Slow Jam (song)

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Credits

  • Writers: Pulp and Serafina Steer
  • Lyrics: Jarvis Cocker
  • String arrangements: Rich Jones and Emma Smith
  • Producer: James Ford
  • Engineer and mixer: Animesh Raval
  • Mastering Engineer: Matt Colton
  • Studio musicians
    • Jarvis Cocker - vocals, guitar
    • Candida Doyle - Farfisa
    • Mark Webber - guitar, piano
    • Nick Banks - drums
    • Serafina Steer - keyboard
    • Emma Smith - violin, backing vocals
    • Andrew Mckinney - basses
    • Jason Buckle - guitar, electronics
    • Richard Jones - piano, viola
    • Animesh Revel - piano
    • The Elysian Collective (Rich Jones, Emma Smith, Phil Granell, Jennymay Logan, Jordan Bergmans, Paloma Deike, Rosie Tompsett, Zami Jalil, Charlotte Stock, Sam Becker, Shelley Britton, Laura Moody, Sergio De Serra, David Kadumukasa, Freya Goldmark, Flora Curzon, Patrick Dawkins, Mandhira de Saram, Ros Stephen, Val Welbanks and Chihiro Ono) - strings

Lyrics

When love slows down
Slows down to almost nothing
When you're going through hell
Well, how about you just keep going?

Cos you crossed a line
Now you can't reverse
Gone from all that you could be
To all that you once were

I know that you feel it now
God knows I feel it too:
Slow Death
That's what our love has turned into
So how about we talk about something new?

You say the Bible is a lie
Claim it is a work of fiction
Pray then how do you explain
This morning's crucifixion?

Jesus died upon the cross
Then Jesus came back from the dead
So, I had a word with Jesus
And this is what he said

Jesus said "I feel your pain
God knows I share it too
Slow Death?
Now you know just what I, what I went through
So how about we talk about something new?
Because there's not a great deal that I can do"

But I'll come back to haunt you
Cos I'm the resurrection man
Instead of having us this Slow Death
We should be having us a Slow Jam
We should be having us a Slow Jam
We should be having us a Slow Jam
We should be having us a Slow Jam
We should be having us a Slow Jam

Here comes the Holy Trinity
Behold the crown of all creation
Come on, let's have a threesome, baby:
You, me and my imagination
I said: You, me and my imagination

We should be having us a Slow Jam
Yeah
Oh yeah
Yeah

We should be having us a Slow Jam
We should be having us a Slow Jam
We should be having us a Slow Jam
We should be having us a Slow Jam
Oh
Ah

Notes

Originally performed as a Jarv Is song in 2021 then became a Pulp song that featured on the album More in 2025.

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