Hey baby, baby
ha hey
I saw you lying on the balcony
You had nothing on
Hey hey hey
You were naked
You were wearing only what our precious Lord had given you
da n da n da day day
Hey, little little Gabi
Hey
I think that's what you're called
It really doesn't matter what you're called
Mm-mm
Delicious
That bonbon was delicious last night
Ha
That bonbon that I ate before you existed in my fantasy was delicious
dit dit dit da du da dit dit dit da du da
la la la la la la
I'm inviting you over to my place
and once you're there
Shake your hair for me
Wild girl, shake your hair for me
Wild girl, shake your hair for me
ha ha ha ha
Wild girl, shake your hair
I know you think I'm crap
But come over to my place tonight
I've got everything prepared
I vomited on the carpet
and cleaned up the vomit
La la la la la
It was very very unappetizing
dit dit dit dit heh heh
dit dit dit dit hah
It even hurt
because I slipped with the dustpan
and my, uh, my arm went right in the dustpan
Ow ow ow ow
My hand is hurting
from the rhythmic device that I'm whacking
Y'all want to hear it?
la la la la la
Baby baby
I'll make myself chic
if you come over tonight
I'll put on my light green seersucker suit
hey baby
come to me and
shake your hair for me
ha ha ha ha
baby baby, shake your head hair for me
hoo hoo
wild girl, shake your hair for me
ha-aa-aa
wild girl, shake your hair
I know you think I'm crap
But come over to my place tonight
there's something delicious to eat
I went shopping
I went shopping
I bought something delicious
There's RICE!!
There's RICE!!
There's RICE!!
Baby baby baby baby there's rice!
And you get your choice of vegetable
either little carrots or peas out of a jar
just come over to my place
and once you're there
Shake your hair for me
Hoo hoo
Little girl, shake your hair
Ah
wild girl, shake your hair for me
wild girl, shake your hair
la da n day da
da da da n da
there's rice
baby baby, there's rice
ah ha ha ha
delicious delicious
baby there's rice
ha ha ha
I'll cook I'll cook I'll cook I'll cook I'll cook
I'll cook for you this one time
From then on it's your turn
wild girl, it'll be worth your while
there's delicious rice
la la la la
delicious delicious rice
out of a bag that you boil
ha ha ha
don't tell your parents anything about it
it's better that way
da da da
come to me
we'll lie down on the couch
la la la
I'll undress you slowly
la la la
then I'll serve the rice in an apron
ha ha
made out of fat
la la la
da da da n day
Unfortunately, I've put on a bit of weight recently
and my gut hangs down like an apron
but I don't care when you come over
because you'll be coming over
it's really nice over at my pad
I've been there myself
la la la
yeah yeah yeah and another yeah
baby baby baby
afterwards we'll fall asleep
and you can get to work the next day
you'll start cleaning at six in the morning
show me your hands
they're smaller than mine
so you'll be better able to get them into the corners
for cleaning
it's an ideal relationship
wild girl
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
dud unless prefixed by hey and spoken in a put-on barry white voice.
-- angelaThis comment and the one about toraneko's Italian boyfriend is inneresting to me... Are there specific accents and/or voices allowed to get away with calling someone "Baby" more than others? If so, why? Which ones can and can't?
In my current relationship (and all those preceding if I recall correctly), I'm not called nor do I call my girlfriend "Baby."
I have a slight Southern accent that comes out when I'm in the south (where I grew up). I don't hear it so much, and compared to most of the locals, I don't have one, but Jen's from Boston, and she apparently hears it and has commented that she likes the way it sounds when I call her "Darling," which is pretty much the only "cliche" name I call her fairly often. I'd not thought of my accent at all in that context before she mentioned it. (Like I said, I don't really hear it, though I know it's more pronounced when I'm tired or drunk than other times.)
Also...
Juliana Hatfield said way back when that she called her first solo record Hey Babe because "it’s like the rock thing, Lou Reed and J. Mascis always say it. I just wanted to be part of the rock tradition."
But there's a B-Side on the For the Birds EP called "Hello My Name is Baby" which is essentially a rant against being called "Baby" from someone who declares in the chorus "Baby's not my name" (in spite of the counterintuitive title of the song).
So, question two: Are there other differences between "Babe" and "Baby?" Is "Babe" rock and "Baby" pop?
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
Being called "baby" as far as I'm personally concerned = huge, huge dud. Conversely in regards to That Girl's comments, I actually prefer being called "mi'ja" (a contraction for the Spanish words for "my daughter", i.e. "mi hija"), but only if my actual parents are calling me that. If I heard anyone else calling me "mi'ja", I'd scream.
That Girl, you come from a Latino family? Or has the culture so pervaded the state of Texas that now everyone's calling their daughters "mi'ja"?
When I think of someone calling their girlfriend/boyfriend "baby", I think of someone slightly suspect, i.e. they're either going to be the clingiest people on Earth or they have a weird child fetish that inches toward the land of pedophilia or they're just huge sleazoids. I kinda like Ling ("Ally McBeal" character) Woo's approach to nicknames in relationships, in that I don't mind having a nickname that comes from a food name. I would welcome being called "honey", "snickerdoodle", "pumpkin", "cupcake", or any of the other relationship-connected food nicknames you could think of.
(Yeah, yeah. Weird me again. *grin*)
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 19 June 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link
But I must admit that I do like this song.
Now that I've lost everything to you
You say you wanna start something new
And it's breakin' my heart you're leavin'
Baby, I'm grievin'
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl
You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you a sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
Chorus
Baby, I love you
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware
Chorus
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 19 June 2003 06:00 (twenty years ago) link