CocoRosie - By Your Side Lyrics






I'll always be by your side
Even when you're down and out
I'll always be by your side
Even when you're down and out

I just wanted to be your housewife
All I wanted was to be your housewife

I'll iron your clothes
I'll shine your shoes
I'll make your bed
And cook your food

I'll never cheat
I'll be the best girl you'd ever meet
And for a diamond ring
I'll do these kinds of things

I'll scrub your floor
Never be a bore
I'll tuck you in
I do not snore

I'd wear your black eyes
Bake you apple pies
I don't ask whys
And I'd try not to cries

I'll always be by your side
Even when you're down and out
I'll always be by your side
Even when you're down and out

And it's nearly midnight
And all I want with my life
Is to be a housewife
Is to be a housewife

'Cause it's nearly midnight
And all I want with my life
Is to die a housewife
Is to die a housewife

And it's nearly midnight
And all I want with my life
Is to be a housewife
Is to be a housewife

'Cause it's nearly midnight
And all I want with my life
Is to die a housewife
Is to die a housewife





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  1. Y.... L....

    I'll always be by your side
    Even when you're down and out
    I'll always be by your side
    Even when you're down and out
    I just wanted to be your housewife
    All I wanted was to be your housewife
    I'll iron your clothes
    I'll shine your shoes
    I'll make your bed
    And cook your food
    I'll never cheat
    I'll be the best girl you'll ever meet
    And for a diamond ring
    I'll do these kinds of things
    I'll scrub your floor
    Never be a bore
    I'll tuck you in
    I do not snore
    I'd wear your black eyes
    Bake you apple pies
    I don't ask why
    And I try's not to cry's
    I'll always be by your side
    Even when you're down and out
    I'll always be by your side
    Even when you're down and out
    And its nearly midnight
    And all I want with my life
    Is to be a housewife
    Is to be a housewife
    'Cause it's nearly midnight
    And all I want with my life
    Is to die a housewife
    Is to die a housewife

  2. l.... g....

    taehyung

  3. z.... b....

    Coco rosie where are you??????? 😍😍😍😍😍😍🎃💀💓💕💋🌸💐💐💐💐🌸☔

  4. C.... S....

    WHAT HIP HOP SONG DO I KNOW THIS SAMPLE FROM?! N DONT SAY ROB CURLY

  5. J.... P....

    lovely song but more leftist subterfuge to deconstruct the x& y gods that make the family. those guilty get the rope in the end :)

  6. J.... G....

    Rob Curly 11:11 uses the beat 🙏🏽 it’s fire

  7. R.... R....

    I always will love you my little jade frog

  8. m.... c....

    Es que je suis la seul français. ?

  9. S.... s....

    I think It’s not mainly about being sarcastic and also not about glorifying it in any way (also no wannabe feminism, that sais that oppression is good, if the woman „wants“ it)
    I think It’s simply about giving the silent ones a voice.. as always.. love cocorosie

  10. C.... C....

    Great song! You can check out the cover we did : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIZUsauKXGI&t=34s

    We're a band from France, the "Collectif Acoustique Brestois", only playing acoustically, meaning without any amplification,
    Thank you Coco Rosie for writing this song.

  11. D.... L....

    All my lonely girls where u at

  12. G.... 8....

    Beefeater spot!

  13. t.... ....

    we are using this song as a duet to represent domestic violence..... IT LOOKS SOOO GOOD

  14. T.... B....

    Shit slaps bruh

  15. C.... ....

    This is calming af

  16. R.... C....

    rob curly anyone?

  17. b.... ....

    i wanna die with him holding me to this song... so peaceful

  18. B.... B....

    I'll always be by your side, even when you're down and out. <3 love tv set

  19. M.... C....

    Check out my weird remix! mashed up with 'darling' from CRASS!
    https://youtu.be/vtQDXO-8WaY

  20. l.... k....

    This is how a feminist strong women wants to express her undying love to her man....forget politics, keep an open mind x

    l.... k....

    l kitty this is satire at its finest. Have you ever watched an interview with the artists? they are independent women who often write about emotional abuse and mistreatment of women.

  21. L.... C....

    nearly midnight

  22. L.... G....

    BRASIL !!! AQUI TAMBÉM !!! KKKKKKK

    L.... G....

    salve pro brasil <3

  23. s.... s....

    Molto bella !

  24. e.... ....

    encore et toujours la bo d'un film qui s'intitulerait "dépression" XD

  25. e.... ....

    i trip on this song when im drunk like i am now when im mad at my boyfriend and it makes me feel better lol :/ <33333333333333333333333

  26. B.... S....

    I am here because of Macklemore...

  27. K.... T....

    can i use for making a beat?

  28. C.... C....

    I feel like there should be a rap part in this song. idk y

    C.... C....

    chiddy bang

    C.... C....

    listen to eleven 11 by rob curly

  29. C.... C....

    Uhh Yeah Dude brought me here.

  30. B.... L....

    sarcasm rite

    B.... L....

    but can i relate on a literal level. or

  31. p.... ....

    Big house 6 vid

  32. R.... F....

    🎼🔆

  33. I.... g....

    oooohhh this is so beautiful

  34. J.... O....

    Mary Rose

  35. A.... D....

    iLoveYew Karissa....under the moon

  36. B.... H....

    sighhhhhhhhhhh

  37. C.... J....

    DERTBAG BROUGHT ME HERE

    C.... J....

    same fam

  38. I.... ....

    Chiddy Bang MURDERED this.

  39. j.... a....

    m as didom

  40. J.... i....

    this song reminds my cousin of her long lost friend in new Mexico and his name is Alex just kidding she just moved to south Dakota with the natives her friend is fine but still at new Mexico and I did this for fun to piss her off and she's sitting beside me talking about somethin' about Alex dude saying wtf when he sees dis! fuck you! I'm out! 😎

  41. C.... H....

    I'd wear your black eyes, make you apple pies

    C.... H....

    https://allpoetry.com/My-Daughter-and-Apple-Pie

  42. H.... H....

    Same beat on Eleven 11 - Rob Curly. that song is fire affff

    H.... H....

    that shit is trash

  43. A.... G....

    thank you Jodie!

  44. M.... C....

    Yooooooo

  45. I.... b....

    leezy brought me here

  46. J.... ....

    thanks for making me cry!!

  47. X.... ....

    Whenever m listen this song, i feel like so diff than others. and Feels soooo good

  48. S.... ....

    this is me tryna sing WOOOHOOOOOO sexy people like me exist <3

  49. A.... F....

    Cant wait until September- the new album!!!!! SO EXCITED.

  50. m.... r....

    i love this song but it makes me feel very weird always

    m.... r....

    it makes feel sad

    m.... r....

    melanie rosé beautifully strange

  51. T.... ....

    I wish I could believe you babe

    T.... ....

    I will I promise

  52. b.... ....

    Omg I've heard this song waay back then like MySpace days I believe. And for the past 2 weeks I've been trying to remember the exact name and all I could remember was rosie. I searched threw all my play list and all that and nothing and just as I was going to give up BAM!! Cocorosie popped in my head. I'm so glad o found this song again ♡♡♡

    b.... ....

    @***** might just snag this quote from you! you're a genius for putting feelings into words haha.

    b.... ....

    +britnyrocks1 So much feels

    b.... ....

    +britnyrocks1 there is no word in the english diction that descibes the moment you find a song youve been searching for for untold years, but there is rarely a high like feeling that moment. keep humming that tune and the words eventually come

    b.... ....

    I googled 'I'd wear your black eyes, bake you apple pies' and refound this song yesterday for the first time in what's got to be over ten years x

  53. t.... ....

    Best song ever

    t.... ....

    not rly

    t.... ....

    +Meccarox don't be a chode baby

    t.... ....

    @tgr5003 fine, yes then

  54. S.... B....

    Very first time I heard this song I bawled. I've learned from my past & it's helped me grow. My first love wasn't love at all & I'm okay with that because I'm happy & stronger now.

  55. J.... M....

    I think this song means I'll do anything for you.

  56. C.... H....

    All I ever wanted to be was you husband.

  57. C.... M....

    am I the only one that thinks this song is romantic? lol.

    C.... M....

    Sounds beautiful, but not a beautiful story about domestic abuse

    C.... M....

    I think it is romantic<3

    C.... M....

    Claire Morales I mean sure if you think abuse is romantic (it’s not though)

    C.... M....

    Sound's romantic...but the words are hard...as the feeling..it's like you listen a doll that automatically says words and doing nothing. But I love the notes :)

    C.... M....

    Sure it is, she comits in an eternal love, nothing of domestical abuse in here

  58. G.... C....

    this song is so... idk but I'm getting bad vibes omfg

  59. M.... P....

    Treating life like the artistic experiment it is

    M.... P....

    Very Wattsian. :)

  60. M.... f....

    ooh ruiditos! fadulocos @Mariano Ramis @Johanna Turek @Lara V.A. @Romina Nales @Alan Rinaldi @Sabrina Simia @Sabrina Soledad Giacomone Kraszewski  @Pia Pintos  @Laura Casullo @Violeta Ignatti @Flavia Tessone @Lucia Caloggero  etc etc

  61. M.... ....

    is it just me or does she kind of sound like erykah badu in this song? :)

    M.... ....

    erykah on and on badu … yup

  62. J.... C....

    The burden of being a man is to not break the heart of a woman and somehow express the truest emotions that you can have for her tender heart, women fall in love to have sex while men love to just have sex. Its something to consider the next time your speak to a real woman who deserves your everything and always.

  63. T.... B....

    Breaks my heart to bear the burden of being a man. For all the besting instinct and madness of women they are our only saving grace.    

    T.... B....

    Never be ashamed to be a man. We know right from wrong. Women are no less worse, just in Different ways.

  64. V.... F....

    I think there is definitely more to this song than just being sarcastic or about abuse.... I think its more about strength than servitude.. Women are strong enough to endure all manners of things because we love someone. whether "black eyes" is literal or figurative is up to the listener. Maybe theyre talking about loving someone so much they would deny theyre Feministic nature to be a "house wife" for. Women have an instinctual nature to nurture things and take care of them.. how they do that is based upon the individual woman...being a house wife is not any less important than being a business woman... I believe being a feminist is not about mocking a certain type of womanhood ..but embracing the Right to Choose! whether someone wants to be a House-Wife or a CEO..Women have many sides to them ..nurturing  Sexual, Free-Spirted, Stern, etc..and feminism is about embracing them all ..and allowing women to feel..that  no matter what they choose and which of their characteristics they choose to embrace more...  they are lesser than No-one!

    V.... F....

    If you are referring to this song, you probably would benefit by learning a bit about their story. I promise, they aren't mocking abuse. They take these things seriously, albeit artistically, but seriously nonetheless.

    V.... F....

    Woman do not have any such insticnutual nature to nuture people. Not anymore then men do.

    V.... F....

    @Richard Not mocking in a "this is funny" way. I meant "mocking" as in speaking from the perspective of someone they obviously don't agree with, or share the same values as.

    V.... F....

    Shandel Kidman well said

    V.... F....

    Well put

  65. w.... ....

    Trigger warning: abuse

    The song is clearly about an abusive relationship.... Besides the lyrics ("I'll wear your black eyes...won't ask why... Try not to cry...") if you listen closely you'll hear what sounds like a sack of change in the percussion beat. Think sock full of change.... Some abusive people hit their victims with socks full of change or bags of oranges and things of the like because the impact is painful but the bruising is more minimal than the marks other things like a fist would make.... This song is NOT about a loving relationship. It's about an unhealthy, abusive one. C'mon, guys.

    w.... ....

    lol, trigger warning: moron. people don't need trigger warnings, it just makes it worse when they are in the real world and people aren't tip-toeing on egg shells giving trigger warnings all the time. Also, isn't saying "trigger warning: abuse" a potential trigger, to the overly-sensitive people you're trying to warn in the first place?

    w.... ....

    Also that's not a sock of change, it's a fucking tambourine. Stop reading in to it too much. 

    w.... ....


    @Edward Clowes Are you personally triggered by things?  Do you speak from experience that it just makes the reaction more dramatic when people don't use the warnings?  Or are you just guessing?  (Sincere questions)

    Giving trigger warnings isn't "tip-toeing on eggshells"--it's being a compassionate human being who recognizes other people's struggles, even if they're not your own.  Instead of outlawing trigger warnings on the internet, I think the solution is actually to implement them more in "the real world."  E.g. before we launch into a story about an abusive relationship, we can ask if anyone would mind because it would negatively affect them too much.  Among friends you should be able to ask that.  And if you're not among people you can ask that, why the hell are you talking about a potentially triggering topic among complete strangers?  Triggering topics shouldn't be just used as amusing anecdotes.

    w.... ....

    Sounds like he was triggered into a bout of rage honestly!
    Hey Edward, hope you got some anger management classes in these last four years.

  66. 9.... ....

    Why is this song so familiar?? i love it though.

  67. A.... ....

    So everyone who seriously thinks this song is romantic is fucking retarded, right? There's no way that they sincerely listened to the lyrics and thought, "oh man, beautiful!," right?

  68. A.... Y....

    regardless of what the lyrics mean or meant to the singer (cocorosie) music is allowed to be interpreted and perceived by the listener however it naturally registers to them, thats the beauty with song&lyric beauitful song that i just dedicated to my BOYFriend!

    A.... Y....

    There's only so many ways "I'll wear your black eyes... I won't ask why, and I'd try not to cry" can be interpreted. Plus, they're feminists, so I highly doubt the song's really about how living a life in pure servitude of a man would just be wonderful. You're not supposed to take it at face value. Do it if you want to, but there's an underlying message: How pitiful, and blissfully ignorant the person they're telling the story of, is. Like in "Jesus Loves me".

    A.... Y....

    @maybewise perfect, perfect explanation. I've been looking for just those words to explain it to a friend.

  69. A.... L....

    Am I the only who thinks this is a highly sarcastic song? :))

    A.... L....

    ye. cuz you a dummy

    A.... L....

    I think that too

    A.... L....

    Why would you think this song is sarcastic!? There is absolutely no indicator or sign of sarcasm. I think it's just a song about a woman, who fell desperately in love with someone, and would do everything for that particular person, even "wear his/her black eyes". It's not as if there weren't thousands of relationships which are exactly like this, and it's not only the woman who would have to wear the significant others black eye. I think this song is far from sarcastic, maybe you don't get that because you have a completely different kind of personality and it seems strange to you to love someone without any exceptions and more than you love yourself.

  70. j.... u....

    and cook your food...

  71. I.... R....

    "Azar - Vampires arent even real" SAMPLED THIS SONG ITS AMAZING!!!!!

  72. T.... Y....

    joje 2013

  73. J.... A....

    people always mess this up. and even some artist have remixed this song, completely missed the point of this song

  74. m.... ....

    Yes, you are right, it's about the imminence of an unhappy end in a relationship that is based on such a submissive kind of love and devotion.

  75. K.... T....

    This song's message is how bad domestic violence is, people. It's about a girl who doesn't care if she gets hurt or has to change herself for the sake of societies pressure on women to get married.
    Nothing 'romantic' about it.

    It's an interesting song, though.

  76. M.... ....

    This was on my purevolume playlist back in the days. Still so good

  77. F.... ....

    Aren't the best always that way?

  78. F.... ....

    Moby has done anything this good in YEARS.

  79. M.... G....

    It has some Moby vibe to me :)

  80. c.... a....

    my favorite song, beautifully romantic

  81. C.... ....

    this song is kinda fucked up. lol but its still good.

  82. c.... ....

    beatboxx

  83. O.... C....

    chiddy bang!

  84. M.... G....

    this is hard to listen to

  85. M.... J....

    I Love You!

  86. J.... V....

    beautiful

  87. S.... C....

    Si j'étais une femme et toi un homme, je te chanterai cette chanson ma Bella ... ♥