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Anna Calvi – Papi Pacify (2014) | Track profile | Dork

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Strange Weather
Papi Pacify

TRACK

Papi Pacify

Release date: 13th July 2014

From Strange Weather

Track 1

4:22

Alternative Music Rock Adult Alternative

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About This Track

'Papi Pacify' by Anna Calvi is an Alternative track from the album 'Strange Weather' (2014). The lyrics circle seduction and control, with a repeated plea for comfort and clarification of love. Over that chant-like insistence, the narrator demands reassurance, asking to be treated as the only choice and positioning love as something to be pacified. A line like “papi pacify” frames the song’s blunt, childlike repetition, even as it edges into coercive tension.

"Papi Pacify" is a track by Anna Calvi, from the album Strange Weather, released 13th July 2014. The track is 4:22 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 5 articles about Anna Calvi.

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Lyrics

Papi Pacify

[Intro]

Mmmm pacify

Mmmm pacify

Clarify our love

Pacify pacify

Pacify pacify

Pacify our love

[Verse 1]

Oh, show, tell me I'm the only one

Yeah, yeah

Like I didn't know-oh

Oh, show, tell me you're the one I can call

E ven, if, you, choke

[Chorus]

Ooooh, papi pacify, pacify our love, our love

Mm mm mm mmm, won't you clarify, clarify our love, our love, love

Ooooh, papi pacify

Pacify our love, our love, love

Mm, mm, mm, mmm, won't you clarify

Clarify our love-ah

[Verse 2]

Oh, show, tell me I'm the only one

Oh, show, like I didn't know-oh

Oh, show, tell me you're the one I can call

E ven, if, you, choke

[Chorus]

Ooooh, papi pacify, pacify our love, our love

Mm mm mm mmm, won't you clarify, clarify us

Ooooh, papi pacify

Pacify our love, our love, love

Mm, mm, mm, mmm won't you clarify

Clarify u-us

[Outro]

Ooooh, papi pacify, pacify our love, our love

Mm, mm, mmm, won't you clarify

Clarify us

Ooooh, papi pacifiy, pacify our lo-ove

Mm, mm, mmm, won't you clarify

Clarify u-us, yeah!

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Track details

From Strange Weather

4:222014

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Album

Strange Weather

Track number

1

Release year

2014

1Papi Pacify
4:22
2I'm the Man That Will Find You
4:56
3Ghost Rider
2:43
4Strange Weather (feat. David Byrne)
5:32

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Writer: Arca, FKA twigs
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