Pearl in the Shell is a sexy R&B tune. The central idea is that of wanting to possess someone and control them and mistaking that for love. Recorded in a desanctified church in Northern Italy, it features an R&B guitar riff, a funky bassline and a muscle shoals inspired beat, along with soulful lyrics.
The song also addresses the theme of the painting Bittersweet Island, being safe but in a state of limbo. Your treasures being lost beneath the cold waves and your potential arrested by circumstances, seems to have been a large theme in the life of Klee.
lyrics
Chance spins you this
And goes and takes away that
Nightly proverbial
Pulling a rabbit from a hat
Pearl in a shell go on lock those treasures
Lock them up tight
Don't let them wander
Lost in the wild hot night
Nervous sweat
Find yourself loss of breathe
It’s like every minute wasted
Is kind of quiet death
Pearl in a shell
oh safe and secure do tell
You’re not sick but surely you’re not well
Pearl in a shell
Is it paradise?
Or your own private little hell
Often we are entranced
But we can’t seem to simply dance
You know the timing, the timing
is all kind of wrong
And the question it took too long
Hide away something befalling you
Or do live your life like it’s your last breath doesn’t
Matter what you do
Pearl in a shell lock those treasures lock them up tight
Don’t let them wander lost in the wild hot night
Pearl in a shell you can put in all the effort
But somehow you are never found
Deep down in the ocean without a sound
Pearl in the Shell
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Added on 2 January 2023
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Pearl in the Shell is a sexy R&B tune. The central idea is that of wanting to possess someone and control them and mistaking that for love. Recorded in a desanctified church in Northern Italy, it features an R&B guitar riff, a funky bassline and a muscle shoals inspired beat, along with soulful lyrics.
The song also addresses the theme of the painting Bittersweet Island, being safe but in a state of limbo. Your treasures being lost beneath the cold waves and your potential arrested by circumstances, seems to have been a large theme in the life of Klee.
lyrics
Chance spins you this
And goes and takes away that
Nightly proverbial
Pulling a rabbit from a hat
Pearl in a shell go on lock those treasures
Lock them up tight
Don't let them wander
Lost in the wild hot night
Nervous sweat
Find yourself loss of breathe
It’s like every minute wasted
Is kind of quiet death
Pearl in a shell
oh safe and secure do tell
You’re not sick but surely you’re not well
Pearl in a shell
Is it paradise?
Or your own private little hell
Often we are entranced
But we can’t seem to simply dance
You know the timing, the timing
is all kind of wrong
And the question it took too long
Hide away something befalling you
Or do live your life like it’s your last breath doesn’t
Matter what you do
Pearl in a shell lock those treasures lock them up tight
Don’t let them wander lost in the wild hot night
Pearl in a shell you can put in all the effort
But somehow you are never found
Deep down in the ocean without a sound
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