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Track: Don't Shake Me Up
Artist: Tanita Tikaram
Album: Sentimental

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Tanita Tikaram (born 12 August 1969) is a British singer-songwriter, known for her exotic, low voice. Her brother is [a2801246]. Tikaram, of Malaysian and Indo-Fijian ancenstry, was born in Münster, Germany, but since her early teens has lived in the UK. Her debut album "Ancient Heart" was released when she was just 19. The album was a huge hit all over Europe, while the first two singles "Good Tradition" and "Twist In My Sobriety" reached Top 10. The follow-up album "The Sweet Keeper" used the recipe of the debut and was quite successful, but yielded no big hits. Tikaram stepped up as a co-producer on her third album "Everybody's Angel" and produced the fourth, "Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness", solely by herself. While both were solid works, they sold gradually less. Yet, on "Loneliness", Tikaram came on her own as artist. Tikaram started to spend more time abroad, finding collaborators in the USA, Italy and France. "Lovers in the City" (1995) is perhaps her most introspective work so far. On "The Cappuccino Songs" from 1998 Tikaram released some of her most accessible pop tracks so far. After spending several years under the radar, Tikaram returned in 2005 with the jazzy, low-key "Sentimental" album. Since then Tikaram found home with the German Ear Music label and has released two albums, the Americana and Motown influenced "Can't Go Back" (2012) and "Closer To The People" (2016). Her newest album 'LIAR' (Love Isn't A Right) will be released in October 2025.

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Release: Tanita Tikaram - Sentimental
Year: 2005
Genres: Jazz, Rock, Pop
Styles: Easy Listening, Pop Rock

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LYRICS

This is something to thank your fortune for
Although I got nothing you got something
See I'm not fit to be an open door
Or the mat you wipe your feet upon
Please someone
Don't shake me up
Many's the time I've thought of you
Lying in my bed in the afternoon
No-one for company
This is the month that puts tomorrow back
Only you got something, I got sidetracked
Just for once I'd like my lover mapped
For me to write my name upon
Please someone
Don't shake me up
Many's the time I've thought of you
Lying in your bed with the ocean view
Not me for company
Don't shake me up
There'll be a time when I'm far from you
When I will see the trick of you
And the trick of you and me
Then the burden of my heart say something
Will not sing a sorry song
Yea, the burden of my heart
Will not be the sorry, be the sorry one
No, don't shake me up
Many's the time I've thought of you
Lying in your bed in the afternoon...