The talented Meshell Ndegelocello showed up on KCRW and sang two songs off of her great recent album, Weather (her 9th studio album).  First up is her performance of the wise and poignant Oysters (lyrically reminding of Feist’s great Get It Wrong Get It Right).  Check it out below, with the lyrics following.  And then after, check out her take on the comparatively up-tempo Dead End.

Oysters:

“Somebody wishing on a shooting star
Shooting star streaming across the sky
You know it’s just a meteorite
People throwing pennies in a wishing well
Wishing well’s gonna run dry
But I ain’t gonna leave you tonight
Everybody talking about changing the world
World ain’t ever gonna change
But you can always change it for me
I’ll shuck all the oysters and you can keep the pearls
I do my shucking and my jiving for free
free
Like walking down the beach at night
Throw a bunch of lines out to the one you want
Until you get it right
Sometimes you don’t…get it right
Sometimes you won’t…get it right
But when you do…it’s outta sight
Sometimes you do…get it right.”