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.
What's wrong? What are you afraid of?
The Love Below?
She stays alone, never sheds a single tear
She stays in the coolest moods, clearly woman of the year
She and all her girlfriends, they go out dressed to win
She comes back to the cooler side of town
But she lives in my lap
She lives in my lap
Forever my fiancé
She lives in my lap
Don't leave, don't stay
She lives in my lap
I'll get the courage one day
Make me want you, make me miss you
Make me wonder where you are, then forget you
Girl remind me, just who we are
We're oh so close, but yet so far
Baby why are you acting like this?
I don't care about any of them
I care about you
Baby, I love you
You've got me open wide (I love you)
Just come inside (baby)
It's yours (it's yours)
I'm yours (I'm yours)
For sure (for sure)
Play, baby, play
She lives in my lap
Forever my fiancé
She lives in my lap
Don't leave, don't stay
She lives in my lap
I'll get the courage one day
(I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times)
(I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times) The Love Below
(I had a woman down)
(She lives in my lap)(on my lap at all times)
(Now I'm realizing that I love her)
(On my lap at all times)
You've got me open wide (now I'm realizing that I love her)
She lives in my lap (on my lap at all times)
It's yours, I'm yours (I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times) Play, baby, play
(I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times)
(Now I'm realizing that I love her)
(On my lap at all times)
(Now I'm realizing that I love her)
(She lives in my lap) (on my lap at all times)
Baby, I love you (don't leave, don't stay)
Forever my fiancé
She lives in my lap
Play, baby, play
The Love Below?
She stays alone, never sheds a single tear
She stays in the coolest moods, clearly woman of the year
She and all her girlfriends, they go out dressed to win
She comes back to the cooler side of town
But she lives in my lap
She lives in my lap
Forever my fiancé
She lives in my lap
Don't leave, don't stay
She lives in my lap
I'll get the courage one day
Make me want you, make me miss you
Make me wonder where you are, then forget you
Girl remind me, just who we are
We're oh so close, but yet so far
Baby why are you acting like this?
I don't care about any of them
I care about you
Baby, I love you
You've got me open wide (I love you)
Just come inside (baby)
It's yours (it's yours)
I'm yours (I'm yours)
For sure (for sure)
Play, baby, play
She lives in my lap
Forever my fiancé
She lives in my lap
Don't leave, don't stay
She lives in my lap
I'll get the courage one day
(I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times)
(I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times) The Love Below
(I had a woman down)
(She lives in my lap)(on my lap at all times)
(Now I'm realizing that I love her)
(On my lap at all times)
You've got me open wide (now I'm realizing that I love her)
She lives in my lap (on my lap at all times)
It's yours, I'm yours (I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times) Play, baby, play
(I had a woman down)
(On my lap at all times)
(Now I'm realizing that I love her)
(On my lap at all times)
(Now I'm realizing that I love her)
(She lives in my lap) (on my lap at all times)
Baby, I love you (don't leave, don't stay)
Forever my fiancé
She lives in my lap
Play, baby, play
Lyrics submitted by hottscubbard
She Lives in My Lap Lyrics as written by Andre Benjamin Roger Troutman
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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It's about a man wanting to be with his dead love....by killing himself!
that' not what the song is about at all. I asume you have that idea because it was in that scene in idle wild but htis song came out way before they even started writting that movie and was originally meant to be part of a noth film starring andre 3000 called the love below, the side of the album love below was actually ment to be the sound track to that film. which is also why the love below is not apart of the idewilde soundtrack it doesn't relate to the ilm at all.