Me’Shell Ndegeocello - Faithful
Bitter is perhaps my favorite Me’Shell Ndegeocello album. For the most part the album seems like a private confession - quiet, breathy, sometimes dark, sometimes desperate and sometimes hopeful. Whichever track you’re on, you can’t help but notice the sincerity and intimacy of the track.
While Ndegeocello is known for her skills on the bass guitar (when it comes to the instrumentation on her albums), this album foregoes alot of the showmenship and instead leans on quiet piano chords and soul baring vocals. There’s a pretty sweet cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “May This Be Love” and an ode to beauty in “Beautiful”.
This song in particular is actually about Ndegeocello’s infedelity. No excuses, no apologies - just an acknowledgement of what it is. It’s hard for me to imagine that there isn’t some truth to the lyrics…it just seems too damn real to be “hypothetical” to me. I hope you enjoy the track - def pick up the cd if you can. It is really an underappreciated musical gem in my opinion.
-Calidre
Me’Shell Ndegeocello - Faithful
My daddy made no excuse
I believe my lies are truth
Why wont you eat what you are fed
When I touch myself I think of only you
And when I touch someone else
No one is faithful I am weak
I go astray
Forgive me for my ways
I hear voices and I cant stand to be alone
Cause emptiness is all I have ever known
Soiled by my lust I feel no shame
No longer forsaken when they call my name
Beautiful angels come to my bed
I am satisfied on their flesh I have fed
No one is faithful I am weak
I go astray
Forgive me for my ways
