I Prefer Your Love Lyrics
I, I prefer your love to Jesus
Little baby on your knees 'cause the world has got you down
[Verse 1]
Name-tagged tourists, sick at the sight of them
Tight-walking the sidewalk in spite of them
As my headache moves from east to west
Mother, won't you open your arms and
Forgive me of all these bad thoughts?
I'm blinded to the faces in the fog
[Pre-Chorus]
But all the good in me is because of you
It's true
[Chorus]
I, I prefer your love to Jesus
I, I prefer your love to Jesus
Little baby on your knees 'cause the world has got you down
[Verse 2]
King-sized country wearing your worries out
Headless heroes heaped by the pylons
As a careless sun sets on the west
Sure as mother licking her finger to
Wipe the blush and smudge from my cheek and
Wonder what will become of your little one
About
Quite possibly the purest love song St. Vincent has ever recorded. And it’s dedicated to her mother.
St. Vincent shared with NPR’s All Songs Considered:
My mother got sick earlier, about a year ago, and she’s all better now, but we had a very scary moment. So I actually wrote that song for my mother.
And in an interview with NME Magazine, St. Vincent said of her parents,
You get to a point where you realise that you can lose them. Or you already have. And like… crossing some precipice into – it’s so unsexy, but – adulthood.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
I started writing this record right after the coast was clear, so in that way I was really checked in with myself and my senses of empathy and compassion. I don’t mean it arrogantly, but the music part is very easy for me. I could write music all day, but having a song where it feels like a ghost is walking through the room…I sang it in one take and just cried a lot and then it was done. I wasn’t in such dire straits, by any means, making this record. But I wanted to make sure everything had heart. Making music’s easy. I could come up with some crazy arrangement for you in five minutes, but that doesn’t make a song. A song is something else.
– via Brooklyn Magazine (June 2014)
- 1.Rattlesnake
- 4.Huey Newton
- 6.I Prefer Your Love
- 7.Regret
- 9.Psychopath
- 12.Bad Believer
- 13.Pietà
- 14.Sparrow
- 15.Del Rio