“Kisses on the Wind” is the third single released from Swedish singer Neneh Cherry’s debut album Raw Like Sushi. Like many songs on the album, “Kisses on the Wind” refers to Cherry’s schooldays; the song is about a girl who matures before the other girls do, and as a result, she is the first to draw boys’ attentions. It peaked within the top 10 in Finland, New Zealand, and Switzerland and just reached the top 20 in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 20. In the United States, it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100.
“Kisses on the Wind” is one of many songs containing the sample “What we’re gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time” from the intro of the 1972 single “Troglodyte” by the Jimmy Castor Bunch.
Kisses on the Wind Lyrics (1989)
Down this wild street walks
Walks a child with no trace
Of ever being as young as her sister is
A local neighborhood crush the boys would hide out and watch
Her hanging washing on the line all the time
More like a woman she talks like one
She was the first girl, she was the first girl
To turn the boys on
Boys boys
Wrapped around her finger
So young
Making love was only dreaming
This girl she’s got another story
When they are gone she blows them kisses on the wind
At the corner shop half way down the block
All the radios pumping to the way she walks
Past the fly boy’s art where her name’s engraved
Sweet liberty is what it says
More like a woman she talks like one
She was the first girl, she was the first girl
To turn the boys on
Boys boys
Wrapped around her finger
So young
Making love was only dreaming
This girl she’s got another story
When they are gone she blows them kisses on the wind
The price of puberty’s got
A way of showing
It doesn’t come in easy stages
Her mother’s face in the pot
She won’t ever leave it
She needs a bell to ring the changes
More like a woman she talks like one
She was the first girl, she was the first girl
To turn the boys on
Boys boys
Wrapped around her finger
So young
Making love was only dreaming
This girl she’s got another story
When they are gone she blows them kisses on the wind
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