Iggy Pop

Sixteen

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Sweet sixteen in leather boots
Body and soul, I go crazy
Baby, baby, I'm a hungry
Sweet sixteen

Funky bar all full of faces
Pretty faces, beautiful faces
Body and soul
Body and soul
I give to you
I am an easy mark with my broken heart
Sweet sixteen

Show you my explosion, sweet sixteen
Go out to the funky bar I get hurt, crying inside
'Cause everybody's so fine
And they don't need me

Tell me what can I do, sweet sixteen?
I give my body and soul sweet sixteen

I must be hungry
'Cause I go crazy
Over your leather boots
Now baby
I know

That's not normal
But I love you
I love you
I love you
Sweet sixteen
Everywhere I go, I love it

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by Sandwich-Masta

13y ago

I love this song. It's the only one written solely by Iggy, and it kind of shows--i.e., the sheer passion and simplicity. Maybe he's talking about lusting after an underage girl who he knows he can't have, which of course makes her all the more enticing. The lyrics are painfully raw and honest--"I'm an easy mark with my broken heart" and "Go out to the funky bar I get hurt, crying inside/Cause everybody's so fine/And they don't need me."

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