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.
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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"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"
The speaker describes a woman he is involved with. We can infer from her lack of emotional display that she is cold and distant to the speaker. She and her friends enjoy attention from other men when they are out socializing. Like a stripper sitting in a man's lap, her attention can easily shift toward another potential customer.
"She lives in my lap Forever my fiance She lives in my lap Don't leave, don't stay She lives in my lap I'll get the courage one day"
The chorus describes a perpetual state of limbo, forever engaged, but never married; Wanting to commit, but wanting just as much to leave. The last line of the chorus leaves the plot open-ended. The speaker knows he will have to decide one day, but for now he stays in limbo.
"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"
The woman does just enough to elicit feelings of attachment from the speaker. He misses her when she's not around and he has no clue what she's doing (we might assume she's seeing other people), and his only recourse is to try to not think about her. The speaker and the woman have no official title. They are an item, but paradoxically they are also noncommittal.
"Baby why are you acting like this? I don't care about any of them I care about you! Baby I love you!"
This is pivotal. The woman (an antagonist of sorts) enjoys, for reasons unspecified, having the speaker in her life. She reveals that she is, in fact, seeing other people, but she claims to love the speaker the most.
"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"
The speaker is emotionally defenseless and vulnerable. He's too psychologically attached to this woman. The line "Just come inside" can be interpreted to mean that she let's the speaker cum inside her during sex, which for men is liable to engender strong feelings of attachment. But how many other men does she do this for? This woman is a player.
I'm in a relationship like this right now. The woman I'm seeing is seeing other men, but I like having her in my life enough that, for the time being, I can look past that and will continue to do so until I gain the courage to either leave her or... until she gains the courage to leave me.