Poppies

Lyrics

He's delighted to love me, but you know,
 I just don't know what to say to him. I just don't know.
 Heard it on the radio, it's no good
 Heard it on the radio, it's news to me
 When she gets something, it's understood
 Baby's got somethin' she's not used to
 Down, down, poppy, yeah
 Down, down, poppy, yeah
 Goin' on the corner, I'm gonna score
 Baby wants somethin', she's in the mood to
 Baby wants somethin', I want more
 When I don't get it, I get blue, blue
 Down, down, and it's really comin', really comin',
 Down, down, poppy, yeah
 Goin' on the corner, I'm gonna score
 Baby's got somethin', gonna get through, through
 When I want somethin' I want more,
 Heard it on the radio, there's nothin' I can do do
 I'm in the mood to
 And I'm a woman and an individual
 And I want rockin' real slow
 I wanna hear it on the radio
 I wanna hear it, I wanna score (poppies)
 I wanna hear it on the radio
 Baby got it but baby want more
 On the radio, heard it on the radio
 Baby got it but baby want more
 [babble]
 Heard it on the radio
 Won't be no need for layin' in the road
 Tonight I'm goin' out, oh yeah
 Baby got it but baby want more
 She won't need it any more [babble]
 Although she was tense and lean in the sun
 Splintered like a country
 Gently pulled his finger
 Everything is soakin' and spread with butter
 Their flowers on an average [on the seed?]
 And then they laid her on the table
 She connected with the inhaler
 And the needle shiftin' like crazy,
 She was, she was completely still.
 It was like a painting of a vase,
 She just lay there and the gas traveled fast
 Through the dorsal spine and down and around
 (I want more)
 The anal cavity, her cranium
 (I wanna score)
 Just, it was really great, man,
 The gas had inflicted her entire spine
 With the elements of a voluptuous disease
 With a green vapor, made her feet light
 Baby want more
 Baby was it in the closet.
 Baby get it there, baby tag it,
 Baby got it and baby begged for it, baby
 I don't think (after station) there's any station
 (I remember when)
 Quite as interesting to me
 (baby worship something)
 As the 12th station
 (laughin' at the flowers)
 I tuned in (to the tower) too many centuries
 Were calling to me
 And I spin, come down thru time
 Oh, watch them say you're too high
 And I swim through
 Hear it on the radio, goddamn in my radio,
 Hear it on the radio, hear it on the radio
 [babble]
 one long ecstatic pure sensation
 restriction started excreting, started excreting, ah exhilarating
 bottomless pit
 Hey Sheba, hey Salome, hey Venus eclipsin' my way ah.
 Her vessel, every woman is a vessel, is evasive, is aquatic.
 Everyone, silver ecstatic, platinum disk spinning
 

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Duration
07:06
Key
1
Tempo
112 BPM

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