The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Crab if you want her
She won't be coming down
Crab if you want her
She won't be coming down
Crab if you need it
She put her kinckers on
Crab if you need it
She put her kinckers on
She said she's feeling lonely
And I say that's Ok
She won't be coming back 'round here, no way
She said she's feeling lonely
And I say that's Ok
She won't be coming back 'round here, no way
Crab at the booty
T'aint gonna do no good
Crab at the booty
T'aint gonna do no good
No, crab at the booty
T'aint gonna do no good
She won't be coming down
Crab if you want her
She won't be coming down
Crab if you need it
She put her kinckers on
Crab if you need it
She put her kinckers on
She said she's feeling lonely
And I say that's Ok
She won't be coming back 'round here, no way
She said she's feeling lonely
And I say that's Ok
She won't be coming back 'round here, no way
Crab at the booty
T'aint gonna do no good
Crab at the booty
T'aint gonna do no good
No, crab at the booty
T'aint gonna do no good
Lyrics submitted by oofus
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You guys have called it spot-on on the meaning of the song, a guy "crab"ing, or bitching and moaning at his girlfriend because she won't have sex with him.
As for neonicgreenslug's comment about where the song came from, I'm not sure, I actually just obtained every single Rivers and Weezer demo/bootleg/mix every recorded and has been leaked at one time or another, and I'm still in the process of checking out all of it.
If anyone else in interested, I used a torrent, but all this stuff can be obtained at the follwing places:
These two for rares, demos, and other cool stuff that hasn't been officially released:
weerez.com weezernation.com
And, if you want all of the stuff at the above two, PLUS all their official studio releases, go here:
fenix.dreamhosters.com/weezer/Maladroit%20(Demos%20&%20Mixes)/
Enjoy guys! Weezer is incredible, And although I really don't dig all that much on Make Believe, Maladroit and the Green Album definetly get bashed on way too much. They're great albums, they're not sell-outs, they're making fun pop-rock the way they want to. Sure, Blue and Pinkerton are their best, but this stuff is Weezer just as much as the old stuff is.