In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
He love your sexy body, he loves your dirty mind
He loves when you hold him when you grab him from behind
Oh baby, you're such a pretty thing
I can't wait to introduce you to the other members of my gang
You don't need no wax job, you're smooth enough for me
If you need you oil changed I'll do it for you free
Oh baby, the pleasure would be all mine
If you let me drive your pickup truck and park it where the sun don't shine
Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end
His legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend
Oh baby, you're such a tasty treat
But I'm under doctor's orders, I'm afraid to overeat
He love your sense of humor, your disposition too
There's absolutely nothing that he don't love about you
Oh baby, I'm on my hands and knees
Life would be so simple if I only had you to please
Oh baby, turn around and say goodbye
You go to the airport now and I'm going home to cry
(Chorus)
He loves your...
Electric dumplings
Red bell peppers
Fuel injection
Service charge
Five-speed gearbox
Long indurance
Quest for junk food
Big refrigerator
Trembling wilbury
Marble earrings
Porky curtains
Power steering
Bottled water
Parts and services
(Bridge)
Dirty world, a dirty world, it's a ...ing dirty world
He loves when you hold him when you grab him from behind
Oh baby, you're such a pretty thing
I can't wait to introduce you to the other members of my gang
You don't need no wax job, you're smooth enough for me
If you need you oil changed I'll do it for you free
Oh baby, the pleasure would be all mine
If you let me drive your pickup truck and park it where the sun don't shine
Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end
His legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend
Oh baby, you're such a tasty treat
But I'm under doctor's orders, I'm afraid to overeat
He love your sense of humor, your disposition too
There's absolutely nothing that he don't love about you
Oh baby, I'm on my hands and knees
Life would be so simple if I only had you to please
Oh baby, turn around and say goodbye
You go to the airport now and I'm going home to cry
(Chorus)
He loves your...
Electric dumplings
Red bell peppers
Fuel injection
Service charge
Five-speed gearbox
Long indurance
Quest for junk food
Big refrigerator
Trembling wilbury
Marble earrings
Porky curtains
Power steering
Bottled water
Parts and services
(Bridge)
Dirty world, a dirty world, it's a ...ing dirty world
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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No comments on Dirty World? Great song. The end is great, with the llist of things to love... and it is really "a ..fing dirty workd" at the tail end?
yes apparently on all of these sites they either omit the bad word Fcking or they say that it was un-archived or something like that. hahahaha and yes .. it really is a fcking dirty world, and hahaha I dont know what some of those things at the end mean exactly, but this song makes me think of all those songs about loving cars more than women .... which makes me think of Jeff Beck LMAO
How does 'Dirty World' not have lots of comments? I agree with kickstart71, it's a great song and the end bit is the best. It's one of my favourites by them. :)
If a song is so confusing that nobody gets it than it's not exactly a good song. Or is it? It appears fun and also sacrcastically insulting.
If I hit a nerve and gave you cause to think than I'm satisfied. I am tired of certain people who delude themselves into justifications that just happen to fit too perfectly....too conveniently. They need to be challenged.
My sister and I got the Traveling Wilburys CD for our mother for her birthday and they had this extra cd where they told about some songs. About this song they said that how they got "He loves your.." stuff they passed out magazines where they just picked out random things to sing. I thought that was funny, haha.
electric dumplings>? that always made me wonder hmmmm,even if it came out of a magazine but i like this song and the look on old people's faces when i played it at work he he old people
This song makes me laugh every time I listen to it. You have to have a dirty mind to understand some of the Dirty World sayings. I think that's hilarious.
@bob the ghost, i wouldn't doubt they did that because one could spin anything into a sexual innuendo if they want to, so they probably wanted to just say the most random things so people could sit and ponder about what they wilbury's must have meant by that! hahaha this song's pretty funny.
Awesome song!!!! Use to listen to the wilburys with my old man in the 80s n 90s all the time.
My dad got this cd when it came out, I must have been no older than 4 years old.. I always would tell him "play the electric dog blanket song!" its one of my earliest memories and thats what the lyric will always be to me..
It seems to me this is a riff on Prince. Dirty World - Dirty Mind. Little Red Corvette spoofs. The "airport" could be a reference to "International Lover" from 1999. But the biggest tip-off to me is who is credited with writing the song: Brad Paisley? Paisley records is (was?) Prince's record company.
LoL I dare anyone to sing along to this song and not laugh when you get to the end. hahahaha ESP the He loves your ... things hahaha