. Penned by Pallot and Chatterley the song kicks off with a rather risque first line: 'Let's take off all our clothes'. A lively guitar song, much more 'pop' in genre than tracks from Pallot's first album 'Dear Frustrated Superstar' and much of her second album too. The chorus begins 56 seconds in with the fantastic lyric 'How did we know, when we met, we would feel this? How did we know it would be so beautiful?' This is where I realised that this is a love song, a very personal one. Admittedly it took me a few listens to really love this song, and now I find it rather Kylie-esque. Nerina's voice works beautifully with the strong guitar chords. A very pretty little ditty.

'Bloom' is the second track on the EP, a very summery song indeed. Another guitar track which tells the tale of wishing and dreaming for the future, for a successful life, 'It's never too late to bloom'. It describes a girl who grew up believing she'd make it some day, and at the same time a woman who asks 'Do you wish your life would go another way?'. The lyrics appear to me as tentative, for example 'we close our eyes and dare to hope', which I find an extremely beautiful line. Bloom is a very thought-provoking song, made up of positive chords and strong vocals from Pallot. I really like this song, it always cheers me up with it's optimistic views on the word.

The third track is 'God of Small Things', the only track I'd heard prior to the release of the EP, as it had been posted on Nerina's Myspace page a while earlier. This is my favourite track from the EP; to me it comes across as an innocent message to God. Pallot is a religious person, and she conveys some very personal thoughts in this song. The piano creates a more melancholy tone to such an exquisite track. Pallot questions a number of things including God's existance, the workings of the world and my personal favourite, 'Do you keep your blessings for the rich, the pyres and their guns? Or if you're half the man I hope, you root for everyone'. This is much a softer song than the others on the EP, but so very beautiful.

'How Do We Cope?' is the penultimate track on the EP, the last guitar track. 'How Do We Cope?' presents Pallot's strongest vocals on the EP, and uses repetition in the lyrics to incredible effect. The title explains the song well, but I think it's about the decline of a relationship. It is a very powerful song that boasts a number of excellent lyrics, for example, 'My heart beats like an express train'. I would yet again describe this track as 'Pop' in genre, it's very catchy and rhythmic. I have a lot of love for this song.

The final track on the EP is entitled 'This Will Be Our Year'. A stunning piano song full of hope for the future. Once again Pallot presents us with powerful vocals and beautiful lyrics, including 'Hope we're heading for a future and not heading for a fall'. It's a song about making do and keeping on keeping on, because everything brightens up eventually. I feel like 'This Will Be Our Year' is a sad song, yet has optimistic connotations. It encompasses feelings of doubt about the world, and life in itself, creating a very thoughtful track. I adore this song.

Junebug is a very exciting EP, beginning with very summery and light music, which evolves to show a darker side of Pallot. I would highly recommend this EP to anyone who enjoys Nerina's music, and anyone who enjoys pop, acoustic music and beautiful lyrics.