Flesh For Fantasy

Billy Idol

There's a change in pace
Of fantasy and taste
Do you like good music
Do you like to dance
Oh yeah
Hangin' out for a body shop at night
Ain't it strange what we do to feel alright
Oh yeah
So when will you call
I am experienced oh yeah

[Chorus:]
Face to face
And back to back
You see and feel
My sex attack
Sing it, flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want flesh, flesh for fantasy

It's after midnight
Are you feeling alright
Oh yeah
Turn out the light babe
Are you someone else tonight
Neighbor to neighbor, door to door
Don't ask questions
There's time for it all, oh yeah

[Chorus]

I sing for culture
Father loves his son
Mothers, daughters too
It's an old, old story
Cries the new world too

Flesh, flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want, flesh, flesh for fantasy
We want, flesh, flesh for fantasy
You cry, flesh, flesh for fantasy

Let's go down, let's go down
Let's go down, let's go down
Let's go down, let's go down

Do you like good music
Do you like to dance
It's nearly mornin'
You want to risk a chance
Neighbor to neighbor
Door to door

Enjoy the crime
You do your time
Never been nothin' before


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Flesh for Fantasy Lyrics as written by Steve Stevens Billy Idol

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  • +3
    General Comment
    An old friend always told me, "If you see a hot chick, and you know will never see her again, eye-fuck the shit out of her." I think it is about the truly visceral sexual drive people feel, even when it is a different person every second. The fantasy of unsampled flesh. "Doin' the time" is a reference to getting caught eye-fucking. It transcends gay or straight. It is all flesh.
    Jordo013on February 04, 2009   Link
  • +2
    Song Fact
    From Billy Idol's autobiography, Dancing With Myself: "'Do you like good music / Do you like to dance.' I wrote the lyric as if it were a sexual advert someone had placed in a newspaper or magazine. [...] It is strange what mental and chemical processes our minds and bodies go through that send us searching deep into the night for sexual satisfaction. Some people took my advert literally. Mainly, it's a song that spoke to the audiences of the time, who were in the process of discovering their own sexualities."
    birdmadon November 12, 2019   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    ...mmm flesh for fantasy
    XOoviciousoOXon June 29, 2003   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    it kinda sounds like a sex song to me. i love it.
    Only Emoon July 15, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    Great Song
    DZestmenon September 26, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    Great Song
    DZestmenon September 26, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    This song reminds me of Jeffrey Dahmer. but it's still hot.
    XKick_Me_Im_EmoXon March 04, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    A (gay) co-worker told me this song is about Billy fantasizing about being gay.
    Envy337on September 28, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment
    Could this song be about prostitution? Almost all the lyrics tell me so, specially this part Hangin' out for a body shop at night Ain't it strange what we do to feel alright
    romeovfon February 10, 2009   Link
  • 0
    My Opinion
    It sounds more to me like how people go out for one night stands, trying to get lost in the sea of bodies they experience time after time. Using flesh, sex as a means to get by. 'Are you someone else tonight? Neighbor to Neighbor Door to Door' When you really think about it, some people don't give their names when it comes to those types of encounters. Giving a fake name, and fake information, because who cares once you've done it and you don't see them gain, anyway. Father loves his son mother, daughter too It's an old old story cries the new world order Point blank, since this a 'fantasy' getting lost in fantasies psychically. He could be suggesting the people doing this are looking for love where they didn't have it before. Just my opinion.
    Reedstaron May 27, 2009   Link

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