Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) Lyrics
But she was young and dumb
She'd just turned twenty-one
She didn't care to hang around
So when the shit came down
Why she was nowhere to be found
This life can turn a good girl bad
She was the sweetest thing
That you had ever seen
In the hysterical realm
Of an emotional landslide
In physical terms
You could make grown men gasp
When you'd go walking past them
In your hot pants and high heels
They could not believe
That such a body was for real
It seemed like rainbows would appear
Whenever you came near the clouds would disappear
Because you looked just like a girl
Your baby blues would flash
And suddenly a spell was cast
You shine the light on hidden parts
You make the whole world wanna dance
You bought yourself a second chance
We're right behind you
Go baby Go Go
Yeah we're looking at you
Go baby Go GO
Aw we're right behind you
Go Baby
Go Baby
Yeah we're looking at you
Go
This song is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo About a cross-dresser. Look- "You're such a delicate boy" "Because you look just like a girl" Well thats what I think anyway.
This song was written for and inspired by the book "Sarah" written by JT Leroy. Sarah is the story of the prodigal son recast in the carnivalesque world of the highway truck stop and its environs. The narrator, an androgynous twelve year old boy, idolizes his mother Sarah, a "lot lizard," or truckstop whore. He leaves the safety of the lot - a perversely idyllic kingdom ruled by Glading Grateful ETC., a benevolent pimp who sent one of his boys to chef's school to cook gourmet meals at the truckstop diner - on a quest to become as famous as his mother. Adopting her name and sex, "Sarah" stumbles into dangerous and fantastic worlds pocketed away in the West Virginian wilds. He hitches a ride to the famous luck restoring Jackalope, is mistaken for a saint and must prove himself by walking on water. When he is captured by LeLoup, Glad's violent rival, "Sarah's" life is all but over. Will he perish at the hands of LeLoup, or will "Sarah" find his way home?
Ah, beautiful boys in drag. This song kicks ass! >:P
Yeah, I totally agree with merchantpierece. The song is inspired by two books; Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. Leroy.
i think this song has a deeper meaning- its about someone who hides behind a mask so they can have a second chance at being who they really wanted to be in the first place- adored by others. and the girl in the beginning of the song is a person who hurt this person and thats what kinda sparks the hiding.
^ Jesus Christ, no need to be so hostile.
Who cares what the song was written about. It's what it means to you that matters.
Her voiuce was sppeded up in the recording to make it sound higher pitched - she doesnt sound anything like that of the record when its performed live. Her surgery on her vocal chords happend like 18 months or more after BG was recorded.
As for the song its about the main character in JT Leroy's book - everytime the song was performed live she dedicated it to him - at the time the whole hoax thing hadnt surfaced it was still believed to be true (album came out in 2001 the hoax stuff sdidnt circulate till 2004/5 when BLM was being recorded)
Love the song to bits one of my favourite Garbage tracks - perfect pop - its got everything - great pop songs have handclaps and bababas or in this case the refrain "Go Baby Go!" I put it up there with Supervixen, Vow, Push It and Paranoid - the LeRoyaleMix which is heavier is awesome too!
You hold a candle in your heart You shine a light on hidden parts
I like the acceptance of all people, each with our own unique way of bringing the hidden parts to the whole of the way the world works.
It would be about a cross-dresser if not for the final verse. The irony of all this desperation for it to only be about a politially correct ideal is that no one has bothered to understand what a cross-dresser is, not what they look like, not what's convenient, but what they are actually doing and are.
whaaaaaat? no-one's written anything for this god-damn legend of a song? r u all deaf? this song is a legendary song