Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek w/ Lyrics
// February 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Blogging, I recommend, Music, Videos
“Hide and Seek” is the first single by Imogen Heap from her album Speak for Yourself. The song is performed with the sole accompaniment being the sound produced by a harmonizer (a DigiTech Vocalist Workstation), creating an altered a cappella sound.
This song has an Interesting History.. More then one person has found some success with this cool song..
I first hear the Jason DeRulo’s 2009 single “Whatcha Say” version which prominently samples Imogen Heap’s song so I googled the Imogen version and now I even like her version better so if you havn’t hear it yet I highly recommend you listen to it and then tell me which one you like better… 
The single topped the Billboard Hot 100. Heap is credited for the single.
Jason DeRulo’s 2009 single “Whatcha Say” prominently sampled Heap’s song. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100. Heap is credited for the single.
The track samples the Imogen Heap song “Hide And Seek”. In late August 2009, the song debuted at #54 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit #1 in November of 2009.
The single’s music video was released in September 2009; after the single became successful, Derülo began work on his debut album.
The single was certified gold by the RIAA on April 3, 2009.
The song was featured prominently in the second season finale of The O.C.. This was parodied in a 2007 Saturday Night Live Digital Short called The Shooting. In the short, characters cut each other’s sentences off by pulling out guns and shooting each other as the refrain plays over their slow-motion deaths. NBC was unable to upload the clip to YouTube immediately after the show because it hadn’t cleared the song, but fans uploaded it on their own, naming it “Dear Sister”. It became an Internet phenomenon, spawning a number of parodies in which scenes of real and fictional violence are punctuated with the refrain.
Heap arranged an alternate version of the song, labeled “Hide and Seek 2″, for the compilation album Songs for Tibet — The Art of Peace.
The song was also used in the films The Last Kiss and Warren Miller’s Off the Grid. It has also been featured in the series So You Think You Can Dance, Smith, The L Word, The Real World: Sydney, and CSI: Miami. The song has appeared in promotional spots for the television series Lost, Heroes, and the Norwegian version of Survivor.
The single was certified gold by the RIAA on April 3, 2009.
Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek Lyrics
Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to fall
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking feeling
Spin me around again and rub my eyes
This can’t be happening
When busy streets a mess with people
Would stop to hold their heads heavy
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity
Of this still life
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
Blood and tears
They were here first
Mm what’cha say?
Mm, that you only meant well
Well of course you did
Mm what’cha say?
Mm that it’s all for the best
Of course it is
Mm what’cha say?
Mm that it’s just what we need
You decided this?
Mm what’cha say?
Mm what did you say?
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet-talk newspaper word cutouts (paper word cutouts)
Speak no feeling; no, I don’t believe you
You don’t care a bit
You don’t care a bit
