Body Talk

This is an awesome song that tells an awesome love story from a guys point of view!!!

You put on your make up just right For Something and I guess that you accidently fell into that dress

He's obviously going to a party with a girl. It's something formal like a prom. He is talking about how beuatiful she is

You'll show up on every radar screen tonight my baby with the echo strength and rejection circuitry So gracefully unaware that she is the brightest girl this boy has ever seen

by the radar screens he means that every guy at the party will be checking her out cause she's so hot. Though he knows that she loves him and not the other boys. The girl however does not know that this guy loves her so much.

and our bodies talk even if we don't want to but your eyes say that you want to like right now

He's simply referring to body gestures and how they will tell somebody what a person is feeling even if they don't want them to.

so if that's true all you want is someone to talk to well i will be right here listening for you

just the guy telling her that he will be there for her always

she explains to me her whole story how she was stuck in the desert by the hands of forty theives and then released because even theives believe that if you find love you gotta set it free honestly im not so sure that she thinks i'm being the man that i deserve to be so gracefully unaware that he is the brightest boy this girl has ever seen

so she decides to tell him her story, which goes like how she's been with so many boys before but none of them were good enough. He isn't sure that she sees his potential, but he thinks she loves him.

because your perfect just the way you are made and i wouldn't want you any other way

those boys will lie to you but you won't believe

he's just refferin to all the guys that have said she's not perfect and how he thinks she is beuatiful

So that's about it. i could go a bit deeper but i'll leave this one short.

this is an awesome song my epiphany are awesome

and i guess that the song meaning is pretty clear

The lyricist, lead-singer John, is clearly inspired. Everyday artists can't come up with lines like:

"she explains to me her whole story how she was stuck in the desert by the hands of forty theives and then released because even theives believe that if you find love you gotta set it free"

When asked about the meaning of those lines, John was passionate about responding, "she was so loving that she tamed the wildness out of murderers [...] she is so full of real love, it was impossible for the evil of those men to put their hatred and confusion on her."

The lyrics leap out from this page, but you should hear it to really feel it. Body Talk is just one of the amazing songs on the Mirabilia album. Go pick up a copy today, you won't be able to get these songs out of your head easily, but then again you won't want to.

My absolute favorite from these guys.

I honestly have listend to this song all night, clear into morning, and into the afternoon. I never got tired of it. =]

great song

I love the line "And I guess / you accidentally fell into that dress". Maybe it's the delivery? I'm not sure.

Bah, this song is always going to make me think of Autumn, though. I wonder how she's doing.

I got this song as well as Final Battle on a sampler CD from Eyeball...I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it.

so gracefully unaware that he is the brightest boy this girl has ever seen ^ this is one of the best lyrics I've seen...maybe ever? They're simple and it feels like a lot of layered meaning...maybe it's just me and my own tendency to be intensely struck by those I love...

This is my absolute favorite song in the world. I'm not sure if it's the instrumentals- how melodic and original they are, or the vocals- just his amazing voice in general, or the lyrics- which are beautiful and expressive in very non-cliche ways, but I'm thinking it's a mix of all three.

Here's my analysis of the song:

You put on your makeup just right For something, and I guess That you accidentally fell into that dress.

-I agree with jbandy in that he is obviously stating how beautiful she is, but I don't think it is necessarily for a dance. It could just be for a date, or even an average day, which in my opinion makes the statement even sweeter.

You'll show up on every radar-screen tonight And my baby, with the echo strength And rejection circuitry,

-Everybody will be aware of her beauty, but she won't let the others' attention take away from her feelings for him.

So gracefully unaware that she Is the brightest boy this girl has ever seen.

-Self-explanatory, and one of the most simple, but creative ways I've ever heard that feeling of "you're the best person I've ever known, etc" put into words.

She explained to me her whole story, How she was stole in the desert by the hands of forty theives And then released, 'cause even theives believe That if you find love, you've gotta set it free.

-For whatever reason, every time I listen to this song, I've always pictured that stanza literally, which in retrospect seems really stupid. SO after reading these comments, I agree with jbandy about how she's been with other guys before who "stole" her love wrongfully, but they let her go on with life when they realized what they were doing...or something like that.

Honestly, I'm not so sure that she Thinks I'm being the man that I deserve to be.

-He's in doubt of her feelings for him.

So gracefully unaware that he Is the brightest boy this girl has ever seen.

-Possibly my favorite lyrics of all time- this is exactly how I feel about the man I'm with now. And though jbandy got the "she loves him" statement right, I think this couplet of lyrics is said from the girl's point of view rather than the main speaker in the song. Sort of like an aside to the listener, that the main speaker is, well, gracefully unaware that he is the brightest boy that she has ever seen.

--ughh, I'll have to finish this later. Sorry! /:

this is one of my absolute favourite songs in the world. (=

ANYWAY! I forgot to include the chorus in my comment above, so here it is:

And our bodies talk, Even if we don't want to, But your eyes say that you want to, Like right now.

-This could either be taken innocently, as in body language in general (movements, gestures, facial expressions, glances, etc.) or slightly less-innocent, as in the body physically expressing love for a person in whatever way the persons involved see fit (could be small things like kissing or bigger things like sex). This statement says that sometimes our bodies can better express what we're feeling or thinking than our words can. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, basically.

So if that's true, And you want someone to talk to, Well I will be right here Listening for you.

-Again, this could be taken in an innocent way- that the boy will always be there for the girl to talk to, that no matter what, he will always listen to her. OR it can be taken, again, in the less-innocent way- the metaphoric way- that if the girl really wants to "talk" (physically express her thoughts/emotions), that he will be right there "listening" for her (right there to reciprocate whatever she's willing to do).