Boris The Spider Lyrics
Black and hairy, very small
Now he's up above my head
Hanging by a little thread
Boris the spider
Heading for the bedroom door
Maybe he's as scared as me
Where's he gone now, I can't see
Boris the spider
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Doesn't seem to move at all
Perhaps he's dead, I'll just make sure
Pick this book up off the floor
Boris the spider
Creepy, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
Don't think he will ever mend
Never more will he crawl 'round
He's embedded in the ground
Boris the spider
It's about arachnaphobia. I love drug-induced inspiration because it seems to make the mind go to places nobody ever imagined. I played this song and it annoyed my youngest sister to no end. It is one of the funniest songs of all time. Kudos to the master of all bass players!
john was probably stoned out of his mind when he wrote this song...good song tho
john entwistle R.I.P.
haha naw what happened was the band were asked to write 2 songs each as part of a contract (or something along those lines). entwistle was talkin about unusual names for animals one day in the pub and one of them was a spider called boris. later he was asked what his two songs were about (everyone else had done theirs, even keith moon) and he said one was called boris the spider. then he wrote it in about ten minutes later.
@AaronXIII -- Ding Ding! this one is closest to correct. John wrote it very quickly. He wasn't stoned or drunk most of the other responses on this page. He may have been afraid of spiders, don't remember. But I do remember he wrote it quickly, literally the words were written in a few minutes because he needed to come up with a song quick!
@AaronXIII -- Ding Ding! this one is closest to correct. John wrote it very quickly. He wasn't stoned or drunk most of the other responses on this page. He may have been afraid of spiders, don't remember. But I do remember he wrote it quickly, literally the words were written in a few minutes because he needed to come up with a song quick!
this was the most requested song at their concerts
I have two theories to explain this song. John used dark humour in most of his songs and he might have used that to treat his arachniphobia. I also think that some Speed or LSD John took may have caused him to believe that spiders were crawling on his body; this might explain the high-pitched "Creepy crawly."
Your classic boy meets spider, boy kills spider pop tale.
WEEEEEE luv it!!!!1 SO FUUUNY!
This song cheers me up its pretty obvious what its about
John Entwhistle was afraid of spiders, so he wrote this song. To me, this is just a fun song to listen to. I don't really see any deeper meaning to it.
Entwhistle wrote this because he was afraid of spiders when he was a child. I also heard another theory in which "Boris the Spider" represented the Soviet Union, which creeped and crawled to execute their "evil deeds", which means The Who was making fun of the paranoia of the Cold War at the time.