Hypocrates

Album: Electra Heart (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Marina penned this breezy slice of Country Pop with San Francisco songwriter Rick Nowels, the co-author of Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" and Dido's 's "White Flag." She explained on the Amazon website that the song is her, "Saying 'let me be who I am'."
  • The song title refers to ancient Greek physician Hippocrates (460-377 BC), who is known as the "Father of Medicine."

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