The dearth of lyrics talking about "fancying" people

Pulp must have used this loads, surely?

At least the last usage of "fancy" in the Kinks' "Fancy" is like this.

[humanities prof]"Fancy" is rooted etymologically in the word "fantasy", which was the English derivative of the term for "imagination" in Greek. In Greek it doesn't have the erotic connotations that it does in English these days. As the Latin term "imagination" took precedence in English, the Greek version took on the erotic connotations.[/humanities prof]

Uh, sorry for prematurely killing this thread.

I'm not quite sure how popular the word is in the rest of the English-speaking world,

not at all, there's yr answer

I hit you with a lick a thang
Love to feel your body
move like this
Rub me down
(C'mon work that body)

I hit you with a lick a thang
Love to feel your body
move like this
I wanna make u dance
And feel my effect yeah

Drop your guard let's jam
Right here's the spot
(Move your body)
We got this thing right here
Right here's the spot
(I'm gonna get to you)

Drop your guard right here
Right here's the spot
(Touch your body and feel my effect)
We got this thing right here
Right here 's the spot
(It's electrifying, right here
Right here's the spot)

I fancy you
Feel my effect

Right here right here's the spot

I hit you with a lick a thang
Love to feel your body
move like this
Touch ya body
And feel the desire

I hit you with a lick a thang
Rub rub ya body
Cos you can call me up
and we can get down

Drop your guard let's jam
Right here's the spot
(Move your body)
We got this thing right here
Right here's the spot
(Drop it)
(I'm wanna get to you)
Drop your guard let's jam
Right here's the spot
(Touch ya body
And feel my effect yeah)
We got this thing right here
Right here's the spot
(It's electryfying
Right here, right here's the spot)

Right here's the spot
Right here's the spot

Delirious

I know u fancy me I fancy u
I know u fancy me
I fancy u babe, c'mon

I'm wanna make u dance
I wanna move u
I'm wanna make u dance
I m gonna get to u
I'm wanna make u dance
It's all about anything, everything
I'm gonna get u

Dance If u want to if
u don't' make u'r own
way home
Dance If u want to if
u don't' make u'r own
way home
(Say chant)
Delirious

All u people, let me hear
u make some noise

[Chorus repeat]

Googling reveals Lush's "Tinkerbell" ("But other girls always seem to be bitchin' about me / I say they must be jealous / I say that it's because their boyfriends all fancy me"), folksong "A Frog He Would A Wooing Go", a couple of songs on Ian Hunter's The Artful Dodger & uh Oasis' "She's Electric".

Also, looking at the word "fancying" for too long renders it void of meaning k-quick, heh.

Tarnation's first (excellent) record has a song that asks, "Do you fancy me? Or am I living in make-believe?" They're from San Francisco but the record's on 4AD. Does that make them British by association?

http://www.lyricstime.com/prince-u-want-me-lyrics.html

+ The Streets "Fit but you know it"

"Dismantle Me" by the Distillers

I fancy you
But I've been destitute
And all I know dissolved
I could never reundo you
I will always say tis so
I will always speak the truth
Descend into a noose
Could never reundo you
I want to bury you

"Paperback Head" by Tegan and Sara

You have to become
What you fancy

http://www.airheadonline.co.uk/images/funnyhow200.gif
^^^ In many ways frighteningly ahead of its time.

King of the Slums - Fanciable Headcase

I can be your vicious British boyfriend
You can be my fanciable headcase