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.
Oh!
Oh!
I've got just what you want.
You've got just what I need.
You want my body baby, so let me plant the seed.
You are my heart's delight.
You set my soul a fire.
I wanna.
Doin' you.
You make me hot.
If I know who that nigga and the other thinking it's wishful
Sick wit it with a ridiculous flow
Take over, make over, move over.
Jokes over, flows over, who Told ya?
It's a down, except I flipped the script.
From the window to the wall just get low.
Rock and roll, hip-hop music, and disco
T dot O to Atlanta to Frisco
Rufis, oh yeah, with a new twist oh
So y'all can get a gist of the rhyme that I do not miss.
I will not fail.
Please take a glimpse at the time at your own risk.
I will not bail.
Fuck da boys, grab the flock. The planet rock.
The fiends and the fan on the block.
Team's scheme on the knock.
My hand, you want, dreams of your man.
Oh!
Oh!
I've got just what you want. (What I want)
You've got just what I need. (What I need)
You want my body baby (Body baby)
So let me plant the seed. (Plant the seed)
You are my heart's desire. (Heart's Desire)
You set my soul on fire. (Soul on fire)
I wanna. Doin' you.
You make me hot.
Grab the master's plans with ease.
Those seeds can't see past me.
No patch in the plan, the raps are not flash .
Free at last
We never recycle the same songs from last week.
Thank God almighty , we are free at last.
We went back to ash, before raps harassed me.
No relax.
Do not pass.
Do not ask me.
But you can get backstage where you can see ass free.
Elope
The Goat.
Nigga vote for ya boy.
I hope ya lied to the rope and the board.
Smokin the dope.
Relate to the gate.
To the words you wrote, with the moving the scales ya say:
I've got just what you want. (What I want)
You've got just what I need. (What I need)
You want my body baby (Body baby)
So let me plant the seed. (Plant the seed)
You are my heart's delight.
(Heart's Desire)
You set my soul on fire.
(Soul on fire)
I wanna. Doin' you.
You make me hot.
I've got just what you want.
(What I want)
You've got just what I need.
(What I need)
You want my body baby (Body baby)
So let me plant the seed. (Plant the seed)
You are my heart's delight. (Heart's Desire)
You set my soul on fire. (Soul on fire)
I wanna.
Doin' you.
You make me hot.
How's everybody feeling out there?
You want my body baby?
I'll give you my body baby.
You want it.
I'll give it to ya.
(mumbling)
You want my body baby?
Thank you very much.
Goodnight.
Oh!
I've got just what you want.
You've got just what I need.
You want my body baby, so let me plant the seed.
You are my heart's delight.
You set my soul a fire.
I wanna.
Doin' you.
You make me hot.
If I know who that nigga and the other thinking it's wishful
Sick wit it with a ridiculous flow
Take over, make over, move over.
Jokes over, flows over, who Told ya?
It's a down, except I flipped the script.
From the window to the wall just get low.
Rock and roll, hip-hop music, and disco
T dot O to Atlanta to Frisco
Rufis, oh yeah, with a new twist oh
So y'all can get a gist of the rhyme that I do not miss.
I will not fail.
Please take a glimpse at the time at your own risk.
I will not bail.
Fuck da boys, grab the flock. The planet rock.
The fiends and the fan on the block.
Team's scheme on the knock.
My hand, you want, dreams of your man.
Oh!
Oh!
I've got just what you want. (What I want)
You've got just what I need. (What I need)
You want my body baby (Body baby)
So let me plant the seed. (Plant the seed)
You are my heart's desire. (Heart's Desire)
You set my soul on fire. (Soul on fire)
I wanna. Doin' you.
You make me hot.
Grab the master's plans with ease.
Those seeds can't see past me.
No patch in the plan, the raps are not flash .
Free at last
We never recycle the same songs from last week.
Thank God almighty , we are free at last.
We went back to ash, before raps harassed me.
No relax.
Do not pass.
Do not ask me.
But you can get backstage where you can see ass free.
Elope
The Goat.
Nigga vote for ya boy.
I hope ya lied to the rope and the board.
Smokin the dope.
Relate to the gate.
To the words you wrote, with the moving the scales ya say:
I've got just what you want. (What I want)
You've got just what I need. (What I need)
You want my body baby (Body baby)
So let me plant the seed. (Plant the seed)
You are my heart's delight.
(Heart's Desire)
You set my soul on fire.
(Soul on fire)
I wanna. Doin' you.
You make me hot.
I've got just what you want.
(What I want)
You've got just what I need.
(What I need)
You want my body baby (Body baby)
So let me plant the seed. (Plant the seed)
You are my heart's delight. (Heart's Desire)
You set my soul on fire. (Soul on fire)
I wanna.
Doin' you.
You make me hot.
How's everybody feeling out there?
You want my body baby?
I'll give you my body baby.
You want it.
I'll give it to ya.
(mumbling)
You want my body baby?
Thank you very much.
Goodnight.
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Body Baby Lyrics as written by Troy Jamerson Ommas Keith-graham
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