Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
This situation, if it gets any deeper could be critical
I'm not your love monkey so be taking back all the lies you sold
What did you want me to be
It's just too much now
So tell me so tell me so tell me one two three four
So what's your evil attitude
When you got me spending my time pleasing you
Why must you keep me underground
Tell me tell me, why you wanna bring me down?
Is that too much to give a damn
When I'm giving you one hundred and ten
Don't blink 'cause I won't be around
Tell me, so tell me why you wanna bring me down
Now your transmission is on the negative
You're on a losing streak
This information is getting ordinary and you're losing me
What's with your hostility when the lie's on me?
Well you're down to the last chance
So tell me so tell me uno dos tres cuatro
So what's your evil attitude
When you got me spending my time pleasing you
Why must you keep me underground
Tell me tell me, why you wanna bring me down?
Is that too much to give a damn
When I'm giving you one hundred and ten
Don't blink 'cause I won't be around
Tell me, so tell me why you wanna bring me down
Was it all just a waste of time
I don't wanna spend my whole life thinking bout it
Baby this is where I draw the line, I think I'm done
So what's your evil attitude
When you got me spending my time pleasing you
Why must you keep me underground
Tell me tell me, why you wanna bring me down?
Is that too much to give a damn
When I'm giving you one hundred and ten
Don't blink 'cause I won't be around
Tell me, so tell me why you wanna bring me down
Why you wanna bring me down
Tell me, tell me why you wanna bring me down
Why you wanna bring me down
Why you, why you, why you wanna bring me down
I'm not your love monkey so be taking back all the lies you sold
What did you want me to be
It's just too much now
So tell me so tell me so tell me one two three four
So what's your evil attitude
When you got me spending my time pleasing you
Why must you keep me underground
Tell me tell me, why you wanna bring me down?
Is that too much to give a damn
When I'm giving you one hundred and ten
Don't blink 'cause I won't be around
Tell me, so tell me why you wanna bring me down
Now your transmission is on the negative
You're on a losing streak
This information is getting ordinary and you're losing me
What's with your hostility when the lie's on me?
Well you're down to the last chance
So tell me so tell me uno dos tres cuatro
So what's your evil attitude
When you got me spending my time pleasing you
Why must you keep me underground
Tell me tell me, why you wanna bring me down?
Is that too much to give a damn
When I'm giving you one hundred and ten
Don't blink 'cause I won't be around
Tell me, so tell me why you wanna bring me down
Was it all just a waste of time
I don't wanna spend my whole life thinking bout it
Baby this is where I draw the line, I think I'm done
So what's your evil attitude
When you got me spending my time pleasing you
Why must you keep me underground
Tell me tell me, why you wanna bring me down?
Is that too much to give a damn
When I'm giving you one hundred and ten
Don't blink 'cause I won't be around
Tell me, so tell me why you wanna bring me down
Why you wanna bring me down
Tell me, tell me why you wanna bring me down
Why you wanna bring me down
Why you, why you, why you wanna bring me down
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Whyyouwannabringmedown Lyrics as written by Louis John Biancaniello Dameon Aranda
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Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
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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.”
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This was originally recorded by the band Aranda. It was written by former Color Me Badd member Sam Watters, his songwriting partner Louis Biancaniello, and Dameon Aranda, the lead guitarist/vocalist of Aranda. The trio also penned the title track on All I Ever Wanted.
In publicity materials Clarkson described this as having a "kind of a punk-British Invasion sound."
Clarkson said on her website that recording this song was the album's turning point. She explained: "I sang that song through I don't know how many times, just because I was having so much fun. It was new and it was fresh and it didn't sound like anything on the radio. And after that, I went to my manager and said that I wanted to make a really fun, feisty album, and just wanted to go all the way with every song."