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The Boys Light Up Lyrics
I was heading for my mountain home
Where all the ladies' names are Joan
Where husband works back late at night
His hopes are up for trousers down
With a hostess on a business flight
Taxi in a Mercedes drive
I hope that driver's coming out alive
The garden it is Dorsettive
That lady she's so corsetive
She's got fifteen ways
To lead that boy astray
He thinks he's one and only
But that lovely
She's so lonely
She pumps him full of breakfast
And she sends him on his way
(Refro:)
What a sing-song dance
What a performance
What a cheap tent show
Oh no, no, no, no, no,... then...
The boys light up (x8)
Silently she opens the drawer
Mother's littles helper
Is coming out for more
Strategically positioned
Before the midday show
The back is arched
Those lips are parched
Repeated blow by blow
Later, at the party, all the MPs rave
'Bout the hummers she's been giving
And the money that they save
To her it is skin lotion
In promotion to
That flat in Surfer's Paradise
With the ocean view
(Refro)
Where all the ladies' names are Joan
Where husband works back late at night
His hopes are up for trousers down
With a hostess on a business flight
Taxi in a Mercedes drive
I hope that driver's coming out alive
The garden it is Dorsettive
That lady she's so corsetive
She's got fifteen ways
To lead that boy astray
He thinks he's one and only
But that lovely
She's so lonely
She pumps him full of breakfast
And she sends him on his way
What a sing-song dance
What a performance
What a cheap tent show
Oh no, no, no, no, no,... then...
The boys light up (x8)
Mother's littles helper
Is coming out for more
Strategically positioned
Before the midday show
The back is arched
Those lips are parched
Repeated blow by blow
Later, at the party, all the MPs rave
'Bout the hummers she's been giving
And the money that they save
To her it is skin lotion
In promotion to
That flat in Surfer's Paradise
With the ocean view
Song Info
Copyright
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Writer
Michael Reyne James
Duration
4:41
Submitted by
chunkzaj On Jul 28, 2006
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First - there is an error in the above lyrics. (Why are there always errors in the Aussie lyrics - must be our accent :)
It should be The Garden is doresetted (a made up word) That lady, she's so corsetted.
The impact this has of course is that it implies the woman (wife) is wearing a corset - not literally but that she is restricted by her husband. So she rebels...sexually. Firstly with the taxi driver, then with mother's little helper (which normally is valium but in this case is something else beginning with v) and later with giving BJ's (hummers) to all the MP's (from which she is saving the money to leave her hubby and move to the Gold Coast).
so if it's all about this lady (the wife) wtf does the term "boys light up" have to do with it?
so if it's all about this lady (the wife) wtf does the term "boys light up" have to do with it?
It's what many blokes do when the "sing-song dance" reaches the "cheap tent show" part of the performance. So now you know, know, know, know, know...
It's what many blokes do when the "sing-song dance" reaches the "cheap tent show" part of the performance. So now you know, know, know, know, know...
"People aren't used to hearing 'Dorseted', and it's not actually a word - it's from the Dorset Gardens - I'm trying to be as suburban as possible, and it rhymed with 'corseted'." - James Reyne, 2003
"People aren't used to hearing 'Dorseted', and it's not actually a word - it's from the Dorset Gardens - I'm trying to be as suburban as possible, and it rhymed with 'corseted'." - James Reyne, 2003
No comments on another great Aussie song! I love "Strategically positioned, before the midday show, the back is arched, those lips are parched repeated blow by blow"
I think we all know what it's about ;)
classic mate.
fuckin'classic.