Ladyfingers

Luscious Jackson

I got ladyfingers baby
I've got kidgloves
Baby I've got hearttttt

If you need me to be sweet
then I can give you what you need
'cause I know you never came first baby
I'm so tired of my guns and my vanity
I'd like to trade them in for some sanity
and I know it didn't come too easy
It didn't come easy to me either
from the freezer to believer in love

Well I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I got heart
I got heart

I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I've got heartttttt

I bet you didn't know that I could treat you right
that underneath the armor
there's another girl
she's standing with a suitcase
ready to run
in case you're wondering
why she's so quick to come and go
why she's so quick to come and go
she might be new, she might be old
she might be scared as hell
she might not be so bold
she might not be so bold

Well I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I got heart
I got heart

I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I got heartttttt

Well I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I got heart
I got heart

I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I got ..

ladyfingers..
heartttt
heartttt
ladyfingers I got..

Well I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I got heart
I got heart

I got ladyfingers baby
I got kidgloves
baby I got heartttttt
heartttt


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  • +2
    General Comment

    I can't believe there's only one comment on this song. really?? wipes eyes looks again

    anyway I think a woman reassuring to her guy (orrrr girl) that she really is a stand-up human being.

    mandapopon November 19, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I really think this song is about someone telling someone that they are there for them. It's like she was too busy for them, or at least the person they cared about thought that, and she's saying 'hey, i'm here for you and I always was'.

    sixedhearton April 06, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I’ve loved this song since it came out but I can now define the meaning two decades later. My wife of nearly 35 years works at a hospital north of Atlanta GA USA overrun with Covid, over half the patients they are now… She is there today on a Sunday since 4am on a 12 hour shift today like she has been since the start of the pandemic and I think this song is about women - and there are so many of them - just like her that really hold the world together. She is a just over 5 ft tall fucking badass warrior, not afraid of anything, or anyone, at least on the outside. Inside what’s really behind it is heart. That’s what this song is about, at least it is to me now.

    ericadmanon January 17, 2021   Link
  • -1
    Song Meaning

    After 20 or so years of piling on booze, pot an hallucinogens I think I remember that the song was about a prominent or underdog boxer nicknamed Ladyfingers.

    Either that or some baseball or Ice hockey player or some shite.

    cuntardedon October 03, 2015   Link
  • -1
    Song Meaning

    Follow on brain cell melt down from previous post the band name Luscious Jackson if I remember correctly is about a boxer whatever surname Jackson and the song is about the same guy.

    Could be wrong, usually am.

    cuntardedon October 03, 2015   Link

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